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Who wins if immigration reform passes?
The Senate has approved a sweeping bill, though much work remains in the House. Here's a look at how the law might impact key sectors -- tech, hotel chains, restaurants, agriculture and more -- and your stocks.
With Senate approval of the so-called Gang of Eight's immigration reform plan June 27, it's time to take stock of how the changes will impact one important group of companies.
The ones in your investment portfolio.
My key takeaways in some key groups and names:
Proposed immigration reform from the Senate is great news for high-tech companies such as Google (GOOG), Facebook (FB) and Microsoft (MSFT), because it will let in more high-skilled workers. These companies have long lamented shortages of these workers in the immigration pool, compared with what's available globally. Who knows? It might even mean that we see the next Google.
More immigrants, and more legalizing undocumented workers, will put downward pressure on wages for low-skilled jobs. This will benefit companies that use lots of these kinds of workers, such as restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), hotelier Marriott International (MAR) and homebuilder Lennar (LEN). It would also help ease shortages of drivers for companies like FedEx (FDX) and United Parcel Service (UPS).
Giving legal status to undocumented workers means they will spend more on things that last a long time, such as houses, cars and washing machines. That should help companies including Lennar, General Motors (GM), and Home Depot (HD).
A big part of immigration reform involves stepped-up enforcement -- and border-control measures may get tougher as the bill moves through the House. This would likely help companies such as Raytheon (RTN), United Technologies (UTX) and Halliburton (HAL).
But will anything happen?
Of course, it's no sure bet that anything like the version of immigration reform approved by the Democratically controlled Senate will see the light of day, given the polarization in Washington, D.C., and the fact that the House is controlled by Republicans.
However, because Republicans got trounced in the last presidential election -- in part because immigrants rejected their hard-line stance on immigration reform -- my guess is that something will get through the House.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a natural bias, of course, as a big proponent of reform. But he agrees. He recently predicted that public pressure on Congress to pass immigration reform would have the House putting up something like the Senate plan for a vote within the next few months. It would be the most sweeping immigration action since the 1980s.
Given that, here's a closer look at what might change in key sectors, and how it would impact some brand-name stocks a lot of investors own.
Technology and engineering
In the emotional and polarizing debate on immigration, we often hear the warm and fuzzy -- and mostly true -- assertion that "we are a nation of immigrants." The subscript is that excluding newcomers is tantamount to excluding yourself, or your parents or grandparents.
That makes you stop and think about the importance of immigration on a personal level.
But to understand the potential economic impact immigration reform, forget all that and consider the following eye-opening observation from famed technology analyst Mary Meeker: 60% of the top 25 U.S.-based tech companies were founded by first- or second-generation immigrants.
They include Apple (AAPL), Google, IBM (IBM), Amazon.com (AMZN), Yahoo (YHOO) and Linkedin (LNKD).
Not only have all of these companies deeply changed our lives -- mostly for the better -- but they have also created 1.2 million jobs, says Meeker, who is now with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Many of these jobs pay quite well, thus they contribute to overall economic growth. (You can see the full list of tech companies founded by immigrants or their immediate offspring on page 87 of Meeker's slide show here.)
Similarly, 25% of high-tech startups in the United States from 1990 to 2005 were founded or co-founded by an immigrant, according to the National Venture Capital Association.
Immigration reform measures now moving through Congress increase the odds that more paradigm-shifting tech companies will be founded here. The Senate version substantially increases the number of high-skilled, highly educated workers who can immigrate here under H1B visas and green cards, says Greg Siskind, an immigration attorney in Memphis with Siskind Susser. The legislation also lifts country quotas, which relaxes restrictions on immigrants from India, a main source of tech workers, notes Siskind.
Even if these immigrants don't found the next Google, they will help satisfy the deep shortages of highly skilled workers in the tech sector that tech companies have complained about for years. "This is very good news for recruiting highly skilled workers," says Siskind. So it would be a big plus for tech companies like the ones mentioned above, as well as for manufacturers such as Intel (INTC), Texas Instruments (TXN), Caterpillar (CAT) and General Electric (GE), which need high-skilled workers to set up and manage plants and IT systems.
"Despite our relatively high unemployment rate, there are probably three million science and engineering jobs that have gone unfilled for over a year in the U.S.," says Oliver Pursche, author of "Immigrants: Unleashing the Economic Force at our Door" and manager of the GMG Defensive Beta (MPDAX) fund, which has beaten competing funds by 5.9% a year, annualized, over the past three years, according to Morningstar.
On the downside, new rules in the Senate version would slow down the process of granting H1B visas, hike the fees and double or triple the amount of time approval takes, says Siskind. Even worse, a House version of immigration reform rules makes no new concessions for green cards for these kinds of workers, although that could change.
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There's an understandably heated and emotional debate about the impact on wages from letting more immigrants in, and from legalizing undocumented workers already here. The academic research isn't much help because it is mixed. Companies that employ the undocumented don't share much data on the subject, for obvious reasons. But here's my own take, based on interviews with several experts and on basic logic.
