1)Where do they get the unsecured loans from?they get money from banks or in the form of raw materials from other companies.
2)Is it a bad thing.Is the company trying to project a better working capital by showing current liabilities as unsecured loans.
1)Income statements show only operating expenses.It does not show the company pays its current liabilities.Should we assume that the current liabilities are for operating expenses?.
Does the same holds true for unsecured loans also Bcoz the interest shown in income statement indicate the amount paid for secured loans.Where can we find the info abt how unsecured loans and current liabilities are accounted for.
Huge amount relative to what?? If their current and interest coverage ratio is good then a huge loan is not a problem.
> 1)Where do they get the unsecured loans from?they get money from banks or in the form of raw materials from other companies.
Generally its money received from banks but in some cases it can also be in the form of raw materials from other companies.
> 1)Income statements show only operating expenses.It does not show the company pays its current liabilities.Should we assume that the current liabilities are for operating expenses?.
No, Current liabilities are those liabilities/expenses which have to be paid in the current financial year. They may or may not include operating expenses.
> interest shown in income statement indicate the amount paid for secured loans.Where can we find the info abt how unsecured loans and current liabilities are accounted for.
I have not read the annual report of Ranbaxy but the interest in the annual report includes interest for secured and unsecured loans. You can get all this information in the footnotes/schedules to financial statements .
> I'm sorry to say but your question is too much technical for common investors of this forum.
Im sorry to say that there couple of people in this forum who can answer such technical questions.
Dear Vijay, I'm sorry to say but your question is too much technical for common investors of this forum. If possible to you, please post this query either in economic times or moneycontrol or business standard or valueresearchonline.


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I tried plugging a regular household DVD player into two video capable plotters last week, and the results were quite viewable, confirming the value of helm stereos that can also play video discs. That's a Standard Horizon CP1000 10" above and a Raymarine E120 12" below. Both have some control over picture brightness, contrast, and color saturation, though the E's is easier to find and use. The E also has a choice of aspect ratios, but I still couldn't get the picture to fill the full width of the screen. And yes, that is the actor from Friends who now mocks his acting career on the TV show Joey. This particular job, Lost in Space, must have been inspirational. I have no idea why the DVD is lying around my house.
Next story The magnetic compass, yay or nay?
Maybe chartplotters will soon store recipes?
Sorry, Ben, even if they supply keyboards and open them up to run Windows applications, I refuse to buy PCs (aka plotters) from Marine electronics companies. I prefer to select superb software like Coastal Explorer, and run it on either of my three redundant notebooks aboard, which surprise no one when they run spread sheets, DVDs, etc. I'm waiting for a self-contained radar overlay/MARPA product packaged like the new Garmin but offering a USB cable to my standard Windows PC. The longer it takes, the more I lose respect for the electronics companies who prefer to gouge us for camouflaged PCs that are not generally useful. After thirty-five years in the computer business, I'm amazed that they're succeeding at this, plus their proprietary networking games, for as long as they have been. Perhaps our young business candidates are lazier/less hungry today than during the seventies and eighties when entrepreneurs ravaged such predatory business positions then practiced by companies such as AT&T, DEC, IBM, Memorex, etc.
Fortunately we have keen commentators like you that point it out when the value added doesn't justify the price. You do that don't you?
Nothing to be sorry about, Dan; I'm happy for you and all your laptops. Please tell us more. Do you use one in sunlight or where there's any chance of spray? If your boat goes fast or heels, how do you handle a keyboard or mouse? Why would you want a USB radar instead of Garmin or Koden's Ethernet scanners? Finally, do you think there is a universal standard of value? And regarding the value of marine electronics, how do durability, viewability, and simplicity fit in?
I use the Grand Tec "indestructible" keyboard (silicon like; sticky) and a Logitech trackball (trackball under a Stamoid blanket) plus a SeaView display, like Brad Christian. I've also toyed with the nice Panasonic tablet that Nobeltec sells, but I'll wait for a larger screen version, which shouldn't be long in coming, given the rate at which PCs evolve. I'm unaware of a stability problem, such as you allude to, using these tools under the dodger on my 42′ sailboat, or below at the nav station.
USB versus Ethernet at the lower layers of interconnection is the not the issue, Ben. Recognizing radar as merely another transducer along with GPS, sonar, etc., is what needs to be illuminated. The radar/arpa datastream should be openly defined and available to Nav Software authors just like a stand-alone GPS interface. But, megalomaniacal marine elex vendors disdain such commoditization as evidenced by the disappearance of most stand alone dumb GPS sensors and proprietary integration of d/s sounders into proprietary networks. I should be able to buy a Garmin radar and have Coastal Explorer recognize it, not unlike the way Windows knows how to work with a Canon or HP printer. And, I should be able to operate that same radar on my power boat when I run "The Cap'n" while on Coast Guard Auxiliary patrol duty.
You may be too young to have been familiar with the times when word processing systems were comprised of proprietary hardware and software. There were also special, separate computers for inventory, engineering, banking and what have you. You're certainly not too young to know that Panasonic and their "Toughbook" competition are continuously leapfrogging each other in terms of the "durability, viewability, and simplicity" you refer to. If the Marine Elex vendors are good at it, perhaps they'll soon begin competing for Police, Firefighter and military business. What is more likely, however, is that more people will realize that you can buy two or three increasingly outdoorsy notebooks plus Nav software for less than a large screen chartplotter accruing critical redundancy and broader applications support in the bargain. If I had seen proprietary computers (analogous to today's chartplotters) as good values, when I was in the computer biz, I wouldn't have the IRA income that allows me to buy and play with my toys today.
Thanks, Don, but you've put up so much material for constructive debate, that this comments section doesn't seem like the right place. I will try to address some of your points in future entries. One factual issue, though: where did you get this idea about "the disappearance of most stand alone dumb GPS sensors and proprietary integration of d/s sounders into proprietary networks"? I see quite the opposite.


