[DFW.CBSLOCAL] It was to be a very special Sunday service this weekend at Calvary Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas. But the action of one man has left parts of the church in shambles and hundreds of school children without some necessities as they return to classes.
For a lot of young people in the community surrounding Calvary Philadelphia Missionary the start of school didn't necessarily mean they were ready for class. But each year the church and the community rallied together to help.
Now church leaders say a thief not only broke into and vandalized the church but also took off with school supplies donated for kids in the community who often have a hard time affording them.
But the whole time the criminal was walking through church hallways, he was being watched -- not by a member of the congregation but by rolling video cameras.
Video shows the man laying his hand on the wall and driving his foot through the door. The thief then kicked his way into one office after another.
Pastor Joe Moore showed a CBS 11 News crew how the thief came into the building. He pointed to an air vent believed to be the point of entry.
Pastor Moor said the man dropped through the ceiling and started ransacking offices. "I just couldn't believe someone would break into the Lord's house," he said.
A camera captured a glimpse of the intruder's face, partially hidden under a baseball cap.
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[POUGHKEEPSIEJOURNAL] The suspect in the homicide of a 99-year-old City of Poughkeepsie woman is due in court this morning to face charges.
Javon Tyrek Rogers, 20, a City of Poughkeepsie man, is accused of burglarizing and murdering Fannie Gumbinger, who was found dead early Wednesday morning in her home on Underhill Avenue.
Police placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Rogers on Friday and charged him with first-degree murder and first-degree burglary, both felonies. He is being held in Dutchess County Jail without bail or bond.
Dutchess County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kari Reiber has said Gumbinger died of "multiple injuries," but declined to provide the exact cause of death, citing the ongoing investigation.
More information on the details of the case are expected to be provided at 11 a.m. today when city police are scheduled to hold a presser at City Hall.
Police were expected to finish processing the scene of the crime at Underhill Avenue on Saturday. There was no sign of police activity there on Sunday afternoon.
As a result of the police investigation, Rogers is also a suspect in multiple recent city burglaries, including one on Loockerman Avenue on Wednesday.
Gumbinger's niece, city resident Jacqueline Solomon, 88, said she and Gumbinger's nephew, Peter Gumbinger, would like to to hold a memorial service for their aunt even though she was not religious and had not wanted a service.
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Too much of this has been going on lately. Some appears racist while other is just garden variety thuggery. Most of what might be considered racist does not get labeled racist. Authorities just don't want to go there; they want to try to keep a lid on it.
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Authorities just don't want to go there; they want to try to keep a lid on it.
Which unfortunately will only create even more havoc and pain when the leash breaks, if history is any indication of. The 'authorities' won't have the standing to contain the consequences and will most likely also be consumed by the deluge (as in "après moi le déluge").
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Some enterprising outfit should start a Black on White Incident Reporting site. Hell, ever minority group there already: Muslims, Southern Poverty Gangsters, Inc, etc.
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Forgive the above typo- Some enterprising outfit should start a Black on White Incident Reporting site. Hell, ever minority group has one already: Muslims, Southern Poverty Gangsters, Inc, etc.
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Way out of line
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These days studio chiefs insist that filmmakers they work with take advantage of out-of-state incentives to lower production costs, which on a single major motion picture can amount to savings of tens of millions. Those savings are crucial in a franchise-obsessed era when big-budget movies commonly cost north of $200 million to produce, while on the revenue side the DVD market has largely collapsed and cinema attendance has been generally flat over the past decade. In the current climate, most independent projects would not even be produced without incentives. Heh Hollywood, California is broke, how about paying your fair share. Hey look! Someone killed the golden goose!
It is no longer a given that Hollywood is the place where movies and TV shows are produced.
The California Film Commission recently released a sobering report concluding that the state "continues to experience a pronounced erosion of this signature industry." Although the state's incentive program has recaptured lower-budgeted features, TV movies and basic cable dramas, California is losing out big on network TV dramas and feature films. Many local businesses that support production have closed or been forced to lay off workers, and the trade unions report high levels of unemployment among their California members, according to the study. When a truck driver working at a Hollywood studio makes well into six figures it shouldn't be a surprise production costs are high and unemployment is on the rise.
