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For Ohio State, one of the largest and most powerful athletic departments in America, there are several areas in which the university will closely monitor potential changes. Its interests are in alignment with many of the other top revenue-earning NCAA member institutions.
According to Dr. John Bruno, a professor of psychology, neuroscience and psychiatry and the faculty athletics representative to the NCAA at Ohio State, the university is keenly interested in possible NCAA changes related to enforcement, amateurism and championship management, among others.
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In many ways, Bruno said, the NCAA of the future will look like the current model. In particular, the NCAA's ability to manage championships as well as academics suits Ohio State well, Bruno said.
"The fact of the matter is the NCAA does a lot of things right," Bruno said. "We tend to mistakenly think about the NCAA in terms of March Madness, football and violations, but there's 36 other sports that they manage very well across multiple divisions. … Even at Ohio State, we don't want the NCAA out of managing our championships. Managing championships is probably one of the best things that they do."
Bruno serves on the NCAA's Academic Cabinet, a governing board that determines rules related to eligibility and progress towards degree, among many others. This board also does a good job, Bruno said, and Ohio State is one of many schools that wants the NCAA to continue managing academic business.
Bruno's general support of staying under the NCAA umbrella is consistent with director of athletics Gene Smith's position for months. In July, Smith told BSB that current NCAA member institutions are partly to blame for the current mess and must work to fix it.
"Change has to happen," said Smith, who also echoed that he has no direct motivation to leave the NCAA structure. "It just has to happen, practically, because if it doesn't we're never going to get this thing fixed and we're always going to have continual mistakes made by the association. The PR part definitely has to get resolved. The thing that is really challenging with all this is, we are the NCAA. It's not like Mark Emmert is sitting in Indianapolis creating all this stuff. We voted this mess in that we have, and so now we just have a lot of good ideas. We have to find a way to change."
What does not seem to be in the cards is a full-scale reworking of NCAA divisions. Over the summer, Smith told BSB that something needs to be done to make sure NCAA policies address the fact that the highest-earning Division I schools have different needs than lower-earning schools, and the OSU AD wasn't against the potential of a new division with different rules for schools in conferences like the Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC, SEC and Big 12.
But Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said in October at the league's basketball media day that a potential "Division 4" is unlikely, a decision Bruno is in favor of. However, there is still the feeling at Ohio State that the revenue issue must continue to be discussed.
One of the biggest issues on that front is how to fairly compensate student-athletes, and Bruno is of the persuasion that there is plenty that can be done for players that is "very short of paying them." Part of the reason this is so is because Ohio State is not interested in a pay-for-play model that provides monetary compensation, he added.
There is, however, more that can be done to help student-athletes defray the cost of attending school, Bruno said, but legislative changes will be necessary for schools like Ohio State that want to do more.
Smith has said that he favors a system that would allow the top revenue producers in college sports to operate under more sensible rules, including the potential to offer cost-of-attendance stipends to athletes, and Bruno agrees.
"A full grant in aid for a football or basketball player, for instance, doesn't cover the entire cost of attendance, and I don't think that's fair," Bruno said. "If we have the money to do it, than we should pay for all of their miscellaneous expenses that are part of attending school.
"The problem is that there are many schools in Division I that can't afford that. They can't afford it. There was an idea to give student-athletes $2,000 to sort of help defray the cost of these miscellaneous expenses and that fell flat. It largely fell flat because of (the institutions) that couldn't afford to do it. If you're institution 'X' and you can't afford to do it, the last thing in the world you want is Ohio State doing it because that then becomes, possibly, a recruiting advantage.
"We're so paranoid about recruiting advantages that we're failing to do the right thing by meeting the health and safety needs of the student-athlete. If there is a group of Division I institutions — and there is — then they ought to be able to do it for their student-athletes. So what we want is some flexibility in the bylaws of the NCAA that allow schools to provide opportunities based on resources that they have available rather than always trying to legislate to the least common denominator.
"We're not suggesting this turn out to be the Wild, Wild West without any rules, but there may be a different set of rules for schools (and athletic departments) that are fiscally sound."
This issue and more are expected to be addressed in January at an NCAA summit in San Diego.
Bruno believes that, when faced with a major-violation investigation following the football program's 2010 season and 2011 Sugar Bowl victory, Ohio State took a proactive stance to the issues at hand. Ohio State cooperated fully with the NCAA's investigation into the memorabilia-for-tattoos scandal that resulted in former coach Jim Tressel's ouster and the Buckeyes football program's 2012 postseason ban, among other penalties, Bruno said.
In that case, Ohio State's cooperative stance helped expedite the investigation process, but other schools haven't followed Ohio State's lead when it comes to cooperating with the NCAA, Bruno said.
Enforcement is inconsistent in a variety of ways, Bruno said, and member institutions will likely want to introduce a new means of enforcing rules.