Don't Fall Victim To The C.O.N.
You know what I found out? I found out that we are not as great as we could be because those before us figured out what O.U.R. best way in this world should be.
Now I am not saying that they are totally wrong or they did not have O.U.R. best interests at heart but hey…We may have gotten a whole lot further if we didn't fall victim to the same C.O.N. they did.
You see one day a long long time ago some people ( most likely men ) got together in their infinite wisdom, uncertainties, fear and need to have a controlled system and laid down ground rules as to what is considered normal. Now the truth about their meeting we wouldn't know if it was concerning cornering wealth or creating a safe fair society. What we do know is that a lot of good came out of it and its fair share of bad, as with all things created by men (This includes you to sister).
As time passed their children and our children and our children's children will learn this same system. When this happens there is very little room for change, unless YOU DECIDE to look inside and follow your gut ( or GOD ). It is in that instant that you cease to fully conform and create something that as we read before can cause a lot of good, as well as its fair share of bad.
So think about where we may not have been if C.R Patterson, Henry Ford, Philip Emeagwali, Bill Gates, Dr. Henry T. Sampson, Steve Jobs, Jesse Russell, Jeff Bezos and countless others fell victim to the C.O.N. So I say to my readers and those listening to the audio version of this post to think…WHAT IF?
Question and create a better way and allow others to question your best and create better ways.
Seems as if with all of the combinations of experiences our lives have to offer we can always find an agreed solution that fits the times.
Let's make that, the new norm so O.U.R. C.O.N. may put our children in a place that continuously grows.
I Am Not An Expert…I Just Happen To Make Sense.
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World Superbikes
WSBK: Rating the Brits: Leon Haslam
Isle of Man TT / Road Racing
Posted: 13 Feb 2014
Leon Haslam is undoubtedly one of the best British racers in the last decade to have missed out on the British Superbike title. When he moved up to the World Championship in 2009 it wasn't too much of a surprise to see the Derbyshire rider bagging strong results on the privateer Stiggy Honda.
It also wasn't a surprise he took two wins and three second places in his first five races on the Alstare Suzuki in 2010 to elevate himself into immediate championship contention. It's widely believed Haslam was robbed of the 2010 title with Suzuki withdrawing support for the team, leaving the Brit struggling to get into the top five towards the latter end of the season.
Despite hailing from the one of the greatest racing families in British bike racing history, and inheriting his father's sideburn style, luck has never really been on Haslam's side. He signed for BMW in 2011 and was plagued with issues from BMW's Bosch electronics, finishing fifth in the championship taking only three podiums.
Remaining faithful to BMW, he re-signed for the 2012 season as the German squad ditched their own ECU in favour of Magnetti Marelli and in doing so, they turned the S 1000 RR into a proven front runner.
However, with team mate Marco Melandri challenging for the championship, Haslam struggled to get a look-in. He was robbed of his first victory on the BMW at Donington Park on his home track as Melandri barged up the inside of him at Goddards on the last lap. The move pushed both riders wide and left enough room for Jonathan Rea to slip inside, resulting in both Haslam and Melandri crashing out.
It came as no surprise when Haslam switched manufacturer for the 2013 season and made a move to Ten Kate Honda.
Joining the already struggling Ten Kate Honda outfit, Haslam got off to a tough start. Sadly things got much worse for the Brit when he fell in practice at Assen resulting in a broken leg which ruled him out for eight races, despite a number of attempted returns. To say Haslam's best finish in 2013 was seventh place is not representative of the talent he has or the potential that many in the paddock think he still has to show.
Undoubtedly he has what it takes to run at the front, as he has shown on the Stiggy Honda and Alstare Suzuki. But Haslam now faces the tough challenge of regaining confidence, and all that after a few tough years coupled with a bike that simply has not been competitive.
Honda say they've been working hard over the winter on the CBR1000RR Fireblade and lap times haven't been too shabby, but it remains to be seen if the bike can keep up with the Aprilia and Kawasaki.
Our sources inside the team say that the traction control issues and set-up that have been eluding the team are now fixed. Everything needs to fit together for Haslam this season, if it does he could be a true contender, if it doesn't then a return to Britain and British Superbikes could well be on the cards.
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New Lesson Plan: FDR and the Alphabet
Published on Mon, 06/13/2016
[caption id="attachment_9298" align="alignright" width="300"] FDR Inaugural Program[/caption] Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address is one of the most important speeches in United States History. Faced with the turmoil of the Great Depression, FDR laid out a plan for resurrecting the failing economy and the alleviating the suffering of the American people. FDR's programs focused on what historians refer to as the 3 Rs: Relief, Recovery, and Reform; relief for the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy to normal levels, and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression. In the following lesson plan, students will explore both what FDR said he was going to do and what FDR actually did as the President of the United States. First, students will create lists as a class detailing the socioeconomic issued caused by the Great Depression. This task will set the stage for a close examination of FDR's First Inaugural Address. Students will observe a primary source photograph of FDR and Herbert Hoover on their way to the inaugural address and then listen to FDR's speech. Using a graphic organizer, students will read the speech and highlight the improvements and programs he promised to the American people. Students will use their graphic organizer to examine the New Deal Alphabet Agencies established during the first 100 days of FDR's presidency and their ability to combat the economic and social problems laid out during his First Inaugural Speech. Ultimately, students are asked to produce a summative assessment in the form of a one-page essay, poster, PowerPoint presentation, poem, chart, or project of their choosing. Included in the lesson plan are curriculum standards, Common Core Reading and Writing standards, student objectives, pre, formative, and summative assessments, detailed learning activities, materials and sources used, and graphic organizers to aid student understanding. View more details, or download and access the primary source set online Emerging America brings this lesson to you thanks to the outstanding primary sources and materials provided by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Aligned to the Common Core and National History Standards.
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Dominik Szoboszlai [] (* 25. Oktober 2000 in Székesfehérvár) ist ein ungarischer Fußballspieler. Er ist variabel im Mittelfeld einsetzbar, steht bei RB Leipzig unter Vertrag und ist ungarischer Nationalspieler.

Karriere

Verein

Anfänge
Szoboszlai begann in Székesfehérvár in der Jugendabteilung des Videoton FC mit dem Fußballspielen und wechselte 2015 in die Jugendabteilung von MTK Budapest. Nach einem Jahr in der ungarischen Hauptstadt kehrte er 2016 zu Videoton zurück. Im März 2017 wechselte der Ungar ins Nachbarland Österreich in die Akademie des FC Red Bull Salzburg, für dessen U18 er einige Partien absolvierte.

Zur Saison 2017/18 rückte Szoboszlai 17-jährig in den Kader des Salzburger Farmteams FC Liefering auf. Sein Debüt für den Zweitligisten gab er im Juli 2017, als er am 1. Spieltag jener Saison beim 2:1 gegen die Kapfenberger SV von Beginn an zum Einsatz kam, bevor er in der 72. Minute für Mahamadou Dembélé ausgewechselt wurde. Sein erstes Tor erzielte er am 4. August 2017 beim 3:2-Sieg im Auswärtsspiel gegen den FC Blau-Weiß Linz mit dem Treffer zum 3:1 in der 66. Minute. Anfangs spielte der Ungar regelmäßig im offensiven Mittelfeld hinter einer Doppelspitze, die aus Patson Daka und wechselnden Sturmpartnern bestand. Anstelle von Mathias Honsak rückte Szoboszlai in der Folge ins linke Mittelfeld; auf dieser Position unterstützte er häufig die Offensivspieler Lieferings und konnte bis zum Saisonende zehn Tore selbst erzielen sowie sieben weitere vorbereiten; darüber hinaus verpasste der Mittelfeldspieler lediglich ein Ligaspiel. Parallel dazu spielte der Ungar am letzten Spieltag erstmals für Salzburg in der Bundesliga und gewann mit der Mannschaft die Landesmeisterschaft. Für die U19 war Szoboszlai in allen sechs Partien bis zum Aus im Achtelfinale in der UEFA Youth League aktiv.

