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Former Players Travel Midwest as Part of Royals Alumni Caravan
Last week marked a first for the Royals organization as the Royals alumni unveiled their first-ever Royals Alumni Summer Caravan.
A group of six former players – Royals Hall of Fame members Dennis Leonard and John Mayberry along with former pitcher Al Fitzmorris, catcher Ed Hearn, pitcher Marty Pattin and infielder Greg Pryor – joined long-time broadcaster Fred White and Sluggerrr to travel the Midwest last week.
As part of the four-day tour, the Caravan visited Clay Center, Kan., last Monday before heading into Nebraska. While in the Cornhusker state, the group made stops in Kearney, Hastings, York and Lincoln before returning to Kansas City on Thursday evening. Along the way, the group took part in golf outings coordinated by affiliates of the Royals Radio Network.
Perhaps the most rewarding part of the trip was the Alumni's free instructional baseball clinics for local youth. The kids, numbered anywhere from around 75 to 200 per clinic, got to share the field with some baseball greats and get tips directly from the pros. The parents also had the chance to meet some of their Royals heroes.
While the Royals Alumni participate in a number of activities throughout the year, last week's trip marked the first official Royals Alumni Caravan event. The tour was organized as a supplement to the club's annual winter Caravan, which will continue this coming offseason. Last winter, the Royals Caravan visited appeared at 50 events in 35 communities – and racked up a few thousand miles over the Midwest landscape!
Even though their time on the baseball diamond may be over, former players continue to be a huge part of the Kansas City Royals organization. We look forward to continuing this Royal tradition and visiting more Royals fans during our future Caravan events!
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I think it is really funny that George Brett, Amos Otis, Willie Wilson and others will be at a T-Bones game for charity. Heh, heh, maybe they should sign up for the Royals…they couldn't be any worse than the jokers they have playing for them now.
Is there going to be any official response on this site to the disquiet shown by many people who posted responses to the very first story – on the Royals withdrawing media accreditation to two journalists after the media conference to unveil Mr. Moore as GM?
Pathetic organization run by a pathetic little man
Allright, enough about the glASSes business. I can understand frustration with the organization and ownership but to do that is just plain childish. I am a 21 year old student at KU and I can see the ignorance shown by using glASSes. Yes, we are all frustrated. Yes, we want to see a winner on the field. Yes, we're all disgusted with how the media credentials situation has been handled and even more so by the lack of comment from the organization. So what?
I would love to see the Royals win. I would live to be a fan of a contender. Is it going to happen this year? No. In the next five years? Likely not. We're all posting in this blog because we still care. Sad and angry as it makes us we still do care about this sad sad franchise. I am assuming the series of stars (******) means some of you are using profanity. Is there no better way to express ourselves without swearing? Simply being angry about the state of a franchise does not mean we have to post profanity on a blog. Upset that this blog is biased? It is run by management, of COURSE it is slanted. Read if you want, comment if you want but don't expect an answer, especially if you are swearing and using the word "glASS".
You're ashamed of the franchise? Me too. I'm still going to cheer for them.
Go Royals!
Let's give the Glass/Baird/Poor Team issue a rest. Was it handled correctly? NO. But everyone makes mistakes, and hopefully the Glasses have learned from theirs and will let Moore run the Royals now. I believe hiring Dayton Moore was a positive first step and we are on the long road to recovery. What transpired in the past is history, so let's look to the future. GO ROYALS!
I REALLY wish that I could agree with the comments above, but this issue is obviously NOT in the past, at least in the eyes of many, many fans. Until the organization restores the credentials, I don't think there is going to be any rest.
If the reporters what their credentials back they should have conducted them selves like an adult. If you want to be treated in a professional manner then conduct your business in a professional manner. Most people learn that lesson early in their professional life.
Dayton Moore will get this team turned around. Will it happen this year or next, probably not but it will happen. Just a couple of years ago The Detroit Tigers were on the verge of losing 120 games. This year they have the best record in baseball.Teams can be turned around. Dayton deserves a chance and our support.
If you remember, qualified owners that would keep the team here did not come running when the Glass' purchased the Royals. If you want the Glass' to sell the team their will have to be qualified buyer.
this is so sad. so indicative of the "leadership" of the kansas city royals. it's obvious no one within the organization is going to address anything posted here..they are too busy ginning up stupid promotions like this. their only fanbase is kids…adults have long since abandoned this sorry excuse for a major-league baseball team. think of the embarrassment real ballplayers like brett, otis, etal., have to be feeling to be forced to participate in sham events like this. groveling in front of a bunch of kids. when these tots grow up and can make decisions of their own, they will flee any association with the royals like any sane person would. there is no class to stating one is a royals fan. in fact, to do so indicates a shallow, meaningless life spent in obscurity and of little worth. there are so many more worthwhile ways to spend one's time and money that supporting a bunch of overpaid little leaguers such as the royals. cleaning out grease traps would be of more benefit. mr. glASS, would you kindly save face for our city and take your crappy little team, your incompetent son, and leave town? the sooner the better.
Thank You , maxbob, we could not have agreed with you more. People should learn their manners, and know their place. AND… If they can't , we will be more than happy to silence their voices….
Why are we still using the glASS thing? Do you enjoy making yourself look uneducated? If you want to say the owner is incompetent, fine. To resort to name calling like a child in elementary school does nothing. You want them to read this blog and respond to our comments? Try to at least act like an adult.
