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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Sex offender who fled Canada going back to court

FILE -- This undated image provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Michael Sean Stanley, a sex offender who recently fled Canada. Stanley will appear in a Seattle court on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 after being jailed for investigation of harassment for an incident Tuesday morning. Authorities say Stanley is also being investigated for assault after Seattle police said he met a boy at west Seattle grocery store, struck up a conversation and walked with him to an alley where he plied the teen with alcohol and attacked him. The boy pulled a knife and was able to escape, police said. (AP Photo/Royal Canadian Mounted Police, File)

FILE -- This undated image provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows Michael Sean Stanley. Stanley, a violent sex offender who recently fled Canada, was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, in Seattle after yelling a threat in an alley and is suspected of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy earlier in the day, police said. (AP Photo/Royal Canadian Mounted Police, File)

SEATTLE (AP) — Days after Canadian authorities decided not to extradite a violent sex offender who crossed into the U.S., the man is in custody, suspected of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy.

Michael Sean Stanley will appear in a Seattle court on Wednesday after being jailed for investigation of harassment for an incident Tuesday morning.

Authorities say Stanley is also being investigated for assault after Seattle police said he met a boy at a west Seattle grocery store, struck up a conversation and walked with him to an alley where he plied the teen with alcohol and attacked him. The boy pulled a knife and was able to escape, police said.

Stanley had registered as a sex offender with the King County sheriff's office and listed his address as an intersection just a block away from Seattle's Pike Place Market, a scenic destination for both tourists and locals. It's also near a preschool, even though he had been ordered to stay away from children in Canada.

Ilene Stark, executive director at Pike Market Child Care and Preschool, said the community felt threatened by Stanley's arrival in the area. The preschool reviewed its lockdown plan, kept in constant contact with security in the area, and provided images and descriptions of Stanley to teachers and parents.

"It's been intense," Stark said. "It felt like there was a threat in our community and that we needed to be much more vigilant — more than in everyday life. It was disconcerting."

Stark said she was saddened that something horrible apparently had to happen before Stanley was collected by U.S. law enforcement. At the same time, she said her sadness was coupled with relief knowing that there is more legal control over Stanley's whereabouts.

Detectives believe the attack on the teen happened before police received several calls reporting noise in an alley and Stanley threatening someone who asked him to be quiet. When police arrived, Stanley became combative and said he had a knife. He appeared intoxicated, according to authorities. He was arrested and jailed for investigation of harassment.

Stanley was released from jail in Canada in April 2011 after completing a 32-month sentence for kidnapping two boys from a school playground, according to the Seattle Times. He also has a rape conviction for assaulting an 82-year-old disabled woman in Canada, according to the newspaper.

He was being monitored by police under a peace bond, which Canadian authorities can get to impose conditions on individuals in the community. Stanley's peace bond has 20 conditions, including one ordering him to stay away from children.

Police in Canada issued a public alert earlier this month after Stanley cut off his electronic-monitoring bracelet. Officials described him as an untreated, violent offender who posed a significant risk.

An American citizen, Stanley crossed the border and was located in the Seattle area last week. Canadian officials decided not to seek extradition.

Before Tuesday, there was no reason to arrest Stanley since Canada hadn't pursued an extraditable warrant and he wasn't wanted for any crimes in the United States, authorities said.

Edmonton, Alberta, police spokesman Chad Orydzuk told The Associated Press that Stanley's arrest in Seattle was "unfortunate but we can't provide comment. It's not our file."

"If he continues to break the law down south you can imagine how difficult it would be for us to comment if he broke the law in different jurisdictions in the States. For us to comment on that, we couldn't keep up with that, if this was to continue," he said.

Orydzuk said when Stanley breached the monitoring conditions in Edmonton, officials searched for him and notified the public and other agencies. Unconfirmed sightings of Stanley led schools in several west-central Saskatchewan communities to lock their doors and keep children inside.

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Gillies reported from Toronto.

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Why USB Ports Could Be the Power Outlets of the (Very Near) Future

There's a lot to love about USB. The plugs are small and convenient. The cable can carry both power and data. Plus, USB is, well, universal. This is why USB is considered by some to be the future of electricity. Smart grids, more convenient storage, solar power—according to a new Economist report it's all easier with USB.

