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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Penn State will be spending Spring Break down south for a marathon of eight away games in nine days. The Nittany Lions (1-5) will face three teams with a combined 17-7 record all in hostile environments. With the odds stacked against them, the players have embraced the underdog role and are excited for the challenge.
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The mental aspect of baseball is just as important, if not more important, than the physical. As Deegan notes, it's a team's desire that decides whether they will win or lose when the game is on the line.
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With a brutal string of away games looming, Penn State's mental toughness will be crucial. Coach Wine preached to his players the importance of taking it one game at a time and battling until the end.
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The imam, his wife and two sons were in the Fatih Camii mosque at the time of the explosion, which police said on Tuesday was a result of xenophobia.
However, no one was injured in the attacks, which occurred on Monday night, according to police, who found the remains of self-made explosives at both crime scenes.
"Although no one has so far claimed responsibility, we must assume that there was a xenophobic motive," Dresden police chief Horst Kretschmar said.
Police linked the explosion at the congress centre to next Monday's celebrations in Dresden marking the 26th anniversary of German unification, which is to be attended by German President Joachim Gauck.
Dresden is the capital of the eastern state of Saxony, which has been a focus of recent anti-foreigner sentiments.
Saxony's August 2014 regional elections produced a major electoral success for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany when the party won seats in its first state parliament.
The state has also been the scene of several violent clashes outside refugee shelters and is home to the so-called Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (Pegida), which hold regular anti-migrant protests in Dresden.
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The DIK was set up in 2006 to formalize dialogue between representatives of the German government and the Muslim community.
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This workshop will discuss recent tropical cyclone forecast challenges. The workshop will begin with a look at the current state of tropical cyclone forecasting and how these forecasts have improved during the past few decades. NHC hurricane forecasters will also discuss how track and intensity forecasts are made and describe some recent forecast challenges, including the large uncertainty in Joaquin's (2015) track, the unexpected rapid intensification of Matthew (2016) in the Caribbean, and the coastline-hugging track of Matthew near the southeastern United States.
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Marginality: A Numerical Mapping for Enhanced Exploitation of Taxonomic Attributes
Hierarchical attributes appear in taxonomic or ontology based data (e.g. NACE economic activities, ICD-classified diseases, animal/ plant species, etc.). Such taxonomic data are often exploited as if they were flat nominal data without hierarchy, which implies losing substantial information and analytical power. The authors introduce marginality, a numerical mapping for taxonomic data that allows using on those data many of the algorithms and analytical techniques designed for numerical data. They show how to compute descriptive statistics like the mean, the variance and the covariance on marginality-mapped data.
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EVERETT — An employee's fall from a roof has authorities crashing down on a Lake Stevens business owner.
David Rau, 49, has been charged with a felony based on allegations that he didn't report his employees' work hours in an effort to avoid paying workers compensation to the state Department of Labor and Industries.
Rau pleaded not guilty to false reporting Thursday in Snohomish County Superior Court. He remains free pending trial.
Rau came to the attention of state officials in 2001 after a state audit. The probe found that Rau, who owns Davey's Roofing, hadn't reported that he employed 13 workers, court papers said. He was fined about $3,000 and received information about his responsibility to pay premiums for his employees.
State officials opened another investigation in 2010 after a man working for Rau fell from a roof and sought benefits through the state's Department of Labor and Industries fund. Officials allege that Rau hadn't reported any employee hours and hadn't paid any worker premiums for about nine years.
A 2011 audit found that Rau owed about $150,000 in premiums and penalties.
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The whole gambling industry has been hit with a series of large scale mergers and acquisitions recently. The trend looks set to continue as well. But until now the causes of this sudden mobile casino merger activity has been unknown, assumed to anything from higher taxes, such as Place of Consumption (POC), to a sudden growth in international markets.
John Hagan and Bahar Alaeddini, from the gambling specialist law firm Harris Hagan, confirmed with Gambling Insider, that the recent bout of mergers and acquisitions is mostly down to POC.
What is Place of Consumption Tax?
Place of Consumption tax, also known as Point of Consumption (POC), is a 15% tax levied against remote gambling operations. Remote gambling is the technical term for online or mobile gambling.
It was bought in as a method to tax and regulate offshore casinos, which were not within UK borders, but still operated gambling services within the UK. On December 1st 2014, the POC tax was bought into legislation, meaning that for the first time, non UK based casinos were now being taxed and regulated by the UKGC.
