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IOC medical officials today recommended that German freestyle wrestler Alexander Leipold be stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone at the Sydney Games.
IOC medical officials today recommended that German freestyle wrestler Alexander Leipold be stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone at the Sydney Games.
Leipold appeared at a hearing of the International Olympic Committee medical commission today, which was investigating two positive drug cases in wrestling from the final weekend of the games.
If the ruling IOC executive board, as expected, endorses the medical panel's recommendation, Leipold would become the third athlete from the Sydney Olympics to lose a gold medal for a doping offense.
His gold medal would go to American Brandon Slay, of Amarillo, Texas, who lost 4-0 to Leipold in the final of the 76-kg division.
South Korea's Moon Eui Jae would move up from the bronze medal to silver, while Turkey's Adem Bereket would go from fourth to third.
The other wrestler accused of doping was Oyungbileg Purevbaatar, of Mongolia, who tested positive for the diuretic furosemide after finishing fifth in the 58-kg class.
The IOC panel recommended that he be disqualified and his results wiped off the books.
U.S. Olympic officials applauded the decision to recommend that Leipold's gold medal be withdrawn.
"We're pleased for Brandon, who lost a very tough match in Sydney to begin with and who we felt was the best freestyle wrestler in the world at that weight," said Mike Moran, a U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman.
Slay would be the second U.S. athlete to win a gold because of a drug disqualification in Sydney. Tara Nott of Colorado Springs became the first American to win a gold in weightlifting in 40 years when Bulgarian Izabela Dragneva was disqualified after winning the 105-pound class.
"The future of the games depends on this continued tough stance so that every athlete knows that he is operating on a level playing field in the most important competition in their lives," Moran said.
Jim Scherr, executive director of U.S.A. Wrestling, said, "It is pretty much a routine decision by the IOC executive board and Slay will get the gold now.
"Obviously it's a very bad thing for Leipold. We've known him for a long time. He took some shortcuts and cheated. We thought Brandon was very deserving."
Prince Alexandre de Merode, chairman of the IOC medical commission, said Leipold's sample showed 20 nanograms of nandrolone per milliliter of urine. The established limit if 2 nanograms per milliliter
"When you find 10 times more than the fixed limit we believe the case is clear," de Merode said. "The presence of the drug is clear. We heard the German delegation and have spoken with the athlete in an open way.
"The decision we made is to propose to the executive board the disqualification of the athlete, who will be asked to give back the gold medal."
De Merode said the recommendations would be made directly to IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was traveling Monday to Sydney for the Paralympics.
He said Samaranch will arrange a teleconference with the IOC's four vice presidents, or the entire 15-member executive board, to act on the two cases. This is expected to take place within a few days.
With his wife crying by his side, Leipold spoke to reporters after emerging from the IOC hearing.
He said he had no idea how he could have tested positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid which has produced a spate of drug scandals around the world in recent years.
"It's not the kind of drug you take for wrestling," he said. "I don't wrestle with power but with tactic and technique. ...
"There are a lot of competitors, sportsmen, who have this problem. Nobody know what happens, what has nandrolone in it."
"I was tested before at the end of August and was clean, negative. I know I was the favorite for the (gold) medal. I won the world championships three times. It's terrible, it's not logical for my sport.
"You wrestle for 26 years and you make medals step by step. In Germany I'm always tested out of competition. Every time, I'm clean."
Asked about the prospect of having the gold medal taken away, Leipold said, "I'm hopeful because I don't take anything, but they have their rules."
The Mongolian wrestler, Purevbaatar, did not attend the hearing and was not represented by anyone. De Merode said Purevbaatar sent a statement saying he did use furosemide, but a month before the games.
The two positive results were confirmed the day after the games ended.
While the IOC medical commission usually judges drug cases within a few days, it put off action because the athletes had already left and were not available for a hearing.
Five athletes were stripped of medals in Sydney, including two gold medalists.
Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan lost her all-around gold after testing positive for pseudoephedrine, apparently from cold pills, while Bulgarian women's weightlifter Izabela Dragneva had her gold taken away after her urine sample showed traces of furosemide, a banned diuretic.
