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Bears' Roach, Hayden will be in spotlight vs. Vikings
No one's disputing that the Bears will miss eight-time Pro Bowler Brian Urlacher at middle linebacker calling defensive signals, making plays and dispensing leadership as he's done for 13 years.
"He's one of the best linebackers in the history of the game," seven-time Pro Bowl weakside linebacker Lance Briggs said of Urlacher. "When you have someone we've all been comfortable with, someone who knows how to take control, (you miss it)."
But Urlacher's replacement, Nick Roach, has started 55 games for the Bears, although only three were at middle linebacker. The others were on the strong side, where the responsibilities are different.
Still, the middle is not foreign territory to Roach.
"Plugging Nick Roach in is somewhat comforting because he's played the position, and he understands all the calls," Briggs said. "It's just (him) kind of about reinforcing his familiarity with playing the Mike (middle)."
Roach got valuable experience playing in the middle all last off-season and then through training camp and the preseason while Urlacher nursed his surgical knee back to health.
"I wish Brian was in there, obviously," Roach said. "It's unfortunate to see him go down, but I've been preparing for it for a while."
The biggest adjustment for Roach is making the defensive calls and making sure everyone is playing the right defense and is properly aligned. But that's not as formidable a task on a veteran crew like the Bears as it would be on a more inexperienced defense.
The biggest problem for Roach is that he's just not Urlacher.
"Brian is a Hall of Fame linebacker," defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli said. "He's done it for so long. But Nick has got great movement, great speed, he's been here for a long time, he understands the system, he's done it before and he's fast.
"He's a very good tackler, and he's smart. He brings a lot to the table. He's going to do a heck of a job. We feel real good about him."
The Bears are also preparing for Chicago native Kelvin Hayden to replace NFL interception leader Tim Jennings at cornerback. Jennings, whose 8 picks are 3 more than anyone else in the NFL, missed a second straight day of practice Thursday with a shoulder injury.
But, just like Roach, Hayden brings a wealth of experience, including 47 starts over the previous seven seasons. The 6-foot, 195-pound Hayden moved past D.J. Moore to become the Bears' No. 1 nickel corner four games ago.
"He's been in this system," Marinelli said. "Not just here, but in Indy. He understands the system. It's his chance to step up and really go right now. He's started in a Super Bowl and all of those things. He's going to do fine."
With Hayden replacing Jennings, Moore should be back at nickel, where he seemed to fall out of favor midway through the season.
"If your play isn't exactly what we think it should be, then you open the door for someone else to get an opportunity," coach Lovie Smith said. "Most of the time you get another chance, so what you have to do is make plays. It's as simple as that. It's all based on performance on the football field.
"D.J. is a pro. When he did take a step back, he was doing everything he possibly could behind the scenes to help this team. He's a good player. Hopefully he'll get another shot."
With backups stepping in, the task is to step up, continue the trek to the playoffs and eventually get Urlacher back in the mix.
"We're fortunate that (when) Brian went down we were 8-4 with four games to get to the playoffs," Briggs said. "It's our job now to make sure we get into the playoffs and, once we get in those playoffs, Brian will be ready and he'll come back and he'll lead us the way he always has."

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kathleenJ wrote:al_fayyed wrote:See, you don't want to swallow a stack of twenties all at once. One at a time, in little rolled up straws, would probably work better.
Heh, maybe not thinking things through is this character's fatal flaw,
Now now. She'd take a lot of time doing that. What about the "hiding of evidence"?
I think it was a wise choice.
kathleenJ wrote:..and no matter what, we're in for some strange happenings.
Er, at least I'm not above going for the wierdest outcome possible..
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marisca necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm a doctor in chiropractic and i'm living in Quebec, Canada. I'm specialized in atlas orthogonal technique (upper cervical treatment). This technique is very fantastic: soft, high precision, treatment without popping and cracking the neck and very good results! I love take care of my patients and they are not a number for me.
I want to create a chiropractic center different from others by providing extraordinary service, gentle and effective treatment, giving the patient a good explanation for him to understand his condition and using high technology equipment.
I decided to call the company "Clinical Atlas" because the atlas is the first vertebra of the neck and a Greek legend reads: To punish the Titan Atlas, Zeus sentenced him to bear the weight of the world on his shoulders. Thus, land is the head of a human and the titan Atlas is the atlas vertebra.
See these pictures to understand this legend: http://cae2k.com/iss-photos-0/titan-atlas.html
The target customers of the enterprise is primarily between 30 and 60 years both men and women. I want to attract people who want to take care of their health and want to live without pain. I specialize in the problems of headaches, migraines, neck pain, dizziness, numbness, back pain, pain in arms and hands.
This is the kind of logo I want:
- A logo with the name of the company: Clinique Atlas;
- Something looking very professional and original;
- Something new and represent chiropractic;
- Something that represents the first cervical vertebra is perpendicular to the head and the spine.
(See this link for an example): http://www.atlasorthogonal.com.au/
(The logo is a the center of the page).
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Be original!
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Horst Consulting Partners, LLC
Horst Consulting Partners, LLC is in need for a "desperate" website makeover. The company provides customized and specialized services that enhance performance of individuals, teams and organizations. To see the list of services the company provides, see: http://www.horstconsulting.com/svcs.htm
We have worked with extensive lists of clients and you can see the full list of our former and current clients here: http://www.horstconsulting.com/clients.htm
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Hebrew for God/Adonai/YHWH. This stems from my studies of religion and personal beliefs and it was my second tattoo. I've encountered some people who don't like it, in particular, a Jewish man who felt I was appropriating his religious beliefs for my own aesthetic purposes. I understand his viewpoint and I've been careful about the places where this tattoo is visible. However, I still really love it in relation to my next tattoo:
This tattoo mirrors my Adonai tattoo, one on the right wrist and one on the left. It reads "sophia" in Greek, or wisdom. I got this tattoo after completing my honors project in college, which was an 18 month process and resulted in a 70 page paper. The project led me to Divinity School and a really formative period in my life, so this encapsulates all of that. Also, sophia/wisdom represents a feminine aspect of God, based on passages in Proverbs 8. I feel it really balances with the Adonai tattoo, recognizing the destructive, patriarchial aspects of religion. It's probably the most explicitly feminist of my tattoos.
