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'The most attractive SUV on the market': Skoda launch new Yeti
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REVEALED: Skoda's brand-new Yeti
Skoda's brand new Yeti will hit showrooms by the end of 2013 – and, for the first time ever, it will be available in two variants.
The compact SUV, which will be revealed officially at next month's Frankfurt Motor Show, will be available in an 'elegant and stylish' town variant and an off-road model.
Both stylistically-different variations feature a new front and rear, new alloy wheels and fresh interiors, with seven engines available.
Professor Winfried Vahland, CEO of Skoda, said: "The Skoda Yeti is one of the most attractive compact SUVs on the market and has far exceeded our sales expectations since its launch four years ago.
"With this all-new look and being offered for the first time in two variations, we are establishing new benchmarks.
"We plan to continue our outstanding development in this rapidly growing vehicle class.
"The Yeti is another cornerstone of the 2018 growth strategy and will strengthen our international position in the markets."
Four diesel engines and three petrol engines will be available, all turbocharged with direct injection.
The most fleet-friendly is the GreenLine 1.6 TDI/77kW, with front wheel drive and a manual gearbox, which produces CO2 emissions of 119g/km and achieves 61mpg.
Both new models have a new interior, with three-spoke steering wheels in seven variations, new fabrics and patterns for the seat covers and new dashboard trims.
Available gadgets include optical parking assistant and automatic lock and start, while the luggage capacity varies between 405litres and 1,760litres.
The Yeti will be available in numerous colours, including the new Moon-White, Jungle-Green, Metal-Grey and Magnetic-Brown.
Pricing and specification will be announced nearer to the sale date.
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Oakcrest High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Hamilton Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The school is part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District, which includes three secondary schools that serve students from Egg Harbor City, Galloway Township, Hamilton Township and Mullica Township, together with students from Port Republic and Washington Township (in Burlington County) who attend as part of sending/receiving relationships.

The school serves students from Hamilton Township, though students from elsewhere in the district are eligible to apply to attend magnet programs hosted at Oakcrest. With the opening of Cedar Creek High School in Egg Harbor City in 2010, students from Mullica Township, Port Republic and Washington Township no longer attend Oakcrest High School.

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 952 students and 87.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 397 students (41.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 112 (11.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History
The district was established with the passage of a referendum in January 1957 by the five constituent municipalities of Egg Harbor City, Egg Harbor Township, Galloway Township, Hamilton Township and Mullica Township by a 5-1 margin that allocated $1.7 million (equivalent to $ million in ) for the construction of what would be come Oakcrest High School. The school, initially named Egg Harbor Regional High School opened in September 1960, with 150 students from Hamilton Township shifted out of Vineland High School.

The school was renamed as Oakcrest High School. The school name was chosen based on its site on the crest of a hill amid oak trees.

Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 197th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 247th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 244th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 254th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 232nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 254th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 5 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

The school has a variety of programs, including Special Needs, a "High School-to-Work" program, College Preparatory, Advanced Placement (AP), and Performing Arts training.

For the 2005-06 school year, Oakcrest High School was recognized with the "Best Practices Award" by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "A Proactive Approach to Guidance and Career Services" Career Education program.

Oakcrest's Academic Challenge Team was successful at the Buena Regional High School and Egg Harbor Township High School competitions in spring 2006, the team finished first overall at the Gateway Toyota Academic Challenge at Monsignor Donovan High School in Toms River by defeating perennial competitor East Brunswick High School in the final round.

In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 66th in New Jersey and 1,918th nationwide.

Athletics
The Oakcrest High School Falcons compete in the Atlantic Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference that includes public and private high schools located in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Gloucester counties, operating under the aegis of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 577 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022–24 school years as Group II South for most athletic competition purposes. The football team competes in the Colonial Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II South for football for 2022–2024. School colors are royal blue and gray.

The school offers many sports to its students including football, fall cheerleading, field hockey, soccer, tennis, basketball, winter cheerleading, lacrosse, wrestling, crew, track and field, cross country running, powerlifting and baseball.

The wrestling team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 1992 and 1993.

The girls outdoor track and field team won the Group III state championships in 1997.

The boys track team won the Group III indoor relay championships in 2011, 2012 and 2013

The boys outdoor track and field team won the Group IV state championships in 2011 and the Group III title in 2012.

Marching band
In the 2005-06 school year, the high school's marching band, the Oakcrest Marching Ambassadors, took a record 37 first place trophies including a grand championship in the Cavalcade of Bands Liberty conference.  The band has performed in numerous venues including the Miss America Parade in Atlantic City, the Festival of States in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a tour in Europe including Switzerland, France and Germany.

The school's marching band was Tournament of Bands Chapter One Champions in 1977 and 1988 (Group 2) and 1983-1987 (Group 1). The marching band was 1977 Atlantic Coast Champion in Group 2. They also took First Place in the Tournament of Bands Group 2A Atlantic Coast Championships in 2013.

In 2015 the Ambassadors also won the Group 1A Atlantic Coast Championships for Tournament of Bands. With the show "Scheherazade", modeled after the Santa Clara Vanguard's show of the same name, during their 2015 season the Ambassadors had an undefeated reign and also set records for the school and tournament of bands itself. The Ambassadors won New Jersey Championships, Chapter 1 Championships as well Atlantic Coast Championships. The school has the highest record ever set by a 1A band with a final score of 95.92.

In the 2016 and 2017 seasons, shows titled "Ascension" and "A Dream Come True" won both NJ State and Region 1 Championships in the 1 Open class, again in Tournament of Bands.

The 2018 season was a season of success. The Ambassadors had moved up a group to 2A. With a show titled "Uncaged", they had had another undefeated season, followed by another State and Region 1 Championship victory, with an Atlantic Coast Championship victory for 2A, scoring a 95.810,the highest score achieved in group 2A. This was the second highest achieved in any A class by any band in Tournament of Bands, second only to their 2015 show.

Administration
Michael McGhee is the principal. His administration includes two assistant principals and five departmental supervisors

Notable alumni

 Brandon Bell (born 1995, class of 2013), linebacker for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team.
 Colin Bell (born 1981, class of 1999), member of the New Jersey Senate who represented the 2nd Legislative District.
 Cory Bird (born 1978, class of 1996), American football safety who played in the NFL for the Indianapolis Colts.
 Darhyl Camper (born 1990, class of 2008), singer-songwriter and record producer.
 Carmen Cincotti (born 1992, class of 2011), competitive eater.
 Darren Drozdov (born 1969), former NFL player for the Denver Broncos and wrestler in the then WWF (now WWE).
 Ronnie Faisst (born 1977, class of 1995), professional freestyle motocross and snow bikecross rider.
 Day Gardner, crowned Miss Delaware 1976, she became the first black woman to place as a semi-finalist in the Miss America Pageant.
 Shameka Marshall (born 1983, class of 2001), long jumper who won the gold medal at the 2007 NACAC Championships in Athletics.
 Cathy Rush (born 1947), former women's basketball program head coach at Immaculata University who led the team to three consecutive AIAW national titles from 1972-1974.
 Cody Stashak (born 1994), professional baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.

Notable faculty
 Doug Colman (born 1973), former NFL linebacker who began his coaching career at Oakcrest.
 Bill Manlove (born 1933), College Football Hall of Fame head coach who coached the Oakcrest team in 1965 and 1966.

References

External links
Oakcrest School website
Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District

School Data for the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics
South Jersey Sports: Oakcrest HS

1960 establishments in New Jersey
Educational institutions established in 1960
Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Public high schools in Atlantic County, New Jersey

