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By Partha Dasgupta
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is unusual among human rights conventions in that it seeks to promote positive as well as negative rights. Negative rights, enjoying a longer tradition, stipulate that something not be done; they are rights not to be wronged in some specified way - by imprisonment without trial, for example, or by persecution for one's race, sex, or religious belief. Positive rights, by contrast, are rights to goods and benefits that are produced. In the case of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, positive rights include the right to adequate nutrition, primary health care, and a basic education.
This distinction raises interesting questions. Positive rights are produced goods and services; they are therefore dependent on resources, the allocation of which may be affected by scarcity and competition. Negative rights, on the other hand, know no such limitations; they do not have to be created, only protected, and it is therefore feasible to honour them whether a country is rich or poor (although it is worth remembering that some negative rights such as the freedom from unauthorized violence may well depend for their implementation on their being converted into positive rights - for example, the right to protection by a government agency).
The fact that negative rights do not involve direct resource costs makes it easier to argue the case for their universality and inviolability. The argument for resource-dependent positive rights, on the other hand, cannot avoid such issues as the differences in individual efforts and talents, or escape involvement in difficult issues of rewards and incentives. In some cases, it may be that an economy may simply not have sufficient resources to enable all to enjoy the right to adequate nutrition or health care. This raises the disturbing possibility that negative rights are inviolable in a way that positive rights are not (for how can a right be considered inviolable if it is not always possible to protect it?)
The Convention on the Rights of the Child implicitly recognizes this distinction between negative and positive rights. While article 24 obliges the governments of all ratifying countries to "diminish infant and child mortality" and to "combat disease and malnutrition", article 4 of the Convention makes the concession that countries "shall undertake such measures to the maximum extent of their available resources."
This is an important step in the history of human rights conventions; for it gives a practicable meaning to positive rights, and it legitimizes the holding of governments to account for progress towards their fulfilment.
Photo: The Convention on the Rights of the Child cannot be effective without ways of assessing the performance of nations in fulfilling its provisions. ©
But it also raises difficulties. For such a proviso cannot be effective unless it is possible for politicians, press, and public to assess whether a government is guaranteeing positive rights "to the maximum extent of available resources." In combination with democratic institutions and press freedoms, accepted means of monitoring progress or regression are essential; they are the basis of the public accountability by which human rights conventions gain traction in the real world.
The Progress of Nations 1993 introduced the concept of the National Performance Gap (NPG) as one measure of the extent to which positive child rights are being honoured in relation to available resources. Using three of the key indicators of positive rights fulfilment - the percentage of children adequately nourished, the percentage being educated to at least grade 5, and the percentage surviving to age five - the NPG compares each country's performance with its available resources, as measured by GNP per capita. By fitting a curve to such data from a large number of countries, it is possible to establish what level of positive rights fulfilment can be expected at any given level of income per head. The difference between the expected level and the actual level is the country's National Performance Gap (and can of course be either positive or negative).
It should be stressed that the National Performance Gap roughly records how well a country is doing in relation to the average country with the same level of economic resources. This is not quite the same as fulfilling positive rights "to the maximum extent of available resources." To evaluate this, it would be better to measure performance not against the average but against the best that has been achieved at each economic level (though even this may not represent the best that is achievable). This stricter criterion has some attraction, but it has the disadvantage of assessing countries against a standard that may reflect exceptional conditions or very different geographical and historical circumstances and may therefore not be widely accepted.
The more essential point is that National Performance Gaps, and other more absolute measures of positive rights published every year in The Progress of Nations, should become part of the regular stock-in-trade of political and public debate in the same way that economic statistics are today a part of normal political life in the world's growing number of democracies. Indeed, this is one of the points at which the synergism between negative and positive rights may be glimpsed at work.
There are those who will have parted company with this argument at an earlier stage on the grounds that governments should in the main concern themselves with protecting negative rights, and that the commodities and services necessary for adequate nutrition and better health are not rights but simply needs - and as such are best left to individual efforts and market forces. But this will not do.
A need becomes a right when a society becomes capable of meeting that need and when fulfilment of the need becomes essential to human flourishing or well-being (or when its lack leads to ill-being or destitution). And at the present time, only the State can guarantee such rights.
The extent to which basic positive rights are met and destitution is avoided is a reflection of the workings of resource allocation mechanisms within a society. The State is of course only one such agency. But in all countries at the present time, it happens to be a particularly important one. Market forces, on which more and more people in the world are becoming more and more dependent, have a demonstrated capacity to create wealth; but because they allocate resources according to purchasing power rather than need, they also have a capacity to create relative and absolute poverty (destitution). At the same time, the processes of modernization, and particularly urbanization, have been breaking down traditional mechanisms for resource control and allocation which, although not necessarily promoting equity, have often played a part in preventing destitution. To these forces must now be added the relatively new and potentially disastrous synergism by which poverty, rapid population growth, and the deterioration of the local environment are pushing large numbers of people towards a downward spiral of destitution even as the better-off move towards a corresponding upward spiral of greater investment in fewer children and generally improving incomes and local environments.*
In this context, a major role must be taken by the State if worsening inequality and growing destitution are to be avoided; there is simply no other agency at the present time that has the potential outreach and command over resources to begin to bring this about. The broad role of the State must therefore be to provide guarantees of a basic minimum living standard in order to prevent destitution or, if this proves to be not feasible in the immediate future, to pursue policies that will make it feasible in a reasonably short time.
Useful as it is to monitor each country's progress in fulfilling positive rights "to the maximum extent of available resources", the longer-term aim must therefore be to move towards a time when positive rights, like negative rights, can also be regarded as absolute and inviolable. It is therefore necessary to turn to the question of whether such positive rights as those set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child - including the right to adequate nutrition, primary health care, and a basic education - can be afforded in an absolute rather than a relative sense. If they cannot, then, at best, they constitute a separate category of rights because they cannot be considered inviolable and it is not feasible to ask the State or any other agency to guarantee them.
There are a number of ways of approaching the question of affordability. Taking sub-Saharan Africa as an example, and taking government expenditure on basic needs as a measure of the effort towards positive rights fulfilment, we find that such expenditures amounted to less than 3% of GNP (1985 figure). According to World Bank estimates, the financial requirement for a broadly based human resource development strategy designed to meet basic needs would total approximately 5.5% of GNP. The necessary increase is therefore very small, and looks particularly affordable when we bear in mind that military expenditure at that time was running at approximately 4.2% of GNP. For the year 2000, World Bank estimates of the financial requirement for meeting basic needs in sub-Saharan Africa amount to just under 7% of GNP. This conclusion is in line with the argument advanced by UNICEF to the effect that today's knowledge and technology make it possible to provide basic protection for the normal physical and mental development of all children at a cost that all nations can afford.