Here's an example of Hollywood Union Rules:
You have a set with a couch and at each side is a end table. On the left end table is a lamp which is plugged into a extension cord at the center rear of the couch. The Director decides he wants the lamp moved to the right end table. Here are the steps:
1. A Gaffer comes onto the set and unplugs the lamp from the extension cord and leaves.
2. A Grip comes onto the set and moves the lamp to the other end of the couch and leaves.
3. The Gaffer returns to the set and plugs the lamp back into the extension cord.
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The California Film Commission recently released a sobering report concluding that the state "continues to experience a pronounced erosion of this signature industry."
High costs and goofy politics? Hollywood largely makes movies for lefty consumption. Others boycott much of this trash.
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Blame Jar Jar. With the trend of virtual movie sets the only thing holding back film makers from other locations is capital and talent.
Seriously, any video game company could have made this upcoming space thriller staring miss congeniality and the nippled batman. Put in a talented ju-co pair without the typecasting baggage and we have a thiller instead of two rich has-beens yelling at each other for two hours. Shit, Bruce Cambell would have been a better choice.
Its no wonder the FAG wants dues paid for virtual actors. If the establishment in hollywood thinks that people would rather spend $50 and three hours to see batman just because its batman instead of playing the latest video game system, or actually socializing or reading, they are doomed.
BTW, Avatard is horrible. Every critter on that planet breathes through its chest or something except the knobby. What are they, the platapus people or something? The sole outlier of that planet's evolution? Aliens was better, and its so campy Allan West was embarassed to watch it.
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Avatard was a remake of Fern Gulley, except with worse acting and less plot suspense. I know people painted themselves as the bastard children of Azrael and Smurfette but the film was easier to call than 411. Your product sucks when the Butler is winning weekends, and that I already know what the movie is without anything other than half attention previews. And the kids, they'll have their next-gen hi-def surround-sound virtual-teammate zombie-apocolypse madness to play.
The industry, their goal is What Movie do we Remake to get the fans back? There have been movies I thought were ok after seeing them - not $50 ok, but you know loading the dishwasher ok, the last one I had to see was Act of Valor.
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It is much more expensive to do business in CA due to the high cost of everything, but the State has made the hoops and expenses to coordinate a production in CA so high and extensive that it is a well known state to avoid unless the location demands it
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The thing is California has brilliant weather for exteriors and all that. To really replace Hollywood you need something similar.
Australia should be giving major incentives. Half the action parts these days go to Aussies because so many of our own action guys are old or pansys here.
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Whyte action guys are too 70's Richard, too lame. The authority figures and action heroes of today must be harvested from a more diverse gene pool. Let the old Hollywood codgers sell gold coins or reverse mortgages.
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The thing is California has brilliant weather for exteriors and all that. To really replace Hollywood you need something similar.
If you take Mexico Highway 1 south from the border( I-5 runs right into it) about 30 miles Fox has a big studio complex right on the beach. there is a pirate ship and Hornet sitting there, and several town main street kind of sets are visible. and costs are way less there......
[Libya Herald] A peace deal agreed in principal by leaders of Zawia and Warshefana early on Sunday has been put in jeopardy by Warshefana bully boyz who last night seized 11 people from Zawia. According to the leader of Zawia Local Council, Mohamed Khadrawi, the 11 were civilians, not members of any brigade, and had been kidnapped at checkpoints set up by Warshefana units on the roads between Zawia and the Warshefana area.
The two neighbouring communities have a long history of rivalry.
Speaking this afternoon, Khadrawi said that negotiations were now taking place with Warshefana elders to secure the detainees' release. He was confident they would be freed. Earlier on Saturday, he noted, two other Zawian detainees, had been released by the Warshefana. The Warshefana elders had been, be said, "very helpful" and were making "great efforts" to resolve the issues between the two sides.
Yesterday, it was announced that the Warshefana elders and leaders from Zawia had met separately with mediators from Misrata, eastern Libya and the Jebel Nafusa and agreed to release detainees captured during Friday's and Saturday's fighting, to refer the dispute as to where the boundary between the two areas should be drawn, to set up a peacemaking body to resolve issues between the two communities and to the deployment of third-party forces in flash-point areas. The two neighbouring communities also agreed to launch investigations into the deaths of those killed as a result of the conflict between them.
According to an announcement from Warshefana Shoura Council yesterday, it had met late Saturday night until 5am on Sunday morning with mediators from Misrata and the Eastern Region National Unity Forum along with elders from Zintan, Jadu, Rujban, Rigdaleen and Yefran. The meeting is said to have unanimously agreed that the country's safety and stability were of utmost importance to all Libyans and that, as such, there had to be a ceasefire between the battling neighbours.