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The Brittney Griner Case
Posted by Matthew Husti.
On February 17th of 2022 WNBA player Brittney Griner was detained in Russia for possession of hashish oil in her luggage. She was traveling for her off season basketball team and was sentenced for 9 years for possession of the hashish oil.
On December 8th, Brittney Griner was brought home to her home in Texas to be reunited with her family. The reason that this ended up happening was because of a trade prisoner swap between Brittney Griner and Victor Bout. Victor Bout is a dangerous man who is a Russian arms dealer and was nicknamed "The Merchant of Death". This trade has come with a lot of backlash as Brittney Griner is not as much of a prisoner compared to Victor Bout. He has caused so many issues that a lot of people are very surprised that the United States was willing to give him up.
Russia was very excited for this prisoner exchange and Vladimir Putin has said that he is ready for more swaps. This can cause many legal issues because it seems like these prisoners will be able to get out for a trade just because they are on foreign ground. Another reason is the current state of Russia with their Ukraine situation and how they now added a arms dealer who is guaranteed to have his contacts still in Russia. A lot of people have gotten very upset because the only reason she is getting traded for is because she is a celebrity. If it were the average United States citizen, they would still be there for the entire sentence, but because she is more popular, she gets valued as much as a Russian arms dealer. Another topic that people have been getting into is Paul Whelan, who is also being held in Russia. He is a United States marine who is being detained for espionage, which is partaking in being a spy. A more realistic trade offer would have been the United States spy for Victor Bout.
People are happy that Brittney Griner is home were she should be, but many believe Paul Whelan needs to be brought home as well. This settlement was very important for relationships between the United States and Russia. I do believe that countries should entertain the ideas of swapping prisoners, however, this trade was much different do to the severity of how dangerous Victor Bout is.
Matthew is a student at Seton Hall University.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-celebrates-prisoner-exchange-vladimir-putin-says-he-is-ready-for-more-swaps-11670620136
https://news.northeastern.edu/2022/12/09/brittney-griner-prisoner-swap/
https://www.reuters.com/world/brittney-griner-us-basketball-star-caught-up-russia-crisis-2022-12-08/
Posted byblogbusinesslaw December 11, 2022 December 11, 2022 Posted inUncategorized
Musk Buys Twitter – The Immediate Aftermath and Speculations
Posted by Jonathan Luders.
With the upcoming U.S midterm elections on the horizon, the recent acquisition and purchase of twitter by Elon Musk has caused some uneasiness to say the least. Twitter is one of the leading platforms for news, especially during elections before it gets to main stream new stations. Musk's firing of CEO and multiple other major leadership roles, including marketing and ad sales, and other employees of Twitter that help manage misinformation. According to the article, "The communications team at Twitter, responsible for engaging with journalists and putting out press releases, was cut from nearly 100 people to two, other people say" along with "Twitter's marketing organization was among the groups hit hardest, with at most a couple dozen employees remaining from a team that had close to 400 people, according to two sources".
The spreading of misinformation is of the biggest concern for the American people. If Twitter is not being surveyed by it's typical employees, it could mean more misinformation could get out, at a crucial time in the US too. The article states, "The dramatic scaling down of the company's staff immediately drew scrutiny from Twitter insiders, outside groups and disinformation watchers, who say it's unclear how Twitter will manage its sprawling network, which has an outsized impact on global political and cultural conversation, with far fewer people at the helm".
Musk's intention is to make the platform so that anyone and everyone have total free speech, our first amendment right (as long as it is legal) without any restriction. This sounds really good in theory, but as quoted in the article, it might become a dumpster fire without some sort of regulation. People might abuse the platform if not regulated properly.
I am not sure what to think about Musk buying twitter. I hope his intentions are good, which they seem to be at face value. The concept of "twitter blue" is interested too. I am curious to see how this unfolds and if there will be an increase or decrease in twitter usage.
Jonathan is a psychology major and business administration minor student at Seton Hall University, Class of 2023.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/twitter-cuts-spur-concerns-about-us-midterms-human-rights?srnd=premium&leadSource=uverify%20wall
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Landmark Opioid Settlements
Posted by Kyle Ganning.
Both CVS and Walgreens agreed to pay more than $10 billion in settlements involving opioids and the distribution of opioids. This was originally brought by state and local governments. In addition, according to Bloomberg.com, Walmart will add to the settlements with $3 billion as well. Being that both CVS and Walgreens are two of the largest drugstore chains in the World, these are landmark settlements that could resolve a lot of opioid-crisis. Even though the company agreed to a settlement, the companies will not be required to publicly admit wrongdoing. Walgreens has already come out and said that this settlement "wasn't an admission of wrongdoing." We have seen a plethora of cases over the last couple of years, and Like Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart being ordered by a federal judge to pay $650 million to two Ohio counties.
In the eyes everyone involved, a settlement seemed like the best option for these corporations. A key part of the settlement agreement is the fact that these companies do not have to publicly admit wrongdoing or admitting what they did was not acceptable. The settlements are to be paid over the next 10-15 years. "CVS said if the settlement is reached, it would pay the states nearly $5 billion over 10 years beginning in 2023. Walgreens said it would also pay $5 billion in remediation payments over the course of 15 years." (CNN)
With these settlements being spread out, it allows for the companies' stocks to stay strong as they would not be taking the massive hit all at once. This is also a major reason why the case was settled, if it went to court then there is a good chance, they might have had to pay a higher sum of money upfront to these cities or states. Additionally, some Native American tribes are also making about $155 million. These settlements could be considered an "admission of guilt" by some, or they could be just playing it safe. In addition Walgreens and CVS "also expects to pay up to $753.5 million in attorneys fees over six years."
The opioid-crisis has killed more than 500,000 people over the last two decades. The opioid-crisis is currently one of the biggest drug problems in the United States. The thought behind this lawsuit is to hold these large drugstore chains to be held accountable for mishandling prescriptions opioids. These settlements could also show how opioids are handled and used in the future years ahead. It will also be interesting to see how many more lawsuits can come up against corporations that are selling opioids. We could see the numbers on the settlement get even higher over the next couple of years.
Kyle is a student in the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-to-pay-5-billion-to-settle-opioid-lawsuits-11667358371
Other sources in addition:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/cvs-walgreens-walmart-opioid-settlement
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133523740/cvs-health-agrees-to-a-5-billion-settlement-in-opioid-lawsuits
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/cvs-walmart-walgreens-reach-tentative-12-billion-opioid-pact
Elon Musk Twitter Blockbuster Takeover
Posted by Ana Abraham.
In recent news, Elon Musk takes over Twitter. After spending months attempting to close a "blockbuster" purchase, at 44 billion dollars the deal was finally closed. Officially naming Elon Musk the new owner of Twitter, one of the most influential platforms to exist. "Musk's Takeover" was finalized Thursday night, October 27th, 2022. Elon Musk's purchase of the platform has stirred up all sorts of negative, and surprisingly some positive comments. Elon originally sought to buy the company in April of 2022, and had the main goal to make Twitter a platform of "Free speech".
Elon wants to "Unlock Twitter's extraordinary potential". Tesla CEO, wants to rework and rethink Twitter's approach of content, he wants Twitter to be a free platform where users can comment and say whatever they want without the potential repercussions of being banned or having a post taken down. There has even been talk about changing the Twitter platform to become an "everything" app that is called X. Elon has even talked about changing the outlay of the app to resemble the popular Chinese app WeChat. Along with all the changes Musk is planning to make, he also "plans to boost Twitter's value which could involve cutting down its workforce, something he's hinted at before, the previous reporting suggested that he'd planned to cut 75% of staff" (Duffy).
While to some Elon's new purchase can be controversial due to the changes he plans to make, I believe that Elon's changes could actually be a refreshing new concept. I believe that today's society is incredibly sensitive to almost anything, sharing your own opinion can be extremely controversial especially when it comes to politics. It is so controversial to the point where you can get "canceled" or "blacklisted". Personally, while I do not have Twitter, I believe having a platform where you can actually use your freedom of speech is refreshing for today's society. I do not think that a person should be banned from expressing their own political opinions. There are obviously cases where a tweet should be removed here or there but when it comes to merely sharing an opinion that is not harmful to anyone, I do not believe that a person should be banned or have their tweet removed.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/tech/elon-musk-twitter-changes/index.html
Ana Abraham is a business administration major at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, Class of 2025.
Twitter Employees File Lawsuit Claiming Mass Layoffs Violate Federal Law Requiring Notice
Posted by Vincent Nappi.
Last week Elon Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. Since he made his intention known more than a year ago to purchase the social media site there has been controversy surrounding it. Musk has promised to make the social media platform the town square of websites that will not discriminate viewpoints of any individuals. Several high-profile users have been banned by the site including former president Donald Trump leading many republicans to claim that Twitter and sister sites like Facebook have an anti-Republican bias.
Musk's first order of business when taking over was to fire several individuals that he felt were responsible for suppressing freedom of speech, and censoring individuals who they disagreed with. This has led to a significant loss of ad revenue as several socially conscious company now feel that Twitter will become a haven for hate speech and disinformation. Musk has assured the world that this will not happen and that content filters are still in place.
With the loss of ad dollars though Twitter revenue has dropped massively according to Elon Musk. Forms like General Mills, and Audi are among those who have paused advertising on the platform. With that Musk has made a statement that he is planning on laying off roughly half of the companies to promote cost savings. Employees of Twitter have filed a lawsuit looking to enforce regulations that layoffs must be announced two months in advance. Musk has already stated that employees will be given more than the required severance and benefits.
It remains to be seen how this will play out. Mr. Musk is doing what he feels is in the best interest of the company; however, he is harming the stakeholders of the company (the employees) by cutting them loose with little or no notice. I see how that could be unfair for the employees; however, the companies who have stopped advertising without giving Musk an opportunity to show how he will run the company seem to be bowing to pressure from the liberal side of the country. Some of these companies are the same ones who have significant revenue coming from countries like China who history of human rights abuse are well noted.
If both sides would settle down and monitor how Mr. Musk runs the company instead of a quick knee-jerk reaction, I believe these cuts could have been avoided and with it the harm to the stakeholders involved.
Vincent is a sports management major at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, Class of 2024.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/twitter-employees-file-lawsuit-claiming-mass-layoffs-violate-federal-law-requiring-notice
Is Legalization Actually Legal?
Posted by Natalia Silverlieb.
For this blog post I chose to write about an article that I found on Fox Business. The title for the article reads, "Lawsuit filed against California weed companies for not getting consumers high enough." This article was published a couple weeks ago at the end of October, highlighting the law suite being brought to the courts by customers. Allegedly, two California based cannabis companies have faced legal action for allegedly failing to deliver on their promises of providing customers with stronger products.
The two cannabis companies in question are against DreamFields Brands, Inc. and Med for America, Inc. According to the lawsuit, Jeeter prerolls falsely claim to have substantially greater THC contents than they really do. Advertised throughout Jeeter's packaging, the THC percentage of its pre-rolled products ranges from an average of 35% to 46%, all depending on the product itself. The advertisement goes as far as to state "the one Joint that will get you to Mars quicker than Elon Musk." Despite this, the case was brought to the courts in light of finding the true THC contents within the products being advertised. The products were tested through an outside lab, and found the Baby Jeeter Fire OG Diamond Infused 5-Pack Preroll, which states that it contains 46% THC, really only containing between 23% and 27% of that substance. The store was advertising a product to be almost double the actual contents of the products.
