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Gamecock Gateway paves the journey to USC
By Megan Sexton, email@example.com, 803-777-1421
A group of 163 South Carolina students will start on a new journey this month to become part of the University of South Carolina – via the Gamecock Gateway.
The partnership between USC and Midlands Technical College is a one-year academic program for first-time college students. Students will live at the Roost residence hall on campus at USC and take classes at the Airport campus of Midlands Technical College. After successfully completing 30 credit hours, students are eligible to transfer to Carolina following the spring 2013 semester.
The invitation-only program provides students with support from both institutions, offering affordability, access and the eventual opportunity to enroll and receive a degree from USC, leaders from both institutions said Monday (Aug. 6, 2012).
"Gamecock Gateway is an innovative collaboration that will provide participating students with small-group services through Midlands Technical College while offering the resources and opportunities of our large, research university," USC President Harris Pastides said. "I appreciate our continuing partnership with MTC and warmly welcome our Gamecock Gateway students to Carolina."
The Gamecock Gateway builds on a commitment the university has made over the past five years to make the transition from South Carolina's technical colleges to the University of South Carolina as seamless as possible. Midlands Technical College and USC are collaborating on many initiatives to better serve the citizens and employers of South Carolina.
"Midlands Technical College is pleased to partner with USC to provide increased access to higher education through the Gamecock Gateway," said MTC President Marshall (Sonny) White. "I am certain that students will benefit from this seamless transition system, and that both institutions will strive to serve the needs of this select group."
While residential bridge programs are growing, only a handful of flagship universities across the country offer such programs. Students enrolled in the Gamecock Gateway program will be able to take advantage of services on both the USC and MTC campuses.
Students will have access to USC services including parking, meal plans, the Student Health Center, the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center and Blatt PE Center, clubs and organizations, intramural sports, the Student Success Center and University Libraries. They will not receive tickets to football, basketball and baseball games (although they can purchase tickets), and they are not permitted to join a social fraternity or sorority, hold office in a student organization or participate in intercollegiate athletics.
At MTC, students will have access to a Gateway-dedicated adviser and coordinator, supplemental instruction for some courses, Fast Track intensive refresher courses, the Academic Success Center and counseling and career services. They can also take advantage of Midlands Technical College student life opportunities, join student organizations at MTC and benefit from any other services available to MTC students.
Students will be transported by shuttle bus from the Roost to MTC's Airport campus.
"The Gamecock Gateway is an important part of USC's efforts to provide multiple paths to a Carolina degree for academically eligible South Carolina residents," said Dennis Pruitt, USC's vice president for student affairs.
For students such as Davion Johnson of Lamar, S.C., the Gamecock Gateway is making his dream of becoming part of the Carolina family come true.
"I've always been a Gamecock fan. I toured the campus, loved the vibe, loved the setting. I loved everything about it," Johnson said. "I knew it was home."
When he learned he wasn't accepted to the university, he received an invitation to be part of the Gamecock Gateway program.
"I was out-of-town when the letter came, but my dad called me and said, 'You can still go to USC. You can still do this,' " said Johnson, a graduate of Mayo High School for Math, Science and Technology who plans to major in biology. "It's a great opportunity as far as me getting where I want to be."
Now he has an app on his phone, counting down the days until the Aug. 22 move-in at the Roost residence hall.
"What's the most exciting thing about starting? The moving out of my parents' house and the beginning of adulthood," he said. "I'm ready to start a life for myself. This is the beginning."
About the Gamecock Gateway class
- 165 students
- 51 percent female, 49 percent male
- Students from 32 counties around the state are enrolled in the Gateway program. The top five are Greenville, 23 students;Charleston, 20; Richland, 20; Lexington, 18; and York, 16
- 62 percent white; 22 percent African American; 4 percent Asian; 4 percent Hispanic/Latino; 8 percent other
About the Gamecock Gateway
- Requirements: The Gamecock Gateway program is by invitation only
- Students must live in the Roost residence hall on the USC campus and travel to class at Midlands Technical College's Airport campus. Students will move in to the Roost Aug. 22
- Students will be fully admitted into USC after participation in the one-year program if they achieve a 2.25 GPA or higher (many majors require a higher GPA); obtain at least 30 transferrable credit hours at MTC in the time period; and remain in good conduct and financial standing.
- Goals: Enhance the academic preparation of Gateway students to strengthen their transfer into USC; develop and retain students through meaningful engagement opportunities at MTC and USC; and provide an engaging residential community that supports students' academic and personal needs.
- More info: www.sa.sc.edu/gateway
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LSU's depth chart was a work in progress practically up until kickoff of their season opener Saturday night.
After the Tigers' 40-27 victory against Oregon in the Cowboys Classic, the depth chart still isn't etched in stone, but some pencil marks are being covered over in ink.
Perhaps the biggest personnel issue that wasn't completely resolved publicly before Saturday was the fallout from starting wide receiver Russell Shepard being declared indefinitely ineligible for violating an NCAA regulation. Sophomore Kadron Boone and true freshmen Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry all filled in.
Beckham caught two passes, the most by any wide receiver, for 10 yards; Landry caught one for 3 yards; and Boone didn't have a reception. Beckham showed his athleticism when he laid out to make a diving catch for what would have been a 38-yard gain in the fourth quarter, though it was negated by a holding penalty.
"Odell Beckham is going to be a special player for us," quarterback Jarrett Lee said. "He did a great job for us. On that one play, I overthrew him, but he made a great catch."
The running back position has been a tight competition among three sophomores: Spencer Ware, Michael Ford and Alfred Blue.
As expected, Ware got the first and most opportunities. He had 26 rushes for 99 yards and a touchdown. Ford was next in line and got a lot of work, especially spelling Ware for part of the second half, and finished with 14 rushes for 96 yards and two touchdowns. Blue had just one carry for 2 yards. LSU finished with 175 yards rushing on 48 carries.
"We want to pound the ball every game," guard Will Blackwell said. "I think we came out and that's what worked.
"The running game was there for us. We knew we could keep pushing it and keep grinding it, and we did. Spencer Ware and Michael Ford really carried us."
The only fullback to touch the ball was true freshman Kenny Hilliard (two carries, 3 yards) as veterans James Stampley and J.C. Copeland maintained their roles as primarily blockers.
On defense, widely heralded tackle Anthony Johnson didn't start but did get into the game and got an assist on a half-yard loss on his first play.
Kevin Minter made his first career start at linebacker as the Tigers opened and stayed in a nickel package (five defensive backs) for the most part, not using their base three linebackers as they will against more conventional offenses. Minter was credited with four assists.
Tharold Simon made his first start at cornerback in Patrick Peterson's old spot as Tyrann Mathieu opened at nickelback. Simon was a standout, making an interception, breaking up three passes, and finishing with eight tackles, including one for a loss.
Junior Drew Alleman made his debut as Josh Jasper's replacement and made both of his field-goal attempts - from 44 and 32 yards - but he missed an extra point. His kickoffs were consistently short as he averaged 60.1 yards.
Punter Brad Wing was inconsistent in his debut but averaged 41.3 yards on six punts and had two downed inside the 20-yard line.
Defensive tackle Ego Ferguson and tight end Nic Jacobs also made their LSU debuts.
Two true freshmen who had stood out during preseason camp but didn't play were offensive lineman La-El Collins and running back Terrence Magee.
Saturday's game also marked the first since a restructuring of the offensive staff.
Offensive line coach/acting offensive coordinator Greg Studrawa called the plays for the first time at LSU. He worked from the press box alongside quarterbacks coach Steve Kragthorpe, who relinquished the play-calling duties at the start of preseason camp after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Tight ends coach Steve Ensminger handled the face-to-face conversations with the offensive line on the sideline with Studrawa upstairs.
The Tigers didn't appear to have any difficulty getting lined up and getting plays called before the play clock expired. Several such high-profile bouts of confusion had plagued the offense under former coordinator Gary Crowton in recent seasons.
Blackwell gave some of the credit for the offense's focus to Lee, who was starting for the first time in nearly two years.
"He did a great job of keeping up the tempo," Blackwell said. "He kept everyone focused, and you can't ask for much more out of your quarterback."
LSU notes
Mathieu was named Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday for his performance. He had a team-high 10 tackles, one forced fumble, two pass breakups and a tackle for a loss. Mathieu, a sophomore from New Orleans, also scored LSU's first touchdown when he stripped Oregon punt returner Kenyon Barner of the ball, recovered the ball and ran 3 yards for the score. There are 800 tickets remaining for the Tigers' home opener against Northwestern State on Saturday night, assistant athletic director for ticket operations Brian Broussard announced.
