These statement rounds were a sampling of what elite touring pros can do to great golf courses on a day so clear that Big Sur was visible.
These areas were identified by collecting visionary statements on the future of TEL (Round 1) and by having 230 international experts evaluate those statements (Round 2).
For Yasir Arafat, issuing the usual statements, rounding up the usual suspects, and engaging in the usual equivocations will no longer, it seems, provide the usual way out.
Then, as now, fame could be cruelly fleeting, even for those whose accomplishments made a statement heard round the world.
And maybe it's just the distorting mirror of the never-ending media cavalcade, where any moron with a Sharpie and a length of cord from Home Depot can make a statement heard round the world.
As PPLive CEO Vincent Tao is keen to point out in a press statement, the round is larger than what rival Youku (often dubbed China's YouTube) raised in its IPO ($203 million).
The missing statement from round three was also presented, and the experts were instructed to rate this provided they would have chosen it in round three.
Where a re-worded statement during round 2 achieved a higher score on the necessity scale than the original statement, only the re-worded statement is included in the file labelled Additional file 2. The total number of feasible items for UK settings was 104 (51% of the total statements).
Only those statements that had been entered as new statements in Round 2, and afterward fell into the Re-rate category, were entered into a third round questionnaire.
All deleted statements in round one were excluded due to low ratings.> Fifty-five remaining statements were reviewed in round 2, 11 of which were deleted, 32 unmodified, and 12 revised based on participants' comments.