Thank You shawbo… We couldn't agree more. It sounds like people are finally starting to see the light.
With folks like shawbo and maxbob around, our work here may soon be done……
lets go forward, and play ball.the new gm is a step in the right direction.give him a chance and lets see if we can get major league baseball going in kc. he is from a winning system and should turn it around fast. a trade here and there, boom a 500 2nd half and all kc fans are happy!
i don't know anymore really yeah the credentials issue is in the past but it was not handled well by the pr depeartment. i mean come on people we all know they do not have a good history when it comes to PR. i.e. when glass stormed out of a dateline interview about child labor issues and such. they neeed to work on their pr skills and stop using escape goats to deflect attention off ownership. clearly they did not expect that kind of pr. i agree with the questions they asked. they spoke for a few fans out there that needed questions to be asked. what's the moral to that story? come out of arkansas from hiding and speak out. i mean he is accountable to at least the taxpayers of jackson county for passing the renovations issue.
First, I want to comment on the Caravan since this is what the story is about. I think it is great that they are doing more in the communities of the area.
And now on to the credential thing. You have to remember that having credentials is a privilege not a right. The Royals grant that privilege. And the argument about infringing on the freedom of speech is just wrong. Fescoe and Moss still can write and say whatever they want. People act like the press has more power than the police and can just have access to whatever they want. Just like if you knew someone who acted in a way that you didn't like and thought was wrong, you would have the right not to have them come over to your house.
Hey Glass,
Sell the Royals.


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Politics | Leftists packed into this year's Take Back America conference, and they had little patience for establishment Democrats
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Washington, D.C., Hilton hotel on Connecticut Avenue has had a rollercoaster history. In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot Ronald Reagan just outside it. In 2004, President Bush held his inauguration ball on the concourse. And last week the Campaign for America's Future's annual Take Back America conference, now a major event on the political left, overflowed from the hotel convention facilities.
The three-day event for 2006 was enormous-and an enormous rollercoaster ride for liberals of every kind. The conference occupied the concourse and terrace levels of the ritzy hotel, filling its largest ballrooms and exhibition hall and spilling over into the outdoor gazebo. Many among the several thousand attendees seemed excited by the idea that the political defeats of past years were over: in the organizers' words, that "the conservative revolution is at a tipping point" and "losing steam."
The ride began with opening remarks on Monday, June 12, by Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, who described how "groundwork has been laid for a progressive era to rise out of the conservative rubble." Progressives, it seemed, were climbing to the top.
But the rollercoaster dipped as Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, the left's weekly staple, followed Mr. Borosage by complaining that Democrats are out of ideas and out of touch, to the point of engaging in "complicit conservatism." She admonished party loyalists, "This is a time for conviction, not caution." Ms. vanden Heuvel's comments were the official admission of a widening intra-conference rift, one exacerbated by the looming arrival of leading Democratic politicians.
The tension was evident at the 12:30 luncheon when attendees gathered to eat Caesar salad and listen to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Mormon who has at times opposed abortion. The choice excited few-it was yet another wedge shoved between centrists and numerous left-leaners-and the infighting about his selection discouraged many. The clanking of polished silverware all but drowned out the senator.
After Mr. Reid came an equally unlikely mixture of suave Robert Redford, AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney, National Wildlife Federation president Larry Schweiger, and two-time presidential candidate Gary Hart. This was but a sampling of the Who's Who on the Left at the conference: Blogger-journalist Arianna Huffington emceed the gala dinner, Sen. Tom Harkin presented an award to Texas philanthropist Bernard Rapoport, author Barbara Ehrenreich debated co-director Borosage, and even Sen. Edward Kennedy appeared, bigger than life, via the projection monitors.
Also in bigger-than-life projection was an extended trailer for Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, which played to a nearly instantaneous standing ovation. In addition, the conference screened other documentaries, some innocuous (The Motherhood Manifesto, featuring Rosie the Riveter balancing a baby on her bicep) and others not (Iraq for Sale, whose name is self-explanatory).
Down below, on the concourse level, signs flanking entrances into the Hilton's 45,000-square-foot exhibition hall and its vendor booths read, "We know what to do: Impeach him." On top of NOW, NARAL, ACORN, and the ACLU (which still contends it is nonpartisan), there was the Backbone Campaign, which sold miniature spines to discourage purchasers from engaging in yes-man, convictionless support of their politicians.
Attendees cautious of "establishment politicians" also seemed to be looking for signs of spinelessness at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday in the Hilton's International Ballroom, a classy combination of contemporary architecture bathed in florid adornments. That's when Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. John Kerry, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi were to begin their back-to-back-to-back speechmaking.
Before the main event, two graying, hippie-looking men in the third row hoisted a handmade banner that read, in all caps, "IMPEACH BUSH." (This was becoming the unofficial theme of the week.) Wild applause erupted, and several people nearby, energized by their proximity to this agitation, felt compelled to stand in solidarity and raise peace signs. This horrified the conference leaders, who discouraged such displays and constantly reminded attendees, whom they treated like mischievous children, to "be respectful."
The three speakers were supposed to split 90 minutes-a virtual impossibility for accommodating the grandstanding of a presidential hopeful, a has-been, and a wannabe. All three approached the podium to applause, but the same unspoken division that underlay the rest of the conference-the disconnect between self-labeled "progressives" and the Democratic establishment-was apparent during the speeches.
