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No conference excels at men's basketball and Championship Subdivision football like the Colonial Athletic Association. None. Moreover, from commissioner Tom Yeager down, the league teems with bright, engaging and honorable people.
Those are among the many reasons to hope the CAA's core members recommit to one another rather than splinter to other conferences of varying fits.
Sources are not optimistic. They fear CAA basketball pillars VCU and George Mason soon will bolt to the Atlantic 10. Those shifts, the sources suspect, would force others, such as Old Dominion, James Madison and William and Mary, to ponder moving.
As we've learned in the last several years, this is how realignment works. One or two conferences and schools get ambitious/greedy/bored and start trolling. Next thing you know, dominoes fall and leagues are decimated.
"This would be just another bad step in college athletics," a source said. "It's going to be a disaster. … We are just maiming ourselves. It makes no sense."
Bank on Yeager working OT to keep the family together, and not just for personal reasons. Because the CAA is worth saving.
Since 2003, conference schools have won four national football championships. Also in that span, three CAA teams were playoff runners-up.
Better yet, this isn't the work of a singular dynasty. This is a collective.
The national champions were Delaware, James Madison, Richmond and Villanova. Massachusetts and Delaware (twice) finished second.
Poor William and Mary. Twice the Tribe has reached the playoff final four, only to encounter a CAA rival – W&M lost to JMU in 2004 and Villanova in '09.
CAA basketball is equally collaborative. Naturally, Final Four runs by George Mason in 2006 and VCU in 2011 are most renowned, but that's hardly the extent of the league's postseason success.
Since 1988, CAA teams have won 18 NCAA tournament games. ODU bounced Notre Dame in 2010 and nearly did the same two days later to Baylor. Ditto 1995, when the Monarchs shocked Villanova in triple-overtime before falling to Tulsa.
UNC Wilmington upset Southern California in 2003, and former conference member Richmond defeated Georgia Tech and Indiana to reach the 1988 Sweet 16. Three years later, the Spiders became the first No. 15 seed to advance, dismissing No. 2 Syracuse.
In addition to their Final Four years, VCU and George Mason boast NCAA conquests of Duke and Villanova, respectively.
The future could be get-the-sunglasses bright as well. VCU has thrived during coaching transitions from Jeff Capel to Anthony Grant to Shaka Smart. George Mason and ODU also appear built for the long haul, while Drexel should be formidable next season at least.
In football, JMU. Delaware and New Hampshire are consistent forces, and fledgling ODU made the 2011 playoffs in only Year 3 of the program's revival.
Certainly Yeager is preaching these and other CAA virtues to the power brokers at George Mason and VCU. But what if the Patriots and Rams are convinced to join with the Horizon League's Butler to make the Atlantic 10 arguably college basketball's strongest conference outside the power six of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific 12 and Southeastern?
The answer is, no one knows for sure. But sources outlined many possibilities.
Premature and risky though it would be, JMU, ODU and Delaware might consider forming a new, all-sports Bowl Subdivision conference with the likes of Liberty (itching to upgrade from the Big South) and East Carolina (tired of life in geographically disparate Conference USA).
If such a league didn't materialize — hard to imagine ESPN shelling out for markets such as Lynchburg and Harrisonburg — ODU might angle for inclusion in the Atlantic 10, while hoping CAA football stays intact. Failing that, the Monarchs could join ECU in Conference USA, which figures to look dramatically different after impending realignments of the Western Athletic and Mountain West.
If George Mason, VCU and/or others bail, how might the CAA respond? Davidson, which reached the 2008 Elite Eight with Stephen Curry, would be one potential target.
Would William and Mary be content in a CAA that didn't include VCU, George Mason, JMU, ODU and Delaware? Would the Tribe's academic standards fit better with Patriot League schools such as Bucknell, Lehigh and Lafayette?
Here's hoping those questions never need answers, that Yeager can summon his inner Martin Brodeur and save the CAA.
David Teel can be reached at 247-4636 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more from Teel, read his blog at dailypress.com/sports/teeltime and follow him at twitter.com/DavidTeelatDP


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By examining the cognitive impact of the different judgment frameworks, this study provides academics, practitioners, and regulators with important insight into why counterfactual reasoning and a structured thought process differentially enhance auditors' professional skepticism.
Backof, A. G., E. M. Bamber and T. D. Carpenter. Do auditor judgment frameworks help in constraining aggressive reporting? Evidence under more precise and less precise accounting standards. Accounting, Organizations and Society 51: 1-11.
Valuators' judgment and decision making is currently unexplored. This study provides preliminary evidence on how valuators act in the presence of conflict of interest, and the need for conflict disclosures. The results of this study have implications for public accounting firms to the extent that they provide either fairness opinions and associated valuation judgments or are involved in some audit aspects related to mergers/acquisitions. This study contributes to accounting and psychology literature on conflict of interest disclosures and is the first study to test the biasing effects of conflict disclosure specifically targeting professionals performing familiar tasks. Further, this study extends existing literature of the topic by documenting that bias arising from disclosure of conflict of interest depends on whether the conflict of interest is aligned or misaligned with the client's interest. This study provides the first evidence that disclosure of conflict of interest causes bias in Client-Aligned, but not in a Client-Misaligned, conflict of interest setting.
Jamal, K., E. Marshall and H. Tan. 2016. Does Disclosure of Conflict of Interest Increase or Decrease Bias? Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 35 (2): 89-99.