There is no reason to think, therefore, that the poorest of poor countries cannot afford to meet positive rights as well as negative ones. And if the countries of sub-Saharan Africa can afford it, then so can the countries in the Indian subcontinent. In poor countries as a whole, expenditure on health and on education in the mid-1980s amounted to 1.6% and 3.8% of GNP respectively, while expenditure on the military was 4.3%.
To take another approach, the lack of positive rights such as basic nutrition and health care is closely correlated with extreme poverty and hence can be measured by the poverty gap - the minimum amount of additional income, expressed as a percentage of a society's aggregate income, which, if it is obtained by the poor, can eliminate extreme poverty. In sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent, the resources required for closing the poverty gap and eliminating extreme poverty amount to approximately 4% of national income. In short, it is largely a myth that the governments of developing countries cannot afford to guarantee basic positive rights - and especially adequate nutrition, primary health care, and basic education - to all of their children.
So far, the case for guaranteeing positive rights, and for the State's taking a leading role in this endeavour, has been argued from the point of view that the State is the only resource allocation agency, at the present time, that can command the necessary means of preventing widespread human destitution or ill-being. But it is interesting to reflect that the kind of action required by the State, if it is to fulfil this responsibility, follows closely the kind of action that is required, in the light of recent experience, if some of the most basic elements of a successful development policy are to be put into place. Adequate nutrition, primary health care, and basic education are not only positive rights but also the most basic of investments in economic growth and in the development of stable and flourishing societies.
Much detailed evidence has been amassed in recent years to the effect that increases in nutrition and health status are associated with increases in productivity. Similarly, primary education has repeatedly been shown to be one of the most productive investments that a poor nation can make. Even more particularly, research over the last decade has shown that the guaranteeing of positive rights for girls and women is one of the most powerful of all mechanisms for promoting social and economic development. Improvements in female education, for example, have been shown to correlate closely not only with wider opportunities for women themselves but also with lower infant and child mortality rates, improvements in child growth and nutritional health, higher health facility usage rates, higher rates of contraceptive use, later age at marriage, falling fertility, and lower rates of maternal mortality and morbidity.
It will be obvious from this catalogue of potential benefits that the meeting of positive rights such as those enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child would also be a major contribution to many of the fundamental goals of a long-term development policy and to the urgent task of reversing the downward spiral of extreme poverty, rapid population growth, and environmental deterioration that now represents a threat to both past achievements and future hopes in so many developing nations.
Finally, the prevention of destitution may be a positive rights issue in the sense that destitution sits uncomfortably with almost any notion of what constitutes a civilized and humane society, but it is also central to a government's responsibility for maintaining social and political order; already destitution and worsening inequality pose major threats to social cohesion in many nations.
Honouring positive rights is therefore not a side-issue for governments, a luxury which must wait until it can be afforded, but a challenge which is also fundamental to economic progress, social cohesion, and political stability.
Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. A Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, he has also held professorships in economics and philosophy at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Foreign Member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.


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Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has entered into a partnership with the newly formed American University of Mongolia to offer an MBA for global executives beginning in September.
A recently signed memorandum of understanding between the two institutions builds on long-running ties between IU and Mongolia.
IU is considered one of the world's leading centers of academic expertise in Mongolian Studies, and IU's Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences is the sole independent, degree-granting academic unit in the U.S. staffed with its own faculty of specialists in the region.
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The Kelley School of Business also offers an MBA for executives with Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. Kelley and the Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow soon will offer graduate-level certificate programs and eventually a graduate degree program on business analytics to business professionals in India.
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Council members voted 4-0 Tuesday, with Mike Naggar absent, to approve an agreement between the city and the Riverside County Transportation Commission that will allow the city to be repaid for nearly one-third of the cost of the initial phase of the project.
Temecula will be reimbursed by the commission from a pool of developer fees that were paid to fund regional roads.
The interchange would be a 2-mile-long, four- to six-lane bypass running southwest from Winchester and Murrieta Hot Springs roads to I-15, south of the I-15/215 split.
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Glaus mum on SI.com report
Blue Jays third baseman Troy Glaus, in town to play the Rays, had no response to a report that surfaced Friday alleging he received multiple shipments of illegal performance-enhancing drugs when he was with the Angels more than three years ago while he was coming back from a serious right shoulder injury.
According to a report on SI.com, citing an anonymous source, Glaus received shipments of nandrolone and testosterone – which are both on MLB's banned substance list -- at his Corona, Calif. home from Dec. 2003 to May 2004. SI.com said its information dealt only with receipt of steroids and not use.
Glaus, who averaged 37 homers in his six full major league seasons, was initially going to address the report before batting practice of Friday's game against the Rays at Tropicana Field, but he pulled out at the last minute.
The prescriptions written in Glaus' name were obtained through New Hope Health Center in California and sent through Signature Pharmacy in Orlando, SI.com said. The prescribing physician was Ramon Scruggs, currently on probation and prohibited from prescribing drugs over the Internet, SI.com said.
"I've got nothing to say," Toronto manager John Gibbons said before Friday's game. "I just found out. He's the guy you've got to ask. I don't know anything about it."
The 2002 World Series MVP with the Angels, Glaus, 31, missed the final two month of the 2003 season with a torn right labrum and fraying in his rotator cuff. Less than two months into the 2004 season, he had surgery after a failed comeback, missing 97 games.
"The accusations today made by the media regarding the Blue Jays' Troy Glaus are simply accusations," said Blue Jays president and CEO Paul V. Godfrey in a statement through the team. "I am in no position to make comment on information that is attributed to an unnamed source."
Rays manager Joe Maddon, who was Angels bench coach during Glaus' tenure in Anaheim – including the time when the report said Glaus received the payments -- said he considers a good friend and was surprised hearing of the report.
"I did not suspect anything," Maddon said. "I fully support Troy. I have no idea what's going on in regard to this. I have a lot of respect for him. He's a good man. I just don't know enough about what's been put out there today. He's good people."
In Anaheim, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said he had "no inkling" Glaus was doing anything illegal.
"Baseball's taken some great steps to try to level the playing field," Scioscia said. "Players have taken a lot of new steps. This (new testing) was really player driven to get tests done. I think eventually this is going to settle down, but until then there are going to be painful things that come out. … There are going to be layers you have to peel off and that's going to be painful."
Glaus, who is hitting .261 with 20 homers and 62 RBIs this season, was still in the starting lineup Friday and was booed during his first at bat as fans chanted "Steroids." He was 0-for-3 with a walk and run scored.
