NEW YORK, N.Y. (February 22, 2008) - The University of Connecticut men's track and field team enters this weekend's BIG EAST Indoor Track and Field Championship at the Armory in New York City with great expectations of success. The events will start on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. with the field events. The heptathlon will begin at 11:00 a.m. and track events will start at 12:00 p.m. On Sunday, the heptathlon will begin at 8:00 a.m., field events will begin at 9:00 a.m. and track events will start at 11:30 a.m.

One way to predict how the meet might turn out is to look at the qualifying lists and see which athletes have run the best times or have the longest distances in their events. However, head coach Greg Roy cautions reading to much into those lists.

"You can look at those (qualifying) lists a little bit, but in the end you have to throw it way." said Roy.

Ed Long from Canada writes: '..... r & d driving innovation ....'

Put it on the wall.

Everybody from General Motors to economists to politicians to academics have said the above. Innovation, high complexity manufacturing processes, and intellectual property are the future for any industry in Canada.

Pull up the article on cost break-down of an iPod, made in China. Over sixty percent of that cost is from other countries' contributions including a significant amount for intellectual property (design) from the U.S.

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Sun to unveil stackable data-centre boxes

Giving a new meaning to the term "portable computer", Sun plans to sell a working data centre packaged in a stackable shipping container.

Sun believes the technology will appeal to customers who are running out of space in their current data centres, providing backup computing gear for disaster recovery services, or setting up operations in remote locations, said Dave Douglas, Sun's vice president of advanced technology.