This allegation not only harms the company's reputation within the cannabis industry, but also turns consumers away from buying such products and services. Along with that, with such high taxes on these products, it makes it hard for both the seller and the buyer to find a middle ground on not only prices, but product quality as well. Within the industry, we are starting to see many different companies inflate their products' potency percentage to stay relevant and popular within the smoker community. In turn, situations like these come to light, where companies turn to direction to keep consumer rate higher. All of these just lead and pussed consumers and buyers to the streets and black market drug rings, where prices are cheaper, but product integrity is out the door. It's a balancing act that needs to be properly balanced for both the consumers and sellers, making it the experience many want.
Natalia is majoring in marketing and management at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, Class of 2025.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/lawsuit-filed-against-california-weed-companies-not-getting-consumers-high-enough
Moderna v. Pfizer: What the Patent Infringement Suit Means for Biotech
Posted by Amanda Marzigliano.
The well known Covid vaccine company Moderna sued one of its largest competitors, Pfizer, for patent infringement. Patent infringement is best defined as a "Violation of a patent owners rights with respect to some invention. Unless permitted by the patent owner, one commits patent infringement by making, using, offering to sell, or selling something that contains every element of a patented claim or its equivalent while the patent is in effect" (Cornell Law School). While many companies raced to develop vaccines in 2020, the company pledged not to enforce its patents. Yet in 2022, amended this pledge to begin enforcing its patents in higher-income regions.
Moderna received massive growth and popularity during the 2020 pandemic. But the company is more complex than just a Covid-19 vaccine – and has recently filed a lawsuit against Pfizer, a name that also saw its recognition grow during the pandemic. This was seen by surprise as the move came after Moderna agreed not to file patent suits while manufacturing and advertising Covid vaccines during the peak of the breakout. Peter Loftus, author of the book The Messenger: Moderna, the vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World, stated, "This lawsuit is no surprise to people who've followed the Covid-19 patent situation." Several patent lawyers and Wall Street analysts speculated that Moderna could someday use its mRNA technology and mRNA in vaccines to sue Pfizer and possibly others, which predicted the lawsuit that was filed.
The best-case scenario would be Moderna proving that Pfizer copied bits of its IP to make its own vaccine because that would financially benefit them. Because they are both very competitive products that came out at the same time and advertise to do the same thing, it could become tricky to say who is in the wrong. But ultimately, Moderna could come away with a portion of Pfizer's profit, which continues to sell billions of dollars' worth of Covid-19 vaccines.
In conclusion, there is no doubt that both Moderna and Pfizer saw windfall profits as a result of their Covid vaccinations. Interestingly, while the Biden Administration is currently talking about a windfall tax on oil companies, I do not believe any discussion has come about regarding the record profits drug companies made on the Covid pandemic. Though one can certainly argue that in a capitalist society, such windfall profits can be expected in certain industries from time to time. With respect to the Moderna/Pfizer patent lawsuit, it will ultimately be decided by a judge. Moderna is claiming it is protecting its intellectual property whereas Pfizer is insisting it only utilized its own proprietary technology. Time will tell the outcome of this case.
Amanda is a business student at Seton Hall University, Class of 2025.
https://hbr.org/2022/09/moderna-v-pfizer-what-the-patent-infringement-suit-means-for-biotech
Musk Must Complete Twitter Deal by Oct. 28 to Avoid Trial
Posted by Kieran Durkin.
A Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled Thursday that Elon Musk has until Oct. 28 to close his acquisition of Twitter if he wants to avoid a trial, granting Musk a slight delay. He asked Twitter to end all litigation to close the deal, but they did not agree. He wanted them to change the original court date from 10/17 to 10/28 so he can secure the finances necessary, and Musk believes the trial will distract him from obtaining the finances he needs. After Twitter responded, lawyers said Musk's team intended to close.
Twitter then claimed that Musk's "proposal is an invitation to further mischief and delay." Twitter had already sued Musk in July so he could stick to his purchase agreement signed in April. His text messages revealed he was ready to take this case to court. Twitter agreed to his offer in September, but they may walk away from the lawsuit since all the finances may not be situated in time. Morgan Stanley and Bank of America are among the banks that originally agreed to provide $12.5 billion in debt for Musk. Since then, the markets have tanked, particularly for risky tech assets.
Musk's attorney thinks funding will be available by 10/28, so the deal should close. "The lawyers added that "counsel for the debt financing parties has advised that each of their clients is prepared to honor its obligations under the Bank Debt Commitment Letter on the terms and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth therein." Each party should prepare to sort out finances on behalf of the terms of the Bank Debt Commitment Letter. Twitter agreed to close the transaction at $54.20 a share, and this is the first time they have spoken on the issue in a while.
Kieran is a finance major at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, Class of 2025.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/musk-seeks-to-stop-oct-17-trial-date-to-close-twitter-deal-on-original-terms.html
Summary and Response to CVS and Walgreens Settling Opioid Lawsuits
Posted by Mario Stampone.
The business law article that I have chosen to summarize and respond to is from The Wall Street Journal and is titled "CVS, Walgreens to Pay More Than $10 Billion to Settle Opioid Lawsuits." The article explains that CVS Health Corporation and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. agreed to pay over $10 billion in a settlement. The settlement was needed to resolve lawsuits based on the opioid crisis, and the lawsuits were brought by states, cities, tribes, and other governments. According to the article, CVS and Walgreens, the two largest drugstore chains, "said they reached a framework to settle the collection of lawsuits brought by governments and Native American tribes blaming pharmacies for helping fuel the nation's opioid epidemic" (Terlep). Under this deal, it has been said that "CVS would pay $4.9 billion to states and municipalities and $130 million to tribes over the next 10 years starting in 2023" (Terlep). In response to this settlement, CVS has stated that the settlement was not an admission of guilt. They have declared that they would continue to defend themselves against any litigation that was not resolved in the settlement.
Moreover, the article explains that Walgreens has offered to pay up to $4.79 billion over the next 15 years to states. They agreed to pay around $155 million to tribes. Walgreens is also expecting to pay about $753.5 million in attorney fees over six more years. Just as CVS did, Walgreens explained that the settlement was not an admission of guilt. Just because the settlements were agreed upon by CVS and Walgreens does not mean everything is over. The states, local governments, and tribes must still agree to participate. Their attorneys are encouraging them to join the settlement. If the settlement is agreed upon by both parties, the article says that "cities and counties have said they would use the money to bolster social services focused on the harms of opioid addiction as well as for funds for first responders" (Terlep). The money will not be directly distributed to families or individuals. CVS Chief Executive Karen Lynch has said that she supports the settlement, and she believes that states would join because attorney generals were part of the negotiations. Furthermore, the article goes on to say that the opioid crisis has taken over half a million lives and triggered over 3,000 lawsuits. Many of these lawsuits say that pharmacies did not do enough to stop the opioid crisis. Drugstores say they followed all regulations.
Back in August, a federal judge in Ohio "ordered CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart Inc. to pay $650 million over 15 years to two Ohio counties after a jury found the companies liable for contributing to the opioid epidemic" (Terlep). This case was closely watched, and it was the first decision in opioid lawsuits targeting pharmacies. CVS and Walgreens have paid various other settlements in the past few months, as CVS paid $484 million to the state of Florida for opioid-related claims. Additionally, the article highlights other lawsuits from pharmaceutical companies. Another example is Johnson and Johnson agreeing to a $5 billion settlement. J&J also said the lawsuit was not an admission of guilt. Moreover, CVS explained that spreading out the payments in the settlement will help the company reinvest in itself as it pays the settlement. CVS has been trying to expand itself from being only a pharmaceutical chain. They also want to be a medical provider.
All in all, I found this article to be very interesting. We have all heard of the opioid crisis, and we know the grave effects that it brought to so many citizens in America. I feel that it is good that some justice is being handed out, as the pharmaceutical companies that are partially responsible for the opioid crisis must now pay their fair share. Something that caught my attention from this article is that CVS and Walgreens, as well as other companies that have paid lawsuits in the past, such as Johnson and Johnson, all claimed that their settlements were "not an admission of guilt." In my opinion, this is very disrespectful to say. The opioid crisis ruined the lives of so many people, and I feel that it is sickening that these big companies would just try to save their reputation by saying the settlements were not an admission of guilt. It makes it feel like these companies only settled to protect their reputation and move past the lawsuits, which is probably exactly what happened. Overall, I feel that this article has helped to reinforce my beliefs that these big companies do not care about doing right by the people. They just want to make a profit and protect their reputation so they can continue to make money. To conclude, I enjoyed reading, summarizing and analyzing this article, and I am glad that the pharmaceutical companies that were responsible for aiding the opioid crisis are facing some justice.
Mario is a finance and sports management major at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, Class of 2025.
Press, Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune/TNS/Zuma. "CVS, Walgreens to Pay More than $10 Billion to Settle Opioid Lawsuits." The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 2 Nov. 2022, https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-to-pay-5-billion-to-settle-opioid-lawsuits-11667358371.
Article Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-to-pay-5-billion-to-settle-opioid-lawsuits-11667358371
CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens Settle on a Billion-dollar Settlement Over America's Opioid Crisis
Posted by Natalie Hamblin.
America has been faced with an opioid crisis, leading to death, addictions, and overdoses. Three major retailers; CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart have all concluded on a settlement rounding out to $13.8 billion regarding their involvement with the opioid crisis. The three retailers have been dealing with lawsuits from state and local governments for years, accumulating over three thousand since 2017. CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens will have years to pay off this settlement.
If the retailers do settle on this, this would be the highest recorded opioid settlement with a retail pharmacy company. Most of the lawsuits accused the companies of downplaying the risks of opioids and not carefully watching for signs of patients trafficking their prescriptions. The three retailers in this settlement are the largest retail pharmacies in the United States. There have been settlements with smaller retailers, such as Johnson and Johnson, with smaller amounts of lawsuits and money settlements.
These retail pharmacies are at fault because they distributed the opioids without sharing knowledge of the side effects and strong addiction factors. Starting in the 1990s, pharmacies were promoting opioids as a safe and healthy way to treat one's pain. Failing to mention that although it might help the pain, one can easily get addicted to the substance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid dependence rapidly grew as an issue, increasing the overdoses caused by opioids. The opioid crisis is also a pressing issue in the economy. Since 2020 (Covid-19 pandemic) the opioid crisis has cost the economy $1.5 trillion within just two years. The hope is that this settlement will increase the retail pharmacies' involvement in stopping the opioid crisis.
Natalie is a marketing major at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, Class of 2025.
Link: https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/cvs-walmart-walgreens-agree-pay-13-8-b-settlement-report
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Q: Java multithreading: cannot change thread priority I have 2 threads whose priority has been set using setPriority() function and still it shows same priority?
Here is the code snippet:
public class threadtest  extends Thread {
    public void run() {
       System.out.println("running thread name is:" + Thread.currentThread().getName());
       System.out.println("running thread priority is:" + Thread.currentThread().getPriority());
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        threadtest tt = new threadtest();
        tt.setPriority(MAX_PRIORITY);
        threadtest tt1 = new threadtest();
        tt1.setPriority(MIN_PRIORITY);
        tt1.run();
        tt.run();
    }
}

