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An Aiken teenager was charged in a Sunday collision that resulted in a vehicle crashing through the gate of the AGY plant, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.
The collision happened at about 7 p.m. on Sunday on U.S. Highway 78, according to Lance Cpl. Judd Jones, a spokesman for the Highway Patrol. A 2011 Jeep Wrangler, driven by 17-year-old William Wertz of Aiken, was traveling east on U.S. Highway 78 when Wertz tried to pass an eastbound Honda.
Jones said the Jeep sideswiped the Honda, causing the Jeep to run off the roadway to the left. The Jeep struck a ditch and crashed through the security gate of the AGY plant before striking some materials inside the gate.
The driver of the Honda pulled off onto the shoulder, Jones said. There were no injuries, and both drivers were wearing their seat belts.
Wertz was charged with driving too fast for conditions.
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime and courts beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since August 2012. He is a native of Williston and majored in communication studies at Clemson University.

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BAY CITY, MI — A Bay City attorney and "out-of-the-closet" pot proponent is partaking in an upcoming debate regarding Michigan's future relationship with marijuana.
Edward M. Czuprynski is one of four panel members set for the debate titled "The Legalization of Marijuana: Is Michigan Going to Pot?" set to take place from 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in the Delta College Lecture Theater.
The debate is part of the Delta Debates Political Forum Series and is free to the public.
"If a person uses it in a responsible fashion, I don't think it should matter if they're using it for recreation or medicinal," Czuprynski said of his position on the matter. "It's the same thing as alcohol. If you use it responsibly and sensibly, it should be no harm. I don't see the distinction between marijuana and alcohol in terms of social substances."
Czuprysnki is currently a medical marijuana patient, using pot to treat chronic pain, he has said.
Also on the debate panel are Dan Sabourin, instructor of respiratory care at Delta, and Delta students Charles Drake and Sheila Killey. History instructor Amy French is moderating.
According to a statement from Delta College, the debate is to address the following questions: Should the government protect its people from drugs? Will legalization put teens at risk? How would the government regulate marijuana? Would legalization bring in significant tax revenue? Would legalization take the burden off our criminal justice system and the courts? What are the dangers or benefits of marijuana use?
"We are very excited about the caliber of panelists coming to Delta for this discussion," Tom Boudrot, a member of the Delta College political science faculty and member of the Delta Debates Political Forum Committee, stated in an announcement promoting the event. "We think their diversity of perspectives, especially those of the two Delta College students, will generate the kind of constructive, civil discourse that makes voters more informed and strengthens democracy. This is an issue students are passionate about."
The Times was unable to reach Sabourin, Drake or Killey for comment.


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Amanda Taphouse, 15, says her goat enjoys candy.
The Nubian goat also has a knack for showing off, winning first place in senior showmanship at the 73rd annual Saline Community Fair Monday.
Taphouse, of Ann Arbor, and several other teens said they enjoy raising and showing goats because of their unique personalities.
"They are all individuals," said Robbie Graham, 17, of Milan, who won champion market animal with one of his boar goats.
Special writer Lisa Allmendinger can be reached at email@example.com or at 734-433-1052.
The show marked the inaugural goat competition at the community fair, which runs until Saturday at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Lodi Township.
"These were very nice animals," said goat judge Doug Covert of Hudson.
"They can butt like a steer and climb like a sheep," making them prime candidates for getting out of fields or pens, Covert said.
Taphouse said she chose to raise goats because she likes their personalities. "They are smart, but sometimes they do weird things," she said, telling a story of one of her goats that ate Skittles candy and drank Mountain Dew.
Graham said he raises goats because "his choices were limited, there is a great meat market for goat, plus they are easy to handle."
And although they like to eat, Graham said it's a falsehood that goats will eat anything. They're "browsers," and will eat grass or tree bark - sometimes even poisonous plants.
"Eventually they figure out which ones are poisonous, though, and don't eat enough of it to make them sick," Graham said.
Goats fit into four general types - "fiber, dairy, meat and pet/companion," the teens said.
Business owners can visit the fair Thursday at 7 p.m. for the livestock auction. Next year, the youths hope the goat entry will be larger.
"We have one of the strongest livestock barns we've had," said Fred Schaible, the fair's spokesman.


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At the tail end of its Lot Next Door program, St. Bernard Parish has begun a free program to remove slabs on private property.
Until now, slab removal occurred only on the 4,400 St. Bernard properties owned by the state's Road Home program. But the St. Bernard Parish Council today is poised to vote on an ordinance that could make removal of private slabs mandatory if it's in the "public interest" to do so and if the slabs are deemed "dangerous," defined in the ordinance as "inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence or abandonment."
A slab becomes abandoned when its owner does not maintain it for more than 90 consecutive days. A dangerous slab "shall be removed immediately by the Parish without additional notice to owner(s) of properties," the ordinance states.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is financing the slab-removal program through a $10 million Community Development Block Grant. The Louisiana Land Trust, the nonprofit holding company for Road Home properties, is administering it along with the parish.
All concrete slab foundations and any concrete flatwork will be removed and disposed of and low areas will be filled, graded, sloped and compacted to promote proper drainage, according to the parish. For properties to participate in the program, all structures must already be demolished.
The work will be done free of charge to the property owners, according to the parish.
