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Hiring a good DBA is probably pretty difficult. Basically, if you don't have a good DBA already how do you know what kind of questions to ask during a technical interview? Sure, you use google and come up with some questions but the interviewer might not understand these questions, much less the (correct) answers.
If they know a candidate is certified they at least have some kind proof that he or she knows something about Oracle...
Maybe you should try to explain why you don't think certification is particularly important and point to some of your postings here at cbos that has helped other people.
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Tiffany & Co.'s TIF, +2.40% fiscal second-quarter earnings rose a stronger-than-expected 16% as the high-end jewelry retailer reported broad revenue growth, while margins strengthened amid price increases.
Tiffany raised its full-year per-share earnings estimate to $3.50 to $3.60 from its prior view of $3.43 to $3.53.
Analysts at Sterne Agee recently noted that many of the headwinds that affected Tiffany last year are likely to reverse in 2013, including the ability to implement price increases and the performance of the silver business, which carries a higher profit margin than fine jewelry.
The firm had also said it believes Tiffany's strategy of increasing focus on higher fashion silver--the Gatsby-inspired Ziegfeld line--will bear fruit, pointing to a strong initial response for the line, which consists almost entirely of silver and pearls.
Chief Executive Michael J. Kowalski said the company was particularly pleased with the results of its efforts to improve gross margin, which widened to 57.5% from 56.3% a year earlier.
For the quarter ended July 31, Tiffany reported a profit of $106.8 million, or 83 cents a share, versus profit of $91.8 million, or 72 cents a share, a year earlier.
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Adding auto turn-off to a cheap multimeter
I bought this multimeter(Minipa ET-870C) a while ago for $17, great value. I got it because its nice to have around multiple meters for when you wanna measure both input and output voltage/current. I believe it was advertised to have an auto-off feature for 15 mins but it didn't. This eventually lead to many drained batteries because I often forgot to turn it off after using it. So during a boring weekend when the weather outside was bad I decided to add this nice feature to the meter. I knew it had to be a small circuit to be able to fit inside the multimeter so I picked the tiny25 the smallest micro I had around.
I quickly put together a simple schematic in Eagle, just the mcu, a voltage regulator a npn transistor and the associated capacitors and resistors. The circuit is powered from the multimeter 9V battery and cuts off the ground path to the meter to turn off its power. No ISP connector was placed on the board to save space but extra long pads were added so I can solder some wires for programming the mcu.
The npn transistor has its base pulled down so when there is no signal coming from the mcu the transistor is off. The pcb was made using the photo etching technique and it was assembled with some solder paste and hot air gun. I also soldered some wires to connect to my MKII programmer and I started writing the code.
To keep track of the time I used Timer0 to generate an overflow interrupt. Knowing the CPU frequency and the prescaler we can find out how often that interrupt will occur. Knowing how often the interrupt will occur we know how many times we need that interrupt to trigger to account for a given time in seconds. This is all calculated inside main.h where you can also specify the time in seconds.
To start the counting process I'm using a tact switch connected on INT0. When the button is pressed the level changed interrupt will trigger on INT0 and we change some flags to start counting as well as turning on the transistor to turn on the multimeter. When the counting reaches the setpoint, the flags reset and the transistor is turned off, thus turning off the meter. At this step the code was running ok except that for a 15 mins period there is ~12s error. I suspect this is because I'm using the internal oscillator which is not very precise.
Since the circuit was intended for extending the battery life, itself had to consume as little as possible. All measurements were made right before the voltage regulator at the battery leads. With no optimization the current draw at 9V was 3.67mA. The tiny25 has 3 sleep modes: Idle, ADC Noise Reduction and Power-down mode. The Idle mode would be good for when we are counting until the setpoint is reached, and the power-down mode for when we are waiting for the button to be pressed(INT0 interrupt trigger). So I've added some new lines of code to set the processor into Idle mode when the button is pressed, and to set it to power-down mode the the setpoint is reached and the transistor is turned off.
// Prepare for sleep mode in Idle mode so Timer0 can continue working and providing interrupts set_sleep_mode(SLEEP_MODE_IDLE);
set_sleep_mode(SLEEP_MODE_PWR_DOWN); // Prepare for sleep mode in Power Down mode
With these new settings the numbers are: in Idle mode the current draw is 3.57mA(only 0.1mA saved) but in power-down mode the current draw is only 17.9 uA(a whopping 3.652mA saved). This will ensure the battery life is not affected by the small timer circuit.
Now that everything was finished all I had to do is mount the small pcb inside the meter. Luckily there was plenty of space between the LCD and the logic board. I attached the pcb with some double sided sticky tape and drilled a hole for the tact switch in a pre marked place(this was probably the place designated for an original on/off-standby button that would of reset the internal auto-turn off feature). The tact switch was fixed in place with some hot glue. The wires were carefully routed on the side of the case and everything was assembled back together.
Now I know what you're thinking, this mod makes the meter more dangerous with all the wires running so close to the high voltage input jacks but this meter did not have much protection to start with. Only basic 250mA fuse on the small current scale so I don't think I've made it more dangerous than it already was. I really don't recommend getting this meter if you're working with high voltages or currents. This is only suitable for small currents/voltages where the input protection isn't going to make a big difference.
Also you should know that the mod will certainly void your warranty if there is one. I certainly didn't had any real warranty with this meter.
The source code and Eagle schematics are accessible on github here. As you can see this was also a nice opportunity to get me started with using a code repository. And here are some pictures from the construction/assembly process:


