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Heath Ledger’s Tree House Bought By Hunger Games Star

Heath Ledger’s $3m tree house has been snapped up by Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson.

The 19-year-old actor is the latest in a line of celebrities to have owned the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property; Ledger and his girlfriend of the time, Michelle Williams, first bought the house from talk show host Ellen DeGeneres in 2006. The Hollywood Hills home, which was constructed in 1951, is nicknamed ‘The Treehouse’ because of its predominantly wooden structure and the views of its ‘Alice in Wonderland’-style garden.

After Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose in January 2008 while still only 28 years old, his estate sold the property later that year. The owner who bought the home from Ledger’s estate put the property on the market in September 2011 for $2.995 million – though it’s not known if Hutcherson played the full asking price.

The house is set on almost an acre of land and boasts large rooms with a wide deck area. The deck has spacious seating areas, an outdoor screening room, grill and fire pit. It is located on a secluded hillside location across nearly half an acre of land, and features two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a modern kitchen.

As well as getting his feet on the property ladder, 19-year-old Hutcherson has been taking a break from acting to indulge his inner petrolhead. On Saturday, the actor tweeted about how he was zipping around a track in California, telling followers:

“holy s**t. I’m at the Infineon raceway in Napa with @audi ripping around the course in an R8. So fast. #bestimeever (sic)”

Liquid Robotics launches swarm of ocean-patrolling robots

CNNMoney) -- Joe Rizzi first heard the underwater songs of humpback whales a decade ago while scuba diving near Hawaii. Enthralled, he decided to pipe their migration music into his beachfront home.

Here's the difference between Joe Rizzi and your average souvenir seeker: He's a rich venture capitalist. Rizzi's quest to capture the whalesong started with a glass pickle jar, a hydrophone and a kayak. It ends with Liquid Robotics, a Sunnyvale, Calif., company with $22 million from investors, 80 employees and customers like BP Oil and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.

Liquid Robotics operates a fleet of wave-propelled, solar-powered ocean robots. Designed to capture Rizzi's elusive music, they have the potential to do much more: predict tsunamis, track fish, snuff out offshore oil leaks and patrol waters for national security threats. They use no fuel, produce no emissions and can travel up to 2,000 miles using wave power alone.

None of that was part of Rizzi's original plan. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist planned to retire at his home in Kona, Hawaii, after two decades of starting and investing in tech companies like Symantec (SYMC,Fortune 500) and SanDisk Corp. (SNDK, Fortune 500) Then he heard the humpback whales migrating to Alaska.

"It's an enigmatic sound," Rizzi says of the songs that became his obsession. "The more you listen to it, the more captivating it becomes."

On a lark, he convinced his neighbor to help him transmit the sounds to his home using a hydrophone (an underwater microphone), a kayak and a cable strung a hundred feet from the shore. But they couldn't hear the whales.

Rizzi needed to move the hydrophone further into the ocean. His solution: a ham radio transmitter inside a pickle jar and a wireless hydrophone hung off a kayak anchored a few hundred yards off the shore.

The police soon showed up. When they found the empty kayak, they thought someone had drowned. No humans died, but the battery did within two hours.

About that time, Rizzi started a nonprofit, the Jupiter Research Foundation, to study humpback whales. He invited several techie buddies to come stay with him in Hawaii, drink beer, play in the water and help with his whale project.

Together, they upgraded his invention with a waterproof case and a motorcycle battery charged via solar panel. Still, he couldn't hear whales -- all he got was a noise that sounded like frying bacon. The group tweaked and tested the electronics for months before locals explained that the noise was tiny snapping shrimp. Rizzi's device needed to be at least a mile from shore, they told him, to hear the whales.

Rizzi tried launching his contraption out to sea, but 50 m.p.h. winds and 10-foot waves battered the craft.

In spring 2005, three years into his quest, Rizzi had lunch in California with Roger Hine, the former director of robotics at semiconductor equipment maker Asyst Technologies. Hine offered Rizzi a solution: How about a floating surfboard powered by a fin 20 feet below the water?

The fin would act like a whale's tail and propel the craft using the motion of waves for energy. A week later, Hine made a miniature model that floated inside a fish tank, which he presented to Rizzi and several others at the Jupiter Research Foundation.