Northwestern State notes
About 240 tickets in the Northwestern State section went on sale Monday evening, Northwestern State announced. Tickets are for seat locations in the Northwestern State section in the upper deck of Tiger Stadium. Fans can go to the www.nsutickets.com website to purchase $40 tickets. Telephone ticket orders and walk-up purchases can be made at the Athletic Ticket Office (318) 357-4268 beginning Tuesday morning. ... Northwestern State coach Bradley Dale Peveto named captains for the LSU game: Senior center Zach Case, senior linebacker Yaser Elqutub and senior safety/holder Phil LeBlanc. Senior tight end Justin Aldredge was picked as the College Football Performance Awards' FCS Tight End Performer of the Week after 97 yards on three catches, including a 32-yard touchdown.
Football on the web
Advocate sportswriter Les East will chat LSU football from 3-4 p.m. Tuesday. Go to http://theadvocate.com/sports.
TheAdvocate.com sports editor Gary Laney will provide an online recap of LSU coach Les Miles' luncheon as well as the audio replay - both available Tuesday afternoon - at http://theadvocate.com/sports/lsu.
To get coverage of Northwestern State football, visit http://www.shreveporttimes.com/section/sports for The Shreveport Times.
Go to http://blogs.theadvocate.com/
tigertracks/ for updates from Advocate sportswriters.
Follow Advocate sportswriters Les East at @LesEast and Scott Rabalais at @ScottRabalais.
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Brad Henderson, QB, Northwestern State, Jr.
Henderson came off the bench in a 24-23 win over Delta State, with the Demons trailing 17-0 at halftime. He set a school record by completing his first 13 passes in his first FCS game. He was 13-of-14 passing for 210 yards and a touchdown.
Tyrann Mathieu, CB, LSU, So.
Mathieu scored a touchdown after forcing and then returning a fumble 3 yards on punt coverage and had a team-high 10 tackles in a 40-27 win over Oregon. He also had one forced fumble, two pass breakups and a tackle for loss. Also chosen as the Southeastern Conference's defensive player of the week.
Special teams
Robert Kelley, RS, Tulane, Fr.
Kelly set a Tulane single-game kickoff return yards record in his college debut in a 47-33 win over Southeastern Louisiana. He tallied 213 yards on seven returns, starting with 66 yards on the game's opening kickoff. The former Tulane mark was 171, set in 1996.
Northwestern State at LSU
WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday.
WHERE: Tiger Stadium.
TV: TigerVision.

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A NASA and French Space Agency (CNES) spacecraft designed to continue a long-term survey of Earth's oceans has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base for final launch preparations. The new satellite will study ocean circulation and the effect oceans have on weather, climate and how Earth is responding to global climate change.
The Ocean Surface Topography Mission, called OSTM for short, will be flown on the Jason-2 spacecraft, which was transported on April 24 from its manufacturer, Thales Alenia Space, in Cannes, France, to Toulouse, France. It was loaded onto a Boeing 747 aircraft for its trans-Atlantic journey and after refueling in Boston, it arrived April 29 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Following final tests, it will be integrated onto a United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle in preparation for a planned launch in June.
With the launch of this satellite, the science of precisely measuring and studying the height of the sea surface across Earth's oceans will come of age. Continuous collection of these measurements began in 1992 with the NASA/CNES Topex/Poseidon mission and continued in 2001 with NASA/CNES's Jason-1 mission, which is currently providing near-real-time data to a variety of users.
The addition of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) as partners on OSTM/Jason-2 begins transitioning the responsibility for collecting these data to weather and climate forecasting agencies, which will use them for short-range and seasonal-to-long-range ocean forecasting.
The 15-plus-year climate data record that this mission will continue is the only one capable of addressing how ocean circulation is linked to climate change and how global sea level, one of the most important consequences and indicators of global climate change, is changing.
Satellite observations of Earth's oceans have revolutionized our understanding of global climate by improving ocean models and hurricane forecasts, and identifying and tracking large ocean/atmosphere phenomena such as El Nino and La Nina. The data are used every day in applications as diverse as, for example, routing ships, improving the safety and efficiency of offshore industry operations, managing fisheries and tracking marine mammals.
The spacecraft will be launched into a 1,336-kilometer (830-mile) circular, non-sun-synchronous orbit at an inclination of 66 degrees to Earth's equator, allowing it to monitor 95 percent of Earth's ice-free oceans every 10 days.
The Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 is an international and interagency mission developed and operated as a four-party collaboration among NASA; NOAA; the French Space Agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales; and EUMETSAT. CNES is providing the spacecraft, NASA and CNES are jointly providing the payload instruments and NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center is responsible for the launch management and countdown operations for the Delta II.
After completing the on-orbit commissioning of the spacecraft, CNES will hand over operation and control of the spacecraft to NOAA. NOAA and EUMETSAT will generate the near-real-time products and distribute them to users. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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NEA Jazz Master Bobby Hutcherson Returns
With Somewhere in the Night,
Available September 25 on Kind of Blue Records
Bobby Hutcherson
Somewhere In The Night
Release Date:
September 25, 2012
DL Media· (610) 667-0501
Don Lucoff
First Release in Three Years Continues Vibraphonist\'s
Partnership With Organist Joey DeFrancesco
New York City is the jazz capital of the world and Dizzy\'s Club Coca-Cola in Jazz at Lincoln Center is one of the music\'s greatest venues. On October 10, 2009, over the course of two sold-out sets, legendary vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded what would become Somewhere In The Night. The album, which is being released on Kind of Blue Records on September 25, also features the Joey DeFrancesco Trio -- guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Byron Landham as well as its organist namesake.
Of the organist, Hutcherson says, "One thing about Joey, he knows how to play. He doesn\'t play at the same volume all the time. He can play very soft and then he can increase his volume a lot. Because of that, he\'s very aware of what volume to play with the vibraphone. Even while he\'s soloing, he plays at different volumes. It makes it really good, you know." He continues, "Although he\'s full of ideas, he never gets in the way because he sure is very good at tempo. And I don\'t mean tempo as speed... I mean tempo as being able to understand what he\'s playing at any speed, you know, the tempo of life. He paces his notes, so they don\'t come out cluttered. He understands how to deliver a certain thing, and that\'s an important thing to do."
Somewhere In The Night manages to capture the live energy of a band in top form. The opening track "Teddy", written for Hutcherson\'s youngest son, sees the vibes master build a mammoth improvisation that builds in intensity and tempo, while "Little B\'s Poem", written for Hutcherson\'s oldest son and the composer\'s most famous work, is given new life nearly fifty years later by rephrasing the melody into a vamp that leads into a spectacular group improv.
Hutcherson pays tribute to his late mentor, Milt Jackson, on the legend\'s "SKJ", and displays his virtuosity on Duke Ellington\'s "Take the Coltrane". Coltrane\'s "Wise One" was the title track of a previous Kind of Blue release by Hutcherson and is reinterpreted here thanks to DeFrancesco\'s accompaniment. The organist leads with an improvisation before Bernstein and Hutcherson contribute their touching statements on the melody.
Hutcherson says of the title track of the album, "every time I play with Joey, we play that. I always love to hear Joey and listen to his bass line. Yeah, and that tempo, there\'s a longing feeling in it." Both Hutcherson and DeFrancesco showcase their ballad chops on Ned Washington and Victor Young\'s "My Foolish Heart". The vibraphonist says, "it\'s good to think about the song, singing the lyric, because you know the instrument should be something of a voice. It should be an extension of it. The things that you listen to that really grab you right away are things that make you feel like it\'s human."
George and Ira Gershwin\'s "S\'Wonderful" closes out the album and features the quartet all swinging with abandon as the crowd tingles with participatory electricity. As Todd Barkan, Dizzy\'s Club Coca-Cola\'s veteran producer, put it after Hutcherson and crew\'s set, "Take care of the music and it will take care of you."
Hutcherson, a California native and long time resident of Half Moon Bay, spent his formative years in New York, arriving there more than fifty years ago. Hutcherson has put his stamp on jazz both as a leader and as a sideman on classic records such as Eric Dolphy\'s Out to Lunch and Jackie McLean\'s One Step Beyond. Among the constant gigging and studio sessions, Hutcherson recorded two albums in the mid-sixties pairing vibes with the Hammond organ, a popular combination of the era. Grant Green\'s Street of Dreams (1964) and Big John Patton\'s Let \'Em Roll (1965) went largely overlooked but saw Hutcherson\'s melodious sound combine with the Hammond to produce a blanket of silky resonance. Forty years would pass before the vibraphonist reteamed with the B3 on Joey DeFrancesco\'s Organic Vibes. Somewhere In The Night continues the relationship between the two musicians.
