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Dr. Abdul Rasheed Deane :
A fond tribute to a dedicated patron "Padang Complex"
by Fazeer Radin (Rawdin) - Daily News Tue Dec 9 2003
Thaha Mohamed, president of Sri Lanka Malay Association (SLMA) advised that we reminisces Dr. Abdul Rasheed Deane's fond memory in the media, whilst his portrait is displayed at the Colombo Malay Cricket (CMCC) on Friday 12th November 03.
I feel it is a privilege to cover the good deeds of an amiable and distinguished personality and pay due tribute to him for his dedication and sacrifice towards the CMCC and the SLMA Rupee Fund.
Dr. Deane was born on 23rd February 1918 and passed away at the age of 85 on 21st July 2003. The epithet quieted in Arabic "Inca Illah, We Inna Illah Rajioon" meaning that from him that we came and into him we return did not have its desired effect to overcome the grief of the mourners, whilst an elderly educated person was attempting to console the dear ones by explaining "a man is a thing of nought born but to die" and therefore it is indeed a matter of time for all of us to traverse to the very same destiny of the deceased sooner or later was also of no avail.
This reminded me of Mary Copt, the one and only to give holy Prophet Mohamed a son, who was named Ibrahim.
When he died in childhood, holy Prophet was overwhelmed with grief, sobbing bitterly, until he was reminded that he often proclaimed against the onward expression of grief.
Why was he sobbing when the child was so soon to enter paradise? Holy Prophet answered softly "It eases the afflicted heart. It does no harm to the dead, and does not profit him, but it is a comfort for the living".A massive crowd that was present at the internment of his remains prayed May Allah grant Dr. Deane "Janaothul Firdouse" meaning he be blessed to the heaven. We have lost another human being who had a human heart. His demise will cause a vacuum among his family members, members of the "Padang Complex" and several others.
His second home was the Padang Complex where he never failed to be present at all events before time like an early bird.
Towards his advanced age he was compelled to confine himself at his residence and c eased to appear as he practised in the past at the "Padang Complex" to the disadvantage and disappointment of the members.
I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity of a formal discussion with Dr. Deane in September 2002 during CMCC's 130th Anniversary celebration. I shall brief this dialogue.
Here he expressed cheerfully that the "Terang" the one and only news bulletin that covers Malay interest in Sri Lanka and circulated throughout locally as well as abroad need be highly praised. I posed him the question for those who have immensely contributed towards the interest and well-being of the country, religion and community, whether they distort history by keeping under blanket from recording their glorious achievements on grounds of modesty?
After a moment of silence, Dr. Deane smiled and made a humble request from me to pay a visit to his place and collect some clippings and to publish them in the "Terang" for posterity. Subsequently his sister-in-law Fareed Deane reminded me in this regard. It is a matter for regret that I fell seriously ill and was unable to keep up to my promise to Dr. Deane.
Had I have been fortunate to collect those documents from Dr. Deane I believe I could have written volumes covering him. While gleaming through the dilapidated records in my possession I gathered that the attachment and contribution towards the Padang Complex is not only confined to Dr. Deane alone but his forbears too. It has come down the line.
Dr. Deane's grandpa Amja Deane was a founder member of the CMCC established in 1872. He was its president in 1908 and compiler of the CMCC Jubilee Book printed in 1908 by the Ceylon Observer press. Similarly his beloved children, whose name appear below have also contributed articles in the periodicals of the "Padang Complex".
Dr. Deane's father A. A. Deane was the chief accountant in the H. M. Customs. He was highly acclaimed by the authorities concerned for launching of the famous "Harbour Lights" carnival splendidly and earning colossal profit.
A. A. Deane held office in the C. M. C. C. as the club captain 1919-1923, 1925, Hony general secretary 1908-1909, cricket captain 1912, 1911, president 1949 in the ACMA, general secretary 1925-1929. The portrait of A. A. Deane was unveiled at the CMCC on 23rd December 1961. Dr. Deane's brother Fareed served as the CMCC general secretary from 1972-1973.
I have gathered by heresay quite a lot of Dr. Deane's achievements, contributions, yeomen service and in cricket his stylish and elegant bowling, medium pace bowling and brilliant fielding. Regrettably most of the important events that have taken place in the Padang Complex after 1972 have not been recorded or may be I have not traced them. I therefore prefer not to pen what has not been recorded.
Dr. Deane and his wife Kathija are graduates of an English university. Dr. Deane was amongst the first batch to have passed the M. B. B. S. examination. Mrs. Deane was the first Muslim lady to be appointed in 1947 as a labour officer. She was later attached to the Royal College as a teacher. Dr. Deane was in the staff of Cell Barnes Hospital in England.
Dr. Deane was unanimously conferred to the esteemed positions mentioned above on recognition of his contributions to the service. His ancestral home was Slave Island where they lived at Union Place adjoining "Frostaire", Dr. Deane had his dispensary here and another at Hunupitiya, Wattala. He was engaged by the Colombo Commercial Company to treat their employees. Patients who had taken treatment from him had much to say of his benevolence. The most famous is that he advised them they fell sick because they are under nourished and in addition to free consultation he had provided them money to have a proper meal.
The members of the "Padang Complex" will now miss the most senior member and close companion and wish to convey all our sympathy to his beloved family members.
1 Amja Deane
2 A A Deane
Deane, Dr. A R, b:23-Feb-1918, d:21-Jul-2003 + Khadija,
4 Hamze Deane + Mumtaz Aliph (120)
4 (son) Deane
4 (daughter) Deane
3 Farid Deane + Name Not Known
4 Ameen Deane + Sayang
Aliph (120)
Deane's 90th Birthday
Descendants of the
Rasheed Deane Family, Ladies
and Gentlemen.
It took me five
days to prepare this speech. So
please bear with me if I take equally long in delivering it.
This is a really
special occasion and it is all
about that very special lady Mrs. Kathijah Deane. A loving
daughter, a dear
sister, an understanding wife, a caring mother, a wonderful
mother-in-law and a
doting grandmother. The family thinks the world of her to say
the very least
and why not?
To me, she is one
very special person and it
certainly is a great privilege to stand before you this
evening, to speak a few
words on this occasion as this grand dame and mater-familias
of the Rasheed Deane
clan turns ninety years today.
Auntie Kathijah, I
am sure you will agree with me
in Jack Benny's quote: "Age is strictly a case
of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." And I can
certainly vouch that she
doesn't mind – and hence age doesn't matter.
I came to know
Auntie Kathijah in the 1960s when
I was drafted into the Colombo Malay Cricket Club by none
other than her genial
husband, the late Dr. A.R Deane.
She has brought
forth into this world five lovely
children who have done well for themselves in their chosen
fields and I am sure
this must be a sense of great pride to her. Hamza, the grumpy
one (Humpy…..
sorry I have to reveal some state secrets)…yes Humpy the
grumpy one with a
passion for flying is now gracefully growing old in his role
as an airline
pilot. A bit of
advise to him in his dotage:
Hamza, before taking off on each flight make sure your bladder
is empty and
your fuel tanks are full and not the other way about.
Next is Haroon, the
quite kid. In Sinhala
parlance a r-e-a-l Seethala Kotiya. His motto…ACTIONS speaks
louder than words.
