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The Theory Needs a Strategy
Ivar Jacobson wrote an article entitled In Need of a Theory for Software Engineering which compared the IT industry with the fashion industry. It started with the observation that sometimes it seems that it's more important to many IT practitioners that they follow the latest software development fashion, such as a new methodology or cool new technology, than it is to produce great software. People will often discard existing strategies which they know to be good in their zeal to adopt the new, more fashionable ones. Pity the poor developer who admits to programming in COBOL, or applying a modeling notation with the word "Unified" in it, because they very obviously aren't up to speed on the latest IT trends. Jacobson points out that this constant pursuit of the latest IT fashion, of the next new thing, results in wasted effort. Frustratingly, many of the "new" ideas and technologies are really just existing ideas and technologies that have been modified slightly and then repackaged.
In August Bertrand Meyer extended Jacobson's position in Methods Need Theory. He believes that there is a "bad politics" aspect to the problem that we face because the emphasis is rarely on substantial solutions to hard problems but instead on slogans, propaganda, and emotions. For example, consider all the rhetoric within the agile community about the importance of processes being empirical, rhetoric typically spewed by people who rarely seem to have actual data to share with us. How about slogans such as "potentially shippable software every sprint" (who can argue with that?) and catch phrases such as BDUF, TAGRI, and YAGNI? Meyer points out that these concepts are marketed like brands, spread by gurus who often downplay or simply ignore existing concepts that are often incredibly similar to the platitudes they espouse, or that when they do recognize of the work of others it is to berate it. Houston, we have a problem.
The IT industry can clearly do better. When it comes to software methods, Jacobson and Meyer suggest three strategies:
- First, as an industry we should model the nature of software methods in a method-independent manner which describes the problem, not the solution.
- Second, we should find the kernel, what they refer to as "the mother of all methods", in recognition that all software methods share a common set of properties.
- Third, describe each interesting method using the kernel. With the kernel in place, all methods can be described and compared and we can harvest the implicit practices from widely used and proven methods.
By doing so perhaps we can stop focusing on the "process wars" and instead focus on what we should be doing -- providing great solutions which support our stakeholders.
This is wonderful vision, but without an implementation strategy there is little chance that we'll see it come about. I believe that there are six critical success factors:
- Creation of a working group. From Jacobson's and Meyer's description it sounds like there's a fair bit of work to do. Who's going to do it? Will this be a private effort or a public one? Will there be some sort of organization formed or will the effort be ad hoc? Will this work be done in some sort of open source manner, commercial manner, or somewhere in between? Can we leverage existing sources of practices such as the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) or do we need to start from scratch yet again?
- Production of an initial set of suggested practices. Visions are one thing, having some a kernel of practices for others to consider is something completely different. The proof of the theory will be in the practices pudding.
- Experimentation and evolution. People in the industry, ideally people not actively involved with the working group, need to apply whatever the working group produces. There must be a mechanism in place to provide feedback and to more importantly evolve the work.
- Broad support of industry groups and vendors. Groups such as the International Association of Software Architects (IASA), the International Institute of Business Analysts, and the Project Management Institute (PMI) already have bodies of knowledge. Vendors such as IBM have process repositories such as Rational Method Composer (RMC) and Microsoft has the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF). These organizations can either be competitors or they can be working partners. I propose the latter, but how can we motivate them to get involved?
- Funding. This isn't going to be cost-free, even if it ends up being an open source effort developed completely by volunteers.
- Marketing. All of this will come to naught if practitioners don't know about it. Even viral marketing campaigns start somewhere.
The idea of having an acknowledged collection of common software practices which can be leveraged by practitioners is a good one. Sadly, it will be a difficult one to achieve, as our previous track record suggests. In the early 1990s the patterns community developed a collection of process and organizational patterns, but these patterns were overshadowed by design patterns and never really caught on even though there was some solid ideas captured. About the same time the Unified Process, which Jacobson was intimately involved with, fared better but also didn't achieve all of its goals. Although a wonderful repository of process information, it was driven by a single vendor (IBM Rational, my current employer), implemented far too heavily in too many organizations (although some implemented it in a very agile manner), and grew large over time (which is what happens when you try to cover a wide spectrum of situations). The Object Management Group (OMG)'s Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM), similar conceptually to the "method model" suggested by Jacobson, is a great piece of work that has proven to be of interest to only a small handful of people. So, if we're to learn anything from history, it's that there are many potential challenges which this effort will need to overcome.
In short, Jacobson has shared an exciting vision of the future with us, at least it's exciting for anyone such as myself who is interested in software process. My fear is that this is a vision which will be very difficult to achieve in practice. Together, as a community, I hope we can pull it off. Time will tell.
Hot Links
Ivar Jacobson describes his vision in much greater detail in his blog posting In Need of a Theory for Software Engineering
Bertrand Meyer's Methods Need Theory. reiterates and extends Jacobson's vision for a common method theory.
I recently wrote Our Integrity Debt Continues to Grow, a detailed blog posting which examines the ethical challenges surrounding certification schemes within the agile community.
The Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) is an open source project which has developed method authoring and publishing tooling as well as a collection of agile processes and practices using said tooling.
The Surveys Exploring the Current State of Information Technology Practices page links to the results of all the Dr. Dobb's surveys which I've run over the years.
My [email protected] blog discusses strategies for adopting and applying agile strategies in the complex environments.


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(Budget Travel) -- I live in New York. But I also have flats in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and I keep a condo in Miami, a chateau in Switzerland and a pied-a-terre in every Paris arrondissement. You see, I'm a house swapper.
The author, right, and her sister stayed in a San Francisco couple's apartment while the couple stayed at her place.
As an avid traveler with a (very) limited budget, I've discovered that trading apartments with people I meet on the Internet -- they stay in my place while I'm crashing at theirs -- is an excellent way to save money on vacation. In fact, after seven successful trades, I've become addicted to swapping and have made converts of my boyfriend, Alex; my sister, Lucy; and my mom, Jean -- all of whom have accompanied me on trips. Sometimes I can't imagine ever shelling out cash for a hotel again.
My virgin house swap was, fittingly, in the city of love: Paris. My mom and I had long dreamed of visiting together, but our lack of funds forced us to keep postponing the trip. Finally, in 2006, I decided that enough was enough. Instead of being scared off by pricey hotels -- and break-the-bank exchange rates -- I went on craigslist.org to look for an apartment swap.
After I clicked on the "Housing Swap" link and typed in "Paris" and "September," the ideal place popped up: a one-bedroom apartment owned by Olivier*, a 30-something software company founder who wanted to visit Manhattan with his girlfriend. His home looked decent in the photos, and the central location on the Left Bank couldn't be beat. Watch more on house swapping »
The timing also worked out perfectly, as we both wanted to travel to each other's cities in the first week of September. I e-mailed him photos of my apartment, and after a few polite exchanges, we were all set. I put my house keys in the mail, and I received Olivier's keys a week later. I couldn't believe how easy it was -- or how free. BudgetTravel.com: Where to shop for a swap
Two months later, my mom and I were on Olivier's tree-lined street, which was so beautiful it was almost clichéd: chic couples strolling arm in arm, children playing soccer, a wine bar on the corner. Olivier's fifth-floor apartment was equally charming, with huge windows overlooking a sunlit courtyard, and a cute kitchen where Olivier had left us a bottle of wine.