On my foot, this is a simple drawing of a peace dove by Salvador Dali. Right now, it's the only tattoo my mother will admit to liking. For me, this represents a lot of my politics and my worldview. Also, if I wiggle my toes, one of the wings looks like it's flapping.
I'm planning on altering a few of my tattoos, but am waiting and really thinking about my ideas. In the past, I didn't think it through as much as I should have, but I don't regret getting them. I have some script on my leg that says "family" in Latin; this I'm planning on modifying to become a tree with the current tattoo as the root system of the tree (get it, family tree?). My first tattoo is a small, simple Jesus fish on my back. I originally wanted the rebel symbol from Star Wars, but my mom really didn't like that and I felt guilty. So I switched to my other idea, the Jesus fish. Hindsight is 20/20 and I should have done the Star Wars symbol. Oh, well. I'm planning on altering the fish into a Celtic knot, which should be fairly easy to do.
Moral of the story: Really think about your design and love it. Wait 6 months. Rethink it. Wait another 6 months. THEN get your tattoo. Sit on a design for at least 6 months before getting it done.
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The hiring of a dietitian to aid in student nutrition. The creation of new liaison positions to help minorities succeed. Maintaining funding for science and gifted and talented programs.
Those were three aspects of Superintendent Renee Foose's proposed $721 million operating budget for fiscal 2014 most commonly lauded at a hearing last week by members of the public.
"A comprehensive, integrated nutrition service in grades K-12 will improve the nutritional status and the health and academic performance of our nation's children," said Barbara Wasserman, of Ellicott City, citing the recommendation of the school system's Food and Nutrition Service Advisory Committee. "Based on information the committee obtained through site visits (to Montgomery and Fairfax counties), we concluded that Howard County food and nutrition services could enhance services currently provided and initiating other services by hiring a full-time, registered dietitian."
Wasserman, a member of the advisory committee, said a dietitian could help the school system work better with elementary students, their teachers and parents, provide better options for students with special diets, and better incorporate nutrition in the curriculum, such as treating a school's cafeteria as a learning laboratory.
A practicing dietitian since 1988, Arlene Taid also supported the hiring of a dietitian at the Jan. 31 public hearing.
"I feel confident that this is the correct approach to a wellness program," she said. "A registered dietitian is a food and nutritional expert who can translate science into practical solutions for healthy learning."
Healthy Howard, Inc. also supports the hiring of a dietitian, said Robin McClave, the organization's Director of Community Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention.
"We see creative approaches to get more movement into the school day ... most of us can figure out how to move our bodies. Unfortunately, there isn't the same level of exposure related to the science of nutrition for students," she said. "For most of us, nutrition might be rocket science. A dietitian on staff could provide resources and tools necessary to address topics most pertinent to students at every age."
Foose's proposed fiscal 2014 budget also includes the creation of two additional community liaisons to the International Student Services Department, which would bring the total to 17. Felicita Sola-Carter, president of Conexiones, an advocacy group for Hispanic students, said that is not enough, given the increase in the Hispanic student population, which accounts for 8.8 percent of the entire student body.
"I want to underscore the critical need for the Hispanic Achievement liaisons," she said. "While the budget calls for the additional positions, the need for the current school year, never mind the future, is for a minimum of 2.5 liaisons. These positions should be allocated on the same basis as other (positions), using the staffing formula rather than being subject to ebbs and flows."
Pat Hatch, a retired program manager in the Maryland State Refugee Office, suggested the school system also create a community liaison position to reach out to the growing number of Burmese Chin refugees — about 1,500 in the county.
"We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg," she said. "These are young families, and they're families with a lot of children. ... Most were not prepared for the lives they find themselves living in Howard County. Many have never spoken English, or are familiar with the Roman alphabet, or owned a vehicle, or know of the public services they can have. There's an extreme need for a Burmese International Liaison for these families, and the need increases every year."
Finally, several students and community members spoke out in favor of the continued funding for science and G/T programs, extolling the virtues of those classes.
"Having experienced the effects of the proper allocation in this budget, I thank you," said Rhea Malik, a senior at Long Reach High School. "I plan on majoring in molecular biology in no small part to the support and opportunities provided by the science department. ... Thank you for erecting the walls of my future."
Edwina Britt, a parent of three "highly able students" in county schools, thanked Foose and the board for funding the various gifted and talented programs throughout the system.
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The board has scheduled public work sessions on the budget Feb. 7, Feb. 12 and Feb. 19. All are in the board room of the Department of Education, 10910 Route 108 in Ellicott City. The board is scheduled to adopt the proposal budget Feb. 21.
County Executive Ken Ulman is scheduled to present his budget to the County Council April 29, the same day as the council's public hearing on the education budget, at the George Howard Building, 3420 Courthouse Drive, in Ellicott City. The council's public work session for the education budget is scheduled for May 14.
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Skip to comments.Payback for a Downgrade? (The Feds sue S&P but not Moody's for pre-crisis credit ratings)
Posted on 02/06/2013 6:59:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Now, this is awkward. One agency of the federal government is suing a company for fraud while another agency continues to endorse it.
On Monday in Los Angeles, the Department of Justice sued Standard & Poor's and its parent McGraw-Hill MHP -0.25% for $5 billion. The claim is that S&P committed civil fraud when it issued high credit ratings on mortgage-related securities prior to the financial crisis of 2008. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have piled on the suit.
No doubt investors who relied on the opinions of S&P and the other big credit-rating agencies, Moody's and Fitch, suffered terrible losses during the crisis. That was in part because the federal government forced investors to rely on them. Longstanding rules at the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies required institutions to hold assets graded highly by these government-approved rating agencies.
And to this day, more than two years after the Dodd-Frank law ordered their repeal, SEC rules still force institutions to follow the advice of these government-anointed credit raters. Therefore the more appropriate defendant for Monday's lawsuit would be the SEC. But as a modest first step before suing a company for $5 billion, shouldn't the government at least stop mandating its products?