How else can he account for the fact he was able to produce
three children,
which is 50% ABOVE
Then Azhar. I am
astounded, that he being a
logistics guy, wanted to know about the universe when it is
hard enough for him
to find his way around
the only girl among the
siblings…how can I forget her. She went to the
F.i.n.ally Asthar,
the baby of the family who was
still wearing shorts at Royal when I left college. He moved to
Notwithstanding her
five children, auntie
Kathijah's greatest labour
were when she conceived, gave birth in 1967 and nurtured the
Teen Twenties –
the very first youth arm of the Sri Lanka Malay Association –
as it's Social
Service Branch Chairman.
year later I was heading the Teen Twenties as
joint Leader – in fact the de-facto junior president of the
Being the mentor,
Auntie Kathijah was the guiding light
and my association with her grew even closer.
are many amusing anecdotes that
I am privy to, but I do not think it is right for me to
reveal these at her 90th Birthday.
So, I will not tell you how a team of
the Teen Twenties headed by auntie Kathijah went to the
Welimada YMCA
on a Youth
Leader Training Camp. On the final evening
of the camp, each group was asked to present an item of
entertainment and auntie
entrusted the task to me.
When the evening's
programme was in progress and
it came to the SLMA turn, the Master of Ceremonies made the
introduction with
the words "and now ladies and gentlemen, in the Sri Lanka
Malay Association
team there is a great exponent of
the Bharata Natyam. Please welcome their leader Mrs.Kathijah
Deane who will
render this performance."
A clapping of hands
was followed by pin-drop
silence and I could see Auntie Kathijah turning colours like a
With no Mrs. Deane
coming forth, I had to stand
up and admit it was a puckish
sense of
humour from one of the team members to have this itemised in
the programme and
that our real act was the traditional Malay Rongeng, which our
team performed......of
course sans Mrs. Deane!
and Gentlemen, today, as we celebrate this landmark event in
her life, it just
seems incredible. Incredible because she has the remarkable
energy and
enthusiasm of someone many, many years younger.
Kathijah…. for all that you have accomplished over the years –
your education,
your career, your loving family, friends, associates, your
energies, your inner
strength and also the various ways in which you continued to
inspire the many
young minds that passed through you at Royal Primary, this
birthday, I am sure,
will be immensely happy and very memorable.
and Gentlemen, I have trespassed on your patience for a
sufficiently long time
and if I continue any further, my dear wife has promised to
slit my throat to
make sure that I will be precluded from speaking ever again.
So, I would like
to conclude by saying:
True beauty is
enriched with each passing year. So here's to
dear Auntie Kathijah who
is truly beautiful in heart and soul. May she have many more
years of life
and love.
Colombo, Sri Lanka, Mar 2012


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Getting there. Pass Brooks Brothers shirts unless for yourself or purple label. If you like the ties yourself to wear brand does not matter otherwise stick to high end brands. Canali suits don't get much love at SF but I love them, great to wear and there is a small market for flippers. Canali shirt is a good buy to wear or pass.
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I would agree on the BB shirts, but it can be awfully hard to pass them up. Today, I picked up a non-iron blue stripe with contrast French cuff and collar for $1.50. That was half-off, and I thought I had been pretty disciplined in letting it go through the cycle before jumping. You never know. If I can sell it for $10, including shipping, on the Bay, I won't lose any money, and I think my chances are good. I've also had shirts like this go for twice that, so it is a calculated gamble.
I think everyone flips BB shirts to start....then you grow old and tired of them and don't want to be bothered. The ONLY BB shirts I will touch even at $1.50 are slim fit and "purple label" luxury shirts. Everything else is just a PIA. If you do it right you won't ever lose money but just the profit vs. time is not worth it after a while.


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So I went to ebaumsWorld today and saw a message, (please go and look yourself) about them being forced to censor stuff.
To me, it looked like a stupid, late April fools joke, but its April second and that site makes enough money to pay someone to revert their site back to normal once April first is over...
So is the thing for real or not, if so MY GOD this is crazy otherwise.. eBaum'sWorld sucks at telling the date.
this is bad
Ebaumsworld is one of the most popular sites, ever. It doesn't need the publicity it could get from this. I don't understand why they would do something like this, business-wise how would it help..?
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Recordzilla is screen recorder software that lets you capture video, audio and pictures of anything you see on your computer screen and save it as video AVI, WMV, Flash SWF, or Flash FLV.
You can use Recordzilla to record the entire desktop, active windows, any portions of the screen, mouse cursor's movement, menus, games, and even video with sound. You can also use Recordzilla to record from microphone to add narration to your recordings, or record what you hear from the computer speakers. Advanced features includes time stamp your videos, schedule a recording, hotkeys, adjust video resolution, size, and frame rate. Recordzilla is useful for creating training videos, presentations, demos, recording streaming video eg. Youtube, recording webcams from AIM, Skype, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger or capture movies from TV card, DVD, VCD.
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- Allows users to save recorded videos as AVI, WMV, SWF, and FLV formats.
- Allows users to record whole screen, a specific window, or a custom region.
- Can record audio from microphone or speakers.
- Allows users to select if they want to include the mouse cursor in videos or not.
- Has the ability to input date and timestamps on videos.
- Gives users the ability to set X second(s) countdown timer before the actual recording begins.
- Can turn off screensavers and hardware acceleration while recording.
- Output videos can be resized to a specific resolution or left at the recording region resolution.
- Has the ability to automatically save videos using a naming scheme.
- Has the ability to schedule recordings.
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- Not 100% bug free:
- Users cannot click inside the recording region if "Show Selected Area" or "Show Recording Area during Recording" options are enabled.
- Does not properly record sound from speakers (at least not on my computer).
- …and more.
- Sometimes the popup window to resume/stop/discard video recording shows up behind other open windows.
- No feature to highlight mouse cursor and mouse clicks in videos.
- No video editing/modification features.
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{for="Ease of Use" value="6″}Recordzilla itself isn't a very complicated program; you select the recording region, set video settings, set audio settings, set output settings, and record. However, the bugs in the program will make you want to pull your hair out while using it… especially the one where users cannot click inside the recording region. Good thing I just got a haircut.
{for="Performance" value="4″}The video quality of the videos Recordzilla records will vary depending on the video settings you set, but in general the quality is excellent. However, Recordzilla has a lot of bugs and it is missing out on some features like highlighting mouse cursor and mouse clicks.
{for="Usefulness" value="5″}Hit or miss usefulness – some people will need to record screen, while others won't.
{for="Price" value="5″}Asking $29.95 for a basic video recording is asking too much. At best, this program should be priced at $20.
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As the title of the program may imply, Recordzilla Screen Recorder is a screen recording program that allows users to record screen activity and export it as AVG, WMV, SWF, or FLV videos.
This is what Recordzilla's main program window looks like:
Using Recordzilla is not too complicated; in fact it is fairly straightforward:
- Step 1 – Select recording region:
Users are allowed to either record full screen, or a custom region. A custom region can either be a window (you select a specific window) or a literal custom region that you select using a freehand rectangle tool.
If you decide to record a custom region, you have the options of
- Outlining the selected region with a red rectangle, so you know what you have selected (Show Selected Area);
- Showing that same red rectangle while the video is being record (Show Recording Area during Recording). The rectangle does not appear in the actual video; it is just there to remind you of the area you are recording.
- Step 2 – Set the video settings:
You can save recorded videos as AVI, WMV, SWF, or FLV formats. For AVI you have the ability to select the video and audio codecs/compressors that will be used and the frame rate; for WMV you have the ability to select the "profile" (aka quality) and the frame rate; for SWF and FLV you have the ability to set the bitrate and frame rate.