"There's a lot of variability in how cases are handled, how fast they're adjudicated and how transparent they are in terms of the punishment and who the transgressors are," he said. "The whole enforcement side needs to be more consistent, and it needs to be much faster. There is no reason why these cases should take as long as they do, and what they do is leave these universities in limbo for long periods of time.
"Now, sometimes it's the university dragging their feet, but you ought to get benefits for being fully cooperative in an investigation. I mean, that's at the heart of any investigation — cooperation. So, we probably want to establish a new enforcement program."
More From Bruno
--In July, Delany spoke about reconfiguring the demands placed on college athletes, particularly those in the major sports that face nearly year-round training and drills. Bruno, in many ways, agreed.
"This is a 12-month job, particularly at a place like Ohio State," he said. "That is probably not healthy. We have all this sensitivity to health and safety these days, and injuries and things like that, and these athletes don't get a break. And they don't get a break to take advantage of some things that would be very enlightening for them, like time abroad.
"Student athletes don't have time to do internships, student teachings — the kinds of things that would allow them to have the same range of majors that other students enjoy."
--There is also a push to make it easier for high-profile athletes to get regulated, better information from agents before they make their choices when it comes to entering the professional realm.
"If we could loosen up those rules, and it would be very well-regulated, but if you could give (student-athletes) access to these people, it would be in the best interest of the student-athlete," Bruno said. "A lot of these (college athletes) are told, 'Come out, come out, come out…,' and somebody's feeding them a line in terms of their draftability and stuff. We'd like to bring other people in to give them the other side of the coin. We're not allowed to do that."


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Re: Version 9 export to PDF creates ridiculously large
I guess it depends what you want to do with your exported file. What I did
is copy the plot to a new notebook, and saved it as PDF. It takes 39 KB.
When you open the PDF file you get the plot such as obtained in Mathematica. Is that useful for you?
> From: bobbaillie at frii.com
> Subject: Version 9 export to PDF creates ridiculously large file
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 02:17:56 -0400
> In Mathematica version 8, the code below creates a file that is 38 KB.
> But in version 9, the code creates a file that is 872 KB.
> f[x_] := Sum[Sin[n x]/n, {n, 1, 100}] ;
> f1Plot = Plot[f[x], {x, -Pi, Pi}, PlotRange -> 2]
> Export["C:\\JUNK\\f1Plot.pdf", f1Plot]
> Is there a way in version 9 to create a pdf file of reasonable size?

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I am remodeling my bathroom. I am going to install a new shower pan. The installation instruction says: "Place up to a 1/2" thick layer of mortar/thinset on the floor. Taper the mortar/thinset to 1/4" thick around the floor drain."
My question is how do I measure 1/2" thick layer? Do I have to use a trowel with no notches and somehow measure layer thickness? Or, can I use a 1/2" notched floor trowel?
When I set an acrylic shower base, I mix setting compound and rough lay it based on the base contours. I place a 4mil plastic over the top completely covering the compound. I place the base down over it and press it into position. Once it's set, I lift it up and look at the impression in the plastic. If there are no gaps, I put it back and let it dry. If there are gaps ,I repeat the procedure until I'm happy.
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Greg Tucker who died yesterday from throat cancer was no stranger to hostile media coverage; itll be interesting to see what some of the mainstream press obituarists come up with. But he never had any difficulty with being described as an unreconstructed figure of the hard left, because that is essentially what he was.
Greg (pictured) and I got to know one another in the South London branch of the International Socialist Group in the early 1990s, and later worked together in the London Socialist Alliance. In the 2001 general election, he stood as a Socialist Alliance parliamentary candidate, polling 906 votes against Keith Hill in Streatham.
He also served as a Labour councillor in Lambeth throughout the period in which that local authority was controlled by the hard left, achieving a certain amount of notoriety, including this mention in the House of Commons by a Tory former cabinet minister.
As Michael Heseltine made clear, Greg lost his council seat not because he was voted out by the voters or democratically deselected by Labour Party members, but because he was deemed unacceptable by the Walworth Road machine:
Mr. Heseltine : But there is a consolation prize for the Labour party. It will win the vote of no confidence that was passed today in its Labour candidates in Lambeth. The House is entitled to the latest up-to-the -minute information. Today the Labour executive kicked out 13 of Labour's councillors in Lambeth. The Labour leader, Joan Twelves, is out. The mayor, George Huish, is out. The deputy leader, John Harrison, is out. The chief whip, Julian Lewis, is out. Greg Tucker, Mrs. Twelves's partner, is out. I leave it to my right hon. and hon. Friends to interpret that for themselves ; whatever he happens to be, he is out on his ear. As all those great luminaries of the Labour establishment get the chop, they have given a new political significance to the meaning of the Lambeth walk. [Interruption.] It is a long way to Tipperary and it is quite a long way to Sheffield as well.
As if all of this didnt keep him busy enough, Greg went on to achieve notoriety all over again for his activism in the RMT transport union, playing a leading role in several strikes. In 1999, he stood for the position of general secretary on a rank and file ticket, and picked up around one-third of the ballot, a highly credible vote for a revolutionary.