"These findings demonstrate the complementary roles that professional standards and the audit firms' technical departments play in enhancing the quality of auditor's decisions, and indicate that the nature of advice matters." Furthermore, as asserted in its concluding remarks, this study highlights, "the role and limitations of in-house consultation and advice in enhancing auditors' decisions, and suggests that the nature of advice sought by, and presented to, auditors matters."
For more information on this study, please contact Terence Bu-Peow Ng.
Ng, T.B. and P. G. Shankar. 2010. Effects of Technical Department's Advice, Quality Assessment Standards, and Client Justification on Auditors' Propensity to Accept Client-Preferred Accounting Methods. The Accounting Review 85 (5): 1743-1761.
The results of this study are important for audit firms to consider when outlining best practices for their technical department. They highlight the role and limitations of in-house consultation and advice in enhancing auditors' decisions, and suggest that the nature of advice sought by, and presented to, auditors matters. Technical advice that merely reduces ambiguity may not be sufficient to counteract auditors' bias toward accepting client-preferred methods. In fact, such advice could lead to an unintended consequence of bolstering auditors' support for client-preferred methods. Explicit recommendations to use the most appropriate methods and reference to QAS should be included as well.
Ng, T.B. and P. G. Shankar. 2010. Effects of Technical Department's Advice, Quality Assessment Standards, and Client Justification on Auditors' Propensity to Accept Client-Preferred Accounting Methods. The Accounting Review 85 (5): 1743-1761.
The insights highlighted in this paper from research on audit groups/teams inform one's understanding of how best to design group interactions between auditors within the firm and with professionals outside the audit firm, including management, audit committees, and inspectors. These insights are important given the criticism audit firms have faced from regulators and inspectors over the past decade and the multi-person setting present in auditing. Further, while a large literature exists on single-person decision-making, these studies may not generalize to multi-person settings. The review also highlights the need for continued research in this area and the importance audit practitioner involvement with future research efforts.
Trotman, K., T. Bauer, and K. Humphreys. 2015. Group judgment and decision making in auditing: Past and future research. Accounting, Organizations and Society 47: 56-72.
By treating worse justified advice as though it were better justified advice, auditors are likely to overestimate the defensibility of their conclusions that are based on this advice. It also is worrisome that specialists appear to defensively resist well-justified, contrary advice from stronger social bond advisors. In response to a stronger social bond advisor's better justified advice, specialists assess advisor competence to be higher and they assess the advice itself to be of higher quality, but they assign relatively low weight to the advice. This inconsistency implies that specialists may have difficulty accepting good advice even when they recognize its high quality.
Kadous, K., J. Leiby, and M. E. Peecher. 2013. How Do Auditors Weight Informal Contrary Advice? The Joint Influence of Advisor Social Bond and Advice Justifiability. Accounting Review 88 (6): 2061-2087.
The finding that higher decision authority can have negative audit quality implications is relevant to audit firm policies, which often vest substantial authority in consultants, and to the ongoing debate over standards for the use of specialists. This and other findings also suggest that it may be beneficial to advocate lower decision authority. Finally, the findings can inform audit firm policies that require consultation with knowledgeable persons, as well as standard-setters and regulators whose responsibilities to provide guidance on using consultation to conduct more effective audits of financial statement estimates.
Knechel, W. R. and J. Leiby. 2016. If You Want My Advice: Status Motives and Audit Consultations About Accounting Estimates. Journal of Accounting Research 54 (5): 1331 – 1364.
This study documents successful resolutions to actual self-identified audit challenges. Auditors can use this information to be proactive in minimizing future audit challenges and resolving any challenges that do arise in a timely manner. Additionally, the list of unresolved challenges can aid firms in making wise client acceptance decisions as unresolved challenges represent potential liability.
Bobek, D.D., B.E. Daughtery, and R.R. Radtke. 2012. Resolving Audit Engagement Challenges through Communication. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. (31) 4:21–45.
The paper gives practitioners, policy makers, and researchers a framework for considering audit of FVOEs. In considering environmental, task, and auditor-specific factors that individually and interactively affect auditors' judgments, one may better analyze observed practice deficiencies and contribute to practitioners' and regulators' understanding of their likely causes and potential remedies.
The framework is also valuable in identifying and evaluating the merit of future research topics. Central to the goal of developing research that will improve audits of FVOEs is the deliberate consideration of important interactions among the environmental, task, and person-specific factors involved in the development and audit of FVOEs. Identifying the important interactions among these factors allows researchers to better design studies that evaluate ways to improve the quality of audited FVOEs. Conducting practice-relevant research within the three-factor framework will help researchers, practitioners, and regulators better communicate their perspectives on issues surrounding audits of FVOEs.
For more information on this study, please contact Gregory E. Sierra.
Bratten, B., L. M. Gaynor, L. McDaniel, N. R. Montague & G. E. Sierra. 2013. The audit of fair values and other estimates: The effects of underlying environmental, task, and auditor-specific factors. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 32(Supplement 1): 7-44.
In cases where fraud risks are high or time pressures are severe, auditors are more likely to consult a fraud specialist regarding the presence of fraud indicators when the requirement to do so is mandatory and the advice received is binding. The authors indicate that a strict requirement is more likely to cause auditor compliance with the policy than a more lenient policy that merely suggests consultation and where the advice from the specialist is nonbinding. Additionally, the auditors' perceptions of fraud risks increased when a more strict consultation policy was in place which may indicate that the mere presence of a strict policy increases assessed fraud risks.
For more information on this study, please contact Anna Gold.
