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In response to Moneylife's queries on issues faced by users while uploading submissions to MCA21 portal, Infosys's director V Balakrishnan has offered a detailed technical response. He also asserted that Infosys has inherited technical problems from TCS, which was running the MCA21 portal in the past
Infosys, taking a note of issues raised by Moneylife, has accepted that there were some problems with MCA21, the e-filing portal of Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) due to updation of its intrusion prevention system (IPS) signatures.
In an email response to our queries, V Balakrishnan, member of the Board at Infosys, said, "...of late the users have faced failures in uploading submissions and making subsequent payment of the fees. The root cause of the error was traced to our intrusion prevention system (IPS) whose signatures were updated recently. The signatures were updated after an advisory on cyber security attacks. One of the signatures was causing the system to interpret legitimate e-Form uploads as intrusion and resetting the client connection. The same IPS was also blocking redirection to the payment gateway. The issue was resolved after the specific signature was modified on 16 September 2013."
"MCA-21 is a very important project for us and we will take every effort to make this work to the satisfaction of all the stakeholders. We had met with various professional bodies recently to address all their issues." Infosys is meeting more users at its campus to apprise them all the initiatives taken and also to address his specific issues, Mr Balakrishnan added.
As reported earlier, a group of Chartered Accountants (CAs), Company Secretaries (CS), CWAs, lawyers, companies and consultants have started an open petition on Change.org to highlight the issues they are facing everyday due to malfunction of MCA21 portal. Binoy Chacko of BG & Associates had said, "The difficulties created by MCA21 are resulting in huge penalty, duplicate fee payments, and waste of professional man-hours across country, delay of application or approval process at Registrar of Companies-ROC and MCA offices."
As Moneylife has reported several times in the last eight months, MCA21, the showpiece of e-Governance and corporate filing portal, which, for the first time has made all corporate filings available online, has been sputtering. This is especially after Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) handed over the portal to Infosys. Since then, people accessing MCA21 for paid information or mandatory filing have been facing a nightmare.
This was supposed to be simple handover involving two of India's best and most reputed software companies. On 16th January, Tanmoy Chakrabarty, the head of Government Industry Solutions at TCS told Moneylife, "There was a round of bidding after the first seven-year contract was ending. We lost to Infosys on the price front in the MCA 21-II and we have gone through the full transition. In fact, at the end of business day today we have handed over all systems to the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) and Infosys Technologies".
At that time, the ministry had said the portal (MCA21) was undergoing transition of its operations and services to a new service provider. But there were a full 120 days provided in the contract for training and transition before the handover was completed. And TCS claimed that this was fully done to the satisfaction of Infosys as well as the ministry.
According to Mr Balakrishnan of Infosys, the system had teething issues during the transition due to some problems and they have worked to fix all of those. "The fact is that we inherited a system from the earlier service provider with many components which were past its end life with lots of manual scripts at the back end. We had put in enormous amount of efforts in reconfiguring the system, automating the scripts, upgrading the technology while making the disaster recovery system more robust," he said.
He added, "At the outset let me reiterate on behalf of Infosys that we consider MCA21 to be a project of national importance and shall do whatever it takes to do a professional job to the satisfaction of all stakeholders. We assure you that you will see significant improvements in the system going forward." Here is an excerpt from a detailed technical note from Infosys to Moneylife.
One of the signatures was causing the system to interpret legitimate e-Form uploads as intrusion and resetting the client connection. The same IPS was also blocking redirection to the payment gateway. The issue was resolved after the specific signature was modified on 16 September 2013.
a. The improvements made in infrastructure as above have been supported by augmentations in manpower for providing Helpdesk support and for ticket resolutions to cater to higher traffic in the peak filing period.
b. We have upgraded / added new hardware. These changes have already been deployed in production as of 9th September 2013. We are monitoring their performance and are making necessary changes as required to ensure that we have a stable environment with added capacity prior to peak filing season.
Aug 16 - Aug 31
Sep 1 - Sep 16
a. We are actively pursuing the issues reported by stakeholders in the past few weeks and have significantly increased field contact with stakeholders. We have conducted interaction sessions with stake holders at Delhi and have planned for stake holder interactions at Kolkata on 18th Sep 2013 and Hyderabad on 23rd September.
b. Our teams have been meeting stakeholders in various cities, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, etc. to see their issues first-hand and offer resolutions to their issues. Till date we have met more than 50 professionals in all these cities and we will continue to do so in the coming weeks as well.
c. We are also taking measures to address the issues through stakeholder education, improvement in system messages content.
This is the second major issue related to an e-governance issue highlighted by Moneylife. Earlier, Moneylife raised the issues faced by passport applicants at the facilitation centres (Passport Seva Kendra) managed by TCS. The high-level meeting of Pune Passport Grievance Forum with senior-most officials of TCS organised by Moneylife Foundation at its Mumbai office raised some hopes for the generally harassed passport applicant. (TCS assures smooth passport delivery system)
A week after the meeting, TCS took several steps like appointing a seasoned Verification Officer (VO) before Counter 'A' where documents are blindly scanned; extending the online appointment date to a week instead of a day; putting up boards to warn against illegal passport agents and putting up prominent boards to list the documents required for various categories of passports.
The new Companies Act has several provisions for non-bailable offences. What should you know when you get arrested? What are your rights ? And what are the implications of non-bailable offences?
The Companies Act, 2013 (the Act) has brought in extensive changes with the objective to ensure and seek transparency and establish better corporate governance practices. The Act has gone a step further to treat certain offences at par with criminal ones, thereby identifying them as cognizable and non-bailable. It becomes imperative on the part of promoters, directors, officers or any other person of the company to know what offences classified, as non-bailable, mean, what does non-bailable mean and what are the rights under such circumstances.
An offence denotes "crime" or "wrongdoing." Section 2(n) of the Criminal Procedure Code (Code) defines offence as "any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force". Section 40 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) defines offence "to denote a thing made punishable under the Code". An act becomes an offence only when specifically made punishable by any law. An act, which has not been made punishable expressly under any law, is not an offence.
