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As hints and evidence for ships are mostly speculation, this page may contain personal points of view.
NegaiShipping (Japanese: サトアイ SatoAi) is the belief that Ash Ketchum and Iris belong in a romantic relationship. Currently, it is the main pairing of the Best Wishes series, along with WishfulShipping.
Iris's hints
- Iris blushes slightly upon meeting Ash, and throughout most of the episode. Later on, after Pikachu and Axew are stolen by Team Rocket, Ash jumps off a tree and falls down to the ground. Iris immediately jumps down from the tree, asking if Ash is all right, rather than trying to save the Pokémon. Iris also later thanks Ash for saving Axew, even though it was Oshawott who saved him. Iris then tells Ash that because of his actions she has started to change her view of him and she starts traveling with him.
- Iris and Ash spend the majority of the episode arguing. During a rescue of some Pokémon, however, Ash loses his grip on a bridge made of Sandile, but Iris is there to grab his wrist, keeping hold of him as the Sandile righten themselves to safety. Afterward, the two look to each other and smile, having silently reconciled their differences. It is to be noted, however, they shared this look a moment later with the main Sandile; ultimately, it means, "A job well done."
- Iris shows concern for Ash when he tries to get close to an abandoned Tepig and tells him to be careful. After Ash succeeds in calming the Pokémon down, Iris watches Ash as he unties the rope around Tepig's snout and feeds it. She seems surprised by Ash's treatment of the Pokémon and smiles warmly.
- During Ash's gym battle with Cilan, Chili, and Cress, fans of the brothers stayed on one side of the arena to cheer on the Gym Leaders, while Iris stays on the opposing side and quite blatantly gazes at Ash with a look that could easily be interpreted as attraction or cool admiration (among others, both positive and negative, given she's been calling him a "kid" up until now, and not kindly).
- After Ash beats Cilan, Iris is impressed with Ash's performance and whispers his name while watching him celebrate. After Ash receives his badge from Cilan, he shows off to Iris who quickly criticizes him. After this, Cilan asks Ash if he and Iris are traveling together. Iris yells that they aren't and runs off. Later, once Cilan has formally joined Ash's travel party, Ash and Cilan are on their way to leave Striaton City. As Ash wonders where Iris is, she appears from a tree, surprising him. After being asked by Ash to join him and Cilan on their journey, she is overjoyed and excitedly accepts his invitation.
- During the battle between Iris and Cilan, Iris seems to pay just as much attention to Ash as the battle at hand. Most of the time she and Ash argue over battle strategies and why she doesn't want to battle him. During this time, Iris is too busy arguing to tell Axew how to counterattack, and it ended up taking a SolarBeam at close range. Throughout the episode Iris is surprised that Ash wants to battle her so much.
- When Trip was leaving after he "canceled" the request to battle, she took up for Ash and helped convince Trip to change his mind. Iris blatantly gazes at Ash with a look that could easily be interpreted as attraction or cool admiration for the second time, during his battle with Trip.
- Iris grabs Ash's shoulder in an affectionate way when asking Lenora what type of Trainer he is. She is also very concerned about Ash's depressed attitude after he loses the gym battle.
- When Ash and Pikachu fall into a hole and get separated from the group, Iris is willing to use her Excadrill to try and find them. Even though Excadrill doesn't listen to her, Iris doesn't hesitate to ask it for help, unlike in The Bloom is on Axew! when Ash is the one to finally convince her to use it to rescue Axew. Later, Iris again shows a look of concern when Ash battles Sandile, knowing that Pikachu was at a disadvantage.
- When Ash tries to help an injured Venipede, Iris constantly worries for him, because of the Venipede's Poison Point. She is concerned for him when he becomes poisoned due to contact with the Pokémon. Later, when Ash jumps in the path of Lampent's Shadow Ball to protect the boss Venipede and is hit, she rushes to his side and holds onto his arm.
- When Iris, Axew and Emolga are cornered by a group of wild Swoobat, Ash and the others come to their aid. Iris looks relieved and only acknowledges Ash and Pikachu, despite Cilan and Bianca being there as well.
- When Ash and Oshawott are ambushed underwater by a school of wild Tympole, Iris seemingly senses the danger and looks toward the lake while wondering if they are all right.
- On several different occasions when Ash was in mortal danger, Iris screamed his name with obvious strain in her voice. Meanwhile, Cilan and Tuttle didn't say a thing.
- Right before Ash's battle with Burgundy, Iris shows concern for Ash and wonders who he'll use to fight with. Ash says he's using this chance to test someone. After this, Ash moves on to the battlefield while Iris stands up and follows him to the edge of the area designated for spectators.
Ash's hints
- Ash seems a little disappointed when Iris goes missing the morning after their meeting.
- After his battle with Cilan, Ash happily shows his badge to Iris and asks her opinion. Iris criticizes Ash for his choices in battle and this upsets him, not expecting that answer from her. Also, Ash seems to be upset when Iris declares that he and she are not traveling together and takes off on her own.
- Ash is annoyed that Iris would not battle him and that she battled Cilan instead. He continuously asks her for a battle throughout the episode.
- When the group is lost in the Pinwheel Forest, Iris claims to know the way out by "listening to the forest". Cilan says that this was merely non-scientific explanations, but Ash agrees that going with your hunches is the best way to go.
- When Team Rocket steals Axew and Druddigon, Iris uses her senses to try and find the two Pokémon. When Iris finds out where they are, Cilan and Emmy begin to doubt Iris and think that she is going the wrong way. However, Ash assures them that because of Iris's senses they would find Axew and Druddigon. Ash then tells them that he will believe in Iris, and follows after her. This shows that Ash has confidence in Iris's abilities and her bond with Axew.
Other hints
- Unlike Misty, May, and Dawn, Iris starts following Ash without his permission for unknown reasons. She claims that she is doing him a favor since he is new to the Unova region and unfamiliar with the territory. Some fans believe that Iris is using this as an excuse to hide her true intentions. While Ash felt some obligation to Misty and May for Pikachu destroying their bikes, Dawn asks to join him and Brock on their journey.
- Iris criticizes Ash on occasion by referring to him as a little kid. Iris tends to do this when Ash does something rash, impulsive, or more recently just to tease him since she knows it bothers him.
- Ash has been seen to take on some of Iris's characteristics, like frequently climbing trees, swinging from vines, as well as her confidence.
- Cilan has noted on several different occasions that Ash and Iris give off an interesting flavor when they are together and has also pointed out their similarities. This usually causes them to lash out at him aggressively in disagreement.
- Ash's Oshawott has a crush on Iris's Emolga. This could be a sign that Ash may have a crush on Iris, since Professor Oak and Brock have said in the past that Pokémon represent the feelings of their masters and when two Pokémon fall in love, there is a good chance the Trainers will too. This is similar to how fans relate PearlShipping and LagomorphShipping to each other. It is to be pointed out that Oshawott developed this crush before Iris caught Emolga. The claim has also been refuted at various points during the series, so the feelings of the Pokémon are not always definitive to the feelings of the Trainers.
- Both Ash and Iris own Pokémon that do not reside within a Poké Ball (Ash's Pikachu and Iris's Axew).
- Both have at times shown an impulsive nature, especially when protecting their Pokémon.
- Both Ash and Iris have owned Pokémon that have refused to obey them at one point (Ash's Pikachu, Charizard, and Primeape, and Iris's Excadrill).
- Ash and Iris are the only main characters in the series to own a Dragon-type Pokémon (Ash's Gible and Iris's Axew).
- As part of their story, both Gible and Axew have trouble executing a certain Dragon-type move at first, Draco Meteor and Dragon Rage, respectively.
- Also, Gible and Axew are both part of a three-stage evolutionary line that retain the same type throughout their evolution.
- Both Ash and Iris own Pokémon that have revealed that their primary goal is to reach their final evolutionary stage (Ash's Butterfree and Iris's Axew).
- Both Pokémon were raised from, and expressed this goal in, their first evolutionary stage.
- Ash and Iris own an Electric-type rodent Pokémon (Ash's Pikachu and Iris's Emolga).
- Both Pokémon store electricity in the sacs of their cheeks.
- Also, both Pikachu and Emolga have a fondness for a certain item, ketchup and apples, respectively.
- Both Pikachu and Emolga know Pokémon that have crushes on them, Dawn's Buneary and Ash's Oshawott, respectively.
- Both Pikachu and Emolga have the Static ability.
- Ash and Iris are the only main characters in the series to own a Pokémon that knows the move Attract (Ash's Snivy and Iris's Emolga).
- Both Snivy and Emolga are female.
Name origin
- Negai is from the Japanese characters 願い (negai) to mean 'wish' (in terms of 'desire,' 'prayer,' or 'request'). It is used as an alternate name over WishShipping, after the title of the Japanese series "Best Wishes."
Alternate names
- AaIL - stands for Ash and Iris Love
- サトアイ SatoAi - meaning Satoshi and Iris (ai being the phonetic pronunciation of the long i sound)
- PalmtreeShipping - This was one of the first names, but was unoffcial.
External links
|This article is part of Project Shipping, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each couple in Pokémon.


