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The spirit of the NCAA's foreign tour rule is for the trip to be educational. The idea is to take players to a foreign land, play some hoops and get some culture.
When Duke went to London in 2002 over Midnight Madness weekend, though, the byproduct of the trip was that the Blue Devils, by rule, were allowed to begin practicing 10 days before everyone else. A few conferences, noting that not all schools have a fall break like Duke's that enabled the trip at that time, were annoyed enough to change the rule such that trips are now prohibited within 30 days of the first day of practice (this year, that's Oct. 13).
Hence, the Labor Day trip was born.
The playing field still isn't completely level, as schools must be in session for teams to take their newcomers (and the players can't miss a day of school) and a number of schools -- like Washington, Ohio State, Cincinnati, Oregon and Ohio -- are on quarter systems and don't start classes until after Labor Day. The bigger question, though, is what these programs actually get out of these weekend jaunts.
Florida got a little bit out of its recent trip to Niagara Falls. The main purposes were to do some bonding as a team and get plenty of reps for the freshmen in the practices leading up to the trip and the two games in Canada. Still, if schools could travel in the summer with their incoming freshmen, many likely would dump the quick Labor Day trips that are becoming commonplace for extended tours overseas.
That was Arizona's plan. Coach Lute Olson originally had an itinerary picked out for a trip to Italy that included a private tour of the Vatican. Olson was banking on a proposal passing in 2004 that would have allowed qualified freshmen who were enrolled in summer school to then go on a trip in August.
The MAAC originally proposed the idea because freshmen who don't get to go on a summer trip might never have a chance to go, since a team can go only once every four years. The proposal, though, was defeated, so instead of heading to Europe this summer, the Wildcats went to Vancouver last weekend.
Erik Christianson, a spokesperson for the NCAA, said, "The concern among NCAA members is the move to allow prospects to receive athletics financial aid in the summer before enrollment was adopted to let prospects make progress academically. Proposals to open up the summer to more athletic activities have been met with resistance by NCAA members because more athletic commitment would take away from the academic purpose of getting them on campus in the summer before the fall term."
This was the first quick trip for Olson's program, and he feels like his players are getting shortchanged.
"I think it's unfortunate that we're not getting the cultural opportunity that we would get otherwise," Olson said prior to leaving last week. "We had an unbelievable tour planned, but because the rule wasn't changed, it was obvious that we couldn't take our freshmen. When we took our trips, we did them not just for basketball, but for the educational experiences, too."
Oregon and UMass did take longer trips this summer, but both went to the Bahamas. Spending a week-plus at Atlantis in Nassau is great if you're with your wife and kids, but there isn't much of an educational experience in lying on the beach when you're not practicing hoops.
Wake Forest didn't even get that much. The Demon Deacons took a trip last weekend to Atlantis, and the one day they had to get outside and use the beach, it rained.
"The power even went out in the hotel," Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser said. "Wake Forest has class on Monday, so we got in late Friday, it rained Saturday [before the trip's first game], [we] played [again] Sunday and left. It wasn't as tropical a paradise as you would have thought, but the trip was [still] gratifying."
Prosser said he agrees with Olson. He took Xavier to Ireland and England in the mid-90's and loved the trip. Prosser is a student of history and loves reading, so taking a "full-fledged educational trip" was exactly what he wanted to do with his team.
"Almost every kid on our campus spends a semester abroad, but not athletes," Prosser said. "I'm a proponent of foreign travel, personally. In the global world we live in, it's an unbelievable experience for the kids. There are football players who play in a game before ever being a student, so if kids have completed summer school, I agree they should [be allowed to] go [on a trip]."
Florida's trip to Niagara Falls wasn't as crazed as some other trips last weekend. The Gators did have a long haul on Friday, but they didn't play until Saturday night. They held a shootaround at 1 p.m. Saturday and the day overall wasn't stressful. On Sunday, the Gators passed on a shootaround, played at 4 p.m. and then had plenty of time for a fun-filled barbecue before flying out Monday morning. Relaxed Florida coach Billy Donovan said the trip went rather smoothly.
That wasn't the case for Wichita State in Vancouver.
"Playing three games in 22 hours was tough, especially after Karon Bradley turned his ankle in the first game," said Wichita State coach Mark Turgeon. "It was great trip, but our kids were exhausted. It was a hectic trip. We got in there late Friday, went through customs, had a meal and got to bed late. Then we had games at noon and 7 p.m. the next day and 10 a.m. Sunday before going on a tour and dinner and a 5:45 a.m. wakeup Monday. That's a hectic trip.
"On the next one, I'd do a summer one, and maybe do it in a year where we have only one freshman," Turgeon said. "We did this trip because we had a redshirt [Colorado State transfer Phillip Thomasson] and a freshman [Israeli Gal Mekel] we wanted to get some games."
More often than not, these quick trips end up resembling a mini-camp followed by an intense, summer-league-type game schedule that sometimes includes two games in a day. The basketball, and the bonding that comes with the trips, is usually beneficial, but the cultural experience might be a wash.
The ultimate thing that comes out of these short trips is the bonding. It's the first true road trip for the group and the first exposure to how things are going to get done throughout the year. There is educational value in that, even if it's not related to art history, but clearly the more traditional tour, with everyone on the roster eligible to come, makes the most sense.
Andy Katz is a senior writer for ESPN.com.


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After several years of false starts, the Georgia General Assembly finally passed major transportation legislation, H.B. 277, in 2010. The legislation is five bills rolled into one and, while far from perfect, represents the most significant state action on transportation policy in over a decade. The bill will, for better or for worse, define the context in which much of the advocacy on issues such as mass transit and sustainable development will take place for the next several years.
The components of the bill that are receiving the most attention are the regional votes on special-purpose local option sales taxes for transportation ("T-SPLOSTs"). The votes will be held in July 2012 in each of the state's 12 regional commission districts (see a map here); passage of the vote in any district will authorize a one-penny sales tax to be levied in that district for a 10-year period. Each region will have a list of projects, so voters will know where the money will go in their region. These project lists will be determined based on recently released draft criteria developed by GDOT to guide the selection of projects (see http://www.it3.ga.gov).
has to take input from local governments, therefore our opinions matter. In the Atlanta region, contact
the ARC until September 2nd here; if you live outside Metro Atlanta, contact your County Commission Chair. Tell them you want transit, pedestrian and bike projects to be prioritized over roads.
