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Lost Boys actor Corey Haim has been laid to rest at a chapel in Toronto.
Over 200 guests attended a private service in an emotional farewell to the tragic Eighties star, who passed away last Wednesday at the age of 38.
Corey Feldman - the actor's Lost Boys co-star and long-term friend - was not present at the funeral, saying he wanted "to minimize the media attention as much as possible".
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SPOKANE, WASH. -- Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign on Feb. 28 because he was simply too infirm to carry on — the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years.
Bishop of Spokane, Blase Cupich, said the announcement initially brought sadness. Yet, Cupich told KREM 2 News that Pope Benedict XVI served the church well.
"I recall from my days of studying for the priesthood in the late 1960's how much his writings as an eminent theologian inspired me. Since then I have had nothing but deep admiration and affection for him," said Cupich.
The 85-year-old pope announced his decision in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals on Monday morning. The decision sets the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March.
Bishop Cupich visited the Vatican in April of 2012. He said that Pope Benedict XVI health changed dramatically when he returned in October.
"He had difficulty walking, it was very hard for him, you could see he didn't have that level of energy," add Cupich.
Benedict called his choice "a decision of great importance for the life of the church." Benedict was elected pope at age 78 and he had been already planning to retire as the Vatican's chief orthodoxy watchdog.
"Some have suspected he may return to his native Germany and allow his own family to be a part of his final years of his life," speculated Cupich.
Bishop Cupich does not believe the Pope's handling of the sexual abuse scandal is an issue.
"I am sure that he can rest well that his legacy of how he handled this situation will stand the test of time," said Bishop Cupich.
There are several papal contenders in the wings, but no obvious front-runner — the same situation when Benedict was elected pontiff in 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II.
Contenders to be his successor include Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan,
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna, and Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Canadian head of the Vatican's office for bishops.
Longshots include Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. Although Dolan is popular and backs the pope's conservative line, the general thinking is that the Catholic Church doesn't need a pope from a "superpower."
All cardinals under age 80 are allowed to vote in the conclave, the secret meeting held in the Sistine Chapel where cardinals cast ballots to elect a new pope. As per tradition, the ballots are burned after each voting round; black smoke that snakes out of the chimney means no pope has been chosen, while white smoke means a pope has been elected.


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City administrator Michon Jackson canceled the city-wide boil order just after noon Thursday, noting that residents can feel free to go back to drinking and using their tap water normally.
The boil order had originally been scheduled to end Friday.
The City of Tiffin will be under a three-day boil order after a defective part in the water tower is replaced.City Administrator Michon Jackson says Tiffin will be under a boil order from Wednesday through Friday while the city replaces a defective mixer in the new water tower.Jackson says residents should be sure not to drink the water without boiling it first.
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"Tastes and feels like all the parts are very good. The tannins are polished, the fruit is ripe and complex, the oak is elaborate, and there's a nice bite of acidity in the background. The blackberry, black currant, carob and cedar flavors are enticing and dry. But this wine is too young. It has a youthful rudeness that demands 5–7 years in the cellar. The score reflects potential."
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So here they are your 2009 New York Mets about to pop open the champagne bottles and christen beautiful Citi Field tomorrow evening after a stellar road trip and leading the NL East…right? Wrong! After a mediocre .500 start against lowly Cincinati and Florida, there is not that much to be proud about. The Mets are 3-3 after 6 games into the season sitting smack in the middle of the NL East. This team lost 2 of 3 to a Marlins team that has approximately $100 million dollar payroll LESS than they do. The sad part about this series is the 2 losses were games the Mets could have won. Friday night's 5-4 loss in the bottom of the 9th was tough especially after they had come back off of closer Matt Lindstrom to tie it at 4-4 when bench player Jeremy Reed came up with a huge 2-out RBI single. Most Met fans like myself actually thought this was going to be a battle of bullpens where the Mets had a clear edge. However, it would not be the case as Darren O'Day gave up the game-ending single to Jorge Cantu scoring Emilio Bonafacio (who sure as heck in making his case for front-runner of NL ROY). And to today…(sigh)…this one hurt. Johan Santana goes out there and pitches 7 innings of 3 hit and 13 strikeout ball and loses due to an error by Daniel Murphy. Well that and Josh Johnson was basically unhittable the first 8 innings. In the 9th, the Mets excited you again when Delgado doubled with 2 out, followed by a Beltran RBI single making it 2-1. Then Johnson falls behind Church 3-0 before he lines out. Before you know it, your on the plane back to Queens (a somber plane ride I am sure) and carrying a mediocre 3-3 record. What went wrong?
I found one main thing that was wrong with this team during this series and through the first 6 games overall. LACK OF HITTING WITH RISP!!! Friday night they were 0-12. Today, they weren't much better. There were opportunities today (although not many) to crack through. If the Mets intend to be a contender in the National League and have playoff aspirations, their big stars like David Wright (whom I find most guilty on this list) and Jose Reyes need to come up with the big hits. I can't take another year of Wright batting .243 with RISP again. Hopefully playing an awful San Diego Padres team the next 3 games (without having to face Peavy) will give this team exactly what they need…a shot in the arm to kickstart their season. For now, we can not get too worried because the season is only a week old but if your a Mets fan, your used to worrying anyway.