"Here we were, six grown men sitting around a fish tank for five hours watching it crash into the sides," Rizzi recalls. "Roger had an absolutely unique idea and a design that looked like it might work."

A test run of a life-sized version off the shores of Hawaii's Big Island caught the eye of Coast Guard officials, who said they could use one for the agency. As word began to spread, Rizzi got more phone calls -- and soon, he and Hine knew that this was no longer just a personal project.

Rizzi and Hine launched Liquid Robotics in 2007. For the next two years, they refined their prototype into a dependable craft they could actually sell. It needed electronics that would work consistently in salt water. It needed to survive severe weather, 100 m.p.h. winds and 50-feet waves. And it needed the ability to propel itself when there were few waves or none at all.

"It was deceptively complex," Rizzi says.

Today, solar power runs the robots' computers, which chart a course using GPS and collect environmental data with onboard sensors. A cable dangles an underwater glider that looks like window shutters, flapping to push the craft forward.

"They had inadvertently solved one of the great conundrums -- they found a way to harness wave power for propulsion," says Alan Salzman, CEO of Vantage Point Capital Partners, a prominent Silicon Valley venture firm that invested in Liquid Robotics. "When I saw it, I said, 'Oh my god, this is brilliant.'"

The company has since built 120 robots, called wave gliders, that can be deployed to collect data for a wide variety of customers, including oil and gas companies, fisheries, and defense, meteorology and maritime security firms. Traditionally, those industries have relied on ships, buoys or satellite imagery to collect oceanic information.

None are cheap: a ship could cost $150,000 a day and sending out a buoy can run $1 million to $3 million. Liquid Robotics sells its robots for $200,000 each, or rents them for data collection at $1,500 to $3,000 per day.

"You just put it off the dock, tell it where to go and a month later, it's there," says Dr. Jonathan Berger, senior scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. His agency purchased two $200,000 robots for real-time monitoring of tsunami threats across the globe.

The company's biggest challenge, Berger says, will be convincing more people that the technology will be reliable for the long-term.

As for Rizzi? He is not entirely retired, still serving as chairman of Liquid Robotics. But he can finally listen to whales sing from his living room -- and he even broadcasts the sounds online at JupiterFoundation.org. 

Former Israeli PM: Jerusalem must be partitioned

JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.

The comments, made as Israel marked the 45th anniversary of capturing east Jerusalem, were nearly unprecedented for a mainstream Israeli leader and put Olmert at odds with his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. Celebrating Israel's control of the city on the Jewish state's "Jerusalem Day," Netanyahu declared his government was committed to keeping it the country's undivided capital.

"No Israeli government since 1967 has done even a smidgen of what was needed in order to unify the city in practical terms. That is a tragedy that is going to lead us, for want of another choice, to making inevitable political concessions," Olmert told the Maariv daily.

Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and immediately annexed the area, home to sensitive Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites as well as a large Arab population. The Palestinians hope to make east Jerusalem the capital of an independent state including the neighboring West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Speaking Sunday evening from the site of a Jerusalem battle from that war, Netanyahu said the city will not be partitioned.

"Israel without Jerusalem is like a body without a heart. And our heart will never be divided again," he said.

The future of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest issues at the core of the conflict. Jerusalem's old city is home a compound sacred to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. Jews revere it as the site of their two biblical Temples and Muslims regard it as Islam's third-holiest site.

"There are those who believe that if we only divide Jerusalem, and that means giving up the Temple Mount, they believe we will have peace," Netanyahu said. "I am doubtful, to say the least, that if we deposit that square of the Temple Mount with other forces, that we won't quickly deteriorate to a religious sectarian war."

"I know that only under Israeli control is accessibility and religious freedom is ensured, and will continue to be ensured to all the religions. Only under Israel will the quiet be preserved, only under Israel will the peace between the religions be ensured," Netanyahu said.

Olmert said the notion of a united Holy City is unrealistic. He pointed to a number of Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, saying they have not been integrated into the rest of the city.

"We can't unite them and connect them to the real fabric of life in Jerusalem, and except for grief, we haven't gotten anything from them," he said.

Olmert went through a dramatic political transformation late in his career.

As mayor from 1993 to 2003, he was an outspoken hard-liner opposed to concessions to the Palestinians. Then, while prime minister from 2006 to 2009, he pursued a peace agreement envisioning broad territorial concessions to the Palestinians before a corruption case forced him to step down.