In der österreichischen Bundesliga
Im Januar 2018 erhielt er nach seinen Leistungen für Liefering einen bis Mai 2021 gültigen Vertrag bei RB Salzburg, den er Ende März 2019 vorzeitig bis 31. Mai 2022 verlängerte. Nach weiteren Einsätzen in der 2. Liga konnte Szoboszlai ab März 2019 Zlatko Junuzović im zentralen Mittelfeld verdrängen und bespielte diese Position im weiteren Verlauf weiterhin regelmäßig; am Saisonende wurde er mit Salzburg erneut österreichischer Meister sowie zusätzlich ÖFB-Cupsieger. Nachdem er auf Anraten seines Cheftrainers Marco Rose noch härter an sich gearbeitet und sogar einen Personaltrainer engagiert hatte, konnte sich der Ungar in der Spielzeit 2019/20 unter Roses Nachfolger Jesse Marsch auf den Außenbahnen festspielen. Hierbei profitierte er klar von den Abgängen des bis dato besten Torschützen Erling Haaland sowie von Takumi Minamino, der häufig die Rolle des "Spielmachers" ausgefüllt hatte. Neben einem Stammplatz in seiner ersten Saison in der Champions League (unter anderem ein 6:2 gegen Genk) konnte sich der Mittelfeldspieler wettbewerbsübergreifende 30 Scorerpunkte verdienen, im Frühjahr folgte zusätzlich zum dritten Meistertitel in Folge die Wahl zum Spieler der Saison. Die Fachpresse lobte neben dem ersten "Dreierpack" des Ungarn in der Bundesliga auch seine Stärken bei direkten Freistößen sowie bei Eckbällen.

RB Leipzig

Zum 1. Januar 2021 wechselte Szoboszlai in die deutsche Bundesliga zu RB Leipzig. Der 20-Jährige unterschrieb einen Vertrag bis zum 30. Juni 2025 und wurde zum 18. Spieler, der seit 2012 von Salzburg nach Leipzig transferiert wurde. Bei den Sachsen traf er auf seine Nationalmannschaftskollegen Willi Orban und Péter Gulácsi. Aufgrund einer Schambeinentzündung, die er sich noch in Salzburg zugezogen hatte, kam er in seiner ersten Bundesliga-Saison allerdings in keinem Spiel zum Einsatz. Dennoch verlängerte der Verein seinen Vertrag im Mai 2021 vorzeitig mit einer Laufzeit bis 2026.

In der Saison 2021/22 hingegen wurde Szoboszlai in 31 Bundesligaspielen eingesetzt und war an 14 Toren beteiligt. Zudem erreichte er mit RB Leipzig das Finale des DFB-Pokals, in dem er ebenfalls spielte und das die Sachsen im Elfmeterschießen gegen den SC Freiburg gewannen.

Nationalmannschaft
Szoboszlai spielte 2016 erstmals für die U17-Nationalmannschaft, als er am 14. Dezember 2016 gegen Italien zum Einsatz kam, und erzielte in jenem Spiel, das Ungarn mit 2:1 gewann, den Treffer zum 2:0 in der 24. Minute. Im selben Jahr debütierte er auch für die U19-Mannschaft. Im Mai 2017 wurde er erstmals in den Kader der A-Nationalmannschaft berufen.

Am 1. September 2017 debütierte der Mittelfeldspieler für die U21, die in Paderborn mit 2:1 gegen Deutschland gewann.

In der A-Mannschaft stand er bei seinem ersten Einsatz, dem 2:1 über Vizeweltmeister Kroatien in der Qualifikation zur EM 2020 am 24. März 2019, in der Startelf. Über die Play-offs erreichte die Mannschaft dank Szoboszlais Siegtreffer über Island in der zweiten Minute der Nachspielzeit Mitte November 2020 schließlich auch die Endrunde des Turniers. Szoboszlai selbst verpasste diese jedoch verletzungsbedingt.

Erfolge und Auszeichnungen

RB Leipzig
 DFB-Pokal-Sieger: 2022

FC Red Bull Salzburg
 Österreichischer Meister: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
 Österreichischer Cupsieger: 2019, 2020

Auszeichnungen
 Bester Spieler der Bundesliga: 2020
 Sportler des Jahres in Ungarn: 2020
 Rookie des Monats der Bundesliga (3): August 2021, Oktober 2021 und April 2022