POC's Effects On The Gambling Industry
POC has had a huge impact on the gambling industry. Mergers and acquisitions are evidence of this. Paddy Power and Betfair had the largest gambling merger of all time with a £5 billion deal to create Paddy Power Betfair. GVC Holdings followed suite in the acquisitions front by beating 888 Holdings in a billion dollar bid for Bwin Party.
Ladbrokes casino blamed a recent 36% profit drop in Q2 2015 on the new tax law.
Hagan explained that "The European trend towards point of consumption licensing, regulation and taxation is the single most important factor underlying all the M & A activity we have seen recently".
Hagan identified that the main concern for casinos was simply "increased costs for operators" with the only effective response to be "consolidation and the greater efficiencies of scale which that brings".
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Further mergers look to be inevitable into the future. So many mergers and takeovers have been happening in 2015, with tens of billions thrown around to secure new casino connections.
But the real threat at the moment is if taxes increase. Casinos are already in panic mode. Any increase in tax may put them into overdrive.
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An Integrated Understanding of International Business
The Moore School offers an innovative process in which candidates are completely immersed in a rigorous MBA curriculum, enrolled in intensive language courses and then challenged to apply all the concepts they have learned to the successful implementation of an extensive experience abroad.
- Gain expertise focused on best practices across traditional business functions.
- Analyze comparative institutional differences through an ethnographic perspective.
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The International MBA language tracks give you three options of languages to pursue. Candidates who desire new language acquisition will take beginner Language 1 courses. Candidates who demonstrate language capability to waive Language 1 are able to take an additional functional core course. Those who have the highest capabilities and waive Language 2 may take an additional elective course in the fall. To round out the language training in an immersive environment, the final language courses will be taken in an international location where the language is spoken widely.
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The International MBA global track will be for students who do not wish to learn a second language, but still desire to build global business expertise. Candidates who choose the global track will, in place of a new language, take additional functional courses or international business courses. To round out their global immersion, they will pursue business courses at a Moore School partner institution in a foreign location where English is spoken widely.


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The foundation of active engagement is to provide employees with a clear understanding of their organisation's vision, strategy and goals – and their individual role in achieving these things.
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Day 338
Christmas Season is upon us, the traffic has doubled. Every church in the valley had a tagsale or bizarre today. All tables at Barnes and Noble were taken. I'm doing a survey. What was your favorite book of 2010? So far Isabel Allende is winning. How do you spell it? Mine was Water For Elephants, although I may have actrually read it in 2009. I find it fascinating that I don't talk about books at all in this blog when they take up an eighth of my life.
Michelle and I don't get to see each other enough. Although she is much younger than me we have a lot in common and find it really easy to talk with each other. Today we got to hang out and we went to Barnes and Noble.
I also went to look for a new lens, but unfortunately I have to go to the big mall to get a Pentax... Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
So you know I've been thinking about this spiritual stuff a lot recently, and it comes in all forms for me. Today I left Michelle and went up to Emma's school where she and her friends and mother were helping at the school's Holiday Rumpus. The fourth graders have an exhibit up on things the made and wrote defining what "hope" means to them. Emma made a God's eye and wrote the following:
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The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Faces Additional Charges
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Have you ever downloaded a torrent file? Have you used peer-to-peer file sharing? Perhaps you have heard of BitTorrent? If you answered yes to any of the questions above you have probably heard of The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay has been in the news these past few years, mainly because the Swedish government and the entertainment industry went after the organization that ran the torrent-based file-sharing site, which allowed users to share games, movies, software and music.
On April 16 Co-Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Aka Anakata was indicted on hacking charges.
"A large amount of data from companies and agencies was taken during the hack, including a large amount of personal data, such as personal identity numbers of people with protected identities." Prosecutor Henrik Olin said in a statement.
Svartholm was deported from Cambodia to Sweden back in August 2012, several months ago. It was believed that he would be serving a prior prison sentence, it is now known that he has new charges of serious fraud, attempted aggravated fraud and aiding attempted aggravated fraud. It is suspected that he hacked not only Nordea bank, but that he also Logica and the Sweedish Tax Agency. He has been charged as well as three others who have similar charges.
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XAMLfest Online will help both developers and designers work with WPF and Silverlight tools. This is the online version of the training that went around the United States earlier this year. You'll learn how to build a application from the ground up. Training shows how both designers and developer tools work together to build a complete application.
