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Anna Rawson earned the LPGA card

2007-12-05T11:35:00.000-08:00

LOS ANGELES -- The only athlete that is both a professional golfer and model, Australian Anna Rawson enters the highest platform of professional female golfers, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).

Rawson ended the Final Round of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament this past Sunday, carding three birdies, which made her first on the conditional status list of the LPGA.
"I am very excited to be apart of this elite and diverse group of athletes," said Rawson, "My continuous goal is to raise the profile of women's golf, and this new phase in my career will allow me to make more strides to do so."

Having already made a global impact on golf followers and drawn in many new fans to the sport, Rawson's experienced a flood of attention throughout the year due to her fashionable style on the course, from her signature wide-brim hats to Tom Ford Sunglasses.
The multi-talented 26 year-old had a very fruitful year from placing second at the Swiss Open on the Ladies European Tour to participating in major fashion photoshoots in a myriad of magazines all over the world, such as GQ Spain, Vogue Japan, Cosmopolitan Finland, and GQ UK.

She was also named "The Most Popular Golfer" on the Ladies European Tour by GOLF Weekly readers and earned the "Golf Babe of the Year 2007" award at Eindhovensche Golf in the Netherlands, before playing in the KLM Ladies Open.
As GQ writer Benjie Goodhart said about Rawson, "They say Tiger Woods made golf popular with people who previously felt excluded from the game. This player could make golf popular with people who hate golf."

ABOUT ANNA RAWSON
Anna has been a stellar golf talent since she was 13, as well as a much sought-after model. After winning the National Dolly Magazine Cover Girl Contest, Anna began her modeling career, making her a rarity in sports, with an impactful mix of femininity, raw athletic talent, and intelligence . Anna graduated from USC before turning pro in golf and is noted for her fashion on the golf course. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

http://www.worldgolf.com/newswire/browse/11969-Australian-Anna-Rawson-announces-having-earned-LPGA-card

GE microwave recall of 92,000 units!

2007-12-05T11:29:00.000-08:00

Extreme GE Microwave recall 92,000 units.

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baltimore county public schools - NEWS

2007-12-05T10:25:00.000-08:00

Bob Wade, coordinator of athletics for the Baltimore public schools, said he was not familiar with pre-concussion baseline testing but that he has been working for about five years to get athletic trainers for the city's 19 public schools.

The testing is not on the agenda in Baltimore County either, but athletics coordinator Ron Belinko said that "if a student had a history of concussions, we would recommend they get this test, which costs $75 a student and could be administered by several of the sports medicine centers."

Belinko, who said county statistics don't show a big increase in the number of concussions, added that the research coming from the Howard County program could help officials in other jurisdictions determine the need for such testing.

Palermo, who suffered two concussions as a volleyball player at Holy Cross in Delran, N.J. in the late 1990s, became interested in baseline testing programs as a student at Rutgers, which had a pilot program. She was instrumental in bringing it to Howard County.

A $4,000 grant from the Howard County Injury and Violence Prevention Coalition paid for preliminary studies and seminars with athletic directors, athletic trainers and coaches, said Mike Williams, coordinator of athletics for Howard County. The county schools budget pays for the $750 cost per high school for the software and storing results.