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Fußballnationalspieler (Ungarn)
Fußballspieler (FC Liefering)
Fußballspieler (FC Red Bull Salzburg)
Fußballspieler (RB Leipzig)
Österreichischer Meister (Fußball)
ÖFB-Cup-Sieger
DFB-Pokal-Sieger
Ungar
Geboren 2000
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Congress owes our interrogators clarity in the law.
The CIA Tapes
Jed Babbin
Interrogating terrorists is a tough business that requires tough measures. But how tough should they be? The latest controversy — this time over the CIA's destruction of videotapes of two such interrogations — revives the problem that Congress hasn't wanted to face since early 2005: just what is torture under US law?
The outcry du jour concerns two people who were videotaped while being subjected to "alternative" interrogation methods (which probably means waterboarding). The two are Khalid Sheik Muhammed, the operational planner for the 9-11 attack and Zayed Abidin Muhammad Huseyn (aka Abu Zubayda) who was an al-Queda recruiter and trainer, a close bin Laden lieutenant.
According to CIA Director Michael Hayden, the CIA tapes were destroyed after they no longer had any intelligence value. A proper answer — and decision — as far as it goes. But what else figured into the CIA's action?
Both of these men were high-ranking al-Queda members who were likely to have knowledge of other members who would be an imminent danger to American lives. Both were well-trained to be resistant to the kinds of interrogation which American agencies were known to use. And both apparently provided highly valuable intelligence that has led to the capture of other al-Queda members and the thwarting of other al-Queda planned attacks.
The interrogation tapes were made in 2002 and destroyed in 2005. Why? One likely reason is that in 2005, American law on torture was changed in a manner that made it vague. Between 1996 — when Congress enacted Title 18 US Code Section 2340 to implement the UN Convention Against Torture — and 2005, American law was quite clear about what was torture and what wasn't.
Section 2340 defined as torture, "…an act committed by a person under color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than incident to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control." To avoid being struck down as unconstitutionally vague, the law went on to define terms undefined in UNCAT including "severe mental pain or suffering." US law defines that as, "…the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from…: (1) intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering; (2) the administration or threatened administration of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality; (3) threat of imminent death; or (4) a threat to do those things to a third person."
Between 1996 and 2005, American courts ruled several times on what was torture (e.g., repeatedly forcing people to play "Russian roulette", causing long-term psychological damage) and what was not (e.g., holding people overnight at gunpoint, which was found to not have caused that kind of long-term damage). In 2005, all that changed when Sens. John McCain (R-Az) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC) pushed through an amendment to the law which muddied up the law's definition of torture.
The McCain Amendment provided that, in interrogation of terrorist detainees, "No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." The problem is that no one in 2005 — or for that matter, now — knows what in blazes "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" means.
It would be — or should be — routine to videotape interrogations of terrorists and terrorist suspects. Analysts not present at the interrogation could then take whatever time they needed to assess what was said and what it meant. A detainee's speech, body language and responses to questions asked hours or days apart could be pieced together to gain valuable insight into the meaning of the answers.
But those tapes, when (inevitably) leaked, could be dangerous to the interrogators. First, inevitably leaked, the interrogators' identities would be revealed to other terrorists who would then want to capture, interrogate and probably kill them. Moreover, the tapes would reveal interrogation methods that other terrorists could be trained to resist. Second, they would inevitably be the fodder of Congressional investigations and possible prosecutions.
Interrogations conducted before the McCain amendment was enacted wouldn't be prosecutable because the amendment wasn't retroactive. But — setting those aside — what about those done after?
Some in Congress now want to outlaw waterboarding and other "alternative" interrogation methods altogether. Sen. McCain, during the confirmation of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, said that waterboarding was already illegal. Is it?
Probably, but not certainly. It's cruel, but is it so cruel as to be against the law? To those who now want to outlaw it specifically, apparently not. Our interrogators shouldn't have to risk prosecution years after by some overzealous US attorney who wants to second-guess some action as "cruel, inhuman or degrading."
Judged by the thousands of US pilots who were waterboarded as part of their "SERE" — survival, evasion, resistance, and escape — training, the technique, while horrific, doesn't cause the long-term psychological harm that torture does.
There are many interrogation methods that are effective — including the administration of some psychotropic drugs — that cause no lasting harm and can be highly effective. These are not techniques that are allowed under our civilian criminal justice system, nor should they be. But there is need for both clarity and wide latitude in interrogating terrorist prisoners outside that system.
That latitude should allow methods which — though distasteful — capitalize on the psychology and prejudices of the detainee. Muslims believe that contact with pigs is against their religion. Would sprinking bacon bits on a detainee's head be degrading? Sure. Is it torture? Hardly. And the law should make it clear that it is not so.
In a delightfully obscure phrase of the 1960s, William F. Buckley, Jr. warned us to not let liberals "immanentize the eschaton." He meant conservatives should argue against liberals' inserting into worldly politics that which is spiritual. In this war — at its foundation an ideological war — we should take advantage of the enemy's beliefs, prejudices and fears. Radical Islam wants to impose those beliefs, prejudices and fears on us. Why shouldn't we use them against the radical Islamists?
The law should be clear, returning to the definitions and clarity that existed before 2005. Let's immanentize THEIR eschaton.
Romney Flunks a Religious Test
Blocked Vatican Envoy
Written By Jed Babbin
Mr. Babbin is the former editor of Human Events and HumanEvents.com (Jan 2007-Mar 2010) and served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in President George H.W. Bush's administration. He is the author of "In the Words of our Enemies"(Regnery,2007) and (with Edward Timperlake) of "Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States" (Regnery, 2006) and "Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse than You Think" (Regnery, 2004).


And now, shortly after it published reports about a survey showing 10% of US Facebook users deleted their accounts in the wake of the company's latest data-privacy scandal, Recode is back with another scathing story about Facebook's public identity crisis.
Tavis McGinn, Mark Zuckerberg's former personal pollster, conducted a survey that exposes just how reviled Facebook is in many parts of the world. Indeed, up to 33% of responds in Australia, Canada and the UK say Facebook is having a "negative impact on society."
Americans have a similarly negative perception of FB, with just 32% (about 54 million people) of the population also believing that Facebook has a negative impact. For context, that makes Facebook more popular than Marlboro cigarettes, but worse than McDonald's.
In fact, the only countries where distrust in Facebook was relatively low were countries like Japan, where few people use Facebook.
McGinn, who recently opened his own polling firm after leaving Facebook after six months, said he didn't ask what, specifically, these negative impacts might be - but he says he has an idea.
"In the U.S. obviously we're very focused on election interference, and in the U.K. they've been focused on that as well with Brexit," McGinn told Recode. "But there are also things like, 'how does it affect children, how does the platform create addiction, how does the platform encourage extremism, how does the platform push American values onto other countries?'"
"The culture has always been focused on driving usage, on getting more people to use and how to get them to spend longer on the platform," he said. "It influences every decision, large and small."
And here's the kicker: McGinn conducted his poll in January and February. Which means that, judging by the decline in user engagement - which had already been on the decline before the Cambridge Analytica scandal - negative perceptions of the company have probably worsened.


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The second biggest minority in Romania are Gypsies. There is a lot of legends and superstitions about them. These people stayed for a while in a little village – Viseu de Sus – in Maramures mountains, in northern part of Romania, to catch a steam train to the valley of Vaser. Noone knows who the people are, where they come from and why they go to the mountains.