The content will be delivered via a combination of live and recorded content daily between June 1 and June 5. Recorded content can be accessed at any time, but each recorded session should be viewed prior to its related live session. Live sessions will take place twice daily for a duration of 2 hours each. Morning sessions will focus on designer-oriented content, whereas afternoon sessions will focus on developer-oriented content. All participants are invited to attend both sessions, but those choosing to attend only morning or only afternoon sessions will still have a seamless experience.
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Bored of the driving range? Try these drills to spice up your practice sessions
If you feel that your practice sessions are becoming boring and you are looking for a way to spice up your routine then these fun practice drills may be the answer …
To improve you pitching then why not try 'Different club same distance' this is a fun game that can be used as a warm up drill before your monthly medal or with a friend on the practice ground. Pick a marker around 150 yards away and hit 10 balls with your 150 yard club. Next work your way through your bag up to your longest iron or even a 5 wood. You can work your way back through your irons to your 150 yards club again. This is a great drill for sharpening your iron play and hitting greens in regulation.
Another good drill to help you chip the ball near the hole is '9 ball pick up'. Here you select a hole on the chipping green and take 9 balls. Chip 3 with a lob wedge, 3 with a pitching wedge, and 3 with an 8 iron. The objective is to get all 9 balls up and down with each club. When you can get all the balls up and down then select another three clubs in your bag. Considering that most mid-handicappers hit an average 3 greens in regulation a good chipping technique is essential for lower scores. This drill can have a dramatic effect on your overall score and maybe your handicap.
When you can't get to the practice tee then why not utilise your umbrella as a chipping / pitching net. Open up your umbrella and lay it on the ground approximately 20 – 30 feet away and see how many balls you can chip into your umbrella. This is a good drill for in the back yard or on the beach. Try to beat your score on each go. When you count your scores you will take your practice more seriously and your game will improve
Finally use the putting green to keep a score of your putts as if you were playing 18 greens. Work through all the holes on the putting green from 1 to 18. Two putts are a par, one putt a birdie, etc. The objective of the game is to finish all eighteen holes under par. This game works particularly well with your buddies and can get very competitive.
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A promising NASA recruit throws everything away for a girl, illustrating the fascinating consequences when science, ambition, and starry-eyed love collide. In bestselling author Mezrich's telling, Thad Roberts, while at the University of Utah, became determined to be an astronaut and threw himself into science courses, He left his wife behind when he was accepted to the elite Johnson Space Center Cooperative Program in Houston, the training ground for NASA scientists. Despite his lack of an engineering background, Roberts excelled in the life sciences department. While cataloguing samples, he noticed the moon rocks NASA categorized as "trash"—samples returned after experiments. Then Roberts met and fell in love with a new recruit, Rebecca, and planned to give her the moon, or at least its profits, by stealing the "used" moon rocks. Roberts devised the heist and arranged an online sale with a mineral collector in Belgium. The suspicious buyer alerted the FBI, which set up a sting, and Roberts was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Mezrich (The Accidental Billionaires, from which The Social Network was adapted) has perfected his intensely readable brand of nonfiction: talented, often unscrupulous, young people skyrocketing to the top only to tumble back to earth. (July)
The case of the stolen moon rocks
You've probably never heard of Thad Roberts, the brilliant young NASA recruit who pulled off one of the most audacious heists in history when he tiptoed out of the Johnson Space Center one rainy Texas night in 2003 with a 600-pound safe containing $20 million in moon rocks.
Even Ben Mezrich, the gonzo-inspired biographer of Ivy League geeks (Bringing Down the House), drew a blank when Roberts called him out of the blue following an eight-year prison sentence. Mezrich fields hundreds of such calls these days, thanks in part to the success of the Oscar-nominated film The Social Network, based on his bestseller about the founding of Facebook, The Accidental Billionaires.
"Everyone who does something kind of crazy calls me, so I get like 10 of these a day and 99 percent of the time it isn't something I can use," Mezrich says by phone from Boston. "But this one was different."
If Mezrich's hunch is correct, you will recognize Thad Roberts from the talk show circuit by summer's end and, despite yourself, you'll either love him or hate him, all because of Sex on the Moon, Mezrich's stranger-than-fiction, true-life thriller of a man who went where no man has gone before.
For a participatory journalist like Mezrich, who describes himself as "Hunter S. Thompson without the guns, alcohol and drugs," the Roberts story ticked all the boxes: a charismatic dreamer with a troubled past, a Romeo-and-Juliet love story, a geek-alicious high-tech setting, an ingenious Oceans 11-style heist—and perhaps the most boneheaded mistake any man ever made to impress a girl.
Even better, it was a journalist's Holy Grail: a truly uncovered story.