Two men's Bulgarian weightlifters lost silver and bronze medals after testing positive for furosemide, and an Armenian weightlifter was stripped of a bronze for nandrolone.
The two wrestling cases brought to 11 the number of positive tests reported by the IOC during the Sydney Games - nine from in-competition drug controls and two from out-of-competition screening.
The 11 positives are the most at the Olympics since 12 were recorded at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.


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- Interview: Amir Eliaz, Co-Founder and CTO, MagnaCom
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The communications industry is under a significant amount of pressure to enable the latest in RF technology demands for video streaming and Big Data. Amir Eliaz shares some details on how this may cope with such demands.
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JJD: What technology trend is having the biggest impact on the communications market today?
AE: Connectivity is still the name of the game. The development of very-low-power, energy-efficient wireless devices will enable another 10 to 100 billion devices to be connected to the Internet—including machine-to-machine (M2M) connections and the "Internet of Things" (IoT). All those devices connecting with the network will cause bottlenecks. We believe our WAve Modulation (WAM) helps here, as there will be a need for extremely high-speed wireless-backhaul links to get around right-of-way issues. Such connectivity also will be aided by the development of good, inexpensive infrastructure to connect homes and offices to the Internet backbone at speeds far exceeding what we see today. In addition, development of a robust mobile (cellular) wireless infrastructure will enable us to stay connected any time. Solutions based on small cells will be used to improve access reach while solutions like WAM will help by taking advantage of the increased signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
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JJD: What are some of the big application-layer shifts driving new needs at layer 1?
AE: First, more processing is happening "in the cloud" (i.e., at some server farm [Amazon EC2, Google, etc.]). There is an increased need for high-speed and low-latency connections between fixed and mobile devices to the Internet backbone. We're relying on these new "cloud-based" services all the time—for navigation, processing data from sensors on our body (for health and fitness monitoring), and posting, consuming, and searching for content. Many more devices need a connection to the Internet backbone and services that ride on top of them. Whether they are smart watches, wristbands, or sensors that will measure our pulse or footsteps; their data must be aggregated somewhere else. And don't forget video, which is the new still photo. We will be capturing a lot more visual data—much of which is of limited temporal value. In five years, we'll create and discard more content in a day than we now create and save in one year. Much of that content will never be seen by a human being, but will automatically be processed and filtered. All this means that we'll need more bandwidth--both for access connections and backbone and backhaul connections.
JJD: From a communication designer's viewpoint, what is the biggest challenge in meeting design demands?
AE: First, we need to ensure that the high-speed pipes we're building into mobile devices don't drain the batteries or render the device too hot to hold. These are big problems. Wireless interfaces now are a top consumer of power (and energy per processed bit) in most mobile devices. Second, we need to ensure sufficient access capacity to users in dense urban areas. We also need to provide sufficient backhaul capacity to the core network. Meanwhile, costs need to keep dropping.
JJD: From a communications technology standpoint, what must be done to meet the demands for "big data?"
AE: Excellent question. We need both very big backhaul and access pipes for mobile devices to provide the high-speed burst capabilities for opportunistically generated and consumed video content. They also will support "real-time" cloud-based services using input from these devices. We don't have a lot more "quality spectrum," so we need solutions that maximize spectrum utilization.
JJD: What major challenges do you face when designing communication systems for millimeter-wave applications?
AE: There are a number of them. Antenna and feed design is a massive challenge in some devices. Take a look at an Apple iPhone 5S and marvel at all that aluminum. Somewhere, an antenna array would need to be exposed to the world. To achieve the highest data rates, large antenna-array gains would be required to meet the link-budget constraints for reasonable distances (more than a couple of meters). These channels change very, very rapidly. So, sophisticated beamforming algorithms are required. In addition, a lot of processing power is needed to update the arrays. In mobile-backhaul and small-cell applications, the radio is very nonlinear. These nonlinearities cause the radio to suffer from amplifier compression and frequency-source phase noise, which limit spectral efficiency. Current systems are operating at low spectral efficiency because of the amount of available spectrum, which is not ideal. In the future, however, high-order modulation should be used as spectrum is less available and nonlinearity becomes a critical issue.
