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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Gartrell Johnson rushed for a career-high 285 yards and scored two touchdowns as Colorado State rallied for a 40-35 victory over Fresno State on Saturday in the New Mexico Bowl.
Johnson sealed Colorado State's first bowl victory since 2001 on a 77-yard touchdown with 1:46 remaining, igniting a celebration by fans who made the 7-hour drive from Fort Collins, Colo.
Johnson added 90 yards receiving for 375 total yards.
The Rams (7-6) took their first lead at 33-28 when Billy Farris threw a 69-yard TD to Rashaun Greer with seven minutes left. Fresno State cornerback Sharrod Davis took a big chance but whiffed on his attempt to bat the ball. Greer made the catch at the 30 and went untouched into the end zone.
The loss capped a rough season for the injury-depleted Bulldogs (7-6), who talked in fall workouts about a possible Bowl Championship Series run. They led 28-20 early in the fourth quarter.
The loss also spoiled big rushing efforts by Anthony Harding and Lonyae Miller, who each scored twice. Harding finished with 120 yards rushing, and Miller added 113.
Fresno State got within 40-35 with 55 seconds to go when Tom Brandstater threw a 7-yard pass to Ryan Skidmore. But Colorado State's Kyle Bell had no trouble fielding the ensuing onside kick.
Fans came out of the stands as the final seconds ticked off, capping a strong first season for Colorado State coach Steve Fairchild.
Johnson was named most valuable offensive player, and he put on a show for 24,735 fans.
He broke a 57-yard run in the first quarter and went another 57 yards on a shovel pass from Farris in the second, leaving defenders reaching for the dreadlocks tumbling out of his helmet.
Johnson, who averaged 99 yards rushing this season, had 97 by the end of the first quarter. He went wild against a young Fresno State defense that had allowed 197 yards rushing per game.
Rams defensive end Tommie Hill earned most valuable defensive honors. His interception set up a 1-yard TD run by Johnson that pulled Colorado State to within 28-26 with 9:45 to play.
The Rams trailed 21-20 after 6-foot-6 Kory Sperry caught a perfectly placed ball from Farris and beat two defenders in the corner of the end zone with two seconds remaining in the first half.
The Bulldogs played without six starters - four on defense - who were lost for the season. But they were in control most of the way.
Miller scored Fresno State's first TD on a 1-yard plunge. Then he bounced outside for a 69-yard TD run to put the Bulldogs up 21-13 late in the second quarter.
Colorado State hadn't won a bowl game since beating North Texas 45-20 at the New Orleans Bowl in 2001.
Fairchild, a former Colorado State quarterback, got the Rams in a bowl for the first time since the 2005 Poinsettia Bowl and turned a corner from last year's 3-9 record, which led to the dismissal of Sonny Lubick.


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SAN FRANCISCO - After Team USA was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic, we heard the usual lines about the inability of Americans to meet expectations in the tournament.
Thats not entirely accurate.
Team Puerto Rico comprised of U.S. citizens is one victory away from stunning the baseball world.
After unexpectedly eliminating Venezuela in the first round and the U.S. in the second, the Puerto Ricans pulled off an even bigger upset Sunday night. Behind starting pitcher Mario Santiago, who spent last season with SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball Organization, Puerto Rico stunned twice-defending champion Japan, 3-1, to earn a spot in Tuesdays championship game.
The Puerto Ricans will meet the winner of Mondays semifinal between the Dominican Republic and The Netherlands. Considering they were enormous underdogs when the tournament began, the Puerto Rican players could say that they dont care which team they play.
But that would be a lie.
Of course, wed like to play the Dominican, Puerto Rican shortstop Mike Aviles said of their Caribbean rivals, who won the teams first two meetings in this WBC. Everybody knows that.
The Dutch have had most-charming-story status in this WBC, but it might be time to reevaluate. While The Netherlands claimed the IBAF World Cup as recently as 2011, Puerto Rico hasnt won an international baseball championship since the 2000 Caribbean World Series a yearly event to which its winter league champion has an automatic bid.
Last week, the Puerto Ricans were five outs from elimination against Team Italy before rallying to win. Sunday, they beat the WBCs preeminent team even though three of their first four pitchers Santiago, Jose De La Torre and Randy Fontanez have never thrown a pitch in the major leagues.
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Our country is broke. Let's cut Puerto Rico loose and let it be its own country. The free ride needs to be over.
The vast majority of Americans have no idea that this tournament is even going on.
I couldn't believe how good they were. Kids that damn near looked like grown men. I've seen good college and AAA ball clubs that these teenagers might be a match for. Impeccable diamond work, amazing outfielders, and the pitchers from both teams were riflemen. Batters had polished technique, follow through, and all the evidence of superior coaching and training. Even my wife was saying 'These kids are good'. You'd probably have to have one outstanding American high school baseball team to beat these kids. No doubt at least some of them would eventually end up in MLB. It was like watching Orlando Cepeda and Roberto Clemente at age 17.
They take baseball with great seriousness in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, believe you me.
Glad to see how well Puerto Rico is doing! How are the teams from Ohio, Texas, Florida and Georgia faring?
Meanwhile our kids are too busy playing with their X-Boxes.
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The vulnerability affects both the 2.2 and 2.4 series of Linux kernels, the core of the operating system, said Alan Cox, one of the key deputies of Linux founder Linus Torvalds in the programming community that collectively produces Linux. Those kernels are at the center of several Linux products released recently from companies such as Red Hat and SuSE.
Cox submitted a patch to fix the problem Monday. Top Linux seller Red Hat posted a patch for the vulnerability on Monday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kenya's foreign minister says "two or three Americans" and "one Brit" were among those who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall. More than 60 people have been killed in the assault on the upscale mall, which has lasted for three days. The foreign minister, Amina Mohamed, said in an interview with PBS' "NewsHour" program that the Americans were 18 to 19 years old, of Somali or Arab origin and lived "in Minnesota and one other place" in the US.
U.S. officials said they were looking into whether any Americans were involved. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday the department had "no definitive evidence of the nationalities or the identities" of the attackers.
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President Barack Obama's re-election campaign launched a series of Spanish-language television ads in three battleground states on Tuesday. Separately, a Republican official stated that Mitt Romney is "still deciding" his position on immigration, then backtracked. Taken together, the ads and the comment underscored the Democrat's advantages and his Republican opponent's challenge in wooing the nation's fastest-growing ethnic group, Democratic-leaning Hispanics.
The Obama campaign ads, promoting the president's federal health care overhaul, are running in Florida, Nevada and Colorado, states with large Hispanic populations. Obama carried the three against Republican John McCain in 2008, and polling shows a tight contest again this election.
The Spanish-language commercials are running as part of a nine-state, $25 million advertising effort the Obama team unveiled this week. The campaign had previously spent $850,000 on Spanish-language ads in the same three states to promote Obama's education policies, according to Smart Media Group, which tracks political ad spending.
Obama won 67 percent of Hispanic voters to McCain's 31 percent in 2008. Polling shows Obama continues to have a wide lead among Hispanics, even as the limping economy has weakened his position among other demographic groups he carried in the last election.
