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A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-filled vehicle at a pro-government Yemeni militia headquarters on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding 17, a security official and witnesses said as the country.
The explosion, which rocked the city of Lawder in the southern Abyan province, came as a top intelligence official disclosed that the nation's president rejected a truce with al-Qaida.
He said the Yemeni government also turned down proposals from clerics and tribal leaders to grant amnesty to al-Qaida detainees in Yemeni prisons if the militant group renounces violence and hands over weapons.
A Yemeni official said that the bombing targeted the Popular Committees, made up of civilians who back the government in its fight against al-Qaida. The official said that it was typical of al-Qaida's tactics.
Bodies of the 12 dead were torn to pieces, and 17 were wounded. Ambulances rushed to the scene, and security forces cordoned off the area, fearing a second attack.
The intelligence official said mediation efforts were in progress for weeks. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi rejected al-Qaida demands to release those involved in the killing and wounding of hundreds of troops and civilians.
"The president said that the state can forgive those whose hands are not stained in blood, but will never forgive killers," the official said. He added that the mediators carried the message to al-Qaida figures, including the leader of the group, Nasser el-Wahashi.
On Monday, al-Qaida posted a statement on Islamic militant websites holding the government responsible for failure of the talks, charging that the government took "a shameful position," submitting to the U.S. and "its agents in the Gulf countries." It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the statement.
The truce proposal was also seen as an attempt by al-Qaida to play for time and re-organize its ranks after taking heavy blows from Yemen's military, backed by the United States. Last summer the military launched a wide offensive targeting al-Qaida strongholds in the south, and U.S drone attacks killed dozens of al-Qaida militants.
Yemen went through political and security upheavals during a 2011 uprising, when millions of Yemenis took to the streets demanding the ouster of longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh. Al-Qaida took advantage of the security vacuum and overran parts of southern Yemen before they were driven out over the past year.
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the group's branch in Yemen, is considered the terror network's most dangerous, blamed for several unsuccessful attacks in the U.S. in recent years.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
Also Monday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch urged Yemen and government to stop seeking and carrying out death sentences against juvenile offenders.
The group issued a report noting that 22 individuals were convicted and sentenced to death for crimes committed while they were under 18 years old. The group said that over the past five years, 15 young men and a woman were executed. Most recently, a woman named Hind al-Barti was executed in December for a crime committed when she was 15.
Children interviewed by HRW said that they were tortured to give confessions.
"President Hadi should break with Yemen's past of arbitrary justice and state-sanctioned violence," HRW researcher Priyanka Motaparth said in the report.
An official at Hadi's office said that under pressure from rights groups, the president has urged judicial authorities to review the sentences.
He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
Yemen's legal code bans execution of juveniles, but often defendants are unable to prove their age due to lack of documents or judges refusing to accept them.
The group said that over the past five years, Yemen is among only four countries in the world known to execute people for crimes committed while they were children.


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Hi there!
I guess you guys are not used having a girl around, but I also grown up playing Day of Tentacle... ah! good old days..
Anyways, my Clie UX50 has been my best companion since 2003, and when i first read about scummVM a while ago I was always tempted to try...
Today, my brother helped me to install, and we discovered the following...
0.11 - Doesnt work with the UX50;
0.10 - Works but no sound (rather no music) and no landscape mode;
However, when we upgraded to the 0.11 version, we forgot to update the "mod" engine for the scumm, which made the .11 laucher work fine, but with the "new" engine it just doesnt work!
My question is... And i know it might sound a bit selfish, but... Will scummvm for Palm will ever work perfectly on my UX50?
I would be glad to be able to play DOTT again!
Also, good work, even without the music is great, i can still hear de voices, it is amazing!
THank you!
PS: We tested with Loom (cd), Monekey island and Dott (CD), on the .10 version the voice works for Dott but not the music, also the loom "cd" sound works, but the memory stick access is slow, and it takes a while to play... but it works. With .11, Dott gives me the error (charset 1 not in room 61 at 0+427404 in file tentacle.001), Loom gives the out of memory error and the 2nd time i tried it gave me fatal exception error), Monkey Island crashs with black screen and a hard reset is needed.
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Someone who doesnt know how to spell Machiavellian
"I never went to school so I spell it 'machalavian'"
machalavian: define #2
The absolute ideology of greatness and anything good / Definitive description of all thats cool and hip. Can be used in any situation that merits the aforementioned in any context.
1. He/She/It is machalavian.
2. Machalavian!
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Many months have passed since I last visited this space. My baby has grown into a one-year old. I am now back at work full-time. And for the past four weeks Jacques has been away in Newfoundland on an opera training program, and I've been parenting on my own.
For two weeks my mother was here, and it was quite wonderful. She helped enormously with household chores, and just playing with Lucie and cleaning her up and changing her diaper when I needed a minute longer to drink my tea or get dressed.
Since Mom left I've had lots of help from my many marvellous friends. But it's been hard at times. Work is very busy, and when I get home there are a million things to do before I can sit for a few minutes and relax before I go to bed and start all over again.
But I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. Life has been great overall. I'm in a job that I really love, Lucie has taken to daycare like a fish to water, and Jacques is doing incredibly well. All I can say is single parents are to be very admired. Very, very admired.
Well, let's move onto some food talk, shall we?
A few weeks ago, I made Lucie a birthday cake. I wanted it to be the same as the cakes my Mom always made me when I was a kid. Sometimes she did fancy shapes or new recipes, but the one I remember with the most fondness was called Nanny's Hot Milk Cake.
It's basically a plain vanilla cake, but of the best quality. It's tender and light with a beautiful crumb, sweet but not too sweet, and golden brown on top. I'm not sure if heating the milk makes a huge difference, but since it's always delicious, why mess with it? The frosting – a plain, simple buttercream – was customizable, and as a child I remember adoring the peppermint kind.
I set out to recreate this cake, gluten-free, for Lucie's first birthday. I added some ground almonds to the first one I made, and that turned out to be a mistake. I think they added too much weight and density, because the cake turned out eggy and flat.
The second time, I tweaked the flour mixture, and came away with a winner. I used more starches and fewer whole grains than I usually do, but this is a special occasion cake. It doesn't taste exactly like the one from my childhood, but pretty darn close. Most importantly, it's tender, moist and fluffy. And everyone at Lucie's birthday party enjoyed it.
Lucie was recovering from stomach flu on the day of her party and didn't even taste the cake. But I don't think she cared much. I'm sure she'll grow to love Nanny's Hot Milk Cake just like I did.
Bonne fete ma belle, belle cocotte!
Gluten-free Vanilla Birthday Cake
Makes two 8 or 9-inch layers. Halve the recipe for one layer. This also makes wonderful cupcakes. One layer equals about 12 cupcakes.
1 cup milk
4 eggs
1. 5 cups white sugar
92 g. sorghum flour
68 g. white rice flour
40 g. sweet rice flour
56 g. potato starch
20 g. tapioca starch
4 tsp. baking powder
56 g. (1/4 cup) butter
2 tsp. vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour your cake pans. You can use 8-inch or 9-inch round pans, or even 8 x 8-inch square pans if you prefer.