Bail has not been defined in the CrPC. Section 205 (Indian Penal Code, 1880) of IPC defines bail as temporary release from imprisonment on furnishing security/surety to appear for trial. It means release of an accused/offender from legal custody upon their giving sufficient security for his appearance later. Law recognises that individual freedom should be safeguarded and that every person including the accused is entitled to freedom unless found guilty.
Bailable and non-bailable offences
The Code does not provide any specific criteria to determine whether a particular offence is bailable or non-bailable. It is only the First Schedule of the Code that illustrates whether an offence falls under the bailable or non-bailable category. However, generally speaking, it can be stated that by and large serious offences are considered as non-bailable and others as bailable.
As per section 2(a) of the Code a "bailable offence" is an offence (i) which is shown as bailable in the First Schedule of the Code, or (ii) which is made bailable by any other law for the time being in force. These primarily constitute less serious offences, where bail can be claimed as matter of right and is granted by police officer in due course. Any other offence apart from those mentioned as bailable is "non-bailable."
On perusal of the First Schedule of the Code, offences that are punishable with imprisonment of less than three years are usually considered as bailable and offences that are punishable with imprisonment for three years or more are usually considered as non-bailable.
Under non-bailable offences, bail cannot be claimed as a matter of right. This, however, does not mean that there can be no bail for such offences. It simply means that grant of bail for such offences are purely at the discretion of the court. The court after recording reasons, may release an accused on bail. However, persons accused of offences punishable with death, life imprisonment or imprisonment for seven years or more can be released on bail, only after giving an opportunity of hearing to the public prosecutor.
Non-bailable offences under Companies Act, 2013
Section 212(6) of the Act now recognizes offences as mentioned in the Annexure (at the end of this piece) to be cognizable (S.2 (c) of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973), offence where a police officer may arrest without a warrant, and non-bailable.
This means that a bail for such offences can be granted only:
This section, however, is not applicable to:
Imposing such a condition on bail, technically equates these offences with offences that are punishable with death, life imprisonment or imprisonment for seven years or more, where bail may be granted subject to hearing of the public prosecutor and court.
The very intention to recognise offences under section 212(6) as a "criminal" is to acknowledge it as a public wrong and prevent and control further occurrences of the same. Recognising such offences as non-bailable would not only deter the offender from committing further offence but also deter others from committing similar offences thereby upholding the very objective and intrinsic principle of criminal justice.
Know your rights when under arrest
The Code provides and confers certain specific rights to persons who are arrested as below:
The Act, in the wake of various reported frauds and fraudulent activities on part of the officers in charge of the company, has substantially enhanced the severity of punishment for such offences. It has made efforts to recognise them as criminal and non-bailable with an objective to prevent and control such offences, safeguard the interests of the shareholders and also to serve as deterrent for those pronounced guilty.
However, time alone shall judge whether such severity was able to satisfy and make substantial difference in upholding the principles of justice, equity and fairness.
Annexure: Non-bailable offences under the Act
Person liable
Furnishing any false or incorrect particulars of any information or suppressing any material information, with the Registrar in relation to the registration of a company
A person furnishing such information
Furnishing any false or incorrect information or representation or by suppressing any material fact or information in any of the documents or declaration filed or made during incorporation of company, or by any fraudulent action
Promoters, first directors of the company and/or an advocate, a chartered accountant, cost accountant or company secretary in practice, engaged in the formation of the company and a person named in the articles as a director, manager or secretary of the company.
Untrue or misleading statements stated in prospectus or where any inclusion or omission of any matter is likely to mislead
Every person who authorizes the issue of such prospectus
Knowingly or recklessly making any statement, promise or forecast which is false, deceptive or misleading, or deliberately conceals any material facts, to induce another person to enter into, or to offer to enter into any agreement (i) with a view to, acquiring, disposing of, subscribing for, or underwriting securities; or (ii) the purpose or the pretended purpose of which is to secure a profit to any of the parties from the yield of securities or by reference to fluctuations in the value of securities; or (iii) with a view to obtain credit facilities from any bank or financial institution
Any person making such promise
Abetments (i) of an application in a fictitious name to a company for acquiring, or subscribing for, its securities; or (ii) of multiple applications to a company in different names or in different combinations of his name or surname for acquiring or subscribing for its securities; or (iii) inducing directly or indirectly a company to allot, or register any transfer of, securities to him, or to any other person in a fictitious name
Any person making such abetments
Issue of duplicate share certificates with the intention to defraud
Company and every defaulting officer of the company
Transfer of shares with an intention to defraud
Depository or depository participant
Knowingly (i) conceals the name of any creditor entitled to object to the reduction;(ii) misrepresents the nature or amount of the debt or claim of any creditor; (iii) abets or is privy to any such concealment or misrepresentation
A person who knowingly commits the same
Auditor against whom order passed by Tribunal confirms acting in a fraudulent manner or abetting or colluding in any fraud by, or in relation to the company
Auditor of the company
Business of a company being carried on for a fraudulent or unlawful purpose or not in compliance with the provisions of the Act or if the grievances of investors are not being addressed
Every officer of the company in default
(i) The business of the company is being conducted with intent to defraud its creditors, members or any other persons or otherwise for a fraudulent or unlawful purpose, or that the company was formed for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose; or (ii) any person concerned in the formation of the company or the management of its affairs have in connection therewith been guilty of fraud
Every officer of the company who is in default and the person or persons concerned in the formation of the company or the management of its affairs
Any (i) destruction, mutilation or falsification, or concealment or tampering or unauthorized removal of documents relating to the property, assets or affairs of the company or the body corporate, (ii) false entry in any document concerning the company or body corporate; or (iii) explanation which is false or which is known to be false; during the course of any inspection, inquiry or investigation
Any person or an officer or other employee of a company or other body corporate required to make statement under investigation
Application by a company under section 248 (2) with an intention of evading the liabilities of the company or with the intention to deceive the creditors or to defraud any other person
Persons in charge of the management of the company
During winding up of a company, it appears that any business of the company has been carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the company or any other persons or for any fraudulent purpose
Any person, who is or has been a director, manager, or officer of the company or any person who knowingly was party to the carrying on of the business in a fraudulent manner
Any return, report, certificate, financial statement, prospectus, statement or other document required by, or for, the purposes of any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made there under (i) which is false in any material particulars, knowing it to be false; or (ii) which omits any material fact, knowing it to be material
Any person making/providing such statement.
