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When it comes to earning a college degree, the greatest obstacle can be the funds to do so.
For this reason, The University of Akron is pleased for the opportunity each year to assist talented, deserving students achieve their dreams, thanks to more than 1,300 Named Scholarships established through the kindness and generosity of thousands of UA alumni and friends, corporations, and foundations.
Scholarships truly are the best way to ensure that today's students persist to graduation. Scholarships allow students to enroll full time and remain focused on their studies; they also reduce drop-out rates, decrease the stress of student loans, and shorten the road to graduation.
The need for scholarships grows each year, however, as students continue to face an increased financial burden in pursuit of a college degree. In fact, 94 percent of today's baccalaureate students borrow to pay for college – versus just 45 percent in 1993. And across the country, the average college-related debt for borrowers in the class of 2013 was $35,200.
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Standard mappool for February
Aerowalk, Shining Forces, Siberia, Terminus. Some of the maps you will be playing the most in the coming month if you are a standard user. A nice extra is the fact that there are now 24 maps instead of 21 maps in the standard mappool. Have fun!
The February 2013 Standard arena rotation is now online. On the first Monday of each month, we will be cycling the Standard arena pool. Starting this month, we have upped the amount of standard arenas by three to a total of 24.
Newly released arenas will remain exclusive for at least three months, but every other arena is eligible to be included in the cycle.
Standard Map Pool:
Start date: February 4, 2013
End date: March 4, 2013Aerowalk
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Fluorescent (CTF)
Grim Dungeons
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IIRC, the "cost" of dealing for Lackey was Vernon Wells. Lackey's time in BOS has not been all that good... but it hasn't been THAT bad!
On a serious note I'm actually anticipating Lackey turning in a decent season this year. Not stellar and not worth $16.5M, but around 4.20ERA/190IP.
Trumbo? Bourjos? With the addition of Hamilton and Trout clearly justifying playing full time they've got at least one extra OFer capable of starting.


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Over in the
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Summers in
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Twins Born in Different Years – Times 3
It's rare enough for twins to have different birthdays. But thanks to six timely deliveries flanking midnight Saturday, three sets of twins will grow up with different birth years.
In Minneapolis — one of the twin cities — Beckett Humenny was born 6:40 p.m. Dec. 31, 2011, followed by his sister, Freya, at 12:26 a.m. Jan. 1, 2012. In Buffalo, N.Y., Ronan Rosputni was born at 11:37 p.m., just 33 minutes before his brother, Rory, arrived at 12:10 a.m. (The Rosputni twins are shown in the photo above.) And in Tampa, Fla., Jenna and Leah Bear arrivedat 11:59 p.m. and 12:00 a.m., respectively.
"It's a great way to end the previous year and start the new year," Blake Bear, now a father of three, told the Tampa Bay Times.
The six babies are healthy, ranging in weight from Beckett's 4 pounds 11 ounces (he and Freya were due in February, according to WCCO Minnesota) to Rory's nearly seven pounds.
Rory and Ronan's mom Brighid Rosputni, who attended her sister's wedding earlier on Saturday, said the timing her twins' births was "like a dream."
"They have completely different birth dates and years," she told The Buffalo News. "I don't know if it's ever happened. I'll have to do some research. I'll have to Google it."
The timing means the twins won't share a birthday, but they will share a great story.
"It's unique," Kathy Bean, a charge nurse, told The Buffalo News. "They definitely will have a story for the rest of their lives."
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The Web attack that was stopped dead in its tracks on Friday when a Russian Web site was taken offline remained under investigation Monday by a host of security firms still puzzled over the method used to infect a number of Microsoft Internet Information Services servers.
Microsoft recommends that users set Internet's security to "High," but that setting will interfere with normal surfing. Another option is to download and install the still-not-final release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 2, which Microsoft says isn't susceptible to this type of attack.


