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|Wednesday, 8 January 2003
Violence and the deprivation of justice
by Nadira Gunatilleke
The word 'justice' has become one of the most commonly used words in Sri Lanka. People always seek justice. The common man seeks justice and when he is deprived of it he sometimes becomes violent. When powerful persons want justice they do not need to fight for it because justice just comes their way without a struggle due to their 'power'.
But depriving the common man of justice creates trouble and social unrest. Some times law and order is violated and taken into their hand by the masses. Justice is being sought through violence and 'suspects' are even murdered inside court premises or their family members and their property or whatever available is being destroyed. The most pathetic situation arises when the masses become violent and destroy valuable evidence that can be used to prove the offence of the perpetrator. Road accidents are a good example for this situation. Even public properties are not safe when violence erupts.
Several examples for this could have been noticed when social unrest was created just after several recent crimes rocked the country. Whenever a private bus runs over a child, pregnant mother or a student, the mob gathers and burns the bus, destroying all valuable evidence available for the inquiry. But the bus owners have already insured their vehicles and they get their money back while the victim gets nothing but pain and loss.
Why do mobs behave like this? Have they lost confidence in the judicial system of the country? What are the remedies for this situation? This is not a common scene in most foreign countries where most citizens are treated equally before the country's law. In those countries `justice' cannot be bought and people have faith in the country's law. We cannot see nature's famous concept `survival of the fittest' in most such societies.
It is common for litigants have to wait several years to get a judgement in court cases filed by them.
Sometimes they do not get the judgement within their life time. This trend has been in existence in the country for more than a few decades. The ultimate result of this is that the common man loses confidence in the law. As a result, sometimes people take the law into their hands whenever a serious crime takes place. On the other hand, people have been seeing the way notorious criminals escape by using legal or illegal methods after executing murders, rapes and other crimes. Frustration is the only result after seeing these anomalies and they also make the people violent.
Media play a major role in easing this situation. It has become the habit of the mass media to report the crimes and thereafter ignore later developments which sometimes end with the offender receiving adequate punishment. But the local mass media do not give vast publicity to such judgements in the way it gives publicity to crimes. This is also important.
When judgements are not publicized some tend to think that offenders get away without being punished.
Whenever a brutal crime takes place in the country a front page picture of the suspect appears while electronic media carry the incident as their lead story, but when criminals are being punished by the law such judgments get less publicity except for a few well-known court cases.
According to a recent Cabinet press briefing, the Government is planning to decentralise the functions of the Court of Appeal into four geographical zones to expedite litigation. The proposed devolution of the Court of Appeal will provide a practical solution for the delays in the issuing of judgements of District Courts and the hearing of the appeal.
This is the first time that regional Appeal Courts are going to be introduced to Sri Lanka. The setting up of these courts on a circuit basis, it is hoped, would minimise law's delays as the Court of Appeal is now hearing some cases first listed in 1994 and 1995. Cases listed for hearing will take at least 12 years to conclude. In this situation even the richest parties involved in these appeal cases will have to seek assistance of the Legal Aid Scheme to complete the cases.
This will only be one of the solutions for this serious problem. But laws delays will remain if the relevant authorities do not take necessary action to solve major issues, such as, accelerating court proceedings, introducing tougher laws and severe punishments for brutal crimes.
Introducing a proper monitoring system to look after the victims, their family members and the behaviour of criminals who have been re-integrated with the society, is also advisable.
Sometimes the mobs use 'opportunities' (immediate after a fatal road accident etc.) to express their anger and hatred towards certain social classes, communities or actions of the offending party.
Attacking private buses, attacking big businessmen's properties (after Inoka Sevvandi murder, for example) and attacking lawyers who appear for suspects are a few such occasions.
Controlling angry mobs will not be easy because it is similar to keeping a rubber ball under water.
Establishing a well disciplined society where all receive equal treatment is the only available solution. We cannot take this problem lightly any longer because violence has already tapped on the doors of schools and homes!
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Ed Sperling, None
It's been 45 years since Moore's Law was first created and nearly four decades since the introduction of the personal computer. Unlike most industries, though, the semiconductor industry that powers all the technology inside businesses–as well as everything we touch–has shown none of the signs of a maturing industry.
Every time there is a hint of consolidation, new companies flood the market. Anytime there are technical hurdles they get solved. Why is this industry different, and will Moore's Law run out of steam anytime soon? To find out, Forbes caught up with Walden Rhines, chairman and chief executive officer of
Forbes: Why hasn't the semiconductor industry followed the usual pattern of consolidation?
Rhines: The largest companies in the semiconductor industry have only had modestly declining market share almost throughout the history of the industry. The reason: new applications keep coming along to grow the market, but the companies that lead in one application may not lead in another. A company like
Is that unusual for maturing industries?
Not all industries consolidate when they mature, but in semiconductors the unit volume continues to grow while the cost per unit continues to come down. In most industries the cost per unit doesn't decrease. In semiconductors, decreasing costs per transistor makes new applications possible. Ten years ago your child may have wanted an MP3 players with 1,000 songs. Today a child may want 100 videos for roughly the same price.
The cost of computers has come down, though. Is that strictly because of semiconductors?
That's a large share of the cost. Labor is a very small percentage. The material costs are about half of the total. On the desktop, [prices of] displays and keyboards keep coming down, too. Incidentally the unit volume of computers grows about 10% per year. That unit volume growth helps lower the cost and provide for new applications.
Everyone quotes Moore's Law for smaller, faster and cheaper. Is it still applicable?
In the past everyone would migrate to smaller and smaller feature sizes because it cost less per transistor. We're at a point where it's so difficult to shrink everything that the cost may not decrease anymore, or at least it may not decrease very much. But there are other alternatives to cut costs. You can stack silicon die on top of each other. Moore's Law will become irrelevant eventually, but there will be other things to drive down the cost.
Define feature size.
That refers to how wide the wires are on a circuit that connects things together. Typically they're about a thousandth of the diameter of a human hair. As we shrink them, we can put more transistors on a single chip.
Is part of this maturing also a move away from companies making all the components of a chip themselves?
Yes, and that's true for a lot of industries. In computers
Aren't there fewer companies manufacturing the chips, though?
Yes. There's growth in companies in each specialty, but the number of vertically integrated companies that design and manufacture products is decreasing as a percentage of the revenue of the industry. Memory companies still do design and manufacturing. So does
How much is being done in software rather than hardware these days?
Software has been increasing substantially. A large share of the products in the market today use the same chip but different software to run a different function.
Does that blur the definition between hardware and software companies?
If you look at a company like Qualcomm, they make chips, complex embedded software, as well as applications that may be used in a handheld device. What's changed is that you don't have to do it all. You can farm out some of that work to be done in parallel, or you can take a chip designed for another application and through software customize it for something totally different.
Has the timing for when these pieces have to be ready changed the market?
Not really. One of the reasons companies like
There's been a big push to multicore processors in the enterprise. Can software take advantage of that?
The challenge of multiprocessing has been around for decades. Parallelism is difficult. Companies like
Why are we dealing with this in the first place?
Processors were on a steady curve upward until we hit about 3GHz. After that they had to add more cores because they couldn't turn up the speed anymore. It would heat up to the point where it wouldn't operate predictably.
Are there any new materials to solve that?
