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The location of all installed files and directories must comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), version 2.3, with the exceptions noted below, and except where doing so would violate other terms of Ubuntu Policy. The following exceptions to the FHS apply:
The optional rules related to user specific configuration files for applications are stored in the user's home directory are relaxed. It is recommended that such files start with the '.' character (a "dot file"), and if an application needs to create more than one dot file then the preferred placement is in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' character, (a "dot directory"). In this case it is recommended the configuration files not start with the '.' character.
The requirement for amd64 to use
/lib64 for 64 bit binaries is
The requirement that
/usr/local/share/man be
"synonymous" with
/usr/local/man is relaxed to a
The requirement that windowmanagers with a single configuration file call it
system.*wmrc is removed, as is the restriction that the window
manager subdirectory be named identically to the window manager name itself.
The requirement that boot manager configuration files live in
/etc, or at least are symlinked there, is relaxed to a
The version of this document referred here can be found in the
ubuntu-policy package or on
FHS (Debian
copy) alongside this manual (or, if you have the
ubuntu-policy installed, you can try
FHS (local copy)).
The latest version, which may be a more recent version, may be found on
FHS (upstream).
Specific questions about following the standard may be asked on the
ubuntu-devel mailing list, or referred to the FHS mailing list
(see the
FHS web site
for more information).
As mandated by the FHS, packages must not place any files in
/usr/local, either by putting them in the file system archive to
be unpacked by
dpkg or by manipulating them in their maintainer
However, the package may create empty directories below
so that the system administrator knows where to place site-specific files.
These are not directories in
/usr/local, but are children
of directories in
/usr/local. These directories
/usr/local/*/dir/) should be removed on package removal if they
are empty.
Note, that this applies only to directories below
/usr/local, not in
/usr/local. Packages
must not create sub-directories in the directory
itself, except those listed in FHS, section 4.5. However, you may create
directories below them as you wish. You must not remove any of the directories
listed in 4.5, even if you created them.
/usr/local can be mounted read-only from a remote server,
these directories must be created and removed by the
postinst and
prerm maintainer scripts and not be included in the
.deb archive. These scripts must not fail if either of these
operations fail.
For example, the emacsen-common package could contain something like
if [ ! -e /usr/local/share/emacs ] then if mkdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null then chown root:staff /usr/local/share/emacs chmod 2775 /usr/local/share/emacs fi fi
in its
postinst script, and
rmdir /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp 2>/dev/null || true rmdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null || true
in the
prerm script. (Note that this form is used to ensure that
if the script is interrupted, the directory
will still be removed.)
If you do create a directory in
/usr/local for local additions to
a package, you should ensure that settings in
/usr/local take
precedence over the equivalents in
However, because
/usr/local and its contents are for exclusive use
of the local administrator, a package must not rely on the presence or absence
of files or directories in
/usr/local for normal operation.
/usr/local directory itself and all the subdirectories created
by the package should (by default) have permissions 2775 (group-writable and
set-group-id) and be owned by root:staff.
The system-wide mail directory is
/var/mail. This directory is
part of the base system and should not owned by any particular mail agents.
The use of the old location
/var/spool/mail is deprecated, even
though the spool may still be physically located there.
The Ubuntu system can be configured to use either plain or shadow passwords.
Some user ids (UIDs) and group ids (GIDs) are reserved globally for use by certain packages. Because some packages need to include files which are owned by these users or groups, or need the ids compiled into binaries, these ids must be used on any Ubuntu system only for the purpose for which they are allocated. This is a serious restriction, and we should avoid getting in the way of local administration policies. In particular, many sites allocate users and/or local system groups starting at 100.
Apart from this we should have dynamically allocated ids, which should by default be arranged in some sensible order, but the behavior should be configurable.
Packages other than base-passwd must not modify
/etc/group or
The UID and GID numbers are divided into classes as follows:
Globally allocated by the Debian project, the same on every Debian and Ubuntu
system. These ids will appear in the
passwd and
group files of all Debian and Ubuntu systems, new ids in this
range being added automatically as the base-passwd package is
Packages which need a single statically allocated uid or gid should use one of these; their maintainers should ask the base-passwd maintainer for ids.
Dynamically allocated system users and groups. Packages which need a user or
group, but can have this user or group allocated dynamically and differently on
each system, should use adduser --system to create the group
and/or user.
adduser will check for the existence of the user or
group, and if necessary choose an unused id based on the ranges specified in
Dynamically allocated user accounts. By default
adduser will
choose UIDs and GIDs for user accounts in this range, though
adduser.conf may be used to modify this behavior.
Globally allocated by the Debian project, but only created on demand. The ids are allocated centrally and statically, but the actual accounts are only created on users' systems on demand.
These ids are for packages which are obscure or which require many
statically-allocated ids. These packages should check for and create the
accounts in
/etc/passwd or
/etc/group (using
adduser if it has this facility) if necessary. Packages which are
likely to require further allocations should have a "hole" left after
them in the allocation, to give them room to grow.
User nobody. The corresponding gid refers to the group nogroup.
(uid_t)(-1) == (gid_t)(-1) must not be used, because it is the error return sentinel value.
init.d scripts
/etc/init.d directory contains the scripts executed by
init at boot time and when the init state (or
"runlevel") is changed (see
There are at least two different, yet functionally equivalent, ways of handling
these scripts. For the sake of simplicity, this document describes only the
symbolic link method. However, it must not be assumed by maintainer scripts
that this method is being used, and any automated manipulation of the various
runlevel behaviors by maintainer scripts must be performed using
update-rc.d as described below and not by manually installing or
removing symlinks. For information on the implementation details of the other
method, implemented in the file-rc package, please refer to the
documentation of that package.
These scripts are referenced by symbolic links in the
/etc/rcn.d directories. When changing runlevels,
init looks in the directory
/etc/rcn.d for
the scripts it should execute, where n is the runlevel
that is being changed to, or S for the boot-up scripts.
The names of the links all have the form
Smmscript or
Kmmscript where mm is a two-digit
number and script is the name of the script (this should be the same
as the name of the actual script in
init changes runlevel first the targets of the links whose
names start with a K are executed, each with the single argument
stop, followed by the scripts prefixed with an S,
each with the single argument start. (The links are those in the
/etc/rcn.d directory corresponding to the new
runlevel.) The K links are responsible for killing services and
the S link for starting services upon entering the runlevel.
For example, if we are changing from runlevel 2 to runlevel 3, init will first
execute all of the K prefixed scripts it finds in
/etc/rc3.d, and then all of the S prefixed scripts in
that directory. The links starting with K will cause the
referred-to file to be executed with an argument of stop, and the
S links with an argument of start.
The two-digit number mm is used to determine the order in which to
run the scripts: low-numbered links have their scripts run first. For example,
the K20 scripts will be executed before the K30
scripts. This is used when a certain service must be started before another.
For example, the name server
bind might need to be started before
the news server
inn so that
inn can set up its access
lists. In this case, the script that starts
bind would have a
lower number than the script that starts
inn so that it runs
/etc/rc2.d/S17bind /etc/rc2.d/S70inn
The two runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (reboot) are slightly different. In these runlevels, the links with an S prefix are still called after those with a K prefix, but they too are called with the single argument stop.
Packages that include daemons for system services should place scripts in
/etc/init.d to start or stop services at boot time or during a
change of runlevel. These scripts should be named
/etc/init.d/package, and they should accept one
argument, saying what to do:
start the service,
stop the service,
stop and restart the service if it's already running, otherwise start the service
cause the configuration of the service to be reloaded without actually stopping and restarting the service,
cause the configuration to be reloaded if the service supports this, otherwise restart the service.
The start, stop, restart, and
force-reload options should be supported by all scripts in
/etc/init.d, the reload option is optional.
init.d scripts must ensure that they will behave sensibly
(i.e., returning success and not starting multiple copies of a service) if
invoked with start when the service is already running, or with
stop when it isn't, and that they don't kill unfortunately-named
user processes. The best way to achieve this is usually to use
start-stop-daemon with the --oknodo option.
If a service reloads its configuration automatically (as in the case of
cron, for example), the reload option of the
init.d script should behave as if the configuration has been
reloaded successfully.