"It was completely covered up; there was nothing on it," Mezrich says. "NASA never wanted this story to get out. In prison, Thad was basically strong-armed not to talk about it. Nobody knew the story."
It goes like this: Roberts, a working-class Mormon, is ostracized by his parents for having premarital sex. He and his girlfriend soon marry and plunge deep into debt while Thad, a triple major in physics, geology and anthropology, studies hard to earn a spot as a NASA co-op, essentially an astronaut intern. Once at Johnson Space Center, Roberts reinvents himself from loser to winner by daring to take risks, thus becoming a leader of the co-ops.
Thad's marriage is on shaky ground when he catches a glimpse of a cache of invaluable moon rocks, now considered waste by NASA because they've been contaminated by scientific study, and soon becomes obsessed. When a risk-taking new co-op captures his heart, the two cook up a scheme with a third ally to steal the lunar samples, sell them to a collector in Antwerp, Belgium, for $100,000, and disappear into private research.
Unfortunately for Thad, the buyer is well aware that it is illegal to traffic in moon rocks and tips the FBI to the scheme. The night before they're busted, the daring couple spend the night in an Orlando hotel room with lunar samples from Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 moon walk tucked under their mattress—hence the book's intriguing title.
Mezrich didn't know what to expect when he met Roberts in a Utah hotel lobby near where Roberts is now completing his Ph.D.
"First of all, the kid's a genius, absolutely a genius," Mezrich says. "He was this charismatic, incredibly smart guy and he had done something incredibly stupid out of love. What was interesting was how complex his personality was. He wasn't just this guy who stole something to make money; he was on his way to being an astronaut, to achieving his dream. That made him different from all of the other characters I'd written about."
Mezrich spent months obtaining the voluminous FBI file on the case through the Freedom of Information Act, including transcripts of conversations by wired FBI undercover agents that add authenticity to much of the dialogue.
"When you're interviewing a guy like this, your first question is, how much of this is true?" he says. "Thad felt his sentence was very harsh, that he was very unfairly characterized by the FBI and others. He did steal a 600-pound safe full of moon rocks, but at the same time, they got them back. For him, it was almost like a college prank. But NASA didn't look at it that way at all."
True to his gonzo ethos, Mezrich managed to tour NASA with remote help from Roberts. "They didn't know I was writing the book and I got this Level 9 tour," he recalls. "While I was walking around NASA, I was texting back and forth with Thad and he'd be like, 'Now go to the back of the room, there's a door there, go through that door, take a left, that's the room! ' So I got to see everything with him guiding me."
Mezrich received pushback from NASA, which labeled him persona non grata at the Johnson Space Center. The women involved shut him out as well, having moved on with their lives. It will be no surprise to the author if critics lodge their usual objections to the way he reinvents dialogue and weaves whole cloth from random threads of speculation. He's used to controversy, he says. It comes with the territory. It's not bad for sales either.
"There are always going to be a million articles about the form of nonfiction that I write," he says. "But I'm very clear up front [about] exactly what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it. This story follows very closely with the facts. It's written like a thriller but it's very, very true."
Will readers embrace Roberts?
"He's an interesting guy," Mezrich says. "I think when he starts going on TV, people are going to be fascinated by him. Some will think he's awful and he's a thief; others are going to see him as a romantic character. I think he's somewhere in the middle."


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If you had a car with transmission problems, you'd take it into the shop and get it replaced. But would you go back into the shop and ask them to put the old transmission back in after 30,000 miles of smooth driving? Of course not, if the car is working you're going to keep driving it.
President Obama wants to take the transmission out of welfare reform by taking us back to the early "90s. A program that works doesn't need to have essential parts taken out.
In 1996 the historic welfare reform legislation passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support 328 to 101. In the Senate the margins were equally impressive, 78 to 21. President Clinton signed the compromise bill after vetoing two earlier measures. To this day, it is considered one of the great successes of his administration.
It isn't considered a success merely because it was supported by both parties and by public opinion polls. Over time, the numbers have shown that welfare reform has successfully moved many Americans from dependency to work. At the same time, poverty is below early 1990s levels despite the recession.
Employment among single mothers increased 15 percent between 1996 and 2000 as the reforms were instituted. Even with the economy down, employment among this group is still higher than before reform. A job pays better than government assistance and earnings among single mothers are higher now than they were in 1996.
In 15 years, reform reduced welfare rolls by 57 percent. This isn't because the poor have just been kicked off programs. It's because they are doing better under reform. Child poverty in female-headed households is down 15 percent since President Clinton signed the legislation.