More immigrants, and the legalization of undocumented workers, will put downward pressure on wages for low-skilled jobs. And this will benefit companies that employ lots of low-wage, low-skilled workers, including Chipotle, McDonald's (MCD), Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (HOT), Marriott International, homebuilders including Lennar, and farming and agricultural companies, which run on low-skilled jobs.
Transport companies such as FedEx, United Parcel Service and trucker Swift Transportation (SWFT) should also benefit because they suffer from a shortage of drivers, says Fariborz Ghadar, the director of the Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. Legalizing undocumented workers will help these companies, because their new legal status will allow these immigrants to more easily get driver's licenses and insurance.
Oh i love it. All the hard working blue collar Americans can now thank their Democratic party for driving the nail in the coffin. Carpentry used to be a skilled trade. Now it's just general labor. Welcome to my plight Teachers, Nurses, Electricians, Cooks. And all the white collar professionals with the degrees will soon get to know what it's like now that we're lowering education costs for illegals or soon to be legals. And when more Asians and Middle Easterners start coming here and reaping the benefits of education you'll see what it's like to bargain for a just above minimum wage job.
Wake up. Not all but a great majority of immigrants do not like our country or the American Way. They will not pledge allegiance to our flag. They do not want to pay for insurances or taxes. They do not want to be registered or have to abide by our laws. They will and do want to reap the benefits of our culture. When there are four families living in one house with 12 children what does that do to taxing for our school system. When was the last time you had completely free health care but look at what it's costing you now. You can look closely at any of the uber liberal states and see what it has done to the working classes. All it's going to do is make it worse.
Immigrants do not spend more money. In fact, and God bless them for it, they save more money and under a mattress not a bank.
It is going to cost our stupid country more to have these immigrants. Vast majority are the unskilled and uneducated so don't think we are going to get any great invention out of them. I hope they take the jobs of our politicians that would be perfect.
I've spent enough time along the border area and in Mexico on business the past 20 years to know that most Mexican citizens don't particularly want to be here (away from family) any more than we want them here. They are here because the U.S. and Mexico negotiated a NAFTA that artificially depresses Mexican wage rates under government control at around $2 an hour. Meanwhile the cost of living in Mexico is 70% of ours; can't support a family under those conditions any more than you could here.
Renegotiate NAFTA to allow for free market determination of labor costs and many, many Mexican citizens will go home on their own. Will save us bunches on fence building and maybe then those guys could afford to buy some of our stuff, just like NAFTA was "supposed" to do.
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With the release of the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot, Waiver Wire writer Greg Kaplan will explore the candidacy of numerous names on the ballot. Points for and against induction will be presented, and we're forcing him to make a decision at the end of each post to decide if that player should be placed alongside the immortals that have played baseball throughout history.
Previous Cases – Jack Morris – Jeff Bagwell – Lee Smith – Tim Raines – Alan Trammell– Edgar Martinez – Fred McGriff – Larry Walker – Mark McGwire – Don Mattingly – Dale Murphy
Year(s) on ballot – 3rd (received 12.6% of vote last season)
Credentials – 20 years in MLB (10 with Texas Rangers, seven with Baltimore Orioles), career .288/.371/.515, 569HRs, 1,835RBI, 3,020 hits, 585 doubles, four-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner, two-time Silver Slugger
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At the base of his argument, Palmeiro has reached two career milestones that, generally speaking, are automatic locks for enshrinement. He has 3,000+ hits and has 500+ home runs. Normally, that's enough. Normally.
11 times in Palmeiro's career, he finished inside the top 10 in the league for most home runs without once winning the single-season crown. He hit .300 or better six times throughout the course of his career, again without winning a batting title. His 585 career doubles rank him 16th all-time, and his 569 home runs place him 12th.
One argument that is often made against players like Palmeiro who play for a long period of time without achieving notoriety with a single season of dominance is that the player hung around just long enough to compile stats. However, the list of players that have had 3,000+ hits and 500+ home runs is incredibly short. Everyone that has done it before Palmeiro that has been eligible for Hall of Fame election is in there. It's truly the benchmark of all benchmarks, and the argument for Palmeiro's election starts and finishes there. You don't need anything else.
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He lied. Not only did Palmeiro lie, once he was caught in the lie, he started blaming people surrounding him for the situation he was in.
Rafael Palmeiro wasn't just caught in the performance-enhancing scandal during the Congressional hearings. Remember, he tested positive after those hearings and after baseball had officially instituted random drug testing and PED suspensions. We paint players like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire cheaters for being linked to performance-enhancing drugs, but Rafael Palmeiro was physically caught taking them.
This is the same guy who sat up in front of Congress, waved his finger at elected officials saying he never took steroids, period. He sat up there, spinning this elaborate web that placed blame on Jose Canseco for dragging his name through the mud and making him out to be someone he wasn't. Then, when he was busted, he quickly put blame on a teammate (Miguel Tejada) for giving him a tainted B-12 shot.
I know the character clause in the Hall of Fame voting guidelines might as well be thrown out with players like Ty Cobb and Gaylord Perry already in Cooperstown, but there is a stink about what Palmeiro has done and said during and after his playing career. It feels rather unforgivable.
Rafael Palmeiro reached some magnificent career benchmarks during his playing days. However, I don't feel he's deserved the right to be remembered the same way others are by gaining admittance to the Hall of Fame. He didn't earn that. So, in my mind, he's out.