/etc/init.d scripts must be treated as configuration files,
either (if they are present in the package, that is, in the .deb file) by
marking them as conffiles, or, (if they do not exist in the .deb)
by managing them correctly in the maintainer scripts (see Configuration files, Section 10.7).
This is important since we want to give the local system administrator the
chance to adapt the scripts to the local system, e.g., to disable a service
without de-installing the package, or to specify some special command line
options when starting a service, while making sure their changes aren't lost
during the next package upgrade.
These scripts should not fail obscurely when the configuration files remain but
the package has been removed, as configuration files remain on the system after
the package has been removed. Only when
dpkg is executed with the
--purge option will configuration files be removed. In
particular, as the
/etc/init.d/package script itself is
usually a conffile, it will remain on the system if the package is
removed but not purged. Therefore, you should include a test
statement at the top of the script, like this:
test -f program-executed-later-in-script || exit 0
Often there are some variables in the
init.d scripts whose values
control the behavior of the scripts, and which a system administrator is likely
to want to change. As the scripts themselves are frequently
conffiles, modifying them requires that the administrator merge in
their changes each time the package is upgraded and the conffile
changes. To ease the burden on the system administrator, such configurable
values should not be placed directly in the script. Instead, they should be
placed in a file in
/etc/default, which typically will have the
same base name as the
init.d script. This extra file should be
sourced by the script when the script runs. It must contain only variable
settings and comments in SUSv3
sh format. It may either be a
conffile or a configuration file maintained by the package
maintainer scripts. See Configuration
files, Section 10.7 for more details.
To ensure that vital configurable values are always available, the
init.d script should set default values for each of the shell
variables it uses, either before sourcing the
/etc/default/ file
or afterwards using something like the : ${VAR:=default} syntax.
Also, the
init.d script must behave sensibly and not fail if the
/etc/default file is deleted.
/var/run and
/var/lock may be mounted as temporary
filesystems[63], so the
init.d scripts must handle this correctly. This will typically
amount to creating any required subdirectories dynamically when the
init.d script is run, rather than including them in the package
and relying on
dpkg to create them.
Maintainers should use the abstraction layer provided by the
update-rc.d and
invoke-rc.d programs to deal with
initscripts in their packages' scripts such as
prerm and
Directly managing the /etc/rc?.d links and directly invoking the
/etc/init.d/ initscripts should be done only by packages providing
the initscript subsystem (such as
sysv-rc and
The program
update-rc.d is provided for package maintainers to
arrange for the proper creation and removal of
/etc/rcn.d symbolic links, or their functional
equivalent if another method is being used. This may be used by maintainers in
their packages'
postinst and
postrm scripts.
You must not include any
/etc/rcn.d symbolic links in
the actual archive or manually create or remove the symbolic links in
maintainer scripts; you must use the
update-rc.d program instead.
(The former will fail if an alternative method of maintaining runlevel
information is being used.) You must not include the
/etc/rcn.d directories themselves in the archive
either. (Only the sysvinit package may do so.)
By default
update-rc.d will start services in each of the
multi-user state runlevels (2, 3, 4, and 5) and stop them in the halt runlevel
(0), the single-user runlevel (1) and the reboot runlevel (6). The system
administrator will have the opportunity to customize runlevels by simply
adding, moving, or removing the symbolic links in
/etc/rcn.d if symbolic links are being used, or by
/etc/runlevel.conf if the file-rc method is
being used.
To get the default behavior for your package, put in your
update-rc.d package defaults
and in your
if [ "$1" = purge ]; then update-rc.d package remove fi
. Note that if your package changes runlevels or priority, you may have to
remove and recreate the links, since otherwise the old links may persist.
Refer to the documentation of
This will use a default sequence number of 20. If it does not matter when or
in which order the
init.d script is run, use this default. If it
does, then you should talk to the maintainer of the
package or post to ubuntu-devel, and they will help you choose a
For more information about using update-rc.d, please consult its
man page
The program
invoke-rc.d is provided to make it easier for package
maintainers to properly invoke an initscript, obeying runlevel and other
locally-defined constraints that might limit a package's right to start, stop
and otherwise manage services. This program may be used by maintainers in
their packages' scripts.
The package maintainer scripts must use
invoke-rc.d to invoke the
/etc/init.d/* initscripts, instead of calling them directly.
By default,
invoke-rc.d will pass any action requests (start,
stop, reload, restart...) to the
/etc/init.d script, filtering out
requests to start or restart a service out of its intended runlevels.
Most packages will simply need to change:
/etc/init.d/<package> <action>
in their
postinst and
prerm scripts to:
if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then invoke-rc.d package <action> else /etc/init.d/package <action> fi
A package should register its initscript services using
update-rc.d before it tries to invoke them using
invoke-rc.d. Invocation of unregistered services may fail.
For more information about using
invoke-rc.d, please consult its
man page
There used to be another directory,
/etc/rc.boot, which contained
scripts which were run once per machine boot. This has been deprecated in
favour of links from
/etc/rcS.d to files in
/etc/init.d as described in Introduction,
Section 9.3.1. Packages must not place files in
An example on which you can base your
/etc/init.d scripts is found
init.d scripts
This section describes the formats to be used for messages written to standard
output by the
/etc/init.d scripts. The intent is to improve the
consistency of Ubuntu's startup and shutdown look and feel. For this reason,
please look very carefully at the details. We want the messages to have the
same format in terms of wording, spaces, punctuation and case of letters.
Here is a list of overall rules that should be used for messages generated by
/etc/init.d scripts.
The message should fit in one line (fewer than 80 characters), start with a capital letter and end with a period (.) and line feed ("\n").
If the script is performing some time consuming task in the background (not merely starting or stopping a program, for instance), an ellipsis (three dots: ...) should be output to the screen, with no leading or tailing whitespace or line feeds.
The messages should appear as if the computer is telling the user what it is doing (politely :-), but should not mention "it" directly. For example, instead of:
I'm starting network daemons: nfsd mountd.
the message should say
Starting network daemons: nfsd mountd.
init.d script should use the following standard message formats for the situations enumerated below.
When daemons are started
If the script starts one or more daemons, the output should look like this (a single line, no leading spaces):
Starting description: daemon-1 ... daemon-n.
The description should describe the subsystem the daemon or set of daemons are part of, while daemon-1 up to daemon-n denote each daemon's name (typically the file name of the program).
For example, the output of
/etc/init.d/lpd would look like:
Starting printer spooler: lpd.
This can be achieved by saying
echo -n "Starting printer spooler: lpd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lpd echo "."
in the script. If there are more than one daemon to start, the output should look like this:
echo -n "Starting remote file system services:" echo -n " nfsd"; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet nfsd echo -n " mountd"; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet mountd echo -n " ugidd"; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet ugidd echo "."
This makes it possible for the user to see what is happening and when the final daemon has been started. Care should be taken in the placement of white spaces: in the example above the system administrators can easily comment out a line if they don't want to start a specific daemon, while the displayed message still looks good.
When a system parameter is being set
If you have to set up different system parameters during the system boot, you should use this format:
Setting parameter to "value".
You can use a statement such as the following to get the quotes right:
echo "Setting DNS domainname to \"$domainname\"."
Note that the same symbol (") is used for the left and right quotation marks. A grave accent (`) is not a quote character; neither is an apostrophe (').
When a daemon is stopped or restarted
When you stop or restart a daemon, you should issue a message identical to the startup message, except that Starting is replaced with Stopping or Restarting respectively.
For example, stopping the printer daemon will look like this:
Stopping printer spooler: lpd.
When something is executed
There are several examples where you have to run a program at system startup or
shutdown to perform a specific task, for example, setting the system's clock
netdate or killing all processes when the system shuts down.
Your message should look like this:
Doing something very useful...done.
You should print the done. immediately after the job has been completed, so that the user is informed why they have to wait. You can get this behavior by saying
echo -n "Doing something very useful..." do_something echo "done."
in your script.
When the configuration is reloaded
When a daemon is forced to reload its configuration files you should use the following format:
Reloading description configuration...done.
where description is the same as in the daemon starting message.