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Guys, we're experiencing the era of tumor environment appreciation in cancer research. Cancer progression is not cell autonomous! It depends so much on the environmental context. But to complete a picture, please take into account a competition between cancer and normal cells for their environment.
Cell competition as a biological phenomenon has been studied for the last 30 years. But only recently in mammals and very recently in stem cell biology. I'll try briefly to summarize the role of cell competition in cancer progression, including stem cell.
What cells could compete with each other?
- Normal cells could compete for organ integrity in development and normal tissue turnover
- Normal stem cells could compete with each other for occupancy of the niche
- Finally, cancer cells could compete with normal cells for environment in order to progress
Cell competition in normal conditions
Cell competition for the first time was discovered in Drosophila:
Cell competition, a well-recognized phenomenon of cell-cell interaction, was first discovered in Drosophila wing imaginal discs, where growth-disadvantageous cells are eliminated by wild-type cells, which subsequently undergo compensatory proliferation to maintain proper disc size.
What is the biological meaning of cell competition in the normal organism?
Imagine this: on the planet Earth (multicellular organism) people (cells) live in cities or communities (tissues), forming more complex structures – countries (organs). Because members of these communities could be socially unequal, they need some sort of control (law) or "moral principles" if you will, in order to maintain integrity. This is a principle of cell competition in normal multicellular organism, guys.
Cell competition as a mechanism to maximize tissue fitness:
Cell-autonomous apoptosis is enough to kill cells that have major functional problems. However, if the cell that the multicellular animal wants to get rid of is viable, another discriminatory step is required to identify such suboptimal cells. The fact that all initial examples of cell competition resulted in wild-type cells being the winners led to the proposal that cell competition may be an efficient mechanism to maximize tissue fitness and optimize organ function, ensuring that viable but suboptimal cells do not accumulate during development or ageing.
So, cell competition seem to be responsible for maintainance of tissue integrity in a multicellular organism. One more important definition – cell fitness:
… "fitness" is a measure of the ability of a cell of a certain genotype to pass this genotype to subsequent cell generations, as governed by competition for similar niches.
Cell competition in malignant progression – lessons from Drosophila
Cell competition in cancer progression could occur on different levels:
- cancer non-stem cell versus normal cells
- cancer stem cells versus normal stem cells
Competition between cancer cells and normal cells was described very well in Drosophila:
What if a transformed cell could proliferate without producing morphological malformations, because the increase in cell number was balanced by the apoptotic elimination of surrounding cells and, therefore, the total cell number did not change? An intriguing phenomenon in D. melanogaster known as 'cell competition' has been described to do just this: cells proliferate by killing surrounding wild-type cells by apoptosis so that the total cell number does not change. As a consequence, clonal expansion did not generate morphological aberrations and the growth of these cells passed unnoticed.
At least two types of mutations, which can trigger cell competition in cancer development, were identified in Drosophila – d-Myc and Hippo pathway:
A two- fold increase in DMYC levels is enough to transform cells into super-competitors
As Myc family genes are prominently involved in human cancers and there is increasing evidence that Hippo pathway components are deregulated in human tumours, super-competition has been hypothesized to be involved in the early stages of cancer formation.
I'd like to point out two very Interesting biological phenomena associate with cancer cell competition described in drosophila that are nicely summarized in this review:
- Clonal expansion upon competition required killing of neighbouring cells. Therefore cancer cell competition is very early event of malignant development and due to initial absence of tissue growth could be undetectable. So, apoptosis could have a dual role in carcinogenesis: (i) inhibition to promote self-survival and proliferation and (ii) killing of surrounding competitors.
- On one hand, overexpression of some genes could transform cells into super-competitors, leading to malignant progression (d-Myc, Hippo pathway). But, on the other hand, overexpression of such gene as Minute, involved in cell competition, can not drive competition above normal levels.
Stem cell competition for niche occupancy
Despite very nice work on Drosophila, we still don't know how cell competition occurs in mammals. But there are some evidence that cell competition in adult mammals occurs on the level of somatic (tissue) stem cells and their niches. Natural (Darwinian) selection and phenotypic evolution through competition of stem cell for the niche was nicely modeled by Marc Mangel in 2008:
… in healthy organisms, we should not expect the stem populations to be at their maximum sizes.
To understand fully how natural selection acts on a stem cell, we need to consider the fitness of a focal stem cell. Stem cells (and transit amplifying cells) do not by themselves achieve fitness. Rather, they support the organism – which can be viewed as an organized collection of fully differentiated cells. Fitness of the focal stem cell depends upon what it does, what the other stem cells in the niche do, and how many transit amplifying and differentiated cells are present.
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) re-circulate and compete for their niches in normal steady-state conditions as well as in bone marrow transplantation settings. In order to assess HSC fitness and competition, bone marrow transplant should be done:
… marrow engraftment is determined by stem cell competition indicates that final donor chimerism after transplant is directly related to the ratio of donor to residual host stem cells.
Leukemic stem cell competition for bone marrow niches
Competitive repopulation assay in experimental bone marrow transplantation allows to identify gene-candidates or mutations associated with high (cells-winners) or low (cells-losers) or super-high (cells-cheaters) stem cell fitness. Loss of tumor-suppressor genes, such as p53, in competitive settings could generate HSC-winners and cheaters. Later it could lead to clonal selection, expansion and leukemogenesis. Interestingly, unlike Drosophila, HSC-losers undergo senescence, but do not get killed by winners via apoptosis:
We propose that p53-mediated stem cell-specific, senescence-like response to DNA damage operates as a "memory of past damage": while still compatible with proliferation, it permanently marks HSPCs that have experienced DNA damage and thus promotes their gradual replacement by undamaged cells over time, if such cells are available.
In my recent post about Bondar-Medzhitov study , I noted:
… most importantly, this work provided evidence for carcinogenesis (irradiation)- induced selection. It contradicts the assumption that oncogenic mutation alone caused by carcinogenic factor can initiate the malignant process (mutagenesis versus selection). It is also important that this selection occurs in context of stem cell niche and can give us a clue of how neoplastic process is initiated and progresses.
Not only loss of p53, but such oncogenic mutations as Bcr-Abl can give competitive advantage to hematopoietic progenitor cells and cause age-associated leukemogenesis:
… Bcr-Abl provides a much greater competitive advantage to old B-lymphoid progenitors compared with young progenitors, coinciding with restored kinase signaling pathways, and that this enhanced competitive advantage translates into increased promotion of Bcr-Abl-driven leukemias. Moreover, impairing IL-7-mediated signaling is sufficient to promote selection for Bcr-Abl-expressing B progenitors. These studies support an unappreciated causative link between aging and cancer: increased selection of oncogenic mutations as a result of age-dependent alterations of the fitness landscape.
This is actually the first study which demonstrates competition of progenitor cells (B-cell progenitor) for environment (IL-7 signaling) in context of aging. Interestingly, young normal hematopoietic progenitors beat co-transplanted Bcr-Abl-expressing cells in competition for rescue of IL-7 signaling and normal B-cell lymphopoiesis.
The role of malignant cell competition in bone marrow niches was elucidated in some human hematological malignancies.
Cancer cell competition driven by malignant niches
In the model of B-ALL, leukemic cells were able to modify normal HSC niches in bone marrow, created malignant niches. Created leukemic niches outcompete native HSC niches, but were not able to maintain normal hematopoiesis. This is the only study, proposed so-called "niche competition" for stem cell engagement in leukemia model:
We have shown that leukemic proliferation in the BM alters the stromal microenvironment and creates malignant niches that outcompete native HPC niches for CD34+ cell engraftment. Normal CD34+ cells engaged by the malignant niche exhibit abnormal behavior.
Our results raise many questions about the nature of tumor-host interactions: Do leukemic cells reorganize the molecular microenvironment specifically to entrap HPCs, or is the creation of competitive HPC niches a coincidental side effect of leukemic growth?
Cancer clonal selection driven by competition
The mathematical model of cancer progression indicates that, harsh survival conditions, provided by malignant niches, could drive evolution of selected malignant clones and cancer progression. So, not just mutations per se, but triggering of cell competition by environmental changes will cause early "malignant onset". Selection of the fitter cancer cell clone, as a consequence of competition, will drive further malignant progression:
…mild microenvironment conditions (e.g., normoxia, homogeneous matrix) allow clones with similar aggressive traits to coexist with less aggressive phenotypes in a heterogeneous tumor mass with smooth, noninvasive margins. Thus, the genetic make-up of a cancer cell may realize its invasive potential through a clonal evolution process driven by definable microenvironmental selective forces.
Recent study demonstrates that interaction of embryonic epithelial cell remnants with surrounding tissues could trigger Barrett's like metaplasia:
Our findings suggest that certain precancerous lesions, such as Barrett's, initiate not from genetic alterations but from competitive interactions between cell lineages driven by opportunity.
Concluding remark:
The possible causes of cell competition, leading to malignant progression:
- Oncogenic mutations, transforming normal cells into "super-competitors";
- Loss of fitness by normal cells due to aging (aged hematopoietic stem cells and lymphoid progenors) or external insults (irradiation);
- Appearance of aberrant niches with abnormal environment, in which only abnormal (malignant) cells could engraft, survive and proliferate.
Finally, guys, please maintain your stem cell fitness! Start to think about it while you're young. Take your butt off the chair and go exercise!