We've long argued that the government should not endorse any company's opinions about credit risk, which at the end of the day is all a credit rating isan opinion. And for that reason the government will not have an easy time making a fraud case.
Justice quotes internal emails from S&P personnel suggesting that, in its desire to win rating assignments from the investment banks that created securities, S&P was too generous in handing out high grades.
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I am just surprised that US bonds have anything but a junk rating
List of assets owned by Berkshire Hathaway
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Warren Buffett to Break His Silence about Moodys
Warren Buffett usually loves talking about his investments both the successful ones and his few flops.
But Buffetts relationship with Moodys Investment Services is unusual. The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has said very little about his 13% stake in the rating firm, which has come under heavy fire for its role in the financial crisis. You know the complaints by now: That Moodys and rivals S&P and Fitch negligently inflated ratings on mortgage securities, as they grew ever keener to win business from Wall Street banks and other underwriters.
Oh yeah, there are a whole lot of paybacks eminating from the District of Corruption - many more to come in the next 48 months of King Obama I.
Payback is a bitch.
I hope that S&P won't be intimidated by this and continues to give the US exactly the rating deserved.
According to William Black, the last fed regulator who closed S&L during the S&L crisis of the 1980's, finding the rating agencies guilty is not so hard. The key witnesses against the rating firms will be the analysts that work for it. One of the criterias to determine fraud or incompentence is comparing the firms actions against common practice of the industry. Example, Bank A pays rating agency to assign a rating for a mortgage portfolio. Analyst will ask for the data (includes applicants application/docs for each mortgage note in the portfoilio). Base on all the data given, the analyst can calculate the risk of the portfolio. Analyst can verify the info on the applicants application to double check the veracity of the loan data. Problem is many banks accepted/encouraged liar loans, where applicants made up income, asset info and the banks doctured the credit scores. Fearing the analysts working for the rating agencies will detect these aberate data, banks have refused to provide it to the analysts assigned to rate their products. Instead the bankers call the analysts supervisors to complain they were getting unsatisfactory service from the analysts and if the situation is not rectified the bank will take their future business to other rating agencies!!! Since the rating agencies are paid huge fees to analyze/rate bank products, they cave to the bankers' pressure and instruct their analysts to find a way to satisfy the banker client. IAW assign a AAA rating or be fired. Many analysts fearing their reputation being damaged by the forced illegal acts have maintained copies of MFR just in case their AAA ratings become an issue again. I think the gov may have a case if many analysts testify of being pressured by management to assign a AAA rating despite the fact that the banks did not provide the data requested. The sad part is the rating agency CEO is the ones trapped between their analysts testifying against them and the banks denying they coerced the rating agencies into lying. Bottom line the CEO and exec are the ones going to jail and fined, not the analyst who were protesting the illegal act and the banker who created the mess.
Does the government pay the rating agencies to rate their bonds and other securities?
If not, wouldn't it be like me suing a television sports handicapper who was shilling a line that I played and ultimately lost. In this scenario I'm not paying this guy, I'm just taking his "advice" that he has made public.
Guess who gets the money. Government agencies suing private enterprise has become a major source of funding for the beast. The pharmaceutical industry has been dealing with these reoccurring multi-billion dollar government feedings for a while now. They just work it into the price the productive sector must pay.
Nobody gets it. Of course it's payback, but that's not all — it's a warning to the other ratings agencies not to downgrade the U.S. again. It also gives Obama cover to pretend that any future downgrades, whether by S&P or anybody else, is itself payback for this lawsuit.
They should be prosecuted for criminal fraud.
And convicted of same.
Wonder if he made a deal with Obama over S&P?.
Nobody gets it. Of course its payback, but thats not all its a warning to the other ratings agencies not to downgrade the U.S. again. It also gives Obama cover to pretend that any future downgrades, whether by S&P or anybody else, is itself payback for this lawsuit.
BINGO!!!!! With Obama and the Obamamites it's ALWAYS about politics and PR maneuvering.
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- This polygon shapefile contains the entire distribution for adult China Rockfish (Sebastes nebulosus). The process of creating this shapefile included creating contour lines, in 5-meter intervals, from bathymetry lines. Depth ranges were taken from four references (see Resource Details Supplemental Information). After the broadest depth range was determined for this species, they were rounded to the nearest 5-meter interval. The deepest and shallowest shapefile lines were connected by a line at the northern end and southern end (determined by their geographical extent from north to south). This shapefile was then converted to polygon. The goal of this shapefile was to provide a range in which this species could occur, given that their habitat are present.This coverage displays the geographic range of select Pacific Ocean fish species.
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It looks like the April 8 Federal Communications Commission Open Meeting will not be one to miss. The agenda includes major items on broadband, video competition, minority/female media ownership, and rural radio. Here's some background on the top two acts.
National broadband
The FCC will launch a Notice of Inquiry asking for comments on how to put together a National Broadband Plan. This is a requirement of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, with its $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus bucks. The law says that the plan must "seek to ensure that all people of the United States have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal."
And so the document should contain a "detailed strategy" for making broadband affordable, the Act says, plus an assessment of the current state of broadband access, and "a plan for use of broadband infrastructure and services in advancing"—take a deep breath here—"consumer welfare, civic participation, public safety and homeland security, community development, health care delivery, energy independence and efficiency, education, worker training, private sector investment, entrepreneurial activity, job creation and economic growth, and other national purposes."
Interim FCC Chair Michael Copps is quite excited about the production of this behemoth, as evident from his statement last week, in which he pretty much invited the entire population of the United States to weigh in on the matter. "This will be a truly inclusive process," he declared, adding that "'all' must mean everyone."
The Commission must fork said broadband encyclical over to the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committees by February 17, 2010, a year after President Obama signed the American Recovery Act.
How much impact will it have? Well, there doesn't seem to be anything in the law that requires Congress to implement the FCC's wisdom word for word. And as Ars' Julian Sanchez has reported, the Commission will have to process an enormous amount of conflicting feedback about how to improve broadband service in the United States, including skepticism about targeting the money at specific technologies or rural America.