The two sets of criteria, one for the Atlanta region and another for the remaining eleven, raise a number of concerns regarding the fair treatment of sustainable transport modes such as transit, walking, and bicycling. The guidelines establish minimum and maximum investment levels for various types of projects. Not surprisingly, roads are given preference over all other modes. In the Atlanta region, the range for roadway capital projects is 40-60 percent of all tax revenue to be spent regionally, compared with 15-40 percent for transit capital projects. Bicycle and pedestrian projects are given a paltry 0-5 percent. In the regions outside Atlanta, the disparity is even greater, with transit capital investment capped at a mere 10 percent, while road spending could range as high as 70 percent.
Furthermore, transit projects are proposed to be subject to a lengthy set of eligibility requirements, such as the demand in the Atlanta region that projects serve at least two counties effectively ruling out popular proposals such as the Beltline. Road projects, by contrast, are subjected to a far less stringent set of requirements.
Transit supporters can influence these priorities. In the Atlanta region, contact the ARC until September 2nd here; if you live outside Metro Atlanta, contact your County Commission Chair. Tell them you want transit, pedestrian and bike projects to be prioritized over roads.
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Each year coal plants pour millions of tons of harmful pollution into our air, worsening asthma, causing heart attacks, emergency room visits and missed work days. That pollution doesn't stop at county or even state lines, and as a result people throughout the country are forced to breathe unhealthy air. But the EPA's proposed Good Neighbor Rule can change that by reducing air pollution escaping across state lines -- preventing at least 23,000 heart attacks, 26,000 hospital visits and 240,000 asthma attacks while saving $100 to $290 billion in health care costs, according to EPA estimates. Join us at an EPA hearing on September 1st in Atlanta as we stand up to industry pressure and show that Americans support the EPA's work to protect our health by protecting the air we breathe. To sign up or for more information, please click here.
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After hiking through the forest to our lunch stop at 5,000 feet above sea level, we will learn about one of the unique ecosystems in the southern Appalachians. Also, if it is clear, we will have spectacular 360 views. Minimum 5 participants. Contact volunteer outings leader, Lee Thomas @ (770)-458-3389 or for more information click here.
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END OF A GHETTO: A special report.; Razing the Slums to Rescue the Residents
By PAM BELLUCK
Published: September 6, 1998
CHICAGO, Sept. 5— In the final months of the Hole, anarchy was everywhere. The Hole, the most oppressive section of Chicago's notorious Robert Taylor Homes housing project, was coming down.
Gang members shot at a moving van outside one of the Hole's three high-rise buildings. Moving crews tried to hurry out each day before drug dealers commandeered the elevators.
Lenzie Jones packed his grandchildren's clothes for the movers but did not know what to do with their mother's belongings. She had fled a few days before, after the drug gang she hawked heroin for accused her of stealing and beat her with a baseball bat and a two-by-four.
Angela Smith frantically swatted cockroaches and attacked stains in her kitchen. An inspector from the building she wanted to move into was coming to scrutinize her housekeeping. If she failed, she would lose the apartment she had set her heart on.
Katie Sistrunk, who at 45 had reared 13 children in the Hole, had no idea where she would go, days before her building was to be emptied. Juanita Williams, 74, was so paralyzed over leaving her apartment of 25 years that she stayed after the water and gas were shut off, until police officers removed her.
On a scale not seen in decades, the Federal Government is helping cities clear slums again, but this time they are slums it helped create: public housing projects crippled by flawed policies and mismanagement and overwhelmed by poverty and crime.
From Hartford and Newark to Denver and San Francisco, 100,000 apartments in the nation's worst public housing projects are being razed under a Federal program called Hope VI. The plan is to replace them with smaller developments that mix families of different incomes, while moving thousands of tenants into privately owned buildings.
In Chicago, where high-rise housing projects are corrosive landmarks of poverty and racial segregation, the demolition will be nothing less than seismic: the city wants to raze 11,000 apartments, nearly 40 percent of its public housing for families, over the next 15 years.
And in a city whose housing projects contain 11 of the nation's 15 poorest census tracts, and where buildings in five large projects are being demolished, nowhere is the challenge greater than at Robert Taylor, the nation's largest housing project, much of which is ''considered the worst slum area in the United States'' according to its landlord, the Chicago Housing Authority.
The Hole, at the project's southern end, was the first section to go, demolished in July. But the authority wants to tear down all of the project's 28 high-rises, all 4,321 apartments.
The challenge is not just for the 11,000 people who will leave Robert Taylor, a population 99 percent black, so poor that nearly half of the adults live on less than $5,000 a year, and so isolated that many are unfamiliar with life beyond the grim monoliths that shadow the Dan Ryan Expressway on the South Side for nearly two miles.
It is a test for Chicago as housing officials try to eliminate a ghetto by placing most of Robert Taylor's tenants in private apartments. The goal is to disperse the project's concentrated poverty without introducing or aggravating social problems in the new neighborhoods. Success will require communities to accept as neighbors people they have long been happy to have out of sight. But already a pattern is emerging of tenants from housing projects being moved mainly to poor black neighborhoods, some as rundown and unsafe as the high-rises they left.
Ninety-six percent of Robert Taylor adult residents are unemployed and little may change if they are simply moved. So a second goal of Hope VI is to ease tenants off Government dependence. In Robert Taylor, the housing authority is spending $1.5 million of its initial $25 million Hope VI grant on social services, trying to place as many residents as possible in high school equivalency courses, training programs and jobs.
Some tenants need more basic help: clothes to wear to interviews with prospective landlords, help arranging electric and gas service, classes on such housekeeping skills as cleaning carpets and operating garbage disposals.
The distance between Robert Taylor and the outside world is not lost on the tenants. ''Goddamn public aid penitentiary,'' Esther Jones, 41, said in June as she left the project after 12 years.
Other complications in relocating residents reflect the conditions at Robert Taylor.
Residents who needed temporary housing could not move for weeks because they were identified with the Mickey Cobras, the gang that controlled the Hole, while the apartments available were in a Robert Taylor building controlled by a rival gang, the Black Gangster Disciples.
Some tenants had criminal records, drug problems or erratic rent-paying habits that had been tolerated at Robert Taylor but could disqualify them for new housing.
Citywide, housing officials are trying to help tenants get the support they need, without stigmatizing them. They are also trying not to arouse community opposition to the newcomers. ''I don't really need a not-in-my-backyard backlash right now,'' said Wanda White, the housing authority official supervising the relocation.
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Georgia strength and conditioning director Joe Tereshinski has conveyed to the team this week his feelings for Georgia Tech.
"He just hates Tech with his all might and blood and everything," quarterback Aaron Murray said. "He loves Georgia. I don't know anyone who loves Georgia more than Coach T, that's for sure."
