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Robert Hughes trial: alleged victim accused of leaking information to the Sunday Telegraph
A woman who was allegedly groped by Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes on the set of the show has been accused of leaking confidential information about another of the actor's alleged victims and the ongoing police investigation to a News Ltd journalist.
The woman, who cannot be identified, is giving evidence in Mr Hughes' ongoing trial on 11 child sex charges in the Downing Centre District Court.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
It is alleged that, during the course of the 10 years the woman spent on the show, Mr Hughes exposed himself to her backstage on one occasion and groped her in his dressing room on another.
On Wednesday the court heard that, while the police investigation into Mr Hughes was taking place in 2011, the woman was giving information to a journalist from the Sunday Telegraph on an ongoing basis.
Some of this information allegedly came from an officer involved in the police investigation.
The woman conceded that she had told the Sunday Telegraph journalist the name of the school that one of Mr Hughes' other alleged victims had attended, and the name of the school attended by another young woman connected to the case.
There was also evidence that she tried to assist the journalist in making contact with another alleged victim.
"Why were you telling the Sunday Telegraph reporter this information?" Mr Hughes' lawyer, Greg Walsh, asked the woman during a lengthy cross-examination.
"Were you trying to influence the investigation? Were you trying to get the public on side?" he continued.
"I guess I was upset at that point," the woman said.
The court heard that when the reporter asked the woman what angle he should take in his story, she replied "maybe touch on rumours - someone might come forward".
Mr Walsh then put it to the woman that she "had a contact within the investigating police and he was giving you information about the case ... and you were passing it on to a journalist".
She replied: "No, I didn't have a contact giving me information within the police."
Mr Walsh then produced an email between the woman and the journalist in which she said: "My police contact has gone on vacation."
She claimed this was simply a reference to a "liaison officer".
In another email, she said: "Did you find a Facebook page for the school? I just don't want the cops to trace it back to me."
Mr Walsh said to her: "You knew that you were doing something very wrong - revealing information about the police investigation."
"People ask me questions all the time," the woman replied.
In another email, the journalist asked the woman whether her source was "Paul Jacob" - an apparent reference, the court heard, to the head of the investigation, Detective Inspector Paul Jacob.
"No, it was Peter," the woman replied.
Mr Walsh put it to the woman that this was a reference to one of the detectives involved in the investigation, Detective Peter Malone.
"It may have been Peter Malone, but I can't say in this context," the woman replied.
The trial continues.
Paul Bibby is a Court Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Nov. 17 Board of Supervisors Meeting Features 6 Presentations
Nov. 14, 2008
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- St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church, Jeffrey Watkins, Friends of Little Rocky Run, Conrad Egan and The Department of Housing and Community Development honored.
- Adoption Awareness Month to be designated.
- A downloadable photo and synopsis of each presentation will be posted on the county's Web site following the meeting.
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Adoption Awareness Month
The Board of Supervisors will designate November as Adoption Awareness Month in Fairfax County. The purpose of Adoption Awareness Month is to recognize the valuable contributions of adoptive parents who continually strive to improve the quality of life of the children they bring into their families.
St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church
The Board of Supervisors will recognize St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church for its 150th anniversary. St. Mary of Sorrows was the first Roman Catholic Church in Fairfax County and is registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic places. During its 150-year history, St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church has grown from a mission church to a parish of 3,000 families, serving the spiritual and social needs of its members and the community.
Jeffrey Watkins
The Board of Supervisors will honor the life of Jeffrey Watkins and his years of dedicated service and commitment to Fairfax County and those who live with disabilities. Throughout his life, Watkins was a leader in the Fairfax County disability community, serving on several councils including the Southgate Community Center Advisory Council and the Therapuetic Recreation Council. He was also the founding participant of the Specialty Adapted Resource Club. Therapuetic Recreation Services will name its summer volunteer award in memory of Watkins.
Friends of Little Rocky Run
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Conrad Egan
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Its true! I took the class to learn to use this amazing, fast long arm machine at my LQS and now I'm hooked! It took an hour to set up (thanks for your help Jen!) then I went to town doing a meandering stippled free-motion design and boom! One hour later I was done!