Furthermore, Recordzilla has the ability to resize output videos to a specific size (i.e. if the recording region is 800×600, Recordzilla can resize it to 400×200 if you tell it to) or leave it at its original size (i.e. the recording region size).
Lastly, Recordzilla allows you to pick if you want your mouse cursor to be included in the video or not, and if you want to insert a date and/or time stamp on the video:
- Step 3 – Set the audio settings:
The audio settings consist of you selecting
- If you want to record audio or not;
- What type of audio do you want to record;
- The audio quality.
Recordzilla has the ability to record audio from your microphone (i.e. whatever you say into the microphone while the video is being recorded), or the audio from your speakers (i.e. the sound you would hear). The Audio Device and Record Audio From are the two settings that allow you to select the source of your audio, with Audio Device being the "the sound card capturing device on your computer" and Record Audio From being the "recording source you would like to record from". (The quoted text are word-for-word descriptions of these two options found in the program's Help file.)
- Step 4 – Set output settings:
Recordzilla gives users the option to manually recorded files (i.e. you select the output location and file name after you are done recording) or to have Recordzilla automatically save recorded files. For automatically saving recorded files, users need to set the output location, and how the files should be named (a base + date and time stamps or a base + sequential numbering scheme).
- Step 5 – Record video. Hitting Record Now begins the process of recording the video. You are given a short time interval (3 seconds by default, but you can change that) between the moment you hit the Record Now button and the moment the actual video recording begins.
- Step 6 – Stop recording and save the video. When you are done recording your video, hitting Shift + F5 (you can change this hotkey) allows you to stop recording and save the video. (There is also a Shift + F6 hotkey that pauses video recording.) If you have Recordzilla set to automatically save videos, Shift + F5 will stop the recording and save the video. However, if you have Recordzilla set to manually save videos, Shift + F5 stops the recording and shows you a popup window asking you what to do next:
Aside from using the hokey, users can right-click on Recordzilla's system tray icon to stop or pause recording. The same relation to automatic/manual saving settings applies with the system tray icon menu entries as the hotkeys.
Aside from the already mentioned, there are two other features of Recordzilla:
- The ability to schedule a recording (File -> Schedule Recording…):
- The program settings (Tools -> Options):
In particular, take note how via Options you can tell Recordzilla to enable/disable screensaver and hardware acceleration.
In regards to performance, Recordzilla performs well in two areas: Output video quality and recording audio from microphone. Output video quality and audio from microphone quality will obviously vary depending on the quality settings you set, but generally speaking Recordzilla makes excellent quality videos and the recorded sound is crystal clear. In other areas, however, Recordzilla fails… hard.
As already discussed earlier in this review, Recordzilla has the ability to record audio from microphones or from speakers. However the ability to record audio from speakers is bugged; Recordzilla cannot properly record audio from speakers. In fact, the option to select speakers audio is not even available from the previously discussed audio settings. Now the reason for this problem definitely is not that my computer hardware does not support audio recording from speakers because my computer does allow it; BB Flashback Express is able to record audio from my speakers flawlessly. The reason for this problem is probably that the developer of Recordzilla did not properly program Recordzilla to work with the many different sound cards out there, hence I am unable to record audio from speakers. (Other users can be able to record audio from speakers, depending on if Recordzilla is programmed to work with their hardware or not.)
Another major bug I found with Recordzilla is in regards to the recording region. As previously discussed, Recordzilla has two options for highlighting the recording region: Show Selected Area and Show Recording Area during Recording. These two options make it so a red rectangle appears around the region that you select and the region that is being recorded, respectively. Turns out that when either of these two options is available, users cannot click inside the red rectangle. In other words, if you have Show Selected Area enabled, you will not be able to click on anything that is inside the red rectangle while you make your region selection; if you have Show Recording Area during Recording enabled, you will not be able to click on anything that is inside the red rectangle while you record. (Keep in mind these two options are mutually exclusive, meaning you can turn one on and not the other. So potentially you could show the red rectangle while selecting a region – and not be able to click inside the region while selecting – but turn it off while recording and be able to click inside the region; and vice versa.) This bug is extremely annoying and essentially is a deal-breaker, rendering this program half-ish useless. The non-clickability problem does not occur when there is no red rectangle, i.e. you when you have one or both of the options turned off.
Furthermore, there are quite a few other bugs I have encountered too, although they are not as major as the previous two bugs and are fairly arbitrary in regards to when they occur:
- When selecting a window region for recording, a red rectangle appears as you move your mouse over recordable window regions; the red rectangle follows your cursor, highlighting the area that will be recorded if you select that specific window. Sometimes – quite frequently, actually – this red rectangle disappears leaving you with no clue as to exactly what region you are selecting.
- Once, after selecting a window region, the buttons on Recordzilla's main program window disappeared:
I had to mouse over the buttons to make them appear. Fortunately, this bug only happened to me once but with Recordzilla's track record in buggy-ness, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again.
- Once when trying to select a custom region (non-window), an odd "divider" appeared on my screen:
Going to the right of the divider made the mouse cursor disappear. I had to close and re-open Recordzilla to make this problem go away.
Similar to the previously mentioned bug, this only happened to me once but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again.
- While recording a custom region – and showing the red rectangle during selection and recording – I double-clicked inside the rectangle and the rectangle became a small box. (The double-click didn't do anything else because, as I previously mentioned, there is a bug that doesn't allow users to click inside the red rectangle.) The recording region was not changed; the video was still recorded in the region I told Recordzilla to. However, the small red box appeared in the video. This happened to me a couple of times.
Finally, although they are not bugs, the following are areas where I feel Recordzilla can be improved:
- Sometimes – not all the time – the popup window to resume/stop/discard video recording appears below other windows. This is annoying because users have to minimize what they are recording to stop and save the recording; while the actual popup window is not saved in the recording, the whole minimization action is potentially leading to a ruined video. The developer needs to make sure the popup window always appears as the top most window.
- The recording region marker (if turned on) does not go away after saving or discarding the video recording. While this functionality can be useful if a user discards the recording and wants to quickly re-record, I find this to be very annoying when saving the recording. I would like the developer to add an option that allows the user to control if they want the recording region marker to remain after saving or discarding video recordings.
- Recordzilla has no ability to highlight the mouse cursor and mouse clicks in videos. This is basic functionality that almost all video converters nowadays – even freeware ones – have; I don't understand why Recordzilla does not. The developer really needs to add this in.
- Recordzilla has no ability to edit/modify videos after they have been recorded. Now, Recordzilla is a $29.95 app; so I am not asking for fully fledged video editing/modification capabilities. Rather, I would like there to be some basic editing/modification capabilities such as trimming off some video frames (i.e. doing something like trimming off the end of the video). Indeed, if a freeware program like BB Flashback Express can offer such basic editing/modifications capabilities, I don't see why Recordzilla – a shareware program – cannot.
This review was conducted on a laptop running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. The specs of the laptop are as follows: 3GB of RAM, a Radeon HD 2600 512MB graphics card, and an Intel T8300 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor.
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{rw_verdict2}Even if Recordzilla was 100% bug free and all its features worked as they should, I still wouldn't recommend it because Recordzilla is a mediocre, basic screen recording tool; most freeware programs can do what Recordzilla can. As it stands, though, Recordzilla is not even 100% bug free; so I have no choice but to give it a thumbs down. If you need an excellent video recording tool, I highly recommend BB Flashback Express. BB Flashback Express is a terrific freeware video recorder, with many useful features; it wipes the floor with Recordzilla.
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WOW just what I was looking for. Came here
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@Ashraf: Well O.K.