Packages must not modify the configuration file
/etc/crontab, and
they must not modify the files in
If a package wants to install a job that has to be executed via cron, it should place a file with the name of the package in one or more of the following directories:
/etc/cron.hourly /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.weekly /etc/cron.monthly
As these directory names imply, the files within them are executed on an
hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, respectively. The exact times are
listed in
All files installed in any of these directories must be scripts (e.g., shell scripts or Perl scripts) so that they can easily be modified by the local system administrator. In addition, they must be treated as configuration files.
If a certain job has to be executed at some other frequency or at a specific
time, the package should install a file
/etc/cron.d/package. This file uses the same syntax as
/etc/crontab and is processed by
cron automatically.
The file must also be treated as a configuration file. (Note that entries in
/etc/cron.d directory are not handled by
Thus, you should only use this directory for jobs which may be skipped if the
system is not running.)
The scripts or crontab entries in these directories should check if all necessary programs are installed before they try to execute them. Otherwise, problems will arise when a package was removed but not purged since configuration files are kept on the system in this situation.
The Debian menu package provides a standard interface between
packages providing applications and menu programs (either X window
managers or text-based menu programs such as
All packages that provide applications that need not be passed any special command line arguments for normal operation should register a menu entry for those applications, so that users of the menu package will automatically get menu entries in their window managers, as well in shells like pdmenu.
Menu entries should follow the current menu policy.
The menu policy can be found in the menu-policy files in the
debian-policy package. It is also available from the Debian web
mirrors at
Please also refer to the Debian Menu System documentation that comes
with the
menu package for information about how to register your
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFCs 2045-2049) is a mechanism for encoding files and data streams and providing meta-information about them, in particular their type (e.g. audio or video) and format (e.g. PNG, HTML, MP3).
Registration of MIME type handlers allows programs like mail user agents and web browsers to invoke these handlers to view, edit or display MIME types they don't support directly.
Packages which provide the ability to view/show/play, compose, edit or print MIME types should register themselves as such following the current MIME support policy.
The MIME support policy can be found in the mime-policy files in
the debian-policy package. It is also available from the Debian
web mirrors at
To achieve a consistent keyboard configuration so that all applications interpret a keyboard event the same way, all programs in the Ubuntu distribution must be configured to comply with the following guidelines.
The following keys must have the specified interpretations:
delete the character to the left of the cursor
delete the character to the right of the cursor
emacs: the help prefix
The interpretation of any keyboard events should be independent of the terminal that is used, be it a virtual console, an X terminal emulator, an rlogin/telnet session, etc.
The following list explains how the different programs should be set up to achieve this:
<-- generates KB_BackSpace in X.
Delete generates KB_Delete in X.
X translations are set up to make KB_Backspace generate ASCII DEL,
and to make KB_Delete generate ESC [ 3 ~ (this is the
vt220 escape code for the "delete character" key). This must be done
by loading the X resources using
xrdb on all local X displays, not
using the application defaults, so that the translation resources used
correspond to the
xmodmap settings.
The Linux console is configured to make <-- generate DEL, and Delete generate ESC [ 3 ~.
X applications are configured so that < deletes left, and Delete deletes right. Motif applications already work like this.
Terminals should have stty erase ^? .
The xterm terminfo entry should have ESC [ 3 ~ for kdch1, just as for TERM=linux and TERM=vt220.
Emacs is programmed to map KB_Backspace or the stty erase character to delete-backward-char, and KB_Delete or kdch1 to delete-forward-char, and ^H to help as always.
Other applications use the stty erase character and kdch1 for the two delete keys, with ASCII DEL being "delete previous character" and kdch1 being "delete character under cursor".
This will solve the problem except for the following cases:
Some terminals have a <-- key that cannot be made to produce anything except ^H. On these terminals Emacs help will be unavailable on ^H (assuming that the stty erase character takes precedence in Emacs, and has been set correctly). M-x help or F1 (if available) can be used instead.
Some operating systems use ^H for stty erase. However, modern telnet versions and all rlogin versions propagate stty settings, and almost all UNIX versions honour stty erase. Where the stty settings are not propagated correctly, things can be made to work by using stty manually.
Some systems (including previous Debian versions) use
xmodmap to
arrange for both <-- and Delete to generate
KB_Delete. We can change the behavior of their X clients using
the same X resources that we use to do it for our own clients, or configure our
clients using their resources when things are the other way around. On
displays configured like this Delete will not work, but
<-- will.
Some operating systems have different kdch1 settings in their terminfo database for xterm and others. On these systems the Delete key will not work correctly when you log in from a system conforming to our policy, but <-- will.
A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable defaults.
(That's because these environment variables would have to be set in a
system-wide configuration file like
/etc/profile, which is not
supported by all shells.)
If a program usually depends on environment variables for its configuration, the program should be changed to fall back to a reasonable default configuration if these environment variables are not present. If this cannot be done easily (e.g., if the source code of a non-free program is not available), the program must be replaced by a small "wrapper" shell script which sets the environment variables if they are not already defined, and calls the original program.
Here is an example of a wrapper script for this purpose:
#!/bin/sh BAR=${BAR:-/var/lib/fubar} export BAR exec /usr/lib/foo/foo "$@"
Furthermore, as
/etc/profile is a configuration file of the
base-files package, other packages must not put any environment
variables or other commands into that file.
doc-base package implements a flexible mechanism for handling
and presenting documentation. The recommended practice is for every Ubuntu
package that provides online documentation (other than just manual pages) to
register these documents with
doc-base by installing a
doc-base control file via the
install-docs script at
installation time and de-register the manuals again when the package is
Please refer to the documentation that comes with the
package for information and details.
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Plenty of teams have half as many punters as they have quarterbacks. But those teams have only two quarterbacks.
The Raiders have four quarterbacks on their 53-man roster — and two punters.
The battle between Marquette King and veteran Chris Kluwe continues beyond the mandatory cut to 53 players, with no clear sign whether King or Kluwe, or both, will be on the team when Week One commences.
Neither of the two punters ran away with the job, and coach Dennis Allen acknowledged that the job may be determined by the punter's ability to hold for extra points and kickoffs.
It's also possible that the Raiders will attempt to trade one of the two punters to a team looking to upgrade its situation.

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A litany of President Obama's failures.
Tonight's third Presidential debate is focused on foreign policy. What incumbent Barack Obama and his Democrats have demonstrated is that regardless of where they operate – on policies foreign or domestic – they are too often radical, corrupt and incompetent.
The best international example of this is the disaster in Benghazi, Libya. President Obama's incompetent-or-radical support of the obviously Islamist-led "Arab Spring." His incompetence in ignoring the incessant, increasingly desperate requests for additional security from now-late Ambassador Chris Stevens and others on the ground. And the utter corruption of the Administration and their Congressional Democrat cohorts to weave any tale and go to any length to cover up and obfuscate the truth.
Domestically, President Obama and his Democrats have not – for three plus years and counting – passed a federal budget. So the allegedly one-time, radical 2009 $1 trillion "Stimulus" has become – via Continuing Resolutions – an every Obama-year extravagance. Which is more, passive corruption.
The Democrat Senate has passed so little so as to avoid going on the record on so much. Because when they do write things down, they demonstrate just how remotely removed they are from Reality and the thoughts of the vast majority of Americans.
Recall the August Democrat National Convention. At which they wrote down an updated version of their Party Platform.
For Democrats, there is no God in 2012 — at least as far as the party's platform is concerned.
Nor is there a Jerusalem.
Democrats removed those two words, and the passages surrounding them, from the 2012 party platform as it was released this week.
Gone are three sentences identifying Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, now and forever. There is no mention of Jerusalem in the 2012 document…
Also gone is this reference to Hamas:
The United States and its Quartet partners should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel's right to exist, and abides by past agreements.
You can see why Democrats want to avoid at all costs putting pen to paper.
Under tremendous post-publication pressure, the Party Elders retroactively ramrodded God and Jerusalem back in – to much consternation and booing from the Democrat rank and file. (Though according to the 2012 Democrats Hamas is laughingly now a terrorism-free organization.)
These were not the only troubling portions of the updated Platform.
Because we have no Democrat budget upon which to base our analysis, their Platform economic emphases is just about all with which we have to work. And here, too, they are most troubling.
