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Teams like the Rays and the Mets are calling up top prospects like Wil Myers and Zack Wheeler because the deadline has passed for players to qualify for Super Two status. This means the Rays and Mets can control these high level players for a big chunk of the next decade.
Gibson has a different story than some other players. The former first round pick entered the Twins system with three years of college experience. This allowed him to move through the organization at a fast pace in 2010. Tommy John surgery was the only thing that could slow him down on his way to the major leagues.
Now Gibson has worked his way back to the form he showed before his injury. Over his last 10 games, he has a 6-2 record with a 2.89 ERA. In 65.1 innings pitched, he has 54 strikeouts and 20 walks. He also has two complete game shutouts during that stretch and that's more than he's had in any professional season.
It sure seems like Gibson is ready so what's the hold-up.
At the beginning of June, the reasoning used by Twins general manager Terry Ryan was the team was looking for more "consistency." In his three starts since that interview, Gibson has pitched at least six innings and he has given up three earned runs or less while striking out a total of 14 batters. By looking back even further, Gibson hasn't been pulled from a game before the sixth inning since the middle of May.
The consistency is there but Gibson isn't getting the call.
One of the problems for Gibson is the improved performance of the Twins starting rotation. In the month of May, the Twins staff had the third worst ERA (5.06) in all of baseball. They ranked last in strikeouts and opponents had a higher batting average against the Twins than any other team. This lead to some changes like Deduno's call up and Vance Worley's demotion.
Since the calendar switched to June, the Twins pitching numbers have been greatly improved. Minnesota ranks seventh in all of baseball for team ERA this month. The club's WHIP and hits allowed are right in the middle of the pack.
During the team's last 18 games, the team has gone 11-7 and the starters have helped to keep the team in games. So far in the month of June, here is what the starting rotation has done:
1. Sam Deduno (3 Starts): 2.00 ERA, 18 IP, 1.28 WHIP
2. PJ Walters (3 Starts): 2.41 ERA, 18.2 IP, 1.55 WHIP
3. Kevin Correia (3 Starts): 4.00 ERA, 18 IP, 1.50 WHIP
4. Scott Diamond (3 Starts): 5.51 ERA, 16.1 IP, 1.47 WHIP
5. Mike Pelfrey (2 Starts): 4.05 ERA, 13.1 IP, 1.05 WHIP
The Twins have said that Gibson will be on an innings limit and it is expected to be in the range of 130-140 innings. He currently sits at 85.2 innings and that means his next start will likely push him over the 90 innings mark. This would leave him with less than 50 available innings at the big league level this season.
All of the Twins moves this season should be focused on the future. It might have been good for Gibson to get some more experience at the Triple-A level and his performance this spring proved that he needed to work on some things in the minors. It is just tough to know how much longer the Twins can wait to call him up.
As the starters continue to pitch well, Gibson gets one step closer to reaching his innings limit with each start in Rochester. If the Twins don't call him up before his limit, the club will be missing out on a opportunity for him to gain some big league experience. Rookies can have some ups and downs and it would be nice to get some of those out of the way in 2013.
Gibson is part of the plan for the future but it's hard to see what the club's plan is for the present. The 25-year old has been through a lot in his professional career and it's time to take the training wheels off and see if he can make it ride at the big league level.


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The Federal Reserve can likely wait until the middle of 2015 to begin raising interest rates from rock-bottom lows, given a job market that still shows signs of weakness and inflation that remains below central bank's 2% target, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said.
Mr. Lockhart, in an interview Friday with The Wall Street Journal on the sidelines of the Kansas City Fed's Jackson Hole conference, said he remains fairly optimistic about the economy's growth prospects. He thinks U.S. gross domestic product will average around a 3% annual rate coming quarters.
Still, addressing a key topic of the conference, Mr. Lockhart added that he still saw plenty of slack or unused capacity in the job market, meaning plenty of workers are not being employed to their fullest.
"I believe the [official] unemployment rate does overstate the degree of progress that's been accomplished," he said.
U.S. unemployment was 6.2% in July, well below its recent peak of 10% during the recession but still above the 5.2% to 5.5% range Fed officials see as the long-run rate.
He pointed to broader measures of unemployment as still fairly elevated by historical standards, giving the Fed room to continue holding short-term interest rates near zero, where they have been since December 2008.
"There are facets of the labor market that still remain some distance from where we want to be when we begin a tightening cycle. I'm the camp that still sees a reasonable amount of slack that can be absorbed if we are a little patient" before raising interest rates, Mr. Lockhart said.
In response to a deep recession and a historic financial crisis, the Fed not only slashed interest rates but also purchased more than $3 trillion in government and mortgage bonds. It has been gradually winding down the latest round of bond-buys this year as the economy improves.
Many market participants expect the Fed to start raising rates in the summer of 2015, a perception some top officials have encouraged.
Mr. Lockhart said the risk of the central bank raising interest rates too soon is a greater threat than being one or two quarters too late.
"What is the risk of being too late? It could be unwelcome inflationary pressures that look like they are going to be persistent," he said. "I find it low probability, frankly. We still are below the target and even with the firming we saw earlier this year we've seen a softening. So we still have some room just to get close to target."
Another possible risk that has been highlighted by Fed officials is that their low-rate policy could spark asset bubbles. But Mr. Lockhart downplayed that prospect, saying the financial system was now a lot stronger than before the crisis and that banks chastened by the meltdown were now acting more cautiously.
On the other hand, lifting borrowing costs too quickly could have dire consequences for an economic recovery that is already the weakest in modern history.
"We would have foregone some progress that we could make in employment," Mr. Lockhart said. "We would be inviting cyclical problems becoming structural problems in some portions of the labor market."
Another potential problem would be the hit to Fed credibility if it were to raise rates only to change its mind soon after, he said.
"If we were early and then saw a weakening of the economy, I think it could be very damaging to reverse course in short order. So to me it seems more sensible to run the risks related to being a little late than the risks related to being a little too early," Mr. Lockhart said.
Mr. Lockhart said a recent rise in conflicts around the world, including hot-spots such as Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine-Russia border, are worth watching. But he believed the U.S. economy remains relatively well insulated to such risks.


