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The Downtown core is the economic powerhouse of Toronto, although it lacks the cultural appeal of the outlying districts. Many of Toronto's larger attractions are located here, however, so it's an essential part of any visit to Toronto.
Dozens of towering glass, concrete and steel monoliths are a must-see for architecture enthusiasts. Toronto's Financial District is actually quite compact and walkable, even in inclement weather. That's because of the "PATH" [11] - 27 km (16 miles) of interconnecting passageways under the streets that feature more than 1,200 stores and services. Street entrances to the subterranean walkway are indicated with "PATH" signage.
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The nearest airport to Toronto's financial district is the Toronto Island Airport [12], which is located across a narrow channel from the foot of Bathurst Street in the Harbourfront district. The main commercial airline serving the airport is Porter [13], operating year-round flights to New York City, Chicago, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax as well as winter flights to Mont-Tremblant. Air Canada Express also offers service to Montreal. Porter operates a free bus for its passengers between the airport and Union Station; alternately, you can take the 509 streetcar from Queen's Quay and Bathurst, a few blocks from the airport, to Union Station.
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Toronto's main railway station, Union Station is located at the foot of the financial district, on Front Street between York and Bay Streets. All commuter rail lines in the city run to and from Union Station and are run by Go Transit [14]. Trains run all day on weekdays and weekends on the Lakeshore line from Hamilton in the west to Oshawa in the east, all the other lines run only at rush hour on weekdays. All intercity trains in Toronto run to Union Station and are operated by Via Rail [15] and Ontario Northland [16]. For more information on intercity and commuter rail services to Toronto, see the Toronto city article.
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The financial district is well served by the Yonge-University-Spadina line with Queen, King, Union, St Andrew and Osgoode stations all lying in the district. The Toronto subway is operated by the TTC [17] and the fare is $3.00.
By streetcar
Many streetcar lines run through or terminate in the financial district. The 504 line runs along King street, through the centre of the neighbourhood, The 501 line runs along Queen street at the north end of the district and the 502, 503 and 508 lines terminate in the district. The streetcar lines are run by the TTC [18] and the fare is $3.00.
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Most of the major highways passing through Toronto pass through the downtown core at some point.
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The easiest way to find downtown Toronto is to locate the CN Tower, and head towards it. Be advised that Toronto is considered a very dangerous city to bike in by many people, and accidents are frequent. Stick to less populated roads, and be aware of people and vehicles around you.
This area had been generally considered a culinary wasteland. However, new places with good food are constantly opening and closing, and the vast array of Asian eating options in Chinatown are just a short walk away. King and Queen streets West of University avenue offer wide range of decent midrange restaurants. Some options:
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- A week with little to no rain pushed fire risks dangerously high across northern Wisconsin. A fire in Bayfield spanning 9-thousand acres destroyed 17 homes. Fire crews want everyone to be smart about burning this time of year.A small burn got out of control on Loop Heights Road in Pine Lake today. Fire Chief, Brian Gehrig, says the weather conditions make it easy for fires to get out of control. "Make sure you have a burning permit when you burn and follow the regulations on the burning permit...Have water available or a hose or something where you can squelch the fire if it should happen to get away from you," says Brian Gehrig, Pine Lake Fire Chief.Most fire permits allow burning from 6pm to midnight.For more information on fire risks, visit the DNR's website
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Reference is made in the Pol Position column "In some ways, we are just like Ed Koch" (7/21/11) to Mr. Koch's statements that voters in the 9th Congressional District, formerly represented by Anthony Weiner, would be well advised to vote for Republican Bob Turner because of Barack Obama's anti-Israel positions.
Mr. Koch's philosophy is that a Republican victory in a district with a large Jewish constituency would send a powerful message to the president about his repudiation of Israel.
Various sources place the percentage of Jewish voters who supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election anywhere from 72 to 78 percent. In any case an overwhelming majority, and many feel betrayed by Obama's arguments that Israel return to 1967 borders and his support of Palestinians.
I did not vote for Koch in any of his mayoral races, but that doesn't mean that I was always in disagreement with him or that I didn't respect him. This is one case where I feel not only is he right, but I give him credit for speaking up.
Second to African-Americans, Jewish voters have the second highest rate of loyalty to the Democratic Party. Much of what they gripe about is directly due to their voting patterns. They are free to vote as they please, but they have no right to complain when the solution is within their reach. The sky is not going to fall on them, nor will their wallets be empty if they vote for a Republican candidate.
This past weekend Ed Koch formally endorsed Bob Turner. I feel he's made it pretty clear why he has done so, without attacking Turner's opponent. It's up to the voters. They can seize the moment, but they cannot complain when they had an opportunity to effect the change they seek.
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The RIT-Rochester General Health System Alliance has developed a concept to create an Institute of Health Sciences.
Proposed by the alliance's Joint Affiliation Committee, the institute would encompass research programs, community collaborations and outreach, and a School of Health Sciences.
"By leveraging the collective resources of RIT and RGHS, this institute will prepare the next generation of healthcare professionals by providing innovative educational and clinical learning experiences, with a strong background in research and discovery and the application of evidence-based practices in community health," says Jeremy Haefner, RIT provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and co-chair of the joint steering committee. "We expect to be significant players for National Institutes of Health grants because of its creation."
The institute is in the early concept stages. A complete proposal will be developed and vetted with the campus in the fall.
"Our vision for this Institute is to be recognized as a national resource and model for the education of health care professionals who are uniquely prepared to transform the quality, safety and affordability of patient-centered health care delivery," says Cindee Gray, managing director of the RIT-RGHS alliance.
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Many music lovers have applauded Lynyrd Skynyrd's move to disassociate itself from the confederate flag, but some of the southern rock band's fans have been upset by the shift. The group behind the song "Sweet Home Alabama" has removed the presence of the flag from much of its stage show. "Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads and people have kinda kidnapped the Dixie or rebel flag from the Southern tradition and the heritage of the soldiers, you know, that's what it was about and they kind of made it look kind of bad in certain ways," Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington told CNN. "We didn't want that to go to our fans or show the image like we agreed with any of the race stuff or any of the bad things." In one forum, a fan wrote, "well they just turned their backs on their core group of fans, that will really help sell out show." Another fan wrote, "they're going to have problems playing in the South after caving like that. I won't be there anymore." Many other fans are backing the band. A supporter of the group recently tweeted "Last Of A Dyin' Breed stoutly keeps the flag flying of everything Lynyrd @Skynyrd represent, past, present." (The group's most recent album is titled "Last of a Dyin' Breed.") Another said "If you're upset that Lynyrd Skynyrd denounced the Confederate flag, then you're 1) an idiot; 2) educational level below 7th grade; 3) bigot ."