In those talks, Olmert offered to turn over parts of east Jerusalem to the Palestinians, and have Jerusalem's Old City, home to the most sensitive religious sites, be administered by an international consortium including Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, Jordanians and Saudis.

Olmert claimed his talks with the Palestinians came tantalizingly close to an agreement. The Palestinians have said Olmert did not go far enough.

Since taking power three years ago, Netanyahu has repudiated Olmert's willingness to partition the city. With a newly expanded coalition, Netanyahu has cemented a formidable majority for his hardline policies.

The Palestinians have refused to conduct peace talks with Netanyahu unless he halts settlement construction in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. About 200,000 Israelis live in east Jerusalem, approaching the Arab population of about 280,000. Netanyahu says talks should resume without any preconditions.

Israel marked Sunday's anniversary with a series of marches and speeches throughout the city. The Palestinians' chief peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said the Israeli celebrations were "clear proof" that Israel is not interested in peace. "Clearly, this behavior reflects the mentality of a colonizer, rather than a supposed peace partner."

Also Sunday, Israel's Shin Bet security service said it had arrested nine Palestinians who tried to kidnap Israelis in the West Bank. The agency said in a statement that the ring made three unsuccessful kidnapping attempts in March, hoping to ransom the Israelis for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

Last year, Israel released more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a captive Israeli soldier.

Alien Life Found??

This bacterial cell resembles the single-celled organisms found in 86-million-year-old sediment.

Bacteria 'good bet' for alien life

Forget the bug-eyed green aliens with advanced technology. Life on other planets may exist in forms too tiny to see, if mysterious tiny organisms like those found under our oceans live elsewhere.

Scientists have discovered bacteria living in 86 million-year-old red clay under the ocean floor, cut off from sunlight and all other life, that may be subsisting on the minimum bit of energy required to sustain life. They use up oxygen extremely slowly, and are still recycling material that fell from the ocean's surface millions of years ago.

"If you wanted to look for life for another planet, I think this is a really good bet," said Hans Røy, biologist at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. Røy is the lead author of a new study about the bacteria that appears in the journal Science.

Røy and colleagues found the microscopic organisms about 30 meters (100 feet) below the ocean floor in the northern Pacific Ocean. Most of the genes from the bacteria don't look like anything we know on the surface.

"The paper is really fascinating, because the first time you really have a sense of the respiration rates for these buried microbial communities, you can speculate more about how long can these cut-off communities actually last, and how fast can they grow, how old can they get," says Antje Boetius of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, who was not involved in Røy's study.

The bacteria have been sitting in 86 million-year-old sediment – mostly dead algae, small crustaceans, and dust – making the environment essentially an 86 million-year-old experiment. And you can't watch them grow – that'd be like staring at a tree waiting for it to get taller, Røy said.

"We don’t know if they’re just the remnants of those who were once at the surface and are just not dying," Røy said. "It seems like they are adapted to the environment where they live."

But it's hard to believe that the bacteria themselves are 86 million years old. Boetius estimates, given the respiration rate that Røy found, this particular group is up to 500 years old. But that's not proven, and it's still mysterious how they are getting and using such minimal energy.

There are other single-celled organisms found beneath the seafloor that appear to live for about 1,000 years before dividing. By contrast, E. coli bacteria – the pathogen found in spoiled food – reproduce about every 20 minutes.

To give you a sense of what sediment buildup means, think of the dust in your apartment or bedroom. If you never vacuumed, the dust layer would grow. If you assume a certain dust settling rate, you could calculate the time it would take to fill the entire space with dust.

"The seafloor is nothing but an accumulation of dust from the overlying seawater," says Boetius.

About 90% of the single-celled organisms on Earth live below the seafloor.

"They have no clue that we are around," Røy said of the bacteria his group studied. "They have no contacts with the surface anymore, and they just apparently keep on living for a very long time on the inside of our planet."

Similar bacteria could theoretically be buried on other celestial worlds, he said. If a planet once had life or some other energy sources, microorganisms could be cut off from the surface but still be living a long time, Boetius said.