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By Kathleen Perricone
Sir Mix-A-Lot made headlines this week for his song "Baby Got Back," more than 20 years after it was first a major hit, when he performed the classic backed by the Seattle Symphony.
And the rapper called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Thursday morning to tell us how the viral moment went down.
"It was kind of weird," he explained. "Gabriel, who composed everything, I met with him two years ago and he's like, 'I want you to do this thing live with an orchestra.' And of course I started shaking, but I thought I have two years, this guy is probably a flake. It will never happen … and it happened."
And although he's performed the 1992 classic a billion times, Mix was very nervous about this one.
"To be honest with you, and nobody believes this, when I went down there to rehearse, I was very nervous I wouldn't be able to pull it off. Let's face it, you're talking about fans of orchestral stuff mixed with my fans. I was hoping it'd be more of my fans, but it ended up being a 50-50 mix."
As for the his backup dancers, who really added to the performance, Mix says that was all impromptu. "I asked the maestro prior to going on … I said, 'Do you mind if I bring some people onstage?' and he said, 'No problem.' I don't think he expected 40 women, so it was all organic. It was nothing planned."
So what kind of reaction did Sir Mix-A-Lot get from the orchestra, who normally play a very different kind of music?
"When we did our first rehearsal, they were very stoic. By that night, I gave them big props from the stage, they were going nuts. Now they're rock stars."
And if you were wondering if Mix still has a thing for big backsides, he tells us, "As I got older, my standards have lowered for obvious reasons."


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In near record-breaking heat, a crowd of 1,240 had an even hotter ticket in town --- one that got them into the dedication of the University of South Carolina's new Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, where Vice President Joe Biden entertained the audience and paid homage to his friends and former colleague.
The noon ceremony, attended by friends and family of former Sen. Ernest F. Hollings as well as dignitaries and university faculty, staff and students, took place inside the Thomas Cooper Library, which is connected to the Hollings Library by a glass-enclosed walkway. Biden spoke affectionately of Hollings, whom he sat next to for 36 years in the U.S. Senate, and congratulated the university on its new library. U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, Hollings and USC President Dr. Harris Pastides also spoke.
"I congratulate the University of South Carolina on the brand new Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library," Biden said. "I'm told you have some pretty incredible volumes, and I was able to see some of them. I saw a first edition of 'Paradise Lost,' the original galleys of Ernest Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and the South Carolina Political Collections, which are some of the finest political archives in the country."
Biden spoke about Hollings as his mentor and a leader passionate about the health and education of children. He credited Hollings for being ahead of the curve for establishing a technical college system in South Carolina, for his key role in helping to create NOAA and for his 1970 book, "The Case Against Hunger," which propelled children's nutrition to the forefront of public and policy discussion nationally.
"I think he (Hollings) is the most significant national figure to ever come out of this or any state," said Biden who conveyed Hollings' deep love for his home state. "South Carolina owns his heart. No one cares more about this state than this man."
Expecting to hear an outspoken and passionate Hollings on policy and politics, people in attendance were not disappointed. Hollings treated the crowd to rousing rhetoric and a fiery talk on the economy and trade.
But his deep love for the state, and his loyalty to the university, also were on display.
"Mister vice president, the University of South Carolina is the first and oldest publicly funded university in the United States," Hollings said. He enumerated other university achievements, including its standing as a Carnegie research university, its international rankings and its College World Series championship.
And, showing his trademark humor, Hollings said, "Any association with the University of South Carolina is an honor, and to receive this distinction -- to almost quote our distinguished vice president - 'this is a big blinking deal,'" he said.
The guest list read like a who's who in state and local leadership. Among the recognizable faces were Sen. Lindsey Graham, whom Hollings invited on the stage; Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, S.C. Chief Justice Jean Toal, former Gov. Jim Hodges, Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, as well as members of the USC Board of Trustees and the S.C. General Assembly.
Pastides welcome guests and honored Hollings, calling the new library a fitting tribute to his lasting commitment to the university and its library collections.
"This library, which we may affectionately call 'the Fritz,' is a testament to his commitment and to the belief that the road to success is through learning, and therefore this library will open up new and greater opportunities for all who enter," Pastides said.
The Hollings library, which is connected to the Thomas Cooper Library by a glass-enclosed walkway on the main level, was completed in June. In addition to the S.C. Political Collections, the $18 million, 50,000-square-foot facility will house the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and Digital Collections.
Hollings was instrumental in securing the $14 million in federal funds for the building. The cornerstone of the S.C. Political Collections is Hollings personal papers, which he gave to the university in 1989. In addition to the library, a second building on campus bears his name. The Ernest F. Hollings National Advocacy Center, a training facility for the Department of Justice, opened in 1998.


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NORWALK -- Sentencing was postponed Wednesday for two men convicted of attempted murder for a brutal attack on a Bellflower woman, who was injected with an unknown substance, had her throat was slashed and was stabbed in the neck before she was flung over the edge of Turnbull Canyon.
Vincent Mendoza, 23, and Edward Meraz, 26, both of El Monte were convicted last month for their part in the 2009 attack on Christina Martinez, a 20-year-old friend of one defendant who survived the ordeal and testified against the pair.
The defendants appeared briefly at the Norwalk Superior Court Wednesday morning, as Mendoza's attorney asked for more time prepare for the sentencing and Meraz's lawyer declared a conflict in the case, requiring the court to assign a new attorney to represent the 26-year-old.
"To be clear ... this isn't a Marsden motion you are declaring a conflict," Judge Michael Cowell asked Defense Attorney Jonathan Roberts.
"Yes," Roberts replied.
Cowell noted Roberts does not have to declare the reason for the conflict and ageed to give Mendoza's attorney, Harriet Hawkins, until Feb. 3 to review the prosecution's sentencing memorandum and said whoever inherits Meraz's case will likely need more time to prepare for Meraz's sentencing.
Their former co-defendant, Jose Ayala, pleaded no contest to a single count of attempted murder last March and was sentenced to 39 years in prison.
Two separate juries were convened to hear Mendoza's and Meraz's cases.
Mendoza was convicted on all counts: kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The jury also found true an allegation that the 23-year-old personally used a knife in the attack.
Meraz's jury deliberated less than a day before he was convicted on all counts.
Both juries heard the petite, but strong-willed survivor described in graphic detail how all three men kidnapped her and took her to the canyon on Aug. 4, 2009.
She said Mendoza and Meraz bound her wrists as she struggled in the car driven by Ayala. It was Mendoza who repeatedly injected her with needles plunged into her neck while Meraz held her down, she said.
Once she was dragged out of the car, she was beaten by all three men and then thrown off a ledge of the canyon. The trio then climbed down to where she was, and Ayala slit her throat. When Meraz heard her cry out a few minutes later, and after the three men climbed back up to the road, he alerted the other defendants and Mendoza went down into the canyon a second time and stabbed her in the back of the neck twice, she told the jury.
That was when Martinez decided to play dead. She eventually crawled out of the canyon, then scaled a hilltop covered in trees and brush, with no shoes and with her shirt tied around her neck to stem the massive bleeding, before reaching a woman's home and finding help.
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It should be impossible for a movie to be both enthralling and boring, but somehow 'To the Wonder' pulls it off. It contains sights -- of picturesque Oklahoma sunsets and impossibly serene European beaches -- so beautiful they awaken you to the glory of the world around us. And it also contains passages -- of Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko running and twirling through fields, and then rolling around in bed, and then fighting and screaming, and then running and twirling in that field again -- so repetitive and tiresome that they nearly lull you to sleep.