There are some solutions. The speed that electrons travel in gallium arsenide is faster than silicon. You can get a higher speed that way. You can also use silicon germanium as an alternative, but ultimately these materials have a finite limit. Either thermal effects or other limitations prevent you from running them faster.
What about using light instead of electricity?
Integrated optics have been worked on by a lot of companies, but they're still too expensive. Light as a data transmission medium is quite pervasive. Undersea cables and data communications rely on it. It's just a question of how long it takes to get efficient integration of those optics into a chip and how you channel light signals around a chip. A chip that uses optics may be different than what we use today.
Does the stuff that's been developed for decades become a limiting factor in technology development?
People resist change. If they can solve new problems with established technology, they will. What's so fascinating about semiconductors is the change continues to be quite rapid and that forces people to change just to get a competitive capability or to develop a new application.
Isn't that change somewhat tempered by patents these days?
Yes. In 1947
Ed Sperling is the editor of several technology trade publications and has covered technology for more than 20 years. Contact him at email@example.com.
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I am planning on releasing 10 of my song recordings for free but bundled in an iphone app. They are not available on web or itunes or anywhere as of now.
I am new to iphone sdk (latest) as you can imagine, so I have been going through the developer documentation, various forums and stackoverflow to learn.
Apple's avTouch sample application was a great start. But I want my app to play all the 10 tracks one by one. All the songs are added to resources folder and are named as track1, track2...track10.
In the avTouch app code I can see the following 2 parts which is where I think I need to make changes to achieve what I am looking for. But I am lost.
// Load the array with the sample file
NSURL *fileURL = [[NSURL alloc]
[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"sample" ofType:@"m4a"]];
- (void)audioPlayerDidFinishPlaying:(AVAudioPlayer *)player successfully:(BOOL)flag
if (flag == NO)
NSLog(@"Playback finished unsuccessfully");
[player setCurrentTime:0.];
[self updateViewForPlayerState];
can anyone please help me on
1. how to load the array with all the 10 tracks which are added to resources folder
2. and when I hit play, player should start the first track. when the 1st track ends 2nd track should start and so on for the remaining tracks.
Thank You


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... or, as the newly elected (US) president might say, "yes, we can". Not quite sure exactly what it is we can do, but whatever it is, we can do it.
The previous thread title, "Storm clouds approaching", was somewhat prophetic, given the effect of Sandy, so maybe this will be too! Anyway, here's the link to that thread ...
So, just to recap: what's been happening:
- We have been given an early indication that despite all of MO'L's assurances and attempts to get other airlines to operate routes, the EU Commission is still not convinced. A decision is due in March (I think?)
- New routes for the Gathering: US Airways to Shannon
- More capacity from EI, with the return of the A332 from the United lease
- The Aer Lingus/DAA pension issue rumbles on, though hoped now that disruption can be avoided
- Traffic at DUB continues to run significantly ahead of last year and
- EI reporting strong Q3 traffic (albeit stronger on longer haul than short haul)
Probably a few other things too, but I can't quite recall !
Anyway, this being more than likely the last thread of 2012, I think we end the year with Irish aviation being significantly better than it was this time last year, with a lot more hope, in what is still a pretty fragile economic environment ...


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Mapping magma in the Sept/Oct issue out this week
You've probably heard of the supervolanco that lives under Yellowstone National Park. Researchers recently discovered it contains 2.5 times more magma the previously thought and reported their findings in a study released just as a swarm of small earthquakes hit the park. But is it a thing to fear? We'll tell you in the September/October issue of Montana Magazine.
Our cover image, by Tom Murphy, is a shot of some of the mystical and almost other worldly geological features created around Yellowstone by the supervolcano and volcanism of the past.
Writer Jack Ballard writes about how scientists map magma and catalog quakes in his great story about the supervolcano.
Funny enough, our other Yellowstone-focused story takes a look at one of the most gentle creatures inside the park. As writer Corinne Garcia tells us, an artist with a love for winged bugs is helping hoards of park visitors learn more about butterflies.
Spoiler alert: There are a lot of butterflies inside Yellowstone.
You'll also need to see the spread of gorgeous photos by Cathie and Gordon Sullivan, who are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act and Sen. Lee Metcalf's role in its passage with their "In the Name of Nature" Portfolio.
That's accompanied by a another great story by Jack Ballard about how the lands protected by the Wilderness Act continue to draw tourists and support Montana outdoor-based businesses.
As always – we hope you enjoy our most recent issue.
– Jenna
Big Sky Spotlight: Meet Paul Fugleberg
Story and photo by BRYCE GRAY
You wouldn't know it from the newspaper awards that cover walls of his Polson home, but Paul Fugleberg's 61-year-and-counting career in journalism had inauspicious beginnings.
"When I was in college, I took one semester of journalism. I didn't like it at all," Fugleberg said.
Luckily for his faithful readers today, Fugleberg, 84, had a change of heart after taking that Los Angeles City College course. He switched to a focus on history at UCLA, but dropped out to join the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. Only after being assigned to the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls and getting involved with the base newspaper did Fugleberg's love of journalism take root.
While in the Air Force, Fugleberg also struck up two other lasting romances – one with his future wife, Mary Lou, and another with Flathead Lake and the surrounding community where he would later become enmeshed.
The latter connection began on a Labor Day visit to Woods Bay in 1953, when Fugleberg was so transfixed by the beautiful lake and mountains that he turned to a friend and said, "I'm gonna live here someday."
After holding newspaper jobs in Roundup, Canton, South Dakota, and Bishop, California, Fugleberg made good on that statement in 1959, when he was hired as editor of the Flathead Courier in Polson.
Although Fugleberg has remained in Polson ever since, his role as a writer has varied. He juggled responsibilities as editor and co-publisher after buying the Courier in 1963, and also bought the Ronan Pioneer in 1971. Fugleberg sold the newspapers in 1980 and transitioned to a prolific freelancing career, including having his work published in more than 40 periodicals and major newspapers around the nation. He has also authored several books, including Proud Heritage, an illustrated history of Lake County.
The Pioneer and Courier eventually merged, forming the Lake County Leader, where Fugleberg would later return as a copy editor and columnist. He retired from working full-time in 2008, but still submits his wildly popular column entitled "Among Other Things" for publication every other week.
Fugleberg originally began writing the column for the Courier in 1959. Its subject matter runs the gamut, spanning anecdotes from local history to lake monster sightings, baseball, and the occasional collection of puns that leave readers groaning.
Fugleberg often uses images from a meticulously gathered and extensive photo archive, which includes his own photography and thousands of donated historical images from around the area, to complement his written work.
Despite his career successes, the ever-modest Fugleberg is quick to deflect credit to a long line of mentors and colleagues, or even luck in some cases.
"They said they got over 3,000 inquiries from that story," he said, perusing a clip about the Mission Valley that made the front page of the Chicago Tribune's Sunday Travel section in 1989. "I got lucky on that one."
Though the newspaper and the reporters around him have changed, Fugleberg and his flair for detailed, witty writing have remained the constant in Mission Valley journalism for more than a half-century.
While Fugleberg has achieved a rare career balance – equal parts historian, storyteller and journalist – he refrains from labeling himself.
"I'm just an observer," he said.
An observer, among other things.
Q: Where do you find inspiration for columns and other writing projects?
A: From "mining the morgue," browsing newspaper archives, planning vacations and making sure the itinerary includes museums, community anniversary dates, summer theater, and keeping in mind items of interest to family members.
