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Fragomeni-Branco Rematrch Riot in WBC Title Fight-Open Scoring To Blame, A Perfet Example of Why This Rule Needs to Be Junked.
Fragomeni-Branco Rematrch Riot in WBC Title Fight-Open Scoring To Blame, A Perfet Example of Why This Rule Needs to Be Junked.
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Has anyone heard or see the video of the Fragomeni-Branco bout and riot following the rematch? Apparently, the fight was an elimination for the WBC Cruiserweight Title. (Silver Belt.) The b.s 4th and 8th round open scoring rule was in effect, and after the scores were announced for round 8, showing Silva behind on the cards, the crowd got worked up and rioted. According to several sources no decision could be announced. But after the fight the cards showed that Fragomeni won a controversial majority decision:
Security issues such as what open scoring can cause in a negative way were shown here. It is time for the WBC to drop this rule, and for commissions around the world to refuse to use open scoring of ANY KIND. (Even known to the corners only, it can produce serious negative implications.)
I also commented at Box Rec that has a topic about this:
Never liked the open scoring:
1.) Too many track meet potentials for the fighter who's ahead.
2.) Greater negative opportunity for the corner and crowd to influence the fight. We had a riot here, seemingly created by the WBC's 4th and 8th round Open Scoring System angering the crowd.
3.) Commissions MUST pass bi-laws to overturn this insane WBC rule, just as US and British Federations have done.
4.) Open Scoring does not make for better judges. Judges need to be experienced at the world championship level and have high accountability for the decisions that they render.
5.) The WBC allows for only the corners to know the scores after round 4 and 8 as an alternative to open scoring, but this modification seems to create the same above problems.
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1 riot by some lunatics?
If it happened in every WBC sanctioned fight, then yes it should be abandoned.
Track meets happened before open scoring.
Don't have a problem with open scoring.
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Threatened with deportation and paid illegally low wages, East Bay recycling workers did the unthinkable: They fought back.
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Striking ACI workers at the gate of the recycling facility demand the right to return to their jobs after a work stoppage.David Bacon
We all want to be responsible for our environment. We sort our trash. We put the right things into the right containers, and feel good when we see them at the curb on trash pickup day.
Then the trash disappears. End of story.
But really, it's not the end. Not only does the trash go somewhere, but people still have to sort through what we've thrown away. In a society full of people doing work that's unacknowledged, and often out of sight, those who deal with our recycled trash are some of the most invisible of all.
Sorting trash is dangerous and dirty work. In 2012 two East Bay workers were killed in recycling facilities. With some notable exceptions, putting your hands into fast moving conveyor belts filled with cardboard and cans does not pay well — much less, for instance, than the jobs of the drivers who pick up the containers at the curb. And the sorting is done almost entirely by women of color; in the Bay Area, they are mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America, as well as some African Americans.
This spring, one group of recycling workers, probably those with the worst conditions of all, finally had enough. Their effort to attain higher wages, particularly after many were fired for their immigration status, began to pull back recycling's cloak of invisibility. Not only did they become visible activists in a growing movement of East Bay recycling workers, but their protests galvanized public action to stop the firings of undocumented workers.
Alameda County Industries occupies two big, nondescript buildings at the end of a cul-de-sac in a San Leandro industrial park. Garbage trucks with recycled trash pull in every minute, dumping their fragrant loads gathered on routes in Livermore, Alameda, and San Leandro. These cities contract with ACI to process the trash. In the Bay Area, only one city, Berkeley, picks up its own garbage. All the rest sign contracts with private companies. Even Berkeley contracts recycling to an independent sorter.
At ACI, the company contracts out its own sorting work. A temp agency, Select Staffing, hires and employs the workers on the lines. As at most temp agencies, this means sorters have no health insurance, no vacations, and no holidays. It also means wages are very low, even for recycling. After a small raise two years ago, sorters began earning $8.30 per hour during the day shift, and $8.50 at night.
Last winter, workers discovered this was an illegal wage.
Because ACI has a contract with the city of San Leandro to process its recycling, it is covered by the city's Living Wage Ordinance, passed in 2007. Under that law, as of July 2013: "Covered businesses are required to pay no less than $14.17 per hour or $12.67 with health benefits valued at least $1.50 per hour, subject to annual CPI [consumer price index] adjustment."
There is no union for recycling workers at ACI, but last fall some of the women on the lines got a leaflet advertising a health and safety training workshop for recycling workers, put on by Local 6 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. There, they met the union's organizing director, Agustin Ramirez. "Sorting trash is not a clean or easy job anywhere," he recalls, "but what they described was shocking. And when they told me what they were paid, I knew something was very wrong."
Ramirez put them in touch with a lawyer. In January, the lawyer sent ACI and Select a letter stating workers' intention to file suit to reclaim the unpaid wages. ACI has about 70 sorters. At 2,000 work hours per year each, and a potential discrepancy of almost $6 per hour, that adds up to a lot of money in back wages.
Can we just go ahead and deport them now?
Posted by Chromefields on Jun. 12, 2014 @ 11:39 am
(or renting to one) is that they won't go whining about their damn "rights".
Of course, they can. But then Mister Freeze from ICE pays them a call. That means a few months is a privatized federal facility in Texas with no air conditioning, and then a very hot, unpleasant bus ride back to Bumfuck, Guatamala.
Posted by Guest on Jun. 12, 2014 @ 11:59 am
Any chance we could put Campos on that bus back to Bumfuck, Guatamala?
He did enter this country illegally.
Posted by Right Wing Top on Jun. 13, 2014 @ 7:10 am
Employer broke the law by paying illegal workers too little?
Simple solution: Charge the employer and deport the illegals.
"One fired janitor, Teresa Mina, said at the time, "This law is very unjust. We're doing jobs that are heavy and dirty, to help our children have a better life, or just to eat. Now my children won't have what they need.""
