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2010 USMS Convention Convention XXXI Information Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion Dallas, TX September 15 - 19, 2010 Who's there? What's going on? 2010 Pre-Convention Information Individual Sections of Pre-Convention Packet: Cover Page Announcements Table of Contents USMS Convention Schedule Exectutive Committee Reports National Office Reports * UPDATED 8/30 Committee Reports & Meeting Agendas Elections: Candidates for Office Election Schedule & Procedures * NEW 9/7 Liaison & Special Assignments Reports Proposed Changes to Long Distance Rules Proposed Rules Changes Proposed Legislation Changes 2011 Budget: Budget Priorities * NEW 9/10 Budget Proposal * NEW 9/10 Attachments: Rules of the USMS Annual Meeting Convention Check-In & Certification Procedure Directory of Convention Attendees * NEW 9/10 Who's Who In USMS * NEW 9/10 2009 Financial Review * UPDATED 9/14 USMS Investment Policy * NEW 9/10 Open Water: Officials Guidelines (Draft) * NEW 9/10 Safety Guidelines (Draft) * NEW 9/10 Sanction Process (Draft) * NEW 9/10 Meeting Minutes Form for Committees (Word Doc) * NEW 9/15
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  • The Race History is not difficult to forge. It's just a printout. Anything along the way is not hard to forge. Heck, you can fake out a touchpad with a button trivially if you want to. This is why there are humans involved. We trust Walt to make sure the supporting paperwork is appropriate. If I send in something that doesn't make sense, he'll ask, and we'll explain. Heck, in a non-record situation, I had a swimmer appeal to the USMS Officials Committee about my decision to invalidate a touchpad time in an event and use the (adjusted) button, for a _competitor_. The result of my invalidating the touchpad time for the competitor was that the competitor won race by a few hundredths. (The pad times said swimmer A beat swimmer B by a few tenths. The buttons said that swimmer B won. The watches said that swimmer B won. The place judge said that swimmer B won. Based on that, we declared a pad malfunction for swimmer B, and used an adjusted button, which had swimmer B win. Swimmer A appealed.) The end result is that the paperwork needs to all tell a consistent story. If there's an anomaly, we dig deeper. -Rick
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  • The Race History is not difficult to forge. It's just a printout. Anything along the way is not hard to forge. Heck, you can fake out a touchpad with a button trivially if you want to. This is why there are humans involved. We trust Walt to make sure the supporting paperwork is appropriate. If I send in something that doesn't make sense, he'll ask, and we'll explain. Heck, in a non-record situation, I had a swimmer appeal to the USMS Officials Committee about my decision to invalidate a touchpad time in an event and use the (adjusted) button, for a _competitor_. The result of my invalidating the touchpad time for the competitor was that the competitor won race by a few hundredths. (The pad times said swimmer A beat swimmer B by a few tenths. The buttons said that swimmer B won. The watches said that swimmer B won. The place judge said that swimmer B won. Based on that, we declared a pad malfunction for swimmer B, and used an adjusted button, which had swimmer B win. Swimmer A appealed.) The end result is that the paperwork needs to all tell a consistent story. If there's an anomaly, we dig deeper. -Rick
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