Take their Technology Plank (please). They throw the word "freedom" around a good bit – but as The Princess Bride's Inigo Montoya observed:
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Here it is en toto:
The Obama administration has led the world to recognize and defend Internet freedom – the freedom of expression, assembly, and association online for people everywhere – through coalitions of countries and by empowering individuals with innovative technologies.
The administration has built partnerships to support an Internet that is secure and reliable and that is respectful of U.S. intellectual property, free flow of information, and privacy.
To preserve the Internet as a platform for commerce, debate, learning, and innovation in the 21st century, we successfully negotiated international Internet policymaking principles, support the current multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, and oppose the extension of intergovernmental controls over the Internet.
As with the Democrats' non-existent budgets, what they don't write is at least as important as what they do. There is absolutely no mention of the radical Network Neutrality.
Which fundamentally undermines their alleged commitment to defend "freedom of expression, assembly, and association online for people everywhere." Which the Obama Administration – with the active backing of his Democrats – illegally jammed into existence in December 2010.
US Ambassador: Internet Fee Proposal Gaining Momentum
U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer warned on Friday that a proposal to give a United Nations agency more control over the Internet is gaining momentum in other countries….
(A) proposal by the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association could force websites like Google, Facebook and Netflix to pay fees to network operators around the world.
Which sort of undermines this portion of the Democrat Platform:
The Obama administration has led the world to recognize and defend Internet freedom…through coalitions of countries….
To preserve the Internet as a platform for commerce, debate, learning, and innovation in the 21st century, we successfully negotiated international Internet policymaking principles, support the current multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, and oppose the extension of intergovernmental controls over the Internet.
Obviously those "coalitions of countries" aren't quite coalescing the way President Obama and his Democrats claim.
As with almost all things Democrat these days, this Platform Plank is airy, breezy and almost completely devoid of substance.
Contrast this mess with the Republicans' Tech Platform language. Which in three short paragraphs specifically calls for (amongst other things):
- An abolition of Net Neutrality.
- A rewrite of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
- A dramatically reduced regulatory role (or elimination thereof?) for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). And…
- An inventory of government spectrum holdings to facilitate the delivery of more to the private sector for commercial use. (Spectrum is the airwaves we use for all things wireless – the feds by some estimates hold 60+% of this finite resource.)
The Democrats' lack of any of this sort of specificity is the height of incompetence. Or corrupt neglect. In order to again hide their ever more radical intentions.
It is time to remove them from positions that allow them to impose their unexpressed will.


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HUNDREDS of bikers will be roaring through Oxfordshire next weekend to raise money for a different mode of transport – the county's air ambulance.
Nearly 200 motorbike enthusiasts will rev up for the Ride the County event.
They will move between four checkpoints across Oxfordshire to raise money for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance.
Organiser Paul Long, from Witney, said: "Traditionally, air ambulances are bikers' favourite charity.
"Because you're often on windy roads in rural areas, and if you're unfortunate enough to have an accident you may well become a customer of the air ambulance.
"The idea is if you support it you'll never need it.
"There are going to be checkpoints in Banbury, Thame, Burford and Didcot.
"Riders can start wherever is convenient for them, and they can work out their own routes. So long as they make it around the four checkpoints they can do what they like."
Bikers have to make a minimum donation of £10 to join the ride, and after completing the course can go to biker meeting point H-Cafe near Berinsfield for a raffle.
Mr Long, a distribution manager, said: "We have got almost 100 people signed up so far, and our initial target was 50.
"We'll easily surpass 200 people on the day. We've had a lot of interest and so many people sign up at the last minute.
"We currently have riders coming from Birmingham, London and the West Country as well as local entrants."
The 50-year-old added: "We've currently raised £1,500, but we want to get together £2,500 which would pay for one air ambulance flight."
The helicopter, affectionately know as BOB because it serves Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, is funded entirely by donations.
The ambulance's fundraising manager Tiffany Sadler said: "It's always amazing that people want to put on events of this scale to support us.
"Bikers describe us as a guardian angel, because so many of the community have used our vital services."
Biker Craig Course was saved by the air ambulance after he was hit by a car in February 2012 and taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. His leg had been crushed, he had a bleed in his brain and he lost more than four pints of blood.
The Milton Keynes resident said: "Being airlifted to the John Radcliffe Hospital is the key reason that I still have my leg.
"Milton Keynes Hospital didn't really have the speciality to deal with my injuries, but the surgeon at the John Radcliffe did.
"I do sometimes think about what would have happened if the air ambulance wasn't there."
The Ride the County event is on Saturday, May 17. Checkpoints open at 9am and close between 3pm and 4pm, with the H-Cafe raffle taking place at 4.30pm.


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Commerce's director of community improvement Lee Chastain is hospitalized in the burn unit at Cobb Medical Center following a mishap at a bonfire over the weekend.
City manager Pete Pyrzenski told his city council Monday night that a gasoline can caught on fire and Chastain suffered third-degree burns to his face, arms and legs.
"He was taken to the burn center and he had emergency surgery today," Pyrzenski said.
Chastain underwent a skin graft, Pyrzenski explained.
"He's in tremendous pain," he said. "It is pretty hard for him."
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale football team, which kept its hopes alive for a piece of the Ivy League title with a win last week, plays in Manhattan this Saturday. The Bulldogs (2-4, 1-2 Ivy) take on Columbia (1-5, 0-3) at 12:30 in a game that can be seen on YES Network and heard on WELI (AM-960, weli.com) and wybcx.com (student).
Yale has won nine straight and holds a 68-18-2 lead over Columbia, its most commanding advantage over any league team. The Blue is 33-9-0 on the road and 35-9-2 at home against the Light Blue.
RB Mordecai Cargill (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) ran for 230 yards and two scores as Yale earned its first road win of the year by beating Columbia 16-13 in a snowstorm at Wien Stadium. The heavy snow and gusty winds prevented either team from having any success in the air (111 combined yards), but the Bulldog offensive line plowed a path for Yale runners who combined for 276 yards. A four-yard Cargill run early in the fourth put Yale up 16-0, but the Elis still had to hang on in the end for a second straight year. Lions' QB Sean Brackett fired a 26-yard TD pass to Zack McKown at 8:54 of the fourth, and Mike Stephens caught a four-yard scoring pass at 4:04 to make things scary two days from Halloween.
Junior DE Beau Palin (Oconomowoc, Wis.) had two sacks among his six solo tackles and freshman DB Cole Champion (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) made 11 tackles as Yale handed Penn its first league loss, 27-13. The Elis lost their starting QB early in the game and used two other signal-callers to register the win. After a scoreless opening quarter, the Quakers got on the board first before surrendering the next 17 straight points. Yale TB Tyler Varga led all rushers with 96 yards on 26 runs while catching two passes and running back kickoffs. His efforts helped set up the two longest field goals of Philippe Panico's college career, from 43 and 42 yards. Another Bulldog with a big day was WR Cameron Sandquist, who grabbed nine passes for 57 yards.
Freshman QB Eric Williams (Portland, Ore.) ran the first series for Yale and the first two plays of the second before getting knocked out of the game. Classmate Logan Scott (8 for 11, 64 yards) came in, completed a third-down pass (6 yards short of the first down) and then left the game until late in the second quarter. Scott, the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, engineered an 11-play, 59-yard drive over the last two minutes of the half, including a four-yard TD pass to Henry Furman, to put the Blue up 10-7. The rest of the snaps were handled by senior Derek Russell.
Visiting Dartmouth connected on a scoring pass with under two minutes left in the fourth quarter and the Big Green picked off a Sean Brackett pass with 27 seconds left in a 21-16 Lions loss last week at Wien Stadium. Dartmouth had the edge in every offensive category, but penalties and turnovers kept it from putting the game away.
The Lions did not allow Yale to complete a pass in a 1954 game but still lost 13-7... Columbia blanked a Yale team in 1961 (11-0) that was coming off an undefeated campaign. It was the fourth and last shutout of the Bulldogs by the Lions... Columbia QB Marty Domres, a future NFL QB, threw for 326 yards in 1966 for the Lions in a losing (44-21) effort... Yale QB Pete Doherty '67 connected on a school-record five TD passes in 1966 (44-21 Yale win)... Yale and NFL great Dick Jauron '73 scampered 87 yards for the deciding score in a 28-14 win over Columbia in 1972... Ryan LoProto '02 scored on two interceptions, including one from 67 yards, as Yale won 41-0 in 2000.