You have no right to be in this country and you tell us that our laws are unjust?
To everyone but doctrinaire leftists and amoral business owners it's obvious...
Don't like a foreign country's laws? Stay out.
Posted by Honest Abe on Jun. 12, 2014 @ 3:25 pm
then encourage driving down wages here in the good old USA.
Posted by Guest on Jun. 13, 2014 @ 1:20 am
Mexico has zero qualms deporting people working illegally in Mexico. The law is broadly supported there.
Posted by Right Wing Top on Jun. 13, 2014 @ 7:19 am
There is really no talk of immigration reform, what quotas of new immigrants from what countries are desired moving forward, rather documenting the undocumented and opening up the door for H1-B "guest workers."
The "immigration" political debate is really flipped upside down.
It makes no sense that this is such a high priority progressive electoral issue given that it inherently addresses the issues of very few voters and serves as a boon to corporate interests. Many "progressives" on "the left" who advocate for "immigration reform" labor under the misapprehension that immigrants represent a somehow untapped reservoir of progressive/liberal support simply because of their ethnicity and status of being oppressed as undocumenteds.
Immigrants tend to cleave politically closer to conservatives because they chose to move to the center of a brutal libertarian capitalist empire and cannot be expected to behave politically in a way that challenges that simply because they are people of color who've been oppressed. The right wing is too racist and xenophobic to realize this.
Undocumented people from Latin America should be given a safe landing here, but this is only an important issue due to corporate need for a reliable source of cheap labor.
Posted by marcos on Jun. 13, 2014 @ 5:09 am
"Immigrants tend to cleave politically closer to conservatives because they chose to move to the center of a brutal libertarian capitalist empire and cannot be expected to behave politically in a way that challenges that simply because they are people of color who've been oppressed."
That or because the left has descended into preoccupation with pet identity issues and offers nothing to people who want to work hard and create a better life for their families.
"There is really no talk of immigration reform, what quotas of new immigrants from what countries are desired moving forward, rather documenting the undocumented and opening up the door for H1-B "guest workers."
The "immigration" political debate is really flipped upside down."
That's right. We should decide who we want to accept first. Rewarding those who break the law by residing here illegally or employing illegals is backwards and unfairly punishes those who go through the process legally.
Posted by Guest on Jun. 13, 2014 @ 6:22 am
I am not so concerned about punishing those here illegally as I am about rationalizing the debate over immigration moving forward.
Posted by marcos on Jun. 13, 2014 @ 7:03 am
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MMBB: You know what I have to ask first...Coming out to "I'm Fat" by Weird Al, your idea or the UFC?
Nelson: That would be (pauses) For the creativity would have to come from me.MMBB: I figured that, as a great self promoter, one of the best at it, where do you get that from?
Nelson: Other people have done the roadmaps for us, you know, other athletes that have stuck out. From Andre Agassi being a rebel to using Tito Ortiz as an example in our business. You need something to stand out and make you different from the rest of the crowd, plus you have to be able to fight.
MMBB: Thats's the main thing. When you were going on to TUF, hardcore fans knew you, but casuals only follow the UFC generally, do you know what you were ranked prior to the show?
Nelson: I think I was definitely in the top 20, but ratings really don't count, that very media manipulated. I think they actually still have Brett Rogers in the top 10.
MMBB: I agree, what I was getting at is do you think that TUF could have hurt your career rather than help it? I mean you probably could have gotten into the UFC without TUF.
Nelson: Yeah, doing TUF show was basically a PR ploy. Basically it was my PR stunt to make sure I was introduced to the UFC's fans correctly.
MMBB: Now did you have any idea Kimbo Slice was going to be on the show prior to taping?
Nelson: No, that was actually one of the biggest surprises, and then when I found out I had to fight him I was actually a little upset about it.
MMBB: When you saw him walk out you must've been happy knowing the fan base he brings to the table, even though he's not even a real mma fighter, he's gonna get you crazy exposure.
Nelson: On the business side, yeah I was happy because more people are going to be watching the show because of Kimbo. When I had to fight him, I hated that, all I could think of was that "ah man I'm losing like a half million dollars."
MMBB: I guess that's one way to look at it too, I never thought of it like that, I'm thinking you get the so called "glory boy" in your first fight. A lot of the audience probably thought you were going to lose, so in the long run you get a lot more fans. But then again if that fight happens on CBS you're gonna make a lot of money!
Nelson: yeah, that's what he had made his last fight, and I figured when I fought Andrei, he made a half million so I figured I could have made roughly at least half that or at least a half a million.
MMBB: During the show, Dana White didn't seem to care for you, is your relationship good with him or is it basically he's your boss and that's it?
Nelson: Actually I'd say nobody is really my boss because we are independent contractors. Well at least that's what we are told on paper. So for the most part, Dana promotes fights, that's what he's good at. But the real boss over at the UFC is Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta and Dana, but those are the guys that...You got to really understand how the pecking order really goes.
MMBB: I understand you guys are independent contractors, but on the flip side if you said hey I'm gonna go wrestle in the WWE, not like Rampage and his cameo, but really wrestle, they aren't going to let you do that, so technically you are tied down no?
Nelson: Technically if we are independent contractors then that would be a negative.
MMBB: Really, wow, I've never heard it quite put like that. How's the knee rehab going?
Nelson: Rehab is still a work in progress, I think a couple weeks ago I had a little set back but for the most part it's getting better. It's good that I've had some time off.
MMBB: There were rumors that Brock had called you out, then it was said he didn't. Can you explain to me step by step how you would beat Brock. It's already obvious that he doesn't like to get hit, so how would you go about beating him?