"This is one of the last remaining activities to rid our parish of any remnants of Hurricane Katrina," Parish President Craig Taffaro said in a written statement. "We are very grateful for the cooperation and support from the state for the funding and assistance in the administration of this effort."
Proof of ownership and a signed right-of-entry form are needed to participate in the program. Anyone interested can print it through the parish website, www.sbpg.net, or can visit the parish demolition office on the second floor of the St. Bernard Parish Government Complex, 8201 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette.
Questions should be directed to Casey Hunnicutt with the demolition office at 504.278.4238
Lot Next Door winding down
Meanwhile, the Lot Next Door program is nearing completion. Taffaro anticipates the final tier of the program wrapping up by the end of May.
The program seeks to sell Road Home lots to neighboring homeowners. The first tier of the program was completed in February, where owners of domiciled and homestead-exempt homes directly adjacent to the Road Home lots got first dibs on the property. Non-homestead-exempt property owners next door then had a chance to buy.
Under the final tier of the program, property owners to the rear of a Road Home lot can purchase it.
Under the program, properties can be used only as a yard or for home expansion, such as a pool, garage or an attached guest house -- not for new home construction. The average price of a lot is about $5,000, with price per square foot ranging from 60 to 90 cents, Taffaro has said.
The program, approved by the Louisiana Recovery Authority in October 2008, had the goal of shifting the about 4,400 St. Bernard vacant lots sold to the state's Road Home program back to nearby private property owners. So far about 1,700 have purchase agreements, Taffaro said, and he's hoping to get up to 2,500.
The program has been touted as a neighborhood redevelopment tool to boost property values and avoid unkempt property that doesn't contribute to the tax base. It's also an admission that many of the idle properties might otherwise remain vacant for years, symbols of the parish's shrunken population.
Those interested in a Lot Next Door property should contact the parish, or Global Risk Solutions, the Miami-based company contracted to administer the purchase agreements.
Global Risk Solutions has set up an office on the second floor of the Gulf Coast Bank building at 1801 E. Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette. The company's phone number is 504.569.1905.
Auction may be next step
The parish has hired the New Orleans planning firm Waggonner & Ball Architects to recommend what should be done with the lots that aren't sold through the Lot Next Door program. Taffaro said that "redistribution plan" likely will include a bid or auction, with a minimum bid and some covenant attached to the lots that dictates size and the pace of development.
If bought in that process, people could build new homes on the lots, Taffaro said, adding that while no minimum bid prices have been decided that "it will be appealing."
Taffaro said he plans to start moving on that redistribution plan this summer.
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WILBRAHAM – When Minnechaug coach Steve Allosso spoke to his team in a post-scrimmage huddle after the team hosted Pittsfield and Commerce Saturday afternoon, he focused on the positives.
The Falcons had an excellent first week of practice and hopefully set the tone for an improved season, Allosso noted. There were certainly some mistakes on the field – it was, after all, the first time the players had lined up opposite a real opponent this year – but the coach was pleased with the improvement over the early days of the 2014 season.
Last season, Minnechaug missed the playoffs for the first time since 2010, enduring a four-game losing streak and ultimately finishing 5-5. But as the Falcons begin two-a-days to get ready for 2014, Allosso said he's already seen the team build some chemistry.
"They're a special group of kids, they've worked hard, they have fun at the right times after practice and work hard during practice," Allosso said. "It's all about improving, they've done that, they're a cohesive group and they like each other, you can tell."
Quarterback Kyle Trombley, the only junior of the Falcons' four captains, said he's been impressed by the work ethic and improvement early in the year.
"We've got double sessions going on, we're putting in a lot of work and going 100 miles an hour the whole way. It's been a good first week," Trombley said.
As a sophomore, Trombley threw for 1,213 yards last season with nine touchdowns, six of which touchdown came in Minnechaug's final three games. The dual threat quarterback seemed comfortable both firing out of a three-step drop and scrambling to make a play with his feet Saturday.
"I love to run. I like it more actually (when I have to scramble), it gives me more opportunities to do things," Trombley said.
It helps to have a big target when flushed out of the pocket, and senior wide receiver Josh Henry provides exactly that at 6-foot-3, 200 pounds. With 1,000-yard rusher Ben Sheehan choosing not to return to the team, that aerial connection will be even more important for Minnechaug this year.
"I can always rely on Kyle to put the ball where it needs to be, last year was just the start of it this year I think we're going to do more," Henry said.
Junior Chris Jusczyk will take over the top spot on the depth chart in the backfield this season, behind a seasoned offensive line that includes two senior captains in Zack Wawrzyk (tackle) and Matt Schluckbier (guard).
Last year, Jusczyk ran for 94 yards on 10 carries in limited duty behind Sheehan.
"He works hard, he's a tough kid that gives 100 percent," Allosso said of Juczyk, the twin brother of first team All-Scholastic defensive lineman Matt Jusczyk. "He's a great character kid."
Minnechaug will have its bye week at the beginning of the season, giving the group more time to gel before opening the season at home Friday, Sept. 12 against South Hadley. The Falcons then get into their AA Conference schedule in week two when they host Putnam.