A Pew Research Center poll taken last month found 67 percent of Hispanic voters backed Obama, compared to 27 percent for Romney. A Quinnipiac University poll also taken last month found a similar result _ Obama led Romney by a margin of 64-24 percent.
Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, took hardline positions on immigration issues during the contentious Republican nominating contest. He said he would veto the so-called DREAM Act, which would allow the children of illegal immigrants to enroll in college or the military and eventually establish citizenship or permanent residency in the U.S. He also urged a reduction of benefits for illegal immigrants to push them to "self-deport" and praised a controversial Arizona law that allows police to ask about the immigration status of anyone they stop.
Romney has already signaled he'll consider policies that may not line up with opinions expressed during the primary. In April he said his campaign was evaluating a conservative alternative to the DREAM Act proposed by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. The legislation would allow some illegal immigrant students to receive visas that would permit them to stay in the U.S. legally for some period of time.
The Romney campaign aired Spanish-language ads in Florida before that state's primary in January but has not run any since. The Republican-leaning super PAC American Crossroads ran Spanish-language ads criticizing Obama in several battleground states in 2011 but has not done so this year.
Republican officials at a news briefing Tuesday in Washington acknowledged the hurdles the party faces with Hispanics. The party has named Hispanic outreach directors in six swing states _ Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia.
Bettina Inclan, the Republican National Committee's Hispanic outreach director, appeared to compound Romney's challenge by suggesting that he hadn't developed a clear position on immigration.
"I think as a candidate, to my understanding, he's still deciding what his position on immigration is. I can't talk about what his position is going to be," Inclan said.
Inclan quickly took to Twitter to say she had misspoken. "Romney's position on immigration is clear," she tweeted.
Romney campaign spokesman Albert Martinez released a statement criticizing Obama on immigration.
"President Obama broke his promise to Hispanics on immigration reform, Americans still oppose his healthcare takeover, more Hispanics have been plunged into poverty as a result of his weak leadership on the economy, and his $800 billion stimulus failed to stem the jobs crisis in the Hispanic community. With a record like that, President Obama has no choice but to spend millions of dollars trying to spin his failed leadership and broken promises," Martinez said.
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SYLVANIA, Ohio – Even though it had only been a little over a year since her victory in the U.S. Women's Open, So Yeon Ryu was already feeling the pressure to win again.
She lapped the field to end the drought Sunday.
Ryu rode a string of six straight birdies in the middle of her round to a 9-under 62 and a seven-stroke victory in the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic.
''This is just my turning point,'' she said. ''I want to win again.''
Ryu began the day locked in a four-player logjam – all South Koreans – for first place. She took the lead by herself for the first time with an 8-foot birdie putt at the third hole and gradually stretched her advantage until pulling away with birdies on Nos. 9-14.
''On hole No. 9, I made a really long putt and my confidence level went up,'' she said.
Still, a good friend had provided a cautionary tale. Yeon Jae Son, competing for South Korea in rhythmic gymnastics at the London Olympics, was in line to medal heading into the final day of competition. But, she told Ryu by phone, she had gotten ahead of herself and ended up missing out on a trip to the podium.
Ryu took that to heart on the course.
''It made me nervous because I really wanted to win. ... She helped a lot,'' Ryu said about the message imparted by her friend. ''I didn't want to be thinking of winning. I was just thinking about my score.''
Ryu ended up at 20-under 264 thanks to the lowest final round by a Farr winner – by three strokes.
On the third hole, she hit her approach from the light rough to 8 feet over the flag and made the birdie putt to break free of the pack.
She added a 12-footer for birdie at the par-4 fifth to double her lead.
The lead could have grown even more; Ryu missed birdie putts of 8, 6 and 10 feet at Nos. 4, 6 and 7.
Then, after I.K. Kim, who shot a 71 and ended up tied for fifth with Jennie Lee (67) at 11 under, narrowed her lead to a shot, Ryu rolled in a 30-footer from the front of the green at the ninth hole.
From there she took control. None of her next five birdies were outside 6 feet as she dialed in her irons.
''My ball-striking was great,'' she said.
For good measure, she birdied the last hole – a kick-in from 2 feet – to cap her round.
Her 62 matched the fourth-best round in tournament history. Her 20-under total has been surpassed only by five-time Farr winner Se Ri Pak, considered the matriarch for a generation of young South Korean players on the LPGA Tour.
Ryu had picked up the game in the second grade as part of her school's extracurricular activities. She's also a gifted pianist.
Not a member of the LPGA Tour at the time, she beat fellow countrywoman Hee Kyung Seo – her playing partner Sunday – to win the 2011 Open in a three-hole playoff.
This season, Ryu has eight top 10s including a tie for second in Australia.
Angela Stanford made a long birdie putt on the final hole for 66 to finish second at 13-under 271.
As Ryu pulled away, she couldn't do much but watch.
''When I looked at the leaderboard on 14, she was at 16 under at that point,'' said Stanford, a native Texan. ''I thought, 'She's obviously having a great day.' When you see that somebody's running away with it, you continue to chase them but if I can't catch her I'd like to be second.''
South Koreans Inbee Park and Chella Choi each shot 69 and shared third place at 12 under.
The victory was worth $195,000 to Ryu, who is an LPGA rookie.
Ryu was overjoyed – and relieved by the victory.
''After winning a major tournament, everyone had really high expectations,'' she said. ''I had no wins after that, so some were disappointed for me. So I really wanted to win as soon as possible - and today I made it.''


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Last night, it looked like the Giants were going to waste yet another strong outing from Matt Cain. With the game tied 1-1 in the eighth, Cain surrendered a run, giving the Astros the lead. The Giants entered the ninth with a one-run deficit to overcome and the bottom of the order taking on the task; the odds weren't promising. But four pitches later, Brandon Belt had singled to lead off the inning, and Joaquin Arias had ripped a double down the left field line to drive him in. A couple batters later, Hector Sanchez blooped a single into shallow center field, and the Giants took a 3-2 lead. It was the kind of game the Giants have lost hundreds of times over the past several years; except they didn't lose last night.
August sure has been kind to the Giants. Well, in the win-loss column, at least. The Giants are now 16-10 on the month, good for a .615 winning percentage. That makes this their best month so far, which is somewhat odd considering that they've gone Melky-less since the 15th. But that's the thing — others have been picking up the slack. Buster Posey should win NL Player of the Month at this point, as nobody in the majors has had a better August. In fact, this month has firmly placed Posey in the MVP race, and assuming he can finish the season well, he'll have a strong case come voting time. If Posey weren't putting up otherworldly numbers this month, Angel Pagan (.353/.422/.608) would probably be deserving of player-of-the-month honors. Given his extended struggles, it's been especially refreshing to see Pagan hit a stride. In the month of August, he's actually surpassed his combined June/July totals for walks and total bases. And then there's Joaquin Arias, who's posted a 200 wRC+ in 54 plate appearances. His 2012 offensive numbers are now somehow better than Carlos Pena's.