@acr: Many thanks! Even though I got this through GotD, I've downloaded it "just in case."
I can't remember which browser(s) I was on of the several I use when I found the Edit button didn't work. I'll do some testing using various browsers and let you know the outcome.@Suze:
Thanks for the good info re solving sound problems with Snap 3. Unfortunately, as many laptop sound cards are now intentionally crippled, the Stereo Mix or 'What you hear' is no longer made available to owners. I believe this is due to the over-riding influence of the copyright watchdogs.Older laptops are still likely to have it but not the newer ones. I'm not sure if it's all laptop manufacturers who are complicit in this but I've seen reports that name most of the major brands. And it has invoked much anger amongst laptop owners who buy their machines with the rightful expectation that they will have a fully functional sound card.
I've never seen disclosure by manufactureers in their advertising hype or spec sheets that would warn prospective buyers about this problem. The whole thing appears to have been done very sneakily.
Some users are getting around it by attaching addon sound cards which are fully functional.
Do Do Re
If you put for output:at video:video format:AVI;Video Compressor:Xvid MPEG-4 Codec;Audio compresor:MPEG Layer-3;Frame Rate(30) it will be a very good video and audio recorder.
For those interested in Ashampoo Snap 3- free promo here-
http://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/lpa/softpedia -
@acr: You're welcome! Happy to help ~
@Suze: very good info- thanks for sharing
Bah and humbug. I use a somewhat related tool called FastStone Capture that just does screen shots. (I think Ashraf gave it to me).
The PC Tech Guy
Hypercam 2 is now free, and I use it as my main screen recorder application. However, would like one that can dynamically zoom in and out, as another commentor mentioned here.
I tried CamStudio, however, it has a bug in which it does not properly record the cursor (such as when the busy symbol is supposed to show, I still see a cursor or gets stuck with the busy cursor). I used versiversion 2 at that time on Windows Vista.
@acr: According to Ashampoo's FAQs for Snap, the solution to capturing sound is:
"First of all please make sure you have installed the latest driver for your soundcard / soundchip. When recording with Snap it's necassary to enable the option "Capture the microphone as well" also if you just want to record sound of the movie. This option is shown within the window after choosing "Capture a Video…" in Snap. Then you have to choose the Audiodevice from the DropDown menü, which get's active right after enabling. Instead of Microphone please select "StereoMix" (sometimes it's called "What you hear"). If that device is not available please check Windows Sound Settings.
Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7:
To get sound, please go to "Start – Control Panel -> Sounds – Recording" and activate the "Stereo Mix". Maybe this device is disabled there so you have to do a right mouse click into this window to enable disabled devices.
In Microsoft Windows XP:
Please click on Start->Control Panel->Sounds and Audio Devices->Audio and then click at Sound Recording on Volume. Please look if "Stereo Mix" is listed in there. If not, then please click Options->Properties and then choose Recording and check the box for "Stereo Mix". Then click Ok and set the volume of this device."
Hope this works for you.
Many thanks as well, Ashraf, for helping me save my time and frustrations!
Hey, one recommendation to you to possibly save your time and efforts: with programs like this that are rejects, I think that you easily could write a shorter and sweet reject column. Just a thought, if you wanted to save some of your efforts.
And, wishes for good holidays! :)
paul birch
Thanks Ashraf, you saved me from wasting my time.
Have tried quite a few, most based on your recommendations. The difficulty with BB Flashback is the cost to upgrade to the full version. Most are in the $30 range, where as BB was $80 last time I checked. The idea with freebies after all, is getting you to buy the real deal, but BB is just too expensive. I agree that BB is the best of bunch, but I don't think I would ever buy it, which keeps me from really diving into it. Too me, a premium price for premium software should be in the 10-20% more range-not 250% more.
Another great FREE Alternative worth having a look at, which does not require any installation or download in your PC, is the following one:
As you can see this nice free online tool records your screen activity with your voice, allowing you to spread it via Twitter, Facebook or by email.
Great for Social Network campaigns.
Cheers from Italy!!
Ashraf, thanks for your time in doing this review and I'm glad to have read it. Random weird events in a program always bug me after a while and I discard the program. Sounds like the software is overpriced and not yet ready for prime time.
I've had BB Flashback Express for some time, on your recommendation, and have been pleased with it.
Hopefully the developer of Recordzilla will read your review and polish up his code.
BTW, I too have had no luck getting the Edit button to work when making comments here.
I Have A Request To You Ashraf. HopeYou Don't Mind.
Can You Please Post A Full Detailed Review About Quick Heal Security Products.
Homepage – http://www.quickheal.in
I Love Quick Heal Products And Have No Doubt They Are Not One Of The Best Security Suite Providers But Still Wanted A Full Review.
I Personally Told You Because I Just Love Reading Your Reviews. -
Thank you Ashraf for the review, a good reason not to use the app myself.
I tried to edit a typo in my post, but the "Click to edit"does not work for me (in Opera 11) -
I tried to stream video with Ashampo Snap (given away for free these weeks), but could not get it too work. I also tried 1AVCenter and the result was only mediocre.
Thanks Ashraf, for your review! Looking for BB Flashback Express on the Softpedia website, I found that the last version has the following limitations: 'Nag Screen' and '30 days trial'. Maybe , there is an older version which was real freeware ? In that case, please canyou telle us where we can find it ? For the moment I'm using sometimes Stoik Video Capture and sometimes WinAVI Video Capture. Do you have an opinion about this capturers? Maybe there are better freeware alternatives? Thanks for all advices !!
thx for the review!I'm looking long time for a screen capturer program that can zoom in and zoom out (by pressing) and that can add balloons to write stuff. – and camtasia is just too expensive…
Of course i prefer a freeware (I have tried the best freeware: "cam studio").and by the way, why don't you add "cam studio" to "free alternatives"?
@Ashraf have you tried HyperCam 2 ? I have not, so I'm just wondering if you had any thoughts about it. Here's a link- http://www.hyperionics.com/?AfID=CDN
Also, I remember when GAOTD gave out Ashampoo Snap 3 about a month ago or so. There were some posters who claimed to be able to record sound as well as video – and posted how they got it to work IIRC. And not just sound from a mic, but from the computer. I was never able to verify this though. But I thought Ashampoo Snap 3 was a very nice recorder that used fewer resources while recording than most programs (ie Debut). I now am using Ashampoo Snap 4 and find it fits my needs pretty well.


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"This is the foundation of Addu's development," said Addu's mayor Abdullah Sodiq, referring to the city's SAARC preparations during a press conference held in Hithadhoo yesterday. He said the projects had been supported by "99 percent" of Addu residents.
Maldivian media was flown to Addu yesterday to observe preparations for the upcoming 17th annual SAARC Summit, scheduled for November 10-12. Festivities will be held in the area starting on the first of the month, in conjunction with the Muslim holiday of Eid.
"We are expecting a lot of traffic through here, and are confident that everything will be ready in time," Sodiq said. "But this is only the beginning, and we have many more plans for development."
Addu's SAARC projects have been underway for six months, officials report. As the deadline approaches, construction teams are working round the clock to finish two harbors, a VVIP lounge, roads and the country's largest convention center.
Sodiq said the harbors will renovate Addu's commercial prospects, while the convention center provides new opportunities for locals, officials and foreigners alike.
"The harbor is a central place for Addu, there is demand for it even after SAARC and we have plans to generate more industry and shipping using these new resources," said Sodiq.
New roads constructed around the convention center have made future road development less expensive for the council's budget, he added.