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"The human mind is like a cave. Beyond the light are dark passage ways and mysterious recesses. I, Dr. Daniel Danfield, have explored those unknown retreats and know their secrets"
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We don't pronounce our Golden Age Radio research as 'certified' anything. By the very definition, research is imperfect. We simply tell the truth. As is our continuing practice, we provide our fully provenanced research results--to the extent possible--right here on the page, for any of our peers to review--or refute--as the case may be. If you take issue with any of our findings, you're welcome to cite any better verifiable source(s) and we'll immediately review them and update our findings accordingly. As more verifiable provenances surface, we'll continue to update the following series log, as appropriate. All rights reserved by their respective sources. Article and log copyright 2009 The Digital Deli Online--all rights reserved. Any failure to attribute the results of this copywritten work will be rigorously pursued. [Date, title, and episode column annotations in red refer to either details we have yet to fully provenance or other unverifiable information as of this writing. Red highlights in the text of the 'Notes' columns refer to information upon which we relied in citing dates, date or time changes, or titles.]
1946 Danger, Dr. Danfield 1947 Deadline Mystery 1947 Family Theatre 1949 Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1949 Screen Director's Playhouse 1950 Lux Radio Theatre 1950 The Adventures Of Sam Spade 1953 Stars Over Hollywood
Brown-haired, blue-eyed Steve [Francis] Dunne was born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. He got his start in his working life as a stenographer for the local General Electric Company, but at the age of 17 determined to increase his knowledge. He entered the University of Alabama, majoring in Drama and Journalism. To finance school he secured a job as a disc-jockey at the local radio station. He liked it--so much so that he quit school and moved to Chicagoland where he became a top-flight Radio announcer. From there he took the leap of faith to the Big Apple and WOR, New York, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. New York employment led to a screen test and a movie contract that eventually netted him featured roles in 30 films. Steve Dunne met Vivian Bellveau in 1940. They married and soon had two children--Stephen and Christina. His Film work took him back to the West Coast, where he hooked up with Southern California Radio and Television stations under the CBS Network. By the 1950s a locally popular fixture on KTSL, the CBS Flagship Television station, Dunne stayed busy with local origination quiz shows, late-night movie retrospectives, and the occasional Film role. His first real break in Radio came with the premature, short-lived cancellation of the Golden Age Radio classic, The Adventures of Sam Spade, formerly starring Howard Duff as Sam Spade. Clouded in obfuscation, no believable reason was ever cited for the cancellation of the program. Inundated by negative correspondence, NBC frantically resuscitated the program as The New Adventures of Sam Spade while racing around to reassemble what was left of the crew, direction, scripts and actors. The following newspaper clipping pretty much sums up the selection process:
"THE NEW Sam Spade, one of radio's most rewarding acting plums, is Steve Dunne. A veteran actor with 30 film credits and hundreds of West Coast radio and TV performances under his belt, Dunne was selected for the part in Hollywood by Director-Producer William Spier after a score of radio actors were auditioned. He now carries on his San Francisco capers on "The New Adventures of Sam Spade" at 8:30 P.M. Fridays on WSYR, playing opposite Lurene Tuttle, still heard in the role of Effie, his secretary. Dunne succeeded Howard Duff in the title role. He was called up for the private eye assignment as a result of a five-year-old note scribbled and filed by Spier. In 1945, the producer saw a movie, "Shock," in which Dunne played a small part. Spier never met or interviewed the actor until this year, when he sought the new Sam Spade after checking his file."
Now the newest Sam Spade on the radio, Dunne was wisely hedging his bets with a featured daily appearance on the newly launched Jack Kirkwood Show on radio. He continued to work at CBS Television station KTSL and continued to develop even more ambitious plans to augment his Sam Spade success. But alas, the Sam Spade role was embarassingly short-lived. Running for only 24 'new' installments, the Adventures of Sam Spade--'New' or otherwise--came to an abrupt end at the end of April 1951.
Dunne for his part, continued to announce the commercials on What's the Name of That Song and narrate Stranger Than Fiction, in addition to starting his own program in a disc-jockey setting 'spinning platters' of 'soundie' vignettes for a call-in audience to guess at. The resulting program, Picture Platters, was relatively short-lived as well.
