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My loose travel plans....
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So! I finally sat down for a couple hours last night and decided on my basic route through Europe. Since it is sort of out of the way and I would just be backtracking like hell, I decided to say screw Greece and make that a week trip sometime in the future. Greece is the sort of place that you really need to explore in detail, not a quick two-day run by. I am excited to plan that trip sometime in the future!! Haha, Greece I think has a magical quality to it. At least I'm hoping. I'm wishing that when I go, I'll climb up Mount Olympus, get struck by lightning and then be infused with some of Zeus godlike abilities... Lord knows I'm already imbibed with a healthy dose of Zeus's wrath. Maybe if I run up the mountain and do a worshiping dance and sing songs celebrating Zeus, he'll be impressed and willingly decide to make me the goddess I already know I am. I'll have to study the native dances of Greece and see what's what.
So, we already know that I'm going to fly into Rome. Now, this is going to be a long list, but I'll try and condense it as much as possible -
Rome to Florence and then on to Venice. I'm hoping to explore these cities as much as possible. I am absolutely in love with the artwork of Michaelangelo, and I'm hoping to see as many of his artworks as possible. Florence, as you may or may not know, was his home town and I would love to get to know the place. Also, the Medici empire was based in Florence, and after reading several books about him, I've decided that Lorenzo (The Magnificent) de Medici is possibly the love of my life. (Well, he's dead, but you get what I mean.)
Anyways, after Venice I'm heading to Austria to visit with Gilby-Goat (Gilbert) and after a brief romp through Vienna I'm headed to Prague.
After Prague, it's Germany!! I've yet to learn where my friend Lena lives, so depending I might take a detour to where she is. Otherwise, I'm headed to Berlin, to Hamburg, and other Northern cities in Germany.
After all of that, it's to what may be the most interesting and what is guaranteed to be the most memorable (And possibly the leg of the trip I'll involuntarily forget the most of) part of my journey. Amsterdam.
I'll leave that part up to your imagination.
Anyways, when I drag myself out of Amsterdam it's on to Brussels, then somewhere along the coast I'll be finding a ferry and taking myself across the straights of Dover and into the UK. I'll be heading firstly to London, then to Bath, then to Stratford-Upon-Avon (the birthplace of Shakespeare) and from there to Warwick and Birmingham. Hopefully I'll have enough time to explore these areas well, because I've always wanted to explore England... I read a LOT of classic romances which are based in 1800s England... anyways.
From Birmingham it's on to Ireland. I have no idea how I'm going to get there, but I'm sure an opportunity will present itself. I plan on doing a circle tour of Ireland, including places such as Wexford, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Waterford, and Kildare.
After I fall in love with Ireland, I'll be headed to Paris. After a short stay in Paris I'll be taking the train down through Orleans and Limoges. I'll be headed to Spain and the coastal town of San Sebastian. Mrs. Burke would be so proud of me. I'm doing a circle tour of Spain as well. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures for you Spanish students.. Anyways, I'm hitting up the cities of Seville, Bilbao, Madrid, Cordoba, Gilbraltar, Granada, Valencia, and Barcelona.
Now, depending on how much money I have left at this point I may or may not be swimming across the Straight of Gibralter and exploring Morocco. I would love to go, but if I don't have enough time I will have to leave it for next fall, when I plan to hike around Africa. It would be more convinent but I'll cross that bridge (or great gaping body of water) when I come to it.
After this, I'm going to be chilling along the Mediterranean coast of France and Italy, traveling along to Marseille, Toulon, Cannes, and Nice.
Then it's back to Italy, to Milan and Genova and from there I'm going up to Switzerland to see Maria. My sister tells me not to miss Switzerland, so I'll be spending the remaining days of my trip there, exploring. Then, with a day or two left of my trip I'll make a quick shot back to Milan and then back to Rome.
And that's my trip!! I'm sure I'll meet people along the way who will probably screw up my schedule, but that's the beauty of winging it!! I also have a wish list of Castles/other historic or interesting places to see along the way. If you have any suggestions LET ME KNOW!


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O'Connor: It's unfortunate, but it's fair to say that all of the past initiatives that we tried in large, complex enterprises have been a failure. In some cases, we've actually made things worse.
Large enterprises, at the same time, still have to focus on efficiency, agility, and delivery to their end users, so as to achieve market competitiveness. We still have that maniacal focus on delivery and efficiency, and now some new thinking has come in.
We serve the Asia-Pacific region and have focused for a number of years on next-gen architecture -- technical architecture, enterprise architecture and service oriented architecture (SOA). In the last couple of years, we've been focusing as well on cloud, and on how these things come together to give us a shot at being more efficient in large complex enterprises.
Specifically, we [as an industry now] have cloud or the everything-as-a-service operating model coupled with a series of other trends in the industry that are being bolted together for a final assault on meaningful efficiency. You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned industrial engineering, because industrial engineering is the organizing principle for weaving all of these facets together.
When we focus on industrial engineering, we already have an established pattern. The techniques are now lean manufacturing, process improvement and measurement of efficiency, just-in-time inventory, maturity models. Ultimately, large enterprises are now approaching the problem effectively including cloud, including moving to new operating models. They're really focusing on building out that factory.
IT itself is transformative and you have to be pushing the boundaries in order to compete in the modern world.
Fremantle: We've discovered that you cannot just build an IT system or an IT infrastructure, put your feet up, sit back, and say, "Well, that will do the business," because the business has learned that IT itself is transformative and you have to be pushing the boundaries in order to compete in the modern world.
Effectively, it's no longer good enough to just put in a new system in every 5 or 10 years and sit back and run it. People are constantly pushing to create new value to build new processes, to find better ways of using what they have, linking it together, composing it, and doing new things.
So the speed of delivery and the agility of organizations have become absolutely key to their competitiveness and fundamentally to their stock price. A huge move in agility came first with web, with portals, and with SOA. People discovered that, rather than writing things from scratch, they could reuse, they could reconfigure, and they could attach things together in new ways to build function. As they did that, the speed of development and the speed of creating these new processes has skyrocketed.
I'm a firm believer that the real success in cloud is going to come from designing systems that are inherently built to run in the cloud, whether that's about scale, elasticity, security, or things like multi-tenancy and self-service.
The first and most important thing is to use middleware and models that are designed around federated security. This is just a simple thing. If you look back at middleware, for example message queuing products from 10 years ago, there was no inherent security in them.
If you look at the SOA stack and the SOAP models or even REST models, there are inherent security models such as WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, or in the REST model things like SAML2, OAuth and OpenID. These models allow you to build highly secure systems.
But, however much I think it's possible to build secure cloud systems, the reality is that today 90 percent of my customers are not willing or interested in hosting things in a public cloud. It's driving a huge demand for private cloud. That's going to change, as people gain confidence and as they start to protect and rebuild their systems with federated security in mind from day one, but that's going to take some time.
Those concepts of building things that run in the cloud and making the software inherently cloud aware, comes back to what Paul O'Connor was talking about with regard to having the right architecture for the future and for the cloud.