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High-profile investor Aaron Bhatnagar says Prime Minister John Key is right to consider leglislation that would over-rule a draft Commerce Commission decision to slash would Chorus can charge for copper wire broadband.
The draft decision saw Chorus [NZX:CNU] plunge 14.41% or 49 cents to $2.90 – three cents below its December IPO price 12 months ago.
Yesterday, Mr Key said cheaper copper lines could threaten uptake of fibre under the government's $1.35 billion Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) rollout, 70% of which is being carried out by Chorus.
"I don't recall anyone voting for the Commerce Commission to deliver New Zealand superior infrastructure. It was John Key who was mandated by the public to deliver a step-change in New Zealand's infrastructure," Mr Bhatnagar told NBR ONLINE.
"From a public policy perspective, it is wrong for government organisations like the Commerce Commission to be delivering changes that are hugely at odds with the government's desire to deliver on fibre, and where the government itself it spending huge sums of taxpayer money to deliver outcomes.
"At the very least, the commission should seek some determinations from government ministers on taking into account how its operational framework works with mandated government flagship policies.
"This might require a law change. Mark Ratcliffe from Chorus is right that the government should bring forward the 2016 regulatory review, because there is no certainty in how the commission is operating."
Telecommunications Users' Association head Paul Brislen disagreed.
"I'm quite surprised to see the Prime Minister wading into the discussion," he told NBR.
"It was, after all, this government which introduced the new Telecommunications Act which includes the requirement that Chorus wholesale services be assessed on a cost basis rather than 'retail minus'.
"The draft Commerce Commission decision is just that - a draft - and the process from here is well laid out. To intervene at this point in the process is to usurp the role of the Commission and to sideline the views of the entire industry in favour of the views of one participant in the industry. Regardless of whether the $8.93 price point is acceptable to all parties, having the PM jump in at this point is not helpful."
Yesterday, Telecommunications Commissioner Stephen Gale told NBR it was not his statutory role to promote fibre uptake, but rather to monitor incentives around the uptake of new broadband technologies, which could also include technologies like VDSL that boost speed over copper lines.
"It will not have escaped the government's attention that the commission has now delivered outcomes that are significantly injurious to some of New Zealand's biggest companies in less than a 12-month period – Sky TV, Vector and Chorus twice," Mr Bhatnagar says.
"This year alone, there have been market stampedes that have wiped out over half a billion dollars from these companies – about $150 million from Chorus in early May, about $150 million from Sky TV in mid-May, just under $200 million for Chorus from yesterday and around $150 million with Vector in late October."
This may be indicative of cultural issues at the ComCom that the government may wish to address, the investor says.
However, a UFB booster would note that if Mr Key's aim is to boost fibre uptake, then the commission's investigation into Sky TV's content deals, and whether they prevent new market entrants from gaining a critical mass of content, could benefit the new broadband technology.
Dec 3: The Telecommunications Commissioner's draft decision on access to switchgear on the copper telecommunications network is "very problematic" and the government will not rule out legislating to get the outcome it wants, Prime Minister John Key says.
His comments came as shares in the copper network owner, Chorus, fell 14% to $2.91, three cents lower than its listing price when it was separated from Telecom in November last year as a fundamental part of reforms associated with the government's $1.35 billion subsidy for an ultra-fast broadband network.
Telecommunications Commissioner Stephen Gale's decision is good for consumers, at least short term, because it requires lower than expected prices for access to the existing telecommunications network, which is based on copper wire.
But it threatens to undermine the uptake of UFB by making copper more competitively priced than the new fibre-based network.
Copper-based services are unable to deliver broadband speeds as high as through the UFB fibre network, but technology improvements make it very fast and lower prices could keep it competitive with UFB for longer.
The UFB network is a flagship government policy, but requires uptake of UFB to ensure rollout of the network continues to spread, as revenues from uptake will be funnelled back into further expanding the network.
If consumers stay with copper-based services for longer, the UFB rollout risks stalling for lack of demand.
Mr Key pointed out at his post-Cabinet press conference that an earlier draft decision from Mr Gale's predecessor, Ross Patterson, on pricing for the unbundled local loop had been substantially modified after submissions.
Both Chorus and Telecommunications Minister Amy Adams had indicated serious concerns about the draft decision on unbundled bitstream access (UBA) before Mr Key's comments, with Chorus warning it could cut earnings by up to $160 million a year.