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If we've said it once, we've said it a hundred (OK, maybe three or four) times: Don't put stuff on Facebook or any other social-networking site that can come back to bite you.
The latest proof of how damaging this can be: An Associated Press story related how divorce attorneys are routinely looking for incriminating stuff on social-networking sites, and they're finding lots of it -- most often on Facebook.
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For years, the 8,000-square-foot mansion in suburban Seattle sat vacant and for sale, the price gradually coming down from $5.8 million to $3.3 million. One day in June, a 30-year-old woman, a man and two children took down the for-sale signs, changed the locks, moved in and declared it their home.
They didn't actually buy the house, or even rent it. They just moved in and declared it their house.
Jill Lane, who was arrested on a charge of trespassing after two weeks in the house, is not contrite, The Seattle Times' Danny Westneat reports. Not only did she try to take over the mansion, with its wine cellar, home theater, six bedrooms and nine baths, she has staked a claim to 10 other bank-owned houses in the Seattle area.
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A trip from San Diego to Indianapolis.
As you're about to book your flight, you stare at the computer screen, wondering what's the best choice.
You quickly searched Southwest, but the timetable and seats available just didn't match up to the meeting's schedule.
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No one's busier than the average preschooler. They're so active and imaginative it's no wonder they get hungry between meals and need a snack.
Although growth during the preschool years is slower compared with that of the first 2 years of life, preschool kids still need about 1,200 to 1,600 calories a day — calories that should come from a balanced diet that includes whole grains, lean meat, beans, low-fat milk, fruits, and vegetables.
That's sometimes easier said than done. Some preschoolers don't eat well at mealtime. Others might be willing to eat, but only certain foods. This can leave nutritional gaps in a child's diet. Healthy and well-timed snacks can help fill in these gaps. They also can keep kids from getting overly hungry and cranky.
So how do you turn preschoolers into smart snackers?
Preschoolers are anything but boring, so why should their snacks be? Being creative when it comes to expanding the snack menu doesn't have to be complicated or time consuming.
Here are a few action-snack suggestions to get you started:
Cut it! Use a cookie cutter to cut cheese, veggies, and sandwiches into fun, irresistible shapes.
Dip it! Pair slices of fruit, veggies, or whole-wheat crackers with a side of dip. Whether it's peanut butter, low-fat ranch dressing, guacamole, salsa, applesauce, or yogurt, everyone loves to dip.
Create it! Make art out of food. Try apple-wedge flower petals around a kiwi slice for some flower art. Or maybe fun food faces with berry eyes and a banana mouth.
Sip it! Who says you have to eat a healthy snack? Fruit smoothies made with low-fat yogurt or milk and fresh fruit are a great way for kids to drink up needed nutrients.
Crunch it! Low-fat granola and lower-sugar breakfast cereals are good choices. Also try toasted whole-wheat pita wedges for a satisfying crunch without the salt and fat of potato chips.
Play it! Turn healthy snacking into a game. For example, try making a "food rainbow" on a plate and let your child decide which colors to eat first. Next time, you can do the same with different shapes. Which will it be — squares or triangles?
Reviewed by: Mary L. Gavin, MD
Date reviewed: April 2012
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Carrie Lee Dukes was born Jan. 1, 1914 to Frank and Jessie Moore. She departed this life at the age of 98 on October 25 in Atlanta, Georgia in the care of her granddaughter, Scheherazade Taylor and family.
Carrie was a member of St. Rest Baptist Church for several decades. She was a devoted member of the adult Sunday School Class. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her beloved daughter, Essie L. Sears; two sisters; and two brothers.
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Summary: From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and late fifties. Told with elegance and restraint, partly from the point of view of a child, partly from that of an adult, it is the story of a lonely, stammering boy cared for by a matriarchy of his mother, grandmother, and an upstairs tenant, Miss Davis, to which he adds an imaginary sister, Sally. At the heart of this story is David Thomson's profound sadness at being abandoned by a cold and distant father who visits only on weekends and keeps, as Thomson later discovers, another household. Thomson gives a vivid picture of London in the aftermath of the war, whether it is his grandmother bringing him to a street corner to see Churchill or the bombed-out houses that still smelled of acrid smoke where, though forbidden, he played. Movies became his great escape, and the worlds revealed inHenry V, Red River, The Third Man,andCitizen Kanewere part of his rich imaginative life, one that gained him a scholarship to public and eventually film school. And though his father could never tell his son he loved him, he spent the first part of vacations with him and he came back most weekends, taking Thomson to everything from boxing to cricket matches. But as Thomson admits, "I am still, years after his death, bewildered and pained by my father, and trying to love him--or find his love for me." Try to Tell the Storyis a haunting and unsentimental look at the fragility of family relationships, a memoir of growing up in the absence of a full-time father, with movies and sports heroes as one's only touchstones.
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Nearly 20 years in the making, Can't Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. Here Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Can't Buy Me Love illuminates the Beatles as a charismatic phenomenon of international proportions, whose anarchic energy and unexpected import was derived from the historic shifts in fortune that transformed the relationship between Britain and America in the decades after World War II.