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I'd like to comment on the person who is with more than 25 years service — I wholeheartedly agree with him. I am also retired but I spent four years in the Air Force during the height of Vietnam and also became a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps and spent three years away from my family overseas. I do not believe that some of these people who go for two weeks should get the same benefits.
I just read in the paper about the person getting calls from their own phone number. I have the same problem. They are trying to get credit card information from you and are using local numbers now to do it. If you don't recognize the number, don't answer.
Belle and Rand are not alone. Every weekend in Montgomery someone is burning trash that smells up the whole town.
I sure am glad to see that the Pope is OKing protection for the Iraqi minorities. That is great. Now if we can just get him to quit preaching anti-contraception to the Third World and allow them to hold their birth rate down, it would be great also.
Why people insist on driving on Teays Valley Road like it is a country lane is beyond me. The speed limit is 45.
I have also received calls on my landline that showed up from my own phone number. They offered to lower my interest rate on my credit cards. My interest rates can't go any lower — I don't even have a credit card.
Why does Danny Jones always have to raise taxes to get money? Tell me something — what does he do with all of the user fees he charges people to work in this town? I'm about ready to move out.
Thank you very much to the family that gave me the $100 gift card the day I was working with my children at work. There are still kind people left in this world.
Finally, there's a chance to vote against Capito. She gets on to Tennant for supporting Obama, but Capito supported Bush and his crazy fiascoes for eight years.
I see nothing wrong with the Washington Redskins' name. I think it should be an honor for the American Indians.
I object to kids with high-income families receiving free food at school. Why should the kids of well-off people receive free food at school?
What kind of person is against his fellow man having health insurance? Every day without insurance is a constant worry. One incident and your life is torn apart. I'm sure the first family has health insurance. It's the other 10 million families who can thank God for the Affordable Care Act.
Romney can brag all he wants about winning all 55 counties. He didn't get my vote — I voted for the winner.
I would like to thank the auto dealerships at Patrick Street for fixing the potholes on the right-of-way at the Kmart back through their dealerships.
Answers to questions: The Ronald McDonald House collects aluminum tabs off cans as a fundraiser for the house. Marshall's Homecoming is October 11.
What's up with all these Republican governors? Chris Christie of New Jersey, Bob McDonnell of Virginia, Mark Sanford of South Carolina, and now Rick Perry of Texas is indicted. The party of high morality and family values has more corruption and sex scandals than a soap opera.
It is such a shame that the top 85 richest people have more money than all the rest of the U.S. combined. The Koch brothers have already bought the U.S. Supreme Court. If we vote Republican we are voting for the Koch brothers and others like them, to run the U.S. government as they please. Do you think they care about the middle class and the poor? If the Republicans win, we are up the creek without a paddle.
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PEOPLE in Dulverton and the surrounding area breathed a sigh of relief after a controversial plans to change the age range at the town's schools were dropped, ending months of uncertainty.
It was proposed that the first school would take children aged three to seven and Dulverton Middle School would take children aged seven to 11.
It would have seen the loss of a middle school in the Dulverton area, resulting in pupils being sent elsewhere.
The plans caused a split in the community and further afield, with Minehead Middle School and West Somerset Community College engaged in a battle of their own for some time after both proposed to change their age ranges to deal with the influx of pupils from Dulverton.
The decision came following the announcement that the governing body of the Exmoor Federation had resolved not to support the proposal to change the age range.
A letter from Peter Lewis, interim director of children's services with Somerset County Council, said the authority would be taking no further action on the matter.
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The governing body had originally supported the age range changes, and Mr Smith said the decision would not have changed the minds of those who supported the change.
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"It is a matter of disappointment to me that the whole process has taken so much time and has left families in a state of prolonged uncertainty.
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It's not even that I feel Paul is doing a "bad job". My point way back when we found out what the deal was with Danny, was that the whole team needed to step up. Not just one guy. Danny was asked to do a lot in Vogel's offense, not in the same way that Lebron is asked to do a lot for Miami, but in his own unique way that Vogel designed specifically for Danny. No one our team has Danny's combo of size, movement without the ball, and outside shooting. That doesn't compare him to Lebron in fact I can probably count the number of times Lebron plays without the ball offensively in Miami on my two hands, it just means that Danny was very important to how this offense was designed and clearly it functioned a lot better last year, so either everyone else just all of a sudden got way worse or the offense was way too dependent on Danny. That doesn't mean Danny is a superstar or even a star, it just means he was important to the offensive design of the Indiana Pacers.