And like that, the Giants now have a 3.5 game lead in the NL West. It's not huge, and it's certainly close enough to make things interesting, but it affords the Giants some breathing room. The Dodgers have made some big splashes, most notably the recent mega-trade for Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, and Nick Punto. While I'm confident that the trade hurts — maybe even cripples — the Dodgers in the long-term, it's very difficult to write them off in the short-term. There's no denying the collection of talent on the Dodgers' current roster. But the Giants are starting to pad onto their division lead, and with 33 games to go, things are looking good.


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An attorney for ousted Baton Rouge Police Chief Dewayne White accused Mayor-President Kip Holden of micromanaging the Police Department and forbidding White from speaking to the media at times amid a deteriorating relationship that ended in White's abrupt dismissal Wednesday.
The attorney, Jill Craft, said White will try to win back his job at an appeal hearing later this month, adding the chief has received an outpouring of support and wants to finish the work he began in the community when he was appointed police chief nearly two years ago.
"I think that my client's only desire, really, is to continue to serve the people of Baton Rouge," Craft told reporters at a crowded news conference in her downtown office. "It's an important job that needs to be finished."
A day after White was handed a termination letter and asked to resign or be fired on the spot, Craft sharply criticized the city-parish government's handling of his dismissal, saying she had extended an "olive branch" to officials weeks ago, after it seemed apparent that White's job was in jeopardy.
Under mounting political pressure from the police union, Craft said, Holden increasingly constricted White in his ability to do his job. She said White had been ordered at times not to put certain business matters in writing because they would become public record.
The Police Department, she said, "essentially ceased functioning as an independent separate body and began functioning as a micromanaged organ within city-parish government."
Holden, who has refused multiple requests to explain his reasons for firing White, declined to respond to Thursday's news conference. A spokesman said afterward that the mayor would have no comment.
Earlier Thursday, prior to Craft's news conference, Holden told a reporter, "My standard rule is I don't discuss personnel matters in the media. I just don't do it."
White's termination letter, which was signed by Holden's chief administrative officer, William Daniel, says the basis for his firing "has to do with a substantial disagreement with the direction of the future of the Baton Rouge Police Department."
Craft's comments at Thursday's news conference opened a window into some of the behind-the-scenes exchanges that had led to speculation that White's days at the helm were numbered.
Tension had been mounting between White and the police union, Craft said, and the situation became particularly fraught after White transferred Chris Stewart, president of the local police union, "from a position with essentially non-existent duties to a position that required work."
White, in brief remarks at the news conference, said Stewart had been moved to community policing from professional standards.
"There were a number of incidents that occurred thereafter, culminating in my client being given a direct order by the mayor of Baton Rouge that he was not allowed to make any personnel decisions, he was not allowed to discipline any officers, transfer any officers, move any officers or do anything with respect to the officers under his command unless the Mayor's Office approved it personally," Craft said.
She said White was ordered not to put such requests in writing because they would become public record.
"We can't have a chief of police incapable of dealing with his own personnel, especially in a chain of command structure, paramilitary organization," Craft said.
Stewart, president of Baton Rouge Union of Police Local 237, has not responded to numerous phone calls and text messages seeking comment.
White plans to appear for a hearing Feb. 18 at Holden's office and will insist that it be made open to the public, Craft said.
"I think it's time the people in the public need to know what's happening," she said.
Craft said the chief contacted her about three weeks ago after hearing persistent rumors that his firing was imminent. White's impending dismissal, she said, had become "the worst-kept secret in Baton Rouge."
"The only reason that the chief contacted me, frankly," Craft said, "was so that I would be able to reach out to the mayor and try to obtain some sort of resolution to what could be a bad situation, frankly, for the sake of the citizens of this parish and for the sake of the morale of the officers."
Craft said she made an overture to city-parish officials so White might be able to resign and retain a reputation he has worked hard to achieve. But when she spoke to Daniel, Holden's chief administrative officer, Daniel told her he was not aware of any plan to fire White, Craft said.
"We were specifically told we don't know what you're talking about," Craft said.
The mayor placed a "heated call" to White shortly after he learned White had hired an attorney, Craft said.
"This whole situation is very disappointing," Craft said, adding that White was doing his job well.
The news conference came one day after White was abruptly fired from his position, ending a brief but tumultuous tenure in which he had repeatedly clashed with the police union.
Baton Rouge Police Lt. Carl Dabadie Jr., who was White's chief of staff, has said he is assuming the chief's duties for now. By departmental policy, the chief of staff automatically assumes the chief's duties in his absence.
Upon being appointed, White had vowed to instill discipline and accountability in the department and seek to gain public trust through efforts such as community policing.
He said shortly after he was sworn in that the department was top heavy, and that he planned on moving some high-ranking officers from desk jobs to supervisory roles in the field. Officers upset over the transfers filed grievances with the union, while others took their complaints online.
White criticized the union publicly, telling those attending a meeting of the Baton Rouge Rotary Club once that the union was his biggest obstacle to effecting systemic changes in the department.
Another point of controversy between Holden and White happened after Holden was criticized during his last campaign about the use of city police to ferry and guard Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan as he traveled from New Orleans to a speaking engagement at Southern University, Craft said.
"There were some very heated discussions between the mayor and the chief about that particular incident," she said.
White was given the option to resign Wednesday after a morning news conference, but when he asked for his attorney and the opportunity to call his wife, he was fired.
Craft said White was "devastated" by the news.
Advocate staff writers Rebekah Allen and Faimon A. Roberts III contributed to this report.


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ALJ/KJB/lil DRAFT Agenda ID #11047 (Rev. 1)
Decision PROPOSED DECISION OF ALJ BEMESDERFER (Mailed 2/7/2012)
Application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company for Authority to Increase Electric Rates and Charges to Recover Costs Relating to California Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing Development Facility. (U39E)
Application 10-11-002
(Filed November 1, 2010)
We deny the application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company to invest $9.9 million of ratepayer funds in Silicon Valley Technology Corporation.
Applicant Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) seeks Commission approval of a plan to invest $9.9 million of ratepayer funds in Silicon Valley Technology Corporation (SVTC), a start-up company that proposes to build a new solar panel fabrication facility, the photovoltaic manufacturing and development facility (PV MDF), in Santa Clara County. SVTC has already secured a commitment from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for a $30 million investment. However, the DOE commitment is contingent upon SVTC raising an additional $9.9 million in matching funds.1 On September 28, 2011, Californians for Renewable Energy, Inc. (CARE) filed a motion to dismiss this action. On October 5, 2011, The Utility Reform Network (TURN), the Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA), Greenlining Institute (Greenlining), the Marin Energy Authority (MEA), and the Western Power Trading Forum (WPTF), all of whom together with CARE had protested the application, filed a joint motion to dismiss this action. CARE, TURN, DRA, Greenlining, MEA and WPTF are collectively referred to herein as "Protestors." On October 31, 2011, the assigned Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) denied the motions to dismiss. Pursuant to a schedule adopted at a prehearing conference on September 22, 2011, the parties filed joint opening briefs on November 21, 2011 and joint reply briefs on December 6, 2011. The parties waived evidentiary hearings.