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Master of musical theory, and teacher of Hummel and Beethoven, b. at Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria, 3 February, 1736; d. in Vienna, 7 March 1809. He began his musical career as a choir-boy at the early age of seven. The pastor of St. Martin's, Klosterneuburg, observing the boy's talent and his remarkable industry, and being himself an excellent musician, gave him the first lessons in thoroughbass, and even had a little organ built for him. Young Albrechtsberger's ambition was so great that he did not even rest on Sundays and holidays. To complete his scientific and musical studies he repaired to the Benedictine Abbey at Melk . Here his beautiful soprano voice attracted the attention of the future Emperor Leopold, who on one occasion expressed his high appreciation and presented the boy with a ducat. The library at Melk gave him the opportunity to study the works of Caldara Fux, Pergolese, Handel, Graun etc. The result was the profound knowledge of music which gave him a high rank among theorists. Having completed his studies he became organist at the cathedral there, where he remained for twelve years. He next had charge of the choir at Raab in Hungary, and at Mariatfel. Subsequently he went to Vienna having been named choir-director of the church of the Carmelites. Here he took lessons from the court organist, Mann, who was highly esteemed at that time. Mann became his friend, as did also Joseph and Michael Haydn, Gassmann, and other excellent musicians. In 1772 he obtained the position of court organist in Vienna, which Emperor Joseph had promised him years before. This position he held for twenty years, and then became choir-master at St. Stephen's . Here he gathered about him a circle of pupils, some of whom were destined to become musicians of immortal fame. Among them Ludwig von Beethoven, Joseph Eybler, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Joseph Weigl and others. The Swedish Academy of Music at Stockholm made him an honorary member in 1798. Albrechtsberger will probably always hold a high rank among musical scientists, his treatise on composition especially will ever remain a work of importance by reason of its lucidity and minuteness of detail. His complete works on thoroughbass, harmony and composition were published, in three volumes, by his pupil, Ignaz Von Seyfried. His many church compositions, on the other hand, while technically correct and ornate, are dry, and betray the theorist. Of his compositions, only twenty-seven are printed, out of a total of 261; of the unpublished remainder, the larger part is preserved in the library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at Vienna .
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Laurel Cottage to Wansfell & Ambleside
Turn left out Laurel cottage and walk to the junction.
Turn right onto Woodland road then immediate left onto Broad street then walk to the end of the road.
Turn right onto Crescent road then walk through the village centre until you reach the Queens Pub, follow the road to the right and walk to the top of the hill.
On the other side of the road you will see a large hotel called "Windermere Hotel". To the left of this there is a marked footpath leading to Orrest head view point.
Take the footpath, you will immediately see a track to the left, ignore this and continue uphill.
Follow the track until you reach a wall, turn right here and continue up the hill until you reach a gate. Go through the gate and climb to the summit of Orrest Head.
With the view of the lake in front of you look to the right and you will see a white farm, walk down the hill in that direction following the track, you will come to a signpost marked "causeway" climb over wall and follow sign.
Keep the white farm to your left until you reach a wall with a road on the other side of it. Climb over and turn right a little further down the road is a sign beside a farm marked "Far Orrest" , There is a gate at the rear of the farm, go through to the next corner follow the footpath over the wall and across the field to a stone wall climb over, there is a yellow marker on the other side, follow this to the large tree and go over the wall.
Keep the wall on your right and go through the next gates to the rear of the farm.
Go through the next gate and turn right down the lane to the next gate. Go over the fields following the track to the road and turn right. Approx 50 yards on the left turn left down the track. Follow this until you are the other side of the woodland. Continue along this track until there is a fork, take the left fork and follow this to the farm, go through the gate the track bends to the left follow this to the road.
Turn right and walk to the Church. Just past the church turn left onto a footpath. Follow this path until you reach a 5 bar gate don't go through this one)
Look to the right and there is a path leading to another 5 bar gate, go through this and and p the hill to the next gate.
Follow the track until you come to some properties, the track continues to the right of the property in front of you. follow this untill you reach the road.
Turn right and walk along the road until you reach "Lane foot farm House" turn left here, there is a sign on the wall showing path to Ambleside, this is Nanny Lane. This path will take you to the top of Wansfell, About half way up follow the path marked Ambleside again, this will take you to Wansfell Pike and then continue down to Ambleside.


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|Recently Chris Cilla, his Sardine Can of screenprinting, and I did a fresh run of my eyeball and stick diagram of the infamous d-lysergic acid diethylamide molecule. He printed 3 or 4 colors, and I painted on the irises by hand.
I managed to port the signature folder of my Laidout program to the web. Now you can use the paper folder without having to compile anything.!
It's html5 via processing.js. Maybe someday I'll port to an actual mobile touch based app, but not quite there yet.
Thanks to everyone who came to my workshop at the Portland Zine Symposium last weekend. For those who missed the workshop, we talked about how to figure out page mapping for folding paper into zines and books. Basically doing manually what the above software does virtually. In the end, folding actual paper with actual hands is probably more fun!
This year, the Libre Graphics Meeting was held in Madrid, hosted at
Medialab Prado. Tons of talks about all kinds of graphics software,
such as Gimp, Inkscape, Krita, Mypaint, and many more. In addition to these standards, also lots of discussion of
different methods of creating or processing work, such as node based graphics processing, scripting solutions, and the growing
capability and influence of html5. It is always good to see
artwork made from the software discussed, such as with processing.js, used to drive pictures on a giant wall on the side of
Medialab Prado.
