Like 19 other states, the Wolverine State imposes a "jock tax," which could cost the Seahawks nearly $300,000 just to play at Ford Field -- and that doesn't include every coach, trainer and water boy. Piling on, the city of Detroit leverages a 1.275 percent tax on athletes, which could bring in $200,000 for hosting the Super Bowl.

Hasselbeck's $8 million salary and potential $73,000 in payout from the NFL could force the Seattle signal-caller to hand off $10,000 in taxes to a state where he has no residence and no affiliation.

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A Capitol Lake Caiman, but of course. Evolved from "toothless, two-legged crocodile ancestor(s) that walked upright and had a beak instead of teeth".

News reports claim that relevant fossils were simply overlooked because there are way more fossils than scientists and grad students. But really, we all know the true source of the 60 year delay of discovery.

I must credit the esteemed national reporter Stephen Colbert and also all the brave and misfortunate Olympia documentarians of caiman activity for this evolving story of vital importance.

Please remember, if a scaly fellow offers you a beer, or even worse, a smoke, just say No. Together we can rid our community of foul caimans and their ilk.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Mitchell Rupe, a former death row inmate once found too obese to hang, died at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla on Tuesday following a long illness, a prison spokeswoman said. He was 51.

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Tues., Feb. 7 - The Olympia Library is closing today at 3pm due to a water and plumbing emergency.

There is a push at some schools that teach Library Science to remove the term "Library" from their names. Ahniwa at Bava, enfi explains a bit:

In the academic world, it's easy to think that being a librarian is all about creating databases, utilizing new software, being technologically innovative, and so-on and so-forth, ad technologicum. However, many LIS graduates find work in small public libraries, where you still find a lot of patrons who don't want to use computers or databases, and who want to ask the librarian anytime they have a question. For a lot of librarians, patron interaction and reference work are what make their jobs worthwhile, and while younger library users will likely jump on the technology bandwagon, utilizing the software and databases created by the librarian instead of the librarian directly, we have a more conventional generation, who having grown up with card catalogs and print indexes, aren't keen on skipping the middleman and jumping straight into information overload.

Day by day the line is blurring between LIS and Informatics. We, as librarians and library students, are at a point where we need to try and straddle the gap between the two, and eventually build a bridge. I think that it is important to maintain the distinction between information study as a librarian to information study as a computer science student or software engineer. Yes, as "librarians" we want to be able to branch out. We are versatile, and can offer many skills outside of the library setting. But if that is our explicit goal, then the field of library science will decline, and the importance of the library as place will eventually be swallowed by technology, computer science, and the internet. The library can always expand its purview, and incorporate innovation and technology to its heart's content. We can make the words "library science" mean "information expert", rather than letting "information expert" destroy the word "librarian".

Beyond that, if we see libraries as a service to the community (orginally meant as an educational and civic good), what does simply referring to it as "informational science" take away from the library's community role? Discuss over there.

The Voice Of The Poem And Other Musics Poetry Readings:

Catherine Wagner (back by popular demand)

Catherine Wagner’s poems in Macular Hole have elicited resounding, answering calls from several continents. "These are poems of sex and identity, poems of spleen and craving, poems of grim energy and outspoken crisis. I love them. I am bored by so many of America's new bloods but this woman can write. Her neo-surreal vision and neo-dada attitude are matched by an exceptional feel for the magic of simple language—her poems organically grow down the page without effort, every line seeming right. She manages this by infusing every new image (and every repetition) with a corresponding voice posture. Very American, very urban, very modern and yet harking back to the best 'beat' legacies."—Josephine Ebert, U.K. poetry critic. Here in the United States, Rae Armantrout has this to say: "Jack Spicer's Martians are back, but now they're talking wild girl-talk. In Catherine Wagner's Miss America, public and private collide in a new way, like matter and anti-matter. This is a conflagration. "That is damage talk," she says, "Want to watch me/Make it. " And I do. In fact, if I died, I might want to come back as Catherine Wagner." Such enthusiastic identifications don’t come cheap: Wagner’s poems are worth their weight in flesh and gold.

CATHERINE WAGNER was born to military parents in Burma and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Wagner is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and the University of Utah’s Ph.D in Literature program. She is the author of Macular Hole (Fence Books) and Miss America(Fence).

Where? Sem II D2107, The Evergreen State College When? Friday, February 10th, 1PM

All are invited.

The new owners plan to offer the building’s 27,000 square feet for retail, restaurant and office uses.

The Olympian

This is looking like it will benefit downtown.

Providence Health System notified the Attorney General’s Office ....... that computer tapes and disks that contained unencrypted personal information about approximately 355,000 patients were stolen last month from an employee’s car. The stolen data contained patients’ names, addresses and birthdates, as well as Social Security numbers of approximately 250,000 patients.

* Monday Feb. 13 - 7:30 p.m. at Plenty! 200 4th Ave. W (corner of Columbia & 4th), downtown Olympia
* Free Admission (early seating highly advised)
* Contact: 360/754-2818

About the Playwright: Elena Hartwell wears many hats in theatre, including playwright, director, designer, and producer. Currently she is the director of the drama department at Seattle Central Community College. Her work has been seen in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Athens (Georgia), San Diego, Detroit, and Edinburgh Scotland. Her most recent project is drafting the second of this trilogy, "The Devil's Chord," set during Black Sunday - April 1935 - during the worst storm of the dust bowl years.

About the Play: "The Wondyrechaun" juxtaposes a family drama against the backdrop of the environmental disaster currently occurring in the oceans. With many species of fish, and other marine life, on the verge of extinction, the severity of conditions are only now coming to light outside the scientific community. Jessica Dodd returns to the Maine village of her youth to try to work on the fishing industry from the inside, creating havoc for her family - longtime fishermen - and the man she had left behind.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH, 9PM OLYMPIA CAPITAL THEATER 206 E. 5TH AVENUE

$4.50 OFS members, $7 non-members

This screening is a Benefit for the Olympia/TESC students CISPES International Observers to El Salvador's March 2006 elections.

"Venezuela Bolivariana" shows the rise of the current Venezuelan popular movement from the 1989 "Caracazo" riots to the massive popular action that returned President Hugo Chavez to power 48 hours after a US-backed military coup in 2002. The film connects the recent "Bolivarian Revolution" in Venezuela to the broader worldwide movement against corporate globalization.

Directors: Marcelo Andrade & Calle y Media Collective. Spanish with English Subtitles, 76 minutes-2004.