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Lilly feels healthy after five-inning rehab outing
By Austin Laymance / MLB.com
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers left-hander Ted Lilly declared himself healthy after going five innings during a Minor League rehab start with Class A Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday night.
Lilly allowed four runs on five hits, striking out three against three walks as the Quakes lost to the San Jose Giants, 4-3.
The veteran said he felt no discomfort from a strained right rib cage that forced him to the disabled list May 3. He was in the Dodgers' clubhouse after their 3-1 win over the Nationals and will travel with the club to Atlanta for a three-game series that begins Friday.
Lilly said he does not expect to make another start in the Minors, though he said he hasn't spoken to management about the next step in his rehab.
Dodgers reliever Scott Elbert pitched a scoreless sixth inning with the Quakes, allowing one hit and walking one. The left-hander has tossed three scoreless innings since beginning his rehab assignment on Friday. He's working his way back from a pair of elbow operations during the winter.
Jansen's save clouds Dodgers' closer situation
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly wouldn't commit to a closer after Tuesday's game, when Kenley Jansen shut the door against the Nationals instead of Brandon League.
Mattingly said Monday that League was the closer "for now," but did not get the right-hander up in the bullpen at any point Tuesday night.
Jansen, who began the season setting up League, said his mindset remains the same.
"Whenever the phone rings, I just go out and pitch," Jansen said. "That's what I do. I just try to pick my teammates up and help the team win. That's all I'm thinking about."
With the Dodgers leading, 2-0, in the top of the ninth with two out and a runner on first, Mattingly thought Jansen was the best option to preserve the win for Clayton Kershaw.
"I just felt like I had to go with the guy who's throwing the ball best; as much as anything he's been throwing the ball better than anybody out there," Mattingly said. "I've got to go with my best guy at that point. I felt like Kenley was the best chance of getting that guy out."
Jansen struck out Tyler Moore to earn his second save in as many opportunities. The hard-throwing right-hander has 28 strikeouts in 20 innings, with 17 scoreless outings in relief.
"I just trust my stuff," Jansen said. "I'm just focused. I think my focus is kind of better now compared to what it used to be."
League, meanwhile, is 0-2 with a 6.28 ERA in 14 appearances. He's converted eight of nine save chances, but has allowed runs in eight of his past 11 outings, including three straight.
Dodgers ink lefty Sanchez to Minor League deal
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers and veteran left-hander Jonathan Sanchez agreed to terms on a Minor League deal on Wednesday in a move that adds depth to the rotation at Triple-A Albuquerque.
Sanchez was 0-3 with a 11.85 ERA in five games with the Pirates before he was released last week. The Dodgers faced Sanchez on April 4 at Dodger Stadium, when the veteran allowed three runs on six hits in five innings in a loss.
"I'm sure it's got something to do with depth," manager Don Mattingly said before Wednesday's game against the Nationals. "With some of the issues we've had with injuries to a number of pitchers, it's a guy that's been a quality starter in the past. He's had a couple of years where he's struggled."
The Dodgers called up two members of Albuquerque's rotation in April because of injuries at the Major League level.
Stephen Fife replaced Chad Billingsley, who is out for the year following Tommy John surgery, but went on the disabled list after only one start. Rookie Matt Magill filled that spot in the rotation and will remain with the Dodgers because right-hander Josh Beckett was placed on the disabled list Wednesday.
Sanchez, 30, is 39-58 with a 4.70 ERA in his big league career. The only time he enjoyed a winning season was 2010, when he was 13-9 with the Giants and started one game in the World Series. Sanchez has an opt-out clause in the deal if he's not in the Majors on July 1.
Worth noting
• Leadoff hitter Carl Crawford was held out of the starting lineup Wednesday vs. the Nationals as management remains cautious with his right hamstring that has been tight at times this season. He entered in the bottom of the eighth as a pinch-hitter and delivered a sacrifice fly to provide the final margin in the Dodgers' 3-1 win.
Mattingly expects Crawford to return to the lineup Friday following an off day Thursday.
• Mattingly said he expects to give outfielder Andre Ethier a day off Friday in Atlanta against left-hander Paul Maholm.
Austin Laymance is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Found this small crab shell during a walk on the beach. It was more or less whole when found, but, in spite of trying to take care, it disintigrated. The photo is of what was left - the limbs and underneath part of carapace. It was mostly white and the carapace probably about 1 to 1 1/2 cm across, broader than it was long. The ends of the rear legs had a paddle like shape, so I assume this kind of crab could swim well. The top of the carapace was broken when found - perhaps eaten by something - or maybe it was the remains of a shed shell belonging to a live crab?
My immediate suggesting on looking at the photos, (pity it isn't complete), was a small crab called Portumnus latipes. But on reading your description you say that the carapace was broader than it is long. The proportions of Portumnus latipes are the other way round. So after a rethink I come up with Bathynectes longipes - found well below low water mark, and reported in the Bristol Channel area, south to the Isles of Scilly. This is one of the species in the family Portunidae, all of which have the dactylus (end claw) of the hind legs flattened to perform either a digging in sand, and/or swimming function.
Nice find.
Thank you very much, I had given up hope of having this question, and the other one about a shell with holes in it, answered. It was the paddle shape of the last pair of legs that made me suspect it wasn't one of the common shore crabs.
Do you have any advice on how best to stop any future find of this sort from disintegrating when you try to pick it up? Its a pity I didn't have my camera or coule have photographed it in situ.
My guess is that the crab was not completely dried out? Small crab shells, especially a shed one can be very fragile and being tumbled about even in a gentle rippling wave can't do it any good. Try scooping the fragile find, and the sand it is sitting on into shallow container to take it back. What I have done with delicate seaweeds and things like your fragile crab shell is carefully put them into a small wide mouthed bottle or jar of clean sea water. The water helps support the specimen and minimizes any further damage, especially if all the air is removed to eliminate sploshing about.
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Shorten sparks building wrangle
Federal Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten has moved to try to kill off the Baillieu government's crackdown on building unions by introducing changes that are designed to override the state's regime.
The move by Mr Shorten has thrown the future of the Baillieu's government building code into doubt, with lawyers warning they could trigger constitutional arguments and also lead to ''great uncertainty'' in the industry.
The changes were released on Wednesday - a few hours after the Gillard government announced an election date - and employers attacked the lack of consultation and timing.
Under the changes, which take effect on Friday, the new federal code for the building industry says it will prevent state and territory governments from being able to require builders to change workplace agreements or practices if they want work.
The state code allows the government to ban builders from bidding for government-funded work for signing union-friendly deals. It recently banned Lend Lease after it signed a deal with a union that placed limits on the use of outside labour and also required that union flags be flown.
A spokesman for the Minister for Finance, Robert Clark, accused the Gillard government of surrendering to the demands of ''militant building unions''. They were confident the Baillieu government's rules would withstand the challenge.
''The Victorian government's initial assessment is that the Gillard government's new building code will be ineffective in its attempt to prevent us from continuing to do so.''
Law firm Herbert Geer, in a note to clients, said it was likely that ''constitutional arguments will arise from the conflict that now exists between the state and federal codes'' and that there was likely to be ''great uncertainty'' until the federal election.
Master Builders Australia acting chief executive Richard Calver attacked the lack of consultation and the ''unseemly haste'' with which the decision was made. He said the new federal code was designed to stop state governments from acting.
A spokesman for Mr Shorten said its code ''clearly sets out the rules and expectations applying to those working on Commonwealth-funded building work''.
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Every time he is asked a question after a loss, he always seems to say something in the lines of "I think our team played well" or "We gave a great effort but!" When is he going to start pointing fingers and telling the players to man up and take responsibility for their lack of efforts. especially Barg.
Last night, on the couple plays, when Bayless lost the ball banging into Barg, all he (Barg) had to do was to bend and pick up the ball and he didn't do that. Then when the ball was rebounded by Barg under the basket, he threw it out back to Bayless instead of going up for the layup and possible the foul!
Open your mouth Jay and say what needs to be said.
What do you guys think? Is Triano too soft and making too many excused?