But all doubts aside, whatever the Commission produces here will most certainly function as a road map for future agency policies about ISP network management and the Universal Service Fund, among other matters.
Video competition
Then there's the FCC's annual report to Congress on the state of video competition in the United States. The agency will issue a "Supplemental Notice of Inquiry" regarding this unpleasant business. Some history is in order.
In January the FCC finally released its Congressional required report on the state of competition for video services for 2006. It is now soliciting data for a monster assessment of who gets their video how for 2007, 2008, and 2009. Why the big catch up on those years? Because the 2006 report turned into a total food fight between former FCC Chair Kevin Martin, the rest of the Commission, Congress, the cable industry, and anyone else who had leftovers to spare.
In late 2007, Martin pushed hard for the FCC to conclude that the cable industry had surpassed the "70/70 test" the previous year. Congress defines this threshold as thus: if 70 percent of households can access cable TV services with 36 or more active channels and 70 percent actually subscribe to them, "the Commission may promulgate any additional rules necessary to provide diversity of information sources."
The cable industry feared that the FCC might use a pro-70/70 conclusion and the "additional rules" clause to push one of Martin's favorite causes and their worst nightmare: a la carte cable—letting consumers pick and choose which cable channels to buy, rather than offering them in big packages. In 2004 the agency released a study concluding that the average consumer wouldn't save money under a la carte. In fact, their cable bill would probably go up.
But Martin, undaunted, got the FCC to release another report that pretty much came to the opposite assessment, infuriating the cable industry and raising hackles in Congress. The great a la carte crusade finally came to a grinding halt in November of 2007 when the rest of the Commission revolted against Martin's efforts to get them to decide that the second half of 70/70 had been reached. Charges that he had withheld crucial data from the Commissioners flowed from both Democrats and his fellow Republican Robert M. McDowell, who declared that "the books have been cooked to trigger the 70/70 rule."
Finally, on January 16 of this year, a day after Martin announced his resignation, the FCC formally released its 2006 report, which it adopted about 14 months earlier. The document noted that various surveys disagree on the second prong of 70/70, and asked for yet more data on the question. But it did conclude that just 68.2 percent of video channel buyers get their channels from a franchised cable operator. Meanwhile a Congressional probe released last December pretty much roasted the former FCC boss on this whole episode, charging him with suppressing data and his fellow Commissioners.
It is in this less-than-happy context that the FCC is now moving forward with yet another video competition survey—this for the three-year period since 2006. In February the agency announced that it will soon issue a Supplemental Notice of Inquiry to establish a deadline for cable companies, telcos, and everybody else to file information about video programming for 2007 and 2008, and a later one for data about 2009. That's what will be released in April.
After all the aforementioned sturm und drang, one wonders how urgent this question still is for Copps and his likely successor, Julius Genachowski. In his comments on the 2006 competition report drama, Copps suggested that the 70/70 threshold may be upon us, and urged the agency to quickly reassess its data. But with Martin gone, a la carte is yesterdays' news. And now everybody, especially the FCC's interim chair, is talking about broadband, with its enormous potential for new media.
One of the most interesting aspects of our time is that the rapid evolution of technology can turn hot button issues into history in a season. But the great 70/70 question may still have some fight in it yet.


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CONCORD — A string of copper burglaries in and around South Lake Tahoe in the past few months will cost the city of Concord tens of thousands of dollars to repair, according to police.
Lt. Pete Van Arnum of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said thus far, a Concord-run camp in South Lake Tahoe will need roughly $50,000 in plumbing and electrical repairs after copper thieves stripped two cabins during heavy winter snowfall.
Van Arnum said the second cabin was found stripped of its copper plumbing after investigators came in to check in on another cabin that had been burglarized.
The time frame of when the thieves stole the copper from the cabins is unclear, Van Arnum said, and it is also unclear how many people participated in the thefts.
What is clear, however, is that the job paid well.
"There are metal yards in California and Nevada where you can take copper in buckets and they will weigh it and you can sell it like any other precious metal," Van Arnum said. "I have no idea what they use the money for, but copper is quite valuable."
Because there are no identification marks on copper wire, Van Arnum said it is hard to trace stolen copper and that the Concord-run cabins were not the only ones to get hit during periods of frigid winter weather.
Van Arnum also said that roughly 600 feet of copper wire was stolen from just outside of Placerville in the last month. The theft will cost that city roughly $40,000, he said.
A bathroom in a state park on the west shore of Lake Tahoe was also vandalized in the past month, Van Arnum added, and the amount of copper stolen totaled between $10,000 and $15,000.
Concord officials have put in a request for $25,000 to fund planning, specification and estimates for the repair work in part of the mid-year budget review that the City Council will consider Tuesday night. That figure does not include construction costs, which will be requested later, according to the budget document.
The thieves stole "significant" amounts of copper wire and piping from the bathhouse and other buildings at the camp and vandalized floors, walls and doors, according to the request.
Copper theft is a growing problem for city and county governments, utilities and private contractors as scrap prices rise. In the same budget document, officials also requested $325,000 to "harden" wiring boxes and replace stolen wire along the BART path in the Port Chicago and Crystal Ranch areas.
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Slickdeal forums members are complaining about a mass-closing of Amazon accounts. The reasons cited vary from having too high a percentage of returns, shipping to too many different addresses, and having too many different Amazon accounts. Guess they're trying to tighten their bottom line and prevent loopholes from being exploited, but the net may have been cast too wide; some of the adversely affected users say the action was unfair and unwarranted. Couple this with the online retailer dropping the post price guarantee at basically the same time and you have to wonder if the boys in the Amazon backroom spent Labor Day Weekend earning their Six Sigma certificates.
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CMS Selects CDS to Host Federal Agency's Enterprise Portal
Companion Data Services (CDS), which offers secure healthcare development, managed and hosting services within a large data center complex for the federal, state medicaid and commercial markets, has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to host the federal agency's enterprise portal.
Officials with CDS said the CMS Enterprise Portal will provide access to CMS services electronically through portal technology.