In order to reduce the number of individual RTI applications, Department of Personnel & Training-DoPT, has issued fresh guidelines to public authorities to suo motu publish all information as required under Section 4 of the RTI Act, based on a taskforce report. But does any public authority care?
Four months after the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) issued fresh guidelines to public authorities to abide by the suo motu disclosure under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the implementation seems questionable going by the general indifference of Public Information Officers (PIOs). This would have strengthened compliance with provisions for proactive disclosure as given in Section 4 of the RTI Act.
The government had appointed a Task Force comprising leading RTI activists of the Civil Society in 2011. Based on the report, the DoPT has directed all public authorities to strictly abide by the norms. The office memorandum to all public authorities states, "…The purpose of suo motu disclosures under Section 4 is to place large amount of information in public domain on a proactive basis to make the functioning of the Public Authorities more transparent and also to reduce the need for filing individual RTI applications."
Citing that the "quality and quantity of proactive disclosure is not up to the desired level, it was felt that the weak implementation of the Section 4 of the RTI Act is partly because certain provisions of this Section have not been fully detailed and, in case of certain other provisions, there is need for laying down detailed guidelines. Further there is need to set up a compliance mechanism to ensure that requirements under section 4 of the RTI Act are met."
The guidelines issued by DoPT on 15 April 2013 include posting of information on websites too. Interestingly, all government departments have to mandatorily include a chapter on RTI Act compliance. The memo states, "Government has issued directions to all Ministries/ Departments to include a chapter on RTI Act in their Annual Reports submitted to the Parliament. Details about compliance with proactive disclosure guidelines should mandatorily be included in the relevant chapter in Annual Report of Ministry/Department.''
Every public authority has been asked to do an audit report and the respective ministry has been asked to monitor it.
Following are the rules that should have been implemented by all public authorities:
Procurement made by Public Authorities:
• publication of notice/tender enquiries, corrigenda thereon, and details of bid awards detailing the name of the supplier of goods/services being procured or the works contracts entered or any such combination of these and the rate and total amount at which such procurement or works contract is to be done should be disclosed.
Public Private Partnerships
• If Public services are proposed to be provided through a public-private-partnership (PPP), all information relating to the PPPs must be disclosed in the public domain by the Public Authority entering into the PPP contract/concession agreement. This may include details of the special purpose vehicle (SPV), if any set up, detailed project reports, concession agreements, operation and maintenance manuals and other documents generated as part of the implementation of the PPP project. Further, information about fees, tolls, or other kinds of revenue that may be collected under authorization from the Government, information in respect of outputs and outcomes, process of selection of the private sector party may also be proactively disclosed. All payments made under the PPP project may also be disclosed in a periodic manner along with the purpose of making such payment.
Transfer Policy and Transfer Orders
• Transfer policy for different grades/cadres of employees serving in Public Authority should be proactively disclosed. All transfer orders should be publicized through the website or in any other manner listed in Section 4(4) of the Act. These guidelines would not be applicable in cases of transfers made keeping in view sovereignty, integrity, security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the State and the exemptions covered under Section 8 of the Act. These instructions would not apply to security and intelligence organizations under the second schedule of the RTI Act.
RTI Applications
• All Public Authorities shall proactively disclose RTI applications and appeals received and their responses, on the websites maintained by Public Authorities with search facility based on key words. RTI applications and appeals received and their responses relating to the personal information of an individual may not be disclosed, as they do not serve any public interest.
Citizens Charter
• As part of the Result Framework Document of the department/organization should be proactively disclosed and six monthly report on the performance against the benchmarks set in Citizens Charter should also be displayed on the website of public authorities.
Discretionary and Non-discretionary grants
• All discretionary /non-discretionary grants/ allocations to state governments/ NGOs/Other institutions by Ministry/Department should be placed on the website of the Ministry/ Department concerned. Annual Accounts of all legal entities who are provided grants by Public Authorities should be made available through publication, directly or indirectly on the Public Authority's website.
Foreign Tours of PM/Ministers
• A large number of RTI queries are being filed on official tours undertaken by Ministers or officials of various Government Ministries/Departments. Information regarding the nature, place and period of foreign and domestic tours of Prime Minister are already disclosed on the PMO's website. As per DoPT's OM No. 1/8/2012-IR dated 11/9/2012, Public Authorities may proactively disclose the details of foreign and domestic official tours undertaken by the Minister(s) and officials of the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government of India and above and Heads of Departments, since 1st January, 2012. The disclosures may be updated once every quarter.
• Information to be disclosed proactively may contain nature of the official tour, places visited, the period, number of people included in the official delegation and total cost of such travel undertaken
Guidelines for digital publication of proactive disclosure under Section 4
• Section 4 lays down that information should be provided through many mediums depending upon the level of the public authority and the recipient of information (for example, in case of Panchayat, wall painting may be more effective means of dissemination of information), and that more and more proactive disclosure would gradually be made through Internet. There is need for more clear guidelines for web-based publication of information for disclosure
• It should be the endeavour of all public authorities that all entitlements to citizens and all transactions between the citizen and government are gradually made available through computer based interface. The 'Electronic Delivery of Services Bill, 2012'under formulation in Government of India would provide the necessary impetus.