Somewhere In The Night Track/Personnel Listing:
1. Teddy (Bobby Hutcherson) - 9:05
2. Little B\'s Poem (Bobby Hutcherson) - 8:06
3. Skj (Milt Jackson) - 8:25
4. Take the Coltrane (Duke Ellington) - 9:05
5. Wise One (John Coltrane) - 11:21
6. Somewhere In The Night (Billy May) - 8:31
7. My Foolish Heart (Victor Young) - 8:34
8. S\'Wonderful (George Gershwin) - 6:23
Bobby Hutcherson: Vibes
Joey DeFrancesco: Hammond B-3 Organ
Peter Bernstein: Guitar
Byron Landham: Drums
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Fans of deceased Apple CEO Steve Jobs fondly remember his early years founding the tech giant, and its resurgence thanks to gadgets such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
But what about that time in between, when Jobs was living life without Apple? Fast Company writer Brent Schlender revisits Jobs' "wilderness years," when the entrepreneur ran computer company NeXt and Pixar.
Having covered Jobs since 1985, Schlender says he uncovered about three dozen tapes with recorded interviews. According to Schlender, he discovered this period of Jobs' life might have been the most important. An excerpt:
"Jobs matured as a manager and a boss; learned how to make the most of partnerships; found a way to turn his native stubbornness into a productive perseverance. He became a corporate architect, coming to appreciate the scaffolding of a business just as much as the skeletons of real buildings, which always fascinated him. He mastered the art of negotiation by immersing himself in Hollywood, and learned how to successfully manage creative talent, namely the artists at Pixar. Perhaps most important, he developed an astonishing adaptability that was critical to the hit-after-hit-after-hit climb of Apple's last decade. All this, during a time many remember as his most disappointing."
Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, leading the company to a resurgence with the launch of the iPod, followed by the iPhone and iPad. Today, Apple sits on $98 billion in cash and investments, some of which the company returned to investors in the form of a dividend and $10 billion stock buyback.
Jobs died last year after a long battle with cancer.
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(Obama's like a bad) Boyfriend
You can do better.
I worry about you. Your choices, the things you thought you were looking for, have changed; what you thought you were getting is not what you got. The past four years of this administration have been like a bad boyfriend that you haven't quite been able to give up, but you know you need to. He's the kind that makes your Mother sigh and say, "You could do so much better."
The scenario plays out something like this:
Emails and texts and cheap flowers streaming in until you finally agree to see him. Once you go out you realize you don't have much in common. He's really not what he seems and his attention is not on you.
His taste in friends is questionable; you don't like them but you can't put your finger on what exactly you don't trust about them. His values are strangely different, although he billed himself as more like you. In fact, maybe he used your words as if they were his own.
You were introduced by someone you didn't know well, whose interests and tastes were not in line with yours. In fact, you wondered at the time why she thought you and he would make a good pair.
You can't trust him. He said he didn't know about an event or a phone call or an email, but you know he did. He got a friend involved to try and cover it up. It was hurtful and hard to forget.
He's relaxed a bit in his attention toward you. He's too good for some of your family get-togethers. He plays golf at some of the most expensive clubs in the country, travels with people who tell him what he wants to hear, but you're not included and he has the nerve to ask you to pick up his dry cleaning?
Instead of meaningful gifts that would make a statement or commitment or even show good taste, he gave you some meaningless, temporary tax refunds instead of jewelry, and then he "forgot" his wallet and you had to pay the bill at that restaurant you thought was a bit too expensive anyway.
He promises he will fix things in your apartment, but he makes excuses when you remind him. You know deep down he won't ever do it, but you want to believe he will.
Your parents don't like him. They're a bit stodgy and particular and he's different, sort of exotic. You try to believe it's just because they're old and they haven't dated in a long time. But you begin to see what they mean. He's not very nice to their little girl.
Ladies, you can do better. Breaking up is not so hard to do. Think long term. Use your intellect and good taste. Prove that you are worth a whole lot more. Don't sell yourself short.
You deserve a President who will work for you, is worthy of you, and will make sure you aren't left holding the bill!
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Guess it is just as that dating book said, "He's just not that into you!"
@Maine Mom Yes, though I am also reminded of a song from our past, with the lyrics "Your love is like bad medicine . . . "
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It's been 48 years since the 1963 CFL championship game between the BC Lions and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, but bad blood exists between 73-year-old former players Joe Kapp and Angelo Mosca.
Kapp (former BC Lions quarterback) and Mosca (former Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive tackle) got into a fight at the CFL Alumni Legends Luncheon in Vancouver on Friday. It resulted in punches and even a swinging cane.
Kapp is reportedly still heated about a hit that Mosca put on BC running back Willie Fleming in the '63 championship game that many thought was dirty. Kapp refused to shake Mosca's hand following the game, and time hasn't been enough to erase the animosity between the two players.
Check out Kapp (on the left) instigate the fisticuffs with Mosca (right) on stage at the luncheon.
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Having pushed past Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, the only thing that stands in the way of the New York Jets and a Super Bowl game is Ben Roethlisberger and his Steelers. The two will face off in the Conference Championship this Sunday at Heinz Field for what is sure to be an exhilarating game. If the Jets win it, they will become the second No. 6 seed team in NFL history to make it to the Super Bowl. New York is on a good path, and has won their two playoffs games against Indianapolis and New England thus far on the road. Still, the Steelers have the endurance and experience of Roethlisberger, who has lead Pittsburgh to their fourth AFC Championship game in seven years. Turn the TV to CBS – HD National at 6:30PM ET to see if the Jets can make net their first Super Bowl berth in 42 years. Vegas odds.
After finishing first in the AFC North, the Steelers went on the beat Baltimore 31-24 on a third quarter comeback after a first round bye. That comeback was largely thanks to Big Ben, who threw two scores in the third and a 58-yard pass to seal the victory. Roethlisberger is not the only gem Pittsburgh boasts. Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders and Mike Wallace compliment the leagues second ranked defense, and really make room for Ben to make plays down the field. An advantage that sways the game in Pittsburgh's favor is the fact that they will have Heath Miller and Troy Polamalu on hand. Both were absent in the regular-season meeting between the teams, and are sure to make a huge difference this time around. Betting lines.
Rookie QB Mark Sanchez and the Jets have lived up to coach Rex Ryan's loud mouth, and made it far for a No. 6 seed. New York was amongst the favorites to win the AFC at the start of the season, and is now threatening to shake up a conference that has been dominated by three powerful teams for the last decade. After beating both the Colts and the Patriots, it is only fitting that the Jets would have to get past the last team of the trio to make it to the Super Bowl. However, facing Ben and the Steelers will be different. The top-ranked defense and former Steeler Santonio Holmes will have to think quick on this match-up. See how it all pans out at www.scoresandodds.com, home of the latest lines and best online betting information. Sports scores.


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originally from Dunajska Streda in Slovakia and since shortly after the
end of the Second World War living in Brooklyn, New York.
This museum is a part of
The Slovak National Museum, most of the visitors are foreigners, and the
staff speaks perfect Slovak, broken German and no English. Since it is
installed in a heritage building, the heritage comity wont even let them
to have a door bell outside the door and of course no telephone. Lucky,
they did get the permission to install lighting and heating. The permanent
exposition is separated to six sections. Jewish religion, Synagogue,
service and customs of every day and holiday, the life's circle-birth,
maturing, wedding, home and death, important Slovak Jewish personalities,
the people's names that died in concentration camps during the war and
names of all people that were helping the Jews during the war.
One can't help it, not to
get emotional while visiting the museum, especially in the last room that
deals with World War II.
After my visit, while
talking with helpful and very knowledgeable staff, Mr. Stefan Silling
and Mrs. Maria Martanova, an elderly gentleman entered the museum
and from his voice I felt, he wasn't happy. After a short conversation I
discovered the reason for his unhappiness: the absence of mezuzahs on
every door. There is a mezuzah inside the museum on the right side of the
first and the second door to show the symbolism. It was explained to me
and after I translated to Mr. Berger, that the museum is part of Slovak
National Museum and not part of the Bratislava's Jewish community and it
displays Jewish culture as a whole, including religion and not only
religion, Mr. Berger was satisfied and not insisting anymore on installing
mezuzahs on every door, as he brought them with him.
