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|[jira] Resolved: (DIRSERVER-872) [PERF]Still too many DN normalization
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-872?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Emmanuel Lecharny resolved DIRSERVER-872. ----------------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Most of the useless DN normalzation are now gone > [PERF]Still too many DN normalization > ------------------------------------- > > Key: DIRSERVER-872 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-872 > Project: Directory ApacheDS > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Emmanuel Lecharny > Assignee: Emmanuel Lecharny > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.0.0-RC1 > > > This is not a bug, but as I was doing some profiling session, I found that we are still normalizing 5 times more than what we should. In fact, the PrincipalDN is normalized again and again, when it should have been normalized when the user bound, and should never be changed. All the following normalizations are just used to obtain better numbers when we will remove them to make the server run faster :) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Dinner Shift: 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Dinner volunteers have a wide variety of tasks to help with, from food salvaging from the dining haslls and local strores, cooking dinner, and preparing the shelter for the arrival of guests, to greeting guests as they arrive, serving dinner, and cleaning up after dinner. When not doing chores, volunteers are free to sit back, chat, play cards or board games or watch TV and movies with the guests.
The Student-Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphis will bring students from Philadelphia universities together with the most marginalized members of society - people experiencing homelessness so that each group will have a profoundly and mutually beneficial impact on the other. The same 30 guests will stay and keep thir belongings in the emergency housing unit for the entire winter. This will allow the guests and volunteers to build a sense of community with each other. There will be a wide variety of holistic opportunities available to the guests. These rance from art and yoga programs, to medical care, computer literacy and money-management classes, job training and house hunting. The fact that the unit is only open in the winter will instill in the staff a sense of urgency to place these individuals's needs and link them to the available resources in Philadelphia that are necessary for transitioning out of homelessness. The experience of running and emergency housing unit will allow these students to break out of their comfortable environment. They will put names and faces to the problem of homelessness and develop relationships with the guests that will compel them to reconsider some of their ideas about poverty and hoelessness. They will also start to comprhend the structural barriers that are in place which make it difficult to climb out of homelessness. Student volunteers will be given a myriad of opportunities to advocate legislatively on behalf of people experiencing homelessness. SREHUP will send students to D.C., Philadelphia, and Harrisburg to work with local and national representatives on issues of education reform, job creation, and fair housing initiatives. During and after graduation these students will work for the systematic changes that are needed to fix the problem of homelessness, so that emergency housing units are no longer needed in the future.
There are three different shelters, each which has its own "typical shift"; I can only speak on behalf of Old First. Upon arriving at Old First, volunteers will assemble the tables and chairs and set tables. Once that task is completed, volunteers will cook dinner with supplies which have been left for them, reheat leftovers, or assist with dinner preparation with a volunteer church group. Once guests arrive at approximately 6:30pm or 7:00pm, the volunteers serve dinner to the guests. Once all the guests have
been served, volunteers get their own dinner, sit down and eat with the guests. After everyone has finished eating their dinner and dessert, we will begin cleaning dishes and storing excess food. Once dish cleaning is complete and the kitchen is clean, volunteers can visit with the guests. Volunteers typically chat, watch TV or play board games with the guests.
SREHUP has been a catalyst in changing my perception of homelessness, poverty and the system which causes both. I began volunteering at SREHUP with a restricted view of those whose faces make up the homeless and why they were there. Through SREHUP my eyes were opened to the fact that homelessness can strike anyone, and many of the guests were not at fault for their situation. The men are some of the most amazing people that I have ever met, and through the conversations that I have had over dinner and playing games, I formed friendships and bonds with the guests. SREHUP is a community, and the guests are welcoming and gracious to the volunteers. It is a bittersweet moment when the guests receive their own housing and move out of the shelter. It is an exciting to see them move past this phase in their lives, but it is simultaneously sad since these men have become my friends; I likely will never see them again. Lastly, SREHUP has a flexible schedule. Volunteers can go any night of the week, and like any other college student, my schedule was constantly changing. By volunteering at SREHUP I had the freedom to choose what day of the week I went depending upon academic and work schedule. Also, another plus is that the dinners that are cooked are absolutely delicious and welcome change from the monotony of the dining halls' menus.

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1. tulipwood - noun
· the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees
Hypernym(s): wood
2. tulipwood - noun
· light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer
Synonym(s): true_tulipwood, whitewood, white_poplar, yellow_poplar
Hypernym(s): wood
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This week in Pac-12 men's basketball
By the Pac-12 Conference
• For the second time this season, three Pac-12 teams appear in this week's AP Top 25 - No. 7 ARIZONA, No. 21 OREGON and No. 24 UCLA. Back on Nov. 19, the AP poll included No. 10 Arizona, No. 23 COLORADO and No. 11 UCLA.
• Saturday's matchup between No. 21 Oregon at No. 24 UCLA will be the first game between two AP Top 25 Pac-12 teams since March 13, 2009 (No. 23 Arizona State defeated No. 13 Washington, 75-65 in the Pac-10 Tournament).
• UCLA, which has won nine straight, OREGON, winners of its last five games, and WASHINGTON each remain undefeated in league play. For the Bruins, they look to start league play with five straight wins for the first time since the 2003-04 season - Coach Ben Howland's first season in Westwood. Oregon and Washington are both 3-0. The Ducks look to go 4-0 for first time since 1974, while a sweep for the Huskies this weekend would give them their best start in league play since they started 6-0 in 1984.
• Wednesday's P12N televised showdown between COLORADO and WASHINGTON features the defending Pac-12 Tournament Champion Buffaloes and the defending Pac-12 Champion Huskies.
• The next Pac-12 Coaches/Media Teleconference is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 10:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m. MT. Complete teleconference schedule is listed on page 6.
• SIZE 14... Four Pac-12 teams have posted 14 or more wins. The only conference that has more teams with 14 or more wins is the Big Ten Conference with five teams.