"You can tell a bachelor lives here," my mom said with a laugh when she noticed the mattress on the floor in lieu of an actual bed. The mattress, however, was surprisingly cozy -- and proved to be a perfect spot for reading maps in the morning and Voltaire at night.
House swapping not only allowed us to drop into the city, but into a Parisian lifestyle, too. I often feel like an outsider when I visit new places, and I observe with an anthropologist's fascination how the locals go about their days. I'll mimic their eating habits, gestures and pastimes until it's time to go back to my hotel.
Staying in Olivier's apartment, however, enabled me and my mom to slip into his life. We bought our morning espresso from the neighborhood café he had recommended. We roasted a chicken in his kitchen one night and ate at a nearby bistro the next. We chatted with the neighbors on the stairs, fiddled with the leaky sink in the kitchen, and read Paris Vogue on the sofa. And, like Olivier, we felt Parisian -- at least for a week. BudgetTravel.com: Tips from savvy swappers
A born-and-bred control freak, I've always chosen my hotels after scouring magazine articles and grilling my friends for recommendations. When you book a room that way, you know what you'll get -- and you pay for that reliability. House swaps, however, force you to take a leap of faith. There's usually no contract or security deposit. And you never receive a reservation confirmation.
When I arranged my Paris swap, I had to trust that Olivier was telling the truth about himself and his apartment. I was a bit nervous on the flight to France, with images of serial killers, con artists and rats flashing through my mind. But after a few glasses of wine, I got over my fears. House swappers quickly realize they need to be open-minded and have a sense of humor about the unexpected inconveniences that can pop up. And, browser beware: Some swaps do come with surprises.
This past May, my sister and I traded places with Michael, the owner of a club in San Francisco, and Sabrina, his girlfriend. The second-floor apartment was gorgeous, with hardwood floors, a flat-screen television and a large, comfortable bedroom. And I especially loved the claw-foot tub -- a real treat for a Manhattanite.
Michael and Sabrina had also left us free tickets to concerts and recommended we eat at Patxi's, a deep-dish-pizza restaurant they love down the block. On a sunny Saturday, we purchased fresh vegetables at the farmers market and tried out a few recipes we found while flipping through their cookbooks.
We just weren't prepared for something else they had left behind in the apartment. While I was watching a movie in the living room one morning, a mouse suddenly scampered under the ottoman. I shrieked and threw a magazine beneath the chair to try to scare it out.
Later that day, my sister suggested we call Michael at my apartment in New York to tell him about it, but in the end, we decided against it. We figured that our fuzzy new roommate was just part of the experience -- and the disturbance was offset by all the perks, such as the six-pack of beer that Michael and Sabrina had left on the counter as a gift.
On another swap, I learned I had to be better about trusting my intuition. In the afterglow of my Paris vacation, my boyfriend and I arranged to swap homes with a couple from Los Angeles for five days over Christmas.
I noticed something strange about the pestering nature of the wife's e-mails from the start. "I take pride in keeping my home neat and hope you do the same," she wrote. It will be fine, I assured her. "Do you have a washing machine?" she asked. In Manhattan? Hardly. "A dishwasher?" Nope. After the fourth or fifth e-mail, I was starting to have second thoughts about the swap, but I went ahead with it anyway, figuring that everything would turn out alright.
When we arrived at the couple's bungalow two months later, my concerns had abated. But then I discovered a typed list of instructions on how to keep the house spick-and-span -- down to the correct way to wipe the fridge. As the week went on, I felt as if I was in "The Odd Couple": I was messy Oscar Madison, and the woman who owned the apartment was fastidious Felix Unger.
Every time a crumb fell, my heart skipped a beat. A friend gave us toffee for Christmas, and I promptly banned it from the house. "Look at those nuts!" I gasped, imagining them scattering on the floor. The wife seemed to be keeping a close eye on us, too. She phoned twice from New York to make sure we were taking care of her house, and twice to complain about my place -- she couldn't turn the key in the lock, and the radiator was rattling too much.
In the end, the stay was worth the trouble. By laughing at the situation, Alex and I were able to enjoy the California sunshine without worrying about our over-attentive host. Not to mention that her idiosyncrasies made for great breakfast conversation.
Of course, apartment swaps raise logical concerns about safety and privacy. When I tell friends about my trades, the first question they inevitably ask is: "You let strangers stay in your house?" That's usually followed by: "Do you hide your computer?" Allowing people into your inner sanctum is rattling, to say the least.
At first, I couldn't picture strangers sleeping in my bed or drying themselves off with my towels. But I've found that I can usually get a good sense of people through their e-mails -- friendly and enthusiastic people who open up about their lives naturally put me more at ease than those who come off as guarded. Plus, once we become chummy over e-mail, I don't feel as uncomfortable about having them in my home.
In fact, I begin to look forward to their stay, as if they were friends, not strangers. Alex and I don't take too many pains to safeguard our house; we don't lock up our valuables or laptop in a closet, and we don't even have renter's insurance. Yet the only thing that's ever disappeared was a small part of our coffeemaker. (If you're reading this, Olivier, where is that missing piece?!) I've also never returned to a messy house -- our guests always make the bed and put the dishes away before they leave.
The other concern I had about opening my home to strangers was that my life would be on display. Alex and I were in a tizzy preparing the apartment before Olivier and his girlfriend came to stay. "Do you think they'll like us?" I asked as I fluffed the duvet. "Will they think our place is too small?"
"They'll think we're obsessed with World War II," Alex quipped, looking at our shelf filled with history books. "Is that odd?" I replied, suddenly panicked. "Should I hide a few?"
Partly because I was curious and partly because I have a masochistic streak, I recently e-mailed the people we had swapped with to ask what they thought of our place. Olivier was the first to respond. "We were happy for your West Village neighborhood," he wrote in his broken English. "Yours was the first American place we had seen with interesting books." I gave myself a pat on the back -- we are fabulously literary, c'est vrai.
But I wasn't prepared for his next observation: "I wondered if you were single, as your bed was small and not very, let's say, adapted for two." A very French thing to say. And a bit rich coming from a guy who sleeps on a mattress on the floor.
Next, an e-mail arrived from the Los Angeles couple. The wife started out nicely enough. "Your many books made you seem like the intellectual type," she wrote. But then she moved in for the kill. "The shower was grimy, and there were dust bunnies on the floor," she wrote. Her husband chimed in next: "And the bedroom smelled like old saddles from the shoes." Ouch! I felt as if I had been socked below the belt. It's one thing to slam a girl's shower, but it's quite another to disparage her shoes.
The critique of my lifestyle notwithstanding, my house-swapping experiences have been extremely positive. I've saved thousands of dollars and gotten remarkable insight into the lives and habits of San Franciscans, Los Angelenos and Parisians, among others. I've also learned that no matter where you go, you can always find people who share your values and mind-set -- my swaps worked out well because I found a community that was as curious, trusting and adventurous as I am.
I'm currently house hunting for my next vacation, in Tokyo. So if you see me on Craigslist, hit me up for a swap. I promise to move my shoes out of the bedroom.
* His name has been changed to protect his privacy.
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Much of the world's history is drenched in bloodshed, marked by horrific wars and man's inhumanity, which (in the best of times) eventually give way to grace and civility. Still, it might come as a surprise to many of our readers to learn that Minnesota's history has its own ugly chapter, one that has often been overlooked but that is integral to understanding modern life.
