News from CERN, 24 January 2003: *) All 25 signal feedthroughs of ECC are now installed, welded, and leak checked. There might be a further visual check of the welds inside the feedthrough cold boxes next week. *) The first pedestal was installed today by Ken Sexton, along with its two heater plates. We still have no informatation from Orsay regarding the hot/ground power wires for the heater plates. *) The map for attaching the warm cables from the feedthrough warm flange to the baseplane is now agreed upon for the Standard feedthroughs. The HEC, Special, and FCAL maps are to be finalized during LARG week (next week). Warm cabling is expected to commence next week.