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Carcassonne: Expansion 3 – The Princess & The Dragon Review
Carcassonne: The Princess & The Dragon
Time: ~40 minutes
Times Played: ~15
The third expansion to Carcassonne is The Princess & The Dragon.
This expansion offers thirty new tiles to the game, which is more than either of the previous expansions. There are twelve dragon tiles, six volcano tiles, six princess tiles, and six magical portal tiles.
The Dragon tiles are used to move the wooden dragon around the landscape. When a dragon tile is placed and a meeple is added to the tile (or not), the game pauses so that the dragon can move. The dragon has a movement base of six tiles during this phase.
To begin movement, the active player moves the dragon to a new adjacent tile from where the dragon currently resides. For adjacency, orthogonal tiles are the only ones available so diagonal moves are out. Once the active player moves the dragon one tile, the next player in clockwise order takes their turn and moves the dragon. This continues until the dragon has moved six spaces or boxes itself in as it cannot double-back and move to a tile it has already been on this movement phase. It is possible that a player moves the dragon more than one time during this phase as well.
It's also important to note that the dragon can only move if it is currently on the board. The dragon will not spawn until the first Volcano is placed so it's entirely possible that several dragon tiles are placed without activating the tile.
Speaking of Volcano tiles, their placement follows normal Carcassonne rules with the exception that no meeple can be placed on it. When a Volcano tile is placed, the Dragon will be placed on the tile and this is how the Dragon is first introduced to the landscape. With each new Volcano placement, the Dragon will relocate around the board.
The Dragon introduces a new mechanic to Carcassonne that has previously been unseen: meeple removal. The Dragon can remove meeples from Roads, Cloisters, Farms, and Cities just by landing on the tile. This can impact control of Fields and Cities and be a powerful tool in the quest to score points and keep your opponents from scoring. Farms in-particular are vulnerable as the fixed state of the meeple creates an inviting target for the Dragon.
The interesting aspect of the Dragon is that its movements are controlled by all players; not just the active player that activated the Dragon. This means the active player needs to think of the possible routes the Dragon may take and what other players are capable of doing.
The movement ability and proximity of the Dragon also plays a large role in how features are constructed now. In our games, features tend to be smaller and completed quicker as the threat of the Dragon looms. They would rather score what points they can rather than lose out completely.
Cloisters, unless placed with the possibility of completing them almost immediately, have become almost unfeasible as they're just sitting ducks and easy locations to typically reach with a Dragon. We've found that our normal automatic placement of a meeple on a Cloister is now a debatable decision that now tends to fall under the "not this time" edict.
The physical wooden Dragon is a great addition as well as it has such a presence on the Carcassonne landscape. The wooden figure takes up an entire tile and the red color (at least for my Dragon) stands out against the Carcassonne color pallet. I would have preferred a color that wasn't already in play however. It's easy to see that the Dragon is large and different from the other meeples on the board, but why did it have to be the color of an already in use player color?
The Volcano tiles can greatly impact the game as well as they offer the ability to move a Dragon far distances instantaneously. The Dragon can be placed next to opponents or just away from your own meeples. The tile also doesn't allow the placement of a meeple on it which means players are offered the opportunity to move the Fairy figure (more on that next).
The Fairy meeple is available to any player when they place a tile and do not place a meeple on it. This allows them to move the Fairy from wherever it is to wherever they currently have a meeple. The Fairy is important as it offers several benefits. First, the Dragon can never enter a tile that contains the Fairy. This creates an invulnerable position that could mean the difference between scoring or being wiped out. Second, each time that a player begins their turn with the Fairy in their possession (on a tile with their meeple) they will earn one point. Third and finally, any time the Fairy is on a feature that is scored that feature will net an additional three points.
The Fairy can be looked at in two ways: to protect points or to score them. Either way, they need to be passed around among the different players as one playing hoarding the Fairy will result in a much easier path for that player.
The Fairy introduces an interesting strategy where you are rewarded for not placing your meeple on the active tile. This creates a dynamic where it may be more beneficial to move the Fairy around the board as opposed to starting a new City or lengthening a Road.
When using this expansion with the previous ones, games can become incredibly tight and cutthroat and the possibility of scoring three additional points when completing a feature might be just enough to ensure a players victory.
The other name on the marquee, the Princess, has major implications tied to City control. If a Princess tile is added to a City, the active player must return a meeple located in that City to that players supply. The keyword here is must. If the active player removes a meeple from a City, they cannot add their own meeple. If they add the tile to an unclaimed or new City though, they can add a meeple.
From the title of the expansion, most players would suspect that the Dragon is the fearsome addition to the world of Carcassonne but I think the Princess is the one with the teeth. The Princess changes the way players handle Cities. Before, players knew the basic premise of how to protect their Cities from being invaded. The Princess now turns that on its head as it straight kicks players out of Cities. It may not necessarily result in the other playing scoring but it does take points away. In fact, one of the stronger strategies I've seen is players placing Princess tiles in Cities that they have no stake in and ensuring no one has a lead in it.
The other new tile set is the Magic Portal. When placing a Magic Portal, normal rules apply but the tile allows the active player to place their meeple on any tile already in play. There are some caveats to that rule however. The normal restrictions apply and a meeple cannot be added to a feature that is already controlled by a meeple nor can they be placed in already finished features.
The Magic Portal is the most straight forward and easiest to process addition. With the Dragon roaming the landscape and the Princess booting meeples from Cities, this tile can help players score features that were all but abandoned. It's a great final implementation that works in tandem with everything else this box introduced (besides maybe the Fairy).
Lastly, there are the unique tiles. Unlike past expansions, there is not a separate set of tiles this time. Every tile has a feature that relates to the expansion but there is the addition of a Cloister that resides inside a City and a tunnel, which results in a continuous road going under a City.
One of the biggest impacts that this expansion makes can be found in relation to Farms. Farms are already a great way to score points but they are likely to be even more valuable as players tend to complete Cities much quicker due to the threat of the Dragon. This results in more Cities littering the landscape which adds values to Farms. But the risk/reward is strong as I mentioned earlier as Farms are inviting targets for players to sic their Dragon on. This impact on Farms results in less of an early scramble for Farm land and more of a wait-and-see approach. It's comparable to a Fantasy Football draft where no one takes a kicker but once they do, everyone does.