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The word "Christmas"
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times of Queen Victoria and Charles Dickens.
A custom immortalized
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dude, I would make sure the purse covered your funeral expenses, The Champ is 18-0 if memory serves, all first round, in America they are more concerned about banning his fists than assault rifles!
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Dude I am 29-0!!!!granted its not in fighting,but u forget,I can double team anyone with my estranged other half who's shares the same 4 letters of my name!!!we will spit roast that fucker till hes queer!!.......like us
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June 18, 2016 -- CASPER, Wyo. – Northwestern Oklahoma State University has finally crowned its first national champion in rodeo.Steer wrestler J.D. Struxness wrestled four steers in a cumulative time of 18.1 seconds to better the best field of bulldoggers in the country, claiming that elusive title during the weeklong College National Finals Rodeo in Casper.
April 4, 2016 -- Braxton Kornele, an incoming freshman from Ft. Supply, has signed a letter of intent with the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Rodeo team. Kornele will compete in the tie down and team roping events.
April 27, 2015 -- The Northwestern Oklahoma State
University Rodeo team did well at its last rodeo of the season at Oklahoma
Panhandle State University in Guymon, but more importantly, the year-end
standings qualified five Rangers for the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR)
in Casper, Wyo., June 14-20.
April 20, 2015--The Northwestern Oklahoma State University women's rodeo team outshined all other schools in attendance at the recent Southwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo in Weatherford, winning the rodeo by 200 points. Karly Kile, Topeka senior, claimed the women's breakaway title, as well as the weekend's All-Around Cowgirl title.
April 2, 2015-- Northwestern Oklahoma State University's rodeo team has been busy recruiting, and over the last two weeks has received three signed letters of intent from incoming freshmen.
February 10, 2015--After a few months off, members of the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Rodeo team are gearing up for their spring season, starting with the Kansa State University rodeo Feb. 20-22 in Manhattan, Kan.
November 4, 2014- The
last rodeo of the fall season was hosted in Alva by the Northwestern Oklahoma
State University Rodeo team. Karley
Kile, Topeka, Kan., senior, topped off her successful semester by winning the
breakaway roping event as well as the All-Around Cowgirl title.
October 29, 2014- About
500 contestants will be in Alva Thursday through Saturday for the annual
Northwestern Oklahoma State University Ranger Rodeo. All performances will
begin at 7 p.m. at the Woods County Fairgrounds Indoor Arena.
September 26, 2014--The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Ranger Rodeo team started its season off with a bang over the weekend in Cherokee, claiming the women's team title and wins in three events at the first of two home rodeos.
April 16, 2014 -- Sage Allen, an incoming freshman from Pawhuska, has signed to rodeo for the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Rodeo Team. Allen will compete as a breakaway roper for the Ranger Rodeo team in the fall.
Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo coach Stockton Graves announces the signing of Jonathan Nixon of Fort Worth, Texas.
May 24, 2013 -- Joe and Ann Shirley of Alva have a long history of giving back to Northwestern Oklahoma State University, or perhaps it's more of a paying it forward to students who have come after them. The benefactors of the Shirley's generosity are members of the Northwestern rodeo team. And, all it took for them to want to give back – a love of the university and learning about a need.
November 17, 2011 - Former Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo star and current tour professional Stockton Graves has been selected to lead the men's and women's rodeo programs at his alma mater.
Shannon Frascht, head rodeo coach at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, has submitted his resignation from the post. Frascht became coach of the University's successful rodeo team in January 2011. He informed university officials that he will pursue opportunities in the private sector.
"The first step I wanted to take for the Northwestern rodeo program was securing new facilities, and thanks to the generosity of Don and Phyllis Campbell and the efforts of the Northwestern Foundation and the university, that vision has come true," said Shannon Frascht, Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo coach, as he announced a gift by the Campbells, of Alva. The gift will provide the future site of Northwestern's own rodeo facilities.
Nine members of the 2009-10 Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo team will represent the University at the 62nd Annual College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo. at the Casper Events Center on June 13-19. Five cowboys and four cowgirls will compete in seven different events.
MISSION STATEMENT: Northwestern Oklahoma State University provides quality educational and cultural opportunities to learners with diverse needs by cultivating ethical leadership and service, critical thinking and fiscal responsibility.


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Search For Missing Autistic Teen Avonte Oquendo Continues
(Rebecca Fishbein) The search for missing autistic teen Avonte Oquendo has gotten even more frantic now that over two weeks have passed since he went missing from his Queens school—and his family is rallying volunteers to help bring their son home.
Though the NYPD has employed dozens of intensive search techniques in hopes of locating 14-year-old Avonte, who fled his Long Island City school on October 4th, they have not yet recovered him. Avonte cannot communicate verbally, and though over $70,000 in reward money has been offered for information leading to his return, his parents hope cobbling a network of volunteers might be the answer. "We just want to request that everybody take 5 minutes just to look," his father Daniel Oquendo said at at Reverend Al Sharpton's Harlem headquarters yesterday. "If we pay a little more attention to each other, we may be able to see things." They have set up a search base on 51st Avenue and Center Boulevard, and say volunteers have been dropping by hoping to help out.
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Notes from a Bookshop: February, or the Folly of LoveBy Kelly McMasters
Sitting alone in my tiny bookshop on a cold February morning, I have the sensation that I've conjured a dream into reality. The light is crisp and blue through the door. A flight of red paper swallows—a Valentine homage to Chaucer's poem "The Parliament of Fowls"—hangs from the ceiling, fluttering quietly from the heat whooshing out of the floor grate. The room is small, just shy of two hundred fifty square feet, and an old pickled farm table sits squarely in the middle. The top of the table is covered with books, and the shelves lining two of the room's walls also contain a patchwork of brightly colored spines.
Valentine-themed woodblock prints handmade by my husband line the farm table and a grid of nature-inspired prints hold a wall. We live on an old dairy farm up in northeast Pennsylvania, and instead of cows in our three-bay English barn, we have two etching presses. Mark carves the images into blocks of clear pine, inks them up, and sends them through the press, cranking the smooth silver wheel like a captain on a ship. This is our store together, a kind of celebration of works on paper. We live on Moody Road, and so we call the shop Moody Road Studios.
An artist and a writer, respectively, my husband and I had both been teaching and working in the city for more than a decade, until a little over a year ago. The idea of running a bookshop never entered our consciousness while in New York, mostly because it never could have happened. Space and funding were impossibilities—as one might guess, a writer and an artist in business together don't quite make for a crack commerce force. But here, on Main Street in the small town of Honesdale, everything clicked into place. Read More