Based on consumer demand and evolving technological capabilities and a robust security framework, CMS will provide its customers seamless and simple access to information, products and services through the CMS Enterprise Portal. "We at CDS are very excited about this award. It's an example of CMS making information accessible to a wide array of customers," Lola Jordan, president, CDS, said in a statement.
"This new task order will allow us to showcase our expertise and knowledge of health information technology hosting solutions," said Jordan. Jordan said the multiyear task order was competed under CMS' Enterprise Data Center contract.
CDS operates a large and secure healthcare data center, providing health information technology services such as claims processing, programming and outsourcing, and CMS and other government and private entities.
Last year, CDS processed almost 800 million Medicare fee-for-service claims – about 65 percent of the national total.
Earlier in July 2011, Professional Data Solutions (PDS), a Pennsylvania-based information technology firm that provides systems management to corporations, had awarded a three-year contract to Companion Data Services (CDS) for data center hosting services.
Under terms of the contract, CDS will host applications to support an inter-plan teleprocessing system that PDS manages for major health insurance plans nationwide. The system supports national programs that enable members of one insurance plan to obtain healthcare service benefits while traveling or living in another plan's service area.
The program links participating healthcare providers across the United States and abroad with the insurance companies through a single electronic network for claims processing and reimbursement.
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A beautiful day in Brisbane today, the day after Round 3 of the Sizzling Summer Series.
This was a better race for me. I did race well as far as I know and didn't get on the podium because I delayed my final move by less than 10 sec. That is all it takes. I did my share of attacks in the beginning of the race, had a go at the intermediate sprint and rested for a while. I was able to read some of the team tactics in the last couple of laps so I sat behind the wheel of one of the sprinters who was himself sitting behind one of the stronger guys. We rolled around like that to the back of the course when the first move happened with one of the lighter guys taking off up the hill. Soon after, the second move as a single guy went. He was just next to me but I decided to wait for the sprinters to react.
As everyone sat watching each other, I started my move on the steepest part of the incline. It was a good move as I quickly created a gap, leaving the bunch behind, but I had no legs to catch the other two who at this time were powering down the straight and to the finish line for 1st and 2nd. And I had no legs to keep going and saw the bunch catching up very, very fast.
The photo bellow (my artistic impression of it!) shows the final twenty or thirty meters as the bunch overtakes me doing 1.5 x my speed. I am the one in black and in front for another 1/125th of a second after the photo was taken.
Well, one more race to go in the series (16th March). At least, I know I have the legs to pull a move and if I time it right next time, it might even be a winning one!!!
Easy ride today after a bit of house work and a meeting with my coach. We discussed various issues, including the quality of the bread made in Australia, the unprofessional approach by event officials and volunteers during cycling events, the lack of support given to master and female athletes, the use of power meters and the structure of my program. A nice chat over a cup of coffee and a delicious almond croissant... It has been so long since I had one of those.
He will be forwarding my program later today and I expect to see the intensity ramped up. We also decided not to measure my efforts through my HR but use the "perceived effort" method. That is until I have the Lactate Threshold Test done.
Another important part of training and racing is equipment and having the good gear is essential. Starting with bibs today, I will spend a bit of time from now on, writing about the gear I use and how it all works for me. Hopefully, it won't come out just as advertising for anyone but as my impressions on what I think works.
I believe we have to experiment with the clothes we wear and decide on what to wear taking a few factors in consideration. Firstly, we have to be comfortable and as we are all shaped in a different way, we must try different brands and different materials. The worst thing during a ride is to feel the edge, or seam of that old or cheap chamois cutting though your skin. The longer the ride the better the chamois needs to be. As an amateur athlete, I can't have a wardrobe full of Assos bibs so why not have a few different ones and wear them accordingly. Or perhaps, wear two knicks if you need to. I do that on my commute to work sometimes.
At the moment, I am experimenting with a 2XU Comp Bib. So far, I have raced and have done a 120 km ride with them. For the short races I did and for that distance they were perfect as I didn't even feel I had a chamois on. That and a firm fitting on the legs are the important points for me. I must now try them on rougher roads and on a longer ride for my final verdict. By the way, 2XU makes a higher quality one so for the 260+ kms race in September I might even consider wearing them.
More on that later, time to go and do a few kms, just as a recovery ride.


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This lighthouse is owned by the US Coast Guard.
The grounds are open, but not the tower. That being said, it's a bit tricky to get to, since there are no signs.
We finally found it on our second trip, going down the road for the Castle Hill Inn, which looks private, but is not. You'll park at the marina, just before you get to the inn.
I found the lighthouse using the link from Lighthouse Friends: http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=396
Narragansett Bay dominates the geography of the tiny state of Rhode Island, extending 25 miles northwards and inland from the Atlantic Ocean right into the heart of its major cities. It is fed by the watersheds of 3 major rivers: the Blackstone, the Taunton and the Pawtuxet. Narragansett Bay defines the region's culture, its history, sense of place and quality of life. The cities of Providence, Newport, Fall River, Warwick and Newport all owe their start to the bay and the opportunities it provided for water power, commercial growth and transportation. Once badly polluted, the Narragansett Bay has made a tremendous comeback in the last 3 decades as communities all around the bay have revitalized their connection to the bay and taken steps to curb human impact. Aerial Vr plans a series of panoramas intended to capture the area's unique natural beauty, both from its surface and from the air as well as the vitality and uniqueness of its communities.


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- First domain specific extension for Schema.org announced - see blog post and site docs on MedicalEntity, subtypes and properties.
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Charlotte, N.C. - The Charlotte 49ers are moving to Conference USA.
In a press conference held on-campus in the Student Union, today, UNC Charlotte Chancellor Dr. Philip Dubois announced that the university has accepted an invitation to join Conference USA, in all sports, beginning in the 2013-14 academic year.
"The invitation to join Conference USA is momentous in what it can do for our university," Dubois said. "As stewards of this university, it is incumbent upon us to provide the best leadership for today and the best promise for tomorrow. We have yet to take a snap on McColl-Richardson field, yet to play our first game, yet to have even our first practice - but because of who we are, because of what we've done, and because of the great community we live in - we have the unique opportunity to become one of the first programs in history to go from no football to FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) football in the minimum time allowed by NCAA regulations."
