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Try making a documentary without footage. That's always been the bane of the filmmaker covering a historical period that predates motion pictures. Ken Burns offered a nifty solution with his patented panning and zooming of old photographs in "The Civil War" and other series.
The eight-part series "The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents" (8 p.m., History) takes the use of period illustration and two-dimensional renderings to new, overcaffeinated extremes. "Presidents" opens with a thundering score that sounds a bit like the theme to "Game of Thrones." We see re-enactments of cannons firing, soldiers shooting and other macho stuff. Dudes, this ain't history for sissies!
Once it settles down to discussing the presidents, one administration at a time, "Presidents" makes an almost manic use of old imagery, conflating them into mini dioramas accompanied by loud, bombastic, faux Wagnerian music reminiscent of vintage "NFL Highlights" scores. It's as if their purpose is to keep viewers awake during all that dry academic stuff.
''Presidents" deserves credit for inviting a wide range of scholars and historians to discuss each chief executive. At times, the PBS folks seem intent on convincing us there are four working historians in America: Michael Beschloss, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin and a player to be named later. "Presidents" expands upon this monopoly and has found some genuinely telegenic talking heads. One expert from the University of Texas has movie-star good looks, and a historian from Yale is dynamic and attractive. We history nerds don't need much to keep us interested, History Channel. You can turn down the volume!
''The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents" will air at 8 nightly through Friday.
Tonight's other highlights:
• "Pioneers of Television" (7 p.m., PBS) profiles female comedians, from Phyllis Diller to Tina Fey.
• The stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown and Harriet Beecher Stowe intersect on "The Abolitionists: American Experience" (8 p.m., PBS).
• Mindy hosts a demanding sleepover guest on "The Mindy Project" (8:30 p.m., Fox).
• Joel and Julia mull their options on "Parenthood" (9 p.m., NBC).
• "Africa" (9 p.m., Discovery, TV-G) explores the continent's savannah region, rich in exotic wildlife.
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2K rolls out another MyCAREER trailer from NBA 2K17
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In what will be Kobe Bryant's final NBA game later tonight, 2K today announced it will pay tribute by honoring the 18-time NBA All-Star on the cover of the NBA 2K17 Legend Edition
"It's a great honor to partner with 2K on the NBA 2K17 Legend Edition," said Kobe Bryant, whose retirement tonight marks a storied 20-year career. "As I walk off the NBA court for the final time, it's exciting to know my fans can continue to celebrate my lifelong career as a Los Angeles Laker." – Kobe Bryant
Developer: Visual Concepts
Publisher: 2k Sports
Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4
Released: September 29th, 2015
Sports games typically have to navigate a short development cycle (compared to games outside of the sports genre) and face an uphill battle to be innovative as they churn out releases annually. Sports titles that show minimal improvements from year to year are usually tagged with the unflattering term "roster update." 2K Sports has managed to buck this trend with NBA 2K16, delivering one of most ambitious titles of its kind.
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GameKings TV sat down with Rob Jones, Senior Producer on NBA 2K16 for an in-depth interview. Video also shows some gameplay footage and a glimspe at the MyCareer mode.
2K Sports just dropped some new screens from NBA 2K16 featuring James Harden, Steph Curry and Anthony Davis. Continue reading Post ID 3813
2K Sports just revealed their tracklist for NBA 2K16 and it's going to be a banger. Curated by a trio of the industry's most well-known producers, DJ Mustard, DJ Khaled and DJ Premier, the soundtrack features more than 50 tracks available in six in-game playlists. Imagine taking your MyPlayer through his journey to the top of the NBA while songs from the likes of Nas, Gangstarr, J. Cole and Jay Z is thumping in the background. You can stream the entire soundtrack on spotify.
With the 2015 NBA Playoffs tipping off today, 2K has simulated every round and the Golden State Warriors reigned supreme. The full simulated bracket was completed using their NBA simulation game controlled by AI to play out the results of each matchup and series all the way through the finals. Continue reading Post ID 3813
New trailer features a mashup of star players showcasing signature moves and previews just a few of the many gameplay improvements found in NBA 2K14. 2k Sports game will be out Oct 1st on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. NBA 2K14 will also be coming to Windows PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later this year.
Lebron James takes on Michael Jordan, Shawn Kemp, and Dominique Wilkins in the Slam Dunk contest. Watch Kemp do a cartwheel under the cut. Continue reading Post ID 3813
Rap fans really didn't need the confirmation but Jay Z reintroduced himself anyway on his standout "Public Service Announcement" track from the Black Album some years back. When I first played NBA 2K13, I got the same feeling I experienced when listening to Hov's bold boasts on PSA: here is a great basketball video game series that could've rested on its laurels this year but instead stepped up its game reminding everyone why it's on top. Aligning themselves with the aforementioned MC to executive produce the soundtrack, 2K Sports has put out one of the dopest, more engaging sports titles that I can remember in a minute. Continue reading Post ID 3813

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EPA sets tougher standard on pollution
Published 11:38 pm, Thursday, October 1, 2015
The Obama administration on Thursday established stricter limits on the smog-causing pollution linked to asthma and respiratory illness, drawing swift condemnation from business leaders and Republicans who warned of damage to the economy.
The Environmental Protection Agency said the new standard of 70 parts per billion will reduce exposure to dangerous ozone pollution and prevent thousands of asthma attacks and emergency room visits and hundreds of premature deaths each year.
Environmental and health groups argued that the rules fall short. The new standard is below the current standard of 75 parts per billion but at the high end of a range announced by the EPA last fall.
The move fulfills a long-delayed campaign promise by President Barack Obama as he works to cement a legacy on climate change and other environmental policies before leaving office in January 2017. After pledging during his first presidential campaign to tighten ozone limits, Obama backtracked in 2011 by yanking the EPA's proposed ozone limits amid intense pressure from industry and the GOP.


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by Darrell Etherington, June 20, 2014 of TECHCRUNCH.com
Sometimes a device comes so close to being perfect that you'd be forgiven for not realizing that with just a single tweak, it can become, in actual fact, perfect. The Kindle Paperwhite is such a device, as an e-reader that Amazon has crafted so well that you pretty much never need look beyond for anything better. But while a regular book ends up with wrinkly pages after being caught in a surprise downpour on the beach, the Paperwhite fizzles – unless you get the Waterfi-treated


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Hobby Lobby CEO and founder David Green chose an appropriate choice of words when explaining his opposition to the federal government forcing employers to provide health care coverage for the morning-after pill.
"By being required to make a choice between sacrificing our faith or paying millions of dollars in fines, we essentially must choose which poison pill to swallow," Green said in a statement. "We simply cannot abandon our religious beliefs to comply with this mandate."
Hobby Lobby indeed considers the overreach of Obamacare to be a bitter pill to swallow as the chain — which includes an Amarillo location on 3318 Bell St. — filed a federal lawsuit challenging the morning-after pill mandate.
Hobby Lobby is basing its lawsuit on religious grounds, stating the federal requirement is a violation of the company's religious beliefs.
There's certainly a case to be made there, but there is also an argument about whether the morning-after pill is a matter of personal choice or a true standard for adequate health care.
The pill's primary effect is to prevent unwanted pregnancy — a matter more to do with personal choice than fighting illness, disease, injury or maintaining quality health.
Of course, when it comes to health care mandates and personal choice/quality of life, there are many arguments to be made, especially when sexual/reproductive issues are involved.
And there's always the possibility of the morning-after pill being used in cases of sexual abuse.
Those cases would be rare and could be considered individually — and certainly not justification to slap a reported $1.3-million-a-day fine on Hobby Lobby for failure to comply.
Hobby Lobby should fight this federal mandate on religious grounds, but that's not the only reason to oppose the federal government forcing employers to pay for matters of personal choice.