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Acrobats and MountebanksBy Dan Piepenbring
This week, Project Gutenberg made available Acrobats and Mountebanks, an 1890 book that explores the circuses, fairs, carnivals, and hippodromes of nineteenth-century France. Written by Hugues Le Roux and Jules Garnier, and translated from the French by A. P. Morton, the book features 233 illustrations of clowns, trainers, tamers, equestrians, equilibrists, acrobats, gymnasts, contortionists, fortune-tellers, dwarves, elephants, carousels, Ferris wheels, and all the trappings of classic mountebankery. It's worth perusing for the drawings, a selection of which are presented above—but it's also, after more than a century, still an astonishingly funny read, full of sharp observations and acerbic asides. Here, for instance, is a passage on dwarves:
No one should wonder at the fact that many people are more interested in the abnormal than in the beautiful. But this trait being once recognised, the dwarf is more wonderful than the giant; man is such a complicated machine, that in watching these microscopic creatures who gesticulate and speak like ourselves, we feel something of the same astonishment that would strike us if we found the seconds marked by a miniature watch which we could only see through a magnifying glass. For this reason the dwarf show is one of the most popular booths in the fair.
Every one knows that there are two kinds of dwarfs—those who are naturally dwarfs, and those who, as children, were at first of average size and growth, but whose development was abruptly checked. In their case the limbs which no longer grew, were yet capable of enlargement. As a rule the head is enormous. Monsieur François, from the Cirque Franconi—the partner of Billy Hayden the clown, the tiny circus rider—is a typical specimen of this class of dwarfs, who are called noués to distinguish them from the perfect miniature of humanity. They are physically deformed, but in all other respects they resemble other men. François, for instance, is very intelligent. I shall always remember our first interview two years ago in Erminia Chelli's box at the Cirque d'Eté.
"How old are you, Monsieur François?"
"I am older than you are, M. François; yet, as you know, I am not celebrated."
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Related story: How a vicious circle of self-interest sank San Bernardino
Special Section: San Bernardino
Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part special report on how a vicious circle of self-interest sank San Bernardino.
SAN BERNARDINO - In 2009, police patrol Lt. Richard Taack retired at age 59 after 37 years of service.
He took home $389,727 that year, including $194,820 in unused sick time and $33,721 for unused vacation time, according to city payroll records.
Taack's 2009 income was nearly double that of the city's entire street-sweeping department. In 2011, overtime pay alone for the Police Department - $2,766,175 - exceeded the total payroll of 12 other city departments, according to a Reuters analysis of payroll data.
Taack didn't respond to requests for comment.
It's an example of what's at the core of the city's deep financial troubles, and a question that has different answers depending on who you talk to: Where has the money gone in San Bernardino?
"I can't begrudge the man for receiving what he's entitled to under the contract," said David Green, the head road sweeper, who has seen his department cut to five people from 13 when he joined in 1995.
But he said there should be a better balance between the safety forces and other departments. "Nobody wants to drive a car and have to hit a three-foot pothole."
Indeed, potholes scar downtown. Many stores are shuttered. Abandoned lots sit unkempt. Since the bankruptcy filing, city finance officials have put forward proposals to close libraries, senior centers and a cemetery.
Interim City Manager Andrea Travis-Miller told the City Council this past summer that 250 non-safety positions had been eliminated in the past three years to save money - and implied that police and fire benefits were crowding out other essential services.
"I believe that city buildings, roads, trees and parks that have begun to show neglect would deteriorate further if more cuts are made," Travis-Miller said.
The police and fire unions fiercely dispute the charge that large salaries and pensions are to blame for the predicament. They point to the housing market crash, which left the city with the fourth-worst foreclosure rate in the country.
Scott Moss, head of the firefighters union, said 20 positions had already been cut from the Fire Department, leaving about 120 people.
"There's been mismanagement for years," Moss said over coffee in a local restaurant.
He noted that Mayor Pat Morris had majority support on the council for six years until union-backed members regained a majority in March. "The mayor and his people are trying to make us look bad."
Moss, 46, a fire paramedic, said he might retire at 53. Payroll records show a base pay of $94,500, and total 2011 wages, with overtime, of about $147,000. Moss confirmed the base figure but didn't comment on the overtime number.
Sick of the blame
Moss said he is sick of people blaming pensions.
"You go to bankruptcy, you got to blame somebody. So they say it's the benefits, it's the overtime - it's everybody but them," Moss said. "But what have they been doing these last six years?"
On sick-pay cash-outs, Moss said: "If you call in sick, you're a bad employee. So my guys don't call in sick. Then you get all this time you are owed - and you get vilified."
He added: "This is a dangerous city. It's an old, decayed city. It burns. There are gangs. The pay and benefits attract the police and firefighters it needs. Without them, you lose all the good ones. That's the balance."
Crime and gangs are real dangers in San Bernardino. In 2010, according to FBI data, the rate of known violent crimes - 8.15 per 1,000 people - was higher than in any other city in the region.
A five-minute drive from City Hall, on a residential street, sit flowers and homemade signs next to a picture of Angel Cortez. The 22-year-old was shot in the back of the head in May in what police suspect was a "gang-related" murder. His body was found in the backyard of a vacant home. His killers had first tried stuffing his body into a trash can, then returned to dig a hole, before unsuccessfully attempting to burn his body, police said.
Mayor Morris, a 74-year-old former judge who's been in office six years, is scathing about the power he says the unions have over much of the council. The unions, he said, "wag the dog." (Council members are paid just $50 a month for their service, but also receive a car allowance worth $600 a month).
He rejects Moss' argument that he should take responsibility for the financial crisis. He is particularly critical of his two-time challenger for the mayorship, City Attorney James Penman, who he said "has blocked all efforts to reform the budget" on behalf of the unions.