With reporting by BusinessDesk
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One reason that there will be low uptake of ufb is that ordinary consumers have no need or access to the amount of data it would provide: copper is fine. Perhaps the Government should regulate Sky and internet content providers, and free up the overseas cables, all effective monopolies and doing very well thankyou.- if there was true freedom in what we can watch on broadband (let's face it, ufb will provide entertainment and nothing much else for the majority of customers) there would be a natural demand for ufb and Chorus would not feel so threatened. It is a better look to do this than start legislating protected niches for monopolies in the way Muldoon ran the country.
This is crazy. How much extra cash has NZ borrowed to build this lemon? UFB is only marginally faster than a well optimised DSL2+ connection nothing more, nothing less.
We've all been sold the lie that we desperately need this and when push comes to shove most of us realise we don't actually want it as what we've got is perfectly fine for typical day-to-day online activities.
What is missing here are services that will make use of fibre. What are these, and do any exist? These questions should have been asked up-front before those idiots in parliament committed a very large amount of taxpayer-paid debt to this white elephant.
In a nutshell, driving demand by price is shortsighted and will scuttle the economics underpinning fibre. Wouldn't a more realistic play be stimulating demand with HD video and other services that won't work over copper?
The average consumer, or small business, could easily chew through much more data, and benefit from much greater speed.
Most of them just don't know it.
Fibre boosters have to stop talking holographic telemedicine and start talking Apple iCloud and Google Apps.
Agree that tightly held content and international bandwidth are issues.
Fibre does not fix the main issue with those services, which is international bandwidth. I find that a NZ mirror is often around 1.5MB/s (ADSL2+, ~12Mb/s) compared to about 300kB/s for pretty much anywhere overseas. VDSL2 would be even faster for within NZ, but like fibre probably wouldn't fix the international data problem. One reason I'm moving to an ISP that doesn't do traffic shaping.
Pity Pacific Fibre (I think it was them - new submarine cable) fell through.
Korean academics are struggling to find any local economic benefit from use of their heavily government-subsidised fibre network. Recent research suggests that its sole positive economic contribution has been as a 'reference site' to demonstrate the use of all the appliances (smart phones, computers tablets etc ) that run on it and the Korean made network equipment used in it it so that Korean manufacturers can sell more of their manufactures offshore. As for unlimited bandwidth - the Korean regulators are now trying to work out how to stop some groups using it as they have become so addicted to gaming that it is now considered a public health hazard .
Unlike Telecom, Chorus remains subject to Kiwishare-style restrictions on foreign ownership.
The organisation that does have a growing shareholding in Chorus is the NZ government.
The Crown is putting $1.35 billion toward the Ultrafast Broadband (UFB) rollout.
Of that $1.35b, $929 million is going to Chorus - half in the form of an interest-free loan (repayable between 2025 and 2036) and half in the form of the Crown purchasing non-voting shares in Chorus (which will be sold at the end of the 10-year project).
Of course, it's tricky (or very problematic, as it were) to be both a shareholder in a company and publicly mulling whether you'll overturn its regulator.
I jumped onto my brother in laws ADSL on Sunday and OMG - so slow to download anything. I'll stick to my fibre thanks.
And yes - multimedia is the bandwidth hog. Don't think I've watched live TV in months.
Odd. I watch Netflix all the time on my adsl. It copes absolutely fine. I can even have two separate streams running at the same time no problems. What on earth would I need fibre for?
Ditto. Netflix, BBC iPlayer, ABC, etc, with no issues at all via a transparent DNS tunnel.
9mb/s in my house build in 1945 ... which I doubt has been rewired in 20-30 years.
I, as a tech-savy consumer, have no idea what more I would need for my life or my small internet business.
Copper data services (and, indeed, 3/4g) are highly variable. What works for one may not work for their neighbour, regardless of ISP or data plan. Fibre will deliver a consistent last-mile experience for all users - indeed, an identical experience. With fibre, the variability will be down to a competitive market for ISP services (their network quality, upstream connectivity, customer support) and to a lesser degree the quality of one's in-home distribution.
The main reason for speed varying is in-home wiring. Whether it's copper to your house or fibre won't change that.
And if the content you want to access is hosted offshore, then moving it at the speed of light when it gets to NZ will not compensate for latency and jitter that arises from having to move it half way around the world first.
It would be absolutely outrageous if the government overturned the Commission's price setting.
By racheting up prices for copper services the govt would effectively be subsidising Chorus' roll-out of fibre by making all telecoms customers pay more. Why not just admit that $1.5b was never enough for fibre to the home. If need be give Chorus another hand-out, but don't distort the entire telecoms industry and disadvantage low-income consumers just to make sure that the govt's flagship policy is guaranteed to succeed.
"If need be give Chorus more tax payers money" but "don't distort the market". Come on, get with it. Giving the money is a market distortion. The problem is NZ is such a small market no investors will fund the web surfing lifestyle so many Kiwis want.
The govt may have to fund this, and if they do, pray what is the difference with regulating the price Chorus can charge to make area listing return on capital. No difference it still amounts to a distortion that the govt deems is in the interest of the majority of the country, just like modern hospitals.