Put milk in a small saucepan over medium heat. Don't let it boil. Remove from heat when it is scalded – there will be tiny bubbles around the edge and steam rising from it.
Meanwhile, break eggs into a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until light yellow and creamy. Keep a close watch on the milk.
Add sugar to eggs and beat until thickened.
Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl and add to sugar and eggs about half at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Add vanilla extract and mix in well.
Add butter to the hot milk and stir a few times until it melts. Pour into the cake mixture and fold gently until it is all mixed in. The batter will be quite liquidy.
Pour batter into pans and bake for 30 to 40 minutes. The original recipe calls for less time, but my cakes took about 40 minutes. When done, they will be golden brown on top and a tester inserted into the centre will come out clean.
Buttercream Frosting
1/2 cup (113 g) softened butter
3 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla, almond extract, peppermint extract, etc. *
Cream butter with an electric mixer until smooth and soft.
Add sugar a little bit at a time, until mixture becomes quite stiff (do not add it all).
Stir in about half the milk and beat well.
Add the rest of the sugar, the milk and the flavouring.
Beat until smooth and light. This takes a lot of beating. The frosting will increase in volume and become fluffy.
Wait until cakes have cooled completely before frosting.
*Variation with Chocolate: Add 2 squares (56 g.) of melted, unsweetened chocolate to the frosting in the last step.


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After back to back dismal efforts against mediocore teams that saw the Caps fortuitously pull out three of a possible four points last weekend, Washington was back in action on Monday night against the number one team in the NHL: Bruce Boudreau's Anaheim Ducks, who came in with an eight game winning streak.
The Capitals played much harder in this one and actually had a 2-0 early lead, but defensive mistakes at critical times ultimately did them in once again, and they were defeated, 3-2, to drop their record to 19-14-4 heading into the Christmas break.
This was a very close game, as evidenced by the shot attempt totals, which were 57-54 in favor of the Ducks. Washington was much better than last weekend in the puck possession department but Anaheim did a superior job of getting their attempts on net, winning that battle 29-19. The Caps did a lot of good things in this game and both Marcus Johansson and Alex Ovechkin hit iron in the third frame in what is a tough loss to a very good hockey team.
After Saturday's overtime loss to the Devils I blogged that things needed to change and it was on Coach Adam Oates and GM George McPhee to figure out whether it was the players or the system that were causing the issues. Following tonight's game, it appears to me that effort and also focus, on the part of the players, and not the system, is the major problem. Washington was motivated on Monday and brought a passion to get and own the puck. But the Ducks are a veteran and skilled team, and going against number one isn't all about effort and passion, it's about playing the right way and paying attention to detail.
That is where this Capitals team is falling down, attention to detail, especially in their own end. The Caps gave up the tying tally with just 27 seconds remaining in period two. Then they gave up the game winner with 5:36 left in regulation. Both goals were the result of poor reads that led to bad defensive zone coverage. Oates confirmed that after the game. On the game winner, the forwards all got caught too low on the back check allowing defenseman Hampus Lindholm to fire a shot through a maze of bodies past Philipp Grubauer. There was a lack of communication on the part of the Washington forwards on the ice and it resulted in a lot of space and time for the Ducks defenseman to shoot and score.
Anaheim's second tally, however, is the one that is the most upsetting and disappointing. The five guys on the ice were out for a long shift and each one can shoulder their share of the blame. We won't point out the names, but let's just say there were a lot of contract dollars on the ice for the home club. The initial rush by Ben Lovejoy wasn't played properly by the Capitals defensemen, who simply stopped moving his feet. But even still, Lovejoy was just looking to center the puck and if the other defenseman and the three forwards don't puck watch and instead cover Anaheim players, there is no quality chance or goal. That did not happen as the Caps d-man went to the wrong post and the forwards allowed Saku Koivu and Andrew Cogliano to have a clear and uncovered path to the front of the cage. The result was an easy goal for Koivu that Grubauer had no chance on.
Simply put, it was a lack of effort at the end of a long shift and poor communication, as well. In his post game presser Oates said that communication should be going on at all times on the ice and he also said that at this point in the season, the reads and positioning should be automatic. It was not on the tying tally, as well as the game winner.
Those type of mistakes not only cost a squad points in the standings, but in the bigger picture, those are the type of errors that prevent a hockey team from being one of the better clubs in the league. Washington is in the middle of the pack in the Eastern Conference for this exact reason, they have too many breakdowns in their own end that are costing them hockey games.
Reading Oates' answers, expression and demeanor afterwards, I got the feeling that he's been pointing out these things over and over to his players. These aren't hard hockey concepts but they require a mental toughness to continue to execute when you are tired or not in a position to score a goal. Everyone loves offense, but playing proper defense is the key to winning hockey games and a Stanley Cup. The Cup winner each season knows how to do the things that allow a club to transition from offense to defense. They play their positions well, they communicate on defense, and they focus even when they are tired at the end of a shift.
It's the things you need to do to win hockey games and ultimately a championship.
Until this Caps team is ready to commit to that, they'll do exactly what I said after Saturday's loss to New Jersey: they will qualify for the playoffs and then find themselves out in either round one or two.
The talent is mostly there for the Caps to go where the players say they want to go, but saying it and then doing it requires a whole different level of focus and commitment.
Right now, I question that level of commitment from several of the players on this team.
Notes: Washington won the faceoff battle, 43-25…the Caps were 1 for 5 on the power play while the Ducks went 0 for 4 with the man advantage…Brooks Laich returned to the lineup and played 13:23…Mikhail Grabovski and Nicklas Backstrom had the two goals for Washington…next up, on Friday night at the Verizon Center, for the Caps is an improving Rangers team that has won two games in a row.


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yquem46 (38752) 2014-01-10 5:45
Witaj Tomek
Oh yes, I like a lot the graphical effect of this pack of red houses and chimneys, with the yellow on thel and in excellent color contrast with the blue sky
Bravo, have a nice WE
dta (96788) 2014-01-10 6:07
Hello Tomek ,
I like this kind of picture . The architecture is interesting but not outstanding . What makes the difference is the clever framing , the graphism , the contrast of colors , and the fine couds in the blue sky .
elysan (908) 2014-01-10 7:14
Ottima immagine con piacevoli effetti grafici e bei colori saturi.
Complimenti e un saluto,
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Equality in Justice: Cognitive Dissonance and Fame
Two cases involving the rape of a young girl have been in the news: one involving Roman Polanski's arrest and the other about Elizabeth Smart's court testimony. While these cases have the "adult male-minor female" rapes as their basic similarity, most other things have been very different, especially in news reports and public reactions.
The "Polanski" case actually involves this Academy Award winning director's flight from sentencing after his guilty plea and conviction in the rape of the 13-year-old girl. After 32 years, he was arrested recently in Switzerland to await extradition back to the United States for sentencing and additional charges of evading justice. The news reports focus on what a terrible time he's had in life, from his family's losses in the Holocaust to the murder of his pregnant wife by the Manson "family", and on the fabulous movies he's produced since living in Europe after he fled Los Angeles.