• STREAKING... With a nine-game winning streak, the UCLA Bruins are on their longest run of consecutive wins since taking 10 in a row during the 2008-09 season. UCLA has won 10 of its last 11 games.
• SWEEPERS... For the second straight week, three Pac-12 teams posted sweeps. The first week, the sweeps were accomplished by home teams. In week two, ORGON pulled off the sweep at home, while UCLA and WASHINGTON went on road to accomplish the feat. For the Huskies, it was the first sweep of the Bay Area schools (California and Stanford) since 1985. In addition, the Huskies have started league play with three consecutive road wins for the first time since 1912.
• HOUDINI OF THE HARDWOOD... The 20 Bob Cousy Award finalists have been tabbed and two players from the Pac-12 were among those listed. Those individuals are (with current statistics):
- Mark Lyons, Sr., ARIZ (14.6 ppg/3.3 apg)
Over the last eight games, Lyons is averaging 15.8 ppg and 4.1 apg. He's knocked down 27 of his last 30 free throw attempts (.900). In his three seasons at Xavier and the current season at Arizona, Lyons has scored 1,428 points (12.5 ppg career average)
- Jahii Carson, Fr., ASU (17.1 ppg/5.2 apg)
After posting 20 points at Oregon State and following it up with 20 points at Oregon, Carson is the first ASU freshman to get back-to-back 20-point games on a Pac-12 road trip since Steve Beck in the Bay Area (1984). Carson is the first freshman in the nation to average better than 17.0 assists and 5.0 assists since Seton Hall's Shaheen Holloway in 1996-97 (17.3 ppg/6.3 apg)
• HOUDINI OF THE HARDWOOD, PART II... UCLA senior guard Larry Drew II was not among those Pac-12 players on the finalist list for the Bob Cousy Award, but his distribution numbers are certainly deserving of mention. Drew II leads nation with a 4.89 assist-to-turnover ratio. His 8.1 assists per game average leads the Pac-12 and is fourth nationally. His 137 assists this season are more than what all but three Pac-12 players recorded last season.
• REJECTION NOTICE...ASU junior C Jordan Bachynski now has 76 blocks/4.5 bpg on the year are more than last year's Pac-12 leader had all season (OREGON STATE's Eric Moreland - 69 blocks/1.9 bpg).
• HOME SWEET HOME... Pac-12 teams sport a 95-24 (.798) home court record so far this season. ARIZONA and OREGON are perfect at home this season. The Ducks have run off 12 straight home court victories this season for their best home start since the 2001-02 season. Dating back to last season, the Ducks have extended their home-court winning streak to 18 games, which currently ranks tied for sixth in the nation.
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UTAH at WASHINGTON STATE 6:30 p.m. PT P12N
Series: UTAH leads 14-2. Streak: UTAH 1 (last - 62-60 OT at Utah)
COLORADO at WASHINGTON 8:30 p.m. PT P12N
Series: Tied 7-7. Streak: COLO 1 (last - 87-69 at Colorado)
Thurs., Jan. 17
OREGON STATE at No. 24 UCLA 6 p.m. PT ESPNU
Series: UCLA leads 87-34. Streak: OSU 1 (last - 87-84 at Oregon State)
No. 21 OREGON at USC 8 p.m. PT ESPNU
Series: USC leads 62-47. Streak: ORE 5 (last - 65-62 at Oregon)
Sat., Jan. 19
No. 7 ARIZONA at ARIZONA STATE 12:30 p.m. MST FSN
Series: ARIZ leads 142-80. Streak: ASU 1 (last - 87-80 at Arizona State)
No. 21 OREGON at No. 24 UCLA 1 p.m. PT CBS
Series: UCLA leads 83-29. Streak: ORE 2 (last - 75-68 at Oregon)
CALIFORNIA at STANFORD 1:30 p.m. PT FSN
Series: CAL leads 145-115. Streak: CAL 1 (last - 77-71 at Pac-12 Tournament)
OREGON STATE at USC 5 p.m. PT P12N
Series: USC leads 65-59. Streak: OSU 1 (last - 78-59 at Oregon State)
COLORADO at WASHINGTON STATE 7 p.m. PT P12N
Series: COLO leads 2-1. Streak: COLO 1 (last - 71-60 at Colorado)
UTAH at WASHINGTON 6 or 8 p.m. PT ESPNU
Series: WASH leads 7-5. Streak: WASH 1 (last - 57-53 at Utah)
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Lay Day At 2012 Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic
The weather has not been cooperating with the 2012 Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic. Surfers are patiently waiting on shore for a chance to win valuable ratings points in the race for the ASP Women's World Title.
Today is the first day in the 2012 Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic event window, with stormy sea and strong winds event organisers have called a Lay-Day.
Layne Beachley, seven-time ASP Women's World Champion and Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic Contest Director is excited about a favourable surf forecast for the coming days.
The swell charts are showing a solid swell in the eight foot (2.5 meter) plus range, that will more than likely see competitors take on the world famous Dee Why point.
"We're seeing torrential rain squalls and strong gusty winds," Beachley said. "The swell is building which is promising because yesterday it was as flat as a lake. We've called the competition off for the day, but we've got a really good forecast for the next few days. It's looking really good for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It's exciting having the Top 17 women's surfers in Sydney. For the last three months I've been thinking 'why am I doing this?' But then we get here and set up and I'm so proud of the event. We're in our seventh year and I'd love to do it for at least 10 years."
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Sunday, September 1: Noon-8pm
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March 8, 2013 - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement:
"Canada is deeply concerned by the escalating and deadly violence that has injured thousands and claimed the lives of scores of Bangladeshis. We urge all parties to end the violence, to work toward peacefully resolving the conflict and to reverse the growing divisions in Bangladeshi society.
"We also call on authorities to protect the rights and the lives of all Bangladeshis.
"We condemn in the strongest terms senseless attacks on civilians, most notably those on minorities in their homes and places of worship. Canada has welcomed Bangladesh's commitment to pluralism and religious freedom, and we encourage further efforts by the government and all parties to promote peace and tolerance throughout the country.