Q: How have you come to amass such an extensive collection of historical photos from the Mission Valley?
A: By making people aware of my interests, I've been given photos that people would've thrown away otherwise. Old glass film negatives, for instance, from pioneer photographer Herman Schnitzmeyer were discovered beneath old floorboards of a lumber office that was being torn down in Polson. I shared those ones with the state historical society.
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring journalists?
A: Keep your eyes and ears open. Something is new or different each time you leave the house. Be aware of what it might be. Read the newspapers wherever you go.
Q: Where in Montana do you go to relax?
A: Home.
Q: What three words describe Montana?
A: Character. Beauty. Mountains.
Who says you can't go home again?
Submitted By Pamela Zortman-Rogers
It was the winter of 2005 and I was sitting at a file cluttered desk in my law office when the phone rang.
At that time, I had been practicing law for about 5 years in a large city 30 miles north of Boston. I expected the call to be from a client or from someone related to a client's case but instead I heard a woman's voice with an accent that I wasn't yet familiar with.
"Is this Pam Zortman?" she said with a soft almost Midwestern twang but with a Southern twist. Definitely not the Boston accent I was used to, especially since she had pronounced the "r" in Zortman. Even more unusual than the accent, the woman was using my maiden name which I myself hadn't used since my marriage some 7 years prior.
I hesitantly replied in the affirmative.
"Well this is Candy Kalal. I'm from Zortman, Montana. I got your name from a relative of yours and she told me to call you."
At this point in time, she had my full attention, not an easy feat.
"Zortman Montana!" I said with a shock, considering that Montana is clear across the country from where I sat in Massachusetts AND that the town shared the same name I was born with. My mind immediately went back to something my Grandpop had told me years earlier when I was a young girl.
He said there was a town out West, in somewhere like Iowa or Wyoming, maybe Montana, and it was named after a relative. He said it was a big gold mining town and went on to tell me about a fortune that his distant cousin had found in gold. I can remember listening in awe to a tale that seemed to me, to be as magical as Cinderella.
When I got a little older, I researched this seemingly tall tale and found out my Grandpop was right. There was a gold mining town in Montana named Zortman, after Oliver "Pete" Zortman, a distant relative of mine.
Candy continued on despite my lack of conversation due to the peculiarity of the call and the wandering of my mind to times long gone by.
"We want to dig up Pete Zortman and have him buried back here in Zortman and we need your help."
Now I was laughing to myself, the call had gone from surprising to crazy.
How could I possibly help? Did she need to borrow a shovel to dig up a dead body? And who was the relative that gave Candy my name and number, I'd have to call them later and share a snarky "Thanks"!
"Wow!" I said, unsure as to what else to say. With trepidation, I continued, "How can I help you?"
"Well, old Pete is buried in Big Timber and we need a blood relative to fill out some forms with the town clerk to have his remains dug up. ince you're a lawyer and a blood relative, your cousin Lois told us to call you."
I paused for a moment, while all this sounded logical, it also sounded insane.
"So you want me to call the clerk and then fill out the forms?" I was kidding myself if I thought this was the only involvement I would have in bringing Pete home.
And that's how this crazy and fun journey began for Candy and I.
Along the way, we filled in some historical blanks, solved a mystery, made new friends and found a member of the family that we didn't even know existed.
Oliver "Pete" Zortman
"Pete" was born Oliver Zortman in 1865 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
He descended from Alexander Zartmann, the Zortman family's patriarch in America. Alexander had two sons, Alexander II and Jacob. Pete and I both hail from the Alexander II branch of the family.
Our family history book states that Pete went west looking for gold. And after many attempts, Pete did find gold and he struck it rich, running a successful mining company in the town that would soon be named after him.
He married Rose Finn, a Wisconsin born school teacher and they had two daughters, Lucille and Helen. It is noted in a history book that Pete is one of only a few men who left Montana with a "good sized fortune."
Not much is known about Pete after that. We do know he was a Mason from the Chinook lodge and when he was buried in Big Timber in a pauper's grave, he received Masonic last rights.
It appears that Pete died alone in 1933 from prostate cancer.
So as crazy as it all seemed, I was on board with the disinterment of Pete's body in Big Timber. I can remember placing the call to the town hall, it went something like this, "Uh, Hi…My name is Pam Zortman. I want to have the body of Pete Zortman dug up from his grave and I was told to call you."
It was awkward to say the least.
Since my dad was still alive and technically one generation closer to Pete than myself, I had him fill out the clerk's forms and I returned them to Big Timber.
We were told that Pete had been buried in a "pauper's grave" in a local cemetery. There was no sign of a grave for his wife, Rose, or of his two daughters, Lucille and Helen.
Where they were was a complete mystery to us, one that would not get looked into until a later date. But first, we had a body to dig up and bring home.
Since I live about 2300 miles from Zortman, I was only able to help by making calls and sending emails.
I would wait patiently for Candy's calls or emails and revel in all the details of the big Homecoming scheduled for August.
I contacted lots of Zortmans, from Fowler, Kansas to Hollywood, California, about the big event. I would tell them what was planned, see if they could make it and get them in touch with Candy if they could.
We wanted to make sure that lots of Zortmans were at the event. And since Zortman is so remote, we knew that only a few relatives would actually make the trip.
In late August, Candy let me know when Pete was dug up. A few days before the big Homecoming, some local veterinarians went to Big Timber and had a back hoe dig into the just located area where Pete was buried.
After awhile, they hit some wood splinters and some bone.
Apparently the casket had broken into pieces under the weight of water and dirt over some 72 years. But the body was found and brought back in a new casket. Pete was kept in the town fire hall for the big day.
On Aug. 27, Pete Zortman Days began in the tiny town.
I was told by a few relatives who were there that the event was moving. The ability to return a person's remains to his rightful spot on earth was powerful.
A horse drawn carriage took Pete to the Zortman cemetery. A gravestone paid for by local Masons marked Pete's final resting place.
I couldn't make it to the Homecoming due to work but I read about it online and received calls and pictures from candy and relatives that were there. I was a bit surprised when the reburial made news around the world.
The Final Resting Place
I was finally able to make it to Zortman in July of 2013. On a beautiful July day, my husband, John, and I drove from Lewistown to Zortman and just stared in amazement at the beauty that surrounded us as we drove.
Living in the Northeast we are not accustomed to long flat drives on empty highways. Nor are we accustomed to the sheer beauty of big sky country. It was possibly the most amazing drive of my life. I was in awe.
After about an hour and a half we came across a sign on Highway 191 that said "Zortman" and my heart skipped a beat.
The place that my Grandpop had told me stories about, that I had researched myself as a young adult and then that had come to life through my talks with Candy Kalal was now becoming a reality. We drove down seven mile road, which looked to us like an abandoned dirt road leading to nowhere.
We went directly to the Zortman Motel and we were greeted by Candy Kalal and her husband John.
Even though we had never met before, I felt like I had known Candy my whole life due to the homecoming planning and all the calls we shared during the past 6 years. Candy and John showed us Zortman memorabilia, dinosaur bones, and gold nuggets.
We ate lunch at the Miner's café where their daughter was our very pleasant waitress.
John shared stories of Zortman with us, fully explaining how gold mining worked. He then drove us in his Ford F350 all around the original claim that Pete owned. There were times when I had to take a deep breath and just go with the flow.