Until recently, little had been mentioned of the rape survivor, who is now an adult woman. A recent article fully identifies her and discusses the apparent civil settlement in which Polanski allegedly was to pay her half a million dollars, although no public documentation can confirm that she received those funds. Her lawyers' requests to the court for him to pay the settlement past its due date ceased about the time she wrote a public letter stating that she thinks he should be able to return to the country, ostensibly to attend the Academy Awards show when he was nominated in 2002.
The "Smart" case involves the nine month long abduction of Utahan Elizabeth Smart. Her alleged kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, subjected her to a "plural marriage" ceremony and according to Smart repeatedly raped her. She is now 21 and gave her testimony at the mental competency hearing of Mitchell just before leaving on her religious mission to France. Mitchell is cast as a religious fanatic who told her that he was doing what the lord wanted him to do. As of this writing, he has not yet been convicted of the crime as it has not yet been established if he is mentally competent to stand trial.
Let's look at these cases sociologically.
Note the language used in the reporting of each case. Is it clear who the victim is in each case?
Many news reports and editorials about the Polanski case lament his treatment by the justice system, and some even suggest that he is the victim. Some articles discuss the cost of bringing him back to court, which makes the taxpayers the victim. Some articles focus on how the rape survivor, the actual victim, said that he should be free to live his life and if she says that, well, we should let her decide, which reinforces the idea that he is the victim.
The Smart articles focus on her as the rape survivor and certainly do not cast Mitchell as a victim. They cast him as crazy or as a crafty rapist who acts like a religious fanatic so as not to take the blame for his actions.
The headlines use "Polanski" and "Smart", not "Mitchell" or "Geimer".
Polanski's name is certainly a familiar one since he is famous. Smart has become famous as an icon of parental fear – the girl who was abducted from her bedroom at night. As is typical in rape cases, Samantha Geimer's name was withheld when she was a minor yet she herself went public when she wrote the letter in support of Polanski. Mitchell is not a name familiar to people even though most know that some man abducted and raped Elizabeth Smart.
From this point forward, I will refer to the "Smart" case as the Mitchell case.
Note the basic features of each case: an adult man raped a young girl.
Is this contested in either case? Yes and no. Mitchell has been in a mental institution since his arrest in 2003 and the recent hearing was to establish whether or not he could stand trial. Polanski testified that he did the crime (although in his plea agreement he plead guilty to "unlawful sex with a minor") and his latest issues revolve around his flight from the justice system to escape sentencing and serving more time. Mitchell has not been convicted yet Polanski has. However, in the news articles, Polanski's guilt is downplayed and Mitchell's is assumed.
Note the social class differences in each case.
While Polanski is clearly a member of the upper socioeconomic strata, Mitchell and his co-defendant wife are in the lower strata. Polanski was able to flee to Europe, continuing to make his films and generate his substantial income. While the social class status of Ms. Geimer is not fully apparent, it is likely that she and her family live a middle class life, even if she did not receive the settlement. The Smart family are firmly in the upper middle class of suburban Salt Lake City, while the Mitchell couple were basically homeless and firmly ensconced in the lower echelon of society's social class levels.
Social class alone can explain much of the dynamics of these cases. Those with the higher class status tend to gain more favorable coverage in the press. Polanski received more favorable coverage than his victim did, and Smart certainly received more media attention than her abductor did.
One might hope that people who have been victimized would receive more careful and supportive press coverage, this certainly didn't happen in the Polanski case.
Note the issues of fame and social power in each case
Social power derives from social class but also from fame. Smart was featured on America's Most Wanted and has spoken in public and to Congress about sexual predator issues and legislation.
Most particularly in the Polanski case, fame insulates the perpetrator from paying his full debt to the justice system. So much so that some even call into question his guilt even though that had been firmly established in court. (See Harvey Weinstein's quote about the "so-called crime" in the Los Angeles Times). Reaction to the Polanski case avoids discussion of his guilt in this crime of rape and focuses on other issues that are not salient. Consider how Mr. Weinstein might react if a female family member of his had been the victim in this case - might he advocate the release of that person as he does Polanski?
The exploitation of women in the entertainment industry is a related topic— some may not see why having sex with someone at a photo shoot was wrong – even if she was underage and under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Some also point to the mother who dropped her off at the house where the rape took place as culpable.
However, only the rapist is responsible for the rape, no matter what bad decisions others might have made.
What isn't being talked about?
In the Polanski case, the exploitation of women is not a topic that many are choosing to discuss. How many other girls and women have been raped by people with power over them? We'll never know, especially if those powerful people are not held to the legal standards that govern our society.
Absent from the discussion of the Mitchell case are the cultural underpinnings of how religion played a role in the abduction and rapes. The "plural marriage" as it was called when she was first rescued, was code for rape yet the word "rape" was not uttered for some time after she was freed. That this particular crime took place in a specific religious and cultural environment with a history of patriarchy (and, decades ago, of plural marriage) isn't a coincidence. Elizabeth Smart was raised, as most of us are, in a culture of male dominance and female obedience.
It is also likely that Smart, like Patty Hearst and many other children abducted by sexual predators, was experiencing something akin to the Stockholm Syndrome. When she was first discovered, she did not readily identify herself. When held long enough under certain circumstances, people may "go along" with their captors and not escape when they might have had the chance.
So, how can we explain the different ways that we are reacting to these cases?
While both cases have at their core the rape of a 13- or 14-year-old girl by an adult man, public discussion and reaction to these cases is notably different. Social class, power, and fame all have their influences yet cognitive dissonance is also taking place.
Cognitive dissonance occurs when people have to reconcile two conflicting ideas at the same time. We often try and alter one of the ideas to be consistent with the other. For instance, people generally want to like and respect people with fame and power. When those people do bad things, we can react in many different ways but in the Polanski case, so many years after the event, some want to believe he paid his debt to society by having lived such a troubled life. Thinking of someone as both a good person and a rapist is very difficult to reconcile. Normally we decide that someone who commits rape is no longer a good person. In this example, many people, especially many in the entertainment industry, have chosen to downplay his actions to maintain the idea that their conflicting image of him as a good person.
But the justice system doesn't see it this way, and after all, time spent living in a Swiss chalet isn't the same as "doing time". How do you think we would talk about the case if Elizabeth Smart's alleged rapist had fled the country for more than three decades and evaded justice?


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Michael Jackson's personal physician said he will not take the stand in his own defense as witness testimony in his involuntary manslaughter came to an end Tuesday.
Conrad Murray Trial: Dr. Murray's LAPD Interview, Who's Who, Testimony Timeline
Dr. Conrad Murray informed the judge of his decision Tuesday morning, just hours before both sides said they would not present more witnesses after 22 days of testimony. Court will be in recess until Thursday, when jurors are expected to return for closing arguments.
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Murray's decision not to testify came after Judge Michael Pastor repeatedly reminded the doctor that he has a right to testify and a right to remain silent.
"Your honor, my decision is, I will not testify in this," Murray told the judge during Tuesday's meeting outside the presence of jurors.
Jackson's sister, La Toya Jackson, tweeted early Tuesday that she "would love for Murray to take the stand."
Jurors already heard Murray's account of the day Jackson died when prosecutors played audio of his interview with Los Angeles Police Department detectives. In the interview two days after the pop star's death, Murray described a restless night during which Jackson pleaded for something to help him sleep.