As we approached the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War, we decided to try to explain the significance of this awful time with a historical narrative, as told through the story of Little Crow, a Dakota chief who, at times reluctantly, led the 1862 rebellion. The serial narrative, which unfolds over six days beginning today, may read like a work of historical fiction, but it is a deeply reported piece of journalism, down to the smallest of details.
"Shelves of books have been written since 1862, and it's the most complicated event I've written about in 30 years in journalism," said reporter Curt Brown, who has spent months researching Little Crow and the conflict.
At its most basic, this is the story of how some of the Dakota -- forced onto reservations, cheated out of money that was due them for the sale of their land, and starving -- rose up against the settlers who were remaking the Upper Midwest into a white man's world. Some of the warriors committed terrible atrocities against settlers during the rebellion, before it ended in their defeat.
It is also a story about how settlers, Army leaders and governors exacted retribution by mass hangings, without representation or a real trial. They then succeeded in banishing most of the Dakota from their homeland, the guilty and the innocent, indiscriminately killing men, women and children along the way regardless of their role in the war.
"This is a story of very complex people on all sides," said Kate Parry, the assistant managing editor who directed this project. "There are few simple heroes or villains. Breathtaking atrocities and cruelty were done by the U.S. Army, local leaders, the Dakota and the settlers. What we have tried to do in describing all of that is to provide a glimpse into what motivated average people to turn on each other with such violence -- whether it was the Dakota slaughtering settler families or the settlers exacting horrific revenge on Dakota families."
This is history that was rarely taught in Minnesota schools, and that didn't even start appearing regularly in school history books until the 1990s. Yet, one cannot understand how Minnesota and the Dakota states were settled without understanding what happened here in 1862. A history book written in 1924 sums up its significance.
"In the history of the nation the Sioux Outbreak is only an incident, while the Civil War is a major event. In the history of Minnesota, however, the relative importance of the two is reversed," wrote historian Solon J. Buck.
To tell this story, Brown and photographers David Joles and Jim Gehrz made multiple trips across the state, into South Dakota and up to Canada, to see the places where these events occurred. Brown soaked up the scenes there, the look and feel of the prairie and the land along the Minnesota where the reservation was, so he could describe them firsthand. He and the photographers also had to earn the trust of descendants of settlers and the Dakota, so they would share their stories.
"We made treks to reservations to visit with exiled Dakota in Nebraska and South Dakota," Brown said. "We joined settler descendants on trips near Birch Coulee where their great-great-grandparents were cutting hay when the violence broke out. We retraced Little Crow's footsteps from his childhood near South St. Paul to the pipestone quarries in southwestern Minnesota where he carved his pipes, talking to his descendants, collecting images. We visited graveyards, county historical museums and monuments."
To recreate scenes, Brown mined historical books and diaries for details that would help bring this story to life. Since 1862 was before official weather records existed, we consulted unofficial records that were preserved, along with newspaper accounts. Gehrz worked to get rights from the many different institutions that have photographs of Little Crow, from small county historical societies to the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
How could we possibly know what Chief Little Crow was saying to hostages hidden in his loft 150 years ago? Brown drew on a diary kept by a young man among those hostages who meticulously recorded the chief's words. The second part of the series begins with a scene between Little Crow and his mother when he was a small child. A description was handed down through the Dakota oral tradition and eventually was written down. But there was more research to be done to be able to describe scenes based in fact, rather than simply imagining how it might have looked back then.
"For detail on how ice breaks and what the water looks like in a hole in the ice, we consulted with the experts: ice fishermen," said Parry. "To be able to describe the way a rider's hair moves in the same rhythm as the horse's mane, we watched more than a dozen videos of riders on horses at a gallop until we felt confident about adding that detail to a description of Little Crow riding his horse that opens the fourth installment.
"To ensure we didn't push the descriptions further than Curt's research and the historic record would support, we scrutinized each line of the series and whether we had the facts to back it up."
You can go to startribune.com/dakota to interact and learn more about this fascinating period in Minnesota history. If you are descended from the people who experienced the war -- and many Minnesotans are -- you can go to our website and share your family's stories and pictures. You can watch videos of descendants reading the words left by their ancestors in letters and diaries. You'll find lots of other ways to experience this history through reading books or taking a tour of the Minnesota River valley. A version of the entire series in e-book form is also available from our website now.
On Monday, Brown will host a live chat about the series and the war online. Also at the website, you'll find lots of other ways to experience this history through reading books or taking a tour of the Minnesota River Valley. In conjunction with this series, Twin Cities Public Television is broadcasting two documentaries about the war this week.
It has long been said that history belongs to those who write it; therefore it is imperative that history be written with truth and integrity. This can be done only if survivors entrust their stories to us. Brown tells the story of interviewing a group of Dakota descendants on the impoverished Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota, where they were banished 150 years ago.
"A leader snapped a cigarette that had been offered as a sign of respect. For the first time in my career, the interviewee said an ancient prayer, asking his ancestors in their native tongue to help us tell the history with accuracy."
We are deeply grateful to the many Dakota, historians and descendants of settlers who trusted us with their stories.
Nancy Barnes is editor of the Star Tribune.


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October 3, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is studying a southern Indiana judge's ruling throwing out the state's ban on enclosed deer hunting farms, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Harrison Circuit Judge John Evans ruled the Indiana Department of Natural Resources didn't have the authority to ban the deer farms when its former director, Kyle Hupfer, issued an emergency order doing so in 2005, WIBC-FM and The Indianapolis Star reported.
Evans' ruling followed a summary judgment in a separate case in Owen County last year that supported the DNR ban, spokesman Phil Bloom said.
"There have now been two court cases in this matter with different conclusions by two judges," Bloom said. "The DNR is obviously disappointed in the Harrison County judge's decision and currently is in process of evaluating that ruling."
In the latest ruling, Evans issued a permanent injunction this week prohibiting enforcement of the DNR order. A preliminary injunction had barred it while the case was pending.
Rodney Bruce, owner of the Whitetail Bluff deer farm near Corydon and one of the operators who sued the DNR, said the ruling "is like taking the handcuffs off" because it will allow him to compete with similar operations in other states.
Bruce said he believed the decision would allow the industry to grow as it has in many other states.
"There were only four (deer farms) active in the state until yesterday," Bruce said Wednesday. "With this ruling, others can open now."
Opponents label the preserves "canned hunting" and contend it's cruel to animals, giving hunters a free shot at deer that don't have room to roam and may be mistreated. Bruce said he hopes to work with the DNR in crafting regulations that would ensure appropriate standards.
Bruce and other deer farmers complain the DNR initially gave them approval to operate before reversing itself and issuing a regulation banning the preserves. The Indiana House twice passed bills to allow the preserves operate, but the proposals met firm opposition from state Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, and never got a Senate hearing.
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1. On angel voices from realms of glory a song was borne to man,
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The angels sang of redeeming love, the dawn of salvation's morn.
Yes, hope was born on that Christmas day, when Jesus Christ was born.
2. How long earth waited to hear the tidings of peace, good will to men.
And to each soul who yields to Him good tidings are borne again.
To hearts prepared to give Him room the blessed child will come.
For, hope is born when each heart receives God's Only Begotten Son.
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Portrait of Rev. Ephraim Nute. He was a Unitarian minister in Lawrence, Kansas Territory. Nute served as chaplain for the Territorial Legislature at Lecompton and was a chaplain for the First Regiment of the Kansas Volunteers.