The Princess & The Dragon takes Carcassonne on a forward pace as it works to distinguish itself from the base game and the expansions that came after it. Like those that came before it, it's completely new and the mechanics mesh well with the base version. More importantly, it meshes most well with itself. Previous expansions (Ins & Cathedrals, Traders & Builders) felt like separate modules that could be added or removed without much affect on one another. That's not a bad thing but I could easily use the Builder and Pig without utilizing the trade Goods.
The Princess & The Dragon doesn't feel like that. Each separate aspect that this expansion offers is directly intertwined with one another. The Dragon causes mayhem while the Fairy protects from it. The Volcano moves the Dragon and allows easy decision of using the Fairy. The Princess jettisons meeples from Cities whereas the Magic Portals allow players to enter those now abandoned locales. It's a beautiful inter-connectivity of ideas that works, whether you like what they offer or not.
So what isn't good?
More than any other expansion before it, I think The Princess & The Dragon adds the most time to base Carcassonne due to players trying to consider all the possible routes the Dragon may take on the board and how each player might possibly move said Dragon. Coupled with the other expansions creates a game that can easily last over an hour and I question if this expansion is good enough to combine with the others to spend that much time playing. In fact, The Princess & The Dragon seems to be more interested in playing with itself than it is of playing with previous expansions. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it doesn't feel as interconnected as the others. If anything, the only real interconnection is between the Fairy's ability to shield meeples and the importance of previous meeples the Builder, the Pig, and the larger meeple.
Like all Carcassonne and particularly, Traders & Builders, the randomized tile draw can again create swings in one players direction. Finally moving a Dragon across the landscape with a Volcano only to have them return the very next turn can be demoralizing. Same with placing a Princess tile that completes a City while kicking out the only player residing there or being the player that constantly draws Magic Portals and is able to reap what work the Dragon and Princess have done.
In addition to the randomness, there are also weird games where the Dragon doesn't come out until too late in the game or it spends several turns in a row moving to no avail.
If you go into the game aware of the randomness, it's a fine issue that is a necessary evil of playing Carcassonne. Knowing that it exists doesn't help mitigate the problem though. It can become incredibly troublesome at two-players if a player is routinely on the receiving end of good luck.
With the introduction of this meeple elimination, Kingmaking can become prevalent at the higher player counts whether players intend to do that or not. While the Dragon is moved by all players, a majority can easily influence the only direction it can move.
Speaking of the Dragon, it loses its luster in two-player games as players tend to be able to control the route much easier as it passes back and forth between them. Routinely the Dragon will find itself in a dead end and waiting for an opportunity to cause havoc that will never arise.
I like The Princess & The Dragon but I don't love it. I play with it more often than not but it's by no means an auto-include that expansions 1 and 2. I enjoy the direct interaction and conflict that the Dragon and the Princess create but the randomness is incredibly frustrating, especially in a two-player game where things don't go your way. It feels like the strategical design of Carcassonne has been removed when randomness rears its ugly head.
Overall, I would recommend this expansion if you're looking for some more direct conflict but I would preface that with saying this isn't something you should play with every time. It can be and I do enjoy the visual of the large Dragon stalking the countryside but it's not making the base game better, like the prior two expansions did, but instead it's creating a different experience to pair with the base game.
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I had a terrible experience with CAFCASS. I had had to force my children's father to see his childen weekly despite him living close by. I had also had to take him to the CSA to get him to support his children. He had been emotionally abusive to the kids who were constantly made to feel they were a nuisance and totally unsupportive to me since we split up before my second child was born.
When the kids were about 13 and 11 he got a new partner and for some reason decided to apply for parental responsibility after all these years. The CAFCASS judge was all over him. The social worker took about 10 minutes to talk to the children about over 10 years of parenting and, schooled by him, they said they wanted time with their dad. Of course they did, he never paid much attention to them and used to work even when they had their one day a week at his.
I challenged this because I had never stopped him seeing the children (he was bad but not that bad and I thought the consequences of not seeing your dad when he lived in the same street would be worse than seeing him). I challenged the decision because the children were often upset by his offhand and self-absorbed behaviour and felt very left-out when he had time to spend with his new partner but had not time for them.
I was told by court staff that I could submit extra evidence and appeal. I prepared a written submission about his lack of interest over the years and hurtful behaviour, but when the judge entered the court she said she would not look at any further evidence and instantly confirmed his parental responsibility. Needless to say nothing changed except he tried to control our lives occasionally and made himself look good in front of his new partner. I had had the horrible experience of court and being made to look like the bad guy when I had been doing all the parenting work, had to give up a good job etc.
A court worker later told me that the abuse from a father has to be completely horrendous for him to be denied parental responsibility.
I have spoken to other single parents who have similar experiences with CAFCASS. I am a professional in a related area and was shocked that the service was so poor. I think there is an over-simplistic bias towards fathers and the court needs to look more closely at what has been going on in children's lives.
While it is obviously desirable for fathers to be involved if there is no risk of harm, instant and sweeping judgments do no good and can do harm.
My kids are now 21 and 18 and have a realistic view of their dad. He has an OBE by the way. I feel it is at least half mine for looking after his kids so he could do 'public service'. Who was it that said that if you don't bring up your kids well, nothing else you do matters. She was right.
My solicitor once told me the minimum level of 'abuse' to a child by a Father required to make the Court stop and think is stabbing or sexual abuse. Any emotional abuse and neglect does not count for anything.
I am sorry that you had such a difficult and painful experience with CAFCASS. We agree that a 10 minute conversation is in NO way adequate to assess the needs of the children involved in visitation/custody cases. One of our volunteers was "forced" to see her father over 20 years ago, despite him attempting to murder her mother. She hoped that the system had improved. What we hear, even today, seems to paint a different picture.