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Jeff MacDonald is Chief Executive Officer of EcoSynthetix. Prior to this role, Mr. MacDonald was the company's Chief Operating Officer. Mr. MacDonald came to EcoSynthetix with more than 15 years of executive leadership experience in a variety of roles, including operations, business development, and marketing. He spent the majority of his career at Husky Injection Molding Systems, a leading manufacturer of equipment and services for the plastics industry, with more than $1 billion in annual sales. At Husky, Mr. MacDonald led the establishment of new businesses, introduced a number of new products to market and led key initiatives that had a transformational impact on overall business performance. Mr. MacDonald holds a Master of Business Administration degree from McMaster University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario.
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Rob Haire is Chief Financial Officer at EcoSynthetix, a role he has held since 2008. Prior to this, Mr. Haire held financial leadership positions at Husky Injection Molding Systems, GE and Zenon Environmental. Mr. Haire holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Ryerson University and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Chartered Accountants of Ontario and the Certified Public Accountants of Illinois.
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Ted Van Egdom has held the position of Senior Vice-President of Market Realization and Product Manufacturing at EcoSynthetix since 2012. In this role, he is responsible for sales, customer solutions, manufacturing and fulfillment. From 2001 to 2012, Mr. Van Egdom served as Vice-President of Manufacturing, where he led the scale-up and commercialization of the company's product line, along with the launch of its Centre of Innovation in Burlington, Canada. Prior to joining EcoSynthetix, Mr. Van Egdom held leadership roles at a venture capital company, and Dana Corporation. Mr. Van Egdom holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Ryerson University in Toronto.


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By John Quilter
John's photographs of his conversions may be seen at the end of the article.
There was a partworks issue of vehicles in James Bond 007 movies and one of them was a circa 1980 Sherpa van in telephone service truck livery from the movie "The Spy that Loved Me" as seen above. Since these are interesting diecast models in accurate 1:43 scale I have collected a number of them over the past years although they have to be purchased from Europe via EBay since the partworks series is not offered in the USA. The Sherpa range was a product of British Leyland and was made in many versions for many years and in fact there is an Auto Review book on them by Rod Ward. AUTO REVIEW AR61 The Sherpa Story.
There were minibus versions, a pickup plus others. Since the partworks models are reasonably priced I acquired a few extras and converted one into a minibus and one into a pickup. They were distributed by GE Fabbri Limited and these particular ones were made by Universal Hobbies although others are IXO products. One of the things one has to consider with the this series is some come with "movie damage" and the Sherpa was one of these with a dented bonnet and right hand door as the picture of the unmodified van shown in the picture. When I did the conversions I "repaired" this damage bringing the model to as new condition. The minibus conversion required drilling out the side and plenty of filing the holes into the correct shape windows. The glazing was with clear plastic shaped to fit. I was lucky to have a few Sherpa sales brochures to assist me in accuracy. The interior needs to be modified to include some additional seats which I made out of styrene plastic. Most of these 007 vehicles come with figures and if you are not using them in a particular project they make great additions to other models.
The Pickup required cutting off the upper rear body and fabricating a tailgate, bed floor and cab back. So now I have three versions of the Leyland Sherpa small commercial vehicle to add to my British vehicle model collection.
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We already know some banks halted foreclosure sales nationwide in October when it was discovered that servicers took short cuts, so-called "robo-signing" in the foreclosure sale process in judicial foreclosure states - about half the country.
Now it appears they may have done the same thing in a different part of the process, the Notice of Default, which takes place in the other half - i.e. the non-judicial states - this happens before the foreclosure sale.
(Judicial foreclosures are those that are processed through the courts whereas non-judicial are processed without court intervention.)
A Notice of Default is the notice sent out in non-judicial foreclosure states that alerts the borrower that the official foreclosure process has begun. It is also filed with the county recorders office and allows the notice of foreclosure sale to be published. What's so important is that this is the process in California, Nevada and Arizona (AZ is both judicial and non-judicial), which have three of the top four foreclosure rates.
Last week an article from American Banker titled, "New Point of Foreclosure Contention: Default Notice" circulated widely among the folks who follow the mortgage mess. It talked about how several lawsuits are now being filed contending that the Notice of Default process was flawed and the foreclosure therefore invalid.
As this article was circulating, a source pointed me to the fact that Notices of Default had dropped off dramatically since October, especially in California. In fact, Foreclosure Radar shows it quite clearly. Foreclosure Radar's Sean O'Toole wasn't ready to say the banks had cut off Notices of Defaults but did say, "given the issues raised, we certainly wouldn't be surprised to see a slow down of foreclosure activity in non-judicial states."
So we contacted Bank of America (NYSE: bac), and spokesman Dan Frahm said:
"As part of our voluntary, comprehensive review of the modification and foreclosure process we launched in October of 2010, we did conduct a review of the Notice of Default process. As a result, we stopped the NOD process in the non judicial states while we completed that review and, later, implemented and tested the resulting process improvements. We announced in December our foreclosure restart - starting with vacant and non-owner occupied properties - and ramp up of that volume continues, as does the related NODs."
They then said they had "improved" the process, and we would see volume increase soon, if not already. "Based on the American Banker story you referenced and the notion this is the potential next issue, I feel good knowing we addressed NOD as part of our rigorous voluntary review and testing process," added Frahm.
JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: jpm) is still getting back to us. Wells Fargo (NYSE: wfc) tells us they did not stop NOD's.
What does it mean going forward?
"This prolonged curtailment in NOD volume will lead to fewer foreclosure completions in 2011 than forecast," notes mortgage consultant Mark Hanson. "After four months of total uncertainty over the entire foreclosure process nationwide, it will have consequences on the mortgage, housing, and related sectors."
Hanson says distressed loan pipelines are "poised to get out of control beginning in Q1"
UPDATE: JPM tells CNBC, "We stopped notices of default in some states (not all)."