This doesn't address the differences in the regular season at all. So please explain those.
Yeah don't get me wrong I think PG is good in his own way. His versatility is important to a team that has some established scoring around him (if he were on OKC or LAL, he'd be an absolute gem) I was just saying he's not able (yet?) to provide all the things DG provides the team with (a lot of which, you mentioned within your previous post)
What offense are you talking about? The pacers have not had an offense for ever, I don't think I was dreaming when I saw the same horrible offense last year, and the year before and the year before .....
The only thing Paul George is not providing that Danny does is five more points per game and better shooting from outside that's all, Paul George rebounds better, pass the ball better and plays way better D.
I'm not hating on PG, like I said earlier, his versatility is important.
Overall, Granger isn't that good....if you are looking at him on a standalone basis...when compared to other top Tier Players. But to the Pacers ( and to Trader Joe's point ), it is clear that Granger is "Good"......as in "Good" for the Team and what he means to how the offense operates given the makeup of the Starting lineup.
The best way to look at Granger is his value to this Team in particular.....his value to other Teams may not be anything more than the "Robin" on any other Playoff Team with an actual Franchise Player.....but to the Pacers....he's the best that we got when it comes to commanding attention on the offensive end......something that we are lacking now ( until Hibbert figures it out ). In the end....Granger may be considered "Robin" to other Teams....but to us....he's our "Batman".
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Disagree, he is way better than Danny.
maybe.he is worse at shooting from mid range
He was better than Danny last year but so far Paul George is sucking at this so I agree for now.he is worse at shooting from long range
It's not like Danny is some kind of gazelle ala Dunleavy running around, maybe Vogel doesn't make Paul George move as much on offense? have you thought about that?he is worse at moving without the ball
I'm not sure how you know this, the guard on the Pacers don't set that many screens.he is worse at setting screens and picks
Yes he needs to get better at getting to the the free throw line but let's not go crazy into thinking that Danny is somehow a great finisher, the guy is known for missing easy layups for not been able or not wanting to dunk on the run, they are both bad at it.he is worse at getting to the free throw line, he is worse at finishing on the break or in traffic (Finger roll baby!).
The only thing worse than the Pacers right now, is this forum. Some seem almost be happy we are falling a part. See you all in a month or 2 when it calms down some.
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"
Paul's mid range game being worse than Danny's is not a maybe.
As far as Paul not being asked to move off the ball as much as Danny, hell yes he is not asked as much, because he's not as good at it! And it's one of the reasons we aren't as good! Green has actually been the one moving wihtout the ball on offense a lot of the time.
Defenders don't pay as much attention to Gerald, Paul, or Lance as they did to Danny. It doesn't make him a superstar. It just makes him a good offensive player that has earned the respect of NBA coaches.
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Yes Paul George is not as good as Danny yet but to me the drop off is not as great as many of you think, now the drop off from Paul George at the 2 to Green and Young is as big as the Grand Canyon, there is were the problem is.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
To add to this, whether you like it or not Vnzla, Danny is a guy with a 25 PPG season on his resume, you may not respect that, but I guarantee you NBA coaches have. Now that respect is probably going to change with this knee injury. I think they will make Danny prove he can score again, and I don't know if that will happen.
Of the remaining Wing Players....which are capable of playing in a Half-Court offense?
Would it benefit the GH, West, Hibbert if we switched up the rotations to run more of a half-court offense at times and then switch gears to play more up-tempo with DJ/Lance/PG/Hans/Mahinmi?
Is it possible to run 2 different types of offense given the lineups used?
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Who knew that Danny Granger = Peyton Manning?
Cuz we all know that he isn't one. That is not what any of us are saying. We also know that we don't really have a Player that is considered a Franchise Level Player ( like LeDecision, Wade, Kyrie or Kobe ).
Granger is the closest thing we have on our Team to "Batman". Unfortunately....PG ( as Dick Grayson ) isn't doing a good job of putting on the Cape and Cowl trying to pretend that he is the "Batman" ( I know...poor Comic Book analogy ).