Dunne's career didn't lack for brushes with greatness. In 1949, Dunne starred in Columbia's Kazan (1949), with Lois Maxwell, the leggy secretary of James Bond Film fame. He did get a full six-months of acting lessons from Lurene Tuttle in the short lived New Adventures of Sam Spade. He made an erstwhile connection with famed CBS producer William Spier and his wife, June Havoc. But he later somewhat embarassingly stabbed June Havoc in the professional back by making her the goat over a silly on-screen credit kerfuffle.
The rolling credits for James Mason's 1952 film Lady Possessed said 'Introducing Steve Dunne'. Of course by that time, Dunne had already appeared in some 31 minor and feature films already. He passed it around that the Director's wife and co-star June Havoc was the one raising a ruckus about having to share on-screen credit with Dunne. Understandably, any goodwill Dunne had accrued with famed Director William Spier and his equally famous actress wife, June Havoc vanished in a thrice. A shameless self-promoter, Dunne had compiled a long record of self-promoting, self-advancing strategies during his long employment with KTSL in Los Angeles. From his various TV disc-jockey programs, to his Love and Kisses (1950) situation comedy, to his nightly sign offs on KTSL to his short-lived Professional Father (1955) series, Dunne was never one to miss any opportunity to paint himself in a better professional light. Sadly, almost all of these exploits seem to have continually resulted in somewhat short-lived professional showcases of his talent. He continued to compile a longer Film and Television resume, but he never again found that dream shot, like The New Adventures of Sam Spade had promised to be. Dunne's career was not without its lighter moments. Witness this amusing account of a live 'wardrobe malfunction' during the early years of live Television situation comedy:
"Why actors prefer filmed TV: Steve Dunne raced off stage for a wardrobe change while emoting in CBS' "My Favorite Husband." The overzealous wardrobe man in his haste not only pulled off Steve's trousers, but his shorts, too. Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson had to ad lib while Steve recovered his dignity in the wings."
With some 80+ Television appearances to his credit, Dunne certainly proved his durability in the medium. Indeed his Television career pretty much paralleled his Radio career with a dizzying array of 'almosts' over the span of twenty-five years. If there was an Emmy for "picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and starting all over again," Steve Dunne may very well have been a perennial award recipient. But alas it didn't pan out that way.
Doomed to be remembered as either the local L.A. TV personality that made good, or the actor that finally killed Sam Spade, neither prospect has a great deal to offer in the form of historical import. But that's not being fair, either. In the case of Sam Spade, that was NBC's incompetent bungling and no one else's. That William Spier, Lurene Tuttle, and Steve Dunne even managed to throw together another 24 episodes is a tribute to the three of them, all things considered.
As for the rest of Steve Dunne's ostensibly lackluster career, the 'luster' is clearly in the eyes of the beholder. In a market as huge as Southern California, Dunne could have simply soldiered on-- locally--and done very well for himself, thank you very much. Did his reach exceed his grasp? Possibly. But at least he reached.


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Several SeaWorld fans have noticed historical footage of our rescue team in action in "Dolphin Tale," and have asked what role SeaWorld played in the rescue of Winter. This is the story of the passion and expertise displayed by the many marine mammal experts credited with helping this remarkable animal.
A fisherman spotted the animal, her tail severely injured by a crab trap line, in the Mosquito Lagoon on Florida's east coast.
The Beginning of a "Dolphin Tale": SeaWorld's Role in Rescuing Winter
GOAL! SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Leadership Team Meets Brazilian Soccer Mascot
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Senior Leadership Team, (from left to right) Michael Hartman, Jim Atchison and Dan Brown have picked their favorite Brazilian soccer team - Santos Futebol Clube, of course! They had a personal visit from the mascot, "Baleião," the "Big Whale," during their visit to Sao Paulo this week. He sure looks familiar.
SeaWorld's "Best Dad" Award Goes to ... Simon the Otter
SeaWorld is home to many finned, feathered and furry fathers that have had a role in more than 18,000 animals born or hatched at our parks over four decades. This year, SeaWorld announces our "Best Dad" award recipient, Simon the otter, in this heartwarming video, and also the runner-ups in a fun sheet dads and kids can read together.