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"Our survey results show the majority of people think positively about dad bods, and men who identify as having them are proud of who they are. That's exactly how we want all of our members to feel when they come to Planet Fitness," said Jessica Correa, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Planet Fitness.
Researchers found that nearly seven out of ten people found that men with a few or 20 extra pounds were attractive.
This is the third year Planet Fitness has surveyed how American men and women feel about the 'dad bod' body type with data pointing to a more widespread acceptance by men and women of the body type.
Researchers found that more Americans this year believe that having a 'dad bod' is attractive (65 percent vs. 57 percent) and that men with that body type are sexy (61 percent vs. 51 percent). The survey also found more Americans also felt the 'dad bod' was the new six-pack (51 percent vs. 41 percent).
Nearly four in five women said men with 'dad bods' were a sign that the man was comfortable in his own skin - signifying that confidence, not muscles, was the main attractive quality for many.
Both men and women associated the 'dad bod' with positive traits, the survey found. More men with a 'dad bod' said they were happier with their body in comparison to last year (79 percent vs. 64 percent), and that having that type of body had improved their life in some way (72 percent vs. 62 percent).
Then again, in a year where 'Fat Thor' became an icon and Andy Ruiz Jr. surprises the boxing world with his win, maybe the survey's results shouldn't be much of a shock.
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Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has made his first appearance in court accused of child sex offences.
The star, who plays car mechanic Kevin Webster in the ITV soap, appeared at Manchester Magistrates' Court under his real name of Michael Turner.
The 48-year-old has been charged with 19 offences including six counts of raping a child, six allegations of indecently assaulting a child and seven counts of sexual activity with a child.
The alleged offences relate to one complainant and all took place between 2001 and 2010, the court was told.
During the short hearing, which lasted just eight minutes, the defendant, wearing a white shirt and black tie, spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth.
Four members of his family sat towards the back of the court on seats usually reserved for officials as the public gallery was packed with members of the media.
District Judge Khalid Qureshi asked Le Vell's solicitor, Richard Gowthorpe, if there was any indication of plea, to which he replied: "No indication of plea today other than the fact that the charges are contested, and will be fully contested in the Crown Court."
The matter was adjourned to Manchester Crown Court on March 20.
Le Vell was bailed on condition that he surrenders his passport, does not contact named witnesses and does not have unsupervised contact with any child under the age of 14. The actor, who was following the proceedings from the dock, nodded to the judge when asked if he understood the conditions. He made no comment as he left court.
Le Vell was first arrested in September 2011 and questioned over alleged child sex offences, but the matter was later dropped. Earlier this month the Crown Prosecution Service said it was in the public interest to charge him with the current offences following a review of evidence.


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The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's leading oil producer by about 2017 and will become a net oil exporter by 2030, according to a report released Monday by the International Energy Agency.
That increased oil production, combined with new U.S. policies to improve energy efficiency, means that the United States will become "all but self-sufficient" in meeting its energy needs in about two decades — a "dramatic reversal of the trend" in most developed countries, the report says.
"The foundations of the global energy systems are shifting," Fatih Birol, chief economist at the Paris-based organization, which produces the annual World Energy Outlook, said in an interview before the release.
The agency, which advises industrialized nations on energy issues, had previously predicted that Saudi Arabia would be the leading producer until 2035.
The report also predicted that global energy demand would grow by 35 to 46 percent between 2010 and 2035, depending on whether policies that have been proposed are actually put in place. Most of that growth will come from China, India and the Middle East, where the consuming class is growing rapidly.
The consequences are "potentially far reaching" for global energy markets and trade, the report said.
Birol noted, for example, that Middle Eastern oil once bound for the United States would probably be rerouted to China. U.S.-mined coal, facing declining demand in its home market, is already heading to Europe and China instead.
There are several components of the sudden shift in the world's energy supply, but the prime mover is a resurgence of U.S. oil and gas production, particularly the unlocking of new reserves of oil and gas found in shale rock. The widespread adoption of techniques such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling has made those reserves much more accessible, and, in the case of natural gas, resulted in a vast glut that has sent prices plunging.
The report predicted that the United States would overtake Russia as the leading producer of natural gas in 2015.
The strong statements and specific predictions by the energy agency lend new weight to trends that have become increasingly apparent in the past year.
"This striking conclusion confirms a lot of recent projections," said Michael Levi, senior fellow for energy and environment at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Formed in 1974 after the oil crisis by a group of oil-importing nations, including the United States, the International Energy Agency monitors and analyzes global energy trends to insure safe and sustainable supply.
Levi said that the IEA report was generally "good news" for the United States because it highlights the nation's new sources of energy. But he cautioned that being self-sufficient did not mean that the country would be insulated from seesawing energy prices, since those oil prices are set by global markets.
"You may be somewhat less vulnerable to price shocks and the U.S. may be slightly more protected, but it doesn't give you the energy independence some people claim," he said.
Also, he noted, the agency's projection of U.S. self-sufficiency assumed that the country would push ahead with improving gas mileage in cars and energy efficiency in homes and appliances.
"It's supply and demand together that adds up to this striking conclusion," Levi said.
Birol said the agency's prediction of increasing U.S. self-sufficiency was 55 percent a reflection of more oil production and 45 percent a reflection of improving energy efficiency in the United States, primarily from the Obama administration's new fuel economy standards for cars. He added that even stronger policies to promote energy efficiency were needed in the U.S. and many other countries.
The report said that several other factors could also have a large impact on world energy markets over the next few years. These include the recovery of the Iraqi oil industry, which would lead to new supply, and the decision by some countries, notably Germany and Japan, to move away from nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
The new energy sources will help the U.S. economy, Birol said, providing continued cheap energy relative to the rest of the world. The IEA estimates that electricity prices will be about 50 percent cheaper in the United States than in Europe, largely because of a rise in the number of power plants fueled by cheap natural gas, helping U.S. industries and consumers.
But the message is more sobering for the planet, in terms of climate change. Although natural gas is frequently promoted for being relatively low in carbon emissions compared to oil or coal, the new global energy market could make it even harder to prevent dangerous levels of warming.
The reduced U.S. reliance on coal will just mean that coal moves to other places, the report says. And the use of coal, now the dirtiest fuel, continues to rise elsewhere. China's coal demand will peak around 2020 and then stay steady until 2035, the report predicted, and in 2025, India will overtake the United States as the world's second-largest coal user.
The report warns that no more than one-third of the proven reserves of fossil fuels should be used by 2050 to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, as many scientists recommend.
Such restraint is extremely unlikely without a binding international treaty by 2017, Birol said.


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The principal centre of the Minoan Civilisation
Knossos is the site of the most important and better known palace of Minoan civilisation. According to tradition, it was the seat of the legendary king Minos. The Palace is also connected with thrilling legends, such as the myth of the Labyrinth with the Minotaur, and the story of Daidalos and Icaros.
The site was continuously inhabited from the Neolithic period (7000-3000 B.C.) until Roman times. The Linear B tablets (Mycenaean script) of the 14th century B.C. mention the city as ko-no-so.
Intensive habitation occured mostly in the Minoan period, when the so-called first (19th-17th centuries B.C.) and second palaces (16th-14th centuries B.C.) were built along with luxurious houses, a hospice and various other structures. After its partial destruction in 1450 B.C., Knossos was settled by Mycenaeans from the Greek Mainland.