We simply do not have anyone on this Team that draws as much offensive attention to allow the rest of the Starting Lineup to score the way that they did last year. PG maybe trying to fill that role....but I don't think that he has it in him. The closest one that should be drawing the attention on the offensive end is Hibbert....but he appears to be "wilting under the pressure". My hope is that he starts to get his confidence back and that he starts doing what he did last year....draw double-teams and then pass it out to someone that can score.
The whole point that many of us here are trying to point out is that we know that Granger isn't a top 15 Player in the League that should be leading ANY Team as the cornerstone of any Franchise. What we are saying is that the role that he played on this Team on the offensive end APPEARS to be the most important one given the way this Team is made up....not that he should be put on the same pedestal as LeDecision or Kobe.
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Thanks again for the responses, incredible stuff.
It sounds like "targeted therapy combined with chemo" has had some success, going to read more about it.
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Thanks again for the responses, incredible stuff.
It sounds like "targeted therapy combined with chemo" has had some success, going to read more about it.
Btw, interesting feedbacks that I'm getting from these posts about Dr. Kato of NY Presbyterian Columbia Hospital. I have heard of Dr John Chabot who works at same hospital (same place that Kato works at) that has performed surgeries that no else is willing to do.
Jason, so does Dr. Kato. If you end up in NY there are quite a few Members on here who can help with Lodging for the family and etc. This is a tough decision however, I am sure you will make the right decision for you and that's when things start rolling and you feel better just knowing something is being done! Best wishes.
Hi Jason. The interventional radiologist that works with Dr. Kato at New York Presbyterian is Dr. Sperling and he is awesome. I also adore the surgeon Dr. Faciutto, head of liver transplants and everything liver at Mt. Sinai in nyc. He is just wonderful, so knowledgeable and kind. I have a lot of drs - - you can never get too much info with this disease. At Hopkins, Dr. Azad is a great oncologist also. I am one of those inoperables who went on to have surgery - - not curative but palliative, but I am almost cancer free at the moment and thus have hopes of more quality time with my children. Best of luck. Keep us posted.
Dear Holly, tell Jason, go on, you are one of our Super Heros, paving the way to a cure! I like to think of Holly as the little engine that could! So you see, Jason we do have hope here and we do have Miracles!
Hi Jason!
I don't have much more too add. Looks like you have got some awesome advice!
Has it spread from your liver? If not, you might want to look into transplant. There are a few good hospitals that will transplant CC patients. I have been on the list for months.
Anyways, your not alone! Hang in there.
Hi Jason,
Welcome to the site. Sorry that you had to find us all and I'm sorry to hear what you're going through. But you so did the right thing in coming here as you are definitely in the best place for support and help, and you'll get a ton of both from everyone here.
Not much I can add to what the others have already said to you, but I just wanted to welcome you here. Please do keep coming back and let us know how everything goes for you. And if we can help in any way just ask and we'll do what we can for you.
And for sure, certainly seeking these 2nd or 3rd opinions will not do any harm at all, so go for it! You mentioned photodynamic therapy at Mayo, my dad had that as his treatment here in Scotland so if I can help with that if you want more info on it please just ask. And please know as well that we are here for you, stay strong!
Best wishes,
Thanks again everyone for spending the time to post your replies.
So far, I have not been told that the cancer have spread to the liver.
Tiff....it always is thrilling to hear from you. Tiff, would you be so kind as to share with us again the plan set in place for you?
Thank you Marion! I started a new topic about my plan! I didn't want to take over Jason's. )
Jason- If it hasn't spread, then you should take to the doctors about transplant. I see Dr. Javle at MD Anderson, and he helped me get on the list at Methodist!
Ok Tiff, will do.
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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway celebrates its 100th year of existence.
Cars begin to roll into position on the grid for the 93rd Indy 500.
Oriel Servia shows off his entry for "Strangest Helmet Design"
The Purex car hoped to clean up today... but it wasn't to be...
Driver Mike Conway has a shot at Rookie of the Year with contender Matos hurting his chances with a late wreck (that was avoidable).
Sarah Fisher had perhaps her best all around month of May.
Milka Duno provided the role of 'moving chicane'.
A photo for Dukie of John Andretti making a pit stop.
TV Star Buddy Ebsen makes an appearance at the 500. OK... I know it's Letterman but the older he gets the more he looks like Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett, Barnaby Jones).