The Shoura Council also said that following a meeting of Zawia leaders with the mediators, Zawia had also agreed on the need for a fundamental reconciliation between the two sides.
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(Zimbabwe) Three CIO agents died in a car accident a few kilometres from the midlands city of Gweru.
The accident occurred last Wednesday in Gweru-Harare road and reports state that the three whose names are yet to be released, died on the spot.
However both the full details and circumstances leading to their death were at the time of writing still undisclosed by the state and the deceased's names kept secret.
The CIO agent's deaths bring to six the cumulative number of ZANU PF officials who have died in less than a week to date which include the deaths of NRZ General Manager Mike Karakadzai, ZANU PF Founder Enos Nkala, and politburo supremo Kumbirai Kangai.
The deaths have led to religious speculation around ZANU PF's announced election victory which many analysts say was not fair. Stanley Chirwa of the (ROHR)Restoration Of Human Rights claimed that the incidents were of a spiritual retribution nature:
"They are obviously reaping what they sowed," he said.
He added:
"Did they think that God would forget the hundreds they have killed since 2000?"
[OMANOBSERVER] Farc group resumed peace talks with the Colombian government here yesterday after a brief pause in reaction to a proposal that any agreement be put to a national referendum. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. criticised President Juan Manuel Santos' proposal as a "flagrant violation" of agreements that led to the peace talks, but decided to resume discussions anyway. "Despite the circumstances, the FARC will remain at the table, faithful to the commitment to search for peace for Colombia through all means," lead Farc negotiator, Ivan Marquez, said. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... he said the government cannot unilaterally set forth the mechanism for giving legal standing to a peace agreement, should one be reached. "To assume these powers is a flagrant violation of the general agreement signed in Havana," he said.
Santos surprised the rebel group on Thursday by submitting legislation to Congress stipulating that any peace agreement must be put to a national vote, either in legislative or presidential elections next year. Legislative elections are due in March 2014, and the presidential poll is set for May. The following day the Farc, Colombia's largest guerilla group, announced it was pausing the talks so it could analyse the implications of a referendum. The Farc had called for the formation of a national constituent assembly as a forum to ratify a peace agreement
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[BREITBART] So many jobs are coming to Houston top oil companies from around the world are building new office spaces to accommodate their new employees. In fact, banks are loaning money to companies even if the developers do not have a tenant.
Texas's economy is growing and grew 4.8% last year. They added 100,000 jobs and Houston alone could add 80,000 this year. Real estate firm CBRE Group, Inc. said there are 56 office buildings under construction in and around Houston. These buildings total at least 11 million square feet. Not only are they providing jobs for their employees, but they are building the economy in the area. An area called Springwoods Village has room for up to 5,000 houses and apartments and it is near an Exxon campus. The campus is 400-acres with 20 buildings with room for 10,000 employees.
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[FOXBUSINESS] Orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods recorded their biggest drop in nearly a year in July and a gauge of planned business spending on capital goods tumbled, casting a shadow over the economy early in the third quarter.
The Commerce Department said on Monday durable goods orders dropped 7.3 percent as demand for goods ranging from aircraft to computers and defense equipment fell. That was the biggest decline since last August and snapped three consecutive months of gains.
Orders for these goods, which range from toasters to aircraft, had increased 3.9 percent in June.
Economists polled by Rooters had expected durable goods orders to fall 4.0 percent.
Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, fell 3.3 percent, breaking four straight months of gains. It was the biggest fall since February.
Orders for these so-called core capital goods increased by a revised 1.3 percent in June.
Economists had expected this category to increase 0.5 percent after a previously reported 0.9 percent gain in June.
The decline in orders for both durable and capital goods suggested manufacturing will probably not bounce back as quickly as many economists had expected after hitting a speed bump early in the year.
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"defense equipment fell" dramatically. Some are doing business but from what I hear bad times for most suppliers. I suspect going to other governments to do business to stay in business. I wish I had thought to ask that question at the time. I just know its bad times here doing business with this administration.
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Oh you of little Obamafaith. The people's utopia is nearly in sight. Do not become distracted by the racist dialogue of Rush and the obstructionist republicans. You have your EBT card, fone, rent subsidy, and tuition. Row well and live !
[Dawn] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. HIgh Court on Monday ordered re-polling at those polling stations in Nowshera and Lakki Marwat constituencies where women were barred from casting their votes during the by-polls held last week, DawnNews reported.