The Daily Telegraph headlined one story about him Left-winger at the heart of the dispute'. It's almost a pity that Greg will be cremated rather than buried, because that would have made the perfect epitaph. Condolences to Joan and to Gregs son by an earlier relationship.
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Insulating an attached garage
My master bedroom is on top of my attached garage. It is very cold in the winter, and warm in the summer. I was wondering if insulating the garage would help. I believe the ceiling of the garage already has insulation (and I don't want to rip out the ceiling drywall). However, the walls of the garage do not have any insulation. Is it worth it to rip out the drywall and put insulation in the walls of the garage? Will that improve the temperature control in the garage, and therefore the master bedroom? I realize that there are multiple areas that may need improvement (new garage doors that don't leak air, new windows in the master bedroom), but for now, since I am going to have the garage painted, I was wondering if wall insulation will help.
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Not going to help much.
Never once have I seen the propper amount of insulation over a garage, and just as often there was no air sealing done before it went up.
I agree with Joe, not help much, especially if you have a vehicle door or use it as a garage for parking. On top of that, if in a heating climate, the garage floor is right on the cold earth, and unheated. So your thermal barrier (insulation) is at the ceiling and gets cold from garage space cold air, similar to a crawlspace/earth, Fig. #7: http://www.buildingscience.com/docum...n-crawlspaces/
You can't treat it as a conditioned space if you have a car or any chemicals in there. The best way to to move the insulation layer to the garage ceiling. It isn't cheap though.
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I know I am not alone when I say that with each month I am finding it more difficult to pay our everyday bills. We do have a fixed rate mortgage that we are happy for.
Hubby's overtime was cut drastically and I am picking up more hours at work. Everything that we purchase has gone up significantly with no cost of living increases to match. This has been adding a lot of un-needed stress to our lives.
Hubby was thinking about getting a part time job but that wouldnt really work because he needs to make himself available for the overtime if and when it is available.
Sorry for venting but it is just sooo hard to stay afloat these days I think we are worse off now than we were 5 years ago.
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It'a hard for a lot of folks these days. I'm noticing higher prices at the grocery store and we all know gas has soared in recent days. I try my best to cut down on expenses by couponing when I can. Do you have anything you can sell, ebay, yardsale?Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements04-10-2008, 10:08 AM #4
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AMEN! I agree with all of you! My husband has been laid off for 5 weeks now with no end in sight due to a strike in Detroit. I have already had to get into our EF for some things that we did know about, but were not expecting this lay-off. I already work two jobs and he does draw unemployment. He would like to get another job, but there are none to be had around here. And even if he did, they would not even pay what his unemp pays as of right now!
I do work for the schools and as soon as school is out for the summer I plan to work more at my second job. That will help. But it's things like the Flood insurance that we are required to pay. (Even though we don't even get a puddle in the street around here. ) And the balance on our Electric budget. The fun just keeps coming. But, we will survive! I know it could be a lot worse.04-10-2008, 10:12 AM #5
We live in PA.
I do use coupons faithfully and shop for bargins. I do try to cut costs but its still a struggle.04-10-2008, 10:28 AM #6
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I made less money last year, I still managed to pay our bills last year and have a little leftover to splurge on my kids.
This year i've made more money and struggled badly. My natural gas and electric rates went up a lot and i'm paying more for groceries.
Is there a possibility to see if you can make any of your bills cheaper like telephone,, etc?
I'm sorry this is causing stress in your lives.04-10-2008, 10:31 AM #7
You're right it is getting harder and harder to stay afloat. Everything keeps going up but our wages. It is frustrating when we are working just to pay the bills. There is no room in the budget for any extras right now.
We even cancelled a trip go to visit dd at college next week. We just can't afford the extra gas (200 mile trip each way) or a motel room for the night. Plus we since we would both have to take two days off from work no income those days.
momishem - I can't imagine how hard it must be for you right now. I hope the strike ends soon and your dh can get back to work. Hang in there.04-10-2008, 11:09 AM #8
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momishen - I hope the strike ends soon04-10-2008, 11:19 AM #10
It's true inflation is up and our paychecks are worth less and less.
We make more money than ever here and have less left over after living expenses.04-10-2008, 11:33 AM #11
I am finding the same thing. The company that my dh works for contracts their work out to another company. That contract has been up since March and we are on pins and needles waiting to see if the other company renews it or not.
Gas is 3.49 here now and my dh drives 50 miles one way to work.
Prices on all grocery items have gone up and I've taken a summer job in a state park to bring in some extra money!