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Neurowear is a company that develops wearable fashion items that can be controlled using your brain waves and other biosensors, with the goal of "augmenting" the human body.
Back in May 2012 I had the chance to try Necomimi (in Japanese Neko – 猫 – means cat and Mimi – 耳 – means ear), a pair of cat-like ears that you can control with your brain, guided by Tomonori Kagaya, one of the key designers at Neurowear. Necomimi senses when you're alert/focused, relaxed or "in the zone" (relaxed but focused at the same time) and wiggles accordingly. Necomimi retails at around 80 dollars, making it a relatively affordable for a hi-tech gadget (after all we're talking about pioneering commercial brain sensors).
Today Neurowear announced Shippo (shown in the video above), a dog-like tail also controlled by your brainwaves, which reacts to your mood and geotags your mood/location using the companion mobile app.
The Augmented Human Body
The whole concept behind Necomimi and Shippo is to create gadgets that physically react to our emotional state by analyzing our brainwaves. The physical manifestation can then induce a certain behavior in us or in the people we're interacting with.
The Relevance of Brain Wearable Tech
I believe the importance of gadgets – toys – like Necomimi and Shippo relies not in that they are a cute (and rather superfluous) things someone might wear but that they will prepare youngesters to what will be a mainstream interface in the near future: controlling stuff with your thoughts, be it a paralyzed person controlling a wheel chair with her brain, driving your car (or skateboard) by thinking or a health device that detects and alerts you/your doctor before you're about to have a major brain problem.
We adults tend to be utterly suspicious – often righteously so – about new technologies which could be somehow used against us. Think of the privacy concerns if someone could read your thoughts or emotions without you knowing (researchers have already hacked brainwaves to reveal passwords). But younger people getting familiar with ubiquitous brainwave sensors will probably have less resistance to them and actually contribute to their mainstream adoption.


