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Race Procedures
If at all possible, pick up your race number early at the NYRR RUNCENTER. You may see any New York Road Runners staff member (no need to line up alphabetically anymore). If you wish, you may send a friend to pick up your number either with your QR code (this is the faster option) or using your full name and birth date. Following these steps will save you time on race day and ensure that you receive your tech T-shirt before you run. If you pick up your race number in advance, please arrive at the race at least 30 minutes before the start.
If you must pick up your number on race day, please arrive 45 to 60 minutes before the start.
Refer your event's race page for more information. If you have any questions, visit help.nyrr.org.
Race Number Pickup
Runners pick up race materials at the NYRR RUNCENTER, located at 320 West 57th Street.
Pre-race Pickup
For weekly races, pickup starts on the Sunday before race day. You'll receive your race confirmation email the day before the start of pickup.
**We strongly recommend you pick up your race number early at the NYRR RUNCENTER. You'll save time on race day and ensure you receive your T-shirt before you run. If you pick up your race number in advance of race day, please arrive on site at the race at least 30 to 45 minutes before the race start, so you have time to check your bag or leave it with a friend or family member, use the toilets if needed, and get in your start corral at least 10 minutes before the start.**
The hours of operation for race pickup are Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m, Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Runners can pick up their race materials any time within the hours of operation in the week preceding their race. Race numbers are no longer pre-assigned. Your race number will be assigned on demand when you pick up your race number.
When you pick up your materials, an NYRR runner services representative will place a sticker with your lettered corral assignment on your bib. Participants in walk events and youth events, as well as wheelchair and handcycle athletes, receive a special sticker.
Race-day Pickup
If you are not able to pick up your number at the NYRR RUNCENTER in advance of race day, you may pick it up at the race location on race morning; check each race page for location and hours. Please arrive at least 45 to 60 minutes prior to the start of the race to pick up your race materials; this way you'll avoid long lines and have time to check your bag or leave it with a friend or family member, use the toilets if needed, and get in your start corral at least 10 minutes before the start.
Why the changes?
Assigning bibs on site at race pickup, rather than pre-assigning them, expedites the pickup process: Runners can now go to any available staff member for pickup. Your unique QR code is permanently linked to your My NYRR account; this streamlines the race pickup process.
QR Codes
You have a unique QR code associated with your My NYRR account, which you should use to pick up materials for NYRR races. At pickup, an NYRR runner services representative will scan your code to associate your My NYRR account with your race number.
You can print the QR code or show it on your mobile device.
If you have children associated with your My NYRR account, their unique QR codes are available to you in your account.
Corral Assignments and Bag Check
Your corral assignment is based on your best pace as calculated by NYRR, and each corral has a minimum best pace, called a pace cut. The pace cuts are listed in the chart below, and an explanation of how pace cuts are calculated is here.
Your removable bag check tag corresponds to your race number; it does not reflect your corral assignment. The new corral assignment system reduces congestion in the bag-check area because the flow of runners through bag pickup will be more evenly distributed.
Staggered Starts
Many of our races will feature staggered starts, which we're implementing to improve the flow of runners on the course.
The corrals will be released at regular intervals, with corral A leaving at the first starting horn, followed by an additional starting horn for each subsequent start. Runners' race net times will still be recorded from when they cross the start and finish mats. This change is based on runner feedback and will ensure a more enjoyable race for everyone.
Pace Cuts
Pace cuts create space in corrals and provide transparency on corral assignments. These changes, made to help you in response to your feedback, make your race experience more efficient. They are in line with best practices followed at races around the country.
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Race Numbers
Your race number starts with a letter. The letter, not the race-number color or the number itself, indicates your corral. See new race number.
Your race number includes a medical tag, which will be used in the event of an emergency. Note: Please continue to fill out the important medical information on the back of your number.
Why the changes?
At the 2014 TCS New York City Marathon, a letter system made corrals easier to locate.
The medical tag is an extra safety precaution designed to protect runners.
Bag Check
Your race number includes a bag-check tag that you'll remove and pin to the clear bag provided for bag check. Bags are sorted by race number.
Why the change?
The adhesive stickers we used for bag check in the past tended to fall off in cold or wet weather.
Best Pace
We use a new formula—one that's used at many other races across the country—to predict your pace and make your corral assignment. The formula converts race paces to a 10K race pace. If you haven't finished a race in the last 12 months, we use your most recent race in the past two years. If you haven't finished a race in that time period, you'll input your expected pace.
Please note that your pace is based on your single best pace (converted to a 10K; see chart), not an average of your race paces over the 12-month period.
Why the change?
Responding to runner feedback, we are using a formula that more accurately predicts finish times and thus ensures that runners line up in the proper corral. This makes races more enjoyable for everyone. Read more about best-pace calculation and corral updates.