There were a number of "firsts" other than the initial Ivy and home wins last Saturday. Derek Russell, playing QB for the first time at Yale (other than fakes), ran for his first collegiate TD. QB Logan Scott and WR Henry Furman hooked up on the first career TDs for both. Senior LB Brian Leffler notched his first career interception, returning it 47 yards before getting stopped just shy of the end zone.
Nine different Yale offensive players caught a pass in each of the last three games. Fourteen have receptions this fall with five in double digits. Six offensive Bulldogs have caught TD passes, including two each from WR Cameron Sandquist and TE Michael Leunen.
Senior WR Derek Russell (Newton, Mass.) is the team's top holder for kicks, a backup receiver and sees other special teams action. When Yale's starting quarterback went down with an injury on the game's third series last week, Russell took over as the QB before completing 13 of 20 passes, including a score, and running the ball 11 times for 61 yards and a TD as Yale knocked off Penn 27-13 at Yale Bowl. The former high school QB connected with HB Elijah Thomas on a four-yard scoring play in the third quarter to put the Bulldogs up 17-7 and then added the clinching TD on a three-yard run in the fourth. Russell has been a patient and loyal Bulldog, waiting for three years to make an impact for the varsity. Russell, who passed for 2,100 yards and 21 TDs his senior year at Newton South High, has bounced around different positions at Yale before settling into his first collegiate varsity role this fall. At Cornell he caught three passes for 27 yards. Against Dartmouth he completed one of two passes on fourth-down plays, including a fourth-down, 18-yard score to Dylan Drake on special teams in the second quarter. Russell's brother, Sam, is a linebacker doing a post-graduate year at Cheshire (Conn.) Academy this year.
Senior LB Will McHale (Old Greenwich, Conn.) leads the Blue with 29 solo, 46 overall tackles. McHale, who has started 26 straight games since his sophomore year, has 180 career tackles and three interceptions. He was second-team All-Ivy last fall. The 6-foot-1, 236-pound defensive leader with Sunday football potential comes from a college football family. Both his father and grandfather played at Notre Dame.
Yale sophomore Tyler Varga (Kitchener, Ont.) is less than a yard from the Ivy's leader in rushing yards per game, Harvard senior Trevor Scales (103.3). Varga leads the league in all-purpose yards (192, 3rd in FCS) and is second in kickoff yards. Varga has rushed for over 100 yards in three of five games. He is the first newcomer to run for triple digits in his Yale debut since Mike McLeod in 2005. Varga, who played at the University of Western Ontario in 2011, had a season-high two TDs in the season opener at Georgetown. The 5-foot-11, 220-pound back was a star track & field (sprinter, triple jump, thrower) athlete who also competed in swimming, basketball and baseball. Varga was a star regional sprinter and jumper, but injured his leg and was convinced by his coach to help the team by throwing the shot (45', 6.5") and javelin (110').
Varga's 2012 Season
Opponent Rush Yds TD Rec Yds KOR
Georgetown 21-103 2 1-6 3-65
Cornell 13-91 0 3-9 4-93
Colgate 21-125 2 3-31 3-119
Dartmouth DNP
Lafayette 23-100 0 2-17 3-73
Penn 26-96 0 2-15 1-21
Totals 104-515 4 11-78 14-371
Senior RB Mordecai Cargill (Cleveland, Ohio) has bounced back from a game-two injury to run for 237 yards over the last three games, including a 7.0 average against Lafayette and a 6.1 clip vs. Penn. Cargill had Yale's longest (15) run against the Quakers, a big play in the fourth quarter that helped clinch the win. He is Yale's active career rushing leader with 1,449 yards.
Junior WR Cameron Sandquist leads the team with 35 catches and 368 yards this season, including a career-best 10 catches against Colgate. He entered the season with 21 career grabs and kicked off 2012 with a bang. In the opener at Georgetown, he connected on a school-record, 98-yard pass play in the second quarter. Sandquist, who has six career TD grabs, scored on his first two collegiate receptions as a freshman in 2010 against Columbia. He is equally famous for his role as shortstop on the 2004 Little League World Series Northwest (Redmond LL) Team.
Freshman DB Cole Champion (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) has worked his way into a starting safety spot and notched a career-high nine solos (10 overall) against Lafayette. He followed that with 8-3-11 vs. Penn and is second on the team with 29-12-41 for the season while leading the Blue with four pass breakups. Champion was an all-state football linebacker and lacrosse midfielder at St. Thomas Aquinas High. He is the school's career tackles leader and helped them earn "national championships" in 2008 (with current teammate LB Dylan Drake '13) and 2010. He has played on stages as big as Cowboys Stadium and against opponent running backs as talented as South Carolina's Marcus Lattimore and Florida State's James Wilder. Not surprisingly, nine of his former teammates are playing Division I football, five in the FBS and four Ivy Leaguers. His father, Gregg Champion, played football at New Hampshire.
Senior PK Philippe Panico (Boston, Mass.) split the uprights twice against Penn including a career-long 43-yarder on the way to Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week honors. His other boot was from 42 and he now has five field goals this fall. He has made 19 three-pointers and has 111 points over four seasons.
Sophomore Kyle Cazzetta (Slate Hill, N.Y.) had his best outing this fall with four punts and a 43.0 average that included a 52-yarder.
The 27 points last week were a season-high… The Elis had 23 completions last week but the longest pass went for 19 yards… Brian Leffler's interception was Yale's first since game one at Georgetown (Collin Bibb)… Yale's 16 fourth-down conversion attempts top the league… Last Saturday was Yale's longest (3:28) game of the year… Yale's current seniors can cross off one team they have yet to beat after winning last week; only Harvard remains.
Tony Reno, the Joel E. Smilow'54 Head Coach of Yale football, is in his first head coaching position after cutting his teeth in the Ivy League the last nine seasons. He was a Bulldog assistant under Jack Siedlecki (2002-08) and coached for the Crimson the last three falls. This isn't the first time an Italian-American, former Bulldog assistant in his mid 30s took over the Yale program. Carm Cozza did it in 1965 and amassed an Ivy record 179 wins 32 years later.
The Yale roster included 111 names when players reported to campus on Aug. 15. Seventeen Elis have dropped off that roster since, primarily due to injury. Yale's 94 players are the fewest on an Ivy League roster this fall.
Each week the Yale football team elects someone to be its "team leader" for that Saturday. Here are the Bulldogs who have earned the most respect of their teammates that week.
Game Player
Georgetown RB Mordecai Cargill '13
Cornell DB Collin Bibb '13
Colgate DB John Powers '13
Dartmouth OL Roy Collins '13
Lafayette DB Kurt Stottlemyer '13
Penn NG Chris Dooley '13
Freshman Eric Williams (Portland, Ore.) is learning how to play quarterback at the college level the old fashioned way. He's getting knocked down (left Penn game with injury), learning from his mistakes and figuring out the defenses and tempo of the new level while having some success thinking on his feet. Against Colgate, he rushed for 114 yards (threw for 171) to become the first Yale QB to rush for triple digits since Sept. 21, 2002. Williams has completed better than 63 percent of his passes for 1,034 yards in six games. Williams, the brother of Yale football players Scott '13 and Sean '11, and the son of former NFL player, Larry (Browns, Patriots, Saints, Chargers), became Yale's first freshman starter behind center since Mike McClellan '01 (first Eli rookie QB to start a varsity game since World War II) in the 1997 season opener at home against Brown. Williams was the starting QB at Jesuit High School in Portland for two years before his family moved, and he spent his senior campaign at St. Ignatius near Cleveland. One of the assistant coaches on the St. Ignatius team was former Yale captain Rory Hennessey '05.
Williams in 2012
Com. Att. Yds TD Int.