O'Connor: When we say better architecture, I think what we are talking about is the facets of architecture that are about process, that are about that how you actually design and build and deliver. At the end of the day, architecture is about change, and it must be agile. I can architect a fantastic Sydney Opera House, but if I can't organize the construction materials to show up in a structured way, then I can't construct it. Effectively, we've embraced that concept now in large enterprises.
Specifically in IT, we find coming into play around this concept a lot of the same capabilities that we've already developed, some of which Paul alluded to, plus things like policy-based, model-driven configuration and governance, management and monitoring and asset metadata, asset lifecycle management types of things relative to services and the underlying assets that are needed to actually provision and manage them.
We're seeing those brought to bear against the difficult problems of how might I create a very agile architecture that requires an order of magnitude less people to deliver and manage.
It helps with problems like this: How can I keep configured a thousand end-points in my enterprise, some of which might be everything from existing servers and web farms all the way up to instances of lean middleware like WSO2 that I might spin up in the cloud to process large workloads and all of the data associated with it?
Also, you're not allowed to do anything in large enterprises architecturally without getting past security. When I say get past security, I'm talking about the people who have magnifying glasses on your architectural content documents. It's important enough to say again what Paul brought out about location not being the way to secure your customer data anymore.
The reality is that today 90 percent of my customers are not willing or interested in hosting things in a public cloud. It's driving a huge demand for private cloud.
The motivation for a new security model is not just in terms of movement all the way to the other end of the agility rainbow, where in a public cloud you're mashing up some of your data with everybody else's, potentially, and concerned about it going astray.
It's really about that internal factory configuration and design that says, even internally in large enterprises, I can't rely on having zones of network security that I pin my security architecture to. I have to do it at the message level. I have to use some of the standards and the technologies that we've seen evolved over the past five, six, seven years that Paul Fremantle was referencing to really come to bear to keep me secure.
Once I do that, then it's not that far of a leap to conceive of an environment where those same security structures, technologies, and processes can be used in a more hybrid architecture, where maybe it's not just secure internal private cloud, but maybe it's virtual private cloud running outside of the enterprise.
That brings in other facets that we really have to sort out. They have to do with how we source that capacity, even if it's virtual private cloud or even if it's tenanted. We have to work on our zone security model that talks about what's allowed to be where. We have to profile our data and understand how our data relates to workloads.
As Paul mentioned, we have to focus on federated identity and trust, so identity as a service. We have to assemble the way that processing environments, be they internal or external, get their identities, so that they can enforce security. PKI, and, this is a big one, we have to get our certificates and private keys into the right spot.
Policy-driven governance
Once we build all those foundations for this, we then have to focus on policy-driven governance of how workloads are assembled with respect to all of those different security facets and all of the other facets, including quality of service, capacity, cost, and everything else. But, ultimately yes, we can solve this and we will solve this over the next few years. All this makes for good, effective security architecture in general. It's just a matter of helping people, through forums like this, to think about it in a slightly different way.
Fremantle: I believe that the world has slightly gone backward, and that isn't actually that surprising. When people move forward into such a big jump as to move from a fixed infrastructure to a cloud infrastructure, sometimes it's kind of easy to move back in another area. I think what's happened to some extent is that, as people have moved forward into cloud infrastructure, they have tended to build very straightforward monolithic applications.
The way that they have done that is to focus on, "I'm going to take something standalone and simple that I can cloud-enable and that's going to be my first cloud project." What's happened is that people have avoided the complexity of saying,"What I really need to be doing is building composite applications with federated identity, with business process management (BPM), ESB flows, and so forth."
And, that's not that surprising, when they're taking on something new. But, very rapidly, people are going to realize that a cloud app on its own is just as isolated as an enterprise app that can't talk to anything.
The result is that people are going to need to move up the stack. At the moment, everyone is very focused on virtual machines (VMs) and IaaS. That doesn't help you with all the things that Paul O'Connor has been talking about with architecture, scalability, and building systems that are going to really be transformative and change the way you do things.
From my perspective, the way that you do that is that you stop focusing on VMs and you try and move up a layer, and start thinking about PaaS instead of IaaS.
You try to build things that use inherent cloud capabilities offered by a platform that give you scalability, federated security, identity, billing, all the things that you are going to need in that cloud environment that you don't want to have to write and build yourself. You want a platform to provide that. That's really where the world is going to have to move in order to take the full advantage of cloud -- PaaS.
The name of the game
O'Connor: I totally agree with everything Paul Fremantle just said. PaaS is the name of the game. If you go to 10 large enterprises, you're going to find them by and large focusing on IaaS. That's fine. It's a much lower barrier of entry relative to where most shops are currently in terms of virtualization.
But, when you get up into delivering new value, you're really creating that factory. Just to draw an analogy, you don't go to an auto factory, where the workers are meant to be programming robots. They build cars. Same thing with business service delivery in IT -- it's really important to plug your reference model and your reference architectures for cloud into that factory approach.
You want your PaaS to be a one-stop-shop for business service production and that means from the very beginning to the very end. You have to tenant and support your customers all along the way. So it really takes the vertical stack, which is the way we currently think about cloud in terms of IaaS, and fans it out horizontally, so that we have a place to plug different customers in the enterprise into that.
And what we find is, just as in any good factory or any good process design, we really focus on what it is those customers need and when. For example, just to take one of many things that's typically broken in large enterprises, testing and test environments. Sometimes it takes weeks in large organization to get test environments. We see customers who literally forgo key parts of testing and really sort of do a big bang test approach at the end, because it is so difficult to get environment and to manage the configuration of those environments.
One of the ways we can fix that is by organizing that part of the PaaS story and wrap around some of the attendant next-generation configuration management capabilities that go along with that. That would include things like service test virtualization, agile operations, asset metadata management, some of the application lifecycle management (ALM) stuff, and focus on systemically killing the biggest impedances in the order of most pain in the enterprise. You can do that without worrying about, or going anywhere near, public cloud to go do data processing.
I think we will see larger appetites by the business for more applications and a need to put them into a place where they are more easily managed.
So that's the here and now, and I'd say that that's also supportive of a longer term, grand unified field theory of cloud, which is about consuming IT entirely as a service. To do that, we have to get our house in order in the same way and focus on organizing and re-organizing in terms of transformation in the enterprise to support first the internal customers, followed by using the same presets and tenets to focus on getting outside of the organization in a very structured way.
But eventually moving workloads out of the organization and focusing on direct interaction with the business, I think we will see larger appetites by the business for more applications and a need to put them into a place where they are more easily managed, and eventually, it may take 20 years, but I think you'll see organizations move to turn off their internal IT departments and focus on business, focus on being an insurance company, a bank, or a logistics company. But, we start in the here and now with PaaS.
New means to workload assembly
Next is workload assembly. What I mean by that is that we need a profile of what it is we do in terms of work. If I plug a job into the wall that is my next-gen IT architecture, what is it actually doing and how will I know? The types of things vary. It varies widely between phases of my development cycle.
Obviously, if I do load and performance testing, I've got a large workload. If I do production, I've got a large workload. If I move to big data, and I am starting to do massively scalar analytics because the business realizes that you go after such an application, thanks to where IT is taking the enterprise, then that's a whole other ball of wax again.
What I have to do is understand those workloads. I have to understand them in terms of the data that they operate on, especially in terms of its confidentiality. I have to understand what requirements I need to assemble in terms of the workload processing.