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BEIRUT (AP) — Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.
Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late February by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. The rebels facilitated the New York-based group's access to facilities that had belonged to a government security agency and military intelligence in late April.
In Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov defended his country's continuing arms shipments to Syria, saying they violate no international norms. His statement followed media reports claiming that Russia had recently delivered an advanced version of Yakhont anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria.
Russia has been one of Syria's strongest allies and, along with China, has vetoed three Western-backed resolutions proposed to the United Nations that aimed to pressure Assad to end the violence.
Lavrov, speaking after his talks with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, avoided specific comment on the Yakhont or other weapons deals, but insisted that the deliveries don't violate any international treaties.
Asked about Western criticism of Russia over its missiles sales to Syria, Lavrov said: "I don't understand why the media are trying to make a sensation out of it. We haven't tried to conceal that we have been supplying weapons to Syria under contracts signed earlier without violating any international treaties and Russian laws."
He insisted that Russia is providing Syria "primarily with defensive weapons, air defense systems." Lavrov said that such weapons shipments don't tilt the balance of power in the region and can't be used by the Syrian regime to fight the rebels in the country's civil war.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki told reporters that "it seems that these cases that were reported this morning have been previously reported." She added that "we're not aware of new shipments of these specific missiles."
Also Friday, a squadron of five Russian navy ships from the Pacific Fleet arrived in the port city of Limassol in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a Russian navy statement said. The Admiral Panteleyev destroyer, two amphibious landing vessels, a tanker and a tugboat have replaced a previous group of Russian navy ships that have sailed back home.
Russia has pledged to revive a permanent presence in the Mediterranean its navy had during Soviet times. Rotating squadrons of Russian navy ships have visited the area repeatedly over the past two years in what was seen as a demonstration of their military's global reach and a gesture of support for Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
Some observers said Moscow could use the amphibious landing ships included in most squadrons to evacuate equipment and military personnel from the Russian base in the Syrian port of Tartus, the only such outpost Russia has outside the Soviet Union.
Military experts say the deployments stretch the capability of the Russian navy, which has only started to recover from its post-Soviet decline and has only a few ships capable of taking part in such missions.
Human Rights Watch said its researchers found physical evidence that Syrians were tortured, including with a device which former detainees said was used to stretch or bend victims' arms and legs. The group also found documents indicating Raqqa residents were detained for legal actions like demonstrating or helping the injured.
Rights groups and opposition activists have long claimed that civilians have been detained arbitrarily, tortured, and sometimes have disappeared since the uprising against Assad's regime began. HRW's findings appear to be one of the largest discoveries of physical evidence bolstering those claims to date.
"The documents, prison cells, interrogation rooms, and torture devices we saw in the government's security facilities are consistent with the torture former detainees have described to us," said Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director for HRW.
HRW has been documenting abuses on both sides of Syria's civil war during the 26 months of conflict.
The group says abuses by the Assad regime remain far more deadly, systematic and widespread, including attacks on civilians with indiscriminate battlefield weapons such as widely banned cluster bombs. But the rights group also says rebel abuses have increased in frequency and scale in recent months.
In Raqqa, the group's researchers inspected the State Security and Military Intelligence branches and three other detention centers formerly managed by Criminal Security, Political Security, and Air Force Intelligence. Government forces abandoned all these institutions, which are now controlled by the rebels, the group said.
Four former detainees said that officers and guards tortured them, HRW said.
In one method of torture the HRW report details, the victim is tied to a flat board, sometimes in the shape of a cross. In some cases guards stretched or pulled their limbs or folded the board in half so that their face touched their legs, causing pain.
Syria's conflict started as a peaceful uprising in March 2011. It became an armed conflict when opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.
At least 70,000 people have been killed and millions forced out of their homes. In Geneva, the U.N. refugee agency said the number of Syrian refugees has surpassed the 1.5 million mark.
Over the past year Syria has gradually descended into lawlessness, with a spike of kidnappings in largely rebel-controlled northern Syria as well as the government-held capital. Residents blame criminal groups that have ties to both the regime and the opposition for the abductions of wealthy residents traveling to Syria from neighboring Turkey and Lebanon.
On Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights expressed "grave concern" for two bishops who were abducted last month and have not been heard of since.
Gunmen pulled Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church and Bishop John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church from their car and killed their driver on April 22 while they were traveling outside the northern city of Aleppo. It was not clear who abducted the priests. No group has publically claimed it is holding the clerics.
According to the Britain-based activist group, the two were picked up at a checkpoint in Kfar Dael by Arabic-speaking foreign fighters believed to be from Chechnya.
In a statement, the Observatory called on both sides in the civil war to secure their release.
The group also said a suicide attacker blew up his car at an army checkpoint near the town of Tiba al-Imam in the central province of Hama, killing at least five soldiers. State news agency SANA said the bomber drove a tanker truck and that the attack killed two civilians and wounded four.
The Observatory and state media also reported clashes in the southern province of Daraa, where the uprising began, mostly in the town of Hirak. Syrian state TV said that among the rebels killed was a Jordanian citizen, known by the nom de guerre of Abu Zubair. It said he was a local commander of Jabhat al-Nusra, which is designated a terrorist group by the United States.
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This little fellow is my favorite dog at BARCS. He's about 14 months old, bouncy and affectionate and really stunningly handsome - a true black with embers for eyes. If only I could figure out why they named him UpDown!
Oh, right - Those EARS!
At this point, UpDown has not been tested with cats or other dogs. I've had him near other dogs casually and on walks, and there is a lot of excitement and interest, but no aggression - however, he's still young, so care would need to be taken there. Like most dogs who don't get enough exercise, he's pretty high energy, but I believe with some work he'll be quite a lovely lap dog - he's extremely gentle and affectionate, loves to snuggle and is very aware of his own teeth! Just watch how gently he takes yummy treats:
He's learning to sit in moments of excitement (since his default behavior last week was to hump ) and is doing VERY well with this - it's still not on cue, but in just three or four short sessions he's already making the choice to behave and keep all four feet on the floor rather than attempting to love you long time. He likes clicker training, which he just started, and is really going to be an amazing dog when he finds his forever home - could that be you?
Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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Up-Down! Love this boy! That's great that he's doing well with the training, hope he finds an awesome home soon!
