Bigfoot Spotted In Idaho?

A group of high school students may have come close to Bigfoot during a class project in the Idaho wilderness.

A dark, mysterious creature was caught on tape for a few seconds near Mink Creek before it retreated into the treeline.

"It just didn't look human-like. I don't know what that is, it's not a bear, it's not a moose or anything. It was big and bulky and black," said the student who captured the video. He spoke to ABC News' Idaho affiliate but did not want want to be identified on camera.

The students climbed to where they saw the potential Sasquatch and photographed the large footprints it left in the dirt.

"I'm not going to say yes it was a Bigfoot or no it wasn't, because I don't know., and nobody knows," the student told the news station.

The Animal Planet show "Finding Bigfoot"? plans to visit Pocatello, Idaho in June to investigate claims that Bigfoot could be in the area.

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Distimo Launches AppLink For Mobile App Publishers, Details Strategies For App Store Success

This month, app store analytics firm?Distimo?is taking a step back from analyzing the details of mobile app trends to survey the larger landscape of the app stores themselves. While some of the new entrants to the app store market have launched and failed over the past few years, others like Amazon's Appstore, have proven to be more successful. Today, many mobile developers are publishing to multiple stores, Distimo notes, which has led the company to launch a new product called AppLink, a short URL service that leads consumers to a landing page for the app in question. And, as always, the company has released new findings related to app store trends, this month offering up advice on different strategies for app store success, whether developers are focused on high user numbers, revenue or niche markets.

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Prison seeks 'friends' to play with mass killer Breivik

By Ian Johnston, msnbc.com

A Norwegian prison is looking to hire people to be friends with mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, according to reports.

Ila prison hopes to find people willing to play hockey, chess and otherwise interact with Breivik, who is on trial for massacring 77 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and a shooting at a summer camp for young people on Utoeya island in July last year.

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Citing Norway's Verdens Gang, the U.K.?s Telegraph newspaper reported that the "friends" would be trained experts as Breivik, 33, is feared to be too dangerous to mix with other prisoners.

"It could be anything from a team for indoor hockey to people who are willing to play chess with him," Knut Bjarkeid, director of the Ila prison said, according to the Telegraph's translation.

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Bjarkeid said it was feared that Breivik might take other prisoners hostage in an attempt to escape if he was allowed near them. The killer is expected to serve at least 21 years in prison.

Under Norway's laws, prisoners cannot be kept in isolation for a long time as that is considered to be unduly cruel, the AFP news agency said.

"Many of the initiatives around Breivik are designed to prevent hostage-taking," Bjarkeid told Verdens Gang. "This makes it impossible to provide normal contact with others."

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Bjarkeid added while Breivik appeared calm in court, he was still a threat.?"He is a soldier in phase three of his own war. He still behaves exactly as he himself has described in his manifesto."

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Seattle Shooting: Ian Lee Stawicki Kills Five People, Takes Own Life in Rampage

Police say a single gunman, Ian Lee Stawicki, shot and killed five people before taking his own life Wednesday. Family members say he suffered a mentally illness.

As Michelle Millman of CBS Seattle affiliate KIRO reports, the tragedy left shocked city residents are on edge, worried about their own safety in light of the events.

The shooting spree began in a cafe late Wednesday morning.

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A bearded Ian Lee Stawicki entered a popular cafe, the Cafe Racer. Minutes later, four people were fatally shot, another wounded, as the gunman stood alone.

Police scoured north Seattle, going door-to-door, searching for the killer. The gunman headed downtown, fatally shooting a woman as he carjacked her SUV.

As patrol officers started coming in, the suspect saw that he was about to be captured, raised a firearm to his head and then shot himself in the head.

Considered one of the safest big cities, Wednesday's shootings raise the number of Seattle homicides this year to 21, surpassing the number for all of last year.

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Washoe County Social Services highlights online adoptions, thanks ...

WASHOE COUNTY NEWS RELEASE

To help increase the visibility of children looking for adoptive families, Washoe County recently began highlighting children available for adoption on the front page of its site, as well as streamlining the listing of available children on the Social Services webpage.