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Crede's glove remains key to his value
Third baseman's defensive work important piece of puzzle
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
"That's why we have him at third," so the thought would go.
Of course, that sort of sentiment is meant as no offense to Josh Fields, who has transformed himself into a solid defensive third baseman from personal accounts through those in the know such as manager Ozzie Guillen and bench coach Joey Cora. But it's hard for anyone in baseball at this particular position to match what Crede brings with the glove.
It's an intangible not lost on Crede's teammates or Ken Williams, the architect of this year's White Sox squad.
"When I speak of balance [with the White Sox], I'm talking of the starting pitching staff and the complement of left-handed hitters, right-handed hitters, power hitters and guys that can manufacture on the bases with speed and athleticism, kind of all thrown into one," the White Sox general manager said. "Another component of that, one thing you can do on a day-to-day basis, is play defense.
"There are not too many better than Joe over there," Williams added.
Crede finished Spring Training with a .172 average, along with one home run and two RBIs. But Williams saw some good signs from him with the bat during the final week of Cactus League play.
"Usually, it's the guy who has the worst spring who has the hottest start," said Williams with a laugh. "So, don't be surprised if it happens with [Crede]."
After appearing in just 47 games last season, undergoing season-ending back surgery on June 12, Crede returned happy, and more importantly, healthy for his sixth consecutive Opening Day start at third. As to whether a chance exists for Crede to stretch that streak to seven in 2009, it's not a question remotely troubling Williams at this present time.
"Oh, there's no reason to even deal with that right now," Williams said. "This is Opening Day. Even if I'm asked that question at the All-Star break, there's still no reason to discuss that.
"All we care about now is winning, today and starting every series off with a W," Williams added.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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ORLANDO, Fla. - The attorney representing George Zimmerman, who's charged with murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, is seeking new evidence.
Former Local 6 legal analyst Mark O'Mara wants recordings of Martin's voice going back as far as 2010.
O'Mara Tuesday filed motions for subpoenas seeking audio recordings of Martin's voice from Martin's family and the woman who says she was on the phone with Martin just before he was shot dead last year by the neighborhood watch leader in Sanford.
The woman claims she heard Martin ask a man why he was following him before the phone sounded like it fell to the ground and the line went dead.
It's not known if the prosecution will object to the request.
But the court late Wednesday hastily set a status conference hearing for 4 p.m. Thursday, during which O'Mara has asked to discuss scheduling issues.
Judge Deb Nelson has set trial for June 10, but ordered that a self-defense immunity hearing be completed by April 26. O'Mara now estimates that hearing could take two weeks.
It is not known whether any other issues -- including the latest demands for voice recordings and a renewed request to depose Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump -- will be included in the Thursday hearing docket.
Zimmerman, who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, will not attend Thursday's status conference.
A recent investigation by Local 6 reporter Tony Pipitone shows forensic evidence could be used to argue Martin was likely leaning over Zimmerman when he was shot. But the investigation also shows that Zimmerman's timeline doesn't mesh exactly with the evidence in the case.
[RELATED: 'Flashpoint' examines timeline in Zimmerman case]
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I found a stunning Monarch butterfly in my garden in Middx in June this year (photo attached) and wondered if there was any organisation that kept any kind of log of UK sightings, or if this is far more likely to have escaped from a butterfly house than actually migrated across the Atlantic! (I did email firstname.lastname@example.com but didn't receive any reply...) Thanks.
That's an excellent sighting!
I'm disappointed that BC did not reply to you.
Try your local wildlife trust (most counties have one).
Thanks for your reply Mike – glad someone else acknowledged that it would have been exciting at the time, even taking into account the info below! I contacted London Wildlife Trust, as suggested, and this is their reply, in case it's of interest to anyone else:
Thank you for your picture and sighting details of the monarch butterfly earlier this year. Although they do get found in Britain as very rare migrants they are most often found in southwest Britain and nearly always in September and October when they are actually migrating. The date and proximity of a butterfly house to your location would suggest that your individual (which is a male by the way -The black dots on the hind wings indicate this) escaped from there. This has happened before and in one case actually lead to them breeding in 1981. This is also probably why Butterfly Conservation showed no interest in your sighting. As a probable escape it cannot be counted as a wild individual but the London Biological Record Centre called GiGL (Greenspace Information for Greater London) may still be interested in your sighting so the actual address of the sighting location and date would be very useful. In future you can send any sightings in your garden or anywhere else for that matter of birds, insects or any other wild animals or plant you see directly to GiGL by using their website record sheet which can be found here: http://www.gigl.org.uk/submit-records/ You could input your Monarch butterfly sighting directly into this if you wished instead of sending it to me.
Thank you very much for that update.
I am so glad the LWT responded usefully to you.


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B6102-006: Operations Management
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Instructor: Gabriel Weintraub
Prerequisite(s): B6100: Managerial Statistics
Provides a fundamental understanding of manufacturing and service operations and their role in the organization. Surveys a wide range of operations topics, including process flow analysis, supply chain management, capacity planning, facilities location, and total quality management. Deals with these topics through a managerial, applications-oriented perspective. The course is integrative in nature, emphasizing the fit and relationship of operations with other functions of the firm.


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November 16, 2011
The closures, caused by the need to rebuild stone guard walls, are expected to last until summer.
Portions of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina were closed Monday and will remain so until next summer because of renovation work on the scenic highway's historic stone guard walls.
The nearest section to Roanoke that is closed is a 2-and-a-half-mile stretch just south of the Virginia-North Carolina border between mileposts 217.8 and 220.4. The road is closed to all traffic, which includes vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians.
Other closed sections in North Carolina are from milepost 226.3 to milepost 229.7 and from milepost 232.5 to milepost 236.9. Detours will direct travelers around closures via North Carolina 18 through Sparta and Laurel Springs.
The stone walls are a picturesque feature of the parkway and were built during the late 1930s in the early days of the road's construction. Decades of freezing and thawing cycles have caused severe deterioration of the walls. About 32,000 linear feet of walls will be reconstructed.
Through October, parkway visitation in Virginia and North Carolina is up nearly 800,000 visitors over the same period last year, a 6percent increase. Visitation was down dramatically in 2010 due to lengthy weather-related closures during the winter of 2009-10. More than 13.5 million people have visited the parkway this year, with North Carolina attracting more visitors than Virginia by more than a 2-to-1 ratio.


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#RSL Tweets of the Day (@RealSaltLake)
Ives Galarcep @SoccerByIves
Some good news for RSL that seemed to go unnoticed, CB Chris Schuler being back in the 18 after lengthy injury spell. That's BIG for RSL
Nick Rimando @NickRimando
Up early and back to the 801. Time to recharge the batteries an get ready for DCU.
William Johnson @WillJohnson08
Heading home early with some of the lads. Probably my last chance to catch my breath until the season ends. Living the dream.#RSLfam
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Status: Closed
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Completed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Release 1.8
Component/s: None
Patch:Code and Test
What I was doing: attempting to pretty-print nested structures from Things mac app, which include instances of java.util.GregorianCalendar.
What I expected to happen: output should have an #inst very much like printing java.util.Date.
What happened instead: ArityException Wrong number of args (4) passed to: pprint$pretty-writer$fn
thingsplay.core=> (def nowish (java.util.GregorianCalendar.)) #'thingsplay.core/nowish thingsplay.core=> nowish #inst "2014-03-25T22:43:29.240-05:00" thingsplay.core=> (use 'clojure.pprint) nil thingsplay.core=> (pprint nowish) ArityException Wrong number of args (4) passed to: pprint$pretty-writer$fn clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:437) #inst " thingsplay.core=> (simple-dispatch nowish) #inst "2014-03-25T22:43:29.240-05:00"nil thingsplay.core=> nowish #inst "2014-03-25T22:43:29.240-05:00" thingsplay.core=> (write nowish) ArityException Wrong number of args (4) passed to: pprint$pretty-writer$fn clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:437) #inst "
Cause: clojure.pprint/pretty-writer does not fully implement the Writer interface used in printing the calendar.
Approach: Better implement Writer interface.
Screened by: Alex Miller
The print-calendar function introduced in
CLJ-928 doesn't work with clojure.pprint/pretty-writer since pretty-writer does not correctly implement the java.io.Writer interface. It only implements write(String) but print-calendar wants write(String,int,int) among others. Although pretty-writer should probably correctly implement java.io.Writer, it's pretty easy to rewrite print-calendar to use the supported subset of java.io.Writer that is implemented.
Thank you, "random person at the Austin Clojure Hack Day" "that I don't know" that has a CA in place. You are awesome!
See you at the next Austin Clojure Meetup.
Norman, it would be good if the patch included a few test cases, especially ones that fail without the patch, and succeed with the patch.
Absolutely. I have no idea how test cases work on Clojure core, but I assume it should be easy enough to do.
I would recommend looking at the following file in the Clojure repo, which already contains other pprint tests. It shouldn't be too difficult to get an idea from one or more of the tests there. Actually those might be slightly unusual in that many of them use a simple-tests macro defined in file test_helper.clj that most of the Clojure tests do not use, but ask questions if you have trouble, e.g. on the Clojure Google group or IRC channel.
Alright...you two are inspiring me to go work on getting my CA in.
Test case attached. Apply the test patch, "mvn test" fails. Apply the fix, test passes.
It would be better if the "is" were of the form:
(is (= calculated-value "constant string to compare against") "string to show if test fails")
rather than just (is calculated-value "string to show if test fails"). The second form will fail if calculating the value throws an exception, but only the first form will calculate it, and then verify that the value is the expected one (and fail if it is not the expected one).
(is (= calculated-value "constant string to compare against") "string to show if test fails")
Ok - here's an alternative test case. I'm less happy with this test case, since I have to add the TimeZone and make assumptions about how the specifics of how the pretty printer formats. But, it does test the fix adequately, so if you like the test2 patch better, that's perfectly fine with me.
I would rather fix the actual bug in pretty_writer.clj. The proxy needs to support more of the java.io.Writer interface. I think adding another arity to the write method would work. Something like:
([x off len]
(.write this (subs (str x) off (+ off len)))))
([x off len]
(.write this (subs (str x) off (+ off len)))))
CLJ-1390-pprint-GregorianCalendar.patch fixes the pretty_writer.clj proxy to support the missing version of the write method. Includes the same test as the previous patch.
Agreed with Steve on approach.