Morris added: "I have no vote on the council. I can only veto a vote if it is 4 to 3. All I have is the power of persuasion. I've told them a bunch of times to be far more conservative, not to be so generous with our unions, and it's advice they have largely ignored."
'Mean, divisive, corrosive'
Morris isn't running for re-election when his term expires a year from now.
"The politics of this place are and have been for decades mean-spirited, divisive, and it's corrosive to the extreme," he said.
Penman denies being influenced by the unions. He said he takes campaign contributions from the police and firefighters like most other elected officials in California.
He said he actually split with the police union in 2007 - a rupture reported at the time - and wasn't endorsed by them again until his last re-election bid in 2011. Campaign finance records show that he received $30,000 in contributions from the police and fire unions in 2011.
Of his critics, Penman said: "You are hearing from some people whose ethics and honesty are very much in doubt."
A key facilitator of San Bernardino's generous retirement packages was CalPERS, which manages pensions both for state workers and for many city and county employees in California.
Led by a board of directors who are all themselves members of the pension plan, CalPERS has for decades pushed to sweeten benefits for retirees.
A 1999 law championed by CalPERS, known as SB 400, cut the retirement age five years and increased benefits for state workers, all on the premise that a rising stock market meant benefits could be juiced up at little or no cost.
Many cities and counties, though not required to go along, were happy to heed CalPERS' analysis. About half - including San Bernardino - adopted the richer benefit formula.
When the stock market tumbled in 2000, cities and towns suddenly had to ramp up payments to CalPERS to make up for the hit to their fund balances, which were heavily invested in shares. Fee-hungry investment bankers stepped into the breach.
Led by the now-defunct Lehman Bros., they persuaded many cities - including San Bernardino and Stockton, which also filed for bankruptcy - that the best way to satisfy growing obligations to CalPERS was to borrow the money via so-called pension obligation bonds.
San Bernardino raised $50 million in 2005 by issuing these notes. Between 1999 and 2009, 26 California cities sold about $1.7 billion of debt to fund their pensions, including bond issues that were used to pay off earlier debt.
'CalPERS vs. Wall Street'
Yet even in bankruptcy, reducing pension costs by cutting benefits is not an option - at least according to CalPERS.
The pension agency says the benefits are carved in stone, arguing that from the day a worker is hired, the pension plan in place on that day for that person can never be reduced in value under any circumstances, including municipal bankruptcy.
That argument has never been tested in court. When the Bay Area city of Vallejo went bankrupt in 2008, it declined to challenge the pension payments to CalPERS, in part because of the daunting legal costs involved.
But the pension-bond insurers who are now on the hook for defaulted bonds in both Stockton and San Bernardino have signaled their intention to do battle with CalPERS in bankruptcy court. San Bernardino, in an unprecedented move, has already stopped making payments to CalPERS.
"CalPERS is the 800-pound gorilla in the room," said Michael Sweet, a bankruptcy attorney at Fox Rothschild, which is not representing any parties in the San Bernardino bankruptcy. "No one has yet taken on CalPERS. This is going to be a huge fight, and it's going to be CalPERS versus Wall Street."
CalPERS says it wasn't responsible for the decisions made in San Bernardino. Alan Milligan, chief actuary at CalPERS, said the 1999 legislation "provided options to cities and agencies to change their retirement benefits, but it did not encourage or force them" to do so. "CalPERS does not give advice about how an agency should pay for their retirement benefits."
Brad Pacheco, a spokesman for CalPERS, said San Bernardino lost major employers in recent years and was one of the U.S. cities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. He said San Bernardino's annual pension costs account for just 10 percent of the total city budget.
Those figures, however, exclude the city's $46 million in pension-bond debt plus its unfunded debt to CalPERS. The city in its bankruptcy filing says it is $143 million in the hole to CalPERS. CalPERS says that if San Bernardino pulled out of the plan, it would owe $320 million to cover its current and future obligations.
Miserable company
San Bernardino and Stockton are hardly alone. A handful of other small California cities, including Atwater, Hercules and Compton, are teetering near bankruptcy.
Big California cities that run their own pension plans also have deep problems. San Jose, hub of Silicon Valley, and San Diego, biotech center of California, both passed pension reforms in June in the face of unmanageable retirement benefits. They are now defending those measures in court against public-employee lawsuits.
In Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a former labor organizer, led a push to raise the retirement age and cut pensions for new, non-safety city staff. He exempted police and fire employees. A ballot measure sponsored by former Mayor Richard Riordan aims to include them in the cuts, too.
And while California has the biggest pension debt in the United States in dollar terms, it's not the worst off. Illinois and Kentucky plans are battling for the dubious distinction of having the lowest ratio of assets to liabilities, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
The chronic mismanagement in San Bernardino, though, is a common feature of local government in California and around the United States. Much power over municipal finance lies in the hands of those with the most at stake - city employees, elected officials and others who depend directly on government for their livelihood. And California is moving to put even more responsibility and funds, not less, in their hands.
One of Gov. Jerry Brown's marquee initiatives is realignment, an effort to move more public-safety, welfare and prison services from state control to the cities and counties. Local governments are more flexible and more responsive to local issues, Brown argues, and thus able to make better decisions.
Charles McNeely, who served three years as San Bernardino's city manager after 13 years in the same post in Reno, Nev., quit last March, citing the "toxic" atmosphere on the council.
He had warned repeatedly that without change, the city faced ruin. In a presentation to the City Council in August 2010, he said spending was far outpacing revenue and predicted a budget deficit of $40 million for this fiscal year.
"I don't know how you could come out of that meeting not understanding we had a serious problem," McNeely said in an interview. "I told them, `You're headed for trouble, it's a train wreck. You can't keep doing business this way."'
Additional reporting by Peter Henderson and Jim Christie in San Francisco.