• Websites should contain detailed information from the point of origin to the point of delivery of entitlements/services provided by the Public Authorities to citizens
• Orders of the public authority should be uploaded on the website immediately after they have been issued
• Website should contain all the relevant Acts, Rules, forms and other documents which are normally accessed by citizens
• Each Ministry/Public Authority shall ensure that these guidelines are fully operationalized within a period of 6 months from the date of their issue
• Proactive disclosure as per these guidelines would require collating a large quantum of information and digitizing it. Ministries/Public Authorities may engage consultants or outsource such work to expeditiously comply with these guidelines. For this purpose, the plan/non-plan funds of that department may be utilized
• Each Ministry/ Public Authority should get its proactive disclosure package audited by third party every year. The audit should cover compliance with the proactive disclosure guidelines as well as adequacy of the items included in the package. The audit should examine whether there are any other types of information which could be proactively disclosed. Such audit should be done annually and should be communicated to the Central Information Commission annually through publication on their own websites. All Public Authorities should proactively disclose the names of the third party auditors on their website
• For carrying out third party audit through outside consultants also, ministries/Public Authorities should utilize their plan/non-plan funds. The Central Information Commission should examine the third-party audit reports for each Ministry/Public Authority and offer advice/recommendations to the concerned Ministries/ Public Authorities.
• Central Information Commission should carry out sample audit of few of the Ministries/ Public Authorities each year with regard to adequacy of items included as well as compliance of the Ministry/Public Authority with these guidelines.
For more details, visit: www.cic.gov.in
(Vinita Deshmukh is the consulting editor of Moneylife, an RTI activist and convener of the Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyaan. She is the recipient of prestigious awards like the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting which she won twice in 1998 and 2005 and the Chameli Devi Jain award for outstanding media person for her investigation series on Dow Chemicals. She co-authored the book "To The Last Bullet - The Inspiring Story of A Braveheart - Ashok Kamte" with Vinita Kamte and is the author of "The Mighty Fall")


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By Chris Colston, USA TODAY
MIAMI Chicago fans have packed away their Brian Urlacher jerseys and foam No. 1 fingers. There was no ticker-tape parade, no Windy City screams of "Da Bears!" The Indianapolis Colts had won Super Bowl XLI 29-17.
But like fans of the city's Cubs, Bears fans can always cry, "Wait 'til next year!"
They have good reason to do so.
Chicago managed a Super Bowl appearance despite a short-handed roster. "This isn't our best team," coach Lovie Smith said before the game. Two top players, Pro Bowl defensive tackle Tommie Harris and safety Mike Brown, missed the latter portion of the season because of injuries. With them healthy in 2007, another Bears title run could be in the offing.
But they'll have to avoid the pitfalls of recent Super Bowl losers. This season the Seattle Seahawks became the first team in six years to lose a Super Bowl and return to the playoffs the following season.
Making a Super Bowl run can sap a team's reserves in the subsequent campaign, emotionally and physically. But for the loser, it's even tougher, because they have to shake a mental funk of losing a big game. Colts center Jeff Saturday has been there. In 2005 the Colts flirted with an undefeated regular season; then the Pittsburgh Steelers bounced them in the divisional round of the playoffs.
"When you lose a big playoff game, you don't care about what's on television, what people are talking about in the news," he says. "It's such a crushing blow. Your season comes to a sudden stop. You go from being excited and on a high to an abrupt end to something you've worked so hard for. That takes time to get over."
The first thing the Bears will have to do is shed their disappointment. "Guys need to get away, recharge, get in their own little dungeons, lift their weights, run, do their Rocky thing, and then come back," Chicago guard Ruben Brown says. "I get tired of seeing the same people over and over and over. Sometimes that doesn't help pull a unit together; it can pull them apart because they start getting on each other's nerves."
Once they've regrouped, the pressure shifts to owner Virginia McCaskey and President Ted Phillips, who must sign Smith and general manager Jerry Angelo to contract extensions.
Angelo has his critics, but he is responsible for Chicago's deep and talented roster. He has said he is "confident" a deal can be reached.
Once that's resolved, Phillips and Angelo can focus on Smith, who made $1.35 million this season, lowest among NFL head coaches. Smith is entering the final year of his contract and has indicated he wants to stay in Chicago.
"If you're going to have a dynasty, you have to have your key guys here six, seven years in a row, and you need your coaching staff in place, too," Chicago tight end Desmond Clark says. "Sometimes that's even harder to do than getting players signed."
There is also the matter of defensive coordinator Ron Rivera's possible departure. On Thursday of Super Bowl week, rumors circulated that Dallas wanted Rivera, a veteran of the Bears' vaunted 1985 defense, to interview for its vacant head coaching job.
"He brings things to the table you just can't replace," says defensive lineman Israel Idonije. "He played on a vicious defense then, and now he's leading this defense."
But weakside linebacker Lance Briggs believes the Chicago machine will chug on even if Rivera leaves. "We have guys on staff who can continue that success," Briggs says. "(Linebackers coach) Bob Babich understands the ins and outs of the defense. He's a very refined coach."
Briggs, who becomes a free agent next month, could also be gone. Granted, Angelo can slap the franchise tag on Briggs, which would keep him in Chicago. "But as players," Briggs says, "we don't really like that."
Putting the franchise tag on him, which limits a player's ability to cash in on the open market, could disrupt team chemistry, something Angelo values. "You have to have great chemistry to win," he says. "I know that sounds cliché, but I really believe that if you don't have a good locker room, you won't have a good football team."
Chemistry aside, the Bears might learn a lesson from Seattle here. The Seahawks failed to put the franchise tag on All-Pro guard Steve Hutchinson after its Super Bowl run and ultimately lost him to the Minnesota Vikings. Long one of the team's strengths, Seattle's line — and offense — suffered this season without Hutchinson, one reason for the team's four-game drop-off.
On the field, Briggs is an emerging star; some observers believe he's as important to the Bears as Urlacher, the All-Pro middle linebacker. Bears defensive end Adewale Ogunleye doesn't want to lose Briggs. "In this defense, the linebackers are the key," he says.
Beyond Briggs, the Bears must also continue to develop their depth, something New England has done effectively on its way to winning three titles in the past six years.
"I think you always have to develop the guys who aren't your starters," Brown says. "Outside of your core group, you can go out and find a starter and plug him in. If you're in the Super Bowl, you have a lot of talent. That's a great time to start developing those other guys, because eventually your starters will go or get hurt."
The big question on offense remains Rex Grossman, who nearly lost his job after a 1.3 quarterback rating Dec. 3 vs. Minnesota.