Tereshinski was a starting center on the 1975 Cotton Bowl team and the 1976 SEC champion team, and he has been a part of the Bulldogs' athletic program and football staff since.
Richt said Tereshinski "is passionate about this game, so he wants to put his two cents in, which is great." Since classes are out this week, the 20-hour rule isn't in effect, allowing more time for daily talk about the rivalry.
"We have an opponent coming here that probably hates us more than any other opponent," Robinson said. "It's probably mutual."


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If you're a fan of documentaries on TV, this is pretty massive news: HBO announced this week that "American Masters" creator Susan Lacy, a PBS stalwart, has signed a multiyear producing and directing deal.
"American Masters" premiered on WNET in 1986 and in its 27 years, the documentary series has produced over 190 films, winning nine Emmys for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction series. The 200th "American Masters" documentary will be Shane Salerno's "Salinger," which will premiere in 2014.
"It has been my honor to be part of the PBS and WNET family for so many years, and to have had the opportunity to amass a body of work which I hope demonstrates the depth of our unique cultural history and the value of quality documentaries in contributing to understanding our world," says Lacy in a PBS statement. "I have had the great privilege of working with some of the most talented filmmakers in the field, as well as the extraordinary individuals who have allowed us to tell their stories. I am now thrilled to become part of the HBO family. To work with the amazing Sheila Nevins and her team is the dream of most documentary filmmakers, and to be able to focus solely on producing and directing documentary films at a place which is creating some of the best television in history is an opportunity I couldn't resist."
Adds PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger, Susan has left an indelible mark recording our nation's collective history. She recognized long ago that the history of our country isn't told only in the stories of our political leaders, but must also be seen through the eyes of our artists, musicians and dancers. We're very sad to lose her leadership and vision at 'American Masters,' but will continue to build on her legacy with an ongoing commitment to 'American Masters' on PBS."
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Canada Economy Grew Fourth Straight Month on Manufacturing
Canada's gross domestic product expanded for a fourth straight month in January, led by a surge in manufacturing.
Output rose 0.5 percent during the month, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa, matching the median forecast of 22 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Gross domestic product expanded 3.3 percent in the 12 months through January, matching the year-over-year increase in December.
The results "will certainly cause Bank of Canada to at least revise up their growth outlook," said David Tulk, chief Canada macro strategist for TD Securities, by telephone. "You're getting stronger net export growth and perhaps a bit softer domestic demand."
The Bank of Canada forecast in January that output expanded at a 2.5 percent annualized pace between January and March, and that growth will accelerate to 3 percent in the second half of this year. Governor Mark Carney kept his key interest rate at 1 percent on March 1 and the bank said in a statement that policy makers will carefully consider future increases.
The central bank predicts that exports and investment will lead the recovery this year and take over from government and consumer spending as the drivers of growth.
Stronger Manufacturing
"The areas of the economy targeting domestic demand -- consumer spending and business investment -- are a little bit softer, whereas manufacturing, that's primarily driven by events in the U.S., is a lot stronger," Tulk said about today's report.
Canada's dollar was little changed at 97.12 cents per U.S. dollar at 9:53 a.m. in Toronto, compared with 97.10 cents yesterday. It earlier touched 96.83 cents.
Today's report showed that manufacturing expanded 2.8 percent in January, the largest jump since September 2003. The gain followed a 0.8 percent increase in December. Fabricated metal product makers and motor vehicles and parts factories had the largest increases, Statistics Canada said.
Bombardier Inc. will have at least 300 orders for its new CSeries commercial airliner by the time the jet goes into service in 2013, up from 90 now, Gary Scott, the head of Bombardier's commercial aerospace division, said March 14 at a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The economy is central in the campaign for the election that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for May 2 after his government was toppled by opposition parties. Harper has said a "fragile" recovery is at risk because opposition parties rejected the March 22 budget, which ended a two-year stimulus plan while offering C$7.6 billion in new measures over five years.
G-7's Fastest
Canada's economy grew at a 3.3 percent annualized pace in the period from October to December, the fastest pace among Group of Seven nations, Statistics Canada reported Feb. 28, due in part to the biggest jump in exports since 2004. The expansion had slowed to a pace of 1.8 percent in the third quarter from 5.5 percent in the first quarter of 2010.
Wholesaling rose for a fourth straight month in January, by 0.7 percent, while construction advanced 0.4 percent. Output in the finance, insurance and real estate industry rose 0.5 percent.
Mining and oil and gas extraction declined 0.5 percent, the first drop since September.
In a separate report, Statistics Canada said today non-farm payrolls fell 5,700 in January from December to 14.84 million people. Total hours worked grew 2.9 percent in the month, from a year ago. Average weekly earnings grew 4.2 percent on the year in January, the report said.


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The SRJC Women's Swim and Dive Team enter the 2011 season with high expectations after winning four California Community College State Titles in the last six years. The Cubs 2011 squad is led by returning All Americans Caitlin O'Rourke, Lauren Bugglin, and Jillian Clark, all of whom were major contributors to SRJC's history making seasons in 2009 and 2010. Key incoming freshman include Jessica Crawford from Brentwood, Breanna Weber from Napa, and local-girl, Corine Vierra. In 2010 had their seventh top five finish at the state level in as many yearsl. In the past seven seasons, the Bear Cub women
have broken 30 school records, produced 21 state champions, 13 national champions, and set four new CA Community College state records during those years. Head Coach Jill McCormick was also named California Community College Coach of the Year in 2009, 2008, 2007, 2005, and 2004. Recently, between our men's and women's swim teams, we have had over 35 swimmers and divers transfer on scholarship to the four-year level, 17 of which have been to Division I schools. The
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In her recent career here, McCormick has produced over 40 conference and state champions, over 80 All Americans, and over 60 All-Academic student athletes. McCormick swam locally in Santa Rosa for the Santa Rosa Neptunes, Montgomery High School, and for Santa Rosa Junior College where she was a two-time All-American in the backstroke and relay events. She continued her collegiate swimming at UC Davis and still swims today for Santa Rosa Masters. In 2007 she competed in the FINA Masters Nationals and placed 4th in all three of the backstroke events and ranked in the top eight in several other sprint events.
Denize enters his fourth season as Head Assistant Swim Coach for the Bear Cubs. He has also been the head club coach for Woodlands Swim Team in Walnut Creek for three years, and has coached high school swimming for four years. He is also currently SRJC's Head Men's Water Polo Coach. Denize was an All American community college swimmer and water polo player for Diablo Valley.