Addu's council also plans to use the Rf115 million convention center, a two-story building of glass, wood and marble with a capacity of 3000, to transform the atoll from a quiet place to a hub of business and tourism.
"We have some representatives talking to businesses in Singapore and Malaysia about hosting events here," Sodiq told Minivan News. "We will be soliciting bids to find the right event manager to look after the convention center as well. I think there are people interested in what Addu has to offer, and I'm sure we can get a market for it."
Officials and locals interviewed also hinted at hopes for musical events, theatrical performances, art exhibitions and holiday celebrations.
Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture Assistant Director Ahmed Abeer Ismail said the centre's origins were a sign of Addu's potential. "That area began as a swamp, now it's the biggest convention center in the country." The swamp was heavily landscaped by MNDF and police forces, and now features a few scenic islands.
One of the Maldives' most strategic atolls, Addu has been largely left to seed since the British withdrew its forces and influence in 1975. City councilor Ahmed Mirzad called SAARC the beginning of a new Addu.
"For 30 years we had Gayoom, and nothing was done in Addu. Then there was a new president, and unlike Gayoom he didn't just look after Male', he looked after the entire Maldives. For 30 years we didn't even have one harbor that was working for Addu, but in the past six months, we have gotten everything," said Mirzad.
Addu's councilors were elected for the first time six months ago. Mirzad said the next three years will be a difficult but critical time for the council to prove itself to Addu's people. Still, the timing is ideal.
"I don't think, I know that this summit is the right starting point. Now, we will only keep going with our plans to grow," he said.
One particular operation illustrates the grassroots motives behind the SAARC preparations. Selected from Maldives National University (MNU) Addu first-year students in hospitality, 24 Media Liaison Officers greeted Male's press pack yesterday.
One young woman said the event was as much for the liaisons as for Male' press.
"It'll be challenging to handle foreigners and media personnel," a group of students concurred. "But we are so happy to have this opportunity."
"I was shocked to be asked to take part in SAARC, I never thought that I would get to work at something I'd heard so much about," said another student. "And the certificate of reference that I'll get afterwards will be really helpful for me when I'm looking for a job after graduation," she added.
Liaisons have just completed a six-month management course and are attending seminars and briefings for SAARC. They will be divided into 11 teams of two to three officers and assigned to press pooles from different countries.
"The ministry was going to get people from Male', but I suggested we use the local energy. They are good, they can do the job, and this is a key event, so why shouldn't these students take part?" said Abeer.
Addu's development isn't only tailored to foreigners; Sodiq said part of the development plan is to bring Addu residents home.
"Unlike other islands, we have historical places to visit and our islands are connected, so tourists can actually see more than the sun, sand and sea. We will be constructing more lodgings as well, and our hospital and airport are going to be expanded. More business means more jobs, and part of the purpose of all this is to bring Addu citizens back after their migrations to Male'," he said.
In Addu, infrastructure is a priority for community growth. Noting that education was key to development, Sodiq said that a Kangaroo school is scheduled to open next year, and a Billabong school is being considered.
For the moment, however, Addu's mind is on SAARC.
With teams working around the clock to complete harbors in Gan and Feydhoo, and MNDF motorcades practicing their moves late into the night, Addu is a bustle of construction and security.
Both harbors were originally due for completion on October 25, yet concrete foundations have not yet been laid. However officials assure that they are 90 percent complete. When asked about setbacks, National Security Advisor Ameen Faisal said, "The weather. Due to heavy rains, many projects were delayed. It was unexpected and beyond our control, but we managed and we are on target."
Inquiries of Addu's appearance for SAARC yielded few details. "It's a secret, we want it to be a surprise," Faisal and Sodiq concurred.
Security, however, is highly detailed.
MNDF has delegated security teams to specific event components including media, medical, resort transport, and the airport. "Right now we are very confident in our security personnel and do not anticipate any problems during the SAARC summit," said International Media Coordinator Ahmed Ibrahim.
Ibrahim added that "it will be helpful to have the extra security forces that other countries are providing because Addu is very big." In addition to ground security, MNDF will be supported by the coast guard, which will establish multiple security layers around Addu's marine perimeter, special task forces from Sri Lanka, and surveillance equipment from China, among others.
Summit guests include three of the world's most controversial heads of state from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Their reputations do not appear to cause anxiety to SAARC officials.
"They will not receive any special treatment, unless requested of course," said MNDF Commander of SAARC Airport Security, Ahmed Shafeeq.
"There is no risk at all," said Faisal. "We aren't even bothered about it."
17 Comments on "Addu grows roots with SAARC preparations"
aa on Wed, 26th Oct 2011 8:42 PM
this saarc summit is held in addu just to get more votes from the southern maldives for the next election. beware all!
hassan ahmed on Wed, 26th Oct 2011 8:50 PM
Mayor Abdullah Sodiq, have declared that 99% of his citizens approve of Saarc summit to be held in Addu city.
But however, he has failed to inform of one of Addu's leading citizen, the honorable member of Majlis Hassan Latheef whole heartedly is against the idea of building a conventional center in Adedu also taking up road projects for there.
Ahmed on Wed, 26th Oct 2011 9:01 PM
Good update El. Glad this is coming together.
Larry[geordie]Dodds on Wed, 26th Oct 2011 9:18 PM
35yrs too late,but,better late than never..I wish ADDU the best of luck in the future.The secret is to get the airport up to standard for international flights,and a harbour that can handle the amount of tourists that will arrive on cruise ships.Investment,not dreams, is what is required.
Michael Fahmy on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 2:16 AM
All the beyfulus were in Male. The further from Male you went, the less beyfulu Maldivians became.It was great to be a beyfulu and tragic not to be beyfulu. Addu was considered to be a competitor to Male, and the Addu Rebellion was used as an excuse to destroy the Addu elite.The attempt does not seem to have succeeded.
Ahmed bin Addu bin Suvadheeb on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 2:45 AM
35 years too late indeed. I just wonder what this convention centre would be like in 5 years time. I do sincerely hope that it fares better than the "international harbour" and the "international airport" of Addu!
I have some real concerns over Sodiq's over confidence in being able to find a party to look after the convention centre, unless the good people of Addu plan to have a right old "rave" very frequenly there!
I'm afraid that a convention centre (however modern) in the middle of nowhere is not going to attract much attention. After all, it has to offer much more than a tropical climate around it!
Here's an idea: the Chinese have a fondness for gambling; and we already have sizeable numbers of Chinese visitors. Make this into a Gambling Centre instead of a Convention Centre. Although success isn't guaranteed, there's a far better probability of that being profitable!
Rolex on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 7:16 AM
From what I hear in the media, Addu cannot be made ready in time and the SAARC Summit will have to be postponned.
awlaki on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 7:22 AM
Just because we are used to one wrong does not mean we shall do the next wrong thing. So there shall be no gambling in Maldives. Even the kaafir Americans call Las Vegas the 'sin city'. So even they associate gambling with sin after all other sins became perfectly acceptable to them including being gays etc.
The convention center will not fall apart for lack of business. There was similar talk about dharubaaruge when it was built in Male'. The convention center in Addu will in future host 80% of weddings, 100% political party meetings, hall of dharus as well as anything else that comes the way. It will be a heck of a busy place and it will be the heart of the city. You watch my words and prove me wrong in 6 months!
naju on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 7:55 AM
Of-course, you are right!!!! Addu people HATE those Presidents who seek votes with empty hands….We will definitely vote Anni
ibrahim Mohamed on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 8:20 AM
this centre will be used for various meetings and events. However it may not be used everyday, unlike the Dharubaaruge here in Male'. I heard the Mayor saying that the area in the vicinity of the CC will be developed in a very special way.It is also stupid not to do anything saying what will be the use of this place. We also have build harbors out of proportion in small islands. Eventhough it is an important infra structure we dont use it in the best way. So a we are good at having white elephants around us!