JD: What are the requirements for enabling higher-constellation quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM) systems?
AE: For backhaul systems, the challenges are primarily nonlinearities in the channel—both phase noise at the transmitter/ receiver, power-amplifier (PA) compressive nonlinearities, and phase noise. These limit the maximum spectral efficiency for QAM today. For mobile wireless systems, we see the same challenges--plus substantial co-channel interference.
JJD: How are communications engineers handling the new requirements of LTE-A with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and carrier aggregation?
AE: MIMO suffers the problem of increased complexity at the receiver—particularly in frequency reuse 1 systems, in which there is substantial co-channel interference at the cell boundaries (the majority of the area). Apparently, carrier aggregation provides higher per-user throughput, but it requires clever scheduling to avoid higher latency for some users. It would be beneficial to also increase spectral efficiency for a single spatial channel.
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In January 2013, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to create a New York State Green Bank to help the state overcome financial and informational market barriers to investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy. Gov. Cuomo appointed Richard Kauffman to oversee the state's energy finance efforts. Kauffman will serve as chair of both a newly formed Energy Finance Sub-Cabinet and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), a public benefit corporation that provides research, analysis, funding and expertise to support innovation and enhance the reliability and sustainability of New York's energy system. The Green Bank will operate as a separate division within NYSERDA, and in November 2013 Gov. Cuomo appointed Alfred Griffin as Green Bank President.
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The Green Bank's first RFP is open-ended in terms of the types of clean energy projects eligible to participate, and the nature of the financial products that the Green Bank may provide to support clean energy deployment.
The RFP seeks proposals from industry participants and financial institutions for a wide range of clean energy projects using commercially proven technologies. Clean energy is broadly defined to include solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, on-shore and off-shore wind, hydroelectric facilities (either upgrades or repowering, or new run-of-river projects), biomass, biothermal, biogas, liquid biofuels from certain feedstocks, tidal power and a variety of forms of energy efficiency improvements for new and existing commercial, industrial, residential and multifamily buildings.1 Eligible efficiency projects could include both physical renovations such as HVAC, lighting and appliance upgrades, building envelopes, home retrofits and industrial process efficiency improvements, as well as energy management and control systems, such as advanced home energy monitoring and metering systems.
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The "occupations" now building around the country are a necessary and justified response to the outrages of a political-economic system that substitutes posturing for decision-making, looking the other way as the top one percent runs off with almost a fourth of the nation's income and more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined. The largely student/youth organized efforts might even be historic—if, that is, they come to terms with the reality that the challenge we face is systemic, not merely political and, that the crisis is also highly unusual in its demands.
For over a century, liberals and radicals have seen the possibility of change in capitalist systems from one of two perspectives: the reform tradition assumes that corporate institutions remain central to the system but believes that regulatory policies can contain, modify, and control corporations and their political allies. The revolutionary tradition assumes that change can come about only if corporate institutions are eliminated or transcended during an acute crisis, usually but not always by violence.
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Since the economy tanked, North Dakota has had the nation's lowest unemployment. What's its secret?
The potentially explosive power of public anger at financial institutions surfaced in May 2010 when the Senate voted by a 96-0 margin to audit the Federal Reserve's lending (a provision included ultimately in the Dodd-Frank legislation, which was designed to protect American taxpayers and consumers from financial corruption and to make the financial system more accountable)—something that had never been done before. Traditional reforms have aimed at improved regulation, higher reserve requirements, and the channeling of credit to key sectors.
But future crises may feature a spectrum of sophisticated proposals for more radical change offered by figures on both the left and right. For instance, a "Limited Purpose Banking" strategy put forward by conservative economist Laurence Kolticoff would impose a 100-percent reserve requirement on banks. Because banks typically provide loans in amounts many times their reserves, this would transform them into modest institutions with little or no capacity to finance speculation. It would also nationalize the creation of all new money as federal authorities, rather than the banks, would directly control system-wide financial flows. A variety of respected liberal as well as conservative economists have welcomed this strategy—including five Nobel laureates in economics.