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Lund begins her first season with the Bear Cubs as an assistant swim, dryland & strength training coach. She graduated from Loma Linda University in 1995 with an A.S. in Physical Therapy. In 1996, Lund received a Physical Therapist Assistant License. Since 1999 she has been training athletes of all ages. In 2000 she was certified through ACSM as a Health/Fitness Specialist. Lund has developed triathlons for children and personal/group fitness for health/weight loss clinics. In her career she has been a swim instructor for 18 years. Since 2009 she has been an Assistant Swim Coach/Strength Coach for Neptune Swimming and is presently developing strength programs for the Swim/Dive teams at SRJC. Lund is currently pursuing B.S. in Sports Management: Health and Wellness.
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King begins his first season as an assistant for the Bear Cubs. Phil is a loyal alumn of both SRJC's Varsity Water Polo and Varsity Men's Swimming teams. He was both a goalie and a breaststroker for the Cubs in 2008-2010.
Head Dive Coach
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The beauty industry continues to grow globally, with some projections claiming 8.5% growth by 2014.
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Hollywood star Jennifer Grey will foxtrot into Strictly Come Dancing as a guest judge next month. Stepping into Len Goodman's shoes for one week, she will join Craig Revel Horwood, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November.
Most famous for her leading lady role in one of the greatest dance movies of all time – Dirty Dancing – Jennifer is no stranger to world of ballroom, glamour and glitter-balls. Last year she and professional partner Derek Hough were crowned champions of Dancing With The Stars, the US version of Strictly. The couple achieved consistently high scores throughout Season 11 and lifted the glitter-ball trophy after revisiting their first week dance – the Viennese Waltz.
Jennifer says: "I am delighted to be involved. I so look forward to making the pilgrimage to the birthplace of the greatest dance show, the mecca of spray tans and tangos, and to sit in for the great and pernickety Len Goodman."
Waltzing her way from the dance-floor to the judging panel, Jennifer will be able to draw upon her personal dancing experiences to offer a constructive critique to the remaining couples in the competition.
Due to his commitments with both Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing With The Stars, Len Goodman will take a week off Strictly Come Dancing and will return to the judging panel from 12 November.
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Since 2003, Congress has appropriated more than $20 billion through the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF) to support Iraq rebuilding efforts. The majority of these efforts are being carried out through contracts awarded by the Departments of Defense (DOD) and State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). When awarding IRRF-funded contracts for $5 million or more noncompetitively, agencies are required by statute to provide notification and justification to Congress. In June 2004, GAO found that agencies generally complied with laws and regulations governing competition to award new contracts, but did not always comply with competition requirements when issuing task orders under existing contracts. As mandated by Congress, this report (1) describes the extent of competition in Iraq reconstruction contracts awarded by DOD, USAID, and State since October 1, 2003, based on available data, and (2) assesses whether these agencies followed applicable documentation and congressional notification requirements regarding competition for 51 judgmentally selected Iraq reconstruction contract actions. In written comments, State and USAID concurred with the report findings. DOD provided a technical comment.
While no single, comprehensive system currently tracks governmentwide Iraq reconstruction contract data, available data showed that from October 1, 2003, through March 31, 2006, DOD, USAID, and State collectively awarded the majority of Iraq reconstruction contracts competitively. Based on competition information we obtained on $10 billion of the total $11.6 billion in IRRF obligations by these agencies during the period of our review, we found that about $9.1 billion--or 91 percent--was for competitively awarded contracts. While our ability to obtain complete competition data for all DOD Iraq reconstruction contract actions was limited because not all DOD components consistently tracked or fully reported this information, we obtained information on approximately $7 billion, or 82 percent, of DOD's total Iraq reconstruction contract obligations, and of this, we found that competition occurred for nearly all of the obligations. Additionally, based on complete data for the period of our review we found that USAID competitively awarded contract actions for 99 percent of its obligations, while State awarded contract actions competitively for only 10 percent of its obligations. GAO reviewed the files for 51 contract actions totaling $1.55 billion--22 of which were awarded noncompetitively and 29 of which were awarded competitively--almost all of which contained proper documentation. One contract file--for a noncompetitively awarded task order issued by State--did not contain justifications or other required documentation. DOD was also unable to provide documentation for 4 of the competitively awarded contract actions. Of the 22 noncompeted contract actions in GAO's review, State should have notified Congress of 2 actions awarded using other than full and open competition in accordance with notification requirements but did not. State officials told GAO that they have taken steps to address the problem. GAO did not identify any DOD or USAID contract actions within the sample that required notification.
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Apple Adds to Future Ticketing Potential of the iPhone
Adding weight to a previous posting Apple is patently on the move into ticketing comes the announcement that Apple has hired an expert in NFC or described as "one of the big go-to guys if you're interested in cell phone payment systems".
Near-Field Communications (NFC) has been applied to public transport for contact free ticketing amongst other things. Qantas is trialling it at Perth Airport currently. " NFC uses very short-range radio signals to send data between two system, typically with a flat spiral metal antenna–this is concealed inside those smart train tickets (or member card), since it's both cheap and flexible."
The difference is that developing this for iPhones may offer greater functionality and new service levels and services: "In high-tech NFC implementations, the antenna is hooked up to something much more powerful like a smartphone. When the phone is placed on or over an NFC sensor pad, much more complicated data can then be sent between the two systems, with data going to and from the phone."
"NFC tech has been available for years, but it's only really taken off in a few markets–like Japan–since the benefits have been pretty much limited to its contact-free nature. But now, with smartphones becoming the norm, the cleverer uses of NFC could mean the tech is about to explode into usefulness …"
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I use Ubuntu on a regular basis and I'm used to work with the terminal. Now I have to do some work in Windows and the terminal equivalent program there (CMD) opens in a rather small window.
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'Titanic,' the Musical, Is Finally Launched, and the News Is It's Still Afloat
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But the number that should be the climactic tear-jerker, a rather grotesque Sigmund Romberg-ish love song between the long-married Isidore and Ida Straus (Larry Keith and Alma Cuervo) as the boat sinks, feels shoehorned in. It's as if someone suddenly remembered, ''Oops, we need a little bathos, don't we?''
Indeed, the whole show seems assembled according to a packed roster of themes, musical elements and factual data (of which there is an unwieldy amount). These have all been covered most thoroughly, but at the expense of emotional engagement, as if one were looking at this assortment of doomed souls through a telescope and at considerable distance.
Mr. Jones's geometric staging doesn't help. As he demonstrated in his production of ''All's Well That Ends Well'' for the New York Shakespeare Festival, he has a fondness for linear formations, assembling his cast members in long rows, a bit like those medieval Scandinavians marching toward death in Ingmar Bergman's ''Seventh Seal.''