A big highlight for me was Nina Paley's talk about the seeming lack of adequate open source animation software. There followed some discussion of the various merits (or perhaps not) of Synfig, Tupi, Blender, and more, as well as the trials and pitfalls of switching from a non-free art workflow to an open source workflow. She also screened This Land is Mine, a hilarious illustration of turf war through the ages. Part of this was explaining her approach to copyright, which is to explicitly not approach it, and concentrate on the artwork instead.
I was quite interested in libmypaint, which potentially allows sharing paint brushes from Mypaint in other graphics programs. This is a fabulous capability. I've been working on a related concept of tool sharing, but for sharing the basic interfaces for manipulating vector objects. No working code yet, but hopefully sometime soon!
See some photos here...
Adventures in Vietnam
This last summer, I spent a wonderful month in the south of Vietnam, and a couple days for a side trip to see the Angkor ruins in Cambodia. Met great people in Can Tho, Ho Chi Minh City, and elsewhere, who graciously showed me around. Ate lots of strange food, and only barely got sick. Went to Vung Tau and swam in warm ocean water for the first time.. A very different experience than the cold water found in Oregon and California! Now I just have to finish processing my giant stack of travel photos!
I spent most of my time in Can Tho, staying at Hotel Xoai. Early in the morning, you can go see the famous river market near Can Tho. Lots of boats gather to exchange large amounts of fruit and other things.
Ho Chi Minh City is large, sprawling, and very busy! Huge masses of motorbikes zoom around everywhere. I'm working on a panorama of that, but it'll take a while! Handheld panoramas taken from a moving motorbike (thanks to T.!) means a huge amount of touchup is required! Also saw a traditional water puppet play, where the puppets move around above water, controlled by people hidden away with mechanisms beneath the water, together with live music. Although I didn't understand anything they said, it was still fun!
No trip to Vietnam would be complete without mention of the huge amount and variety of food there! For all the bizarre things I ate, I barely got sick. From little food carts on the street to sit down restaurants, it would take a long time to sample everything. You'll be sure to learn to count to four: mot, hai, ba, yo! Well, sort of. At one place there were not one, but 3 street performers doing tricks with fire, and one who put a live snake through his nose and out his mouth! Not something I've experienced while eating before!
Right at the end of my trip, I set aside a day to see the Angkor ruins in Cambodia. I wish I had set aside several days instead. I major tourist hotspot these days. Even with the hordes of tourists, it was still amazing. Many more panoramas to come, if I can ever find the time to process them!
All this in one month's time, plus a 3 hour play in Vietnamese, set in imperial Vietnam, that friends valiantly tried to translate for me on the fly. I hope to go back some day! My one wish while there was for a portable air conditioner. Until then, back to Portland, and back to work!
Still haven't quite finished my next comic book Nightlife 12:03 yet. Soon!
The Libre Graphics Meeting was in Vienna this year. Once again lots of talks and workshops about all the graphics software
I use all the time, with people from 32 different countries!
This annual meeting is a great opportunity for users and developers to see directly what everyone
else is doing with open source graphics software, give immediate feedback for better or worse about each others
software and work habits, and strategize how to interoperate.
Although definitely more developers than non-developers, there were many others coming from the art side. Artists are great at using software
in ways they were really not intended, such as using Gimp as a music generator!
Johan Engelen gave a demo of Power Stroking in Inkscape, which lets you change line widths that vary along a path. This is implemented as a live path effect. Another great idea whose time has come is for extending a curve at corners in a path. Normally, corners render rather unnaturally at corners, and this method allows extending an approximation of the path's curvature through the corner, rather than traditional methods that just extend the edges straight out, or abruptly miter.
As I begin to program various path related features into Laidout, I often think I should be using lib2geom. There was a 2geom workshop, showing the basics of this library. 2geom has spun off of Inkscape, and is emerging as a useful library for path (and mesh) operations. Some people balked at it being a C++ library (rather than C), which doesn't bother me, as Laidout is all C++.
Timothy Giet and Lukas Tvrdy gave a talk and workshop using Krita, with Timothy using a console game controller to help change tool settings, an interesting use for such things! I haven't tried using Krita in a couple of years, and it looks like it may be a good idea to try it out again.
Not to be outdone, some Gimp devs announced the release of Gimp 2.8, which sees a number of gui polishes, and the introduction of the cage warp feature, which is really neat, though works VERY slowly on my computer. They also demoed a functioning high bit depth Gimp, a feature often asked for over the last 10 years or so. Very welcome indeed!
A couple of times we LGM folks visited Metalab, a Viennese hackerspace that had lots of neat tools like 3-d printers, several tables to work on, photo development area, (very tiny) wood/metal shop, weird warning lights, and to top it all off, it survives on membership dues of over 100 people!! If I lived in Vienna, I might spend a fair amount of time there.
I didn't have very much new to present this year, but did I present the new experimental alignment tools in Laidout. Had a little trouble getting Laidout to actually boot properly during my talk. I tested a few times in my hotel, it worked with no problems, but then plug strange projector wires into my machine and all hell breaks loose! It finally worked, though, more or less. I have much debugging in my future!
Here are some travel photos, more to come, including panoramas when I have the time to process them!
Recently I was in Brussels for the Libre Graphics Research Unit's
Co-Position meeting. These meetings are basically small, focused
hands-on meetings fleshing out various aspects of open source graphics tools.