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He is survived by his wife Ramona (Robinson) Hughes, who he married on March 22, 1951 at the Presbyterian Church of Clearfield, two daughters; Michele (Hughes) Gainer and her husband, Mark of Lancaster, PA and Deb (Hughes) Stewart and her husband, Ken, of Clark Summit, Pa, three grandchildren; Brent Hughes Stewart, of VA, Bradley Kent Stewart and his wife, Lindsay, of FL, Lindsay (Gainer) Attaway and her husband, Matthew, of VA.
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Originally Posted by dencol: YOU JUST POSTED ASSWIPE
Theres no stopping what cant be stopped.....no killin what cant be killed....
Wow. This post is like 2 years old, and I just reread it for the first time in about that long - and I must say - it is a masterpiece.
I just reread this whole thread.
It is friggin funny.
In the past 2.5 years, I had totally forgotten about this.
Originally Posted by bigirondawg: Just wanted to bow down at the altar like the other vanzack-worshippers in this thread.
obviously,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you took the time to dig up a thread that hadn't been touched in months............he must be on your mind...............a little odd
After nights of crunching numbers and carrying the 1's and crossing the t's I came to an astounding realization. Starting with a mere $2000 bankroll, betting at a controlled rate hitting at only a 55% win percentage, over six years your bankroll would be at one million dollars.
Here is how it works.
o You must play 730 games per year either ATS or O/U; Lay no more then -110.
o You must hit at a 55% or better winning percentage (5.22% R.O.I.)
o You must always bet 5% of your bankroll, never more, never less. Period.
o You must never cash out a penny unless you are above 55% in a year.
It's that simple. Really. Here is the math I have done in an excel worksheet which breaks it down even further.
Bank/Yr Plays/Yr. Win% Wins Losses Net Win Bet P/G R.O.I Profit/YR Year $2000 730 55% 401.5 361.35 40.15 5% 5.22% $3810 1 $5810 730 55% 401.5 361.35 40.15 5% 5.22% $11070 2 $16881 730 55% 401.5 361.35 40.15 5% 5.22% $32164 3 $49045 730 55% 401.5 361.35 40.15 5% 5.22% $93447 4 $142493 730 55% 401.5 361.35 40.15 5% 5.22% $271492 5 $413985 730 55% 401.5 361.35 40.15 5% 5.22% $788766 6 s you can see after your sixth year of betting you would have $1,202,750 in your betting account. Now some questions you may be asking. In the last two years of the table you would be betting a large amount of money per game. Keep in mind there are people out there betting much more per game than any of us could ever dream of, this kind of action exists and although it may seem strange, but that could be you in just four years of successful controlled wagering. How do you know what 5% of your bankroll is if you don't know if you have won or lost yet. The answer is simple, for that entire year you do not increase or decrease your wager. When you start off at $2000, for 365 days you are going to be betting the equivalent of two games per day playing to win $80. No matter what, you play those stakes until you break the $5810 mark in your bankroll which is 40.15 games above .500 in the record books. You do not have to play exactly two games per day; you play what your information presents you with. If there is a day where nothing is worth risking money on, pass, you still have a whole year to make up those lost games, the goal is to get to 730 by the end of the year.
You can play the stock market, start a person house in Nevada or more to Thailand and cash in your dollars for yen; nothing is going to get you to a million dollars quicker than this betting pattern. Think about it, 55% in a year is by no means not achievable. You simply have to pace yourself for 55 wins per 100 games. You must realize you are going to lose, almost as much as you win. In fact over 730 games you are only going to win 40 more times then you lose. The only key to success is discipline and a consistent strong source of information provided to you by a proven sports handicapper or an insider source from a trustworthy media network. With all of those pieces in place and a $2000 bankroll, your only six years away from the big prize.
Just came across this thread Such a classic!
Yep the one's that don't tell The ppl that brag are like the kid that says he has a 12 person but in real life his girlfriends clit is bigger then his person A winner never tells
Originally Posted by vanzack: Dan Quayle has nothing on you.
I don't care what your position is on VanZack. This is just hilarious!!!! Gotta love political nostalgia. Really puts the "E" in potato!!!
i haven't read this entire thread and probably won't:
here is my take....there are people that win at sports investing, that i do know...whether you straight up handicap, trade, arbitrage, or a cominbation of these....you have to have a clear mind, be competent with numbers, have money managements skills, etc....most people that win will not post on these sports forums, though some will....i find it hard to believe that people on yachts getting bj's from supermodels are posting on covers:)....
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World Cup 2010 Schedule and Scoresheet
It is not easy to write again after three months I didn't write and post any templates. And, I am really sorry for not replying many comments due to my time limitation to monitor this site. But…, I am back now with my newest sport template, World Cup 2010 Schedule and Scoresheet Template. This template is the first version, because I plan to add analysis worksheet which can help you (and me of course :-)) analyzing your favourite teams before they play their matches.
This template is based on my previous Euro 2008 template. Because World Cup 2010 tournament consists of 32 teams, compare with Euro 2008 tournament which only consists of 16 teams, I made lay out modification to make the sheet fit nicely and properly if it is printed within one page A4 or letter paper size.
I am also adjusting the excel formula for deciding and ranking the teams that qualify to the next round after they played all their group matches, if two or more teams have same points, based on World Cup tournament tie regulation where the tie regulation is slightly different with Euro 2008 tie regulation.
I maintain the language and timezone conversion, so you can use or print this template based on your language and time zone. I would like to thanks to Google which provide a very good translation tool which translate my words in this template in seconds. But, I still need a better human translation to make it fully comply with your language. You can help me refining that translation, or add new language translation, by downloading the language file and send it back to me. I will put your name as credit in this site. There 34 different languages and 139 cities timezone available in this version. Just select your language and timezone from the dropdown list in the upper left side of the worksheet to change the appearance of the worksheet into your local language and timezone.
I add a new excel formula to dynamically manage the appearance of team or country flags in Group Standings Table. In the beginning, I plan to put that formula next to every teams in every matches. But, it makes the excel run very slow every time you change cells or fill the scores. So, I decided to drop the formula in any team matches and apply the formula in Group standing table only.
Now, let's go to the detail on how to use this spreadsheet as your scoresheet. If you ever had download my sport templates, you will be familiar with my sport style template where there are score boxes with blue color which ready to be filled with your estimation score or real score results.And you don't have to read this instruction. Just use it. For you that download this spreadsheet for the first time, you can read this explanation below carefully to understand how this spreadsheet works.
This scoresheet consists of two big parts, the group stage part and the knock out round part. In the group stage part, you should fill the blue color boxes in all 48 group matches with the real score results or your score prediction. You will see the group standing table next to group matches table are changing automatically based on your input.
After all teams playing their group matches, the excel formula will place the team which quality in first and second position of the group based on group standing regulation. If their points are not the same, it is easy to place the team in first and second position. And the challenge in creating the spreadsheet is in this part, where I have to create the correct formula that will accommodate all possible condition based on FIFA tie regulation. I quoted the group ranking regulation from FIFA World Cup document :
The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows:
a) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;
b) goal difference in all group matches;
c) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches.
If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows:
d) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
e) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
f) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
g) drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.
At least, this tie regulation is much more simpler than Champions League Group tie regulation. I put some samples of the implementation of group ranking regulation as you can see in the pictures. I will explain the ranking regulation applied in each group to give you better understanding on this group ranking and tie regulation.
Group A (Rule a) and b) applied)
After all teams played their matches, France is qualified without question based on rule a) and South Africa is qualified based on rule b) because South Africa has a better goal difference compare with Uruguay.
Group B (Rule a) and c) applied)
In Group B, Argentina and South Korea are having the same point. Because both teams have the highest points compare with other teams in Group B, both teams are qualified. And based on rule b), South Korea will get the top position because South Korea scored more goals, 7 goals, compare with Argentina, 6 goals.
Group C (Rule a) and b) applied)
In Group C, England and Slovenia are having the same point, six. Eventhough England beat Slovenia in their meeting, Slovenia will top the group because Slovenia has a better goal difference.
Group D (Rule b) and tie rule d) applied)
There are three teams that are having the same points. Based on rule b), Serbia will top the group. And because Ghana and Germany are having the same goal difference and the same goal scored, tie rule d) will make Ghana deserve the runner up position because Ghana beat Germany in their meeting.
Group E (Rule c) applied)
This group also has three teams that are sharing the same points. They also has the same goal difference. But, Japan scored more goals than Netherlands, and Netherlands scored more goals than Denmark. So, Denmark is eliminated based on rule c).
Group F (Rule a) and c) applied)
In this group, Italy is topping its group and Slovakia take the runner up position based on rule a) and c).
Group G (Rule a) and tie rule d) applied)
In Group G, Brazil is qualified perfectly by beating all its opponents. But, the others are having the same points (3). Based on rule c), North Korea and Cote-d'Ivoire will go into tie regulation to decide which team will advance to the next round. And tie rule d) reveal North Korea as a runner up because they beat Cote-d'Ivoire in their meeting.
Group H (Rule a) and tie rule g) applied)
This group will use tie rule g) to decide whether Chile or Switzerland that will accompany Spain advance to the next round. Both teams are having the same points, goal difference, goals scored, and also they are sharing the same point in their meeting. So, FIFA will draw them, and in this example, Chile is lucky. But, I haven't finished to create a drawing table that can be manually filled. In this spreadsheet version, this ranking is still based on FIFA rank, used for group drawing. I plan to reveal a drawing table when some teams are going to be drawn and can be filled manually in the later version.
As additional information, this is the FIFA team ranking used as group drawing lots reference . I took the information from Wiki.
1. South Africa (hosts)
2. Brazil
3. Spain
4. Netherlands
5. Italy
6. Germany
7. Argentina
8. England
9. France
10. Portugal
11. United States
12. Switzerland
13. Cameroon
14. Greece
15. Chile
16. Mexico
17. Côte d'Ivoire
18. Serbia
19. Paraguay
20. Australia
21. Uruguay
22. Denmark
23. Algeria
24. Nigeria
25. Slovakia
26. Honduras
27. Ghana
28. Japan
29. Korea Republic
30. Slovenia
31. New Zealand
32. Korea DPR
When all group matches are finished and the team that qualified are revealed, the excel formula will place all teams in their corresponding match boxes based on FIFA rule. And if all first seeded are topping their group, you won't see Brazil vs England in World Cup final :-).
In knock out stage, you have to fill the score in one or three blue blank boxes in every matches to reveal and put the winner to next round. If the match is ended in normal time, you just fill the first blue box and the final score will reveal next to each team name. If it has to go to extra time, put the tie score in the first blue box, and put the extra time score in the second blue box. If the match has to be decided by penalty shoot out, put the tie score in extra time box and put the penalty score in the last blue box to reveal the winner of the match. You can the sample in the picture below.
Do the same steps until the final match which will reveal the 2010 World Cup Champion. And before the champion is revealed, feel free to play with those score boxes.
I plan to release the next version which will have player information, match analysis based on player stats, team head-to-head statistic and also other layout types. I hope I can release that in May. And I will separate the templates into several files, so you can choose which template that suit your needs.
If you like my template and want to help other people around the world using this template, you can contribute to correct or add new translation by downloading my language spreadsheet. If the language is already available, you don't have to write all the translation, just type the correct one next to the English language. I will put your name for your contribution in this site.
I have received several language files, and I would like to thanks these people below for sending me the correct translation, and will make other people who use this spreadsheet in their language will use it more human than more google … ;-). Those are: Jack Sakali (Arabic), Smartish (Chinese-Simplified), eLook (Chinese-Traditional), Michael Calundann (Danish), Helmer Peerdeman and Willem Norbruis (Dutch), Rauli Korpela (Finnish), Nishal Sooredoo (French), David Rapava (Georgian), Hans A. Keks (German/Deutsch), Achilleas Katsaros, Zach Ioannou and Stelios (Greek), Benysamo (Hebrew), Jozef Kele (Hungarian), Wahyudi Palwono, Herman Macci, Adjie Heryanto, Zainal Arifin and Ananda Raja (Indonesian), Sigursteinn Leifsson (Icelandic), Luca (Italian), Raizal Sohri, Hamal Anuar Md Ali and Nazre bin Abdul Rashid (Malay), Muzzy (Mongolian), Jostein R. Hareide and Kay Ronny Dahl (Norway), Amir Asadi and Amir Yarazavi (Persian), Wally K. and Lukas (Polish), Laercio Fernandes Neves (Portuguese-Brazil), Bruno Afonso, D. Tiago and António Macedo (Portuguese-Portugal), Tudor Apostolescu (Romanian), Kozlov Alexander (Russian), Marko Papic (Serbian), Martin Biros and Michal Zajaek (Slovak), Jorge Cantero Gómez and Jesus Duran (Spanish), Javier Mariano Areco (Spanish-Argentine), Peter Bacharach (Swedish), Win Limthanopajai and Somphop Muenpakdee (Thai), M.Volkan Çakr (Turkish), Mykola Volkogon (Ukrainian), Dung Le Trung, Le Vuong Anh, Philip Nguyen, Bch Tin, Pham Ly Thanh, Nguyen Viet Ha, Vit Thng, Bao Nguyen, Huy Bao Dao, and Tran Quoc Bao (Vietnamese). There are still some languages in process but I am still waiting other language correction to make all languages in this spreadsheet translated correctly.
There are also additional two spreadsheet with no nation flag which should solve compatibility problem in MS Excel 2010 and Openoffice and also for those who running Excel in Macintosh OS/Apple.
And also I would like to thanks Adrian Flores for informing me about flag mixed up, Josef for incorrect match number and also for Noah and Eric van Rooijen who correcting my rule missinterpretation. GBU all.
Here are all the files :
World Cup 2010 Schedule and Scoresheet V1.45 (197.6 KiB, 87,181 hits)
Contribute a better language translation (20.5 KiB, 9,982 hits)
World Cup 2010 Schedule and Scoresheet V1.45 without Nation Flag (127.3 KiB, 7,690 hits)
World Cup 2010 Schedule and Scoresheet V1.45 Sorted by Group Matches (127.6 KiB, 14,052 hits)