We walked together to
another room, where just few days ago a new exhibit opened about the
concentration camps and after a brief introduction, following my discovery
that he is an Auschwitz survivor I have asked Mr. Berger for his
eyewitness interview. And here is Mr. Berger's story:
Mr. Berger was born in Dunajska Streda, Slovakia in 1927. In April of 1943, the life was going
on in our town, everyone was working, families were together, and nobody
guessed what was about to happen. All of a sudden two policemen came in to
our house armed with guns and started to read an order from the city
government. We were given exactly half an hour to pack up their
belongings, one small suitcase per person and were forced to leave our
house and go with the policemen. This all happened very fast and at the
same time in all Jewish communities in Slovakia, Hungary, parts of
Yugoslavia and part of Romania. They did it so smart and fast that nobody
new What's going on in the other villages or cities, their families and
In Dunajska Streda all
the Jewish people were concentrated in two yards. One of them was the
Synagogue yard and the another was playing field. The whole Jewish
community, about four hundred families were out there and kept for about
ten days. We were all together small babies, kids, and teenagers, grown
ups, elderly, there were no beds or bedding, no sanitation. We were all
squashed together in a small place, kids, and many others were crying, not
knowing what will tomorrow bring us. Once a day shortly afternoon we were
thrown pieces of dry bread. Whoever was able to grab a piece was fed and
the others went hungry. Many people were sick, tired, couldn't walk,
mostly elderly, many died in the Synagogue's yard. Finally, after about 10
days we had to walk to the train station where they loaded us to the
animal freight cars, 70 people to a car. It made no difference who it was,
everyone together, babies children, teenagers, men, women, elderly, all of
us. The train had 70 cars, together 4900 people. We've traveled day and
night for about five days to Auschwitz. On our arrival Dr. Mengele was
standing there with another high ranking black-booted SS officer with
death's-head badges, guns, whips, and snarling dogs.
The people stepping off
the car one by one were sorted by their age, profession, and ability to
work as slave laborers. If the answer regarding your age and ability to
work was to their liking you were told to go to left side, the children
and elderly people were told to go to the right side. This sorting
continued on for the whole day. The people on the right side went straight
to the gas chambers as they were of no use for the Nazis. The people on
the left side were then taken under guard to a big yard, had to take off
their clothing, all of their jewelry and all were shaven from head to
toes, all together, girls, boys, men and women. We were all issued striped
uniforms, like pajamas. After this we were taken to the camp barracks,
like bungalow, with nothing in it. The guards pushed everyone in until it
was full. There was no place to turn, we were squashed like sardines.
Later on we were given soup made of onion and potato skins and horsemeat.
That was the daily food. At night there was enough room to sleep on one
side, but not for turning. At four every morning they wake us and we had
to line up outside in cold for daily counting routine that lasted two
hours to make sure that nobody escaped. No one could have escaped
Auschwitz anyway, as it was surrounded with high voltage electric fences
and barbed wires.
Lots of people that were
disgusted and couldn't take it any more ran into the fence and were killed
by the electricity if the Nazis didn't shoot them before they got there.
As the war progressed and Germany was suffering huge losses, the factory
owners in Germany were sending requests for workers to Auschwitz. So every
day a selection of workers would take place and they were shipped to
Germany. Some were lucky and got a better place to live and work, more
food, better conditions. They were still in a camp, guarded by soldiers
and barb wires. In September of 1943, I was also selected and shipped to a
little town of Wildorf in Germany to work at a farm. Sometimes we've built
underground shelters. We were working very hard from 4:00 A.M. to 8:00
P.M. and once a day we've received food. It was much better than Auschwitz
our work foreman was fairly nice; he didn't hit us every day. Because of
the unhealthy living conditions and lack of sanitation many people
including me got typhus and most of them died.
There were worst camps in
Germany than Auschwitz where the people were tortured day and night and
treated like animals. Some places were not as bad. In general only one of
ten persons taken to Auschwitz made it through the War. At Auschwitz and
the other death camps, six million Jews died.
His parents and sister
all died in Auschwitz.
After the War ended, Mr.
Berger returned to Dunajska Streda. His family property was confiscated
and not returned. He stayed in Dunajska Streda until 1947 at which time
he immigrated to USA.
Bibliography: Our Worlds
Heritage, National Geographic Society, 1987
DVD of MY
pictures from our November 2005 visit to Auschwitz and Mauthausen
photographs are for sale
Published in the Slovak Heritage Live newsletter Volume 2, No. 3, Fall 1994
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Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5C 1P6
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an appropriation of $11,000 is hereby authorized, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay not to exceed half the cost of the construction of a bridge and approaches thereto across the San Jacinto River near the Soboba Indian Reservation in the State of California, including the cost of surveys, plans, estimates, and specifications, and other necessary expenses connected therewith, on condition that the State of California or the count of Riverside provide the remainder of the cost, and under rues and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, who shall also approve the plans and specifications therefor: Provided, That before any money is spent hereunder the State or county shall agree in writing to maintain the bridge and approaches without expense to the United States or the Indians.
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Masters in the Hall is an old French carol, whose words were written by William Morris sometime before 1860. The carol is a song of celebration of the promised birth of Christ the Lord. Let the masters rejoice, and all be glad, for Christmas has come in, let no one be sad!
Masters in this hall, hear ye news today.
Brought from over the sea and ever I you pray.
Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell sing we clear!
Holpen are all folk on Earth, born is God's Son so dear!
Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell sing we loud!
God today hath poor folk raised and cast a-down the proud.
Going o'er the hills, through the milk-white snow,
Heard I ewes bleat, while the wind did blow.
Then to Bethlem town, we went two and two,
And in a sorry place, heard the oxen low.
Therein did we see, a sweet and goodly may
And a fair old man, upon the straw she lay.
And a little child, on her arm had she,
"Wot ye who this is?" said the hinds to me.
This is Christ the Lord, masters be ye glad!
Christmas is come in, and no folk should be sad.
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 10)
Alexander Has-san, a Washington civil engineer and builder who was born in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia of Russian immigrants, and his wife, Sylvia, have underwritten the cost of three projects in Israel, the Jewish National Fund of Washington has disclosed. Their dollar cost was not revealed.
The announcement came at the "appreciation dinner" given Sunday by the Washington JNF for Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin and his wife, Leah. More than 1000 persons, contributing about $250,000 to the JNF, attended the black tie affair at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Bernard Rosenberg, Washington JNF president, said it was the largest and financially most successful gathering in the local organization's history.
Rosenberg said the Hassans are paying for the construction of a six-kilometer road which will link the highway skirting Israel's north central border with a planned forest of approximately 100,000 pine trees which the Washington JNF group will plant and name in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Rabin. The Hassans will also meet the costs of a technical high school for training mechanics at the Kfar Silver Agricultural School near Ashkelon and an engineering structure for the Technion in Haifa.


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The Slow Food First Coast Snail of Approval Program is a directory of the restaurants, food and beverage artisans, stores, and markets and farms that, because of their contributions to the quality, authenticity and sustainability of the food supply of the First Coast region of Florida, have been awarded the SFFC Snail of Approval.
As we celebrate our local foods and recognize those who grow and/or prepare it, we invite you to get in touch and meet these dedicated individuals. This guide is growing and changing continuously. Every effort has been made to keep this information up to date and accurate but things do change. Please contact us with additions, comments, or questions about our listing.
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In the latter part of his life, Charles B. Brown, III, developed a passion for collecting rare, antique, automatic musical instruments. That collection is now showcased at the Bayernhof Museum.
His collection is displayed in almost every room in the house. It includes many antique music boxes, "monkey" organs, carousel organs, a Reproduco Piano-Pipe organ used in funeral homes and theaters and an Encore Automatic Banjo. There is also a Mills Deluxe Violano Virtuoso which plays two violins and piano combination, and a huge Seeburg Pipe Organ Orchestra that was once used to accompany silent films. Be sure to select the "Collection" tab on the left to view a sampling of the pieces. Of course, the best way to enjoy these unique machines is to arrange a tour.
Mr. Brown was the founder and chief executive officer of Gas-Lite Manufacturing until his death in 1999. In his will "Chuck" directed that his house be converted into a museum for the public display of his collection of music machines.


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Whole-of-life insurance policies are expensive – and in many cases have failed to deliver expected returns. Below we discuss the various options facing those who have invested in such policies and are now being asked to pay more.
Request a review
Even if your insurer isn't asking for more money now, ask for an up-to-date statement. If you have an adviser, ask them to review the policy with you. Ask your insurer for a statement detailing performance of the investment fund to date and the life insurance costs - and how these are expected to increase in future.