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Cubs finish sweep thanks to homers, Wood
SAN FRANCISCO -- Travis Wood picked up another quality start and a quality at-bat.
Wood notched his 18th quality start and belted his third home run to lift the Cubs to a 2-1 victory Sunday over the Giants and complete a sweep of the defending World Series champs. Welington Castillo smacked a tiebreaking home run with two outs in the seventh, his third of the year, to give Chicago its first series sweep in San Francisco since Sept. 13-15, 1993.Full Game Coverage
SAN FRANCISCO -- Travis Wood picked up another quality start and a quality at-bat.
Wood notched his 18th quality start and belted his third home run to lift the Cubs to a 2-1 victory Sunday over the Giants and complete a sweep of the defending World Series champs. Welington Castillo smacked a tiebreaking home run with two outs in the seventh, his third of the year, to give Chicago its first series sweep in San Francisco since Sept. 13-15, 1993.Full Game Coverage
The Cubs concluded a 10-game West Coast swing through Denver, Phoenix and San Francisco 6-4 and picked up their 26th road win, three more than their total last season. Last year, the Cubs went 1-18 on the road against the NL West.
"I can't remember ever as a player or anything having this kind of trip on the West Coast," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "To win six out of 10 on the West Coast, no matter how good a team you are, it's one of the harder things to do in baseball."
They did it without Matt Garza and Alfonso Soriano, both traded during the trip. On Sunday, Soriano had four hits, including a two-run homer and walk-off RBI single for the Yankees, which prompted loud cheers in the Cubs clubhouse. The high socks on Starlin Castro, Junior Lake and Luis Valbuena on Sunday? That's Soriano style.
"We said we wanted to do it for Sori," Castillo said of the socks switch.
Castillo was in the dining room when Soriano connected.
"We were so happy, we jumped out of our seats because we see our boy hit a homer," Castillo said. "We're pretty happy for him. He has to continue to do what he's always doing."
Wood was in the trainer's room and heard all the ruckus. The lefty was on the Cubs last year when they also overhauled the roster, dealing Ryan Dempster, Geovany Soto and others. This time, it's different.
"It's always a little different, especially when you lose a guy like Soriano," Wood said. "He was one of our hottest bats, probably the hottest bat at the time. He's the leader on the team and he's been here the longest. It was sad to see him go, but I think he had a pretty solid day today. We just have to pull together and string some wins."
Wood had to work for the "W." On Saturday, the Cubs escaped bases-loaded jams in the eighth and ninth innings to post a 1-0 win over the Giants. On Sunday, San Francisco loaded the bases with two outs in the third, and Wood avoided trouble when he got Hunter Pence to pop up and end the inning.
The pitchers ruled. Wood singled to lead off the third and then homered off Tim Lincecum with two outs in the fifth, his third of the year and the most by a Cubs pitcher since Carlos Zambrano hit four in 2009. It's the first time Lincecum has ever served up a home run to a pitcher.
"I swear to God, just before he hit that I was remembering [Yovani] Gallardo winning a game himself here with a home run off Randy Johnson, like the eighth inning or something," Sveum said. "Sure enough, [Wood] hits a home run. I think he's the best at handling good pitching, too. Gallardo was good, but Woody handles good pitching and lays off stuff and takes good swings."
Gallardo actually connected in the sixth off Johnson, hitting a three-run homer for the Brewers on April 8, 2009. Wood is not trying to be the next Zambrano.
"I'm always surprised," Wood said of his power. "I'm not up there trying to hit homers. I'm just trying to put good swings on it. I was able to get two hits today and fortunately one of them went over the fence. Unfortunately, I gave it up the next inning."
Lincecum got a little payback with two hits off Wood, both singles.
"I got a hit, and [Lincecum] came up the very next inning and got one, and I thought, 'OK, that's fair enough,'" Wood said of the exchange of singles.
The Giants loaded the bases with nobody out in the fifth, and Buster Posey hit into a bizarre double play, forcing the runners at third and at home. But Pablo Sandoval delivered an RBI double to tie the game. Castillo's home run was all Wood needed and ticked Lincecum off.
"The harder one to take was the second one," Lincecum said. "To give it back like that was tough."
All three games were decided by one run. Winning those close games in front of sellout crowds can only help, Sveum said.
"A lot of these young guys have to get a feeling for that in the big leagues, and the feeling of the last three games here, how close every out was and how every pitch here meant everything, and the situations [Saturday night]," Sveum said. "These guys, some of them anyway, that multiplies by 10 when you're in a pennant race, those kind of games. It's always a learning process."
Kevin Gregg wrapped things up with his 22nd save. He's one of 10 players on the current 25-man roster who was not with the Cubs on Opening Day. There's been a lot of turnover.
"I feel like a trade always makes a team closer," Wood said. "You see guys moving, and especially the guys we gave away, especially a leader like Soriano, and everybody pulls together and says we need to do everything we can to win ballgames."
On Saturday, Chris Rusin threw seven shutout innings. Nate Schierholtz is the new No. 4 hitter. Somehow, they've patched together a lineup that resulted in a winning road trip.
"We didn't score a ton of runs," Sveum said. "But that's what it takes to win, pitching and bullpens."
And that's what they got.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.


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NYU Student Titles Essay 'Why I'm Not Working This Summer'
Olivia Pepper, "Student, NYU," has written a charming little ditty for the Huffington Post entitled "Why I'm Not Working This Summer." It starts with the most ominous opening sentence in the history of oblivious first person essays:
One might imagine that a young adult who blogs for the Huffington Post and attends New York University would end up with a summer job.
Oh no.
I don't blame the extremely competitive job market for my unemployment. There are fatal flaws that I made, ones that I will be correcting next summer when I return to California from school.
OH NO. Is this actually an article, published on a well-trafficked website that people actually read, or did someone accidentally transcribe every conversation I had with my mom when I was 16, begging to borrow the car even though I didn't have any gas money?
My first mistake was aiming too high. It is nearly impossible to land a paid internship the first summer that a student returns from college. I did interview for one, but I didn't have the html-code writing skills that they were looking for.
While applying for the internship, I also made my second mistake of the summer. I waited too long to apply to other employers. The possibility of a paid internship made regular waitressing and retail jobs seem so much less fulfilling. So I waited and waited for my interview and then when I didn't get the internship, I handed my resume and application to the restaurants and shops and took my place in line behind so many other applicants.
I can't really discuss this any further, because I'm having PTSD flashbacks to my own horribly embarrassing, lazy whiner youth.
As one who only recently outgrew that shameful phase of post-adolescence, I feel obligated to offer a helpful tip for our dear Olivia Pepper: Nobody has "html-code writing skills" before they get a job that requires html. We all lied to get our jobs, and now google "html upside down question mark" every time we need a ¿. Seriously, every single time. Why can't I remember that one?
Ahem. Good luck to you, Olivia Pepper. There's always next summer, as long as you can handle every future co-worker you ever have reading this, the most embarrassing thing you ever wrote, and never letting you live it down. In other words, you pretty much have to be a blogger, now. [Huffington Post, photos via NYU Bookstores]