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HAWTHORNE - Three police officers have been pulled from street duty for their safety in Southern California after a widely circulated video showed an officer fatally shooting a Rottweiler and drew numerous death threats.
Hawthorne police spokesman Lt. Scott Swain told the Daily Breeze the decision is for the officers' safety after the uniformed officer shot the dog four times on Sunday.
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OAKLAND - Striking San Francisco Bay Area rail workers and transit agency officials returned to the bargaining table on Thursday for talks that one union leader described as "frustrating."
Joe Bomberger with the Service Employees International Union told reporters as he entered the negotiating site in Oakland that Bay Area Rapid Transit officials were not "substantially addressing" any of the safety concerns that the unions have for the public and workers. Those concerns include lighting in tunnels and bulletproof glass for station agent booths.
The strike is in its fourth day, though commuters got a reprieve from crowded buses and gridlock on the roads because of the Fourth of July holiday.
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SAVANNAH - Paula Deen announced Thursday that she has cut business ties with the agent who helped make her a Food Network star and launch a media and merchandising empire that has largely crumbled in the wake of her admission that she used racial slurs in the past.
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NEW YORK - New York City police are hunting for a daredevil who rappelled down the side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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BILLINGS - Officials say an 8-inch underground gasoline pipeline leaked on the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana.
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A Tale of Two Cities
On Oct. 14, Joseph Javaheri, a Jewish man from Pico-Robertson was tending the counter at Avalon Discount, a grocery-slash-everything store in the area patrolled by the LAPD's Newton Division — considered Los Angeles' third worst neighborhood in terms of crime.
At 8 p.m., closing time, Javaheri, 59, had already locked one of the security gates, and was in the process of locking the other, when two black males in their mid-20s forced their way into the store. One lingered at the entrance; the other dived across the counter and stuck his hand in the open cash register, pulling out a fistful of cash. He jumped back toward the entrance, which was only a couple of feet away from the register. As he and his accomplice started to make their getaway, Javaheri accosted them in an effort to get the cash back, according to some sources. One of the men took out a handgun and shot Javaheri at point-blank range in the chest.
Javaheri was dead. The men got away with less than $100. The murderers remain at large.
For those incubated in the middle-class comfort of West Los Angeles, gang violence is often just a recurring headline in the Los Angeles Times, but Javaheri's murder is a reminder — to the Jewish community at least — that the effects of South Los Angeles' festering mess of crime are not quarantined. While the problems of South Los Angeles — such as poverty, unemployment, gang violence, drugs, illegal weapons — are many and the solutions few, many Jewish groups feel that ignoring them is only to our detriment, and that it is a religious imperative for the Jews of West Los Angeles to move out of their comfort zone and start taking responsibility for the larger community that they live in for the good of the city.
In 1990, crossed the Iranian border illegally, under threat of death, in order to join his wife, Farideh, and four children who had immigrated to the States two years earlier from Iran. Javaheri was traditional. He educated all his children at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He was a hard-working man, and spent many years working in Avalon Discount, until his children convinced him that it was not safe there, and so instead he joined the fabric business of his oldest son, Payam. But, with three children of marriageable age (his second daughter, Parisa, is already married with two children), Javaheri decided that his family would need extra cash for the potential celebrations. He took on a second job, returning at night to Avalon Discount, albeit to a different location according to Shawn Soleimani, the lawyer hired by the family to investigate whether there is a civil case against the store owners, the property owners and possibly the city for inadequate security.
"My father wanted us to be happy, and he always went out of his way to provide us with everything," said Zacharia, Javaheri's 25-year-old son. "His family always came first, and he always had a lev tov [a good heart] and he leaves behind a shem tov [a good name]."
But Javaheri's murder also leaves behind a number of questions — why did this senseless murder of a good man have to happen? Why were there not policeman tending the heavily trafficked area where Avalon Discount was located? Why did the 20-year-old men think that robbery and murder were acceptable behaviors? And why was this not an isolated incident? Javaheri's murder was the 42nd for Newton Division since the beginning of the year. His store was the 800th property robbed in the area in the same time frame. Although those statistics are horrifying, this is only the third-worst neighborhood in Los Angeles. Newton Division patrols Compton and Watts, where gang violence prevails in a far greater way, and where murders and robberies happen more frequently. Thus, the question becomes: Why isn't anybody doing anything about it?
"After a month of reading the front page of [people being killed] in Iraq, the Congo and Afghanistan, and then turning to the California section and seeing on page six that there were 12 people killed over the weekend, I was wondering why isn't this a front-page story," asked Gary Ratner, executive director of the American Jewish Congress's Pacific Southwest region. "People travel 10,000 miles because they are concerned about human rights violations, but they don't seem to be concerned about what is happening in their own backyards."
Ratner is now trying to raise $50,000 for gang intervention programs in South Los Angeles. He is working with the Rev. Leonard Jackson, the assistant pastor at the First AME Church of Los Angeles, on a violence intervention program, and his organization is also joining up with the Progressive Jewish Alliance's (PJA) Jewish Community Justice Project, which trains community volunteers to be mediators who go out to the violent parts of the city and put juvenile first-time offenders, their parents and the victims of the crime together in a room and get them to agree to some kind of settlement of the case.
"Statistics show that 50 percent of kids who go through this mediation are not recidivist," said Daniel Sokatch, executive director of the PJA. "We don't have any delusions of grandeur about the program, but we do know that it works on an individual level."
Both Ratner and Sokatch told The Journal that they believed that Jews have a moral obligation to be concerned with what is happening in the larger community. Other groups have also taken on the challenge — KOREH L.A. tries to better educate the children in all neighborhoods of Los Angeles by increasing levels of literacy, MAZON and Wilshire Boulevard Temple have pantries where the poorest families in the city can pick up food.
"Jews have an obligation to turn outward and be guided by our ethics in working to build a better community for everybody," Sokatch said.
But if mediation and intervention programs are going to work to overhaul South Los Angeles, they need to be conducted on a much bigger scale.
"We need help here," 9th District City Councilwoman Jan Perry. "I was at a press conference two months ago, where kids on skid row told adults that they were sick of having to walk to school through the violence, condoms and syringes. In some ways, people in other parts of the city are divorced from the level of violence that occurs. The very fact that this is the first time you are calling me should tell you something."
Perry is working on a number of projects to improve the neighborhood. She increased the amount of reward money (now $25,000) that is offered to people who provide information that will help solve violent crimes. She has negotiated a new $500,000 soccer turf to be built so that youths aged 9-15 could have an outlet in sport, instead of crime; affordable home ownership programs; and a new $19.5 million shopping center to be built that has a local hiring goal of 50 percent for new permanent jobs. The idea of all of these programs is to make residents of South Los Angeles feel invested in their community so that they will look after it.