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Artist Berndnaut Smilde creates indoor clouds

Berndnaut Smilde can control the weather. The Dutch artist can turn a clear sky cloudy — indoors. In his latest project, he’s installed real Nimbus clouds in empty gallery spaces in Amsterdam.
“Nimbus” (Berndnaut Smilde - Courtesy of the artist)

Smilde’s godlike powers come from simple science — he carefully regulates the temperature and humidity of the space, ensuring that conditions are perfect. Then, he sprays a short burst from a fog machine to create a cottony cloud suspended in the middle of the room for just an instant before it collapses.

“I’m interested in the ephemeral aspect of the work,” Smilde said in an e-mail. “It’s there for a brief moment and then the cloud falls apart. It’s about the potential of the idea, but in the end it will never function.”

Smilde’s clouds dissipate so quickly that they exist mainly in photographs. He chooses surreal spaces, such as empty churches or galleries, as his setting. One photo, taken in a room with bright blue walls, is evocative of the painter Rene Magritte’s azure skies and puffy clouds.

“Nimbus II” (Berndnaut Smilde - Courtesy of the artist)

“I wanted to make a very clear image, an almost cliché and cartoon like visualisation of having bad luck,” writes Smilde in his artist’s statement.

However, the rare audience that got to see Smilde’s work in person — captured on video for a Dutch Web site, below — was all smiles.

Nick Stahl, Terminated?

Nick Stahl Missing: 'Terminator 3' Actor Disappeared According To Wife

Actor Nick Stahl has gone missing, according to TMZ. The 32-year-old actor, who played John Connor in "Terminator 3," is thought to have been last seen in Los Angeles' run-down Skid Row district on May 9, according to the missing-persons police report Stahl's wife, Rose Murphy, filed with the Los Angeles Police Department at 10 a.m. on Monday. Stahl's career spans more than 20 years, including roles in movies as varied as "The Thin Red Line," "Sin City" and "In The Bedroom." He got his breakout role starring alongside Mel Gibson as 12-year-old Chuck Norstadt in 1993's "The Man Without A Face." Stahl married Murphy in June 2009; the couple have a two-year-old daughter, Marlo. In February, Murphy reportedly filed for court papers asking to limit that amount of time Stahl could spend with their daughter, saying that the couple had been separated since January. .

UPDATE: Nick Stahl has reportedly reached out to friends after being reported missing on Monday.

The "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" actor made contact with friends via e-mail close to 10 PM on Friday to let them know he's all right and entering rehab, according to People.

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Robert Pattinson He's already banked two intriguing movies: "Cosmopolis," which hits Cannes this month, and "Bel Ami," which will be available on VOD Friday (May 4) before going to theaters June 8. But it's been a busy week for RPattz. He just added two more projects to his docket: the Saddam Hussein thriller "Mission: Blacklist" and "Rover," in which he'll be hunted down by Guy Pearce for stealing a car. Kristen Stewart With less than a month until the release of "Snow White and the Huntsman," the blockbuster will get the "MTV First" treatment on Tuesday, when Stewart and her co-stars will stop by MTV with an exclusive look at the movie. Later this year, that other book-to-film adaptation, "On the Road," will hit theaters. In it, she plays Garrett Hedlund's drug-loving teenage bride, Marylou. Stewart has lined up some more interesting projects, including a "micro-cameo" in her mom's prison movie "K-11." She'll also explore the art of (faked) snuff films in the flick "Cali."

R.I.P. Brent Charles Herrick..

 March 3 1980 - May 6 2012..  You will be missed.

I remember in middle school Brent came out to the play ground with a BIG smile on his face. I remember Horton trying to get smart with him at the time. Brent took off his outer shirt, and underneath he had a homemade shirt on the read, "I love Ralph Horton." LMFAO Never forget that, pretty funny.

Mila Kunis Saves A Man’s Life!

Wow..  What a women!











Here’s something to remember: If you’re ever having a medical crisis, Mila Kunis is a good person to have around.

TMZ is reporting that a 50-year-old man collapsed in Mila’s house on Saturday morning after suffering a seizure. The man was coughing up blood, choking, and vomiting. The situation was so severe that he actually bit through his own tongue.
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Mila sprung into action, had a friend call 911, and rushed to the man’s side.
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She grabbed the man’s head … turned it to the side so he wouldn’t choke … and summoned the help of another person to stuff a wallet in his mouth so he wouldn’t swallow his tongue.
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An ambulance arrived at the scene and rushed the man to the hospital. He’s since made a full recovery.
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Way to go, Mila!