This meeting in particular focused on layout tools. I gave a presentation discussing possible uses of emerging tools like touch tablets in graphics software. Major areas of discussion included visual versioning, lots of discussion about fonts, including introduction of some javascript from Manufactura Independente that allows multiple color fonts on web pages by overlaying chunks of fonts on top of each other. That and various other font related discussions pushes me a little more toward actually implementing text in Laidout.
Pierre Marchand's Lazy Landscape, leverages open source development's natural tendency for collaboration by providing a kind of code wiki, where the "page" is actually runnable code. On the other end was a presentation from Nathalie Trussart about the limits of collaboration, in that sharing everything can easily result in too much information for the collaborators to process meaningfully.
Lots of other workshops and talks over 3 days concluded with Alexandre Quessy showing off Toonloop with live animated legos.
See a more thorough summary of the goings on at the LGRU site here!
On another note, I also got some interesting comics, including 3", by Marc-Antoine Mathieu, a French cartoonist, a story basically following a ray of light as it flies around, bouncing off various reflective surfaces, and L'Enfant Penchée by Benoit Peeters and Francois Shuiten, whose expansive architectural comics derive a lot from Brussels buildings (thanks to Agnes for the recommendations, and helping me get to the Brüsel comics shop!)
Now I just have to get over a cold I seem to have picked up on the airplane back!
|Here's a preview of the first 4 pages from my upcoming Nightlife 12:02, which continues where Nightlife 12:01 left off. I should have 12:02 done in time for the Portland Zine Symposium August 6 and 7.
I was recently in Montreal, where this year's Libre Graphics Meeting
was held. Once again there were a plethora of
interesting talks
on many aspects of open source graphics software, and even some
talk about open source hardware!
Many of the presentations were about color management, still a weak point in GNU/Linux systems, and lots about fonts. Other talks focused on broader issues of the usefulness of free/libre tools, not just for graphics, but also for social networking and hardware. As Jon Phillips points out, as proprietary smart phones, ebook readers, and other portable devices continue to sweep the world by storm, open source creators and other tool creators might want to be concerned about the accessibility of these gadgets.
Another talk from Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente of Manufactura Independente, was about a project of theirs to remap public governmental details like administrative minutes and politician backgrounds, from a form that's next to impossible to learn anything useful from, to something where you can actually look up useful political data in a much smaller amount of time. Legislative sessions are laid out in a format similar to online forums, and you can click on the picture of the person commenting to get their background. As someone who's done political cartoons for many years, such things are very useful indeed! Check out this magic at demo.cratica.org (it is in Portuguese, for Portugal).
I presented a short talk on developments in Laidout during the last year. Also, I showed how I used a combination of Laidout, Inkscape, Gimp, Blender, Polyptych, fabric and 40 iron on transfers to project a panoramic image onto a t-shirt. I'm working on a kind of tutorial of the process. People laughed, I am assuming at my jokes. I've only just learned of techniques to send fabric right through ordinary inkjet printers that have certain kinds of inks. This method would be FAR better for clothing creation, as iron on transfers are quite stiff, especially if they totally cover a tshirt.
For fashion design, be sure to check out Susan Spencer's www.sew-brilliant.org, where you can read about her work gathering forces to create open source fashion design software. Her approach one person described as TeX for clothes patterns. At the 2011 Libre Graphics Meeting, she discussed how you can input various body measurements, and have some clothes patterns automatically resize to fit different body types! How cool is that!
I accidentally missed a talk I really wanted to see, on Lightwist, during which they demoed how to combine two or more projectors to blend together into a single super high resolution monitor! This is now usable as a plugin for the Compiz, opengl based compositing manager. I eagerly await the video of the talk to be released!
The annual Libre Graphics Meeting for 2010 was held in Brussels, Belgium, and I was fortunate enough to be able to go and meet many of the makers of the software I use all the time. There were about 170 people from 47 different countries, each day was action packed with interesting talks about lots of different programs and subjects. When navigating the streets of Brussels early in the morning trying to find the conference, you simply have to throw out any preconceived ideas about urban planning, and this really puts you in a great, open frame of mind when you finally get there and listen to the talks!
Now that I've mostly gotten over a really bad cold I picked up in Brussels, here's a short overview of the meeting. Other non-LGM photos from my trip will trickle in on my flickr page over the next month or two.
I presented Laidout and my interactive polyhedron unwrapper on the second day of the conference. People seemed to enjoy it. You can watch my talk, and all the other talks online, thanks to River Valley TV. The LGM was certainly inspiration to get me to spend more time developing Laidout!
Among some other interesting news was that the development version of Scribus now has new mesh gradient capabilities. Also exciting was some new code to do more intelligent image caching in Scribus, mostly eliminating the huge bottleneck that used to make Scribus impossible to use for documents with a ton of images in them!
That was accomplished by Marcus Holland-Moritz, who used Scribus and various other things he coded himself to create a coffee table book with 200 or so color photos of New Zealand! His presentation covered many innovative and very interesting experiences using Linux and open source software to make image heavy books. This talk hit on many issues I've encountered using Linux, and particularly Scribus, to make books. Definitely one of my favorite talks.