Assess your risks
If you are being asked to pay more, you have to assess the likelihood of claiming – or dying, in other words. How old are you, and your spouse, and are you in good health? If there is a good chance of one of you living at least another 10 years, then any premium increase you face now is unlikely to be the last. These additional costs have to be weighed against the future payout.
Don't surrender lightly
Danny Cox of Hargreaves Lansdown said early surrender was usually poor value and you were likely to lose money. But some policyholders dislike "throwing good money after bad". Since most of these policies are written under trust, the surrender value is paid either into the trust or to the beneficiaries, not back to the policyholder.
Can you get help?
Mr Cox said it could make financial sense for grown-up children to help with premiums – as they will benefit from any payout. When discussing inheritance tax issues, he said it was sensible to include family members.
Lower your cover
If you can't afford to pay higher premiums, Mr Cox said the next best option was accepting a lower payout. However, remember that this sum could be further reduced in future to a point where it is worth less than the premiums paid to date. Your insurance company should be able to provide an estimate of when this might happen - given certain investment assumptions. Again you need to balance this against your age and life expectancy.
Grounds for complaint?
There are several reasons why you may be able to take a case to the Ombudsman. If you weren't warned that premiums could increase – or weren't told about the reviews – you may have been mis-sold the policy. The Ombudsman may also uphold your complaint if a whole of life policy was the only option given for inheritance tax (IHT) planning. If you took out a maximum cover policy – where premiums were expected to rise – this may make it unsuitable for IHT purposes, as those in retirement are unlikely to be able to afford future increases. Likewise if the policy has not been written in trust you could have grounds for complaint.
When you can't complain
The Ombudsman is unlikely to rule that poor investment returns alone are sufficient cause for complaint – even though Mr Cox said performance on some of these funds had been "simply unacceptable". Some assumed growth rates of 9pc a year – but have struggled to deliver 2pc. Only those who weren't warned that there was an investment risk could use this as a valid complaint.
Review IHT plans
These policies are only ever useful as a "sticking plaster" for IHT purposes, said Mike Deverell of Equilibrium, a wealth management firm. "They may have some use for those in their sixties, who feel they are too young to be gifting away assets or using trust structures," he said. But don't assume that whole-of-life cover will last a lifetime. Those now realising that these policies won't deliver should consider other tax planning options.


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The island's health authority says it is concerned the number of children who have been given the MMR inoculation is worryingly low.
Jersey's target for vaccination is 95%, but the take-up figure is about 68%.
It is thought the low figures follow concerns that the MMR vaccine may be linked to autism and bowel disease.
But Jersey's Public Health Service said the evidence of any link was weak.
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I really wouldn't put clown loaches in a tank that small. They need lots of room and oxygen and they'd probably be miserable once they started to grow.
"One inch per gallon" is only a rough guideline and doesn't apply to thick bodied fish such as clown loaches. They produce much more waste than slimmer fish of a similar length. It is more important to look at the massiveness of the fish rather than its length. Not only would the clowns have very little room to move around once they grow, but you would be doing more wate


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Healthy Every Week Challenge Weekly Round-Upby Healthy Eats in Uncategorized, January 10, 2012
We're teaming up with fellow food bloggers and healthy eating advocates to host a Healthy Every Week Challenge, a month-long initiative to develop healthy eating habits. The plan an is to develop a manageable healthy habit each week that will carry through the new year. Join us here and share what you're eating on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #gethealthy.
We made it through week 1 of our Healthy Every Week Challenge, with many successes reported by participants. It seems that most of you were able to eat breakfast every day, or at least almost every day. Many reported quick breakfasts like nut butter on whole wheat toast or a container of yogurt and some fruit. Quite a few of you are egg lovers and there are a lot of die-hard smoothie fans out there, too. But overwhelmingly, the challenge breakfast of choice was oatmeal. When we gave away 2 bags of Coach's Oat's Oatmeal we learned about so many new ways to eat oatmeal — you like it topped with apples, brown sugar and cinnamon, honey, dried fruit, granola, chia and flax seeds, bananas, berries, pumpkin puree and there was even one report of topping oatmeal with Irish whiskey. To add to the oatmeal love, Kath Freston from KathEats.com shared with us her favorite ways to eat oatmeal (in smoothies, cooked on the stove-top and in pancakes!). The recipe pictured on top got a ton of attention on Twitter, and why wouldn't it — it's chocolate brownie oatmeal! Its creator, Anjali, over at The Picky Eater ate it every day during week 1 — a good idea for week 2 as well. The goal for week 2 is to eat more whole grains (you should keep eating breakfast, too!) so keep eating that oatmeal, granola and whole grain toast for breakfast and you're set.
After the jump, see what our friends and participants were up to during week 1 of the challenge.
Picky Eater Blog: Chocolate Brownie Oatmeal
Family Fresh Cooking: Apple Cinnamon Baked Oatmeal
Healthy Eating Starts at Home: Eating Breakfast Daily
Carlene's Figments: Bits of Nutrition: Eat Breakfast Daily and Avoid Common Excuses
Simple Food, Healthy Life: Week 1 Comes to a Close + Healthy Breakfast Recipes
JBR Nutrition: Be a Breakfast Eater
Ramblings of a Pittsburgh Dad: Healthy Every Week Challenge, Week 1
Meghan's Kitchen: Ham and Cheddar Hash-brown Bake
Don't Be (Too) Timid and Squeamish: Maple Macadamia Nut Butter and Back to School Oatmeal
Eat. Enjoy. Live: Healthy Every Week Challenge Week 1 + a Recipe for Oat-y Pancakes
City Life Eats: Breakfast Bias
Boys 'n' Berry: Week 1: Oatmeal
Netlycka's Distracting Confusion: Eat Breakfast Every Day
You Don't Look Sick: Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis: First Week of Healthy Breakfasts
Deep Thoughts and Amusing Musings: Food Network's January Challenge
Healthy Kitschy Vegan: Guess What I Ate Last Night? Peanut Butter and Banana Oat Bran Mess
An Uneducated Palate: Creamy Chevre, Pistachio and Fig Breakfast Sandwich
Healthy Plates: Avocado Egg Sandwich
Essentials of Nutrition: The Most Important Meal of the Day
Pursuit of Healthiness: Healthy Every Week Challenge, Breakfast Edition
Chick Bike: January Challenge, Week 1
Nutritious Daily: Breakfast Every Day
Cookin' in my Kitchen: No-Butter Baked Apples
Hungry Jenny: Breakfast All the Way + an Easy Granola Recipe
Adventures in my Kitchen: Whole-Wheat Lemon Donuts and Egg Cups
Good luck getting your whole grains this week; check back here next Tuesday and we'll recap week 2. If you need some inspiration, find out which grains are considered whole grains, find out how you can get more whole grains into your meals, or try one of our 11 whole-grain recipes.


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To spur domestic energy production and quiet GOP critics, the Obama administration announced Thursday that it's opening more areas in the Arctic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
Angering some environmentalists, the Department of Interior plans 15 potential lease sales from 2012 to 2017, including 12 in the Gulf of Mexico and three off the coast of Alaska in the Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea and Cook Inlet Planning Areas. It's on track to hold the first sale later this year.
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the "targeted" leasing strategy will put a few sensitive areas off-limits to minimize environmental risks. They include two whaling areas in Beaufort, a hunting and fishing area in Chukchi near Barrow, Alaska, and a 25-mile buffer area near Chukchi's coast.
"This plan is a key part of the president's "all of the above" energy strategy, Salazar told reporters Thursday. He called it a "smart" and aggressive" way to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Some environmentalists are opposed. "The plan is too aggressive, too broad and too rushed," Regan Nelson, senior oceans advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement. "We believe an array of critical safety and environmental issues must be addressed first before America puts more coastal areas at risk."
Nelson argues the U.S., instead of allowing more oil and gas drilling, should be promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
"Industry has stepped up" to make safety and environmental improvements after BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, said Tommy Beaudreau, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
Beaudreau, joining Salazar at the press conference, said the spill -- the largest in U.S. history -- led to a "crisis of confidence" that prompted aggressive and successful reforms. On Monday, for example, Interior officials noted that Shell successfully tested a new oil spill containment device in Washington State's Puget Sound.
Earlier this week, Salazar said that Shell will likely win federal approval soon to begin drilling exploratory wells off the North Slope of Alaska, and earlier this month, his department held a lease sale for nearly 39 million acres in the Central Gulf of Mexico that attracted more than $1.7 billion in bids.
On Tuesday, U.S. officials announced that the Army Corps of Engineers had approved permits for Calgary-based TransCanada to build 115 miles of new pipeline from an oil depot in Cushing, Okla., to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
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The Miami Dolphins lost their battle with the New York Jets on Sunday, but they may have won ... well, a different battle, specifically on the injury front.