Nelson: Actually everyone can thank Shane Carwin. Shane Carwin showed everybody how to beat Brock Lesnar. Then Cain Velasquez took it one step further, said ok I'm not going to get tired, and now the third person to fight Brock just watches what Cain Velasquez did. That's the thing that Brock is gonna have to fix, like ok I can't get a take down and I can't stop the takedown. Basically Velasquez showed how to beat him so we should thank Cain.
MMBB: It's very obvious he doesn't like to get hit, does that have to do with heart or does he have to actually go to a decent training camp where he's not paying everyone and he's not the boss? Where do you think it stems from?
Nelson: I really don't know if he doesn't like to be hit in the face or anything like that. How it works in our sport, it's either you like to get hit or you don't like to get hit, like you don't mind getting hit. If you don't really like getting hit...I know some great athletes that just can't get punched. They just close their eyes and end up like a flopping fish out of water. It's one of those things, it's not a skill I think you learn, it's more like an animal instinct.
MMBB: You brought up Shane Carwin, you got Todd Duffee, we see these guys all jacked up with muscle on top of muscle gassing out quick. Do you think it's because of their physique whereas a guy built like you and me doesn't get tired so quick?
Nelson: Anybody that know the physiology of the human body knows that the more muscle you have the more oxygen you need. So the more muscle you have, your cardio needs to be better, it's not rocket science. That's why I like to float like water.
MMBB: I talked to a fan yesterday who said he thinks you could make 205, what do you have to say to that fan?
Nelson: You know I wish I could make 205, but I haven't seen 205 since my sophomore year in high school, and maybe I'd have to cut off my right leg or something like that.
MMBB: Do you have anyone in particular that you want to fight when you come back or are you basically waiting to see who's offered?
Nelson: You know what, I'd fight anybody that's on the roster, but if I had my choices I would go: Big Nog, but he's out until June, so in my perfect scenario it would go Brock, Big Nog, then fight for the belt and then fight Shane and then whoever. I really don't care!
MMBB: I love fighters like that, I can't stand these guys that you hear about turning down fights, I mean if you're a fighter, why are you turning down fights?
Nelson: The way I look at it is if you're supposed to be the best of the best, you shouldn't be turning down any fights.
MMBB: Another debate we were having on a forum the other day is, obviously Greg Jackson's camp gets a lot of flack for being boring, Jon Fitch and Gray Maynard, do you think it would be perceived as less boring if in North America they allowed knees to the head of grounded opponent or kicks and stomps. I mean instead of someone sitting in north/south position, they could potentially end the fight, where do you stand?
Nelson: I don't really believe in knees to the head on the ground, or soccer kicks. It's still a sport. It's not because these guys are boring fighters, it's kinda rigged for...the reason it's considered a boring fight is because the guy on the bottom doesn't know how to get up. Everyone thinks it's the guy on top not doing anything, but the guy on top is the guy that's winning. The guy on top is in the dominant position, why does everyone think he has to be doing something? Really it's the guy on bottom that actually sucks and that's the reason he can't do anything.
MMBB: And that's the reason he's on the bottom to begin with?
Nelson: Right.
MMBB: Judging, do you have problems with all these bad decisions, I know the most recent was Rampage, I thought it coulda gone either way, but what do you say about judging, finish fights or get guys that actually know mma rather than guys like Cecil Peoples?
Nelson: The Machida fight was either Machida won or it was a draw. It's kinda hard to say because they are using the 10 point must system. I think it be easier if it wasn't 3 rounds, now if you mess up once it kinda screws up the whole thing versus if you had like 5 rounds then you could make it up, you could double check yourself. I just think judges need to be more educated.
MMBB: I agree, there's been a lot of rounds where I could score it 10-10, but they just are too afraid to score it that way.
Nelson: The reason most judges won't do it is because 10-10 will screw up the whole scenario of who wins because you'll have a lot of draws. It also would be messing up with all the bookies, there has to be money being made.
MMBB: I don't know about that.
Nelson: There's no ties in gambling.
MMBB: Right, I gamble a lot, and on a lot of mma, and I would have no problem with, Machida/Rampage is a good example, I thought it could have gone either way, I would have been happy as hell with a draw and I as a betting man would have no issue with the draws, it would make guys think more like: Oh shit I have to finish because there have been a lot of 10-10 rounds.
Nelson: Actually in mma it wouldn't make a difference because for most fighters, say you fought 50 times and they were all draws, it would be like, hey I'm 0-0-50. You're still gonna get paid the same, it's really not going to affect your money if you're one of the top guys. Every fighter goes out there trying to finish the fight, sometimes it just doesn't happen. You hit some guy hard enough in the head and they just don't go down and then sometimes you're like man I'm tired. There's a lot of things that go on with a fighter throughout the whole fight. Like Fitch vs. GSP, that was the most funnest fight to watch, but then you got GSP and how he fights now, he fights safe. There's nothing wrong with that it's just, as long as you're a winner, everyone loves you and you're gonna get paid. How our scenario works is if you get paid with a win bonus, it's about just winning, it has nothing to do with how exciting you look because most people's win bonus is bigger than knock out of the night or submission of the night. So it really doesn't make sense to go out and say I'm gonna get KO of the night and then lose, and then you lose your win bonus. It's one of those things that really doesn't make sense, the whole thing is just to win.
MMBB: You bring up GSP and fighting safe, it's obviously been ever since Serra clocked him, do you think that affected him as in he doesn't like to get hit, he has a soft chin, what do you think is going through his head?
Nelson: No I think it's once you get knocked out or once you get put in a position you never want to be in again, you just learn from it and go I'll never have that happen again, and GSP has done that, he's never let it happen again. That's just being a smart fighter, it has nothing to do with being a boring fighter or I don't want to engage or do this, it's just I don't want to get knocked out, I want to win. It's like a coach in basketball using different defenses where they don't have to play man or they play some zone. It's just different strategies.
MMBB: You think Koscheck has a chance?