Georgetown 19 30 250 1 3
Cornell 27 37 211 1 2
Colgate 21 40 171 2 3
Dartmouth 17 24 181 1 0
Lafayette 23 34 209 1 4
Penn 1 4 12 0 0
Total 108 169 1024 6 12
Seven players have seen most of the action, including one senior, three juniors, two sophomores and a freshman. The senior is RT Roy Collins (6-5, 266, Carbondale, Ill.). The juniors are LT Wes Gavin (6-6, 286, San Diego, Calif.), C John Oppenheimer (6-0, 264, Menlo Park, Calif.) and LT Kyle White (6-7, 268, Pompton Plains, NJ). The sophomores are RG Ben Carbery (6-5, 287, Oak Park, Ill.) and LG William Chism (6-3, 277, Ridgeland, Miss.), while the lone newcomer was RG Luke Longinotti (6-4, 265, Burlingame, Calif.). Gavin and Carbery combined to win freshman MVP honors the last two years.
Two tight ends and two defensive tackles have been moved over to solidify this unit over the past few years. Here are some notes on Yale offensive linemen.
LT Wes Gavin's father, Bob, ran the two-mile event at the Missouri High School State Championships and the marathon during the 1975 Kansas Relays. He and his wife are under 5-foot-8. Their son was named scholar-athlete by the San Diego chapter of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame while also throwing the shot and discus in high school. He had offers from SDSU, Portland State, the military academies and the rest of the Ivy League … C John Oppenheimer, who moved over from the defense his sophomore year, played both sides of the line in high school. His father, Peter Oppenheimer, is Apple's senior vice president and Chief Financial Officer… RT Roy Collins, who was a prep star at Choate Rosemary Hall, came to Yale as a TE. He was in the New Haven chapter of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame. Collins is a type 1 diabetic who wears an insulin pump during practices and games. His first cousin, Gerome Sapp, played at Notre Dame and then with the Colts and the Ravens (2003-2007). His mother's cousin, Burgess Owens, played at the University of Miami and with the Jets and Raiders (1973-1982)… LG Wiliam Chism owns a fire wood business back home in Mississippi. His father, Brad Chism, played football at Millsap College and was a Rhodes Scholar. He is President of Zata|3 Consulting, a Washington, D.C.-based direct voter contact firm. The younger Chism had offers from every Ivy school and several other FCS institutions… RG Ben Carbery was a National Merit finalist and the captain of his high school's Scholastic Bowl team, which finished 17th at the 2010 National Academic Quiz Tournament national championship (he was 8th in the individual competition). He is the son of Paul '83 and Sherry '83 Carbery. His aunt, Patti Carbery '86, played basketball and softball at Yale.
Senior DB John Powers (Hamden, Conn.) was in the middle of his fourth season as a force on special teams and in the defensive backfield when he suffered a serious arm injury against Dartmouth that could end his college career. Powers, a former star quarterback at Hopkins School in New Haven, is not thinking that way. "I have a hunch I have not played my last snap," said Powers, who has 15 solos and 26 overall tackles this year.
The starting QB is a newcomer and the top two ground gainers are also first-year Bulldogs. Twenty-five percent of the team's receptions are from new players. While the class of 2016 has only two players making a lot of tackles this fall, you can still say the Bulldog newcomers have made a major impact. There are an unprecedented 11 new guys on the Yale two-deep depth chart. Fifteen newcomers were on the travel squad the first two weeks, and there have been times with four first-year players on offense at the same time.
Nobody saw this coming… until the Tigers blanked Brown 19-0 two weeks ago. Princeton trailed Harvard 20-0 and 34-10 but roared back to win by scoring 29 straight points and now are alone atop the league standings. Don't forget that the guys from Old Nassau were picked last by the Ivy media. Brown beat Cornell, 21-14, in the other Ivy game. This week, Princeton is at Cornell (12:30), Brown is at Penn (1:00) and Harvard is at Dartmouth (5:00).
All of Yale's non-league games were against Patriot League squads this fall. The Blue beat Georgetown and lost to Colgate and Lafayette. Those schools are a combined 12-10 this fall.
Three Bulldogs were honored after week one of the season, one from the Ivy and the other from the website collegefootballperformance.com.
Ivy League:
RB Tyler Varga (Sept. 15), Rookie of the Week
PK Philippe Panico (Oct. 20) Special Teams Player of Week
QB Logan Scott (Oct. 20) Rookie of the Week
LB Will McHale, WR Cameron Sandquist (Sept. 15)
RB Tyler Varga (Sept. 29)
DE Beau Palin (Oct. 20)
These players had performances worth noting each week, but did not have the numbers to get player of the week.
Date Player Pos.
Sept. 17 Will McHale LB
Cameron Sandquist WR
Sept. 24 Austin Reuland WR
Oct. 1 Tyler Varga RB
Oct. 8 Eric Williams QB
Oct. 15 Chris Dooley DL
Yale Football has a new player lounge on the third floor of Ray Tompkins House replete with couches, tables, desks, games, TVs and life-sized images on the walls.
The Yale helmets have a slight "retro" look this fall with a change in the "Y" on the sides. Instead of having the "Y" outlined with a white line and then an outer blue edge, a thinner blue "Y" now stands alone, showcasing the look from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
The 100th anniversary of Yale Bowl will be celebrated during the 2014 season. Planning for the celebration has just begun. The bulk of the activity will take place on Sept. 27 when the Bulldogs host Army for the first time since 1988 (last meeting was 1996).
For the second straight fall, the Elis hosted Dartmouth and play at Columbia. According to the league, the Ivy schedule format changed in 2008. In order to make the necessary changes and follow the scheduling parameters, these two game sites had to remain for a second straight year.
There are 3,543 names of Yale football players listed on 345 stones in Jensen Plaza outside Yale Bowl. The names include the first Bulldog squad in 1872 through the class of 2012.
Former Yale QB Stone Phillips '77, who anchored NBC's Dateline for 15 years, launched a new website this fall, stonephillipsreports.com... Ex-Eli captain Rory Hennessey '05 is the founder of Altum Athletico, LLC, a U.S. shoe company that has a "barefoot" design... Two former Yale receivers are coaches on the 2012 Vanderbilt University football squad. Bob Shoop '88, a 24-year veteran of college coaching, is the defensive coordinator. Chandler Henley '06, the captain of the 2006 Ivy Champions, is a graduate assistant coach… 2009 Yale captain Paul Rice '10 is a graduate assistant football coach at Georgia Tech… Former OL Kyle Metzler '03 is the tight ends coach for Dartmouth... Former Eli QB Bob Verduzco '90 is a first-year offensive coordinator for the Galesburg-Augusta (Mich.) High School football team that ended a 32-game losing streak on Sept. 20.
Dez Duron '13, a former reserve Yale QB and the team's best singer, took a leave from school last year to pursue a spot on NBC's hit singing show The Voice. He was selected this fall by Christina Aguilera to compete on her team. Despite that, the Bulldogs voted him the "best singer" on the team this fall.
Dartmouth owns the most Ivy League titles since league play officially began in 1956. Yale and Harvard trail Penn by one for second.
No. Team Last Title
17 Dartmouth 1996
15 Penn 2010
14 Yale 2006
14 Harvard 2011
9 Princeton 2006
4 Brown 2008
3 Cornell 1990
1 Columbia 1961
Yale has gone four straight seasons without a tie after regulation time. The Elis are 4-3 in OT games overall since its first, a 34-31 loss at Penn in 2003.The last OT game was a 26-20, triple-extra-session win at Penn in 2007.
Tony Reno, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Yale Football, and some of his players are at the world famous Mory's (306 York Street) every Tuesday (Sept. 11 through Nov. 12) at noon for the Dick Galiette Yale Football Media Luncheon. This event is limited to media only. Please contact Yale Sports Publicity Director Steve Conn (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you would like to attend. The following Yale players have attended the luncheon: Chris Dooley, Mordecai Cargill (Georgetown); Eric Williams, John Powers (Cornell) and Allen Davis, William Chism and Cole Champion (Colgate) and Ryan Falbo, Roy Collins and Grant Wallace (Dartmouth), Cameron Sandquist and Blake Thomson (Lafayette) and Kurt Stottlemyer and Michael Leunen (Penn).
All five home games this season are video streamed on yalebulldogs.com through Yale's All Access with Ron Vaccaro (follow @yalevoice on Twitter for Yale football updates)
and Carm Cozza providing the call for both All Access and WELI Radio. All home games are live broadcasts except for Penn.