©2007 Jonathan Gould (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
"Not just another biography of the Fab Four, Gould's ambitious, decades-in-the-making volume tells their larger-than-life story and uses it as a lens through which to look at the cultural and historical forces that shaped the band - and its ongoing significance." (Rolling Stone)
"Fascinating.... An essential addition to Beatle literature." (The Guardian)
"Brilliant.... Engrossing.... Gould's deft hand makes the book sing. This is music writing at its best." (Publishers Weekly, starred, signature review)
"Light on gossip, rich on context"
I took a long time listening to this because I didn't want it to end. I also wanted to listen to the music chronologically as Jonathan Gould worked his way through each album and single; so I kept taking breaks from the audiobook to catch up on the songs.
The Beatles are THE band for me and always have been, since my brother and I took the bus into Richmond in 1964 to see the first run of "Hard Day's Night." I won't go so far as to say this is THE book about the group, but it's a fine one, and is well narrated by Richard Aspel. To the standard question, would you read / listen to another book by this writer / narrator - yes, definitely, on both counts.
It's not the most gossipy book about the Beatles. Gould doesn't have any ground-breaking new research or exclusive interviews to offer. What he has, in abundance, are two things: a rich sense of the political and cultural context in which the Beatles' career took place; and a detailed analysis, musical and lyrical, of every released single and every track on every album. His discussions of the songs are what impelled me to go back and listen to them yet again, this time with a handful of specific things to listen for in each one. (I didn't always understand the terminology Gould uses: at one point, he refers to "the elemental subdominant cadent in A-major" - at least I think that's what he said - but his descriptions are more often concrete and illuminating than over-my-head baffling.)
Gould sets the Beatles firmly against the backdrop of Elvis, Les Paul, Brian Wilson, the Stones, Dylan, and the Goon Show on the one hand; and Vietnam, assassinations, student rebellions, the Prague Spring, the Chicago riots, the Profumo affair, and the political rivalry of Edward Heath and Harold Wilson on the other. If you didn't live through those times, the book will give you a better sense of the wider world than any other Beatles book I know. If you did live through those times, it will remind you of how glorious (and sometimes gloriously awful) they were. Woodstock makes an appearance, even though the Beatles didn't show up there: they were putting the finishing touches on the "Abbey Road" album. But Woodstock was an important part of the cultural background; it's impossible to understand the Beatles' place in popular culture without taking it into account.
I haven't listened to all the Beatles-related audiobooks on Audible. Of the ones I have listened to, the only one in the same league is the book by Bob Spitz - unfortunately only available here in abridged format. (The Hunter Davies account is on my list, but even though it has a 1996 update, it's mainly focused on the period ending in 1968.) Until someone offers Spitz unabridged, or Philip Norman's Shout!, or Hunter Davies writes a fuller account of the later years, this is the audiobook I would recommend to anyone wanting an introduction to the history of the band. Gould presents the story with admirable objectivity; it's obvious that the band, and the band's music, fascinate him; but he's willing to call baloney when he sees it, and some of the Beatles tracks, especially as he moves into the troubled territory of The White Album and the Let It Be sessions, come in for particularly harsh criticism. ("Shapeless" and "gormless" are two of the adjectives employed in Gould's discussion of one of the tracks on the White Album. "A parody of a travesty" is his verdict on another.)
The only thing that could make the audiobook better, in my opinion, would be an edition that integrates the songs themselves into the narrative. But you can always do that on your own, like I did.
"Ambitious - this book's strength and weakness"
Yes and no. I enjoyed the beginning of the book, describing the Beatles' start, their rise to fame, and the cultural backdrop that contributed to and caused their success. Toward the second half of the book, however, there are several passages that describe in verbose detail the making of albums and the attributes of each song. Several hours could have been removed from this book just from editing those out. One would have to be a HUGE fan of the Beatles and/or a musician to understand much of the later lingo.
Another reviewer indicated frustration with Richard Aspel's odd pauses, and I must confess I found them grating as well. With that exception, he did a very good job of narrating, particularly when he was being flippant.
Overall, this book may appear to music history buffs, cultural history buffs, fans of the Beatles who may want a comprehensive biography... But I am not interested enough in these topics - or perhaps their intertwining as compiled by Gould - to wholeheartedly recommend this book.
I enjoy passionate narrators. Great content is also a good thing.
I have listened to The Beatles for years and only knowing tidbits about them and their music. This book was a great way for me to have a better understanding of them as individuals and as a group. Even though I have very little knowledge in music the book goes into detail about chords. Not too much detail that it turns me away.
The narration was good, but at times there are unusual pauses as if he's turning a page to continue reading.
People who want to know something about The Beatles, and are starting from a position of no knowledge.
Half the book is written like a dissertation on the sociology of the 1960's. Not very well written at that. The other is the usual rehashed tale of the Beatles. there is no insight here. His description of the music is based on Ian McDonald's ground breaking Revolution in the Head.
By getting a narrator who can pronounce the words...
For example his pronunciation of place names in Liverpool is pitiful, he constantly refers to Nems as N. E. M. S. the pattern of his de-livery is very strange.
I'd cut out the sociology, and I'd look for some originality.