"The coaching staff had to make a decision whether to get another quarterback ready or whatnot," says wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad. "So the St. Louis game (following Grossman's clunker vs. the Vikings) was kind of a do-or-die situation for him.
"I think the coaches were telling him something like, 'If you don't come out in the first half and play pretty good, we're going to, you know, start working somebody else in.' You could feel that. There was a lot of pressure on him. He had his back against the wall and came out swinging."
Grossman posted a 114.4 passer rating in the Bears' 42-27 win against the Rams, securing the job for the rest of the season. And though Grossman has been in the league for four seasons, he only had seven starts before the 2006 campaign. His added experience after a season of tribulation should serve him well heading into his second full season as a starter.
But after a poor Super Bowl performance that included three turnovers, including a fourth-quarter interception returned for a touchdown, Grossman's critics will be out in force next season. At least he has the support of Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, who compared him to his brother Eli.
"It's very similar to what Eli goes through, with the scrutiny," Manning says. "Eli and Rex both handled it well. They stand up and answer questions, and I've never heard either one make any excuses.
"Rex is a tough guy. I know him fairly well. He'll be a good quarterback in this league for a long time."
If Chicago can keep the bulk of its front office and coaching staff intact — and retain Briggs — it should look strong on paper heading into next season.
"The Bears have a good nucleus of young players," CBS's Charley Casserly says. "Their offensive line has got some age, but they're all still playing. They get Harris and Brown back. Rex Grossman should improve next year. Are they going to get to the Super Bowl again next year? I can't say. But they will be a solid team."
CBS analyst Boomer Esiason likes Chicago's chances to return to the playoffs because he considers the NFC North a weak division. "Detroit, Green Bay and Minnesota are not teams (that) I think are on the cusp," Esiason says. "The Bears should be able to take care of those six division games."
But at the basic level, Chicago has to maintain and build on its current level of success.
"We need our key players to keep playing their best ball," Clark says. "Urlacher's got to stay at the top of his game; Rex must stay at the top of his game. Olin Kreutz must continue to be a Pro Bowl center for the next three or four years. We need all that to happen if we want to have a dynasty, and that's hard to do."

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About the Book
An off road travel on the dirt and sandy road of Botzwana, Zimbawe (Vic Falls) and North East South Africa visiting some of the best Natural Reserves: Kalahari, Chobe, Moremi, Kruger.
Features & Details
- Category Travel
Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
160 Pages
- Publish Date Dec 06, 2008
- Tags Victoria Falls, South Africa, Silvio Oliviero, Pierluigi Ippoliti, Botzwana, Zimbawe, Kruger, Moremi, Chobe, Khutse, Kalahari, Desert
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The announcements by the Singapore Government in 2008 to double the network present excellent opportunities for UK companies in many areas.
Sector briefing Rail Opportunities in Singapore Why Singapore? For Singapore to realise its aspirations to become a thriving global city, its transport infrastructure is critical. So far Singapore has developed an excellent transport system with good rail, road and bus links. The infrastructure that it has developed is both Singapore is modern and efficient. The Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) forms the backbone of Singapore?s rail network which spans the island. The MRT initially opened in 1987, making it the second oldest in South East Asia. Since opening, the MRT has been expanded and is the key element of ?To date the Singapore Singapore?s transportation system. The government has spent over ridership for the MRT is currently 1.952m S$13bn on developing the 138km passengers per day, as opposed to the bus network which carries 3.085m. network. It is currently spending another S$20bn on the Circle Find general information on the Singapore?s Line, Downtown Line and Boon market conditions on UKTI?s website. [insert Lay Extension) to expand the link to country landing page]. The Doing Business Guide for Singapore gives an coverage by 50% to 215km...? overview of Singapore?s economy, business culture, potential opportunities and an introduction to other relevant issue. UK Trade & Investment Sector briefing: Rail opportunities in Singapore The Circle Line Stage 3 that connects Bishan on Opportunities the North-South Line and Serangoon station on the NEL was opened for revenue service on 28 The announcements by the Singapore May 2009. More stations on the Circle Line Government in 2008 to double the network such as the Thomson and West Coast Stations present excellent opportunities for UK will be opened subsequently to enhance the companies in the areas of Advanced reach and connectivity of the Circle Line, and Engineering Studies, Architectural / allow more people to benefit from the MRT. Engineering Consultancy Contracts, Electrical and Mechanical System Contracts It will be operated by SMRT and Alstom is Construction Contracts. providing the rolling stock. It is expected to have 500,000 passengers per day. Land Transport Authority Downtown Line The government authority responsible for road and rail is Land Transport Authority (LTA). LTA The Downtown Line (DTL) will be built in three is a government agency under the Ministry of stages, with Stage 1 to be completed in 2013, Transport. LTA is responsible for all land Stage 2 to be completed in 2015 and Stage 3 transportation projects and for delivering in 2016. When fully completed, the DTL will Singapore?s long term goal of a world class enhance the connectivity of the Rapid Transit transport infrastructure. System network and facilitates direct travel from the northwestern and eastern areas of the Current Network island to the Central Business District and the Marina Bay. The DTL is projected to see a daily Currently there are 4 lines ? North-South; ridership of more than half a million when in East-West, North-East, Circle Lines and 2 light full operation. rail systems. To date the Singapore government has spent over S$13bn on The Downtown Line is currently in its early developing the 138km network. It is currently stages of construction, the 40-kilometre spending another S$20bn on the Circle Line, Downtown Line (DTL) will have 33 stations, Downtown Line and Boon Lay Extension to connecting the north-western and eastern expand the coverage by 50% to 215km. regions of Singapore to the new downtown at Marina Bay and the CBD. In early 2008 the Singapore government announced many new projects to be developed DTL1 will be complete by 2013 and is 4.3km in which will double the length of network to length with 6 stations. LTA announced S$1.2bn 278km and increase the density from today?s of projects in November 2008 ? Westinghouse level of 31km per million population to 51km Platform Screens and Doors of the UK won per million population by 2020. This will make £124m. it comparable