The output if the above code in my ECLIPSE neon is.
running thread name is:main
running thread priority is:5
running thread name is:main
running thread priority is:5

Even after having different priorities,it shows similar priorities.

A: You should call Thread.start(), not Thread.run().
When you directly call the run() method than the code inside run() method will not be executed on a new thread, instead it will be executed on the same thread. On the other hand, when you call the Thread.start() method, then the code inside run() method will be executed on a new thread, which is actually created by the start() method:
public class threadtest extends Thread {
    public void run() {
        System.out.println("running thread name is:" + Thread.currentThread().getName());
        System.out.println("running thread priority is:" + Thread.currentThread().getPriority());
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        threadtest tt = new threadtest();
        tt.setPriority(MAX_PRIORITY);
        threadtest tt1 = new threadtest();
        tt1.setPriority(MIN_PRIORITY);
        tt1.start();
        tt.start();
    }
}

Output:
running thread name is:Thread-0
running thread name is:Thread-1
running thread priority is:10
running thread priority is:1

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First-half worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales climbed 15.5 percent year-over-year, to $1.322 billion, according to the Aircraft Electronics Association's (AEA) latest Avionics Market Report. Sales during the second quarter jumped 17.8 percent from a year ago, to $682.1 million.
Of this more than $1.3 billion total, 57.5 percent came from the retrofit market, thanks in part to avionics mandates such as ADS-B and FANS-1/A. Both retrofit and forward-fit avionics markets saw double-digit increases in the first six months, with retrofits rising 18.1 percent, to $760.3 million and forward-fit up 12.1 percent, to nearly $561.6 million, AEA said.
North America (U.S. and Canada) accounted for 76.8 percent of sales in the first six months, with the remainder in other international markets.
Aforementioned dollar amounts use net sales price and include all business and general aviation aircraft electronic sales, hardware (tip to tail), batteries, and chargeable product upgrades, according to AEA.
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Here is how Trump will change the ACA
By Peter Orszag
(Bloomberg Gadfly) — Promises made by Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act are proving to be more complicated than they sounded on the campaign trail. With reality now setting in, what's most likely to happen?
I expect to see Republicans stage a dramatic early vote to repeal, with legislation that includes only very modest steps toward replacement — and leave most of the work for later. Next, the new administration will aggressively issue waivers allowing states to experiment with different approaches, including changes to Medicaid and private insurance rules. At some point, then, the administration will declare that these state experiments have been so successful, Obamacare no longer exists.
In other words, the repeal vote will be just for show; the waivers will do most of the heavy lifting.
I predict something like this will happen because of two core challenges that stand in the way of Republicans' replacing the ACA through legislation: the need for so-called community rating and the need to have 60 votes in the Senate to pass a comprehensive new health-care law.
First, community rating. It is one of the basic building blocks needed to create a workable private insurance market -- whether Democrats or Republicans are doing the building. If your insurance covers a pre-existing condition but at a cost of, say, $100,000, that doesn't really help. Community rating requires that your premium be the same as that of other people in your area, no matter how unhealthy you are.
With community rating in place, the next step is to recognize how easy it is to game the system: People can just wait until they get sick, then buy insurance at the community rate. To discourage that practice, the system needs to give people some strong incentive to purchase insurance before they get sick. The Affordable Care Act used an individual mandate; most Republican plans instead propose a requirement for continuous coverage. That is, people enjoy access to community-rated premiums in the future only if they have kept themselves insured over some period of time in the past.
Given the costs involved, subsidies are also needed to ensure that low- and moderate-income households can afford the coverage. This overall structure means that younger, healthier people implicitly subsidize older, sicker people.
Such are the inescapable constraints imposed by community rating. Community rating could be discarded, as Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania has argued. Pauly instead proposes that insurance companies be allowed to vary people's premiums according to their health status, and that general revenue be used to pay sicker people's higher premiums. This would require substantial new taxes, however, which is presumably a nonstarter in a Republican plan. In any case, it would only make the transfers to older, sicker people more explicit.
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By Kathryn Mayer
The second challenge is more nakedly political: Without a substantial change in Senate procedure, a bill to fully replace the Affordable Care Act, including changes to insurance rules, will require 60 votes. Republicans have only 52, so at least eight Democratic senators would need to be persuaded to go along. This is a much tougher assignment, especially since the administration will already be calling in legislative favors on ongoing confirmations, the debt limit, tax reform and other issues.
The Republicans' desire to hold an early partisan vote repealing the ACA (through the reconciliation process that requires only a simple majority in the Senate) seems too strong to resist. The repeal will probably be set to become effective in the future, perhaps 2019 or 2020.
This vote will probably be closer than many people think, given the concerns that some moderate Republican senators have expressed about repealing the ACA with no replacement ready. Some far-right Republicans may also balk at anything less than a full immediate repeal. For the White House, however, the closeness of the vote will be a feature rather than a bug, because it will create the impression that the vote is significant.
The repeal legislation will probably include some modest steps toward replacing the ACA, but these will be mostly symbolic measures such as allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines (which by itself would do little to lower people's premiums). The hard work of a creating comprehensive replacement is then likely to get bogged down in legislative muck.
But the administration can use its expansive waiver authority to allow states to experiment with both Medicaid and the individual insurance markets. As these 50 flowers bloom, President Trump could at some point declare victory and assert that the ACA has been sufficiently reformed.
This approach, whatever its potential substantive shortcomings, provides a major political benefit: The administration would not necessarily own the many problems that inevitably would remain. In response to any particular complaint in a specific state, the administration could simply shrug its shoulders and direct the inquiry to the relevant governor.
This outlook assumes that the Republican leadership in Congress isn't willing, or lacks the votes, to change the Senate's traditional rules, and that a comprehensive replacement for the ACA will indeed require 60 votes. If that changes, all bets are off.
Vice Chairman of Investment Banking , Lazard
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Q: Cross-platform, Command line utilities to convert PDF, DOC and DOCX to text I am making a text search engine. I need to first convert binary documents to text. I want to go with cross-platform (we develop both on windows and linux) command line (so that I can get the output via python subprocess). What are the choices for this?

A: There's pdftotext for PDFs and antiword for DOC (not sure about DOCX). Both free software for command line. Used both on Linux before, worked fairly well.
Sphider, a free search engine, uses pdftotext and catdoc. catdoc I've used as well, worked fine as well.
For DOC files there's also wv and abiword (abiword is a GUI but also has a command line interface). Haven't been able to test these out, though.
One tip for DOCX:
http://www.livedocx.com/
I have used this to convert DOC to PDF before, was quite good. Perhaps it supports TXT as well, or you could use pdftotext. LiveDocX also can be accessed via a SOAP web service
PS: there's also pdftohtml, pdftk command-line tools and then the suite/s LibreOffice, OpenOffice which can take DOCX and natively convert/save everything to text. Didn't try LibreOffice and OpenOffice from command-line, though...

A: One supplement for pdf to text, i know another open source: PDFLib tool. this library can convert whole pdf page to text with the page layout. and it supports multiple languages(all the ascii language), such as english, french, latin, besides, the CJK language is also supported, so it's very useful for your text search engine. and i find a online pdf to text tool using PDFLib, so you can make a performance of the PDFlib.