Visit our Help Center for answers to frequently asked questions.


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For now, the clash of the two monumental egos will constantly keep Singapore and Malaysia apart, hindering, among other things, Singapore's involvement in the Iskandar Project.
June 16, 2009
Mahathir scoffs at MM's visit
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad yesterday poured fresh vitriol on Singapore, calling Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew a 'little Emperor' and describing the republic as a 'new Middle Kingdom'.
In a no-holds-barred tirade on his blog Che Det that coincided with the tail-end of an official visit by Mr Lee to Malaysia, he slammed Singapore for putting itself in the centre of the region, and also took issue with other topics such as the Iskandar development in Johor and the supply of water.
Mr Lee, he charged, had in his 'triumphant visit to Malaysia' made it known to 'Malaysian supplicants' that Singapore regarded the lands within a 6,000-mile radius as its hinterland.
'This includes Beijing and Tokyo and of course Malaysia,' he wrote.
'Of course this self-deluding perception places Singapore at the centre of a vast region. It is therefore the latter day Middle Kingdom,' he added, using the Chinese name for China. 'The rest are peripheral and are there to serve the interests of this somewhat tiny Middle Kingdom.'
He again insinuated that Malays would lose out in the development of the Iskandar region in Johor.
Mr Lee and Tun Dr Mahathir had crossed swords over several national issues when they were both prime ministers and Malaysian newsmen have noted that Mr Lee did not meet his erstwhile adversary on his current trip.
When asked about this last week, the former Malaysian premier had replied tersely: 'I don't see why he would request to see me; I am a nobody.'
Mr Mahathir has used his widely read blog to comment on all and sundry and also to launch attacks on political opponents, including his successor, former prime minister Abdullah Badawi.

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Everyone agrees the Oakland A's need a new ballpark — what has been harder to agree on, for some reason, is where that new home should be. In our view, the only answer is the Oakland Waterfront.
The good news for the A's and Major League Baseball is that Oakland has a 50-acre waterfront site adjacent to Jack London Square and connected to Broadway, Oakland's downtown commercial artery. And, it's available to the A's today.
Because of the hard work of Mayor Jean Quan, the Oakland City Council, and the Port of Oakland, we, along with a larger group of East Bay business leaders, now control the waterfront site, known as Howard Terminal. We stand ready to work with the A's to get a baseball-only ballpark built there as quickly as possible.
As business people, we understand and respect the A's for wanting to run a profitable business. That is why we are such strong believers in getting a downtown ballpark done for the A's.
And, in 2014, there can be no doubt that Oakland is the ripest spot in the Bay Area for this to occur. A decade ago, the center of economic activity was in Silicon Valley. If you owned the A's then, you'd probably want to move the team as close by as possible.
But a decade later, the economic hub of the region has moved north to San Francisco. Since 2003, the amount of venture capital dollars invested into San Francisco has jumped 12 times to $4.8 billion. And, in the first quarter of 2014, more early stage venture capital went into San Francisco than all the other cities in the Bay Area, combined. No large city in the Bay Area is closer to San Francisco, the region's center of economic activity, than Oakland.
Further, in city after city, downtown stadiums have delivered extraordinary value to the teams that occupy them, including a boost in fan support and corporate sponsorship as well as increases in local television revenue. And at 50 acres, Howard Terminal is large enough to provide the A's with the valuable opportunity to develop complimentary uses, adding energy and excitement to an already world-class site.
Not only do these downtown venues deliver additional revenue opportunities for their teams, they also create economic uplift for the cities in which these teams play.
Just take a look at new ballparks in the Gas Lamp district of San Diego, Lower Downtown of Denver and Mission Bay of San Francisco to see how new baseball-only ballparks have catalyzed further development in those areas.
The same thing can happen right here in Oakland at Jack London Square. The ancillary development opportunities on Howard Terminal alone would be a boon for local governments as it would create thousands of jobs and grow the tax base for Oakland and Alameda County.
Some have said that, as a former industrial site and one close to railroad tracks, Howard Terminal poses unsolvable challenges for development as a ballpark. The reality is that Howard Terminal carries no greater challenge to being successfully developed than other former industrial sites along the San Francisco Bay, including Mission Bay and the famous ballpark across the Bay.
Others have pointed out that there are powerful interests against the proposed development of a waterfront ballpark. Actually, the environment in Oakland is very favorable for this project. The Port of Oakland voted unanimously to reserve the site for a ballpark, and the mayor has stated repeatedly that the waterfront is an ideal home for the A's. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of A's fans and scores of businesses have joined the effort to keep the A's in Oakland.
Fighting over the terms of a short-term lease extension is a distraction that threatens to divide, and actually masks the real issue — how we ensure we have a place in Oakland for the A's to play in the long-term.
