text: so looks like you took the latest ota for our beloved evo and now you want to root it. to begin with never accept an ota when you are thinking about rooting your phone. this will apply for all phones going forward. with each new ota, rooting will become harder and harder to do. update:there has been another OTA, software version 5.07.651.1. again like any ota's, you should not have take it. however, if you did, it will not change your hboot version so this guide will still work for you. first lets make sure that this guide is for you. before we do anything make sure that you have disbaled fastboot. on your phone go to settings>apps>uncheck the fastboot option at the bottom. next you will need to power off then press and hold power+vol down. this will take you to the bootloader screen. 1.if you have hboot 2.18 and it says locked at the top then this guide is for you. 2. if it says hboot 2.16 or 2.15 then use this guide:http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...ooting-dummies-guide-gingerbread-edition.html 3.if it says hboot 2.10 or less then use this guide:http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/194918-rooting-dummies.html. on to rooting there are now a few different ways you can root your evo and each has their pros and cons. i will try and go into detail with each method and i will leave it up to you to decide which way you want to go. rooting your phone will wipe all data so make sure that you backup your info accordingly: 1.for contacts make sure that you have them all saved under google. that way when you flash a new rom or even get a new android device, you can sign in to google and all of your contacts will sync to your phone. 2.if you want to backup your sms or even mms text messages then you can use SMS Backup & Restore and it will save them to your sd card. 3.for your apps data, you can use MyBackup Pro. this will pretty much back up everything for you. please use these methods at your own risk. i do not accept any responsibility if you brick your phone. ok with that said, here they are: 1. HTCdev method (recommended) Spoiler this method is something that htc has done to keep their word on providing us with bootloaders that are not locked down like on some other phones. however, there are some things that you should know about it, if you are planning on going this route. yes the bootloader will be unlocked, but you will have s-on still. however, this also means that the bootloader will be watermarked and this will void your warranty on the phone. and yes with this method, you will be able to flash roms, kernels and such though you will still have s-on. once the bootloader is unlocked all you need to do is have a custom recovery and either flash a custom rom or flash the su (superuser) file and then you are good to go. here is an overview of the process: here is an overview of the process: 1.go to HTCdev and follow directions to get your bootloader unlocked 2.install custom recovery 3.flash the su file or you can flash a rom of your choice the setup you will need to download these files: adb.exe fastboot.exe AdbWinApi.dll HTC Sync 3.0.5551 Java Runtime Environment (JRE) make sure that you have htc sync installed and that you have the latest java running. step 1 HTCdev bootloader unlocker Spoiler 1.go to the htc website:HTCdev - Unlock Bootloader 2.at the very far right there should be a drop down menu. scroll all the way down to the bottom until you see "All Other Supported Models". do not select the evo 4g(korean). that is an entirely different phone. 3.just follow the steps. and use the files that you downloaded earlier when asked. 4.you will then get an email and follow directions according to the email. 5.congrats!!!!!!!! you have now just unlocked your bootloader here is a step by step as stated on the htcdev.com site. 1.remove and insert the battery 2.press and hold power+vol down 3.with the vol buttons highlight fastboot and select it with your power button. 4.connect the device to the computer via usb cable 5.create a new folder and call it android 6.download the first three files and save it to the android folder 7.right click on your android folder while holding shift and select open command window here (3rd or 4th option). 8.in the command window type: Code (Text): fastboot oem get_identifier_token 9.you will need to copy the long block of text that is displayed Right Click > Mark > highlight the block of text > Right click to copy 10.the first line you should highlight should be: <<<<<Identifier Token Start>>>>> and end with: <<<<<Identifier Token End>>>>> 11.paste the text into the token field and then hit submit. 12.you will then get an email with the unlock key and commands to finish the process. 13.once you get the email download the attached .bin file and move to your android folder you created earlier. 14.open the command window (right click+shift, open command window here) and type: Code (Text): fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin 15.you will then see a disclaimer just select yes. CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU ARE NOW UNLOCKED!!!!!! step 2 How to get Recovery Spoiler here is a little more details on how to get a recovery onto your phone. there are several ways of doing it. you can use the fastboot command to install recovery or you can use the android flasher program and lastly there is the PC36IMG method. either way, it is pretty simple. i will leave the decision up to you. various methods to install amon ra 2.3 recovery: Fastboot method Spoiler 1.download amon ra 2.3 from here: PC36IMG_RA_2.3.zip 2.extract the file and then go into and move recovery.img file into the android folder you created when unlocking your bootloader. 3.on your phone after you have unlocked your phone you should be in the bootloader menu screen, select the fastboot option 4.on your computer press and hold shift while right clicking the android folder. 5.select open command window here option (windows 7) 6.enter command: Code (Text): fastboot flash recovery recovery.img congrats!!!!!! you have just installed amon ra 2.3 android flasher method Spoiler Android Flasher, what is this and how do i use this? well with android flasher, you can flash radios, your splash screen (that is what the htc white screen is called right before sprint's boot animation), and your recovery. you will need to extract the .img file from the .zip file. in this case i will show you how to install a custom recovery amon ra2.3. so here is what you will need to do: 1.download android flasher from here: AF Downloader 2.and extract it to someplace on your desktop where you can find it. 3.next you will need to download amon ra 2.3from here: PC36IMG_RA_2.3.zip 4.extract the img.file and place it some where you will be able to find it. 5.run android flasher 6.go to the recovery slot and select browse and then navigate to the amon ra .img file 7.select it and then select recovery 8.then1 at the very bottom select flash congrats!!!!!! you now have amon ra 2.3 installed. here is the original thread for android flasher: [UTILITY] Android Flasher 22.214.171.124! (12/12/11) - xda-developers PC36IMG method Spoiler this will depend on what software version you are on. if you have software version 4.67.651.1 download this file:PC36IMG.zip if you have software version 5.07.651.1 download this file: PC36IMG_AmonRA-v2.3-hausmod_revA.zip 1.download the PC36IMG for your software version above. 2.rename the file so that it is only PC36IMG. make sure that you do not add any extra .zip's to the name as windows hides extensions by default. 3.transfer the file to the root (that means not in any folder) of the sd card. 4.power off (you most likely need to uncheck fastboot. settings/apps/uncheck fastboot.) then press and hold power+vol down. 5.hboot should see the file and select yes to update. 6.select no to reboot because we want to go into recovery and make a nandroid backup. 7.select recovery. 8.select backup and restore and select backup 9. select the first three and wimax. the other partitions do not need to be backed up. always keep one nandroid backup with wimax keys backed up on your computer. 10.now you can reboot. 11.using a file manager of some sort or even through your computer via usb, you should rename or delete the PC36IMG file on your card. otherwise you will be asked to update every time you go to the hboot screen. you do not need that file any more. step 3 flash the su file or flash a rom Spoiler if you want to just stay on the stock rom, but you want it rooted then here is what you will need to do(not really sure why you would want to as there are many roms that are waaaaaay better then stock. the latest mikg for example is amazing!!!). the su file is not a rom. it allows access to rooted apps to the system partitions. stay on stock Spoiler you will need the latest su(superapp) found here: Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip just flash that in recovery and you will have a rooted stock rom: 1.download and move the su file to the root of your sd card that means not in any folder. it just needs to be on your card. 2.go into recovery (power off, make sure fastboot is unabled, and then press and hold power+vol down) 3.select flash zip from sdcard 4.navigate to your su file by using the vol up and down button and select it with the power button. 5.once done, reboot. now you have a rooted stock rom or flash a rom: Spoiler 1.first you need the vr superwipe (this is not a rom. this is a file that wipes your sytem partitions and also wipes all the temp files as well:ZZZVR_SUPERWIPE.zip. download it and put it on your card. (optional)* 2.download the rom (i recommend MikG v3.11 [3/9/2012]) of your choice and transfer it to your card. 3.go into recovery 4.make a nandroid backup 5.select wipe from the main menu and wipe dalvik cache, cache, and data 6.select flash zip from sdcard 7.find the superwipe file and select it.(optional) 8.find your rom and select it. 9.reboot. first boot will take a bit longer then normal, so be patient. 