Gold, A., W.R. Knechel, and P. Wallage. 2011.The Effect of the Strictness of Consultation Requirements on Fraud Consultation. The Accounting Review 87 (3): 925-949.

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Federal prosecutors are disputing arguments from lawyers for marathon bombing suspect Dzohkhar Tsarnaev that he cannot receive a fair trial in Boston.
In a reply filed on Monday in U.S. District Court, prosecutors called polling data presented by a defense expert "false and misleading."
Tsarnaev's lawyers have requested that the November trial be moved to Washington, D.C. They claim the survey conducted in May shows most potential jurors in Massachusetts hold an "overwhelming presumption of guilt."
Prosecutors also said the survey greatly exaggerated the amount of local media coverage of the case by including many news stories that had little or nothing to do with the bombing.
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Sekhmet (Sakhmet) is one of the oldest known Egyptian deities. Her name is derived from the Egyptian word "Sekhem" (which means "power" or "might") and is often translated as the "Powerful One" or "She who is Powerful". She is depicted as a lion-headed woman, sometimes with the addition of a sun disc on her head. Her seated statues show her holding the ankh of life, but when she is shown striding or standing she usually holds a sceptre formed from papyrus (the symbol of northern or Lower Egypt) suggesting that she was associated primarily with the north. However, some scholars argue that the deity was introduced from Sudan (South of Egypt) where lions are more plentiful.
She was often closely associated with Hathor (the goddess of joy, music, dance, sexual love, pregnancy and birth). In this partnership, she was seen as the harsh aspect of the friendly Hathor. A temple was constructed by Amenemhet II to Sekhmet-Hathor at Kom el Hisn (Imau in the western Delta) in which she and Hathor are referred to as the "Mistress of Imau". Imau was situated near a branch of the Nile that has since shifted eastwards, but in ancient times the town was right on the edge of the desert on the route to the Libyan frontier. Clearly it was hoped that Sekhmet would protect the border.
Sekhmet's main cult centre was in Memphis (Men Nefer) where she was worshipped as "the destroyer" alongside her consort Ptah (the creator) and Nefertum (the healer).
Sekhmet was represented by the searing heat of the mid-day sun (in this aspect she was sometimes called "Nesert", the flame) and was a terrifying goddess. However, for her friends she could avert plague and cure disease. She was the patron of Physicians, and Healers and her priests became known as skilled doctors. As a result, the fearsome deity sometimes called the "lady of terror" was also known as "lady of life". Sekhmet was mentioned a number of times in the spells of The Book of the Dead as both a creative and destructive force, but above all, she is the protector of Maat (balance or justice) named "The One Who Loves Ma'at and Who Detests Evil".
She was also known as the "Lady of Pestilence" and the "Red Lady" (indicating her alignment with the desert) and it was thought that she could send plagues against those who angered her. When the centre of power shifted from Memphis to Thebes during the New Kingdom the Theban Triad (Amun, Mut, and Khonsu), Sekhmet's attributes were absorbed into that of Mut (who sometimes took the form of a lion).
She was associated with the goddesses given the title "Eye of Ra". According to myth, Ra became angry because mankind was not following his laws and preserving Maat (justice or balance). He decided to punish mankind by sending an aspect of his daughter, the "Eye of Ra". He plucked Hathor from Ureas on his brow, and sent her to earth in the form of a lion. She became Sekhmet, the "Eye of Ra" and began her rampage. The fields ran with human blood. However, Ra was not a cruel deity, and the sight of the carnage caused him to repent. He ordered her to stop, but she was in a blood lust and would not listen. So Ra poured 7,000 jugs of beer and pomegranate juice (which stained the beer blood red) in her path. She gorged on the "blood" and became so drunk she slept for three days. When she awoke, her blood lust had dissipated, and humanity was saved. In one version of the myth, Ptah is the first thing she sees on awaking and she instantly fell in love with him. Their union (creation and destruction) created Nefertum (healing) and so re-established Ma'at.
The saving of mankind was commemorated every year on the feast day of Hathor/Sekhmet. Everyone drank beer stained with pomegranate juice and worshipped "the Mistress and lady of the tomb, gracious one, destroyer of rebellion, mighty one of enchantments". A statue of Sekhmet was dressed in red facing west, while Bast was dressed in green and faced east. Bast was sometimes considered to be Sekhmet´s counterpart (or twin depending on the legend), and in the festival of Hathor they embodied the duality central to Egyptian mythology. Sekhmet represented Upper Egypt while Bast represented Lower Egypt.
Sekhmet was closely associated with Kingship. She was often described as the mother of Maahes, the lion god who was a patron of the pharaoh and the pyramid texts (from dynasty five) suggest that the Pharaoh was conceived by Sekhmet. For example, one relief depicts the Pharaoh Niuserre being suckled by Sekhmet. This ancient myth is echoed in the New Kingdom reliefs in the temple of Seti I which depict the Pharaoh being suckled by Hathor whose title is "mistress of the mansion of Sekhmet". Ramesses II (Seti's son) adopted her as a symbol of his power in battle. In friezes depicting the Battle of Kadesh, Sekhmet appears on his horse, her flames scorching the bodies of enemy soldiers. But, one Pharaoh in particular seems to have had an obsession with Sekhmet. Amenhotep III (father of Akhenaten, Dynasty Eighteen) built hundreds of statues of Sekhmet in the precinct of Mut's temple (known as "Isheru") south of the Great Temple of Amun in Karnak. It is thought that there was one for every day of the year and that offerings were made every day.