Testimony resumed Tuesday morning with a defense expert on the drug blamed in the King of Pop's death. Later Tuesday, the prosecution asked its own expert to return to the stand to refute claims made by Dr. Paul White.
Dr. Steven Shafer testified earlier that Murray's actions led to Jacksons' death on June 25, 2009. He was asked to address White's testimony regarding the standard of care provided by Murray in Jackson's case.
"If there was such a thing as bedroom-based anesthesia, the standard of care guideline would be considered an minimum because... if you have an error, you have a mortality," Shafer said Tuesday.
Murray pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. He could face up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license.
Propofol was at the center of testimony Monday when the defense's drug expert faced stinging cross-examination. White admitted that Murray deviated from the accepted standard of care in the months before his superstar patient's death on June 25, 2009. Murray gave Jackson the drug, usually reserved for use in surgical settings, in the bedroom of a rented Holmby Hills mansion.
"Without careful bedside monitoring, it could be dangerous,'' White said Monday when he was asked whether it would be extremely dangerous to administer propofol with an IV drip for about two months.
"Have you ever administered propofol in someone's bedroom?" Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said.
"No, I have not," White said.
"Have you ever heard of someone doing that prior to this case?" Walgren said.
"No, I have not," White said.
The seven-man, five-woman jury might begin deliberations late this week. The trial has included testimony from medical experts, medical personnel who responded to Jackson's rented mansion, Murray's girlfriends and Jackson staff members.
The defense has attempted to portray Jackson as an addict willing to take great risks in his quest for sleep as he prepared for a series of planned London concerts. Prosecutors claim Murray administered the fatal dose of propofol, then failed to properly monitor his patient.
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Henrik Bennetsen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 134 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
We are a group of researchers at Stanford University who have been deeply involved in developing the open source http://www.sirikata.com platform for games and virtual worlds. Katalabs is a startup we are launching to do creative projects on the platform.
So far our projects have involved building new technology into a traditional museum exhibit and a music performance that took place across Milan, Stanford, Montana and Sirikata's digital environments (check here: http://www.vimeo.com/6817057). Currently we are building a small collaboration space for distributed teams and teaching.
The idea behind Katalabs is to do contract work for people who want to launch projects on Sirikata. Our services range from [the take this out] high level idea generation with collaborators to the translation of these into operationally functional software.
Our founding team is very diverse ranging from a professor who is a cultural historian to a CS PhD so we span from traditional to very techie. We are considering a tag line of: Old stuff in new ways
Our target audience will most likely be people who feel that technology is changing the reality they operate in. We currently work with a museum director and his team, a concert organizer and the head of a company with a distributed workforce.
These are basically people who are looking for a high end collaborator help them think through how to use technology to break new ground. We identify with our background in a research environment and want to attract tough challenges.
We expect to employ plenty of visuals such as screenshots and videos on our pages to explain the kinds of work we do and feel that something with a darker background might work well to have these things pop.
Our logo will be placed on our Wordpress powered website which we have in progress in a non public place. We are considering having a design project around this later but will use this initial logo design to see if this works for us.
As for practical tips:
We don't have a strong sense of what our logo should look like but hope to iterate and give feedback as this week progresses.
We are not interested in something that looks very web 2.0. Keep in mind the idea of 'Old stuff in new ways' when designing our logo.
We are not really trying to project anything Eastern Asian with the name though we do know what Kata means. The world of 3D has mainly been advanced through computer games and this is not something we want to align ourselves with either. So anything that has a gamey feel would not be what we are looking for.
Fileformat deliverable:
We would prefer the final logo in the following formats:
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We would like to thank Dr. Hook, John Hong, for his August 17 letter, "Defeat the Marriage Amendment." This amendment is ill conceived, and the more information given to the public on its true nature, the better.
We are also saddened by the position many churches have taken regarding this issue, as it is not in the spirit of Christianity.
We are pleased to say that our church, Westminster Presbyterian - Charlottesville, has recently taken a stand in support of defeating the amendment. Inclusiveness is a strong part of our mission, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation. As such, we would like to take this opportunity to invite you and your partner to visit and worship with us (note we welcome Episcopalians too!)
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Tim Duncan sprained his left knee and right ankle in the first half of the San Antonio Spurs' 96-86 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night.
Tony Parker scored 19 points, Danny Green added 15 and Tiago Splitter had 12 for San Antonio (38-11), which has won 18 straight at home.
John Wall scored 21 points and Martell Webster had 14 for Washington (11-35), which has lost 13 straight to San Antonio.
Webster rolled into the back of Duncan's legs while fighting for a rebound with 3:54 left in the second quarter, and there were audible gasps in the crowd while the All-Star was on the floor holding his left knee for several minutes.
The severity of the injuries is not known, but Duncan did not return to the bench after being helped off the court by teammates Stephen Jackson and DeJuan Blair.
Duncan, who was listed as probable, returned to the lineup after missing the past four games with a sore left knee. Recently selected to his 14th All-Star game, Duncan is averaging 17.5 points and 9.8 rebounds per game this season.
He had eight points and five rebounds in 13 minutes before the injuries, helping San Antonio get off to a fast start against Washington.
The Spurs used their ball movement and rotating defense to dominate the Wizards from the start.
Green ran in front of Wall to grab the opening tip, sprinting to the basket to throw down a one-handed dunk against the former No. 1 overall pick. San Antonio opened the game with a 15-4 run sparked by Parker and Duncan. The Spurs' All-Stars were a combined 5 for 5 from the field with Parker picking up three assists in the spurt.
Washington shot 35 percent from the field in first quarter and finished at 40 percent overall.
NOTES: Spurs G Manu Ginobili was sidelined by left hamstring tightness. . Washington F Trevor Booker (sore left wrist) was a late scratch. . The Wizards have had nine different leading scorers for an individual game, with six in the last 10 games. . Washington's last win in San Antonio was 99-89 on Dec. 11, 1999. ... Wall was averaging 13.7 points, 6.5 assists and 2.9 rebounds since returning from injury. . San Antonio was playing its final home game before its annual "Rodeo Road Trip." The Spurs will play nine straight road games while the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo is held at the AT&T Center.


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Fuerteventura has 340 kilometres of coastline with beaches to suit everyone. Long beaches with white or black sand, unspoilt coves, vast expanses of sand dunes… And all lapped by crystal clear waters which enable you to see the sea bottom while you swim. Good examples are the beaches of Morro Jable, Costa Calma, Caleta de Fuste, or secluded spots on the Isla de Lobos just a couple of a kilometres off the coast of Fuerteventura, which can be visited by frequent boat trips.
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In Fuerteventura, two sports stand out far above the rest: windsurfing and scuba-diving. Its coastline is known by international windsurfers throughout the world thanks to its winds and waves, and the island has become established as a key venue on the World Cup circuit, held on beaches such as Sotavento. The crystal clear waters of Fuerteventura make this the ideal place for scuba-diving, with no need to dive deep, as you'll find highly-coloured fish practically up to the seashore. And you don't have to worry about bringing your own kit, as there are companies on the island which will provide you with everything you need.