Your example doesn't work. Hospitals are funded through general taxation, not by adding a surcharge to every GP visit - which is the equivalent to what would be happening here if the govt artificially increased the pricing for UBA. If the govt wants UFB, fine. But it's one thing to directly fund the infrastructure, and another to require all users of a completely different service to pay higher prices in order to subsidise the govt's favoured provider.
I thought National were all about letting the market decide. This nonsense about 'the consumer doesn't know what it needs' is ridiculous. I also find Chris' comment above condescending and I'm surprised he is taking the 'big brother knows what is better for you' side.
We run the risk of destroying NZ commercial credibility if the govt overturns the recommendation, especially as noted above. The govt, through Crown Fibre Holdings, has an equity interest in Chorus and other LFCs.
#7 comment is not a little ironic when it is the Commerce Commission interfering with a commercial pricing decision of a public company and wiping off millions of shareholder wealth with its decision. Hope the last investor leaving the country turns off the lights.
the government gets involved and things break. Oh sure we have cheaper this and cheaper that, but none of it really works properly.
Its cheaper but then all those staff that got laid off can't afford it now. This is the real guts of the situation. Regulation, more competition and faster plus shinier (and god knows we don't want to fall behind on some dodgy OECD benchmark designed to line the pockets of Cisco).
The reality once the last decades worth of political chest puffery is removed from the picture, what is left behind is just sad: A broken telco environment and more unemployment, less wealth creation. Funnily enough the same applies to every industry those walkshort wearing clowns have touched.
Yeah good on ya commerce commission
Letting one company (Chorus) have both the copper network and a majority of the fibre network was a real duhh-eeee decision. This was always going to end in tears and now it has started.
But don't worry, Key is reprising Muldoon - he'll do what he wants until voters show him the door. So expect him to do whatever it takes to "fix" his perceived UFB problem. Content and international fibre - not a chance Key will address these issues. Key will not see a problem.
National has never been about markets - most Nats would not know a market if it hit them on the head. National is about protecting monopoly niches, as the first commenter noted. And in NZ, monopoly niches, or sometimes oligopoly niches, is what mostly passes for NZ's "market" economy.
I am not sure what Kiwis did to get stuck with such a brain-dead bunch of politicians the last few years. Truly sad.
I know exactly what they did, they listened to the journalists, pundits and the assorted media hacks.
Chorus won a competitive tender to get the contract. Far from being "given" it.
Now the goalposts are being shifted and those investors who risked their money to fund the build are being shafted. If the rewards are as lucrative as some of the incoming comments suggest why is the competition not building their own networks? Vodafone, for example, has the critical mass yet it elects to buy out the competition, Telstra.
National's 10 step plan for economic reform:
1. Take a minister's "Think Big" plan for fibre.
2. Add lots of taxpayer money.
3. Contract the person who owns the copper to build the fibre, so that copper and fibre competition can't happen.
4. Claim this is good because you got a really good price in your bid.
5. Insert UCLL averaging, so that UCLL competition is no longer cost effective.
6. Wait until incumbent comes begging for more money.
7. Take money from consumers (who are also taxpayers).
8. Neuter independent regulator on basis that not giving effect to government policy.
9. ???
10. Catch up to Australia.
Thanks for your comments, John. Hopefully, it will stop the haemorrhaging as I had been taking a bath.
Maybe John Key has discovered he has some Chorus shares.
He might not have any Chorus shares. But, more ominously, the Bhatnagar family, a massive owner of the Nat Party, clearly do.
Chris K, you put that in your intro and none of your readers thus far seems to have any concerns?
If Key doesn't interfere this could be the job creation strategy-by-accident he has been ducking and diving on.
Legislate against incompetence (leaky homes, etc) and don't mess with the market guardians who are there to protect us.
So the government may change the law to get the outcome they want - so has Jonkey just woken up and figured out he is in charge. Better late than never!
Now, John, do the same thing with the RMA!
Governments are elected to govern for the greater good of the nation. This time I agree with you, John. Start to govern!
Fibre is the future. Pricing and the content available to the masses will determine the success or not. If copper was too cheap the UFB is dead for 20 years.
Outside of commercial entities, the majority of UFB usage will go in multi-media volume (translate - illegal movie & music downloads). While there may be a business case for large organisations, the only way the infrastructure would go ahead would be with mass market uptake by retail consumers.
Also, the cloud computing environment just encourages a life-by-rent. Instead of owning software you are forced to pay by subscription every month. As with mega-upload, you still have no security around ownership and access to content.
It's still better than spending $53million on a bloody 'white-water centre' for Manakau...
I think that we forget what the legislation says here. This is the ONLY answer the commission could have come up with. It is written in legislation how they are to determine their initial price. So don't blame the commission, John, blame the law makers - oh, that's you dude.
Furthermore, the commission will likely overturn its own decision because that's what the consultation process is all about. It allows for stakeholders to have a say and for the commission to consider other factors in determining a final price.