South Los Angeles is a part of town bereft of all the corporate landmarks that those on the westside take for granted like Ralphs, Gap or Barnes & Noble. Instead, the streets are populated with decrepit, no name-liquor stores, beauty parlors and lunch trucks. On a Sunday night, the small strip mall where Avalon Discount is located was hopping with families washing their clothes at the laundromat, people eating at the doughnut shop and buying last minute groceries at the bodega. Children were ambling around near one homeless man lying on the pavement with his grimy quilt pulled high over his head; a homeless woman was mumbling loudly about a man who attacked her. Most people approached for interviews only spoke Spanish. One 14-year-old African American girl told The Journal that she was not aware that a murder had happened in the store next to where she was sitting, but she had seen a murder victim herself one morning as she was walking to school.
"We need more police here," said the girl, who did not want to give her name. "And they need to be staying in the street corners, not circling around."
A greater police presence in the area is something that many people think is vital to keeping crime down, but funds for more police are hard to come by. Fifth District City Councilman Jack Weiss told the Journal that he thinks a large part of the problem is that many police resources go in tending to false burglar alarms on the Westside.
"Only 6 percent of the homes in Los Angeles have private burglar alarms, and 90 percent of the time when the alarms go off it is a false alarm," said Weiss, who has tried, unsuccessfully, to change the response policy of the Los Angeles Police Department at City Council meetings.
Perry concurred with Weiss that more police are needed.
"If I had to send a message to the people who might read this article, it would be to please impress upon all of your government and elected officials to seek funding for additional police," she said. "We are being disproportionately affected in this district."
Currently, the Javaheri family is waiting for their father's killers to be bought to justice, but they also wanted to make sure that their father's legacy was publicized. Ironically, what their father believed in most was something that his own murder belied completely.
"My father hated sinat chinam," said Zacharia Javaheri, referring to the biblical injunction against senseless hatred. "He was always concerned about bringing about ahavat chinam [unconditional love], so we need to fill up the big gap that he left by increasing our kindness and charity."
And perhaps some of that charity should find its way south of 10 freeway.
"We should never, ever, turn our back on the larger community," said Rabbi Elazar Muskin of Young Israel of Century City. "We have an obligation to help."
"The extremes of rich and poor are only getting more extreme in Los Angeles," Weiss said. "We live in a town that embodies the tale of two cities."


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With rumors swirling about coach Les Miles's future at LSU, Jordan Jefferson threw three touchdown passes to Terrence Toliver and ran for a score to help the 11th-ranked Tigers rally for a 41-24 victory over No. 18 Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl last night in Arlington, Texas.
Miles is likely a leading candidate for the coaching vacancy at Michigan, where he played and was an assistant coach.
In the days leading up to the Cotton Bowl, Miles said his focus was on his Tigers and that he enjoyed where he was. When asked after the game if he'd back next season, Miles responded, "It's a wonderful place. I love it here.''
LSU (11-2) completed its fourth season with at least 11 wins in Miles's six years. The Tigers had only two 11-win seasons before that.
Texas A&M (9-4) had its six-game win streak snapped after leading, 10-0, in the first quarter.
Eastern Washington rallies Bo Levi Mitchell directed three straight touchdown drives, the final one coming with 2:47 left to lead Eastern Washington to a 20-19 victory over Delaware in Frisco, Texas, and give the Eagles (13-2) their first Championship Subdivision title.
Eastern Washington trailed, 19-0, and had gained only 92 yards midway through the third quarter. Facing the defense that gave up the fewest points per game in the FCS, their title hopes looked shot.
But Mitchell took them on TD drives of 80, 89, and 69 yards. He converted on fourth and 8 on the second of those series and needed two video replays to uphold a fourth-and-1 conversion a few plays before the winning touchdown.
Delaware (12-3), seeking its second title in eight years, had one last chance but turned the ball over on downs with 47 seconds left.
Alabama hit by exodus Three of Alabama's top players — running back Mark Ingram, defensive lineman Marcell Dareus, and wide receiver Julio Jones — said they are leaving school early to enter the NFL draft.
Ingram, Dareus, and Jones all are projected to be drafted in the first round.
Ingram won the Heisman Trophy during Alabama's 2009 national championship season, but was hampered part of this season as he recovered from knee surgery. The 6-foot-4-inch, 306-pound Dareus was the star in Alabama's championship win over Texas and had 34 tackles this season as a premier pass rusher. Jones led Crimson Tide receivers with 1,133 yards and seven touchdowns this season.
Elsewhere, standout Missouri defensive end Aldon Smith and Wisconsin running back John Clay will enter the NFL draft.
Patterson extended TCU extended coach Gary Patterson's contract two years through the 2018 season a week after the third-ranked Horned Frogs completed a 13-0 season with a victory in the Rose Bowl. Patterson is 98-28 in 10 seasons with the Horned Frogs, and has six seasons with at least 11 wins . . . The NCAA put Texas Tech on two years of probation for a series of recruiting violations, saying 16 coaches or assistants sent nearly 1,000 impermissible text messages to football, softball, and golf prospects . . . Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor had surgery on his right foot. Pryor was injured in the Sugar Bowl Tuesday.


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Institute of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Brain Topogr 27:565-77. 2014..In this paper, we briefly describe AERS and deduce some general constraints from this conceptual model. We then go on to illustrate how these constraints are computationally specified in CHAINS. ..
- Auditory distraction: event-related potential and behavioral indicesE Schroger
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat Leipzig, Seeburgstrasse 14 20, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Clin Neurophysiol 111:1450-60. 2000....
- On the detection of auditory deviations: a pre-attentive activation modelE Schroger
Institut fur Psychologie, University of Leipzig, Germany
Psychophysiology 34:245-57. 1997..The output of this feature-specific preattentive deviance detection system fuses into an integrated mismatch signal that in turn may activate subsequent processes that result in the triggering of a motor response...
- Fast preattentive processing of location: a functional basis for selective listening in humansE Schroger
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat, Leipzig, Germany
Neurosci Lett 232:5-8. 1997..Results suggest that the superior role of spatial location for selective listening may be due to faster automatic encoding of spatial information into the neural representations underlying attentional selection...
- Speeded responses to audiovisual signal changes result from bimodal integrationE Schroger
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat Leipzig, Germany
Psychophysiology 35:755-9. 1998..The time course of this interaction suggests that the audiovisual integration occurred after low-level, sensory processing but well before the execution of the motor response...
- Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of task-irrelevant sound change: a new distraction paradigmE Schroger
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat Leipzig, Seeburgstr 14 20, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 7:71-87. 1998..The robustness of the distraction effects to tiny deviations was confirmed in two control experiments...
- Involuntary attentional capture by speech and non-speech deviations: a combined behavioral-event-related potential studyM Reiche
Department for Psychology, University of Leipzig, Seeburgstr 14 20, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Brain Res 1490:153-60. 2013..This suggests that the similarity and separability of task-relevant and task-irrelevant information is essential for the extent of attentional capture and distraction...
- A comparison of auditory and visual distraction effects: behavioral and event-related indicesS Berti
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat Leipzig, Seeburgstr 14 20, D 04103, Leipzig, Germany
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 10:265-73. 2001..Moreover, the results suggest that in both tasks irrelevant deviants were detected by modality-specific processes which caused an attention shift...
- Preattentive periodicity detection in auditory patterns as governed by time and intensity informationE Schroger
Institute of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Germany
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 4:145-8. 1996..Results suggest that the preattentive construction of auditory units is primarily governed by the timing of tone presentation but that it may also utilize intensity information, when no sufficient timing information is available...
- Differentiating ERAN and MMN: an ERP studyS Koelsch
Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
Neuroreport 12:1385-9. 2001..The present ERPs thus provide evidence for a differentiation of cognitive processes underlying the fast and pre-attentive processing of auditory information...
- Time course of loudness in tone patterns is automatically represented by the human brainE Schroger
Institute of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Germany
Neurosci Lett 202:117-20. 1995..This finding indicates that the human auditory system automatically encodes information about the time course of intensity within tone patterns into neural representations...
- Interaural time and level differences: integrated or separated processing?E Schroger
Institute of Psychology, University of Munich, Germany
Hear Res 96:191-8. 1996..These findings suggest that the representations of the binaural location cues were (at least partly) processed in parallel. It is argued that separate azimuth representations exist for IDT and IDL at a cortical level...
- Alternative perceptual states 'apparent motion' and 'perceived simultaneity' lead to differences of induced EEG rhythmsR Kompass
Department of Psychology, University Leipzig, Seeburgstr 14 20, D 04103, Leipzig, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 38:253-63. 2000..5 Hz during perceived motion were found. The results indicate that a variety of different neural rhythms are involved in the perception of long-range apparent motion...
- Automaticity and attention: investigating automatic processing in texture segmentation with event-related brain potentialsA Schubo
Institut fur Psychologie, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Munchen, Leopoldstr 13, 80802, Munich, Germany
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 11:341-61. 2001..However, while the posterior N2 was not affected by the complexity of the primary task and thus showed some degree of automaticity, the P3 was found to be dependent on the attentional resources left over by the primary task...
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Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat Leipzig, Germany
Neurosci Lett 242:17-20. 1998..It is argued that the ERP result indicates an enhancement of sensory-specific processing...
- Brain indices of music processing: "nonmusicians" are musicalS Koelsch
Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
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- Spectrotemporal processing drives fast access to memory traces for spoken wordsA Tavano
BioCog Cognitive Incl Biological Psychology, Institute for Psychology, University of Leipzig, 14 20 Seeburgstr, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Neuroimage 60:2300-8. 2012..We propose that spectrotemporal point-wise matching constitutes a core mechanism for fast serial computations in audition and language, bridging sensory and long-term memory systems...
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Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universitat Leipzig, Germany
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AN EXHIBITION due to be held in Glasgow has been cancelled at short notice.
The Scottish Mother and Baby Show was to be held over three days next month at the SECC.
However, organisers have axed the event, leaving businesses out of pocket.
The firm behind the show - Harris Clyde Events - made the decision last week and a notice was on the Mother and Baby Show website.
Exhibitors, who say they are owed money, are now working to resolve the issues with organisers.
More than 120 stalls had been hired for the event, which was due to start on September 5.
People who bought tickets to the show should be able to get refunds.
A statement on the website said: "Due to circumstances outwith our control, this year's Scottish Mother & Baby Show has been cancelled, regrettably."


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Graphic helps Cubs fans prepare for new video board's size
The Chicago Cubs ownership has decided the one hundred year old Wrigley Field needed some modern renovations, so in addition to tearing out and rebuilding sections of the famed bleachers, they are also installing a massive video board.
• Blue Jays' Kevin Pillar show sense of humor about recent injury
The size of the screen may serve as a shock to the Wrigley Field faithful used to the stadium's old world charms so the Chicago Tribune has prepared a helpful graphic to help fans get ready for the new Jumbotron.
Wrigley Field video board taking shape. What to expect when it's ready, via @ChristopherHine http://t.co/1AzZfyagMh pic.twitter.com/gpGKptiiuP— Stu Courtney (@Stucourt) March 18, 2015
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Sample offerings from more then 40 restaurants Saturday while strolling along the Hillsborough River at Taste the Best of Tampa Bay. All as you listen to live music from five stages and check out a silent auction of original art from local artists. And if all of that doesn't make you feel good enough, then this will: It's for a good cause, to raise money for the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and its programs. Here are highlights:
Grass Root Organic Restaurant
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nonym80 replied to nonym80's topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, Fittingthanks for the replies, and the reason why i have asked is that I tend to hit the ball better with a less offset club than the ones with the big offsets which I have a tendency to shank it or hook the ball way to the left and right, on the other hand if I use a club that have a less offset I can hit it consistently and a lot straighter. As for my handicap I do not have one yet, that's just a number i posted there since I started playing in the course for the first time which was 2 months ago, at the moment I average about a Bogey a Hole, im still learning.. going 4 months now on and off playing every two weeks.
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nonym80 posted a topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, FittingIs there a way for the offset of the irons adjusted? i was thinking of reducing the offset on my TM OS RAC 2 and lowering the offset on my Mizuno MX-25 is this possible or am I just dreaming?
Balls Lost!
nonym80 replied to Black Hulk's topic in Balls, Carts/Bags, Apparel, Gear, Etc.I bought mine on Craigslist, saw an AD for 200+ for $25 90% are STRATA Practice Balls and a few Titliest 1's and 4's needless to say they were over 300 balls in total! Since I am a beginner only been hacking for about a good two months now. Can't go wrong with Craigslis for them, which I ussually loose about 5 Per round of golf.
Callaway FT-5 Imix
nonym80 posted a topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, FittingI just recently purchased the Said driver before fathers day as a gift from my wife, purchased the product at GolfGalaxy Used. It has a diamana blue 63 g4"t Regular Flex Shaft, and just have noticed yesterday that about an inch on the top end of the Handle it was broken, I for sure have not broken it since I just started playing with them yesterday. Question would be do you think I should do? Can I go back to Golf Galaxy and get the Shaft replaced for free? or would they charge me for it? or contact callaway? Also for my swing I would think a more Firm Flex is best suited for my swing. Any input would be helpful and greatly appreciated.