Sending you some hugs and I hope things look up for you soon!04-10-2008, 02:13 PM #12
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I live in Nova Scotia, and it's definitly getting harder. We can't affor a house in the city, but if we move outside the city (we both work in the city) we won't be able to afford the gas OR 2 cars that we'd need. Our groceries are really expensive here too. IE chicken goes ON SALE for 4.99/lb. for boneless skinless. I am always AMAZED when I see the sale prices in the states. However, I work at an emergency shelter, so I know how bad it can REALLY be for some. *SIGH* Hopefully things will pick up...until then it's creativity time04-10-2008, 02:18 PM #13
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Thanks, ladies. I hope it ends soon, too.04-10-2008, 04:34 PM #14
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I have found myself tightening the budget. I have decided not to go on vacation this summer due to the cost of gas. I have found that all of my bills have increased (food, electric). I have really had to aggressively investigate and utilize the frugal tips which I have found on this board and also thru other frugal websites. I am using public transportation alot more. I am not going to far out of my neighborhood for other activities (church, groceries etc.). I am eating alot less meat. I am curtailing my book buying and utilizing the library alot more.Blessed and Highly Favored!!!!
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I am feeling the pinch from groceries and clothing, having a preteen boy who is eating my out of house and home and outgrowing clothing every month or so recently.
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The police officers entrusted with protecting the Bay Area Rapid Transit system are sometimes derided as little more than mall security.
Critics have repeatedly called to disarm the transit system's department, as the murder trial of former BART officer Johannes Mehserle has transfixed the Bay Area's attention on how police use lethal force.
If BART police surrender their pistols, must the members of its Special Weapons and Tactics unit (better known as a "SWAT" team) turn over their submachine guns and assault rifles?
The disarmament campaign has focused on pistols – the weapon Mehserle used to shoot Oscar Grant on New Years Day 2009.
Willie Brown, former San Francisco mayor and state lawmaker, recently joined the chorus asking BART to strip its police of sidearms. In a column in the San Francisco Chronicle, Brown wrote:
"It's not like they are real police officers out on patrol. They are transit cops. They aren't going to be in a shootout with anybody. Not on a BART platform, or in a parking lot or in a BART car. Too many people could get hurt if there was a real shootout."
Not so, says BART Police Patrol Commander Daniel Hartwig. The transit agency uses its SWAT team, equipped with long guns, multiple times a year in response to life-threatening emergencies.
In 2010, the tactical operations team has gone into action on at least three incidents, Hartwig said. And on one occasion SWAT officers raided two residences outside the transit system in search of suspects in an incident that originated at the Pittsburg/Bay Point station.
BART officers await approval from city police departments before conducting a raid in someone else's jurisdiction.
"I can't just go into the city of Pittsburgh, the city of Oakland, the city of San Francisco with my SWAT team and do whatever I want," Hartwig said.
BART police are certified peace officers with the same authority as their colleagues working the streets of Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento and every other California municipality.
Other transit systems have their own stand-alone police, including the metro rail in Washington, D.C., which now boasts an "anti-terrorism" unit. New York Transit, however, is guarded by a special bureau of the New York Police Department.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency pumps hundreds of millions of dollars a year into transit systems in an effort to strengthen the security of public transportation. This fiscal year, the Bay Area's transit systems – BART and 11 local carriers – are eligible for $19.8 million, behind only New York ($110 million), Boston ($21 million) and the nation's capital ($29 million).


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Jeff Pass created his first website in 1996. Since then he has built a (second) career around a simple goal: present digital content in a way that is meaningful, compelling, and usable. Since 2000, he has focused exclusively on Federal Government clients and the Digital Government Strategy. Jeff's primary hats are information architect and usability specialist, but he has worn every hat in the UX haberdashery. He is currently Lead User Experience Consultant at Aquilent.


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Well, how do you fare compared to the Zeitgeist?
Chat up your fellow wooters and let us know how lame this poll was or what obvious choices we missed.
For example: Was this poll a) STUPID, b) DUMB, c) POINTLESS or d) ALL OF THE ABOVE?
Google Goggles is an app.
Isn't it "project glass" or something?
For "project glass" to be useful to me it would have to 1)support prescription lenses and 2)be fully waterproof down to at least 6 feet indefinitely.
Did you misspell "tolerate" as "interested in"?
Did you mean to say "... would you be mocked in" instead of "interested in"?
That's all I got.
I can't wait for my Pebble to arrive.
I haven't heard of anyone working on the tech, but I would go for an e-reader that I could wear. I love gadgets and own a number of them, but my favorite by far is my Kindle Paperwhite. It would be nice if I had something like a flexible e-reader screen that I could roll into a necklace or some other wearable item.
btpaschke wrote:For "project glass" to be useful to me it would have to 1)support prescription lenses and 2)be fully waterproof down to at least 6 feet indefinitely.
Typing this from a waterproof computer, I assume.
I was interested in the Sony LiveView and tried it. It works ok but definitely worth the $20 I spent!
Google Glass in eye replacement form.
I want the EyePhone from Futurama
bsanf3 wrote:Google Glass in eye replacement form.
I don't think I want Google responsible for what I get to see... "Oh, that city didn't pay its fee to be listed at the top of the search, let's replace it with a map of one of our Prefered cities!" or having my eye report back to Google everything I see in order for them to market to me more effectively.