Townsend Bell had an excellent run today. He was on a 2nd week program and parlayed that into a solid 4th place finish.
Townsend shows his racing smarts by getting around a pitted Milka Duno rather than having to pass her on the track. For anyone who needs to test their scanner at the track, I recommend tuning in Milka's channel. It's a constant stream of coaching and spotting "Hold your line... Get up on him... Get in the draft... Watch your line... You got it, keep it up... Be patient...."
The only thing 'pinker' than Pink Lloyd's car was his driving suit.
Ryan Hunter-Reay puts the Vision Racing Izod car into a couple of walls (outside wall and then pit wall).
Vitor Meira's AJ Foyt Crew put out the fire on his ABC Supply Co. machine... and then send him back out to race. Meira was later involved in the Matos crash which left Vitor with a couple of broken vertebrae.
Eventual race winner Helio Castroneves makes a pit stop.
Winner Castroneves is discouraged from climbing the fence by Indy 500/IRL personnel (AKA Idiots).
He didn't care.... He was climbing the fence!
Let's talk about the fence climbing first. I'm pretty sure the reason they didn't want him climbing the fence was because ABC/ESPN was trying to rush the finish to wrap the show. As Helio was coming around on his victory lap off turn 4 the Penske team informed him TV was running late and they wanted him rolling straight into victory lane. Helio replied "(But) I wanna climb the fence!"
...And so did every last person at the track... and I'd venture to say, so did every TV viewer. This kind of stuff is EXACTLY why I appreciate the job Versus does with their race coverage. Let the natural drama and story develop... don't worry about the clock! Screw you ABC/ESPN!!
The race didn't have a lot of drama itself. It appears some of the recent rule tweaks have hurt the racing more than helped. Tweaking of the rear wheelbase was disallowed this year and there was some speculation this made the cars harder to handle in traffic. With that in mind, the Helio drama was the storyline to save the race for fans and media. To try and short-circuit and abbreviate that storyline for both Helio and fans is just inexcusable in my opinion. Let it play out in its own time. Totally short-sighted by ABC/ESPN and for the speedway to actually try and accommodate them...BOO! HISS!!
I know I'm big on slamming Danica... but she did have a good race today. I actually saw her passing cars on the track. And on the final restart, not only did she not go backwards (as often happens), she got racy with Dan Wheldon and forced him to think more about defending his 2nd place position than taking a shot at Helio. And in the clean air, Helio checked out. 3rd place was a very solid finish for Danica... and it appeared to be a "legitimate" 3rd place (solid pit stops and the accelerator)... not a "massaged" 3rd place (short pitting, fuel strategy, and a lucky timed yellow flag or two).
Since she's "Danica" that 3rd place probably overshadowed the 2nd place that Wheldon got in his Natl Guard sponsored Panther machine. ...Or maybe that camo paint job just made him too hard to see.
He had a steady drive to where he needed to be at the end... but just like Vitor last year (also in a Panther machine), 2nd place was all that was in it.
This race marked a first... It's the first time that a 500 featuring both an Andretti and a Foyt had both those names finishing all 200 laps. John Andretti and Foyt IV made it happen. Hard to believe Mario and AJ didn't do it more themselves in all the years at the speedway.
I don't know... I heard the radio yapping on about the traffic and crowds really being up this morning. We were going to park at the airport and pay the (now) 30.00ea for the shuttle service but apparently the charter service was not operating in the same way Indygo did. No "race parking" signs etc at the airport that we saw directing people to the proper area and we ended up just driving on in toward the track and paying to park in someone's yard. With all the radio talk we were worried we didn't have time to figure out the bus deal or take chances with parking. Well, we could've parked closer... and we had little trouble getting in at the gate. In fact, if we would've went to our 'suggested' gate #6 we would've been in with NO waiting.
It breaks my heart to see empty seats at the Speedway. The lower seats at Pit in are in all likelihood overpriced. You look at those seats sitting empty and then you look just a few feet on down at the infield viewing mound and see it just jam packed (way before the race start even). I don't think the T4 viewing mound is a better 'seat' than the lower level seats at pit in. But it's probably a better value. The empty aluminum is sending the wrong signal though. I'd GREATLY reduce the price of those seats at the least (to general admission rates)... Or I'd paint them blue... or red... and make them actual general admission seats (first come, first served). OR... I'd just admit those seats aren't very desirable and just do away with them and put in some kind of vendor area (gift shop, restaurant, display area (cars, mini museum, etc) with seating above it (since the upper level seats are being used).