Teacher Who Died Trying To End Shooting Remembered As A Hero

A Sparks Middle School student cries with family members after a fellow student killed a math teacher and himself Monday in Sparks, Nev.

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A Sparks Middle School student cries with family members after a fellow student killed a math teacher and himself Monday in Sparks, Nev.

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Michael Landsberry, the 45-year-old middle school math teacher and Afghan War veteran who was killed Monday trying to talk down a student shooter at a Nevada middle school, is being remembered as a hero.

Witnesses at Sparks Middle School in the city of Sparks, near Reno, described how Landsberry approached the armed 13-year-old boy and tried to get him to surrender a semi-automatic pistol he had used to shoot two fellow students. The boy then turned the weapon on Landsberry, fatally shooting him, before using the pistol to take his own life.

"In my estimation he is a hero," Reno Deputy Police Chief Tom Robinson said at a news conference Monday.

Washoe County School District Superintendent Pedro Martinez said: "We have a lot of heroes today, including our children ... and our fallen hero, an amazing teacher."

A Facebook page in honor of the fallen teacher "Rest Easy Mr. Landsberry" had more than 12,000 "likes." Other photos of Landsberry can be seen here.

"It's very unfortunate that [the life of] someone like that, who protected our country over there and came back alive ... had to be taken at his work, at a school," Sparks Mayor Geno Martini said, according to CNN.

Landsberry, a former U.S. Marine who later served in Afghanistan with the Nevada Air National Guard and held the rank of senior master sergeant, wrote on his classroom webpage: "One of my goals is to earn your respect while you earn mine. I believe that with mutual respect that the classroom environment will run smoothly."

Chanda Landsberry said her brother-in-law loved teaching.

"He loved his schoolkids. He loved the Guard," she said. "It defined him."

She said he leaves behind his wife, Sharon, and two stepdaughters.

Authorities tell ABCNews that one of the wounded boys had been through surgery and the second is said to be "doing well."

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Holocaust survivor to make symphony debut with Ma

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, left, rehearses with Holocaust survivor George Horner at Symphony Hall Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 22, 2013, in Boston. The 90-year-old pianist will make his orchestral debut with Ma Tuesday night, where they will play music composed 70 years ago at the Nazi prison camp where Horner was imprisoned. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, right, greets Holocaust survivor George Horner in a rehearsal room at Symphony Hall Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 22, 2013, in Boston. The 90-year-old pianist will make his orchestral debut with Ma Tuesday night, where they will play music composed 70 years ago at the Nazi prison camp where Horner was imprisoned. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, left, rehearses with Holocaust survivor George Horner on stage at Symphony Hall Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 22, 2013, in Boston. The 90-year-old pianist will make his orchestral debut with Ma Tuesday night, where they will play music composed 70 years ago at the Nazi prison camp where Horner was imprisoned. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, right, follows Holocaust survivor George Horner for a rehearsal at Symphony Hall Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 22, 2013, in Boston. The 90-year-old pianist will make his orchestral debut with Ma Tuesday night, where they will play music composed 70 years ago at the Nazi prison camp where Horner was imprisoned. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

BOSTON (AP) — A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor will make his orchestral debut with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Tuesday to benefit a foundation dedicated to preserving the work of artists and musicians killed by the Nazis.

Ma and George Horner, a retired doctor who lives near Philadelphia, embraced warmly in a small room at Boston's Symphony Hall on Tuesday afternoon before a brief rehearsal.

Ma thanked Horner for helping the Terezin Music Foundation, named for the town of Terezin, site of an unusual Jewish ghetto in what was then German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Even amid death and hard labor, Nazi soldiers there allowed prisoners to stage performances.

On Tuesday night, they will play music composed 70 years ago when Horner was incarcerated.

"It's an extraordinary link to the past," said concert organizer Mark Ludwig, who leads the foundation.

Horner played piano and accordion in the Terezin cabarets, including tunes written by fellow inmate Karel Svenk. On Tuesday, Horner will play two of Svenk's works solo — a march and a lullaby — and then team up with Ma for a third piece called "How Come the Black Man Sits in the Back of the Bus?"