On the left, the economist Fred Moseley has proposed that, for banks deemed too big to fail, "permanent nationalization with bonds-to-stocks swaps for bondholders is the most equitable solution…" Nationally owned banks, he argues, would provide a basis for "a more stable and public-oriented banking system in the future." Most striking is the argument of Willem Buiter—the chief economist of Citigroup, no less—that if the public underwrites the costs of bailouts, "banks should be in public ownership…" In fact, had the taxpayer funds used to bail out major financial institutions in 2007–2010 been provided on condition that voting stock be issued in return for the investment, one or more major banks would, in fact, have become essentially publicly controlled banks.
Unknown to most Americans, there have been a large number of small and medium-sized public banking institutions for some time now. They have financed small businesses, renewable energy, co-ops, housing, infrastructure, and other specifically targeted areas. There are also 7,500 community-based credit unions. Further precedents for public banking range from the loan-making Small Business Administration to the activities of the U.S.-dominated World Bank. In fact, the federal government already operates 140 banks and quasi-banks that provide loans and loan guarantees for an extraordinary range of domestic and international economic activities. Through its various farm, housing, electricity, cooperative and other loans, the Department of Agriculture alone operates the equivalent of the seventh largest bank in America.
The economic crisis has also produced widespread interest in the Bank of North Dakota, a highly successful state-owned bank founded in 1919 when the state was governed by legislators belonging to the left-populist Nonpartisan League. Over the past fourteen years, the bank has returned $340 million in profits to the state and has broad support in the business community as well as among progressive activists.
Legislative proposals to establish banks patterned in whole or in part on the North Dakota model have been put forward by activists and legislators in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Maine, and Massachusetts. In Oregon, with strong support from a coalition of farmers, small-business owners, and community bankers, and backed by State Treasurer Ted Wheeler, "a virtual state bank" (that is, one that has no storefronts but channels state-backed capital to support other banks) is likely to be formed in the near future.
How far the various strategies may develop is likely to depend on the intensity of future financial crises, the degree of social and economic pain and political anger in general, and the capacity of a new politics to focus citizen anger in support of major institutional reconstruction and democratization.
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Fear not, law-and-order fans; U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens will be back on the case Jan. 17.
FX released its midseason premiere dates Monday, including for "Justified," "Archer" and its new animated comedy "Unsupervised."
"Justified" returns for its third season Tuesday, Jan 17 at 10 p.m., and will continue on Tuesdays at 10. The animated spy spoof "Archer," meanwhile, will kick off its third season on Jan. 19 at 10, and will continue to air Thursdays at 10 thereafter.
The new animated effort "Unsupervised," which is produced by FX in association with RCG Productions — headed by "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" stars Rob McElhenny, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton — will launch right after the "Archer" premiere on Jan. 19 at 10:30, and then air after "Archer" on Thursdays at 10:30.
The series revolves around Gary and Joel, two best friends who attempt to navigate their teenage years without parental supervision. The series is created and executive produced by "Sunny" writers/producers Rob Rosell, Scott Marder and David Hornsby.
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This blog was written in 2008. Phone cards are now absolete
If you never tried Costco's Prepaid Phone Card, you MUST read this. This can save you a lot of money.
With Costco prepaid phone card, you pay less than $0.03 per a minute for long distant phone calls, period.
My total long distant telephone expense is about $20.00 a year. One phone card with 700 minutes lasts about 1 year. I don't use phone too much. I also have a prepaid cellular phone which I pay $5.00/m. I will tell you about that later.
I don't have a long distant carrier for my home phone. My long distant carrier's been cut off for many years now. I have 800 access number and the pin number in my speed dial. I just "click" "click" and I'm connected to verizon at less than 2.9 Cents a minute.
Costco used to have phone cards from MCI. That's when I first purchased Costco's Prepaid Phone Card. Now they are from Verizon, with the same low rate.
With less than $0.03 a minute, there is no excuse to keep your long distant carrier.
Costco also has Verizon's International Prepaid Phone Cards.