I'm not sure there was really more people this year but that seems to be the storyline. That said, we just took our seats today and didn't walk around in the infield. If the majority of the extra crowd was in the infield, we wouldn't have seen it.
I'd re-look at the recent tweaks and car data and try and figure out where they made running in traffic so much more difficult. Maybe it isn't the rule tweaks per se', maybe the teams have just decided to go with low downforce for sheer speed and are making the on track passing problem themselves while expecting pit strategy to move them to the front where their low downforce will keep them there. If that's the case, I don't know what you do about that. That means the teams have made a decision that might not make for battles on the track, but they feel is in their best interest to win the race.
...Of course... there is the constant drumbeat to bring back innovation to the cars.... I'm right there with that drumbeat. I remember a few years back when Scott Sharp's team developed the 'soft limiter' which gave him an advantage to keep him out of the momentum killing 'hard limiter' and ultimately saw him win the pole that year. The media immediately jumped on this tiny innovation almost like they did with the Penske push-rod Mercedez. It became a story itself. I've long advocated opening the rulebook more for the Indy 500. Make a normal IRL car perfectly legal for the Indy 500... but allow for more chassis tweaks that wouldn't be legal for another IRL race. If someone wants to make an Indy only engine, if it fits within the engine rules, let them. Don't require them to supply the entire field. Same with the chassis.
Is this "Engine Check" a new thing? For the life of me I don't remember this dedicated 'engine check' time being on the schedule before. At about (I think) 11:50AM there was a designated period where teams fired their engines with the cars on the grid. I thought year's ago there was even a rule where the engines could NOT be fired up on race day until the "(Ladies and) Gentlemen, start your engines!" command. I'm just curious if this is new... and if there's another point other than to check that the cars will fire for real when the command is given?
I'm sure I'll think of some more comments and add them later...
I ended up with a last minute late gig on Saturday afterall (after having the date blacked out) so I ended up not getting my battery charged on the camera (among many things I'd left to the last minute) which limited my photo taking (I was worried about it lasting to the finish)... I also had someone to my right front who managed to stand several times just at the absolute wrong moment. I'd be following a car in my viewfinder and then there this guy is... right where I planned to snap the shot... Oh well...
I still managed about 100 photos. Now... if I just had a nicer camera...


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So I'm starting something new here. In order to broaden my musical tastes, and find out what music is inspiring others, I'm asking fellow creatives to share their current playlists. First up is my uber talented and awesome friend Matt Watts who you probably know from The Starting Line. Matt was kind enough to share what he's currently listening to and I can honestly say I love every song, especially when he said anything by The Radio Dept and The Limousines. I added Gaslight Anthem as well, since Matt is the one that introduced me to them. I also must apologize for the weird version of "Yours to Fear" by the Sharks. It was the only version of the song I could find. That weird scratching you hear in the backround is chalk on concrete and then skateboard. Fake Problems is also playing Radio City is Sept. Congrats to them as they just got signed. And below is a nice picture of Matt. I have no idea who took it, so if you are the photographer or you know who took it please let me know so I can credit you.
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Cool technology doesn't always breed stylish fashions to go with it. Some prime examples would be the man's cell phone holster as belt accessory, or the bedazzled Razr phone craze of 2005 (which, admittedly, we were kind of into for a hot second). So far, the fashion forecast has been none too favorable for the iPad, following a heinous utility vest and cargo pants with pockets the size of Canada to contain the device.
So we're actually quite surprised by this cute iPad dress brought to you by iClothing. It's just your basic LBD, outfitted with a large front zip pocket for the Apple accessory. (Keeping things simple is so key.) Only thing is, we can't imagine that walking around with an iPad-shaped torso does much for your figure. [Mashable]


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The ladies of the club
The few. The proud. The women on your engineering team. CONTROL Managing Editor Nancy Bartels interviews successful women engineers working as CEOs, entrepreneurs, team leaders and industry authors.