Svenk did not survive the genocide. But his musical legacy has, due in part to a chance meeting of Ludwig, a scholar of Terezin composers, and Horner, who never forgot the songs that were written and played in captivity.

Still, Ludwig found it hard to ask Horner to perform pieces laden with such difficult memories.

"To ask somebody who ... played this in the camps, that's asking a lot," said Ludwig.

Yet Horner readily agreed to what he described as a "noble" mission. It didn't hurt that he would be sharing the stage with Ma — even if he thought Ludwig was joking at first.

"I told him, 'Do you want me to swallow that one?'" Horner recalled with a laugh. "I couldn't believe it because it's a fantastic thing for me."

Ma said before the performance that he hoped it will inspire people to a better future.

"I grew up with the words, 'never again,'" said Ma, who was born 10 years after the end of World War II revealed the scope of the Holocaust. "It is kind of inconceivable that there are people who say the Holocaust didn't exist. George Horner is a living contradiction of what those people are saying."

He said Horner was able to survive "because he had music, because he had friends, because the power of music could fill in the empty spaces."

"To me George Horner is a huge hero, and is a huge inspiration," Ma said. "He is a witness to a window, and to a slice of history, that we never want to see again, and yet we keep seeing versions of that all over the world. I hope we are inspired by that and we keep that memory forever."

The program features additional performances by Ma and the Hawthorne String Quartet. In a statement, Ma said he's glad the foundation is "giving voice through music to those whose voices have been tragically silenced."

Horner was 21 when he was freed by Allied soldiers in 1945 after serving time at Terezin, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His parents and sister perished in the camps.

And though his back still bears the scars of a Nazi beating, he remains spry and seems much younger than his 90 years.

When Horner found out about the duet with Ma, Ludwig said, "He was so excited, to me he sounded like a teenager."

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Matheson reported from Newtown Square, Pa. AP photographer Senne reported from Boston.

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Katy Perry: Her ‘Celebrity Crush,’ Meaning of ‘Roar,’ Photos in W Magazine

Katy Perry has much to say about her boyfriend, John Mayer (“I am dating my celebrity crush”), how she has met and overcome struggles, and even shares some thoughts about her first hit song “I Kissed a Girl” and much more in W Magazine. Plus she’s in a 1950s style sweater girl photo spread! Yes, Katy Perry not only gives a revealing interview — on the highs and lows of her life — but the sexiest photo spread ever with sweaters. With the right sweater, a buxom and curvaceous body who needs to be topless?! Yes, her new album, ‘Prism,’ is out, and with it, the usual floodgate of publicity. It’s her first since ‘Teenage Dream’ which produced several chart-topping singles, including the title track. She’s back, this time more reflective and mature, artistically and personally and she has much to share. Katy Perry gives some startling and quite frank answers to the typical interviewer questions. She speaks about her latest hit, “Roar,” in some extended remarks that some may interpret as having to do with her divorce from Russell Brand. But what she says — and to look back at the song in the context — is insightful. Sure [...]Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RightCelebrity/~3/hbSetYDy0XQ/
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

HP Officejet 4630 e-All-in-One Printer

As a budget inkjet multifunction printer (MFP) geared to home offices, the HP Officejet 4630 e-All-in-One has a solid if not splashy set of MFP features. It provides good overall output quality, though it was relatively slow, and showed a tendency to quickly run through color ink.

The 4630 can print, copy, scan, and fax. It can act as a standalone copier. It has a 35-page automatic document feeder (ADF) for copying, scanning, or faxing multipage documents unattended. It has a 100-sheet paper tray, modest by home-office standards, plus an auto-duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper.

The glossy black 4630 measures 7.4 by 17.6 by 21.6 (HWD), small enough to find room for on most desks, and weighs 13.7 pounds. The front panel holds a non-touch monochrome display with Home, Back, OK, up and down arrow controls, an alphanumeric keypad, and buttons for Wi-Fi, ePrint, and Help, plus the on/off switch.