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In a recent survey, Metro school families, faculty and staff gave a slight edge to a new balanced calendar for the 2012-2013 school year over a traditional calendar, meaning school would start on July 25 or Aug. 1 if one of two plans is passed.
The results, which include numbers recorded through last week's automated telephone survey, give Director of Schools Jesse Register a last-minute boost in bolstering his case that a balanced calendar is preferable. The school board is set to vote on the matter Tuesday night.
Of 21,091 respondents, 11,201 (53 percent) preferred a balanced calendar that would shorten summer breaks but make fall and spring breaks two weeks long, while also creating "intersessions" aimed at student achievement. The remaining 9,890 (47 percent) respondents preferred a traditional calendar similar to the current one.
The telephone survey reached more than 21,000 families. Combining figures from emails and phone calls, 37 percent of those reached participated.
Of polled families, 9,317 (53 percent) preferred the balanced calendar, compared to 8,354 (47 percent) of families who preferred a traditional calendar. Metro faculty preferred the balanced calendar by a 59-41 percent margin. Staff members preferred the balanced calendar by a 53-47 percent margin.
A marginal number of people who weighed in at Metro's customer service office preferred a traditional calendar 57 percent to 43 percent.
Two different balanced calendars are under consideration.
Register has described a scenario in which he would likely recommend the board adopt a version that would begin school on July 25 in 2012, contingent on an extra $20 million in future unidentified funding to extend the number of school days from 173 to 180 days. The proposal also has 10 days reserved for the professional development of teachers.
But his recommendation would have what he calls a "fallback" plan if the $20 million weren't available. As a plan B, of sorts, the board would also approve a second balanced calendar that would begin school on Aug. 1, cost no additional funding, but only increase school days to 176.
If the school board opts not to approve a balanced calendar, the alternative is a traditional school calendar.
One major, gaping problem with the phone study done: There was not a "no opinion/undecided" 3rd option.
This slight edge, given the circulated misinformation that a balanced calendar improves test scores and learning (it does neithet) and the unscientific biased way the survey was conducted, suggests that their is no mandate for this scheme. It's an SSA with even more disruptive effects. That this newspaper is this ignorant about the math of surveys is disheartening.
I sure would like to see the exact wording of the poll.
I agree, ben. More detail would be nice, but CP isn't often interested in details...too busy finding lame debate topics , I guess.
stepheni I am having trouble believing the MNPS survey results! Where is the money going to come from to implement this? MNPS never took in consideration the fact that school starting even in the middle of August has an impact on swim teams, camps and summer businesses! Memorial day to Labor day! Football in the FALL not the summer! I see MNPS parents everyday and not one has expressed favor for a balanced calendar which is director Registers year around school idea with a different name.
Not to mention that it totally jacks-up every divorce child-custody agreement that's been written in the past 17 years.
If the school board goes through with this, then they do so at their own political peril...and at Register's professional peril. This is why many legislatures and many organizations require a super-majority to make major decisions. Things rammed down throats eventually resurface in unpretty ways.
I "register" my complete disapproval for Register's plan. Totally unnecessary and a waste of money. Keep things as they are, in fact, move the start date up to after Labor Day like most of the country. The argument that kids "forget" information over a long summer is ludicrous. Sure hope this foolhardy plan goes down in flames!
I was VERY adamantly against a balanced schedule for business reasons and well as for my personal reasons. Yet I never received the robo-call to vote!!! So my vote was never recorded!!!!
I am a divorced father with a parenting agreement that allows me three (separate) weeks each summer. With limited number of weeks to do this next year, it will be very difficult to schedule any vacation time with my inflexible work schedule. I also have a problem with it because my daughter's band camp is now in jeopardy and will likely be cancelled next summer. Our head coach at our high school is outraged about this and has no idea how to deal with the total screw up of summer practices and game scheduling. He reminded me that this totally ignores teachers' and staff members' personal feelings and family vacation schedules, as well.
The wording of the survey, as far as I can recall, was something like the following:
"The Nashville school board is considering two options for the coming 2012-2013 school year. Option one is a balanced calendar, with a shorter summer break that ends in late July, and longer spring and fall breaks. Option two is to continue using the same calendar as this past year. Press 1 for option one, Press 2 for option two."
The thing that really doesn't make sense is that supporters of the "balanced" school year say that a long summer break hurts students abilities to retain knowledge. But they are also lengthening the fall and spring breaks. Doesn't this mean that students are likely to forget more of what they've learned DURING a school year, as opposed to in between school years? There really isn't much rhyme or reason for this, just another effort by the school board not to look incompetent and say "hey, we're doing something, we increased the school year by 4 days!"
SirKnight, I can foresee a class action lawsuit for you and other divorced parents.
End school at Memorial Day and start after Labor Day. Worked for my generation and we graduated presidents, astronauts, scientists, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, doctors, scholars, inventors, etc. on and on. School in summer has endless problems--disrupts family life big time, and there are not enought weeks to schedule vacations, mandatory school camps for sports, band, etc. , church activities, etc.
Also fall break weather is usually cold and dismal and kids stay in and play video games, watch tv. etc, Is that better than being off in the summer and swimming, hiking, biking, etc???


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One of the best female Mixed Martial Artists in the World, Marloes "Rumina" Coenen, answered on five short questions in an exclusive interview for the LowKick.com Community.
Best known for her virtuosic submission skills, Twenty nine year-old Marloes Coenen has 17 victories and 4 losses in her illustrious MMA career. "Female Rickson" is currently training at the world-famous Golden Glory Gym alongside fighters like Semmy Schilt, Alistair Overeem and Sergei Kharitonov.
Coenen challenged the reigning Strikeforce Womens Champion Cristiane Cyborg at Strikeforce: Miami in January, but was defeated via TKO in the middle of the third round. Her next fight is expected to take place on June 26, 2010 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, against the yet unnamed opponent.
LowKick.com: You started your Mixed Martial Arts career ten years ago, by submitting Yuki Kondo in the first round. What do you think about the evolution of Women's MMA, and what in your opinion has to be done to bring more women into the sport?
Marloes Coenen: Actually I started a little earlier; I had two amateur Shooto-fights before I went to Japan. My goal is to make women more enthusiastic for martial arts. I don't care if they do MMA fitness, judo, karate or something else. I just want them to realize that martial arts isn't about which gender you are. Men, women, children and older people everyone can join. Once they understood this message more women will join and become MMA fans. For that we need attention first. I do not like to emphasize on the appearance of female fighters. It started with Carano, BUT thanks to her the women in MMA got more attention. She's the Kournikova of MMA. We need more ambassadors like that for the attention and then we need Cyborgs to prove that we are good fighters.
What are the main improvements you made following the loss to Cristiane Santos in January, and when we will see you fighting again?
I hope I will fight in June again. I had a few injuries that cost a lot of time to heal. So I was more busy with that to be honest. My lesson from the Cyborg fight was that I should have listen to my trainer. Rationally I wanted to, but my emotions took over and I wanted to prove I could KO her with a single punch. I truly believed in that. Cyborg is one of a kind; I'm still convinced that I can drop the other girls with my power. If I fight Cyborg again, I will be more tactical and less emotional. For my stand up game, I will combine more.
Your Golden Glory Gym teammate Alistair Overeem is fighting Brett Rogers at Strikeforce: Heavy Artillery on May 15th. What are your predictions for that showdown, and what kind of preparations Alistair does at the Gym for the fight?
Alistair will be the winner of course. 🙂 I cannot wait for this fight because it will be a big war for sure. He will not win on points but I think on a choke or KO…Round 1 or 2.
Who in your opinion is currently the best Pound for Pound fighter in the World, and why?
Gegard Mousasi. I know he lost from King Mo (who is an incredible fighter!!). But I have info that not everybody knows and therefore I consider Gegard the best in the world. Oh… and let's not forget about GSP of course. Gilbert Melendez is also a big inspiration to me. Göhkan Saki and Nieky Holzken have started training MMA at Martijn's gym. They are both very talented K1-fighters and will become MMA stars for sure. Old time favorites are Fedor, Rumina Sato, Mach Sakurai and Ramon Dekker.
What are the other things you like to do besides MMA, and did you even consider starting an acting career?
I love to teach MMA to people, especially women. Women do not know what they are capable of, and to see them gain more self confidence, become more competitive, fanatic et cetera is very satisfying to me. Further, I like the ordinary women stuff like shopping. I'm a big foodie too.
And acting? Nope, never considered that, should I? 😉