By Nancy Bartels, Managing Editor
"It was common when female engineers graduated that you did not wear your wedding or engagement ring to job interviews," says Dawn Schweitzer. "You didn't wear them until you had the job, and sometimes even for several months after you were hired, the assumption being that you were going to start a family and leave."
That was then—the early 1980s. This is now. If that prejudice still exists, nobody's saying it out loud. Good engineers are too hard to find.
But engineering is still a boys' club. In Control's 2007 Salary Survey, 6.4% of the respondents were women. Best estimates are that 10% of the engineers on the job are female—up from about 5% in 1983, according to IEEE. The chances are growing that at some point at least one woman will be on your engineering team.
Kim Miller Dunn, director of sales development and support at Emerson Process Management, and 2008 president of ISA.
What should you expect when it happens? To find out, I interviewed an even dozen successful women engineers. They are CEOs, entrepreneurs, chief engineers, team leaders and published authors. One, Kim Miller Dunn, director of sales development and support at Emerson Process Management, will take over as president of ISA next year. Their backgrounds are just as varied: Five have degrees in chemical engineering, three are double Es, one has an MS in analytical chemistry, one in computer science, one in biology and psychology, and one in—of all things—art history.
Here's what they have to say about their professional experiences and what they wish the men they worked with knew about them as working partners.
Girls Like Us
Tina Lockhart, the new director of engineering at Moore Industries International, North Hills, Calif., presents the bottom line: "Women engineers are not really much different from men. They want to be treated as equals. I approach the job not as a woman, but as an engineer."
All those interviewed say the most important traits for an engineer—the ones they look for in themselves and others—are gender-neutral.
"The classical things that you want to see in a good engineer are hard work, smarts, tenacity and creativity. It's not gender-specific," says Joy Weiss, electrical engineer and president and CEO at wireless sensor networking components provider Dust Networks, Hayward, Calif. "You're really constantly in problem-solving mode, and the best are doing that in ways that result in newer capabilities and lower costs. It's an ability to pull things together in a way they haven't been done before."
Schweitzer, currently a control systems engineer at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., says a good engineer has to have integrity, honesty and a sense of humor—all gender-neutral characteristics.
What matters is results, says Kathleen Waters, principal engineer at biotech leader Genentech, San Francisco. "You have to have passion and want to own the problem. You have to show results," she says.
But It's Not Quite the Same
Having said that, the engineering workplace is different for a woman. "Men and women communicate in a different way. When you're the only woman in the room, and you're driving decisions, you have to make sure your message gets across," says Waters, adding, "It may be a matter of establishing creditability. It may not be just a male/female thing."
On the other side, male colleagues may be suspicious of women, says Angela Summers, president of SIS-Tech, a safety consulting firm in Houston, and a 2007 inductee into Control's Process Automation Hall of Fame. "There's a certain suspicion men have. They don't understand where you're coming from. Sometimes, I just have to get my agenda on the table first and say, 'Look, there's no ulterior motive here. I just want to get this job done in the best way.' "
Tina Lockhart, the new director of engineering at Moore Industries International.
Lockhart points to what she calls "the more consultative" style of women, saying that while certainly some men use that style, it comes more naturally to women, adding, "Men can sometimes be a little be more direct and outwardly forceful."
She also thinks women tend to be better at multitasking and at "not always thinking like an engineer. Having been involved with customers and sales, I think it's important to be able to translate engineering language for others."
Alicia Bauer, director of global marketing for control systems and products at ABB, Wycliffe, Ohio, concurs. "I don't try to look or talk tough. I can bring other gifts. I can explain tech to non-techies. I don't know if that's a female skill or an Alicia skill."
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Porter meets with top prospect Singleton
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Jonathan Singleton, the Astros' top prospect who's suspended for the first 50 games of the 2013 season after violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program for a drug of abuse, spent a few moments Sunday morning having a closed-door meeting with manager Bo Porter.
Singleton would have had a chance to come to Major League camp and compete for a job on the Opening Day roster, but he'll instead start in Minor League camp.
"We had a little sit down, just going over his schedule," Porter said. "He's very important to our organization. He's not in camp because of that situation, his 50-game suspension, but I want to make sure he understands what's going on around here and feels a sense of commitment from the organization and also understands his commitment of doing everything he needs to do."