Running back Reggie Bush left yesterday's game with a left knee injury, but tweeted Monday: "Received some great news today! Praise the Lord!"
That would seem to be a pretty good indication Bush will be back on the field soon, more than can be said of Jets all-pro cornerback Darrelle Revis, who suffered a torn ACL in the game.
Despite missing the second half after taking a helmet to his knee yesterday, Bush ranks fourth in the NFL with 302 rushing yards and remains a threat of achieving his stated goal of leading the league in the category.
More important, Bush has emerged as a leader for a young Miami team, earning praise from coaches for his work ethic and setting a tone for his greener mates.
We'll pass on more updates as the Dolphins provide them, but their running game appears to be in good shape with Daniel Thomas and Lamar Miller capably spelling Bush yesterday.
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He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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I know many of you are in the same boat as I am and simply cannot wait to see B-Roy repping the blue and white. Here is a great compilation of some his best highlights during his five years in PDX. Now, many of these plays happened before knee ailments led Roy to retire before last season, but it is still exciting to know that if he returns to anything close to All-Star form that made him one of the top players in the NBA, he will surely be an upgrade to what the Wolves experienced at shooting guard last season. Well, enjoy the highlights and have a nice weekend y'all.
Brandon Roy Finally Becomes a Timberpup
I really can't hide my emotions on this one – I absolutely love the signing of Brandon Roy. Sure, it is six years and a few knee procedures later, but if he produces anything this coming season, I'll finally be able to move on from the now infamous (and tragic) Roy for Foye trade from draft night 2006.
What do I mean by "produces anything"? I don't expect Roy to play 30 mpg whatsoever. I'd like to see his time somewhere between 20-24 mpg, especially for the first half of the season. Let's see how he is feeling the day after a game, and more importantly, after back-to-back nights. There's no reason to wear him out early on in the season, even if Rubio is missing from the lineup (as he likely will be). Even in his introductory press conference, Brandon seemed to be aligned to a similar plan; he mentioned he would like to play as much as possible, but needs to be smart about it.
There were two other important sound bytes from the introductory press conference that caught my attention:
Greg Stiemsma Signs Offer Sheet with Timberwolves
In a move that came to the surprise of very few in the NBA realm, the Minnesota Timberwolves have signed former Boston Celtics backup center Greg Stiemsma to an offer sheet that will most likely not be matched due to Boston's lack of appropriate cap space. The Wisconsin graduate enjoyed an efficient rookie season this year for the Celtics after originally going undrafted in the 2008 NBA draft and subsequently playing stints in South Korea, Turkey, and the NBA D-League. Ironically, Stiemsma found himself signing with the Timberwolves following the 2009-10 season, but was ultimately waived before appearing in a game for the Pups.
This season for the Celtics, Stiemsma averaged 2.9 points, 3.2 rebounds, and an impressive 1.5 blocks in 13.9 minutes per game. He appeared in 55 games and won over the Boston fans due to his high energy and tireless work ethic. Stiemsma's offensive game is undoubtedly in need of some work, but there is no question that he is an impact defensively on the low post and he brings a shot-blocking ability that the Timberwolves are in desperate need of. The 6'11", 260 pounder loves taking charges and does any thing he can to help his team win. There is also not a question that his attitude and work ethic will be an enormous upgrade over that of Darko Milicic and Anthony Randolph.
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Are the Portland Trail Blazers the T Wolves first Legit Rival?
Well, friends, here we are in the midst of another hectic summer of NBA free agency and our Timberpups just cannot seem to catch a break. For starters, the Trail Blazers matched the Wolves offer sheet to Nicolas Batum worth 4 years and roughly $46.5 million, ending the dream of nabbing the 23-year-old rising star who can shoot, defend, and play both shooting guard and small forward (both positions of significant need). Despite signing Kevin Love to a max contract earlier this year, the Timberwolves are loaded with cap space after the amnesty of Darko, trade of Brad Miller, waiving of Martell Webster, while watching both Michael Beasley and Anthony Randolph sign elsewhere after being non-tendered. This years crop of free agents was not the greatest in recent memory, but there was no doubt that there were plenty of serviceable players that the Timberwolves could realistically sign.
The Batum saga lasted for approximately 18 days, ultimately culminating in Minnesota fans getting their hopes up followed by an inevitable, oh-so-familiar Minnesota sports letdown. The time that Minnesota spent attempting a sign-and-trade with Portland for Batum was not without its opportunity cost as potential free agent fits OJ Mayo, Lou Williams, Jamal Crawford, Landry Fields, Chauncey Billups, and most recently Courtney Lee found new homes. The sting of losing out on Batum was only made worse by seeing other viable wing options fill the needs of contending teams, while limiting Minnesota's remaining options in free agency. The failed pursuit of Batum not only yielded Portland retaining one of their core pieces, but also contributed to the brewing rivalry between the Timberwolves and Portland.
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T-Wolves Sign Nicolas Batum to Offer Sheet
After several failed attempts at a sign-and-trade deal for Portland SG-SF Nicolas Batum, the Wolves officially signed Batum to an offer sheet worth $46.4 million over 4 years. The deal includes incentives that could potentially push the total dollar amount to over $50 million, and the general consensus of sports minds believe that Portland will not allow Batum to walk for nothing. As a restricted free agent, the Trail Blazers now have until Wednesday night to match the offer sheet.
Minnesota's amnesty of Darko Milicic, waive of Martell Webster, and trade of Brad Miller have given the Wolves plenty of cap space to fit Batum and his large contract into their payroll, and even gives them additional room to potentially sign a few free agents that most likely include Brandon Roy, Alexey Shved, Greg Stiemsma, Jordan Hill, Courtney Lee, OJ Mayo, and Ronnie Brewer, among others. Many free agents have held off signing with teams until the Batum situation plays out, and Roy and Shved have already verbally agreed with the Wolves until they can officially sign with the team as they await Portland's decision on Batum. If Portland matches, the Wolves will shift their focus on signing Stiemsma and targeting free agent shooting guards Lee and Mayo. Lee previously played under Timberwolves Head Coach Rick Adelman in Houston, and would be a great fit on both ends of the floor.
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Timberwolves Sign Brandon Roy
The Timberwolves have been prompt to addressing the various team needs so far during this hectic free agency period, beginning by the team sending their first round selection for the likes of SF Chase Budinger. They then took nearly a week to woo UFA SG Brandon Roy, and have reportedly struck a deal with the former Trail Blazer. The deal is reported to be a two-year pact worth $10.4 million, with only the first year being guaranteed. Roy recently retired due to medical concerns over his "cartilage-less" knees before this past season, and he has undergone platelet-rich blood therapy in an attempt to overcome the lack of cartilage in his knees, which is the result of his having several surgeries on each knee.
The Timberwolves originally selected the Washington star with the 6th pick in the 2006 draft, but traded him for Randy Foye on draft night after Timberwolves doctors red-flagged Roy's knees as a potential problem for his long-term health.
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The Timberwolves began NBA free agency in frenzy as the clock struck midnight on July 1, commencing their quest for veteran additions to their current nucleus by scheduling meetings with SG-SF Nicolas Batum, C Greg Stiemsma, former Portland SG Brandon Roy, and PF-C Jordan Hill. The Timberpups also reached out to the likes of SG Jamal Crawford, SG OJ Mayo, while remaining extremely active in trade discussions with the Los Angeles Lakers in hopes of landing PF Pau Gasol.
It appears that the Pups are as dedicated as any team in the NBA to land multiple high-profile players NOW, greatly reflecting their urgency to "win now," as Minnesota head coach Rick Adelman is 66 and is likely in the middle of his final contract of his life, while Pups owner Glen Taylor is 71 and wants to see how far his current core group of players can take him before he sells the team in a few years. Whatever the sole cause, it is very uncharacteristic of the Wolves to be so very active in free agency while placing such great importance on attracting marquee names to the land of 10,000 lakes, and the Minnesota front office and coaching staff deserves much credit for their persistent efforts thus far. [Read more…]


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Psychopathologie phénoménologique : Apports contemporains et défis futurs
Englebert, Jérôme
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Laloyaux, Julien ; Levaux, Marie-Noëlle ; et al
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Analyse de l'efficacité des programmes d'éducation rachidienne pour la prévention des lombalgies
Demoulin, Christophe ; ; et al
in Neurone (2013), 18Detailed reference viewed: 52 (6 ULg)
Revalidation cognitive et schizophrénie: Pour une approche centrée sur les activités de la vie quotidienne
Laroi, Frank ; Van der Linden, Martial
in Neurone (2006), 11Detailed reference viewed: 23 (4 ULg)
La rispéridone en pédopsychiatrie. Sa place dans l'ensemble de la nosologie, dont les diagnostics non-psychotiques, les liens avec la clinique, des modèles neurophysiologiques d'actions, dont une amélioration de la synthèse des perceptions des émotions ,contexte sociologique et aspects éthiques et anthropologiques.