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text: Show Hide image Politics 9 April 2013 Five years after the greatest financial crash in history, the banks are still creating chaos Felix Martin's "Real Money" column. Sign-up Banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816. The president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, has just joined the growing line of European politicians who have come to the same conclusion. Cyprus is the latest European country to be brought to its knees by its banks. It is time governments started thinking more seriously about why this is the case and what should be done about it. Cyprus's is a story with more angles than Euclid's Elements, from its unfinished civil war and its strategic naval bases to its status as Russia's own private Channel Island and its prodigious untapped gas reserves. But the essence of the current crisis is all too simple. Cyprus has big banks: seven times the size of its economy, at the last count. These big banks have a big problem. Their assets, the loans they have made and the bonds that they own, are not worth what they thought they were. The reason could hardly be more ironic. In 2012, their portfolios included a lot of Greek bonds. When Greece pulled off its EU-approved default, they had to swallow a loss of about 75 cents in the euro. Now if you or I had owned Greek bonds, we would have owned them outright. We'd have lost our shirts in the default but that would have been that. Banks, however, are not like you or me. They fund the assets they own by issuing their own bonds and by taking deposits. They have fixed liabilities, in other words – a lot of them. So when they are forced to book a large and unexpected loss, there is a problem. All of a sudden, their liabilities are larger than their assets. Their balance sheet does not balance. Barring external support, they are bust. What should be done when big banks go bust? The purist's answer is that they should be placed in bankruptcy just like any other company. Those who provided capital to the failed bank would take losses according to the legally mandated order of precedence. Equity shareholders lose out first. If the losses are more than the bank's equity alone can absorb, those who have provided capital by buying its bonds or making large-scale deposits must also take a hit. The only people whose money is safe even if the bank's assets shrink to zero are its small depositors, for whom statutory insurance will save the day. This purist's approach is, on the face of it, the only fair one. After all, why should taxpayers bail out a bank's shareholders, bondholders, or wealthy depositors if something goes wrong? It was the strategy adopted by Iceland, another country with a hypertrophied banking sector, in the face of its financial crisis in 2008. Rather than bail out its banks, Iceland liquidated them. The shareholders were wiped out. Small depositors were paid out from the good assets. The bondholders were left to wring what they could from the bad ones. Other countries opted not to be purists, though, as we in Britain know only too well. In early 2008, our government also issued solemn warnings that taxpayer bailouts would wreck financial discipline. When it became clear that three of Britain's largest banks were insolvent, however, our leaders realised that things were a little more complicated. The big banks are important British employers, exporters and taxpayers. What's more, the rest of the economy depends on them for credit and payments. Allowing the big banks to fail would be sacrificing Britain's economic future on the altar of an abstract financial ideal. Bankruptcy was out of the question. Instead, it was bailouts all round, and all on the taxpayer. The partial nationalisation of RBS and Lloyds obliged shareholders to take a hit but bondholders and depositors were left untouched. The rationale was to minimise the loss to the British taxpayer. Nationalisation would certainly cost money; but the cost in lost growth and lost tax revenues if bank bankruptcies had been permitted would have been even worse. Pragmatic macroeconomic reality trumped noble financial principle. Such is the context of Cyprus's plight. The German government and the International Monetary Fund argued in favour of the purist's approach. The fair thing to do is to stick to principles and liquidate the banks: Cyprus should become a second Iceland. The Cypriots, meanwhile, would have preferred to become another Britain, and so preserve their flagship industry and avoid economic oblivion. On Sunday 24 March, the Icelandic approach prevailed. Negotiating an EU bailout is a game that lasts a few tortuous weeks, and then the Germans win. Being the purist's solution, it will be scrupulously fair – and economically disastrous. Cyprus will be finished as a financial centre, its people can look forward to a deep recession from which there will be no swift recovery, and those who hold its sovereign debt can start worrying about a default and restructuring in a couple of years. But for the time being, victory can be declared and we can all be told to continue on our way, because there is nothing more to see. These plot details of the latest episode of the eurozone soap opera starring the selfstyled model states of northern Europe and the mañana republics of the south are mostly a distraction, however. The real disaster exposed by the Cyprus debacle is that five years after the greatest financial crash in history, neither the EU nor any other jurisdiction has done anything serious to fix the structure of its own banking system. We remain lumbered with banks so large and complex that sticking to fair principles and winding them up when they are bust is self-defeating. It is a poisonous recipe for perpetual bad faith. There has been enough argument about how to treat the symptoms. Cyprus is a reminder that the time has come to treat the disease itself. Felix Martin is a macroeconomist and bond investor. His book, "Money: the Unauthorised Biography", is out in June Felix Martin is a macroeconomist, bond trader and the author of Money: the Unauthorised Biography Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 01 April 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Easter Special Issue SUBSCRIBE More


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Father of Hamm brothers sets trap for burglar
The father of Olympians Paul and Morgan Hamm set a trap after their home was broken into twice in three days and caught a burglary suspect.
According to a criminal complaint, Sandy Hamm and his wife told deputies a hidden camera showed 35-year-old Amanda Michell taking hydrocodone pills from their home twice last week. Michell is a co-worker of Mrs. Hamm's.
The Hamms suspected Michell would try again Sunday morning when they usually go to church.
According to this criminal complaint, Mrs. Hamm drove out of the driveway with a stuffed jacket in the passenger seat so it would appear that they were both leaving, but Sandy Hamm stayed behind, hiding in the basement.
Within minutes, Sandy Hamm told deputies the suspect drove in the driveway and broke into their house through a back door, again taking pills from upstairs.
This time, though, Sandy Hamm confronted her and grabbed her as she left the house and "zip-stripped her hands behind her back so she could not escape."
Deputies arrived minutes later.
Michell was booked at the county jail on three counts of burglary and has since been released on bond.
No one answered the door when WISN 12 News reporter Nick Bohr went to her Waukesha home.
The Hamms wouldn't comment beyond Mrs. Hamm telling Bohr, "This was someone I thought was my friend."
Michell is scheduled to be back in court next month.
According to the complaint, Michell told deputies she is addicted to painkillers.
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This half-hour performance, directed by upper-level student Noel Funk, takes the audience on a journey from grief and anger to unlikely love. Young widow Popova, after seven months of mourning her late husband's death, receives an unexpected visit from the arrogant Smirnov, who has come to collect an outstanding debt. The encounter quickly devolves into heated arguments resulting in broken furniture and an all-out duel. This refreshingly fast-paced one-act play is a farcical comment on human nature, sudden change, and strong emotions. This bitingly satirical, bite-sized performance is the perfect way to experience the department's newly renovated black-box studio.
The Bear runs Nov. 22–Dec. 1, with matinees at 11:30 am and early evening performances at 4:30 pm. Performance dates and times can be found at www.ufv.ca/plays. All performances of The Bear are "pay-what-you-can" and cash only. Seats can be reserved ahead of time by emailing email@example.com or by phone at 604 795-2814. Performances will take place in D105.
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Ian Bowie was born in Sydney at St Margaret's hospital on the 19th of July, 1953. He was to become the oldest of four children, one of whom, Allison, died within hours of being born. His father grew up mostly in Drummoyne and his mother migrated from England in 1938. Both are deceased. Ian lived most of his childhood and teenage years at Blakehurst in Sydney. He is survived by his brother, Greg and his sister, Susan.