PG&E argues that the PV MDF will engage in research and development (R&D) activities; that R&D investments of ratepayer funds are specifically authorized by Pub. Util. Code §§ 740 and 740.1;2 and that we have approved such investments in the past. PG&E also argues that this investment is consistent with renewable energy programs sponsored by the Commission and points out that it is supported by Governor Brown. Finally, PG&E asserts that ratepayers will be adequately compensated for the investment through their ownership stake in SVTC.
Protestors deny that the PV MDF will engage in R&D activities and argue that the investment is not authorized either by Pub. Util. Code §§ 740 and 740.1 or by § 2775.5,3 which sets out specific requirements that must be met by electrical or gas corporations seeking to invest ratepayer funds in solar energy systems. They assert that investing ratepayer funds in a for-profit start-up company is risky, unprecedented, and sets a disturbing precedent, regardless of its legality. They argue that this type of investment is better suited to a non-regulated entity and point out that shareholders of PG&E have made such investments in the past. Finally, they argue that if the Commission approves the investment, it should be subject to additional conditions designed to increase the probability that ratepayers will ultimately recover the investment.
3.1. Is the proposed investment authorized by
Pub. Util. Code §§ 740 and 740.1?
Pub. Util. Code § 740 authorizes utilities to charge ratepayers for "expenses for research and development." However, the statute does not define what constitutes an R&D expense. To assist our analysis of this issue, we adopt the definition of "research and development" from the federal Office of Management and Budget guidelines:
Basic research is defined as systematic study directed toward fuller knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific application toward processes or products in mind.
Applied research is defined as systematic study to gain knowledge or understanding necessary to determine the means by which a recognized and specific need may be met.
Development is defined as systematic application of knowledge or understanding, directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, and systems or methods, including design, development, and improvement of prototypes and new processes that meet specific requirements.4
To determine whether work done at the PV MDF falls within this definition, we look to the application and the supporting documentation including this description of the PV MDF in the SVTC grant proposal to DOE:
A fabrication facility that 20-30 PV companies could use simultaneously to do pilot manufacturing on a fee for service basis. It would have baseline manufacturing equipment , plus specialized equipment bays and private locked bays for each company's unique technological process.5
In simple terms, the PV MDF is a facility housing a collection of basic manufacturing equipment for making solar panels, either alone or together with specialized tools owned by the users and stored at the facility. It is effectively a test lab in which solar panel fabrication companies can evaluate alternative product designs and manufacturing processes. The companies can rent the PV MDF rather than build their own test facilities, thereby shortening the time and lowering the cost of bringing solar panels to market.
From the short description given above, it should be clear that users of the PV MDF would not be doing either basic or applied research. Nor would the users be developing manufacturing technologies at the PV MD; they would be testing products and processes developed elsewhere. On the other hand, the definition of "development" from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Guidelines, if read broadly, appears to cover this facility since testing of products and processes is part of developing them.
Turning from the general language of § 740 to the detailed requirements of § 740.1, it appears that the PV MDF supports "environmental improvement" as mandated by § 740.1(e)(1) and the development of "renewable resources" as mandated by § 740.(e)(4), but does not offer a reasonable prospect of providing benefits to ratepayers (§ 740.1(a), has a low probability of success (§ 740.1(b)) and duplicates work that would be done elsewhere (§ 740.1(d)). Weighing these outcomes we conclude that the project overall does not satisfy the requirements of the statute.
In its original application, PG&E argued that the utility's financial stake in the project would "provide the potential for full reimbursement to PG&E's customers over the long term."6 More specifically, it would "provide an opportunity for reimbursement of PG&E's customers after five years."7 Perhaps recognizing that this potential ratepayer benefit is speculative and remote, PG&E has minimized economic return on the invested funds in its amended application and its briefs, choosing instead to emphasize the potential for lower cost solar energy as the principal ratepayer benefit:
PG&E has never claimed that its investment in the MDF would be the source of benefits for the RD&D Project. Instead the primary benefit of the project is the RD&D potential for improved solar manufacturing processes and lower PV product costs and prices.8
PG&E has wisely replaced its emphasis on "the potential for full reimbursement" with more general potential benefits because there is no reasonable assurance that ratepayers will ever recover any of the money invested in the PV MDF.
DRA and TURN, respectively, have placed in the record news reports of rapidly falling prices for solar panels, a trend expected to continue for years,9 and the reduction of the US solar panel industry in the face of Chinese competition.10 The relatively high cost of manufacturing solar panels in California versus other parts of the world, the projected rapid price erosion and the current uncompetitive state of the American solar panel industry taken together cast substantial doubt on the long-term viability of this project.
Even if we assume, as PG&E asks us to do, that the major ratepayer benefit from the project is the "potential for improved solar manufacturing processes and lower PV product costs and prices" it is difficult to see how this benefit rewards the ratepayers for their investment. All customers of California-based solar panel manufacturers, whether located in PG&E's service territory, elsewhere in California, or outside of California, would potentially benefit equally from lower prices for solar panels.
Finally, as SVTC itself noted in its DOE application, the focus of the PV MDF is on commercialization of solar panel manufacturing technology. Every solar panel manufacturer may be assumed to be focused on commercialization. While the existence of the PF MDF might marginally accelerate that process, it almost certainly duplicates the efforts of existing and future manufacturers.
For these reasons, we conclude that investment of ratepayer funds in this project is not authorized by Pub. Util. Code §§ 740 and 740.1.
3.2. Is the proposed investment authorized by
Pub. Util. Code § 2775.5?
This section broadly authorizes gas and electric utilities to invest ratepayer funds in solar energy systems, provided that the Commission finds that the investment is in the ratepayers' interest, will accelerate the use of solar energy systems in California, and will not adversely impact the market for solar energy systems.
PG&E argues that the PV MDF meets all three requirements.11
We note this section's requirement that any investment of ratepayer funds in solar energy systems should be "in the ratepayers' interest." We interpret Section 2775.5 to mean that an investment in a solar energy system is in the ratepayers' interest only if some benefits to ratepayers are separate from benefits to the public at large. The potential lowering of solar panel costs, the creation of California-based jobs, and the other alleged benefits of the project all accrue either to the public at large or to groups other than PG&E ratepayers, for example, employees of SVTC or the PV MDF. We have already determined that the likelihood of ratepayers receiving a monetary return on their investment is too remote and inadequate to constitute a ratepayer benefit. Accordingly, we find that the proposed investment does not create a ratepayer benefit that is separate from the benefits to the public at large and fails to meet the requirement of § 2775.5(f) that it be in the ratepayers' interest.
Since a proposed investment in a solar system has to meet all the enumerated requirements to qualify under Section 2775.5, we need not discuss whether this investment meets the other requirements.
3.3. Should we approve this use of ratepayer funds
in the absence of specific statutory authorization?