If I have identify show up, or private key, I have to do integration, or I have to wire into different systems and data sources, all of that has to be understood and assembled with that workload. I have to characterize workload in a very specific way, because ultimately I want to use something like WSO2 Stratos to assemble what that workload needs to run. Once I can assemble it, then it becomes even easier for me to work my way through the dev, test, stage, release, operate cycle.
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Some yelled, some pleaded and one individual threatened legal action on Thursday night over a proposed asphalt batch plant by the state line.
But after a four-hour public hearing, the Kootenai County commissioners agreed they couldn't make a decision without seeing people's health and pollution concerns first-hand, by conducting a site visit at two already operating plants.
"People have pointed out, did we look and see and understand what we were approving? I think it's a valid point," said Commissioner Jai Nelson at the county administration building. "I've never been to (an asphalt batch plant), and I'm open to going to several."
The commissioners voted unanimously to table the hearing on Coeur d'Alene Paving's request for a special notice permit to relocate its controversial asphalt plant in Rathdrum to a 116-acre property just west of Stateline Speedway.
The officials will visit the plant's current site off Highway 53, as well as a Poe Asphalt plant by the state line, at 10 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 1.
They will continue the hearing at 9 a.m. on Oct. 4.
"I'd like to look at what that operation is," Nelson said of Coeur d'Alene Paving's current plant site.
Neighbors have protested the plant location and litigated against Coeur d'Alene Paving since the structure was built off Highway 53 four years ago.
Residents have long complained of noise, pollution and impacts to property values.
The paving company, which has a permit to operate permanently off Highway 53, is pursuing the state line site because of a county recommendation to seek a more suitable site.
"Everything's better about this site," said co-owner Todd Kaufman at the hearing.
There are "less neighbors" and similar uses nearby, he said, including another batch plant.
He reminded that his company's driving priority is to obtain better operating hours at the new location, as the county has restricted hours at the current site.
"If we had better hours where we are, we wouldn't be here tonight," Kaufman said.
With roughly 50 attending the hearing, a long stream of Spokane and Kootenai County residents passionately testified against the relocation.
Some spoke of folks already struggling to keep their homes, whose property values might be devastated. They also pointed to retirees and children with breathing and heart issues, who already struggle with fumes from the nearby Poe Asphalt batch plant.
Diane Fink of Newman Lake, Wash., noted that two residential areas and a school lie within a mile of the site.
"There are too many people involved in this site, and pollution doesn't know any boundaries," she said, adding that she would create an asphalt phone tree to keep county lines "lit up all day long."
Norman Haupt, who lives in the nearby Woodbridge subdivision on the Kootenai County side, said without limited hours, the plant operation's noise would "go on forever."
Sheryl Trenhaile said she had moved from Rathdrum to the Woodbridge subdivision to escape the fumes of the Highway 53 plant.
"I moved from Rathdrum to get away from the grossness, not be near the grossness," she said.
Joyce Flanigan of Newman Lake said she would pursue legal action upon county approval.
Only Tyson Hegel, who lives by the plant's current site, supported the relocation.
He has been "a patient neighbor" because he understood the plant would move, he said. Someone backed out of buying his house when that seemed uncertain, he added.
"They were afraid they would be moving into a loud and stinky environment," Hegel said.
Coeur d'Alene Paving's representative, Steve Syrcle with Tri State Engineering, pointed out that fumes and noise would be regulated.
"I do understand the health concerns," he said, an asthmatic himself. "But I have to believe in rules and regulations. I have to believe the agencies we have are in place to protect us."
Kaufman was unsure of the Highway 53 site's future, if the state line operation were approved.
"Will I say I never want to put a plant at 53 to do a job? No. We put a lot of money into that other pit, put a lot of money into that property," he said, adding that six figures have gone into infrastructure and legal fees.
Coeur d'Alene Paving would not withdraw its application if the commissioners also restricted operation hours at the state line site, Kaufman said.
"I'd be back in here asking you to amend it, as soon as it got done," he said.


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AS far as my own embarrassing sporting moments are concerned, this was way up with the best of them.
After watching enviously as seasoned bowler Harry Guttridge rolled his first wood effortlessly up to the Jack, the assembled crowd at Doncaster Indoor Bowling Club looked on with interest.
So up I stepped. Not exactly trembling with fear, but keen to make a good impression on Harry, the club manager.
And so I sent down my first bowl.
Too heavy.
But not only that, it veered off in completely the wrong direction!
Now I knew there would be a certain competitive element at the Hexthorpe-based bowls centre - home to more than 300 members from across South Yorkshire and beyond - but I wasn't bargaining for what followed.
"The sticker's on the wrong side of that bowl," said Harry. "You've held it the wrong way."
"You've stitched me up right good and proper," I replied.
Harry just laughed.
My complete incompetence, of course, had nothing to do with Harry.
It acted as an ice-breaker though, as I immediately felt at home and welcome at the biggest indoor bowls centre within a 17-mile radius.
And Harry, 72, was quick to inform me about both the social - and serious - side to life at the club, which this month celebrated its tenth anniversary.
"There's a competitive element," he said.
"We've basically got three types of players that come here.
"We've got seven or eight really top bowlers - scratch handicap players as we call them.
"They'll play alongside the general members of the club.
"And then you've got your beginners, and a lot of the beginners are moving up the ranks - that's where the competitive element comes in.
"You'll find most of our members all laughing and joking with each other when they're not on the green.
"But when you stand on the yellow mat out on the carpet, you are my enemy!
"Some people want to just come here and pass a bit of time. That's fine," added Harry, of nearby Balby.
"They're the people that come every week, rain or shine, and support the club.
"Without them we're in trouble.
"But when we get a county match on in here there's a totally different atmosphere.
"So we've got a social and competitive side to things, but for me it's just a great feeling being here and knowing that people are enjoying themselves."
Doncaster Indoor Bowling Club, built in 2001 as a replacement for the former indoor bowls facility at the Dome, celebrated its tenth birthday with a party earlier this month.
In that time the club has gone from strength to strength.
"We've got about 300 members but a lot more who come and bowl casually," said Harry.
"We're a vibrant club and we've introduced quite a few things outside of bowling, like line dancing and country and western nights.
"But on the bowling side we're doing quite well too. We have a few people playing for Yorkshire.
"At one time Doncaster had 1,300 crown green [outdoors] bowlers but that's diminshed to around 900 now," he added.
"That's mainly down to age.
"The majority of those will come here during the winter to keep their eye in.
"We don't have a lot of youngsters coming through and that's something were keen to change.
"But the the centre is thirty per cent active in the summer, and in the winter we're one hundred per cent active - so we're looking forward to a busy few months ahead."
*For more information about Doncaster Indoor Bowling Club, which has a licensed bar and also serves food, ring 01302 361600.


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Shell Canada Names New Directors
Shell Canada Limited has appointed two new members to its board of directors, increasing the total number of directors to 12. Louise Frechette O.C. and David A. Galloway have joined the board as independent directors.
"Shell Canada is delighted to welcome Louise and David to our board of directors," said Clive Mather, President and CEO of the company. "Together they bring a wealth of valuable experience in government and business to help Shell Canada achieve its goals."