This may generate cosmic resonance, a sense of humanity sliding into the great sea of mortality, but it doesn't stir up much vicarious anxiety or sympathy. Unless you're allowed to know the victims of any catastrophe, they will remain statistics. With this ''Titanic'' your heart doesn't, as it has to, go down with ship.
Book by Peter Stone; music and lyrics by Maury Yeston; directed by Richard Jones; choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett; sets and costumes by Stewart Laing; lighting by Paul Gallo; sound by Steve Canyon Kennedy; orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick; music supervision and direction by Kevin Stites; music coordinator, John Miller; technical supervisor, Aurora Productions; action coordinator, Rick Sordelet; production stage manager, Susan Green; executive producer, Dodger Management Group; associate general manager, Robert C. Strickstein. Presented by Dodger Endemol Theatricals, Richard S. Pechter and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. At the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 West 46th Street, Manhattan.
WITH: John Cunningham (Capt. E. J. Smith), Brain d'Arcy James (Frederick Barrett), Martin Moran (Harold Bride), Frederick Barrett (Brian d'Arcy James), Allan Corduner (Henry Etches), David Garrison (J. Bruce Ismay), Michael Cerveris (Thomas Andrews), Larry Keith (Isidor Straus), Alma Cuervo (Ida Straus), Becky Ann Baker (Charlotte Cardoza), Don Stephenson (Charles Clarke), Judith Blazer (Caroline Neville), Bill Buell (Edgar Beane), Victoria Clark (Alice Beane), Jennifer Piech (Kate McGowen) and Clarke Thorell (Jim Farrell).
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PLOT: The story follows Mizuho, a healthy busty girl, and her perverted boyfriend. Mizuho lately put on some weight and now she wants to exercise to loose some of it, but her boyfriend wants to fuck her every time they're alone…
SIDE NOTE: This one has some nice scenes for those with a swimsuit fetish; nicely drawn, transparency in the swimsuits and some of the scenes take place in public areas and for some reason episode 2 has some ninja scenes in it.
A chief example of how you can combine hot passionate sex with comedy and subtle character designing. The censoring though could've been a bit less thorough. Ok it's not 'Ashita no Yukinojou-style', still… Also a bit confusing: the constant switching between stories. I'm one of the few people who (also) DO watch hentai for the story. Putting that aside: Want to have a good fap, have a good laugh and enjoy good drawing all at once? Try this hentai! (Also check out Princess Loves H/Oujou-sama wa H ga Osuki from the same creators!)
Pros: Good fap, laugh and drawing all in 1 hentai
Cons: But that hentai censors a bit too heavy and switches back and from multiple stories a bit too much.
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Dream Song 14
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Dream Song 14 Resources
Berryman achieved some great successes as a poet and writer, but he also suffered some tragic failures and hardships in his personal life. Here's a good biography that chronicles the highs and the lows.
Berryman was always good for a quote, but sometimes they seem more like riddles. See what you think.
Here's a video of the man himself from 1967 reading #14.
Here's an excerpt from a 1967 interview with Berryman where he goes into some detail about how the character Henry functions in the Songs.
What's that? You want even more Berryman interview footage? You asked for it. Here's a link to a full interview from 1970 (6 parts in all). Things really get underway at around the 3.15 mark. Feel free to skip ahead. Enjoy. (Warning: Things get progressively smokier and more slurred as the interview progresses.)
Here's "Dream Song 14" read by Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Which do you prefer, Muldoon's reading or Berryman's (see take 1)? Why?
Here's a picture of Berryman late in his life, and also a picture of his gravesite.
Scroll down for a picture of Berryman holding court in a bar.
Articles and Interviews
Here's Berryman in a 1970 interview from The Paris Review. TPR is known for its insightful interviews with literary-types and this one by Peter Stitt doesn't disappoint.
Here's an article (short and sweet) by Jana Prikryl from The Paris Review.
This is the book that won Berryman his Pulitzer Prize (kind of like an Oscar or Grammy for literary types).
Click here to check out Berryman's collection of Dream Songs. Be sure to click the cover to browse through the book.


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I love perfectly ripe avocados. The ingredients in this recipe bring out their flavor in spades. This recipe is great for gluten-free, vegan, egg-free and dairy free diets. For more delicious gluten-free dishes check out www.jensglutenfreeblog.com.
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- 4 tomatoes, parboiled, skinned, and diced
- 4 avocados, peeled and mashed
- 1 red onion, peeled and diced
- 1 small white onion, peeled and diced
- 10 fresh mushrooms, diced
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon fresh minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
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- Combine tomatoes, avocados, onions and mushrooms until just blended.
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A new generation takes helm of Stanley festival
There are 8 comments on the Roanoke Times story from May 21, 2012, titled A new generation takes helm of Stanley festival. In it, Roanoke Times reports that:
After 41 years of running his own festival in Coeburn, bluegrass/roots icon Ralph Stanley has had enough.
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#1 May 23, 2012
After Dr. ralph sucked up to obama 3 years ago i can't believe anyone in this area would go see him if he was paying them to.
#2 May 23, 2012
How did he do that
#3 May 30, 2012
Ralph put this place on the map.
#4 Jun 4, 2012
Ralph 2 Aka,{GOOBER STANLEY} is one who I dont get. I mean whats wrong with goober anyhow? He damn sure cant sing, he sounds more like gomer pyle singing while trying to take a sh!t. He bumps d!!ks with some of the biggens in the biz but cant seem to capitalize on anything. If most anyone had half the opportunity hes got and had in his life they could have and probably would have been bigger than ELVIS. I mean hes got some of the best backing daddys money can buy behind him, so why is he only a coeburn super star? WTF
#5 Jun 5, 2012
Ralph went to Richlands when the UMWA put on their big smoke and mirror show for Obama, and said, I cast my vote for Barrrrake obmama
Now we see the results of people jumping on the fools band wagon don't we?
#6 Jun 29, 2012
I don't like him either, he want do anything to help people! I knew a situation where he was ask to do a benefit singing for a non profit to raise money in clintwood and he refused! He wanted ten gran!
#7 Jun 29, 2012
It was to provide health care to the needy! With no insurance!