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Random Thoughts On Chicago
What a race! At the moment, that's all I can say. Hats off to both Ryan Briscoe and Scott Dixon. Either one of them deserved that race, but Briscoe nipped Dixon by just a few inches at the line. They both fought hard and drove clean. Briscoe suffered a miscue in the pits when he failed to pull close enough to the fuel hose. He fell back into the second half of the pack and seemed destined to follow Dixon's fate of last week – falling from first to third in points. Dario Franchitti had his own miscue when his right front tire changer bobbled the air gun and cost him an extra second or two on pit road. As Dario said in the post-race interview: "That's what costs championships".
Helio Castroneves had his own issues. At first, it looked like he might be a repeat winner when he made a move to the front when the lead pack came upon slower traffic. Then after a slower pit stop, Helio found himself in seventh and then started dropping like a rock, falling back to fourteenth. Suddenly after the last set of pit stops, he was in the third position in front of Franchitti. I'm still not quite sure how that happened. It ended up being a moot point as Helio's front suspension failed for the second time in two races, sending him hard into the fence. Castroneves has now been officially eliminated from championship contention.
Many people, myself included, wondered if the aero tweaks that were given back for the Kentucky race would work as well for Chicago as they did at Kentucky. I think we all got our question answered. This was sometimes as wild as anything I ever saw at Texas. There was constant three-wide racing for many laps on end. There was one shot for a couple of laps that featured two and sometimes three rows of three cars running in perfect formation. For several laps, there was a tighter three-wide formation than we ever saw on either of the two starts at this year's Indianapolis 500.
I kept holding my breath waiting for Mario Moraes or Graham Rahal to make a youthful mistake. There were times that I was certain their wheels would interlock, sending one of them sailing – but it never happened. They both maintained their focus, even though they both freely drifted into each other's paths as well as anyone around them – but they kept it together and Moraes had a career high finish of third.
Rahal had another top-five finish on an oval by finishing fifth – just behind Franchitti who fell another twenty points back in the championship. Dario now trails Briscoe by twenty-five points. Dixon is eight points behind Franchitti and thirty-three points out of first. Ryan Briscoe by no means has this locked up. A bad race in the final two can drop him clear out of the championship picture. But the way things stand right now, the Target boys need to do their homework over the next three weeks before the next race at Motegi, Japan.
Post Race Interviews: My opinion of Graham Rahal changes every other race. There are times when his brain-fades seem to outweigh his talent. There are other times when he basically comes across as a spoiled whiney brat with a sense of entitlement about him. Then there are times like last night, when I think I'm listening to the next American superstar of this sport. He drove the wheels off of that car and had a legitimate shot in the closing laps to win the race. Then in the post-race interview, he delivered an articulate and insightful interview that went above thanking the sponsors, the crew and the guys at the shop. He gave an impassioned plea for a bigger budget, which is something that team sorely needs. With a veteran like Oriol Servia to serve as a mentor for the young Rahal, I think NHL would be wise to gain more sponsorship in order to re-sign Rahal when he becomes a free-agent at the end of the season. I know it is harder than it sounds – especially in this economy, but I think Rahal is getting the seasoning he needs right now. NHL shouldn't let him get away and take the experience they gave him to another team.
Another post-race interview helped me to soften my stance on Mario Moraes. Since the unfortunate death of his father, he has come back a changed man. He has matured greatly this season. He is no longer brash and cocky but is now understated and confident. If he could shave all twelve of those overgrown whiskers off of his face, I think he would be easier to like. There should be a hair-density factor a driver must meet before being allowed on pit lane unshaven.
TV Coverage: Once the race finally started, the TV coverage was as good as usual. The trouble was they chose a night with the latest starting time to have their longest pre-race show. I'm beginning to repeat myself, but the three in the booth were superb as usual. I continue to be impressed with the job that Robbie Floyd and Lindy Thackston are doing. They are new at this, but you'd never know by watching them after their first few races. They have really grown into their roles.
One that has over-grown his role is Jack Arute. First of all – I really like Jack Arute. I really do. I've read his book and his voice is the one constant through the years for the IndyCars. However, I find his "In Color" segments a little hard to watch (and why are they in black & white if it's called In Color?). He seems to assume the persona of David Frost or Barbara Walters. It just seems ol' Jack is taking himself a little too seriously. The drivers seem uncomfortable also. I think they know the "real" Jack too well and they wonder; "who is this close-talker leaning over the table asking me all of these bizarre questions?" I think Jack needs to stick to pit reporting and being the pit strategist.
Which brings up another point about Jack Arute. I have listened to Jack Arute on IndyCar broadcasts for over twenty years. In all that time, not once have I ever heard him use the phrase "make fuel"…not until this season. It's very annoying. Scott Dixon doesn't MAKE fuel – he SAVES fuel. Rick Mears was always one of the best at saving his tires for the end of a fuel run. Yet no one ever said Rick Mears was making tires. He was saving tires. We all know what he means, but the clever saying of "making fuel" has run its course.
I was sorry to see Versus taking a page out of the old ABC playbook. In some of the most intense times of the race, they would go to a split screen to show driver's wives, mothers or unidentified crewmembers. Please don't. If I want drama, I'll watch Grey's Anatomy (not really). But at best, it's very distracting and takes away from the racing. It reminded me of the 1989 Indy 500 ABC broadcast which seemed to focus more on Shelly Unser and Teresa Fittipaldi, than their respective spouses on the track.
I didn't see every single commercial, but fortunately Versus has toned down the male-enhancement commercials from last week. I was afraid that the marketing research showed IndyCar fans as being mostly over-the-hill, inadequate lovers. I'm glad to see that may not be the case. They have also corrected the mispronunciation of Dario's last name on the promos for the remaining races.