Nelson: I think he has a better chance than last time. I think Koscheck was just thrown off with GSP's wrestling ability and I think this time he'll be ready for his wrestling so he won't be on his back as much. I think it will come down to who has the better striking and who can mix it up the best.
MMBB: How many months are we away from seeing you fight again?
Nelson: I'm open, my Dr. was going to let me fight sometime in February, so I'm hoping like March.
MMBB: That's right around the time Brock should be coming back, I hope the UFC can put that fight together, I know as a fan I'd want to see it!
Nelson: That's a fight I'd like to see, if not maybe you will be seeing me on the TUF show, maybe I'll be an ultimate fighter coach.
MMBB: Is that something they've talked to you about or something you're just throwing out there?
Nelson: I'm just putting it out there. I think they know who they want.
MMBB: You'd probably be good at it, isn't that where you got started, coaching?
Nelson: Yeah I coached a couple UFC champions and it wasn't paying the bills so I decided to just go take their money.
MMBB: Roy, I really appreciate the time, anyone you want to thank before I let you go?
Nelson: Always of course the fans, they are the ones that make our sport what it is. Sponsors, Tapout, Roynelson.com, and on twitter roynelsonmma


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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Florida Gulf Coast University men's basketball team travels to the Lone Star State to face Prairie View A&M on Thursday (Nov. 19) at 8:00 p.m., in Prairie View, Texas, and SMU (Nov. 21) at 8:00 p.m., in Dallas. Prairie View A&M is coming off a 69-62 loss to Cincinnati on Monday, while SMU dropped an 80-68 decision to Texas A&M on Monday. Meanwhile, FGCU dropped their season opener this past Friday to No.2 Michigan State.
The Eagles (0-1, 0-0 A-Sun) look to snap a 20-game road losing streak this week. FGCU's last win on the road came on Jan. 26, 2008 at Gardner-Webb, with the Eagles winning 87-80. Chad Lutkenhaus was the only current Eagle that played in that game.
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FGCU and Prairie View A&M will meet for the first time on Thursday.
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Prairie View A&M is 1-1 after defeating Schreiner University (Nov. 14), 91-47, in the season opener and falling to Cincinnati (Nov. 16), 69-62, in its first road game of the season.
The Panthers led by 15 points at one point in the first half and were still leading the Bearcats with 10 minutes remaining in the game before Cincinnati's late charge earned them their first victory of the season.
Prairie View A&M shot 37.1 percent from the field against Cincinnati, going 23-of-62.
The Panthers, who where 78th in the nation in steals per game last year, earned seven steals against the Bearcats and caused 17 turnovers in the loss.
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Senior forward Darnell Hugee, the team's top returning scorer and rebounder, led the Panthers with 16 points and two blocks against Cincinnati. Christopher Jones, a senior guard, also scored in double figures with 10 points and posted seven assists in 37 minutes.
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Know Your Opponent: Southern Methodist
The Mustangs come into the game with a 0-2 record after falling to South Florida (Nov. 13), 68-61, in the season opener and losing to Texas A&M (Nov. 16), 80-68.
In the loss to Texas A&M, Mouhammad Faye, a senior forward, scored 21 points while Paul McCoy added 20 for SMU.
The Mustangs shot 50.0 percent from the field against Texas A&M, going 27-of-54.
Last season, SMU was 9-8 when playing at Moody Coliseum on their way to a 9-20 season record and a 3-13 record in conference play.
The Mustangs were eliminated by the Cougars of Houston in the first round of the C-USA tournament last season, 85-76.
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Last season, a first-year player led SMU in scoring in 27 of 30 games, which was the highest percentage in the nation. McCoy led 12 times as a freshman, Derek Williams led in scoring 10 times as a junior, Faye three times as a junior, and Robert Nyakundi led twice as a redshirt freshman
McCoy, a sophomore guard, averaged 13.4 points per game en route to becoming the first freshman to ever lead SMU in scoring. McCoy earned two C-USA Rookie of the Week honors and was selected preseason All-Conference USA by Blue Ribbon Yearbook for the 2009-10 season.
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FGCU opened its 2009-10 campaign Friday night (Nov. 13) with a 97-58 loss to No. 2 Michigan State at the Breslin Center. The game marked the highest ranked opponent that FGCU has faced, and the second consecutive season that the Eagles have opened up against a ranked opponent. Last season, FGCU opened the season at No. 23 Kansas.
FGCU started off strong, scoring the game's first four points. Derrick O'Neil scored the first basket after he stripped Kalin Lucas and took it the length of the court for the easy layup. Forward Anthony Banks added his first points of the night after another O'Neil steal early in the first half. In the first four minutes of the contest, the Eagles forced four Spartan turnovers.
The game saw seven lead changes in the first half, as the Eagles scored four more go-ahead baskets until Durrell Summers' dunk off Chris Allen's lob put the Spartans ahead 18-17 midway through the first half.
Michigan State finished the half on a 21-6 run, and entered the locker room with 44-27 lead.
In the second half, the Eagles would only come within nineteen points as the Spartans went on to win their 33rd straight home opener and 40th nonconference game in a row at the Breslin Center.
Banks led the Eagles (0-1) with 10 points and junior guard Reed Baker scored nine.
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This is a comfortable condo with a great view of the beach. It's a cozy, relaxing retreat and great for families, couples, senior citizens, etc. Our fully furnished condo offers an unbeatable value: beach view from the unit and balcony and located in a beachfront complex just steps from the beach.