Ugh, why would you want to wear all that? There's nothing like getting away from technology for a while and getting outside. It's a beautiful world we live in!
driftingsoul wrote:I can't wait for my Pebble to arrive.
Pebble is my vote as well.
entouragevol wrote:I want the EyePhone from Futurama
Ha I love that episode.
Got a Pebble on the way.
I'd get contacts to be a beta tester. Forget prescription.
I voted for the google goggles but I'd be more interested in the contact lenses augmented reality.
Theres a link to a explanation of it.
Jawbone's UP bracelet
Joeytdm wrote:Pebble is my vote as well.
Got my grey Pebble coming soon too. I also think I'm going to get Project Glass when it comes out later this year. I figure I'll be a 50% human-cyborg by 2020.
lotsofgoats wrote:Typing this from a waterproof computer, I assume.
Nope, but then I don't take my computer with me everywhere...and most of the interesting things I would want to photograph or record happen when I'm in (or near) my kayak.
I haven't seen these for sale yet but the technology exists. A garment that generates electricity from your body heat, so you can keep your portable gadgets charged.


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In 1945, I was 13, and World War II was coming to an end. Our family lived in New Jersey, a 30-minute train ride from New York City where my father worked at the Bell Laboratories.
Barack Obama is naming his cabinet, and the Republicans are licking their wounds. Where did the GOP go wrong?
I'm not the type to make News Year's resolutions. How about you? More to the point, if you make them, do you keep 'em?
My husband was away on business, and I took the opportunity to enjoy a solitary breakfast at the Huddle House. Just me, my coffee and the newspaper.
This column is my own personal "morning after," written the day after the election of Barack Obama.
What are you going to do tonight: Stay up and watch the returns, or go to bed and pray for the best? I'm going to bed; too old to stay up much past 10 o'clock no matter what's going on.
In the beginning ... what?
With no TV reception, I've been spared the recent barrage of campaign ads. But I do have Internet access, and I'm flooded with suggestions to watch this or that on YouTube, and with e-mails that begin, "You've just got to see this."
Sorry. Campaign ads are not designed to inform. They're designed to persuade. If they provide any facts at all, the facts are one-sided and chosen for their emotional impact. They're the result of years of research by the advertising industry and public relation people whose job it is to get others to buy ...
I know from experience that all I have to do to get a response from readers is to mention the word, "abortion." My last column, headlined, "Woman chosen for wrong reason," was no exception.
What I said in the column was this: "Palin was chosen ... because she is anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, and anti-evolution." But as far as the McCain campaign goes, she was chosen for the right reasons. She has energized Christian fundamentalists and through them, the rest of the party.
The United States may get its first female president after all.
Whatever happened to humility? Where are the meek, the merciful and the peacemakers? Too many people claiming to be good Christians appear woefully short on these biblical commandments.
Friday was not a good day. I was stuck in the house waiting for a repairman who was scheduled to arrive "between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m," if a missing part could be found.
Sometimes I pick up the newspaper, turn to the opinion page, and read the last line of a column or letter to the editor first, just to figure out where the writer wants to take me. The last sentence of a recent column in the Atlanta papers certainly got my attention.
My daughter saw the books on my desk. "More Bush bashing," she remarked. "Not at all," I replied.
Sen. Johnny Isakson's recent call for a compromise on energy policy is getting a lot of coverage. The Georgia senator wants Republicans to embrace conservation initiatives and alternatives such as solar and wind in turn for Democratic acceptance of nuclear power and a more aggressive exploitation of our own oil resources (Alaska and off the Atlantic Coast).
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According to the Better Business Bureau of Utah (BBB of Utah), a Florida company is leaving a black mark on legitimate local Yellow Pages.
In a media release, the BBB of Utah said it received a complaint Thursday from a Salt Lake City business that was solicited by a company called Your Yellow Pages. Your Yellow Pages claimed to be a local yellow page directory, but it's actually based in Clearwater, Fla., and, according to the BBB of Clearwater, has more than 50 unresolved complaints against it and an "F" rating.
Jane Driggs, president and chief executive of the BBB of Utah, said it's a familiar scam.
"This is something we hear complaints about every couple of years," Driggs said. Bogus yellow page companies "are just in it to get money and once they have it, they go out of business."
Driggs said the scam occurs when the person who answers the phone agrees to buy yellow page advertising from the suspect company and accounting pays the bill without checking the legitimacy of the invoice.
"So often the person answering the phone is new and the financial person just pays the bill," she said. "It usually runs into hundreds of dollars, so it's up to a business to warn their employees to watch out for this."
She advises companies to educate their employees about this kind of sales pitch and route all such calls to an assigned person. That person should contact their local Yellow Pages representative if there's any doubt.
If you suspect a scammer, you can file a complaint with the BBB of Utah, the Utah Division of Consumer Protection, the Federal Trade Commission or the Yellow Page Association.