When Sen. Clinton addressed the Iraq war, she lambasted the president but waffled in her own resolve. "It is not in our best interest to set a certain date [for withdrawal]," she said, her voice trailing at the end as it succumbed to the roar of boos. Sensing her nose-diving popularity, the senator added noncommittally, "A plan should be developed to bring our troops home."
As Sen. Clinton, who spoke first, exited the stage, one bold soul belted, "Bring 'em home, Hillary!" This novelty quickly caught on; soon, many of the 2,000 in attendance were chanting either "Bring troops home!" or "Now!"
Rep. Pelosi pleased the crowd more, especially when she noted that she had called for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld: This received roughly 30 seconds of sustained applause, indicating that the easiest way to unite progressives at this conference was to attack their enemies.
Many conference attendees even wondered why organizers had invited Sen. Clinton and Sen. Kerry: To hardcore progressives, these two represented the Democratic establishment par excellence. Their argument against Sen. Clinton was particularly strong, since Jonathan Tasini, who is running against her in November on a solidly leftist ticket, was not even invited to attend the conference.
Later that afternoon came more panel discussions and more anti--Bush administration vitriol. For "Eruption: Challenging a Lawless President," House Minority Whip John Conyers, who has sponsored a bill to look into impeachment, joined Steve Cobble, who runs a website advocating impeachment. Mr. Cobble began with a survey: "Raise your hand if you think that President Bush has committed impeachable offenses." Of the nearly 150 gathered in the room, including Rep. Conyers, the other panelists, and media, this reporter was the only person without a hand raised.
Arms were still up when the rear doors suddenly flew open and the "Chain Gang" entered. The "Chain Gang" was an elaborate contrivance: four people dressed in caricatured Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld costumes with enormous heads, all shackled together in prison uniforms and paraded around like bobble-head dolls by a phony prison guard. The surprise appearance sent attendees into a frenzy.
On Wednesday, the final day of the conference, the rollercoaster car was slower. Much of Monday's buoyancy-with John Sweeney roaring, "Now is when we take back the country"-seemed lost in weariness. Even the music turned, with Frank Sinatra's "I've Got the World on a String" on Monday wilting into mellow Kenny G tunes.
A veteran attendee named Pamela Schwartz, outreach director for a group called National Priorities Project that monitors government spending, says this happened after the 2004 conference as well-and will there be staying power for a campaign when negativism emerges on day three?
But Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, billed as a progressive lawmaker and strategically placed during the luncheon as the final speaker of the conference, brought the conference back to life. The only speaker introduced as "a rock star" and "one of us," he had only to say eight words-"The time is now; let's take back America"-for the progressives to leap up in riotous applause, forgetting their tired feet.
For the moment, conference attendees were back on top again. They ate their mixed-berry shortcake desserts excitedly: After all, it was their time.

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(USA TODAY) -- Sheldon Stephens, the first of four men to have accused Sesame Street's former Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of sexual abuse, filed a lawsuit late Monday.
In the suit, Stephens alleges Clash used crystal meth and "poppers" before engaging in sexual contact with him when he was 16 years old.
According to the complaint, Sheldon met Clash in 2004 at a social networking event for models and actors, and shortly after they met, Clash told Stephens he would help him advance his career. The complaint alleges Clash began having sexual intercourse with Stephens when he was 16.
The complaint also alleges that on one occasion, a chauffeur drove Clash and Stephens to the chauffeur's apartment where they had a crystal-meth "sex party," and that Clash smoked meth while engaging in sexual activity with Stephens.
A statement from Clash's attorney Michael Berger called the suit "meritless." Said the statement, "The plaintiff has already admitted in writing that he had 'an adult consensual relationship' with Mr. Clash. Mr. Clash continues to deny any wrongdoing, and we intend to defend this case forcefully."
Sheldon Stephens v. Kevin Clash was filed Monday night in United States District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania. Stephens, now 24 and a Pennsylvania native, originally accused Clash in November, then recanted that accusation; at the time, Clash had denied the accusations. Stephens scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon in New York City.


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As you will notice, I've installed the first phase of the new CF Credit System. I still have a lot of work to do but here is the first part of my explanation to help everybody understand what we're doing and how it works.
First, the system will be used as a way for members to get credits for being active on the site and they'll be able to use those credits to buy merchandise, bet on events, buy rep, etc. It's a fun way to spice things up a little without much work.
Now, the system generates credits based on specified "activities" that a user partakes in. For instance; if you post a thread you get credits, if you reply to a thread you get credits, if you get an infraction you lose credits, etc. To help explain this, I've included the initial list of activities that cause a member to earn or lose credits below.
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of people don't really know why they're getting credits. Here is an updated list of what activities on the site create a payout in credits. Note that I just adjusted the numbers this morning to make it so more credits are given out per activitiy since we all seem to be high-rollers
Credits - Activity Name
50 - Induction Credit
Applied when user first joins this usergroup such as by registration, subscription, manually, promotion, etc.
20 - Referral Credit
Applied when a referral is validated. This is checked every midnight.
1 - Additive Referral Bonus
This is multiplied against each user's referral points, and then multiplied against all other credit awards.
