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Laura Dekker is a 13-year old girl who wants to sail solo around the world, a normally 2-year 45,000 kms trek that was recently accomplished by 17-year-old Mike Perham of Britain in just 9 months.

A panel of three judges in Utrecht, Netherlands ordered authorities to take temporary guardianship of Laura Dekker, though allowing her to stay in her father’s home, but delaying her plan to set sail next week on her eight metre yacht Guppy and become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

[ via Toronto Star ]

Nikon School of Photography has published their class schedule for 2010. They are offering “Introduction to Digital SLR Photography” (US $119) on Saturdays and “Next Steps: Color, Light, Technology” (US $159) on Sundays. Attendance is limited to the number of seats available.

Steve’s Digicams has published their review of the Olympus TOUGH 8000 [Specs], an ultra compact perfect for those with an active lifestyle "with its ability to go anywhere and capture images from places most digicams would never stand a chance." and featuring 12M resolution (on a 1/2.33-inch CCD), 3.6x wide-angle optical zoom (28-102mm equiv.), Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization, 2.7-in. LCD (230K dots), Intelligent AUTO (iAUTO), Face Detection, In-Camera Panning Panorama, Perfect Shot Preview, Red-Eye Fix, Beauty Mode and Movie 640×480 @ 30fps. The TOUGH label indicates it is also shockproof (from drops of up to 2m/6.6 ft), waterproof (as deep as 10m/33 ft), freezeproof (to -10°C/14°F), and crushproof (withstand up to 100kgf /220lbf).

[ Read the Olympus TOUGH 8000 Review at: Steve's Digicams ]