Mizuno MX-25's Irons
nonym80 replied to nonym80's topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, FittingYes I can get to that point just that I lack the HIP movement as what others were telling me regarding my swing which I barely move my hips when hitting those shots, I am still trying to learn the tempo on how to swing at the same time use my hips. I am not sure if those were true on improving the distance on my irons and shots. At the moment I could not hit my Driver to save my life so I stick around with my irons at the moment. Went to play for the first time shot a 58 on my first 9 holes.
Mizuno MX-25's Irons
nonym80 posted a topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, FittingHello I just started playing/practicing for about 2 months now and I have been through a Callaway x12 graphite irons which I started out with, and upon reading reviews after reviews about Mizuno Clubs I was convinced that they were the best fit for me or so I have thought, was actually looking for the MP-32's at that point where I getting really consistent in hitting the ball and getting a fair distance on them 5 Iron would go about 150 to say the least. When I went into the local golf shop, the guy have advised me to stay away from the Mizuno's since they are harder to hit and they are difficult to deal with, his analogy was that if I was starting out (if I were a race car driver) I would not be driving the F1 cars and it would be very difficult for me to learn the game of golf, needless to say I was a bit disappointed since Mizuno's meant they were not for me no matter how often I practice. To make the story short went to GolfGalaxy one day and they have a trade in special since the guy gave me also a good piece of advice since I am 30 I would be better off playing with a Steel Iron. While there Traded my x12's for $97 (4-pw) and then in return looked at their used clubs and saw the MX-25's used with little to no blemishes on all the clubs priced at $240 (4-pw-gw) took it home and off to practice again, took me about good 3 days to adjust my swing with the new clubs, and what a difference it made I felt a lot more comfortable and getting used to how the clubs were performing. Now after reading all the reviews regarding the clubs I have just bought, more and more people say that you would be loosing distance in favor of having good trajectory and they shoot straight. I just went to the range the other day with my 4 iron and the GW with my 4 Iron I can get up to 205 including the roll and GW around 105 yrds.... So technically if the reviews were true, how much of distance am I loosing with these clubs? I was just wondering if I have made a mistake on purchasing the clubs since most golfers told me you needed to be fitted for your clubs to get maximum performance out of your clubs. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Callaway Big Bertha X12 Graphite
nonym80 replied to nonym80's topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, Fittingthanks for the replies, i have tried them on and wow a big difference from hitting an iron with a steel shaft vs a graphite shaft... my next question would be, can I get the shafts replaced to steel? if that may be all possible?
Callaway Big Bertha X12 Graphite
nonym80 replied to nonym80's topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, Fittingany advice guys? just looking to see if it is worth spending the $140 on the x12's i am fairly new to the game and have been reading good reviews about them.
Callaway Big Bertha X12 Graphite
nonym80 posted a topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, FittingHello I am new to this thread and I have come across the Callaway x12's which is going for $140 3-PW iron set. I was just wondering if I am getting a good bargain here or maybe go and look for a much newer set of clubs on the same price range. Clubs are in Good condition. Any inputs or opinions would be greatly appreciated so far reading about the clubs have good reviews.
hey matt, do you know any stores near by that sells used clubs? or sets? for beginners i live in plantation also.
hello ed.. im new here and i am new to playing.. wondering if you have any tips on what's best shops around where they sell used club sets for beginners like me.. or maybe find a bargain on some of the top brands..
What Do You Do for a Living?
nonym80 replied to iacas's topic in Welcome, EveryoneHello Everyone I work as an IT Analyst. I am a newbie, just started trying to learn the game of golf in about 2 weeks now, i have been to the range and so far i have no clue to where to begin regarding clubs, i have been reading and reading a lot about different drivers golf clubs and how to get started, a few people have given me ideas, so far so good. Golf is in my head now 24/7. Looking towards learning some more, just purchased my first set a dunlop set, and looking towards upgrading in the near future regarding the drivers and clubs, terminology to me is bit of a stretch, but getting accustomed to the lingo by now.


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Dixon leaders announced this week that the city's water quality is fine.
Apparently officials received several concerned calls over the weekend regarding the matter. Turns out that a water emergency does exist in a city with a similar name — in Dixon, Missouri.
"The city of Dixon is in communication with both Solano Irrigation District and the California Water Service Company. The city of Dixon, Calif., has not had any water main breaks or sewer main breaks and is 100 percent confident in the quality of our water," said Dixon Fire Chief Aaron McAlister in a statement earlier this week. "The city has taken the extraordinary step of utilizing the reverse 911 system to notify its residents of this mix up in an effort to reassures it citizens. Again, there is NO water quality emergency in the city of Dixon, Calif."


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Are resumes becoming obsolete?
The other day, I read an article on cnnnews.com "Are social media making the resume obsolete?"
The article states "Could the days of trying to cram all of your professional accomplishments onto a single sheet of paper be a thing of the past? Some job experts say we're already there. With news that Facebook might be joining the ranks of online-employment brokers, it's looking more and more like the old-fashioned resume might be growing obsolete."
I had to smile as I read the article. As a resume writing expert several comments caught my attention, beginning with the phrase 'old-fashioned resume'.
An Old-Fashioned Resume
What is that exactly? I presume the author meant one on paper. In that sense he's correct. Most individuals apply online. Paper resumes are provided at interviews to the hiring manager and whatever other staff might be there. Some smaller companies might prefer paper resumes.
However, the mode of transportation (paper, online, etc.) does not a resume make. Nor is a one page (crammed) resume the standard. A resume is as long as it needs to be provided its content is relevant to the new job search – nothing extraneous. It's simply an impactful version of your professional and academic history. That fact is not going to change whether you use Facebook, My Space, LinkedIn, or Aunt Betty's blog to get it out there. You're still going to have to submit your qualifications to a hiring manager unless we reach the stage that HR people have the ability to look into an individual's mind, viewing their past history at will.
A Resume is About What a Hiring Manager – Not You – Wants to See
One woman in the article talked about her 'Living Resume' stating it's "an ongoing collection of decidedly cool things I've done in my career, side gigs, and other projects."
She posts those decidedly cool things on a Pinterest board she created.
It's an interesting concept, especially for creatives (graphic artists, architects, etc.) if applicants can do it correctly with maximum impact on their ability to be hired. If not, they're sending hiring managers to a site that's going to be hell to get through. Most hiring managers won't. If they don't see what they need immediately in terms of 'should I interview this individual or not', they're going to move on to the next applicant.