25 - Paycheck Credit
Applied every set time period with no particular restrictions. (Currently every 1 day)
250 - Activity Credit
Applied every set time period if the user qualifies as having been active during that period. (Currently every 1 day)
2500 - Birthday Credit
Applied at midnight on the birthday of each user.
100 - Granted Reputation Credit
Applied when this user gives reputation to others. Can be set to multiply against the absolute reputation given.
100 - Received Reputation Credit
Applied when the user receives reputation. Can be set to multiply against the amount of reputation received.
-1,000 - Infraction Credit
Applied when user receives an infraction. You probably want this to be negative as a penalty, and can be set to multiply against the infraction points.
200 - New Thread Credit
1 - Thread Rated Credit
50 - Posting Credit
Applied for all valid posts, except when creating a new thread or replying to your own thread.
5 - Your Thread Posting Credit
Applied for all valid posts made in a thread which they originally created.
1 - Post Size Credit
Applied in addition to any posting credits, for every word or character.
1 - Your Thread Viewed Credit
Applied to the thread owner when their thread is viewed. Does not count on the owner.
1 - Your Thread Rated Credit
Applied to the thread owner when their thread is rated. Does not count on the owner.
1 - Your Thread Replied Credit
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1 - Your Profile Viewed Credit
Applied to the profile owner when their profile is viewed. Does not count on the owner.
25 - Poll Created Credit
1 - Poll Voted Credit
25 - Attachment Credit
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5 - Sent PM Credit
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10 - Calendar Event Credit
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10 - Profile Picture Credit
Applied when a profile picture is added.
10 - Profile Fields Credit
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Updated to add answers to early feedback questions...
Answers:) ....
1. - The 5,000 bonus will be only going forward since it would be really hard to calculate for the past history.
2. - You could potentially buy rep but after I thought about it, I think I'll cancel that as it would take away from it's purpose. We'll see what people think about it.
3. - The credits can or will replace CyCash. I don't know how it'll work best yet but you can either trade credits for cycash or I'll make it so you can just bet with credits. Feedback?
4. - Some of the new features will roll out gradually as I get them done but a store is one possibility, drawings are another soon-to-be-announced feature and betting is the first priority. I'll introduce more as time permits but it obviously won't be all at once.
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ISU MBB: Bigger than a single person, player, or coach.
I predict some people will get no work done at work now
So since we have already joined, do we not get the 5,000 credit "signing bonus?"
"You can observe a lot by watching" ~Yogi Berra
The induction credit must be 500, not 5000.
Forever trying to find a cure for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
That would make sense, thanks.
So I am never going to remember all of that..Can we just summarize it as:
Do stuff == get more credits?
Only question I have is what is an induction credit? I see people with less than 5k, but are members of the site.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
My head is spinning thats a lot. Makes me feel like Homer Simpson "Every time I learn something new it pushes something old out"
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How do you earn CyCash...buy it with your credits??
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How do you earn CyCash...buy it with your credits??
I think you get that by betting on things... That is an exciting new fun feature.
The state of Iowa is going to suffer from a work production standpoint. I wish I had a job where I could be on this site all day.
Bellzisu is aka Chris Bellcock. Just so I'm not anonymous anymore.
Originally Posted by DMBclone
Makes me feel like Homer Simpson "Every time I learn something new it pushes something old out"
The first time I saw that concept on TV was in an episode of "Parker Lewis Can't Lose." Anyone remember that show?
Oh.... I see why I'm so much lower than you Brian ... that -1000 infraction credit must've been an ***-kicker on my total. Your butt kissing finally pays off!
And did I understand correctly that you can buy rep?
Why would you want to do this?
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Oh.... I see why I'm so much lower than you Brian ... that -1000 infraction credit must've been an ***-kicker on my total. Your butt kissing finally pays off!
I think it is all the good things i had to say in the thread who's name shall never be uttered again or risk bannination!
What's the bonus for having a woman kissing a beaver as your avatar?
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Conceptual view of the bandwidth savings ...
Savings of backing up 92GB over a 155Mbps link with 100 ms latency:
These savings are above and beyond those you already get with using TSM Fastback (taken from solution brief):
The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack provides an extensive and cost-effective data protection and recovery solution specifically designed to help remote offices maintain operations, regardless of the type of data loss.The FastBack Client uses next-generation, block-level technology to capture new and changed data on the application servers as frequently as needed—up to true CDP—with almost no performance impact on the applications. This provides for much more granular recovery, leaving much less data at risk of loss than traditional once-a-night backup solutions.The FastBack Server provides the management, policy engine, and local repository for the protected data. The server includes near-instant restore capabilities, enabling critical applications to resume within seconds following almost any type of data loss. The server also initiates "selective replication" jobs to send copies of selected data over the WAN to another location for disaster recovery and backup consolidation capabilities.The FastBack DR Server aggregates the backup data from multiple remote offices—enabling extremely fast recovery of remote office workloads should an office go offline for any reason. The FastBack DR Server also can be used to enhance protection of business-critical application servers in the data center, and it integrates easily with central data protection and retention solutions such as IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager.
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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. – President Theodore Roosevelt. (HT: Brainyquote.com) Bruce Fein has long believed that Democracy in America was going the way of the Roman Republic under the rule of Caesar Augustus. He believes that so strongly that he has been especially critical of Presidents Clinton, Bush II and | Read More »


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Converting to Concrete Parking Lots
The base under the concrete was 4 or 5 inches of DGA.