What was the basic idea behind welfare reform? That the focus of the program should be getting beneficiaries working again. Providing unlimited benefits regardless of whether a recipient is trying to get an education or a job is a recipe for continuing failure. Unearned entitlements don't fight poverty. They perversely breed poverty.
A few weeks ago, the Department of Health and Human Services released a new regulation that would allow states to apply for waivers to the welfare program work requirements. First of all, Congress never intended for HHS to have discretion in this area. In fact, the law specifically prohibited waivers to any of the law's work requirements.
What are these requirements? They vary based on the family situation. Typically it is 30 hours per week of either work, training, community service or other approved activities. For single parents with small children these requirements are reduced.
States are required to have half of all families on welfare meeting these basic requirements. If a state isn't meeting the standard, the federal grant is reduced.
Unemployment may be high, but allowing states to waive work requirements isn't going to do anyone favors. Federal assistance is meant to be a safety net. Individuals should be working toward getting off welfare.
Sadly, this attempt to subvert the express provisions in the law seems to be a pattern with the Obama administration. HHS passed out thousands of waivers to the new health care law's requirements, many of them to unions friendly to the administration. The President used his recess appointment power to name officials even though the Senate wasn't actually in recess. The Justice Department refused to the defend the bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act, leaving the job of protecting the law up to the House of Representatives.
This week, I lent my support to new legislation rejecting the administration's subversion of welfare reform. The Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act would make it even more clear that the President lacks the authority to waive work requirements.
We shouldn't need more legislation to tell the President to follow the law. Especially considering how successful the work requirements in welfare reform have been. A Rasmussen Reports poll this week showed that 83 percent of Americans think the requirements should stand.
Americans of all political stripes agree that government assistance shouldn't come without some expectation that individuals are working, looking for work or receiving an education. Rolling back reform won't help those in poverty find the job they need to climb up the ladder.
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Drew Whitfield has not started a game under center for Commerce.
But the junior quarterback is stepping into the role as the Tigers' starter this year.
Whitfield will try to replace his predecessor — Cody Streetman — who was a four-year starter and racked up 1,113 yards on the ground along with 16 touchdowns last season.
"Drew's a competitor. He's a natural leader, so it's been a pretty smooth transition for him to go from being a backup to being the starter. He's got big shoes to fill," said Commerce head coach Marvin Justice, who begins his second year with the Tigers this season. "I think with each game, he'll get better and better. He's the type of young man that's got his head on his shoulders straight. He does a real good job of learning from his
Whitfield will be one of eight returning starters on offense for the Tigers (he was listed as a running back last year), including every offensive linemen. And with the Tigers running the triple option, Justice said the experience of his big men in the trenches will prove valuable this season.
"If they can create a chemistry, I think it can be one of the better offensive lines we've ever had here at Commerce," Justice said.
The Tigers also return running back Quay Little, who will likely split carries with Terrick Ramsey.
The 5-foot-8, 160-pound Little and the 5-foot-9, 165-pound Ramsey have been working alongside Whitfield to try to perfect the Tigers' triple option.
"Anytime you run option football, it requires a lot of repetition and we've certainly been doing that," Justice said. "They've been getting better and better every day. We've still got some wrinkles to work out. From time-to-time, you'll have a misread, but it seems like that's becoming fewer and fewer."
On the defensive side of the ball, the Tigers return nine starters from a unit that allowed 22.7 points per game last season. Anchoring this year's defense is Chad McClure, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound linebacker who has started every game for Commerce since his freshman season.
Along with McClure, Justice said offensive/defensive lineman Micah Eason has started every game since he was a freshman.
"One reason they have is because they've got a lot of leadership," Justice said. "They've got great character and they're also guys that have really bought into the tradition here at Commerce. There's no doubt that leaders like them maintain and help carry on our traditions."
Justice said a huge difference between last year's team and this year's squad is experience, especially in players such as McClure and Eason, as the Tigers try to bounce back after a 4-7 season.
"Last year, we only had six seniors. We were a real young team and we started anywhere from eight to 13 sophomores on any given night," Justice said. "So now all of a sudden, we've got a lot of experience back. I think with the experience and them having a year under their belt that they just feel a lot more confident."


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Top 10 Reasons Why an Athlete isn't Ranked
10. Problem: Didn't do the required number of races. You must do 3 sanctioned races in the SMW region for Du and for Tri.
Solution: Do more than the required number in case there are mistakes or a Race Director fails to turn in results.