A recent tradition continues with Yale football radio broadcasts in 2012. Every third quarter, home and away, Vaccaro and Cozza are joined by a former Yale player on WELI. Here's who has been on this fall: Dave Sheronas '93 and Dan Urban '93 (Georgetown), Gary Wilhelm '74 (Cornell), Jake Stoller '12 (Colgate), Rory Hennessey '05 (Dartmouth), Kevin Callahan '91 (Lafayette) and Chris Denny-Brown '07 (Penn) with Patrick Witt (Columbia), Ralph Plumb (Brown), Steve Skrovan (Princeton) and Fred Danforth (Harvard) to follow.
To hear a Yale student broadcast of Yale football games, tune into wybcx.com. Each pre-game show includes an interview with Tony Reno.
The Bulldogs, off on Mondays, are on the field from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday behind the baseball stadium. Fridays are walk-through days either at Yale Bowl or on the road and times vary. Players and coaches are available for interviews with working media following the practice if there is no student-athlete scheduling conflicts. All schedules are subject to change.
Yale on YES includes three broadcasts this fall on the YES Network. The YES games are Columbia, Brown and Princeton. This is the fifth straight fall the Bulldogs appear on the network home for New York Yankees baseball. YES broadcaster Chris Shearn handles the play-by-play, with color commentary coming from former Yale defensive back Jack Ford '72, a well-known author and TV personality, and ex-National Football League and Princeton lineman Ross Tucker.
Yale football airs live on NBC Sports Network three times this fall. The Cornell, Penn and Harvard games will be shown by the TV group previously branded as VERSUS. The studio team of Liam McHugh, Doug Flutie and Hines Ward provide pre- and post-game coverage on NBC and/or NBC Sports Network every Saturday of the college football season. The NBC Sports Network has televised 17 Ivy League football matchups featuring all eight schools over the past four (2008-11) seasons.
While schools are getting away from producing "media guides," both printed and digital, most of the information you once got with the Yale media guide is still available upon request or by looking on yalebulldogs.com. The following links are available on the football home page.
- Team Records
- Individual Records
- Game, Season, Career Bests
- Timeline
- Yale's Head Coaches
- First-Team All-Ivy Selections
- All-Time Lettermen
- Year-by-Year Results
- Bulldogs in the NFL
- All-American Selections
The Yale Bowl press box has a taste of New Haven with Yorkside Pizza & Restaurant serving slices, pasta and salad to the media on home Saturdays.
Yale was the first football team of any type to reach 800 wins when it beat Dayton 42-6 on Sept. 16, 2000. It wasn't hard for Michigan (900th win vs. MSU, Oct. 20) to catch up playing three or four games more than Yale each season. The Bulldogs are second with 871 victories.
Shane Bannon '11 (Chiefs) and Jake Stoller '12 (Steelers) were in NFL Camps right up to the start of the 2012 regular season. Bannon, an H-Back on the Kansas City practice squad in 2011, suffered an injury midway through this year's camp before being released. Stoller, a defensive lineman, made it all the way to the final day of teams reporting their regular-season rosters.
Three former Bulldogs are coaching in the NFL this season. Dick Jauron '73, who has spent 34 years in the NFL as a player (25 interceptions, Detroit & Cincinnati) and coach, is in his second year as the defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns. He has also coached in Jacksonville, Green Bay, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo and Philadelphia. Jauron, the 2001 AP Coach of the Year with the Bears, was an NFL head coach three times, most recently with the Bills (2006-09). Pat Graham '01, a former Yale tight end and defensive lineman, is a defensive assistant coach for the New England Patriots. He is in his fourth season at Foxboro. Graham, a Waterbury, Conn., native, was a member of Yale's 1999 Ivy title team. Michael McDaniel '05 is in his sixth NFL campaign and second with the Washington Redskins. He also coached the Houston Texans and Denver Broncos.
Yale, which last played in the Golden State in 2005 at the University of San Diego, has another trip to California planned. On Oct. 5, 2013, the Bulldogs play against Cal Poly Tech (San Luis Obispo), ranked No. 12/13 in the latest FCS polls. The Mustangs are 7-0 overall and 5-0 in the Big Sky Conference. The only two games the Blue has played on the West Coast were against USD.
After four straight home games, the Elis have a second straight road game with a 12:30 kick at Brown.
The annual survey of Bulldogs produced the anticipated results; Yale is a team full of leaders who produced as much off the field as they did on it. Here is the 2012 breakdown.
50 players were captains of their high school football team
35 players were captains of another sport in high school
41 players were a national honors society member
4 players were class president at their high school
4 players were student body president at their high school
5 players were class valedictorian at their high school
4 players were class salutatorian at their high school
The following Yalies have distinguished themselves according to a vote by their teammates.
OL William Chism (So, Ridgeland, Miss.)… most humorous
TE Michael Leunen (Jr, Portland, Ore.)… most intelligent
TB Mordecai Cargill (Sr, Cleveland, Ohio)… most vocal leader (not captain)
DB John Powers (Sr, Hamden, Conn.)… most likely to be U.S. President
DE Beau Palin (Jr, Oconomowoc, Wis.)… most interesting activity (Capt. America, water skiing)
DE Allen Davis (Sr, Grand Praire, Texas)… best singer
DB Collin Bibb (Sr, San Antonio, Texas)… strongest player (pound-for-pound)
DE Beau Palin (Jr, Oconomowoc, Wis.)… most involved in community outreach
"Inside Ivy League Football" runs all 10 Wednesdays of the season at 7 p.m. on BlogTalkRadio.com (blogtalkradio.com/inside ivyleaguefootball). It will be available on-demand via BlogTalkRadio and IvyLeagueSports.com. Fans and alumni can interact with "Inside" via its social media platforms -- Facebook (Inside Ivy League Football) and Twitter (@insideivyfb) -- as well as provide ideas and content for the show's 'Twitter Talk/Facebook Fodder' segment. Selected episodes will feature Ivy football trivia with chances to win Ivy League-branded merchandise or a gift certificate to the League's official online store at shop.ivyleaguesports.com. The show will be hosted by two veteran Ivy broadcasters, Dan Loney and Brian Seltzer.
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"Friends" co-creator Marta Kauffman has spoken out to debunk rumors suggesting the stars of the hit sitcom have been secretly hatching plans for a TV reunion.
The hugely successful comedy, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry, came to an end in 2004 after 10 seasons on air, but the show was back in the headlines this week as reports suggested bosses at NBC network were putting together plans for a 2014 comeback.
However, co-creator Kauffman has now stepped up to silence the gossip, insisting a new season is not in the works.
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Purdue looks to connect with more high-tech companies for Interns for Indiana program
February 18, 2013
Suresh Garimella
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University is recruiting high-tech startup and second-stage companies across the state to participate in the Interns for Indiana program.
The companies are matched with high-quality undergraduate student interns through the Purdue program, led by the Discovery Learning Research Center. Interns are placed with companies based on the potential for a quality experience for students, the opportunity for on-the-job growth and future employment, and the company's specific needs.
"Interest in the model program continues to surge, particularly from innovative startup companies all across Indiana and from entrepreneurially minded students looking to position themselves for quality jobs after graduation," said Suresh Garimella, Purdue associate vice president for engagement and the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor.
Purdue's Interns for Indiana program is partially funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc. Participating companies are required to provide a $2,000 membership fee to help cover a portion of student and program costs, said Monica Shively, coordinator for the Interns for Indiana program.
Companies partnering with the Interns for Indiana summer program are matched with Purdue juniors and seniors who work a minimum of 400 hours during the summer session, and who receive a stipend of $4,500 for successful participation, she said.
"Recognizing the constrained financial resources of most startup and second-stage companies, especially during a tough economy, the program attempts to keep company costs for skilled interns as low as possible," Shively said.
Each July, the companies and students are recognized in a celebration luncheon and poster session at the Hall for Discovery and Learning Research in Purdue's Discovery Park. At the poster celebration, participants gain greater understanding of the program's scope and statewide impact.