His education was at St Raphael's primary school at South Hurstville and then at Kogarah Marist Brothers where for four years he took an active interest in the cadets. In true form, Ian spent much time practising with the band and encouraging new band members. Ian played the Last Post for the local church service on Anzac Day for a number of years. Many people would be unaware that he was a member of the school choir which entered and won eisteddfods. They also "cut" a record which his adoring younger sister played often, probably to his annoyance and embarrassment.
This is the last recording of Ian playing a couple of days before his untimely departure. It was the drum sound check for a session which was to have been recorded a few days later. It was decided to finish the track as a musical memorial to our dear friend. Guitars were added by long time friend and musical colleague Tom Stack. Backing vocals thanks to Katherine Shearer and Katie O'Niel.
This contact with music, both through the cadets and the choir, led Ian to enter solo singing competitions, become part of a folk singing group, have private lessons on the trumpet and buy his first drum-kit. We all know Ian's love of and expertise with his drumming. Neighbours with whom we were unacquainted at the time would tell us years later about walking past the house to hear him practising either instrument. Ian's drumming led him to meet an enormous number of people in the entertainment industry, many of whom are still his friends today.
Stories abound about Ian's drumming and lifestyle including one when he lived in a block of units which looked like a very old house in Bronte. Apparently Ian had his neighbours collecting egg cartons so that he could soundproof a room in the complex. His time at Bronte allowed him to develop his slightly Bohemian lifestyle and his occasionally eccentric character. It was wonderful to visit him there and he was always proud to introduce us to the people with whom he co-existed. It was at Bronte in the seventies that Ian made a collar for his beloved dog, Ned, that flashed red lights. Ian would put "Disco Ned" on the back of his ute on a Saturday night and Ned would stand proudly being the subject of attention from passing motorists. Of course, true to Ian's style, he still has a place in the hearts of the people from Bronte and he maintained a very close friendship to Barbara Cleary throughout his life.
Ian's zest for life was always evident. He was as excited about a drumming gig in his forties as he was in his twenties and would ring to share his joy about where he had played and how it went. One of his most recent achievements was to play the drums at the Opera House. Part of the excitement there was the fact that for once he was not the 'roadie' on the job. Ian's resume provides an insight in to what an extraordinarily diverse and talented person he was and whilst it would be too lengthy to state every position that he held, it would be remiss of us not to mention the enjoyment he got out of the eight years or so that he spent touring with the Delltones.
In the last 15 years Ian had the
opportunity to bring his creative and design talents to new heights when his involvement with the entertainment industry morphed into an indispensable role with small theatre. He designed and built sets, did the lighting and the sound systems and in some cases filled in for the actors. He actually performed in a play at the Nimrod many years ago playing the role of a drummer.of course. Ian was most actively involved with the Sidetrack Theatre at Marrickville and for a brief time he actually lived in the premises. He also organised events for local councils and played an integral role in the centenary of Federation celebrations in 2001. The amount of time and energy he spent preparing each of these events was enormous. To see the notes he made and precision with which he carried out the duties required was nothing short of amazing.
Ian never stopped learning. While many of us balked at new technologies, Ian embraced them with the same enthusiasm that teenagers do. Amongst many other things, he undertook classes in Japanese, joined Toastmasters, sought advice on mathematical models, subscribed to magazines on military history and "New Scientist" and always had a passion for languages, a fact attested to by the number of language dictionaries he kept. He was known to many as "Spiro" because of his apparent likeness to Greek people. With this in mind, he sometimes said that he lived by a Latin motto, "Dum Spiro Spero" which means "while I breathe, I hope"
Ian was an avid reader and had a lovely turn of phrase himself in the things that he wrote. His desk was strewn with notes of poignant phrases, mottos, truisms, lines from movies, all a part of Ian trying to work out the meaning of life. Ian's thirst and quest for knowledge would find him in phone or real conversations that would often be held at all hours of the day or night. In amongst all his notes were a number of "thank you" cards each with heartfelt messages of gratitude for something that Ian had done.
A eulogy to Ian would not be complete without an honourable mention of his sense of humour and the absurd. The fact that his dog, Ned, was named after Neddy Seagoon from the Goons is just one example of the importance he placed on humour in his life and the comical dialogue he shared with our father was as worthy of praise as the shows he loved to watch himself. Everyone here could relate stories of experiences with Ian that were hilarious, most of which would have been initiated by him.
Ian's affable nature and his well read past made him comfortable conversing with people from all walks of life. He loved people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds and took a genuine interest in their lives but Ian's family was everything to him. From attending performances with Auntie Ruth to ringing us frequently just to "touch base", he was always present in our lives. He spoke to, not about, his nieces and nephews and when they weren't available, at the end of each call he would say "tell each of your children individually that I love them" or words to that effect.
My Le Thi came into Ian's life last year and made him happier and more relaxed than he'd ever been. One of My Le's special qualities was that she accepted his love and relationship with so many people. The depth of their relationship compensated in part for its shortness.
It would be impossible to list all of the places where Ian lived, all of the jobs that Ian had or all of the people Ian has touched. Ian has been a wonderful friend, a loving brother, uncle, son, nephew and stepson but he was also a pillar of strength to all that knew him through his great listening skills and the fact that he was a confidant to us all. Ian has been called an alchemist, a magician and a hierophant too but most importantly, he was always there for each and every one of us placing our needs before his own. the irony being that his huge heart was what finally took his life so suddenly.
Ian, we love you, we thank you for all that you have done for us and with us and now we hope that you rest in peace.
Vale Ian Bowie.
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a few of Ian's drawings and some of his music
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This week, I chose to highlight my twelve favorite posts of 2011. Mama Kat's prompt technically instructed us to pick the best post of each month of the year, but mine is a little more haphazard than that - some months were better than others!
The vast majority of my favorite posts were the ones which helped someone else's cause, such as:
Transforming Lives One Car at a Time, a January post which introduced my readers to Tallahassee's Teen Challenge program, which helps men with drug, alcohol and other life controlling problems.
Nothing, a May post about cyber-bullying and how neither bullied children or bullies are "nothing."
My June post entitled Help Lauren Spierer Surface. Lauren is still missing. My heart breaks for her parents with every day that passes with no answers.
My August post Hope for a Family - Carla's Family, which was the main social media vehicle I used to try to secure a sponsor for Carla from Guatemala. She hasn't been sponsored yet but I still have hope!
Be That Adult, a November post I wrote about my experience with unwanted sexual advances by a trusted adult. I was very honored that Stop It Now linked to this post in their commentary about the Penn State - Sandusky Situation.
When You Care Enough to Send the Very Bluest, a November post I wrote in support of The Blue Key for Refugees.
Lastly, the December guest post by my niece, Kris, about her father's suicide. If Chuck Kiger - One of the 30,000 Per Year helps even one family avoid this type of tragedy, it will be a good thing.
I also thoroughly enjoyed my photography posts, like A-"Maze" ing Corn. I have no illusions of changing the world of art with my point and shoot camera, but it sure is fun. I mean, seriously, flip flops in corn plants?