The city flourished again during the Hellenistic period (sanctuaries of Glaukos, Demeter, other sanctuaries, chamber tombs, north cemetery, defensive towers) and in 67 B.C. it was captured by the Roman Quintus Caecilius Metelus Creticus. The "Villa of Dionysos", a private house with splendid mosaics was built in the same period.
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Knossos was discovered in 1878 by Minos Kalokairinos. Sir Arthur Evans conducted systematic excavations at the site between 1900 and 1931, bringing to light the palace, a large section of the Minoan city, and the cemeteries. Since then, the site and the surrounding area have been excavated by the British School of Archaeology at Athens and the 23rd E.P.C.A.
The restoration of the palace to its present form was carried out by Arthur Evans. The interventions were mostly imposed by the need to preserve the monuments uncovered. The Archaeological Service of the Ministry of Culture carries out only consolidation work, whenever necessary.
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A Chat with Miguel Barnet
Miguel Barnet, 69, is one of Cuba's most distinguished writers and poets as well as a member of the island's National Assembly. He is also the president of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), an organization with more than 8,000 members. He is an outspoken intellectual, having studied first in the United States and later at the University of Havana. He is best known for his testimonial novel Biography of a Runaway Slave, Biografía de un Cimarrón in Spanish, but he has written dozens of other novels, poems and articles, including a number of stories for Cigar Aficionado. He's been called the Truman Capote of Cuba.
He is a personal friend and one of the most open-minded and brilliant men I have met on my travels to Cuba. He likes nothing better than smoking a good cigar with friends (his favorite smoke is the Trinidad Reyes) and discussing life in Cuba as well as abroad. Last year in Havana, we met at his house one afternoon shortly before two hurricanes that devastated the island, and the world-changing U.S. elections. Yet, his words remain thought- provoking and true. Below is part of the conversation.
James Suckling: What is your favorite work as a writer?
Miguel Barnet: Do you want to know the truth? My favorite thing in my life and the one people enjoy the most is my writing of poetry. I have 12 books of poetry. Poetry is the most passionate writing I do. It is very difficult. It is not so difficult to write novels. One thing is literature and another thing is poetry. Literature is a work of an artist and also the work of a technician and a historian. But poetry is the work of a witch. Poetry is fantasy.
Q: Is it like music, then?
A: It is like writing music. The only mystery in life, in my opinion, is your artistic creation. Religion is not a mystery. Once you talk to God or different gods, you can talk to them. That lacks mystery. It exists. But when you create poetry or music, you always feel a big surprise. You are always astonished. That doesn't happen in novels.
Q: Do you see yourself as a poet or writer?
A: I am the combination of the hawk and a turtle. The hawk looks at life from high and the turtle from the surface. I am a mixture. My extraordinary feeling I have is when you have created something new. And that is my greatest ambition. It is my goal. What I created when I wrote The Runaway Slave. It is a hybrid of history, anthropology and a novel. It is a testimonial novel.
Q: I have heard people say that you are the Truman Capote of Cuba, but you actually created that writing genre before Capote. Correct?
A: I began writing Cimarrón exactly the same time as Capote wrote In Cold Blood. He called his work an anti-novel. I didn't call mine that... I called it a documentary novel. Cimarrón was published in 1966. A few months after I finished writing Cimarrón, I started to translate In Cold Blood into Spanish.
Q: I forgot that you did that! Did you ever meet Truman Capote?
A: Yes. I met him in Venice once. I showed him the book in 1967 and I thought he would be happy to meet me and say, "How wonderful." But he was not even interested. I said, "This is the Cuban translation of your book." He didn't even say thanks. Anyway, I liked him very much as a writer. He was a great writer. Maybe he spent too much time going to parties and trying to impress people? But I remember in his memories that he said that he was at a party with Jackie Onassis and she said, "Truman, get up and tell us a story." And he answered that he was not a clown or an actor, but a writer. That I liked. But people know more about Truman Capote's life than his work. It was like that with Hemingway.
Q: It is fascinating that you are also a politician, a senator.
A: I am not a politician! I am a revolutionary. That is different.
Q: But what is interesting is that you are an author and poet and you are actively involved in the government. We don't have anything like that in America. Maybe we should?
A: I am sorry for you. I am really sorry for America. I would love to see someone like Quincy Jones or Gore Vidal to be part of the U.S. Senate. The Cuban parliament is very big and they try to put [in] outstanding people in art, in music, in poetry, in religion . . . people who are not Marxists but progressive people. I am not an orthodox Marxist or part of the Communist Party. I just try to be a progressive person, but I don't have to hide that I support the Cuban revolution. I am proud of that.
Q: The revolution is changing.
A: Thank God. We want changes to improve our system. And I am convinced that these changes will take place and they are important for our people. But I am more of an anthropologist and poet than a politician. We need some [changes] to be fast and some to be gradual. The most important is changing the way people think. We need to be more universal and cosmopolitan. It is a question of establishing a respectful and common dialogue with the world.
Q: You mean America?
A: Yes. I am talking about America. Not the rest of the world. It is very necessary. We have to establish a dialogue with America and it has to be very fair. It was like that under the Carter administration. If not, you are pushing Cuban revolutionaries to the extreme.
Q: There has been no dialogue with the Bush administration, but maybe that will change after the election?
A: I don't want to talk about the election, but I hope so. I am just hoping for changes. We Cubans love the American people. We study the literature, the poetry, movies . . . everything.
Q: Wouldn't the best thing the United States could do is to allow Americans to travel there?
A: That would only be the first step. The embargo, or as we call it, the blockade, has been terrible for the Cuban people and the Cuban economy. According to Cuban statistics, we have lost $9.9 billion as a result of the so-called embargo. But we are talking politics and I told you that I am not a politician. I am only a revolutionary.
Q: Do you think that the embargo has done anything to promote democracy in Cuba?
A: The only thing that it has provoked is anger and suffering because it is absurd. It is totally crazy that we have this wall, or whatever you want to call it, an ideological wall, between the United States and Cuba. It's stupid. We always had good American people living here. I was part of it. I went to an American school and in a way was part of the American colony because I was a soloist in the Anglo-American church choir. So I find it really stupid. The first step is to lift this ban of not letting Americans come to Cuba. The embargo is different. It can be softened gradually, but they are not going to change it overnight. That is impossible. It has to be step by step.
Q: A lot of Americans come anyway.
A: I don't know. I don't want to feel guilty. If Americans come here and then they go back and are discovered, they are fined. I am blind to that. They are welcome to come as far as I am concerned.
Q: What about internal changes in Cuba?
A: We are gradually making changes. They will come. It will better our socialist system. We don't want gross capitalism here, savage capitalism. It would be a very poor capitalism because we do not have industries. We only have tourism and some sugar and nickel. We want a new socialism of the twenty-first century. I won't be able to describe it, but it will be better. You know, we have many things free to the public, like health, education and others.
Q: People talk about China as a good example of how Cuba could change.
A: We just have to be creative, and we Cubans are very creative. You just have to give something to a Cuban, even a piece of wood or a fragment of iron, and they will create many wonderful things. We have this tradition that did not exist before. Cubans are very creative in many terms, economic as well. I trust the Cuban people.
Q: Let's forget politics and talk about cigars. You didn't start smoking cigars until late in life?