Overall: This was an outstanding race. There were lead changes, pit miscues and phenomenal mid-pack racing. There were only two crashes, both involving only one car. There were also charges from deep in the pack up to the front – one for the win. Any of the three remaining eligible drivers would all be worthy champions. All three exude class while winning or in disappointment. The final two races will have plenty of build-up with so much time before each one. If the aero-tweaks work on the remaining two tracks as they did on the last two ovals, they should be very exciting.
*Please note – There will be no new post for Monday. I'll return Tuesday morning.
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"Making Fuel" …sounds like methane production.
"Chase for the Championship" is contrived to sound important like another series.
The racing was fun to watch from front to back. I look forward to Motegi.
You were lucky and got to watch actual promos for the Motegi race. On DirecTV, the provider and the channel were having a better hissy fit than most that I saw in high school. It was entirely annoying and distracted from the race on several occasions for me.
I have Direct and saw the crawl-war as well. But I was amused by it. I want to keep VS, but at the same time I don't like Comcast from when I had cable, so I'm siding with Direct.
I really don't think VS will be dropped more than short time. Comcast wants money, but VS needs the exposure. If you're Comcast/VS, you don't really want to go to Peak, that snake-oil "male-enhancement" outfit, and so on, and explain to them why the ad schedule they bought is suddenly not going to be seen by a large chunk of the audience, as paltry as it was to begin with. They're trying to build VS into a viable alternative to Speed and (someday) ESPN: they need all the venues they can get.
If I'm wrong and it's not picked up for Montegi: I'll just watch it on-line.
So you have a weekend without Nascar and you schedule one of the best races of the year to start after 9pm on a Saturday? The last weekend Nascar took off the IRL decided to take off also. Seems a little short-sighted.
Facial Hair Density Factor – LOL!!!
The IRL can add FHD testing to the dirver's physicals
Fans can go online to guess where their favorite driver falls on the FHD scale (FHD scale ranges from Nigel Mansel to Janet Gtuhrie)
Jack Arute does a 5 minute piece correlating FHD to career wins/top 5 finishes/etc.


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In 1987, as first past president of the Atlanta Radio Club, I helped host the ARRL National at our HamFestival. After the show concluded, I 'sweet talked' the ICOM rep into selling me the IC-761 setup that ICOM had 'loaned' the club for use as the special events station. I've had and enjoyed it ever since.
Last year, it developed what I now understand is a common problem with a small DC/DC converter module on the "Display Board" involving a part which is no longer available. The service rep in Anderson, SC told me that what I now owned was a rather large boat anchor.
A little 'digging' and I located, on the Internet, a blurb on how this could be repaired and the 761 was repaired my me. If anyone has experinced the disappearing freq display / pegged S-Meter problem, I'll help you right out. Took me about an hour to fix it.
My 761 later developed a problem wherein SSB audio on LSB became somewhat distorted. It was still readable, but I knew it should be better. USB audio was unaffected. So I placed a call to Anderson and, I'm sure, got to speak with the same service tech as before.
This guy lit into a tirade offering to recite a litany of design errors, consistent problems and other reasons why my friend and favorite HF rig for over 20 years wasn't worth the UPS charges to ship. He flatly stated that his removal of the covers would yield a 20+ year-old pile of junk in a fancy cabinet that certainly represented the worst financial decision I had ever made. The only thing he missed was to say that the ICOM nameplate on the front was super-glued over the word "YUGO" (easily done as both contain 4 letters).
Has anyone else run into this guy? Does he actually work for ICOM or is he merely a plant working for Kenwood or Yaesu having hacked the ICOM telephone number to trash the competition? Does ICOM know they have hired possibly the worst P.R. nightmare on the planet?
I worked in 'computers' as Technical Support for nearly 40 years and, when I got a call... no matter how grim the situation appeared, I stressed that, regardless what was awry, it could be fixed and I was just the one to make things right again. I no longer had an irate individual on the line, I had a friend who was more than willing to work WITH ME and my "problem solved" rate was top notch. I'd love to have a look at that guy's.
That now on the table.. can I expect to call Bellevue, WA or the center in St Joseph, MI and get someone who might even give the appearance of faith in the products produced by his employer? I can't wait to find out but I wanted to post this ahead of time just to get a 'heads up' from someone.
PS: I spend only a minimal time on either 40 or 80 meters and, when I have the need to be there, I use (yep) my ICOM IC-701 (an even older radio which -> knock on wood <- has NEVER GIVEN ME A PROBLEM since purchased brand new)... so I'm covered anyway.
Does this guy really work for ICOM?
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|Disney Studios' first and best boy-and-his-dog film, set in Texas in 1969. 15-year-old Travis Coates (Kirk) is left in charge of the family farm while dad Jim (Parker) is away on a cattle drive. When his younger brother Arliss (Corcoran) brings home a stray dog, Travis is displeased but lets him stay. Yeller saves Travis's life, but contracts rabies in the process. Keep tissue handy, especially for the kids. Strong acting, effective scenery--all good stuff. Based on the novel by Fred Gipson. Sequel "Savage Sam" released in 1963.
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|Robert Stevenson
|Walt Disney Studios
|Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Jeff York, Beverly Washburn, Chuck Connors


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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has concluded arrangement to arraign a Malaysia- based Nigerian fraudsters, Hope Olusegun Aroke and his accomplice, Tafida Garuba Ibrahim before a Federal High Court, Lagos tomorrow, Monday January 21, 2013. They will be docked before Justice Mohammed Idris on two separate charges of Money laundering and False Declaration of Assets.