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How cute!! I wish I could have them ALL!! My babes woke up when he heard good boy on the video he put his head up like are you talking to me again and what do you want I am sleeping...haha
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A couple more pictures - I took these today at lunch. He could make a nice little sports dog for someone, but could also just be a family lap dog! He's under 35lb right now, and not likely to top it since he's nearly full grown. He and I played with this ball we found and he was interested in it, chased it well, but was able to give it up gently too. He was happy playing rough and tumble, and then equally happy to snuggle in my lap!
Of course, I let him take the ball inside his run, and when I came back just a few minutes later it was popped and in pieces!
Of course, I let him take the ball inside his run, and when I came back just a few minutes later it was popped and in pieces!
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Jeepin' did not, but someone did! UpDown went to his (hopefully) forever home last night! Everyone wish him luck - he's a great little dog!
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Good!! Thank God!! I really liked this little fellow!! Hurray!!
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Director Michael Campus vividly recalls the reaction to his film "The Mack" from the opening-night audience 40 years ago in Oakland.
The film, starring Max Julien as the charismatic pimp Goldie and Richard Pryor as his friend Slim, had shot in the Bay Area city.
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I'm a green hand.And I want to know how to import 3D models from *.max file to my OpenGL project?Kindly help me.
I'm a green hand.And I want to know how to import 3D models from *.max file to my OpenGL project?Kindly help me.
I see black. .max is a proprietary file-format which makes it pretty difficult to use in other applications.
You'll have to export something from max that is more readable for others, preferrably something where you already
have a library that takes care of importing and managing the models: OpenGL does not define any mesh or model-structures.
Alternatively you can write your own modelling-stuff for GL and write an export-plugin for Max.
If you manage to do so. I googled a while ago for a .max-importer for Milkshape without success. I take this as a sign of that not being too easy. The file-Format may Change with the max-versions if you're unlucky. If you have Access to 3d-studio or the Artist exporting the models in the ASCII-Format would make figuring things out much more easy. If you are to try to Import the binaries, maybe a look on some ASCII-exports and/or an importer for those might make things easier.
I do not quite know what your question is aiming on: You would Need to figure out how .max-files are organized, yes. Such things can, as said, be quite tedious. If you manage to do so, you would some auxillary libraries to manage Image loading for textures and maybe some math-library to handle the Import of animation-keyframes etc. (I do not really know how those are stored in .max).
That's the importer-side of things.
You will, of course, Need to define data-structures to use throughout your Project to deal with meshes, textures, keyframes and so on. OpenGL does not define anything directly usable.
Assimp. Here's the list of supported input formats.


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On any given day, telephone poles can be found plastered with parking restrictions and announcements that roads are blocked off for filming of the next blockbuster hit.
Councilman Stephen Levin has introduced legislation that would require the mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting to better report employment data, costs and benefits of filming in New York City.
"Especially in the neighborhoods in my district, like Brooklyn Heights and Greenpoint, filming is taking place on a regular basis," Levin said. "While our communities are very supportive of the many benefits that filming brings to our city, these shoots can sometimes cause headaches for residents."
Levin's proposal would create a comprehensive website that outlines detailed information broken down by borough, community board, council district and street, and require monthly and annual reports related to the industry.
"By providing as much information as possible to the public about film shoots in New York City, we can create a more transparent city government and make filming a positive experience," he said.
Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, said her community has become a prime location for film shoots.
"We have sought access to more information about filming in New York City," Stanton said. "We therefore view this bill as a direct response to concerns voiced by our members regarding the impact of filming on the quality of life in Brooklyn Heights."
Greenpoint resident Todd Eaton is also the co-chair of the Open Space Alliance Community Committee, and said he has long hoped for transparency to know when streets in his community would be closed.
"This bill is a great step in helping citizens understand how our neighborhood and streets are being used by the film industry, and what the resulting benefits are to our community," Eaton said.


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With a dozen brain-eating zombies standing in the way, it's clear that coming to Jewel was a bad idea. You can run away, but you still face a dilemma: Do you try to scavenge supplies at a nearby Walgreen's or a bar in Wicker Park?
Navigating the streets in a post-apocalyptic Chicago can be tricky in "Map of the Dead," a zombie-themed iPhone/iPad game that launched last month. The idea of giving smartphone users their own "The Walking Dead" fantasy comes from Jeff Merrick, a designer at Lakeview-based web agency Doejo.
Merrick had some free time at work last April and as a joke hacked Google Maps and created a directory of places that might be useful during a zombie apocalypse.
"I just kind of threw it up on a web server and didn't think much about it," said Merrick, 28, of Rogers Park. "But suddenly it goes viral and we had, like, 3 million visitors come look at it, so the next logical step was--let's make a game out of this."
For eight months, Merrick and a small team developed "Map of the Dead" as a turn-based role-playing game that transforms Foursquare from an amusing pastime to a desperate survival tool. The app uses GPS to pinpoint your location on a map and lets you virtually break into nearby real-life businesses and residences labeled with Foursquare data in order to steal food and weapons needed to outlast the zombie horde.
The app decides a place's potential as a haven for quality supplies (water, beer, baseball bats, Molotov cocktails and more) and how many zombies could be waiting inside to munch on your brains. It then assigns a threat level of one (safest) to four (mosh pit of the undead) for each location. You want to gather the best guns, swords and body protection possible to hit the most dangerous of the zones, such as military bases and hospitals.
The most zombie-infested place in Chicago? Downtown, says John Lendman, a copywriter at Doejo and frequent "Map of the Dead" player.
"There are lots of hospitals and big businesses around, so the Loop or Northwestern Hospital can be crazy," Lendman said. "When I go downtown, the first thing I do is look for people who have died and take their stuff. You can leave notes for people that say, 'Sorry, dude, took your backpack. Maybe next time.' "
Since the free app's March 14 release in the Apple Store, "Map of the Dead" has received more than 22,000 downloads and mobs of devoted fans who regularly suggest new features to the team. Merrick said he's working on an update that will add new features such as the ability to chat with other survivors.
"People still find the idea of the zombie apocalypse fascinating, and everyone enjoys thinking about what they would do if it happened to them, so that's the kind of experience we're trying to provide," Merrick said.
However, he's the first admit that most Chicagoans would be in deep trouble if a real zombie apocalypse happened.
"I think we're probably screwed because of the population density," Merrick said. "My personal plan would be [to] head to Lake Michigan, get a boat and get out of the city."
Ryan Smith is a RedEye special contributor.
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Linear Programming
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Linear Programming: Foundation and Extensions
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Linear Programming
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I would agree with all those things. I think the State took advantage of PERS, it reminds me of the CEO cutting employees wages so he can have a bigger bonus at the end of the year.
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The governor is pointing in the right direction, saying the things the public wants to hear. He may prevail on some of his ideas, fail on the remainder.