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The Rate Hike Cycle That Wasn't
from Lakshman Achuthan, Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of ECRI
In summer of 2015 we declared that the "Fed's rate hike plans are on a collision course with the economic cycle." This was because the Fed was pressing for the long awaited "liftoff" from the zero lower bound at a time when ECRI's leading indexes were pointing to a cyclical slowdown in U.S. economic growth, i.e., a growth rate cycle (GRC) downturn.
On December 16, 2015, the Fed did push through a rate hike in the face of a continuing slowdown in U.S. economic growth. The following day, we informed our members that, "[w]ith the GRC downturn set to deepen, a full-blown rate hike cycle remains improbable" (U.S. Essentials, December 2015). Please recall that, at the time, both the Fed and prominent Wall Street houses were projecting an additional four to five rate hikes in 2016.
The attempt at a rate hike cycle has been exceptionally ill-timed, starting a full year inside of a cycle slowdown - the longest lag ever between the start of a GRC downturn and the beginning of a Fed rate hike cycle. Now - no matter what - we would have seen the longest lag ever between the first and second Fed rate hikes.
Meanwhile, as we had expected, the slowdown has continued through the first half of 2016. Amidst slowing global growth we therefore reiterated in early June that a "rate hike cycle remains unlikely."
It is in this context that, before Chair Yellen's recent press conference on Wednesday, we explained that, "Unless a growth rate cycle upturn begins to take shape, its [the Fed's] next move may well end up being a rate cut."
The Fed and the consensus of economists did not foresee the "headwinds" that have effectively scuttled the Fed's rate hike plans. This is because they were oblivious to the direction on the economic cycle, which remains the unwavering focus of ECRI's leading indexes.
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I think I actually swooned at this one – Ben Browder to guest star in Doctor Who – in a Wild West episode. SWOONED, I tell you! (now we just need Claudia Black to come in as Benny Summerfield and the world will be a perfect place)
This is one I meant to bring to the table at our recent recording of Galactic Suburbia (should be up tonight) but forgot: craft is at the top of the cultural activities performed by Australians, but our peak funding body for cultural activities has just defunded Craft Australia. (I didn't even know there was a Craft Australia!) There's plenty of gender & class privilege to unpack here, as there usually is when the line between craft and art is drawn.
Speaking of stuff I probably should have included in this week's GS – Nicola Griffith talks about How To Fix Gender Bias in book journalism.
I have written a few posts in places other than here on the internet this week: I talk about fantasy words and names on the Voyager blog, in response to this lovely post by Natalie Costa Bir who talks about the vocab I use in the Creature Court books.


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Based on the clues in "By the Waters of Babylon," what can readers conclude about how the rituals surrounding touching the metal developed?
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Throughout much of the story, the reader has to use inference, or educated guessing through the use of context clues, to figure out exactly why John's tribe behaves in the many ways that it does. To us, people who never touch any piece of metal might seem strange and overly superstitious. However, if you read carefully, you can look at the following clues, and start to piece together an idea of why his tribe has developed this practice. The first clue is that John refers to "the great burning" that destroyed most people on the planet. If you think about that, it would have to be a very, very large event to wipe out most people. Possibilities? Meteor hitting earth, or a nuclear bomb. If it was nuclear bomb, there would be a lot of leftover radiation. Next clue: John refers to Dead Places, where everything is dead, including the people that lived there. If you combine that clue with place that they aren't allowed to go, namely a City, then you can hone in more closely on the nuclear bomb scenario--bombs are normally dropped on cities, and wipe out the city and everything surrounding them for a while. That would make everything in its radius "dead".
So, piecing together those clues, and assuming that it was a nuclear bomb that took out the cities and killed everyone, then you can assume that the metal products contained radiation levels for a very, very long time. Imagine the first survivors foraging for supplies and handling the metal; they would have gotten sick from radiation poisoning and died. The people would have passed that knowledge down from generation to generation, and eventually, it would become one of their rules. The reason why might be lost, but the rule is still followed. I hope that those thoughts help a bit; good luck!