Tried and True Data Regarding Experience and Accomplishments Matters
Jazzed up content, bells & whistles, lots of extraneous content do not impress hiring managers or recruiters no matter how new-wave they are. Hiring managers want to know two things – are you going to make my company money and/or can you save my company money?
That's it. The way you deliver the message isn't as important as the message itself.


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Helm was scheduled to become a restricted free agent on July 1. He earned $1 million in 2011-12. His new contract has a salary-cap hit of $2.125 million.
The third-line center is valued for his speed, forechecking and physical play. He had nine goals and 17 assists in 2011-12 and was sorely missed after suffering a sprained left MCL on March 17, which idled him for the rest of the regular season.
Helm, 25, suffered lacerated tendons in his right forearm in Game 1 of the Western Conference quarterfinals at Nashville, when he was cut by Alexander Radulov's skate. It was Helm's first game back from the knee injury and it ended his season.
It was a huge blow for the Red Wings, since Helm usually elevates his game in the playoffs.
Helm, selected in the fifth round of the 2005 draft (132nd overall), has 32 goals and 83 points in 248 career regular season games. He has 10 goals and 16 points in 65 playoff games.
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Laura Litvan and Kristin Jensen
Sunday, Dec 20th, 2009
The U.S. Senate is poised tomorrow to take an early morning vote that will lead toward passage of the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's health-care system in more than four decades.
The vote to cut off debate is scheduled for 1 a.m., Monday, in a U.S. Capitol blanketed by a snowstorm and filled with weary senators and staff. Democrats, finally united in favor of the bill, are using the clock to overcome delaying tactics by Republicans universally opposed to the effort.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to win final passage by Dec. 24 now that he secured the vote of his party's last holdout, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. The 10-year, $871 billion bill is designed to cover 31 million uninsured Americans, curb costs and place new restrictions on insurers.
"The American people will have the vote they deserve on genuine reform," President Barack Obama, who has made the issue his top legislative priority, told reporters yesterday. "We are on the cusp of making health-care reform a reality."
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." – Fall Of The Republic – Buy the DVD here
This article was posted: Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 5:24 am


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Shut Up and Play the Hits (BLU)
Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern
3-Disc Set
On April 2nd 2011, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM played its final show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. LCD Frontman James Murphy, disbanding one of the most celebrated and influential groups of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensured that the band would go out on top with the biggest concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza featured special appearances by Arcade Fire and Reggie Watts and moved the crowd of thousands to tears of joy and grief. SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS both captures this once-in-a-lifetime event with stunning visuals and serves as an intimate portrait of Murphy as he navigates the 48 hours surrounding the show. Woven throughout is an honest and unflinching conversation between Murphy and author Chuck Klosterman as they discuss music, art, aging, and the decision to call it quits while at the top of your game. This special edition set includes the three-and-a-half-hour concert in its entirety, as well as the documentary film and loads of extras.
Product Details
- Cast: Aziz Ansari, Reggie Watts, Arcade Fire, James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem
- Format: Color, Dolby, Live, NTSC, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85.1
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: Oscilloscope
- Release Date: 10/09/2012
- Run Time: 290 minutes
- Catalogue #: 2760


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How scapegoating and hysteria doomed the world's first democracy. From the chaos of a sea-battle to the fury of a lynch mob, from personal bravery to political machinations, The Day Democracy Died tells in vivid detail the tragic story of the Arginusae trials and the fall of Athens: a cautionary tale of democracy's demons which is as relevant in the age of instant news and mass media as in the volatile city-states of ancient Greece. October, 406 BC: on the darkening waters of the eastern Aegean, an inexperienced Athenian fleet prepared to face the might of Sparta. With the fortunes of the Peloponnesian War turning inexorably against it, a beleaguered Athens badly needed a victory - and it got one.
The Battle of Arginusae, won by raw recruits against a battle-hardened Spartan armada, saved Athens from disaster at a heavy cost in sunken ships. Yet in the confusion following the battle, neither the survivors nor the bodies of the dead were ever recovered. When the fleet returned to an apprehensive, overcrowded Athens, recriminations between its leaders escalated into a vicious, hysterical witch-hunt which convulsed the democracy and swept aside custom, sense, and law. In an extraordinary and chilling sequence of events, six victorious generals were arrested and put on trial for their lives before the Athenian people. On a day of violent passions, before a crowd of thousands, a handful of brave men including the philosopher Socrates struggled to save Athens from itself.
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"Dramatic account of a self-inflicted catastrophe."
Dramatized reconstruction of the final tragedy of the Peloponnesian War: At the very end, after surviving disaster upon disaster, the people of Athens were so intent on assigning blame and seeking immediate advantage against political opponents that they threw away their last real chance. The author does a great job of filling in the background and navigating the twists, as everything inexorably goes to hell in a handbasket.
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Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:37 AM
Worst Thing Ever
Hello Barbz & Kens,
Well I had to decide between prom and Nicki smh i know wtf! but my dumba#$ chose prom b/c my friend would be pissed if i left her im such a good friend but i will see her(nicki) b/c there are more concerts I WILL FIND YOU NICKI so barbz what would you have chose? well i believe i know you guys answers already ;)


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Former Texas A&M star, Johnny Manziel was in Tampa today (Thursday) to visit the Buccaneers. The senior writer for Buccaneers.com tweeted the confirmation of his visit.
As they did with Teddy Bridgewater & Jimmy Garoppolo earlier this week, the Bucs have confirmed that Johnny Manziel visited 1 Buc on Thurs.
— Scott Smith (@ScottSBucs) April 10, 2014
Manziel was invited to the Buccaneers' headquarters as one of the team's 30 allotted pre-draft visitors. According to Buccaneers.com, even though these visits are private, the team has confirmed several reported prospect meetings this week, as they did on Thursday with Manziel.
Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was at One Buc Place on Monday and Eastern Illinois quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo visited Tuesday.


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The Geological Survey of India, the premier Geoscientific Organization in
the country is devoted to a charter of activities that includes geological
mapping of the whole country on different scales, consolidation of geological
data base for the development of mineral based industries, energy and
environmental resources, research activities and dissemination of knowledge
on all earth science related aspects. As the geo-scientific education in the
country lacks adequate practical component, professional training is an
unavoidable requisite. Accordingly a full-fledged Training Institute was
constituted in 1976 with headquarters at Raipur primarily with a view to
orient the new recruits to professional practices. In course of years,
Geological Survey of India Training Institute (GSITI) has also been
fulfilling the role of acquainting the geoscientists to the latest
advancements in their respective fields of knowledge as they progress
in the organization. Training courses are designed taking in to cognizance
the continuous developments in science and technology and concomitant
diversification and modernization of activities in the organization.