Aroje was one of two Malaysia-based Nigerian undergraduate fraudsters arrested by the EFCC in the closing weeks of 2012 at the 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos following a tip- off. The 25 year-old indigene of Okene, Kogi State claims to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia. But the Commission's investigation fingered him as the arrow head of an intricate web of internet fraud scheme that traverse two continents.
His accomplice, Tafida Ibrahim is a Bureau De Change operator. Through him, Aroke was able to launder proceeds of multiple scams to the tune of over N31million. The duo enjoy a cozy business relationship that saw Ibrahim travel to Malaysia twice between September and October 2012 at the instance of Aroke.
When Aroke was arrested, a search conducted by EFCC operatives on his apartment led to the recovery of several items such as laptops, iPad phones, travelling documents, cheque books, flash drives, internet modem, and three exotic cars - a Mercedes Benz Jeep, One 4Matic Mercedes Benz Car and a Range Rover Sport SUV.
Operatives of the EFCC also downloaded over 80 implicating documents from the laptops recovered from him.
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20th January, 2012


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Dyad is the kind of game that's tough to talk about—you kinda have to play it to get it. That said, watching a level play out gives a decent sense of the whole disorienting, often exhilarating experience.
Here, Chris Person blasts through one of the early levels and puts on a pretty impressive show, earning himself a #1 rank on the leaderboards. Of course, early reviewers always get to enjoy this time when we actually have a shot at landing on the leaderboards. That said, it's still a darned impressive run.
Dyad hits the PlayStation Network next week. I've played the game for a few hours back during the Game Developers' Conference, though I haven't yet had a chance to sit down and really plug in to the final version. I have a feeling that super-players are going to rack up some insane scores in this game pretty quickly once it's released. I just hope they don't lose their minds while doing so.


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Thanks to hits like The Avengers, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol and The Bourne Legacy, 2012 saw Jeremy Renner catapult from Oscar nominee and rising star to bona fide action star. So it's only fitting that for his first time hosting Saturday Night Live, the show put his leading man skills to very good use.
In a spoof of The Avengers, Renner reprises his role as Hawkeye. But this time there's a slight problem — he's used up all of his 11 arrows already. Luckily, the Hulk finds another way for Hawkeye to help battle the aliens without having to sit this one out. Now if we could only find Thor a scrunchie!:
In the digital short, "The Stand-Off," Renner plays one part of a three-way gun stand-off involving some super-important hard drive and a lot of dough. But when no one is willing to make the first move, the stand-off lasts through picking up Renner's daughter at dance class, Thanksgiving dinner and even a surprise celebrity run-in with Adam Levine, who appeared on the show with Maroon 5 as the musical guest. Now that's dedication:
Matthew McConaughey's so skinny! See other celebs who transformed their body for movie roles
Renner even let himself get punched when he appeared on a fictional movie set opposite an overeager co-star playing "Thug No. 2", aka Dick Fuel aka Dick Juice aka Jason Sudeikis. Too bad, Dick Fuel is the one who's supposed to take a beating in the scene, not Jeremy:
As the clean-up efforts continue from Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appeared on "Weekend Update" — in his signature fleece, natch — to thank a few people and not thank a few people. Christie thanked his wife for putting up with a husband who smelled like wet fleece for three weeks and did not thank the people getting in yelling matches at gas stations over the long lines even though it is a New Jersey pastime. Christie also quoted the famous New Jersey poet — or is he more of a Saint? — Bruce Springsteen:
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Photographic highlights of Thailand
A year spent tramping around the globe has revealed a host of amazing locations and experiences that should be added to bucket lists for 2015.
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Willem Gerrit van de Hulst Junior was the son of the famous children's book writer Willem Gerrit van de Hulst Senior. Born in Utrecht, he studied at the Art Academy in Amsterdam between 1936 and 1940. He was still very young of age when his father asked him to illustrate his stories. The first one was 'Een muis, in dit huis?' in 1933.
In de Soete Suikerbol (De Standaard, 12-2-1942)
A year later, the father and son team started the famous and popular comic serial 'Inde Soete Suikerbol'. The strip tells the adventures of the chubby baker Driekus and his skinny wife in a medieval town during a feudal era. It was published in newspaper De Standaard from 1934 to 1939 and from 1941 to 1943 and collected in seven books in 1936 and between 1942 and 1948. The stories are reprinted to this day. A TV series based on the story was made in The Netherlands in 1973 and 1974.
From the beginning of World War II until 1952, Willem Gerrit van de Hulst jr. roamed The Netherlands in an atelier studio boat. During this period, he made another three comics. The first one was 'Het Paleis met de Zeven Torens', from from text by W. Holwerda. This story was published in De Standaard from 1943 to 1944, but remained unfinished.
Then came 'In de Goude Gaper', written by his father and published in Trouw from 1946 and reprinted in Reformatorisch Dagblad around 1965. 'De Pruikenmaker en de Prins' was also written by Van der Hulst Senior and published in Hervormd Nederland around 1948.
Besides the regular illustrator of his father's work, Van der Hulst Junior also illustrated children's books by E. J. van Binsbergen and Anne de Vries. He also wrote children's books himself, starting with 'Tippeltje' in 1946 and followed by 'Het geheim', 'Wilhelmus, Katootje en het Kerstfeest', 'Japie' and many more.