2. Captain Throwback's method Spoiler ok thanx to the good Captain i have permission to write a version of his method here for AF members.....so here goes. first off you will need to have the bootloader unlocked, have a custom recovery, and flash the su file. all this can be done in the HTCdev method. second, you will need to disable fastboot (settings/ app/ disable fastboot) and enable usb debugging (settings/app/development) the captain's method is based off of toast's root exploit. with the bootloader unlocked and su file fashed, you can now change the misc partition. this allows you to lower your hboot so that you can use the previous root methods to finally get s-off which is like turning your securities off or like changing administrator permission on your pc. the main root methods are unrevoked and revolutionary. here are the files you will need: mtd-eng.zip flash_image.zip if you want to use unrevoked: PC36IMG_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.70.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed or if you want to use revolutionary Filename: PC36IMG_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.54.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.0808_NV_2.15_release_220182_signed.zip download the first two files and unzip them and move them to the sd card of your phone....via usb cable. do not unzip the PC36IMG file. now once you have done that you can now proceed below: 1. in the android folder you used previously for the HTCdev method, open the command window and enter these commands: 2. first we need to start adb so type: Code (Text): adb shell if you get $ in the prompt then you do not have root access. type Code (Text): su and you should get the $ changed to #.....if it does not then something previously went wrong. 3. next, press enter after each line Code (Text): cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image Code (Text): chmod 755 /data/flash_image Code (Text): /data/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img if there is no errors then you can proceed to the next step. 4.now we need to downgrade the hboot by flashing the PC36IMG ruu: download the PC36IMG file(depending on which one you choose) and do not unzip it. rename the file so that it is only PC36IMG. make sure that you do not add any extra .zip's to the name as windows hides extensions by default. transfer the file to the root (that means not in any folder) of the sd card. power off (you most likely need to uncheck fastboot. settings/apps/uncheck fastboot.) then press and hold power+vol down. hboot should see the file and select yes to update. now check you hboot in the bootloader and it should change to either hboot 2.10 or 2.16 which unrevoked or revolutionary will now work. you can now proceed to use these guides to finally gain s-off: if your hboot is 2.10 then use this guide: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/194918-rooting-dummies.html if your hboot is 2.16 then use this guide: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all...ooting-dummies-guide-gingerbread-edition.html 3. TacoRoot method Spoiler This method was brought to my attention thanx to captain throwback. this is not mine and all credit should go to justin case, dan rosenberg, unrevoked and alpharev, and reid holland. here is their main page:TacoRoot - HTC Universal Root Exploit 12-30-2011 - RootzWiki this method uses a vulnerability in the recovery.log that will provide a temporary root. once you have gain root then all we need to do is downgrade the hboot to 2.10 which would then allow unrevoked to fully root your phone. please read this method carefully. when you run the taco root commands it will make your phone very unstable and not useable and if you miss the step about usb debugging and setting the phone to charge only then you will need to do the undo command and start over. (a good idea is to print this out before trying this method). these are the files you will need: adb.exe fastboot.exe AdbWinApi.dll flash_image.zip mtd-eng.zip PC36IMG_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.70.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed CunningLogic-TacoRoot-3b6fae6 1.download and install htc sync:HTC Sync 3.0.5551 2.set adb: on your desktop create a folder called android. and into this folder put the adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll, and the fastboot.exe files. you will be entering commands from this folder. it is going to be easier if you press and hold shift while right clicking on the android folder and then select open command window here and from there you can enter the commands. 3.download and extract the CunningLogic-TacoRoot-3b6fae6 on to the desktop. move the tacoroot.sh file over to the android folder. 4.we need to extract and then move the flash_image and the mtd-eng files on to the sd card. you can do this while the phone is on and set to disk drive via the usb cable. make sure that you do not put the extracted files in any folders. they need to be on the root of the card (very top level). 5.now we will need to reboot the phone into the stock recovery. power the phone off then press and hold power+vol down to get into the bootloader. on the bootloader menu select recovery. wait until you get the red triangle with an exclamation point. next press and hold both vol up and vol down along with the power button. this will give you the stock recovery menu select the top option to reboot the phone. 6.connect the phone to the pc via the usb cable and make sure that it is in charge only, and make sure that usb debugging is turned on, settings>apps>development>check usb debugging, and lastly that fastboot is disabled, settings>apps>uncheck fastboot. this a very important step. make sure that you do this. if you do not do this or if you skip this step, then when you run the taco root your phone will be very unstable and you will not be able to upgrade your hboot. and you will the need to skip to step 13 to enter the undo command which will return the phone to a more stable state. 7.once the phone is booted up on your pc and in the command window from the android folder enter: Code (Text): adb push tacoroot.sh /data/local/ 8. Code (Text): adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tacoroot.sh 9. Code (Text): adb shell /data/local/tacoroot.sh --setup 10.the phone should boot up again and in the command window type Code (Text): adb shell /data/local/tacoroot.sh --root your phone will eventually reboot itself. once it does that your phone will be very unstable (most likely it will bootloop), but you will be able to use adb. DO NOT PULL THE BATTERY OUT OR REBOOT. this is normal as the adb commands will still work. just proceed to the next step and pay no attention to the phone. again like i said your phone will be very unstable at this point. 11.in the command window type: Code (Text): adb shell 12. ok you should get # in the command window if not then something went wrong. if you do get # then type: Code (Text): cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image then: Code (Text): chmod 755 /data/flash_image and last: Code (Text): /data/flash_image misc /sdcard/mtd-eng.img the command screen should look like this when all the commands are entered: 13.now we need to get the phone stable again. in the command window type: Code (Text): /data/local/tacoroot.sh --undo your phone should now reboot again. now some people have reported that when entering this command an error occurs, "adb not found". if this is the case then close the command window then press and hold shift and right click on the android folder you created earlier. select the open command window here option. the above command should now work. 14.rename the pc36img_supersonic_s_sprint_wwe_3.70.651.1_radio_2.15.00.11.19_nv_1.90_release_161482_signed file that you downloaded earlier to PC36IMG. do not add an extra zip as windows by default hides extensions. 15.on your phone switch it back to disk drive and transfer the PC36IMG file over to the root of the sd card. 16.power off the phone and then press and hold power+vol down. this will get you to the bootloader. if you named the file correctly and if you have it on the root of the card (not in any folder) then the bootloader should see it and ask you to update. select yes 17.after it is done double check your hboot. it should now be hboot 2.10. you are now ready to use unrevoked!!!!!!!! 18.this is the best guide on rooting with unrevoked: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/194918-rooting-dummies.html 19.once unrevoked is finished you should have hboot 2.10 and s-off and no watermark!!!!!! Hboot 2.18 FAQ'S 1. you do not have to do captain's throwback's guide especially if you plan on staying stock. you can still flash roms and such. however, if you do not want your hboot watermarked then please follow the captain's guide or the TacoRoot method. but read them first before diving into them. 2.in HTCdev it will ask that you create a folder called android. you will then need to update the Android SDK Tools and Android SDK Platform Tools. once that is done then move the required files (adb.exe, adbWinApi.dll, and fastboot) to the android folder you created. once everything is done and your bootloader is unlocked then make sure that you run the commands in captian's guide from the android folder you created. 3.make sure that you have phone setup as charge only and not as disk drive. this will prevent the phone from being able to mount the sd card, if it is in disk drive mode. 4. i added a new root method called TacoRoot!!!! 5. i will be adding more stuff later. proceed to the second post for more root info


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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagins proposal to build light rail between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is blindingly and obviously right. Light rail should, in fact, connect Houston, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and go north to Jackson, Birmingham, Atlanta and Memphis. At the very least. Its shocking that it took a catastrophe to make this idea conceivable. It should have happened years ago.