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Sporting Kansas City opened their new stadium last week in front of a sell-out crowd, but were unable to score any goals. The game ended 0-0, begging the question, "Who is going to score the first MLS goal in LIVESTRONG Sporting Park?"
That question was answered in the 31st minute on Friday night by rookie striker CJ Sapong, who finished off a Graham Zusi set piece by flying horizontally through the air and getting his left boot to the ball, knifing it past San Jose keeper, Jon Busch.
"It was something we've been working on for quite some time," said KC coach Peter Vermes of the goal. "We have guys that we feel like if they get to the right places, they can stick the balls in the back of the net. That goal that CJ scored, I only saw it once but I would say that was an incredibly athletic goal to be able to basically be parallel in the air to the ground."
"From the second it was hit, I knew I could get my head to it, but he was holding me back so I just stuck my foot out, and it went in," said Sapong.
Truth be told, Sapong gave the San Jose defense fits all night with his size and speed. When he is alone in space it seems effortless to simply push the ball and run past defenders.
And at the end of the night, Sapong's one goal was enough to secure the win for Sporting, who have not yet allowed a goal on their home turf. Overall, the game was a back and forth affair, with both sides creating decent opportunities.
The crowd of 18,000 and change provided a great atmosphere to inspire their boys to gut out a win. Probably even better than on opening night, June 9th. While there were some empty seats this time around, most attendees seemed to be there more for the soccer game and less for the spectacle of the stadium. As Sporting battled to hang onto a 1-0 lead toward the end of the game the crowd provided a palpable spark that was somewhat absent on opening night.
And don't think opposing players aren't taking notice of KC's new home with a hint of jealousy.
"It's awesome, it's fantastic," said San Jose's Jason Hernandez of LIVESTRONG Sporting Park. "I think it's – without really taking a whole tour of it – it looks like the best stadium in the League and that's topping Red Bull Arena. And that's a very nice arena. I think it's a fantastic stadium and it sets the bar high for the teams coming in here now."
So maybe Robb Heinemann's wish comes true and the stadium serves as a great recruiting tool to lure foreign talent to KC. We'll see, I guess.
All in all, Sporting are looking more like the team we thought they could be before the two month exile.
And most of the credit goes to KC's back line, who have, little by little, turned from the Achilles heel into the real strength of this team. Matt Besler and Aurelien Collin have learned to complement each other nicely, with Collin playing the role of the physical intimidator, and Besler positioning himself to clean up anything that gets around Collin.
Vermes, a former center defender himself, seems like he has finally found what he was so desperately searching for the past few seasons in Collin. And he certainly didn't hesitate to heap praise on the young Frenchman who was given the task of shutting down San Jose's most explosive player, Steven Lenhart, who had a hat trick in his last game.
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Liquidation now inevitable?
But then I saw in a Guardian article on Newsnow that the Football League have made it a condition of League One entry that Portpin can't transfer more than a small fraction of the secured debt to the NewCo.
This is powerful stuff, even though 10 points, which is just a short term thing, makes all the headlines.
Portpin can only keep a small amount of secured debt? So they won't get their �18m back. Further tough league regulation makes asset stripping the parachute payments impossible.
So, this COULD lead to Portpin walking away.
The Trust may be the only show in town. Yet we have no detail & we know that unless people like TBH leave, they have no bid.
Could we not see a new season for Portsmouth 1898??
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Review: Payne, Dern Raise Money for Film Streams
By Bob Fischbach, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.
Jul. 14--There they sat, the Oscar-nominated actress and the Oscar-winning screenwriter-director, in front of about 1,000 people at the Holland Performing Arts Center Sunday night."It feels oddly, wonderfully intimate," Laura Dern said to her former director, Omaha native Alexander Payne, as their chat began around 8:30 p.m.
And, despite the crowd, it did. Two wood-frame chairs, a Persian rug, a simple white-globe pole lamp and a white orchid on a low table between them made the stage feel as close to an intimate corner as the cavernous hall could approximate.
They were there to help raise more than $150,000 for Film Streams, the nonprofit arthouse movie theater that opened a year ago downtown. About 600 attended a dinner, also at the Holland, that preceded the film chat.
After a film-clip montage of Dern's career, the two spent just over 90 minutes talking about making movies, including their time together making Payne's first feature-length movie, "Citizen Ruth," in Omaha in 1996.
Payne called Dern not just an actress, but a film purist, someone who grew up on film sets.
Dern, 41, recalled deciding to be an actress at age 7.
"I spent my summer vacation going back and forth between two sets watching my parents (Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd) work with (director Martin) Scorsese and (director Alfred) Hitchcock. What I learned that summer was that you could do each take with variety, be extreme, be bold."
She said Ladd, in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," and Dern, in "Family Plot," both played "deeply troubled characters in comedies. . . . It was a scientific experiment in humanity."
Later, Laura Dern would become known for quirky roles in dark movies such as "Blue Velvet,""Citizen Ruth,""Rambling Rose,""Wild at Heart" and "We Don't Live Here Anymore." This year, she played former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in an HBO movie, "Recount," about the 2000 presidential election.
"You only do roles with red flags," Payne noted.
"I've made a lot of funny movies," Dern replied. "I wonder how many people saw them and didn't know they were funny."
Dern recalled that, growing up, she was crazy about Lucille Ball as well as Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton in "All in the Family," who also played deeply flawed characters in comedies.
"The miserable truth seemed the best fodder," she noted.
"The best comedy plays with human foibles," agreed Payne, who also has a reputation for dark humor, satire and flawed main characters in the movies he has co-scripted and shot, including "Election,""About Schmidt" and "Sideways."
Dern said Payne's and writing partner Jim Taylor's "Citizen Ruth" script, about a pregnant girl huffing paint fumes and deciding whether to have an abortion, made her press hard for the role of Ruth.
"We've talked about the importance of a character, finding subtlety, working with a tribe who understands your taste, wonderful irreverence and satire," Dern said. "This movie had every single one of those ingredients. It's my favorite filmmaking experience."
The low-budget shooting schedule was grueling, she said, but fun. "And nobody (from the studio) was watching us. We had such freedom. We did whatever we wanted to do."
The two talked about other directors she's worked with: Robert Altman, David Lynch, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Peter Bogdanovich.
They talked about the process of choosing and finding a character. They took questions from the audience, written on cards.
"What's your dream project?" Payne read from one card.
"To work with you again, Alexander," she replied.
Also present Sunday night: Jim Taylor and his wife, Tamara Jenkins, who directed last year's Oscar-nominated "The Savages," as well as Payne's film editor, Kevin Tent, and producer Cary Woods.
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NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday asked Tamil Nadu government to reconsider its decision to ban the screening of KamalHaasan's film " Vishwaroopam" saying the Supreme Court had in a verdict held that the censor board's view on such matters was binding on all.
"The Supreme Court of India in Prakash Jha's matter had the occasion of considering the various provisions of the Cinematograph Act and juxtaposing them against the law and order powers which the state government has under the Constitution," information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said here.
"And the Supreme Court was very categorical that Article 246, seventh schedule, list one, entry sixty gives the central government the powers to certify films for exhibition and once the Central Board for Film Certification has taken a particular view, it binds all the other instrumentalities of the state," he added.
Tewari asked Tamil Nadu government to study the earlier verdict of the apex court before it acted in the matter.
"I suggest that Tamil Nadu government peruse that judgment of the Supreme Court in Prakash Jha's case before coming to any conclusion which may fall foul of the very clear directive which the court has given," Tewari added.
Tamil Nadu government had on Wednesday banned the screening of the big-budget Kamal Haasan film following protests by some Muslim organizations against alleged depiction of their community in a negative light.