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Federal immigration officials posted on a government procurement website an open-ended Request for Information from companies providing "escort services for unaccompanied alien children."
The Jan. 29 RFI notice was placed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security.
"The contractor shall provide unarmed escort staff, including management, supervision, manpower, training, certifications, licenses, drug testing, equipment, and supplies necessary to provide on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent unaccompanied alien children ages infant to 17 years of age, seven (7) days a week, 365 days a year" for "approximately 65,000" such children, according to the notice.
A pre-planned surge?
More than a few people on the Right believe the surge in unaccompanied kids crossing the U.S. border with Mexico was planned by the Obama administration.
"If this doesn't prove that the entire mess with all the illegals flooding our country was planned by this administration, nothing ever will," according to the Conservative Wife blog.
To be sure, there has been an explosion in recent weeks of coverage of the by the mainstream media, highlighted this week by Texas Gov. Rick Perry's announcement of a massive enforcement effort by his state.
It began in 2010
The ICE solicitation doesn't "prove" the Obama administration "planned" the flood of minors entering the country, but it does highlight the issue from a related angle.
According to federal immigration data reported by Mother Jones, the number of border crossings by unaccompanied children from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras suddenly spiked in December 2010.
But so did the crossings by kids from Mexico and from "All Countries." Plotted on a graph, the three lines take off at virtually the same rate and at the same time.
Gang violence doesn't explain it
That graph throws a huge monkey wrench in the administration's official explanation that the surge is driven mainly by drug and gang violence, and poverty in the region described by Mother Jones as Central America's "Northern Triangle."
In fact, the annual crossings by Northern Triangle kids was virtually flat from 2008 until the explosion began in 2010, whereas there had been a prior surge for the other categories during 2008, followed by a marked decline until taking off again in 2010.
Something clearly happened late in 2010 to spark unaccompanied children from "All Countries" to head to the U.S. border with Mexico, just it did from the Northern Triangle region.
Government sees no end to it
If that something isn't mainly the wretched conditions in the Northern Triangle region, what is it? Conservatives who point to changes in Obama administration immigration policy may yet have a point.
Here's something else to consider: The RFI is what is known in federal procurement parlance as an IDIQ solicitation.
It covers five years as an "Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity" purchase. In other words, federal immigration officials don't expect the surge to end any time soon, and they have no idea how much it will cost.
On today's washingtonexaminer.com
Editorial: Redskins' Dan Snyder should tell the PC bullies to shove it.
Columnists/Philip Klein: House conservatives are also responsible for leadership fiasco.
Columnists/Veronique de Rugy: Technology helps innovators ignore regulators who target Uber and Lyft.
Columnists/Byron York: Why Obamacare's "good news" applies only to the poor.
Beltway Confidential/Michael Barone: Can an independent conservative defeat the Nassau County Republican machine?
Beltway Confidential/T. Becket Adams: Obama's approval rating takes another hit.
PennAve/David M. Drucker: Here's how Kevin McCarthy will differ from Eric Cantor.
PennAve/Susan Crabtree: Five facts about the new U.S. mission in Iraq.
PennAve/Brian Hughes: Romney 4.0 -- Can Mitt get his groove back?
Legal Newsline/Kyla Asbury: Former LA Clippers intern files class-action lawsuit claiming labor law violations.
In other news
New York Daily News: American jihadist wannabes flock to ISIS-like groups in Syria, Iraq.
ABC News: Cruz tells social conservative confab Obama's foreign policy is collapsing.
USA Today: Michigan governor to sign bill sending $195 million to Detroit.
Righty Playbook
The Weekly Standard: Time for a dose of reality.
National Review Online: Hail to the Redskins!
Washington Free Beacon: The Hillary tapes they don't want you to hear.
Bonus must-read
The Federalist: Why the Redskins trademark ruling should terrify everybody.
Lefty Playbook
The Daily Beast: U.S. taps old allies for new war in Iraq.
The American Prospect: Astronaut Sally Ride and the burden of being "the first."
Salon: Adios! George Will and Dov Charney.
Bonus must-read
Mother Jones: Blame your smartphone if you're feeling more antsy lately.
Blog Right
Hit & Run: Brickbat -- Police state (You won't believe what this cop did).
Kids Prefer Cheese: The Left gets a pass ... again (Do not miss the Dr. House of Cards video!)
Hot Air: Team Obama getting tired of Hillary throwing them under the bus.
Blog Left
Talking Points Memo: Obama to extend family leave to same-sex couples.
African-American Political Pundit: Home schooling leads the way in black education.
Kevin Drum: House votes to end NSA's back-door searches.


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Suppose I have a number of tasks in one application which may finish in any order. And I need to run some code when all of the tasks have finished. If that matters, the application is running under AnyEvent, but without Coro.

To some extent, AnyEvent's <tt>$cv->begin/$cv->end</tt> allow what I want. However, I'd like to have more fine-grained control. For instance, I'd like to be unable to "finish" a task twice. Ability to gather data from all tasks would also be nice.

Of course, this can be done. Set up lots of callbacks that share a hash; delete keys from that hash whenever a task finishes; call the megacallback when the hash is empty. I wonder if there's a more civilized way of doing it, maybe some CPAN module?