Until Katrina the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans ignored and fought against each other. The Baton Rouge newspaper, the Baton Rouge Advocate, only mentioned New Orleans if a particularly egregious crime took place there, and the New Orleans daily, the Times-Picayune, dealt strictly with the business of state government, which happened to be located in Baton Rouge. The legislature was mostly hostile to New Orleans and the budget battles were epic.
As for the citizenry, Baton Rougeans had an instinctive distaste for the more famous town; it was only 90 miles away but it could have been 900. It was understood among Baton Rougeans that New Orleans is where one misspent a small portion of ones youth, but after college, one not only better stay out of it but quit mentioning it altogether.
The only public transportation between the two cities was by Greyhound bus, but there was (and is) barely any public conveyance in Baton Rouge that might take one to the Greyhound station. In fact, Baton Rouge public transportation is dismal. On the other hand, in the minds of New Orleanians, Baton Rouge evokes more disdain than it deserves. Best known in this regard is the reaction of Igantius OReilly in Confederacy of Dunces, who takes the Greyhound bus from New Orleans to Baton Rouge once and has such a horrific experience he will never repeat it. Nor would anyone else reading the book, unless forced by circumstances.
Well, the circumstances came, and tens of thousands of New Orleanians found themselves in the middle of Ignatiuss nightmare. It didnt turn out to be so bad: the locals were hugely generous and they turned out to be, after all, not just human, but a lot like themselves. New bonds were forged in Katrinas aftermath and the relationship between the two cities will never be the same. Common interests, social, economic and political became abundantly clear. Also abundantly clear became the damage of mutual neglect over time.
The two cities need to be linked now in ways that will be beneficial to the whole region. Light rail between the major cities of Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi will instantly increase the economic clout of the Gulf region. Our natural resources and opening to the Gulf make us a potential superpower if we can overcome years of petty provincialism and find the political will to see the region in its entirety. And yes, the mayor is right: light rail will make possible the evacuation of population centers. But even barring another catastrophe, it might be really nice to get from one town to another in a civilized way, the way a Bostonian might go to New York for a weekend, to see a play or something.
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ACL permissions in Seam-SecurityRichard Barabe Apr 23, 2012 3:36 PM
In a previous discussion on the forum, Shane explained that there had "several refactoring" to be done to enable persistent permission in seam-security (JpaPermissionStore).
Since here we really need this feature, I made an attempt to make those several refactorings.
This work form me.
One can pull it from my github fork : https://github.com/richardbarabe/security
By "working" I mean I was successful at granting, revoking and listing permissions for a user on a resource (object instance).
What I did :
Basically, I had to extract EntityToSpiConverter from JpaIdenityStore to put it in its own file and then reuse it in JpaPermissionStore.
For this I had to extract some configuration code from JpaIdentityStore to JpaIdentityStoreConfiguration (the part that configures the data model objects).
How it works :
Exactly has planned in the "initial implementation".
First you have to create a JPA mapping for IdentityPermission as explained here. The IdmConsole example have an example too. Then you have to create an IdentifierStrategy for the class you want to persist permissions for. Ie, for the class foo.bar.Dog, the following would work :
package foo.bar;
import javax.enterprise.context.Dependent;
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public class DogIdentifierStrategy implements IdentifierStrategy {
public boolean canIdentify(Class<?> targetClass) {
return Dog.class.equals(targetClass);
public String getIdentifier(Object target) {
if (!(target instanceof Dog)) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Target [" + target + "] must be instance of "+Dog.class.getName());
Dog dog = (Dog) target;
String identifier = "Dog"+":"+dog.getName()+":"+dog.getRace();
return identifier;
This will be used by seam-security to identify Dog instances one from another. Note that this example assume some naming conventions if you don't want permissions on different types of objects to collide.
To use the "IdentifierStrategy", you have to annotate the Dog class like this :
package foo.bar;
import org.jboss.seam.security.annotations.permission.Identifier;
* @author baraber
public class Dog {
private String name;
private String race;
public DogString name, String race) {
this.name = name;
this.race = race;
public String getName() {
return name;
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
public String getRace() {
return race;
public void setRace(String race) {
this.race = race;
And to manage permissions(grant, revoke, list), you normally would @Inject PermissionManager and work with it, tough I personnaly had to directly @Inject PermissionStore to bypass security check on permissions "seam.read-permissions", "seam.grant-permission" and "seam.revoke-permission"...
As I said, this works for me. But ...
I think the PermissionManager/PermissionResolver API should change. I wanted to discuss with someone more implicated in seam3 development before changing something like this.
The problem is this one :
To use the "PermissionManager", for instance to grant a new permission, one must provide an object of type org.jboss.seam.security.permission.Permission. To create an instance of this class, one must pass an instance of org.picketlink.idm.spi.model.IdentityObject as the recipient of the permission. But, using the picketlink api, I didn't find anyway to get an org.picketlink.idm.spi.model.IdentityObject from the picketlink API (PersistenceManager). I had to provide my own implementation of org.picketlink.idm.spi.model.IdentityObject.
This is the same reason why I had to extract EntityToSpiConverter from JpaIdentityStore : When the JpaPermissionStore have to create instances of Permission to return (ie in listPermissions methods), it have to build an org.picketlink.idm.spi.model.IdentityObject from an instance of my Jpa mapping foo.bar.IdentityObject.
I think that the API have to change.
At least I'm pretty sure that is not the way I would like to use such an API. Maybe we could just use org.picketlink.idm.api.User, org.picketlink.idm.api.Group and strings as in the other picketlink apis (PersistenceManager, RelationshipManager and RoleManager).