9. Problem: Race Director didn't send in results.
Solution: Don't patronize those races and pursue the RD till results are submitted.
8. Problem: Name misspelled in results.
Solution: Notify the proper people to fix it. We get the same results the athlete does.
7. Problem: Not a current USAT member.
Solution: Self explanatory.
6. Problem: Changed name during season, as in marriage.
Solution: Self explanatory.
5. Problem: Used a hyphenated name, as in Rodham-Clinton.
Solution: Some software only uses a certain number of characters per name, eliminating the last few letters, resulting in a misspelling. Data entry personnel enter hyphenated names in different ways which also cause a mismatch between your name in the master file and the name from the race.
4. Problem: Used a middle initial.
Solution: Never use a middle initial on an entry form. The program will enter you with only your first name and middle initial, no last name (race directors: Please remove middle initials from your entry forms).
3. Problem: Name contains a space, as in Erick Van Steele.
Solution: Enter your name as VanSteele. The above example would be ranked as though Erick was the first name and Van was the last name.
2. Problem: An apostrophe, as in O'Hara.
Solution: Probably not fixable, except by the athlete's careful observance of race results. Some data entry personnel use the apostrophe and some don't. Once again, it would cause a mismatch.
1. Problem: The number one reason for not being ranked is the age old problem of not being consistent with first names, as in Ed in some races and Edward in others.
Solution: Use the name as it appears on your license. This one is entirely under the athlete's control.
Actually, the NEW number one reason for not being ranked is failure to put your USAT number on your entry forms!


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The EU council of ministers has published formal positions on two draft regulations on tracing and labelling genetically modified organisms, and GM foods and feed. One on traceability and labelling was agreed in December (EED 10/12/02). A second on food and feed in November (EED 29/11/02). Finalising the draft laws is seen as crucial to restarting EU approvals of GM products. In separate statements, the UK and the Netherlands condemn the draft requirements as too onerous. See common positions on traceability and labelling and food and feed, statement of reasons, UK and Netherlands statements.
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No consensus exists for clear margins for breast-conserving surgery for pure ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). We examined the implications of applying a "no ink on tumor" standard for pure DCIS by correlating clear margin width with rates of residual disease.
Lumpectomies with complete shaved cavity margins (SCMs) for pure DCIS at our institution from 2004 to 2007 were reviewed and patients with microinvasive cancer or multifocal disease requiring multiple wires excluded. Rates of residual disease in shaved margins were determined based on margin status of the main lumpectomy specimen using margin widths of "ink on tumor," ≤1, >1 to <2, and ≥2 mm.
Overall, 182 women undergoing lumpectomy for pure DCIS met eligibility criteria. In patients with "ink on tumor" in the main lumpectomy specimen, 88 % had residual disease in the SCMs. Rates of residual disease in SCMs for lumpectomies with margins of <2 mm (but not on ink) were 52 % compared with 13 % for lumpectomies with margins ≥2 mm (p < 0.0005). Multivariate analyses confirmed the association of lumpectomy margin width and residual tumor in shaved cavity margins. Odds of residual disease in the SCM for postmenopausal patients were 74 % less than for pre/perimenopausal women (odds ratio 0.26; confidence interval 0.08–0.82).
Application of a "no ink on tumor" lumpectomy margin standard to patients with DCIS results in a significant increase in the rates of residual disease in cavity margins compared with use of a ≥2-mm margin standard. Use of narrower margins may have important implications for use of adjuvant therapy.
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A Texas sheriff says Vice President Dick Cheney will not be charged in the accidental shooting of a hunting companion, but there's still a lot of interest from the media, not least because Cheney delayed making the incident public.
If you find it hard to understand why the White House Press Corps reacted so fiercely to that delay, you might find part of the explanation in the press's long relationship with Cheney.
He is an unusually influential and elusive Vice President. Here's NPR's David Folkenflik.
DAVID FOLKENFLIK reporting:
Five days after the shooting, the questions kept rolling in at the White House yesterday.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Does the President think that the have Vice President's shooting accident was disclosed in a timely enough fashion?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE PRESS SPOKESMAN: (unintelligible) those decisions, which he described just yesterday about disclosure, at a time when he was understandably under enormous personal duress.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Does the Vice President believe that his word is not credible with the American people?
Mr. SCOTT McLELLAN (White House Press Secretary): No, I think that the...
FOLKENFLIK: Ron Hutchinson is the White House correspondent for the Knight Ridder newspaper chain. He says there's a reason for the grilling.