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On The Economies of Church (Us Being Us While They Are Them)
"Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering." Hebrews 13:3
I've been considering the us-versus-them divisions in life. Do you see them? They are the implicit lines that we navigate with an everyday sort of sixth-sense. Consider them:
We are the producers; they are the consumers.
We are the educators; they are the pupils.
They are the lawmakers; we are the constituents.
I suppose that these lines of demarcation, the dichotomies are, in one sense, helpful. The divisions help define the parameters of relationship, assist in setting expectations. And in an economic sense, the definition of roles facilitates production and consumption, governance, and the rule of law (otherwise known as "order").
There is a tricky business here, though. While some dividing lines may be helpful in an economic sense, what if they are destructive in another sense? Consider this–by the drawing of more and more divisive lines, are we commodifying each other? Are we seeing each other as objects to be used to reach an end goal?
The producer sees the consumer as a pocket full of dollars.
The educator sees the child as the producer of metrics (test scores) which bear on the educator's metrics (job-security).
The lawmaker sees the constituents' votes as a means to an end (reelection).
And though this may be a more cynical analysis, stop and consider it. Is it an unfair analysis?
There is no doubt, dividing lines can be economically and societally useful. But what happens when these kinds of divisions creep into religious institutions, into Christian machinations? What happens when the church at large begins to call them "useful," begins to unintentionally commodify its own people?
We are the ministers and they are the poor, the broken, the marginalized.
We are the missionaries, and they are the third world.
We are the authors, the speakers, and they are those in need of the message.
We are the musicians, and they are the audience.
These are the dividing lines I'm seeing drawn in the church these days. It's the perpetuation of a Christian hierarchy, an us-versus-them religion. It is a separation of the religiously adept ruling class from the blue-collar, simple faith bearer. Perhaps it's sometimes used as a way to solidify relevance, economic security, maybe even power.
Jesus, I think, came to dismantle the majority of these lines. His ministry was not marked by these sorts of dichotomies; instead, he identified with humanity through brotherhood, becoming "fully human," and making himself "nothing by taking on the very nature of a servant." He stood among the hierarchy peddlers–both religious leaders and his family alike–and claimed both brotherhood and sonship with those who do the will of God. (Luke 8:21). Jesus was less about us-versus-them ministry, exemplified a we-the-people sort of ministry.
And this leads me to the grand point: I trust less the church that ministers to the poor, broken, and marginalized and more the one that ministers with the poor, the broken, and the marginalized.
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Have you ever seen a nice big button with a beautiful graphic, go to click on it, and the second your cursor reaches it, the whole thing disappears with a flash of white before a hover background image shows up?
It's a common and easy mistake for web designers. But there is a way around it.
CSS Sprites
A sprite is multiple, small, related images (such as a graphic and the one that will appear there on hover) made into one image. One then applies CSS and to only show certain portions of the image.
The result is no flashing as the browser fetches the hover image; it's already loaded.
But that's not the only virtue, with multiple images in one file, there are less HTTP requests, causing the whole site to load faster!
This is very easy to implement
Once you have your graphics ready, just head over to CSS Sprites generator. (It can also be done with Photoshop, but this is simpler) Upload your images and click Generate!. Then just download the sprite image and use the CSS it gives you to position it just right.
And you're done!
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Orioles infielder Ty Wigginton wants to remain with the Orioles if the alternative is receiving little playing time elsewhere, according to Dan Connolly of The Baltimore Sun. Wigginton told Connolly that he's not campaigning for a deal and enjoys playing in Baltimore:
"If I were to go somewhere, I'd want it to be somewhere I could contribute," the 32-year-old said. "But I love the city of Baltimore, and I love playing here for these fans."
The nine-year big league veteran will earn $3.5MM in 2010, the final year of his contract. Earlier this week, it was reported that Wigginton would be open to playing for the Mets if the O's become sellers. However, Wigginton "chuckled" at that story as both he and Millwood were responding to a question asking if they would have a problem playing for the Amazins.
Wigginton has started 52 of 57 games for the Orioles this season while playing at first, second, and third.
I wouldn't mind seeing Wigginton playing for the Mets again, even at second base. And Millwood would at least be an upgrade from Oliver Perez. Hopefully the Mets can still persuade the Orioles to go with the trade.


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ATLANTA -- The party may be over for Freaknik, Atlanta's annual spring bash for black college students.
Prompted by TV footage of gangs of men groping women, the city's welcoming committee for the sprawling street party is now asking Mayor Bill Campbell to withdraw his support.
"When individuals say they want to come to Freaknik, they come with a mentality that it is an open season on women," said George Hawthorne, who headed the welcoming committee. "Their main intent is to come for some lewd and sexual experience."
Aside from free-for-all fondling, Freaknik has earned a reputation for spawning massive traffic jams and sporadic looting. Many local businesses are forced to close their doors during the rite of spring, which took place April 17-19 this year.
Campbell, who is black, tried to discourage the event until criticism from black leaders prompted him to form a welcoming committee in 1996. The city has since sponsored concerts and other events to help control the unruly cruising party.
Hawthorne, who is also black, said Wednesday that the sexual antics during this year's Freaknik warrant the city withdrawing its endorsement.
Reports aired last week on WSB-TV showed several women being chased by men grabbing their buttocks. The footage showed one woman flailing her arms wildly to fight off a mob, and another woman fighting to get away from men who lifted her dress as she was posing for a photograph.
And MTV aired its own hour-long show on Freaknik Tuesday, showing men disrobing and women being fondled as they danced among mobs of men.
Hawthorne, who helped monitor the crowds during Freaknik, said he personally pulled a woman from a swarm of 20 to 30 men who were trying to strip her.
"She had her underwear around her knees and her dress was up over her head," Hawthorne said. "If it had not been for me intervening ... she would have potentially been raped in broad daylight."
Yet some black college students say Freaknik flirting is no more crude or dangerous than the antics of white students who go to the beach for spring break.
"It's disgusting and it's dangerous, but it's everywhere you have college students," said Sharita Trimuel, a senior at the University of Georgia. "Panama City Beach, Daytona Beach, Cocoa beach -- it's the same thing, only this time it's in the city."
The City Hall committee plans to recommend that it continue to sponsor a job fair during Freaknik weekend, but scrap all other events, Hawthorne said.
Campbell had no comment Wednesday, said spokesman Nick Gold.
Police estimated crowds at 50,000 for this year's Freaknik -- less than half the number reported in previous years. The city's entire force of 1,500 officers was called in to work 12 hour shifts during Freaknik weekend.
Four rapes and six sexual assaults were reported to Atlanta police during the April 17-19 festival. Four shootings were also reported, though no one was killed. Overall, police made 481 arrests, 45 of which were felonies.
Hawthorne said there's no sense in continuing to bill Freaknik weekend as a black college event because most who attend aren't students. Surveys by Freaknik vendors and marketers indicated the vast majority of visitors are nonstudents in their mid 20s and early 30s.
"It puts a negative connotation on black college students," said Devin White, a member of Hawthorne's committee and student body president at Clark Atlanta University. "If anything negative happens, it's going to be looked at as if it's black college students doing these things."
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To Provide an academically ambient environment for individuals to develop as technologically superior, socially conscious and nationally responsible citizens.
Mother Teresa Women's University is situated at Kodaikanal, a quiet hill station tucked away in the Palani hills of South India. This University was established in the year 1984 by the enactment of Tamil Nadu Act 15. This University aims to extend its service to women students of all communities. It strives for Academic Excellence and Personality Development and gives equal importance for promotion of employment prospects to young girls.