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Home invasion robbery in Happy Valley
Clackamas County Sheriff's detectives are trying to identify two men who invaded a house in Happy Valley around 2 a.m. Thursday.
A caller to 911 reported that a possible armed robbery had occurred, and the two suspects had fled the scene in a vehicle. The residence was occupied by several adults, one of which was found to have minor injuries and was transported by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment. Investigators are on scene and there is no immediate danger to the public.
Deputies from the Happy Valley Police Department along with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene with a police K9 from the Gladstone Police Department. A search of the immediate area was unsuccessful at locating the suspects. The suspects were described as two white males in their 30's. The first suspect was heavier, wearing a white jacket and jeans with a cloth over his head, and possibly armed with a gun. The second suspect was slender, wearing a green knee length jacket, which was pulled up to cover his head.
Persons who have information regarding this incident or anyone who observed suspicious activity in the area are encouraged to call the CCSO confidential tip line at (503) 723-4949 or send a text to CRIMES (274637) with "CCSO" as the first line. Please reference incident 13-17994.


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U Of L Soccer Nearly Ready To Move Into New $19 Million Home
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The University of Louisville soccer programs showed off their new home Monday.
The teams will move into $19 million Dr. Mark and Cindy Lynn Stadium this fall as they transition into their first ACC season. Reporters were given a tour of the stadium and team offices on Floyd Street, which is about 75% done.
U of L officials say the stadium is expected to be in consideration to host an NCAA Championship in the future.
The stadium will open with a doubleheader on August 29 with the women playing Mississippi at 6:00 p.m. and the men hosting Maryland at 8:00 p.m..
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SANTA ANA — A Seal Beach woman previously convicted of impersonating an FBI agent was charged today with mail fraud in an alleged investment scam that falsely promised ownership in commercial real estate, conning 50 victims out of nearly $2 million.
Karen Hanover, 46, was named in a two-count indictment returned by a Santa Ana federal grand jury. The indictment alleges Hanover ran the scheme out of two Long Beach-based companies - Commercial Investment Education and Kharmic Life Strategies - and pitched victim-investors at seminars in Southern California, Dallas and Las Vegas, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
According to the indictment, Hanover falsely promised victims a shortcut to owning commercial real estate. If the investors paid between $19,000 and $29,997, Hanover would become their "equity partner" and guarantee ownership in the property, according to court papers.
The indictment contends that Hanover further guaranteed that investors would "get into a deal," regardless of credit history or financial status, and that they would realize annual returns of 100 percent and would be protected with a money-back guarantee.
However, according to the indictment, after receiving the victims' money, Hanover allegedly gave them an agreement in which she negated virtually every promise, including that she would refund money if asked.
Hanover is expected to face arraignment on Jan. 2. If convicted, she faces up to 60 years in federal prison, officials said.
Previously in the investigation, Hanover was found guilty last year of impersonating an FBI agent to contact victims of the alleged real estate fraud scheme. She was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.


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You are cordially invited view SPLASH! The Art of Portsmouth's Young People on display at the library from March 8th through April 15th during regular library hours.
The show will exhibit the art of student artists at Portsmouth public schools
as well as St. Patrick School and Portsmouth Music and Art Center.
Please join us as well for a Reception for the Artists on
Saturday, March 15th from 1-3pm where you can meet the artists and admire their work. Refreshments will be served. And if you can't make it to the library, enjoy browsing some of last year's artwork on our Flickr page.
Click on the images below to see our set of photos from SPLASH! 2012 on Flickr. Click here to see a slideshow of the entire set.


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- Name: Lanai City
- What: Lanai's central town
- Where: Central Lanai, five kilometres from Lanai airport
- More Info: Lanai Visitors Center (808) 565-7600
Just under five kilometres north of the airport, Lanai City was founded in the early 1900's as a plantation town originally built around Lanai's booming pineapple industry. It is located in Lanai's central highlands and, at an elevation of 518 metres, is noticeably cooler than coastal areas of the island.
All the shops, restaurants and business of Lanai City are centred around Dole Park. This grassy spot is a popular place for locals to gather, meet and picnic. The towering pines lining the park provide just the right amount of shade on a sunny afternoon.
Lanai City is also a great place for unique shopping and inexpensive dining. Visit Dis n Dat to shop for Hawaiian jewellery and the Local Gentry, a small boutique clothing shop with unique finds. The Lanai Art Center displays local artists' works, from ceramics to watercolors. After window-shopping, grab a cup of coffee from Coffee Works, pull up a chair at the Blue Ginger Café, Canoes, Café 565 or Pele's Other Garden for a true local dining experience. For entertainment, enjoy the local entertainment and ambiance at Lanai City Grille.
Finally, Lanai City is home to two outstanding hotels. Hotel Lanai is a country inn with charming plantation-style décor secluded amongst the Cook island pines. The Four Seasons Resort Lanai, The Lodge at Koele is a luxurious retreat featuring the largest wooden resort in the state, manicured lawns, ponds and refined gardens. Koele has a wealth of exciting attractions including the Greg Norman and Ted Robinson designed Koele Golf Course golf course and facilities for horseback riding, biking, archery and even clay shooting.


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Obama lauds Colorado's new gun laws
(Denver, CO) -- President Obama is applauding new gun safety laws in Colorado. After meeting with law enforcement officials in Denver, the President said families and communities are "changed forever" by gun violence. The new Colorado laws expand background checks and limit high-capacity ammunition clips. The President argued that neither regulation threatens constitutional protections on gun ownership. He said, "Colorado has shown that practical progress is possible."
The President noted that the Denver area has experienced two horrific mass shootings since 1999. He also cited December's deadly school shooting spree in Newtown, Connecticut. Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Obama said more than two-thousand people have been killed by guns across the U.S. He put more pressure on Congress to pass new federal laws aimed at reducing gun violence, calling them "common sense" regulations.
Enthusiasm for new gun controls is waning in Congress. Legislation faces stiff opposition from the powerful National Rifle Association and is opposed by most Republicans and Democrats from conservative-leaning states. Obama's proposals include universal background checks and a ban on military-style assault weapons. He called them "weapons of war."
The President also wants to curb high-capacity ammo magazines and prohibit illicit gun trafficking. He stressed that the nation has suffered "too much pain" over gun violence and said many Americans support "sensible" gun safety laws. Obama also scoffed at the notion that the government aims to confiscate guns from law-abiding gun owners.