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Jun 07 2012 -
Statement of Vice Chairman Kevin Brady
The Economic Outlook
Thank you, Chairman Bernanke, for appearing before the Joint Economic Committee at this critical juncture to discuss America's economic outlook.
While we're all anxious for signs of a strong, sustainable recovery, the recent jobs report for May was grim – with U.S. employers creating a mere 69,000 non-farm payroll jobs, the fewest in a year. Job growth over the past two months has dropped by two-thirds over the first quarter of the year. Business and consumer confidence is down. First quarter GDP estimates were revised downward.
Four and a half years after the recession began Americans are enduring the 40th straight month of an official unemployment rate at or above 8% – a post-World War II record. And much of the drop in the unemployment rate from its high of 10% in October of 2009 is attributable to Americans simply dropping out of the workforce – the labor force participation rate is scraping a 30-year low. Without this severe drop in the number of workers since the recession began, the unemployment rate would be nearly 11%.
Since the recession ended, our economy has struggled to grow at an annualized average quarterly increase of 2.4%. To place it in perspective, of the 10 economic recoveries since World War II lasting more than a year, this recovery ranks, regrettably, tenth. And dead last is unacceptable by any standard.
Today, because our economy isn't flying strong and steady at 50,000 feet as it should be at this point, but rather flying low and slow, we are increasingly vulnerable to external shocks.
The economic crisis in Europe has intensified in recent weeks. A nascent bank run has begun in Greece. Greek banks are rapidly depleting their eligible collateral for lender-of-last-resort loans from the European Central Bank. Not just Greece, but the European Union as a whole appears to be in recession. Questions of whether Greece or other member-states of the European Monetary Union (EMU) will exit the euro and reissue national currencies are dominating the news.
Mr. Chairman, at this hearing I hope we'll get your perspective on Europe, including the likelihood of a Greek exit from the Eurozone, the contagion risk for the exit of other EMU Member-States, and the consequences of these possible events for the European Union, the United States, and the rest of the world.
When you appeared before this Committee last October – in response to a question about the tools you are considering to mitigate and limit the adverse economic impact on the United States – you testified you believe that the European Central Bank has enormous capacity to provide liquidity to European banks, that traditional currency swaps can provide dollar funding for global dollar money markets, and that the main line of defense is adequate supervision of well-capitalized American banks – with the Fed standing ready to provide as much liquidity against collateral as needed as lender-of-last-resort to the American banking system.
Is that still your assessment? Are you considering any tools beyond those?
In addition, American taxpayers and lawmakers – like their counterparts in Germany – are becoming increasingly concerned that they will be asked to bailout, however indirectly, struggling European governments and banks.
There is a growing concern that the U.S. Treasury will try to bail out the Eurozone either directly through the Exchange Stabilization Fund or indirectly through the International Monetary Fund. The Fed has a challenge as well, explaining to a skeptical Congress why traditional currency swap lines with the European Central Bank will not turn into an indirect bailout of Eurozone countries.
At the same time that European economies are weakening, growth is also slowing in both China and India. Given the prospects of a global slowdown, some economists are speculating that the Federal Reserve may initiate a third round of quantitative easing.
Mr. Chairman, during the questions, I would like to discuss with you whether and under what conditions the Federal Reserve would consider launching a third round of quantitative easing.
It's my belief that the Fed has done all that it can do – and perhaps done too much. Further quantitative easing won't stimulate growth and create jobs. There exists a real risk that the massive amount of liquidity the Fed has already injected into the economy could trigger higher inflation before the Fed can execute its exit strategy.
I also believe another round of Fed intervention will increase uncertainty among job creators while, ignoring the genuine reason for low business investment and job creation: sound, timely fiscal policy.
The businesses I look to along Main Street aren't holding back on hiring because they're waiting to learn what the government will do for them – they're holding back on hiring for fear of what the government will do to them.
The obsessive push for higher taxes on job creators, the unprecedented tax and fiscal cliff we face at the end of this year, the unsustainable structural federal debt and deficits, along with a flood of red-tape, and fear of the consequences of the President's new health care law – these are the true drags on the economy.
No matter what actions the Fed takes, without strong leadership by the President today – and action by Congress now – on these fiscal issues, Americans will not see the jobs or the strong recovery we deserve.
And, of course, the combination of sluggish growth and the rapid accumulation of federal debt is a toxic brew that could eventually spark a debt-driven economic crisis here at home unless the United States soon reverses course.
Finally, Mr. Chairman, last January the Federal Open Market Committee adopted an explicit inflation target of 2%, measured by the price index for personal consumption expenditures.
By doing so the Federal Reserve has taken an important step toward establishing a rules-based monetary policy going forward that should help to achieve price stability and protect the purchasing power of the dollar over time.
Nevertheless, your adoption of an explicit target raised as many questions as it answered. Is the 2% target a minimum, mid-point, or a maximum? How wide is the range? How long will the Federal Reserve tolerate a deviance from the range before taking action?
I also appreciated that you distinguished between that which monetary policy can control—namely prices—and that which monetary policy cannot control—namely employment.
By letter, I will request further clarification on this monetary policy statement in more depth.
With that, I again thank you for appearing before the Committee, and I look forward to your testimony.


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"I knew what you had to do to win. Number one, you had to not lose." -- Chuck Noll
He had a stare that could melt steel. But Chuck Noll, who died from natural causes on Friday at age 82, wasn't media-savvy, or an extrovert in any sense, and his players were generally far more colorful than he was. And so, when it comes time to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s, the conversation generally turns to the Steel Curtain defense, or the receiver tandem of Lynn Swann and John Stallworth, or Terry Bradshaw's long struggle to greatness long before it turns to the man who guided that franchise from years of misery to a run of success that has not been equaled since. They won four Super Bowls in six seasons, in an AFC that was brutally competitive. Noll's teams had to rip through gauntlets that included a Miami Dolphins franchise that is still the only team to win all its games in a season, an Oakland Raiders franchise that won more games than any other team through most of that decade, a Houston Oilers franchise that was more than game in the Steelers' own division near the end of the 1970s, and Browns and Bengals franchises that made the AFC Central as competitive as any division in NFL history.
Still, it was Noll's Steelers that seemed to always prevail when it counted, and the foundation of that success was Noll's own belief in fundamentals. He was famous for admonishing his players when they tried what he called the "rah-rah" stuff on the sideline during games -- to Noll, that noise was illusory. You won because you did things right every day, not because some blast of emotion took you further than you thought you could go for a few seconds.
SI Vault: The Steelers' Chuck Noll -- Teacher, Scientist, Innovator, Coach
Noll's belief in fundamentals came seemingly from his birth. Born in Cleveland on Jan. 5, 1932, Noll was an All-State running back and tackle in high school, excelled at the University of Dayton, and played for the Browns from 1953 through 1959. He got his first opportunities as a coach in the American Football League, coaching various defensive position groups and the entire defense for the Chargers from 1960 through 1965, and he moved back to the NFL in 1966, when he became the Baltimore Colts' defensive coordinator. Noll's last game with the Colts was Super Bowl III, when his team was upset by the New York Jets, but that same defense had been one of the best in NFL history through the 1968 season.
The Steelers hired Noll on Jan. 27, 1969, and they were so bad that they went 1-13 in Noll's first season. Noll had to create not only a new culture of winning, but also an entirely new roster. Very few of the Steelers Noll inherited lasted through the Super Bowl eras, and those who did -- like linebacker Andy Russell -- had to prove themselves all over again. Russell was told by Noll that most of his techniques were wrong, and that he would have to start all over. Noll's first installation of defensive excellence came when the team selected North Texas defensive tackle Joe Greene in the first round of the 1969 draft. Noll had seen Greene on a recruiting trip with the Colts, and believed that Greene could be a linchpin in a truly stellar -- and Steeler -- defense.
Noll was absolutely correct; Greene was perhaps the greatest interior defensive lineman in NFL history.
The hits just kept on coming. Bradshaw and cornerback Mel Blount, both Hall-of-Famers, were drafted in 1970. Defensive tackle Ernie Holmes and defensive back Mike Wagner, each underrated parts of the Steel Curtain, came in 1971 -- along with linebacker Jack Ham, another Hall-of-Famer and one of the greatest ever at his position. In 1972, running back Franco Harris added a new level to the team's ground attack, at a level that landed him in the Hall of Fame as well. But it is the 1974 draft for which the Steelers franchise is rightly remembered -- it is the only draft class in NFL history that contains four Hall-of-Famers -- Swann, Stallworth, linebacker Jack Lambert and center Mike Webster. Eventually, and in an era when many teams used free agency to fill their roster holes, the Steelers became the gold standard for building from within. They also became the gold standard for welcoming African-American players into the fold; as much as any franchise, Noll's Steelers broke through any glass ceilings and quotas that may have existed before.
Once he had a reasonably talented roster, it didn't take long for Noll to unleash his genius. From 1972 through 1979, the Steelers put together an 88-27-1 record in the regular season, snd started to string Super Bowl wins together at the start of the 1974 season. Like most great coaches, Noll knew to adjust to his personnel -- early in stat dynastic run, the Steelers were based almost entirely on the run game and defense. But as the 1970s wore on, and league rules started to favor the passing game, Noll put his faith in Bradshaw and a dominant vertical passing attack.
The playoff runs were fewer and farther between in the 1980s, and Noll lasted through the 1991 season. He coached the Steelers for 23 seasons, and only two head coaches -- Bill Cowher from 1992 through 2006 and Mike Tomlin from 2007 to the present -- have succeeded him.
That has given the Steelers a well-deserved reputation for organizational stability, but on the day of his passing, it's important to remember that without Chuck Noll, there would not be that stability. There would not be the Steel Curtain to remember. There would not be those four Super Bowls in six seasons, and there would not be some of the greatest games of all time.
"When Chuck became our head coach, he brought a change to the whole culture of the organization," Steelers president Art Rooney II said in a statement. "Even in his first season when we won only one game, there was a different feel to the team. He set a new standard for the Steelers that still is the foundation of what we do and who we are. From the players to the coaches to the front office down to the ball boys, he taught us all what it took to be a winner."
When it came to his own legacy, Noll was always hesitant to throw kudos his own way.
"This whole area of historic evaluation bothers me," he told SI's Paul Zimmerman years ago. "It's not so much that I dislike history; it's just the interpretation of it that screws everything up. It's always the way they see it, as opposed to the way you see it. It comes back to the same thing. You hear what you want to hear. It's the same in teaching. You think to yourself, Boy, I did a great job teaching today, but it's no good if the words fall on infertile ground. It's teaching, plus the common repeated experiences, that make the whole thing work."