Driggs said the Salt Lake City business that filed the complaint did not want to be identified, but added it's a construction and welding company with 25 employees that's been in business for eight years.
Twitter: @jnpearce
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If your business receives a Yellow Pages telemarketing call or invoice:
Ask for product info in writing before agreeing to pay.
Look over each bill closely before paying it. Bogus invoices often say, "This is not a bill" or lack a phone number.
Have all invoices go through one person or department and make sure they're cleared by the assigned executive before cutting a check.
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Did you have a tweener heart breaking crush with some teen idol? What was the kookiest thing you did in the name of your crush? For possible zine. Can I do it in a month?
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This is a good time to share with you this post I did in 2009 on my blog.
I am currently working on a zine right now, as most of you are, and this is something I wrote in the midlst of a zine making marathon:
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What does this goldfinch have to do with anything
…other than the fact that I've discovered that I like these entries to have pictures, and I wanted to figure out how to post a picture. But there's also the real-world analogue to this cyber entry, namely the space outside my window, where for years I have pointlessly hung a black thistle feeder, though no finches ever came to eat thistle seed: I have finally achieved goldfinches. [A pause from typing this while I roll over to look out. Yep. there is a goldfinch! I think they are nesting in the nearby hazelnut tree.]
To get to the question of what they have to do with poetry, I don't think a poem would interest me unless the actual world intruded somehow (having said this, I am barraged with exceptions. Like most of Wallace Stevens.)
Inward, non-real-world sources would be useful as my own habitat grows rather limited by my growing agoraphobia (no, not really phobia, not fear, more just an aversion, and not of the marketplace either, not of impersonal social settings. In fact I'm attracted to poems written from the point of view of an observer in the public commons. But usually a detached observer. And hence I force myself out. It's social interaction I've become averse to.)
As Dickinson would say, isn't my father's yard enough? In that restricted environment, she looked to birds, who put mortality very plainly in view, as the seasons pass and their singing comes and goes, as the species appear and vanish in their migratory habits. "We are the birds that stay" is how Dickinson describes those who witness, as she did, the deaths of their loved ones. Birds became stand-ins for humans.
It is good to stay vigilant about what is going on outside, but then, once one tunes into outside, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the passing of everything. My thistle feeder is planted in a clump of rhododendrons, which were so spectacular and heartening when they popped open (it seems like) the other day. But then it rained, and now they're all smashed and decrepit. One pricks oneself up to the world, and realizes it's all sad.
Sadness isn't a perspicacious-enough response, though. Dickinson sure kept her wits about her when it came to grief. And the writing of a poem is also the act of taking a stand against the sadness.
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I've now read your post three or four times and each time feel as if I've been dropped into the space after one of Emily Dickinson's dashes. Were you and she sent on the same errand? When I read, "the writing of a poem is also the act of taking a stand against the sadness," I thought of these lines from Susan Howe's new book Souls of the Labadie Tract : "Words give clothing to hide our nakedness."
Thank you for the view from your perch.
Here's a slightly longer excerpt from which Susan Howe's line comes:
"During his ministry in Northampton, Jonathan Edwards traveled alone on horseback from parish to parish. Boston was a three-day ride east. It was easier to get to Hartford and New Haven. At Greenfield, the Mohawk Trail began its climb westward toward eastern New York (then frontier territory). As an idea occurred to him, he pinned a small piece of paper on his clothing, fixing in his mind an association between the location of the paper and the particular insight. On his return home, he unpinned each slip and wrote down its associated thought according to location. 'Extricate all questions from the least confusion by words or ambiguity of words so that the Ideas shall be left naked' he once wrote. Poetry is love for the felt fact stated in sharpest, most agile and detailed lyric terms. Words give clothing to hide our nakedness. I love to imagine this gaunt and solitary traveler covered in scraps riding through the woods and field of Massachusetts and Connecticut." – Susan Howe from Souls of the Labadie Tract
Till whatsoever star that guides my moving
Points on me graciously with fair aspect
And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,
To show me worthy of thy sweet respect
(sonnet 26)
I've also read your post three times, in-between searching for the name of the pair of birds with deep brilliant yellow color all over (or was it orange?). I can't find them. I can't remember exactly what color they were, but I do remember it was a brilliant flash of very deep bright color.
I've been watching birds out my window for 14 years now, housebound. The birds I've seen! Here in a national forest, next to a lake. I think about Emily D. all the time. "The brow is that of Deity – the eyes, those of the lost, but the power lies in the throat – pleading, sovereign, savage – the panther and the dove!" (Emily Dickinson)
"If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices." (Susan Howe, Incloser)
I haven't looked at Howe in a while, but these excerpts make me eager to get back.
Poets clamor to claim that distinct scrap of history–but often we latch onto fads (I think of Henry Darger). Yet Howe finds the scrap, the prize, that no one else finds.