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Jesse Winchester
Love Filling Station
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The first studio CD in ten years
from the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has named
as among the best of his generation!
You could stock a crowd-pleasing jukebox with the songs Jesse Winchester has written and recorded in the last four decades – and with the better-known versions of his songs that have become hits and album staples for artists ranging from Joan Baez to Elvis Costello to Jimmy Buffett. Winchester's skill in capturing vivid small town vignettes, heartfelt love and love-lost situations, and goodtime celebrations has yielded a litany of I-know-that-songs: "Yankee Lady," "Biloxi," "Brand New Tennessee Waltz," "Talk Memphis," "Rhumba Girl," "Payday," "I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl," "Let's Make a Baby King" and many more. His 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composters, Artists and Publishers (ASCAP) is one gauge of the music world's esteem.
Love Filling Station, Winchester's Appleseed debut and his first studio CD since 1999's Gentleman of Leisure, offers nine characteristically top-flight originals among its dozen songs. It also highlights Jesse as a graceful, soulful vocalist, as memorable a singer as a songwriter. His light southern tenor drawl, warmly wrapped in country/bluegrass/folk arrangements, can gently ascend to the heavens a la Roy Orbison, as in the lovestruck wonderment of "O What a Thrill" (already covered by The Mavericks), dish some sly, wry dirt ("It's a Shame About Him") and even capture the sublime hush of Ben E. King's classic "Stand By Me," one of the CD's three covers. The lightly rocking "Wear Me Out," another original, mixes a mock-plaintive vocal of sexual exhaustion with a funky, gospel-tinged call-and-response as the great bluegrass solo artist and sideman Jerry Douglas threads carnal lap steel guitar licks throughout the song.
Aside from Douglas's guest shot, some of the core musicians on Love Filling Station are the equally estimable Russ Barenberg (guitar, mandolin); Mark Fain (bass) and Andy Leftwich (fiddle) from Ricky Scaggs' band; Jesse himself (guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals); and solo artist Claire Lynch, who summons her inner Dolly Parton on one of the album's other cover songs, "Loose Talk," an uptempo country lament about wagging tongues and provincial minds.
The strength, sincerity and humor of Winchester's songs combine the laidback gentility of his Memphis upbringing with the perspective and longing of his longtime Canadian exile, self-imposed in 1967 upon receipt of his draft notice. The ten years that followed, before then-President Carter declared amnesty in 1977, may have limited his recognition and eliminated touring in the US, but the next 25 years based in Montreal were voluntary and productive, in a leisurely way. Repatriated in Virginia with an American-born wife since 2002, Winchester sounds happy to be home on Love Filling Station, and we're glad to have him back.


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Some interesting points in this WWD interview with Steve Madden.
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Rail: Is there a distinction between understanding and experiencing art?
Saltz: Yes. I disagree with Descartes who said, "I think, therefore I am." I believe "I experience (it), therefore I am." Life and art are full body.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Cathy Horyn talks to Cindy Ferrara, a pattern maker and production manager, about how the garment industry has changed in the past 30 years. Read it here.


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The National Bureau of Economic Research published the "College as Country Club" paper last week. It has gotten a lot of coverage already by IHE [2], the Chronicle of Higher Education [3], Time [4], the Wall Street Journal [5], and Freakonomics [6].
The paper (abstract [7]; pdf [8]) states, "We find that students do appear to value college attributes which we categorize as 'consumption' because their benefits arguably accrue only while actually enrolled." It goes on to report, "One important implication of our analysis is that for many institutions, demand-side market pressure may not compel investment in academic quality, but rather in consumption amenities."
This is distressing, but perhaps not surprising to many people within higher education. Another implication for this research might be marketing spend. With all these great amenities to offer students, how do schools get the word out?
It could be interesting to see if increased spending on amenities leads to an increase in spending on the marketing of those amenities. Does the marketing budget have to increase to allow a school to let prospective students know about all the new aquariums and nap pods [3]? Or, do the amenities, there for all to see during prospective student visits, decrease marketing spend as the amenities help to sell the school?
Finally, how does marketing spend for academic improvements fit in – for things like the new physics lab, the new core curriculum, an increase in program funding or new faculty appointments?


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Special adviser to the Trinidad and Tobago Boxing Board of Control (TTBBC), Boxu Potts says the Board has been starved of funds by the Ministry of Sport and is currently owed over $5 million allocated by the Ministry for the 2012-2013 financial period and the financial period October 2013- February 2014.
The effect, Potts said, is that boxing camps at Alicia�s Guest House in St Ann�s and in Marabella have been closed because of lack of funds. He said school programmes have also been shut down because the TTBBC is unable to pay coaches.
Potts said the TTBBC was allocated $4,994,000.00 for the fiscal year, October 2012- September 2013, with $918,345.01 being deducted for previous expenditure. The balance is $4,075,654.99.
Potts presented a breakdown of expenditure up until September 2013, amounting to $254,639.69. He is questioning where the balance of the money, $3,831,014.31, intended for camps and community programmes for the socially displaced and vulnerable, has gone.
�It has just disappeared into one big black hole, nobody knows where that money has gone,� Potts said.
Of the current fiscal period, October 2013 to September 2014, Potts said that out of another $4 million allocation, one tranche of $416,000 was paid in October 2013, while $78,500 was issued for payment of TTBBC staff.
Potts said the TTBBC had repeatedly asked permanent secretary Ashwin Creed why the money was not being disbursed.
Several calls to Creed�s mobile number went unanswered, while a text message seeking an interview with Creed on the financial issues raised by Potts was not returned.
Potts said there was also the issue of the suspended TTBBC chairman Deopersad Ramoutar currently using a cell phone paid for by the Board.
He said the issue of unauthorised cheques paid to Ramoutar is currently being investigated by local law enforcement officers.
Potts said he himself had not been paid for several months and is owed nearly $200,000 in salary. He said he had hired Douglas Mendes to treat with the issue of his salary payments.