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We are making our final preparations for this weekend. We hope you are excited! It looks like we ended up with 62 B teams!! A few minor updates before teams start to travel.
Coaches please relieve my stress and keep my hair from turning grey by getting me the electronic version of these tests today!!
2. Impound and Experimental Design start at 7am. I hope to have all the classrooms open when the gates open at 630am.
- A photogate timing system for Battery Buggy. Please let me know if you have one we can use.
4. Engineering Event Score Sheets. Below is a link to the electronic score sheets. The team name and numbers have already been inserted in them. Coaches, please help you proctors get familiar with these sheets. We really want proctors to use them.
Self schedule opened on Tuesday and it seem to run smooth! Last chance to make changes is Friday at 5. After that, I will leave it up to individual proctors to approve schedule changes.
6. There were some last min room changes including EXPD. I have written rooms 502/503/504 for EXPD. EXPD will be run starting at 7am Sharp. The original room on VHS campus was going to be to cramped so we decided to run it in three of the science classrooms. Teams 1-21 will be in room 502, teams 22-38 will be in room 503 and teams 39 - 62 will be split between rooms 504 and 505.
Probably one more update before Friday afternoon but we're getting close!!!
Hello fellow coaches. You are receiving this email because your school is signed up for the Kraemer Invitational Tournament on January 26th, 2018. Sorry it's been so long since the last update but I promise we have been working diligently behind the scene to make this the best Kraemer Invite yet! There is a ton of important information in this email so please read it all the way through.
As we get closer to the tournament please check the website every couple days to look for updates.
The event schedule has been updated. We have made a couple adjustments to the Southern California Schedule to accommodate the large number of teams that will be on campus that day. One small worry I have is being able to get through all of the experimental design tests. The idea right now is to run all EXPD teams during impound from 7am -8am. This should give my proctors the entire day to grade EXPD. We have found a room large enough to accommodate on the VHS campus. The name of the room is called the Heritage Hall. See attached VHS map. We will post signs from the Kraemer campus leading your students to the EXPD location but you are going to want to make sure they arrive on campus pretty early to make sure they find the room. Gates to the school will open at approximately 615. Speaking of EXPD, right now I have my EXPD coach and a couple volunteers proctoring. We can definitely use a couple of additional volunteers to help with this one. Please let me know if you have any EXPD coaches who might be able to help. 2. Thermodynamics will be run as self schedule. Spreading students into 6 time slots rather than three will improve the quality of the event. Mystery Architecture will be run as self schedule same reasoning as Thermal. Impound will begin at 7am. We hope to have the rooms unlocked by 645am. Please check the time slots to make sure your students know the correct time to arrive at their events.
It's been an interesting few weeks. We had a number of teams drop, and we have been able to take all of the wait list teams. In fact I think we still have one or two spots open to cap out at 60. If your school is interested in sending an additional team that is not yet registered, we will take additional schools until we hit the 60 mark. The team numbers have shifted yet again. Please double check and make sure you have the most recent information.
The window for sign up events will open on Tuesday Jan 22 at 4:00pm. Sign ups will be done using ESUS. You should have received an email with detailed instructions on how ESUS works. If you did not receive an email this morning, please check your spam folder as sometimes it gets bounced into there.
Self schedule will be on a first come first serve basis. If you can't get the time slot that you need before the end of the self schedule time period, you will need to work it out with the proctor on the day of the tournament. This will be out of the tournament directors hand's.
parking lot for loading and unloading.
Please plan on setting up your base camps on the PE blacktop. Unfortunately we do not have the resources to be able to provide home base classrooms this year.
The following is a link to the Kraemer Campus Map.
There are two required forms attached to this email. The first is a photo release form. This year we will be having another slide show in between the last event and the awards. We have two photographers that will be taking pictures throughout the event. Photographers have been ask to take action shots and videos. They have been instructed not to take close up pictures of students devices. The official photographers will have official press passes. The second is a student release form.
Don't forget that we will be running "Game On" and Naked Egg Drop as trial events. These will also be run in the first 3 time slots on a first come, first serve basis.
able to bring please send me an email.
2. Looking for 3 sets of photogate timers for Battery Buggy. If your school has photogate timers that they might be able to bring please send me an email.
Please send me a copy of your test and answer key by Wednesday Jan 23. This way we will have enough time to organize the folder and make sure it is ready to distribute the day after the event! Your team will not receive access to the event folder until we have received your contributions!
Other than that, I am guessing there will be one or two last minute emails with updates next week.
Sorry for the long time in between updates but with a new baby, time is becoming very limited. Rest assured we have an excellent team in place that has been working hard to prepare for an amazing 2019 tournament.
1. Updates: There have been several updates to the tournament website. Please click here to view the tournament website. Team numbers have shifted slightly please take note of the shift. There are still a couple teams I have yet to receive payment from. As much as I would like to be lenient on this, I need to get each team's payment by January 8th. If not, I reserve the right to move teams from the waitlist into those positions. Please view the most up-to-date team list to check if I have received payment. As much as I want to include everyone, I am unable to add additional teams.
2. Proctoring: Please make sure the event your team has been assigned has a good proctor who is working hard on their test. See proctor information below. We have two schools running, Boomilever, Roller Coaster, and Battery Buggy since they will be tough to run with the high number of teams; look for a coordination email as a follow up to this email with contact information from both coaches. Not one team registered to proctor Experimental Design, and with 65 or so registered teams, I understand why. Kraemer will host this event, but I can use another school to help out. If you think your school can help proctor EXPD, please email me and I will let you know the details. Because EXPD is a really tough one to grade, we decided that it would be best to run this event for all 65 teams during impound. That way we will have plenty of time to make sure everything is graded by the end of the day. Experimental Design will be run from 7am - 8am in the VHS cafeteria. Please make arrangements for your EXPD team. More to come on that in future email updates.
3. Trial Events: So far Kennedy has volunteered to run Game on. It will be run as self schedule "medal only" event. With so many team and each school only running one event, we have a unique opportunity to host a few trial events. Please take a look at the following spec sheets and please let me know if you think your school could host one of these events. For those coaches who are new to trial events, any student from your school can compete in these events; they do not have to be a member of your team. They do not count towards the team scores but the top six places will get an individual medal. Only one pair of students per team can compete.
4. Contact Information: I need all coaches to reply to this email with answers to the questions below.
To help me with my preparations, please reply to this email and answer the following questions, numbered as they are here: Team name(s) - to help me determine who is getting and reading these emails! Which event(s) are you proctoring? (double check against the list on website) The event proctor(s) name and cell phone. Do you expect to be bringing in food for lunch, visiting our food truck vendors or both? Is your team staying at a hotel? If so which one?
Hi, my name is Shaun Evola, I am the director for this year's Jan 9th Kraemer Science Olympiad tournament. The purpose of this email is to give directions, info, assistance etc to help you with your event proctoring duties at the tournament. Please read and don't hesitate to email me at chie.s.furuya@gmail.com with questions, concerns, or equipment needs.
1. First off… thank you for volunteering to run an event, we can't hold these tournaments without teams running an event or two.
2. Remember that you are responsible for running the event your team has been assigned. That means writing the test, the key, doing the grading of all tests, reporting results to the scoring room, and preparing all needed materials. If you feel like you would like another school to help you proctor an event, please ask sooner than later, so that I can make the arrangements.
3. All proctors need to provide the score keeper with a digital copy of your test and key or final spreadsheet for build events. Digital copies need to be sent to me prior to the event. Please send a PDf VERSION OF YOUR TEST AND A SEPARATE PDF OF YOUR ANSWER KEY to me by Friday January 18. This will allow our team to gather all tests and put them either on a flash drive or a google drive so that all coaches will have access and can take back to their teams. It is Standard practice for all teams to send copies of the test and key and also their graded tests.