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Leichhardt Oval, Sunday 3pm (AEST)
Last meeting: Round 13 2013 - Tigers 20 bt Panthers 18 at Sportingbet Stadium
Head-to-head: Tigers 11 Panthers 14
Referees: Shayne Hayne, Alan Shortall
TV: Live, delay Channel 9 (4pm)
Ladbrokes: Tigers $3.35, Panthers $1.33
Betfair: Tigers $3.55, Panthers $1.37
Tom Decent writes: The bookies have the Wests Tigers as outsiders but despite losing Robbie Farah to Origin duties they'll give Penrith a run for their money at the fan-favourite Leichhardt Oval. In their last seven games, the Tigers have knocked off Penrith every time, which might play on the mind of Ivan Cleary after his side's 30-20 loss to the Warriors in New Zealand last week. The big match up will be the kicking game of youngster Luke Brooks against older head Jamie Soward. An upset could be on the cards.
Tip: Tigers by 4
AAP writes: Utility Blake Austin has been named to replace the injured James Tedesco at fullback for the Tigers, but young gun Mitchell Moses could be brought in at the last minute. A win here for the Panthers, unhindered by Origin, against a Tigers side without Robbie Farah and Aaron Woods, can push them within reach of an unlikely top-four finals berth. The Tigers have been directionless without Farah and Luke Brooks needs to step up. Joel Luani starts in place of Farah, with Marty Taupau in for Woods. Penrith centre Jamal Idris will be better for the run against the Warriors last week after an enforced break.
Key: Leichhardt Oval. The Tigers are always hard to beat at their spiritual home and, without Farah, that factor could push them to a vital win.
TIGERS: Blake Austin, David Nofoaluma, Keith Lulia, Chris Lawrence, Pat Richards, Braith Anasta (capt), Luke Brooks, Martin Taupau, Joel Luani, Keith Galloway, Curtis Sironen, Bodene Thompson, Adam Blair. Interchange: Dene Halatau, Ava Seumanufagai, Sitaleki Akauola, Jack Buchanan.
PANTHERS: Matt Moylan, Josh Mansour, Dean Whare, Jamal Idris, Kevin Naiqama, Jamie Soward, Peter Wallace (capt), Sam McKendry, James Segeyaro, Brent Kite, Sika Manu, Elijah Taylor, Adam Docker. Interchange: Tyrone Peachey, Jeremy Latimore, Lewis Brown, Nigel Plum, Bryce Cartwright (one to be omitted).


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The Plant and Animal Genome XXV Conference (PAG) is designed to provide a forum on recent developments and future plans for plant and animal genome projects. Consisting of technical presentations, poster sessions, exhibits and workshops, the conference is an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and applications on this internationally important project.
We are pleased to announce the 2012 winners of the travel grants below.
Yalda Zare, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract Title: "Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Paratuberculosis Susceptibility in US Jersey Cattle" (Abstract #2563)
Ti-Cheng Chang, The Pennsylvania State University
Abstract Title: "The Genomic Organization and Gene Content of the Male-specific Region (msy) of the Bovine Y-Chromosome" (Abstract #2472)
Nicholas Boddicker, Iowa State University
Abstract Title: "Validation of a Major Quantitative Trait Locus Associated with Host Response to Experimental Infection with PRRS Virus"
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Carrie J. Finno, University of California, Davis
Abstract Title: "Candidate Gene Evaluation of Neuroaxonal Dystrophy/equine Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy Based on Genome Wide Association Analysis" (Abstract #2144)
Melissa Monson, University of Minnesota
Abstract Title: "Spleen Transcriptome Response to Aflatoxin in the Domestic Turkey" (Abstract #2480)
Elizabeth Robb, University of California, Davis
Abstract Title: "Utilization Of Advanced Genomic Technologies To Identify Causative Elements Of Inherited Developmental Defects In The Chicken" (Abstract #1590)
Rebecca R. Cockrum, University of Wyoming
Abstract Title: "Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Sheep Varying in Tolerance to Elevated Dietary Nitrate" (Abstract #2580)
Likit Preeyanon, Michigan State University
Abstract Title: "Alternative Splicing Detection Using RNAseq: An Assembly Approach" (Abstract #3656)
James Higgins, University of Birmingham (UK)
Abstract Title: "Manipulating Crossover Frequency and Distribution in Barley (#1418)
Dr. Alexandros Bousios, Institute of Agrobiotechnology, Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas (GREECE)
Abstract Title: "Unraveling the Life Dynamics of Sirevirus LTR Retrotransposons: Major Players in the Organization and Evolution of the Maize and Other Angiosperm Genomes" (#2869)
Hua Wang , University of Toulouse III, CNRS (FRANCE)
Abstract Title: "Master Regulators of Wood Formation in Eucalyptus" (#2716)
Na Zhang, The Ohio State University
Abstract Title: "Elucidation of the Molecular Identity and Characterization of the Tomato Fruit Weight Gene FW3.2" (#1950)
Blake Joyce, The University of Tennessee
Abstract Title: "Investigating The Novel Sesquiterpene Biosynthesis Pathway in Copaifera Officinalis, 'the Diesel Tree,' Through Next-Generation De Novo Transcriptome Sequencing and Functional Genomics" (#3814)
Paulo Jose Pereira Lima Teixeira, State University of Campinas, (BRAZIL)
Abstract Title: "A Comprehensive Transcriptome Atlas for the Study of the Witch's Broom Disease of Cacao" (#1294)