The real problem here is the legislation, not the commission.
The real problem here is that a bunch of short-sighted idiots fell for vendor hype around fibre. Remember how NZ was going to be in the stone age if it didnt get fibre? No one listened to those asking the question who stood to gain the most from fibre being pushed.
Funnily enough, no one discusses any real and tangible benefits coming from UFB because there are so very few.
In the grand scheme of things our education system and hospitals could have delivered far better returns on the several truck loads of borrowed cash that has been plowed into this disaster.
You may get cheaper and faster internet which might make your Trade Me transactions happen a few seconds quicker, but don't complain about your taxes at the end of the day. Faster Trade Me has to be paid for by you and I.
Fibre vs Copper? Fibre all all the way, no argument. Same argument on gravel vs sealed roads.
Nope, it's more like having a gravel vs sealed DRIVEWAY, when you've got to drive from Kaitaia to Bluff.
UFB will give you faster access speeds, but ALL international traffic will face the same latency problem. When accessing international content (web browsing, video conferencing) it won't matter whether you are on ADSL2+ or UFB. You'll only notice a difference if you're dowloading p2p files or accessing cached content in NZ.
Making copper less profitable than fibre is bound to drive UFB uptake in Chorus UFB areas :-)
Not good for the other LFCs, though :-(
So let's destroy Chorus and then wonder why our capital markets are the pits, with less than a quarter of the listings of the ASX by population. That's really smart. We want more investors, so we punish those who do invest.
Why do we want to hear from a high-profile investor with a vested interest?? He wants to own monopolies and screw as much money as possible from consumers.
Here's an interesting concept.
Let the Commerce Commission do its job without political interference. If they set a final price the government doesn't like then the government can add a tax to copper-based broadband to offset the potential impact on UFB uptake.
That way the government is not seen as lining Chorus shareholders' pockets at the expense of New Zealanders. It can then use the proceeds of the tax to fund UFB, reducing the indirect burden on taxpayers. When the government is happy with the level of UFB uptake it can remove the tax.
Bottom line, though, is the government should not influence the Commerce Commission to deliver favourable outcomes on the government's own investments. Show some transparency and call a tax what it is.
Key should not interfere with the decision making of the Commerce Commission and stay out of trying to influence the market. Who would give credence to the views of a share punter like Bhatnagar ?
If anyone wants to encourage an uptake of fibre make the price competitive to the real value of copper. After all the grafters who are setting up have to make their prices attractive for a new product a draw.


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Must be a trip to Mall of America Field at the Metrodome in Minneapolis. This will be the last excursion to the "Roller Dome" as Mike Ditka once called it. The teflon covered yard downtown is coming down after this season and the Minnesota Vikings will (with plenty of Minnesotans' help) begin constructing a new, glass encased palace. Until it's finished, the football team will have to cross the river and play home dates at TCFBank Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus the next couple of years. The Metrodome opened in 1982, replacing the old Met in Bloomington. The Packers had the first trip there wiped out by the NFL Players strike. They've ventured indoors every year since and I've covered 'em all. Granted, the first game there, Novmeber 13th, 1983, was two days after my wedding but my wife knew what she was getting into before the nuptials. The Packers won five of the first 6 games at the dome but things have a way of evening out. Sunday night will be the 31st game between the division rivals and fittingly, this one will settle it, the all-time record between the teams at the Metrodome is 15-15, a best of 31 I guess.
I've seen some things in that place. A sober Tommy Kramer rifling five touchdown passes in a 42-7 rout in 1986. A young Mark Brunell warming up quickly for a wildly erratic Brett Favre in 1993 but Mike Holmgren resisted benching Favre, good move about 16 starts into his record iron man streak. The following year, Holmgren had no choice when Favre got nicked but Brunell had a costly fumble on a potential game winning drive, a 15-13 loss. Who can ever forget T.J. Rubley's audible, against Holmgren's wishes that led to a pick and a loss. Terrell Buckley daring an aging Jim McMahon to beat him with his arm, and he did. There have been walkoff field goals from Faud Reveiz to Ryan Longwell and of course, Brett's first game against his former team was indoors in 2009, a 30-23 Vikings win. The constant throughout all that history has been the noise, artificial and otherwise, and of course, the Gjallarhorn. That's where the Tylenol comes in.
So let's play one more, the 4-2 Packers, winners of three straight, against the 1-5 Vikings who have the look of a team ready to impload. Before I offer my suggestions on what we'll see, let's hear what the boys at 1265 Lombardi Avenue have to say about the matchup:
The Packers are nine point favorites, a pretty big spread for a divisional road game, but seeing how the Vikings have yet to win on American soil (the only victory came against the Steelers in London), you can understand the line. I think the offense will function about as it did last week, hopefully Eddie Lacy will carry the workload and Aaron Rodgers will pick his spots outside with the young receivers forced to play again. The loss of Jermichael Finley will be more noticeable. Andrew Quarless isn't nearly as explosive against linebacker or safety coverage. David Bakhtiari's baptism will really be tested by Jared Allen up front.