Report: Thomas Kinkade dead at 54

One of my favorite painters. Amazingly gifted, but it seems like everyone else who is gifted throws it away. 

Thomas Kinkade's death has been ruled an accident after he overdosed on a cocktail of alcohol and Valium, a new report says.

NBC Bay Area posted to its website Monday evening a portion of the autopsy from the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office. Officials at the coroner's office said they could not provide the report until Tuesday morning.

Kinkade, the "Painter of Light," was 54 when he died at his Monte Sereno home on April 6. He was proclaimed as one of the most popular artists of all time, but relatives said the criticism he drew for producing works described by some as tacky took its toll in his final years. He eventually separated from his longtime wife, was arrested for DUI and battled an alcohol addiction.

Dr. Joseph O'Hara, the county's lead medical examiner, said in a report dated Wednesday that the cause of Kinkade's death was accidental "acute ethanol and Diazepam intoxication."

Ethanol is the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. Diazepam is a muscle relaxant, usually sold under the brand name Valium, that is sometimes used to treat agitation caused by alcohol withdrawal. It is also prescribed to treat anxiety, muscle spasms and seizures.

Also contributing to Kinkade's death, the report said, were "hypertensive and atherosclerotic heart disease."

Hypertension refers to heart problems caused by high blood pressure while atherosclerosis is plaque buildup in arteries.

Kinkade's brother, Patrick, previously told this newspaper that the painter had battled alcoholism for four or five years and had been clean in recent months before relapsing before his death.

His girlfriend had told police the morning of his death that he had been drinking all night, according to dispatcher recordings posted online.

A representative for Kinkade's family said Monday that the family had no immediate comment.

R.I.P. Adam "MCA" Yauch

While the music world still mourns the loss of Adam Yauch, aka Beastie Boys'MCA, his bandmate of more than three decades and lifelong friend Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz took to the group's Tumblr on Sunday to address their fans. 

Writes Horovitz: "as you can imagine, shit is just fkd up right now. but i wanna say thank you to all our friends and family (which are kinda one in the same) for all the love and support. i’m glad to know that all the love that Yauch has put out into the world is coming right back at him. thank you." The post was accompanied by a photo of a hand with "PWR2MCA" written in marker along with "I love you.

 

STORY: Adam Yauch: Entertainment Industry Mourns Death of Beastie Boys' MCA

Countless contemporaries and admirers of the rapper and activist have expressed their appreciation for Yauch's life's work in recent days. Bands such as Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers covered Beastie Boys classics at their concerts over the weekend, while Yauch's image was projected in memoriam at Madison Square Garden on the jumbo-tron on May 6 during the Knicks-Miami Heat game (Yauch was a passionate basketball fan who had directed 2008's acclaimed documentary Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot, which followed eight of the top high school basketball players in the U.S.)

Yauch died on Friday, May 4 after a years-long battle with cancer. He was 47. 

Quileute folktales and traditional stories

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Q'wati (also spelled K'wati, Kweheti, Kwatee, Q'waeti, K'wa'iti, Qati, Kwati, Qwati, and several other ways.) Q'wati is the benevolent culture hero of Quileute legends, frequently referred to in English as the Transformer. His name is pronounced similar to kwatt-ee, only the "k" is pronounced further back in the throat than English "k" and with a catch in the throat after it. The same character is called Dukwibal or Dokibatt in the Puget Sound Salish tribes, Xelas or Haylas in the Coast Salish tribes, and Misp' or Musp in the Quinault tribe. Q'wati is usually credited with creating the Quileute tribe and their neighbors, teaching them right behavior and cultural skills, and protecting them by changing the environment and getting rid of monsters.

~ It happened long ago that Q'waeti' journeyed all over the land setting the people aright and instructing the people that would come in the future how they should act. Q'waeti' instructed the people how to build houses. 

One day Q'waeti' came upon Beaver. Beaver was sharpening his stone knife, and Beaver was very stingy. Q'waeti' asked what was Beaver doing. Whereupon Beaver said: "I am sharpening my knife in order to kill Q'waeti'," said Beaver. Then Q'waeti' took what Beaver was sharpening and stuck it on Beaver's tail. Then he said: "You shall always have this stuck to your tail, and live in the water. You will just slap the water with your tail and dive when the people come." 