Van der Hulst Junior was also active as a portrait and landscape painter. When his father died in 1963, he dropped most of his activities as an illustrator and focused on sculpting, painting and writing for educational publications. His paintings became more surreal and every first Sunday of the month, he held an open house in his atelier in Nieuwersluis.
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Twitter scavengers race for All-Star rewards
Fans hustle to five different Manhattan locations for clues to earn their prizes
NEW YORK -- Fans all over New York City competed to be the fastest in a social media scavenger hunt that rewarded winners with All-Star Sunday and Fan Fest tickets.
With five different winning locations scattered around Manhattan, baseball fans took to Twitter starting at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday to search for the secret password to help them discover where to head and win the prizes. The password was "All-Star Game" and from there, the first clue was announced.
Within 10 minutes, Joe Palmeri from Middle Village, N.Y. came running down Broadway and met the Major League Baseball representatives at the MLB Fan Cave, where he was the first winner of the day.
"I was at Union Square hoping whatever train I needed would be there and then I did a Google search, it was here [Fan Cave] and just ran 10 blocks," Palmeri said.
Some fans showed up at the Cave just a little too late, but were in luck as the next clue was about to be delivered.
The Mets Clubhouse on 42nd Street was the next location, where Joe Catarcio was the next quickest fan to claim his prize. Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square was third secret location, where Philip Thomas won the next set of tickets almost within minutes of the Twitter clue being sent out.
"I'm pretty excited, I'm pretty stoked." Thomas said. The seasoned veteran of Twitter scavenger hunts went on to say, "I always wanted to go to All-Star Weekend."
Fittingly enough, the wax figure of Mets third baseman David Wright was on display in the main window.
For the fourth clue, fans had to figure out an MLB rep was waiting by the SNY TV studio, television home of the New York Mets. It was there that multiple fans arrived at the same time, where a tie-breaker took place, with Scott Underberg correctly guessing when the Mets last hosted the All-Star Game to take home the prize.
The final clue was then sent out as to where the fifth ticket package could be found.
Brandon Plumey from the Bronx finally claimed his prize. He was just a step too late in previous stops before running across traffic screaming, "All-Star Game," as he got to the T-Mobile store by 14th street. After catching his breath, Plumey said: "This is awesome." As a big Mets fan, Plumey said it "will definitely be an experience [to go to All-Star Weekend] to cherish for the rest of my life."


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Boston bombing suspects from Russia's North Caucasus region
Russian media reports the Boston bombing suspects are ethnic Chechens, although it's unclear exactly which region they're from.
The Associated Press reports that the 19-year-old fugitive Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in a region near Chechnya. A page on VKontakte, Russia's version of Facebook, bearing his name and what appear to be photographs of him, says he was a student in a school in Makhachkala, the capital of the Dagestan Region next to Chechnya from 1999 to 2001.
Radio Ekho Moskvy reports that teachers at the school say they don't remember Tsarnaev from his one year there.
The website Gazeta.ru reports that he was a student at Cambridge Ringe & Latin School after he left Makhachkala.
Other websites say his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan, who is believed to have been killed by police on Friday, was born in Chechnya before his family fled war there in the 1990s. He's said to have lived in Kazakhstan before receiving political asylum in the United States.
Moscow fought a war to subdue separatist Chechnya from 1994 to 1996, when rebels forced Russian troops out of the region. Then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched a second war there in 1999.
Now run by Kremlin-installed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, however, Chechnya is more stable than the surrounding regions, where violence and instability have spread.
Years of civilian deaths and atrocities have helped nurture Islamist militancy in Chechnya and surrounding regions.
Dagestan is now considered the most volatile region. Locals live under a heavy military presence and suffer regular human rights abuses. Shootings and bombings by militants take place there almost daily.
The Kremlin links its campaign against local militants to the global campaign against terrorism.
Chechens have been involved in violence outside the regions before, including a hotel bombing in Istanbul in 2001.
However, there's no evidence yet that the Boston bombing suspects, who have lived in the United States for a number of years, had any links to extremist groups.


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Vail Daily letters to the editor
Vail, CO, Colorado
This is democracy
I graduated with a degree in politics, not making me a preacher on what is right and what we need, just faintly more aware of what is wrong. I am truly an independent. I see this country as not red and blue, but as a bipartisan, biracial and bicultural community, and that all its success is based on the cooperation of all its citizens working together to progress … together.
As for this election, I am not happy or content on where we are today. I am proud of all the progress that we the people have achieved, and continue to achieve and grow, with this global financial crisis.
Our rebound has been slow, too slow, but Europe, Asia and the rest of the world are still struggling with a economic crisis that we are currently rebounding from, far better than all of them.
I understand the difficulties that the current president came to hs first term with and understand the gains that he has achieved, but also understand the failures that we continue to endure. There are many policies, taxes and culture that hinder our progress. These policies, taxes, and culture that both parties refuse to cooperate on, are hindering our rebound with this recession.
What we overlook is that the president is not a dictator. The representatives, senators and local politicians who we elect truly dictate our future and the future that will dictate the lives of our children.
The vote that matters next month starts with those politicians at the lower level, mid level and the Senate and House of Representatives. More importantly, vote for the politicians who support what you think the government should represent, promote and fund, on every level. Promote what you believe. Stop criticizing what others believe.
That is democracy.
Steve Boderck
Layman for commissioner
When I first met Jeff some years ago we were on opposite sides of several issues that were pretty important to Eagle-Vail's future. We were both very convinced we were right and at the outset I wasn't sure we'd ever see eye to eye.
