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I was reading the story on Zips.com about the "topping-off" ceremony. Good story, fairly well written until I came across this (Dr. Proenza's remarks):“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to InfoCision Stadium at Summa Field. The progress being made is outstanding and this ‘Topping Off’ ceremony celebrates a significant milestone along the way. I want to recognize of course my colleagues Gary Taylor and Tom Strauss who are here and provided the initial impotence to get us moving. Thank you FirstMerit for your additional gift.Impetus, perhaps?!?! OMG, who can I contact to get that embarrassment off of there?

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I did that thanks, just hoping someone might have quicker access to get it fixed since as it is it is a rather embarrassing remark about our two biggest donors. I did pay attention in my UA English classes. :)

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I did that thanks, just hoping someone might have quicker access to get it fixed since as it is it is a rather embarrassing remark about our two biggest donors. I did pay attention in my UA English classes. :)
I can only imagine that the articles are not edited all that well. Besides that error you mentioned there are a lot of missing words.
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I was reading the story on Zips.com about the "topping-off" ceremony. Good story, fairly well written until I came across this (Dr. Proenza's remarks):“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to InfoCision Stadium at Summa Field. The progress being made is outstanding and this ‘Topping Off’ ceremony celebrates a significant milestone along the way. I want to recognize of course my colleagues Gary Taylor and Tom Strauss who are here and provided the initial impotence to get us moving. Thank you FirstMerit for your additional gift.Impetus, perhaps?!?! OMG, who can I contact to get that embarrassment off of there?
Contact them if you want, but your note may fall flat. :D
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Well somebody somewhere stood at full attention because it has been fixed. What a mistake to have in there for a "topping-off" party. Thank you all for all of your "help". :lol:

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This is a little irrelevent, but im not going to start a new topic over it...I cannot begin to understand why they did the topping-off ceremony now when the other half of the press tower isnt even completed, let alone that beam they marked as the "highest beam" isnt even the highest one? The beams for the elevator shaft are much higher..The other thing I noticed... the beam the execs were signing seemed awfully white compared to what I saw last Thursday...just some thoughts...

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This is a little irrelevent, but im not going to start a new topic over it...I cannot begin to understand why they did the topping-off ceremony now when the other half of the press tower isnt even completed, let alone that beam they marked as the "highest beam" isnt even the highest one? The beams for the elevator shaft are much higher..The other thing I noticed... the beam the execs were signing seemed awfully white compared to what I saw last Thursday...just some thoughts...
I believe they had to paint over the student signatures so there would be room for the big wheels John Hancocks.
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This one stuck out to me:

Mack Rhoades – Remarks About InfoCision Stadium – Summa Field“As we move forward, people continue to ask me as excitement continues to build, how can we get involved? How can we support this process? The answer is very simple: purchase a season ticket. It gets none simpler than that. When we look at bringing football on campus, we need people here. We need people to help celebrate a wonderful event and what better event to have on this campus, than 20-30 thousand people here on Saturdays during the fall to come and experience college football. Not only college football on this campus, but for people to also see the transformation of this campus. If you look at the last 10 years, what has happened here, it’s absolutely phenomenal.
I'm no English major, but something about that wording seems a little off to me.
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We’ll call that a MAC-apropismhttp://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/malapropism?view=ukMy wife sent the above. She also rolls here eyes before a game and says, "Are you ready for some MACtion?". When the games become almost unwatchable because of the poor play she calls is "MACtastic".
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Damn that's funny. I'm going to have to start using those. SeeTeeZipper
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This is a little irrelevent, but im not going to start a new topic over it...I cannot begin to understand why they did the topping-off ceremony now when the other half of the press tower isnt even completed, let alone that beam they marked as the "highest beam" isnt even the highest one? The beams for the elevator shaft are much higher..The other thing I noticed... the beam the execs were signing seemed awfully white compared to what I saw last Thursday...just some thoughts...
The topping off ceremony is done as soon as the highest level of a structure is reached. It doesn't have to be the final beam of the building. They wanted the dignitaries to have the best whether possilbe on top of it.As for the beam, they probably did paint over parts of it.

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