to cities like London, New York, and surpassing Hong Kong and Tokyo. Within DTL2 will be 16.6km in length with 12 stations the central area, commuters will be able to and be completed by 2015. access an RTS station within 400m or 5 minutes walk on average. For Downtown Line 3, all 3 architectural and Engineering consultancy contract s have been Circle Line awarded. Costing $6.7 billion, the CCL will be a fully The operator for the Downtown Line has yet to underground orbital line linking all radial lines be announced ? tenders are due to be leading to the city. The line will interchange submitted later in 2009 or early 2010. LTA has with the North-South Line, East-West Line and mentioned that they are looking for other North East Line. operators to bid besides SMRT and SBS. The CCL will be 33.3 km long with 29 stations. Thomson Line Starting from the Dhoby Ghaut station, it will run through some of the busiest corridors in The next line to be delivered will be the the city and end at HarbourFront station on the Thomson Line. The 27km, 18-station Thomson North East Line. Line will run upwards from Marina Bay through UK Trade & Investment Sector briefing: Rail opportunities in Singapore Ang Mo Kio connecting Kim Seng, Thomson, stations with Housing and Development Board Sin Ming and Kebun Baru ?areas that do not Housing Estates. currently have a direct MRT link. The project is due to be completed by 2018. Opportunities for UK Companies In summary, works to be producred are: Tenders will be issued from Q1 2010 for - Advanced Engineering Studies architectural and engineering and consultancy - Architectural / Engineering Consultancy contracts with contracts awarded in Q2 2010. Contracts - Electrical and Mechanical System Contracts E&M Engineering Consultancy Services - Construction Contracts contracts will be tendered from Q1 2010 with awards made in Q2 2010. 10 Construction If you have any questions on the opportunities tenders will be tendered in Q3 2011 with above, contact the UKTI contacts named in this awards in Q2 2012. Electrical and Mechanical report. Business opportunities aimed Systems Tenders will be released in Q1 2012 specifically at UK companies are added daily to and awarded in Q4 2012. UKTI?s website. These leads are sourced by our staff overseas in British Embassies, High Eastern Regional Line Commissions and Consulates, across all sectors and in over 100 markets. The Eastern Regional Line (or ERL) will be 23km and 12 stations. ERL will branch out to You can be alerted to business opportunities on the right ? parallel to the East ?West Line and a regular basis by registering on the UKTI serve the residential estates of Tanjong Rhu, website. Find out more on UKTI?s business Marine Parade, Siglap, Bedok South and Upper opportunities service on the UKTI website East Coast. It will provide residents without direct access to key employment centres in CBD, Marina Bay and Changi areas. ERL will be completed by 2020. Architecture & Engineering Consultancy contracts will be tendered in Q2 2010 and awarded in Q3 2010. Construction Tenders in will be tendered in Q1 2012 and awarded Q3 2013. Mechanical Systems Tenders will be released in Q4 2012 and awarded in Q2 2013. Extensions to North-South and East-West Lines In addition the north-south, east-west lines will be extended. The north-south line will be extended one-kilometre southwards beyond Marina Bay station. The East-West line will be extended by another 14 km into Tuas in the west. The Tuas Extension?s Construction tenders will be issued in Q3 2010 and awarded in Q1 2011. Rail Operators The Singapore rail community is fairly small with a few key players. The MRT lines are operated by SMRT and SBS Transit on a concession basis. The MRT currently has 79 operating stations and has ridership of 1.952m passengers per day. The MRT is complemented by the Light Rail Transit (LRT) that links MRT UK Trade & Investment Sector briefing: Rail opportunities in Singapore Major events and activities UKTI contacts Rail Focus Asia Europe Neil Walker Contact: Neil Walker Senior Trade & Investment Officer Email: firstname.lastname@example.com British High Commission Singapore Time: 25-26 May 2010 Tel: (65) 6424 4310 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com World Urban Transport Conference www.ukti.gov.uk Contact: Neil Walker Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Sarah Croft Time: 20-22 October 2010 First Secretary British High Commission Singapore Find full details of all events in this Tel: (65) 6424 4302 country and sector on the UKTI website. Email: email@example.com New export events are added daily to the site www.ukti.gov.uk and you can register to be alerted to them on a daily, weekly or monthly basis UKTI?s Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP) provides grant support for eligible Small & Medium Sized Enterprises (SME's) to attend trade shows overseas. Find out more about UKTI support for attendance at overseas events UK Trade & Investment Sector briefing: Rail opportunities in Singapore Next steps - How UKTI can help ? Arranging appointments British companies wishing to develop their ? Organise seminars or other events for business in the Singapore market are advised you to meet contacts and promote your to undertake as much market research and company in the Chinese market planning as possible in the UK. UKTI?s team in Singapore, with its wide local knowledge and This work is available via our Overseas Market experience, can provide a range of services to Introduction Service (OMIS) a chargeable British-based companies wishing to grow their service which assists British-based companies business in global markets. wishing to enter or expand their business in overseas markets. This can include: ? Provision of market information To find out more about commissioning this ? Validated lists of agents/distributors work, or accessing other UKTI services and ? Key market players or potential specialist advice, please visit the UKTI website customers in the Chinese market to find contact details for your local UKTI ? Establishment of interest of such office. contacts in working with you Whereas every effort has been made to ensure that the information given in this document is accurate, neither UK Trade & Investment nor its parent Departments (the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office), accept liability for any errors, omissions or misleading statements, and no warranty is given or responsibility accepted as to the standing of any individual, firm, company or other organisation mentioned. Published 2010 by UK Trade & Investment. Crown Copyright © UK Trade & Investment Sector briefing: Rail opportunities in Singapore


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In the summer of 1996, Jerry West orchestrated a series of moves that brought Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal to Los Angeles and put the Lakers on the path to three consecutive N.B.A. championships. Eleven years later, Bryant is trying to return the favor, hoping to recapture the Lakers' lost magic.
Over the weekend, Bryant said that he wanted West to rejoin the Lakers' front office, and yesterday he repeated his plea in a telephone interview.
"What I want to see happen is to get to that championship level, and Jerry West, his brilliance at being able to get teams to that elite level is self explanatory," Bryant said.