Conference USA is an FBS Conference that will provide a home for all 17 of the 49ers sports, including football. The 49ers football team will enjoy its inaugural season in 2013 as an independent FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) program and will compete in its first FBS season in Conference USA in 2015. Charlotte will be bowl eligible for football in the 2016 season. Each of the 49ers other 16 sports will begin play in Conference USA in 2013-14.
"In adding football, it was imperative that we find a conference to compete in - and today we struck gold," said Director of Athletics Judy Rose. "We not only found a conference to play in - but we found an FBS Conference. A top 10 basketball conference. A conference that includes regional rivals, and holds national attention and it's a conference that has an in-state opponent to fight for bragging rights. It's a strong conference across the board."
Conference USA, which is adding four other schools, will have a 13-team membership that includes Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida International, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, North Texas, Rice, Southern Mississippi, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UTEP and University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
"We are so excited to welcome Charlotte back to Conference USA," said C-USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky. "It is a dynamic time in intercollegiate athletics and the leadership at the University are taking bold steps to ensure its future. We are pleased to be able to partner with them at the launch of their football program, and work together towards a common vision of excellence."
Charlotte was a member of Conference USA from 1995-96 to 2004-05. The 49ers joined the Atlantic 10 Conference in 2005-06 and will remain in that league through the 2012-13 season.
"We thank Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky and the league's presidents for this wonderful opportunity," Rose added. "We enjoyed our time in the Atlantic 10 but we needed to find a permanent home for our football program. We found Conference USA -- and it feels great."
This is the school's fifth membership in a Division I Conference. Charlotte was also a member of the Sun Belt Conference (1976-77 to 1990-91), the Metro Conference (1991-92 to 1994-95), Conference USA (1995-96 to 2004-05) and the Atlantic 10 conference (2005-06 to present).
"Being given the opportunity to move directly into an FBS Conference with our start-up football program is unprecedented," said Gene Johnson, chair of the university's Board of Trustees. "This is just something that does not happen. But this is a special time for us and special things are happening."
Conference USA makeup: Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida International, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, North Texas, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UTEP, UT-San Antonio.
C-USA Strength: Charlotte succeeded in landing its football program in an FBS Conference while remaining in a top 10 men's basketball conference. The league had an RPI of 11 this past year in women's basketball, as well. In addition, the 49ers join a conference that has sent teams to 5 of the last 7 College Baseball World Series, sent five teams to last year's golf and softball NCAA Tournaments and four teams to the last two NCAA Men's Soccer Tournaments. Women's soccer and volleyball have also been multiple bid sports for Conference USA. Conference USA has also crowned national champions in track and field and cross country and sent men's and women's tennis teams to last year's NCAA Sweet 16.
FBS History: Charlotte's football program is one of a very few that's first conference will be an FBS Conference. The Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) is the top level of college football. There are 11 FBS Conferences in the country.
Timetable: Charlotte will begin play in Conference USA in 16 sports in 2013-14. Football's first season of competition in Conference USA will be 2015-16. Charlotte's football team will compete as an independent in 2013 and 2014.
Charlotte 49ers NCAA Div. I Conference Membership:
Sun Belt Conference, 1976-77 to 1990-91
Metro Conference, 1991-92 to 1994-95
Conference USA, 1995-96 to 2004-05
Atlantic 10 Conference, 2005-06 to 2012-13
Conference USA, 2013-14
C-USA TV Partners: C-USA enjoys significant television exposure through a multi-tiered selection process that is rooted in partnerships with FOX Sports Media Group, CBS Sports Network, and ESPN. By partnering with FOX Sports Media Group and extending an existing partnership with CBS Sports Network, the league has substantially increased the number of national and regional appearances for football, men's and women's basketball, and all other conference sports. ESPN carries the C-USA Football Championship.
C-USA & NCAA Governance: Along with the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and SEC, Conference USA is one of the seven conferences having significant representation in the NCAA governance structure. The Presidents of the member institutions serve as the league's Board of Directors.
Primary Bowl Ties:
We don't know what the bowl picture will look like exactly when we become bowl eligible, but in 2013 they expect to have five primary ties along with one secondary tie (Military Bowl).
Liberty Bowl, Memphis, Tenn. (SEC)
Hawai'I Bowl, Honolulu, Hawai'I (Mountain West)
New Orleans Bowl, New Orleans, La. (Sun Belt)
Beef O'Brady's Bowl, St. Petersburg, Fla. (Big East)
Ticket City Bowl, Dallas, Texas (Big Ten)
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TechAvanzadas needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 90 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Logo needed for Celebridad México
It can be just 'Celebridad' or it can be 'Celebridad México'
Website 'around' celebrities in Mexico, like US Weekly
Please see:
That is the mock up of our website and we just don't feel that the logo is as 'wow' as it should be. We are entertaining all designs and should be designed to 'fit in' with the mock up accordingly.
- For it to be memorable
- To really be a trademark
- To target our younger audience
- To be vibrant
- Cookie Cutter designs
- Clip Art
- Word Art
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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There is nothing like a record snowfall (here in NJ, where I live) and a new year to reflect on the hot topics in BI for 2011. Here is my list of the five most important trends for the year ahead.
1. Advanced Visualization and Dashboards Go Mainstream
Last year, QlikTech went public, Tableau Software revamped its product, and IBM Cognos released its second-generation dashboard solution, dubbed "Business Insight." Advanced visualization and discovery tools continue to garner significant interest because of their ease of use, visual appeal, and ability to speed the time to insight amid vast amounts of data.
The challenge for companies is in understanding when technologies overlap and the degree to which they are converging. Should you look for these capabilities from your BI platform vendor or from a specialty vendor?
For dashboards, the answer depends on your BI platform. Vendors such as Oracle and MicroStrategy have the most robust, appealing, and integrated dashboard solutions (feel free to disagree with me here, but as always, my conclusions are from hands-on testing of hundreds of criteria). This is not to say that other vendors haven't made strides in their latest releases, but these two vendors are furthest along.
If, however, you are looking for an advanced visualization product with dashboard capabilities, the better products remain with specialty vendors. A few of the leading BI platform vendors have some exciting products in development in this area.