Adding to the list of savings -- how about all PERS recipients receive a retirement based on their actual average pay? As is, retirement pay is subject to many incentives and advantages. Margaret Carter served in the legislature for 25 (?) years. She (at 72 yrs.) was appointed to a high paying position in DHS (approx. $120,000/ yr.), and that number is the base salary (after 3 years) for her retirement (her pay in the legislature was $25,000 - $30.000/yr.). I'm confident there were other candidates much more qualified, as well as much younger. It appears she was 'gifted' this position only for being a loyal party member. This 'gifting of positions' is standard practice within Oregon's government, costing taxpayers millions in extra benefits at retirement.
However, there is little chance of any meaningful reform to PERS. The Demos in the legislature are bought and paid for by the public unions. Voting for any PERS reform is most likely to cost some their position next election cycle, and the legislators know it. And very few will be willing to take that chance.
Some voters complain about corporations and private enterprise using campaign contributions to have their way with lawmakers -- but in Oregon, public unions far outspend the private sectors each election cycle. So far, it's money well spent!
Just today (Jan. 240) an article relating to a bill designed to hide the pensions of public employees from view (us). Neither the governor or legislative leaders have fostered a response. Gee, I wonder why?
In what other situation would an employee have the right to shield his retirement from those who have made the payments into the fund? None come to mind!
And if these retirement packages are not completely out of line, why all the desire to keep them secret? Embarrassment, shame, getting away with something not deserved? The actions of the public employees on this issue are not those of people who are thankful to have a secure, well-paying job. In fact, the attempt to hide the pensions raise suspicions that something is badly amiss.
In this case, maybe the public employees should remember who is actually paying the bills. I hope they realize the charade will not last forever -- and when things come to light, the 'boss' might be quite angry!
posted "Some voters complain about corporations and private enterprise using campaign contributions to have their way with lawmakers -- but in Oregon, public unions far outspend the private sectors each election cycle. So far, it's money well spent!"
I think you will find Unions (related to employees through the State) have a bigger influence on State government and Big Corporations on Federal Gov't. Neither in my opinion is right.
In my opinion, those who are supposed to represent the people should never be allowed to take campaign money from anyone, period. Today most elections are won from the pocket book -- spend more than the rivals -- win the election. And the real winners are those who stuff the most pockets. How can the public expect to be represented when the politician is 'owned' by entities who expect favorable legislation for the monetary support?
And while on the subject, let's lose the political parties altogether. Their most visible achievement is keeping the partisan divide alive and festering. In all the decades of such bickering, what good has come?
Instead of how much money spent, or what consonant follows the name, let's elect representatives on merit and good intentions. Take away those options (campaign contributions and partisan politics), and just possibly the people might have some true representation.
I agree.
If I decide to run for office, I will not run with a party. My campaign will be charity work within communities with donations and 50% going to non profits of ther choice another 10% towards the cause within the community and 40% to my campaign. I wouldn't even be that interested in my vote, because I would take a pay cut, hire more staff to get the district's opinion and have a web-site to poll laws and bills so they can vote. I would vote only the way my district wants. Not anyone else.. Like this was suppose to be, not what it became. AND hopefully by leading, others would take note and bring about serious change (unlike today) that would finally give people to voice they deserve (equally).
troy prouty*
Your idea would resound with most, but wedging the way in might be the most difficult. But wow, would the political parties get their pretty panties in a bunch if they were to become irrelevant? What would all those people who never had a real job do? Move to Portland?
Speaking of pay cut, our new commissioner Allen Springer declined the pay raise that was due all three commissioners. He told me it just didn't seem right, with others struggling to make just make it.


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Mary Bodfield, 52 - July 01, 2009
Mary Lucille Bodfield, 52, of Beaver City, formerly of Gothenburg, died Friday, June 26, 2009, at her home.
Memorial services were held Wednesday, July 1, at 10:30 a.m. at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg with the Rev. Rick Remhert officiating.
Bodfield was born July 15, 1956, to Edwin Imler and Anita (Welch) Stickelman at Gothenburg. She grew up at Gothenburg as well as Brady, where she attended school.
On March 26, 1971, she married Larry Bodfield at Cheyenne, WY. To this union, four children were born. The couple resided at Beaver City.
She enjoyed time with her family, friends and grandchildren as well as quilting, playing Yahtzee, boating and fishing, along with numerous hobbies, according to family members.
Bodfield was preceded in death by: her father, Edwin T. Imler; an uncle, Walter Cyrus Imler; father-in-law, Richard "Dick" Bodfield; brother-in-law, Richard "Butch" Bodfield; mother-in-law, Gerry Moore.
Survivors include: her husband of 38 years, Larry; her children—Rebecca (Terry) Scott of North Platte, Angie (Rodney) Mason of Gothenburg, Mike (Krista) Bodfield of Cozad, and Michelle Putzier of Grand Island; brothers—Walter (Lorraine) Imler of Hershey and Ira (Rose) Imler of Cortez, CO; sisters—Alice (Mitch) Golter and Rhonda Imler, all of Gothenburg; grandchildren—Joseph Lemburg, Josiah Scott, Jacob Scott, Alexander Scott, Terrill Scott, Jr., Amber Scott, Austin Douglas, Issac Bodfield, Trevor Bodfield, Amanda Scott, Casie Mason, Kristina Mason, Keisha Glendening, Jaylynn Bodfield, Sydney Putzier and Preszly Putzier; her mother, Anita Stickelman of Gothenburg; grandmother, Lucille Damerell of Salem, OR; father-in-law, Fred Moore of Gothenburg; sister-in-law, Jackie Bodfield of Gothenburg; brother-in-law, Joe (Mandy) Moore of Gothenburg; numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorials are suggested to the family at: 421 S. Cottonwood, North Platte, NE 69101.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blase strauser.com. Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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Photos: Frank Ocean, Christina Aguilera And Justin Timberlake Suit Up For TIME 100 Gala
The top tier of Hollywood and journalism strutted the red carpet for TIME's 100 gala in New York City. While the mag's cover man Jay-Z was no where to be found, music's finest including Frank Ocean, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera alongside television's leading women Lena Dunham, Kerry Washington and Shonda Rhimes were in attendance.
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One of my favorite non-fiction books published this year was Rob Young's "Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music," a wide-ranging, adventurous, and deeply pleasing work that traces the beginnings, rise, and legacy of British folk music. Not content to merely provide discographies and musical influences, Young digs deeper into the romanticism, yearnings, and spiritual dimensions of making a "British" music, mapping an "Other Britain" or "Albion" that exists as an ideal, a repository of the nation's constructed hopes and aspirations. Young also makes connections between folklore, folk music, and the then-emerging Witchcraft revival. I was lucky enough to conduct a short interview with Young recently about the book, quizzing him about everything from Cecil Sharp to Nick Drake's "pagan" tendencies.