Defensively, as the players said, it's Yo, Adrian! Not allowing him to crease the second level and beyond for huge chunks will be critical. Peterson will get his, just can't him get the big gainers. Christian Ponder is probably the best alternative in the three headed quarterback mess with Matt Cassel and newly acquired Josh Freeman, but he's likely going to be rusty. Greg Jennings led the league in 40 yard plus receptions while in Green Bay, I think he's had one with the Vikes, a lot of money for an offensive afterthought.
I like the Packers to make it four straight, a 27-20 sendoff to the dome. It won't be missed.


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Men, Women & Children
A potentially interesting premise is handled so badly that what might have been a provocative drama quickly and irrevocably devolves into the technological equivalent of…
A potentially interesting premise is handled so badly that what might have been a provocative drama quickly and irrevocably devolves into the technological equivalent of…
An excellent documentary that focuses more on why the Illmatic album came to be than how successful it became. Prepare to be schooled in many…
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
"Life Itself" debuts in London as part of the Dogwoof Weekender, and is currently screening at various other venues.
"Life Itself" is set to debut in London as part of the Dogwoof Weekender.
Matt Fagerholm picks his favorite piece of Roger's writing.
A review of Hansal Mehta's 2013 film, "Shahid."
A review of Hansal Mehta's 2013 film, "Shahid."
An FFC reviews the gentle, sweet "The Lunchbox."
An appreciation of "Streets of Fire" on its 30th anniversary.
A review of FOX's disappointing "Gracepoint" and CBS's horrendous "Stalker."
Name this plot: The gang hangs out near the beach and has a way of spontaneously breaking out into dance. A pretty girl is new in town. She's an outsider, until the leader of the beach crowd befriends her. Life's a holiday until an evil real-estate developer comes along and wants to destroy the Eden on the beach by erecting a huge development. The kids decide to protest in order to preserve their beloved turf. And the snaky developer turns out, inevitably, to be the new girl's daddy.
I'm pushing the buzzer and shouting "Beach Party"! "Frankie and Annette!" But I'm dating myself. "Step Up: Revolution" is the fourth of the "Step Up" movies, a series of unconnected stories that serve as showcases for the kinds of young stars who sincerely hope they'll soon be in better movies. The first one, in 2006, starred Channing Tatum. This fourth one stars Kathryn McCormick, from "So You Think You Can Dance." You get the idea.
McCormick is Emily, who we meet soon after she turns up in Miami Beach. She dreams of being a dancer and soon falls into the orbit of the Mob. No, not that one. This one is an awesomely well-organized, rehearsed, choreographed and disciplined flash mob that materializes around town and constantly mystifies TV news anchors, who report on its manifestations as if every appearance is a complete surprise. The mob's leader, Sean, is played by first-time actor Ryan Guzman. Like everyone else in "Step Up: Revolution," Sean is good-looking, gifted and apparently self-supporting, since he's available 24/7 to turn up anywhere and dance.
The Mob oversteps the boundaries of your average flash mob, to be sure; they even do a choreographed routine while dancing on the hoods and roofs of cars that are (luckily) stopped in traffic. They have an uncanny way of materializing at public events involving the mayor and the evil real-estate developer (Peter Gallagher) and interrupting their speeches with high-octane production numbers. Even though the group's M.O. is well-established, the Miami Beach police seem singularly clueless. Ask yourself this question: What does the typical audience look like at a public speech by a real estate developer? As you fix that image in your mind, ask yourself if the cops would notice a large number of "So You Think You Can Dance" types, casually skulking about and acting as if they're not about to burst into dance.
Never mind. There's another crucial element to the story. It depends on all of the members of the Mob being immortal and stuck in a moment of time. They are staging their protests because the development would go up right where they like to hang out. Bwaa-bwaa! There's even the colorful restaurant run by a kindly old guy who is usually called Pop in these stories, although I missed his name this time.
Now, because Emily's father wants to tear down everything and erect his development, they are heartbroken. Where will they hang out now? Like many civic-minded people, I am in favor of landmarks and valuable streetscapes that are beloved by countless people. But is the Mob trying to preserve Miami Beach's Art Deco treasures? No, we never hear such a challenging term in the movie. I think they're basically trying to preserve Pop's.
That's why they'll have to be immortal. Because they assume that Pop's, and their favorite little shops for pants and shoes, will be there forever — and so will they. But consider how tragic it would be if Emily, Sean, Pop and the gang were all still there in 50 years, still popping up by surprise to dance on cars. We'd really need health care then. No, it is the way of the world that people grow up and move along, and we cannot destroy the plans of developers merely to preserve kids' precious hangouts, although if it involves Donald Trump, it might be OK.
OK, OK. They're good dancers, and well-choreographed. You can see the movie for that and be charitable about the moronic plot.