Beyond these tools, businesses will continue to struggle to decide who owns them and who should develop related content: business or IT? First attempts at developing dashboards tend to look like glitzy pin ball machines, but as people gain experience and expertise, these tools become the most useful component of BI.
2. Mobile BI Gets Recharged
Mobile BI didn't even make my top trends last year, so one could say its appearance this year is quite a leap. In the cool BI class I teach at TDWI events, this innovation rarely gets top nod from attendees. However, few could have foreseen the wild adoption of Apple's iPad. The wider screen real estate and sheer beauty that this tablet brings to BI is reason to take stock of your mobile BI strategy.
What devices will you support, and what is your vendor's strategy? Vendor capabilities here remind me of my living room on New Year's Eve morning: unclear, fragmented, and all over the place. Support for devices, content, consumer ability, and native-versus-browser support vary widely.
MicroStrategy's mobile BI solution is the broadest and most robust, including support for iPhone/iPad as well as Blackberrys. QlikTech and Actuate also are further ahead than some of the larger platform vendors. Niche vendor RoamBI, which supports content from multiple BI vendors, is worth investigating.
Companies that fail to consider mobile BI's potential and limitations will be forced into reactionary mode; when you scramble to pull together a strategy, you risk security breaches, mixed devices, and inconsistent support.
3. Facebook Gives BI More Than a Facelift
Facebook hit 500 million users mid 2010, a community now larger than the population of the U.S. and Canada combined. It's changing the way a generation interacts, lobbies, advertises, complains, and thinks. It's impossible for this trend not to impact BI. Social networking brings new data sources for analysis. It also brings new demands for how users respond to insights from data, and that is never in isolation.
To date, a report may be viewed as part of a task or decision-making process. Any discussion around the report is typically offline. Key decisions from the insight are made verbally or shared via e-mail or in documents, sometimes held in a document management system.
Envision a Facebook influence on BI: decision-makers bring together the right people virtually; users themselves control the flow and content instead of a central IT group who secures the data and subsequent analyses. Tasks, comments, opinions, and even new sets of data and analyses are brought together seamlessly.
Sounds too futuristic? Some vendors have already offered annotations to BI content, such as Information Builders Performance Management Framework and Dundas Dashboards. Moving far beyond just a portal technology, consider the new BI-integrated collaboration capabilities built into Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
Beyond SharePoint, Outlook 2007 has collaboration features that SAS has been quick to leverage. Demonstrating further social networking's influence, last year SAP launched StreamWork (but without BI content), Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11g included support for Web Center (someone should rename this product!), and IBM Cognos 10 shipped with Lotus Connection. So the BI heavy weights are making inroads, but niche vendor Lyzasoft seems to have gotten the "user-directed" aspect most right.
So we've seen some innovation here, but the convergence of social networking with BI is still very young.


text: American Locker Group Incorporated (OTCQB:ALGI) ("American Locker" or the "Company"), announced today that on November 9, 2012, the Company's board of directors appointed David Denton, 43, as Chief Operating Officer. During 2011 and 2012, Mr. Denton was the Operations Manager for Imperial Group, a division of Accuride Corporation. From 2005 until his joining Imperial Group, he was Chief Executive Officer of Global CNC Solutions, a precision machined component manufacturer supplying product to aerospace and defense customers. Mr. Denton has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management and has more than 20 years of manufacturing experience. He served in the United States Air Force as an Aircraft Machinist and Certified Aircraft Welder, during which he spent the majority of his time in Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Storm. Chief Executive Officer Paul M. Zaidins said, "David Denton's experience in precision sheet metal fabrication will help drive continued operational improvements and will help facilitate American Locker's continued growth in the contract manufacturing segment of its business." About American Locker Group Incorporated American Locker is a premier metal fabricator of secure storage solutions under the American Locker and Canadian Locker brands. The Company is best known for manufacturing and servicing the widely-utilized key and lock system with the iconic plastic orange cap. The Company also has a growing precision sheet metal fabrication business. Its Security Manufacturing Corporation subsidiary is a leading provider of multi-tenant mailboxes. Further information about American Locker is available at: www.americanlocker.com Follow us on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/AmericanLocker In the interests of providing Company shareholders and potential investors with information regarding the Company, including the Company's assessment of its and its subsidiaries' future plans and operations, certain statements included in this press release may constitute forward-looking information or forward-looking statements (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). All statements contained herein that are not clearly historical in nature are forward-looking, and the words "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "estimate" and similar expressions are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. Actual events or results may differ materially. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievement since such expectations are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, the Company and the foregoing list of important factors is not exhaustive. These forward-looking statements made as of the date hereof disclaim any intent or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. Company shareholders and potential investors should carefully consider the information contained in the Company's filings with United States securities administrators at www.sec.gov before making investment decisions with regard to the Company.


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The Polymath in Boston
Last week -- Friday, February 18, to be exact -- I trekked down to Boston for the New England premiere of Fred Barney Taylor's film The Polymath, or, The Life & Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman. I'd seen it a few years ago at its premiere at the TriBeCa Film Festival, and more recently on DVD, but Fred and Chip were both going to be at the Boston event, and I was curious to see the Q&A, since Chip hadn't been able to be at the TFF premiere, and I was interested to see what sorts of things the audience would want to discuss.
The DVD version, which is what was shown in Boston, is different from the TFF version, and, I'm told, from the version that won the Best Documentary Feature award at the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The editing is, to my eyes, smoother; there are fewer title cards; there's some new footage; and the whole film has been through additional post-production color correction, which I found most noticeable (in a good way) during the lyrical/abstract composite shots. I hadn't particularly liked those shots in the TFF cut, finding them muddy and, frankly, kitschy -- but then when I saw the DVD version, I thought, "Oh, that's what they were going for!" The effect is beautiful. Fred said that aside from the need for color correction, there had also been an additional problem at TFF -- the festival had insisted on everything being projected in high def, and the vast majority of The Polymath was shot on a standard def camera (a Sony PD-150 -- the same camera, in fact, that David Lynch used to film Inland Empire) and hadn't been converted to HD. An SD source projected as HD is ... less than ideal.