Zeena Gasim on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 10:30 AM
99% figure is wrong but 89% can be acceptable. Their lot of people with personal greed that national interests like few people who are in PPM. It seems these hate mongers are failing in the southern area. Sobe is proving action speaks louder than words. The nation needs such leaders if development is the goal.
Friends of Maldives on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 2:38 PM
Awesome! lets us jackals join hands to pave way for large corporations to exploit the few resources of Addu.
Naina on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 3:13 PM
Come on everyone Addu is a part of our Nation. We should be happy with all the developmental work going on. People seem to discourage everyone who is contributing to the work. MNDF helped to collect sand for our airport, some lost their lives doing the work. Promote love and care and not hatred. I am with you all Addu people. Don't listen to the discouraging words its not worth it. Your challenge would be to attract all Addu people back to Addu and open the huge houses locked up. You don't need to stay in Male'. Develop educational and health facilities so that your children need not come to Male. You have the money you can achieve success without the help of Male' people
Zionist on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 4:27 PM
Addu city, lol!
Zeenat on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 4:51 PM
SAARC is a very important event that our country will be hosting. For more than 3-4 days, Maldives will be in news all over the world. This will definitely be good for our tourism. More and more people would like to visit to Addu where SAARC was held. Because of this SAARC, the Addu got a conventional centre, harbour, airport was upgraded. This is all good for the country in general and for Addu in particular.
We should appreciate and thank India for providing us 15 Million Dollars aid and more than 150 vehicles to our country for SAARC summit. Thank U India.
Ziyan on Thu, 27th Oct 2011 6:08 PM
SAARC summit is a waste of time and money of some of the poorest nations in the south asia. The only reason they hold this summit is to decide a venue for the nect time. Plus there can be no real progress in SAARC unless India and Pakistan sincerely make peace with each other in all aspects and lead SAARC just like the way Germany and France takes sincere responsibility in leading EU. India and Pakistan has to leave their decades old enemosity and develope SAARC to give the rest of the SAARC nations too a better life. Until this happens, this just a waste of time, time, and lots of money which could be well used on the poor people in SAARC nations.
Azaa on Mon, 31st Oct 2011 9:43 AM
what hogwash. the poor people of Addu lured by the sparkle of a convention centre. trust not! ruling party will use your votes to win and then through the next term subject the people of this country to dire straits. we would be blind deaf and completely senseless not to realize that the situation in the country is deteriorating by the day. and what about Male' – completely neglected and abused to serve for the whims of everyone else. anni got one thing right. the poorest are those in Male' now. in a bid to be the island president, his excellency has gravely disregarded and sidelined the people of male' – when an all around approach would have been much better.development should not have to happen at the cost of others.


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Children's Book Week: Author Visit by Jake Marcionette
Thursday, May 15 at 6:30pm (An After-hours Event)
Celebrate Children's Book Week with New York Times best-selling teen author, Ponte Vedra resident, and library patron, Jake Marcionette. He will sign copies of his book, Just Jake, which will be available for purchase. Meet Jake, find out more about his book based on his middle school adventures, discover how he made it big, and celebrate our now famous library patron. Light refreshments will be served and we will be raffling off copies of Jake's book, thanks to the Friends of the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library. For more details, call the Library at 827-6950 and visit Jake's website.


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MEDFORD, Ore. — According to the US District Court Oregon Division, Voltage Pictures, LLC alleges 34 local residents illegally downloaded and distributed a movie called "Maximum Conviction." According to the complaint, the 34 defendants are from Medford, Central Point, Talent, Klamath Falls and Shady Cove, among other Southern Oregon communities.
"Maximum Conviction" stars Steven Seagal and Steve Austin. Click here for more of the motion picture details.
Voltage Pictures, LLC wants $30,000 for copyright infringement from each defendant. On top of that, the company seeks $150,000 in damages should the Court find willfull conduct.
At this point, no names are released. The film company released IP (internet protocol) addresses of the computers connected used in the downloading process. Those users get services through Charter Communications, Century Link, Clearwire Corporation, Frontier Communications and Embarq Corporation.
As stated in the complaint, the movie company believes the users perceive those connected to the motion picture industry are already wealthy and "do not need any more money." Voltage Pictures, LLC says the anonymity of downloading makes the users feel "justified in their pirating or theft of motion pictures."
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[=b Rate this up] - Cannot rate your own content
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Please make something good from it.
either hide the button for "own content" (thats sure false, because the entire thread is not the original posters content)
or give the original poster points for each rating of her/his proposal
see also How to avoid ratings users give just for gaining points [developer.qt.nokia.com]
[EDIT] "=b" is the thumbs up icon ;) and "Cannot rate…" is the text of the hint on mouseover
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I see, it's confusing because there is still something important missing in the forum: the Q&A features.
The rating as we see it now is not meant to "reward" the user who has written the piece of content to be rated. It is nothing but a way to indicate which pieces are the most useful and should show on top of the tag search list.
The Q&A features will make it possible to "reward" users for answers on the forum. Currently, we're thinking something like "helpful" and "solving" buttons. That may change but so far, that's the idea.
The plan is to have that implemented before summer.
[DISCLAIMER: Plan means plan, not guarantee. :P]
not all users are sharks It is obvious that user will rate up his own content. ;)
Maybe better to have mistakes that give such impulses. I'd prefer good solutions over perfect ones. Now we can gray it out (hide it), but we can also make sense of this little mistake, when we have the option to give rating the true meaning of rating Maybe removing (or greying out) "rate this up" button will be ok.:)
Wolf P., hm, not soure that I understood correctly, but restriction for rating your own content is by design. It is obvious that user will rate up his own content. Maybe removing (or greying out) "rate this up" button will be ok.
Well, but the rating is on the level of the whole topic, which, I would hope, consists of more than just the opening poster's content, at least after a while. Or can't anyone who posted in the topic rate the topic anymore? If the author of the opening post feels the thread contains useful information, why not allow him/her to rate it up?
:)Alexandra, in my opinion, we need no adoption of "I like this" buttons, whe are already rating
Nonono. You're mixing up things here. What we already have is the "Like" button if you want, you're right. What we will implement is a way of saying "thanks" to a certain user to build Karma.
Is it more clear now?
Volker, Absolutely. Inconsistent.
The button hint is the proof.
I forgot this third option:
rating could also make points for all posters (up to the rating time).
or a combination in option number four:
rating gives 2 points for OP and 1 for each poster. This will heavily improve the quality, becaus abuse is detected very fast: it is done by those who do consistently one Reply.
And leads to more response.
I'll try again. ;)
The rating button is supposed to identify valuable content. It's similar to the thumbs-up button on Facebook that recommends something to your friends. By rating content up you recommend it to others and influence its position in the search results if users search for tags. That's all.
The second part to this is the Q(uestion)&A(nswer) features. They reflect on the creator of the content (helpful answer, solved the problem) while the rating only reflects on the content itself.
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Two Lady Pirates off to regionals
Neither district foes or even nature could end the streak.
For a sixth consecutive season coach Becky Addison has players competing in a regional golf tournament.