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Congratulations to our 2013 BWG Officers:
President – Randy Dupre
Vice Pres. – Chris Baldauf
Secretary – Georgia Downer
Treasurer – Sherry Perkins
Publicist – Cliff Seiber
Newsletter Editor – Sylvia Ney
Member At Large – Beth Savoie
Historian – Julia Rodriguez
Members-Only Contest Winners were announced at the November 10, 2012, Bridge to Publication Contest: Chris Baldauf, Marsha Kushner, Sylvia Ney, Angie Dilmore, Marcia Dutton, Beth Savoie, Beverly Martin and Linda Todd. See their photo and find out how they placed in the different categories HERE. Congratulations to these wonderful writers.
Stanley Klemetson, Ph.D., was recently notified of his first publication! His story "Living Alone Together" will be published by OakTara on or about October 1, 2012, in their love stories anthology titled My Love to You Always.
Jan Rider Newman has published a collection of her short stories, A Long Night's Sing & other stories, through Kindle (available now) and CreateSpace (available soon).
Sherry Perkins scored an email interview about writing with Viggo Mortensen for Southern Writers Magazine! It was published in the May/June 2012 issue.
On Friday, January 6, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. the following BWG members read their work at The Porch Coffee House, Lake Charles, LA: Sherry Perkins, Rebecca Stelly, Luke V. Saucier, Beth Savoie, and Marcia Dutton. Also reading was Eric Dilmore, son of member Angie Dilmore.
Angie Dilmore published an article about an inspiring local high school student in the January 5, 2012, issue of Lagniappe Magazine.
Frank DiCesare published an article about the Orphan Train in the December-January issue of Acadiana Profile.
Willis Abshire – If you go to 'Penned from the Heart' online there will a list of all the issues that can be bought. His poem 'Abba' is in the latest yearly devotional book. He is also talking to Westbow Publishers, a self publishing division of Thomas Nelson Publishers, and working out the details of an agreement to publish his novel. Willis also has a Christian based monthly email ministry called 'Pen and the Sword'. On the first Sunday of the month he sends out a story free to those interested. Sometimes he has a small commentary and welcomes all feedback from subscribers. He is still looking for someone to help him develop a web page to put short stories and music on that can be purchased by downloading.
Georgia Downer – won a copy of Pat Conroy's My Reading Life from "The Writer's Wish List Sweepstakes."
Jessica Ferguson – She is a finalist in The Phoenix Rattler 2011-2012 writing contest hosted by Christian Writers of the West (ACFW-Arizona) for her entry – A Bad Guy Forever – Suspense/Thriller/Mystery Fiction.
Jan Newman – Published a flash fiction piece January 4, 2012, in A Small, Good Magazine: http://asmallgoodmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/bread-alone-by-jan-rider-newman/ She also set up a personal website: http://janridernewman.com, and still maintains her blog: http://janridernewman.blogspot.com. She can also be found on FB as Jan Rider Newman and on Twitter as @Jangaler.
Sherry Perkins – Interviewed Curt Iles for Southern Writer's magazine. Her article appeared in the January/February issue. She also has an article scheduled to appear in the February issue of Louisiana Road Trips. Sherry won some screenwriting reference material in "The Writer's Wish List Sweepstakes."
Cliff Seiber – Interviewed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. The story was published Friday, Jan. 5, in the Marquee section of the American Press. Another story resulting from the same interview appeared in the Sunday Talk Q&A feature a week later. Cliff is a regular contributor to Marquee, the arts and entertainment section of the Friday paper.
Jess Ferguson – is the category winner for Suspense/Mystery/Thriller Fiction, as determined by the final round of judging in the 2011-2012 Phoenix Rattler writing contest, approved by ACFW, hosted by Christian Writers of the West. She entered the first 10 pages of her manuscript, A Bad Guy Forever.
Keaghan Kane – won second place in the state Shakespeare contest. Then, on February 17th, she won first place in the regional competition of Poetry Out Loud. The top three winners will advance to the state finals in Baton Rouge with a chance to compete in Washington D.C.
Sherry Perkins – published an article on the Southern Writer's blog called "I Love to Bragg on This Author". You can read it at: http://www.southernwritersmagazine.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-love-to-bragg-on-this-author.html
Beth Savoie – won first place in the Writing in Wonderland "1000 Words of Love" contest.
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Anthony DiComo of Mets.com, believes that Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Fernando Martinez and Kirk Nieuwenhuis are all prospects to watch this season and writes the following:
RHP Jenrry Mejia: After speeding to the Majors last year at the age of 20, Mejia will most likely take a step back and open this season at Triple-A Buffalo. If he satisfies the Mets with his performance there, Mejia could rejoin the rotation at some point this summer.
OF Lucas Duda: After his cup of coffee last season, Duda will be back this spring for another shot at the Majors. Most likely, though, he'll start the season in Buffalo, where he can play every day and continue to develop.
OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis: Perhaps the club's center fielder of the future, Nieuwenhuis' development could play a prominent role in the Mets' decision whether to trade Beltran this summer. After making it all the way to Triple-A last season, he's nearly ready for the big leagues.
OF Fernando Martinez: It's a make-or-break season for Martinez, once one of the top few offensive prospects in baseball. Now 23 years old, Martinez must prove he can avoid injuries and hit at a high level, lest he fade back into obscurity.


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Well the title says it all, also add the song which best shows off their work, with a link if possible. (Multiple songs ofc if you cant put only one).
Mine would be Synyster Gates, guitarist of Avenged Sevenfold. His skill and speed is incredible, especially in the solo he does in Afterlife and also Dancing Dead. Though there are others those are probably his best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIRNdveLnJI - Afterlife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChKtCsodsf0 - Dancing Dead
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Basil Rathbone
Biography Project
The Biography Project is an ongoing compilation of material
and information related to Basil Rathbone for the use of a biographer. The
Project is spearheaded by a committee of three dedicated Rathbone fans.
Information. A fan wrote on
The Baz (A Basil
Rathbone blog): "An essential read for anyone interested in Rathbone's war
record would be the book Bravest of Hearts: The Biography of a
Battalion, which is all about the Liverpool Scottish during the Great
War. I gather he gets quite a bit of coverage. Unfortunately, the book is
out of print and hard to find." This is an example of information that
will go in the database. The Future Biographer will need to track down a
copy of the book, but at least he or she has been alerted to this source
of information.
Memories. We encourage those of you who knew
Basil to write down your memories and send them to us. We don't know when a biography will be
written. If it's fifty years from now, it will probably be too late to
interview you. But an archive of unpublished memoirs will be a gold mine
for the Future Biographer.
Letters. Personal letters from Rathbone can
be very revealing about his personality. Letters from other people who
write something about Rathbone may also be helpful. Send us a scan
of your letter. You keep the original; we are interested in the content
of the letter.
Thanks for your help!
The Basil Rathbone Biography Project Committee: Marcia Jessen, Neve
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"What Women Don't Know About Themselves" by Basil Rathbone
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BRO Recruitment 2016-17: Biggest Job opening for those candidates who are searching Jobs after completion of SSC/ 10+2/ Degree/ ITI. Border Roads Organization has published a job advertisement with an intention of filling up 2176 various posts, thereof, links are available on Employment News of This Week and official website at www.bro.nic.in. Interested can apply for BRO Worker Vacancy 2016.
Last date to apply online is 25/11/2016. Nominees who are seeking Central Government Jobs in India need to apply before deadline as per prescribed data.
BRO is abbreviated as Border Roads Organisation the biggest road networking company. The main functions of this organization are to develop and maintain road networks at India's border areas and friendly neighboring countries. BRO's formation done on 07th May 1960. It has headquarters in New Delhi. It serves in various regions such as India, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Myanmar, Libya, Sri Lanka. Organization was settled with a purpose of to make Civil engineering infrastructural development in difficult areas.
Dear Readers, here we have come up with biggest job opening this week. Now it's up to you that how you are going to utilize this chance. Candidates are strongly recommended for enrollment for this Border Roads Organization Recruitment 2016. By clearing all the tests, you dreams to become a government employee may come true. Read BRO Multi Skilled Worker Jobs 2016 eligibility criteria such as the minimum requirement of age & qualification, application fee, salary and other admissible allowance information etc.
Border Roads Organisation Recruitment 2016
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Candidate should mentally be prepared to serve in the most difficult and bordered towns. Please read all the given instructions such as job role, kind of work etc.All the mentioned posts are reserved for male candidates. Female candidates need not apply. Candidate must be either citizen of India. Department reserves the right to change/alter the date of examination or date may be extended for online registration as per the requirement of the department.
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This was one of the last really beautiful days in Portland before the weather turned for fall, and I'm so glad we got to take advantage of it. We met up at George Rogers Park in Lake Oswego and ran around for a while in the remaining sunshine. I got such a kick out of trying to keep up with this little guy's facial expressions 🙂 Jasmine, you have such a beautiful family, thank you so much for having me up to Portland to photograph them!
What a joy to capture these guys at this stage in their family. I loved learning and capturing all the silly facial expressions of this little guys. He was so serious and then silly, and then serious, and then silly again. Thank you guys for honoring me with the opportunity to hang with you all and make some memories.
Looking through these photos warms my heart with giggles. These girls are wild, free, strong willed, imaginative, thoughtful… did I mention wild? And they are supported by such a loving wonderful team for parents (and grandma who made it out as well). Peg (mom) let the girls dress themselves and they ended up in the items of clothing that they basically live in – boots, tutus, wings. I LOVED that. We ran around playing tag and they told me stories of unicorns, pegasus', butterflies and fairies. I loved seeing the world through their eyes for an hour or so out in the forest (which was full of unicorns, pegasus', butterflies and fairies or course).


