International Rowing and Dragon Boat Racing Executive and Official
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Abstract
Bob Morro has been an active participant in water sports as a competitor, an official, and an organizer almost six decades.In the world of rowing, he was on three teams to win consecutive National Titles in 1956, 1957, and 1958. In 1978, the entire 1957 Crew Team was inducted into the LaSalle College Athletes Hall of Fame; in 2004, he was inducted individually; and at both the 25th and 50th anniversaries of their wins, he and the team were honored at the Dad Vail Regatta. Until just recently, he served as the Secretary of the Dad Vail Regatta, the largest collegiate rowing competition in the United States. In 2013, the event had entries from more than 125 colleges from the United States and Canada.He has won several major awards his contributions to rowing including the John A. Seitz Award (1997) outstanding service to the Dad Vail Regatta (in 1997); the Dr. George Morton Illman Award from the Malta Boat Club, an organization founded in 1860, for long time service and volunteer work to the rowing community (with his wife Peggy, in 2007); and the President's Award to the Morro Family their contributions and support of the Regatta many, many years (in 2013).In the world of dragon boat racing, he served as Chief Organizer of the United States Dragon Boat Association, the Secretary of the United States Dragon Boat Federation, a Vice President of the International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF), a member of the IDBF Technical and Competition Committee, and the North American Continental Representative to the IDBF. He has served as a race official at every U.S. National Championship since 2000 (including the first one, which he helped organize and run) in such places as Philadelphia, Fort Dodge, Tampa, Long Beach, Chattanooga, and Mercer County (Princeton). He also has served as a race official at almost every Club Crew World Championship and at every World Championship from 1995 to the present - in locations as diverse as China, Hong Kong, England, the U.S.A., Poland, Germany, Australia, Czech Republic, and Hungary.His long experience, vast technical knowledge, and calm demeanor have been vital contributions to the lasting prominence of rowing and the extraordinary growth and increasing worldwide impact of dragon boat sport.Interview byRaul Fernandez-CalienesManaging Editor, Journal of Multidisciplinary ResearchQl. How and why did you become involved in the two sports of Rowing and Dragon Boat Racing?RowingI competed in high school and collegiate rowing, winning a national title three years in a row. Also, I have acted as an official in rowing events, serving in the following areas: Starter, Timer, Chief Judge, Umpire, Dock Master, Jury, etc. At the high school level, this has included the Stotesbury Regatta, the Scholastic National Rowing Championship, and the Robert White Regatta (high school first-year students). At the collegiate level, this has included the Dad Vail Regatta (the largest collegiate rowing competition in the U.S.), the Murphy Cup, the U.S. Navy Day Regatta, the Frostbite Regatta, the Independence Day Regatta, the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, and the annual Bayada Regatta (Adaptive Rowing).I have assisted in organizing collegiate rowing events many years. I have been the Secretary of the Dad Vail Regatta. This year's Dad Vail had entries from over 125 colleges from the United States and Canada. We had 3,500 competitors rowing in 519 boats. With the help of more than 100 volunteers, we were able to run 6-boat heats every 7 minutes 12 hours a day during the 2-day event. I was responsible drafting and mailing all Information Bulletins to the coaches, receiving entries and payments, organizing the heats, accepting scratches, overseeing the progression of the races from heats to repackages to semi-finals to finals, handling protests, overseeing officials, providing results to competitors, media, etc. …
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".