Susan Spencer gave a talk outlining the requirements for fashion design software, and soliciting help to create open source software to cover those requirements, as existing software all costs several thousands of dollars, and is a serious deterrent for new fashion designers wanting to adapt their designs easily to different body types. I can't help but think perhaps Laidout could fill some small part of that pipeline. Layout on strange surfaces is no end of fun.
Martin Renold, one of the developers of Mypaint, gave a talk about extending python with c code. He detailed the strategy of using python for the gui, but when you need pixel pushing power, one may write extra python functions in c. Mypaint is quite an interesting new painting program, which has a lot to recommend it, including removing most gui clutter, to let you focus on the image you are constructing, and still has quick and easy access to a multitude of brush types and effects.
There was a very interesting Nodebox 2 demo, where graphics results from various scripts that can be changed in real time. This strategy seems to be a theme in graphics software these days, and I'm thinking particularly of Portland's own Luz.
Alexandre Prokoudine, who seems to know about every single graphics application imaginable, presented his Darktable photo management program. Darktable can work on all kinds of images, apparently unrestricted by bit depth, or color space. There seems to be adaptible batch processing. Looks promising!
Ana Carvalho gave a short talk about using open source software to make and publish comic books! She is a part of Plana Press, which has published several books of comics, using open source software. See, it can be done!
On the whole, the LGM was a complete information overload, and I hope to go again. You can see various other reviews of the goings on there here.


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Forks couple open Sequim storefront
At the intersection of Third Avenue and West Washington Street is a new locally owned and operated produce store, Peninsula Produce. The store is stocked with a variety of fresh vegetables and fruit along with a rack of tie-dyed shirts.
Without much signage yet, Peninsula Produce would be fairly easy to pass by if not for the cedar stump sculptures that catch attention with their roots swirling in the air like tentacles on an octopus.
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Sali and Rob Capelle are the owners of the new produce store and have big goals for the future, but plan to start small and grow as the business allows. The Capelles are in the midst of finding property to either buy or rent in Sequim, but for now they commute from their home near Forks.
"We're very excited to be here in Sequim and are looking forward to moving here as soon as we find some property," Rob said.
Rob already works in Port Angles at Jesse Bay Cabinet Co., but after his wife, Sali searched for work within the area and couldn't seem to find a good match, they "decided to create a job," Rob said.
The two had run a retail store in Forks for 11 years and enjoyed the public interaction associated with it so they decided to open up another business, only this time with a focus on produce.
"So far it's been a learning curve figuring out what people like and don't like." Rob said. "It's important to us to keep an ear as to what people want and need."
The produce at the store comes from a mix of producers, including both local and Eastern Washington farmers and from a wholesale company out of Seattle, but as the business develops the Capelles would like to carry primarily local produce. Both organic and non-organic products are available at the store including everything from cherries and golden beets to baby cucumbers and serrano peppers.
One of the main focuses of Peninsula Produce is "getting the most out of the fruits and vegetables," Rob said. Once produce is beyond its prime, the Capelles will offer a reduced priced section for the produce that is still good for canning, dehydrating or juicing. The owners also hope to get connected with someone locally who raises pigs and could put old produce to good use.
"We want to try to make the produce in here all circle back around as much as possible," Rob said.
Planning ahead
In preparation for both Sequim Lavender Weekend and the summer as a whole, the Capelles are looking for interested venders.
"We would like to offer food and have some venders out front here for the festival," Rob said.
But the Sequim Lavender Weekend and summer are far from the Capelles' long-term goal of doing aquaculture farming and hydroponic gardens.
"Eventually we would like to move into aquaculture and we'll have tanks of live mussels, oysters, crab and fish so people can buy fresh seafood and couple that with hydroponic gardens for growing things like tomatoes," Rob said.
"Many of the tomatoes and other vegetables we get from places like California are already grown hydroponically and could just as easily be done in Sequim," Rob said.
For now however, the Capelles' energy is directed at getting Peninsula Produce established and stable.
In addition to the fruit and veggies, the couple decided to carry tie-dyed shirts for no other reason than it is just something fun and different to sell and perhaps the shirts will appeal to the wave of retiring baby boomers, Rob said.
To supplement the eclectic combination of produce and tie-dyes, a portion of parking lot of Peninsula Produce is decorated with driftwood and old-growth cedar root wads converted into landscaping sculptures by another Forks resident.
"I think the wood sculptures are what catches most people's attention," Rob said. "It will take a while for people to notice we're here, but it's a work in progress and so far it has been a good experience."
Peninsula Produce is open from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays at 290 W. Washington St. For more information or interested venders, call 618-3844.
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Identity theft suspected in illegal acces of prescription drug tracking system
This week Washington's Prescription Monitoring Program sent letters to 34 people whose records were illegally accessed by someone who used a physician's identity.
The doctor's personal and professional information was used to set up a fraudulent account in the statewide system. The state Department of Health urges health care providers already using the system to review their account to make sure it hasn't been used fraudulently. Prescribers without accounts are being asked to set up their own accounts to reduce the risk of illegal access.
The Prescription Monitoring Program oversees a database with information on controlled substance prescriptions. Controlled substances are drugs regulated by federal and state law because of their potential for abuse. Health care providers authorized to prescribe these drugs use the online system to see their patients' controlled substance prescription history. By viewing these prescriptions, health care professionals can better coordinate patient care and help prevent overprescribing, dangerous drug interactions, and drug addiction.