Measurements for Penfield Seal Shorts (Navy) have not been added yet.
Here we've got the Seal Shorts from Penfield. With that classic design and tasteful navy hue, these are the sort-of thing that needn't be restricted to poolside use only – we can easily see ourselves wearing these whilst sipping frosty cervezas in some upscale rooftop bar as well… and while glugging tinnies in Hulme park.


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Chiefs Country
Ben Burt — 2013-05-01 in Biography & Autobiography
Author : Ben Burt
In this autobiographical account of life in Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa'ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town, managing marriage exchanges, and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland in Malaita island. He also participates in a long tradition of political activism by community leaders or chiefs, whose role was severely tested by the violent conflict between Malaitans and the indigenous Guadalcanal people at the turn of the century. Kwa'ioloa provides a local perspective on the causes and course of this unhappy episode in his country's history.
History of Cass County Michigan
Alfred Mathews — 1882 in Cass County (Mich.)
Author : Alfred Mathews
History of Washington County
Alfred Creigh — 1871 in Maryland
Author : Alfred Creigh
Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs Illustrated Edition
Norman B. Wood — 2019-02-11 in History
Author : Norman B. Wood
"Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs" is a collection of biographies of the influential and notable Native Americans such as King Philip, Pontiac, Black Hawk and Geronimo, just to name the few. The author also reviews different theories on the origin of Native Americans and their original homeland, prior to American continent. Contents: Cofachiqui, The Indian Princess Powhatan, or Wah-Un-So-Na-Cook Massasoit, The Friend of the Puritans King Philip, or Metacomet, The Last of the Wampanoaghs Pontiac, The Red Napoleon, Head Chief of the Ottawas and Organizer of the First Great Indian Confederation Logan, or Tal-Ga-Yee-Ta, The Cayuga (Mingo) Chief, Orator and Friend of the White Man. Also a Brief Sketch of Cornstalk Captain Joseph Brant, or Thay-En-Da-Ne-Gea, Principal Sachem of the Mohawks and Head Chief of the Iroquois Confederation Red Jacket, or Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, "The Keeper Awake." The Indian Demosthenes, Chief of the Senecas Little Turtle, or Michikiniqua, War Chief of the Miamis, and Conqueror of Harmar and St. Clair Tecumseh, or "The Shooting Star," Famous War-chief of the Shawnees, Organizer of the Second Great Indian Confederation and General in the British Army in the War of 1812 Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, and His War Shabbona, or Built Like a Bear, The White Man's Friend, a Celebrated Pottawatomie Chief Sitting Bull, or Tatanka Yotanka, The Great Sioux Chief and Medicine Man Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, or Hin-Mah-Too-Yah-Lat-Kekt, Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, The Modern Xenophon Geronimo, or Go-Yat-Thlay, The Yawner, The Renowned Apache Chief and Medicine Man Quanah Parker, Head Chief of the Comanches, With, an Account of the Captivity of His Mother, Cynthia Anne Parker, Known as "The White Comanche" A Sheaf of Good Indian Stories From History Indian Anecdotes and Incidents, Humorous and Otherwise Whence Came the Aborigines of America?
The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World
John George Wood — 1880 in Ethnology
Author : John George Wood
Condition of the Indian Tribes
United States. Congress. Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes — 1973 in Indians of North America
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes
Report (p.1-10) is followed by an Appendix ([ii]+532 p.) containing letters, field dispatches, and military orders on the progress of the Indian Wars in 1862-65, and depositions and letters from Indian Agents in 1865 replying to questions from the Office of Indian Affairs.
Appletons Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events
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Appleton s Annual Cyclop dia and Register of Important Events of the Year
The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans and the Plantation of Ulster
George Hill — 2004 in Ireland
Author : George Hill
This is the premier work of its kind on the planting of Brittish and Scottish families in Ireland, and the plans set forth to undermine the power base of the old Irish in Ireland. From the noted work by Rev. Geroge Hill, this book comprises the entire first section of his work on the plantation of Ulster. It is volume 1 of 4 that completes Rev. Hills work in full.
Our Indian empire and the adjacent countries
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Japanese Papers
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Maximum Retribution
Boy Swallows Universe
Future Alternatives for Educational Leadership
Representing Uncertain Knowledge
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Pacific Crest Trail Stories
The Walking Dead #106
The Choice of Yahweh as Refuge and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter
Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
For Better For Worse For God: Exploring the Holy Mystery of Marriage
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The Silent Shore
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Around Palm Harbor
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KHS is one of the leading international developers and manufacturers of filling and packaging systems for the beverage and food industries. During more than 15 years of using Roxtec sealing products, KHS has not yet seen an enclosure seal fail.
At the site in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA, KHS has successfully replaced many pneumatic fittings, cable glands and cord grips with just a few Roxtec seals.
The reason is that it is faster, easier and more cost-efficient to seal multiple pre-terminated cables in few openings than cutting off all those connectors and making many holes. Thanks to Roxtec, KHS can route a large number of cables and avoid cutting them, which helps eliminate a frequent risk of error.
KHS has experienced both instant and long-term safety benefits from the sealing system. The stainless steel faceplate of the Roxtec CF 16 AISI 304, for example, allows KHS to maintain the high sanitary requirements of the process system.
The ease of installation promotes quick finalization of field terminations and minimizes the risk of failure. And of course, the sealing solutions efficiently protect equipment for years to come.
In fact, KHS has not had any problem at all since they decided to start using the Roxtec cable sealing system. They now use the area efficient seals as their standard solution.
We are confident in Roxtec solutions.
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The Logical Fallacy of Argument by Selective Refutation occurs when several arguments have been put forward to support a given conclusion, but the strong arguments are ignored while the weak ones are refuted. This is a form of straw man. It is also a red herring.
Two people are discussing an issue that has thoroughly discussed by others. One person brings up a reason that cannot be refuted. Rather than address that reason, the other person, addresses some different, very weak reasoning that he found on a web page on this subject.
Roxanne: "God reveals plainly that He created the Heavens, Earth, sea, and everything in them is six days. He created Adam on day six, and there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 years between Adam and Christ, which God speaks to us about through the geneologies. So, we know that much."
Sandra: "You believe the Bible is the Word of God because the Bible says that it's the Word of God. That's circular reasoning."
Sandra has ignored what Roxanne said about Divine revelation, the foundation of Roxanne's reasoning. Instead, Sandra pulled some weak circular reasoning that she had read about on an Atheist website that was attacking the Bible. The Atheist website was using a straw man argument that was not part of Roxanne's reasoning at all.


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Q: Injecting my UnitOfWork into my Repository Constructor Im very new but on a quest to learn nhibernate and DI with structuremap so am making an app to test everything out.
I am having some problems injecting my unitofwork into my base repository. I create a unitofwork on every request then either commit or rollback at the end. But when tryin to inject into my base repository its always null when i go to use it in my methods. More specifically i get this error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". Any ideas what im doing wrong and if this is the correct route i should be going?
Many thanks in advance.
Base Repository:
public abstract class Repository<T> : IRepository<T>
{
  public readonly IUnitOfWork _unitOfWork;

  public Repository(IUnitOfWork UnitOfWork)
  {
    UnitOfWork = _unitOfWork;
  }

  public Repository() {}

  public void Save(T obj)
  {
    _unitOfWork.CurrentSession.Save(obj);
  }
}

StructureMap registry thats set in my application_start:
 public class NHibernateRegistry : Registry
 {
   public NHibernateRegistry()
   {
     For<IUnitOfWork>().HybridHttpOrThreadLocalScoped().Use<UnitOfWork>();

     For<ISession>().HybridHttpOrThreadLocalScoped().Use(context => context.GetInstance<ISessionFactory>().OpenSession());

     For<ISessionFactory>().Singleton().Use(NHibernateSessionFactory.GetSessionFactory());
   }
 }

Update:
The baserepository is inherited by specific repositorys ie ArticleRepository then im injecting that into my aspx pages on application_start. Then my aspx page inherits a basepage where the buildUp takes place. And i access the repository like this:
public IArticleRepository ArticleRepo { get; set; }

public void SaveThing()
{
    ArticleRepo.Save(object);
}

This gets called on application_start:
  public class Bootstrapper
  {
    public static void BootStrap()
    {
      ObjectFactory.Configure(x =>
      {
        x.AddRegistry<NHibernateRegistry>();
        x.AddRegistry<WebRegistry>();
      });
    }
  }

And in the webregistry:
For<IArticleRepository>().Use<ArticleRepository>();

A: There is a good chance your ArticleRepository doesn't have a constructor that takes an IUnitOfWork as a parameter make sure you have the following
public class ArticleRepository : Repository<Article>
{
    public ArticleRepository(IUnitOfWork unitOfWork) : base(unitOfWork)
    {
    }
...
}

Remember Strcuture map uses the greediest constructor on the class that it instantiates. Since your abstract repository class will never be instantiated it will not use its constructors. I would also suggest not having any default constructors if your classes need to have their dependencies injected that way. Less chance for errors that way.