Part ten in Scout Tafoya's The Unloved series tackles "The Village."
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For the February 5, 2007, R01 receipt date and beyond, NIH will require electronic application submission for all R01 applications. This change will involve the simultaneous shift from the long-used PHS 398 application form to a transagency Standard Form 424 Research and Related Application Form. For more information on electronic submission of applications, go to http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/. Investigators should work with their central grants offices to learn how their institutions are handling the changes. Training sessions will be held on December 5 from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and from 1:00-4:00 p.m. in the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus. The sessions will be webcast at http://era.nih.gov/training/esub_120506/ and will be archived for later viewing at http://videocast.nih.gov/default.asp. Additional training resources are available at http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/training.htm.
AMA to Hold Meetings at Smoke-Free Sites
Earlier this year, NCI adopted a smoke-free meeting site policy, which will take effect on January 1, 2007, requiring that all meetings and conferences organized or primarily sponsored by NCI be held in a state, county, city, or town that has adopted a comprehensive smoke-free policy.
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The livestock industry has officially dug in with an appeal of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) policy for drought response in Nevada—and has shed light on some troubling application of federal law by the agency. While the decision industry is appealing currently affects only a handful of ranching families in northern Nevada, the BLM's conduct has industry leaders worried about the larger implications for producers west-wide.
At issue is a decision by the Battle Mountain BLM district to remove three families' cattle from the "Argenta Allotment" under the auspices of "drought" concerns. BLM has removed about 630 cattle from the bulk of the allotment for an indefinite period of time: for the duration of the alleged drought, and a full growing season after the "drought" subsides. The legal arm of the Nevada Cattlemen's Association (the Nevada Land Action Association), and the Public Lands Council last week joined affected ranchers in appealing the Battle Mountain decision, effectively appealing the BLM's drought policy in Nevada.
"We're looking at an agency that's flouting due process in order to advance an antigrazing agenda," said J.J. Goicoechea, a rancher, county commissioner, and President of the Nevada Land Action Association. "That is a very scary thing for anyone who relies on grazing on federal land."
At the surface level, industry voiced concern that the BLM's decision shows blatant disregard for the protocol laid out in the agency's own district-adopted drought policy.
"If you've been following this story, you know there are way too many examples to put into one sound-bite," Goicoechea said. "BLM didn't use site-specific data to determine whether 'drought response actions' needed to happen on the Argenta Allotment (in many areas of the allotment, no special action was necessary). They didn't consult with the affected ranchers to do monitoring or come up with management actions other than closing the areas. They didn't even fill out their own forage utilization forms that they themselves require. Every one of the above examples is a breach of the district's own drought policy. But they went ahead and closed the bulk of this allotment—which, we must not forget, is over 50 percent privately owned."
As the livestock associations went about overturning rocks in its investigation of the Battle Mountain case, they seemed to expose layers of bigger, deeper problems.
"If you read the appeal we filed, you'll see that this problem goes beyond an agency decision negatively impacting a few ranching families," said Brenda Richards, President of the Public Lands Council. "You see an application of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process at the state level that should have every federal land user concerned. NEPA is meant to analyze and show the public the expected environmental and socio-economic effects of a range of potential agency actions. We did not get that kind of analysis or public disclosure from BLM in Battle Mountain—or in most of the other Nevada BLM dis tricts—with regard to the drought policy."
The BLM's drought policy in Battle Mountain, known as the "Drought Environmental Assessment," or "Drought EA," was put in place several years ago in the district, and, at the direction of the BLM state director, has been duplicated in other BLM districts across Nevada. Goicoechea, who has protested the Drought EAs since their inception, said that the EAs are not scientifically sound documents and that the BLM's NEPA analysis—which is meant to measure socio-economic and environmental effects of a policy—is sorely inadequate.
"The first problem with the Battle Mountain Drought EA, which was basically copied in most of the other districts in Nevada, is based on the incorrect assumption that drought conditions are statewide," said Goicoechea. "The policy uses the U.S. Drought Monitor and the Vegetation Drought Response Index, neither of which can tell you if there's actually a drought in a given locality. In the Argenta Allotment's case, there weren't drought conditions in terms of forage production —but the BLM claimed it had the authority to take 'drought response actions' based on the Drought EA."
According to the livestock industry's appeal, the EA wrongly concludes that "range resources must be rested or closed during and immediately following a drought to avoid adverse impacts." But some of the studies cited in BLM's own EA say that managed "moderate" grazing during drought will not have adverse impacts. The Argenta Allotment has been grazed during drought in the past, with no lasting negative effects.
Based on the above assumptions—that there is drought, and that "rest" from grazing is required—the Drought EA then provides a number of "drought response actions," Goicoechea told WLJ. These actions vary from putting up electric fence, to moving salt locations, to removing livestock for the remainder of the "drought" and a full growing season after. The latter response has obvious potential to damage ranching operations, yet BLM determined in its NEPA analysis that the policy would have "no significant impact."