State health officials immediately deactivated the account when they learned it was fraudulent. The illegal account had been used to put the information of 34 patients into a format that can be downloaded. The patients and their prescribing providers have been notified and law enforcement is now investigating the case.
"Maintaining the privacy of personal health information is a priority for the Department of Health," said Assistant Secretary Karen Jensen. "Our Prescription Monitoring Program and our information technology security officer are working together to see what else can be done, look for ways to improve security, and prevent future attempts to create fake accounts."
The patients involved have been urged to contact health insurers and care providers to verify that no unauthorized services have been used under their names. Providers are encouraged to safeguard their professional and personal identifiers to help avoid this problem. They're also being urged to register for the program to help protect their practice and patient health records.
More than 10,000 health care providers in Washington use the online system. Other groups, including law enforcement and health professional licensing boards, can request information to help prevent controlled substance misuse, fraud, and diversion.
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Carole is embarrassed she took the bait but agreed to talk with KBOI News as long as we concealed her identity.
"I feel very stupid and I'm very angry," Carole said.
She never thought it possible to fall for a scheme, but Carole says it was all very convincing.
"I got a phone call from Medicare and the man had a foreign voice and spoke very soft," Carole said.
The man said he wanted to make sure the information they had was correct.
"He asked me for my bank and my routing number," Carole said. He ultimately asked me for my checking account number."
She gave it to him even though something felt wrong.
"All the sudden I decided to hang up," Carole said.
The phone number had a Texas area code. The Truth Squad called the number back to see what was going on and it was disconnected.
"Scam artists are dialing for dollars and they dial numbers at random," said Dale Dixon, President of the Better Business Bureau.
Dixon says you can scramble phone numbers on the Internet as well so what pops up on your called ID isn't accurate.
"This type of a scam happens to so many people," Dixon Said. "It's important to let people know what happened."
Carole made sure she called Medicare and the bank so her account was protected. Then she came to the Truth Squad in hopes of warning other people.
To make sure you're not a victim remember that no government agency is going to call you out of the blue for your personal information.


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In 2014, AL.com is looking beyond political battle lines to examine how the Affordable Care Act is affecting the cost, availability and quality of health care in Alabama. We asked what it means to you, and you've responded.
Hundreds of Alabamians have shared specific personal experiences with AL.com that explain why they're in favor of the law or against it. These stories are helping to guide and inform our reporting.
Here's a closer look at one experience:
Name: Michael Blades
Age: 33
City: Montgomery
His situation: Blades, who worked for a quasi-governmental employer that provided state benefits, lost his job in January. He had previously been rejected for individual coverage by Blue Cross Blue Shield because of a pre-existing condition, and he found that COBRA insurance would cost him $508 a month. He turned to the Affordable Care Act website instead and found a Blue Cross Silver plan there for $230 a month before subsidies.
What it means: Blades bought the Obamacare Blue Cross plan, which he says is better than his previous one. His new insurance took effect on Monday and he saw his primary care physician – the same one he saw under his previous insurance – on Tuesday.
His view: He was in favor of the Affordable Care Act before he lost his job and needed it, he said, and his experience thus far has reinforced his view. Without it, he'd likely be without insurance. Blades said he's encouraged friends who are shopping for insurance to explore their options under the government-mandated exchange. He also thinks much of the negative sentiment about the program is a product of misinformation in the media. "I didn't realize it would be as good for me as it is," he said.
The bigger picture: Blades got his insurance one month before the enrollment deadline, and is among about 4 million people to have signed up thus far. The Obama administration's goal was 6 million enrollees by the end of March. The administration had hoped that 18-34 year olds would make up about 40 percent of those insured under the program, and they would subsidize the costs of insuring older, less healthy people. But at the end of February the younger, healthier enrollees made up about 27 percent of the total.
So who should bear the burden? Tell us what you think in the comments below.


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Jack Louis Stoderl
Bill and Mallory (Palubicki) Stoderl of Perham are proud to announce the birth of their son, Jack Louis Stoderl, born Dec. 19, 2012. He weighed 7 pounds and was 19 inches long. He was delivered by Dr. Corey Nyhus at Perham Health. Jack is welcomed home by Grace (21 months).
Grandparents are Ron and Mary Palubicki Perham; Tom and Colleen Ruther, Perham; and Dick Stoderl, Perham. Great-grandparents are Herb and Joyce Guck, Perham; and Delas Palubicki, Perham.


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A Super Easy and Fun Craft and Toy
There has been a bit of an eagle obsession this month at our house. We have been hunting and hatching imaginary eagles, downloading color pages and reading books. I just found out that both golden eagles and the American bald have made a comeback about 15 minutes from our house. Next month we can go observe their nests.
Eagles are one of the national symbols of Kazakhstan and using them to hunt is an ancient tradition. Only in the last few years have organized eagle hunting competitions had a revival in Kazakhstan since it was occupied by the Soviets. With a renewed passion in this cultural tradition has come the first female berkutchi (eagle hunter). Her name is Makpal and she is quite a famous and skilled role model for girls. I have been creating fairy tales about her at home.
Stunning Photos of Eagle Hunting (link)
To make our flying eagle I first searched on line for eagle silhouettes. I enlarged one with our copier and used it as a template to cut out an eagle from brown paper.