Can anyone take a look at this and maybe work with me to integrate it for an eventual seam release ? (I don't want to maintain a fork of the project )
Should I create a JIRA feature request and associate it a pull request ? I prefered to ask ...


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Ceratotherium simum
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Ceratotherium simum (Burchell, 1817)
|Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:
Common Name(s):
Rhinoceros simus Burchell, 1817
|Taxonomic Notes:
Two subspecies are recognized: the Southern White Rhino (SWR) C. s. simum in southern Africa, and Northern White Rhino (NWR) C. s. cottoni, with currently only one confirmed population in Ol Pejeta (a Kenyan reserve) that was created in December 2009 following the translocation from the Czech Republic of the last four potentially breeding NWR in captivity.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Emslie, R.
|Knight, M.H. & Adcock , K.
The reason for rating this species as Near Threatened and not Least Concern is due to the continued and increased poaching threat and increasing illegal demand for horn, increased involvement of organised international criminal syndicates in rhino poaching (as determined from increased poaching levels, intelligence gathering by wildlife investigators, increased black market prices and apparently new non-traditional medicinal uses of rhino horn). Current successful protection efforts have depended on significant range state expenditure and effort and if these were to decline (especially in South Africa) rampant poaching could seriously threaten numbers (well in excess of 30% over three generations). Declining state budgets for conservation in real terms, declining capacity in some areas and increasing involvement of Southeast Asians in African range states are all of concern. In recent years poaching levels have increased in major range states South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya. Swaziland also recently lost its first rhino to poaching since December 1992. In the absence of conservation measures, within five years the species would quickly meet the threshold for C1 under Vulnerable, and potentially also criterion A3 if poaching rates were to further increase.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
Two subspecies of White Rhinoceros are currently recognized, the northern and the southern, each having a strikingly discontinuous range. The Northern White Rhino used to range over parts of north-western Uganda, southern Chad, south-western Sudan, the eastern part of Central African Republic, and north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sydney 1965). The previous only confirmed population in Garamba National Park in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is now considered probably extinct as despite systematic ground surveys over probable range and additional foot patrols and aerial reconnaissance no live rhinos have been seen since 2006 and no fresh sign since 2007. There have been unconfirmed reports of rhino in southern Sudan, and surveys are planned. The last four potential breeding Northern White Rhino in captivity in Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic have been translocated to a private conservancy in Kenya in the hope this will stimulate their breeding. These animals form the only current confirmed population.
While Kenya has not been a White Rhino range state in the last two hundred years; evidence from fossils and cave paintings in Kenya and northern Tanzania suggests that the White Rhinoceros, presumably similar to the northern race (C. s. cottoni), was widespread and a part of the East African savanna fauna until 3,000 years ago or less (M. Leakey pers. comm.), when it was probably displaced by pastoralists who could easily kill such tame animals (Brett RA [ed] 1993). This is based on the White Rhino subfossil documented by Maeve Leakey from 3,000 year from Rift Valley (Lake Nakuru area). Thus at one stage Kenya was once a White Rhino range state (subspecies unknown) and hence the White Rhino as a species but not C. s. simum as a subspecies has probably been reintroduced to Kenya (with the latter being an introduction of a probable out of range subspecies). A recent report of a white rhino hunting trophy from Kenya in an Austrian Museum still has to be confirmed but merits further investigation.
Note: At the request of certain members and countries, the IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG) has a policy of not releasing detailed information on the whereabouts of all rhino populations for security reasons. For this reason, only whole countries are shaded on the map.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:South Africa
Possibly extinct:Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; South Sudan; Sudan
Regionally extinct:Central African Republic; Chad
Reintroduced:Botswana; Kenya; Mozambique; Namibia; Swaziland; Uganda; Zimbabwe
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
As of 31 December 2010, there were an estimated 20,170 White Rhino in the wild (see Table 1 in the Supplementary Material). As of Dec 2008 there were an estimated 750 in captivity worldwide. The majority (98.8%) of White Rhino occur in just four countries (South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Kenya) (AfRSG data 2011).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The species is found in grassland in bushveld savanna habitats.
|Use and Trade:
|Horn from poached animals in the wild and in some cases stolen or illegally sold from horn stockpiles/private trophies/museum exhibits. "Psuedohunting" where sport hunting has been undertaken by individuals from non-traditional hunting countries has also probably been responsible for some of the illegal horn getting onto the market. Live specimens for translocation invariably taken from natural habitat, but many wild populations require regular removals to prevent "overstocking" and maintain rapid population growth rates.
|Major Threat(s):
One of the main threats to the population is illegal hunting (poaching) for the international rhino horn trade. Rhino horn has two main uses: traditional use in Chinese medicine, and ornamental use (for example, rhino horn is a highly prized material for making ornately carved handles for ceremonial daggers (jambiyas) worn in some Middle East countries). Until recently, at the continental species level, poaching of White Rhinos has not had a serious impact on overall numbers of White Rhinos in Africa, with poaching losses in parts of the range being surpassed by encouraging growth rates in others. From detected and reported figures, the annual average poaching incidents during 2003 to 2005 represented just 0.2 % of the total number of White Rhinos at the end of 2005 (Emslie et al. 2007). However poaching levels have increased dramatically in recent years (Milliken et al. 2009).
However poaching has escalatated dramatically in recent years in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya in response to significant increases in black market prices for horn. For example the total numbers of rhinos poached annually in the major range state South Africa has increased from 13, to 83, 122, 333 and 448 over the period 2007-2011. At the time of writing the rate of poached has continued to increase in 2012 with projections of the numbers poached in South Africa could reach 600 by the end of 2012. While still less than the net growth in numbers due to breeding the continued escalation in poaching threatens to soon reverse the gains achieved if it cannot be stalled or reversed. If current trends continue numbers in South Africa could start to decline by 2016. As a proportion of total numbers poaching levels in the major range states have been highest in Zimbabwe. As described above the significantly increased and escalating poaching, increased protection costs, declining live sale prices and reduced incentives are leading to increasing numbers of private owners in South Africa seeking to get rid of their rhino. If this worrying trend continues this threatens to reverse the expansion of range and has the potential to also significantly reduce conservation budgets (due to declining live sales).