Mr. RON HUTCHINSON (Reporter, Knight Ridder Newspaper): I know to a lot of people watching it we look like a bunch of yapping dogs. But there's a real fundamental issue about our government, and one of the things that sets us apart from places like China and Russia, and that is our system is based on openness and accountability.
FOLKENFLIK: And Hutchinson says there's not a lot of that when it comes to Dick Cheney, who quietly has been at the center of many major stories involving this Administration.
Mr. HUTCHINSON: We take what we can get. You know, the irony here is we've got the most powerful Vice President in American history who's probably also the most secretive Vice President in American history. So it's really difficult to cover him.
FOLKENFLIK: Vice Presidents are traditionally covered by White House beat reporters. A survey of major news organizations found none that had assigned a reporter to cover Cheney and his office full time, despite his greater role. Not the big national newspapers, not the cable or broadcast televisions channels, not, for that matter, NPR.
Hutchinson thinks he knows why.
Mr. HUTCHINSON: You'd be like the Maytag repairman on that one, sitting around waiting for something to do. They don't share much information about the Vice President's schedule, and you know, everybody in the office operates under his rules.
FOLKENFLIK: The Cheney rules work like this. He has a constituency of one. It's President Bush. Cheney has renounced any desire to seek the top job, so he doesn't have to glad-hand the media.
Cheney's influence is vast. He led the closed-door White House review of energy policy, and Cheney's inner circle has been pivotal on issues of national security, such as the decision to invade Iraq. Yet not a lot is known about what the Vice President says and does in private.
Cheney insists the White House must keep deliberations confidential so presidents can get candid advice. Reporters have tried without much luck to get information from Administration officials who disagree with Cheney. A few who have talked include former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, and aids to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. But there aren't many.
Cheney is receiving unwanted scrutiny during the investigation into who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent. Cheney's former Chief of Staff has been indicted for perjury in that case.
CBS Evening News executive producer Rome Hartman says past Vice Presidents have lamented they haven't been appreciated enough or covered enough. Not this one.
Mr. ROME HARTMAN (Executive Producer, CBS Evening News): I think it's fair to say that over the course of the Bush Presidency, if Dick Cheney had had his way there would've been much less attention paid to him than there has been.
That's the exact opposite of what Vice Presidents historically have had to deal with.
FOLKENFLIK: Cheney has spoken publicly just once about the hunting accident, to Brit Hume of the FOX News Channel, on Wednesday. Cheney took full responsibility.
The owner of the ranch where he was hunting informed the local paper in nearby Corpus Christi a day later. But Cheney made clear that he didn't have much faith the national news media would get the story right.
Vice President DICK CHENEY: I do think what I've experienced over the years here in Washington is that the media outlets are proliferated. Speed has become sort of a driving force, lots of times at the expense of accuracy. And I wanted to make sure we got it as accurate as possible.
FOLKENFLIK: And then Cheney tweaked the media.
Vice President CHENEY: I had a bit of the feeling that the Press Corps was upset because to some extent it was about them. They didn't like the idea that we called the Corpus Christi Caller Times instead of the New York Times.
FOLKENFLIK: Cheney may be unrepentant on that score, but former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says he should have anticipated this week's media furor.
Mr. ARI FLEISCHER (Former White House Spokesman): It's news if the Vice President of the United States accidentally shoots somebody on a hunting trip. My sense is that the Vice President thought this was part of his private life and therefore he didn't feel that obligation to tell the White House Press Corps.
As much as I've differed with the White Hose Press Corps on issues from time to time, I think the White House Press Corps is correct on this one.
FOLKENFLIK: But Fleischer says reporters are going overboard because of their history with Cheney.
Mr. FLEISCHER: Well, there is a sense of frustration with the secretiveness of the White House.
FOLKENFLIK: President Bush made his first remarks about the shooting yesterday afternoon. Mr. Bush said Cheney gave a powerful explanation in his television interview.
David Folkenflik, NPR News, Washington.
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Human rights activist tries to stop death by stoning for Iranian woman (pls RT)
How to stop feeding fears that paralyze your business (pls RT this one)
Get what MUST be done now. Take care of what you'd *like* to do after. Surprising how focused that gets you.
Are you going to let today just "happen" to you, or are you going to rock it, no matter what's going on around you?
Surround yourself with people willing to disagree with you, and you'll learn and grow faster. Suck it up, ego.


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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) – The City of North Myrtle Beach has contracted with R.H. Moore Company, Inc. to perform the Ocean Boulevard Underground Power Conversion & Utilities Project in the Crescent Beach section of North Myrtle Beach between 15th Avenue South and 28th Avenue South.