The featured section of the front page, titled ?Looking for Forever Families,? displays one of the children or sibling groups currently available for adoption in Washoe County.

Interested individuals can click on the featured photo for more information on the child or group, as well as a link to get started on the path to adoption.

There are over 70 children at some stage in the adoption process in Washoe County. After certain legal and situational conditions are met, they are listed on the site as available for adoption. There are currently 19 children or sibling groups listed on the County?s site who are looking for ?Forever Families.?

The adoption process in Washoe County consists of training, background checks, and in-depth home study. After completing the requirements, families are able to either adopt or become foster parents.

For information about children available for adoption, or to start the process of becoming a foster or adoptive family, you can visit the Washoe County website at www.washoecounty.us or Social Services at www.haveaheartnv.org

Foster Care Appreciation Day

On May 16th, Washoe County Social Services held its annual Foster Care Appreciation Picnic at Idlewild Park to thank foster and adoptive parents for their dedication to children in the County.

Over 200 people attended the event, which included a bounce house, art projects, face painting, music, and food.

The County honored longtime foster parents with service awards for 5, 10, 15, and 20 years of service in the foster care program.

Model Dairy donated ice cream for the event, the Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows donated the bounce house, and the Reno Rodeo Foundation held roping activities for families.

?Foster Parents are some of the most critical pieces to serving children and families in need,? remarked Kevin Schiller, Director of Social Services. ?They take children into their homes and love them as if they were their own and provide assistance to parents as they reunify safely. Without their partnership and that of other community providers, the Department could not provide safe homes for children who are the victims of abuse and neglect.?

There are currently 353 foster homes in Washoe County, but the County is always in need of more foster families to better match children with families that can meet their individual needs.

To find out more about the foster care program, including becoming a foster parent, visit the Social Services webpage at www.haveaheartnv.org

Posted by ThisIsReno on May 31, 2012.

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NY judge grants class status in Google book fight

NEW YORK (AP) ? A federal judge granted class certification to authors challenging Google Inc. over its plans for the world's largest digital library Thursday, finding it more sensible to have a single legal action than scores of individual lawsuits.

Judge Denny Chin said in a written ruling that class action is "more efficient and effective than requiring thousands of authors to sue individually." He added that requiring each author to sue Google would risk disparate results in nearly identical lawsuits and exponentially increase the cost of litigation.

He also rejected Google's request to toss from the case The Authors Guild, which had sought class certification. Google already has scanned more than 20 million books for the project.

Lawyers for Mountain View, Calif.-based Google didn't immediately respond to messages for comment. Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, said: "This is a key ruling for all U.S. authors whose literary works have been appropriated by Google."

In his decision, Chin said Google hadn't pointed to any legal or factual argument by The Authors Guild that would undermine the copyright claim of any other class member.

"Indeed, it is possible that some authors who 'approve' of Google's actions might still choose to join the class action," he said.

The class action status pertains to a lawsuit that The Authors Guild brought nearly seven years ago questioning whether Google's creation of its digital library constituted copyright infringement and whether it could be argued that Google was making "fair use" of copyright material by offering snippets of works in its online library.

"These issues are largely subject to 'generalized proof,'" the judge wrote. "Every potential class member's claim arises out of Google's uniform, widespread practice of copying entire books without permission of the copyright holder and displaying snippets of those books for search. Whether this practice constitutes copyright infringement does not depend on any individualized considerations."

He added that since the plaintiffs were only seeking statutory damages, there was no need for any individualized inquiry into the harm suffered.

In rejecting an earlier settlement last year, Chin noted that many of the hundreds of objections would vanish if the library only consisted of works in which authors and publishers had granted their permission rather than a system in which books were included unless Google was informed that an author or publisher objected.

The judge has supported the overall goal, saying a digital universe for books would let libraries, schools, researchers and disadvantaged populations gain access to far more books, would help authors and publishers find new audiences and new sources of income and would allow older books ? particularly those out of print ? to be preserved and given new life.

Associated Press

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