I'd advise people not to download this.
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All SBU students, faculty and staff are eligible for participation with a Campus Recreation Membership. If you do not know enough people to form a complete team, come to the Department of Campus Recreation for more information and/or you can attend the Managers meeting of that sport and find a team as a free agent at the meeting. Individuals as well as teams are encouraged to participate in intramurals. Teams are usually formed from residence hall floors, Greek organizations, student organizations, and often simply groups of friends.
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Pick up entry forms in the main lobby of the Sports Complex or at the Campus Recreation office, located in the basement of the Sports Complex. Regular season games are played Monday -Thursday, 6 p.m. -11 p.m., depending on the sport activity. Office hours are Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Rosters must be submitted by 5 p.m. by the deadline date for each sport activity.
Intramural Team Manager
The success of the Intramural Program at Stony Brook University is largely dependent upon the representatives who serve as team managers for each participating team. These individuals serve as the means of communication between their team and the Department of Campus Recreation. Each team is encouraged to select the best person to represent their team.
Duties of the Manager Include:
- Attending (or sending a representative) the mandatory team manager's meeting.
- Ensuring that all entries are submitted to the Department of Campus Recreation prior to the entry closing date for each sport.
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- Providing information to each of his/her teammates regarding playing dates, locations, rule interpretations and rescheduled contests.
- Insuring that his/her team does not forfeit.
As soon as the Intramural Manager is selected by a team, he/she should visit the Department of Campus Recreation to pick up team roster forms, schedules, etc. The manager will be notified of matters affecting his/her team and will be responsible for passing this information on to his/her teammates.
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It is the responsibility of each team manager/captain to attend the mandatory manager's meetings. At the manager's meetings, all necessary scheduling information will be detailed for the regular season. Regular season play will be followed by a single elimination playoff to determine Divisional Champions. Teams must adhere to a "3.0 sportsmanship rating" and not have forfeited during the regular season to be eligible for a playoff berth. Each sport season a number of Wild Cards are issued to teams which may not have been one of the top teams from their respective division.
Administrative postponements occur when the weather or other uncontrollable factors make postponing games necessary. If the weather is questionable, the Department of Campus Recreation will contact the team manager to cancel the games. Every effort will be made to reschedule games.
Due to the number of teams involved in the Intramural program, the limited availability of fields/ gymnasium; requests for postponements by team representatives will not be honored. If you have a request for specific game times and dates, the Director must be notified at the time of registration. Teams may not postpone games by agreement; games are postponed and canceled by the Department of Campus Recreation only.
Organization Eligibility
Residence Hall Eligibility - Students living in residence halls may only represent the residence hall in which they live. An individual may not, under any circumstances, represent more than one Intramural Organization at the same time. Should a student change residence halls during the course of the school year, his eligibility will change to his/her new residence at the conclusion of the sport currently in progress.
Independent Division Eligibility - Undergraduate students who do not reside in the residence halls or undergraduate students who do not wish to compete for their residence halls are eligible to compete in this division.
Women's Division Eligibility - This division is open to all women who reside on or off campus and to all women faculty, staff and graduate students.
Greek Division Eligibility - This division is open to all members of fraternities and sororities on campus who do not wish to participate with their residence hall or an independent team. All participants must be members of fraternity/sorority; pledges are not eligible to participate.
Undergraduate College Eligibility - This division is open to all members of the undergraduate colleges on campus who do not wish to participate on an independent team. All participants must be members of their undergraduate college. Teams will be scheduled in a separate undergraduate college division providing a sufficient number of teams register for that sport season.
Co-Recreational Division Eligibility - This division is designed to allow men and women to compete on the same team. Anyone may compete in this division, but rules of play may differ according to specific activities. Varsity athletes may not compete in their given sport.
Free Agents - If you want to play, but you do not have a doubles partner or can't get enough people to form a team, we can still get you involved. All you need to do is attend the Manager's Meeting of the team sport they wish to participate in. Another way to get involved is to attend the sport activity the time of the event and see if any one needs an extra player. Guests of Campus Recreation Members may participate at a fee of $10 per visit.
Player Eligibility
ALL PLAYERS MUST PRESENT A STONY BROOK I.D. CARD before being allowed to participate in an intramural contest.
Assumed Name/Address - Any individual knowingly participating in an Intramural Sport under an assumed name or address shall be barred from ALL INTRAMURAL COMPETITION for the duration of the current academic year. In addition the team for which he/she participated under the assumed name or address will be disqualified from further competition in that sport's current season.
FACULTY and STAFF are encouraged to participate in the Intramural Program. All males (F/S) must compete in the Independent/open division. Exception: Graduate students living in residence halls may represent the residence hall or play in the Independent/open division. The Women's division is not sub-divided into residence or Independent/open.
Illegal Player - Any team that uses an illegal player will forfeit all games the illegal player has participated in and will be disqualified from further competition in that sport's current season.
Roster Additions - Teams may make additions to their roster up until the teams' second played contest. If an individual participates in a contest without being on the team roster, the game will be forfeited and the team could be eliminated from further competition for the duration of that sport season.