These cards are real deal, nothing shady about it. You must get it. It's a sure way to save money.
Recharging phone card is pretty simple.
Go to Costco's Prepaid Phone Card page
oh really? absolete aye? i
oh really? absolete aye? i think its spelled Obsolete and as long as there are land lines left in the world why would they be obsolete? i lost my wallet last summer and believe it or not i can remember my PIN but i cannot remember the MCI phone number to call. does anybody know the 800 or 888 number? i've searched all over creation, google - costco - et al
with no luck at all. it worked fine the last time i used it and i still had money on it. thanks for your help in advance
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howdy john.
well i got a bunch of those mci cards and have used them for a LONG time (like 4 years or something), but i've lost the 800 (or was it 888) number to dial into in order to use my minutes. i still have my pin/ access code, but i do not have the 800/ 888 number. do you know it?
thanks and God bless you + yours,
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what if I wanna use it to call FROM Mexico to the USA?? How much is it per minute??
What Phone To Use
I assume you can use this with any unlocked phone or a Verizon phone?
Are there any limitations I should know about? I don't have a Verizon plan phone at the moment.
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Hope so , I ordered one today.
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any info on your prepaid cellular phone for $5.00.Any info is appreciated. Thanks


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Very, very nice, uncle. At some point in my life, I hope I can find a pair of these available. I guess it's persistent hunting and luck. I'd also grab some ravello boots in a plain toe or PCT in a heartbeat although not sure I've ever seen ravellos in these makeups (boots not chukkas).
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This woman's story helps shed a little more light on the tangled-up relationship humans have with their things, a subject which has led many to conclude, somewhat cynically, that "we are what we own."
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The risk of failure accompanies the pursuit of success in any venture, and it's up to the champion of the business to take ownership and to drive innovation. But, what does it mean to truly take ownership?
I just find it sad that societally, we assume the worst when it comes to men and fatherhood, especially in the case of custody. I do believe that with time, we can prove that we can be and ARE great parents in our own right and eradicate the stereotypes. The onus is on us, men.
His older brothers are jealous of Joseph because of Jacob's favoritism, and perhaps angry at Joseph because he is an arrogant, insensitive, tattle-tale (Gen 37: 2). But that is not sufficient to explain their willingness to murder him.
As the language suggests, it is a "response ability" -- the ability to choose our response in every moment to all that is going on around us. A choosing that allows us to claim ownership of the circumstances of our lives, and thereby, to contribute to making them better.
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They said at the press conference that the GM would be in charge of players and Rex would be in charge of coaches.
If Rex is not a puppet master, he will not act like a puppet master and not go above the GMs head to Woody.
Rex is not going to have any control of players selected because he is not a puppet master. He is not going to exert influence on Cohen, whether from woody or not.
So my only question is.....Why would Woody Johnson pay an agency $200,000 to find the right guy to lead the organization like they did for the Seattle Seahawks.
I guess anything the Jets do just does not make sense.
Just watched the press conference...Rex said he would lean on the GM for INPUT which tells me that our GM is a glorified consultant.
I'm pretty sure that's why Gamble's interview wasn't impressive. He told Woody the truth rather than join in the idiotic group think going on.
Get ready for a DT in round one and Mike Vick starting QB. FML.
If its Cohen, I can take a break from this team for a year or two, if it's Vick, I'm done. Today was the worst day for a Jet fan since Jan. 5, 1995.
For those glass half full guys, I can't understand how you can be so naive.
Woody is a f'n moron.
I hear ya...I'm holding out hope that if it's an outside hire we have a chance the GM will be in charge of selecting players...If it's Cohen, I'm not
There are still some strong candidates out there...Ross for one...And from what I read on him he doesn't sound like he'll let anyone override him
You're right. Nothing we do makes sense.
Woody probably understood that hiring Cohen would not go over well with the fan base so he hires this firm which tells him that the top candidates are Gamble, Caldwell, and Ross.
He interviews all of the, then hires Cohen stating he was the best qualified.
And because of the whole process, a portion of the fan base will buy it. Woody obviously thinks his fan base is a dumb as his circus ringleader.