PG&E argues that we should approve this investment of ratepayer funds using the broad general regulatory authority conferred on us by Pub. Util. Code § 701,12 even if it does not meet the specific requirements of § 740 or § 2775.5. PG&E states the investment will bring millions of otherwise foregone federal dollars into California during a difficult economic time, has the support of the governor, and is an appropriate complement to the state's programs of encouraging alternatives to fossil fuel burning.13 In effect, the utility argues that we should not turn down millions of dollars of federal grant money, with their associated positive impact on jobs and the environment, simply because the investment does not fit neatly into the sections of the Public Utilities Code that deal with investment of ratepayer funds in solar systems and related matters.
As all parties have pointed out in their briefs, we regularly consider whether to permit the use of ratepayer funds for activities that do not directly lower the cost or increase the reliability of utility service. We consider each such proposal on its merits and weigh the amount of public good, the cost to ratepayers, and the availability of alternative financing vehicles, among other things, in determining whether or not to authorize such investments. After weighing those various interests, we conclude that funding for this project is more appropriately sought from private sources.
This proceeding was initially categorized as ratesetting and it was determined that hearings were required. We affirm the initial categorization and change the hearing determination to "not required."
The proposed decision of ALJ Bemesderfer in this matter was mailed to the parties in accordance with Section 311 of the Public Utilities Code and comments were allowed under Rule 14.3 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure.
Opening comments on the Proposed Decision and/or the Alternate Proposed Decision of President Peevey were filed on February 27, 2012, by PG&E, WPTF, Direct Access Customer Coalition, MEA, the City and County of San Francisco (CCSF), DRA, and TURN. Reply comments were filed on March 5, 2012, by all parties other than the CCSF.
All parties other than PG&E supported the Proposed Decision and opposed the Alternate Proposed Decision. The comments and reply comments replicated arguments previously made in briefs and were accorded no additional weight.
Michael R. Peevey is the assigned Commissioner and Karl J. Bemesderfer is the assigned ALJ for this proceeding.
Finding of Fact
1. The PV MDF is an R&D facility.
2. The PV MDF supports environmental improvement.
3. The PV MDF supports development of renewable resources.
4. The PV MDF has a low probability of success.
5. The financial return to ratepayers of an investment in the PV MDF is remote and speculative.
6. The benefits of a successful PV MDF flow either to the public at large or to persons unaffiliated with PG&E.
7. Work done at the PV MDF would duplicate work done elsewhere.
Conclusions of Law
1. Investment of ratepayer funds in SVTC is not authorized by Pub. Util. Code §§ 740 and 740.1.
2. Investment of ratepayer funds in SVTC is not authorized by Pub. Util. Code § 2775.5.
3. Authorization of the investment of ratepayer funds in SVTC pursuant to Pub. Util. Code § 701 is not in the public interest.
4. The application should be denied.
IT IS ORDERED that:
1. Application 10-11-002 is denied.
2. The hearing determination is changed from Yes to No.
3. Application 10-11-002 is closed.
This order is effective today.
Dated , at San Francisco, California.
1 PG&E'a original application sought authority to invest $19.8 million in ratepayer funds which was a requirement for receiving an expected grant of $98 million from DOE. When DOE reduced the amount of the grant from $98 million to $30 million, the required matching investment was reduced to $9.9 million. While the dollar amount of ratepayer money at risk has been halved by this change, the percentage of total project cost to be covered by the ratepayers has increased from 20% to just under 25%. It should also be noted that ratepayers must be charged $17.8 million in order to provide PG&E with $9.9 million to invest in SVTC.
2 Section 740:
For purposes of setting the rates to be charged by every electrical corporation, gas corporation, heat corporation or telephone corporation for the services or commodities furnished by it, the commission may allow the inclusion of expenses for research and development.
Section 740.1:
The commission shall consider the following guidelines in evaluating the research, development, and demonstration projects proposed by electrical and gas corporations:
(a) Projects should offer a reasonable prospect of providing benefits to ratepayers.
(b) Expenditures on projects which have a low probability for success should be minimized.
(c) Projects should be consistent with the corporation's resource plan.
(d) Projects should not unnecessarily duplicate research projects previously or immanently undertaken by other electrical or gas corporations or research organizations.
(e) Each project should also support one or more of the following objectives:
1. Environmental improvement.
2. Public and employee safety.
3. Conservation by efficient resource use or by reducing or shifting system load.
4. Development of new resources and processes, particularly renewable resources and processes which further supply technologies.
5. Improve operating efficiency and reliability or otherwise reduce operating costs.
3 Section 2775.5(a):
If an electrical or gas corporation desires to manufacture, lease, sell, or otherwise own or control any solar energy system, it shall submit to the commission, in such form as the commission may specify, a description of the proposed program of solar energy development which it desires to pursue. The corporation may pursue the program of solar energy development unless the commission, within 45 days after the commission has accepted the filing of the corporation's description pursuant to this subdivision, orders the corporation to obtain from the commission the authorization to do so provided in this section. In cases where the corporation seeks to pursue a program of solar energy development with costs and expenses to be passed through to the ratepayers, the corporation may not implement the program until it receives an authorization from the commission which includes findings and a determination, pursuant to subdivision (f), that the program is in the ratepayer's interest. No such authorization shall be required for any solar energy system which is owned or controlled for experimental or demonstration purposes. As used in this subdivision, "experimental or demonstration purposes" means a limited program of installation, use, or development the sole purpose of which is to investigate the technical viability or economic cost effectiveness of a solar application.
(b) The commission shall deny the authorization sought if it finds that the proposed program will restrict competition or restrict growth in the solar energy industry or unfairly employ in a manner which would restrict competition in the market for solar energy systems any financial, marketing, distributing, or generating advantage which the corporation may exercise as a result of its authority to operate as a public utility. Before granting any such authorization, the commission shall find that the program of solar energy development proposed by the corporation will accelerate the development and use of solar energy systems in this state for the duration of the program.
(f) The costs and expenses of implementing a program of solar energy development shall not be passed through to the ratepayers of an electrical or gas corporation unless the commission finds and determines that it is in the ratepayers' interest to do so.
4 http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/randdef/fedgov.cfm.
5 SVTC Technologies' PV MDF Application for funding from DOE PV Manufacturing Initiative (DE-FOA-000237).
6 Application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company for Authority to Increase Electric Rates and Charges to Recover Costs Relating to California Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing Development Facility, dated November 1, 2010, at 1.
7 Ibid. at 3.
8 Reply Brief of Pacific Gas and Electric Company dated December 6, 2011 at 5.
9 "Solar Generation of Electricity at Grid Parity A Reality in Selected Geographies And16% Per Year Cost Decline for Next 5 Years Implies Major Markets Are Next: Exclusive Interview With Industry Expert" The Wall Street Transcript, March 4, 2011 cited in Opening Brief of Division of Ratepayer Advocates dated November 21, 2011, at 10.
10 Opening Brief of The Utility Reform Network dated November 21, 2011, Attachment 1: News Articles.
11 Opening Brief of Pacific Gas and Electric Company dated November 21, 2011 at 4-8.
12 The commission may supervise and regulate every public utility in the State and may do all things, whether specifically designated in this part or in addition thereto which are necessary and convenient in the exercise of such power and jurisdiction.