Scholl, Jean-Marc
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Some children benefit greatly from atypical antipsychotics. In some cases, their use markedly improves these children's relational and developmental prognosis. The indications for use also include, as is ... [more ▼]
Some children benefit greatly from atypical antipsychotics. In some cases, their use markedly improves these children's relational and developmental prognosis. The indications for use also include, as is well-known, non-psychotic diagnoses such as: Borderline Personality Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, manic states, and mood swings. This article is the fruit of clinical experience with one atypical antipsychotic, risperdidone, involving more than 230 patients in childhood (80%) or adolescence (20%). After having briefly discussed the atypical antipsychotics in Section I, we will go on in Section II to specify the conditions of effectiveness (in which psychotherapy plays a part), prescription limits, dosage schedules, and side effects of risperidone in relation to the whole gamut of child pyschiatric nosology, drawing both on personal clinical experience and on relevant studies. Section II concludes with an explanatory metaphor that can be helpfully used to communicate with the child and the parents when the drug is first prescribed. Section II also serves to introduce the main hypothesis I want to present in this paper. First, the majority of anamnestic elements we will have discussed in the section are connected with a neurophysiological deficit in the capacity to synthesize perceptions, and particularly with a difficulty in perceiving affects (more below). Second, risperidone corrects, or, in conjunction with other atypical psychotics, helps to correct, the above-mentioned neurobiological deficit. Third, this suggests the need for an empirically-oriented research program aimed at identifying precisely the diverse clinical entities often lumped together under vague terms like "psychosis," the exact neurobiological deficits underlying them, and the atypical psychotics---as opposed to the classical neuroleptics---that best correct these deficits. This does not call into question the value of psychotherapy, but rather suggests the need for a holistic, multidisciplinary approach that takes account of all relevant factors: neurobiological, psychological, familial, cultural, and so forth. Section III fleshes out this hypothesis by proposing an original neuropsychological model of risperidone's action that illuminate the clinical experience discussed in Section II. According to this model, risperidone leads to a significant improvement in the synthesis of the perception of emotions and to a better connection between the different neorological zones associated with memory, thus allowing a greater integration of the perceptions. A significant element in Section III will be a critical review of some of the relevant literature. Section IV brings neurological models into dialogue with psychodynamics in light of some concrete clinical cases. What is offered here is just an initial sketch whose value is above all in the proposed approach, which obviously calls for a subsequent interdisciplinary study. Clinical practise, it is suggested, must attend to the world of feelings and subjectivity as a key to understanding the difficulties of the child and the necessity of psychotherapy in conjunction with drug therapy. Section V puts the difficulty of listening to one's feelings in the context of contemporary Western society, which is not unconnected with the deterioration in mental health. Section V also tackles the ethics of prescribing antipsychotics like risperidone and of the future research with psychotrophic drugs. Finally, Section V also underlines certain aspects of the human being that the action of risperidone brings to light: man as "a being of perception and receptivity"; man's "faculties"; and the "intuitive intelligence." The article ends with a brief reflection on "the sense of the mystery of the human being" in order to set the question of determinism into a wider phenomenological context at whose center stands the undivided unity of the human being within interpersonal communion. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 302 (2 ULg)
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Salmon, Eric ; Lespagnard, Solange ; Lekeu, Françoise et al
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Malchair, Alain
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DELVAUX, Valérie ; GONCE, Michel
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La dopamine dans les troubles de l'humeur
PITCHOT, William
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Le diagnostic précoce de la maladie d'Alzheimer: Apport de la neuropsychologie
; Van der Linden, Martial ; Collette, Fabienne et al
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Tumeurs cérébrales chez l'enfant : Expérience du département universitaire de pédiatrie de Liège
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Epilepsies rebelles de l'enfant: définition et modalités de prise en charge hospitalière
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In addition to Iggy Azalea and Zedd, who make guest appearances in 'Problem' and 'Break Free' respectively, the album will feature Big Sean, Cashmere Cat, Childish Gambino, The Weeknd and A$AP Ferg.
After revealing the release date and official artwork of "My Everything", Ariana Grande unveiled her second studio album's tracklisting on Monday, June 30. The record's standard version will feature an intro and 11 tracks including lead single "Problem" (featuring Iggy Azalea) and its follow-up "Break Free" (featuring Zedd).
The album will see Grande reuniting with Big Sean. The rapper, who recorded "Right There" with the Nickelodeon star for her 2013 chart-topping album "Yours Truly", rejoins her for a new track called "Best Mistake".
Other names set to make guest appearances in the LP are Cashmere Cat ("Be My Baby"), Childish Gambino ("Break Your Heart Right Back"), The Weeknd ("Love Me Harder") and A$AP Ferg ("Hands on Me"). Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco, Max Martin and Rodney Jerkins are all featured as producers.
Also contributing to the album is One Direction's Harry Styles who penned "A Little Bit of Your Heart".
"My Everything" is scheduled to be released on August 25. Grande is now gearing up for her upcoming appearance on one-day resurrection of MTV's "Total Request Live". During the 30-minute special dubbed "Total Ariana Live", airing on Wednesday, July 2, she'll perform a stripped down version of "Problem" and debut her newest single "Break Free".
"My Everything" Tracklist:
- "Intro"
- "Problem" feat. Iggy Azalea
- "One Last Time"
- "Why Try"
- "Break Free" feat. Zedd
- "Best Mistake" feat. Big Sean
- "Be My Baby" feat. Cashmere Cat
- "Break Your Heart Right Back" feat. Childish Gambino
- "Love Me Harder" feat. The Weeknd
- "A Little Bit of Your Heart"
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Archive for the 'Planning' Category
Cabinet reviews progress with New Ash Green centre
At yesterday's Cabinet meeting of Sevenoaks District Council a report was presented outlining the recent attempts by the Council to secure essential work on the village centre in New Ash Green. An Environmental Visual Audit of the area in March revealed a number of issues that need attention and these are being pursued with the relevant people. Already the blocked drains have been cleared and some repairs have been carried out but more are still awaited. It was reported that a meeting will be held in may between the Council's Regeneration Adviser and the landowner, together with the architect who has been engaged by the landowner – this will be to discuss the landowners' future intentions for the centre. A report on this meeting will be prepared for all residents if there is any firm information to pass on.
Sevenoaks moves forward to 2016
At the elections in May, 18 new councillors were elected to the District Council. They have quickly joined the returning councillors to seek to deliver on the Conservative manifesto commitments. Financial self sufficiency has been a driving force. Members have taken some bold decisions to ensure that the Council stands on the brink of setting a budget for 2016-17 that will make Sevenoaks District Council the very first in the country to be self-sufficient of Government grant. This gives us certainty in our planning and puts the Council in a great place to continue to deliver on its priorities for residents and businesses.
Helping us to achieve this goal has been the Property Investment Strategy. The decisions that councillors have taken have enabled the Council to move quickly to secure investments in Swanley and Sevenoaks that will generate at least £450,000 a year in additional income. With the bold decision taken to develop a hotel and work ongoing to improve car parking capacity in Sevenoaks, there are exciting developments to come in 2016 and beyond. The decision to develop a Masterplan for the regeneration of Swanley and Hextable is a great opportunity to make a real and lasting difference for local people.
We are supporting this by continuing to make savings – £500,000 in 2016-17 and additional income or savings to the value of £100,000 in each year after. Working with officers, councillors have already identified all but £13,000 of the savings we will require next year. This is being achieved without any reduction in front line services.
Elsewhere in the Council there have been significant challenges to face in relation to planning. The decisions of Government continue to make managing the development we need in our District more challenging. Progress is being made with a revised Local Plan and the adoption of an Enforcement Policy. The increasing need for housing in our rural District and the call for sites are not always palatable news but essential to enable us to continue to make progress. The decision to grant planning permission at Fort Halstead, although circumscribed by detailed legal agreements, will provide for much needed housing and business premises.
Council services have continued to deliver for residents. Improvements have been made to increase our focus on customer service within our revenues service and the parking team are working quickly to respond to residents' requests to address local planning issues.