"Best Dad" Award: Simon, the Little Otter with a Big Heart
Win a Prize Every Day During SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment's "25 Days of Giveaways"
This December 1 - 25, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment (SEA) is celebrating the spirit of giving with an online consumer promotion that will feature 25 different prizes.
Cyber Monday Sale on the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Online Stores!
Tis' the shopping season! It's Cyber Monday and SeaWorld & Busch Gardens are happy to bring discounts to our online shoppers. Visit the ShamuShop.com or BuschGardensShop.com to receive the following discounts:
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SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment donated $20,000 to help fund the Harbor House
SeaWorld, Busch Gardens and Sesame Place Blogs Go Mobile
Today we're launching a mobile-friendly version of the SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Sesame Place and Conservation blog sites on Android, iPhone and BlackBerry devices! Now it's even easier to stay connected with the latest park happenings from the palm of your hand.
UPDATED: Survival Adaptations on The TODAY Show - Thursday, August 18
Yesterday morning Julie Scardina joined the TODAY Show's Kathie Lee and Hoda for a segment about animal defenses. We hope you tuned in or followed along on our social channels. If you missed it, the video is embedded below along with our favorite photos from the segment. Let us know what you think!
Daily Getaways to Feature Discounted Admission to SeaWorld, Busch Gardens and Discovery Cove
The United States Travel Association's (USTA) Discover America Daily Getaways promotion is back by popular demand for a second year. The promotion runs April 11 through May 13, 2011 allowing travelers to save up to 60 percent on airfare, hotels, car rentals, theme park admission and city attraction passes. You can access these deals through a website especially created for this promotion, DailyGetaways.com.


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IU Northwest Office of Diversity Programming's New Student Success Program
IU Northwest's Office of Diversity Programming invites new students to learn about resources that can help them succeed in their respective programs at a series of New Student Success Program (NSSP) Brown Bag Forums. At 12 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 11 in Hawthorn Hall (107), Davetta Haywood of Student Support Services will speak on effective note-taking. Students are encouraged to bring their lunches and settle in for an informal discussion with their peers and staff and faculty members. Future NSSP Brown Bag Forum topics include a financial aid discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 15 with Harold Burtley of Financial Aid and Test Anxiety with Counselor Barbara Bullock on Wednesday, March 21. The topic for the April 15 session is not yet determined. Established in 2009, the NSSP places participating students in a cohort of their freshman peers. Those students learn together by taking many of their required freshman courses together. The program also provides peer and faculty mentors who form a reliable social network, helping students navigate the many challenges that arise during freshman year. For more information about the Brown Bag Forums, contact James Wallace, Office of Diversity Programming at (219) 980-6601.


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Beneficial Bugs For Your Garden
Beneficial bugs are natures response to the pests that can plague your garden. These insect-friends include lady beetles (formerly ladybugs), green lacewings, assassin bugs, praying mantis, minute pirate bugs, ground beetles, syrphid flies, and predatory stinkbugs. These helpful insects feed on the pests that can harm your plants. Supporting their growth is a nice earth-friendly alternative to using chemical pesticides.
To get beneficial bugs in your garden, plant the flowers they love. Beneficial bugs tend to be attracted to plants that have abundant and accessible nectar and pollen. These plants include alyssum, coriander, dill, yarrow, buckwheat, fennel, dill, and caraway. Incorporating these plants into your garden can be fun because many of them are not only beautiful but are also useful in the kitchen. Imagine growing fresh fennel for summer salads or dill for your favorite seafood dishes, all while keeping pest populations in check!
If you reserve a small portion of you garden for these types of plants, you can support a thriving community of beneficial bugs. To do this, make sure you have about one-tenth of your yard populated with beneficial bug-friendly plants. These plants do not need to be in a bunch; they can be evenly integrated throughout your garden. To sustain communities of beneficial bugs over long periods of time, make sure these plants are flowering consistently throughout the year. If you want to keep good insects in your yard, you need to keep their supply of nectar and pollen flowing. To achieve this, make sure you plant insect-friendly plants several times per season so that they flower year-round.