13 PG&E Application.


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Reaching the Century Club
"Horses choose you," she said. explaining her lifelong fascination. "You don't choose them."
As a child, she read all the horse and dog books she could find. When vendors came around with ponies, offering to take children's pictures sitting on horseback, she talked them into letting her go for a ride instead.
As a teen, the mostly self-taught horsewoman went to a local riding academy whenever she had a chance. As a mother, she taught her five children to ride, drove them to horse shows, rode with them on weekend trail rides and introduced them to the show ring.
Cooke turned 82 on Sunday, but still rides almost every day.
"I always enjoy riding," she said. "If I didn't feel good — if I was bummed — I'd go riding. I'd always felt better.
"When I ride, I feel peace. My worries go away."
In addition to riding for pleasure, Cooke regularly competes in dressage — still. The sport involves a method of training horses designed to develop correct movement in the horse and demonstrate the rider's command of herself and her mount.
This weekend, she and Tong Shan, an American Paint gelding that turned 18 on Monday, are scheduled to take part in the annual Bears Above the Ground dressage event at the Yamhill County Fairgrounds. Her ride is scheduled mid-day on Saturday, March 1.
Afterward, she and Tong will be inducted into the national Dressage Foundation's Century Club. It requires a combined age of 100 to qualify, and they just hit it.
She will be the seventh Oregonian in the club, which was formed "to encourage older dressage riders to remain active in the sport," according to the Dressage Foundation. Its members must meet the age qualification, perform a dressage test and be scored by an official judge.
Back in 1950, Cooke's first act as an official adult was to buy herself a horse.
"I bought a 9-month-old colt, Rocky Joe," recalled Cooke.
In hindsight, she said, "That was a foolish thing." After all, she noted, "I was 18. I didn't know anything but saddling and riding."
But she said, "It turned out OK. We learned together."
She and Rocky Joe eventually moved to Dayton, where her mother had settled.
Back then, in the early 1950s, the city had a public barn where she could stable Rocky Joe for a small fee, plus a rodeo ground where she could exercise him. They were located near Joel Palmer House.
Cooke married a native of St. Paul. They lived near Woodburn at first, then moved to Yamhill in 1966, with five children in tow.
She continued riding when she could, but her kids' activities became her principal focus. She taught them to ride and applauded when they showed and jumped horses in 4-H and other events.
The children also took lessons from a family that had an arena between Yamhill and Carlton.
In the early 1970s, a friend involved in Girl Scouts asked the Cookes to help out with a horse camp. She wanted Scouts to learn about horses.
The first camp was held in Salem. The next several years, the Cookes hosted Girl Scout horse camps on their property.
"I borrowed horses and we had quite a few of our own then," she recalled. "The library let me take out all its horse books for the weekend, and we set up a horse library in the house."
She enjoyed seeing the girls' interest in something she loved. Plus, she said, "I met a lot of nice people."
Later, she and her family took horses to Girl Scout campouts at Whispering Winds. They also helped with Camp Fire horse camps.
In addition, they ran "horse weekends" on their own, hosting young people on visits that included riding and camping. They invited the visitors to "Cinnabar Hill," the name they still use for the property.
Cooke said she chose it to honor the first colt she raised there. The Arabian's reddish brown coat had inspired her to name it Cinnabar.
Cinnabar Hill has been home to many horses over the years — 27 at one point, including foals, ponies, brood mares and a Welsh stallion who sired some of the young ones. In addition to Welsh ponies, there were Arabians, thoroughbreds and quarter horses.
Cooke loved working with them, as well as riding them. She enjoyed cleaning out the stalls and listening to them chomp on hay. She just loved being around them.
Almost every weekend, she and her daughters would mount up and ride into the hills. Sometimes they would camp wherever they found a stopping place.
"Riding all day can be tiring, especially if you're riding right," Cooke said. She explained that proper riding involves using your muscles, "not just sitting there letting the horse do all the work."
Cooke started taking lessons years ago, learning jumping and dressage. She still takes dressage lessons every other week.
"Dressage is very complicated, more than people realize if they're just watching," she said. "There's so much to learn: How to sit without bouncing, how to get your horse to collect himself correctly, how to bend him with your hands in the right position ..."
She added, "I'm not a natural rider, like some people. I've had to relearn some things I learned wrong to begin with."
Cooke has been riding Tong Shan for eight years. She bought him as a 10-year-old and renamed him, choosing the Chinese words for "Copper Mountain," honoring his chestnut coat.
"My son-in-law teaches in China, so I started asking him about the words for 'mist in the mountain,'" she said. "That didn't sound good, but Tong Shan, I like that."
She calls Tong "a buddy horse," meaning one who's truly interested in being with her. He whinnies and comes toward her when she enters the barn, and he follows her wherever she goes. They even celebrate their birthdays together, hers on Feb. 23, his on Feb. 24.
"Some horses are buddies, some aren't," she said. She still misses another of her buddies, her beloved Hal (full name: Regarding Henry), who died of cancer several years ago.
She said she has enjoyed and gotten along well with all her horses, but some, like Hal and Tong, stand out.
"They're more bonded to you than to the other horses," she said, relating how Tong helps her put his horse blanket on by putting his head down and through the opening in the heavy material. "Riding with a buddy horse is something special."
At 18, Tong is of typical age for dressage. It takes years for horses and riders to master the skills and muscle control necessary for the sport, Cooke said, so horses don't usually become serious competitors until they reach their teens.
Tong, tall at 16 1/2 hands, is well-suited to dressage, she said. He knows what he's doing.
However, that can be a problem sometimes. She said he knows the practice course so well, he occasionally tries to go through the tasks on his own, without listening to her instructions.
The small woman has to remind the horse that she's in charge. "This is supposed to be teamwork," she tells him.
Cooke, a member of the Chehalem Mountain Chapter of the Oregon Dressage Society, enjoys practicing with Tong. They work on skills like walking and trotting, making right angle turns, going in circles or cutting across the arena, always with smooth transitions between gaits and tasks.
Dressage is a formal and elegant sport. Horses are trained to bow their necks and step with precision.
Riders wear white or light-colored pants and dark coats. Traditionally, they also wore top hats or black caps, but they wear helmets these days.
"I hate helmets!" Cooke said. "They're so hot. But they're important for safety."
Fortunately, she said, today's helmets also are much lighter and more comfortable than older ones.
The sport isn't always exciting for spectators, she said, but it's exciting for the rider. Horses usually like it, as well, especially buddy horses who like to please their humans.
"Dressage shows how you and the horse fit together," Cooke said, and she and Tong are delighted to be in such a partnership.
Some dressage shows include special activities, such as rounds set to music.
Once Cooke and a friend entered a musical ride in which they would wear costumes. They found long blonde wigs, pulled flowing skirts over their riding pants and carried faux swords made by their husbands.