You seem to touch often on the theme of there being a Britain, and an "Other Britain." The "Electric Eden" or "Albion" created by "fragments and survivals" from a distant and often romanticized past. The thing that links Cecil Sharp to "The Wicker Man" to modern artists like Sharron Kraus, Julian Cope, or Kate Bush in your book. Could you talk a bit about how this Other Britain came to be?
I feel it's something that has slowly, organically formed itself over decades, even centuries, mainly through a very particular seam of cultural artefacts and artists. A figure like William Blake is crucial here – in poems like 'Milton' and 'Jerusalem' he invoked a Britain of the Druids, and painted ancient monuments like Stonehenge (without actually having seen it), and a spiritual lineage in Britain that connected with the pre-Christian era. For him that would have been a way of evading the strictures of the organised church which was an anathema, and of course he was fascinated with the myth of Adam and Eve, the pure state of mankind before the Fall, which seems to underlie much Romantic nature writing of the same period. Blake's distrust of the 'dark Satanic mills' of capitalism was taken up by the likes of William Morris, another figure very important to the opening pages of my book, with his passionate opposition to the destructive forces of Victorian industry and 'improvement'.
It's a very complex question, but really I think the industrial revolution has much to do with it – beginning around 1760, when a Parliamentary act called 'Inclosure' forcibly removed common lands from the folk and scooped them into private ownership. That pushed many agricultural workers towards the new cities and factories where the only remaining employment opportunities lay. This displacement is at the bottom of so much of the British empathy with the countryside, I believe, as so much utopian thought and music here seems to desire to tap into folk memories of an unsullied rural state of mind which now appears like a golden age. Surviving relics from the world before that industrial 'Fall' are revered: old buildings, texts, songs, etc, are like talismans to be treasured, as a connective chain to the past. A lot of the artists you mention in the question have made work which seems to reach back to this mythical age – the fantasy/fairytale aspects of Kate Bush; Julian Cope's interest in prehistoric megaliths, The Wicker Man which is like an encyclopedia of British folk customs and costumes, imagining a fully functioning British pagan society, one untouched by the later Catholic/Protestant schisms.
You connect folk music in Britain with "the cyclic revolve of the seasons and the ritual year," with each generation drawing its own interpretations and meanings from folklore. How relevant do you feel this emphasis on the ritual year is today? Where do you see this impulse's strongest embodiment in modern British music?
Unfortunately I don't see it all that much in music except in very tiny micro-scenes of 'wyrd folk' made by people who appear to genuinely crave a kind of return to an idealised, medievalist, Anglo-Saxon way of life. The experimental band Coil made a highly successful series of 'Solstice' records, recorded actually on each solstice, sometimes out in the open air, and released as soon as possible after the event. I thought that was an interesting exercise that actually produced some great music. More generally I think there are some artists – like Sharron Kraus, who you mentioned above, and Alasdair Roberts, who are very aware of the magical aspects of rural song and their set lists are accordingly loaded with appropriate material, either traditional or self-written. In the world of modern composition people like Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Finnissy, Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir are a few names whose music has connected with occult aspects of the landscape and folkloric traditions.
I found your sections dealing with the intersections of folk music, folk artists, and the revival of Pagan Witchcraft to be very interesting. You state that the two are "strikingly similar?" Could you expand on this a bit for my audience?
This was one of the most fascinating sections of the book to research. Throughout the process I was very aware of the ideas – often conflicting – of 'authenticity' that always come into play when folk music and culture are discussed, and as I went on I realised how much of what's popularly thought to be ancient and sanctioned by time is often an invention of more recent provenance. From reading people like Ronald Hutton you begin to realise that the same applies to the history of Pagan Witchcraft in Britain – current practice seems to be a patchwork of texts and rituals collated by the likes of Gerald Gardner. I met people who had been studying folklore of witchcraft in the late 60s, a couple called Dave and Toni Arthur, and who befriended Alex Sanders, who I'm sure many of your readers will know as the 'King of the Witches' in the UK at the time. Dave was loaned Sanders's Book of Shadows to copy and study, and he found that much of it was cobbled together from older books like Aradia and even bits of Shakespeare. (As an intriguing aside, Toni is famous here as a former presenter of kids' TV programmes in the 70s).
For them, it simply proved that the Witchcraft rituals were inauthentic in the usual sense. And you can apply the same logic to the main body of folk music, when you learn that much of what's considered medieval or even dating back to pagan times was often printed on Broadsides in the 18th and 19th centuries. But for me, it doesn't really matter. What's important is that these survive as genuinely useful traditions, which are still being passed on and mutated, in a folkloric process of transmission. Hundreds of thousands of pagan witches practise with these things all over the world, so how can that invalidate the tradition? Similarly with folk music, I don't really care how the stuff was gathered, or whether things are 50 or 300 years old – the music is there, its materiality is undeniable and it's put to use in all sorts of ways by all sorts of musicians with all sorts of contrasting agendas. That for me is what makes these sectors of culture so exciting and robust – that they persist and endure with or without the permission of the media, State-sanctioned culture and all the usual gatekeepers and tastemakers.
How overt was interest in the occult, magic, and Witchcraft among the British folk singers and folk-rockers? You mention Synathesia's planned odes to Roman gods, Nick Drake being described as a "modern pagan," a folk duo collaborating with Alex Sanders, and a member of Pentangle noting experiences with the "lighter side of the occult" in America. How much do you think the two scenes interacted and influenced the other?
A lot of it was anecdotal. Obviously the late 60s was a time when the counterculture and underground movements were pretty open to the rich world of mythology, fantasy, magick and so on. John Renbourn of Pentangle named the band after the shield design in the medieval Arthurian poem Gawain and the Green Knight and he told me he was reading Jessie Weston's From Ritual To Romance around the same time. Slightly aside from folk-rock as such, the keyboardist Graham Bond was one of the most overt at the time, into a very Crowleyan vibe on albums like Holy Magic and We Put Our Magick On You, which are kind of funky stews of Dr John-style groove with magickal chants and spells invoked over the top. He killed himself in 1974, but not before, as I mention in the book, teaming up with a former member of Yorkshire folk group Mr Fox for an unrecorded project. Mr Fox – the duo of Bob and Carole Pegg – also had a witchy view of things, their track 'Pendle' was inspired by the Lancashire covens and they described some very uncanny experiences to me which you can read in the book. Carole made a great solo track called 'A Witch's Guide To The Underground', which sounds kind of proto-Kate Bush. And then of course there was Jimmy Page installed at Crowley's former lodgings in Scotland. And so it goes on. The Incredible String Band were probably the other really significant group here; a band who in their quest for a genuinely usable religion (which ended with Scientology), dabbled with the Tarot, Wicca, mystical Christianity and a variety of Eastern religions, all reflected in various ways in their albums of 1967–69.