If planting beneficial bug-friendly plants does not attract the bugs you want quickly enough, you can always purchase them and place them in your garden. Also, if you want to target a specific problem an aphid infestation, for example you can go out and purchase a specific predator for the job. In this case, the lady beetle is the perfect beneficial bug. They love aphids and are pleasing to the eye. While purchasing bugs can be a nice quick fix, planting bug-friendly plants is still advised because they will help keep the store-bought beneficial bugs in your yard.
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Video: T.I. – Trap Back Jumpin
After dropping his new track 'Hello' with Cee-Lo Green, T.I. returns with the official video for his single 'Trap Back Jumpin'. His album "Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head" drops next December 18th.
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President urged to continue funding for MOX
The following is a copy of a Feb. 5 letter sent to President Barack Obama from Congressmen Joe Wilson, James E. Clyburn, Jeff Duncan, Trey Gowdy, Mick Mulvaney and Tom Rice. The Savannah River Site encompasses approximately 33% of the land mass of Barnwell County.
Dear President Obama,
Over a decade ago, Congress made the decision to construct a Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) to dispose of excess weapons-grade fissile material by converting it into fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Construction on the MOX Project, as it is commonly referenced, began in 2006 and is over halfway completed at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site, just outisde of Aiken, South Carolina.
This project, which is the first of its kind in the United States, will allow our country to honor its September 2000 agreement with Russia to dispose of 34 metric tons of excess U.S. weapons-grade plutonium. This agreement requres Russia to likewise dispose of 34 metric tons of its own weapons-grade plutonium.
Recently, it has come to our attention that concerns have been raised regarding the MOX Project and its future under potential sequestration and budget cuts. We are writing you today to reiterate the importance of the MOX Project and its mission.
The United States Congress, along with Presidents of both political parties, have supported this project. We must stay the course on the MOX Project and create a pathway to safely and responsibly dispose of this excess weapons-grade plutonium. It is our opinion that a failure to complete the MOX facility will lead to a world with more weapons-grade plutonium than necessary - creating additonal and unnecessary risk that such material will be stolen or diverted to malicious purposes.
While we are certain your Administration is closely examining the MOX Project for fiscal year 2014 funding, we only ask that you keep in mind the serious and important mission the MFFF will carry out. It is our responsibility to honor our part of the agreement to ensure Russia upholds their end.
As you continue to evaluate this project, we want to leave you with a thought from President Kennedy. In his private notebook he wrote, "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." Please take a hard look at why our country chose to construct the MOX Facility. We believe you will clearly see what a vital asset this project is to our nation.
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Beyond the Need/Merit Split
Need vs. merit. That's the debate among policy experts and presidents as they discuss institutional aid policies. And while merit aid may be best associated with some private colleges, it has become increasingly clear in recent years that the public universities are very much using merit aid to shape their classes.
In a study being released today, however, three scholars of higher education economics argue that what's going on in public higher education is less of a merit/need dichotomy, and that aid selections are reflecting the values colleges place on both kinds of aid. The scholars use a database of information from public flagship universities and focus not on different kinds of aid, but on different characteristics of students. In the process, they find correlations (but not necessarily causation) between characteristics of financial need and more aid and characteristics of merit and more aid. They also find a strong relationship between racial minority status and receiving more aid -- across other characteristics of students.
The study is part of College Success: What It Means and How to Make It Happen, a book being released today by the College Board. The authors of the study are Michael S. McPherson, president of the Spencer Foundation; Morton Owen Schapiro, president of Williams College; and Francie E. Streich, a research associate at the foundation. McPherson and Schapiro are also co-editors of the book.
The split between need and merit "is not so tidy" as some analysts make it seem, the study says. "Colleges and universities have been known to label aid allocations in one of these ways while distributing it for other reasons. In this analysis, we eschew the common categorical distinction between 'need-based' and 'merit-based' aid." Rather they study examines who gets aid at public flagships -- based on levels of family income (a proxy for the values associated with need-based aid) and SAT scores (a proxy for merit).