Ms. Frechette most recently served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1998 to 2006. From 1995 until 1998, she was Deputy Minister of the Canadian Federal Department of Defence. Before that, Ms. Frechette held a succession of senior positions in the federal government, including Associate Deputy Minister of the Department of Finance, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Assistant Deputy Minister positions with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and Canada's Ambassador to Argentine and Uruguay.
Mr. Galloway is presently Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Montreal and was President and Chief Executive Officer of Torstar from 1988 until his retirement. He joined Torstar in 1981 as Director of Corporate Development. Torstar is a major newspaper and book publishing company. It publishes, among other newspapers, the Toronto Star, which is Canada's largest daily newspaper. The book publishing segment of the company consists of Harlequin Enterprises Limited, best known for publishing romance fiction worldwide. Before his appointment in 1982 as President and CEO for Harlequin, Mr. Galloway was a founding partner of the Canada Consulting Group, a leading strategic management consulting firm, which was acquired by Boston Consulting Group in 1992. He began his career with General Foods.
"The appointment of these additional independent directors further strengthens Shell Canada's corporate governance structure," says Mather. " The directors of the company took the decision to increase the size of the board some time ago and the appointment of Louise Fréchette and David Galloway follows a process which lasted several months."
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We had hoped that the record of further disasters in the Flats had passed by, for the present season, at least, a large number having laid up, leaving comparatively few to traverse through the difficult passes the remainder of the fall, but it appears otherwise from the following record. A few grain loaded vessels arrived at the Flats on Monday evening, and doubtless, owing to thick weather, grounded, and afterwards run into by others following in the rear. The schooner KNIGHT TEMPLAR, a new vessel, grain loaded, is sunk, it is stated, across the channel. The schooner RUSSIAN has also sustained serious damage to her stern, and the barks S.V.R. WATSON and DESOTO, which are reported there also, lie blockaded and unable to pass through. The cause of the above disaster we could not learn, as none of them have yet arrived down.
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Traveling to a new place is always exciting …but can also be super overwhelming. In general, travel always stresses me out. Considering I fly to NJ a few times a year, you'd think I'd be a pro by now but nope, …not me.
Today, I wanted to share five travel tips for any upcoming trips you might have!
1. Make a list
I feel like everyone always says this about traveling. It's always the number one tip on traveling but how many people actually do it? I know it helps me a ton when I'm getting ready for a trip. I am a huge over-packer. I always think I need way more than I actually do and end up packing an unnecessary amount. By making a list you are limiting yourself to only what you need. It also helps to make sure you don't forget anything. I usually start this about a week in advance and write my every day essentials on it as I'm using things so I make sure to not overlook anything.
2. Pack Smart
This goes along with me overpacking. If there is room in my suitcase, I will fill it with unnecessary things, trust me on that one. I like to plan my outfits out completely and lay them all out so I'm not throwing things in last minute. If you know what you're packing for it makes it easier as well. Check the weather for where you're going and plan accordingly! When I'm physically packing I separate all of my things into different compartments and pack them together. Try using a travel bag for all of your bath products, one for all of your jewelry, one for makeup and skincare, another for all of your chargers. This makes it easy when you get to your destination to find what you are looking for without having to tear your whole suitcase apart.
3. Clean before you leave
If my mom is reading this right now, she's probably rolling her eyes since I always make fun of her for this one but it really does make all the difference. I am famous for doing my laundry the night before a trip and being stressed because all the clothes I want to take are dirty. Make sure all of that is done in advance so you're not running around like a crazy person last minute! Also, take the time to make your bed, clean up any odds and ends around the house before you leave. By doing this, you are leaving yourself a clean space to come home to! Nobody likes coming home from a nice relaxing vacation to a bunch of chores.
4. Research
If you're traveling somewhere new, make sure to do your research! Some people are super adventurous and can travel the world with no set agenda! To you people, I say "ARE YOU CRAZY?!" I'm not one to plan things to an extreme, however I like to know what I'm getting myself in to. I just want to make sure I'm not missing any must see things in a new place, who knows when I might be there again!? If you're into something specific like hiking or cute little coffee shops, look into the best in the area. I've been googling the shit out of Austin lately to make sure I have some ideas of things I want to see when I'm there. I also find myself browsing the #austintx hashtag on Instagram when I'm bored.
5. Bring things for the plane
If you're not into reading … why are you packing a book? Don't worry about what "normal" plane things are bring what YOU are going to do! If you plan on watching a movie or listening to music, don't forget your headphones! If you have to catch up on some work or blogging, bring your computer and get some done. However, if you do enjoy reading check out this month's #weREADalright book, I know I'll be reading it on my ride!
These are just some things I like to make sure I'm doing before a trip, it makes the traveling part less stressful and allows me to be more excited about the trip itself. The most important thing about traveling is having fun, enjoying your time and making memories!
Safe travels babes!
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Winner of the Lambda Literary AwardIn April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of "gross indency" and—implicitly—for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety.In this stunning work of theater, Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression. The result is a play that will be read and studied for decades to come.
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"A few weeks left to go and counting"
Busy, Busy, Busy, is our mantra this time of year; Jennifer and I have been working extra hours in our shop preparing for the Chicago Show May 1st and 2nd. We are very grateful that we are so busy with custom work and adding to our inventory of pipes and stand for the show. Here are six completed pipes for the show; I have another six at various stages of completion.
If any one is interested in purchasing any of these pipes prior to the show, please contact me via email or call for more images, specs, and price. Pipes will be mailed out on my return from the show.
Hadley Scott's pipe and stand were designed to incorporate his Scottish heritage, yet still be functional. The pipe was made large enough for him to hold on his lap while smoking. It is adorned with the Scott family crest and sword, as well as the thistle, another Scottish symbol. I designed the stem of the pipe to look like the stem of a bagpipe. We even ordered an authentic bagpipe tassel to hang from the top of the stem. The shank is in two parts and it is drilled with a larger airway so it will have an easy draw for an 18" shank.
Jennifer has been working on Hadley's pipe stand. The stags' head is carved out of a solid piece of cedar. Jen's stand had to be large enough to hold such a large pipe. The very center of the cedar block is the very center of the stand. The block was chosen because of its rich red hue and nice ring pattern. I also inserted deer horn, both on the back of the neck, and on the bottom, which the pipe sits. The whole set is really a sight to see.