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10 Common Causes of Bad Breath and Some Natural Treatments By Dr. Denice Moffat As a doctor, I go ahead and tell the client that they have bad breath and that it will clear if they do the work. I tell them that it will be used as an indicator of health as we go along. I feel it is part of my job as their health care practitioner. As a spouse, friend, relative or person on … [Read more...]
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Augmented Examples for I to IV Chord Progression
*Click here to read introduction of diminished and augmented chords to understand the following free handout on augmented examples in hymns.
Explanation of the following visual:
When progressing from a I to IV chord…raise the 5th note of the I chord (G) to (G#) making it an augmented I chord which strongly leads into a IV chord.
Click here to download a free pdf of the Augmented Chord Substitution Sheet
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Tomorrow, the 30th of May at 10:03, Hanne Boel will appear on the radio transmission "Besøgstid" on DR P1.
There will be an afternoon repeat the 31st of May at 20:03, while a podcast will be available from DR's homepage.
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Ethylene Producers in Taiwan, Japan Change Plans to Halt Plants
CPC Corp. (CPC) will permanently shut its No. 3 naphtha cracker at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, at the end of May, at least two months later than originally planned.
The state-owned Taiwanese refiner delayed closing the cracker, which is capable of making 230,000 metric tons a year of ethylene, to ensure steady supplies while it completes work on a new plant, Jessica Tang, a company spokeswoman, said yesterday by phone.
Showa Denko KK (4004) postponed the start of its ethylene plant in Oita, Japan, to the end of May from March 30, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement on its website March 28. The company, which shut production lines at the plant for maintenance last month, decided to extend the shutdown after it discovered a fault in cooling equipment on March 18.
Formosa Petrochemical Corp. (6505) is planning to halt its No. 1 naphtha cracker in Mailiao, Taiwan (FOMACRUD), for 45 days of maintenance from June 19, Tsao Mihn, the company's president, said at a press conference in Taipei yesterday.
The following is a table of planned maintenance shutdowns in Asia, excluding plants in China and India:
------------------------------------------------------------- Company Plant Capacity Period (Metric tons/year) ------------------------------------------------------------- *** SOUTH KOREA *** Honam Petrochemical Corp. Daesan 1.07 million No maintenance Yeocheon 750,000 Shut on March 1. Shutdown to last until April 10 for maintenance and expansion to 1 million tons. Korea Petrochemical Industry Co. Onsan 470,000 No maintenance LG Chem Ltd. Daesan 920,000 No maintenance Yeocheon 1 million No maintenance Samsung Total Petrochemicals Daesan 1 million No maintenance SK Innovation Co. Ulsan 190,000 No maintenance Ulsan 690,000 No maintenance Yeochun NCC Co. Yeocheon No. 1 857,000 No maintenance Yeocheon No. 2 578,000 March 20 to April 19 Yeocheon No. 3 465,000 No maintenance *** JAPAN *** Asahi Kasei Corp. Mizushima 504,000 Shut on March 5. Restart scheduled for April 16. Idemitsu Kosan Co. Chiba 374,000 No maintenance Tokuyama 623,000 Sept. or Nov. JX Holdings Inc. Kawasaki 443,000 No maintenance Keiyo Ethylene Co. Chiba 690,000 No maintenance Maruzen Petrochemical Co. Chiba 525,000 Mid-May to mid-June Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. Kashima 1 343,000 May 10 to July 4 Kashima 2 435,000 No maintenance Mizushima 437,000 No maintenance Mitsui Chemicals Inc. Ichihara 553,000 No maintenance Osaka Petrochemical Industries Ltd. Sakai 500,000 August, one month Showa Denko K.K. Oita 691,000 Start-up at the end of May. March maintenance extended after cooling fault discovered March 18. Sumitomo Chemical Co. Chiba 380,000 No maintenance Tonen Chemical Corp. Kawasaki 540,000 No maintenance Tosoh Corp. Yokkaichi 493,000 March 15 to April 15 *** TAIWAN *** Formosa Petrochemical Corp. Mailiao 1 700,000 June 19, 45 days Mailiao 2 1.035 million No maintenance Mailiao 3 1.2 million No maintenance CPC Corp. Kaohsiung No. 6 600,000 Construction to be completed December 2012 Kaohsiung No. 5 500,000 No maintenance Kaohsiung No. 4 385,000 No maintenance Kaohsiung No. 3 230,000 Decommissioned at the end of May. *** MALAYSIA *** Titan Chemicals Corp. Pasir Gudang 300,000 No maintenance Pasir Gudang 435,000 No maintenance *** SINGAPORE *** Exxon Mobil Corp. Jurong Island 1 million New plant to start up in the second half of 2012 Jurong Island 900,000 Unavailable Petrochemical Corp. of Singapore Jurong Island 465,000 No maintenance Jurong Island 635,000 No maintenance Royal Dutch Shell Plc Pulau Bukom 800,000 No maintenance *** INDONESIA *** Chandra Asri PT Cilegon 600,000 No maintenance until 2014 or 2015 *** THAILAND *** IRPC Pcl. Map Ta Phut 380,000 No maintenance PTT Global Chemical Pcl. Map Ta Phut I-4/1 515,000 No maintenance Map Ta Phut I-4/2 400,000 Feb, 49 days Map Ta Phut I-1 461,000 No maintenance. Runs on LPG. PTT Polyethylene Co. Map Ta Phut 1 million No maintenance. Runs on LPG. Rayong Olefins Co. Map Ta Phut 800,000 No maintenance Map Ta Phut Olefins Co. Map Ta Phut 800,000 No maintenance --------------------------------------------------------
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I'm loving the fun colors for nail polish this season! You can never go wrong with a French mani or pedi, but live on the edge of your peep toes or flip flop out over what is making toelines this season! I took a trip to NYC, with my AMomKnowsBest friends, this April for Getting Gorgeous, and I could not help but notice that women are ready to bring their toes out to play! Some were showing off their first spring pedicure in great open toed shoes…others, like the ladies of AMKB, scored adorable sandals from Flip Out Sandals and can't wait to show off their cute tootsies! I mean, really, how fun are THESE??
So…here are the top 3 trends for Spring 2011 in nail color:
1) Blues Baby: How fun are these?! My other favorite is OPI Austin-tatious from their new Spring 11 Texas line! I always love OPI names, but this season they are based around Texas towns – Nothing Plano about it
2) Nudes have it: A nude nail always looks clean and fresh on toes or fingers! It's very easy to match with dressy or casual and goes with every color! My favorite part is that you can't see chipping as easily on a nude nail.
3) Shades of Gray: I loved dark metallic gray this winter and a lighter tone for summer is in style! A gray nail goes well next to the vibrant pops of color in clothing this Spring – can't go wrong here!
New, different and off the Spring runways this season (and popular especially with the younger generation) is the "moon manicure" , gold foil and OPI's black shatter that you polish over your current color to crackle or 'shatter' it!
What will you try this season? Do you have time to do it yourself or do you like to go to the salon?
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Olli Jokinen may lack muscle, but he doesn't lack self-assurance. And if the Finnish teenager's adjustment to the NHL is as smooth as he anticipates, the Kings' rebuilding process may be a little shorter.
Jokinen, ranked first among European players by the NHL's Central Scouting Bureau, was chosen third overall by the Kings in Saturday's NHL entry draft at the Civic Arena. But Jokinen may be second to none in this year's crop as a total package of size, speed and skill--not to mention assertiveness.
As expected, the Boston Bruins used the first pick to take Sault Ste. Marie center Joe Thornton, whose exceptional puckhandling, explosive speed and extraordinary vision on the ice inspired comparisons to Philadelphia Flyer center Eric Lindros. The San Jose Sharks then took center Patrick Marleau from Seattle of the Western Hockey League, whom the Kings liked enough for General Manager Dave Taylor to acknowledge there would have been "a little debate" at their draft table if San Jose had passed on him. After the Kings selected Jokinen, the New York Islanders made Roberto Luongo of Val d'Or the fourth pick, the earliest a goalie has ever been selected.