So I am happy to say that the version of The Polymath available for sale, and shown in Boston, is a significant improvement over the first cut I saw, both in terms of content and video quality. The pieces hold together more coherently, and flow into each other more clearly. It's not a standard documentary, and that requires some adjustment for anybody who goes in expecting something like A&E's Biography, but that's a strength, because what the film gives us, rather than a linear, then-he-did-this-then-he-did-that portrait, is a sense of Delany's many interests and knowledges, the turns of his mind. The title is brilliantly apt, both in finding some of the few labels that can, I think, adhere without too much torture to the man (polymath, gentleman), and in hinting at what the film offers (the life & opinions of).
It's a film that, I find, gains a lot from at least a second viewing -- partly because of my interest in Delany, and my knowledge of his life and works, viewing it the first time was just a way to see what's included, and it was especially difficult to assess the film then. Repeated viewings have made it clear to me that this probably isn't just a result of my own peculiarities; it's a densely-packed film, artfully constructed.
The bonus disc of the DVD offers even more -- not just the full version of Delany's own film, The Orchid in an excellent transfer, but also over two hours of extra interviews. These aren't just outtakes randomly thrown together; Fred spent a lot of time editing the footage and organizing it into different categories. It's rougher than the documentary itself, of course, but plenty fascinating -- I watched it all in one night and at the end thought, "Wasn't there supposed to be more than 2 hours here?! That couldn't have been more than an hour!" Then I looked at the clock. The night was no longer young.
|photo by Abigail Linn, BU
What I most remember was some publishing news. Bad news first: with the restructuring of Alyson Books and the departure of publisher Don Weise, Delany's new novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders is once again looking for a publisher (tell all your publishing friends!). Good news: there are plans afoot to publish Delany's journals in four volumes.
Apparently, too, the BU Library had a display of materials from The Delany Collection, but I didn't have a chance to get over and see the exhibit. I don't know if it's still running.
After the Q&A, Chip signed books for folks, and I snapped a picture before I had to run off to Inman Square for dinner with friends:
|Samuel R. Delany signs Dhalgren. Background: Fred Barney Taylor.


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Elis Dig Deep Against Superb Competition
PHILADELPHIA – Yale saw two of its relay teams and two individual athletes compete today at the 118th rendition of the Penn Relays. The Elis faced off against some of the finest in the country, and came home with much to be proud of.
Based on his previous throws this season, junior Mike Levine automatically qualified for the championship division in the discus throw. Levine took third at the Penn Relays as a freshman, but this time his heave of 49.86m placed him 13th.
Sophomore Paul Chandler followed up by tying for fourth out of 10 competitors in the pole vault Eastern division. After one fault, Chandler cleared the height of 4.50m to equal his season best and finish level with Army's Justin Harris and Cornell's David Kim.
The Bulldogs also competed in the 4x200-meter relay for the first time outdoors this year, earning a respectable result of 34th out of 50 teams. The team of sophomore Daniel Jones, sophomore Nnamdi Udeh, freshman Dylan Hurley and senior Matthew Bieszard finished fourth in its heat in a time of 1:29.52, less than one second away from cracking the 15th spot on the Yale all-time record books.
The Elis were in the thick of things in the distance medley relay in the early going, but suffered a spell of bad luck when freshman William Rowe stepped on the rail, spraining his ankle and disqualifying the team.
With Rowe out, Udeh was substituted into the 4x400-meter relay team, running in tandem with Bieszard, Hurley and freshman Mario Kranjac. The team regrouped well to deliver a solid time of 3:19.77, earning them fourth place honors in the Heptagonal (Ivy League) division. Their finish was a major improvement on the team's sixth place effort at indoor Heps, and they have already run a faster time this year (3:14.06) than what Cornell posted to get the win today (3:14.62).
On Sunday the Bulldogs play host to the Yale Springtime Invitational, where they will look to give some of their less experienced runners an opportunity to compete. For the seniors, it will be the final home meet of their Yale careers. Field events begin at 10:00 a.m. and running events commence at 11:00 a.m. Full results will be available afterwards on www.yalebulldogs.com.
Report by Eian Katz '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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This is a small birch bark cylindrical container with floral or foliage decoration on the side and cover. It was made in northern New England (probably by Abenaki) in the late 18th century. Birch bark is a very pliable material and artisans would soak it in water and then fold and bend it into desired shapes. The designs are etched into the bark, which is a darker tan on the interior. Pre-Contact period birch containers are rarely found in New England, however, they were made both before and after contact with Europeans. Native people made a wide variety of items from birch bark including canoes, wigwams, and storage and cooking containers.
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The last telegram
In an era before mobile phones, when even the ubiquitous rotary-dial
telephone had not quite became a household fixture, the wireless
telegraph was the fastest way to deliver messages. Letters sent by
overland mail took days to reach, as they still do, while aerogrammes
sent from overseas took weeks, often arriving after the sender. The
arrival of the taar-wallah, the telegram delivery man, was greeted with
tense expectation. Invariably, save the odd good tidings of an
examination passed or a betrothal arranged, it was always bad news that
he brought. Messages such as 'Father critical' and 'Mother expired' were
de rigueur, their spare, unsentimental phrasing conveying cold, urgent
The British East India Company established the telegraph
service in Calcutta in the early 1850s, laying kilometres of telegraph
lines across the country. In 1902, telegraph went wireless. Until
recently the wireless telegraph was the only channel of communication to
reach remote, interior villages in India. The growth of Subscriber
Trunk Dialling (STD) first, email over the Internet and later cellular
penetration dealt body blows to the telegraph service from which it
never recovered.
On July 15 Indian authorities closed the
country's telegram service, once a fundamental part of the country's
communication system. Telegraph was used for everything from taking care
of official business to reporting deaths and marriages. With the
booming use of mobile phones and the Internet, the historic service that
began over 160 years ago has now been in decline for years, and
government-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has
decided to discontinue it.
Reuters photographers Mansi Thapliyal and Danish Siddiqui documented the final days of India's telegram service.


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