Poaching and civil wars in both Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring Sudan have had a devastating impact on Northern White Rhino. Whilst poaching pressure initially increased during civil unrest and war in the late 1990s, good reproduction enabled the population to remain relatively stable. However, since 2003, poaching escalated and the population declined rapidly with 11 carcasses found in a three-month period between March and May 2004. Confirmed numbers of Northern White Rhino fell from 30 individuals in April 2003 to just four in August 2005. No live rhino have been seen since 2006 or signs of live rhino (spoor or dung) reported since 2007 despite intensive systematic foot surveys. It is believed that the Northern White Rhino has probably gone extinct in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
|Conservation Actions:
Effective field protection of rhino populations has been critical. Many remaining rhino are now concentrated in fenced sanctuaries, conservancies, rhino conservation areas and intensive protection zones where law enforcement effort can be concentrated at effective levels. Monitoring has also provided information to guide biological management decision-making aimed at managing rhino populations for rapid population growth. This has resulted in surplus animals being translocated to set up new populations both within and outside the species' former ranger. However increasing black market prices for rhino horn, and increased poaching of rhino and involvement of criminal syndicates in recent years pose a significant threat to rhino populations. Increasing efforts are also being made to integrate local communities into conservation efforts. Strategically, White Rhinos are now managed by a range of different stakeholders (private sector and state) in a number of countries increasing their long-term security. In Southern Africa live sale of White Rhinos on auction (and limited sport hunting of surplus males) has also created incentives for private sector conservation and generated much needed funds which can help pay the high cost of successfully monitoring, protecting and managing rhino. Over 5,500 White Rhino across Africa are now managed by the private sector throughout Africa with the majority in South Africa (AfRSG 2011). However as discussed above incentives are declining while protection costs and risks have increased resulting in increased numbers of South African owners looking to get rid of their white rhino.
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Dutch HUG/DutchHugDay
From HaskellWiki
1 Dutch HUG day
- 24 April 2010
- Ordina office, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
- Registration is now closed.
2 Introduction
To celebrate our first anniversary, the Dutch Haskell Users Group (HUG) invites Haskell and functional programming enthusiasts in the Netherlands and surrounding area to an afternoon symposium. The Dutch HUG is an informal group with monthly meetings including talks on novel applications of Haskell and socializing in the neighborhood pub. The group was founded on Sunday, April 19, 2009 at the Haskell Hackathon hosted in Utrecht. After a successful year, we renew the trend with the Dutch HUG Day.
3 Invitation
Please send an email to Sean Leather <email@example.com> by Tuesday, 20 April!
Join us for a half day of fun and functional programming! We have some great "praatjes" (the Dutch word for talks) lined up. (Just in case you were confused by my "Call for Praatjes," all talks will be in English.) Along with talks, you can join us afterwards for a buffet dinner, graciously provided by our sponsor Ordina.
The registration will allow Ordina to know how many people to expect and to satisfy their security concerns. They are also looking for recruiting options and will send attendees an email describing potential opportunities.
4 Program
We are happy to announce a preliminary program. Note that the particular titles or order of talks may change, but the general schedule should remain the same.
|Lightweight Program Inversion
|Janis Voigtländer (University of Bonn)
|Functional Programming in the Industry?
|Stef Joosten (Ordina, Open University of the Netherlands)
|BlazeHtml: Design of a Blazingly Fast HTML Combinator Library
|Jasper van der Jeugt (Ghent University)
|Functional Programming at typLAB
|Erik Hesselink (typLAB)
|Cλash: Haskell-ish Hardware Descriptions
|Matthijs Kooijman (formerly University of Twente)
|Why Haskell Does Not Matter
|Stefan Holdermans (Vector Fabrics)
|Lightweight Monadic Regions
|Bas van Dijk (Radboud University Nijmegen, Sensor Sense)
|Sirenial: Type-safe SQL Wrapper
|Martijn van Steenbergen (Utrecht University)
|Drinks at Café Olivier (see below)
5 Location
The event will be held at the Ordina office in Niewegein, a town not far south of the city of Utrecht. You can get there by train to Utrecht Centraal and tram (the Utrecht "sneltram") to P+R Westraven.
Details on the location can be found at the following link, and we will put more information on our website soon.
After dinner, we will go to Café Olivier for drinks (note that this is not sponsered). Café Olivier is located next to Hoog Catherijne and close to the Central Station. Their website has a map with how to get there: http://utrecht.cafe-olivier.be/content/RouteContact
6 Sponsor
We are grateful to Ordina for allowing us to host this event on their premises. They are also kindly providing drinks during the breaks and dinner afterwards for all participants. You should come and hear from our host how they make use of functional programming.
- http://www.ordina.com/ in English
- http://www.ordina.nl/ in het Nederlands
7 Organizers
- Sean Leather
- Chris Eidhof


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Lou Reed & Metallica Video To Be Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Multi-award winning director Darren Aronofsky has signed on to direct the video for 'Iced Honey,' the second single from Metallica and Lou Reed's 'Lulu' collaboration. Aronofsky had directed some of cinema's most celebrated films such as 'Black Swan,' 'The Fountain' and 'Requiem for a Dream.'
The video for the new Loutallica single will be performance-based with scenes shot in the San Francisco Bay area. Aronofsky's longtime film partner Matthew Libatique, who was the director of photography for films such as 'Black Swan,' 'The Wrestler' and 'Requiem for a Dream,' will serve as the DP and cameraman for the 'Iced Honey' video.
Both Lou Reed & Metallica have expressed their excitement for the upcoming video shoot, I have loved Darren Aronofsky since he did 'Pi'," said Lou Reed. "I hope I can be his next Black Swan." Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich referred to the opportunity to work with Aronofsky as a dream come true. "As if making a record with Lou Reed is not enough, now I get to make a video with Darren Aronofsky, who has been among my very favorite filmmakers since his first movie, "Pi," raved Ulrich.
'Lulu' has been met with both rave reviews and fierce criticism from fans and reviewers alike. The New York Times called the album "a set of wrenching, astonishingly profane songs," while Blabbermouth wrote "poorly conceived" may not do justice to how horrendously this has turned out."
Darren Aronofsky's video for 'Iced Honey' is set to be finished and released to the masses by the end of November.


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Kidnapped Mississippi child found shot to death, one person of interest in custody
JACKSON, Miss. (WPMI) —
If anyone has any information on this case, please call the MBI at 855-642-5378.
You may have received an amber alert from Jackson, Mississippi about a missing 6-year-old boy. That boy was found shot to death
Now a person of interest is in custody.
Police there say yesterday, Kingston Frazier's mother left her car running with him inside while she ran inside the Kroger.
That's when another car pulled up, a man got out, and got into that car and drove off, with Kingston in the car.
An amber alert was issued,and late this morning that vehicle was found a few miles away in Madison County with Kingston's body in the backseat.
Police say he had been shot.
They're looking for another person of interest.
If anyone has any information on this case, please call the MBI at 855-642-5378.


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About 1/2 hour before cooking the steak, bring it to room temperature.
Preheat a large cast iron skillet over medium heat. Lightly brush the steak all over with oil and season generously with salt and pepper. Raise the heat to high, add the steak and cook, turning once, until well browned, about 7 minutes for the first side, and 4 minutes on the second side, for medium-rare. Hold the steak with tongs and sear the edges. (An instant-read thermometer inserted perpendicularly into the steak registers 125 degrees F for medium rare.)
Transfer the steak to cutting board and cover loosely with foil. Let rest for 5 minutes.
Cut the tenderloin and strip from the bone, and slice against the grain. Transfer to a serving platter and serve au natural, with mustard, compound butter, or horseradish sauce.
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I love listening to my music library (cheap £500 10TB microserver) on continuous shuffle when Im back from a hard days work, it manages huge libraries effortless and plays music back instantly. My existing playlist is currently 6000-songs strong and counting.