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Director: Edzard Onneken
Year: Y2009
Country: Germany
Language: German
Cast: Saskia Vester,Jurgen Tonkel,Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen,Andreas Helgi Schmid,Manuel Witting
In an Alpine village in Bavaria, divorcee Katharina Remminger lives alone. Her husband had long ago left her for another woman, and her only son Hans lives in Berlin where he studies architecture. She receives a letter from her son Hans one day, informing her that he is engaged and wants to get married in his home town, and that he and his fiance Nicki will be visiting in the upcoming week. Having never heard or even seen a picture of Nicki, Katharina assumes that it's a female name and becomes elated at the thought of her son getting married and that she should one day become a grandmother, and in her excitement tells the whole town of Hans' news, and soon the town is abuzz about the upcoming nuptials. Keywords:Dress,Germany,Choir,Turtle,Crying,Childhood Photo


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Cape Town - Judgment is expected in the case of a man facing various charges, including attempted murder, in the Cape Town Regional Court on Wednesday.Shumsheer Singh Ghumman, who was an investment manager at a major bank in the UK, allegedly followed Hannah Rhind to South Africa from Britain when she went home to spend Christmas with her family.He claimed they started a romantic relationship overseas, but Rhind denied this.Ghumman pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious damage to property after he petrol bombed the family's home in Clifton, Cape Town. This was to vent his anger at Rhind's father for discouraging her from seeing Ghumman.He has pleaded not guilty to charges of incitement to commit murder and attempted murder. Ghumman also denied falsely informing the Westcape News that he was a freelance photojournalist, in order to get help in arranging interviews with dangerous criminals in Cape Town.Prosecutor Billy Downer previously alleged his intention was to hire a hitman to kill Rhind's father.Ghumman applied for his case to be re-opened earlier this month, claiming he had not had a fair trial.- Are you going to be there? Send us your eyewitness accounts and photos.
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Edith Constance "Connie" Burgess
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from:Newcastle-upon-Tyne, EnglandIt was still dark as we walked through the village. Squat, grey stone houses edged the cobbled square, with the war memorial, bus stop and blacksmiths. A small group of men stood around, silhouetted by the glow from the furnace. They stamped, and rubbed their hands, eyeing us as we made our way along the street, laughing and joking in their local dialect. We soon found they would be our workmates, and the blacksmith's would become a familiar place to call. I had just met Helen the day before, at the land Army hostel outside the village. Now in our dungarees, jumper, coat and stiff new boots, we were on our way to our first day's work. I was eighteen when the war started, and Bob my boyfriend, later husband, was twenty when he was called up. Because I missed him, and wanted to do something to help, I joined the Land Army, so here I was walking in the dark into an experience that left a lasting impression on my life.
A mile later, away from the shelter of the hills, we looked for our farm but could only find a barn and sawmill. The snow had soaked our legs, and the wind bit through our clothes, as red nosed and shivering we approached some men, who paused to stare in amusement. One asked 'Ist tha land lasses? His blue eyes twinkled in his ruddy face as he assessed our discomfort, 'Best find you an indoor job,' he said and led us into the long, high barn, filled with 'chop,' a mixture of hay and straw for horse fodder. We knew we were lucky to have shelter, and our spirits rose as the work, filling hundredweight sacks, warmed us and dried our clothes. We looked out of the window at the fields covered in snow, the sun rising and sparkling in the tree tops, stroking the other side of the valley with it's golden lustre. This turned out to be one of the coldest Januarys of the war, but in youthful optimism we sang as we worked, and talked of our town lives. Just two days ago Helen had worked in a factory, and I'd been in an office.
Soon we felt hungry, and looked at our lunch boxes. They were big and strong, but our dismay would be hard to imagine when we found their meagre contents. Thin sandwiches of paste and jam, and a square of sponge cake. It was only half past nine and we were ravenous, breakfast was a distant memory as we'd left the hostel at 7 am., and our next meal wasn't due until 6pm. We nibbled a little, then in a quieter mood resumed our work of filling sacks. After another two hours we tried to straighten our aching backs. The shovels felt heavy in our blistered hands, there was straw and hayseeds in our hair, and they itched under our clothes. We needed the toilet, but couldn't contemplate asking the men where it was, we guessed much of their laughter was already at our expense. Noon came, and Jack called to us, he said he'd take us to his home across the fields. We trudged across the ice to a terrace where he lived with his wife and family of five children. Though he'd worked all morning in sub-zero conditions he was warm and energetic, and introduced us proudly to his wife, a good humoured and confident lady who welcomed us hospitably. Soon we were sat round a table by the fire with rounds of bread and fried eggs on our plates. The laughing chattering children, faces glowing in the warmth of the fire, were a contrast to the cold of our morning's experience in the barn.
Jack was a 'hind,' in charge of the horses, some of which came to the stables for a rest after working in the forestry side of the business, others came for breaking in. His 'Boss' lived with his family in the 'Home Farm' on the other side of the river. He was a rich man who drove a hard bargain and worked his men hard, but never asked them to do a job he wouldn't do himself. He'd had a hard life, which toughened him and sharpened his wits. Born illegitimate, into poverty, he acquired a run down horse and did odd jobs. When the horse's condition improved, he sold it and bought another, and so his business progressed to include land, forestry, saw mills, quarries and aggregates. He watched his workers through binoculars and sacked those who didn't come up to expectations. He was respected, but I hoped I wouldn't meet him for a long time. The lunch hour passed too rapidly, and reluctantly we left, but glad of the invitation to call again. Our spirits lifted, we enjoyed the challenge of the biting wind as we crossed the ice hard fields past a group of huddled sheep as we returned to work. The filled sacks had been removed from the barn, and a larger pile of empty ones replaced them. The considerable hole we'd carved in the 'chop' had been filled, so once more we rolled up our sleeves and started to shovel.
As time went on, though the cold persisted, we came to enjoy our morning walks through the village. Though early, it was always busy, and we waved to the men at the blacksmiths, and laughed at their wolf-whistles. Our hands roughened, and backs strengthened, but we got bored filling bags of chop, this wasn't what I'd thought I'd joined the Land army for. Then, one day Jack said I was to go to the stables with him. I'd expected rows of loose boxes, with horses heads looking over to see who'd come in, I'd imagined they would whinny softly to Jack who fed and cared for them, but my illusions were shattered by two rows of huge buttocks. It was a windowless building with a central concrete path, flanked by lines of huge restless flanks and shuffling hooves. I followed Jack through the dimness to the far end of the building, dwarfed by those strong hindquarters, and horribly conscious of the proximity of those hooves. I was shown the box of chop and oats, Jack measured an amount then slapped a horse on the rump. As it clip clopped to one side, he walked between it and the partition of it's stall to put it's food in a manger. That, he said, was all I had to do, and sweep up the muck into a barrow, then dump it outside on the heap. He went to do some other jobs and said he'd be back soon. It seemed simple, so with a measure of feed I approached the first horse and clapped it on the rump. It didn't move. Another slap, and no response. 'Move over' I said, but it was deaf. I tried squeezing through, but it shifted it's bulk to block my way and lean on me. As I squeezed out fast it stamped it's hoof just missing my toes. The other horses sensed the situation and became restless too, tails swished and heads strained against their halters, I didn't fancy my chances with any of them! I thought of the milkman's horse back home, a sweet little thing, I'd had rides in the float as a child. With fresh determination I approached another horse and slapped it as hard as I dared. A horse further down the line lashed out with both feet, I'd never seen anything like that before, the speed was incredible. If I'd been behind it I would have been a skinful of splinters. Somewhat shaken I appealed to the awkward monster, 'Oh come along, do move over, I've got your food for you.' An unrestrained chuckle from the doorway surprised me, I turned to see a fat little man with a round face and a horseshoe embroidered down his shirt front, and I guessed I had met ''The Boss.' 'T bloody hoss canna understand thee,' he boomed, 'Dey it like this.' He walloped the rump and shouted 'Git up yer great bugger,' and the horse clip clopped to one side. 'Dey it that way,' he yelled at me. In his dynamic presence one had no choice but to obey, I whammed the horse and bellowed 'Git up yer great bugger' with instant success. He watched me feed three more horses then left, highly amused and chuckling gleefully. That was the worst swearword I'd used in my life.