I was wrong. Jeff Layman is a guy who is passionate about his beliefs while having a very open mind to his opposition. We worked through our differences with respect and civility for each other's positions.
I now call Jeff a friend and I have the utmost respect for his willingness and capability to tackle complex issues, listen to all sides and make fair and reasonable decisions. I think Jeff Layman will make a great County Commissioner.
Jeff, you've got my vote.
Mike Kieler
Supports Obama
There are many reasons why I will vote to re-elect President Obama. However before iterating those, I would like to thank Mr. Rogers and his staff for providing all of us with the opportunity to speak our piece. It is indeed the essence of democracy!
And now:
I am certain that the president truly understands the problems of of our vast middle class and also of those who are unfortunate enough to be living in poverty. He was born middle class, he went to public schools, he worked in Chicago to assist those who were living in poverty, and he went to college with the help of a student loan. There can be no doubt that he will continue his efforts toward providing job opportunities and better lives for the vast majority of our citizens.
He well understands both the needs and the nuances of foreign policies! He ended our war in Iraq and is winding down another in Afghanistan. And while there are those who would argue for a different time table regarding the latter, he is intent on striking a balance that does not negate the lives that have been lost and the billions of dollars that have been spent. He has been supportive of the uprisings in the Middle East without bringing us yet another war. And he has been largely responsible for the sanctions against Iran. Those now show real promise of success and would avoid an absolutely horrendous armed conflict.
He has in fact turned around the economy that he inherited. Please remember that we lost more than 5 million jobs during the last year of Mr. Bush's presidency and that an immediate reversal of that situation was impossible.
I do believe that President Obama was overly optimistic when he failed to accurately assess the time that it would take to turn the situation around. However, I also believe that the creation of 5 million jobs during the last 24 months has been exemplary and that we're on our way.
He understands and accepts the data proving that free contraception dramatically reduces teenage pregnancies. The kids get to complete their high school education, and our society is not burdened by unwanted children, those who are most likely to become high school drop-outs, gang members, and future criminals.
He firmly understands and believes in the separation of church and state as iterated in our Constitution. And so he will continue to support legislation that enhances women's health, as well as the choices that they have been assured by Roe v. Wade.
With the help of our military leaders, he successfully ended "don't ask, don't tell," and he will continue to support equal rights for all of our citizens.
He understands that the future of our entire nation depends on having well educated citizens. So he will not reduce academic, nor will he cut back on student loans and scholarships. He also understands that education must be a national commitment and should not be left to States and communities — both rich and poor — to do their best.
He understands that the health of our citizens is also a national issue and so he will not abandon his efforts to achieve proper health care for all of us. There is no rationale for passing the buck and allowing the residents of any state or community to receive anything less. Furthermore, he will not abandon the efforts to reduce the associated costs.
He understands that our Social Security program needs to be tweaked and not overhauled or abandoned. Even if we do nothing at all, it will remain solvent until 2033. However, adjusting it now would be prudent. And so, with a little bit of cooperation from our Congress, he would approve a reasonable solution to the problem.
And finally, a great many of us were both pleased and proud when we elected a black man to be our president. I believe that he has done extremely well in the job and I will once again be pleased and proud to vote for him.
David Le Vine
Town Board ruins Eagle
I am completely exasperated. Shame on me, I had more faith in the Eagle Town Board than was deserved.
In light of recent events, I believed that surely the people on this board had more than their special interests at heart because they must, since they serve on the Town Board and because they love Eagle. Right?
That idea has been beaten and smashed since I found out that, once again, the Town Board has betrayed Eagle by voting 5-2 (only Brandi Resa and Joe Knabel voted against) to approve the Haymeadow development that is going up Brush Creek Road by the ice rink. The approval will allow for the development of 809 housing units.
In addition to the recently debated approval of Eagle River Station, which approved approximately 500 homes, this approval will add an additional 1,300 homes to Eagle.
That will more than double the size of Eagle!
But at least we can thank the Town Board for scaling it back from its original 979 units!
Although the developer has "graciously" allowed for 60 percent of the development to be labeled as open space, it will still have a detrimental impact on the deer and elk populations, as this area is one of their primary wintering grounds.
Eagle has a reputation for being a hunting destination, and with the approval of Haymeadow, this revenue will be lost (along with the lost revenue from Gypsum-Costco profit sharing that occurred with the approval of Eagle River Station; once again, thank you, Eagle Town Board).
Eagle will become a half-built town with foreclosure signs in 50 percent of the yards.
Do I have to mention that commerce is limited in this valley, so where will these people work? And as everyone who leaves Eagle at 7:30 a.m. knows, how are these additional 1,600 cars going to get onto Highway 6 and then the interstate? Hmmmm.
The recent decisions by the Eagle Town Board will ruin Eagle. People move to Eagle because there are unlimited access points to national forest and BLM land, and it is a rural, family-friendly community.
When the town doubles in size and developments go into these areas, suddenly these homeowners don't want those access points in their backyard. Then the appeal of living in a rural, active community is curtailed since the access points don't exist anymore.
How many locals do you know in Eagle? Yes, they are relics. Most of Eagle is East Coasters moving here to destroy it by turning it into wherever they came from. Including our Town Board.
I am disheartened with national politics, but to feel this way about my own town is just too depressing. I love Eagle. I am sad that it is being destroyed, much like our country, by greed and special interests.
P.S.: Brandi Resa and Joe Knabel, you are exempt from the above rant. Thank you for your service.
Erin Mundo
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