"Bank of America and Fidelity National Financial have reached an agreement confirming that Fidelity will provide title insurance on the sale of foreclosed properties," said B of A spokesman Dan Frahm.
Under the agreement, Fidelity will defend the new homeowner in court if a foreclosed owner challenges the title. B of A will cover the costs and, if necessary, any damages awarded to the previous owner.
"Bank of America and Fidelity National are taking this step to facilitate the continued availability of title insurance that is vital to the marketability of foreclosed properties," Frahm said.
The giant bank is seeking similar agreements with other title insurers.
American Land Title Association chief executive Kurt Pfotenhauer welcomed the B of A/Fidelity agreement.
"Title insurers are looking to lenders to provide appropriate indemnities," he said. ALTA also has approached the GSE regulator about title indemnifications.
"We will continue to work with federal and state regulators, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and lenders to bring certainty to the marketplace," Pfotenhauer said.
One in every 29 Nevada homes received a foreclosure filing during the third quarter. Looking at total numbers of foreclosures, neighboring California was worst, with 191,016, followed by Florida, Arizona, Illinois and Michigan. Combined, the five states accounted for half of all foreclosures last quarter. Of course, once the moratorium ends, we can expect a new tidal wave of foreclosures. John McGeough, a broker, said that the current foreclosure freeze may give distressed homeowners extra time to do a short sale and avoid having their homes repossessed by the banks. "Foreclosure should be the last resort."
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The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage hit its lowest point in more than 50 years. The Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey reported the average rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage at 4.19% with an average 0.8 origination point for the week ending Oct. 14, down from last week's average of 4.27%. A year ago the average was 4.92%. This is the lowest rate the survey has recorded since its inception in 1971. Mortgage rates were last at this level in April 1951, according to Freddie Mac. The Bankrate survey of large banks and thrifts reported the average rate for a 30-year, fixed mortgage is 4.47% with a 0.32 origination point, slightly above the 25-year-old survey's record low of 4.45% posted last month. Rates for 15-year FRMs are falling steeply, setting a new low for Freddie Mac.
The GSE said the rate was down to 3.62% with an average origination point of 0.8. The rate for a 15-year FRM was 4.37% a year earlier. Bankrate said the average rate for 15-year, FRMs of 3.85% is a new record low and down from 3.87% a week earlier. Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist at Freddie Mac, attributed the declining rates to the loss of 95,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in September. The GSE said the average for a 5-year, adjustable-rate mortgage is 3.47% with an average 0.6 origination point, down from 4.38% a year ago. The average remained flat with last week. Bankrate reported the average rate for a 5-year, ARM fell last week to 3.62% from 3.64% previously. The one-year Treasury-indexed ARM averaged 3.43% with an average 0.7 point up slightly from 3.4%. At this time last year, the one-year ARM averaged 4.6%.
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The mortgage-foreclosure crisis spilled into the financial markets on Thursday, driving down bank stocks and weighing on mortgage bonds as investors took a grim view of the potential costs. Shares of U.S. banks fell, while the broader stock market was essentially flat. Bank of America Corp., potentially among the most affected, dropped more than 5%. Bank bonds also fell, and the cost of buying protection against a possible debt default by banks climbed. "The level of uncertainty in the economy is at extraordinarily high levels to begin with," said Jack Scott, chief investment officer at BlackHawk Capital Management, a Charlotte, N.C., money manager that owns mortgage securities. "The foreclosure problem adds another layer of acute uncertainty."
So far, the foreclosure crisis hasn't affected consumer mortgage rates, which remain near record lows. They are closely linked to rates on U.S. Treasurys, which have tumbled in recent months. Until recently, investors hadn't fled financial stocks. If the issues raised about foreclosure practices in recent days are easily resolved technical glitches, with most foreclosures resuming after brief delays, then the impact on most investors would be small. "The [mortgage] market seems to be functioning relatively well, but that could change depending on how we see this play out," said BlackRock Inc. portfolio manager John Vibert. But some fear that it may be difficult to do any foreclosures for a while.
The risk is that foreclosure flaws are so widespread, or the political furor so heated, that the entire process grinds to a halt, as Citigroup analyst Joshua Levin said in a conference call this week. In some cases, that would choke off much of the cash flow used to pay mortgage bondholders. Another concern is that banks could be forced to modify billions of dollars in loans, including reducing principal, which could leave bondholders as big losers. Banks, meanwhile, could be hit with investor lawsuits, and foreclosure delays could bring short-term losses. Some investors are pushing for banks to take back nonperforming mortgages in cases of faulty documentation.
Harry Smith spoke with economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis about the government program designed to help struggling homeowners.
BofA serviced $2.1 trillion in mortgages in 2009 overall, a 5% increase from the year before. Of the other "big-four" lenders, only Wells had a yearly increase at 0.9%. Both Chase and Citi saw decreases. Simon said Bank of America is working through the backlog of its HAMP trials that are still awaiting action. "Progress has been made by Bank of America as we have focused on getting through the backlog of aged trial modifications over the past three months and completing actions on the ineligible mortgages will begin to show up in coming reports," Richard Simon, a spokesman for BoA said. "Until then, any conclusions seem premature." But HAMP may only be a microcosm of the issues in loss mitigation. Lender Processing Services' Applied Analytics division reported in August that more than 2.6 million mortgage loans are 90+ days delinquent and not yet in foreclosure, the heart of the shadow inventory of homes waiting to hit a troubled market.
In the series, How Low Can You Go, Contributor Vera Gibbons spoke to Chris Wragge about finding great deals on foreclosed homes.
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Find The Frog Official Contest Rules
The contest is open to US residents aged 18 and over. Void where prohibited by law.
To enter the Find The Frog contest, take a picture of the official KUJ Shangri-La Frog and the accompanying sign while it is at a participating location between July 15, 2015 and August 16, 2015. Post your picture to the Facebook page KUJ 1420 AM before the end of August 16th, 2015.