I worked around the stables for a few more days, odd jobs, cleaning, and taking the horses out to drink at the water tank. Most were large shire horses, resting from their gruelling work in the forests. They were not trusting, or to be trusted, they would kick, bite, and stamp. Jack's job, caring for them and doctoring them was dangerous, and I was relieved when the next week I was told to report to the Home Farm. Though we were in the heart of the country, it was only forty miles from where most of us lived on the industrial coast. So, if we had our bus fares there was just time to get home after our Saturday morning work then return to the hostel for Sunday evening.
I would usually go to see Jack's family on my way back from home and sit by the fire in their kitchen, watching the younger children getting washed in the tin bath. The fire heated an oven on one side and a boiler on the other, which was filled by the oldest girl carrying water in a jug from the kitchen tap. When it was hot, the water was drawn off from a tap near the base. After the baby was bathed, and dried on a towel warmed on the oven, he was cuddled by one of us whilst the next youngest was bathed then handed to someone whilst the next was done. It was strange too see Jack who was so tough with the horses, gently nursing his children, their little arms wrapped around his neck, and kissing his rough red cheeks. After the children had gone to bed the rest of us had supper. This was a grand meal as Sunday was baking day. There was meat tart, prune pie, custard tart and delicious home made bread. We relaxed, laughed and talked about the week, then Jack's wife would walk me back to the hostel, whatever the weather.
The hostel was a busy place on Sunday nights, girls came back in all sorts of moods some were glad to have seen their boyfriends, and some were home sick. The building was L shaped, one arm was a dormitory with forty beds, the other, was the recreation and dining area, each was heated by a coke burning stove at each end. The dormitory was partitioned, we slept in bunks, two pairs to each partition, with a wardrobe, chest of drawers, and a mirror. The recreation area had some chairs around the stoves, and there were long tables and chairs in the dining room. The cook was a young lady from the village, and our evening meals were plain but filling. It was our lunch boxes that weren't so good. It was alright if we got cups of tea and something to eat from the farmers during the day, but otherwise, the few meagre sandwiches weren't enough to see us through.
Beyond the kitchen, lived the warden, what luxury! Carpets, tasteful furnishings, and curtains. How easy for those privileged women to be pleasant, it seemed to us too nice a job to be classed as war work. At the end of the dormitory was the ablution area, toilets, basins, baths, sink for washing clothes, and a large hand-wringer with wooden rollers. There was no hint of luxury within the building, but we were glad to gather round the stoves for warmth on winter evenings, whilst those who had the energy could play table tennis.
In the summer we would lie on our bunks and read, or write letters to our boyfriends in the forces. We didn't argue much, and were a hardworking lot. We elected a head girl each term to deal with ideas and complaints, and mediate with the warden. There were never many complaints, for Britain was at war. Our loved ones were away fighting for us, and our families at home lived with the fear of being bombed. Their nights were often spent in air raid shelters, and there were shortages and rationing. We knew that Britain needed every man and woman to do their utmost to help our armed forces and keep industry moving, and higher food production was necessary to keep it all going.
This is a extract from my Mother's Land Army memorys.
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This gene encodes a member of the claudin family. Claudins are integral membrane proteins and components of tight junction strands. Tight junction strands serve as a physical barrier to prevent solutes and water from passing freely through the paracellular space between epithelial or endothelial cell sheets, and also play critical roles in maintaining cell polarity and signal transductions. Differential expression of this gene has been observed in different types of malignancies, including breast cancer, ovarian cancer, hepatocellular carcinomas, urinary tumors, prostate cancer, lung cancer, head and neck cancers, thyroid carcinomas, etc.. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found.
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The gorgeous panoramic views of Sydney Harbour will certainly engage your guests for hours during your Sydney Harbour cruise. However, a variety of entertainment options are also available on board to add to the fun and enjoyment of your Elite Cruise private boat charter.
Listed below are just some of the many possibilities to enhance your next corporate event or private party. Of course, we are always willing to work with you on other options to create a truly unique and memorable event. Please contact us to discuss your ideas or requirements. We offer DJ's, Live Bands, Magicians & Impersonators, Casino Nights, Team Building and Jet Boating.
Let a talented DJ be take care of the music at your function and create the perfect party atmosphere. Our DJ's will play music to suit your specific needs and tastes from their extensive libraries.
Basic DJ Service:
- 4-hour cruise: $460.00
- 5-hour cruise: $490.00
Personalised DJ Service:
- 4-hour cruise: $695.00
- 5-hour cruise: $745.00
They can also provide MC services for the evening at an additional cost. For more information, please contact us.
Live Bands
Highly Strung
Highly Strung is comprised of Bernadette McCoy and Mary O'Mahony on violins, and Justin McCoy on guitar and vocals. These three Sydney musicians were founding members of the popular Eighties orchestral rock group Hat Trick.
Their repertoire is extensive and covers the styles of jazz, light classical themes from popular shows and instrumental arrangements of classical pop tunes, e.g. Beatle songs. The group has a range of international and folk music, which includes Irish and Scottish jigs and reels, Yiddish tunes and Gypsy Fiddle musicals, as well as popular tunes from many European countries. The main criteria are that the music is well known and is performed with enthusiasm and enjoyment on their part, which is invariably conveyed to the guests.
Highly Strung generally performs acoustically which gives them the freedom to position themselves anywhere in the venue, providing ambience to mingle with the guests and play theatre requests if invited. However, they can also provide audio in larger areas where dancing is preferred.
Highly Strung is available as a duo (one violin and guitar) or trio (two violins and guitar). This ensemble can be augmented with additional musicians, e.g. double bass, flute, sax or percussion, for a bigger sound and greater visual impact.
For more information, contact Justin McCoy
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Hot Banana
The distinct sounds of the steel pan, congas and percussion blend beautifully together with the vocals of Jamaican-born singers Stanley, Peter & Marni to provide an exciting and colourful blend of Calypso, Latin, Reggae and modern dance music.
Hot Banana have been entertaining party crowds for over 15 years. Their blend of calypso, reggae, latin and dance music along with the island classics are a real crowd pleaser. A popular functions band with limbo competition, conga lines and lots of audience participation – Hot Banana will help make your event a huge success.
Playing the hits from Bob Marley, Harry Belefonte, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, Shakari, Maxi Priest, Enrique Iglesias and many more…
For more information, contact Stanley
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Jabboq Jazz
Jabbôq Jazz is a tightly knit ensemble of exceptionally skilled, entirely professional and passionate Sydney jazz musicians. They provide live jazz and soul/dance music of the highest quality, rewarding the listener with an irreplaceable atmosphere created from live musical collaborations of experienced and talented instrumentalists and singers. With ensembles varying in size from a solo jazz guitarist to a 9-piece band, Jabbôq Jazz aims to create an unforgettable experience through sensitive performances of a carefully selected repertoire.
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Additional bands are also available.