4. Please check in to the scoring room (803) at least 1 hour before the scheduled start of your event. We need to make sure you are present and prepared. My biggest worry on the date of the tournament is an event that ends up not happening due to a missing proctor.
5. Please be sure to write ORIGINAL tests. If you pull something off the internet or from a book, chances are the kids and coaches will have seen it before. Piecing together chunks of several tests doesn't work either, the kids that have seen those tests will have an unfair advantage. I suggest you have a mix of very easy questions, medium questions and very hard questions… some teams/ kids are brand new to this and others have lots of experience and training.
** I strongly suggest a hard copy test (that you collect at the end of the testing period) with a separate answer sheet for grading to facilitate the ease of scoring and administering the test. This is often the model that is used at national competitions and very large tournaments such as ours.
6. Plan for 65 total teams as far as copies and grading go. You may want to look at multiple choice type questions for some of the more difficult events to grade such as Anatomy. We can only do copies in an emergency situation, please bring your own stack. ( test copies that are used over for testing periods with separate answer sheets can help minimize printing and optimize ease of grading and scoring) Excel programs on Scioly Wiki are recommended for scoring build events.
7. Be sure to have a clear key for your test, and bring several copies so the helpers you bring can assist in grading.
8. Make sure you line up several helpers from your team to help with your event. For study events, I usually suggest 1 proctor and 4 helpers. For build events, 1 proctor and 4-5 helpers is good.
9. All tests/ scoring needs to be completed and reported to room 803 (scoring room) as soon as possible. For those of you with later event blocks, plan accordingly to get the grading done quickly.
10. We are using the Tri-block system so you will have 3 blocks of kids coming to see you for testing events, back to back to back, 20 teams each. That means for events with materials to set up, you'll need 20 stations minimum.
11. Yes we will have a scantron machine available and blank scantrons if you want to use it for a multiple choice test or section of a test.
12. The hospitality room will be available for grading.
13. Kraemer volunteers will bring you occasional beverage choices and snacks.
14. If you have special equipment needs or want to know the layout of the room, just ask.
15. Fairness is key… whatever you do with your first group of testers, do it the same way with the second group. Be sure to treat your own team no more or less strict than any others.
16. Do NOT allow parents or coaches or other kids into closed door testing rooms to observe.
17. You are responsible for breaking all ties. Be sure to have a tie breaker question, check the rules as there is often a tie breaker system… there will be ties and they can't be input into the system that way. Multiple tie breaker questions that are challenging can often assist to distinguish placement on tests that have closely spaced scores.
18. For engineering/ sign up events… teams will be selecting time slots online the Monday before the competition. I will provide you with a schedule of what teams are slotted for what times when you check in in the am. Please follow this schedule. You are allowed to add in extra teams into blocks of time if there is room but you should honor the signed up teams first. Feel free to start early if you like.
19. As far as being strict on build events. It is your call. Most important is that you are fair across all teams. If you choose to issue warnings for something like "goggles on forehead" instead of a penalty that is fine with me, just be consistent.
20. For engineering events… placement into the various tiers is your call, but again be consistent. For example, if on bridges or say gliders if you decide that 1 mm off on a measurement is not enough to be placed into a lower tier that is fine as long as you do it the same for all teams.
21. If any parents or coaches or kids are being unsportsmanlike or hassling you about a judgment call. Please let me know and I will deal with it.
22. The national webpage has useful documents and files to help with running events… for build events they often have scoring spreadsheets available. Be sure to have a copy of your rules available.. And remember the kids will know the rules better than the adults, be ready for their questions.
1) Tournament Website: The tournament website has been updated. See the Kraemer Invitational link for the latest information.
2) Registration: We currently have 65 teams registered. We are officially sold out with additional teams on a wait list. This will be pretty close to the biggest "B" level we have hosted. If circumstances change and you cannot make our invitational, please let us know ASAP so we can get in schools that we do not have room for right now. I have attached a spreadsheet that shows payments that we have received. If, for some reason, your 2nd or additional team cannot compete, please let me know so that I can replace them with teams from the waiting list.
3) Proctor Assignments and Team Numbers: The teams, team numbers, are up on the invitational website. See above for link.
We have not given out event assignments yet. We will send out more instructions about events at a later date. We will try to honor most schools' top three event requests.
We will have two schools running Experimental Design, Anatomy, Towers, Roller Coaster, and Battery Buggy since they will be tough to run with the high number of teams; we will be sending out contact information to those schools soon so you can coordinate to run those events. If you end up in charge of an event and think that you'll need an additional school to help, please send me an email. We want to ensure all events will finish grading on time, a challenge with so many teams. We'd like to be as timely as possible in announcing our results.
Please look over these events and see if there is one that you believe your school could run, and let us know if you are interested. We will then contact the appropriate people and get the official permission to run the event. Assuming all that works out, we will contact you. This process has to be relatively quick so we can order the correct number of medals and teams can have a sufficient amount of time to work on the "new" events.
If not a trial event, we would ask that your 2nd team(s) help run the invitational by providing volunteers to help run some of the more difficult to grade events (events that take longer to grade) so the event supervisor can be grading while the second and third hours of that event are going on. We are also looking into a way to ask for parent volunteers (we are working on the logistics of this but providing parent volunteers will be optional for schools, not mandatory); we are hoping this assistance will allow us to start the awards ceremony on time and get everyone out of here earlier.
4) Regional registration: It is a National Science Olympiad rule that all teams competing in any invitational be registered with their local region. Teams and invitationals that violate this rule are subject to severe consequences including not being able to compete at any level, so we will be enforcing this rule. We will be checking with your regional/state director starting December 1st. Please try to ensure your team(s) is/are registered by then. Teams that we cannot confirm registrations for will not be able to compete.
5) Engineering sign ups: Sign ups will be done on-line, and the date is still being determined, but we are looking at the second week of January. We will send out the date, time, and method when we have determined all the details.
6) Schedule: Invitational schedule will follow the Southern California state schedule which can be found at this link: State Schedule. In effort to spread out as many kids as possible we will run Density lab, Mystery Architecture, and Thermodynamics as self schedule events. We are also looking for a big classroom to run all Disease Detectives during impound time. Stand by for more info on that.
**Note, Southern California has replaced Game On with Code Busters. We will follow suite for our tournament. However we will also run Game On as a Medal Only event. That way schools who are interested in Game On can still get the experience and practice. We are looking for 2 schools to proctor Game On.
7) Schedule conflicts: Since we have a number of first time teams and coaches, event conflicts are part of Science Olympiad and will occur at basically every tournament that you compete in. There is nothing we can do about that. In our experience, these conflicts allow students to try new events and have often resulted in very positive outcomes as students learn they enjoy a different subject (granted, other times it results in students confirming they don't like the new subject, but at least it is now an informed distaste). We encourage all coaches to work with their teams to determine the best way for you to handle the conflicts.
8) Hotels: For teams that are interested in securing hotel rooms for the Invitational, please contact me for a list of recommended hotels.
9) Homerooms: Unfortunately, teams will not be provided homerooms. Please plan on camping out somewhere on campus. In case of rain, there are many covered walkways available. When you set up your "campsite" please keep a portion of the walkway clear for people to get by.
As we try to do with all updates, a copy of this update can be found on the website.
Looking forward to having your team at the Kraemer Invitational Tournament. Please email me if you have any questions or concerns!