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Jan 19, 2018
2018 Change in Intermediate/Novice (I/N) Awards
Frank Thorwald Trophy: Beginning in 2018, the Frank Thorwald trophy, previously given to the player scoring the most points in 199er events at the Denver Regional, will now be given to the player scoring the most points in the 299er events.
Kinningham/Woodward Trophy: This award is given to the Unit 361 player(s) winning the most points in the 299er events at the four Unit 361 open sectionals. Because bracketed team events could include players who do not qualify for this award, results in bracketed events will not be used to count toward the Kinningham/Woodward trophy.


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MEDINAH, Ill. -- Keegan Bradley broke out into a huge smile.
"I love it," Bradley said.
The young bomber was talking about the No. 3 course at Medinah Country Club, host of the 39th Ryder Cup that begins Friday. He was simply giddy about the length of the course, the lack of rough on the course, and the firmness and speed of the greens.
"I love it where I can just go up to the tee and bang it," Bradley said. "A lot of the bunkers are 285 yards out and you can just bang it over those. We should be able to make a lot of birdies."
That's what U.S. captain Davis Love III wanted when he had a hand in setting up No. 3 to his liking. The course, which has hosted a U.S. Open and two PGA Championships since 1990, is a bomber's paradise with generous fairways, the aforementioned lack of rough and open spaces in the woods as hundreds of trees have been removed.
PRESSURE: 'Nowhere to hide' in Ryder Cup
"I just don't like rough," Love said. "I think the fans want to see excitement. They want to see birdies. We want to let these unbelievable athletes freewheel it a little bit and play. Medinah is such a big, long golf course.
"I think fair and fun and exciting for the fans on TV is the way to go."
The most challenging aspect of the course is the end of each hole -- the greens. Golf course architect Rees Jones has redone every green on the course -- 11 since Tiger Woods won the 2006 PGA Championship here. He also won the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah. Because of the changes, no player holds an advantage on the greens.
As far as the rest of the course, if backed up to the tips, it can be stretched out to 7,668 yards. However, especially with the drivable par-4 15th, which can be played at 391 yards or 285 yards, the course will probably play anywhere from 7,300 to 7,500. Whatever the length, Love thinks the course favors his red, white and blue troops, especially his bombers -- Bradley, Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
"I like a course where you can hit driver all the time," Johnson said. "It's going to be nice to do that."
Added Watson: "No matter what team is playing, no matter what (format) it is, the course is set up for the fans to enjoy the game of golf. You're talking about no rough. Some of the trees are missing, so you're looking at great golf out of the trees when you hit one wayward. Everybody has the ability to hit the shot out of the trees. Let's see the big hook, the big cuts, over trees, under trees, around bunkers to make birdies. I think these great shots that you're going to see from all parts of the golf course are going to be great."
But does the course give the USA an advantage on Europe, which has won six of the last eight contests, including in 2010 in Wales. All 24 players on the two teams are in the top 35 in the official world golf rankings, including nine of the top 10. Three of this year's major champions are playing -- Watson, Webb Simpson and Rory McIlroy. Only four of the 24 haven't won an official event somewhere in the world this year, and three of those – Jim Furyk, Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer – are major champions. And the FedExCup Playoffs champion, Brandt Snedeker, is playing.
"I've played (in the states) pretty much all year, and I haven't seen a golf course that's had no rough and no rough around the greens," Europe's Lee Westwood said. "This is not a golf course that either team is particularly used to, and I can't see how it suits one team or the other, to be perfectly honest."
Europe captain Jose Maria Olazabal said the course favors only one group of people -- the fans.
"The golf course is the same for everyone," Olazabal said. "You have 24 of the best players in the whole world and they can adjust to any situation. I don't know if it favors any team in particular. But what it does, I think, is that players will be more aggressive on the golf course. I think you're going to see a bunch of birdies this week. I think it's going to be a great show in that regard for the crowds. You're going to see holes tied with birdies. You'll have a few holes where anything can happen, like 15, 16, 17; risk-and-reward holes. I think it's exciting.
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The Inn at Erlowest in Lake George is welcoming its new chef and innkeeper, Dale Miller, with a free open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday (3/2) at the inn.
Miller, a certified master chef who started at Erlowest in January after a decade at Jack's Oyster House in Albany, will greet visitors, serve light hors d'oeuvres and offer tours of the inn, located in a palatial, historic former home on the lake's west side north of Lake George Village.
For info call 668-5928. The Inn at Erlowest is at 3178 Lake Shore Drive. Directions: Northway (I-87) to Exit 22. Follow signs for Diamond Point and Bolton Landing. At light, turn left (north ) onto Route 9N (Lake Shore Drive) and follow for about 1 mile. The inn will be on the right side of the road.


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The Iacocca Family Foundation was created to fund innovative and promising diabetes, primarily type 1 diabetes, research programs and projects that will lead to a cure for the disease and alleviate complications caused by it. To everyone living with type 1 diabetes, it has brought new hope and promise.
Lee Iacocca established the Foundation in 1984 in honor of his late wife, Mary K. Iacocca, who died from complications of type 1 diabetes. Since its inception, the Foundation has funded more than $40 million in promising research projects.
Although tremendous progress has been made through scientific advances, many questions still exist as to the cause of diabetes and its complications. The only way to solve the mystery is through quality medical research. The Iacocca Family Foundation has matured to become a leader in the world's battle against type 1 diabetes. Only through the joint efforts of our government, medical science, business communities and private individuals, will we be able to increase awareness and continue to fund research to conquer diabetes once and for all.


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I bet that title caught your attention.
Brown butter,
Peanut butter
Sign me up!
And make it a double.
I found this recipe over at the Bakeaholic Mama's Site. Hers included caramel, which the fiance is not a fan of. So, I tweaked slightly, removing the caramel, and came up with what is now his favorite cookie.
Remember, if there's some ingredient you don't like or can't find, don't be afraid to play. You might come up with a new favorite too!
For this recipe you will need:
- 1 stick of butter, melted until golden brown and nutty smelling
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla (I didn't have vanilla so subbed with bourbon. Best idea ever)
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 3/4 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- creamy peanut butter – I will never tell you how much or how little peanut butter to use. dollop away
Preheat the oven to 350 and lightly grease a cookie sheet.
In a bowl, mix together the sugars, egg and vanilla (or bourbon. I'm telling you, it added a nice little something to the cookies)
When combined, pour in the melted butter
Add in the oats, flour, salt and baking powder.
When the dough comes together, refrigerate for about 20 minutes.
Remove from the fridge and roll the cookies into one inch balls, and press lightly to flatten.
They are perfectly wonderful just as they are, all buttery and oaty.
But we're going to up the game and add a dollop of peanut butter to the top of each cookie
And then bake them for about 14 minutes. I got 16 cookies out of this recipe.
The peanut butter will melt over the top and form a nice little shell on the cookie.
They're nutty and warm and gooey and buttery, and vaguely reminiscent of a childhood favorite – Nutter Butters!
Anything that takes you back to childhood is a good thing in my book.


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