The condo is located on North Beach and faces Corpus Christi Bay. The beach is clean, and the water is calm. Unlike some other beaches, it's not Spring-Break-wild-and-crazy and no vehicles are allowed on the beach; rather, it's calmer and ideal for families and anyone who wants a quieter place to relax. It's also minutes away from great local attractions, like the Texas State Aquarium, USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier and Museum, Whataburger field baseball (Home of the Corpus Christi Hooks minor league baseball team), great local restaurants and shops, and much more. Downtown is also about a 5-minute drive as well. Additionally, if you need more ways to get around town, a bus line is located right in front of the complex
condo rental amenities
Our newly remodeled condo has all the amenities and creature comforts you need for a great vacation:
Living Room
Comfortable Sleeper Sofa that converts into a Queen-size bed. As you sit on the sofa, you'll have a great view of the beach or of the mounted TV on the wall. An end table also has an adjustable reading lamp, and a plush rug is at your feet.
Our fully equipped kitchen is fully equipped with everything you need to make a meal. A full size refrigerator is available along with a stove, oven, sink, microwave, cookware and cooking utensils, dinnerware, eating utensils, coffee maker, and toaster. And we spiced it up with granite countertops and a backsplash.
The newly rennovated features a shower and tub beautifully tiled walls, and frameless glass sliding doors. You can enter it from the hallway or Master Bedroom. Plus, there's extra storage all your toiletries and beauty products.
Master Bedroom
The Master Bedroom features a, double pillow-top Queen size bed that sits against a custom headboard/cabinet. There's also a mounted TV on the wall for your televised entertainment.
Additional Features
- Bunk Beds are located in the hallway and are ideal for children.
- The Dining Area is adjacent to the Living Room.
- You can enter the Balcony from the Living Room to get a great view of the beach.
- Tile floors are throughout the condo.
- The condo can accommodate up to 6 guests (4 adults and 2 children comfortably).
Complex Amenities
- Beachfront complex (Step out right onto the beach.)
- 2 swimming pools, 2 children pools
- 2 hot tubs
- Beautifully maintained gardens
- 4 BBQ parks
- Vending machines located through complex
- Laundry facilities
- Security gates with 24-hour security guard
- Covered parking
- Gift shop
activities and attractions in Corpus Christi Beach Texas
- Texas State Aquarium
- USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier and Museum
- Whataburger Field (Home of the Corpus Christi Hooks minor league baseball team)
- Padre Island National Seashore
- Great Texas Coast Birding Trail
- Port Aransas Birding Center
- Grasslands Nature Trail
- South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center
- Selena Museum
- Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History
- Heritage Park and Cultural Center
- South Texas Institute for the Arts
- Asian Culture Museum and Educational Center
- Corpus Christi Municipal Marina
- Water Street Seafood Company
- Pier 99
- Snoopy's Pier
- Executive Surf Club
- Thai Spice
- Dragonfly
- Acapulco Resturant
- La Playa Mexican Cafe
- Andy's Kitchen
- Republic of Texas Bar and Grill
- Doc's Seafood and Steak
- Saltwater fishing
- Deepsea fishing
- Freshwater fishing
- Hunting
- Birding
- Golf
- Beachcombing
- Live theater
- Jet skiing
- Wind surfing
- Kayaking
- Sailing
- Kiteboarding
- Sightseeing
- Antiquing
vacation rental rates
Summer May 23 - September 1 $130/night, $840/week, $1,800/month
Fall & Winter September 2 - February 28 $100/night, $630/week, $1,000/month
Spring Break March 1 - March 31 $130/night, $840/week, $1,800/month
Spring April 1 - May 22 $120/night, $770/week, $1,400/month
Listed rates do not include tax
Two-night minimum, $30 cleaning fee
$100 deposit required to hold reservation (& is deducted from your total)
Credit Cards Accepted: American Express, Visa, Master Card, Discover, Diner's Club


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AUBURN — A disagreement over City Council decorum and attire has two councilors angry at the incoming mayor.
Mayor-elect Dick Gleason said Tuesday he stands by statements he made last month calling for neater dress at City Council meetings.
"I'm not asking for a jacket and tie," Gleason said. "All I'm saying is that I've seen instances where councilors came to meetings in jeans and shorts. I think it's up to us as city leaders to set an example, especially for children who watch us."
Councilors on Monday later voted to downsize the Dec. 7 inauguration, a move one councilor said was being done to punish the mayor-elect.
Councilors Dan Herrick and Mike Farrell said they were offended by some pre-election comments Gleason made to the Danville Grange last month. Speaking at an Oct. 8 candidate forum, Gleason said he wanted to see more decorum at City Council meetings, beginning with how councilors dress.
"I think there have been times when they've come directly from the barn to the City Council meeting, and I don't think that's how it should be," Gleason told Grange members. "I think they should take a shower and at least put on a shirt."
Herrick, a contractor by trade, took offense at that.
"I have never come here without taking a shower," Herrick said Monday night."Believe it or not, I have hot water, too. I even have floors in my home."
Clothes don't make the man, Herrick said.
"I had a mind tonight to come here in bib overalls and straw hat, and just walk out of the barn without taking a shower," Herrick said. "This guy here is not wearing a suit, coat and a tie to do a good job. And if anybody out there feels they want me to wear a suit, coat and tie, in the next election in two more years, please come forward in a suit, coat and a tie and run against me."
Gleason said he stands by his Oct. 8 statements. He is meeting individually with city councilors, and is giving them copies of the city's employee manual concerning attire and meeting conduct.
"I'm asking what they think about that," Gleason said. He's not trying to get a legal dress code passed, but he wants councilors to be more aware of how they dress.
"I don't think councilors should be above the rules of behavior we expect of our employees," Gleason said. "They should represent the best the city has to offer in all ways. So, I stand by what I said. I don't think I'm barking up the wrong tree."
Farrell said he objected to being presented with the city's employee dress code.
"I don't feel that I am an employee of the City of Auburn," Farrell
said. "If I come into the meeting with my clothes all torn up and my
shoes on the wrong feet, am I going to get written up?"
Inauguration trimmed
Gleason and the City Council are scheduled to be sworn in Dec. 7, and the city usually turns the event into a celebration. But councilors said nobody being sworn in next month is new to the job. A big inauguration is wasted, they said.