One winner will be chosen at random from the Facebook entries across the four radio station Facebook pages (KUJ 1420 AM, 94.5 Hank FM, Bob FM 106.9 and 104.5 The Oasis on August 17th, 2015. The winner will be announced on each of our Facebook pages on August 17th, 2015, on our station websites and on each of our radio stations.
The prize: a $500.00 paid to the winner via check. The radio station will attempt to arrange (at a mutually agreeable time) a photograph that includes the contest winner being presented their prize. Contest winner agrees to allow their name and photograph to be used in station advertising and promotions including the stations' Facebook pages, the stations' websites, and on the radio.


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This award has been established by the American Association for Cancer Research and Eli Lilly and Company to acknowledge and catalyze the growing importance of interdisciplinary teams to the understanding of cancer and/or the translation of research discoveries into clinical cancer applications. Proactive interaction between academic and industry researchers is particularly crucial to continue progress and accelerate drug development.
In addition, through the presentation of this award, the AACR and Eli Lilly seek to effect change within the traditional cancer research culture by recognizing those institutions that value and foster interdisciplinary team science. These institutions will have demonstrated their support of a team science environment by creating mechanisms to enhance the required infrastructure, such as through pilot funding, technology transfer offices, shared resources, etc., and by presenting awards, honors, appointments and promotions to those who participate in interdisciplinary teams.
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The return of the smarties
During last night's fascinating Dirty Projectors' show at Whelan's in Dublin, I wondered a little whatever happened to Green Gartside. To all intents and purposes, Gartside was (and is) Scritti Politti, a smart art-punk combo who, in one of those …
During last night's fascinating Dirty Projectors' show at Whelan's in Dublin, I wondered a little whatever happened to Green Gartside. To all intents and purposes, Gartside was (and is) Scritti Politti, a smart art-punk combo who, in one of those odd twists of fate which were a lot more common back in the Eighties, found a modicum of mainstream success with brilliantly oddball pop tunes like "The Sweetest Girl" and "Wood Beez". Gartside was a wry and witty lyricist, fond of puns and burying radical notions subtly in the middle of his tunes.
There's a similar cut to David Longstreth's jib. Under his watch, Dirty Projectors' back-pages are full of pointy-headed concepts – albums based around Don Henley, Aztec mysticism and Black Flag's "Damaged" album – which never lose sight of the groove. New album "Bitte Orca" may be their best-received album to date – certainly, they attracted a much bigger and more tuned-in crowd last night than on previous visits to the city – but those exuberent, dizzy songs and swatches of African hi-life guitars, r'n'b vocals, post-rock grooves and tribal incantations are still high concepts, even by indie rock's often deliberately lofty standards.
These are interesting times then for a band like the Dirty Projectors. There's suddenly a warmer (if perhaps not quite whole-hearted) welcome in mainstream circles for bands who were once confined to the margins. Tectonic shifts in the relationship between uptown and downtown pop flavours mean there's now a bit of a love-in going on and all manner of smart boys and girls are making the most of it.
But it remains to be seen if even this golden age comes with a glass ceiling. For all the band's alluring, shimmering sounds and songs (and they played mostly from the new album last night as if to showcase where they're now heading) and echoes of Talking Heads (and you'll find those not just in the delicate quiver of Longstreth's high notes), it's hard to figure out where this might progress pop audience-wise. Sure, the Dirty Projectors will enjoy many a long and satisfactory day toiling and teasing with art-rock modes, but the music may remain a tad intricate and perhaps too darn smart to be embraced by a larger audience.
Not, I suppose, that band or following will complain too much. The great joy of experiencing Dirty Projectors is seeing completely unrelated sounds click into place, especially on the newer material. Mapping out each song might involve a lot of dot-joining, but the groove and the rhythms still seem natural and unforced. Instead of jarring, the various elements fuse. While it might be easier to keep pounding out relatively old-fashioned songs like final encore "Knotty Pine", it's the band's dedication to a more complex musical cause which is the one most worth celebrating. Hearing them ignite every kink of "Stillness is The Move" or "Cannibal Resource" is something to hold dear until they visit these parts again.
48 words on support act tUnE-YaRdS. Coming down from the mountains with a bundle of those same warped melodies once foraged by Panda Bear, Merrill Garbus took the relatively lo-fi contours of her "BiRd-BrAiNs" album and transformed its dips and chips into lovely, smashing, slightly kooky hooks and shapes. No doubt, she'll be back.


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Liliane Bettencourt & family
Liliane Bettencourt is a French heiress, businesswoman and socialite. She is one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal. She is listed as the richest woman in the world by Forbes.
Net worth: $30 billion
Age: 90
Source of wealth: L'Oreal
Country of citizenship: France
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Christy Walton & family
Christy Walton is the second richest woman in the world and the wealthiest woman in the United States. After her husband's, John Walton, death in June 2005, she inherited his fortune of $15.7 billion from Wal-Mart.
Net worth: $28.2 billion
Age: 58
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Country of citizenship: United States
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Alice Walton
Alice Walton is an American heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores. She is the daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. She graduated from Trinity University with a Bachelor in economics and finance.
Net worth: $26.3 billion
Age: 63
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Country of citizenship: United States
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Iris Fontbona & family
Iris Fontbona inherited a fortune after her billionaire husband, Andronico Luksic, died of cancer in 2005. The Luksic Group has interests in the mining, financial, industrial and the beverages sectors.
Net worth: $17.4 billion
Age: 70
Source of wealth: Mining
Country of citizenship: Chile
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Jacqueline Mars
Jacqueline Mars is the daughter of Forrest Edward Mars, Sr., and granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, founders of the American candy company Mars, Incorporated. As a member of the Mars family, her share of the company and other assets are worth a fortune.
Net worth: $17 billion
Age: 73
Source of wealth: Candy
Country of citizenship: United States
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Georgina Rinehart
Georgina Rinehart is an Australian mining tycoon and the richest woman in Australia. After the death of her father in March 1992, Rinehart became Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting Pty Limited and the HPPL Group of companies.