Let's get moving toward the development of a world-class, baseball-only waterfront ballpark at Jack London Square. After all, the one thing we can all agree on is we're well past due for a new ballpark.
Don Knauss is CEO of Clorox Corp. and T. Gary Rogers is the chairman of the Board of Safeway and former chairman of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream. Both are part of Oakland Waterfront Ballpark, LLC, a group of East Bay businesspeople dedicated to bringing an A's ballpark to the Oakland Waterfront.


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Stock analysis typically falls into two main categories. Some investors may prefer technical analysis, and others may prefer to study the fundamentals. Many investors will keep an eye on both. Technical analysis involves trying to project future stock price movements based on prior stock activity. Technicians strive to identify chart patterns and study other historical price and volume data. Technical investors look to identify trends when assessing a stock. The trend is typically considered to be the main direction of the share price. Trends are generally categorized as either up, down, or sideways. If a bullish trend is spotted, the trader may expect the upward trend to continue and thus try to capitalize on further upward action.
Shifting gears, we see that the opinion signal for the current session is 56% Buy for Griffin Industrial. Investors may also be watching the strength and direction of the opinion signals. The opinion direction is presently Strongest. This is a measurement over the last three trading sessions that gives an indication of whether the latest recent price movement is following the signal. A Buy or Sell signal with a "Strongest" direction indicates that the signal is gaining strength. The opinion strength signal is presently reading Average. This is a longer-term measure verse the historical strength.
Griffin Industrial (GRIF) currently has a standard deviation of 1.72. Standard deviation is defined as a measure of the dispersion from the mean in regards to a data set. When dealing with financial instruments, the standard deviation is applied to the annual rate of return to help measure the volatility of a particular investment. Watching the standard deviation may help investors see if a stock is primed for a major move. The stock's current pivot is 38.62. The pivot point is typically used as a trend indicator. The pivot is the average of the close, low, and high of the prior trading period.
Griffin Industrial (GRIF)) currently has a 6 month MA of 36.71. Investors may use moving averages for different reasons. Some may use the moving average as a primary trading tool, while others may use it as a back-up. Investors may be watching when the stock price crosses a certain moving average and then closes on the other side. These moving average crossovers may be used to help identify momentum shifts, or possible entry/exit points. A cross below a certain moving average may signal the beginning of a downward move. On the other end, a cross above a moving average may indicatet a possible uptrend. Investors may be focused on multiple time periods when studying moving averages. Zooming out a bit further, we have noted that the 9 month moving average is currently 35.37.
Investors may be tracking the average range on shares of Griffin Industrial (GRIF). The stock currently has a 9 day average range of 1.08. This a moving average of trading ranges over a 9 day time frame. With this value, higher numbers tend to occur at market bottoms while lower values may be spotted during extended sideways periods. Looking at the 9 day relative strength reading, we can see that the value is currently 67.34%. This technical momentum indicator compares the size of recent gains to recent losses helping to identify possible overbought and oversold conditions.
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Western South Dakota Ranch Wins Conservation Award
PIERRE - A western South Dakota ranch has won the annual Leopold Conservation Award for voluntary stewardship and management of natural resources.
The Sand County Foundation, South Dakota Cattlemen's Association and the South Dakota Grassland Coalition announced that the award has been given to the Guptill Ranch, a 7,000-acre cattle operation near Quinn that is operated by Pat and Mary Lou Guptill with their five children.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard says farmers and ranchers like the Guptill family take care to maintain natural resources for future generations.
The award is in honor of conservationist Aldo Leopold, who called for an ethical relationship between people and the land they own.
The Guptills will receive a $10,000 award and a crystal depicting Aldo Leopold at the South Dakota Cattlemen's Association annual convention in December.
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|Mitchell Denker, 1947-2013
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Mitchell Denker died on Saturday, August 24 2013 in Leland, North Carolina. Mitchell's father was two-time US Champion and Grandmaster Arnold Denker (1914-2005). Mitchell honored his father's memory with continual support for the Denker, which was founded in 1985.
His good friend, Barbara DeMaro of the US Chess Trust (where Mitchell served as a trustee) was pictured with Mitchell at the most recent edition of the Denker in Madison, Wisconsin. Barbara said:
"Mitchell was full of life, brilliant, kind, witty and generous! Mitchell truly cared about each and every one of the Denker participants. At the opening ceremony every year, as he greeted each participant, took their flag, he would say something funny or interesting to them that made them smile or laugh. I have lost a very, very dear friend and will miss him more than you know."
When asked about his passion for the Denker tournament of high school champions, Mitchell said, "I shared my father's enthusiasm for helping young players. When my father asked me to keep the tournament going after him, I agreed. My son, Dylan, has also agreed to keep it going after me." You can find the full interview with Mitchell on the Denker website.