A two-member special bench of the PHC, comprising of Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Manzoor, heard the case over a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice taken on the ban of women voters in NA-5 (Nowshera) and NA-27 (Lakki Marwat) constituencies, and ordered for re-polls at the affected polling stations.
During the hearing Chief Justice Dost Mohammad remarked that barring women from balloting was a disgrace to the country which has had a woman speaker of the National Assembly and had another woman as a prime minister twice.
He further pointed out that men did not object to the inclusion of women in the list for the recipients of Zakat and Usher funds and the Benazir Income Support Fund but had reservations against the inclusion of women in the voters list.
While giving its judgment the bench said that according to Article 218 of the constitition it was the responsibility of the Election Commission of Pakistain to ensure that elections were conducted in a free and transparent manner and ordered for re-polling in all affected polling stations of Nowshera and Lakki Marwat where women turnout was barred.
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[OMANOBSERVER] A plan to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea could save it from total evaporation and bring desalinated water to thirsty neighbours Israel, Jordan and the Paleostinians. But environmentalists warn that the "Red-Dead" project could have dire consequences, altering the unique chemistry of the landmark inland lake at the lowest point on earth. "What kinda consequences?"
"Dire consequences."
Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur said yesterday that his government had decided to press ahead with the $980-million project which would give the parched Hashemite kingdom 100 million cubic metres of water a year. "The government has approved the project after years of technical, political, economic and geological studies," Nsur told a news conference.
Under the plan, Jordan will draw water from the Gulf of Aqaba at the northern end of the Red Sea to the nearby Risheh Height, where a desalination plant is to be built to treat water. "The desalinated water will go south to (the Jordanian town of) Aqaba, while salt water will be pumped to the Dead Sea," Nsur said.
The Dead Sea, the world's saltiest body of water, is on course to dry out by 2050. It started shrinking in the 1960s when Israel, Jordan and Syria began to divert water from the Jordan River, the Dead Sea's main tributary. Israel and Jordan's use of evaporation ponds for extracting valuable minerals from its briny waters has only exacerbated the problem.
With a coastline shared by Israel, the Paleostine and Jordan, the Dead Sea's surface level has been dropping at a rate of around a metre a year. According to the latest available data form Israel's hydrological service, on July 1, it stood at 427.13 metres below sea level, nearly 27 metres lower than in 1977.
Under the plan most of the desalinated water would go to Jordan, with smaller quantities transferred to Israel and the Paleostinian Authority.
But Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) and other environmental groups have called on the three partners to reject it on environmental grounds.
The main concern, they say, is that a large influx of water from the Red Sea could radically change the Dead Sea's fragile ecosystem, forming gypsum crystals, and introducing red algae blooms.
In addition, leakage from the pipeline could contaminate groundwater along its route through southern Israel's Arava Valley. So putting back what you take out is gonna ruin it? That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense of sort. Kinda.
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just some more lawyers looking for shakedown money.
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I read of a hydropower project set for the Dead sea, the idea was to use the river TO the dead sea, and allow it to go to the dead seat hrough turbines, (No exit needed, As the drop was 400 Plus feet, the hydro power available was tremendous)
Now to eliminate the Muslims, and all is go.
Looks good to me.
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this $1B project is just the first phase of what could ultimately be about a $10B project
this first phase would make up about 10 to 20 percent of the missing Jordan River flow
enviros will undoubtly oppose this but the environmental benefits of restoring the Dead Sea to its Kennedy era level is surely many times whatever environmental damage would occur with the Red to Dead project
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3dc and I looked at this a while ago and did some napkin calcs. The project makes sense. The dead Sea has been environmentally damaged by years of excessive water withdraws from the Jordan River. Some more water would bring it back up to historical levels, hydro power would be produced, and would provide power for reverse osmosis salt removal, with the RO reject water going into the Dead Sea. Everyone benefits.
Bacteria issues and their effects need to be studied, but they can be dealt with, despite the Dire Warnings from the so called environmentalists.
It would be a great project.
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"Everyone benefits."
And that's what the "enviros"* hate the most, AP.
*note the scare quotes; these clowns don't care about the environment - they just want control of everybody. And if a lot of people die, or suffer, they don't care, as long as it's not them. >:-(
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Two years ago my wife and I went to Israel for a pilgrimage with our church. When we visited the Dead Sea, the guide said that the water level had been dropping due to "global warming".
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DFW.CBSLOCAL] It was to be a very special Sunday service this weekend at Calvary Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas. But the action of one man has left parts of the church in shambles and hundreds of school children without some necessities as they return to classes.
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