I usually end up talking about running, yoga, and fitness a few times during the year. I felt strongly about this September post, Do Stretching and Yoga Help Runners? It's a "Stretch" to assume they don't. I believe yoga has completely changed my running (and my life) for the better.
Lastly, my blogging helped me pay tribute and say "good-bye" (for now) to people who have made a difference to me. One example was my December post about the FSU Film BFA Class of 2011, Elephants, Flowers, and the BFA Class of 2011.
And this tribute to my yoga teacher and friend, partially because I had fun writing it and partially because this squirrel picture just makes me laugh every time I look at it.
This year has been sort of like this squirrel - strong, with welcome touches of humor.
Wonder what 2012 will bring.


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John Yoo on Civilian Trials for Terrorism Cases
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an article by John Yoo that criticized the Obama administration's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and several of his fellow Guantanamo prisoners in civilian court. Yoo makes too many claims for me to respond to in a blog post, but let me address a few.
According to Yoo, "The treatment of the 9/11 attacks as a criminal matter rather than an act of war will cripple American efforts to fight terrorism. It is in effect a declaration that this nation is no longer at war." That is an odd thing to say for several reasons. First, it is all over the news: We are still very much at war. Second, even if Obama pulled U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, would the United States really be "crippled" in the fight against bin Laden? "Crippled" suggests the U.S. is on the verge of joining Costa Rica or Belize in terms of our military strength. Farfetched. Third, the Bush administration also treated the 9/11 attacks as a criminal matter when it indicted and prosecuted Zacarias Moussaoui in civilian court. Yoo seems to think that that call was mistaken, but did it "cripple" the U.S.? Did the Bush administration, in effect, declare that the U.S. was "no longer at war"? Of course not. So why does Yoo make that claim now? Odd.
Next, Yoo complains that by bringing KSM to New York for a civilian trial, the prisoner will get to "enjoy the benefits and rights that the Constitution accords to citizens and resident aliens." This is another odd statement because the benefits of a civilian trial (public trial, jury trial, calling witnesses, confronting adverse witnesses, etc) are not limited to citizens and resident aliens. After all, Asian tourists and illegal immigrants from Mexico, to take two examples, are not "citizens" or "resident aliens." If a federal prosecutor were to accuse them of a crime, they would get a trial in civilian court. A claim that the government could deny, say, a nonresident alien from China a civilian trial would be totally at odds with American constitutional law. Yoo may disagree with that law, but if he does, he should have made that clear because he left a misleading impression.
Third, Yoo calls the Moussaoui trial a "circus" because it provided Moussaoui with a "platform to air his anti‐American tirades." Well, to start, just because Yoo calls a trial a "circus" does not make it so. The federal judge in the Moussaoui case did what we would expect a good American judge to do–that is, give the person who is accused of the crime a fair opportunity to speak and to offer a defense. At the same time, the judge must maintain order in the courtroom and anyone who becomes disruptive (including the accused) can be removed. The potential problem of a "tirade" is nothing new and is not, of course, limited to persons who share bin Laden's twisted worldview. Some recent examples include the Unabomber and the shooter at the Holocaust museum. In short, it is a weak argument to critique our system of civilian trials because the defendant may want to insist on saying something that is unpopular, unpleasant, or incoherent. And, at the time of sentencing, a trial judge can respond, as Judge William Young did when he sentenced Richard Reid to life behind bars.
For more on the subject of military commissions, go here and here. For more on John Yoo, go here and here.


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Light-speed reading: No pottering about with Harry
Imagine if the company running the fictional "Hogwarts Express" were to inaugurate a frequent-flier style promotion, whereby every trip along the route of Harry, Ron, and Hermione was credited and awarded. The number of gold-card members would be astronomical.
My nephew would certainly rank high among VIP readers. He read The Goblet of Fire (HP IV) an astonishing 27 times. He apparently is not alone. "The only thing I can compare it with that you might understand," he informed me, "is aging wine."
If only the I-95 corridor offered as much with each new encounter.
It's not just the constancy of HP fans to the books that so impresses me. There's also the speed with which they devour them. My brother manages a bookstore in the Shenandoah Valley where he has met kids who read the latest volume, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, twice in three days.
"Do they say it's pretty good?" I asked stupidly.
"It's 870 pages long, and they've read it twice in three days," was his reply. "It's not a bad book."
Emmett Boaz, a self-proclaimed voracious reader, was less impressed by the feat, which works out to about 35 pages an hour.
"It shows a commendable concentration, but hardly blazing speed at roughly 400 words per minute. Really fast readers clip along at four or five times that," says Boaz.
Of course, the calculations have to be altered when reading is forcibly terminated for a number of hours by a flashlight-confiscating parent, as my nephew would attest.
For many local Potter-heads the "Hogwarts Express" has been sadly congested. When the Hook went to press, Barnes & Noble has sold 2,642 copies of The Order of the Phoenix and was awaiting a new shipment to satisfy 400-plus clamoring back-orders. "I don't think the publishers were prepared," says B&N manager Jermaine Beverly. "They underestimated the power of this book."
Hmmmm. Don't know about that, Jermaine.
Over at the Jefferson Madison Regional Library, 37 copies of the book are checked out with 149 holds on the first copy returned. JMRL director John Halliday says the book is being treated like any other new arrival, with a borrowing term of three weeks. "The book's so long many people will need that much time," he says.
Don't underestimate the HP reader, John. That's enough time for the avid Hogwarts traveler to make 14 trips– or more, with a supply of spare batteries.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is available everywhere on-line and at Barnes & Noble (again) soon.


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How do you manage your ArcGIS floating license pool?
I have to field several calls a week, or sometimes a day, from staff wanting to be able to check out Spatial Analyst or ArcInfo but they can't because there are none available. I've a little script I run to get a list of who's got what, and then need to either make phone calls to find out if Sam or Ellen really is still using SA or pass on the list of names to the caller so they can do the leg work. Better than half the time the user has simply forgotten to downgrade their license level, or close ArcMap/Catalog after they've done what they needed to do.
This is monkey work that really should be handled by a computer. I've not found anything that really works for us yet. What do you do?


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Story to Tell
Fri 21 Jun 2019
Join us for the third season of free events at Cliffe Castle Museum called 'A Story To Tell'. Using objects from the Museum collections, staff will introduce you to some of the fascinating stories they tell.
We want to hear your stories too! You are invited to bring a small object or photograph with a story that you would like to share with the group.
There will be tea and coffee served afterwards.
This is a free event and there is no need to book.


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UPDATE, Aug. 16, 2011
The Tahuyeh Lake Community Club appealed the Kitsap County Superior Court ruling yesterday, the same day that the judge issued her findings of fact and judgment in the matter.
Check out my story in
tomorrow's Kitsap Sun or review the
judge's findings document (PDF 968 kb).
While I was away for a week, Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Jeanette Dalton handed down a most intricate ruling in the case called Tahuyeh Lake Community Club versus Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
This legal dispute has gone on for years and may not be over even now. But, through it all, I've learned a great deal about riparian rights to use shorelines and surface waters in Washington state.