Net worth: $17 billion
Age: 59
Source of wealth: Mining
Country of citizenship: Australia
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Susanne Klatten
Susanne Klatten is the daughter of Herbert and Johanna Quandt. She is the richest woman in Germany. On her father's death, she inherited 12.50% stake in BMW and 50.1% stake in pharmaceutical and chemicals manufacturer Altana.
Net worth: $14.3 billion
Age: 50
Source of wealth: BMW & pharmaceuticals
Country of citizenship: Germany
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Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson is an American businesswoman. Johnson is President of Fidelity Investments Personal and Workplace Investing. Fidelity was founded by her grandfather Edward C. Johnson II and her father Edward C. Johnson III is its current CEO. As of March 2013 The Johnson family owns a 49% stake in the company.
Net worth: $12.7 billion
Age: 51
Source of wealth: Money management
Country of citizenship: United States
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Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada is an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. She is considered to be one of the richest women in the world. She also has a Ph.D in Political Science.
Net worth: $12.4 billion
Age: 63
Source of wealth: Prada
Country of citizenship: Italy
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Anne Cox Chambers
Anne Cox Chambers is an American media proprietor, who has a stake of interest in Cox Enterprises, a privately held media empire that includes newspapers, television, radio, cable television, and other businesses.
Net worth: $12 billion
Age: 93
Source of wealth: Media
Country of citizenship: United States
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Zarb-e-Azb laid strong foundation of peace in Pakistan: COAS
LAHORE: Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has said anti-terror operation Zarb e Azb has laid a strong foundation for peace and progress of the country.
He said this during his visit to his alma mater, Government College University Lahore on Friday.
He interacted with the students and faculty members and visited various sections of the premier institute.
The Army Chief expressed optimism for a bright future of the country, saying Pakistanis are a great nation and our human resource is our real asset. He said youth could play an important role towards taking Pakistan to new heights.
Operation Zarb-e-Azb in the tribal areas – launched in 2014 under the supervision of the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif – is one of the most critical offensives in which our security forces have ever been engaged.
Many of the terror-hit areas of the tribal belt, particularly North Waziristan, are now believed to have been cleared of terrorists.
By June 2016, more than 3,500 terrorists had been killed, more than 22,000 apprehended and more than 900 militant hideouts destroyed during the offensive.
At least 513 Pakistani soldiers emerged as martyrs to the cause of the operation and over 1,950 suffered injuries. The higher number of casualties of the security personnel points to the intensity of confrontation in this most difficult battlefield.


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DELRAY BEACH — A film festival and a community march and rally are among the activities planned for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemoration here on Monday.
The activities are sponsored by the Westside Coordinating Community Council -- a task force of community service organizations -- in conjunction with the Francis J. Bright Woman`s Club.
``We decided this was a good opportunity to bring the community together,`` said Addie D. Hudson, chairperson of the observance committee. ``It`s a living dream and we want people to come out and share it.``
Holiday activities will begin with a two-hour film festival featuring documentaries of King`s life and achievements. The film festival will be held from 10 a.m. until noon at Pompey Park, 1101 NW Second St.
At 3 p.m., participants in a community march will leave City Hall en route to Pompey Park.
The community rally will begin at 4 p.m. at the park. It will include addresses by Evangelist Rod Myers of the Boca/Delray Church of Christ and the Rev. J.W.H. Thomas of St. Paul`s Baptist Church in Delray Beach.
The rally also will include readings of essays and poems by the winners of the poetry and essay contest sponsored by the committee for area school children.


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The median home value in Aragon, GA is $95,000.
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the county median home value of $100,000.
The national median home value is $185,800.
The average price of homes sold in Aragon, GA is $95,000.
Approximately 50.09% of Aragon homes are owned,
compared to 37.61% rented, while
12.3% are vacant.
Aragon real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale.
Commercial properties are also available.
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After I did our initial assessment, I found that my students ended up in 10 different groups. TEN. Let's be reasonable. I am NOT doing ten groups. I spent some time really looking at the students' writing and consolidated them into 3 groups--and my "top of the top group" will have some additional word work challenge and my "lowest of the low group" will have an additional intervention of word work tailored just to them. They also get additional word work with their reading intervention, so I feel pretty good about teaching a little higher than their assessed level.
I ordered the "sorts" for these three groups for the first 3 weeks and I will dig in on Wednesday. While the groups are waiting for their turn with me, they will be doing choice writing and working on their realistic fiction planning. Watch for an update on how this goes! I plan on doing "New Word Wednesday" and "Tests on Tuesdays" . . . it gives flexibility for families by giving a few extra days for home sorting practice. I haven't exactly decided on my requirements for home word work, so I did create this freebie in case anyone would like it--it's just a menu of practice options.


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Albiter Isaak Jewelers can be found at Sansom St 721. The following is offered: Jewelry Retailers. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Philadelphia there are 296 other Jewelry Retailers. An overview can be found here.
Albiter Isaak Jewelers is located at 721 Sansom St Ste 5, Philadelphia, PA. This location is in the Center City East neighborhood. This business specializes in Jewelers.


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Hilton Worldwide announces its first property in Belize with Curio – a collection by Hilton
Belize City, Belize – June 15, 2016 – The Belize Tourism Board is pleased to announce the new hotel brand in Belize; Curio, a collection by Hilton. In 2012, with the endorsement of the National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan, we began our path towards our 2030 goals for Tourism. Since then, one of our recurrent objectives has remained the need to introduce additional globally-recognized brands within our product offering. As a result, today we mark an important milestone for tourism development in Belize.
We congratulate the Mahogany Bay Village group for its successful creation of this business partnership. With 12 months of continuous growth in overnight arrivals, we hope that this news continues to highlight Belize's readiness for further investment, growth and development in tourism.
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Welcome to Paddleboard Dunedin. We are the first and only professionally qualified and dedicated stand up paddleboard school in Dunedin. We cater for individuals or groups at whatever your level.
Paddleboarding is currently experiencing an explosion of interest around the world. It's a great form of exercise and the perfect way to get up close and personal with nature. Why not contact us now and found out for yourself?