I stapled this to a paper toliet paper tube
We decorated it with some feathers (from the dollar store)
Next glue a straw to the side of the tube closest to the eagle
Without the straw the eagle will flip over due to gravity.
Feed two long pieces of string through the straw. You want something that is pretty slick and smooth.
You need two partners to make the eagle fly. Partner A holds an end of string in each hand and keeps his fists together in a closed position thumbs touching. Partner B also holds an end of string in each fist but has her arms open as wide as they can go. The bird is suspended in the center of the strings. Partner A then opens his arms at the same time as Partner B closes hers, this causes the eagle to shoot to one end. Then partners coordinate to do the opposite movement and the eagle goes back to the other end. This is repeated over and over. It takes some concentration and verbal communication to get the timing just right but it is easy for even preschoolers to do together with a little practice and coaching.
Experiment with how long to make the string. If it is too short, opening the arms wide will not create enough force for it to fly all the way to the end. If it is too long, you can't open the arms wide enough to get the bird to the end. Both partners need to keep their arms at about the same level and coordinate their movements into a smooth rythmn. If you follow my suggestions your eagle will fly quickly and easily from one person to the other. What a fun way to teach kids about eagles!
I found this gorgeous eagle kite at Cost Plus World Market.
We plan to fly it on Nauryz after our picnic. Hopefully I won't be too burnt out from getting our dossier to China. We are having hudge issues with our homestudy. The agency that did it had their license expire and they have been giving us the run around as to when the new one will be ready for weeks. Meanwhile the rest of our dossier is gathering dust as it is ready to be sent. So if I have the mental energy I will do one more Nauryz post with recipes this month. Lesley


text: Botany (Scholarly Publications) http://hdl.handle.net/2262/108 Botany (Scholarly Publications) 2016-10-25T06:41:05Z Media Manipulations and the Culture of Beneficial Fungal Root Endophytes http://hdl.handle.net/2262/75857 Media Manipulations and the Culture of Beneficial Fungal Root Endophytes HODKINSON, TREVOR PUBLISHED 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A Revision of Syzygium Gaertn. (Myrtaceae) in Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) http://hdl.handle.net/2262/75554 A Revision of Syzygium Gaertn. (Myrtaceae) in Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) PARNELL, JOHN PUBLISHED 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Thank you for not flowering: conservation genetics and gene flow analysis of native and non-native populations of Fraxinus (Oleaceae) in Ireland http://hdl.handle.net/2262/75532 Thank you for not flowering: conservation genetics and gene flow analysis of native and non-native populations of Fraxinus (Oleaceae) in Ireland HODKINSON, TREVOR The risks of gene flow between interfertile native and introduced plant populations are greatest when there is no spatial isolation of pollen clouds and phenological patterns overlap completely. Moreover, invasion probabilities are further increased if introduced populations are capable of producing seeds by selfing. Here we investigated the mating system and patterns of pollen-mediated gene flow among populations of native ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and mixed plantations of non-native ash (F. angustifolia and F. excelsior) as well as hybrid ash (F. excelsior × F. angustifolia) in Ireland. We analysed the flowering phenology of the mother trees and genotyped with six microsatellite loci in progeny arrays from 132 native and plantation trees (1493 seeds) and 444 potential parents. Paternity analyses suggested that plantation and native trees were pollinated by both native and introduced trees. No signs of significant selfing in the introduced trees were observed and no evidence of higher male reproductive success was found for introduced trees compared with native ones either. A small but significant genetic structure was found (φft=0.05) and did not correspond to an isolation-by-distance pattern. However, we observed a significant temporal genetic structure related to the different phenological groups, especially with early and late flowering native trees; each phenological group was pollinated with distinctive pollen sources. Implications of these results are discussed in relation to the conservation and invasiveness of ash and the spread of resistance genes against pathogens such as the fungus Chalara fraxinea that is destroying common ash forests in Europe. PUBLISHED 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Bumblebees are not deterred by ecologically relevant concentrations of nectar toxins. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/75529 Bumblebees are not deterred by ecologically relevant concentrations of nectar toxins. STOUT, JANE Bees visit flowers to collect nectar and pollen that contain nutrients and simultaneously facilitate plant sexual reproduction. Paradoxically, nectar produced to attract pollinators often contains deterrent or toxic plant compounds associated with herbivore defence. The functional significance of these nectar toxins is not fully understood, but they may have a negative impact on pollinator behaviour and health, and, ultimately, plant pollination. This study investigates whether a generalist bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, can detect naturally occurring concentrations of nectar toxins. Using paired-choice experiments, we identified deterrence thresholds for five compounds found in the nectar of bee-pollinated plants: quinine, caffeine, nicotine, amygdalin and grayanotoxin. The deterrence threshold was determined when bumblebees significantly preferred a sucrose solution over a sucrose solution containing the compound. Bumblebees had the lowest deterrence threshold for the alkaloid quinine (0.01 mmol l(-1)); all other compounds had higher deterrence thresholds, above the natural concentration range in floral nectar. Our data, combined with previous work using honeybees, suggest that generalist bee species have poor acuity for the detection of nectar toxins. The fact that bees do not avoid nectar-relevant concentrations of these compounds likely indicates that it is difficult for them to learn to associate floral traits with the presence of toxins, thus maintaining this trait in plant populations. PUBLISHED 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z