I think it was apparent to John that I wasn't exactly a backwoods type of girl and Zortman is most certainly in the backwoods.
At the end of the tour, John took us to Pete's grave in the Zortman cemetery. It was situated in the most beautiful spot you could find in town. As I approached the grave, the trees swayed close by, the fields were as green as green could be, and the mountain views were breathtaking. I declared it was a fit place for a great man. And I was thankful he could rest in this beautiful spot. I then took a moment alone to kneel down by the grave and talk to Pete.
I wanted him to know I was there with him. Pete is family to me even though we've never met, but we share the same blood and that means something to me.
I was proud to have helped him to get home. And I was even prouder to share his last name.
The Mystery
As one can imagine, records kept in a mining town during the late 1800's and early 1900's are hard to locate. That left Candy and I with a lot of questions about Pete and his daughters and what happened to them after they left Zortman.
That's where Mary Hackett came into play. Mary is a Zortman by way of her mother. Born in Ohio, like many Zortmans, her dad moved them to Montana when she was a little girl and she now lives in Stephensville with her husband, Harvey, a true cowboy. Mary has the same nosey streak in her that I have. We just have to know and in turn, we will stop at nothing to figure it out.
Through countless hours of research Mary was able to find out that Rose had left Pete at some point in time after the turn of the century. There are census records that show Rose and the girls in Washington state, Iowa, and even Hollywood, California.
Mary even uncovered a newspaper article from Big Timber that said that Pete and Rose had renewed their wedding vows. No mention of the girls.
So why did the Zortman girls move so much? We still don't know. Where did they end up? That we did find out.
It appears that Rose passed away in Santa Rosa, California around 1965. Her obituary mentions both daughters and a grandson, Richard Fugett. Daughter Lucille passed in 2001 in Seminole, Florida. She had no children and never married. Daughter Helen passed in 1962 and was divorced, with one son.
Mary was then able to find a death certificate for Pete's grandson, Richard Fugett. t stated that he passed away in 1995, from prostate cancer, the same cancer that killed Pete in 1933. It didn't mention any next of kin so Mary and I just sighed, fearing a dead end.
Mary decided to send me Richard's death certificate in order to see if there was something she missed. And lucky for us, there was. As I scanned the certificate, I noticed a woman's name listed as executor. The name didn't mean anything to me, it was Mary Hermans. So I googled the name with Santa Rosa attached to it. I let out a loud sigh as I found another death notice. This one was from 2007.
It appears Mary had passed but left a husband and a few children. I went back to google and put in Dr. Colin Hermans. I quickly found many links and more importantly, an email address. Not knowing if it would lead to anything, I sent out another "awkward" email, basically asking if he knew a Richard Fugett from Santa Rosa, California.
I was shocked when I received a quick reply. It turned out that Dr. Hermans was Richard's college roommate. And boy, did he have some stories to tell! It turns out that Richard, a former member of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division, was quite a colorful character.
He told me "Dick" had passed in 1995, a fact I already knew.
Dr. Hermans offered his telephone number and I phoned, thankful that he was willing to share his time and memories with me.
Thirty minutes later, I had an overabundance of stories about Dick Fugett. It was obvious that Dick shared Pete's genes. Pte had led such an adventurous and colorful life, so had Dick Fugett. With a heavy heart I thought of the two men, both relatives whom I wish I had gotten a chance to know but now, never would. But all hope wasn't lost.
I found out from Dr. Hermans that Dick had a daughter, Kerry.
Named after the county in Ireland where Dick's maternal grandparents were from. He thought she might be in her early twenties, probably living in California. Another Google search led me to my new relative.
Kerry and I have been communicating via emails since she lives in Ecuador, working with bears at a city zoo.
I smiled a weary smile when I initially communicated with her. It had been a long journey to find her, about 6 years.
Conflicted, I was overjoyed to have found Pete's great-granddaughter and filled with sadness that she was all that was left of Pete. But the best part of talking with Kerry is that she knew nothing about Pete or the Zortman family and I've been able to enlighten her about her famous ancestor. I'm hoping to visit Zortman with her next summer.
Looking back on that first call from Candy Kalel, I never expected all the gifts that have come my way because of it.
I never expected to get to know Pete as well as I have. I most certainly never expected to solve the mystery of Pete's lineage. I never expected to welcome a new Zortman to our family. Nor did I expect to make new friends or visit new places. I most certainly didn't think I would visit a remote town in Montana and find it to be one of the most special places on earth with the most special people.
All I can say now is that I'm happy that Pete is home where he belongs.
Who says you can't go home again?
Me and the Ol' Man
Written and submitted by Zach Pallister, Helena:
What I remember most was the blissful quiet of the forest. The snow had fallen heavily and some feathery flakes still drifted lazily to Mother Earth. My 11-year-old legs plowed through the snow up to my knees. I followed the Ol' Man's footsteps as best I could. Outside his track was the fresh, never-trodden snow, so beautifully blanketing the rocks, roots and slick limbs hidden beneath.
Outside the cover of the forest on North Wilson ridge, we felt the stinging bite of the cleansing wind as we traced the edge of the old growth Douglas fir forest heading east for a mile or so.
I thought of the mountain men of old – Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and the like – how their yearning for freedom got them here and how I itched to be like them. My mind fantasized glorious days of trapping and hunting with old Hugh Glass as my mentor. Anyone who could live through such a scrape with a grizzly had to be a tough old bird.
I spent my youth reading of all the mountain men and the Indian chiefs, never tiring of American history during the infancy of our country and of those who blazed the way. I immersed myself in their lore. What a world it must have been! Survival was all that mattered. All the "things" we have now days seemed so unnecessary – and only serving to complicate the meaning of raw existence. Give me the Wind and the Rain, the Mountain and the River, the Sun and the Moon; by God, that's all I need!
Suddenly the Ol' Man stopped walking and I bumped into his back. Daydream over! He chuckled and pointed to the fresh elk sign in the snow, by now the perfect texture for picking out clean tracks. In a whispering voice, he took the time to teach me how to read the sign. Hoof direction, what was a cow, a calf and maybe one was a bull because the prints were more rounded at the front. The cow's urine splattered from the rear and a bull made a hole from his center. The larger pellets were from mature animals, the calves had pellets the size of grown deer. Pellets piled when standing and scattered when moving. Looked like a dozen head or so.
The adrenalin kicked in immediately as the predator instinct tuned the senses. I knew we would follow these elk tracks to where their makers were bedded and we would see elk up close. It just couldn't happen any other way. Any bull could be taken in those days with an over-the-counter license at a cost of about five bucks.
The Ol' Man hadn't taken his bull yet which was unusual. It had to have been mid-November by then and lots of trails had been traveled. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that eight of my brothers were eligible to hunt at the time.
My four younger brothers, like me, weren't old enough to hunt yet. My one lonely (and lovely) sister gave hunting a try for a year or two and decided to leave it to the boys. When you got to be 11, it was OK to ride around with the bunch and learn the ropes. The hunting excursions we made in my youth were what cultivated my desire to tramp the Great Outdoors.
Mom and Dad would load up a pickup and a suburban with kids, food, gear and guns and off we'd go to Ekalaka for antelope, Libby for goats and bear (or berries in the summer), California Creek near Sheridan for mule deer and anywhere close to home before and after school and every weekend throughout hunting season.