"'We did the 'Ride Of Valkyries,'" she said, naming the familiar fanfare from Wagner's "Ring" cycle.
"We got the biggest laugh and the most applause," she said, recalling their entrance into the show ring. "We didn't win, but we had a lot of fun."
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Spectators are welcome throughout the show. Admission is free. Pets must be leashed and children must be accompanied by parents.
Riders start showing their skills about 8 a.m. and continue all day each day. Cooke and Tong are scheduled for midday, about noon, on Saturday.
The pair also will become members of the Dressage Foundation's Century Club, which honors riders and horses with a combined age of 100. Cooke is 82; Tong is 18.
Dressage is a word drawn from the French verb for "to train." It is both a method of training horses and a competitive sport, and is designed to develop correct movement in the horse.
The local show is hosted by the Chehalem Mountain Chapter of the Oregon Dressage Society. Its name, "Bears Above the Ground," is a reference to the famous "airs above the ground" movement performed by the Lipizzaner Stallions. The "bears" reference comes from the shagginess of many horses' coats at this time of the year.
For more information about the Dressage Foundation or the Century Club, visit www.dressagefoundation.org.


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What Do Herbert and Marion Sandler Want?
Investigating the funders of ProPublica, the new investigative journalism outfit.
The first American press was the partisan press, underwritten and dictated by the political parties. Starting in the 1830s or so, the profit-seeking lords of the commercial press staked their major claim to the news business and established a primacy they have maintained to this day.
The third wave in American journalism—that of the foundation press—may be taking form now thanks to Bay Area billionaires Herbert and Marion Sandler. Waving $10 million that they promise to replenish annually, the Sandlers have founded the nonprofit ProPublica to produce investigative journalism. (Usual suspect the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is also chipping in some money to the ProPublica kitty, as are the Atlantic Philanthropies and the JEHT Foundation.)
Today's New York Times reports that ProPublica will soon hire 24 reporters and editors to create one of investigative journalism's largest staffs. Based in New York City and led by former Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger, ProPublica promises to produce quality investigative journalism and give it—not sell it—to media outlets.
ProPublica's Web site claims that the business crisis in publishing has put a crimp in investigative units across the land, and philanthropy is needed to fill the gap. Other nonprofits muckrake, of course. The Center for Investigative Reporting has been doing so for 30 years and the Center for Public Integrity for more than 15. Nonprofits already publish investigative magazines such as Mother Jones. Some newspaper owners have given their properties to nonprofits to maintain independence and quality (the St. Petersburg Times, the Anniston Star, and the Union Leader; see Alicia C. Shepard's article). In the United Kingdom, a trust exists whose mission is to preserve the Guardian's financial and editorial independence "in perpetuity."
But nothing on this scale and with this investigative focus has been attempted before in journalism.
What do the Sandlers want for their millions? Perhaps to return us to the days of the partisan press. The couple made their fortune, which Forbes estimates at $1.2 billion, at Golden West Financial Corp. In recent years, they've spent millions on politics. The Federal Election Commission database shows the two of them giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic Party campaigns. In 2004, Herbert Sandler gave the MoveOn.org Voter Fund $2.5 million, again according to the FEC database. The Center for Responsive Politics Web site reports donations of $8.5 million from Herbert and Marion to the 527 group Citizens for a Strong Senate, in the 2004 cycle. CSS was formed by "a group of strategists with close ties to former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards," writes the washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza. American Banker reported in 2005 that Herbert also gave $1 million to the California stem cell initiative and that the pair have also funded the progressive Center for American Progress.
The Sandlers' enthusiasm for journalism and journalists is late in arriving. Back in April 1992, at the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual convention, Marion ascribed partial blame for the savings and loan disaster to the press. "Where were you when it was happening?" she asked, according to a story by the Chicago Tribune's James Warren. Her husband accused the press of making "stars out of bums and charlatans" like swindler Charles Keating. "The press is susceptible to the Big Lie, no matter how patently nonsensical," Herbert said.
What sort of assistance did the Sandlers give the press to get to the bottom of the S&L scandal while it was happening? Um, not much. Warren writes, "Herbert Sandler conceded that, apart from being an occasional anonymous source for one Wall Street Journal reporter, he declined to help journalists as much as he probably should have."
ProPublica's Web site vows that its investigations will be conducted in a "non-partisan and non-ideological manner, adhering to the strictest standards of journalistic impartiality." But philanthropists, especially those who earned the fortune they're giving away, tend not to distribute their money with a blind eye to the results. How happy will they be if ProPublica gores their sacred Democratic cows? Or takes the "wrong" position on their pet projects: health, the environment, and civil liberties?
If I were a newspaper editor considering ProPublica copy for a future issue, the first thing I'd want is proof of a firewall preventing the Sandlers and other funders from picking—or nixing—the targets of its probes. And if I were an editorial writer, I'd call upon Herbert Sandler to provide ProPublica with 10 years of funding ($100 million), and then resign from his post as the organization's chairman so he'll never be tempted to bollix up what might turn out to be a good thing.
I dare you little bastards to query the FEC database for my contributions. Send findings to email@example.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name in "The Fray," Slate's readers' forum, in a future article, or elsewhere unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)


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Tool of the week for journalists – Greplin, to search your private files and profiles
Tool of the week: Greplin
What is it? A private search engine for your personal files and social media accounts
How is it of use to journalists? Greplin allows you to search your Gmail, Google Docs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Dropbox accounts in the same way as you would use Google to search the web.
Recommended by Amy Webb at US journalism conference #ONA11 as "a way of sort of defragging your brain", Greplin is a tool that can help journalists find a key piece of information in a second or two.
For example, you may be working on a story about a company or subject and have information in emails, your Dropbox account, Google Calendar and LinkedIn. One search in Greplin will allow you to surface the source documents and references to the company or topic.
The basic subscription is free and includes those accounts listed above. You can unlock services such as Delicious by tweeting about Greplin, and there are some services, such as Evernote, only available with Greplin Premium.
There is a free iPhone app and also a browser extension for Chrome, which is well worth adding. This enables you to search your files simply by prefixing your query with a "g".
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Typically dental schools require entering students to have completed four years of pre-dental education; however, if you have outstanding qualifications, you may be admitted after only three years (early admission).
To qualify for early admission after three years of pre-dental preparation, you must complete the major and specific course and scholastic requirements of the curriculum with a minimum of 94 credits at Ball State University.
All pre-dental students should have alternative goals and should complete second majors in any areas in which they have strong interests.
Pre-dental counseling is available in the department of biology.
Graduate a Year EarlyBall State offers the Degree in 3 Program allowing you the option to graduate in three years in the pre-dentistry program. This gives you a jump start on your career or advanced degree.
IU School of Dentistry Applicant RequirementsMany of our students apply to the Indiana University School of Dentistry. If accepted into the IU School of Dentistry, your senior year course requirements will be used for the baccalaureate degree from Ball State. Most pre-dental students, however, have another major in addition to the pre-dental major, usually biology or chemistry, and complete both majors in four years.