West was the Lakers' top basketball executive from 1982 to 2000 and presided over six championships before turning over the daily operations to Mitch Kupchak, his friend and protégé.
In 2002, West left his consulting position with the Lakers to run the Memphis Grizzlies. His contract expires June 30, and West, who turned 69 yesterday, had announced plans to retire. He seemed to affirm those plans yesterday.Continue reading the main story
"In response to yesterday's report, I want to make it clear that I have not spoken with the Lakers organization or Kobe Bryant about a job upon my retirement in Memphis," West said.
He added: "I started my career with the Lakers and will always be a Laker fan. Mitch Kupchak and I are great friends and I would never do anything to jeopardize that friendship or to undermine his position with the Lakers. I have no plans to seek employment with any organization."
Several of West's friends, who did not want to be quoted speculating about his intentions, also cast doubt on his returning to the Lakers — at least in a full-time capacity. West is building a house in his home state, West Virginia, with the intention of watching his youngest son Jonnie, a redshirt freshman guard, play for West Virginia University. West also maintains a home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The friends also said that West would be highly reluctant to rejoin the Lakers at the expense of Kupchak.
The Lakers' owner, Jerry Buss, has given no indication that he is displeased with his front-office team, and has not expressed interest in rehiring West. Team officials declined to comment on Bryant's plea or entertain the notion of bringing back West.
"Jerry is under contract to the Grizzlies, and because of tampering rules, we're not allowed to speak about Jerry West," said John Black, the Lakers' vice president for public relations.
The Lakers won the last of their three titles in 2002. They made their last finals appearance in 2004. A month later, the team settled a feud between Bryant and O'Neal by trading O'Neal to Miami. The Lakers have not won a playoff series since. They were eliminated by the Phoenix Suns in the first round the past two seasons. Bryant demanded major improvements to the roster after the Lakers' latest quick exit.
His frustration has not subsided.
"It's been three years now; we're still in the same boat," he said yesterday.
Bryant's desire to have West return was first reported by ESPN.com on Sunday afternoon. It was framed as an ultimatum, with Bryant indicating that he would demand a trade if the Lakers did not hire West.
The article contained no direct quotations from Bryant, and he denied the premise in interviews with three Los Angeles newspapers. He did so again yesterday.
"The frustrating thing to me is I haven't demanded a trade, I haven't asked for a trade, I haven't said anything like that," Bryant said. "Not at all. That's not something I even want to think about."
Although Bryant is clearly disenchanted with the talent on the Lakers, he said his affinity for West did not imply an absence of faith in Kupchak.
"I'm very sensitive to that," he said. "I don't want to bash anybody or make it seem like I'm throwing people under the bus. I think the important thing to draw from this is we all should have the same agenda, which is winning championships."
The Lakers have limited ability to make drastic roster changes. They are well over the salary cap, making it difficult to acquire another All-Star player. Team officials have been reluctant to deal the team's two best assets after Bryant: forward Lamar Odom and the promising center Andrew Bynum. That stance appears to be softening, which could open the door to a trade for Indiana's Jermaine O'Neal, or another top player. Teams cannot make moves until after the finals end next month. Free agency begins July 1.
Bryant will certainly be watching with great interest. In all likelihood, it will still be Kupchak making the moves. Asked how he would feel in October if the roster remained unchanged and West remained retired, Bryant said, "I don't even want to think about it," but he conceded that he might eventually have to think about playing for a championship elsewhere.
"Would it cross my mind? Yeah, it would cross my mind," he said. "But that's nowhere near the top of my list. I don't want to go anywhere. I want to stay here. My priority is for us to right the ship here and to do whatever we can to get a championship team here."Continue reading the main story


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Avril Lavigne [1] has enjoyed a decade-long career of fashioning emotional but radio-friendly pop-rock -- singles like "Complicated," "I'm With You" and "My Happy Ending" have helped push her career U.S. album sales to 11.5 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Despite her label's best wishes, however, Lavigne was ready to push herself away from mainstream pop and present a more stripped-down sound on "Goodbye Lullaby," her first full-length in nearly four years that's out today (Mar. 8) on RCA Records.
"I'm older now. I've done the whole pop-rock, aggressive, bratty, playful, boy-bashing stuff," Lavigne, 26, tells Billboard.com. "I'm not really there right now, so I definitely didn't want to keep making the same record over and over."
Video: Avril Lavigne, "What the Hell"
Lavigne started writing a new batch of material in late 2008, after scoring an infectious hit with the Hot 100-topping "Girlfriend" in 2007 and supporting third album "The Best Damn Thing" with a world tour a year later. The singer worked in her Los Angeles home studio with longtime producer Butch Walker and songwriter Evan Taubenfeld, and later traveled to Sweden to write and record with pop maestro Max Martin (Britney Spears [2], Kelly Clarkson [3]) for the first time.
Deryck Whibley, the Sum 41 [4] frontman whom Lavigne married in 2006 and divorced last November, also produced six songs on "Goodbye Lullaby." "We had a studio in the house that we were living in together, so it was just really simple," Whibley says of working on the album. "A lot of the songs I did were just supposed to be demos, but she's the kind of person where, if she does something once, it's usually her best take and she never wants to do it ever again. It would be just a quick demo but it would turn out really well."
Although "Lullaby" was still being finished when the couple announced their split in 2009, Lavigne says that recording with her ex-husband was never an awkward experience.
"I think I'm pretty lucky, and I feel really grateful to be able to say that we're like best friends, that we're like family," Lavigne says of Whibley. "I hope to work with him in the future. We have a great friendship, great relationship and a lot of respect for each other."
While first single "What The Hell" features a sunny pop-rock hook and has peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100 since its January release, album tracks like "Wish You Were Here" and "Not Enough" are less upbeat, which Lavigne says presented a problem for RCA. The album has been done for a year, but Lavigne has had to argue with her label from changing "Lullaby" to a dancefloor-appealing album.
"The biggest challenge and only challenge of this album was my record company," says Lavigne. "I found myself in a situation on my fourth record with a bunch of people at the label who I didn't know, and they're coming in on my project and saying, 'Here's what we think you need to do for your record,' and giving me their vision. And radio's so rhythmic/dance-driven right now, and that's not where I was going with this record. So I had to fight and say no, but… I ultimately made the record I wanted to."