Professionalism - Absolutely no jewelry may be worn during Intramural Competition. Players may not tape the jewelry to their body. Equipment that could cut or cause an abrasion to another player is prohibited, without respect to whether or not the equipment is hard. Excessively long fingernails are not permitted. Failure to remove jewelry or equipment could result in ejection from the contest.
- There shall be no protests allowed on judgment calls.
- All protests must be on rule interpretations and must deal directly with the score.
- All protests must be made by the team captain at the time of the protest, to the intramural supervisor at the contest.
- All protests must be submitted in writing to the Department of Campus Recreation by the team manager within 24 hours of that contest. During playoffs, formal protests must be submitted no later than 9:30 a.m. of the 1st working day following the contest.
Members of Athletic Teams:
- A person who has won his/her varsity letter or award (i.e. trophy, plaque, jewelry, certificate, jacket, etc.) in a sport or its related sport at Stony Brook University, a four-year college or university, or two-year junior college, will not be eligible to compete in that sport or its related counterpart for a period of 2 academic school years after the awarding of the letter and/or end of the season. Upon termination of the two year grace period, only two varsity letter winners will be eligible to compete for a team in their sport or its related counterpart.
- A person who has received an athletic scholarship or was a member of an intercollegiate athletic team, but did not receive a varsity letter or award as stated in above in a sport or its related counterpart at Stony Brook University, will not be allowed to compete in that related intramural sport for a period of 2 academic school years from the end of the season that they participated in the sport.
- All collegiate coaches are considered members of their team, and therefore, they are not eligible to compete in that sport or its related counterpart.
- If a student practices with a varsity team of their same sex for any period of time, they are ineligible to compete in that sport and in its related counterpart in the intramural sport program during that academic school year unless a letter is secured from the varsity coach of that sport before he or she participates in the intramural sport stating that the participant is not varsity material. (i.e. Redshirts)
The following is a list of Varsity Sports and their related counterparts in Intramural Sports:
|Softball, Wiffleball
|Basketball, 3-on-3 Basketball
|Soccer, Indoor Soccer, Kickball
|Softball, Wiffleball
|Volleyball, 4-on-4 Volleyball
Any student, faculty/staff member who has competed in a sport on a professional basis shall be ineligible for Intramural competition in that sport or its related IM sport.
Intramural Fees
Forfeit Fees: In each of the team sports, the team will be required to pay a $40 forfeit fee. This fee must be paid in cash or check and is due upon when you submit your team roster. Failure to pay the forfeit fee prior to the deadline date will result in teams' elimination from the league. This fee is being imposed to discouraged teams from forfeiting. At the end of the sport season, if the team did not forfeit, the money will be refunded. However, if the team forfeits a contest or defaults twice, the money is also forfeited to the Intramural Sports Program and that team will be required to pay another $40 fee in order to continue
Forfeit: If a team or contestant from that team fails to appear at the scheduled game time, the intramural staff shall declare the contest forfeited.
Default: When less than 50% of a regulation team is present the game shall be recorded as a default. If your team is unable to attend a contest, it is the manager's responsibility to notify the Department of Campus Recreation @ 632-7168 prior to 4:00pm on the scheduled day. This will be recorded as a default. Failure to notify the office before 4:00pm, or if no members of the team show up for the contest will result in a FORFEIT and loss of $40.00 FEE. If a team has two defaults in the same season, that will also result in the loss of the $40.00 FEE.
Only a 5-minute grace period will be allowed before the game is recorded as a default or forfeit
Please make every attempt to show up for scheduled contest. If your team is unable to make a scheduled contest, it is the responsibility of the manager to notify the Department of Campus Recreation.
Forfeit Fee Refund Policy: A team manager has until the end of the academic year to retrieve the team forfeit fee. The fee is nonrefundable after that time and is forfeited to the Intramural Program. The team manager must submit a "Forfeit Fee Refund Form" to the Department of Campus Recreation prior to the end of the academic year. The Department of Campus Recreation will process the form and providing the team has not forfeited any games will issue a check of $40 within two weeks.
A MANDATORY INTRAMURAL FEE OF $10 per academic year for the outdoor sports (Flag Football, Soccer, and Softball) imposed on all Graduate Students, Faculty and Staff. Fee must be paid to the Department of Campus Recreation at the time of registration.


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COLONIE, N.Y. – A local motel operator faces over 200 code violations as the business closes its doors.
Police say they found things like mold, exposed wires, and unsafe stairs during a search warrant after officials say a tenant fell through the floor at Skylane Motel on Central Avenue in Colonie.
Now the operator, Alex Patel, is looking at up to $750,000 in fines. He appeared in Colonie Town Court Thursday morning with his attorney, pleading not guilty to all 254 code violations lodged against him.
The Town Attorney, Michael Maggulli, and the Town Supervisor, Paula Mahan, were also in the courtroom.
"We made everyone aware that today was the day we will be closing it down and placarding the building," said Mahan.
She said the town had problems with the motel and its operations for a number of years, even before when her administration took over in 2008.
"The town was not allowed to go in without the owner's permission. Unless we receive information that will give us probable cause," said Maggulli.
And officials say they had probable cause for a search warrant in December to check every room after a tenant fell through the floor.