#8 Jul 1, 2012
Hey everybody!!! Im going to start a new bluegrass band. Im gonna name them " JIMMY MARTIAN THE 13th and THE BAND ". First off ill be seeking 2 men whose voice is somewhere between a woman and a queer, and 2 women who can squall so loud they can shadder glass , And one woman whos voice is as deep as a girrafe throat. Ive been jotting down some lyrics, dont know where this come from {lol} but heres you a small sample of what you can expect. This one is called "GIMMEY THREE STEPS" It goes something like this, GIMMEY THREE STEPS WONTYA GIMMEY THREE STEPS, GIMMEY THREE STEPS MISTER, THREE STEPS MISTER TOWARD THE SHITHOUSE DOOR. IF YULL GIMMEY THREE STEPS MISTER ILL WONT EAT THoOOSE PRUNES NO MORE. Thats just a sample of the hitsongs we will record. IF it sounds like you might fit in, let me know.{lol} GOTTA GO FOR NOW, A STORMS COMMING.
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Caution About Forward-Looking Statements.
We make forward-looking statements in this Form 10-Q and documents incorporated by reference into it that are subject to risks and uncertainties. We intend these statements to be covered by the safe harbor provision for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These forward-looking statements include:
• Statements of our goals, intentions, and expectations;
• Estimates of risks and of future costs and benefits;
• Expectations regarding our future financial performance and the financial performance of our operating segments;
• Expectations regarding regulatory actions;
• Expectations regarding our ability to utilize tax loss benefits;
• Assessments of loan quality, probable loan losses, and the amount and timing of loan payoffs;
• Estimates of the value of assets held for sale or available for sale; and
• Statements of our ability to achieve financial and other goals.
These forward-looking statements are subject to significant uncertainties because they are based upon: the amount and timing of future changes in interest rates, market behavior, and other economic conditions; future laws, regulations and accounting principles; changes in effective tax rates or the expiration of favorable tax provisions; changes in regulatory standards and examination policies; and a variety of other matters. These other matters include, among other things, the direct and indirect effects of economic conditions on interest rates, credit quality, loan demand, liquidity, and monetary and supervisory policies of banking regulators. Because of these uncertainties, the actual future results may be materially different from the results indicated by these forward-looking statements. In addition, Southwest's past growth and performance do not necessarily indicate its future results. For other factors, risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from estimates and projections contained in forward-looking statements, please read the "Risk Factors" contained in Southwest's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The cautionary statements in this Form 10-Q and any documents incorporated by reference herein also identify important factors and possible events that involve risk and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which the statements were made. We do not intend, and undertake no obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this Form 10-Q, whether as a result of differences in actual results, changes in assumptions, or changes in other factors affecting such statements, except as required by law.
Management's discussion and analysis of Southwest's consolidated financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with Southwest's unaudited consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes.
The accounting and reporting policies followed by Southwest Bancorp, Inc. ("Southwest") conform, in all material respects, to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") and to general practices within the financial services industry. The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. While Southwest bases estimates on historical experience, current information, and other factors deemed to be relevant, actual results could differ from those estimates.
Southwest considers accounting estimates to be critical to reported financial results if (i) the accounting estimate requires management to make assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain and (ii) different estimates that management reasonably could have used for the accounting estimate in the current period, or changes in the accounting estimate that are reasonably likely to occur from period to period, could have a material impact on Southwest's financial statements. Accounting policies related to the allowance for loan losses and goodwill and other intangible assets are considered to be critical, as these policies involve considerable subjective judgment and estimation by management.
There have been no significant changes in Southwest's application of critical accounting policies since December 31, 2011.
Southwest is the bank holding company for Stillwater National Bank and Trust Company ("Stillwater National") and Bank of Kansas. Through its subsidiaries, Southwest offers commercial and consumer lending, deposit and investment services, specialized cash management, and other financial services from offices in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, and on the Internet, through SNB DirectBanker®. We were organized in 1981 as the holding company for Stillwater National, which was chartered in 1894. At September 30, 2012 we had total assets of $2.2 billion, deposits of $1.7 billion, and shareholders' equity of $250.4 million.
Our area of expertise focuses on the special financial needs of healthcare and health professionals, businesses and their managers and owners, and commercial and commercial real estate borrowers. We established a strategic focus on healthcare lending in 1974. We provide credit and other services, such as deposits, cash management, and document imaging for physicians and other healthcare practitioners to start or develop their practices and finance the development and purchase of medical offices, clinics, surgical care centers, hospitals, and similar facilities. As of September 30, 2012, approximately $521.0 million, or 36%, of our noncovered loans were loans to individuals and businesses in the healthcare industry. We conduct regular market reviews of our current and potential healthcare lending and the appropriate concentrations within healthcare based upon economic and regulatory conditions.
We also focus on commercial real estate mortgage and construction credits. We do not focus on one-to-four family residential development loans or "spec" residential property credits. Additionally, subprime residential lending has never been a part of our business strategy, and our exposure to subprime mortgage loans and subprime lenders is minimal. One-to-four family mortgages account for 5% of total noncovered loans. As of September 30, 2012 approximately $1.1 billion, or 75%, of our noncovered loans were commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans, including $353.4 million of loans to individuals and businesses in the healthcare industry.
Southwest's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol OKSB. Southwest's public trust preferred securities are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol OKSBP. Southwest focuses on converting its strategic vision into long-term shareholder value. Our vision includes a commercial banking model and a community banking model focused on more traditional banking operations in our three-state market.
At September 30, 2012, the Oklahoma Banking segment accounted for $564.7 million in loans, the Texas Banking segment accounted for $554.4 million in loans, the Kansas Banking segment accounted for $202.3 million in loans, and the Out of Market segment accounted for $136.0 million in loans. Southwest offers products to the student, residential mortgage, and rural healthcare lending markets. These operations comprise the Secondary Market business segment. At September 30, 2012, Secondary Market loans accounted for $34.7 million in loans. Southwest engages in residential mortgage lending, but residential mortgages have not been a significant element of Southwest's strategy. Please see "Financial Condition: Loans" below for additional information.
For additional information on Southwest's operating segments, please see "Note 8: Operating Segments" in the Notes to Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements.
Southwest began 2011 with continued high levels of nonperforming and potential problem assets. In the spring of 2011, Southwest reorganized and took actions intended to strengthen the credit, loan review and workout functions. During the year, Southwest had success in resolving some credits, but downgrades and new problem assets, mainly driven by real estate appraisal decreases with respect to collateral dependent loans, kept the total levels of unresolved credits unsatisfactorily high. The levels significantly affected Southwest's earnings.
Faced with those facts, management and the Board of Directors considered alternatives for bringing nonperforming and potential problem assets to healthier levels. The Board of Directors carefully considered the potential costs and benefits of various alternatives to Southwest and the shareholders, in consultation with financial and legal advisors and management. Management and the Board of Directors concluded that a sale of assets in the near-term was in the best interests of Southwest's shareholders.