A: I used to smoke cigarettes. But they were very harmful for my health. I always had a sour throat and colds. So one day a few years ago, a friend of mine gave me a gift. A wonderful box of Trinidad Reyes, and I began to smoke Trinidad Reyes. And I discovered the gay part of life. Now every time I come back to my house from work or from dinner or from the theater, I read and smoke a cigar. It is normally a novel or poetry. Now I am reading the [autobiography] of Bill Clinton.
Q: What do cigars represent for Cuba?
A: Cigars are the symbol of Cuba. They are a great symbol. We are the ones who developed the cigar industry. Our Indians, the indigenous inhabitants of the island, developed it. Almost all the tobacco that we produce is sold abroad, so we don't lose anything with cigars. Not even health. It is a mistake to think that a cigar is not healthy. It is healthy because it helps you to meditate and to create fantasies. As I said, when I come back home to my house after a long day of work, I smoke a long cigar. It is like thinking about the next novel I am going to write. That doesn't happen with cigarettes. Cigarettes are short, bad poetry trash. Cigars make you feel comfortable, relaxed, better. And it is also a very, very collective experience. When you gather together with friends and smoke, you can think of many things. Very seldom when three or four people get together to smoke cigars, men and women, very seldom do they quarrel. There is always harmony. It creates harmony.
Q: It is like a peace pipe.
A: That is right. That is why I appreciate cigars so much. I thank my friend who introduced me to this wonderful habit.
Q: What do you think about this campaign around the world against smoking, which includes cigar smokers?
A: It is something that will pass. It is an economic campaign more than health. Sure, there are health issues. But smoking cigars is safe. I cannot be against smoking cigars because I am not a fundamentalist. If I go into a restaurant and find 25 people smoking cigars, that is not nice. They should go to a special room. But there are two smells in my life that I like. One is gasoline and one is cigars.
Q: Why gasoline?
A: I was raised near a gasoline station. And when I woke up and had my breakfast, I had the smell of gasoline. And it is now in my blood.
Q: I understand the love of cigar smoke. Don't you find it interesting that cigars can symbolize wealth to some people? In the States, some people think of cigar-smoking business magnates.
A: Cigars represent wealth? Where? In Cuba, it doesn't symbolize wealth. It symbolizes one of the most adorable passions of people. To me, a cigar is a symbol of Santeria (an Afro-Cuban religion) and a black man giving smoke as an offering to the gods. And it also symbolizes the white farmer who grows tobacco in the fields and takes the tobacco leaves and makes cigars to smoke himself. So it doesn't symbolize wealth to Cubans. It symbolizes identity.
Q: I guess cigars are evocative to all of us, but in different ways.
A: It is evocative because it is authentic and indigenous. Whereas, sugar came from India. Columbus brought it to the island in his fourth trip, and it was bad for our economy. We were the most productive country for sugar and that brought many problems for us. We were not able to grow many other products because sugar took over our economy. It made us a very expensive country.
Q: At one time, you were almost slaves to sugar.
A: Yes. Almost slaves to sugar. But tobacco is from here. It is magic. Tobacco talks to our gods. It is a gift from them.
Q: Could you speak a little about the role of tobacco in Santeria, the Afro-Caribbean religion here in Cuba? You are one of the world's experts.
A: For Cuban worshippers, Afro-Cuban religions here such as Santeria, Palomonte and others, the smoke of the cigar is like purifying water in the Bible. Christians use water for the baptism, but Afro-Caribbean religions in Cuba use smoke as well. Not only that the leaves of tobacco cure wounds. So tobacco by all means is a blessing.
Q: So are we are blessing the gods when we smoke cigars?
A: We are blessing the gods with the smoke of the cigars. And the gods are very wise. They are very wise because they do not force or oblige us to inhale the smoke. They want the smoke for themselves. When you exhale the smoke, you are blessing the gods at the same time as blessing yourself.
Q: What do the gods give us back when you smoke cigars?
A: Hope for your way of life.
Q: We have something similar with incense in the Catholic and Anglican Church.
A: That is very industrial. We have the cigar. We are a privileged country. I was not raised in the Catholic Church but the Episcopal Church, but as an anthropologist, I went to do my research on Afro-Cuban religion. That is how I learned the importance of cigar smoke to these religions.
Q: So what about just normal people smoking cigars? They are blessing the gods without knowing it.
A: They know. But they don't want to admit it. Deep in their heart, they know.
Q: Is that why when strangers meet who are smoking cigars they become instant friends? You are bonded somehow?
A: Yes. This is true.
Q: There is no other product that does that.
A: Cigars are very special.
Q: What do you mean by special?
A: They are already for me a close friend, a quiet friend.


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Cincinnati Reds looking to trade 2B Brandon Phillips
The Cincinnati Reds are looking to unload All-Star second baseman Brandon Phillips, according to multiple reports.
The only question is whether the Reds can find another team willing to take on the 32-year-old and his large contract. He is owed about $50 million over the next four seasons.
The Reds are eager to dump Phillips' contract, but there is more to it than that, reports Hal McCoy of the Dayton Daily News. They want to "rid themselves of a troublesome personality in the clubhouse," McCoy writes.
Specifically, the team's brass was upset by controversial comments Phillips made to Cincinnati Magazine during the season. Phillips was quoted as saying he is "still scarred" that the front office gave fellow All-Star Joey Votto a 10-year, $225 million extension in 2012, when the first baseman still had two years left on his contract.
Phillips said he was surprised that Votto got such a big deal based upon what general manager Walt Jocketty and owner Bob Castellini had been telling him while negotiating the second baseman's deal.
"Do I feel like they lied to me?" Phillips said. "If someone tells me they don't have no money and you find $200 million somewhere, what does that sound like? You tell me."
He caused further trouble in August. Unhappy with a tweet from a Cincinnati media member that pointed out his low career on-base percentage, he twice went off in the Reds clubhouse before a game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
"While Phillips is popular with fans through his Twitter account and his willingness to sign autographs, he is not so popular in the clubhouse and is thought of as a self-promoter," McCoy writes.
So, who might be willing to trade for Phillips, who hit .261/.310/.396 with 24 home runs and 103 RBIs in 2013? The Atlanta Braves might have some interest in Phillips, who is form Stone Mountain, Ga.
But they would be looking to unload a problem contract of their own: second baseman Dan Uggla. Uggla had a brutal season at the plate (.179/.309/.362) and was left off the team's postseason roster. Uggla, 33, is owed $26 million over the next two seasons.


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NEW YORK — Jacob deGrom outpitched Jake Peavy in a tantalizing hitless duel that carried into the seventh inning Saturday night before the New York Mets broke loose and beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2.
NEW YORK — Jacob deGrom outpitched Jake Peavy in a tantalizing hitless duel that carried into the seventh inning Saturday night before the New York Mets broke loose and beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2.
Pablo Sandoval doubled off deGrom with two outs in the top of the seventh for the game's first hit.
Peavy was perfect until Daniel Murphy hit a one-out double into the bottom of the seventh on a ball that left fielder Michael Morse misjudged. The Mets went on to score four runs to back deGrom (6-5), and the rookie won win his fifth straight start.
Peavy (1-11) lost his 11th decision in a row, a streak that started with Boston.
This was the second time this season that a game didn't have any hits until there were two outs in the top of the seventh inning. Milwaukee's Matt Garza and Atlanta's Aaron Harang each had their no-hit bids broken up in the seventh on April 2.