"When we did that we found multiple violations in each of the 42 rooms. We treated it as a crime scene so our forensic officers took photos," he said.
Officials said Patel was making money off the county by housing homeless, displaced families, and some sex offenders.
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Dev Desai, M.D., Ph.D.
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Endowed Title: Distinguished Scholar in Medical Research
Department: Surgery, Pediatrics
Associate Professor
Endowed Title: Distinguished Scholar in Medical Research
Department: Surgery, Pediatrics
Dr. Desai is a general and transplant surgeon specializing in liver, kidney, pancreas and intestinal transplantation, as well as open and laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, portal hypertensive vascular decompression procedures and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. Dr. Desai is also head of pediatric abdominal transplantation at Children's Medical Center.
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|Stanford University Hospital (1996), General Surgery
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Desai, Esquivel Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures, 3rd Ed 2003 Lippincott Williams Wilki
Half-Life Analysis of Pancreas and Kidney Transplants.
Marroquin, Edwards, Collins, Desai, Tuttle-Newhall, Kuo Transplantation 2005 80 272-275
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to complicated gastroduodenal ulcer disease in liver transplant patients taking sirolimus.
Smith, Bai, Marroquin, Tuttle-Newhall, Desai, Collins, Muir, Kuo, McHutchinson, Rockey. Clinical Transplantation 2005 19 250-254
The current status of living donor liver transplantation.
Tuttle-Newhall, Collins, Desai, Kuo, Heneghan Current Problems in Surgery 2005 42(3) 144-183
Perioperative Management of Special Populations: Immunocompromised Host
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So easy, so fast, but so, so very delicious! I realized too late that I was using the marsala wine that has some salt already in it, so the overall dish came out a little salty - my fault, though! I will cut down on the salt in the future. Served over egg noodles. The parsley gives it a nice burst of color and freshness. I think it would be great with chicken, too. A keeper!
Veal Marsala
Photography: Randy Mayor; Styling: Jan Gautro
This classic Italian veal recipe calls for veal scaloppine, a superthin veal cutlet. Here, it's dredged in flour then sautéed. Serve over egg noodles or a blend of white and wild rice.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 3 ounces veal and about 2 tablespoons sauce)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 193
- Calories from fat: 28%
- Fat: 6.1g
- Saturated fat: 3g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.1g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.4g
- Protein: 26g
- Carbohydrate: 7.5g
- Fiber: 0.4g
- Cholesterol: 102mg
- Iron: 1.9mg
- Sodium: 481mg
- Calcium: 24mg
- 1 pound veal scaloppine
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, divided
- 2/3 cup beef consommé
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup dry marsala wine
- 1 cup presliced mushrooms
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
- Dredge veal in 3 tablespoons flour. Combine 1 tablespoon flour and consommé, stirring with a whisk; set aside.
- Melt butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add veal, cook 1 1/2 minutes. Turn veal over; cook 1 minute. Remove veal from pan.
- Add wine to pan, scraping pan to loosen browned bits. Add consommé mixture, mushrooms, and salt; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer 3 minutes or until thick. Return veal to pan; sprinkle with parsley.
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Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism (https://iowawatch.org/)
A group of northeast Iowans effectively is keeping large frac sand mine companies from mining silica-rich sand in their county by building a consortium that set aside politics and focused on dealing with the matter locally, instead of with state intervention.
The number of sex offenders receiving treatment while living outside of prison walls on parole in Iowa towns is expected to almost double in two years. The dramatic increase is adding pressure for financial resources and people to supervise sex offenders on parole, a joint IowaWatch and Gazette investigation revealed.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has begun acting to rein in abuse, producing a report critical of the industry and requiring two payday businesses to provide refunds and pay million-dollar fines. The bureau also is drafting rules that could provide further protections for consumers.
Brian Curtis took out his first payday loan when he was 19. It took more than a decade before he got out from under it and the climbing interest payments that followed. "It's a trap," he said. Curtis, 37, and living in Davenport, said he had roughly $5,000 in payday loan debt after taking out loans for a $1,500 car repair while living in Florida, and then again when he moved to Missouri and needed a deposit for an apartment.
Trevor Goggin recognized the boy as soon as he approached the neighborhood street hockey rink. He was the kid who had made his little sister, Taylor, run home from the school bus bawling a few days earlier. So Trevor was not surprised when he heard the boy's taunt: "Hey, isn't your sister the bald one who wears a wig?"


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Objectives will be completed by the end of 2014. Recent news:
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We'll soon have an area made especially for photo editing, music recording, and video creation.