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Good Morning, Wanted to pass along two photo's of my wife Rita Stevenson. I bought Rita a Parker Sidekick XP in 2008 so she could start bowhunting with me. She took her 1st hog in Brownfield, TX during our Thanksgiving hunt. It was a 200 lb boar. Then this past year she took her 1st elk in September 2009. She loves her Sidekick! I've bowhunted for over 20 years and am extremely impressed with this bow. It is very quiet and accurate. Rita say's it's easy to shoot and is hoping to draw another elk permit this to go after a big bull. Rita is 51 years old and an elementary PE teacher. Thanks & have a great day - Alan Stevenson (01.29.2010)


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The EEOC, run by Jacqueline Berrien, weighed in on background checks. (AP Photo/File)
by Freddie Allen
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency that enforces federal employment discrimination laws, filed lawsuits against BMW and the discount retailer Dollar General alleging that the companies broad use of criminal background checks discriminate against Black applicants and employees.
According to the EEOC, BMW fired dozens of Black employees at one of its plants in South Carolina during "a transitional period" that required employees to re-apply for their jobs. A BMW contractor performed criminal background checks that exposed criminal convictions that prevented the employees from getting rehired. The Washington Post reported that 70 Black employees lost their jobs through the process.
"One woman with 14 years under her belt was let go after a misdemeanor conviction surfaced that was more than 20 years old and carried a $137 fine, according to the EEOC's lawsuit," the Washington Post reported.
Dollar General withdrew job offers to two Black women after running criminal background checks. One woman had a 6-year-old drug conviction, but Dollar General disqualifies applicants for that type of conviction for 10 years. Dollar General showed little consideration for the fact that the woman also listed experience working at another discount retailer for four years on her application. The other woman said that her criminal history report contained errors, including a felony conviction. Even after Dollar General management learned of the errors on the report, the retailer still refused to change their decision, EEOC said in a statement.
Fair employment advocates say that errors on reports and incomplete records make it difficult for companies that rely heavily on background checks to make informed decisions.
"There's so much information that's out in cyberspace these days about criminal history records that employers have to be extremely careful about how they evaluate any one report," said Ray McClain, director of the Employment Discrimination Project for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a group that advocates for equal justice for all through the rule of law. "They need to use a consumer reporting agency that is very careful about not reporting erroneous information."
The EEOC filed the lawsuits based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and national origin, after the groups couldn't reach settlements. A statement by the EEOC said that the agency will seek back pay and to enforce additional standards to prevent future discrimination.
"Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination against job applicants and employees on account of their race," said EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien in a press release. "Since issuing its first written policy guidance in the 1980s regarding the use of arrest and conviction records in employment decisions, the EEOC has advised employers that under certain circumstances, their use of that information to deny employment opportunities could be at odds with Title VII."
McClain said the BMW and Dollar General will have a hard time showing that there is any business necessity for excluding the Black workers that meets the standards of Title VII.
"The law requires that the employers show that they have proof that the requirement that they are imposing, that has such a disproportionate impact on minority workers, is job-related and consistent with business necessity," said McClain. "The biggest problem is that [the companies] are cutting off their noses to spite their faces."
McClain continued: "They're excluding people who have perfectly satisfactory work ethics in the same job for no reason at all except for the fact that this person made a mistake a long time ago."
Instead of excluding workers by using criminal background checks, McClain said employers need to participate in more job fairs and services that target the formerly incarcerated. .
A study by The Pew Charitable Trusts, titled, "Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility," showed that when ex-offenders find jobs, "they are more likely to be able to pay restitution to their victims, support their children and avoid crime."
Yet, even when they do find legal employment, the stigma associated with their former incarceration follows ex-offenders into the workplace.
According to the Pew study, "By age 48, the typical former inmate will have earned $179,000 less than if he had never been incarcerated."
That stigma has a greater negative impact on the earnings of Black ex-offenders compared to White ex-offenders.
The Pew report said incarceration slashes the earnings that Black men would have made through age 48 by 44 percent. Incarceration erases half of what a White man would make through age 48.


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Deals of the Day: Deal Makers Scramble as Cliff Nears
Deals of the Day compiles this morning's biggest news about mergers and acquisitions, banking, bankruptcy and more. Catch us on Twitter, @WSJDealJournal.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Berkshire, CaixaBank in Deal: Berkshire Hathaway will pay CaixaBank €600 million ($778.7 million) for the future cash flow from a portfolio of life insurance policies, a rare dip into a fiscally stressed euro-zone country for Warren Buffett's investment firm. [WSJ]
Deal Makers Scramble as Cliff Nears: Deal makers and their clients are hustling to sell chunks of stock or whole companies before possible tax increases in the new year. [WSJ]
Knight Is Faced With Tough Decision: It won't be easy for Knight Capital Group Inc. directors to decide between the two offers to acquire the struggling brokerage firm. [WSJ]
Sharp Hunts for U.S. Tech Partners: Japan's Sharp is in discussions with U.S. technology companies to bolster its battered balance sheet in return for a stable supply of breakthrough display technology. [WSJ]


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TV viewers have been inundated with service announcements and coverage of the digital transition from analog to all digital TV broadcasts that is set to happen next month. Viewers who were using older TVs and don't get a converter or subscribe to pay-TV will lose the ability to watch free broadcast stations after the transition.
One of the first things that president Obama asked was to delay the digital transition to give Americans who weren't prepared more time to get ready. The government has been running a coupon program that gives people who need a converter box coupon to help pay for the cost of getting the needed converter.
The Senate drafted a bill last week that outlined a method for delaying the digital transition from February 17 to June 12 of 2009 to give viewers an extra four months to get a converter or subscribe to pat TV services.
MSNBC reports that the Senate has unanimously approved the bill to delay the transition to the June 12 date that the Obama administration wants. The delay is seen as a victory for the Obama administration and for Democrats in Congress who have been lobbying for a delay in the transition date.
The Nielsen Company performed a survey that found 6.5 million homes in America were unprepared for the digital transition and would lose the ability to watch TV after the transition. Funds in government coffers to help offset the cost of the converters for Americans dried up this month despite a long backlist of requests for the coupons.
Additional funds for the program are only being added as coupons that were requested and then not used expire after the 90-day usage window originally granted. The bill that was approved by the Senate will let those who asked for coupons and then didn't use them apply for a new coupon. MSNBC reports that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is administering the coupon program, had 2.6 million coupon requests on its waiting list as of last week.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller said, "Delaying the upcoming DTV switch is the right thing to do. I firmly believe that our nation is not yet ready to make this transition at this time."
VP of the digital TV transition for the National Association of Broadcasters Jonathan Collegio says that the numbers cited by Nielsen may overstate the number of people not ready for the digital transition. Collegio says that the numbers exclude consumers who have purchased a converter box, but not installed it as well as those who have requested a coupon and not received it.
Gene Kimmelman from the Consumers Union says, "The government has failed to deliver the converter boxes these [elderly and low-income] people deserve just to keep watching free, over-the-air broadcast signals."
Republicans in both the House and Senate are concerned that a delay in the transition will do nothing but confuse consumers and cost broadcasters money. Paula Kerger from the Public Broadcasting Service claims that delaying the digital transition from February to June 12 could cost public broadcasters $22 million.
Part of the wording in the Senate approved bill will let broadcasters who have already purchased the needed equipment for digital broadcasts to transition to all digital in February, even if the House votes to approve the delay in the transition. The House is expected to vote on the bill next week.