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Content marketing has become an increasingly important focal point for many brands. However, even if a brand produces interesting, engaging and relevant for it's core audience – efforts will be wasted if the content can't easily be found or isn't timely.
With that in mind, it's important to consider the interplay between search marketing and content marketing, particularly with respect to social platforms. A key lever for "winning" the content game is providing content in timely manner – when people are looking for it. Having the right infrastructure and processes in place can help a brand do just that.
Here are several recommendations companies should consider:
- Ensure that the search, social and web content functions are tightly intertwined. Team members should work closely together – or, if based in separate geographical locations, have regular calls. Establishment of strong relationships is key. In my current role at Intuit, I sit right across from our search manager and I speak with him daily.
- Develop a mechanism through which search insights are regularly provided to those responsible for creating content. Through Google Trends, the search manager can create and share search insights that reveal what people are (and are not) looking for. Insights can, for example, include: most popular search queries, search queries that are rising in popularity, search queries that are declining in popularity
- Be poised to act quickly based on insights provided. If search trends reveal gaps in your blog content calendar, have a writer available to create the content – perhaps an internal writer or a freelancer. If people are looking for content now that you intend to publish later, make the necessary adjustments to your content calendar.
Finally, and importantly, make sure that you are set up to measure the impact of your efforts! Having the right content is one thing, to truly provide value it needs to be available when people are actively searching for it.


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Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop
Date: November 4th, 9:00 am
Venue: St. Michael's Church
Location: Leamington
NOVEMBER 4 – Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop – registration begins at 9am, workshop will be held from 9:30am-3pm in the Administrative Building at St. Michael's Church, 29 Elliot St., Leamington.
Are you feeling a desire to deepen your prayer, to be more aware of God's presence, to live more and more in union with God? Do you wish to learn more about the Christian contemplative path? This workshop includes both instruction and group practice in the method of Centering Prayer.
Cost is a free will donation. Please bring a bag lunch. Coffee, tea and snacks will be provided. Register by calling 519-324-0118 or email [email protected]


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Hurricane Matthew is battering the coast of Florida, where it has left more than 820,000 people without power. The system, which has not yet made landfall in the US, has been downgraded to a Category Three, with winds of up to 120 mph (195 km/h).
Florida's governor said the hurricane, which would be the first to make US landfall since 2005, still had time to make a direct hit. In Haiti, Matthew left a death toll of more than 840 in its wake.
At 11:00 local time (15:00 GMT) Matthew was hugging the Florida coast, about 35 miles east of Daytona Beach and moving north-west at about 13mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina have all declared states of emergencies. On Friday morning, President Barack Obama addressed fears that the storm's winds could fuel a wave of seawater that might wash over coastal communities along a 500-mile stretch from South Florida to Charleston, South Carolina. The UN has warned it could take days for the full impact of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti to emerge, as the death toll soars to more than 800 dead. The death toll has doubled, and may rise, as rescue teams gain access to southern areas cut off by the storm.
The World Food Programme's Carlos Veloso says some of the hard-hit towns can only be reached by air or sea. Many of the deaths in Haiti were in the south-western coast, which suffered the full force of the hurricane this week. Rescue efforts are under way to assess the destruction left in the wake of the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade. Haiti's Civil Protection Agency on Friday doubled the death toll from the hurricane from 400 to more than 800.
A definitive number is taking time to obtain because of the intensity of the damage to remote areas that are inaccessible because of flood water.
At least one major town in the south – Jeremie has been 80 percent destroyed, with aerial footage showing the scale of destruction with hundreds of flattened houses. YOU MIGHT ENJOY READING


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I'm getting a pain in my groin which is really weird. I did some research and I might have some sort of a Inguinal hernia. I dunno. I'm very healthy and never have any unusual medical conditions. I stopped taking the pills today in an effort to relive the groin pain and get my digestion going again. It seems to be sort of working. But am in alot of pain due to my jaw pain, whats a person to do? BTW: I'm taking 40mg total of OXY a day. I've tried ELAX with limited results and stool softeners don't seem to work. I drink plenty of water a day as-well.
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Cellist-Turned-Artist Jorinde Voigt Transforms Musical Notes into a Visual Language
Artsy Editorial
Image rights: Courtesy König Galerie, Berlin, David Nolan Gallery, New York, and Lisson Gallery London, VG Bild-Kunst, 2016, © Jorinde Voigt. Photo: Verena Nagl.
Jorinde Voigt creates large-scale graphite drawings, incorporating text and collaged elements to create sweeping and energetic yet, however cryptically, ordered compositions. Voigt's working method is an attempt to make objective sense of the world, to translate sound, movement, time, form, perception, and science into a single representational scheme. "Drawing allows me to develop maps to many constellations, across many possibilities," she says. Her works, like Piece for Words and Views XXIX (2012), read like complex codes or lyrical infographics, with seemingly idiosyncratic representations—a dress, a lyre, a hand—mixed with abstract forms and jotted lists, all linked and activated by an expressive flow of lines that recall musical staffs, topographical lines, or electrical circuitry. "My work is like music," Voigt says. "You can enjoy it without being able to read the score."
German, b. 1977, Frankfurt, Germany, based in Berlin, Germany
Cellist-Turned-Artist Jorinde Voigt Transforms Musical Notes into a Visual Language
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Linked by Howard Fosdick on Sat 24th Nov 2012 17:52 UTC
Do you depend on your computer for your living? If so, I'm sure you've thought long and hard about which hardware and software to use. I'd like to explain why I use generic "white boxes" running open source software. These give me a platform I rely on for 100% availability. They also provide a low-cost solution with excellent security and privacy.
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My servers are out sourced, cloud. So I don't have to worry (too much) about its hardware failure. But I do have backups (git checkouts, mostly).
My "desktop" is a macbook, with time machine backup. Never failed, yet, but I know I can rescue it easily on another (mac) device if I need to.