FYI I use MM Gold. Tip for iPods, etc, you can configure non-compatible formats on the fly but make sure you manually choose stereo (Options> Portable/Audio Devices) as otherwise it will default to the lesser joint-stereo - worth sticking to 320kbps mp3 for connecting to car systems.
I make sure MM uses my SB Audigy soundcard for hardware acceleration and its crystal clear with no stuttering, even on 4500kbps 24bit/192KHz FLACs.


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Please visit http://pudl.princeton.edu/collections/pudl0025 to search Princeton's extensive and growing collection of Latin American posters. The posters included in this digital project were created by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, and other types of organizations across Latin America, in order to publicize their views, positions, agendas, policies, events, and services. Even though posters produced in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Venezuela are the most abundant among the more than two thousand currently available on the site, almost every country in the region is represented. In terms of topics, some of the best represented are human rights, elections, gender issues, indigenous issues, labor, ecology and environmental issues, development, public health, and education. The Latin American Posters Collection is a component of the larger collection of Latin American ephemera that Princeton University Library has developed since the 1970s. Feel free to contact me with any comments or questions about the collection.
Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez
Princeton University


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My Quick Take this week involves pronunciation rather than usage or spelling. After all, we wordsmiths should use words well in all of our communication, right? So…some commonly mispronounced words, and the correct way to say them (in American English):
SHERBET—there's only one 'R', and it's in the first syllable. SHER-bet, not SHER-bert.
MISCHIEVOUS—it's got three syllables. MIS-chiv-us, not mis-CHEE-vee-us.
NUCLEAR—there's a long 'E' in the middle. NEW-clee-er, not NUKE-u-lar.
PRONUNCIATION—this one's tricky, because the root word is 'pronounce'. But you should say pro-NUN-ci-a-tion, not pro-NOUN-ci-a-tion.
That's enough for today, but it leads me to the first…
HOMEWORK: Tell me a word or two that you frequently hear mispronounced, or ask about the pronunciation of a word that has stumped you.
This is the final installment on the third Writing Challenge criterion--how well crafted is this entry? I'll be covering non-fiction, non-poetry entries here—devotionals, Bible studies, first-person essays, persuasive and expository writing…that sort of thing.
These kinds of writings haven't typically done as well in the Writing Challenge as fiction and poetry have, and I think there are a few reasons for this. First, it's harder to find approaches to the subject matter that are creative and fresh. Unfortunately, this is especially true for devotionals and Bible studies. Many FaithWriters have been Christians for years, decades, even all their lives. Some of us have heard and read thousands of spiritual lessons. So the writer who chooses this genre must bring something new to the piece, or it may just flitter past the reader's brain without making much of an impression.
Second, it's easy for non-fiction reading to be academic and unemotional. People come to a site like FW for a few minutes of diversion; fiction may be more appealing to them unless the subject matter happens to tap into their particular interests.
Nevertheless, I think there's a place for well-written non-fiction in the challenge, and I'd love to see non-fiction writing show up more often in the EC list. Following is a list of suggestions for perking up your non-fiction entries:
1. Begin with a great hook. The idea is to draw your reader in so that she wants to keep reading. So start with:
a. an anecdote—a story about something that happened to you, or to someone you know. You could even make up a fictional anecdote about a hypothetical person whose experience will be dealt with in your piece.
b. a shocking or dramatic fact—but write it in a creative way. Which of these do you think is more interesting?
There are over four million widgets manufactured every day in the nation of Elbonia.
An Elbonian woman wearily tosses a widget into the bin at her side and starts to assemble another—one of four million her county will produce this year.
Avoid the following openings, despite the fact that you may have once been told they were interesting beginnings—they are clichéd and uncreative.
a. quotes
b. rhetorical questions (Have you ever thought about where your widget was manufactured?)
c. scripture. I'm sorry to say it, but many readers' eyes will skip right over a block of scripture at the beginning of your piece. But if you incorporate your scripture into the body of the entry, it will more likely get read.
d. dictionary definitions. There's a reason people don't read the dictionary—it's boring. If your key word is unknown by your readers, or it needs to be defined for some other reason (perhaps a little-known use of the word), then work that into your text in an interesting way. If your word is more common, you don't need to define it.
2. Keep your writing interesting in the body of the work. A lot of the things that make a story interesting will work for non-fiction, too.
a. use 'salsa' words
b. use object lessons and personal experiences—don't allow your piece to be too academic or too abstract (I bought three widgets last week, and promptly lost them all…)
c. keep the paragraphs short, and vary your sentence structure
d. avoid passive voice and the use of 'to be' verbs: was, were, is, are. Whenever possible, use active verbs.
e. be mindful of 'Christian-ese'—those expressions and phrases that we've heard from the pulpit thousands of times. As you're writing, ask yourself have I ever seen or heard this before? If you have, find a new way to write it.
3. End your piece in an interesting manner. Many of the items above also apply to endings.
a. Don't end with a block of scripture set aside from the text, or even worse, with a list of verses. Very, very few people will look them up. As I said above, incorporate your scripture into the body of your piece.
b. If you started with a personal story, you may want to end with 'the rest of the story'.
c. Rather than sermonizing, end with an exhortation to action. (If you buy a widget this week, think of Mavka, toiling in the widget factory…)
d. Appeal to the readers' emotions—make them cry, or better yet, make them laugh. There's nothing that says non-fiction can't be funny!
HOMEWORK: Pick one of the following subjects and write ONE PARAGRAPH about it. Make it interesting—I'm not looking for a school report.
1. a musical instrument
2. Lamentations 3:21-23
3. freedom
4. widgets
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Downtown Spartanburg will be home to three new businesses — a maternity store, a hiking supplier and a distillery.
Downtown Spartanburg will be home to three new businesses — a maternity store, a hiking supplier and a distillery.
The three won the city's Main Street Challenge, a competition that drew almost 60 applicants who pitched their ideas and business plans to a selection committee. The winners were announced in front of an audience of 170 at The Showroom after each of the six finalists gave entertaining presentations.
Endeavor Forever, a Greek apparel store, won crowd favorite and proceeds from the event.
Economic Development Director Patty Bock said she was "blown away" by the energy and enthusiasm of the crowd that supported downtown businesses.
Each of the winners will receive $12,000 during its first year of operation and more than $20,000 worth of in-kind support such as payroll and website assistance. Each winner must sign a three-year lease contract with pre-selected downtown business owners. The locations of the three new businesses haven't been announced. All businesses must be open by November.
Michael Motte and his wife, Eugenia, are the owners of Motte and Sons Bootlegging Company — which will be the fourth distillery in South Carolina. The two have four sons, one of whom takes distillery classes in Colorado, who will be involved in the business. The distillery will offer whiskey, rum and gin.
Michael Motte said he and his wife first came up with an idea for a distillery after watching "Moonshiners."
"We love the concept, we love downtown Spartanburg," Michael Motte said. "We've gotten such great response and support. We can't wait to open."
Mike Silverman will be the new owner of The Local Hiker, a hiking equipment supplier.
Mallory Edwards, a member of the selection committee, said The Local Hiker was a good example of a solid concept that took feedback from the selection committee and improved their idea.