In addition to the basic science requirements listed below, Indiana University School of Dentistry requires two semesters of English, including one semester of composition (ENG 104); one semester each of introductory psychology (PSYSC 100), physiology (PHYSL 215), and biochemistry (CHEM 360 is recommended). To review complete course information, see the undergraduate catalog.
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(CBS) – The National Weather Service said the tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph.
The mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed at least 24 lives.
Here is a quick list of some of the agencies that are providing aid and how you can help:
The Salvation Army
You can donate to the Salvation Army's Oklahoma tornado relief online or call 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769). You can also text the word "STORM" to 80888 to make a $10 donation through your mobile phone; to confirm your gift, respond with the word "Yes."
Donations in the form of checks designated to Oklahoma Tornado Relief may also be mailed to:
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The Red Cross
You can donate to the Red Cross tornado relief in Oklahoma online or text "STORM" to 80888 to make $10 donation or donate by phone at 1-800-RED CROSS.
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FINDLAY, Ohio - King College had three wrestlers reach the semifinals of the 2011 NCAA Division II Super Region II Friday with hopes of trips to the NCAA Division II Nationals on the line come Saturday.
Nic Stella (Sweet Home, N.Y.) wrestled into the semifinals of the 149-pound bracket with an upset of No. 2 seed Colton Schmitz, from Truman. Stella posted a 5-3 decision in the match. Stella has a semifinal contest against No. 3 seed Daniel Genetin, from Ashland. A win guarantees Stella a trip to the 2011 NCAA Division II National Championship with the championship round birth.
Brandon Tressler (Orlando, Fla.) went from the No. 4 seed through to the semifinals with two wins within the 184-pound division. He started with a fall over St. Andrews Presbyterian's Greg Pattis. A fall in 2:21 over Zach Hayes, from Truman, got Tressler to the semifinals against top-seed Aaron Denson.
Frank Morgan (Maynardville, Tenn.) posted a major decision in the quarterfinals of the 197-pound bracket. His 13-2 score came against Central Missouri's Doug Thompson. Morgan has a semifinal meeting against Corby Running, from Ashland, who knocked off No. 2 seed Jarrett Edison, from Central Oklahoma, 5-1.
Caleb Myers (Greeneville, Tenn.) started the day with an 8-5 decision over Tiffin (Ohio) University's Jordan Duckett in the 133-pound division. Myers later was narrowly defeated 8-6 by top-seed Michael Magaha, from Limestone (S.C.) College. This was the second meeting of the season between the two as Magaha won 7-2 the previous time.
Heavyweight Dondricus Anderson (Macon, Ga.) only needed 32 seconds for a fall over Truman's Thomas Redmon, but Anderson lost to Cody Dauphin, from Central Oklahoma. Anderson needs two wins Saturday to reach the third-place match and earn a trip to nationals.
Francisco Bisono (Virginia Beach, Va.) won in the wrestle-back portion of the 141-pound division after a loss to top-seed Mario Morgan, from national power Nebraska Omaha.
John Forbes (Virginia Beach, Va.) went 2-1 on the day with a win in both the main and wrestleback brackets. His first-round win came over Truman's Chad Kurovski 4-3. Forbes then lost a narrow 2-1 decision to No. 3 seed Kelly Henderson, from Central Oklahoma. Forbes rebounded to knock out Ouachita Baptist's David Butler with a 13-9 decision.
Patrick Spano (Tampa, Fla.) started the 165-pound bracket with a fall over Central Missouri's Todd Brier, but later lost to No. 3 seed Jake Variek, from Belmont Abbey.
Richard Williams (Nashville, Tenn.) lost to the No. 2 seed in the 125-pound bracket in the quarterfinal round.
In the team standings Nebraska Omaha has the lead with 80 points, 17 in front of Ashland (Ohio). King has the fifth spot, a point behind Limestone, 33-32. Central Missouri owns sixth with 31 points.
Action continues Saturday at 10 a.m. with finals scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
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Denise Robinson
|Denise Robinson
|GTA San Andreas
|Full Name
|Denise Robinson
|Place of Birth
|Ganton, Los Santos
|House in Ganton, Los Santos
|Main Affiliations
Carl Johnson (boyfriend, 1992 onwards)
Grove Street Families
Los Santos Vagos
|Green Hustler
|Voiced by
|Heather Alicia Simms
Denise Robinson is a character in the 3D Universe who appears as a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (set in 1992). She is an associate of the Grove Street Families, becomes one of Carl Johnson's girlfriends, and lives in Ganton, Los Santos. She is voiced by Heather Alicia Simms.
Character history
Denise Robinson was born and raised in Ganton, Los Santos, growing up surrounded by Grove Street Families gangsters and knowing of the gang's leader Sweet and his younger brother Carl Johnson. She, at some point, purchased a house in Ganton and had three children, giving all three away. Denise begins spending time with Los Santos Vagos gangsters in East Los Santos, believing it to be dangerous as she "likes to live dangerously" but is later put in massive danger when Carl Johnson, on orders from C.R.A.S.H. leader Frank Tenpenny, sets fire to house belonging to Vagos members that Denise had been visiting. Carl, upon hearing Denise's screams, enters the house and rescues her, later driving her back home. Denise asks Carl to visit her again and the two begin dating. She later seems to become obsessed with Carl, phoning Radio Los Santos to do a shout out, saying that she is "desperate" for his attention.
- Times
- Denise Robinson can often be found at her home between 16:00 and 6:00.
- Food Date
- Denise Robinson prefers to eat at fast food restaurants or Ten Green Bottles.
- Dancing Date
- The Alhambra is the closest club for dancing dates.
- Driving Date
- She prefers to be driven around Ganton, although she does not mind about the speed.
- Special Date
- Denise likes performing drive-by shootings on the Ballas, Los Santos Vagos and Varrios Los Aztecas gang members.
- Denise Robinson begins asking Carl Johnson in for coffee when her relationship with Carl reaches about 40%.
- Denise rewards Carl with the keys to her Hustler at 50% and the Pimp Suit, a light blue shirt, at 100%.
Mission appearance
- GTA San Andreas
- Denise is one of only two girlfriends that are mandatory for CJ to encounter (the other being Millie Perkins) in order to complete all the game's missions. It is possible to complete the game without encountering any of the other girlfriends.
- Denise Robinson can be killed by Carl Johnson at anytime after Burning Desire.
- Denise Robinson wears a t-shirt with the word "Growler" on the back.
- Denise Robinson has a customised number plate on her Hustler, which says "HOMEGIRL".
- Denise Robinson's Hustler can be stolen by pushing/towing it back to one of Carl Johnson's garages and allowing the garage door to close.
- Denise Robinson continues to live in Ganton after the Ballas take control and continues to perform drive-by shootings.
- Pedestrians with Denise Robinson's character model can be seen in A Home in the Hills running through Madd Dogg's mansion. Attacking them has no effect on the player's progress with Denise.
- Denise aspires to open a local beauty shop.
- Denise dislikes Red County.
Denise Robinson inside a burning building during Burning Desire.