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Nobody tell JPM's Tom Lee that JPM just fired 529 bankers from its Brooklyn-based Mortgage Bank ("independent foreclosure review" division) for "economic reasons." He might have some trouble reconciling it with his view on both the market and the economy which sees nothing but smooth sailing ahead. More to the point, with this mass layoff in the foreclosure review group, does this mean that JPM will simpy proceed with debt forgiveness for those millions who have been in foreclosure for about 3 years on average in New York state, and during which time they have not made one mortgage payment?
From the DOL's WARN database
Date of Notice: 1/14/2013
Control Number: 2012-0140
Rapid Response Specialist: Edwidge Michel
Reason Stated for Filing: Plant Closing
JPMorgan Chase - Mortgage Bank -Independent Foreclosure Review
4 Chase Metro Tech Center
Brooklyn, NY
County: Kings | WIB Name: NEW YORK CITY| Region: New York City
Contact: Linda Padilla, Regional Director
Phone: (212) 499-9772
Business Type: Mortgage Bank
Number Affected: 529
Total Employees: 529
Layoff Date: Will begin on 1/10/2013 and run through 4/10/2013
Closing Date: 4/10/2013
Reason for Dislocation: Economic
Union: Employees are not represented by a union and bumping rights do not exist.


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11/22/2005 4:18am, #11
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I would have PMed you this, jss, but you have messages turned off. Bleh.
First thing, be careful where you post your thread. The 'Bullshido' section is actually for discussing potentially dodgy schools, rather than asking advice on where to train. Admittedly confusing, as it looks like its just a general MA section. As Phrost puts it:
Originally Posted by Phrost
If you're anywhere near Dudley, I know there's a mixed martial arts gym in the area - not sure about exact details, but I could give you the contact details of a guy who trains there if you're interested?
There's a muay thai place in Kings Norton, which I would have attended if the training times were different. Its part of Bob Spour's Phraya Pichai organisation, and there is also boxing at the same gym, located on Lifford Lane.
Currently, I mainly train at Warwick Uni, as thats where I study (Zhuan Shu Kuan, judo and giving kempo ju jitsu a go at present...or at least I was until I got injured. Grr.). I presume when you say 'college', you mean it in the English sense of sixth form rather than the American sense of university? As if you're anywhere near Birmingham Uni, you could check out the judo club there, or indeed the muay thai. I don't think you have to be a student at that uni to go train there, as I was planning on checking it out with some friends I have at Brum Uni.
Alternately, you could try PMing TCDD, as I asked him a similar question a while back, and he seemed relatively knowledgeable about the area. So, turn your PMs on, drop TCDD a PM, and he can probably help you out.
11/22/2005 7:06pm, #12
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yeah, if you can reach Dudley fairly easily - there's a place in the high street called taijutsukwai - the website for it is: www.taijutsukwai.com the instructor is a 10th Dan in almost everything going, called Jim Moclair. Only thing he won't touch with a bargepole is Kick Boxing! Apart from that, he teaches almost everything else.
11/22/2005 8:20pm, #13
11/24/2005 8:41am, #14
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He IS rather good at weapons though. And I like that Nunchaku video, although he does pose rather a lot "look how good I am eh!" (and has a 'glory days' DVD for sale with his past exploits on it..).
turn up, and make your own mind up eh.
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11/24/2005 9:29am, #15
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Hmm - I see mention of "Master Jim Moclair 9th Dan Jujitsu (World Federation of Martial Arts)" here, "Jim Moclair of the British Federation of Martial Arts" here and "Jim Moclair, 9e dan Goju Ryu Okinawa" on Kwoon.info (French sister-site to Cyberkwoon). So, he apparently has qualifications in some form of jujitsu and goju-ryu, according to those external sites. From his own site:
Professor. James Moclair is the owner of Tai Jutsu Kwai Martial Arts Centre. He has been teaching martial arts professionally now for over 38 years and is one of the worlds most experienced martial artists. He has achieved many different ranks in martial arts and now holds the title Hanshi which means Past master. Professor. James Moclair does not teach any sport martial arts, all his arts are practical for the street and self-defence. Professor. Moclair currently holds these grades in martial arts:
9th Dan Ju Jutsu
9th Dan Tai Jutsu
9th Dan Goshin Jutsu
9th Dan Atemi Jutsu
8th Dan Ko-Budo
8th Dan Kempo Karate
6th Dan Aiki Jutsu
5th Dan in Traditional Judo
& many other ranks.
Professor. Moclair is known world wide for his success in martial arts. Professor. James Moclair was graded by Dr. R Sacharnoski Soke 10th Dan. Juko Kai International U.S.A, JAPAN, OKINAWA. and is accredited by the Japanese.
Dr. Sacharnoski is a martial arts legend and a world famous demonstrator. Some of you have seen him in the movies where he starred with his long-time friend and associate, Ed Parker, the Father of Modern Day Karate in the USA. Or you may have seen him demonstrate in Madison Square Garden for ABCs Wide World of Sports, or perhaps on the Johnny Carson Show, The Noontime Show in Hollywood, Good Morning America, CNN, The Roy Firestone Show on ESPN Sports Live, or some of the other major networks. Most martial artists know him from the major martial arts publications and magazines which have featured him and his methods for the past 25 plus years. As an inductee into several Black Belt Hall of Fame's, it isn't hard to understand why Dr. Sacharnoski is so highly regarded.
Getting back to Mr Moclair, this sounds great - for a £3 charge:
Tai Jutsu Kwai would like to introduce Drop In And Train. This is a new opportunity that has been made available for all Martial Artists. This new class give people the chance to train when they can make it, and allows them to train in what style they like. This give martial artists the opportunity to train if they need specialist equipment like mats or weapons or just to do some stretching. You can ask for advice with techniques that you are getting stuck with.
Every one is welcome to use the Dojo!!! You need not be a member!!! You can be from another club.
On the other hand, don't like the sound of this, although it does state he was cleared of some charges. Then again, perhaps the source is biased, seeing as its a WMFOMA website:
Mr Moclair was the former World coordinator and General Secretary for the W.B.F.O.M.A and resigned from the federation in 1997. Mr Moclair was cleared of fraud charges, but was later ordered to repay the "alleged" misappropriated funds to the W.B.F.O.M.A by the County Court.
11/24/2005 9:48am, #16
I call bullshit on that guys credentials and would need to see menkyo and need lineage documentation. Much of the **** he has got would take more than 38 years to learn and it is vague about school affiliation.
For example........aiki jujutsu...... if it don't say Daito ryu or some such thing, its probably fake.
9th dan in Taijutsu.......could be penis-jutsu
Traditional Judo will be Kodokan, Kosen or a British organization and you will be able to verify unless the obvious is true and it ends up to be bullshit.
Atemi Jujutsu......Atemi is just a word for striking and smells of misusing Japanese.
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moved to own thread
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June 20, 1989
Subject: Boston Harbor
From: William Sanjour and Hugh B. Kaufman
To: William K. Reilly, Administrator
The U.S. EPA regional office in Boston and the Massachusetts Water Resource Administration (MWRA) have come up with a so-called plan to clean up the notorious Boston harbor. We think you should be aware that this plan is contrary to everything this agency is supposed to stand for. EPA is supposed to reduce pollution. Instead, this plan allows polluters to continue to dump over a ton a day of toxic wastes into the Boston sewers. The plan then calls for the people of Massachusetts to pay over six billion dollars to build sewage treatment plants which will transfer the toxic laden wastes from Boston harbor to food supplies in Texas and Florida and to dumps in suburban Boston which will inevitably pollute drinking water supplies.