Lavigne will stay busy this month supporting "Lullaby" with appearances on "The View," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," and she hopes a second single -- possibly the catchy rock track "Push" -- will be released soon. A tour is also in the works, and Lavigne says of her upcoming live show, "I think I'll do more stripped-down, acoustic stuff, like me on the piano, but I definitely don't wanna make my whole show like that. I'll have those moments and then rock out with the old stuff."
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What do the pleats on a chef's hat represent?
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How to Optimize WordPress Images for SEO and Traffic[This post is part of the WordPress Guide for Beginners – Step by Step Tutorials]
We use images to make our post look GOOD. It helps us to grab the readers attention easily. Sometimes screenshots can do a better job than a descriptive text. That's why we add useful screen shots in our post.
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Thanks, Dale! I'll try it and report my findings. From: Dale King [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:41 AM To: Log4CXX User Subject: Re: application property It does allow it, since I know that I've done it. Unfortunately that was with a previous employer so I don't have access to the code. I don't know if you can do it through the configuration file. I think I did it using an MDC property in my app's initialization code as in: MDC::put( "application", "myapp" ); On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Prestel, John D. <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: Does log4cxx provide a way to set the "application" property on logging events via, presumably, an appender's configuration? Chainsaw uses this property to determine which tab a log message should land in. It seems log4j provides the ability to do this, but it's not clear where log4cxx stands. Reference: http://markmail.org/message/5ufciwvzoqyeqc5x <http://markmail.org/message/5ufciwvzoqyeqc5x> -- Dale King
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Unaka High School
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|Unaka High School
|119 Robinson Lane
Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643
|36°23′05″N 82°08′42″W / 36.38478°N 82.14511°WCoordinates: 36°23′05″N 82°08′42″W / 36.38478°N 82.14511°W
|School district
|Carter County Schools
|Betsy Oliver
|27.0 (on FTE basis)[1]
|9 to 12
|395[1] (2005-06)
|Student to teacher ratio
|Maroon and White[2]
|Athletics conference
|TSSAA District 1 Division 1 East[2]
|Park Ranger
|Team name
|Rangers/Lady Rangers
|Unaka High School
Unaka High School is a public high school located northeast of Elizabethton, Tennessee in the Hunter community.
Work on the school began in 1920 and the construction was finished in 1922. Mr. Cole, a forest ranger, arranged for the government to donate the lumber for the construction of the school which was to come from the Unaka mountains. Resulting in the source of the name and mascot: Unaka for the mountains and Rangers in honor of Mr. Cole. In the 1970s the vocational programs were expanded in all Carter County high schools, with a new building at Unaka High housing Auto Body Repair, Cosmetology, General Building and Trades, and Vocational Office Education. Also, students had the option of attending alternative vocation classes at Hampton, or Happy Valley: Auto Mechanics, Drafting, Health Occupations, Small Engines, and Electricity and Welding. There is also a meat processing class that was introduced by Mr John Hardin in 1982. It's the only one of this type of class offered in the whole United States. It is taught by Mr. Josh Armentrout.[4]
Unaka football: The Home Field is known as Goddard Field named after the school's first head coach, Robert Lynn Goddard. In August 1949, he became head coach at Unaka High School. Immediately, he organized the Watauga Conference in the spring of 1949-50 and was elected as its first President His 1949 team won the first game in the history of Unaka football. During the next 10 years, the Rangers football team under Goddard's leadership won six championships and finished second four times with only one losing season. Years later, the school named the stadium in front of Unaka High School the "Goddard Field" in his honor.[5] The current head coach is Steve "Pink" McKinney who played football for Goddard at Elizabethton High high school, where Coach Goddard later transferred.
Unaka basketball is rich in tradition. During the 1950s and 1960s Lynn Goddard coached boys basketball for seven years before leaving Unaka. Games are played in Ronnie L. Snavley Gymnasium after coach Ronnie Snavley who led the team to their first state tournament appearance in the 1980s then once more in the following years as a coach. Coach Snavley was succeeded by Coach Donald Ensor; Ensor had great success as the Rangers coach leading them to three state tournament appearances including a state championship in 2004 and sending numerous players to continue their careers in college basketball. Under coach Ensor the Rangers won 9 straight Conference Titles; after his resignation his younger brother took over for one year leading them to their 10th consecutive conference championship. The program is now run by coach Aaron Dugger,who played for Coach Ensor,until he graduated from Unaka in 2002. The Rangers have also compiled 12 district championships, 9 regional championships, and 6 sub-state appearances.
Home games are played on Claude Hostlcaw "Field of Dreams." During Lynn Goddard's tenure at Unaka he coached the baseball team 4 years and won three Watauga championships. The current head coach is Tee Blevins. The Ranger baseball program has won or shared 15 straight conference titles, 12 district championships, 13 of the last 15 regional championships, and also won 7 of the last sub-state games to qualify them for 8 state tournament berths in 10 seasons. The Rangers have yet to lose a playoff game on their home field. The Rangers have failed to win a state tournament game in their six appearances. They have sent several players on to play baseball in small division colleges.[6]
Established in 1979, the Unaka Lady Ranger softball has won 25 District Championships, 19 Regional Championships, and 5 Sub-States. Appearing in 5 State Tournament quarter finals and 8 State Tournament final eights, places the program as one of the elite in Tennessee. The program was built from the ground up by Coach Ronnie Hicks, and it remained under his care and supervision until his retirement in May 2011.
- ^ a b c Unaka High School. National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved on 2008-07-31. "Students: 395 (2005-2006)"
- ^ a b School Directory. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association. Retrieved on 2008-07-31.
- ^ Unaka High School website. Retrieved on 2008-07-31.
- ^ School History. Unaka High School. Retrieved on 2008-07-31.
- ^ Lynn Goddard Obituary
- ^ The success Unaka has achieved in baseball over the last decade has made their program one of the premier single A baseball programs in East Tennessee as well as statewide.School web-site