Silvi Concrete
The 3D controls on the laser screed allowed compound slopes for drainage.
The automation provided by the laser screed dramatically sped up the work and reduced labor costs.
Silvi Concrete used its front-discharge trucks to place concrete for parking lots.
Silvi Concrete, headquartered in Fairless Hills, Pa., is in the midst of doing what many in the concrete business claimed couldn't be done: Deliver premium concrete pavement parking lots at an initial installation cost comparable to asphalt.
The track record over the past six months is turning heads and Silvi Concrete is leading the way. Concrete parking lots should be a top priority for all ready-mix producers throughout the country in 2014. The ready-mix business tends to be reactionary in nature. We wait for someone to call our company when he needs concrete. This needs to change. The parking lot market is an untapped resource for ready-mix producers nationwide.
What is Silvi Concrete doing differently? Bridging the concrete pavement knowledge and automation gap, job by job and for each owner, general contractor, engineer, and concrete contractor. It doesn't stop there, though. Silvi stays involved during the entire process from initial discussions to final installation.
Here is how it worked on a recent project: Silvi approached the owner of Campbell Freight who was in the middle of building an 80,000-square-foot facility in South Brunswick along the busy corridor of the New Jersey Turnpike. Silvi asked if it could submit a bid package for a concrete parking lot to compete with the asphalt lot Campbell Freight had specified. The building was design/build, so it allowed for value engineering as the project progressed. Campbell Freight wanted the best product it could get for its money—they wanted concrete but thought it wasn't financially feasible.
It was Silvi's job to show that they were wrong. Silvi reviewed the drawings, and made the apples-to-apples conversion to do the job in concrete. The initial specification called for 4 inches of dense grade aggregate (DGA), a 2.5-inch asphalt base course, and a 1.5-inch asphalt surface course. The concrete conversion was 4 inches of DGA and 4 inches of concrete.
There are many good reasons for promoting concrete parking lots, including:
During the process, I absorbed myself with all things concrete paving. I used NRMCA's Design Assistance Program (DAP), took NRMCA's concrete pavement online classes, and studied ACI 330R-08, Guide for Design and Construction of Concrete Parking Lots, and ACI 330.1-03, Specification for Unreinforced Concrete Parking Lots. All of this made me the go-to person on converting parking lots to concrete. With this guidance, the concrete contractor submitted a bid and was awarded the job.
The concrete parking lot had many construction advantages along with the strengths of the final product. During installation, the contractor used 3D grading for the fine grade. The fine grade and concrete pavement construction relied on computers for pinpoint accuracy. The 3D profiler/laser screed automates the very labor-intensive process of installation. It also allows for the concrete parking lot to have 3D contours for drainage. Silvi Concrete placed between 500 and 800 cubic yards of concrete per pour at up to 120 feet wide.
To dramatically reduce labor costs, the concrete contractor aimed to "touch" the concrete as little as possible. Once the 3-D laser screed placed the concrete to the desired elevation, it was followed by bull floating, and then a broom texture finish was applied via a kite method.
In the end, the Campbell Freight parking lot added more than 6000 cubic yards of concrete—the 2000-cubic-yard job became 8000 cubic yards.
The general contractor on this project then on its own offered this value-added service to a client on its next project. The result was over 725,000 square feet of concrete pavement, which translated into 14,000 cubic yards of concrete. Even though that project was outside Silvi's service area, it generated value for our fellow ready-mix producers that otherwise would not have been there, and it continued to build the case for concrete parking lots.
During the summer of 2013, Silvi Concrete was in the middle of a 2.3 million-square-foot Amazon warehouse in Robbinsville, N.J. Using the same techniques and bolstered with the success at Campbell Freight, Silvi convinced the owner and GC to change over 600,000 square feet of asphalt pavement to concrete. Again, the depth of the subgrade and pavement did not change to accommodate the concrete. That general contractor is now also going to use more than 1 million square feet of concrete pavement on its next 2014 project.
In less than six months, Silvi Concrete has converted and delivered more than 20,000 cubic yards and 1 million square feet of concrete pavement. That success indirectly helped add an additional 32,000 cubic yards and 1.7 million square feet of concrete pavement into the ready-mix industry outside of Silvi's service area. Several other targets have been identified and are in the conversion process for 2014.
Zach Rich is Silvi Concrete's New Jersey regional sales manager. Silvi Concrete is a member of the Silvi Group. Founded in 1946, the Silvi Group employs over 200 people and consists of ready-mixed concrete, mining, cement, and real estate. For more information, visit www.silvi.com.
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PHOTOS: Florida's rejected license plates aren't always offensive
Tampa, FL-- A federal law suit has been filed in US District Court against the Hillsborough School District over the circumstance surrounding the death of a 7-year-old girl with special needs.
Isabella Herrera's last moments are recorded on the school bus camera.
"She loved pink, Barbies and playing dress up," says Lisa Herrera, Isabella's mother.
Lisa and Isabella's father, Dennis remember her fondly.
"Her passion to strive in this world was so strong. She became a hero to me," says Dennis.
Isabella's mother says she suffered from a neuromuscular disorder that impacted her walking and head control. Otherwise, Lisa says, she was a normal kid who wanted to ride the school bus.
"She felt good about it; she felt independent. She felt great. I trusted them to bring her home safe every day," says Lisa.