City spokesperson Pat Dowling says the work begins the week of November 28 and will occur in phases over several years.
The project includes placing overhead power and communications utilities underground, and installing water and sewer system upgrades.
The cost of the power and communications utilities conversion is about $7.3 million, and the cost of the water and sewer improvements is about $3.5 million.
The first phase on Ocean Boulevard, will start this week at 21st Avenue South and progress south. The work will occur during the winter and spring. The contractor will then demobilize for the summer of 2017 and return to work in September 2017, continuing at 21st Avenue South and progress north to 15th Avenue South.
As the work proceeds, Ocean Boulevard will be closed in two block increments, with Perrin Drive being used to detour traffic around the work zone. The contractor will maintain access to all properties fronting Ocean Boulevard.
Also, the City of North Myrtle Beach will take bids for widening and roadway improvements to Ocean Boulevard during the spring of 2017. The project will widen Ocean Boulevard from 17th Avenue South to 28th Avenue South from two lanes to three lanes, including sidewalk installation, intermittent landscape medians, and drainage improvements. Construction on the improvements is scheduled to begin in September 2017 on the section of Ocean Boulevard between 21st Avenue South and 28th Avenue South.
The roadwork contractor will demobilize for the summer of 2018 and return in September 2018 to complete the section between 21st Avenue South and 15th Avenue South. The total project cost of $4,500,000 is funded by SCDOT through GSATS, with design and right-of-way cost about $1 million and construction cost currently estimated at $3.5 million.
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As a person of faith and as a citizen, I am appalled at County Commissioner Phil Duckham's public actions and statements comparing Obama to Hitler. They were callous and insensitive comparisons. Comparing Obama to Hitler shows ignorance of Hitler's motivations and actions, and insensitivity to the Holocaust survivors in our own community.
I invite any making such comparisons to do more to inform themselves. Actions I have taken to inform myself that I would recommend to anyone wanting to understand Hitler and the Holocaust include reading Anne Frank, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Viktor Frankl, and our own local Miriam Winter; meeting and listening to Holocaust survivors; going to the excellent Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, MI; taking courses on the Holocaust; and visiting Auschwitz.
Arthur Caplan recently wrote for MSNBC, "There is plenty to debate about health reform. But there is nothing to debate about the contemptible introduction of references, direct or oblique, to Nazi Germany. To do so is to engage in Holocaust denial. To do that is, as those Americans of the greatest generation who died or were injured fighting the Nazi menace well understood, inexcusable."
Rev. Cynthia L. Landrum, Minister
Universalist Unitarian Church of East Liberty
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Comparing Obama to Hitler
4 comments:
- patrickmurfin said...
Good for you!
Does your local paper alow for comments in the web edition? If so, buckle up for some vicious attacks. Been there, got them.
- Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 5:03:00 PM EDT
- Robin Edgar said...
I could be mistaken but I expect that plenty of Unitarian*Universalists were comparing U.S. President George W. Bush to Hitler and his policies to those of Nazi Germany not so long ago. . . Good letter to the editor though. Hopefully it well be published.
- Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 12:08:00 AM EDT
- Cynthia Landrum said...
@Patrick Murfin - yes, they do allow comments on the web edition, but I don't always remember to go there and read them. I'll buckle up before I do.
@Robin Edgar - I'm sure you're absolutely right that some on the left, UUs among them, compared Bush to Hitler. I hope I wasn't one, and I hope I will remember this in the future if/when people on the left do use such rhetoric in the future. Sometimes we're hypocrits, but I'll definitely try not to be on this issue.
- Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 1:44:00 AM EDT
- Cynthia Landrum said...
I have chosen not to post a comment of Robin's, because it does link to a video which carries allegations about people that, although I have listened to and read his accounts of his experience, I cannot judge the accuracy of. However, I wanted to mention it in the comments here, because the point of the post was to point out that in the comments on his Youtube video, a man identifying himself as a UU does say to Robin, "you sound like you want to be hitler." It is a clear example of the fact that UUs have used this type of Hitler-language as hyperbole, just as those against healthcare reform are doing now. At a press conference about local County Commissioner Phil Duckham's swastika sign, Anti-Defamation League representative Matt Miller said, "(The swastika) cannot be the basis of reasonable and intelligent discourse in this country." (http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2009/08/jackson_county_commissioner_ph.html) The same goes for comparing people to Hitler.
- Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 11:37:00 AM EDT