"I'd rather see that money go to something worthwhile," Farrell said. "We had people that couldn't heat their homes last winter and now we're going to have a big party? I think it makes more sense to take that money and put it into the heating assistance fund."
City Manager Glenn Aho said Central Maine Community College was donating the space for the inauguration, but the city had planned to spend up to $2,000 for catered refreshments.
Councilor David Young urged councilors to simply cut the catering.
"Otherwise, we're just doing this to upset the mayor-elect," Young said. "Maybe that's the intention of all this, to upset him because he's upset all of us."
Councilors voted 4-2 to cut the catering and move the inauguration to Auburn Hall. Gleason said that was a shame.
"If we're that concerned about costs, just cut the refreshments," he said. "We don't need them, but we do need to celebrate Auburn. And that's what this is: an opportunity for the residents to celebrate Auburn."


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The brush fire that brought over 35 firefighters and seven fire departments to Brink Road near Maxwelton Tuesday evening has been ruled accidental by West Virginia fire foresters.
Investigators told WVVA Wednesday that a resident dumped out ashes from a wood stove, which ignited as winds kicked them up.
The fire spread quickly across the open land because of windy and dry conditions.
Foresters were out marking the ground Wednesday when WVVA returned to the scene. They followed the patterns of burned grass on in the pasture until they found the pile of ashes along Brink Road.
Firefighters warn against placing ashes and other coals on dry ground, adding that high winds can spread a fire and quickly make it even more dangerous.
Resident Edgar LaRue said he initially tried to put the fire out, but it was too strong and he had to fall back.
"Flames were coming in rolls like 20 feet in the air," he said. "You couldn't do anything... you just had to turn and run away from it."
He said the first thing that popped into his mind was concern for his family and his home.
"I was just wondering if [we and the houses] were all going to get burned up," he said. "It could have happened. We're just so thankful it didn't happen.
Only one barn was destroyed in the blaze, and there were no injuries.
The barn's owner was still assessing the damage to his property.
LaRue said the man has good support from his friends in the community as he makes his next steps forward after the fire.
Chief Wayne Pennington from the Lewisburg Fire Department said putting the fire out in such a timely and effective manner was critical, and helped to save nearby homes from the flames.
MAXWELTON, W. Va (WVVA)-- Seven fire departments responded to a brush fire off Brink Road near Maxwelton.
The fire destroyed 40 acres, said Lewisburg Fire Chief Wayne Pennington.
Pennington said most of the land was open pasture, and no one was injured in the fire. Four landowners were affected by the blaze, but only one barn was destroyed.
The cause is still being determined.
Crews were on the scene for nearly 4 hours to put out the blaze. It took 38 firefighters to get the job done.
Pennington said extreme wind, some gusts over 50 miles per hour, and dry conditions contributed to the quick pace at which the fire spread. Flames were blowing against the ground, sometimes at lengths of 20-25 feet.
Considering the size of the blaze and very windy conditions, Pennington said it was a testament to the firefighters and law enforcement on the scene that the blaze was contained without injury or extreme property damage.
Lewisburg, Fairlea, White Sulphur Springs, Frankford, Clintonville, Ronceverte, and Smoot fire departments were on the scene, along with ambulance services and Greenbrier County Sheriff's Deputies.
Stay tuned to WVVA for more details as they become available.
MAXWELTON (WVVA) -- Crews are on the scene of a brush fire in Greenbrier County.
Numerous departments including White Sulphur Springs, Fairlea, Lewisburg and Frankford are fighting the blaze.
The call came in around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
So far the fire has engulfed more than five acres of land and at least one structure is burning.
No word on any injuries at this time.
Stay tuned to WVVA on air and online for new developments.


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How much do you really know what your kid is up to online?
"I have Skype, Facebook," said 14-year-old Jevon Stewart has already had strangers approach him online.
"I just ignore it, or is just delete them," Stewart said.
For his mom is constantly keeping up with new technology seems like a full time job.
Forget Facebook. These days teens are flocking to apps like-- kik messenger. Ask.fm. or formspring. If you've never heard of them, you should learn.
"It's not just a matter of an invasion of privacy, or "oh mom, you're not giving me my freedom" or anything like that, kids are dying because of the things that are happening online. Kids are killing themselves because they're being bullied, "Stephanie Humphrey said.
Stephanie Humphrey is a tech expert. She says many of these popular apps are may seem innocent ways to connect people but can quickly turn into a virtual playgrounds of inappropriate behavior. Bullying on these apps have been linked to several suicides of teenagers from Florida to Australia.
We logged on to ask.fm. The first 2 profiles we saw clear signs of bullying.
"That cloak of anonymity gives people license to say some very harmful things and we've seen specifically with ask six different suicides with teens around the world because of the types of comments they were getting to the questions they were posting," Humphrey said.
All of the social media sites we mention post warnings and safety tips when it comes to bullying and anonymous users. Parents can't be around all the time but there are things you can do to get more connected to your kid's online habits.
Mike Puppio has 2 kids ages 8 and 10. He and his wife installed keystroke recording software on his kids' computers. Everything their kids do online, their parents can see.
Puppio said, "My wife and I have discussed this and I think that if we are paying the cell bill, than we have every right to see what his communications are and that every keystroke, every text message that he sends out comes through to either one of our phones."
Humphrey says another way to keep kids safe is to do your homework.
"Take the time to maybe take a class, grill your kid daily on "hey, show me how to use this," "show me what this means" or take that extra hour a day on your own to sit on your computer and until you get it, " Humphrey said.
Many smartphone apps have ratings. So you can go into your phone setting and disallow you kids from downloading anything 17 or up, but for Jevon he's already learned his lesson. The biggest deterrent from going places where he shouldn't go online is mom and dad.