Then one day he came upon Deer. Deer was sharpening his shell knife. Thereupon Q'waeti' asked Deer what was he sharpening it for. Whereupon Deer said: "I am going to kill Q'waeti'," said Deer. Then Q'waeti' seized the shell that Deer was sharpening. Then he stuck it on Deer's ears. He said "When you see people you shall run frightened and stop, and look back." Then Q'waeti' went on his way. 

Not long afterward he reached Q'wayi't'soxk'a River. But he did not find any people. Then Q'waeti' spit on his hands and rubbed them. Doing this he rubbed off the human dead skin into the water. Thereupon many people appeared. Then Q'waeti' said to the people whom he had made: "You shall dwell here," said Q'waeti'. "Your name shall be Q'wayi't'sox (Queets.)" 

Then Q'waeti' reached the Hoh people. He saw that these people walked on their hands carrying their smelt nets between their legs. At that time all the Hoh people walked on their hands. They were called the Up-side-down people. Since that time the Up-side-down people were known as the first people who had existed. Then Q'waeti' turned right side up the ones who walked on their hands. "You shall use your feet to walk," said Q'waeti' to the former Up-side-down people. "Go and fish smelt. You shall catch much fish when you fish smelt." Ever since then there is much smelt at Hoh. 

Then Q'waeti' went on and reached the Quileute land. He saw two wolves. There were no people here. Then Q'waeti' transformed the wolved into people. Then he instructed the people saying: "The common man will have only one wife. Only a chief may have four or eight wives. For this reason you Quileute shall be brave, because you come from wolves," said Q'waeti'. "In every manner you shall be strong." 

Then Q'waeti' reached the Ozette people (Makah.) There he saw two dogs. Then he transformed the dogs into people. Then Q'waeti' gave instructions to the people how to search around the rocks for devil-fish, and to get all kinds of sea food. Then Q'waeti' went on. 

Then he came to the Neah people. He saw many people. The people did not know how to fish. So, the Neah people were hungry, about to perish. Then Q'waeti' instructed one person how they should fish. Q'waeti' instructed them how to troll when trying to fish. Ever since then there is much fish in Neah Bay. When Q'waeti' finished he said that there would be much fish at Neah Bay. 

Then Q'waeti' went on setting aright and creating people, going around the land, and instructing them in what they should do in order to subsist.


Raven (Bayaq or Bayak, in the Quileute language.) Raven is the trickster figure of Quileute legends. His name is pronounced similar to bah-yuck in Quileute. Raven is a clever and generally benign figure who sometimes helps humankind, but he also has many character traits that are viewed negatively in Quileute culture (greed, laziness, arrogance, deceitfulness, and rudeness) and many Quileute legends have to do with Raven misbehaving and getting into trouble because of it. 





Thunderbird (T'ist'ilal or Tistilal, in the Quileute language.) The Thunderbird is an important figure throughout Northwest Coast mythology. In Quileute, its name is pronounced similar to tiss-tih-lall. The Thunderbird is described by the Quileutes as a bird large enough to carry a whale in its claws, whose beating wings make thunder. 




Dask'iya (also spelled Dassk'iya, Daskiya, and other ways.) Dask'iya is a cannibal ogress in Quileute stories, sometimes known as a "basket ogress" or "basket woman." She is said to capture children in her basket and carry them home to eat them. Legends about Dask'iya are told to frighten Quileute children and warn them away from bad behavior. Her name is pronounced similar to dusk-ee-yuh.

Are the "Cold Ones" from Twilight a real Quileute legend?

No. There are no Quileute legends about "Cold Ones" or other vampires. Stephenie Meyer, the author of the "Twilight" books, has stated that she made this fictional vampire legend up herself and only had her Quileute character tell it for the purposes of her plot. However, she did base other parts of her books on real Quileute mythology. For example, it is true that according to legend the Quileute tribe is descended from wolves who were changed into men. Even the tribal name "Quileute" comes from their word for wolf, Kwoli.