But I don't think there was much systematic infiltration of each other's scenes, if you want to look at it like that. I think it was more about a lot of this stuff being in the air around the late 60s and available to any creative person who wanted to pick up on aspects of it. The Nick Drake thing was a quote from a former friend of his, and I'm not sure how reliable that really is – it's certainly the only reference I've ever found to Drake being into ley lines, UFOs, etc, and it somehow doesn't ring convincingly. But in other ways, his music is perhaps the profoundest expression of a genuinely other, possibly pagan state of mind, in the sense that he seems to be aiming at an organic sense of time and to escape the human realm that's dominated by the clock, by responsibilities, by what he saw as the terror of romantic relationships. His tracks like 'Way To Blue', 'Northern Sky' and 'River Man', for me, are songs of deep longing to project into the being of a tree, or the sky, something other than the city life. Which all sounds very cliched hippyish when you say it, but the seriousness and the beauty of the way he does it force you to take these ideas seriously.
Finally I'd like to direct people to the chapter in Electric Eden on the great British outdoor festival, which goes into detail about the incredible origins of the Glastonbury Festival, which was originally designed along very clear geomantic and 'Earth Magic' lines (why do you think the main stage to this day is the 'Pyramid Stage'? The original organisers in 1971 were influenced by, and even friends of, the late great John Michell and his book The View Over Atlantis which was published shortly beforehand. It's possible to view the prevalence of the outdoor festival in the UK as the point where paganism meets rock 'n' roll meets countercultural forces.
While your book has a generous wealth of information about the formation of Other Britain, of England's various folk revivals, and how different artists interacted with these threads, there isn't too much (comparatively) about the modern era past the mid-1970s (I'm assuming due to space considerations). Are you planning a follow-up? If not, what resources would you recommend for those wanting to further explore the territory you've mapped?
There are plenty out there who disagree with me, but in my opinion on a musical level, the folk tradition as a well of inspiration had largely dried up by the mid-70s; although there were plenty who still drew from it, few were sonically innovative. That's the cyclical thing – there are always going to be periods when something like folk is going to feel more useful to musicians and artists as a springboard, followed by a more fallow time (we happen to be in one of the more fertile periods right now, especially in the States).
Lessening space and, to a certain extent, deadline time were certainly factors in my stepping more lightly over the territory post-1975, but also, by then most of the story I'd wanted to tell had been enacted and many figures who remained making interesting work (Nic Jones, Spriguns, Peter Bellamy, Martin Carthy, John Tams and Home Service, etc) were by and large keeping something alive rather than massively innovating. I'm not sure a follow-up would do much more than fill in such gaps and I simply am not enthusiastic enough about the generic folk music of the 80s and 90s to really want to sit down and tell it in detail.
But – and this is kind of an exclusive – I AM beginning work on a follow-up; or perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a companion. That is, I'm trying to write an alternative history of Britain's film and television culture, looking at ways in which British moving pictures – cinema and domestic TV – have expressed the kind of tensions between progress and nostalgia, past and present, country and city, conservatism and radicalism, etc, which I explored through looking at music in Electric Eden. I do make a lot of passing references to various relevant films in the book – The Wicker Man, A Canterbury Tale, The Owl Service among them – and as I was writing Eden I began thinking there could be a whole book there – it's an angle surprisingly seldom taken in studies of British film. So I'm shifting the focus from Electric Eden to… celluloid Albion! (That's not the title, though…)
Otherwise, for further research. my blog at http://electriceden.net has a mass of links to sites musical and beyond, which all reflect my interests in these areas.


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Apple iMac G5 (2.1GHz, 20-inch)
Apple has a history of unexpected, welcome, and often delightful innovations. The new iMac G5 is a case in point. With its most recent update to the line, Apple has stuffed more functionality into its midrange all-in-one iMac G5 computer while simultaneously dropping the prices. Though a tad thinner, the new iMac G5 doesn't look much different from its predecessor but boasts new features such as an integrated iSight camera, a remote control, and intuitive software that takes advantage of both. Core hardware improvements make it even stronger in our graphics and overall performance tests, resulting in a home computer whose performance is matched only by its good looks. We tested the new $1,699 iMac G5 with the 2.1GHz G5 processor and the 20-inch LCD screen; a smaller, slightly less powerful 17-inch model sells for $400 less. Both are outstanding deals.
By virtue of the new built-in iSight camera, the iMac G5 can now handle four-way videoconferencing right out of the box (provided you have a broadband connection). Much smaller than the external iSight, this one reveals itself only though a small, black lens and a microphone hole on the front panel above the screen. The camera's position close to the screen makes a videoconference more like an eye-to-eye chat. While this iSight's specs are identical to those of the previous model (30 frames per second, 1/4-inch color CCD sensor, 640x480 resolution), new postprocessing software improves the image immensely. The new iSight has a distinctly sharper picture with a far superior color balance. Just like on the old iSight, a green light on the side lets you know when the camera is in use; however, we miss being able to physically close the lens for that confident it's-really-turned-off feeling.
To help you enjoy the iSight even when you're not videoconferencing, Apple has created Photo Booth, a pointless but completely entertaining app that lets you photograph yourself and transform the images with several fun-house effects, including pinching, warping, and ballooning. Invite some friends over, and you have yourself an instant good time. Buttons on the interface let you quickly e-mail your photos, transfer them to iChat, or make them the default picture for your user or iChat account. We're also impressed with the simple elegance of the flash mechanism. Taking advantage of its built-in light source, the iMac G5 turns the screen white when you tell it to take a picture, which more than adequately illuminates whatever happens to be in front of it.