The largest polluter of the Boston sewer system is the Polaroid Corporation. Some of the other well known companies which dump toxic chemicals and petroleum into the Boston sewer and Boston harbor include; Proctor & Gamble, Monsanto, Raytheon, Gillette, Honeywell, TRW, Hewlit Packard, General Electric, The U.S. Army, GTE, General Motors, Exxon, The Boston Globe, and BASF.
A federal court has ordered the State to stop dumping its sewage sludge into the harbor. Under the clean Water Act, the EPA Boston regional office and the MWRA have the mandate and the authority to require these polluters to eliminate or significantly reduce their toxic discharges. If this were done, the resultant sewage sludge would be free of toxic chemicals and could safely be used as fertilizer. But instead, the plan allows the polluters to continue to pollute. The federal and state authorities in Massachusetts apparently have no stomach for regulating big corporations.
As a result, their plan calls for over six billion dollars worth of sewage treatment to produce a sludge contaminated with toxic chemicals. If the authorities had done the job they are being paid by the taxpayers to do, that is regulating polluters, the cost to the taxpayers would be much less than the planned six billion dollars.
This sludge is too filthy to be used as fertilizer under Massachusetts law. It is too filthy for all of New England and New York. It falls far short of the standards that EPA proposed in February under section 405 of the Clean Water Act. The reaction of these agencies to these facts is shocking. These agencies, charged with protecting the environment, ignore the proposed federal regulations and proceed to shop around for states with weak environmental laws where they can market their contaminated sludge as fertilizer. They have focused in on the southeast and on Texas and Florida in particular.
This is the kind of irresponsible behavior one associates with some of the worst polluters. It is incomprehensible when practiced by government environmental protection agencies.
Furthermore, the plan provides that any sludge which cannot be marketed (which is likely to be most of it) will be dumped in a landfill the MWRA is proposing to set up in Walpole, Massachusetts. This has caused considerable consternation among the citizens of Walpole and adjacent Norfolk. They have a legitimate concern about pollution of their groundwater, which they depend on for their drinking water, and for nearby streams and lakes.
However, the EPA regional office and the MWRA have not been moved by the citizens concerns. They may be too timid to stop Polaroid and other big corporations from discharging toxic wastes but they do have the courage to face down the citizens of Walpole and Norfolk and to dump Polaroid's waste in their back yard.
In trying to con the public into accepting the landfill, the environmental impact statement prepared by the EPA regional office contains such egregious statements as:Escape of leachate to the soil beneath the lined area should not be expected for a properly operated and maintained double-lined landfill that is capped after filling of each cell.The occurrence of an undetected and thus, unrepaired, leak in the proposed Walpole MCI landfill liner system would be unlikely.
... there would be sufficient time for such a leak to be detected and corrective action to be taken.... any leak which did occur in the landfill liner could be quickly repaired...A properly designed and executed monitoring plan would detect any landfill leaks in sufficient time to remediate any groundwater contamination before significant impacts occurred...Our experience and knowledge of landfills goes back more than a decade. Mr. Sanjour was formerly Chief of the [EPA] Hazardous Waste Assessment and Technology Branch where he supervised studies of the damages done by hazardous waste disposal and the technology for disposing of hazardous wastes. Mr. Kaufman is a senior hazardous waste management specialist and former chief investigator of hazardous sites [at EPA]. Both of us have written articles and have given expert testimony in Congress and in the courts on this subject.
We have heard lies, like those quoted above, many times by landfill promoters trying to con a gullible public. Every year seems to bring a new crop of hustlers for the latest in state-of-the-art landfills, "guaranteed not to leak", only to have their landfills end up on the "Superfund" list or undergoing "corrective action" a few years later. We are chagrined to see EPA engaged in this con.
Neither EPA nor the Congress of the United States shares the Boston EPA regional office's high opinion of the reliability of landfill technology. As you know, Congress has such a low opinion of landfills that they passed legislation which greatly restricts their use. In passing that legislation, the House Report contains the following admonition for you, the Administrator of EPA:The Committee reiterates its intention that land disposal be used principally as a last resort.The following factors are to be considered by the Administrator in determining whether one or more methods of land disposal may not be protective of human health and the environment:...the design and management uncertainties involving the long-term inability of liners and leachate collection systems to prevent water migration from the facility,the uncertainties associated with ground water monitoring,...The philosophy of both the Hazardous and Solid Wastes Amendments of 1984 and section 405 of the Clean Water Act is that you cannot rely on "gimmicks" such as liners and leachate collection systems and monitoring systems to protect groundwater from the toxic wastes dumped in the ground. Rather the waste itself must be rendered incapable of polluting the groundwater before it is dumped.
EPA was supposed to have issued standards under section 405 more than ten years ago. They were only first proposed last February. It will be many more years before they are finalized. The proposed Walpole landfill does not meet the proposed EPA standards but the EPA regional office can ignore that too because the standards aren't final.
The citizens of Walpole and Norfolk, Massachusetts are, therefore, the victims of EPA's failure to live up to it's responsibilities in two respects; it's failure to require Boston's industrial polluters to meet reasonable pre-treatment standards, and it's failure to issue sewage sludge regulations under section 405.
They are not the only victims. Every taxpayer in Massachusetts is subsidizing the industrial polluters and they may have to pay millions more to clean up the Walpole landfill in the very likely event that it leaks and pollutes the groundwater. The people of Texas and Florida may also be victims if contaminated Boston sludge is used as fertilizer in their states.
It is EPA's job to prevent pollution, not to pass it on and spread it around.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (Oct. 12)
The head of the United Nations agency which provides aid to the Arab refugees in the areas adjacent to Israel told a General Assembly committee here yesterday that the "host governments" of those areas–Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon–will not cooperate with him in efforts to rid the relief rolls of fraudulent claimants unless certain terms are met by the agency.
Laurence Michelmore, Commissioner-General of the agency–the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees–declared that, in the last year, he had been able to remove from the relief rolls only one-half of one percent of the claimants. His annual report of UNRWA activities for the year ending last June 30, submitted last week, showed that the actual UNRWA registration roll had increased during the past year by 2,7 percent, growing to a total of 1,280,823 persons.
Appearing before the Assembly's Special Political Committee for an oral statement supplementing his written report, he said that through the years "efforts have been made to rectify the ration rolls by identifying the names of ineligible persons and removing them from the lists." He stated that he had worked out new proposals for putting those steps into effect.
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The Special Political Committee decided today to open its annual debate of the Arab refugee problem on Friday. It listed Ambassador Michael S. Comay, Israel's permanent representative here, as its first speaker. This will be the first time in 10 years that Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, will not participate in that debate. Having spent nearly three weeks here, she left for home last night, due to the urgency of other problems she must handle in Jerusalem.
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