From: Gunther, Erna, 1925, "Klallam Folk Tales", University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 113-170 Informants cited: Told by Joe Samson of Elwah, interpreted by Vera Ulmer
THE FLOOD

There was a man who told his people to make some canoes and to make them large and strong so they could endure storms. There was a flood coming. The people said the mountains were high and they could just go up the mountains when the flood came. He warned them again. Soon it began to rain and rained for many days. And the rivers became salt. The people said they would go up the mountains. When the flood came they took their children by the hand and packed the small ones on their backs. It became so cold that the children died. They had no way of getting to the mountains for the valleys were full of water and the rivers overflowed their banks.The people that walked all died. Those that had canoes and water and food lived. Some who were in a canoe tied themselves to a treetop when their canoe hit the tree and split. Many died. Some tied themselves to mountains and the highest ones were saved. The flood uprooted all the trees. That is why there are no really large ones left today. All the trees of today grew after the flood.

From: Ella E. Clark, 1953, Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest, University of California Press, Berkeley CA. 225 pp.
p. 45Sam Ulmer, a Klallam who lives near the Strait of Juan de Fuca, learned in childhood a similar story of canoes tied to a mountain during the great flood. The mountaintop broke off, he said, leaving the two points now visible at the ends of a saddle-like ridge in the Olympics. "The canoes floated away and came down, after the flood, to the place where Seattle is now. The people in the canoes became the ancestors of the Indians who used to live around there." From: Myron Eells, 1985, The Indians of Puget Sound; The Notebooks of Myron Eells, edited by George Pierre Castile, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 470 pp.
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The Clallams, whose country adjoins that of the Twanas, also have a tradition of the flood, but some of them believe that it is not very long ago, perhaps not more than three or four generations since. One old man says that his grandfather saw the man who was saved from the flood, and that he was a Clallam.

For sale: $50M Lake Tahoe compound with vanishing garage

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NEW YORK -- When Internet millionaire Tom Gonzales was putting together his elaborate family compound on the shores of Lake Tahoe, he had one big concern: Where to put some of the most valuable cars in his 400-car collection.

The solution was to build a 12,000-square foot subterranean parking garage big enough to hold 30 cars, plus dozens of motorcycles.

How those cars get below ground is another matter. Gonzalez, who was co-founder of the once high-flying e-commerce company Commerce One, commissioned a massive 12-foot- by 60-foot custom-built aircraft elevator, the type used to lift planes up onto the flight decks of aircraft carriers. When the elevator isn't moving cars, it's camouflaged with rocks, plants and trees -- both real and artificial.

Above ground is a three-bedroom, 2,100-square-foot home that Gonzales calls the Carriage House. The property is being sold as part of Gonzales' $50 million compound, which includes three other homes, or as a separate parcel for $8.9 million.

Called the Sierra Star, the estate near Incline Village, Nev., includes the Carriage House, a main 10,000-square foot home and two other houses. The properties have expansive views of gorgeous Lake Tahoe, one of the most scenic landscapes in the nation.

"In summertime it's heaven," said Gonzales. "In winter too, if you're a skier."

Inside the $50 million Lake Tahoe estate

After all, this is snow country, sometimes receiving 40 feet or more of the white stuff in a season. World-class ski resorts, like Heavenly, occupy many of the peaks around the lake.

The estate is a high-country dream. Ponderosa pines and cedars grace its four-plus acres, along with a man-made waterfall. In addition, the property has more than 330 feet of lake frontage, two piers with boat lifts, and a sandy beach with a bungalow.

Originally intended to be a gathering place for Gonzales' family, the property is now too big for him. His son Tom, the other founder of Commerce One, died of cancer almost 10 years ago.

"I've enjoyed the property over the years, but now it's just me," he said.

He spends most of his time in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. now, where he enjoys the climate and the boating.

Selling America's bunkers

No longer in the software business -- Commerce One filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2004 -- Gonzales is now in the land development business, according to Susan Rindley of Sotheby's International Realty, who represents him in his real estate dealings.

"He's the kind of guy who, if he gets tired of something, he sells it," she said.

Like the Carriage House, the other properties can also be sold separately. Gonzales is asking for $14.9 million for the seven-bedroom Main House; $9.3 million for the five-bedroom Lakeview house; and $6.3 million for four-bedroom Parkview house.

There's also a lot with 100 feet of lake shore for $9.9 million. It's ready for a house to be built on it -- with or without an underground garage.

By Les Christie @CNNMoney May 4, 2012: 8:25 AM ET