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Viet Nam: Citizens' experiences helping to shape anti-corruption policyDec 9, 2011
In the first large-scale exercise of its kind in the country, a nationwide policy research initiative is measuring how the people of Viet Nam experience corruption and public service delivery, giving voice to citizens' concerns and informing the authorities' plans to curb corruption.
Based on international anti-corruption standards, the Governance and Public Administration Performance Index examines citizens' interactions with government authorities at different levels – local, provincial and national - including issues of transparency, accountability and control of corruption.
In 2010 the Performance Index research was carried out in 30 of the country's 63 provinces, reflecting the views and experiences of some 5,568 randomly selected citizens. By the end of 2011, more than 13,500 Vietnamese will have their feedback recorded across the entire country.
The initiative, which will be conducted annually, is a joint effort of the largest mass socio-political organisation, the Viet Nam Fatherland Front, the non-governmental research Centre for Community Support and Development Studies, with policy and advisory services provided by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
While still in its early stages, the Index is emerging as a critical reference tool. For the first time ever, evidence based on citizen's experiences of corruption is available to be used by different state and non-state actors.
Government agencies, development partners and civil society also use the Index for policy reference at both national and local levels, and to track performance and design strategies to reduce corruption.
For instance, since the centrally-located Kon Tum province, one of the nation's poorest, was ranked lowest on the Index in 2010, the provincial authorities have requested its district level authorities and departments to develop action plans to tackle corruption and informal payments, and improve the services they provide to citizens.
In the south of the country, Ho Chi Minh City was ranked as the best performer on the same Index, and the results have been incorporated into the province's official policymaking process to further strengthen anti-graft systems.
"Findings from the research are a reference source that complements assessments from the Government," said Le Thi Nga, who serves as vice-chairwoman of the National Assembly's Justice Committee, and Advisory Board member for the Index policy research.
At the national level, state institutions mandated to fight corruption - the Government Inspectorate and the Office of the Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption - have also began to institutionalise the use of the Index by incorporating it into their reporting to government monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
To learn more about the Governance and Public Administration Performance Index visit www.papi.vn.
- A UNDP-supported initiative in Viet Nam is helping central and local level governments to fight corruption
- In 2010, the project collected the experiences of 5,568 ordinary citizens and in 2011 more than 13,500 views were collected to support evidence based policy making processes
- In an environment heavily reliant on "self-assessments" to measure corruption, UNDP's contribution is helping to "flip the coin" and look into people–centred experiences


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LAKE CITY, Fla. - A Lake City mother and her six children are still out of their home following a severe storm that hit the area over the weekend.
They're hoping to get some help after a tree smashed their home.
Up until Tuesday afternoon, Bonnie Denton and her children had been staying in a motel paid for by the American Red Cross. She said she now has nowhere to go and she's hoping the Federal Emergency Management Agency may provide some relief.
Unfortunately, her options are limited.
Denton said she never really saw herself as desperate, and she never believed she would be without a home. The single mother said she was inside her trailer when severe weather struck and a large tree came crashing down onto her roof. She said it was a terrifying moment.
"If that tree would have came in, we would have died," Denton said. "Look, it's on top of my roof. It's straight off my kids' room and my room."
Denton has no insurance and is now relying on her van for shelter and hoping for a new home. Her hope was that FEMA would be able to step in and provide assistance, but officials say that likely won't happen. The storm in Lake City does not meet the criteria to be considered a disaster, and a request for relief would need to come from the governor.
Denton knows her options are limited and she'll have to start over.
"I understand. I'm enough of a woman to understand that if I do get me a home, I have to start from the beginning, and I'm willing to work with that," she said.
She said she now waits for the phone to ring with news that she has a place to live. She worries for her children and says any kind of help would mean the world to her.
"I've never been like this in my life. I've never asked anybody for anything, but I would now because I don't know what to do," Denton said.
There are at least five other families in a similar situation after Saturday's storms. Emergency managers say Denton's best bet now is to reach out to local nonprofits in the community.
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…and I'm still thinking about it.
The patient had been struck on his dominant index finger with a big pipe, twice. The force of at least one of the impacts blew out a big chunk of the bone of the finger, and the arteries (and apparently nerves along with them), but left the skin behind. By 'blew-out' I mean there was a big laceration on both sides of the finger, but it looked like a (pale, dusky, insensate) finger.
A conversation with the hand surgeon confirmed what I already knew: this finger was no more, and a 'completion of amputation' was in order. What I didn't know: that was my job. (He was nice about it, and would follow the patient up in the office, but had to get to the OR).
Now, I'm not green anymore, and have completed a lot of digit amputations before but they were, frankly, utterly cosmetically deranged fingers. They looked a lot less like fingers than ground chuck, and it's not hard to rationalize removing devitalized tissues and closing the wound. I do it pretty well, thanks.
This was different, at least superficially. It looked very much like a finger, and while intellectually I knew it was never to be a finger again, there's a deeply ingrained taboo that prohibits me from causing permanent damage. Only after telling myself several times that this was actually no longer a finger was I able to take the sharp implement and cut off most of a finger. An index finger, a pointer, the one used for dialing a phone, scratching an itch, beconing, exploring a nostril, and a million and one other uses.
Into the basin went the limp digit (no bony support), and the closure was as good as I could do. The patient was amazingly calm about the whole amputation-thing, and actually said when I first saw him "…I know you're gonna have to cut it off…" and showed me another amputated digit from a prior experience.
I don't want to do that again, though.


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I have been having trouble with this game there.com lag issue and other things here there email I got.
1) "There.exe" needs full and unblocked access to the Internet, always. Software firewalls configure access on a per-application basis, and many people who have software firewalls have clicked the option 'never show me these alerts again' which comes up when an unauthorized application tries to connect to the Internet. To ensure that There.exe has full access, please delete any currently existing rule which says 'There.exe' is allowed to access the internet and allow your firewall to recreate it on the next login.
2) Outbound TCP ports 2311, 2313, 2315, 80 (HTTP), and 443 (SSL) need to be open and unblocked, always.
3) Outbound and Inbound UDP ports 2311, 2313, and 2315 need to be open and unblocked, always.
Please contact the manufacturer of your software firewall for assistance in opening these ports and establishing these rules if you are not familiar with how to do this.
I just wondering if any one could maybe help me on this issue
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As microstock continues its move forward, other trends also emerge
By Clare Baker
A picture, as the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. It makes some sense then, that there is quite a lot to be said about the billions of pictures comprising the stock-photography and stock-imagery marketplace, especially at a time when stock has never been so prolific, accessible, and in demand.
The current buzz surrounding the industry suggests that while rights-managed and royalty-free models are still the market's stalwarts, microstock photography continues to grow and impact the market's existing paradigms. And as this growth of microstock is fueled by the increased need for Web images, traditional stock companies have also developed and restructured licensing models to better serve their customers' needs. Additionally, advancements in the technology and stock agencies' website search engines are once again talking points given the influx of stock images and the increasing need for fast, intuitive, and comprehensive searching capabilities.
Micro continues to move the market
As it has since its emergence several years ago, microstock photography shows strong growth-in part because this model makes stock photography readily available to a wide-variety of users.
"Microstock," says Jon Feinstein, a photo editor at Shutterstock (www.shutterstock.com), a microstock site, "is less exclusive and really opens the doors up to photographers who otherwise might not have had the option of submitting their work to larger agencies. It allows anyone to submit and anyone to go through the initial screening process without necessarily having an insider connection."
And with the cost of microstock images starting at just $1 on some sites, the microstock model is open to many more users of stock imagery. "In the same way," says Feinstein, "it makes the whole stock process more accessible to photographers, it makes stock photography more accessible to smaller companies and smaller budget-oriented business."
Serban Enache, CEO of microstock site Dreamstime (www.dreamstime.com) adds, "Microstock agencies have succeeded as platforms that provide content to a wide array of customers. Buyers range from SOHOs to top Fortune companies."