GSITI imparts state-of-the-art training in various disciplines of Earth
Science. The Institute with its headquarters at Hyderabad conducts various
training programmes through six centres located at Lucknow (UttarPradesh),
Zawar (Rajasthan), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Raipur (Chattisgarh), Chitradurga
(Karnataka) and Hyderabad, besides specialised divisions such as Photo
Geology and Remote Sensing (PGRS), Geophysics and INDIGEO located at
Since its inception in 1976, the GSITI has conducted number of training
Programmes and trained numerous geoscientists of GSI, other earth science
organisations, and universities of the country and also geoscientists of
ESCAP and other countries. The training programmes are focused on
fundamentals and applied aspects of geoscience viz. Geology, Geophysics,
Geochemistry, Natural Hazards, Remote Sensing, Drilling and Surveying. The
Institute regularly conducts Department of Science & Technology (DST)
sponsored SERC Summer / Winter School Programme, ISRO (Department of Space)
sponsored Remote Sensing (NNRMS) programme, marine geophysical survey for
the officers of Indian Navy and National Hydrographic office and customized
courses for other agencies.
For strengthening the application of digital techniques in geoscientific
data processing, Project INDIGEO, a collaborative venture between the
Geological Survey of India, International Institute for Geo-information and
Earth Observation (ITC), and Maastricht School of Management (MSM), The
Netherlands and Association of Exploration Geophysicists (AEG), India was
launched in 1999. Since its inception more than 500 officials of GSI and
other sister organisations were trained in various digital techniques.
Emphasis is laid on training scientists engaged in thrust activities. New
programmes in specialised disciplines covering Remote Sensing, Engineering
Geology, Palaeontology, Environment, Modern Instrumental Methods of Analysis
and Surveying have been started. Geochemical Mapping, Physical Volcanology,
Ore-Microscopy and Fluid Inclusion studies and Environmental Geochemistry are
some of the thrust areas addressed with a renewed approach. Refresher courses
on Legal Administration for Nodal Officers dealing with legal cases, Liaison
officers for SC/ST and Administrative officers, training on personal
effectiveness for Group 'C' Ministerial Staff and Refresher Courses for
Drivers has been introduced. Workshop on Official Language implementation has
been introduced on an experimental basis.
R & D programmes involving application of digital techniques in disaster
management are also being pursued at GSITI with an aim to develop new
The faculty for the training programmes consists of experienced
geoscientists of GSI and eminent scientists from National Geoscientific
Institutes and Universities.
The GSI Training Institute, with its headquarters at Hyderabad, conducts
training courses through six Training Centres and specialized Divisions such
as Photo Geology and Remote Sensing (PGRS), Geophysics and Project INDIGEO.
Field based training programmes are conducted at the following Centres to
cover varied geological terrains of the country.
PGRS division, Hyderabad, conducts programmes on image processing
techniques, photogrammetry and application of remote sensing in geology.
The Geophysics Division conducts programmes either at Hyderabad or at other
centers, depending on the nature of the training Course.
The Project INDIGEO, a collaborative venture of GSI with ITC and MSM, the
Netherlands and AEG, India since 1999, aims at enhancing the digital
processing capability of scientists of GSI and other organizations and
acquainting officers of the Department with modern management practices.
Project INDIGEO is equipped with the state-of-the-art computer facilities
and is imparting training using ArcGIS, AutoCAD Map, ERDAS Imagine, etc.
for capturing, manipulating, processing and visualization of geo-science
data. The technical collaboration with ITC, the Netherlands have been
renewed for three more years through an MOU signed in 2004 and the emphasis
continues to be on programmes covering basic as well as some advanced GIS,
digitization techniques and computer based interpretation of geochemical
data. These programmes are designed to familiarize the officers with the
basic and applied aspects of information technology with special reference
to earth sciences. In addition, computer awareness programmes to expose
officers and staff to the basics of computer concepts and application are
mounted on a regional basis.


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Bid adieu to the sprightly chaps of Tres Bien.
The melodic '60s-inspired band that scored a huge local following and a Fox reality show stint is moving up north before the end of the month.
Before leaving, Tres Bien will headline a CD release/farewell show Saturday night at the State Theatre in St. Petersburg.
The guys — singer Michael "Mikey B" Bostinto, bassist Cody Wilson; drummer Ryan Metcalf and guitarist Michael Crowe — are relocating to Williamsport, Pa., where they recorded their latest CD, Meet Your Maker.
They even bought a house where all four will live.
"It's a very cozy town," Bostinto said, "and it helps that I have family up there. Every time we toured we made our way up to Williamsport, (and) took three days off to just relax in the town or in the woods and take a load off."
Tres Bien isn't the first local rock band to relocate in recent years. In 1996, Home, which worked with Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, moved to Brooklyn. The Washdown had a brief whiff of major label success in New York but moved back and later formed Zillionaire. The most recent band to return, Hankshaw, tried things out in Atlanta before coming back to Tampa Bay.
"Williamsport is a centralized location," Bostinto said. "We wanted to move to New York and Philly, but it's too expensive. Everybody does it. It would be like jumping into a shark tank."
Tres Bien emerged on the scene late 2004, decked out in old Foreign Legion uniforms and other matching get-ups. The upstarts brought back the stylish spunk, showmanship and melodic appeal of '60s British Invasion bands. Their jumps, dives and shimmies won crowds over.
When they got their first press in tbt* in 2005, it seemed like they were onto something big, attracting hordes of high school students to all-ages shows at the Neptune Lounge in Tarpon Springs.
Though they've always expressed an affection for the '60s, they say they're striving for their own sound. "We're not a bandwagon band," Metcalf said. "That's why we decided to go to Williamsport, to find a place to be ourselves."
In 2007, they appeared on the Fox Reality show The Next Great American Band, making their way up to No. 6 in the Top 10.
Meet Your Maker, recorded this past summer in Bostinto's uncle's hunting cabin, shows considerable growth for the band. It's got the trademark hooks and beats but fuller arrangements and more experimentation — the type of album you'd expect to hear from a band that's "too poppy to be indie and too indie to be mainstream," as Bostinto puts it.
Frustrations aside, the guys all express warm sentiments about Tampa Bay and lament they will not be here to see the local music scene grow. The area's cultural offerings did not factor into the band's departure, they said.
"Now that I'm old enough to go out to Ybor, I've noticed that there are a lot of artists and creative people in Ybor," Bostinto says. "It's a really bittersweet thing."