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Still Lights Gallery
Tiny-Vast Universes
Sunday, March 17 - Saturday, March 23, 2013
Paul Sack Still Lights Gallery
Free and open to the public
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco,
About the Student Exhibition
"Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the results of the love of thousands." Linda Hegan (Chickasaw)
The experience of growing up on Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea in Greece, my ties to it, its history, and people are central to my work. I carry my island with me everywhere. These themes of the past are reflected in my choice of materials and the ethereal, ephemeral forms I create; reminders of the sea, its openness, and possibilities, but also its limitations.
These series of images are documentation of an installation made in November 2012. I used seaweed from the Pacific Ocean and the Aegean Sea, crocheted seaweed, seaweed spheres, drawings on the floor, sound, and light. The photographs show details of this piece that resemble black and white drawings; at the same time, how new worlds reveal themselves as people move closer and become more intimate with them.
Participating Artists
Dimitra Skandali
About the Paul Sack and Still Lights Galleries Exhibitions
The student-run Prentice and Paul Sack Still Lights Gallery displays photo-based work on a weekly basis.
The Galleries are open daily from 9 am–5 pm for exhibition and mural viewing on SFAI's 800 Chestnut Street campus. Opening receptions are on Tuesdays, with an artist talk at 5:30 and a reception from 5–7 pm. For a complete schedule of SFAI's lectures and events, please visit www.sfai.edu/events


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By: Alexandra Cowley
For the 3rd time, 62-year-old Wayne Winslow has been denied parole. A hearing was held today for the family of 20-year-old Brigid Kelly to speak out against his early release.
Winslow was drunk and under the influence of drugs when he stole a van and took off down Route 1 in North Kingstown back in 2001. Winslow forced a minivan into the opposite lane, which hit Kelly's car head on, killing her.
He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and was up for parole for the 3rd time Wednesday morning. The Kelly family had asked the public to come and speak out against his release.
It was an emotional hearing as Kelly's mother Ellen and father Chris read statements about losing their daughter. They said that although it's been more than a decade since she was killed by a drunk driver, the pain never goes away.
They spoke at the hearing about how they believe if Winslow is released, he could end up killing another innocent person.
The victim's father Chris said this, "I
suggest to the parole board strongly to consider the circumstances of
the offenses that Wayne Winslow has brought upon all involved."
After the hearing, the 3-member parole board went to speak with Winslow in prison. Soon after, they made the decision to deny parole. At this point, he's scheduled to be released in January 2015.
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WEEK OF PRAYER: A 'lesson in miracles'
Volunteer missionary Steven Kunkel (center), son of missionaries with IMB in South America, teaches a Saturday Bible study for children at Jesus the Gospel Church in Shiojiri, Japan. At age 5, Steven couldn't speak because of autism, a developmental brain disorder. Today, Steven speaks four languages -- including Japanese -- and is learning five more. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB.
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Missionary kid Steven Kunkel, a volunteer missionary in Japan who hails from South America, refers to his Japanese Bible while drawing Japanese cartoons called manga. All types of manga are hugely popular in Japan, but Steven creates biblically based manga for use in evangelism and discipleship among Japanese young people. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB.
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Steven Kunkel (right), 23, watches a Buddhist monk ring a bell outside a shrine in Narai-juku, Japan, a preserved, historic town on the edge of Shiojiri, a small city in Japan's Nagano province. Steven felt called to Japan as a 15-year-old missionary kid in Uruguay. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB.
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Worshippers at a Japanese-Paraguayan house church in Asunción, Paraguay, pray for Steven Kunkel (center, seated) as he is commissioned for missions service in Japan. The group includes Steven's parents, Tim and Iracema Kunkel (standing behind Steven), who are missionaries in Asunción. Photo by Rebecca Springer/IMB.
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In this 1999 photo shot in Uruguay, missionary kid Steven Kunkel tries to think of the right answer during a homeschool session with his mom, missionary Iracema Kunkel. Today, Steven, who has autism, is a volunteer missionary in Japan. His parents are missionaries in Paraguay. Photo by Denise McGill/IMB.
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At a Brazilian-Japanese Baptist church in Fuji, Japan, Steven Kunkel (left), 23, prays over Filipe Koji Kakumu, the 21-year-old autistic son of Luis Carlos (right) and Margarete Kakumu, Brazilian Baptist missionaries in Fuji. Steven, who himself has autism, is a volunteer missionary in Shiojiri, Japan. He is the son of missionaries with IMB in South America; his mother is from Brazil. Southern Baptist missionaries to Brazil led Steven's great-grandparents to Christ in the 1880s. Photo by Wilson Hunter/IMB.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This year's Week of Prayer for International Missions in the Southern Baptist Convention is Dec. 1-8 with the theme of "Totally His heart, hands, voice" from Matthew 22:36-39. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions in tandem with Cooperative Program gifts from Southern Baptist churches support nearly 5,000 international missionaries in seeking to fulfill the Great Commission. Gifts to the Lottie Moon offering are received through local Southern Baptist churches or online at
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ASUNCION, Paraguay (BP) -- Inside a small Buddhist temple in Shiojiri, Japan, 23-year-old missionary Steven Kunkel -- who hails from Paraguay -- sits at a grand piano, playing one of his original compositions called "Creation." Seated on the floor nearby, a Buddhist woman listens to the music, enthralled.
She's the caretaker of the temple and an adjoining Buddhist training center, and she's giving a tour of the place to Steven along with a Japanese pastor and a media crew from the International Mission Board. The impromptu concert develops after Steven spots the Yamaha piano and asks the woman's permission to play it for her.
She watches and listens, transfixed, as Steven's fingers glide across the keyboard. When he finishes, she wants to hear more. His next song, another original called "The Battle," leaves her equally captivated.