"We suggested that they contact Patagonia and they did and have a contract with them now," Edwards said. "That was the great thing about The Main Street Challenge is all the applicants, not just the finalists, received feedback and input from people who know what it takes to make a business in Spartanburg work and they will apply it to what they're doing."
Haute Mama is a maternity store concept by Sara Riddle — a mother of a nine-month-old son who had a hard time finding maternity clothes that were affordable.
Riddle said she is excited about being a part of the future of downtown.
"I'm so excited," Riddle said. "Just a chance to take an idea I had in my head and have it developed into something that the selection committee thinks will work is phenomenal, and this will give me and the other winners the support we need to succeed."
The city is still working with other applicants to develop their concepts so more businesses open soon in downtown.
"I'm confident that we'll have 10 more businesses in downtown in the relatively near future," Bock said. "People are ready, and I think Spartanburg is on the verge of great things."


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A guide to vibrant living
An Edible Philosophy of Nutrition
Tantra and Ayurveda
a natural wellness lifestyle blog
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" -Hippocrates, ca 400 B.C.
Rescuing good health from bad science.
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healthy • heartfelt • homemade
The Best of the visual Web, sifted, sorted and summarized
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Jennifer Aniston: Beach Reading with Justin Theroux!
Jennifer Aniston shows off her flat tummy while donning a bikini during her vacation with shirtless fiance Justin Theroux on New Years Eve (December 31) in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Later in the day, the 43-year-old actress was seen enjoying some leisure time while reading a book in a different bikini.
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On the same day, Justin and Jennifer were spotted showing each other affection while wrapping their arms around each other.
Jennifer and Justin are currently on vacation with their celebrity pals John Krasinski, his wife Emily Blunt, Jimmy Kimmel, and his fiancee Molly McNearney.
Earlier in the week, Jimmy, John, and Molly were seen paddle boarding in the ocean.


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YONKERS, N.Y. – A Yonkers man faces up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to his role in a drunken-driving accident that killed a Gorton High School student in 2012.
Waverly Patrick, 53, of 2 Hudson St., pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident, both felonies, as well as aggravated driving while intoxicated, a misdemeanor.
Patrick was driving west on Valentine Lane at 9:28 p.m. June 22 when his Jeep Cherokee struck 16-year-old Keyairra Price, who was waiting to cross the street with a 15-year-old friend on their way to a store, prosecutors say.
The impact threw Price to the sidewalk while Patrick continued driving toward Riverdale Avenue. Price was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where she later died.
After the accident, Yonkers police searched for the vehicle and located it several hours later in a parking lot outside Patrick's apartment building. Patrick was taken into custody and questioned.
Patrick's blood alcohol level was later found to be in excess of 0.18, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08, prosecutors say.
Patrick will be sentenced March 27 in White Plains State Supreme Court.
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The Novels feature the titles that are most readily available and recognized. These stories produced in both Hardcover and Paperback initially featured just the core characters of Luke and Leia, Han and Chewie or Lando Calrissian. With the advent of the term Expanded Universe and the publication of Heir to the Empire in 1991 many new characters were able to take the spotlight, while some stories only focus on EU characters. As of April 2014, the older Expanded Universe novels were rebranded as Star Wars Legends, as the continuity was reworked for the upcoming Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars Episode VII.
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Taking place between the events of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, these books expand on the events of the Clone Wars, and also tie into the events presented in the comic books and Cartoon network television series.
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The tension between the two candidates vying to represent Oak Harbor-area residents on the Board of Island County Commissioners started before either of them ran for public office.
The city of Oak Harbor was considering a measure that would have lead to a large development on the south end of the city. Homola, a founding member of Swan Lake Preservation Group, spoke out against the proposal as being harmful urban sprawl; Jill Johnson, the Oak Harbor chamber director, spoke at a council meeting, saying that the majority of chamber members were in favor of the idea.
A confrontation later ensued. Homola claimed Johnson misrepresented the facts and was rude. Johnson claimed that Homola was a bully and acted as if she had the right to demand documents from the private organization.
The disagreement illustrates the many differences between the two candidates, their vision for the future of the county and just how strongly they hold their positions.
"We have to throw out the old playbook model of growing as fast as we can," Homola said. "…We can no longer rely on growth to to fund the budget. We were seeing our taxes go up and our quality of life go down."
Johnson said well-planned growth and development is sometimes necessary and she's in favor of expanding the city of Oak Harbor's boundaries, which Homola helped to partially block. Johnson claims Homola is simply against growth.
"If you are truly concerned about the environment, putting homes in urban areas is much more preferable," she said.
Homola is running for reelection after one term in office marked by historic budget shortfalls. She is extremely hardworking and involved in countless committees and groups, which can also make it hard for citizens to get hold of her. She is an architect and used to work for the county planning department until she was fired for reasons that are in dispute.
Johnson is the executive director of the Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce. She started her career in politics and managed campaigns in Washington, Texas and Colorado. She was an important voice in the successful campaigns to remodel Oak Harbor High School and build the stadium.
The two candidates have different views on a wide range of issues. One only has to turn to the recently adopted Island County budget to see a good illustration.
Budget differences
After years of budget cutting, the commissioners finally were in the position to restore some of positions and programs that have been eliminated during the economic downturn. Homola voted to fund a new long-range planner, as well as a corrections deputy, in the 2013 budget.
Johnson argued that Homola is out of touch for placing the planning position at such a high priority.
"The sheriff's office is underfunded. That's what people are talking about, not another planner," she said.
"What people want is a safe place to live," she added.
Instead of a planner, Johnson said she would have returned more funding to law-and-justice departments, such as a deputy, prosecutor or patrol car.
But Homola argues that people are truly concerned about their quality of life, which in Island County is directly connected to their environment and, therefore, planning. She said thoughtful planning can also spur the economy by luring business with things like business-friendly zoning, the protection of resources and an adequate transportation system.
Plus, she said not adequately funding the planning department could lead to expensive lawsuits if state-mandated plans aren't updated. She said the county currently has the lowest staffed planning department in the state on a per-capita basis.
Priorities differ
Homola has an ambitious list of goals for the next four years. She wants to bring the Oak Harbor and Island County planning departments together to do joint long-range planning, though she said city leadership has been reluctant so far. She wants to see new ordinances on tree retention, low-income housing and renewable energy. She wants curb-side recycling in the county and a consolidated county motor pool.
In addition, she wants to improve the county's cyber technology so that people can apply for permits or pay for dog licenses online. She also wants tax adjustments to be completed earlier.
Johnson, on the other hand, has priorities on a more philosophical level. She said she wants to change the way the county approaches property owners and business, particularly small businesses.
"I think there is government overreach that makes it hard for small business to get going," she said. "I've heard from small business owners who feel like county government really wasn't on their side."
As an example, Johnson points to "simple things" like the county sign code, which she said considers aesthetics over business interests. In addition, she said the permitting process should be streamlined and quicker. She said the commissioners should consider the impact on small businesses when they create new taxes, such as the Clean Water Utility, or raise fees.
Most of all, Johnson said her priority is to represent the people of the district.
"District 2 hasn't been well represented over the last four years," she said. "My opponent only represents a very narrow range of interests."
A change in tone?