On January 25, Isabella boarded the school bus at Sessums Elementary at 2:07 p.m. Her parents say the school bus driver and aid failed to slightly tilt Isabella's wheel chair so her head would be stabilized, as her Individual Education Plan or IEP requires.
Lisa says during the three months Isabella rode the school bus, she had to remind bus drivers and aids about her daughter's needs.
"They are supposed to be trained for each child's needs, each child on the bus- know their disability, know what to do," Lisa says.
The school bus video shows Isabella's head bobbing forward and backwards about a dozen times over a span of 17 minutes. At 2:24 p.m., the school bus aid calls out "Isabella- Isabella."
The Herrera's family attorney, Steven Maher, identified the school bus aid as Joanna Hamilton, and the school bus driver as Tonia Pizarro.
In the video, you then see Hamilton notice Isabella not breathing. She shouts out to the school bus driver to pull over and says, "Get on the phone; we need 911."
The bus pulls over on the road at the corner of Balm Riverview and Rhodine roads, across from a pediatrician's office.
Instead of calling 911, the video shows Hamilton calling Isabella's mother as Pizarro radios dispatch- but the radio doesn't work at first and she phones in.
Lisa says, "It's appalling to me; I was the first person to be called instead of 911."
At 2:32 p.m. Lisa boards the bus to find a lifeless daughter.
"She was blue. My first instinct was to give her air," says Lisa.
She is seen picking her daughter up from her wheelchair and laying her across on a bus seat.
Lisa was the first one to give Isabella CPR.
"When I realized no one called 911, I realized it was the only thing I can do," she recalls.
It's Lisa, not the bus driver or aid, who calls 911 for help.
Once again, in the video, Lisa is heard frantically asking 911 for help. She says, "We need an ambulance. My daughter- she can't breathe, she's blue."
"I can't express in words seeing your child with no life," Lisa tells us.
Only then does the video show Pizarro and Hamilton stepping in to give Isabella CPR.
Lisa calls 911 again "Please hurry. She's blue, she's blue. Please hurry."
Isabella died the next day. Her organs were donated to three patients.
Both parents say the school district is negligent.
"It starts from the top, down with people being trained properly," says Lisa.
"The system is broken," Dennis says. "The system should protect our children by training them with basic common prevention."
"Our goal is to prevent this from happening again," Lisa says of the reason they are filing suit against the school district.
"You saw this child die on the school bus," says Steven Maher, the Herrera's attorney. "No one called 911, no one attempted CPR or to get her out of her seat, and the bus was parked in front of a pediatric clinic."
Maher says the school bus video is an hour of "hell."
All Lisa has left is her memories of Isabella and the locket she wears around her neck.
"This is her last school picture and it contains her ashes. I wear it every day.She was beautiful, so smart- I want people to look past her chair and see she was fun little girl who loved life and wanted to live it," she says.
As for the training school bus drivers receive, Stephen Hegarty, school district spokesperson, says school bus drivers receive basic training at the beginning of the school year, which includes CPR.
But drivers and aids with special needs kids are not required any additional training, even though the district offers it. Hegarty says it's up to the driver to take the course.
Because of this and other cases, Hegarty says the district is talking about taking another look at its training policy.
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Yes, I understand that they elongate the leg, and plump up the calf muscle and make your booty pop, and I've always been told my legs are my best feature. After all, when you're a 34A you get used to how the male eye tends to drift downwards in the hopes of finding something a little more exciting. So I love short skirts and I'm not above working what I've got. But I absolutely will not wear high heels. And while you ladies are free to choose your choice, I don't think you should either.
Consider the following, courtesy of my beloved hometown newspaper: "Today, despite mounting evidence of the damage ill-fitting shoes can cause, women squeeze their toes to fit into oh-so-popular pointed-toe shoes. Wearing heels causes your foot to slide forward, "redistributing your weight, creating unnatural pressure points and throwing your body's natural alignment out of whack," according to the Mayo Clinic. High heels have "been linked to overworked or injured leg muscles, osteoarthritis of the knee and low back pain," continues Mayo. "You also risk ankle injuries if you lose your balance and fall off your high heels."
Yet we fetishize them non-stop. Thank you very fucking much, Carrie Bradshaw. There were many, many times I wanted to throw a (cute yet comfy) Chuck Taylor at my TV during SATC. Can't buy your apartment because you spent it all on shoes? You're a dumbass! Can't get out of the taxi because you can't walk a block in your heels? You're pathetic!
And don't get me started about men and heels. I have an ex-boyfriend who spent a fair amount of time and energy encouraging me to wear expensive, lofty high heels, even offering to buy them for me. Now, had his request been because he was all freaky-deaky about shoes, we could have come to a happy arrangement. I would have cheerfully pranced around in our bedroom in heels and worn them during sex and talked dirty about them. I'm nothing if not game in the kink department. But no, dear readers, he actually wanted me to wear them for hours on end, i.e. take the subway into Manhattan—standing up! a half hour each way!—so we could go to dinner and then for a romantic walk in Central Park. He, of course, would be wearing some nice flat leather dress shoes with cashmere blend socks.
I wasn't up for it—that long standing and walking in high heels would leave my feet hurting for hours. But he persisted, and got petulant when I kept refusing. That's when I got really, really angry and wound up giving him a size 8 piece of my mind.