Peavy had never taken a no-hit try past 5 1-3 innings, but the 2007 NL Cy Young Award winner was dealing in his second start for San Francisco.
Murphy's double came soon after there was a brief delay when Sandoval ran into the third-base railing chasing a foul ball.
Morse took his first step in on Murphy's line drive and couldn't recover, setting off the Mets' four-run inning. Travis d'Arnaud had a sacrifice fly, Juan Lagares hit an RBI single and Wilmer Flores added a two-run double.
DeGrom was pulled with one out in the eighth following pinch-hitter Travis Ishikawa's two-run single. In a career-high 7 1-3 innings, the lanky 26-year-old allowed four hits and two runs. He struck out seven in his 15th career start.
Jenrry Mejia put runners on the corners in the ninth but got former St. John's star Joe Panik to ground out for his 16th save.
Peavy allowed four runs and four hits in seven innings. He struck out four without walking a batter.
Before the game, a fan injured his arm when he fell over a railing above the left-field wall and landed on the warning track.
Giants: Catcher Hector Sanchez, on the seven-day concussion list since July 26, went through a full workout. Manager Bruce Bochy says he's not sure if Sanchez will need rehab games before he returns. Bochy said center fielder Angel Pagan (back) could play a rehab game for Triple-A Fresno on Sunday.
Mets: Right-hander Jeremy Hefner made his fifth minor league start since having Tommy John surgery Aug. 28. He allowed two runs and two hits over four innings for Class A St. Lucie.
Giants: Madison Bumgarner (12-8) takes a 2-0 record with a 1.80 ERA into his fourth career start against the Mets. Bumgarner can hit, too. He has two grand slams this year.


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VANCOUVER — March home sales in the Lower Mainland were up over February, but still down from both historical averages and March 2012, area real estate boards reported Wednesday.
In the Vancouver area, there were 2,347 sales in March, an increase of 30.6 per cent over February but a decrease of 18.3 per cent from a year ago, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reported.
The March sales are the second-lowest since 2001 and 30-per-cent below the 10-year average for the month, according to the board. Sales of detached properties are down 48 per cent and apartment sales are down 39.5 per cent from the red-hot market of March 2011.
At the same time, new listings were 14.4 per cent below the 10-year new listings average. The total number of homes for sale in the Vancouver area is 15,460, while the number of listings reached a peak of just over 18,000 last summer.
"While home sales were below what's typical for March, we are seeing more balance between the number of sales and listings on the market in the last two months, which is having a stabilizing impact on home prices," said Sandra Wyant, REBGV president. "These are the first two months that we've seen an increase in the last ten months — it may be a small, modest increase — but it is an increase, which is the opposite to what we had happening prior to that."
The benchmark price for all residential properties in the board's area is $593,100, down 3.9 per cent from last year and up 0.9 per cent from January. For detached properties, the benchmark price is down five per cent from last year to $906,900. For apartments, the benchmark price is down 3.3 per cent to $362,100.
The list-to-sell ratio is at 15.5 per cent, Wyant said, adding that this is a notable improvement from the 10 per cent it was in January.
The number of new listings in the Fraser Valley — which includes Surrey — fell 11 per cent from last year, but the month ended with more than 9,500 homes for sale, the board said.
"Although we saw a typical spring uptick in activity from February to March, our sales remained at about 70 per cent of the norm for March and our new listings came in at 90 per cent of what the Board would typically receive," said Ron Todson, president of the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB).
"Because inventory levels are in check, prices are staying in check."
The benchmark price of a single-family detached home in the Fraser Valley was $544,300 in March, up 0.6 per cent from March 2012. The benchmark price for townhomes was down slightly; apartments were up slightly.
"Benchmark prices for all three main property types in the Fraser Valley increased in value during the first quarter of 2013," Todson said in a news release. "Since January, detached homes are up by one per cent, townhomes by 0.6 per cent; and apartments by two per cent."
On April 1, the province reverted to the GST and PST tax structure. Under the new rules, tax on real estate commissions is reduced to five per cent from the 12 per cent HST, and Wyant said she has heard some buyers were waiting until April to save that money. Wyant, who has been a working realtor in Maple Ridge for the past 22 years, said while there are no standard rates for real estate commissions, what she would charge is seven per cent on the first $100,000 and 2.5 per cent on the remainder (split between buyer's and seller's realtors). Under the new tax structure and using Wyant's rates, the tax savings would be $1,190 in tax on a property worth $500,000; while they would be $2,065 on a deal worth $1 million.
The Fraser Valley region includes North Delta, Surrey, White Rock, Langley, Abbotsford and Mission, while the REBGV includes Vancouver, Richmond, Ladner, Tsawwassen, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Bowen Island, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Squamish, the Sunshine Coast and Whistler.
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Seiklus was a turning point for the indie scene. Even if you've never played it, you've played something influenced by cly5m's game. Seiklus was one of the first "exploration platformers," now a booming and distinctly indie genre. A small man, nearly a stick figure, travels a gentle flat-colored world, collecting pointless trinkets and the occasional control upgrade, to find his way back home again. There is no death, and no overt violence; Seiklus is all about the journey, and the player's relationship with the game world.
Seiklus comes off as a very personal game. Although the controls amount to little more than walking and jumping, and the presentation is nearly as minimalist, the experience feels emotionally rich. Its level geometry and sequencing trade epiphanies for careful observation and experimentation, and the sound design creates a distinct and whimsical atmosphere.
The stripped-down expression of Seiklus has helped to legitimize canned game creation systems, leading Mark Overmars' Game Maker to become the respected behemoth it is now, and lending the indie scene an entry-level spine. There have been tributes and parodies. It's just an important game.
For all its influence, Seiklus is kind of a one-off. For a while creator cly5m and Robert Lupinek teased the Internet with Velella, a sort of spiritual successor involving dream flight. Otherwise, the last eight years have passed pretty quietly. The previous eight, though – that's a different story.


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If somebody wanted to really help the US Army, they would do something about those godawful M4 carbines that American troops are forced to endure.
This is a recurring theme in this blog, and I'm returning to it again because of yet new information that sheds light on the problem with the army's standard-issue weapon for close-in fighting -- which is exactly the kind of combat that is raging in Iraq and Afghanistan today.
In a routine acquisition notice (see this link), a US Special Forces battalion based in Okinawa announced that it is buying 84 barrels for the Heckler & Koch HK416 asssault rifle.
The HK barrels will be used to replace the barrels on their own M4s.
Why? Here's what the notice says:
The 416 barrel "allows soldiers to replace the existing M4 upper receiver with an HK proprietary gas system that does not introduce propellant gases and the associated carbon fouling back into the weapon's interior. This reduces operator cleaning time, and increases the reliability of the M4 Carbine, particularly in an environment in which sand and dust are prevalent. The elimination of the gas tube ... means that the M4 will function normally even if the weapon is fired full of water without first being drained. There isn't another company that offers these features in their products. It is a practical, versatile system."
Translation: the M4 barrel is so unreliable that special forces units need to swap it out with a barrel from a different gun -- and one that actually works in real combat conditions.
One solution is to simply swap out the barrel.
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The Boston attorney who helped win millions for Big Dig collapse victim Milena Del Valle's husband and children says there are too many barriers for wrongful death suits stemming from the Amy Bishop case in Braintree in 1986.