That's enought for me, and I guess for most people. And a lot less time consuming =)


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THE firestorm of protests that met New York Mayor David Dinkins's proposal of a new concept for housing the homeless is still crackling two months later.Neighborhood, elected officials and even homeless advocates have differing objections to the $200 million five-year-plan for building 24 small, transitional shelter and treatment centers around the city. Almost everyone insists that the plan must be radically changed. That includes even Andrew Cuomo who heads a mayoral commission on homelessness due to make a broad report on the subject in January. He termed the plan "dead on arrival." Final approval of the plan is up to the City Council, which has been holding informal hearings. "This plan will not pass this Council - it isn't going to fly," insists Council spokeswoman Peg Breen.
Lack of specifics Ms. Breen says the mayor's plan, by listing 35 potential sites scattered around the city but giving no specifics about annual operating costs or types of programs offered, approaches the problem backwards. "The plan was guaranteed to build up opposition," she says. "It isn't surprising that people were upset and scared." Many of the potential sites are in stable, middle-class neighborhoods. Mayor Dinkins said he was obliged under the new City Charter approved by voters to distribute equitably the burdens and benefits of city facilities. Many poorer neighborhoods already have a high proportion of similar projects. Some of the plan's critics say commercial-industrial areas were left out of the formula and should be considered since they are often nearer transportation, jobs, and other services. Some advocates for the homeless would prefer to revamp other facets of the plan. They say racism and stereotyping of the homeless are behind much of this opposition. "We want to deal seriously with the concerns of the community rather than just having this blanket kind of rejection," says Anne Teicher, co-director of the Mayor's Office on Homelessness and Single Room Occupancy Housing. "The problem is that there's been so much misunderstanding about the program that people's perception of the impact is that it will be much more negative than we believe it will be," Ms. Teicher says. The mayor's plan would include on-site treatment for alcohol and drug addiction as well as mental illness. No building would serve more than 150 people. "We wanted to see the shelters even smaller - you don't help people in large groups," says John Turcott, spokesman for the Partnership for the Homeless, a shelter network of churches. In all, the mayor would provide temporary quarters for 2,500 single homeless men and women now in city shelters. He also hopes to build another 10,000 permanent housing units. Estimates of New York City's homeless range from 30,000 to 110,000. About 23,000 people currently stay in municipal shelters; as many as 5,000 more stay in private shelters. One common criticism of the mayor's plan is that the city should not only allow nonprofit organizations to run the shelters, as it now plans to do, but also to select the sites and build the shelters. Mr. Cuomo is one who says that nonprofits should play a much stronger role. Many say such groups can more effectively deal with neighborhood opposition and run the shelters better and more cheaply than the city. "These are not union city folks just looking for their next pay raise - they're people with a mission ... that have real community ties," explains Mary Brosnahan, executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, a 10-year-old homeless-rights advocacy group. "The city went about marketing this program entirely in the wrong way."
Separate the criminals Fred Siegel, a professor of humanities at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, says the mayor's plan would appear more manageable and less threatening if "intelligent distinctions" among different groups were made. Single homeless men with criminal records, for instance, could be assigned to existing secure facilities, he says. Some are critical of the mayor's new plan for leaving the existing homeless street population virtually untouched. "If nobody wants to let us build the shelters anywhere, we're not going to help either the people on the street or in the system now," insists Anne Teicher of the mayor's office. The city is expected to choose its final 24 shelter sites next spring.


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Chris Pine no Shatner clone in 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
If you look closely and listen carefully while watching Chris Pine in Star Trek Into Darkness, you can see tiny hints of Canada's own William Shatner in Pine's performance as Capt. James T. Kirk.
A mannerism here and there, the cadence of his voice on certain turns of phrase. Pine does a remarkable job of making us believe this man is a young Kirk without ever actually imitating Shatner.
"My take on the whole thing was I just it would have been the worst choice I could have made and a lose-lose proposition to try and invoke Shatner from scene to scene," Pine says.
"But that being said, I also loved the chance to pepper the performance with this or that that Trekkers in the know would really enjoy."
Pine was far from a household name before being cast as Kirk for director J. J. Abrams 2009 Star Trek reboot. Now, even though he's done several non-Trek films (including the runaway train thriller Unstoppable, the romantic spy comedy This Means War and the upcoming Tom Clancy reboot Jack Ryan), he still takes the role of Kirk very seriously. Almost, well, scholarly.
"Kirk at this point in the game isn't really the captain of the Enterprise," says Pine. "So the journey of this film is to see the non-captain captain in a position of nominal power, but psychologically and emotionally going through some sort of coming of age existential crisis where he's riddled with self-doubt and confusion and fear that he may not be the best man for the job.
"And that was really exciting and kind of took the majority of my time and thought space."
Deep stuff from an actor who is clearly more than just a pretty face. That face will next be seen in Jack Ryan, a reboot of the Tom Clancy character who has previously been played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck. Pine says it's nice to play someone a little more thoughtful and analytical than the brash, bold Kirk.
"It's obviously fast forwarded a little bit to more recent times," says Pine. "It's a more post-9/11 time, which I think gives us a lot of room to explore a world that is completely different from the one they explored in the 80s and 90s."
But he's not done with Kirk. Every primary Star Trek castmember is signed on for multiple films, and Star Trek Into Darkness ends on a note that suggests the franchise could keep exploring strange new worlds for many years to come.
"I think there's plenty more room for these characters to feel one another out, and I think the longer we hold out on making them a well-tuned fighting exploring machine, the better it is for the story," Pine says.
In Star Trek Into Darkness, Benedict Cumberbatch's John Harrison proves more than a match physically and mentally for Kirk and his crew. But in a third neo-Trek film, Pine would like to see the battles come from within. And if we know anything about Kirk, it's that he's a man who doesn't shy away from confrontation.
"What makes a great story is conflict," says Pine. "And I think it's actually way more interesting to have internal conflict amongst that family of characters than it is to find that conflict elsewhere."