Our summers were filled with gardening, building the cabin on Bull Mountain, camping at Elder Creek, arrowhead hunting, picnics, swimming and fishing. We always had hard work followed by the reward of an outdoor experience.
With 12 brothers and a sister, the occasion to spend any one-on-one time with Dad or Mom was precious, for certain. Maybe that's why this experience has prickled my feathers for so many years.
The wind was slight inside the timber and blew from out of the north. The elk couldn't scent us and the snow made silent our approach. A squirrel sounded his warning and the Ol' Man gave him a knowing look of respect. We stopped until the squirrel decided we weren't quite the threat he had surmised.
Gray jays or "camp robbers" as we called them flitted from snow-laden, grandparent fir trees along our trail, curious as to our approach. The jays loosened the snow on the tree branches and it filtered lazily to the forest floor in a beautiful ghost-like veil. The tree moss was heavy, it's chartreuse color contrasting flawlessly with the snow.
The elk trail followed the contour northwesterly where Bull Mountain wapiti had coursed this forest thousands of times.
The only trail alterations happened when danger scattered a herd in fright or a natural barricade, like a fallen tree, caused a slight deviation. The scent of the elk reminded me of black licorice and it lay heavy in the closeness of the dense forest. That smell excites me today and always readies me for another spiritual encounter with my favorite critters.
We closed the gap in a hurry I realize now, but back then it seemed a subliminal eternity. Dad put his gloved forefinger to his lips and we crept as silently as my Bass waffle stompers would go.
Then, there they were! The Ol' Man cautiously dropped to his knee and we huddled together as we shared the moment. The elk were bedded, except for one old cow with her nose up and her eyes bugged out, alert for any drift of a dangerous scent or a predator's approach. Her nose was wet and it quivered as it worked the air currents, her ears moved forward and back trying to detect the danger. I've relived this moment in reality countless times; watching a lead cow up close, tending the flock.
Dad slowly raised his trusty, well-worn .300 Weatherby rifle and looked through the scope at all the elk and elk parts.
"No bulls", he whispered.
We rose carefully to upright and watched the bunch for a minute or two. Then they just kind of wandered away, not sure of what danger was present, but instinctively sensing it all the same. Dad looked at me and said, "How'd you like that?"
I answered with the expression in my eyes.
I don't remember much about the long walk back to the cabin, just that I was fulfilled to the max and excited to share the story with mom and my brothers. That same sense of spirituality fills me up whenever I experience the wild of the outdoors.
"Filling my spiritual tank" as my oldest brother Jeff calls it.
That brief walk in the woods with my Dad, affectionately known as the "Ol' Man" amongst all us brothers, happened nearly 45 years ago. The memory of that experience has sharpened and tuned my outdoor savvy and helped me gain independence of spirit; passed on to my sons and now to their children. What we gain from Nature is freedom of spirit, communion with life in all forms and that sense of completeness individually gained through release of self.
The Ol' Man's choice to end his hunting career at age 87 was out of respect for the animals he cares so deeply for, not wanting to wound them. The tunnel vision in his right eye, some tremoring in his hand and a troubled spine made clear his decision. Nearly 94 now, he lives on the family Jaybird Ranch on the edge of Boulder with the memories, having planted his spiritual passion in each of us.
I love you, Dad.
CoMotion Dance Project redefines curriculum through movement
Story and photos by WILLIAM MUNOZ
Five second graders walk carefully into the open space in the classroom as their peers sit quietly as the audience. Music begins and they perform their science-inspired choreography of evaporation, condensation, accumulation and precipitation.
Curled up on the floor as molecules, they lightly swirl and rise to standing. Soon, the clouds condense into the long wispy shapes of cirrus clouds. The 7-year-old performers spread out and twirl softly to the ground as snowflakes and freeze.
The students have just danced the water cycle.
Different from the science classes many remember, these students are participating in the CoMotion Dance Project's long-term residency program, which uses creative movement and dance to reinforce elementary school curriculum in math, science, social studies and language arts.
The CoMotion Dance Project was launched in 2006 by Karen Kaufmann, professor of dance at the University of Montana, to support the philosophy that movement can enliven the learning experience for many students, especially those who don't learn easily through traditional methods.
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Butterfly Whisperer: Artist helps Yellowstone visitors learn about beautiful bugs
Story by CORINNE GARCIA
Photos by LYNN DONALDSON
A wildlife tour in Yellowstone National Park has often been compared to an African safari. But instead of zebras, lions and elephants, Yellowstone guests look for bison, elk and bears. Some even see a wolf if they're lucky.
For many park visitors, seeing these large animals graze beside brightly colored hot pots and amid steam from nearby geysers is so out of the norm that it's easy for them to overlook the smaller, more elusive creatures that exist amongst them.
But for Gardiner-based artist and wildlife biologist George Bumann, it's the butterflies that intrigue him the most, and he's helping other park visitors understand their significance. It's not only the butterflies' beauty that fascinates him, but also by their role in the park's overall ecosystem.
"In Yellowstone, people get attached to those mega animals: the elk, bears and wolves," Bumann said. "But what's really amazing about this place is the tie between geology, plants and animals as they relate to each other; it's a very tight-knit system."
With 134 known species of butterfly living within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (out of a total of 725 in North America), the diversity inside and around the park is uncommonly high. For this reason, Yellowstone makes it onto most butterfly hobbyist's bucket lists.
Yellowstone's resident butterfly expert George Bumann introduces Hayden's ringlet
Favorite butterfly: Hayden's ringlet
Why? It is known as a Yellowstone area endemic, meaning it is found here and nowhere else outside of the region. The species derives its name from Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey expedition that documented the wonders of Yellowstone in 1871, resulting in its establishment as the world's first national park.
What are some of its signature markings? The Hayden's Ringlet is identified by its smooth, warm, gray color above and below, but when you see the underside of this quarter-sized insect's hind wing, it has a wonderful row of orange eye spots near the back edge with large black pupils and silver-white centers. (Another signature feature) is its "fatalistic" flight pattern. When flitting about the open meadows of Yellowstone, the Hayden's ringlet flies as if it is catching itself from a fall with each wingbeat. It's a most dramatic thespian!
What is its migration pattern? This butterfly does not migrate, as with most species found in Yellowstone, but is limited to the mountainous areas of the northern Rocky Mountains. Thankfully, where you find it, you may find lots.
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Lightweight packrafts provide adventure on Sun River
Story and photos by BILL CUNNINGHAM
It happened in a microsecond.
Sable, my co-adventurer Jerad White's black lab, flipped his tiny raft by jumping out in the midst of a swirling whitewater rapid.
Jared was thrown into the watery mess as I, in an even smaller raft, came bearing down on top of him.
After the near collision I scooped up floating gear while Jared and Sable swam to shore.
This was only the beginning of our maiden packrafting voyage.
Combining backpacking with river floating, packrafting is an increasingly popular way to explore the wilderness.
Packrafts are incredibly light, durable and packable. My little butt boat comes in at a mere four pounds. Jared has a sleeker model that weighs only a few more pounds.
Skilled paddlers can handle serious rapids in a packraft. But I'm fairly new to the sport.
Still, Jared and I were set on making our first trek in packrafts on Sun River.
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Whitefish becoming a high-tech home base
Story and photos by JESSICA LOWRY
It's 8:30 a.m. on a sunny Wednesday Montana summer morning as Henry Roberts, 40, grabs his 1971 Raleigh Competition bike for his morning commute. Clad in a green plaid shirt and blue Patagonia hat, Roberts glides by rows of quaint homes that line the streets of Whitefish.