The bottom line, if the ruling stands, is that WDFW will be allowed to build a public boat launch on Lake Tahuyeh. Officers of the community club pursued the case even after the agency withdrew its plans for a launching facility, which was given conditional approval.
Local fishing groups wish to have access to Lake Tahuyeh for recreation, while the community club maintains that the lake is private and under its exclusive control.
Judge Dalton understood the legal and societal implications of her decision:
"In bringing this lawsuit, the members of the community club seek to protect important rights to the quiet enjoyment of their private shoreside community. In defending this action, the state of Washington also seeks to defend values central to our society, those of public access to public lands.
"Fortunately, resolution of this action does not require this court to resolve the relative importance of the competing values represented by the two parties. Rather, centuries of lawmakers have weighed these values for us, and their legal mandates dictate the necessary outcome of this case."
Judge Dalton's ruling maneuvers logically through a maze of facts and legal benchmarks before reaching the conclusion that a single parcel of lakefront property provides legal access to the entire surface of the lake. Much of the decision hinges around the question of whether Lake Tahuyeh was actually a lake when the property was first conveyed by the federal government and later when the state acquired its small parcel of property — both long before a dam formed the lake as we know it today.
If Lake Tahuyeh was nothing more than a swamp or a man-made lake, then ownership and access would be defined by boundary lines drawn on a map and the related legal descriptions. If the lake were large and deep enough to be a "navigable" waterway, then the state would have claimed ownership to the entire lake bed.
But Dalton concluded — based on historical documents and testimony from folks who fished on the lake a half-century ago — that Lake Tahuyeh was, and is, a "nonnavigable lake." As such, each property owner along the shoreline owns a pie-shaped piece of the lake bed to the center — unless that ownership is conveyed to someone else. In this case, the community club acquired ownership of most of the lake bed, but the state retained its ownership, Dalton concluded.
Whether the state has riparian rights to use the lake depends not only on whether Lake Tahuyeh was actually a lake, but also whether those rights were conveyed during successive ownerships of the property.
Jean Bulette, president of Tahuyeh Lake Community Club, has told me several times and argued in a Kitsap Sun op-ed piece in March 2010 that the lake bed and its riparian rights were granted to predecessors of the club and can never be taken away.
Judge Dalton agreed that the original owners obtained title to the lakebed when the federal patent conveyed ownership, but she also gave weight to the original federal survey of the site, which included a "meander line" to note the approximate edge of the water:
"There is some authority for the proposition that a lot is conclusively riparian if it bounders a 'meander line,' at least in the absence of evidence showing that the lot was meant to run only to the meander line and not to the actual edge of the watercourse."
What is the evidence that the original owners meant to pass on riparian rights — lake access — to the state in 1939, when the state took ownership of the parcel?
"The court finds that the parties likely were contemplating public access to Lake Tahuyeh by the conveyance to the department. It was a historic aberration for a grant of land to be only 200 feet wide and run between a known access road and a lake, at least where other acquisitions of property during those early decades were much larger parcels of land. The mere dimensions of the department's lot suggest — and probably require — the conclusion that the lot was intended for water access….
"Other factors lead the court to this conclusion, includ(ing) that the consideration for the transfer of the property was apparently not money, but rather the department's agreement to allow the grantor to control the level of Tahuyeh Lake and to allow removal and harvest of the sphagnum moss.
"If the transfer was not intended to run into the lake at all, then raising or lowering the level of the lake would have had no consequences to the state. The fact that such an agreement was specifically negotiated as consideration for the deed indicates to this court that the grantor intended to convey, and did convey, the bed of the lake under the water as well as the upland parcel to the road.
"The court therefore determines that the lot conveyed to the department included riparian rights to Tahuyeh Lake, which the lot abutted."
While a riparian owner has rights that extend to the entire surface of the lake, Judge Dalton pointed out that such rights must "not interfere unreasonably with the riparian rights of other owners."
Dalton said she does not minimize the potential effects that her ruling could have on the "solitude currently enjoyed by members of the community club." Still, the facts in this case do not address the extent to which public use might interfere with the recreational rights of community club members. That, Dalton said, could be the subject of future legal action.
Further information:
Judge Jeanette Dalton's ruling
Steve Gardner's Kitsap Sun story
Christopher Dunagan's preview of Lake Tahuyeh case


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"Living Endemic Birds of Hawai'i" by famed Hawaiian wildlife artist Marian Berger is back on exhibit, for one week only, from February 21- February 27, 2012 at Volcano Art Center Gallery in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. The exhibit is back on display by popular demand.
The exhibit features reproductive prints of the original watercolor paintings representing 37 species of birds found only in Hawai'i. The vision of this extraordinary project has been to produce a limited edition masterpiece in the style of John James Audubon as a means of supporting critical work to ensure the survival of Hawai'i's endemic birds. Each image is printed in double elephant folio size (26″ x 39.5″), after Audubon's great work on the Birds of North America, with all individual birds painted life-size.
The project, that resulted in the original exhibit, in January of 2011, is a unique collaboration between the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the State of Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife, the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Discipline, and private landowners. The Hawai'i Endangered Bird Conservation Program (HEBCP) comprises two captive breeding facilities, one at Keauhou Ranch in Volcano on the Big Island, and the other in Makawao on Maui, and works at a number of field sites around Hawaii. Using intensive propagation and release techniques, the HEBCP aims to re-establish self-sustaining populations of critically endangered birds or augment existing ones. More than 1,000 chicks of many different Hawaiian species have been successfully raised by the HEBCP since 1993.
"The exhibit in early 2011, was quite successful in raising both awareness and funds, for the amazing conservation work being done right here in Hawai'i," states gallery manager Emily Catey. " Volcano Art Center is happy to display the images again to continue to raise awareness for this effort."
The exhibit, opening February 21, 2012, features giclee reproductions priced individually, compared to the first exhibit where the original watercolor paintings sold only as a complete set.
Don't miss this opportunity to view the partial collection, of the "Living Endemic Birds of Hawai'i by Marian Berger. Call (808) 967-7565 or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org for more information.
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If you have more than one dog, you might always keep them together. You might feed them in the same room, brush them at the same time, take them for their afternoon constitutional as a pair. Why not? Together, they are more than likely as cute as two peas in a pod.
But peas they are not. They are dogs, which means they are full to the brim with feelings. If your two dogs are never apart, they will become less and less able to be apart. In that case, when one of them has to go to the vet, say, or worse, stay overnight at the animal hospital, the other dog will be beside himself with anguish. He may whine and cry or wait by the door, a pitiful sight, enough to make you wish you'd read this years ago.
The fix is easy. A couple of times a week, no less, but more if you so choose, walk your dogs separately. Take one when you go to the bank. Take the other when you pick up your dry cleaning. Or, one day, take one for a regular walk and the other on an adventure walk, a long, long hike to a new neighborhood. Next time you take them out separately, switch off. This time the dog that got the shorter walk gets the longer walk, maybe with a stop at an outdoor cafe, or a trip to Beasty Feast for new toys.
Letting the dogs see that they are safe going out without each other, and, as important, safe staying home without each other is an important part of their training. Cute as they are together, it is essential for every dog to know that he's also his own guy, that quiet time need not be frantic time, and that seeing the world without his buddy along can be merely another way to have a good time.