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I love when an article starts conversations. The Happy Holidays vs. Merry Christmas story in the Spirituality section of this week's Dallas Voice about First Baptist Church's GrinchAlert.com seems to have done just that.
Last week after I spoke to Eric Folkerth, the pastor of Northaven United Methodist Church, he posted something on his Facebook page about it.
He received dozens of comments.
On GrinchAlert, you can rebuke, reprimand, belittle, berate and spew your general hate for working people, many of them minimum wage, who don't quite greet you the way you want on their busiest working days of the year. After all, what exemplifies Christmas better than trying to get someone fired.
I called Folkerth for my article because Northaven is a mainstream church and is a beneficiary of Black Tie Dinner.
He obviously has no love for First Baptist's pastor.
One of my favorite comments on his Facebook page came from Jim Lovell, a member of Northaven who is an elementary school music teacher in Plano. Here's his comment that is one of the most beautiful descriptions of the holiday season that I've seen in a long time.
"All this reminds me how much I love my job," Lovell wrote. "Today, a 6-year old Muslim boy was so proud to give me a Christmas cookie that his mother (who wears a hijab) bought. His beaming face just made my day! Other Muslim children are sporting Santa hats. Some of the favorite songs of our Christian and Hindu children are about dreydls. Everyone is getting along and having a good time. Happy Holidays, one and all! Whatever it is that you're mad about, give it up!"
Here were some of the other comments.
"Interesting that they are using the secular Grinch to illustrate their religious celebration," said one.
Interesting indeed. Not just that the Grinch is a secular character, but that the character was created by Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
Geisel began his career as a cartoonist. Before World War II, he warned of discrimination against Japanese-Americans, African-Americans and Jews. I think Dr. Seuss would be horrified at using one of his characters to spew the hatred coming from First Baptist Church.
Other comment's on the Facebook page of Northaven's pastor commented on how little the narrow-minded members of First Baptist actually apply the lessons of their religion.
"Don't they have something more important to spend time and resources on? Cause if they cant think of any, they surely aren't listening to the world around them," said one commenter.
But that's the point of GrinchAlert.com. You need to celebrate Christmas my way.


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On Wednesday, Apple released OS X 10.6.5 and Security Update 2010-007, patching 131 vulnerabilities across both Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
"Many of the vulnerabilities could be exploited by malicious hackers to run unauthorized code on your Mac computer, opening you up to the potential of being spied upon, having information stolen, or cybercriminals commandeering your Mac into becoming part of a botnet," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
When it comes to updating, "don't delay," he said.
Full details of the vulnerabilities addressed are covered in Apple's related knowledgebase article, released Thursday.
Interestingly, among the updates is a patch for the Flash Player plug-in. According to Apple, "multiple issues exist in the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution. The issues are addressed by updating the Flash Player plug-in to version 10.1.102.64."
In fact, according to AppleInsider, while 42% of the 131 vulnerabilities patched by 10.6.5 address Apple's own code, an equal number relate to Adobe Flash. That revelation adds some perspective to Apple's public denigration of Flash.
What's curious, however, is what Apple hasn't patched. Notably, OS X 10.5 remains vulnerable to a variation of the publicly disclosed FreeType JailbreakMe iPhone exploit.
According to Core Security, a penetration testing firm, "this vulnerability could be used by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, by enticing the user of Mac OS X v10.5.x to view or download a PDF document containing an embedded malicious CFF font."
Core Security said that it first alerted Apple to the vulnerability in August. "According to information provided to us by Apple, a patch for this fix has already been developed," said Core Security. "Apple provided us a release date for this patch in two opportunities but then failed to meet [their] deadlines without giving us any notice or explanation."
With the vulnerability still not patched, Core Security recommends that any OS X 10.5 users immediately upgrade to OS X 10.6. One problem, however, is that after OS X 10.5, Apple dropped support for Macs based on the PowerPC chipset. Accordingly, owners of older Macs will remain vulnerable to the attack until Apple releases an OS X 10.5 patch.


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Super Mini Cube: World's Cheapest, Tiniest Audio System
For years, we've read in audio magazines about the quest for the finest this, the biggest that, and the most expensive such-and-such. If it were 2005, I'd probably be addressing that subject right now. But in 2009, it seems rather ludicrous to be writing about extravagant audio baubles while one sits at an Ikea table in a $10 Old Navy polo shirt drinking coffee from Smart and Final. Fortunately, the audio world also offers plenty of gear better suited to today's tight budgets.
In fact, we've recently seen the launch of what may be the cheapest audio system ever: the Super Mini Cube. The Super Mini Cube measures 26mm on each side, making it in essence a 1-inch cube. Into this tiny space, it packs a ¾-inch driver, an amplifier, and a rechargeable lithium battery. It doesn't even need a cord to connect to a portable music player, because a 3.5mm stereo plug folds out from a slot in the side. Expose the plug, stick it in your iPod or anything else with a 3.5mm stereo jack, and you've got a sound system.
In search of a minuscule powered speaker system to use with my subminiature Samsung YP-U3 MP3 player on bike trips, I stumbled upon the Super Mini Cube on Amazon. I then found it even cheaper on USBfever.com. For $9.99, it was simply irresistible.
The Super Mini Cube comes with a tiny elasticized strap you can use to hang it from things. You can also attach it to a keyring. It comes with a short USB cable for charging. Although the box shows it in four colors, I've only been able to find it in black. There's no volume control, just a power on/off switch, so you'll have to use the volume control on your MP3 player.
Those who can't shake the 2005 mindset can take comfort in knowing that each Super Mini Cube chassis is formed on sophisticated molding equipment from only the finest polymers. The chassis is then mated with a circuit board employing advanced surface-mount technology. Final assembly is performed in China, a country that dates its tradition of fine craftsmanship back to the days before the Roman Empire. (And you thought you had to spend thousands of dollars to get an audio product with a good backstory.)
Strangely, although the box says the Super Mini Cube is made in China, no manufacturer is listed.


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Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon bravely commands the stage as a demanding poetry professor — conveniently well-versed in the mortality themes of John Donne's Holy Sonnets — diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer in Manhattan Theatre Club's surprisingly funny, tastefully heart-tugging revival of out playwright Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1995 masterpiece, which is as brief and precious as life itself.
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, through March 17.
Look Back in Anger
Brothers & Sisters star Matthew Rhys is electric as working-class idealist Jimmy in this streamlined revival of John Osborne's 1956 "angry young man" drama about four people — including Angels in America's hunky Adam Driver as Jimmy's pal — who seduce and squabble in squalor. Sam Gold directs the tense action on the stage's lip, an exhilaratingly literal interpretation of the tiny flat's description as "a very narrow strip of plain hell."
Roundabout at the Laura Pels Theatre, through April 8.
How I Learned to Drive
Twilight's Elizabeth Reaser stars in the assured 15th anniversary revival of out playwright Paula Vogel's darkly comic coming-of-age drama about a young girl whose alcoholic uncle molests her during their intimate driving lessons. Opposite the reliable Norbert Leo Butz as Uncle Peck, Reaser is touchingly understated as Li'l Bit, the Pulitzer Prize–winning memory play's abused narrator, who can easily be interpreted as a lesbian.
Second Stage Theatre, through March 18.


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Add Anheuser-Busch Employees' Credit Union, and its American Eagle Division, to the growing list of credit unions that are offering relief to members impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
- SANDY NEWS: Nov. 7, 2012: BrightStar Raising, Matching Funds
- SANDY NEWS: Nov. 7, 2012: CUAid Crosses $100,000 Mark
- SANDY NEWS: Nov. 7, 2012: NY CUs Mostly Back in Business
The $1.4 billion credit union in St. Louis said its emergency assistance loan can help members needing extra funds for temporary living expenses and repairs until disaster relief or insurance payments are received.
The loan is interest free for six months, and then provides an additional 12-month payment period, according to ABECU/AECU. It is priced at 1% below prime.
"This is what credit unions are all about, helping people in times of need. When things happen that are out of a member's control, we're ready to help," said Dave Tate, vice president of consumer lending at ABECU/AECU.
The 111,000-member credit union said it developed its emergency assistance loan in January 1994 to provide funds for members affected by disasters such as tornadoes, floods and hurricanes.


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The Knicks/Nuggets game last night was the worst for the Knicks in two ways. The fact that they last the game and the fact that that fight has to break loose. There was no reason for Mardy Collins to foul J.R. Smith like that. The was no reason for Mardy to foul him at all. Your team is down by 19 point with 1 minute and 30 seconds left.
That left J.R. Smith fighting with Nate Robinson and Carmelo Anthony punching Mardy Collins. I think there was no reason for Carmelo and Nate getting in the fight. Even though that's your teammate and you have to defend them, but is that worth your playing time?
David Stern just might suspend all 4, but who will go first?