PORT BYRON, IL - The Nick Teddy Foundation is pleased to announce its second annual "Nick Teddy 5K." The event starts at 9:00 AM on Sat., September 14, 2013, and offers a fun day for participants and their families.

This annual family event is held in memory of Nicholas Theodore Strub, a native of Port Byron, Ill., a 2000 graduate of Riverdale High School, and a 2004 Alumnus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Nick fought a courageous battle against the pediatric cancer, Ewing's sarcoma, for more than 5-years, until he died at age 29.

Proceeds from the "Nick Teddy 5k" will benefit the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative (www.sarcomahelp.org), which works to award sarcoma research grants to expert investigators around the world. Several area children currently are affected by this disease. Last year, the 2012 NT5k registered more than 450 runners and raised over $17,000 to be used exclusively for Ewing's sarcoma research.

Photos and interviews are available for 5k preview stories. You can find us online at: http://www.NickTeddy.org, on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NickTeddyOrg) and on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/NickTeddyOrg).

We appreciate your consideration in covering Nick's story and our mission to make a difference in Ewing's sarcoma research.

Race Director/Contact: Holly Larson
309-798-3081 / foundation@nickteddy.org

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley has signed onto a letter urging the U.S. Trade Representative and the Acting Secretary of Commerce to consider initiating a challenge at the World Trade Organization regarding the recent decision by the European Commission to impose an anti-dumping duty on exports of ethanol from the United States.

"The administration ought to take a very aggressive position against this penalty because of the way it violates trade law standards and practices that are well established," Grassley said.  "What's happened is an unfair trade practice, and the negative impact on the U.S. renewable energy industry is already measurable."

The penalty is "unprecedented" with the Commission's "failure to make any particular finding of dumping by any producer or marketer investigated in connection with the case," wrote the bipartisan group of 15 senators led by Senators John Thune and Amy Klobuchar.  "We believe this rule sets dangerous precedent for trade and trade remedies in advance of the well-publicized state of important trade talks between the United States and the European Union, and will dramatically and unilaterally change the boundaries and limits of international dumping law," they wrote.

In addition to trade case precedent that has required findings of actual dumping, the senators' letter said there isn't an adequate finding by the European Commission that any injury was suffered in the European ethanol industry, noting it is another requirement of international anti-dumping trade law.

Certain member states of the European Union represent significant export markets for U.S. ethanol producers.  In 2012, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands represented the second and fourth largest importers of importers of U.S. ethanol.

The Quad City International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) will be presenting a FREE Seminar on Monday, May 13, 2013 at the MRA Administrative Offices located at 3800 Avenue of the Cities - Suite 100 in Moline, IL.   The speaker will be Dr. Jill M. Bjerke.  She will be presenting "Cut The Clutter".

Networking/Gathering begins at 5:30 PM, Dinner at 6:00 PM (reservation is required - meal cost is $8.00) and the speaker will begin at 6:30 PM. Following the presentation, a short chapter business meeting will be held.

To register, please contact Stephanie Noyd by 11:00 AM by Friday, April 5, 2013 at (309) 235-5775 or email her at paranoyd5@frontier.com.

For more information, go to our website at www.iaap-quadcity.org/quadcity/meetingsevents. 

IAAP is the world's largest international association of administrative professionals. IAAP offers professional development, leadership training and networking opportunities for administrative professionals. IAAP is a non-profit, volunteer association.

Joining a professional organization demonstrates your commitment to your career. Work is most rewarding when we do it with enthusiasm and give it our best. Through IAAP you will gain knowledge, confidence and contacts that will help you advance professionally. IAAP works to build a professional image of administrative professionals in the workplace.

IAAP membership is open to all persons working in the administrative field, along with business educators, students, firms and educational institutions. There is no test of sponsorship required. Through IAAP qualified professionals can test for the certification rating, the benchmark of excellence in the administrative profession.

For more information please contact Kathy Riley at (309) 489-6122.