While part of the difficulty in measuring aid stems from the way colleges mix different kinds of assistance, another problem the authors note is "endogeneity" -- in that the factors that determine aid eligibility also may determine success in college. For instance, low income levels may qualify students for aid but also make it less likely that they come from high schools or socioeconomic backgrounds that make it likely for them to succeed. Aid based on merit may go to the students most likely to succeed anyway. So researchers and policy makers would do well to focus less on definitions of kinds of aid and look more simply at where the aid goes, the authors write.
"Rather than rely on the labels, let the data speak for themselves," said Schapiro in an interview.
The study found that, across selectivity level of public flagships, wealthier students received less in grant aid, suggesting a link to need in distribution. But 100-point increase in SAT scores, on average, yielded increases in students' grant sizes, especially at the least competitive flagships -- those frequently engaged in efforts to raise their competitiveness by attracting more top students. That suggests quite a bit of influence of merit in aid distribution. (The data come from 21 public flagships, from students who entered college during the 1999 academic year.)
Marginal Impact of Income and SAT Scores on Grant Size
Selectivity | $1,000 Increase in Family Income | 100-Point Increase in SAT |
Tier 1 | -$38 | +$102 |
Tier 2 | -$33 | +$186 |
Tier 3 | -$31 | +$372 |
Tier 4 | -$25 | +$472 |
McPherson said in an interview that the data suggest one flaw of the merit/need dichotomy is that it assumes one primary motivation for universities' aid policies, even if the motive may vary from institution to institution. "They have more than one goal and they are using more than one tool," he said. "They care about needy students and they consider it important to get more high scoring students."
While critics of merit aid suggest colleges use it merely to become more prestigious, the authors of the study say that before drawing conclusions, need to look at the motives and policies used. McPherson pointed out that research on "peer effects" shows that having some very top performers in a class has an impact -- positive academically -- on the rest of the student body. But Schapiro noted that such a positive impact would be the case only if these students are truly part of the student body. A public university that attracted such students with merit aid, and gave them an honors college for courses and a special dorm to live in, might not see the benefits on other students, he said.
The study also found that minority students receive more grant aid, on average, than white students across all aid and SAT levels at public flagships. Black students have larger grants than comparable students from other minority groups, the study says. The black-white gap in grant aid, across other factors, is about $2,000.
McPherson said that he believes this shows colleges are using "preferential packaging," giving minority students more grant aid and smaller loan requirements. And he noted that public universities use such packaging techniques for other groups too. Generally, he thinks the gaps are not due to race-specific scholarships.
Both Schapiro and McPherson said that the database they used -- from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation -- created an unusually large sample for them to examine. At the same time, they noted that the data are from students who enroll -- and in some cases colleges may be offering aid in different proportions to students they want to attract, but who turn them down.
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What I hate about Junior tennis. Kids, read this
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Some knee-jerk responses:
1. Backatcha! You got this straight. I am still astonished at how cheating is basically ignored by the powers-that-be, equivalent to a tacit endorsement of awful behavior. It takes a heckuva mature 13-year old to understand that any penalty for pervasive cheating will come years later, if at all.
2. Well, sxit happens. My kid got some players out of her league, for sure; then, the goal becomes to play the best match possible, and afterwards, to learn as much as you can from the experience of playing someone far better. (And, then, in the backdraw, finding kids to send home.) Someone's gotta play the top seed, and it's not going to be one of the other seeds. The draw and seed system works out fairly enough over time. (Agree with you on TRN's H2H v. USTA's PPR, though.)
3. Kids really have to play for the fun and experience of competing, not for the reward of a scholarship. I am happy my kid got a full at a great school and I am not volunteering to give it back, but I am not really convinced that kids who "work hard" at a sport deserve compensation for it.
A good post. #1 and #3 should be truncated, laminated, and distributed to all parents and players signing up for their first six USTA events.
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Bill H.3988 187th (2011 - 2012)
An Act establishing a sick leave bank for Kristen Robinson, an employee of the Department of Correction
By Representative Fernandes of Milford and Senator Moore, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of John V. Fernandes and Richard T. Moore for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Kristen Robinson, an employee of the Department of Correction. Public Service.
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