2012 Prize Giving Ceremony at University of Lake Wobegon

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Giving may refer to: Gift, the transfer of something without the expectation of receiving something in return Generosity, the habit of giving freely without expecting anything in return Charity (practice), the giving of help to those in need who are not related to the giver Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, a book by Bill Clinton Giving (album), an album by Colm Ó SnodaighA ceremony (UK: , US: ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion. The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin caerimonia.A university (Latin: universitas, 'a whole') is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs in different schools or faculties of learning. The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars".The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (Università di Bologna), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: being a high degree-awarding institute; having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy; using the word universitas (which was coined at its foundation); issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Lake Wobegon is a fictional town created by Garrison Keillor as the setting of the "News from Lake Wobegon" segment of the radio program A Prairie Home Companion broadcast from St Paul, Minnesota. Lake Wobegon was also the setting of many of Keillor's stories and novels, one of which, Lake Wobegon Days (1985), brought it to an international audience. It is described as a small rural town in central Minnesota, and is peopled with fictional characters and places, many of which became familiar to listeners of the broadcast. The events and adventures of the townspeople provided Keillor with a wealth of humorous and often touching stories.Keillor has said that people often ask him if it is a real town, and when he replied that it was not, they seemed disappointed, because "people want stories to be true". So he began to say it was in "central Minnesota, near Stearns County, up around Holdingford, not far from St. Rosa and Albany and Freeport, northwest of St. Cloud", which he says is "sort of the truth, I guess."