A:   public readonly IUnitOfWork _unitOfWork;

  public Repository(IUnitOfWork UnitOfWork)
  {
    UnitOfWork = _unitOfWork;
  }

I think you mean to write
  public readonly IUnitOfWork _unitOfWork;

  public Repository(IUnitOfWork UnitOfWork)
  {
    _unitOfWork = UnitOfWork;
  }
You were assigning the local variable to the parameter instead of the parameter to the local variable.
Edit: Also you should write your parameter with a lowercase U 'unitOfWork' instead of 'UnitOfWork'


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Men's Swimming and Diving championship
March 27, 2010 at 8:25 pm · Filed under Sports	·Tagged swim
I've been critical about short course pool ever since I set food on this New World, but today is actually my first time seeing it in a real competition: the Big Ten of NCAA at Ohio State. The home team won, their first since 1956.
Tyler Clary Jr,
The swimmers would take their mark and dive into the little pool. They would have gone more than half way before they take their first breath. I just totally don't get it: those little men are so big that most of them only needs 5 flys to get to the end .. I miss the the satisfaction seeing them work the course/lane, there isn't time or space. They are too busy flipping – flip turning. Just simply inelegant and ungraceful.
Use the 50 meters, the real Olympics size please?
Ivan Ljubičić
March 22, 2010 at 9:10 pm · Filed under Sports	·Tagged tennis
An improbable champion at age of 31, beating Nadal and Andy Roddick at Indian Wells yesterday. I have to leave at beginning of their first set tie break, wondering how did he get to the final, in such advanced age? Don't think I've seen him often. Ljubicic turned pro in 1998 and earned career prize money of $8,786,405.
Later last night, I learned he beat out Roddick in straight sets to win. Wow .. I understand, no matter how much planing and practicing, each match has life of its own. It is being played at a particular moment and favored the one who could sized the moment, making statistics almost irrelevant.
Carpe diem is never my motto, but being old enough to know, sometimes, you have to just size the moment and living it to the fullest.
March 22, 2010 at 2:26 pm · Filed under Sports	·Tagged tennis, usta
A perfect score! Yap, we did it, closed it out the season with our 7th shutout. I knew few teammates might have expected it but for me the newbie, it's still a thrill. Big hearty thanks to Captain Bill and Su, and to everyone on the team, we did it together. Thank you all. Also thanks for putting up with me. The good news is we made playoffs .. phew .. but the bad news is sorry that you'll have to endure me for few more weeks .. deep sigh.
Contrary to my last outing, the opposing team's vibe was very positive and I enjoyed their captain Lillian very much: no nonsense, down to earth and very gracious.
We went out after last match of the regular season was played on 3/21
It's what I would considered a perfect match: no questionable line calls that made everyone uncomfortably and no disagreements that causing funny body language, at all! Although few lines I would have let it go but Simon called it out firmly and IF they disagreed, they didn't show.
We finished our match as the second string within an hour but there were tensed moments. I was bit exhausted from the AM game, mindlessly double faulting and most gravely, kept playing back to the guy to a point Simon questioned my sanity exasperatedly:
"CAN you tell a man from a woman!?"
Ya sure they all have two legs … JK
Weeeelll .. I'm a heterosexual and attracted to the Handsome than Pretty! 🙂 Ok, the truth's: I was lazy.
The other two matches were all very close. I returned to the court just as our first doubles battled theirs way to match point. Unbeknown to me and when I saw the players from court 4 were leaving (we played at the old bubble on court 1-3; #1 is by the revolving door), I dash to court 2 (to get my drink), not once but twice as Anna was waiting to serve out the match – sorry Missy. I did only because there were other players crossing and I didn't know it's the match point. Trust me, I'm not totally dumb and disrespectful!
The third doubles played a real-life husband/wife team. The match was the last one to finish. Simon went over and cheered, for both teams but the wife told him to stop clapping.
Lillian and I stood on court #2 and watched in distance. She regaled me some warring stories from years on the circuit about couples (after commented that the wife [on her team] is very intense.): one couple who would argue on court consistently .. and over benign and petty stuff that totally unrelated to tennis: like who left the toilet seat in the bathroom, at home. Pretty hilarious. Would they wear microphone next time?
Our opponents were pretty good last night, wonder why they're the bottom team?
I too, wondered.
Can't take anyone lightly!
One point at time.
At the conclusion of all the matches, we two captains got to shake hands – my only one thus far. Wished there would be more. It's only a game and friendship should be forged, not ill feelings being manufactured.
1st doubles: 6:4, 7:5
2nd doubles: 6:2, 6:2
3rd doubles: 6:4, 6:4
It's the partnership, stupid
March 22, 2010 at 12:45 pm · Filed under Sports	·Tagged tennis
Yesterday Anne indulged us with her 5.5 pro who coaches 4.0 women in New Jersey for a living. He's in his late 30s or 40s, trim with a raspy voice, perhaps from years of yelling on court that stretches out 78 feet long. I always wondered when will the coaches start wearing the headphones. But again, when everyone is equipped with one, then it would all be evened-out if they work next to one another.
Simon came bit late, right hand held a beat-up racket (left his tennis bag at a friend's house the day before) and left hand held a crumbled plastic grocery bag containing six Buds. We proceeded to a really short and uninspiring warm up.
"Why don't we start the game?" One of us suggested.
"How much would you like me to play, 40% or 50%?" Coach asked at the net.
"How about 65." Simon suggested.
"No, 68.99%." I joked.
The coach served first and lost it succinctly. Simon held his serve promptly. Another break and held, we were up 4:0. The coach threw down his racket in disgust after I drove a back hand down the line. I had few double faults but nevertheless we took the first set 6:4.
Here are few factors at work IMHO:
Partnership. Aside from crediting my partner that's very obvious but the partnership perhaps deserves a look. I was relaxed knowing well that we were the underdogs and confident because Simon would cover my back, who never lost his patience and was gracious in handing out encouragements and compliments. When he was receiving coach's serve, he told me to stay back because he couldn't do much with his powerful serve. As an Alzheimer, I kept creeping up to the service line and be remind every single point – to stay back. Blame the dementia, obviously. Sheeeeeshi. I'm sick of myself too.
Looking across the net, Anne has a lethal back hand. Actually she has a well rounded game. But at times they would get into a heated argument, which only reinforced my comfort level, which I feel should be handled discreetly. And a little deference won't hurt the marriage de temp either.
Pressure playing with a pro or far better player. Being a loser, I never feel bad at losing a game/match as long as it was well played. Few times I teamed up with a Pro and/or Tony and the mounting pressure was just too overwhelming: they hated to lose while all the balls came to me.
"Don't touch .." Tony would yell.
"Why don't I just sit by the court side?" I joked since I really didn't know where to stand and what NOT to hit.
"Good idea." He would retort.
Another time with the pro, as he was approaching the net, I began to run back to the baseline.
"Why are you running back?" The Pro would ask in bewilderment.
I was bewildered that he didn't understand one-back and one-front defined the 3.0ers. Well, again, this goes to the partnership. Although many consider high/low pair won't work, but a decent result could be manufactured if the partnership is fully invested.
The lob that came in handy too. It's very intuitive for me to drive back at a hard serve (and reaching out for the shots that I had no business to even trying in the first place). After I lost both points at hitting out Coach's serve, at 30 all, Simon pleaded,
"Please, don't try to drive, just block .."
[I just couldn't remember .. there isn't enough time for me to pull back the racket and then hit .. blame the AD .. Hey people, don't you love it? IF Irene could remember a thing, who else would/could you have to beat around all those years??!! .. .. ha ha ha]
What I'm trying to say is, a lot has to do with the partnership chemistry. If the 2 don't jell then no matter how good you are, you're not going to make it work.
The coach, being a gentleman never once hit hard to/at me when I was stationed at the net. Not sure it's a good thing because real match may play out differently? Personally I really don't like to hit to the weakest link to get a win, because it doesn't give me any pleasure. But again, I haven't been playing at the league, no team to reckon with, nothing was on the line.. .. I resorted to let my partner to do the dirty deed. The coach soon abandoned his percentage playing wow and shifted into full throttle, gunning for Simon's head and blood everywhere. Few overhead he hit from corner to corner were just breathtaking. During the second set I couldn't serve out at 5:3, and double faulted to give them the game. They quickly caught up and ultimately took it 7:5. Was there any missed opportunity? Absolutely. Why didn't I size it? The drive to win wasn't strong enough, perhaps? I was disgust at myself.
The coach said he won't leave unless he wins two sets from us. Unfortunately we have to leave early to their dismay – we had a night match. Needless to say, the coach could probably beat us all by himself. It's the same as I would try hard not to be the stinking liability to my partner.
Oh dear ..
Wai has a way of endearing himself to his opponents.
I've been told many times by women of my endearing ways.
During a game his partner was serving and didn't call out the scores. It was 40:15 with him at the net asking if it's 30 all.
So 30 all it was.
But after they won the next point, he suddenly remembered that his opponents only won 1 point in this game.
So he went to the net again, to dispute ..
[Not much you could argue at this point since both sides agreed on 30 all.]
So he gave them the point. So it was 40:30. So they lost next point. So it's deuce. So Sir Wai said informatively mixed with innocence,
"Oh its sudden death now."
The opponent's Dad in the balcony watching the game with us was visibly displeased.. ..
So pleeeeeeease CALL OUT the scores! It's only fair. If you don't, don't be annoyed when your opponents does.