An issue that Johnson has emphasized on the campaign trail is "tone." She said she can end the constant in-fighting on the board, which she describes as unprofessional, counterproductive and hard on employee morale. She faults all the commissioners — Homola, Kelly Emerson and Helen Price Johnson — for petty bickering.
"You're going to end up with the same contentious board of commissioners if you don't make any changes," she warned.
Johnson also pointed out that fellow elected officials refused to participate in a roundtable budget discussion with the commissioners.
"That speaks volumes about the relationship the board has with the other elected officials," she said.
Johnson said she has experience dealing with people who have very different points of view and can bring a new level of decorum to the board.
Homola counters that Johnson has rarely been to county meetings and, therefore, can't speak with authority.
"I can count the number of meetings my opponent has been to on one hand," she said.
Homola points out that she won a state award for bipartisanship and is known on state boards for cooperating with people on all sides of an issue. She puts the cause of discord on the board squarely on Commissioner Emerson's shoulders.
"It's very challenging when you have a partner who has a very different point of view … and is unwilling to consider other points of view," she said, claiming that Emerson is unyielding and bases her opinions on faux facts.
Homola also argues that Johnson is the one who lacks decorum and used her position as chamber director to thwart Homola in the past. She claimed Johnson made it very difficult for her to address the chamber and told the chamber members that Homola "bullied her way in" to talk about Proposition 1, a failed tax increase effort.
"A level of diplomacy and bipartisanship are strengths in my camp," Homola said.


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By Toni Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the huge agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid got rare bipartisan praise on Tuesday, but faced tough questions about healthcare reform and a recent controversial decision on Medicare Advantage payment rates.
Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, which will decide whether to advance her nomination, Marilyn Tavenner said her role would be to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a business, and as a partner with many healthcare entities for the benefit of all.
Tavenner, a former nurse and hospital company executive from Virginia, has been acting administrator of the agency since late 2011.
"We have an $820 billion dollar business to run that a large amount of this country has a stake in, from beneficiaries to providers to hospitals to insurance companies to Congress to the administration to our CMS employees and contractors," Tavenner said. "We need to operate CMS as a business and act like business partners."
In a sign of her bipartisan appeal, she was introduced by one of the nation's most prominent conservative lawmakers and a longtime foe of Obama's Affordable Care Act, fellow Virginian and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who worked with Tavenner when she ran the state's Medicaid program.
"If there is anyone that I trust to try and navigate the challenges, it is Marilyn Tavenner. And I feel that strongly about her," said Cantor.
Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana lauded Tavenner's confidence, courage and compassion, while Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, a former governor, called her "a proven problem solver."
In prepared testimony, Tavenner said "strong operational skills" were most important for CMS, and she highlighted the agency's efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud and payment errors and to improve data access. CMS is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Tavenner was grilled by Republican senators about various aspects of the Affordable Care Act, which the agency will implement in addition to its provision of health coverage for some 100 million people -- mostly the elderly, poor and disabled.
Ranking Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said that CMS has "not been able to provide satisfactory answers" on various aspects of the state health insurance exchanges that are a centerpiece of the healthcare act. Signup for the exchanges, which are to provide subsidized private health coverage on January 1, starts in October.
"We still know very little about how the exchanges will operate, what the key operational and implementation deadlines are, and how CMS is monitoring them to determine if things are on track or not," Hatch said.
"There is still much that you will need to do in order to assure members of this committee that CMS is heading in the right direction and that your leadership will help steer the agency through the very turbulent times that lie ahead."
Iowa Republican Charles Grassley pressed Tavenner on the possible leak of the April 1 decision on Medicare Advantage payment rates to a consulting firm. His queries were based on an April 3 Wall Street Journal report that stock market gains on April 1 were due to a report by Height Securities, saying the announcement would favor insurers.
Medicare Advantage provides care for seniors who elect to receive their Medicare benefits through private insurance plans.
"When information leaks from the administration that has the ability to cause significant market movement, it is wrong and quite possibly illegal," Grassley said.
Tavenner said she had asked the Office of the Inspector General to be brought in, to complement an internal review. "I do not consider this a small issue. I consider this a huge issue," she said.
Republicans opposed to the Affordable Care Act, which is designed to expand coverage to an estimated 27 million previously uninsured Americans, have blocked earlier attempts by Obama to name a new administrator.
CMS has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since 2006, when Dr. Mark McClellan, a Republican nominee who oversaw the implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, resigned after just two years.
In July 2010 Obama appointed Donald Berwick, chief executive of the not-for-profit Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to the position while Congress was in recess.
More than 40 Republican senators vowed to block Berwick's confirmation, accusing him of wanting to ration healthcare. Berwick resigned shortly before the expiration of his recess appointment in December 2011.
Tavenner was Berwick's principal deputy and became acting administrator of CMS upon his departure.
Before joining CMS, Tavenner worked for four years as the secretary of health and human resources for Virginia. She spent 25 years working for the Hospital Corporation of America, beginning as a nurse, eventually becoming an executive, and ending in 2005 as head of its outpatient services unit.
(Additional reporting by David Morgan; editing by Ros Krasny and Leslie Adler)


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July 01. 2013 10:58PM
Portsmouth woman gets month in jail following robbery, pursuit
By JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
— A woman who police say robbed a Portsmouth pharmacy of its pain pills then crashed her truck into another car while fleeing cut a quick deal with county prosecutors prior to a grand jury hearing her case.
Cheryl Lees, 50, of Portsmouth pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft, resisting arrest and conduct after an accident for passing a threatening note to a clerk at a Rite-Aid store on May 26 in Portsmouth.
Lees entered her plea on Friday in Rockingham County Superior Court, a day after she had a hearing seeking to be freed on lower bail.
County prosecutors agreed to drop a felony robbery and possession of a controlled drug charges against her in exchange for her guilty plea.
Lees will spend 33 days behind bars, part of a one-year jail sentence that will remain largely suspended so long as she remains on good behavior for the next two years, according to court records.
Portsmouth police were called to the Rite-Aid store, located at 800 Islington St., on May 26 at 1:36 p.m.
Lees handed an employee at Rite-Aid a note that said, "everything in the safe, nothing stupid, I have someone watching for at least 15 min," according to prosecutors. The employee handed the note to the store's pharmacist who went to the store's safe and put several bottles of pills in a bag, in addition to a GPS tracking device. Once Lees exited the building, the manager called 911. Officer Nicholas Small spotted a white Ford Explorer driving along Middle Street. Small didn't have a description of the suspect's vehicle, but noticed the driver speed up behind other vehicles traveling on the road, prosecutors said.
Small attempted to catch up to the vehicle. Lees accelerated her truck and crashed into the rear of another motorist on Lafayette Road at the intersection of Andrew Jarvis Drive, police said.
Lees' truck veered to the left side of the road onto the shoulder, but took off again once the officer pulled in behind her.
Prosecutors said Lees then drove against traffic on Lafayette Road, causing several cars to pull off the road to avoid being hit.
She drove into the Ledgewood Drive neighborhood, where she got out of the vehicle and ran toward an apartment building, according to police.
She was arrested after a brief struggle.


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