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02/08/2018 in Sport

Soccer Tournament Timetable

A knockout tournament or elimination tournament is divided into successive rounds; each competitor plays in at least one fixture per round. The top-ranked competitors in each fixture progress to the next round. As rounds progress, the number of competitors and fixtures decreases. The final round, usually known as the final or cup final, consists of just one fixture; the winner of which is the overall champion.

In a single-elimination tournament, only the top-ranked competitors in a fixture progress; in 2-competitor games, only the winner progresses. All other competitors are eliminated. This ensures a winner is decided with the minimum number of fixtures. However, most competitors will be eliminated after relatively few matches; a single bad or unlucky performance can nullify many preceding excellent ones.

A double-elimination tournament may be used in 2-competitor games to allow each competitor a single loss without being eliminated from the tournament. All losers from the main bracket enter a losers’ bracket, the winner of which plays off against the main bracket’s winner.

02/08/2018 in Sport

Annual Marathon Registration

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards), usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens.

The marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896, though the distance did not become standardized until 1921. More than 500 marathons are held throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants.

02/08/2018 in Community

Traffic Safety Notice

Road traffic safety refers to methods and measures for reducing the risk of a person using the road network being killed or seriously injured. The users of a road include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, their passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport, mainly buses and trams. Best-practice road safety strategies focus upon the prevention of serious injury and death crashes in spite of human fallibility (which is contrasted with the old road safety paradigm of simply reducing crashes assuming road user compliance with traffic regulations). Safe road design is now about providing a road environment which ensures vehicle speeds will be within the human tolerances for serious injury and death wherever conflict points exist.

02/08/2018 in Community

Upcoming Public Meetings

A town hall meeting is an American term given to an informal public meeting, function, or event derived from the traditional town meetings of New England. Typically open to everybody in a town community and held at the local municipal building, attendees generally present ideas, voice their opinions, ask questions of the public figures, elected officials, or political candidates at the town hall. Attendees rarely vote on an issue or propose an alternative to a situation. It is not used outside of this secular context.

02/08/2018 in Culture

Summer Rock Festival Tickets on Sale!

A rock festival, considered synonymous with pop festival, is considered to be a large-scale rock music concert, featuring multiple acts performing an often diverse range of popular music including rock, pop, folk, electronic, and related genres. As originally conceived in the mid to late 1960s, rock festivals were held outdoors, often in open rural areas or open-air sports arenas, fairgrounds and parks, typically lasted two or more days, featured long rosters of musical performers, and attracted very large crowds – sometimes numbering several hundred thousand people.

02/08/2018 in Culture

Local Artist Exhibition

The performing arts community in Louisville, Kentucky is undergoing a renaissance. The Kentucky Center, dedicated in 1983, located in the downtown hotel and entertainment district, is a premiere performing arts center. It features a variety of plays and concerts, and is the performance home of the Louisville Ballet, Louisville Orchestra, Broadway Across America – Louisville, Music Theatre Louisville, Stage One, KentuckyShow! and the Kentucky Opera, which is the twelfth oldest opera in the United States. The center also manages the historic W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre, which opened in 1925 and is patterned after New York’s acclaimed Music Box Theatre.

06/02/2023 in NOTICES

Dec 31 deadline – 2023 On-demand Annual Meeting sessions

2023 Annual Meeting attendees have 6 months left to access the On-demand portal.

There is still time to access the 2023 Annual Meeting on-demand sessions. Continue learning at your convenience from this comprehensive cadre of world-renowned masters of implant dentistry – available until Dec. 31, 2023.

All registered Annual Meeting attendees are allowed unlimited access to the On-demand portal to enhance their meeting experience. Catch up on the sessions that you missed during the event and re-watch the sessions you’d like to see again. This On-demand portal is offered in lieu of pre-recorded sessions for purchase and easy access is provided to registered attendees through the year.

Log in here. 

06/03/2023 in CommunityCultureNOTICESSport

Oct 31 deadline for 2023 AO Master/Diplomate applications

Oct. 31 deadline to be recognized at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC,
applications must be submitted to the AO home office

The AO Master and Diplomate Certificates is AO’s credentialing program geared towards incentivizing practitioners to obtain advanced education, training and experience in implant dentistry; promote high-quality implant education globally; and enhance patient care through highly educated implant practitioners. The program awards both AO Master and Diplomate Certificates to applicants who meet defined criteria.

General Practitioners – See requirements and other application details here.

Specialists – See requirements and other application details here.

 

06/21/2023 in NOTICES

Oct 20 deadline – 2024 Student Travel Grant Submissions

This Student Travel Grant is open to both AO student members and student non-members who submit an abstract for the 2024 meeting and are currently enrolled in a full-time dental school program at an academic institution at the time of the meeting.

Twenty-five $1,000 Student Travel Grants will be awarded to the recipients of the top scoring Oral Research and ePoster abstracts submitted for the 2024 AO Annual Meeting by the Osseointegration Foundation. The grant is to be allocated toward travel expenses related to attending the meeting on March 7-9, including airfare, hotel and ground transportation.

See all program and application details here. 

06/29/2023 in NOTICES

Oct 20 deadline – 2024 research abstract submissions deadline

The deadline for the 2024 Annual Meeting Abstract Submissions is Friday, October 20, 2023.

The Academy of Osseointegration invites you to submit an abstract for its 2024 Annual Meeting, March 7-9 in Charlotte, NC. This in-person only meeting will include abstracts of original research and clinical cases of interest in the field of implant dentistry. There are NO FEES for abstract submissions and no limit to the number of abstracts you may submit.

See details about 2024 abstract submissions here.

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