Based on this determination, Southwest sold nonperforming loans, potential problem loans, and other real estate with a carrying value before transfer to assets held for sale, of approximately $300.3 million; and sold related other loans with a carrying value before transfer to assets held for sale of $1.3 million.
Loans were transferred to loans held for sale at fair values. The actual sale price reflected a bulk sale discount, which resulted in charge-offs of $88.6 million at the time of transfer. The sales completed in the fourth quarter of 2011 resulted in net proceeds to Southwest of approximately $187.0 million. The results for the year ended December 31, 2011 include a provision for loan losses of $74.9 million and a fair value adjustment in other real estate expenses of $23.6 million in connection with the fourth quarter sales. The provision expense was calculated in accordance with Southwest's standard methodology and was based on the amount needed to replenish the allowance for loan losses back to the required level for the remaining loan portfolio.
As of September 30, 2011, the assets sold were loans with an aggregate fair value of $229.5 million and other real estate properties with an aggregate fair value of $67.3 million.
Carrying Value Fair Value Net Sales Price (Dollars in thousands) 9/30/2011 (1) 9/30/2011 (2) 12/14/2011 Loans collectively evaluated for impairment $ 93,850 $ 93,074 $ 58,246 Loans individually evaluated for impairment with a specific reserve 78,396 64,731 44,850 no specific reserve 72,323 71,725 50,625 Other real estate 56,565 67,261 34,113 Total $ 301,134 $ 296,792 $ 187,834
(1) Carrying Value - loans were reported at the principal balance outstanding net of the unamortized deferred loan fees. The carrying value of loans specifically evaluated for impairment of $78.4 million was prior to deducting specific reserves of $13.7 million. Other real estate was carried at fair value less estimated costs to sell the asset.
(2) Fair Value - fair value of loans was estimated by discounting the cash flows using risks inherent in the loan category and interest rates currently offered for loans with similar terms and credit risks or fair values of the underlying collateral if repayment was expected solely from collateral for each asset sold on a standalone basis in an orderly transaction. The fair value of the other real estate was primarily based on the appraisal value of the underlying collateral.
Investment Securities
Southwest's investment security portfolio increased $106.1 million, or 39%, from $275.4 million at December 31, 2011, to $381.5 million at September 30, 2012. The increase is primarily the result of a $53.7 million, or 82%, increase in U.S. government and agency securities, a $29.4 million, or 16%, increase in government agency guaranteed residential mortgage-backed securities, a $21.3 million, or 81%, increase in municipal securities, and a $1.2 million increase in other mortgaged-backed securities.
Loans Total loans, including loans held for sale, were $1.5 billion at September 30, 2012. The following table shows the composition of the loan portfolio at the dates indicated: September 30, 2012 December 31, 2011 Total Total (Dollars in thousands) Noncovered Covered Noncovered Covered $ Change % Change Real estate mortgage Commercial $ 898,453 $ 20,664 $ 1,028,561 $ 23,686 $ (133,130 ) (12.65 )% One-to-four family residential 74,081 5,059 80,375 7,072 (8,307 ) (9.50 ) Real estate construction Commercial 206,342 419 227,098 3,746 (24,083 ) (10.43 ) One-to-four family residential 3,438 - 4,987 - (1,549 ) (31.06 ) Commercial 244,018 1,937 346,266 2,841 (103,152 ) (29.55 ) Installment and consumer Guaranteed student loans 4,872 - 5,396 - (524 ) (9.71 ) Other 32,710 118 33,190 270 (632 ) (1.89 ) Total loans $ 1,463,914 $ 28,197 $ 1,725,873 $ 37,615 $ (271,377 ) (15.39 )%
The composition of loans held for sale and a reconciliation to total loans is shown in the following table:
September 30, December 31, (Dollars in thousands) 2012 2011 $ Change % Change Loans held for sale: Student loans $ 4,872 $ 5,396 $ (524 ) (9.71 )% One-to-four family residential 7,329 3,547 3,782 106.63 Government guaranteed commercial real estate 22,446 29,624 (7,178 ) (24.23 ) Other loans held for sale 102 128 (26 ) (20.31 ) Total loans held for sale 34,749 38,695 (3,946 ) (10.20 ) Noncovered portfolio loans 1,429,165 1,687,178 (258,013 ) (15.29 ) Covered portfolio loans 28,197 37,615 (9,418 ) (25.04 ) Total loans $ 1,492,111 $ 1,763,488 $ (271,377 ) (15.39 )%
Allowance for Loan Losses
Management determines the appropriate level of the allowance for loan losses using an established methodology. (See "Note 3: Loans and Allowance for Loan Losses" in the Notes to Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements.) Management believes the amount of the allowance is appropriate, based on its analysis.
The allowance for loan losses on noncovered loans is comprised of two components. Loans deemed to be impaired (all loans on nonaccrual status and troubled debt restructurings) are evaluated on an individual basis using the discounted present value of expected cash flows, the fair value of collateral, or the market value of the loan, and a specific allowance is recorded based upon the result. Collateral dependent loans are evaluated for impairment based upon the fair value of the collateral. Any portion of a collateral dependent impaired loan in excess of the fair value of the collateral that is determined to be uncollectible is charged off.
The allowance on the unimpaired noncovered loans is determined by use of historical loss ratios adjusted for qualitative internal and external risk factors, segmented into loan pools by type of loan and market area. Our primary markets are Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas and loans secured by real estate within these markets are included in the "in-market" pool, with the remaining loans defaulting to the "out-of-market" pool.
At September 30, 2012, the allowance for loan losses on total noncovered loans was $43.6 million, $0.6 million, or 1%, less than the allowance for loan losses on noncovered loans at December 31, 2011.
At September 30, 2012, the allowance on the $26.5 million in noncovered nonaccrual loans was $2.6 million (10%), compared with an allowance on $13.5 million in noncovered nonaccrual loans at December 31, 2011 of $0.9 million (7%). At September 30, 2012, the allowance on the $31.2 million noncovered performing troubled debt restructured loans was $3.4 million (11%), compared with an allowance on $32.3 million in noncovered performing troubled debt restructured loans of less than $0.1 million at December 31, 2011.
At September 30, 2012, the allowance for the remaining noncovered loans was $37.6 million (3%), compared to $43.3 million (3%) at December 31, 2011. The decrease in the allowance relating to these other noncovered loans resulted from the decrease in the loan portfolio and consideration of trends and qualitative factors, including portfolio loss trends as well as management's assessment of economic risk, asset quality trends, levels of potential problem loans, and loan concentrations in commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans.