Councillors are also committed to ensuring that actions to improve the health of the District are embedded across all of our services and we look forward to delivering on those ambitions next year. Early next year a new Trading Company 'Quercus 7' will be incorporated, opening up new opportunities to generate more of our own income and we are hopeful that the Licensing Partnership will be expanded to a fourth partner next year to bring more efficiency savings.
All this will ensure that Sevenoaks District Council remains one of the most efficient and forward looking councils in the country, delivering first class services for all its residents.
London Paramount – How will it affect us?
Yesterday I went to a Traffic and Transport workshop run by London Resort Company Holdings to seek the views of local people on their proposals for the London Paramount Entertainment Resort on the Swanscombe Peninsula.
The opening of a theme park in 2020, including hotels and restaurants, attracting 15 million visitors a year and with 27,000 employees, on a restricted site is bound to have an impact on traffic in a wide area, including Ash and New Ash Green.
We were told what is to be done to minimise the impact, including encouraging the use of public transport and separating resort traffic from local traffic with a dedicated dual carriageway road from the A2 Ebbsfleet junction. A new Fastrack bus road would link Ebbsfleet Station to the site so buses between Gravesend and Bluewater could be diverted to transfer people between trains and the resort as well as providing transport for employees. River transport would be encouraged, including for construction traffic. Only cycles, pedestrians, buses and emergency vehicles would be allowed to enter the site from the immediate area.
However, although the workshop participants acknowledged the work done so far to mitigate traffic impacts, they felt more should be done in a number of areas:
- Look at the traffic impacts beyond the A2, including the M25 and Dartford Crossing, taking note of the frequent congestion caused by traffic problems.
- Improve north-south routes so people, especially employees living south of the A2, are not forced to join the busy A2 in order to use the access road.
- Keep the link from Ebbsfleet to Park Corner Road and Betsham which would be cut by the current link road proposals.
- Look at improvements to public transport from the south, as well as the east-west rail and bus links already considered, including a direct link from Longfield and the Victoria-Chatham rail line.
- Develop robust contingency plans for when the single access road is blocked for any reason.
- Improve footpaths linking to the proposed riverside walkway around the edge of the site.
- Consider a pricing structure for car park fees and entry to the resort that will not encourage people to park in local roads and car parks, including Ebbsfleet Station or Bluewater.
- Develop incentives for using public transport.
- Provide a car park on the Essex side of the Thames with a ferry or cable car link into the site to relieve pressure on the Dartford Crossing.
- Take care not to discourage other bus users because of excessive numbers of people using buses into the resort, or longer journey times.
The impression given at the workshop was that the developers were genuinely listening to our views. It remains to be seen how much is carried forward to the planning application and eventually put in place.
Neighbourhood Plan – Community Questionnaire
I've just delivered 243 questionnaires to Caling Croft and Farm Holt. The rest will be going out in the next few days to every house in the Parish. Make sure you fill in yours and return it to the collection points set out in my earlier post.
Or fill in the online questionnaire.
Neighbourhood Plan – Community Questionnaire
The Ash-cum-Ridley Neighbourhood Plan will help to determine where residents live, work and play. It is being produced by the Parish Council and New Ash Green Village Association with help from Sevenoaks District Council. Local councillors are heavily involved in preparing the Plan which will cover the whole of the parish. Our Plan:
- will complement the planning documents for the Sevenoaks area, adding more local detail,
- when finished, will go to an independent examiner and a referendum for approval by the whole community,
- will add more local detail to the documents for the whole of Sevenoaks,
- must be taken into account in planning decisions when it has been approved.
So it really will make a difference.
We are also asking some extra questions to find out what other issues are important for local people, to help us to lobby for better facilities.
We need to ensure that as many people as possible have opportunities to give us their views on what should be in our Plan. As a first step we have developed a questionnaire to seek the opinions of parish residents about our future. It is being delivered to every household in the parish. Please answer it as carefully as you can on behalf of everyone in your household.
Alternatively you may fill in the online version of the questionnaire which is available on the following link:
Online Community Questionnaire
If you need further paper copies of the questionnaire as a PDF document you may download this file:
If you do not have enough space to write everything on the questionnaire form and if any of your household, including the younger people, have particular interests or concerns, please attach a separate sheet of paper and say clearly which section the comments relate to. If they prefer they could fill in their own online questionnaire using the link above.
Green Belt fraudsters in jail
Here's a good news story and a cautonary tale, depending on your viewpoint.
Four fraudsters who conned unsuspecting individuals into buying Green Belt plots with no development potential have each been jailed for six to seven years following an investigation by Trading Standards Officers supported by Sevenoaks District Council planners.
The individuals set up companies called Countrywide Landholdings and Regional Land to sell small plots of Green Belt land in Ash falsely claiming that they could be developed, even though Council planning policies protect Green Belt land from development.
Once planners learnt about the scam they served a legal notice (called an Article 4 direction) which prevented the land from being physically subdivided into small plots by erecting boundary fences. A warning was also posted on the Council's website highlighting that the land concerned had no development potential. This prompt action prevented unauthorised development from taking place.
The planners also alerted Trading Standards Officers who, with the police, launched a fraud investigation which resulted in the individuals concerned being jailed last month. Council planners provided a witness statement to support the investigation.
The main lesson to be drawn is that the Council is vigilant in protecting the Green Belt throughout the District so do not be taken in by similar frauds. If you own land in the Green Belt and you want to carry out any development, do talk to the Council or one of your councillors because we will be happy to help.
Fire Station planning permission granted
Plans for the new fire station on Chapel Wood Road opposite Beechcroft Farm have been approved by Sevenoaks District Council. Planning permission is granted for the erection of a new single storey fire station, providing garaging for 1 appliance, charging point for a 2nd appliance, with office, training/community room and other ancillary accommodation, external training area, car parking, underground storage tank, lighting, landscaping and fencing. The permission is however subject to 11 conditions. These conditions include a requirement for further details to be submitted for approval to cover the protection of the trees on the site, the method of boundary enclosure and the external lighting scheme. The training facilities on the site can only be used on one evening a week (excluding Sundays and Bank Holidays) and only for a 2-hour period between 7:00pm and 9:00pm on that evening; live fire training is not allowed at any time. These conditions are designed to minimise any adverse impact on local residents and mitigate possible highway concerns.
Of the 27 or so trees on the site, only 5 will have to be removed and most of the other hedging around the edge of the site will be retained along with new planting of native hedgerow species around the site. All the new planting will have to be maintained and replaced if it dies for 5 years until it becomes established.
This permission will now enable the Fire & Rescue Service to proceed with their plans for recruiting a team of firefighters in the area and providing the promised improvements to response times in Ash, New Ash Green and Hartley sometime next year.
North Ash Manor News
The proposal for residential use of the North Ash Manor site was debated at the Council's Local Development Framework Advisory Group this week. After local councillors attended the meeting to explain to the Group the reasons for not wanting to lose this important employment site in New Ash Green, the members of the Advisory Group voted unanimously to exclude the proposal from the draft Allocations and Development Management Plan.
This is great news for New Ash Green but whilst this battle has been won, the war is not yet over because there may be pressure from Bovis or others to reinstate the residential allocation before the Supplementary Planning Document is finally approved.
North Ash Manor – the latest
If you have been following posts here you will have seen the earlier one about the inclusion of North Ash Manor – the Bovis Homes office in North Ash Road – in the draft Sevenoaks District Council Allocations and Development Management Plan as a potential site for housing redevelopment. The consultation on this took place during the summer and local councillors all made submissions opposing the change of use from employment land. As a fall back position we put forward some suggestions for reducing the impact of any redevelopment. We have also met planning officers to explain our concerns.
A revised draft Plan has now been published and it is being considered by the Council's Advisory Group on Tuesday 9 October. The revision has taken account of some of our comments. The number of residential units that might be allowed has been reduced from 50 to 30 and there are references to the need to tie redevelopment into the New Ash Green management structure. But the principle of change of use has not been amended. We firmly believe that this site should be retained in office use if at all possible and we are not convinced that Bovis Homes will move if there is no redevelopment potential for the land. So we are continuing to argue as strongly as possible for the site to be removed from the draft Plan so that local employment opportunities can be protected. A paper explaining the importance of the employment site to the village has been sent to all members of the Advisory Group and I hope to attend the meeting next week to explain in more detail if necessary.
Fire Station Plans published – add your comments
The plans for the proposed Ash-cum-Ridley Fire Station have now been published and can be seen on the Sevenoaks District Council Planning Portal. Comments are invited from anyone who has an interest and should be made through the 'Make a Public Comment' link in the Planning Portal by 8 October.