Chelsea Judge, a junior, will be joined by freshman Alexis Gapinski next Wednesday and Thursday at the Diamondback Golf Course in Abilene. The duo were the top two individuals not on a qualifying team at the 7-4A Tournament this past Wednesday and Thursday at Pecan Valley's River Course near Lake Benbrook.
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UVa-Wise to celebrate life of Martin Luther King in January
The University of Virginia's College at Wise will celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with two events in January.
On Monday, Jan. 16, David J. Prior, the college's chancellor, will be the featured speaker at a 1 p.m. commemoration at the Chapel of All Faiths. His remarks will be followed by special music by Chris Rose and Anthony Keys.
This event will be followed by the 16th annual Martin Luther King celebration on Monday, Jan. 23. The Rev. Ray Jones, former pastor of Wise Baptist Church, will be the featured speaker.
The community is invited to participate in the event, which begins with a free dinner at 5 p.m. at the First Church of God in Wise. A candlelight march from the First Church of God through downtown Wise begins at 6:30 p.m. and ends at the Wise Baptist Church, where the formal program will begin at 7 p.m.
Prior to Jones' remarks, Justin Preston will recite King's "I Have a Dream" speech, and the Mt. Sinai Spirituals from Lynch, Kentucky will perform. Wise Mayor Erra Sutherland will address the crowd and Ritchie Kennedy and Mark Wooten will provide inspirational music.
Northrop Grumman is providing sponsorship for the events.
For more information, contact the Office of College Relations at 276-376-1027.


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Possessing one of the more humorous names you'll read about here on the site, Washington state lawyer, legislator and judge Govnor Teats was a prominent political leader in the Evergreen State for over twenty years. His unusual first name (which I presume is pronounced like the British greeting "ello govna") and last name "Teats" make for a very funny name, and one can wonder if that was ever brought up by his political opponents! Despite being a state representative and candidate for Lieutenant Governor, little can be found online in regards to his life, with the exception being a write-up in the History of the Puget Sound Country, published in 1903. The rare picture of Teats shown above was located here, and it stands as one of a few available portraits of him.
Govnor Teats was born in the town of Erie, Whiteside County, Illinois in 1858, the son of Judge Christopher C. and Cloe Warren Teats. Govnor attended school in Illinois and resided here until age sixteen, whereafter he removed to Kansas to take up farming. He eventually decided upon a career in law, and after a substantial amount of studying, graduated from the Kansas State University at Lawrence with a degree in law. Teats married in Kansas in 1879 to Ms. Ella Reeves, who bore one son, Roscoe (1880-1945). Ella Reeves Teats died shortly after Roscoe's birth and Teats later remarried in 1883 to Florence Robb (1861-1943), with whom he had two more sons, Leo (1884-1964) and Ralph (1886-1977).
After passing the Kansas bar, Teats set up a law practice in Abilene and resided here until 1890, when he and his family resettled in Tacoma, Washington. His early years in Tacoma were spent practicing law, and over the following decades built a reputation as one of the "biggest personal injury damage suit lawyers in the state" and was described in the History of the Puget Sound Country as maintaining a large practice, while also being in the possession of "one of the most extensive law libraries in the city."
Teats first became active in Washington state politics in 1910, mounting a campaign for the state house of Representatives from Pierce County (then the 36th district). His campaign platform (as featured in the Tacoma Times article below) makes note of his being a staunch advocate of the common workman, stating that "the time has come for the State of Washington to change from the present barbarous system of personal injury to a more humane system of compensation to the workman and their dependents in our industries." Teats also elaborates that he was in favor of a "State Compulsory Insurance plan" that would "put all the money paid by the employer and workman in a fund under the control and management of the State Insurance Department, and pay all injured workmen a sum according to the injury, without the intervention of a casualty company of lawyers."
From the Tacoma Times, September 3, 1910.
The above mentioned platform obviously resonated with Pierce County voters, as Teats (funny name not withstanding) did win election to the Washington State House of Representatives that November! Taking his seat in January 1911, he served one term in the house that concluded in January 1913.
As his term in the legislature came to a close, Teats began a campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Washington, running on the then popular Progressive Party (or "Bull Moose") ticket. He was unsuccessful in his attempt, losing by over 8,000 votes to Republican candidate Louis Folwell Hart (1862-1929), who later became Washington's ninth Governor, serving from 1919 to 1925.
From the 1913 Tribune Almanac.
Despite his loss for the lieutenant governorship, Teats continued touting the "Bull Moose" agenda, mounting a campaign for a state senate seat in 1914. A Tacoma Times article on his candidacy (shown below) makes note that he wanted "to go to the senate to create a system of safety which will save life and limb of my fellow men." Despite having the best interests of his constituents at heart, Teats was again unsuccessful.
This article on Govnor Teats appeared in an October 1914 edition of the Tacoma Times.
The life of Govnor Teats after 1915 is somewhat sketchy, with little being found that denotes what he was up to during the remainder of his life. A few newspapers of the time denote that he became a Superior Court judge in Tacoma around 1924 and it is in all probability that he served in this office until his death, which occurred sometime in 1926.
Teats's exact date of death cannot be found, and his burial location is also unknown at this time. Seeing that he was a longtime resident of Tacoma, it is a good certainty that he is interred at a cemetery in this city, although a definitive location is lacking!
A Govnor Teats Update...... January 8, 2013
Our first "update" related article for the new year of 2013 is a brief return to a highly popular posting from October 2012 that highlighted the life of obscure Washington politician and lawyer Govnor Teats. Since putting his article up online a few months ago the humorously named Teats has become the single most viewed profile on the site, due to a number of interesting factors! In early December of 2012 a brief snippet on Mr. Teats (as well as his picture from the site here) was featured on the popular website www.cracked.com, much to my great surprise!
I had never heard of cracked.com but have since found out its one of the most popular sites on the web, and ol' Govnor Teats was featured in an article called a "quick fix" on that website under the header "the 5 Greatest Accomplishments By Men With Stupid Names". While Teat's name is certainly one of the funnier ones you'll read about here on the site, he is certainly amongst good company with a four other funny named politicians on cracked.com, including current U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Richard "Dick" Swett. You can see Teat's article on cracked.com at the following address posted below.....
While the TSNIAPH getting a mention on cracked.com would make any writers day, it was numerous pieces of e-mail correspondence with Tacoma based genealogist and writer Greg Spadoni that truly made Govnor Teat's profile here one the site one of the most memorable I've yet written.
Towards the end of October of last year I completed the article on Mr. Teats and posted it on the site here. Little did I realize that on the opposite side of the country someone else was doing their own research on ol' Govnor, research that managed to fill in a few of the blanks in Teat's life while also helping to shape the overall character assessment of him. And now for the backstory!
Within a week of completing Teats' profile I received an e-mail from Greg, relating his research in regards to Gino Spadoni, who was accused (and initially convicted) in the shooting death of his ex-foreman Harry Hallen at the Griffin Wheel Co. in Tacoma. The murder itself occurred in March 1921 and Gino was eventually picked up on an unrelated charge of arson in San Francisco in 1925, and this is where the story (worthy of a movie screenplay in this authors opinion) takes a very interesting turn!
Enter Govnor Teats.........
After being returned to Tacoma, Gino Spadoni underwent a substantial amount of questioning by Tacoma police, and a trial date for him was set for June 1, 1925. The judge in the case? Mr. Govnor Teats!