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Now is the Right Time for Business Lending, Financial Banking
Now might be the right time for businesses looking for financial backing to reach out to banks to help with plans for expansion and growth.
"When small businesses are given the tools to grow, that means growth for the economy," says Craig P. Doyle, Arizona regional president of Comerica Bank. "We have the ability to provide capital to those businesses that can grow."
The status of business lending in Arizona has been in question during a tough economy, but the reaction from Arizona banking representatives has been similar across the board: banks are lending, and the number of loans issued has increased over the past year.
Most banks in Arizona have weathered the economic crisis fairly well, and have had the ability to continue to make loans.
Dean Rennell, a regional president at Wells Fargo Bank says he has seen a steady improvement in business lending over the past year.
During that period Wells Fargo extended approximately $14.9 billion in loans to small businesses nationwide, a 13 percent increase over the year before.
In Arizona alone, Rennell says he has seen Wells Fargo's lending increase 15 percent over the past year.
"Borrowers are showing improved financial performance," Rennell says. "That means they've adjusted to what people are calling the 'new normal,' and they've diversified and become more efficient."
Rennell is seeing a significant amount of loans from small businesses looking to buy competitors or real estate, or expand the company.
Companies that had cut back on expenses are now starting to invest in new equipment and technology that they had refrained from purchasing in the past.
"We're seeing expansion requests and some businesses are taking advantage of the opportunities they see in the marketplace," Rennell says.
Arizona banks have been able to lend during the recession because Arizona has a large number of companies that are well managed and credit-worthy, experts say.
"Most banks in Arizona are capitalized and have enough liquidity and capacity to make loans," says Curt Hansen, executive vice president of the National Bank of Arizona. "There are a lot of well-run large and small banks, and Arizona is a good market long-term."
When looking at possible loans, banks still desire the same qualifications they have in the past, such as a good track record, a strong management team and an ability to weather tough times.
The biggest difference now is that banks are paying more attention to the actual documents required for the loan.
"Bankers are looking at borrower's ability to withstand short-term shocks and the borrower's ability to repay the loans requesting," Hansen says.
Lynne Herndon, city president at BBVA Compass, has seen an increasing number of loan requests coming from the small business segment.
"Almost 70 percent of business owners in Arizona belong to the smaller business segment, and that's the segment where we're seeing growth," Herndon says. "Those entrepreneurs and business owners were cautious before and are beginning to venture out more."
Most businesses large or small have some form of lending, whether it is a line of credit, equipment loan or real estate loan. Lines of credit are necessary for companies to continue to operate, and many companies are renewing the lines of credit they already have.
BBVA Compass Phoenix saw double-digit loan growth in 2010 of about 12 percent, and has seen about a 15 percent increase in 2011.
The only area where Herndon says he doesn't see as many loans being issued is in real estate lending.
According to Herndon, the uncertainty in the Arizona housing market plays a huge role in the decline of real estate lending. People are still wondering if values have hit bottom.
"The economy is still a concern, and the political climate," Herndon says. "Most of the companies and businesses here need a banking relationship in order to maintain and grow their company. The demand for loans is definitely increasing and I'm hopeful this trend will continue to improve."
For more information about business lending and financial backing, visit:
Arizona Business Magazine November/December 2011


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'"It's always tough to watch the team, especially when they're not winning," Vanek said Monday in HSBC Arena. "That makes it even tougher. If you're watching the game and you're out injured or a healthy scratch, you hate watching your team struggle and lose. It's nice to get back and hopefully help out."'
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Troy Police Chief and African-American ministers speak out on weekend brawl in Troy
In the aftermath of a weekend bar brawl in Troy, African-American ministers are calling for the immediate resignation of police chief John Tedesco. They hope if he steps down it would change what they say is a climate in the police department that sanctions unnecessary force against minorities.
However, a defiant Tedesco says he is not going anywhere and says nothing about the police response to the brawl was racist. In fact, he says his guys are not getting a fair shake from the community.
LISTEN: News Radio 810 & 103.1 WGY's Read Shepherd speaks to Chief Tedesco
Pastor Willie Bacote of Missing Link Ministries, says he has no choice but to believe race has been a factor.
LISTEN: News Radio 810 & 103.1 WGY's Read Shepherd interviews Pastor Willie Bacote
Troy police have faced several accusations of brutality in the past few years. The FBI is investigating two such incidents. Still, Tedesco says his cops are professionals and any use of force is reviewed thoroughly.


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WATCH: Penguin Helps Man Propose To Girlfriend
Mitch and Casey like penguins.
When it came time for Mitch to surprise Casey with a marriage proposal, he got a little help from the Pittsburgh Zoo and a special penguin named Mickey.
Mitch arranged for a behind-the-scenes "penguin encounter" - but it was all a ruse.
Prepare to be delighted!
(The lesson, as always, is that penguins are a thousand times better than swans.)
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Welcome to USC: Thousands move in
The Carolina family welcomed more than 4,500 new members this weekend, as the freshman class toted their clothing, pillows, computers, televisions and other belongings into residence halls all over campus.
More than 240 faculty, staff and student volunteers helped students and families move into their new homes in the university's 24 residence halls and 20 homes in the Greek Village. (Cocky was even spotted at residence halls around the university – helping to welcome some of the 7,281 students who will live in campus housing this year.)
This year marks the re-opening of Patterson hall, which was completely renovated to house 544 women in suite-style rooms. The transformation includes rooms with lofted beds, plenty of natural light and spectacular views, along with community kitchens, a cyber lounge and gathering rooms for students.
Charlotte White of Greenville was a resident of Patterson when she was a USC student in the 1980s. On Saturday, she was helping her twin daughters, Clair and Charlotte Carson, move in to the room they will share in the new Patterson.
"It's very bittersweet. I'm excited for all the new experiences they will have, but I'm sad that I won't see them every day," White said. "I'm honored that they chose to come here, to mom's old stomping grounds. And I know it's comfortable for them to know that I had been here."
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Q: We are beginning to work on a new set of mix designs for a large commercial project. We are experimenting with some potential changes in the aggregate gradations of our commonly used products.
Since our aggregate supplier is willing to work with us and develop a special concrete aggregate, what parameters should we use? Should we have the supplier create a well-graded aggregate to help increase workability and minimize cement usage? Is there any current research on this subject?
A. The best place to start is the guidelines in the American Concrete Institute's (ACI) document, "Standard Practices for Selecting Proportions for Normal, Heavyweight, and Mass Concrete," (ACI 211.1). The committee recommends the nominal maximum size of aggregate should be the largest that is economically available and consistent with the structure's dimensions. Large, nominal, maximum sizes of well-graded aggregates have fewer voids than smaller sizes.
One common approach to mix designs is to optimize the packing density of the coarse and fine aggregates. A higher aggregate packing density requires less cementitious paste to fill the voids. Less cement often leads to less shrinkage, improved durability, less heat of hydration, and importantly, lower total mix costs.
Another source is ACI's "Guide to Concrete Floor and Slab Construction," (ACI 302) which contains several popular approaches producers can use to establish aggregate proportions to attain a maximum packing density for combined aggregates. To help simplify the design, each approach has a chart. These are known as the Coarseness Factor Chart, the 8-18 Chart, and the 0.45 Power Chart.
In recent years, many specifiers have started to look at these charts as absolutes instead of guidelines. In some circumstances, producers who had mixes that had performed very satisfactorily, but whose gradations didn't meet the criteria of a well-graded aggregate as described by one or more of these guides, were forced to adjust their designs. Producers often thought this was an unnecessary expense.
To answer this concern, researchers at the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) studied the topic. Their research focused on two questions. First, do the empirical approaches represented by the tables in ACI 301 actually result in a maximum aggregate packing density? And secondly, do these lead to improved concrete performance.
Kartha Obla, NRMCA's managing director of research and material engineering, was the primary researcher. Haegin Kim and Colin Lobo, both with the NRMCA, assisted. After considerable effort, the NRMCA has recently released two detailed reports on aggregate grading.
Well-graded combined aggregates
Their work yielded some interesting results. Most importantly, their aggregate packing tests concluded that using well-graded combined aggregates did not necessarily lead to maximum aggregate packing density. And just as important, their concrete performance studies showed that using well-graded combined aggregates did not necessarily lead to lower water demand, lower shrinkage, lower bleeding, or higher strength as is normally anticipated.
The researchers suggest that differences in an aggregate's texture and shape can influence differences in packing density. These same factors also suggest why they observed improvements in finishability and segregation resistance in certain test conditions.
The researchers concluded that Coarseness Factor and 8-18 Individual Percent Retained charts are potential concrete mixture optimization tools. They suggest limiting the ACI tables to evaluation methods by concrete producers.
The researchers strongly suggest that the guidelines found in ACI 301 not be invoked as requirements in project specifications, as they do not assure intended performance.
You can find the complete reports, "Effect of Continuous (Well-Graded) Combined Aggregate Grading on Concrete Performance Phase A: Aggregate Voids Content (Packing Density) and Phase B: Concrete Performance," at www.nrmca.org/research/eng_articles.asp.dswedbyyvzwsuaycvvzybbuc