The resort town, once known mostly for ski bums and a close proximity to Glacier National Park, is starting to turn heads for a new reason: a growing tech industry.
Roberts, who works as vice president of creative for The ZaneRay Group, answers to clients like Filson and Patagonia.
"Our foundation was about having a great real world job but living in Whitefish, Montana," Roberts said.
He cites a short commute both to work and recreation, winter hockey league and fresh powder at Whitefish Mountain Resort among the amenities that made him fall in love with the tiny mountain town.
His creative work at the web development company keeps him challenged with brands known around the world, while his location lets him relax without the traffic or expense of a more urban environment.
Co-worker Dean Hamilton, a lead engineer, finds the same satisfaction in the work-life balance he's found at The ZaneRay Group. He counters his time at work with skiing in the winter and camping and backpacking in the summer.
"Quite honestly I don't know how urban people do it," Hamilton said. "At least I can work crazy hours here and then be home in 10 minutes."
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The Senate Ethics and Elections Committee got a behind-the-scenes tour of the Leon County elections office Tuesday morning as the panel mulls voting changes.
The trip to Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho's office gave the bipartisan panel a glimpse of the entire voting process from early voting to absentee ballot canvassing. Committee Chairman Jack Latvala, R-St. Petersburg, said he wanted the members to make the site visit to see what elections operations are all about. Sancho, a veteran elections supervisor and an independent, has been a harsh critic of the 2011 election law (HB 1355) that shortened early voting and required more voters to cast provisional ballots if they move.
"I thought it would be helpful for some of the members of the committee of actually seeing what goes on to process the ballots both outgoing and incoming. So it was very interesting. A very good experience," Latvala said.
But the tour didn't appear to change Latvala's proposed election law changes. He still favors making it easier for absentee ballots to be counted by loosening the requirement that absentee ballot signatures must match a voter's registration application. Many voters don't update their applications but their signatures change, and once an absentee ballot is rejected, voters don't have an opportunity to change it.
Supervisors should be able to verify signatures using precinct registers, Latvala said.
"The example they showed us today was a lady that registered to vote in 1974 and so that's almost 40 years ago. her signature was not the same in 1974 as it is now. Well I bet mine's not either. So it's just a learning experience. We want to try to do the best job we can and we just need to have all the facts at our disposal."
The panel is unlikely to undo the part of the 2011 election law that required voters moving within a county to cast provisional ballots if they are not at their correct precinct and banned voters who move from one county to another from casting ballots at all.
Sancho said that while the number of provisional ballots grew in Leon County after the 2011 election law change, the percentage of rejected provisional ballots – between 30 and 40 percent – remained about the same.


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In speech to World Zionist Congress ahead of realignment, Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu says not enough is being done to prevent rocket fire; 'when I was prime minister there were no Qassams or rockets. When Katyushas were fired from north, we turned off lights in Beirut,' he adds
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According to Netanyahu, if after the disengagement, barrages of Qassams are fired on Sderot, "after the future withdrawals from the West Bank, the whole country will face Qassams."
The firing of Qassams on Sderot is an international crime, said Netanyahu, adding that not enough was being done to prevent the rocket attacks.
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A police of unilateral withdrawal won't bring international recognition, terror won't stop in its tracks, and what we will get is one thing – Hamas will win, Netanyahu warned.
He added that Hamas leaders must know that eventually our responses will bring an end to their rule.
'No rockets when I was PM'
Netanyahu said that when he was prime minister there were no Qassams or rockets. There were, however, Hibzullah Katyusha rockets in the north. He added: Once, when there was massive Katyusha firing on Kiryat Shmona, I acted and said from the beginning that I would not tolerate having civilians under massive Katyusha firing.
Netanyahu also said he acted against infrastructure in Lebanon, turning out the lights in Beirut, and threatening that this was the first portion. The rocket fire ended and didn't return for years, he said.
Addressing the threat from the east, Netanyahu said that the Iranian problem is above everything else. The world must unite around the problem, otherwise it will wake up too late. We must do all we can to remove this threat, he concluded.
Responding to a question, Netanyahu discussed the terrorists' special tactics, which he defined as firing on civilians, and hiding behind civilians.
The IDF has the ability to wipe out all of Gaza, said Netanyahu. If the terrorists had the possibility of obtaining a bigger bomb, they would use a bigger bomb, the opposition chairman said.
Netanyahu said that he paid a heavy political price for his economic policy, saying that Israel does not need to develop a policy of poverty.


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Wilcox returns to practice
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Good sign. Lets hope this practice went well for him and he is on the court during games soon.
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Definitely good news for the Celtics. He always contributes when he is playing. Just hope that he can remain healthy for the remainder of the season.
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Still like him behind Dalmebert
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WALTHAM — Celtics forward Chris Wilcox was back on the practice court today, shooting around and displaying his heavily taped right hand for the first time since suffering an ulnar collateral sprain to his right thumb against Chicago in December.
Wilcox has missed the last 12 games and got his first taste of full-contact practice since injuring the thumb.
"It's still sore, but it's going to be like that for awhile," Wilcox said before Celtics practice today at HealthPoint. "I'm just going to try and do whatever I can and just get back out on the court and see what I can go through and see what's comfortable for me."
Wilcox said he hasn't had contact on the thumb since the injury occurred and said he is going to gauge his pain threshhold as the Celtics practice for Monday night's game at the Garden against the Charlotte Bobcats. Celts coach Doc Rivers was noncommittal about Wilcox' return to the lineup, but it certainly seems like an injury that the 11-year forward will have to manage for most of the year.
"(It will) probably be something I have to deal with for a little while until it heals all the way back up, but you know, other than that I think everything should be straight," Wilcox said.
Too bad he is a right hander! Hope during his rehab he learned how to shoot/slam with left hand..maybe. In the meantime don't hurt it furthur! Wilcox could be of great help. Gortat..no. He couldn't even handle Sully!
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After you have stirred the Golem, he will tell you the heart-sob story of how he is unable to help you at this moment since he was cursed earlier on. Luckily for you, he will ask for your assistance to break the power binding him down. Hence, he will bestow temporary powers upon you, which will in turn let you see the portals of the Dark Realm (the place where you're going to do the dirty work for Golem #2). The portals will be displayed on your map as yellow circles, there's no real order in which to visit them, so I'll just go over how to conquer each of their challenges.
The Aeriel Brawl Portal: You'll need to defeat 5 enemies within the time-limit, yes any enemy, though on one condition; they must meet their end while they're airborne (just hold the Sword Attack to propel them in the air and dice 'em up). Moreover, focus on the weakling and ignore the bulky ones, I know it may be tempting to slice them up, but just resist that urge. Once you're done, go open the chests on the sides to recover some health points, wrath, and go towards the light while you've finished the pillaging.
The Venomous Portal: This challenge is a bit trickier than the rest, your health will go down regardless of what you do, but it will take less of a reduction if you stay out of the green poisonous gas plaguing the room. Did I mention you had to kill 50 enemies while doing this? Well, you do. As always focus on the easy kills, remember to pick up the health and souls awaiting your obtention.
The Speed Brawl Portal: You will need to defeat 40 enemies within the time-limit, stick to basics, remember to go for the easy enemies, stay away from the faties, just cut up as many as you can and ignore the flow of time.