Dinh Truong Nguyen, Konkuk University, (SOUTH KOREA)
Abstract Title: "Bioinformatic Analysis of the Swine Genome Identified 1307 Genes Encoding for Olfactory Receptors" (#3148)
Kris A. Christensen, Washington State University, WA
Abstract Title: "Identifying SNPs in Rainbow Trout Paralogs" (#4544)
Daphne Gille, University of California, UC Davis, CA
Abstract Title: "Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Caviar Yield And Ovarian Adiposity In White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)" (#4372)
Ben Hecht, Purdue University, IN
Abstract Title: "The Genetic Architecture of Juvenile Migration in Rainbow Trout" (#3034)
Christopher M. Hollenbeck, Texas A&M University, TX
Abstract Title: "Design of Expressed-sequence Tag-Linked Microsatellites oor Non-Model Aquacultured Species" (#3028
Chao Li, Auburn University, AL
Abstract Title: "RNA-seq Analysis of Mucosal Immune Responses Reveals Signatures of Intestinal Barrier Disruption and Pathogen Entry Following Edwardsiella ictaluri Infection in Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus" (#3015)
Eric Rondeau, University of Victoria (CANADA)
Abstract Title: "An EST/RNAseq Library and First-Generation Linkage Map for Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria)" (#1502)
Fanyue Sun, Auburn University, AL
Abstract Title: "RNA-Seq Analysis of Differentially Expressed Genes in Channel Catfish After Flavobacterium Columnare Challenge" (#3017)
Rossana Sussarellu, Ifremer Brest, Laboratoire LPI (FRANCE)
Abstract Title: "Transcriptomic Analysis of The Pacific Oyster: Studying Local Adaptation of Recently Settled Populations in Northern Europe" (#1775)
Ruijia Wang, Auburn University, AL
Abstract Title: "Rapid Development of Molecular Resources for a Freshwater Mussel, Villosa lienosa (bivalvia: Unionidae) Using a RNA-seq-based Approach" (#3012)
Hao Zhang, Auburn University, AL
Abstract Title: "Molecular Characterization and Expression Responds to Edwardsiella ictaluri Challenge Of Three L-type Lectin Genes from Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus" (#3016)


text: System integration in design and operation as a means to progress towards cost-effective Net Zero Energy Buildings requires different modeling approaches than the ones offered by today's building energy simulation programs. Based on his research and on advances in other industrial sectors, the presenter will show how hierarchical object-oriented computer models that describe physical identities instead of variable assignments facilitate multi-physics modeling, modeling of large dynamical systems and provide a path towards embedded computing within the design process and building operation. He will discuss why next-generation building system simulators should be built using hierarchical objects in which the model formulation is separated from the numerical solution processes. He will show how this will facilitate the integration of multi-physics models to analyze phenomena which are characteristic for high performance buildings, how it will support concurrent engineering design processes and how it will facilitate the reuse of models throughout the building life cycle. He will introduce the Modelica modeling language, which is considered by a large system simulation community to become the next-generation multi-physics modeling language. He will discuss his experience in developing Modelica models for building energy system simulation and optimal control. He will highlight opportunities and research needs and outline a strategy for developing a next-generation building simulation program.


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The Steelers were eliminated from playoff contention after losing Sunday at home to the Bengals. They have nothing to play for in Week 17, so it's completely understandable that they play it safe with their best players. That includes tight end Heath Miller, who will likely miss next week's game against the Browns after he suffered damage to the MCL and PCL ligaments in his right knee on Sunday. He was injured in the fourth quarter. It is not known whether Miller simply sprained the ligaments or suffered complete tears. He finished Week 16 with three catches for 45 yards. He has 816 yards and eight touchdowns on the year, both of which are career-highs.
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I say Miller is "likely" to miss Week 17 just because nothing has been made official yet, but in all reality, he's not playing next week. Miller, 30, put up a huge season in 2012. He'll definitely be a top-10 tight end during 2013 fantasy drafts, but I wouldn't expect him to repeat this year's totals.


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Hi, just wanted to introduce myself. I posted in other members thread so I decided to make one too.
I used to own a 2011 wrx sedan and regretted getting rid of it. So I traded my 2014 V6 camry XSP package for a 2015 Wrx Premium CVT.
plan on adding mudflaps this weekend.
I have a question about what octane are you putting in your 2015 wrx since now the manual says premium is recommended not required like my old wrx.
I was able to snacth this from another dealer. Car just got off the truck and the dealer I was working with went to get it for me. Since the other dealer was only knocking off 500 dollars.