"In every case, interactions with the interns through this Purdue program have moved projects forward or allowed us to begin to explore new projects while reducing costs," said David Gilmartin, chief financial officer and operations manager at Mor-NuCo LLC in West Lafayette.
March 6 is the deadline for the companies to apply for summer 2013 interns. For details, go to http://www.purdue.edu/dp/ifi
Companies participating in Purdue's Interns for Indiana Program must meet the following requirements:
* High-tech startup or second-stage status.
* For-profit status.
* Located in Indianapolis or near the Purdue campuses in West Lafayette, Calumet, North Central Indiana or Fort Wayne.
* Able to define and manage an appropriate and challenging internship experience.
* Provide entrepreneurial experience through regular in-person interactions.
* Contribute a $2,000 membership fee.
To participate in the program, students from the West Lafayette or regional campuses must be:
* Juniors and seniors enrolled in first BA or BS degree program.
* From any undergraduate major.
* Interested in entrepreneurship.
* Have a minimum 2.8 GPA.
Launched in 2004, Interns for Indiana is designed to enhance student learning by facilitating practical hands-on experiences for all majors. Primarily funded by the Lilly Endowment, the program has matched more than 550 Purdue students with internships at more than 185 Indiana startup and second-stage companies and provided more than 200,000 combined hours of labor.
A key reason for creating the program was the "brain drain" issue facing the state, in which Indiana's talented college graduates leave in search of high-paying, high-tech jobs in large metropolitan cities, particularly on the East and West coasts, Shively says.
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CTS Triathlon School Kicks off in Sunny Tucson
By Jennifer Ward Barber
I've got a new winter training mantra: "When life gives you early-season lemons, climb Mt. Lemmon." Psychologists call this last week in January the most depressing week in the calendar year; for triathletes, this time can bring on a serious case of the training doldrums. With last season's successes behind us and this year's races still months away, many of us are starting to feel purposeless, lonely, and unstructured.
Before you call me Eeyore and stop reading, I've got good news: Carmichael Training Systems' new Tucson-based Triathlon School. This creative take on the traditional training camp might just be the happy pill you need to make it from tomorrow's treadmill session to your first race.
Steve Karlsson, Business Development Manager for CTS, said the program was partly inspired by what he calls "the Canadian connection." It's no secret that many Northerners travel south to train in the winter, and Triathlon School's open schedule (over a fixed camp) is a draw for many. Athletes can come for a week, or stay for a month or more. "We do camps really well," Karlsson said. "This is just another area where we can continue to grow."
It worked for me, anyway. Last week I threw my bike in the back of my car, brewed up a good cup of coffee, and headed out on a solo road trip to the desert. I came back this week inspired and itching to race.
I arrived hungry, and while dragging my suitcase up the stairs of the condo that would be my home for four days was greeted with a question: "Pan-seared salmon with green pea risotto?" I dropped my stuff, and sat down at the kitchen table as the affable camp chef Ken Montaney whipped up my dinner. Fellow participants John Atkins and Brandon Ordway brought me up to speed on the camp structure as I dug into my warm meal.
"I've been posting pictures and making all my friends back home jealous," Ordway, a St. Paul, Minnesota resident said. Needless to say, he'd been eager to get off his his bike trainer and hit the pavement. After dinner and getting to know my training mates, I unpacked, laid out my things for our morning ride, and was off to bed.
After coffee and breakfast the next morning we headed to the garage where our bikes were being safely stored. Russ, our mechanic and SAG support, had thought of everything: our tires were pumped, and bottles of GU Roctane sat at the ready. With a few extra layers to keep the early-morning chill at bay, we set out for a three-hour endurance ride with a group of CTS coaches. Stopping periodically for refreshers on cadence or to refill our bottles at the CTS van that trailed us, the ride was an enjoyable yet heart-pumping introduction to the cycling-friendly roads of Tucson.
A 30 minute brick run capped off our workout, and we were greeted at the condos with cold recovery shakes and a hot lunch. After showers and a few hours of downtime, we were whisked off to CTS headquarters for a strength and conditioning session that left us never wanting to hear the word plank again. Back at the condos, Ken cheerfully prepared steak, sauteed veggies, and polenta.
"I could get used to this," I thought to myself.
The following days unfolded similarly: There were early-morning sunrise swims under exacting coach Natalie Boyko, an exhilarating canyon run, sessions teaching us how to go easy, interval and strength workouts, yoga, and, of course, Mount Lemmon. (By the time I reached the top of this 7,000 feet cycling milestone, race anticipation had started to make me giddy. I blamed it on the elevation.) There were many more great meals by Ken (AKA: the Calorie King), massages by Agave Therapy's Caryn Fraser ( when you're in town, she's superb), and open Q&A sessions with various CTS coaches at the main athlete house. (With a repeating weekly schedule, athletes simply jump in on the training whenever they arrive.)
Lemmon-ade, I tell you. If cold and snow and treadmills and trainers are getting you down, consider trading cruises and pina coladas for a week with these guys. You'll have access to some of the best coaches in the sport and enjoy wide open days to run and ride through one of the country's prettiest ecosystems. You'll be stretched out of your comfort (and heartrate) zones by fellow triathletes, and surrounded by a team that treats you like a pro. Part personal retreat and part training camp, Triathlon School belongs on any Ironman athletes' winter calendar.
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have lost starting outside linebackers Sam Acho and Lorenzo Alexander for the season, and safety Rashad Johnson has lost the tip of a finger for good.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals have lost starting outside linebackers Sam Acho and Lorenzo Alexander for the season, and safety Rashad Johnson has lost the tip of a finger for good.
Acho broke a leg and Alexander sustained a season-ending foot injury in Arizona's 31-7 loss at New Orleans on Sunday.
Johnson doesn't know how the tip of his left middle finger was severed during the game, but says it was probably the most painful injury of his career. Still, with the finger — now about the same length as his index finger — shaved off and stitched up, there's a chance he could play Sunday against Tampa Bay.
The Cardinals placed Acho and Alexander on injured reserve Monday and elevated outside linebacker Donte Moch from the practice squad.
During #AZvsNO, #AZCardinals S @49foyamind49 lost the tip of his left middle finger. Here it is bandaged post-op. pic.twitter.com/0SPpZRpSJ0— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) September 23, 2013
Coach Bruce Arians talked about the injuries when he met with reporters at the team's hotel in Bradenton, Fla., where the Cardinals are practicing this week rather than returning from New Orleans and facing another long plane ride.
Acho broke his left fibula, Alexander tore a ligament on his right foot.
"Obviously, they're core people," Arians said. "They are both high energy guys and their energy will be missed as much as their play. As a football team, they will be hard to replace but somebody is going to have an opportunity to step up and do it."
Alexander said that he will have surgery Tuesday and will continue to stay with the team and help mentor the younger players. Matt Shaughnessy and John Abraham are behind Alexander on the depth chart. Alexander, a Pro Bowl special teams player, said he expects the team to also bring in additional help.
"I'm just going help coach up the younger guys and be another set of eyes for them," Alexander said. "I know I was brought in here for more than just playing football. I told the coaches I will be around because I heard when guys get hurt they can disappear.
"Hopefully, I can help speed up their learning curve. Anything I can do to support the guys and be a good teammate. This is just a temporary setback and I know Sam feels the same way."
With the Cardinals sitting at 1-2 and dealing with early-season struggles, the loss of two starters at the same position will be difficult to overcome. However, Arians said other players, such as Alex Okafor, a fourth-round pick in this year's draft, will have to step in.
While less serious, Johnson's injury was more bizarre.
He said he's not sure exactly how it happened.
Johnson said that while he was on punt coverage tackling New Orleans running back Darren Sproles, he believes that his finger was caught in the playing surface. Johnson missed the second half to get surgery and said his middle finger and index finger are now roughly the same size.
"I was more upset I couldn't return to the game than I was about my finger," Johnson said. "It was a 7-7 game at the time and I wanted to be out there with my teammates."
When he peeled off the blood-soaked glove, the tip of his finger stayed inside.
Johnson said the pain was pretty much the worst he's felt since he started playing football.
"I don't know if there is a word I can use to describe the pain," Johnson said. "To have someone chip away at your bone and dig into it to get to the point of where it can be covered up, it's pretty painful the day after."


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