From DreamCricket.com:
Twenty nine US colleges and two Canadian colleges will compete in the 2011 edition of the Chanderpaul Trophy, American College Cricket announced on Friday.
In addition to the 31 contenders, two guest teams - Excelsior High School of Jamaica, and Presentation College of Trinidad & Tobago, will play games that will not count towards the championship. The teams will be split into four conferences with one of the tournament's top four seeds - University of Southern California, Auburn University, Rutgers University and North Carolina State University - playing in each conference.
The tournament, which began in 2009 with five teams quickly grew to twenty teams in 2010.
"Many new college clubs are joining American College Cricket. We are assisting in the formation of cricket clubs and developing teams at Universities all across the USA and Canada," Lloyd Jodah, ACC President, told CricInfo last summer. Those efforts appear to have paid off as evidenced by the number of teams in 2011.
The participating teams are - University of Iowa, UPenn, Rutgers, Texas Tech, Ohio State University, University of Central Florida, College of Wooster, York University (2010 champions), Texas A&M, University of Florida, Penn State, UMBC, University of Tampa, University of Minnesota, NJIT, St. Cloud State, North Carolina State, Montgomery College (2009 champions), Auburn, Florida International, McGill, George Mason, University of South Florida, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Boston University, GWU, NYU-Poly, Cleveland State, University of Southern California, University of Houston and Florida Atlantic.
The Championship will take place in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, from March 15 to 20, at the Central Broward Cricket Stadium and side fields, and at Brian Piccolo Park. For live coverage and webcasts, please visit AmericanCollegeCricket.com.
]]>Update on SB 628 - Introduced on February 4, 2011 by President of the Senate
Mike Miller. Hearing dates and times have not been posted yet.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/sb/sb0628f.pdf
Brief highlights:
You can ignore the language that applies to "local" employers/employees.
However, language in bold is new to the current law.
Of course, read the whole bill, but of particular interest are pages 4&5,
8-11, 12:
- notice applicability of bill to current employees, to new employees, and
to retirees-page 12;
- notice applicability dates (i.e., hired after July 1, 2011; dates of
current employees; date retired; did not retire directly after ending
employment); age;
- look closely at the language that applies to the ORP, specially years of
service for health benefits (employee/retiree/spouse);
- NEW CONCEPT: pages 22-33
Keynote Presenter: Lanah Koelle, Librarian, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, UMBC Alumna (2007). Discussions with other UMBC alumni/ae who are librarians.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at noon Library 259.
Ancient Studies Career Series, open to all majors. Anyone interested in a career in libraries (academic, law, public, school, etc.) and information systems is invited to attend.
]]>Explore the possibilities with Michael Rafael, CEO and Chief Engineer of Direct Dimensions, Inc.
Join members of the Ancient Studies community and friends in this visual presentation of applications of advanced 3-D technology used by archaeologists and ancient art historians.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at noon in the Library Gallery.
All welcome.
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If you always seem to miss out on free food, I’ve done the leg work and compiled a list of events where you can grab something to eat for free between now and spring break. If you’re like me, you don’t want to go grocery shopping anymore. And for meal plan holders, save a meal and enjoy something for free.
Stayed tuned for more updates about free grub on campus. And if you sign up for the UMBCEats twitter alerts, you can have text messages sent right to your phone alerting you of where to find a free (or cheap) meal! Click here
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Christina Stanger
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Office of Sponsored Programs