The opposing team wasn't in the playoff hunt but they dumped their first doubles by sending in a 3.5/3.0 combo while putting two 3.5 in their third doubles (I played the girl last summer). It's not illegal but not very decent either: the idea of a proper lineup is to put your strongest pair at the top, in order to give your opponents a competitive game. The girl in the first doubles clearly had no clue or was too intimidated who often didn't know where the ball was and what position she should take. Wai tried to engage her into the game by handing out freebies and candies, but she still couldn't handle them.
After I saw her double faulting for no reason, didn't you notice I slowed everything down and hit easier shots to her. I didn't want to embarrass her in front of her parents.
More sportsmanship than gamesmanship. Way to go!
The following day was birthday of our identical twins. Another teammate just celebrated her 29th birthday the day before, a Pacific Ocean away. Having fleeced her out of cake couple of month ago I felt obligated to donate one myself. Errrrrrrr .. you guys have become expensive, ha ha ha. We had the cake after the match. Wai got mauled over with kisses and hugs and being adapted as a kid bro. Great team bonding only short of sleeping together. That, isn't my business but won't mind to be kept in the loop :).
Who's birthday is in April, pls raise your hand. Another excuse to cheer!! The Black Forest Cake has become bit stale. It's probably time to visit Veniero's or Ferrara.
1st – 6:2, 6:1
2nd – 6:0, 6:1
3rd – 4:6, 4:6
Golden Anniversary; Unthinkable Loss
March 18, 2010 at 1:15 am · Filed under Sports
A sad story about an 18-year old boy who died .. I didn't care how it was written (News should differ from novel, correct?). But two facts stood out: one US took the Gold from the Russians in 1960 too – a very little talked about fact. And two, how composed the father was in talking about his recent lost, the most graved lost, every parent's nightmare.
Another thought/fact: just now, watching the Toronto Maple Leafs (vs NJ Devil), the worst performing team in da league, the house is packed, packed to the gills. The Devils played at home last night, the first place team, the arena was half empty (compressed schedule due to Olympics? The league should extend the season making easy on the players ..). Even the Rangers who stands the chance of a playoff spot, playing at MSG at the moment, but the Garden is half empty, in the heart of New York City. The drastic difference between USA and nothing-to-do Canadians.
That 1960 Olympic hockey squad upset the Soviet Union, 3-2, on a Sunday morning in Squaw Valley, Calif., for the gold medal.
One week later Dan Mayasich reflected, remarkably enough, on the gift he had received. He thought back to a week or so to the evening when he addressed the Brophy community inside the school's chapel.
"I wanted them to know what an amazing and actually 'joyful' thing it was for us to be experiencing," Dan Mayasich said. "And how unusual or odd it could possibly be … but ultimately how lovely … to be using the word 'joy' in the face of such tragedy, horror, sadness. I then had them consider that this thing they're all seeing, this magic they're all feeling in the chapel, it's actually there in all of their kids, all of the time. They just don't realize it. It's like this invisible thing that shows itself only when it's called upon, but it's always there for everyone, not just our son. Perhaps THAT is God?"
For the Mayasich family, that Friday dawned with the promise of adventure, of moments that would live forever. February 26 was to be a day for commemorating a momentous achievement past and for attempting a more modest one in the present. A celebration of life across three generations.
John Mayasich, age 76, was in Vancouver. Fifty years earlier, Mayasich had won a gold medal as a member of the United States Olympic hockey team. During the first week of the Vancouver Games he had sat down with NBC's Brian Williams for an interview that would run in a Nightly News feature about that "Forgotten Miracle" squad. When on Friday afternoon the U.S. ambushed Finland 7-1 to advance to the gold-medal game, it seemed most fortuitous that this four-minute piece would air. Mayasich, the only member of that 1960 squad to attend these Winter Olympics, would be featured prominently.
His grandson, Robby Mayasich, would not see it. Robby, a senior at Brophy College Prep in Phoenix, had taken the day off from school with 11 friends. The dozen of them, 11 of whom were Brophy students, had risen well before sunrise in order to participate in the Ragnar del Sol. The Ragnar is a 202-mile relay race that stretches from the town of Prescott, 100 miles north and slightly west of Phoenix, to Mesa, a suburb east of the city.
Share Dan Mayasich is the link in the chain connecting John and Robby Mayasich. Son of a hockey legend. Father of a high school lacrosse player. On the eve of that Friday, Dan, the sales manager at KPNX-TV, the NBC affiliate in Phoenix, was reading in bed. It was about 10 p.m. The door opened and Robby, 18, entered. He approached his father, leaned over and hugged him with both arms. Robby planted a kiss on his father's cheek.
"I love you, Dad."
Then he walked out of the bedroom, closing the door gently behind him.
A Hockey Phenom
John Mayasich was born in Eveleth, Minnesota, up north in the Iron Range. Eveleth is also home to the Hockey Hall of Fame, which is itself a second home for him. John Mayasich, you have to understand, is perhaps the greatest hockey player that hockey-obsessed Minnesota has produced.
Mayasich's high school achievements on the rink are mythic or, to use an adjective endemic to this land, Bunyanesque. He never lost a game in high school, leading Eveleth High to a 69-0 record and four state championships. He once scored 14 goals in one game. At the state tournament his senior year, Mayasich scored 15 goals in just three games. Three different times — and twice in one game — he had a hat trick in a single period.
There was no one like Mayasich, the square-jawed son of an iron miner and one of 11 children. At the University of Minnesota he was a three-time All-American and led the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) in scoring in both 1954 and '55. He once scored seven points in a game against Boston College (an NCAA record) and is even credited with introducing the slap shot to amateur hockey. He graduated as the school's all-time leader in goals (144) and points (298), records that to this day stand. Records that stand 55 years later.
The University of Minnesota has won five NCAA championships in hockey and have produced four Hobey Baker Award winners. In all their illustrious years, the Golden Gophers have retired one hockey number: John Mayasich's number 8.
"John Mayasich, well, he'd be right at the top," says Murray Williamson, who coached the 1972 USA Olympic hockey team to a silver medal in Sapporo and overlapped one year with Mayasich in college. "John was a natural athlete. He was legendary for excelling at any sport. He could pick up a tennis racket, he'd be a tennis star."
Robby Mayasich did not inherit his grandfather's athletic gifts. "I cut him last year," Brophy lacrosse coach Beau Pich says.
Lacrosse is a relatively nascent high school sport west of the Mississippi, but Brophy, a Jesuit high school, had won the Arizona state championship in 2007 and 2008. Pich was in his first season at Brophy in 2009 when he cut the grandson of one of the greatest amateur stick-sport players in U.S. history. Although Robby Mayasich never once mentioned his celebrated pedigree.
"I never knew about that," Pich says. "After I cut Robby, he wanted to stay involved. He volunteered to be the team statistician."
By the end of the season, a year in which Brophy lost in the state finals, Pich was so impressed with Robby's attitude and determination that he added him to the roster.
"And this year Robby flat-out made the team," says Pich. "He stepped up. In fact he scored our first goal of the season in a scrimmage a few weeks ago."
Robby requested the number 8. His grandfather's number. He also chose to use a lacrosse stick in his favorite color: pink.
"Robby is a charismatic personality," says Brophy principal Bob Ryan, as he rattles off a list of colleges to which Mayasich had applied. "Brown, Cal, Harvard. Just a great student and a great young man."
Ragnar del Sol
The Ragnar del Sol, which has similar relay races throughout the country that are growing in popularity each year (borrowing from the model first made popular nearly three decades ago by Oregon's "Hood-to-Coast" relay race), puts a team-spirit spin on the somewhat stale concept of the road race. The appeal of the Ragnar, beside the road-trip aspect (each team's 12 members ride in two vans), is that it tests your stamina as well as your physical fitness. The tagline on the Ragnar's website proclaims, "Run. Drive. Sleep? Repeat."
This year the Ragnar began at 7 a.m. in Prescott, a scenic desert-meets-pine country town that sits more than a mile above sea level. Prescott is part Old West, part Midwest, as numerous Victorian style homes dot the streets. It is a favorite day trip, an escape from the heat, for Phoenix area residents. The race would feature 36 legs (each runner runs three legs), varying in distance from three to eight miles in distance.
At some point after midnight on Friday, Robby took the baton to run his second leg. His path would take him along State Route 74, which is better known to Arizonans as the Carefree Highway. The road traverses east-west through the desert north of Phoenix with nothing but darkness on either side. "Dark and lonely," one runner described the area. The posted speed limit is 65 mph but at that hour of the night, with few reasons to stop along a 20-mile stretch, that speed is often exceeded. The shoulder of the road (see photo, right) is virtually non-existent.
Robby crossed the dry bed of the Agua Fria River and completed his leg just before 1:30 a.m. He hopped into one of the two support vans, which then drove ahead to meet the next runner. As Robby's teammate approached eastbound while running in the westbound shoulder or lane, Robby hopped out of the van — parked on the east shoulder — with a bottle of water. He set out across the two-lane highway.
"That portion is just incomprehensible to me," say Ryan, the Brophy principal. "I don't know how to explain it. Maybe he just lost focus."
Robby was struck by a westbound Toyota Camry, which would remain on the scene (no charges have been filed against the driver). His friends immediately began performing CPR and dialed 911, but they were so far out in the middle of nowhere that a teammate had to run ahead to a mile-marker in order to provide an Air Evac helicopter a location.
Robby Mayasich held on. On Saturday morning, Beau Pich held lacrosse practice at 9 a.m. All anyone knew at that time was that Robby's condition was stable. "We thought that the best thing to do was to get the guys together and have a light practice," Pich says. "At that time there were no details."