Bradley Henry is one of the Boston area's high-profile attorneys for wrongful death cases. He represented Milena Del Valle's children in a $28 million settlement for the 2006 Big Dig tunnel collapse that killed the Jamaica Plain woman. In 1992 he was involved in lawsuits from shootings at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington.
In an interview with The Patriot Ledger, Henry explains why the families of the victims of accused Alabama shooter Amy Bishop can't sue Braintree and Massachusetts authorities – and why a lawsuit against the University of Alabama in Huntsville isn't a good bet, either.
If it turns out that the 1986 investigation of Amy Bishop's brother's death was botched, could the families of the victims of the Alabama shooting sue police or prosecutors here?
You can bring claims, but they may be very short-lived. There are so many barriers against a successful claim – starting with prosecutorial immunity. You can't sue prosecutors for deciding not to pursue a criminal charge.
But even if you could line up all the facts to try and show that, if she'd been convicted here, she wouldn't have been hired in Alabama and so wouldn't have committed the alleged Alabama shooting, it's still stretched so distant (legally) in time, space and circumstance.
It's too far away. It fails to meet the legal requirements of "proximate cause." It would make no sense for anyone (in Alabama) to even try to sue.
So who could the families sue?
Bishop. Or the university, if it could be shown that they had sufficient information about her instability, her potential for dangerous action, and should have taken some action. That would at least survive a motion to dismiss.
The Simon's Rock case makes a good comparison. The school had specific awareness of a student who was making threats, who got an unusual package (of gun-related items) the same day (of the shooting).
Unlike what seems to be the circumstances with Amy Bishop and the Alabama school, the Simon's Rock shooting was close in time, and even though there wasn't a specific target, the school knew he was going to shoot someone. But they didn't take any steps to try and stop him.
It sounds like a lot of people here and in Alabama are going to be left feeling that justice won't be totally served.
It doesn't mean that what happened back in the 1980s was right. The question is, can people be held accountable now for things that happened then?
Of course you want people to be held accountable – mainly to try and prevent something like this from happening again. In my experience, that's what drives people in these lawsuits.
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Sorry I'm late, I was reading comics.
So first off, I'd like to apologize for being away for so long. I'd like to say I got distracted (which is true, and we are about to get into that), but the main reason I didn't finish my Rebels reviews was because honestly the mass amount of spoilers kind of ruined the end of the season for me. Now that I've removed myself from that by a few months, I plan to go back and rewatch those episodes, and hopefully post something insightful about them. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. In the meantime, I was telling you about how I got distracted.
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Settled in 1768 and incorporated in 1879, the Municipality of Clare is the only municipality in the Province of Nova Scotia that conducts business and offers services in both official languages, French and English.
With an approximate population of 8500, we are located at the south-western tip of Nova Scotia, an Atlantic province of Canada (North America).
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They can tell you it is true, and it is, but it is a really hard concept to grasp. We live on a giant sphere that is circling through the vacuum of space around the sun. The people on the other side of this sphere are upside down to us but they manage. They walk around. We walk around. All of us are, feet first, on the earth, being pulled by gravity.
Circling around the Earth is the moon. We've been there. With rocket ships, it is not that far away. Also, as it happens, it seems to have once been a part of the Earth that later got ripped off, fashioned into a ball and caused to circle around the Earth, so it comes as no real surprise that the dirt on the moon is similar to the dirt from the Earth.
Aware when I was growing up about all this, I also knew that because absolutely everything else was so far away, it was very unlikely that I would ever get off the Earth. But here on Earth there was a lot to see. So I made it a priority to visit as many parts of it as I could over the years just to see what was what. I've been on the underside. I've been to the southern tip of Africa. I've been to Japan, to the Caribbean. The cultures are pretty different everywhere, but in many ways we all have a lot in common.
I mention all this because when all is said and done, I didn't think too much about it when we lowered the rover Curiosity down onto the planet Mars. My frame of reference says that Mars might as well be a distant star. It's something that can be appreciated from afar, even marveled at. It also seemed very likely to me that since it took nearly eight months for our rover to get to Mars, Mars might be very different from our Earth and moon in composition. It could also be true that Mars supports other and more interesting life forms. We've all seen the science fiction movies. Who knows what goes on in a place that was born and raised totally separate from the Earth for not just billions but trillions of years from a time when both these planets and six more were thrown off from our sun?
Then on the radio the other morning, I heard a man from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, which built Curiosity and manages the mission, describe how Curiosity analyzes the dirt it scoops up and, of particular interest, how it gets rid of it by opening a hatch on the bottom so the dirt can drop out.
"How does Curiosity clean his insides so when the next scoop is brought in, the material does not get mixed in with the residue of what was in there before?" the interviewer asked. "Surely there is something of the old left over."
Curiosity can shiver, the official said. He shivers and shakes for quite some time. All the loose particles then come off his insides and out the bottom.
The interviewer said this reminded him of how you clean a frying pan when you are out camping. You rub dirt on it, shake it, wipe it, then hit the frying pan on a rock to get everything off.
What was even more interesting were the results of the analysis. The dirt so far scooped up is very similar to the dirt you find here on Earth in places where there has been relatively recent volcanic activity. It's very similar to what's on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. It's not that different at all. How extraordinary!
Of course, this is only one part of this place. Mars is not so much smaller than Earth, so there is a lot more of it to explore, just as there would be a lot more to explore the first time that something from afar touched down on Earth. On Mars, there are mountains, former riverbeds, cliffs, dry lake beds. We've seen them, having peered down from orbiters with cameras circling around Mars for a few decades. And Curiosity is moving, slowly, to explore as much as he can. The point where Curiosity was set down (lowered by cables from a hovering spacecraft) is a place where the ground isn't level but isn't very steep, either. It was chosen because it is not far, just 1,300 feet, from a place where different kinds of Mars landscapes come together. From where it came down, Curiosity is going to that place.
Curiosity moves very slowly—less than a tenth of a mile an hour—on zigzag tire treads. We can control him from Earth. Using a computer keyboard, we can get him to turn, then move forward, then stop. Curiosity's camera is linked to a computer. But then we have a second computer mounted on a stalk. Scientists on earth see with the one on board. If one camera thinks it's okay to go and the other doesn't, the scientists look at the two cameras to see why. Then they might try sending him off somewhere else.
I want you to consider this from a Martian's point of view. This thing is a mass of wires, frame, aluminum and titanium, and has an arm sticking up with a gripper on the end which not only has the ability to see but also can drill, grasp and put stuff into its maw. It can also drop off what it scooped when it's done with it. It resembles a giant scorpion stinger.
Curiosity has all sorts of other things that it uses on Mars. It has a laser beam it can fire at rocks to break them up from as far away as 23 feet. It has a hammering drill; it has the aforementioned scoop, a telescope, numerous cameras, sensors to measure pressure changes, wind speeds, radiation and humidity. And of course it is nuclear powered. It can run around by itself for years, unless an angry Martian comes along and wrecks it, which it could because other than the laser and drill, Curiosity can't defend itself and can't even explain what it is doing there.
As for me, my wife and I are considering a vacation for the month of January. New Zealand? Been there. Mexico? Been there. South America? Been there. Paris? London? Moscow? Cape Town? Been there, been there, been there, been there. What haven't we seen?
Dammit, there's Mars.


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