It is not okay for us to be pressured into wearing anything that hurts, especially when it will cause long-term, serious damage to our bodies. Even more infuriating, there is no equivalent for men. Sure, a tie might feel a bit constricting, but even the most dedicated menswear enthusiast never required surgery because of extended necktie use.
And high heels put me at risk. I can't run in them. I can't fight in them. I am a runner and second-degree brownbelt in karate, so I'm especially sensitive to things that restrict movement. If you're hobbled by smooth-bottomed, spike-heeled shoes, you're in trouble. You can't cross the street quickly. You have to be extra, extra careful on stairs and pavement. And if someone wants to mug you (or worse) good luck trying to fight back or run away. Heels prevent freedom of movement and make me vulnerable—two things the patriarchy has been inflicting on women for millennia.
For centuries men and women both wore high heels, mainly to gain a couple inches' stature. But these days only women are pressured into ruining their bodies and suffering gracefully in order to live up to a beauty standard where the pain is as much self-inflicted as sexist pig-inflicted.
So fuck you, Manolo and Jimmy and Christian Loboutin. Fuck you women's magazines, and Candace Bushnell and fashion industry for glamorizing something so damaging and making me feel like I can't be beautiful unless I'm willing to suck it up and suffer. And yes, fuck you to all the men out there who tell me how much they love high heels without ever having to spend a single day in my shoes.


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ATLANTA, Ga. -- As websites make it easier for shoppers and travelers to get just about anything, thieves are taking advantage of it by closing in with phony websites that resemble the real thing.
This scam has opened a gateway for scams that Internet experts call a 'billion dollar shadow industry.' At the top of the list, the Atlanta based Delta Airlines.
According to users targeted by this scam, the scammers send out official looking emails telling them a ticket has been purchased and their credit card has been charged. Some emails even include invoices for the supposed purchases.
"People will usually have a panic response of some type and will try and click on links that are contained in that email." said Paul Royal, Associate Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center.
According to Royal, the best advice is to not open the 'sketchy' links or attachments. And to not be fooled by how easy clicking the link may seem. If you open these dangerous links, you could be in danger of losing all of your personal information.
"Once you click on that link you set in motion a sequence of events that will result in malicious software being installed in your computer, laptop or desktop," Royal added.
Delta Airlines is warning it's customers that scams like the ticket purchase are circulating worldwide.
"If it's an airline ticket that you didn't buy, don't click on the links in the email. Go to the airline website or call the airline directly," Royal said.
Before you link to a page or open an attachment that can lead to losing your personal information, take a moment and visit the 11Alive Help Desk.
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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has played down the now infamous clash between Chelsea winger Eden Hazard and a Swansea ball boy.Belgium international Hazard was red carded during his side's Capital One Cup semi-final defeat to Swansea after kicking 17-year-old Charlie Morgan in an attempt to retrieve the ball.
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5 Recycled Home Building Materials
With the big push toward green building these days, more and more manufacturers are coming up with ways to use recycled materials to create new building materials. Below are five such items. Talk to your builder about the possibility of incorporating these materials or others like them into the construction of your new home.
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State representatives and stakeholders from the Adriatic-Ionian Region met at a Side Event during the Rio+20 Conference to discuss past achievements and prospects for post-Rio interventions to promote sustainable and equitable economic growth in the region. Tomasz Pezold from the IUCN office in Belgrade presented IUCN's role in this process. …
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Policy-makers must rethink economic growth, promote social equity and ensure environmental protection, says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). Among the key issues are the green economy and an institutional framework in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. … | French | Spanish | Portuguese
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her name is lola. shes mine.
these leggings are my latest diy.
inspiration: milkyway galaxy.
(wearing kate moss tee, diy dome stud leggings, vtg boot harness)
Great post! Was just thinking of a DIY like this! :)
oh wow i 'm impressed those leggings are amazingReplyDelete
Those leggings are AMAZING & your cat is super cute .x.ReplyDelete
u have great ideas always!!
GOSH! HOT leggings, shoes and pics..
and lola shes so cute
aww your cat is so fluffy and cute!
i love your tights! they remind me of the nasty gal ones i saw last year, but are quite possibly even better!
LOVE your DIY job on the leggings! xReplyDelete
love this so incredibly much!!!ReplyDelete
Loving those leggings! What a fantastic job you did. I also love your choice of round studs... I just got a pair of flat sandals with a similar studding. And awesome shoes!ReplyDelete
love love love the studded legging!^^
what sort of studs did you use? nailheads or glue ons?ReplyDelete
excellent post! I recently acquired a huge bag of studs, I really like this idea!
ps- thanks for your comment, I hope you will continue to read. I added you to my blog roll!
These look, brilliant!! They look so expensive, seriously this is one DIY I've GOT to copy!!
nicola xx
OMG!! I love that leggins!! and the shoes are amazing!!ReplyDelete
First of all, those leggings are fantastic! I would buy them in a heartbeat. So damn cool!!!
Secondly, those boot harnesses are unbelievable. In love.
and Also, I have a white cat that looks exactly like your cat but all white. Mine is named LULA! haha!! No joke. I have to post a photo for you to see. Do you suspect yours is a Turkish Angora? Or what? They could be twins but Lula is all white and with one blue/one gold eye.
Lola is a doll!!!!