The Gory End Portal: You'll also need to defeat 30 enemies within the time limit here, remember to stick with initiating the simple ones, and if you see any flying bats jump and press attack, they make for easy kills. The preceding procedures are easier said than done, remember to be patient while duking it out, and be sure to pick up the health and wrath waiting for you before exiting.
Your Reward: After completing all the Dark Realm portal challenges, you will receive the Block & Counter combat move from the hovering specter above you, it comes in handy when you are fighting competent enemies. If that were not enough, you'll need to return and visit your buddy Golem #2, be sure to blow the Earthcaller. The Golem will award you with the "Ravager Enhancement", basically what this add-on does is increase War's damage power when he is using objects from the surrounding environment, for instance; desks, chairs, and cars. Equip it in the menu before you proceed in your journey beyond the gate. Further, you'll also receive more souls from the objects you destroy, due to the ulterior nifty doohickey activation.
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Clint's gay son?Clint Eastwood's son is alleged to have had a gay affair.
New York estate agent Sam Kelley has claimed he enjoyed an intimate affair with Kyle Eastwood during the musician's 14-year marriage to model Laura Gomez.
Kelley also claims the Hollywood legend's son - who lives in Paris near his estranged wife and their 11-year-old daughter - told him he was in love with him during their relationship.
Kelley, who was a close friend to both Kyle and wife Laura, insists he and Eastwood had their first sexual encounter in Los Angeles around 10 years ago.
He told America's New York Daily News newspaper: "We went out, and it was late, and I ended up staying over in his hotel room. There was only one bed.
"I got in, and Kyle was - how do I put this? - happy! I was shocked. But I'm an openly gay man, I wasn't not going to do it."
After their first alleged night of passion, Kelley claims the pair then had "six or eight" other encounters but says nothing has happened between them for two years.
Kyle's representative, Bobbi Marcus, has rubbished the claims.
Marcus claims Kyle said to him: "'This is absurd. I don't know why Sam is doing this'."
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The 160-year history of the saxophone comes to brilliant life in Michael Segell's wonderfully researched, beautifully told The Devil's Horn. Beginning with "a sound never heard before," Segell's portrait follows the iconographic instrument as it is lauded for its sensuality, then outlawed for its influence, and finally credited with changing the face of popular culture. A deeply personal story of one man's love for music-making, a universal story of artistic and political revolution, and a trenchant critique of the global forces that stand in art's way, The Devil's Horn is music writing at its very finest.
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It Gets Late Early Out There – Yo La Tengo's Brooklyn Rooftop Week, ContinuedBy Gerard on Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Cairo media enraged by Temple Institute campaign that features picture of newly elected Egyptian president on a newspaper thrown to the ground
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Ahead of upcoming Tisha B'Av,
the Temple Institute, a body dedicated to the idea of rebuilding of the biblical Jewish Temple
in Jerusalem, launched an online campaign featuring an unusual "guest appearance" by none other than Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
The campaign caused a stir in Egypt
over more than Morsi's mere appearance, but rather regarding the manner in which he was featured, which Cairo media deemed offensive.
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The video shows a family – a father and two children – at the beach. The father is reading a newspaper, on which a picture of Morsi is clearly seen, and the children are building the Temple in the sand. When the father gets up to look at his children's creation, he drops the newspaper, with Morsi's picture on it, on the sand.
As arises from Cairo's coverage of the issue, Egyptians understood the campaign as indicating that Morsi will not be able to stop Israel
from rebuilding the Temple.
The controversial campaign has even been brought to the attention of the presidential palace. Morsi's spokesman Yasser Ali issued a statement Thursday, saying that Morsi has ordered his Foreign Ministry to officially protest the campaign.
"The video, which has gone viral, is designed as an educational tool for the Jewish community, to give a fresh and positive perspective on the Holy Temple whose message of peace and prayer is of central importance to millions around the world."
"Although aimed at the Jewish community primarily, we have received well wishes from across the globe from people of all races, religions and creeds and we have achieved our goals in highlighting the universal significance of the Holy Temple as a house of peace and prayer for all mankind," the statement said.
"The issues that have been raised concerning the image on the newspaper in the movie are baseless," it continued. "This is totally irrelevant to the message of the movie and the image is purely coincidental.
"The entire concept of the Holy Temple is one of peace, prayer and unity, something that Jews worldwide pray for three times daily. The Children Are Ready has proven that, after two thousand years since its destruction, the Holy Temple is still of central importance to millions of people worldwide.
"In this light, we hope that people will continue to watch and share the clip until it becomes the most popular Jewish video of all time," the statement concluded.


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U.S. Army Corp of Engineers campground on the Cumberland Reservoir. Newly remodeled sites. For a remote camping experience with boat ramp to the reservoir close by, this campground can provide it. Water and electric only, gravel sites. A dump station is on site, but requires some tight maneuvering to back into position. Roads to campground are narrow, paved, curvy and hilly. Quiet campground, with a host couple on site. Reservoir, with water on 3 sides. There is a newly equipped modern playground and some picnic tables around. But, not a lot of places to hike near the campground. The road out of the campground goes up a long, steep hill. We were visiting nearby relatives whose cabin was 3 miles away. Camped 3 nights. No TV reception. Some cell phones will work, Sprint will not. - BobbyH


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Day 1: Swasdi from Chiang Mai!
Swasdi from Chiang Mai! After 36 hours of travel, all of the 5 members of our GROW team made it to Chiang Mai. Kristina, Neelima, Nina and myself (Adam) flew from JFK to Helsinki to Bangkok to Chiang Mai, while Harrison met us in Chiang Mai from Los Angeles via Seoul. Leaving on Saturday and arriving in Helsinki
bleary-eyed and tired from our first red eye, we didn't want to spend 9 hours in the airport so we decided to hop out for a quick trip to the city! It was a beautiful and relaxing day strolling around the Esplanade on the water and soaking in the European culture, but we were antsy to get to Thailand and start our GROW trip.
After successfully figuring out the buses (and spending WAY too many Euros), we made our way back to the airport and got on our second red eye to Bangkok. We finally arrived in Chiang Mai on Monday exhausted from our traveling and met Mai (one of KWAT's General Secretaries, and our main contact) and Eileen in the airport, taking a taxi to the guest house we would be staying in for the next 3 weeks. Driving through the city, it was apparent that we were not in Helsinki anymore, but we were immediately captivated by the rolling hills and fun atmosphere of the old part of the city, where we would be staying. After spending the afternoon wandering around to keep ourselves from falling asleep (we did spend 2 consecutive nights on a plane, after all!), we called it a day and passed out around 6:30 PM, ready for our meeting in KWAT the next morning. After Harrison arrived at 11:30 PM, the team was complete and ready to get to work!
Waking up the next morning ready to go, we grabbed breakfast and headed to KWAT's office, about 15 minutes from our hostel. We spent the morning outlining our projects with Mai, Auntie Shelly (one of the original founders of KWAT), and Seng (one of KWAT's general secretaries, along with Mai). After our conversations, we finalized 3 projects that we hope to complete before our short time here is done! They are:
- Teaching English to KWAT's Interns
- Drafting the Activity Report, 2007-2013
- Health Programs Pamphlet
To explain these projects a little further….