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Strategy I: Maintain focus on books and reading
- Add new resources, such as eBooks, to traditional formats
- Promote collection use by continuing removal of unneeded materials
- Enhance technology assistance, readers' advisory, and reference help
Strategy II: Support early literacy
- Install bin shelving for picture books
- Construct activity areas
- Incorporate early literacy emphasis into programs
Strategy III: Develop services based on community needs
- Complete eBook survey and and adjust eBooks strategy
- Introduce expanded technology training
- Establish regular program of listening to the community and evaluating services
Strategy IV: Embrace technological change
- Acquire and install RFID-based self-service checkout system and Automated Materials Handling system
- Improve children's access to the Internet and other technology
- Rebuild the library's website and enhance online presence
Strategy V: Make the library an attractive destination
- Update seating, meeting spaces, and display of materials
- Construct a media lab, computer help desk, enhanced teen space, and a single Adult Services Department
Strategy VI: Establish a community presence
- Establish mutually useful community partnerships
Strategy VII: Increase organizational effectiveness
- Install revised management structure
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Product DescriptionWe took our most coveted features from the ContourROAM and the original Contour+ and created a camera that is not only easier to use, but brings an entirely new perspective to your adventures. Share beautiful 1080p HD video with speed, distance, and elevation across the social networks you use most. Featuring even better video quality, an Instant On-Record switch, and a 60-meter waterproof case for those underwater adventures, the Contour+2 will bring your stories to life like never before.
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Date Reviewed: March 18, 2013
Strengths: I actually own the ROAM, so doesn't have quite the same features, but still an excellent option. All the things mentioned in the review I find accurate. PLUS, you can use an adaptor so that this camera works with ALL the Hero mounts, eliminating the shortcoming mentioned in the review. I've got mine set up to use the Chest mount for mtn biking and it works really well (have bashed it around at Whistler, without any issues).
Weaknesses: I'd love to be able to see what I'm filming. I believe this one does have the option to connect to your smartphone via bluetooth, which the ROAM doesn't. And the ROAM also doesn't offer GPS.
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We had a family get together for several days over our teenage granddaughters' spring break. The townhouse was accurately described in all details. We found it extremely comfortable for the six of us, with plenty of room to spread out over 3 levels. The beds were all very comfortable. The upscale master bath with steam room was amazing. We enjoyed cooking in the well-stocked kitchen (lots of extras like spices, coffee, pancake mix and syrup) and also took advantage of some of the nearby restaurants. Getting into Washington, DC was our main goal (museums, etc.) and it was very simple and fast from this location. It is also close to Old Town Alexandria, with shops, history, and arts. The townhome is located in a quiet cul-de-sac but within walking distance of the pathway along the Potomac River -- good for walking or biking. We would highly recommend this townhome for a vacation!
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Sheriff Benny Napoleon and his supporters will gather together at the Roostertail as the election results unfold. Fox 2's Andrea Isom is there. She says Napoleon got up this morning, went to work at the sheriff's office, voted, and then has visited a different location to campaign every thirty minutes and will continue to do that until about 7:30 p.m.He will then meet up with his campaign at the Roostertail.
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Dear Roze:
I've always thought people in management would excel in decision-making, but my current boss proves my thinking so wrong. Her lack of good judgment and objectivity are so disappointing. I had heard she holds grudges but this takes the cake. She had a falling out with a guy she used to work with over ten years ago. Since his retirement, he was diagnosed with some kind of rare cancer and recently died. Not only did she not contribute to our company's purchase of a floral arrangement for his family, but she made those of us who went to the funeral take our vacation time to go. But about six months ago, there was a funeral for a guy whose wife used to work here; and she let everyone go without having to take time off. As you can imagine, I sure don't want to cross her. Do you have any thoughts or personal experiences you care to share?
Fearful of grudge-holding boss
Dear Fearful of grudge-holding boss:
Your concerns are warranted. Ideally, we want individuals in management positions to be fair and objective. Unfortunately, I have had my share of experiences with bosses who cannot let things go. One that comes to mind was the time there was a farewell lunch held in my honor. My boss, who I had had a misunderstanding with, not only showed up late but he revealed his true colors when it was his turn to speak. He was obviously ill-prepared by the way he fumbled through his empty speech. As much as I was embarrassed and hurt, he actually ended up damaging his already sullied reputation. This and other experiences of my own as well as the many shared with me by my clients and peers only reinforce the importance of managers maintaining their professionalism. We discover the true character of people by the decisions and choices they make. Whether we are bosses or employees, we cannot go wrong by treating others the way we want to be treated – with respect.
Dear Roze:
I work in the real estate industry. Even though my job isn't in sales, it's still been real tough to work in this business for the past six years. I'm thankful to have a job but I'm really happy to be a salaried employee versus on commission like the sales people. I'm writing you for some help in dealing with my boss who owns the company I work for. It's so hard to hear him say at least once a quarter how crazy we would be if we weren't dusting off our resumes and keeping an eye open for other jobs. It's always doom and gloom. His remarks make all of us feel like we could be without a job at any time. All of us want to know if the company is doing poorly, but it's hard to stay motivated and feel secure when we're working for a Chicken Little. I've let him know his remarks bug me, but I've always done it in a joking way. I don't think he realizes that because of his words, he could easily come to work one day and find notices from all of us.
The sky is always falling
Dear The Sky is always falling:
Although I applaud your boss for what sounds like transparency when he talks to you and your co-workers about the condition of the real estate market and his company in particular, it appears that the manner in which he delivers this information could be improved upon. I doubt he wants to kill the office morale; nor do I think he wants you and your co-workers to spend more time looking for other employment than you do in working for him. I suggest a couple of you meet with him and respectfully communicate the damaging effect his words are having on all of you. Hopefully, he will either change his message or let you know you are smart to pursue other job opportunities.
Best of luck!
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