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Magicians & Impersonators
Elite Performers: Close Up Magicians, Clairvoyants & Impersonators
Have a real "celebrity" function by hiring some of Elite Performers' talented impersonators. Be entertained by the likes of Austin Powers, Elvis, Dame Edna, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Tina Turner, Buddy Holly, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Cher, Luciano Pavarotti, Frank Sinatra, or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
You can also make it a magical night with one of our magicians on board. Your guests will be entertained as cards and coins seem to come to life right before their very eyes. Opulent costumes and mystical backdrops add to the allure. For even more fun and excitement, let our clairvoyants use their skills with tarot cards, crystal balls, palmistry and astrology to amaze your guests – we predict a very fun night!
For more information about Elite Performers, please contact us.
Casino Nights
Gaming Nites
Play Blackjack, Poker, Roulette, Craps and Baccarat for fun at your next party or event! Entertaining your guests couldn't be easier. Gaming Nites brings gaming tables and professional croupiers to you. Casino fun nights are perfect for birthdays, corporate events, buck nights, fundraisers, conferences and product launches.
For more information about Gaming Nites, visit www.gamingnites.com
Team Building
Human Rhythms
Human Rhythms delivers an innovative team building activity which encourages groups to strive towards a common goal through something they share globally – rhythm.
"Fascinators" lead each team through rhythms that are easy to follow. Then the groups combine to create the amazing syncopation of global rhythms: bass drums, African drums, cruicas, cow bells, shakers and every type of instrument imaginable thunder away in full harmony.
Perfect for group bonding, relationship building, ice breakers, or to facilitate an organisational challenge, Human Rhythms are available for conference activities, senior management training, incentives and customer functions.
See images from a Human Rhythms team building exercise our photo gallery.
For more information about Human Rhythms, visit www.humanrhythms.com.au
Lasershoot: laser clay pigeon shooting
Your staff and guests will be clamouring to test their skill and compete against each other on an individual or team level in a Lasershoot laser clay pigeon shooting competition.
Special plastic clays are flung into the air from a conventional launcher. Shooters stand side by side and fire at the clays with deactivated 12 bore shotguns. When a shooter successfully hits a clay, an infrared light beam is reflected back into the receiver on their gun. Information assessing hits and misses is then relayed from each gun to the centralised scoreboard, complete with realistic sound effects.
We provide an operator on board to set up and run the competition. Your guests can compete as individuals or as teams, making Lasershoot a novel idea for any event. Lasershoot can be used day or night (we supply spotlights!) and is totally environmentally safe.
See images from a Lasershoot competition in our photo gallery.
For more information about Lasershoot, visit www.lasershoot.com.au
Murder By Design
Involve your staff and guests in an afternoon or evening of murder, mystery and mayhem spiked with a bit of good humour – fancy dress optional.
A facilitator detective and team of professional actors will lead you and your guests through 1-2 hours of sleuthing and comedy. You are actively involved in the mystery – interrogating and being interrogated – following the clues and helping to solve the crime.
Choose from a variety of pre-packaged scenarios or let Murder By Design tailor one to suit your function, product launch or conference. Prizes can be awarded to the most accurate and inventive sleuths.
For more information about Murder By Design, visit www.murderbydesign.com.au
Jet Boating
Add some adrenaline to your next event with a thrilling jet boat adventure on Sydney Harbour, Pittwater, Brisbane Waters and the Hawkesbury River!
The Elite Cruise Company can arrange for a jet boat to pull along side Olympic Spirit, Olympic Storm Blue Room – Sydney Harbour and put a real spin on your next corporate event, team building activity or private party. Let your guests experience the exhilaration of awesome spins, radical fishtails and amazing power brake stops from high speed.
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New Documents, New Questions, and Possibly New Strategy
We've had some time to go through the prosecution's request to deny further discovery by the defense, and have even more questions now than yesterday. Among them: why are we only learning some of this information now? To quote poster Bea: WTF?
On Thursday we'll be looking ahead to Friday's hearing, and what's at stake. But given the massive question dump that occurred Wednesday, we'll sift through the new evidence laid out by the government, and the serious questions that arise.
High among them: is this evidence of sloppy work, or is the prosecution playing head-games with the defense?
The answer may be a little of both.
1. Under "Tab A", we learn nearly right off the bat (item #2, page 2) that
"FBI examiners have also tested a stain found on the comforter recovered from the bed in Dylan Ward's bedroom (itemd #65). That stain tested positive for blood and DNA testing will be conducted in an effort to determine whose blood was deposited on Dylan Ward's comforter."
First – WHA? As shocking that we're only learning now that a comforter in Dylan Ward's room had blood on it is the fact that DNA testing has apparently not yet been conducted. This is further underscored in item #3, where we learn that lint from the dryer and liquid from the rear drain have only been submitted to the FBI for possible testing, and the prosecution is "…awaiting further information…"
While not familiar with the inside of such an investigation, it strikes us that either such tests have been conducted – and the prosecution is just holding their cards tight to the vest – or this suggests sluggish, perhaps sloppy work that may end up altering the trial's outcome.
2. Next, the government reports forwarding to the FBI the remaining blood sample from Mr. Wone
"…to explore the feasibility of further toxicological testing. However, due to the possible issues concerning the sample being entirely consumed by further toxicological testing, we have asked examiners to hold off and any such testing pending an Innocence Protection Act hearing in the case."
This seems to answer two questions we've long had; yes some samples of Mr. Wone's blood were saved, and no, the D.C. Medical Examiner does not have additional samples in storage. I'd ask legal beagles to chime in here on the Innocence Protection Act – what is this law, and who is likely to have filed suit?
3. Item #6 leads us to believe that detectives on scene discovered Robert's RFA Blackberry and noted two email messages: one "purporting" to be from Robert to Kathy at 11:05p, saying he'd just finished his shower and was going to bed, and a second, time stamped 11:07p, to an associate confirming the next day's lunch.
This makes little common sense. First, is it likely after his 9:30p phone conversation with Kathy, confirming his evening plans and ending with "I love you," that he would send such a trivial email? People tweet about less consequential stuff.
Second, given the latest time (11:35p) for Victor's reported scream at discovering Mr. Wone's body, compared with Dr. Goslinoski's report that Mr. Wone had been incapacitated, assaulted, stabbed – and continued to live for some time – all by an intruder in 23 minutes? (And don't even mention the apparent freshly washed condition of the victim and defendants.) This just does not seem within the bounds of physical possibility.
And third, while said Blackberry now appears to be missing and not have been imaged (copied) by the U.S. Secret Service, we wonder whether it was dusted for fingerprints – or if the exploration by Detective Waid was conducted without gloves, ruining any other physical evidence that might have been on it.
There are more questions, but we close where the prosecutors end, by saying
"…the government will be seeiking to introduce defendant Price's profile on the website "ALT.com", in which he lists his "activities enjoyed" as, inter alia, various forms of "Torture," including "Electrotorture…Pain…Sadism…"
We've often wondered why Kirschner got so far out in front on torture and electrotorture at his December news conference, using very graphic and unsettling language with Robert's family at his side. If there were any doubts before whether the BDSM lifestyle of Joe and Dylan were to play a role in their upcoming trial, we now have the answer. Game on.