KWAT brings 12 interns from Burma (Kachin and Shan states) to Chiang Mai for 6 months starting in August under their Political Empowerment and Capacity Building program. During this time, the interns learn English, hear from KWAT staff and guest speakers about politics and other political topics, and are taught skills to effect change within their communities and advocate for change.
Every 6 years, KWAT publishes an Activity Report (see here) outlining many of the developments in the region and programs that KWAT has worked on over the time period. The main goal of this report is to have a comprehensive publication that can be sent to donors and community members to inform everyone about developments in KWAT and the accomplishments that they have made over the last few years. We are very excited to work on this project to better inform ourselves about the different programs that KWAT has done and learn about the huge impact that the organization has had. Already, we have begun learning more about the conflict in Kachin, especially since there is such limited information on the Internet about the state of this conflict currently. Pending our completion of this project, we are also planning on making a pamphlet about KWAT's health programs to better disseminate information to both donors and the community.
After discussing our projects, we had a delicious lunch, complete with rambutan and dragonfruit and headed to the intern house to meet the interns we would be teaching. We spent the afternoon in small groups with a few of the interns to better assess their English abilities and get to know them on an individual level. After meeting each of them, we briefly began an impromptu English lesson on numbers and time to better assess their threshold knowledge. One thing was for sure, they definitely knew their numbers very well!
For us, talking to Mai confirmed many of our thoughts before coming about the conflict. Most strikingly, she assured us that foreigners always thought that things were rapidly improving in Burma, when in reality the situation has deteriorated rapidly and is definitely not getting better. Under their documentation program,
KWAT records many instances of portering, where many Kachins are used to carry supplies and guns for the Burmese soldiers, and are subsequently killed.
Additionally, Mai also told us a story of a woman who was trafficked to China. Originally arriving in China in 2006 when she was 21 under the impression that she would work in factory, she ended up getting married to a Chinese man. Recently, she had to resort to selling one of her three children to her Chinese neighbors for $300 since she did not have enough money to bring all of her children back to Kachin with her. KWAT works with these women to help them with many of the problems that arise after the women are able to return to Burma. While we were not surprised to hear about these things, we began to further appreciate how complicated and atrocious the situation is in Kachin and the wider state of Burma. Now, energized by our activities from today, we are planning our first few English lessons. We are incredibly excited to continue sharing our experiences with you, stay tuned!


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National XC Champs from Around the World
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- Published Jul. 20, 2011
- Updated Oct. 12, 2012 at 12:54 PM EDT
Todd Wells and Georgia Gould weren't the only riders to win national titles this past weekend. Mountain bikers, many with well-known
Gear&Tech: Tipping the Scales – Scott's XC 26ers and 29ers
- By Lennard Zinn
- Published Aug. 27, 2010
- Updated Oct. 11, 2012 at 5:06 PM EDT
Full-carbon 29ers just keep getting lighter and are appearing more often atop the podium domestically, and, finally, internationally as
Cannondale's Fontana Wins Overall at Maremma Cup
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- Published Mar. 8, 2010
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An elite crop of European racers lined up Sunday at the second XC race in the XX Maremma Cup, where Marco Aurelio Fontana held off the
2009's Best of the Best: It Takes Teamwork
- By VeloNews.com
- Published Dec. 28, 2009
- Updated Oct. 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM EDT
For the most part, mountain bike racing is a singular sport. But 2009 proves that a strong team can produce results.


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Is there a max length for class/method/variable names in Java? the JLS doesn't seem to mention that. I know very long names are problematic anyway from code readability and maintainability perspective, but just out of curiosity is there a limitation (I guess class names might be limited by the file system maximal file name limitation).
If I'm not mistaken, the limit is not in the language itself but in the classfile format, which limits names to 64k, so for all practical intents and purposes identifier length is not a problem. Specifically, this is the definition of a constant string in the pool, which seems to imply the maximal length is 16 bit:
Class names may be more of an issue for file systems, I agree, I'm not sure what's currently supported.
Sorry, actually found the answer in the JLS: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/lexical.html#40625 It seems that identifier names are of unlimited length.
Also found similar question (though it didn't appear in my initial search, or when I typed the question title which is weird): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/425988/maximum-method-name-length
If you go over the size limit imposed by the VM for method names then you get a compiler error (at least with the version of javac I am using):
Variable names are case-sensitive. A variable's name can be any legal identifier — an unlimited-length sequence of Unicode letters and digits, beginning with a letter, the dollar sign "$", or the underscore character "". The convention, however, is to always begin your variable names with a letter, not "$" or "".


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Community events list, 11/21/12
Auxiliary meets: Dalton Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary meeting, Dec. 6, 6:30 p.m., fire hall.
Open house: Greater Honesdale Partnership's Honesdale for the Holiday, holiday open house, Thursday, 6-8 p.m., Smiles by Design, 3373 Lake Ariel Highway; 253-5000.
Christmas happening: Jessup 21st Century Association, 17th annual "Christmas Happening," Saturday, noon, Station Park, Church Street; will feature the Santa Train and a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus.
Swim lessons: Greater Scranton YMCA, free swim lessons to third-grade students in Lackawanna County, until Dec. 23, Mondays, 7:05-7:50 p.m.; Tuesdays, 5-5:45 p.m.; Wednesdays, 5:50-6:35 p.m.; Thursdays, 5-5:45 p.m.; Saturdays, 10:45-11:30 a.m.; greaterscrant onymca.org or 342-8115.
Guard meeting: Scranton Guard, informal meeting, Wednesday, 8 p.m., United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne Counties, 615 Jefferson Ave.; will discuss the development of Scranton's first independent non-scholastic Winterguard; additional meeting, Saturday, noon.
Christmas concert: Crystal Band of Scranton, Christmas concert, Sunday, 7 p.m., Trinity Baptist Church, 1546 Monsey Ave.; crystalband.com
South Scranton
Seniors meet: Young at Heart of South Scranton will meet Tuesday, 1 p.m., St. Paul of the Cross parish hall, Prospect Avenue.
Tripp Park
Neighbor meeting: Tripp Park Neighborhood Association will meet Dec. 4, 7 p.m., Tripp Park Community Center.
Wyoming Seminary
Childhood overview: Wyoming Seminary Lower School, Early Childhood Overview, Saturday, 9-11 a.m., Early Childhood Learning Center, 20 Arlington Road, Forty Fort; tour toddler, preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms and speak with dean, teachers and admission staff; advance registration recommended; Heidi Sims, 718-6610 or email@example.com.
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Inspired, Seduced, Sucked in!
I came across your devilish site when it was time for me to produce a more detailed map for my fantasy book. Suffice to say I was blown away by the range and quality of the work you guys have produced. Feeling truly inspired I decided that I must commission a map at once! I then made the fateful mistake of looking at a couple of tutorials. The little demon of ego on my shoulder began to whisper in my ear... 'Go on... you can do it! Have a go, you coward!'
And that was that! I have now decided to have a go at producing a finished map myself. I must say a special thanks to -Max-. I love his maps and the style is perfect for my book so I will be aiming to try and emulate his beautiful work. Whether or not I ever come close remains to be seen. But I'm gonna have a go
(like I don't have enough to do right now )
Out of interest here's the initial map I have been using to date. Pretty basic I'm sure you'll agree.
The World of Wrath
I now intend to compile all my notes and sketches to produce a map that will do justice to the Guild. Watch this space to see how I get on...
Any comments or advice would be very much appreciated