The iMac G5's other sparkling new toy is the included remote control, with its accompanying Front Row software. Apple is a bit late with a media interface, but to its credit, Front Row is every bit as intuitive as Windows Media Center. The iMac's remote control is also far smaller and simpler than Media Center remotes: it's about the size of a cigarette lighter, has only six buttons, and attaches magnetically to the side of the computer. The Menu button calls up and closes Front Row, and the circular, iPod-like control buttons do the rest. The remote communicates via infrared and has a range of 30 feet. For the best response, point it at the receiver hidden behind the Apple logo on the front of the iMac. Controls under the Security System preference let you pair your remote with your iMac or block the IR receiver altogether. That way, you won't have to worry about someone using an iMac remote on another computer and wreaking havoc with yours. Apple suggests that this feature could prove useful in classrooms, and we couldn't agree more. The iMac still doesn't come with a wireless keyboard or mouse (although Apple now includes its new Mighty Mouse), but with the remote and the simple Front Row software, you shouldn't need them.
Front Row is as streamlined and simple as a user could want. The onscreen menu resembles that of the iPod, so it will look familiar to many. Use it to call up your iMovie creations, stored DVD information, songs from iTunes, and photos from iPhoto. We love that it lists playlists and slide shows from iTunes and iPhoto.
This new, media-friendly iMac omits a TV tuner, though we respect Apple's reasoning for leaving it out. TV tuners' image quality and functionality just aren't fully cooked, and it wouldn't make sense to include a device that would mar the iMac's otherwise smooth user experience. Besides, with iTunes now selling television shows, helping you get that content for free doesn't exactly jibe with Apple's business model.


text: This is a chapter draft of the sermon for Dr. King's book Strength to Love. Using Jude 1:24 as his text, Dr. King expounds on his belief that there is a God of power that is able to sustain the universe, conquer the evils of history, and give us the interior resources to face the trials of life. He speaks of his own experience of turning to God when he was exhausted and overcome with fear after a telephone death threat. His inner peace restored, he was able calmly to accept the news three days later that his home had been bombed.


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Director-General and Congo Minister discuss political commitment to fight and defeat hunger
4 December 2013, Rome, Italy - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva met today with Rigobert Maboundou,Minister for Agriculture and Livestock of the Republic of Congo.
During the meeting, Graziano da Silva thanked Minister Maboundou for his "exemplary work as the chairman of the Regional Conference for Africa," as his mandate drew to a close. "I am very pleased for the time spent as the chair of the Regional Conference and happy to see the results achieved," the Minister said.
They also discussed the great achievement of the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund, launched during FAO's 2012 Regional Conference for Africa held in the Republic of Congo, when the host, President Denis Sassou Nguesso, called for greater solidarity between African nations to fight hunger.
Administered by FAO, the fund which will be operational in January 2014, supports Africa-led, Africa-owned initiatives in the framework of the African Union's Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), to boost agricultural productivity and food security in the region especially in the Sahel and in the Horn of Africa Graziano da Silva promoted this goal and praised the efforts of the region's leaders' to implement the outcome of the Brazzaville Conference, proof of political commitment at the highest level to defeat hunger and poverty in the region.
The Minister also announced that Congo will be launching a land reform program, for which Graziano da Silva already confirmed FAO's support. The Minister highlighted that one of the aims of the reform is to attract more foreign investment and make sure rights of everyone is respected when it comes to land acquisition and distribution.
Minister Maboundou also pointed out that FAO had also agreed to support the country's development strategy for cassava, one of its main crops, especially through initiatives for pest eradication, increased crop productivity and small processing.
The agricultural census programme, strongly supported by the Government of Congo through FAO technical assistance, was another issue discussed during the meeting. Two allotments amounting to 4.6 million USD have been made available to FAO for the implementation phase.


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This year marks its 25th anniversary, promising to be the biggest exhibition so far. Thousands of people are expected to pack the central Meiji Jingu Gaien venue , from October 29th - November 3rd. Among the most interesting events, the 'Professional Exhibition' for expert designers, the 'Cube Exhibition' dedicated to emerging designers, and the 'Container Exhibition' where designers create interactive contents that stimulate the five senses from various elements like light, imagery, sound and aroma, using recycled cargo containers.
Moleskine celebrates the Japanese designers week releasing a special pocket notebook with the logo of the exhibition embossed on the cover, custome made paper band and in blue stripes in the fly leaf, the symbol for this year's event. Moleskine is also taking part as a jury member to the design and art competition which will be held during the design event.
More info here
Tokyo Designers Week,
Meiji Jingu Gaien
29 October - 3 November
29 October - 3 November


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SACRAMENTO — Federal officials say reintroduction programs for the gray wolf have been a success and the animal no longer needs Endangered Species Act protections.
Thanks to wolf management programs, public education and research, more than 5,000 gray wolves now live in the lower 48 states, said Mike Jimenez, a wolf biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
State and tribal wildlife agencies, conservation groups and universities have helped federal scientists restore the species so that it is a functioning member of the ecosystem, Jimenez and other federal officials assert.
"The goal of the Endangered Species Act is to prevent extinction," Jimenez told more than 400 environmentalists, ranchers and others who packed a hotel ballroom here Nov. 22. "There's no set formula for how this is done. The goal is to bring them back to the state where they no longer need protection."
Jimenez and Gary Frazer, the Fish and Wildlife Service's assistant director for ecological services, have been holding meetings across the West to gather input on the proposed delisting of the gray wolf. In addition to the meeting here, others were held last week in Denver and Albuquerque, N.M., and the final hearing is set for Dec. 3 in Pinetop, Ariz.
The agency proposed lifting most gray wolf protections in June, a move that would end four decades of recovery efforts. Some scientists and members of Congress have argued the wolves should still be shielded so they could expand beyond the portions of 10 states they now occupy.
However, at the time of their listing in the 1970s there were virtually no wolves in the lower 48 states, Jimenez said. Because of recovery efforts in the Great Lakes region, about 2,211 wolves live in Minnesota, as do about 658 in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and at least 809 in Wisconsin, according to the agency.
Meanwhile, the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in the mid-1990s has led to a vibrant population in the Rocky Mountains and Northwest, including 46 in Oregon and 53 in Washington, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Federal protections have already been lifted in parts of the West and Midwest, including Idaho and easternmost Oregon and Washington. Under the Obama administration's plan, protections would remain only for a fledgling population of Mexican gray wolves in the desert Southwest.
"The gray wolf in the Southwest is still a work in progress," Jimenez said. "It has not achieved recovery yet."
The federal delisting proposal comes as the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has been considering a petition to give the gray wolf state Endangered Species Act protections. Wildlife officials appear to be preparing to deny the petition, mainly because no wolf populations are established here.
Even so, Sacramento was chosen as the West Coast's only site to discuss the federal delisting proposal "based on requests we received from elected officials and the public," Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Claire Cassel said earlier this month.
About 100 wolf advocates held a rally before the meeting at the Marriott Courtyard Cal Expo, voicing their opposition to the federal push to lift protection.