"The Battle Mountain district has chosen to take the most drastic steps available to it under the EA," Goicoechea said. "Meanwhile, the Drought EA's NEPA analysis found that 'no significant impact' would come from implementation of the policy. We're talking about destroying the livelihoods of potentially hundreds of ranching families—if every district manager decides to take the most draconian action of removing grazing, as the Battle Mountain district did. One of our arguments is: If you're going to have a policy that allows for that, you'd better do the NE- PA analysis showing what it will do to our communities."
Another argument made in industry's appeal is the fact that BLM's grazing reductions will result in environmental destruction. Ranchers and surrounding communities can expect increased fire hazard; increased invasion by cheatgrass and other noxious plants; and the loss of ranchers' water improvements on the range—to the detriment of wildlife.
"All these concerns were brought before BLM during the comment periods on the various Drought EAs, but were not addressed," Goicoechea stated. "NEPA requires that the agency respond to substantive concerns such as ours. They should have gone ahead with full environmental impact statements on these drought policies, but they've stuck to the line that there won't be any economic or environmental effects to speak of. It's ludicrous."
Richards said that there's yet another layer that industry exposed in their appeal of the Drought EA.
"The Battle Mountain EA is dangerous and not a sound document on which to base decisions," Richards said. "But there's an even bigger problem we uncovered: BLM is attempting to use highlevel, programmatic analysis with these 'Drought EAs' without doing the on-theground analysis that, by law, we believe they must do before issuing a decision. The result is that decisions are being made based on broad assumptions that may well not be true of conditions or needs on the ground in sitespecific areas. Such was the case with the Battle Mountain decision."
Richards added that, until BLM made a final decision, industry had been unable to appeal the Drought EA.
"Meanwhile, we know of several instances where the Drought EA, because it was so severe, led ranchers to 'voluntarily' reduce their numbers or turnout dates— so that they didn't get issued a decision under the EA," Richards told WLJ. "And as long as no decisions were being issued by BLM, no appeals could be made by affected ranchers or the livestock associations. So we were seeing the EA having negative effects that couldn't be combated in the appeals process. Now that a decision has been issued on the Argenta, we're hoping our appeal will put a stop to that pattern."
Richards said that Nevada BLM's application of NEPA is "not atypical."
"Quite often, whether it's to appease radical anti-grazing groups, or because there exists an anti-livestock bias, NEPA analysis ends up saying that removing livestock won't have any significant effect—whether it's economic or environmental. That's complete denial of the truth, of course," said Richards. "We can't allow NEPA to be used in this way without responding. If we simply stand by, it could eventually mean the demise of the entire federal lands grazing industry."
NEPA reform, Richards added, is on PLC's priority list of congressional actions.
"NEPA has turned into one of the primary laws that 'enviro-litigators' use to sue the government and get taxpayer reimbursement. It was meant to help federal agencies make sound decisions on federal resources, but instead it's ended up stymieing sound management of our western federal lands."
Goicoechea noted that fixing NEPA will help, but that "the NEPA problems are just a symptom of a larger problem. Our federal lands system is broken."
He said there are other laws waiting in the wings— such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA)—that, because of an uninformed yet influential general public, end up harming what they were intended to protect. He mentioned the ESA and the potential listing of the sage grouse as a prime example.
"Not surprisingly, the sage grouse—a possible future ESA species—came up in the Argenta closure, too. Battle Mountain BLM is incorrectly using the agency's sage grouse policy to force the closures of seven use areas," Goicoechea told WLJ. "The fire hazard and the loss of ranchers providing water sources and essential habitat will be extremely harmful to the bird. But like I said, we're not surprised that it's being used to remove grazing. We fully expect that anti-grazing forces will keep trying to use the bird as leverage, especially on federal land, to remove grazing across the state and across the West."
Goicoechea said that all the federal land issues facing his state—which is over 80 percent federally owned— has led Nevada to create a task force to study the idea of transferring some of the federal lands to state ownership.
"Whether it's the sage grouse, the drought policy, or the problem of all the private checkerboard lands that are being put off-limits because of federal land management policies, we here in Nevada are taking action to shake up this broken system," Goicoechea told WLJ. "We're already seeing political pushback from the highest levels in Washington, D.C. That just tells me we're on the right track. Something has to change if western states like Nevada want to keep their resource-based economies and cultures." — Theodora Dowling, WLJ Correspondent


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One woman is dead after a crash in Linn County.
It happened on Linn-Benton Road around 11:15 p.m. Saturday.
The Linn County Sheriff's Office reports 50-year-old Sandra Connor of Walford lost control of her vehicle.
Officials say it overturned in the ditch and came to rest against a power line pole.
The crash remains under investigation.


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Princess Tea
- When: Friday, December 27, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Where: Hamilton Center Ice Arena
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Ages 4-12. Come dressed to skate in your favorite princess costume! Tea and cookies will be served and a craft provided. Skating to follow with your very own princess!