Those look great! Well done.ReplyDelete
Wow, I'm in love with these! What a great idea!ReplyDelete
gorgeous leggings!!
great post...
loove your DIY skillsReplyDelete
those leggings look awesome! did the studs have prongs on them or how did you attach them?
Great DIY! <3ReplyDelete
Dude your leggings are hella cool! :) I'm completely inspired to do some like this. Where did you buy the studs at? You look amazing.
That's such a fab DIY! Idea: stolen. :)
WOW! I am so amazed at these leggings. They are so awesome!ReplyDelete
f-ing amazing. love em!ReplyDelete
oh geez. you and your cat are effing awesome:):) love the tights, adn your inspiration!
xx raez
Awww these tights are amazing!
What sort of stud things are those? x
ooh thanks for your comment, how else would i have discovered this fantastic blog?
love your style.
awesome DIY!! you and your girls look great in the previous post!
thanks for the comment:)
one day i'm going to channel your diy skills! love the boot harness too!ReplyDelete
Lola is a cutie and those studded leggings are the best. :)ReplyDelete
sooo loving the studded leggings but loving the boot harness even more!! xxReplyDelete
Daymm! By far my fav DIY that you've done. xoReplyDelete
i can totally see how that's inspired by outerspace!
by the way, the pants that i won from the chickdowntown contest have never arrived! do you know any details about it?
i can totally see how that's inspired by outerspace!
by the way, the pants that i won from the chickdowntown contest have never arrived! do you know any details about it?
I am in love with those leggings. Ayyyee!!
that legging becomes unique and sexy. i love your idea!!!
hohoho..your cat so cuteee...
Those freaking rock!ReplyDelete
your leggings are so cool! those are my inspiration for my next DIY project!ReplyDelete
Fabulous DIY and that kitty is adorable. xxReplyDelete
these boots are amazing! your cat is so cute!ReplyDelete
That is a pretty good ring you are wearing in fingers.
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I love your leggings, they look amaziiing!
dude..DUDE!!! just freaking awesome!
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Great combinations and shots!
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wow. if you started selling those i would buy some!ReplyDelete
i love your cat eye ;]ReplyDelete
Amazing leggings! and love the harness too!
Your kitty is so cute, I have two cats too and I love them ;)
wow love the leggings with the studs...ReplyDelete
These are so great! Gotta love dIYS! xReplyDelete
LOVE these leggings.ReplyDelete
totally love the studs!ReplyDelete
Wow! Loving it!!
Totally inspired :)
U have done a great job on those leggings, love the boot harness!ReplyDelete
thank you so much for your comment!
i think those leggings are really great, what a wonderful diy project. the fact that you got inspired on the milky way is even better.
you are truly an inspiration dear <3
OHMYGOD! Love those leggings (and your cat - awww). Such a good DIY, how did you get to be so good :D
Thanks for your sweet comment by the way, i really apreciate it.
Panda xx
love the shoes. the leggings are sick. totally love how they are one sided. awesome.ReplyDelete
this DIY is amazing, the studding is perf!! And those shoes are soooocoooool. I want to put harnesses on every shoe I own.
Love your leggings want to have a pair same too!!!!!ReplyDelete
sweet blog. love ur finds.
Gorgeous....really love the shoes, too!
xox, mavi
those are amazing. i love. and love that your inspiration was the milkyway.
The leggings and harnesses are so good <3ReplyDelete
These leggings are amazing! Great job.
geez the legging is fantastic!! wowwwwwww i can't breathe hahahahaReplyDelete
What a cute kitty! My cat's name is Goofy :-)
I love your leggings! What an amazing DIY! xxooxo
Amazing!!!!! xxReplyDelete
ohhhh! we love your cat! is so cute!
and your leggings have amazed us!!
we have beeen watching your blog and photos, and is just.. PERFECT!!! your style, personality, clothes... OHGOD! :0 hahha
we add u to our favourites, and we follow u to! :)
i bet it was a tedious DIY:P; yet the result is truly amazing:)ReplyDelete
Great DIY leggings...I'm inspired to do mine! And those shoes are cool!ReplyDelete
omg awesome leggings!!!!! loooove those shoe harness things tooo..$5 seriuosly?!?!?!? hmmmm if you're going down there again soon maaaaybe you can pick a pair up for me????? :D :D lemme know!!!ReplyDelete
Fantastic leggins, you did a good work with them, and the shoes are perfect for them.
i like your style, you have very nice looks,i will see your blog more times.
very cool legging!!!! great diy job!
rad rad rad diy honey, the leggings look great. the vtg harness is wonderful
Hot! I love itReplyDelete
love the leggings and mini-harness on the heels! your cat is TOO cute
damn, you go girl... them leggings are off the hook!!!ReplyDelete
lola is so cute!
great DIY,the tights are awesome and love your shoes:x
I heart your heels! Love those DIY leggings and those rings too. (^_^) And cute kitty. xxxReplyDelete
Wow, the leggings are amazing!ReplyDelete
You inspire me:)ReplyDelete
amazing DIY. lola is adorable!
not sure what I love more, the cat, the shoes or the leggings!ReplyDelete
i dont think i've written that in a comment before because that's how awesome this DIY is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cute cat! great legggings!
Wow, you should make like, 50 of these and sell them. They look amazing!ReplyDelete
those leggings are hottt...but those boots..those boots kill me, i love them!!!ReplyDelete
**shoes! not boots!!ReplyDelete