Listening to Steven's music, I feel my own heart stir a bit, too. I remember the first time I heard him play these songs -- a half a world away in Asunción, Paraguay. It was the day after he was commissioned by his church as an independent missionary to Japan.
Steven sat at the piano in his parents' home, sharing his music with family friend Jonathan Yao, IMB photographer Rebecca Springer and me. As Steven's moving melodies filled the living room, I glanced at his parents -- IMB missionaries Tim and Iracema Kunkel -- who listened nearby.
The joy in their eyes told a story.
It was a story I started writing more than 13 years ago, when Tim and Iracema were IMB missionaries in Salto, Uruguay. Then I worked as a writer at IMB's home office in Richmond, Va., but I knew God was calling me to serve overseas as a missionary.
"There's no way I'll go," I told God.
I loved traveling to the mission field, reporting stories about missionaries and their families. But go myself as a missionary?
"Please don't make me do this," I prayed.
I had every excuse in the book and voiced each one of them to God. Often.
"Forget it, Lord," I actually prayed. "I don't have what it takes."
In the midst of that struggle, I spent a week with the Kunkel family in Uruguay, on IMB assignment for what was then The Commission magazine. Steven was just 10 years old; his older brother, John Glenn, was 12. Their older sister, Julia, had already left home for college.
Down-to-earth, authentic and fun, Tim and Iracema opened their home to an IMB photographer and me that week.
In an interview I'll never forget, the couple shared candidly what they experienced the day they learned Steven had autism, a developmental brain disorder causing problems in communication, behavior and social interaction.
"It was like I lost one child and then another one was born," Iracema remembered. "But I knew God had a plan for Steven."
"At first I thought, 'Let's just pack up and go home,'" Tim admitted. "But then I realized that when God called us to missions, He knew the children we were going to have. He allowed this to happen and He has a purpose in this."
The Kunkels saw that purpose unfold while staying faithful to their missions calling and trying to help Steven -- and their two older children -- become all God created them to be. At the same time, they shared the Gospel, trained Uruguayan church leaders and helped Uruguayan Baptists start churches.
"I'm realizing now that a lot of what God's had us doing on the mission field ... [wasn't] so much about us as missionaries. It was about Steven," Iracema said.
Because Uruguay offered few educational programs for people with autism, Iracema studied special education so she could teach Steven herself. Soon, God opened doors for sharing Christ with Uruguayan families affected by autism. Other doors opened through the Kunkels' friendships with Uruguayans.
"Many people we've met think we've been dealt a 'bum hand,'" Tim said. "But when they realize we don't feel that way, it helps us be a witness of God's power."
I saw that power for myself one night in a restaurant while we shared a meal with the Kunkel family. After we finished eating, Steven walked up to the restaurant host and looked him straight in the eye.
"Do you have ice cream?" he asked in Spanish.
His parents watched, amazed at how far God had brought Steven. Six years earlier Steven couldn't even speak English, let alone Spanish.
"He's a walking miracle," Tim said.
Iracema added, "A lesson I've learned through Steven is that miracles don't always happen in the blink of an eye. Sometimes God does miracles through a long slow process, using many different people.
"Autism is never cured. But I feel God has been healing Steven little by little."
From South America to East Asia
After I returned to Richmond, I prayed for the right words to tell this family's story.
"Call it, 'A lesson in miracles,'" God seemed to say.
Soon after that, God did a miracle in me, too. Five months after the story was published, I was appointed an IMB media missionary.
In the years that followed, I lost touch with the Kunkels. But this past year at an IMB meeting in Chile, I heard Iracema call my name.
"When I saw your name on the list [of participants], I couldn't wait to talk to you!" she said. "You won't believe what's happened with Steven! He's going to be a missionary -- to Japan!"
Over a meal the next day, she and Tim shared the rest of their story.
At age 15 in Uruguay, Steven felt God's call to Japan. No Japanese people lived in Salto, so Steven started trying to learn Japanese on his own. Iracema bought him a Japanese phrasebook and he soon mastered all of it.
"He couldn't stop talking about Japan," she recalled.
The next year, the IMB transferred the Kunkels to Paraguay, where many Japanese immigrants live. Steven attended a Japanese school, served in a Japanese-Paraguayan church and learned to speak and read Japanese. In 2011 Steven visited Japan with family friend Jonathan Yao, and that trip opened the door for him to serve as a volunteer missionary there.
Three weeks after seeing the Kunkels in Chile, I flew to Paraguay to attend Steven's commissioning service at a Japanese-Paraguayan house church in Asunción.
"I've felt today that so many questions about Steven's autism have been answered, like a veil is being lifted from my eyes and I'm seeing things through God's eyes," Iracema told me after the service. "I'm thinking, 'for this day you were born, Steven.'"
A few months later, I saw some things through God's eyes, too.
On location in Japan's Nagano province, our IMB media crew interviewed Steven about his work as a missionary there. For a "Kids On Mission" video we titled, "God Can Use You," Steven shared what God had done in his life.
"My favorite verse is Philippians 4:13: 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,'" Steven said. "No matter how disabled you are or what kind of house you live in or what kind of country you're from or what kind of race you are, you just know that if God is with you, who can be against you, because through Him we can do all things."
He added, "I'm fulfilling the work that God called me to do, and I feel I am following my vision and my dreams for what God wants me to do on this earth."
Listening to Steven's interview that day, I realized I was following God's dream for me, too.
"Thank you, Lord, for your 'lesson in miracles,'" I prayed.
Remarkably, the miracles of the Kunkel family began to unfold a century earlier.
In the 1880s, Southern Baptists sent William and Anne Bagby as one of the first Foreign Mission Board (now IMB) missionary couples to Brazil. The Bagbys led Iracema's grandparents and their 13 children to Christ.
"Four generations later," Tim reflected, "and missions is still working!"
Maria Elena Baseler serves as an IMB writer/editor in the Americas.
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