"The wolf is a part of our national heritage," said Amaroq Weiss, the Center for Biological Diversity's West Coast wolf organizer. "It was their land before it was ours. … Scientists have identified hundreds of thousands of square miles of wolf habitat, including in California."
Written comments on the proposed delisting will be accepted through Dec. 17.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gray wolf page: http://www.fws.gov/home/wolfrecovery/


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Sony confirms 'tough-minded' Hirai as new CEO, president
Ex-PlayStation exec grabs reins as Stringer rises to board chairman
Sony has announced that a new president and CEO will take over from Howard Stringer on 1 April, while Stringer becomes chairman of the board.
Kazuo Hirai was already tipped to take over from Stringer when he was appointed to head of consumer products and services, the Sony Corporation's main business, and last week, Japanese media were reporting that Stringer's time was almost up.
According to Sony, Stringer recommended Hirai to the board to take over the head honcho role.
"Kaz is a globally focused executive for whom technology and the cloud are familiar territory, content is highly valued, and digital transformation is second nature," Stringer opined in a canned statement from Sony. "I believe his tough-mindedness and leadership skills will be of great benefit to the company and its customers in the months and years ahead."
New blood may be just what Sony needs on the throne in the next year, as it takes full ownership of Sony Ericsson and tries to align its tablets and smartphones with its console successes.
Sony has been struggling to carve out a chunk of the mobile market, and many commentators feel bringing some PlayStation magic to their handsets and fondleslabs could turn their fortunes around.
Televisions have been another troublesome area, not just for Sony, but for pretty much everyone in the sector and of course, as a Japanese firm, Sony's profits have been hit by the strong yen.
The company has forecast its fourth year of net losses in a row for the fiscal year ending in March. Sony expects to be down 90 billion yen ($1.2bn) by then, despite selling off its half of the S-LCD panel-manufacturing joint venture with Samsung to the Korean firm.
Stringer, who will be turning 70 next month, has been at Sony since 1997 and has been sitting in the driving seat since 2005. He will stay on as chairman of Sony until his ascension to chairman of the board in June at the annual meeting of shareholders. ®


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Rece Davis | ESPN
If only you could adequately describe it. Just the right adjectives or adverbs don't always do it justice. The "it" is the atmosphere in a college football stadium for a big game.
Vengeful, validating, defiant, redemptive, toxic, survival and blistering are all likely to be used this weekend but in very different contexts. The vibe in the house sets a tone from the start, but the play on the field either feeds that energy or thwarts it. Think of it as Sir Isaac Newton's law of motion, or in this case emotion.
Pretty much since Texas A&M cornerback Deshazor Everett picked off Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron in the end zone last year in Tuscaloosa, the entire sport has awaited Alabama's trip to Aggieland.
Think about what that pick did. It saved the game for the Aggies. It transformed Johnny Manziel's almost-fumble-turned-touchdown-pass from a cute highlight into a Heisman moment. Together, those plays created one layer of the atmosphere that will be evident at Kyle Field on Saturday: Alabama's trip on redemption road.
All of that sounds exciting, unless you're Amari Cooper. The Tide receiver absolutely nailed it when he said, "If we wanted to get revenge, we'd have to play that same team last year with the same team we had last year. It's really not a revenge thing. If you lose a fight with someone, you don't get revenge from fighting someone else."
That is probably Cooper reciting chapter and verse from the Saban Book of Process.
"The Process" has been wildly successful at poking holes in the atmosphere. It is the ideal way to approach a big game. Actually executing in the cauldron is a different matter.
This is hardly the biggest game Alabama has played over the past few years. It won't be louder than LSU or any other big SEC stadium, but at Kyle Field the noise is constant and orchestrated. The fans sway in unison and it looks as if the whole place is going to tip over.
Even if Alabama does secretly pine to avenge last season's loss, the chip on A&M's shoulder will be just as big. The Johnny Football drama has left many Aggies fans feeling persecuted. Validating last season's win pales in comparison to confirming their cause of standing up for a fellow Aggie. What better way to do that than to have Manziel lead a second gigging of the Tide?
But as Cooper noted, these are different teams, which indicates it will be a different game.
Alabama had more rushes for negative or lost yards than anyone in the nation after the first game. How much of the Tide's O-line problems were due to first-start jitters for three offensive linemen? How much was due to Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster's scheme? How much of that can A&M replicate?
The Aggies have had a patchwork defensive lineup because of suspensions and injuries. How much of their sieve-like performances are due to vanilla schemes to keep young players from busting assignments? If the Tide does keep Manziel in the pocket, is he now so polished a pocket passer that he can beat them anyway?
Then there are the stakes. Save for dates with LSU, the winner would appear to have a favorable path to the SEC championship game and, possibly, the BCS title game. So throw a little desperation into the mix and the 97 degree temperature at kickoff will seem downright chilly compared to the atmosphere in Kyle Field.
Desperation of a different sort will be the prevailing feeling a couple of hours west in Austin, where Ole Miss comes in to take on the Longhorns. Shrapnel from BYU's evisceration of Texas' defense cost coordinator Manny Diaz his job.
Mack Brown brought in former defensive coordinator Greg Robinson to do the job. This is where Michigan fans say, "They hired who to do what?" Then they suggest this is akin to trying to douse a house fire with gasoline.
It has been a week in which Longhorns fans have gathered figurative torches and pitchforks and are honing in on Mack Brown.
Texas humiliated the Rebels in Oxford last year 66-31. Let Hugh Freeze's young team flip the script and actually win this year and the atmosphere on the 40 Acres might have a distinct scorched-earth feel.
Scorched earth will be the scene in Eugene, Ore., when Tennessee takes on the Ducks. Oregon will wipe out every shred of orange in its path.
Someday I'm going to write glowingly about the resurgence of Volunteer football under Butch Jones. There will be a day when the Vols return to glory. Alas, today is not that day.
Last week, Jones said my buddy Mark May inspired his team by putting them on upset alert against Western Kentucky. This week, I "volunteer" for the bulletin board. I'm putting the Vols on Autzen annihilation alert.
The Ducks will use the opportunity to make a statement for themselves and the Pac-12.
Never mind the fact that Tennessee has won two conference games in two years and hasn't had a winning conference record since Miley Cyrus was that innocent little Hannah Montana; the Vols have the SEC logo. The mere sight of those three letters seems to stoke the pride fire and will doubtless do so in Autzen on Saturday. The Vols just aren't equipped to survive in the Ducks' O-zone layer.
Whatever the billing -- validating, desperation, scorching -- the atmosphere figures to be a hot on college football Saturday.
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