As related in my article on him in October of last year, Teats became a Superior Court judge in Tacoma sometime in the early 1920s, and as Greg so eloquently put in his history of the Griffin Wheel Murder, the choice of ol' Govnor to head the trial "was unfortunate, for his less than stellar conduct of the trial, which began before the first juror had even been selected, was to have a profound impact on the ultimate outcome."
Throughout the course of 1925 the Spadoni trial and its proceedings were front page news in Tacoma newspapers. Closing arguments for the trial began in mid June 1925, with Judge Teats reading instructions to the jury. After a lengthy deliberation, the jury deadlocked, and after further deliberation, found Spadoni guilty of murder in the first degree. The story doesn't end there however, as Spadoni's lawyer (S.A. Gagliardi), successfully appealed his conviction, making a point to state that Judge Teats had made thirty-eight points of error during the course of the trial!! Gagliardi's appeal eventually reached the Washington State Supreme Court, and after reducing the points of error from thirty-eight to eleven and finally to eight, Spadoni's conviction was overturned...mainly thanks to the judicial ineptness of one Govnor Teats.
A second trial for Spadoni began some time later in May 1926 under a new judge, Fred Remann. This trial eventually saw witnesses refuse to testify or change their testimony, with the end result being that Spadoni was acquitted of all charges, walking away a free man. He eventually relocated to California, where he lived quietly for the next five decades. He later died in Italy in 1979 at age 85 and is also buried here.
Teats' tenure as a judge after the Spadoni trial is also under some scrutiny. Greg made note of another trial Teats was involved in, one in which he "outraged the defense", so it certainly seems that as a lawyer and judge, Teats fell short of the mark!
After reading Greg's thought provoking look at a forgotten piece of Washington history, its quite interesting to note that a funny named man featured on the site played an integral role in letting a (probable) murderer go free. While Teats' involvement in the Spadoni trial encompassed a major part of our e-mail correspondence, Greg also clued me into a few new details on Teat's life that so far remained a mystery.
The first was Teat's date of death, which as of my October article was listed as occurring sometime in 1926. The correct date of his demise was September 4th of that year at age 68. Greg also found that Govnor met his end as a result of an ear infection (of all things!), making him the first politician profiled thus far to die in this way! And to top it off, Greg found that Teats was cremated shortly after his death, with the location of his remains so far being unknown. I'd also like to note that the Teats great grandchildren eventually changed their last name to Deitz some years after Govnor's death!
While Teats obviously had to have some skill as a lawyer and politician (he was elected to the Washington State legislature after all) both Greg and I agree that Teats public career was tainted by acts of buffoonery, both as a judge and earlier. During our correspondence I located even more damning evidence that Teats really wasn't a skilled public servant, as written in the below excerpts from the Revised Charter and Ordinance of the City of Tacoma, published in 1905.
The above passages detail Teats' appointment to the Tacoma Civil Service Commission in April 1896 and his subsequent ouster from that office a year later in July 1897. It seems that Teats (as well as his two fellow commission members) weren't up to the task of performing their duties properly, and were dismissed from office. Charges were actually presented to then Tacoma mayor Angelo Fawcett siting Teats' "gross incompetency, neglect of duty and prostitution of a public trust for his private gain." Not exactly the kind of thing you want on your resumé!
With all that being said, its quite easy to look back on Teats' career and nitpick due to various mistakes he may have made. These errors of judgement (as well as a very funny name) have led three separate parties (myself, Greg and cracked.com) to really take Teats to the proverbial woodshed, and even a near century after his death, it seems the poor guy still can't catch a break!
You can read all about the Griffin Wheel Murder, Gino Spadoni (and more on Judge Teats) at the following link! Please check it out!
In this second update to the Govnor Teats article, SNIAPH site friend Greg Spadoni (mentioned above) has located even more interesting facts on ol' Govnor, including two different obituaries for him published in Tacoma newspapers after his death in September 1926. Greg also managed to locate the birth and death dates for Teat's wife Florence and his three sons, all of which have been added to the main article above. Through Greg's exhaustive research on Govnor, this article has grown exponentially, and will continue to do so as long as new tidbits on Govnor are discovered!
This rare Teats' obit was provided by Greg Spadoni.
As was mentioned in previous installment, Govnor Teats was felled by an ear infection, or, to be more precise, a mastoid of the right ear. Judge Teats had evidently been ill for a few months prior to his death, but still managed to maintain an active schedule, hearing cases up until a few hours before his death. This obituary mentions that in addition to his political and judicial activities, Teats was also involved in a number of local fraternal organizations, including the Elks Club, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. You'll also note that Teats is listed as serving a "hectic term as civil service commissioner", which (if you've read the previous update) is a very good way of putting it!
In addition to the above obituary, Greg also located two new portraits of Govnor, both of which are shown below.
Teats is caricatured as a Roman gladiator (or rather a slighty out-of-shape Roman gladiator) in the above portrait, which was drawn around the time Govnor was serving in the legislature in 1911. Teats' was described in a passage that accompanied the portrait as "the doughty champion of labor. A hard stubborn fighter with a stinging blow that penetrates the vital heart and pierces the quick." While that passage makes Teats' sound like a championship boxer, he did indeed try to be a champion of the working man, eventually holding the chairmanship of the legislative committee on labor and labor statistics. The second portrait of Teats (shown below) appeared in the Tacoma Daily Ledger shortly after he was reinstated on the Tacoma Civil Service Commission.
From the Tacoma Daily Ledger, October 22, 1897.


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The Rise Of Fascism: Concentration Camps In Greece - VIDEO
Submitted by emalvini on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 21:37The Rise Of Fascism: Concentration Camps In Greece - VIDEO
I've passed comment on the situation in Greece in previous blog entries but I was unaware of the full scale of what exactly was going on until today. In March 2012 it was announced that Greek Officials had given the go ahead for up to 30 detention style camps to be opened to house illegal immigrants who would be processed for eventual deportation. The move came as a means to control the social chaos consuming Greece after the collapse of the country's economy. The official justification for the move is that with an influx of immigrants came a huge jump in crime figures and that a fast response is the best way to deal with the crisis. At the time the move was criticised as resembling Nazi Concentration Camps and the rhetoric was seen as a means to raise a climate of hatred and fear against immigrants and Foreigners. That was in 2012, now in 2013 the situation has gotten far worse with the scope of these camps far increased.
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Dale Sveum Shot In The Ear By Robin Yount While Quail Hunting. Why? Because Its The Cubs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum was accidentally hit in the ear with shrapnel while hunting this offseason with Hall of Famer Robin Yount.
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The two were hunting quail in Arizona when Yount bagged a bird, but also Sveum.
"The bird was in front of him and I was about 50 yards up on a hill," Sveum said Tuesday at baseball's winter meetings. "He got the bird up and lost track of where I was. He pulled the trigger and was like, 'Uh, oh.' "
Sveum was hit in the back of the right ear by the spray pattern from a six-shot.
"I got drilled with pellets in the back and then one stuck in the ear," he said.
Sveum said there was plenty of blood, but he wasn't worried.
"We do it all the time," Sveum said. "Not that close all the time, but we do get BB's fall on us."
Sveum said he didn't receive stitches but did refer to Yount as former vice president Dick Cheney, who famously shot a friend while hunting.
Ladies and Gentleman, introducing, your Chicago CUBS!!!!
At what point does Dale Sveum realize that managing the Cubs means he's 1) Never going to win a World Series and 2) He'll most likely DIE in some form of freak accident. Seriously, next time KFC complains about his baseball team everyone needs to remember that however bad the Mets are at least their manager didn't get shot in the fucking HEAD.
Now excuse me while I go cry into my pillow.