Mobile Printing Features

The 4630 can connect to a computer via a USB cable (I tested it over a USB connection) or to a network via Wi-Fi. ePrint is an HP service that assigns an email address to the printer so that you can print out documents simply by emailing them to the printer. It supports Wi-Fi printing from mobile devices, as well as HP's Wireless Direct Print, which lets you walk up to the printer and print from a smartphone or tablet even when not connected to a Wi-Fi network. HP Printables offers news, crossword puzzles, family activities, coupons, and more for download over Wi-Fi for printout.

HP Officejet 4630 e-All-in-One Printer

Printing Speed

We don't expect blazing speed from a budget inkjet, and with the 4630, we didn't get it. I timed it on our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), at an effective 2 pages per minute (ppm), slow for its price but not unusually so. The Canon Pixma MX392 Office All-In-One Inkjet Printer tested at the same 2-ppm speed, while the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J430w was clocked at 4.3 ppm, and the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J870DW at 4.7 ppm. The Canon

Output Quality

The 4630's overall output quality was good, with average text quality for an inkjet, graphics quality on the high side of average, and average photo quality. Text was good enough for most home and business uses; I'd draw the line with resumes or formal documents with which you're trying to create a good visual impression.

With graphics, colors generally were well saturated. Several images showed mild banding (a regular pattern of faint striations), and many showed dithering (graininess). Graphics should be good enough for PowerPoint handouts; whether you'd give them to a client you were seeking to impress depends on how picky you are.

Photos were of average quality for an inkjet, about that of drugstore prints. Colors were generally good, though a monochrome photo showed a slight tint. There was a loss of detail in some bright areas. One image showed posterization—a tendency for abrupt shifts in color where they should be gradual.

Ink Issues

One issue that I ran into in testing is that the printer tended to run low on color ink, with notably degraded print quality, relatively quickly, even with the largest capacity cartridges. (Cost per page for the XL cartridges, based on HP's price and yield figures, are 6.2 cents per monochrome page and 16.9 cents per color page; the color costs are on the high side.) This same issue occurred with two test printers; I had requested the second unit because I was worried that an issue with the printer itself could be causing this; there was no difference with the second.

The 4630 uses one cartridge for black while a second cartridge combines cyan, magenta, and yellow, which means that you can't replace the individual colors when one color runs low. When one color goes, the whole cartridge has to be replaced. Some other lower-priced printers use similar systems, but it's very rare that a printer can't make it through our current test suite without running out of ink. This shouldn't be an issue with text or monochrome graphics, but could be if you print a lot of color graphics or photos.

One thing that could mitigate ink costs is that the 4630 is one of the first printers to be included in the HP Instant Ink program, in which customers receive ink for a fixed rate depending on the number of pages they print (there are 3 levels: $2.99 per month for 50 pages, $4.99 for 100 pages, and $9.99 for 300 pages; additional pages can be bought, and unused pages rolled over). New cartridges are delivered direct to the consumer. It has the potential to provide significant ink savings to consumers with compatible printers; how well it works in practice has yet to be seen.

Although best for use in a home office, the 4630 could also be used for light-duty home use. The single cartridge for all 3 colors may be a disadvantage, though, if you print a lot of photos.

For $50 more than you'd pay for the 4630, the Editors Choice Brother MFC-J870DW adds the auto-duplexer, as well as other features such as Ethernet and NFC (near-field communications), which lets you print from a compatible device just by tapping the printer. It was even faster than the MFC-J430w. But the HP Officejet 4630 e-All-in-One Printer combines a solid set of home-office MFP features and good output quality at a very modest price.

The 4630 has similar features and speed to the Canon Pixma MX392; the Canon lacks an auto-duplexer. The 4630 has slightly better output quality for text and photos.

The HP Officejet 4630 e-All-in-One Printer is not the fastest printer on the block, but has a solid set of features for a budget home-office MFP, and good output quality. The Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J430w zipped through our business printing tests in less than half the time as the 4630. It doesn't have the range of mobile printing features of the HP, and it lacks an auto-duplexer, so if those features are important to you, the 4630 could be your printer of choice, despite its much slower speed. We were concerned about its rate of ink consumption for color printing that we noted in our testing, though enrollment in the HP Instant Ink program has the potential to reduce ink costs.

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