John Mayasich won a silver medal in the 1956 Olympics and a gold in 1960. He never cashed in on his hockey talent, never joined the NHL. It was a different era. In fact, Mayasich was already 26 and a father of four when he scored a hat trick — after just one practice — in the U.S.' opening game win against Czechoslovakia in the 1960 Winter Games. All three goals were unassisted.
"(John) was a tremendous playmaker and skater," the late legendary U.S. Olympic coach Herb Brooks (who also coached at the University of Minnesota) told Sports Illustrated in 1999, "but what set him apart was that he was the smartest hockey player I've ever been around."
"If you were to name an all-time American team, he'd be on it," former Harvard coach Bill Cleary, an Olympic teammate, told SI in that same story. "I don't care who you name, John could have played with them."
That 1960 Olympic hockey squad upset the Soviet Union, 3-2, on a Sunday morning in Squaw Valley, Calif., for the gold medal. That afternoon, John Mayasich was on a flight home to Green Bay, Wis., where he worked at a local television station. On Monday morning, the father of four, with a fifth to arrive later, showed up for work.
At the end of the Nightly News piece that run on the final Friday of the Vancouver Games, Brian Williams noted that John Mayasich and his teammates were too young to be a part of the "greatest generation", the term coined by Tom Brokaw to describe Americans who came of age during World War II. "I asked John Mayasich what term he would use to describe his generation," Williams said, "and he answered without hesitation, 'The fortunate generation.'"
Fifty years later, after Mayasich led the U.S. to gold in Squaw Valley, as another generation of American hockey players vied for Olympic gold, this time against Canada, John Mayasich and his son kept vigil at St. Joseph's Hospital. By that point Robby's condition had been downgraded. That evening a prayer service was held at the Brophy Chapel. The 82-year-old Spanish structure, which normally seats 300, was filled to nearly twice the capacity. Inside Robby's father addressed the throng.
"What we're experiencing is without a doubt every parent's nightmare," Dan Mayasich said. "But this … looking out on this loving and caring collection of friends and family is every parent's dream. How odd, and yet how beautiful is it to have those two very different forces at play simultaneously."
Two days later, just after noon on Tuesday, March 2, Robby Mayasich died. He was 18 years old.
One week later, the Brophy lacrosse team played its first game of the season against Chandler High School. The entire team wore gray undershirts that read "WE ARE ONE" and feature a pink No. 8. On the sidelines that day, Robby's sister, Frances, and his girlfriend, Sarah, each wore one of his jerseys. Teammates took turns holding Robby's pink stick. Brophy won 10-6, as one of Robby's pall bearers scored four goals and had one assist.
Its Sports Empire Crumbling, Russia Scrambles
March 17, 2010 at 4:08 pm · Filed under Sports	·Tagged Chess
May the best athletes win?
The Northern Bears bemoan their lose in Vancouver, and worrying they may lose again in their own backyard in 2014. Buddy, you've got a long way to go now.
Coming from China, I feel the playing fields at Olympics aren't being leveled: free reeling western world vs state subsides in the commies. Athletes in China doing nothing but honing their skills, 24/7 while Americans, most of them, have to wait tables to make ends meet, before they could practice what they love to do. Their varied lives provide colorful commentating during the game. I'm happy to see USA won the most medals and China came in 8th.
Should Olympics allow professional to compete? For example tennis. I feel Federer and Williams have 4 grand opportunities to shine every year if they choose to participate, shouldn't the Olympics gives it opportunity to the amature and let them shine once every four years? … hmmmm then we'll have to watch sub par performance.
Tough call.
That goes with basketball, ice hockey, etc.
The USA's win over Russia in 1980 was such an epic moment, that ought to go down history – Miracle On Ice – as the moment, given the historical undertone at the time. Mind you, although that was only the semis but in everyone's eye, it was the final. Same goes with Bobby Fischer's win over Boris Spassky .. a lone man defeated an entire team .. oh, got carried away, chess isn't an Olympic sport. Russia would have loved that idea, back then ..
China sports official skewered for criticizing skater who didn't thank government after win
March 17, 2010 at 2:56 pm · Filed under Celestial Empire, Sports
By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press
Last update: March 10, 2010 – 8:04 PM
BEIJING – It was a political gaffe for Chinese short track speedskater Zhou Yang — failing to thank her country and its government after winning two gold medals at the Vancouver Olympics.
But the 18-year-old is winning widespread support for her honesty and naivete, after being criticized by a top sports official this week for mentioning her parents in a post-win interview but failing to express gratitude for the Chinese sports system.
"How can somebody love their country if they don't even love their parents?" China Youth Daily reporter Ma Jing wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday, echoing the many online comments supporting Zhou in a case that is currently one of the hottest topics on Chinese internet sites.
Zhou won gold in the 1,500-meter race and the 3,000-meter relay in her Olympic debut. After her 1,500 win Feb. 20, a breathless Zhou told China Central Television: "It's my dream. After winning the gold I might change a lot, become more confident and help my parents have a better life."
She thanked her coach and teammates, but never mentioned the state-run sports system in which she had trained as an athlete for much of her life.
"It's right to respect and thank your parents but you also have to have the country in your heart. The country must come first. Don't just talk about your parents," said Yu Zaiqing, deputy director of China's General Administration of Sport, in widely reported comments earlier this week.
Yu, who is also an International Olympic Committee vice president, added that the sports system must step up "moral education" for athletes.
He's been criticized in comments on countless Web sites, where many Chinese who are normally reticent to voice their opinions speak freely because of the anonymity found online. His entry on Baidu Baike, a site similar to Wikipedia, was temporarily changed to say "Yu Zaiqing, male … no mother and no father, raised by the Communist Party."
Zhou's family has defended her behavior, saying she is a young woman unfamiliar with the political demands facing Chinese athletes.
"Of course she's naive! If she's not naive why would she say something like that?" said Zhou's aunt, surnamed Wang, who refused to give her name as is common among media-shy Chinese.
"Zhou Yang is very introverted, her life is eating, sleeping and training," Wang told The Associated Press. "Of course her parents have sacrificed a lot, too."
Yu's remarks underscore the ties binding sports to politics in China, where youngsters picked for their athletic abilities and specific physical traits undergo years of grueling training, with the singular goal of "winning glory for the country."
But Zhou appeared to be more concerned about her parents' welfare than her country, a move that has struck a chord among Chinese whose deeply ingrained Confucian heritage highly values respect for elders.
"For a girl who has a humble wish to let her parents live a comfortable life, she was heroic in her struggle to win these two gold medals for China but then encountered such criticism," wrote sports columnist Sa Fu of Chinese internet portal 163.com. "This is the real humiliation for the country."
Like many Chinese athletes, Zhou comes from a poor background. While parents hope their children can win Olympic medals and therefore financial awards, the payoff comes at a huge price. Before her two golds in Vancouver, Zhou was helping to support her disabled parents with her 500 yuan ($73) a month stipend.
She can now expect more than 1 million yuan ($150,000) in prize money to go with the new two-bedroom apartment that's already been awarded to her parents in their hometown of Changchun in northeast China.
On Tuesday, officials tried to deflect criticism of Yu, who made his comments Sunday during a sports committee meeting of China's top legislative advisory body. A fellow committee member said the group was discussing athletes in general and not Zhou specifically.
China's General Administration of Sport did not respond to a faxed request for comment Tuesday.
And Zhou appeared to have learned her lesson in Chinese political correctness. Several Web sites on Tuesday carried comments attributed to the skater, in which she gave thanks to all the right people.
"I thank the country for providing us with excellent conditions, for giving us the excellent conditions for our Olympic campaign," she was quoted as saying. "And I thank everyone who supported us, I thank our coaches, I thank the staff, and I thank my mom and dad."
Associated Press researcher Xi Yue contributed to this report.
Some stats ..
March 17, 2010 at 12:52 pm · Filed under Sports	·Tagged tennis, usta
This tabulation is based on the results of top four teams in Queens and Manhattan – 2010 Mixed Doubles Leagues Adults 7.0.
Although team Hockett had the best stats in Manhattan group during the regular season but they lost in the first round to Kim/Seto 1:2. Team Regione performed well in the playoffs, sweeping their way to win the Area championship: handed team Abdolai a bagel on Feb 27 and Kim/Seto an egg on Feb 28.
It all comes down to the moment, one point at time.
A trick
March 16, 2010 at 10:20 pm · Filed under Saga, Sports	·Tagged tennis
At last week's lesson, coach Dai told girls there's one trick that kids employee: late calling serve out, when the two failed to call out each others serve loudly and in a timely fashion.
Pumpkin delivered a serve that's 3 inches out. Bev returned it. Pumpkin didn't know if to continue or stop. Then she lost the point.
Dai called the girls over, explained:
"Many kids use this as a tool to cheat. When the serve's out, they'll return it and when it felt going out, then would they call it out. Otherwise they'll insist it's in. It's good."
He said .. "to continue to play as it is a good unless the opponent calls it out."
The two are friends; neither them are crafty enough to cheat. They knew each other since toddlers. Pumpkin used to call Bubbly since she was too young to pronounce her name correctly. I guess it's bit hard asking them to call out on each other. They're not tour pro yet. Just some kids who love tennis, and doing it recreationally.