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The ball is tipped, and there you are. It's March, and NCAA March Madness is upon us. This time of year is the best for college basketball fans. One of the reasons why I love the month of March. This season may be the most unpredictable as oppose to recent years. There is no clear cut favorite like last year with Kentucky. Will Duke win back to back titles? Will there be any major upsets? Who will be this year's Cinderella story? Can UWM make it to the big dance? All those questions will be answered in the coming weeks.
Another popular thing about March Madness is the filling of the bracket. We all love to predict who will be the four teams in the Final Four and who will be the national champion by the beginning of April. I have also gotten the love of predicting the results of the tournament. For the players, they all want that one shining moment. In my opinion, the one shining for the fan is to guess the "perfect bracket." Unless you can travel through time and steal a sports almanac, I don't know if you can guess the "perfect bracket."
In recent years, I have seen people even take on challenges to win money to guess the "perfect bracket." In my opinion, I don't think anyone can win these challenges. The whole tournament is unpredictable, anybody can lose in any round of the tournament (from the play-in round to the National title game). I find these challenges to be near impossible to win. No one can really guess the perfect bracket when literally anyone can lose at any time.
In a way, people may do it just for fun, or if they feel lucky. For me, predicting the outcome of the tournament is fun and hoping to one day get it perfect. I don't need to compete in a challenge to win money to feel satisfied. But that's my opinion.


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KENNY SHIELS may find being banned from the dugout has been a blessing in disguise.
The Kilmarnock manager ended a three-game touchline ban with this defeat of Hearts.
Killie had won only three of their last 12 games and Shiels, having taken seven points from his time in the stand, might want to consider staying there.
Scotland midfielder Liam Kelly's first-half penalty also stretched their unbeaten run against the Jambos to seven games.
Hearts did stage a late rally in search of an equaliser but Killie deserved the victory.
For John McGlynn's side, though, the travel sickness continues. They've won just one of their last 12 away league games and they'll need to find a cutting edge if they are to improve on that at Ross County this weekend.
Shiels brought in Rory McKeown and Kelly for Jeroen Tesselaar and Gary Harkins from the team which drew with Hibs on Sunday.
Hearts had one change from the side which beat Dundee United, Mehdi Taouil replacing Dylan McGowan, while Scott Robinson was a sub for the first time since refusing to sit on the bench against Aberdeen on December 8.
Paul Heffernan had the ball in the net after 15 minutes, stroking a defence-splitting pass from Borja Perez past Jamie MacDonald as he left his line, only to have the 'goal' chalked off for offside.
Ryan Stevenson replied with a piledriver which took a deflection off Gordon Smith, forcing Cammy Bell into a superb reflex save.
However, the home side were handed the initiative in the 25th minute when Andy Webster was sold a dummy by James Dayton and clumsily tripped the winger.
Kelly had scored a double, including one from the spot, at Aberdeen before serving a one-game ban against Hibs and he made no mistake with his penalty here, firing it low past MacDonald.
The Jambos then had a goal chalked off on the half-hour. Smith's rocket from 18 yards beat Bell but the shot came a split second after referee Steven McLean had blown for a foul by John Sutton.
Spanish playmaker Perez picked up a knock and was replaced by Lee Johnson eight minutes before half-time.
Driver then set up a chance for Smith with a cross from the left but the hitman headed wide. The winger tried a solo effort in the 48th minute, cutting inside to send a curler towards the postage-stamp corner, forcing Bell to turn it over the bar.
The Killie keeper then needed treatment for several minutes after taking a boot in the face from Sutton after the striker had made a legitimate challenge for a loose ball.
At the other end, Dayton posed a threat again when MacDonald could only parry his dipping effort from the far corner of the 18-yard box but the rebound was scrambled to safety. It was end-to-end stuff and Bell pulled off another fine save when he kept out a venomous volley from Taouil.
Substitute Calum Paterson almost made an immediate impact with his first touch.
Ryan McGowan's cross fell perfectly for the youngster but his netbound shot was deflected wide by James Fowler.
However, the 18-year-old should have levelled the scores in the 72nd minute.
Mo Sissoko gifted him the ball on the halfway line and he then skipped past Michael Nelson when the centre-half dived in. That left him with only keeper Bell to beat but he seemed to panic.
He shot much too early, and weakly, from 25 yards when he could and should have taken the ball further in.
His attempt was comfortably saved by the keeper but it signalled the start of intense pressure from the visitors.
Paterson and Sissoko were both yellow-carded for jostling at a set-piece as the tempo got even faster.
Lithuanian sub Arvydas Novikovas fired wide from 18 yards and then Marius Zaliukas saw a 15-yard drive deflected over by Killie skipper Manuel Pascali.
Hearts captain Zaliukas then found himself booked as he barged Heffernan to the ground as he chased a hopeful punt upfield.
Zaliukas was the last man and the home fans were screaming for a red card.
But there was no way that Heffernan would have reached the ball so the referee was right to restrict himself to a booking.
Pascali then took one for the team when he took out
Paterson as he burst down the right flank and earned himself a yellow card.


text: I just want to know what the Obama supporters think of him now. Are you disappointed? Is this the same guy you voted for? What about his promise that his administration would have the highest caliber, most ethical people? Would you call this an outright lie based on the people he has tried to, and in some cases has, appointed? What about his promise not to pass anything with earmarks? He also told us the present stimulus HAD no earmarks. Blatant lies? Obviously not a man of his word, right? How 'bout his promise of bi-partisanship? I've heard him take digs at the Republicans many times. I even heard him blame the Republicans for himself signing the stimulus bill! Not the way to reach across the aisle in my mind. And where's the "change"?? Where are the new people with new ideas? 98% of his appointees are Clinton retreads. You can't still think of him as the Messiah..........can you????


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When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton, Calif., apartment, the college student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction titan: wide-ranging conversation, fueled by wine and beer, about religion, philosophy and Beethoven.
The night began the usual way. But it took a strange turn as Dick's wife, Tessa, and her brother began grabbing lamps and chairs. "She and her brother were carrying things out of the house," recalls Powers. "I said, 'Phil, they're taking stuff, is this OK?'"


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Does the thought of planning a holiday give you a bit of a fright? Do you want to visit many locations in one trip? Are you overwhelmed by the huge number of possibilities? A cruise isn't the right holiday for everyone, but if you answered yes to those questions, it might well be for you. There are pros and cons to picking a cruise as your holiday. The pros include the following:
You get to visit many locations in a single trip. Cruise destinations are really varied, you can pretty much get to any place that has a port. Most cruises will take you to a number of destinations in a single trip, some even do a destination each day.
The administration of all of these destinations is taken care of for you. All you need is your passport.
When you're on a cruise, you have access to a lot of information and resources you wouldn't have if you were on your own. The cruise staff should be able to answer any questions you have about the destinations you are visiting.
Going on a cruise is a very safe way to travel.
Budgeting for a cruise is easy, because you only have to pay once, when you pay upfront.
Unfortunately the cons of cruising include the price. Cruising can be expensive. You can alleviate the cost by buying a package or going through a discount company like Cruise Offers. Normally if you book very far in advance, or right at the last minute, the prices will be lower.