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Do you think he can redeem himself at all?
He has a fooking mountain to climb after his fight with Price.
... who is also fighting tonight against ped use advocate, Tony Thompson. Any predictions for that one?
Do you think he can redeem himself at all?
He has a fooking mountain to climb after his fight with Price.
... who is also fighting tonight against ped use advocate, Tony Thompson. Any predictions for that one?
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
I cannae take audley serious anymore. No disgrace to lose to price who looks a beast and will win by ko tonight again but if he could fight half as good as he talks hed be world champion. Saw ringside with him showing off his 6 pack and as marty rogan says u cannae put muscle on ur chin haha
Fraudley is going to worm his way into yet another huge undeserved payday make a dick of himself again and then either attempt to repeat the trick or fuck off for good. Hope it's the latter.
Fuck no-gi
The thing about fraudley is if hes does get another big pay day well all watch and see him make a dick of himself then watch him laugh all the way to the bank so whos the real mugs here???? Also cannae believe price got knlcked out last night wow!!!!
I won't be watching it. Anyone who thinks that winning prizefighter means fuck all is delusional.
Fuck no-gi
i was so surprised to read the boxing results. second i open my eyes on sunday, always reach for phone to check fight results and very rarely get a shock like that. if someone had told me Harrison would KO two people, beat Rogan - and Price would get smashed - i wouldn't have believed it. would have made a good accumulator.
well done to Audley, brilliant stuff. time to just walk off laughing imo, like Wand should have done after he sparked Cung Le - if he goes on, i think he will only take away from what he has achieved there.
sounds like Price has a perforated eardrum. that must be rough. but he's only 29 and that is still young in the heavies.
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
Audley will always look good at this level, it's when he steps it up & people are throwing back at him that he looks fragile.
He can talk about future world title shots but he's a fringe Domestic/European fighter & should stick at that level bringing in a few paydays & avoid getting hurt.
The dudes he fought were shocking and as soon as Fraudly steps in the ring with anyone half decent he will get fucked again, dude is delusional but....he is making money, which just shows what a fucking mess boxing is in these days if he can still market himself at 41 with a shitty record and everyone knowing he is shit.
Price was unlucky, seems the ear thing was the issue as opposed to getting sparked clean... He will be back, still think he is a better prospect than Fury, granted Fury has a fair few years catching up to do, but they are at similar stages in the career development and I think Fury will get found out as he steps up now, he needs even more time smashing bums and learning his trade imho.
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Thursday 06, December 2012 by Gaurav Kashyap
No closer to a deal?
With Democrats and Republicans still gridlocked on how to solve the US' debt issues and as business news channels carrying rather embarrassing death clock countdowns to the impending breach of the debt ceiling, one would think the general population really knows what's at stake here. Apparently not.


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Advance Pack embodies the hottest Carrara plug-ins by Inagoni, including Velouté, Baker, Replica, Deeper, Primivol, and S.W.A.P. This plug-in bundle delivers incredible value and benefits for anyone wanting to expand the texture and surfacing capabilities of Carrara.
What's Included and FeaturesIncluded Plug-ins
- Velouté
- Velouté is a powerful procedural texture builder for Carrara. It contains more than 160 basic functions that can be easily combined to create a huge variety of textures.
- Baker
- Baker is a texture baking tool. Using the UV mapping of an object, it can extract flat texture maps from any Carrara shader. Baker can also read ZBrush normal maps.
- Deeper
- Bump mapping based on normal map is now possible in Carrara thanks to Deeper, a tool that can create and read normal maps.
- Primivol
- Primivol contains the following volumetric primitives: Fire, Cloud, Smog, Rising Smoke. Through these primitive, Primivol can also render any 3D shader as a volume, and can alter its shape with a set of modifiers and ramp-off functions. Lighting, self-shadow, density, color and many other parameters are accessible through the UI and can be precisely adjusted and animated.
- Replica
- Replica clones objects in arrays or on existing surfaces, and each clone can have a randomized or controlled position, scaling, orientation or even shading
- Swap
- Swap replaces any kind of element in the scene hierarchy by another one: it can replace lights with cameras, cameras with lights, or any objects with another one.
NotesWin32 Carrara 8 Beta update to this item is available here for purchasers of this item. 64 bit version expected in next few weeks.
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