Covered loans were $28.2 million and $37.6 million as of September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. These loans are subject to protection under the loss sharing agreements with the FDIC and had an allowance for loan losses of $0.1 million and $0.5 million based on analysis of expected future cash flows, respectively.
The amount of the loan loss provision for a period is based solely upon the amount needed to cause the allowance to reach the level deemed appropriate, after the effects of net charge-offs for the period. Net charge-offs for the first nine months of 2012 were $1.0 million, a decrease of $53.4 million, or 98%, from the $54.3 million recorded for the first nine months of 2011. The provision for loan losses for the first nine months of 2012 was $22,000, representing a decrease of $53.8 million, or 100%, from the $53.8 million recorded for the first nine months of 2011.
Nonperforming Loans
At September 30, 2012, the allowance for loan losses was 162.21% of noncovered nonperforming loans, compared to 326.47% of noncovered nonperforming loans, at December 31, 2011 (see "Provision for Loan Losses" on page 41). Noncovered nonaccrual loans, which comprise the majority of noncovered nonperforming loans, were $26.5 million as of September 30, 2012, an increase of $13.0 million, or 96%, from December 31, 2011. We have taken cumulative charge-offs related to these noncovered nonaccrual loans of $13.4 million as of September 30, 2012. Noncovered nonaccrual loans at September 30, 2012 were comprised of 39 relationships and were primarily concentrated in commercial real estate (77%) and real estate construction (13%) loans. All noncovered nonaccrual loans are considered impaired and are carried at their estimated collectible amounts. These noncovered loans are believed to have sufficient collateral and are in the process of being collected. Covered nonperforming loans at September 30, 2012 of $5.2 million are subject to protection under the loss share agreements with the FDIC.
September 30, 2012 December 31, 2011 (Dollars in thousands) Noncovered Covered Noncovered Covered Nonaccrual loans: Commercial real estate $ 20,443 $ 4,293 $ 4,667 $ 3,554 One-to-four family residential 949 55 1,468 188 Real estate construction 3,436 130 3,877 3,009 Commercial 1,575 328 3,371 370 Other consumer 90 3 123 7 Total nonaccrual loans 26,493 4,809 13,506 7,128 Past due 90 days or more: One-to-four family residential - - 23 - Commercial 349 353 3 - Other consumer 41 - 17 - Total past due 90 days or more 390 353 43 - Total nonperforming loans 26,883 5,162 13,549 7,128 Other real estate 14,683 4,142 19,844 4,529 Total nonperforming assets $ 41,566 $ 9,304 $ 33,393 $ 11,657 Performing restructured $ 281 $ 2,548 $ 1,017 $ - Nonperforming assets to portfolio loans receivable and other real estate 2.88 % 28.77 % 1.96 % 27.66 % Nonperforming loans to portfolio loans receivable 1.88 18.31 0.80 18.95 Allowance for loan losses to nonperforming loans 162.21 2.67 326.47 6.33 Government-guaranteed portion of nonperforming loans $ 76 $ 3,202 $ 76 $ 4,764
At September 30, 2012, six credit relationships represented 83% of noncovered nonperforming loans and 53% of noncovered nonperforming assets. These were all collateral dependent and commercial or commercial real estate lending relationships and had an aggregate principal balance of $22.0 million and related impairment reserves of $1.8 million. Aggregate charge-offs for these six relationships were $7.1 million as of September 30, 2012.
Noncovered performing loans considered potential problem loans, loans which are not included in the past due or nonaccrual categories but for which known information about possible credit problems causes management to be uncertain as to the ability of the borrowers to comply with the present loan repayment terms, amounted to approximately $86.8 million at September 30, 2012, compared to $133.0 million at December 31, 2011. Substantially all of these loans were performing in accordance with their present terms at September 30, 2012. Included in this total are $31.2 million loans that are considered performing troubled debt restructured loans as a result of a modification in terms due to a weakening in the financial position of the borrower. Additionally, there are $1.6 million and $0.9 million, respectively, of covered potential problem loans, which are subject to protection under the loss share agreements with the FDIC. Loans may be monitored by management and reported as potential problem loans for an extended period of time during which management continues to be uncertain as to the ability of certain borrowers to comply with the present loan repayment terms.
At September 30, 2012, the reserve for unfunded loan commitments was $2.6 million, a $0.3 million, or 15%, increase from the amount at December 31, 2011. Management believes the amount of the reserve is appropriate. The increased amount is primarily the result of an increased level of commitments.
Deposits and Other Borrowings Southwest's deposits were $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion at September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. The following table shows the composition of deposits at the dates indicated: September 30, December 31, (Dollars in thousands) 2012 2011 $ Change % Change Noninterest-bearing demand $ 429,407 $ 400,985 $ 28,422 7.09 % Interest-bearing demand 113,677 105,905 7,772 7.34 Money market accounts 385,296 423,181 (37,885 ) (8.95 ) Savings accounts 36,461 33,406 3,055 9.15 Time deposits of $100,000 or more 389,969 487,907 (97,938 ) (20.07 ) Other time deposits 388,863 469,998 (81,135 ) (17.26 ) Total deposits $ 1,743,673 $ 1,921,382 $ (177,709 ) (9.25 )%
Stillwater National has substantial unused borrowing availability in the form of unsecured brokered certificate of deposits from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, NA, UBS Securities, LLC, RBC Capital Markets Corp., and Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. in connection with its retail certificate of deposit program. There were no retail certificates of deposit as of September 30, 2012 or December 31, 2011.
As of December 31, 2011, Stillwater National had other brokered certificates of deposit totaling $0.2 million included in time deposits of $100,000 or more in the above table. There were no other brokered certificates of deposit as of September 30, 2012.
Other borrowings, which includes short-term federal funds purchased, FHLB borrowings, and repurchase agreements, increased $10.2 million, or 18%, to $66.7 million during the first nine months of 2012. The increase primarily reflects the increase need for repurchase agreements during the period.
Shareholders' Equity
Shareholders' equity decreased $56.8 million, or 18%, primarily due to the $70 million repurchase of the Series B Preferred securities, offset in part by income of $15.2 million, for the first nine months of 2012. Net unrealized holding gains on available for sale investment securities and derivative instruments (net of tax) increased to $2.3 million at September 30, 2012, compared to $2.1 million at December 31, 2011.
At September 30, 2012, Southwest, Stillwater National, and Bank of Kansas continued to exceed all applicable regulatory capital requirements. See "Capital Requirements" on page 43.
FOR THE THREE MONTH PERIODS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 and 2011
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