Singleton will miss the first seven weeks or so of the season because of his second positive drug test, which means he'll lose about 200 at-bats that are crucial in his development. He hit .284 with 21 homers and 79 RBIs last year in 131 games at Double-A Corpus Christi.
"His frame of mind was great," Porter said. "A lot of times we get humbled in life, and a lot of times it ends up changing a negative into a positive. We're going to do everything we can to have him ready to go when the 50-game suspension is over."


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What do professional baseball, basketball, football, hockey, motorsports, soccer, and tennis all have in common? They're all sports in which analytics are increasingly used to drive decisions in nearly every aspect of the business, from ticket and merchandise sales to labor agreements to player contracts, to TV and digital media deals.
In baseball, as in other sports, the depth and breadth of performance measures now applied to the game make early pioneers like Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane--recently portrayed by Brad Pitt in the movie Moneyball--look like dabbling amateurs. In fact, robust analytic capabilities are now table stakes for any professional team hoping to play at even or better odds.
Labor and contract talks are now a big-bucks epicenter of analysis, and it's bringing sober, fact-based decision support to an arena where positioning and persuasion once held sway. "Contract negotiations used to be a lawyer-driven process, but today the analytical people are far more important than the lawyers," said Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball's executive vice president, speaking at last weekend's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston, a six-year-old event focused on the use of analytics in sports.
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The story's much the same for the National Basketball Association, said Adam Silver, deputy commissioner and chief operating officer. In fact, analytics drove the contract talks that ended that sport's player lockout in December. The players union relied on economist Kevin Murphy from the University of Chicago while the NBA countered with data wonk Barry Nalebuff from the Yale School of Management.
"Analytics were front and center in the negotiations, with competing models looking at predictive behavior in terms of how owners would and could react to various salary cap systems and tax implications," Silver said. He added that the salary caps and revenue-sharing arrangements common across most sports are based on predictive revenue projections.
More than 20 top executives from eight different pro sports spoke at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, including execs from the recent-champion Boston Bruins, Dallas Mavericks, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, and Manchester United Reds. Representatives from 73 pro teams were among more than 2,200 in attendance.
What became clear in listening to the speakers is just how much teams consider their analytical techniques to be part of their competitive advantage. Luminaries like Bill James, senior baseball operations advisor at the Boston Red Sox, and Scott Boras, the high-profile agent, spoke at the conference, but they weren't giving away any secrets. What these and other execs did is acknowledge the constant pursuit for more data and meaningful measures of player value.
A player needs great core stats to land a blockbuster contract, but other measures can also figure into the formula. Newly minted phenom Jeremy Lin, for example, has been a boon to the New York Knicks. The point guard was undrafted out of Harvard and waived by the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets before being claimed by the Knicks. Thrust into the spotlight after first- and second-string player injuries, Lin seized his moment and turned in seven straight outstanding game performances.
There's nothing like a 38-point game to stoke "Linsanity," but the Knicks also know that the player's Taiwanese background has helped the team tap a whole new fan base. "Every metric that we have has gone through the roof, and you can't even imagine the impact," said Scott O'Neil, president of Madison Square Garden Sports, which owns the Knick as well as the New York Rangers, New York Liberty, and Hartford Wolfpack. The rosy stats include 70% higher merchandise sales (and growing after 50 new Lin-related items were added), record TV ratings for the Garden's 40-year-old MSG cable network, 750% higher Web traffic on the Knicks Web site and video views up 2,000% all since the team win streak that coincided with Lin's first seven games as a starter.
The Knicks had already sold out tickets and put sponsorship deals in place before the season began, so there have been limited opportunities to cash in on Lin's fame beyond merchandise and TV ad sales. But O'Neil said the Knicks are banking on big sponsorship deals in Asia. "We're on our way over there within the next few weeks, and we'll join Jeremy when he goes over there this summer with Nike," he said.


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The Pacers Digest Forum Party time and location has been set.
Saturday October 13th, 6:00 PM until whenever
The Fox and the Hound
4901 East 82nd Street
From those coming from the west... you should exit on Keystone, ture left onto 82nd east... Fox and Hound is in a strip mall, directly behind Logan's, on the right side of the road.
From those coming from the east... exit on Allisonville Road (the bridge should be open by then), turn right onto 82nd street... Fox and Hound is in a strip mall, directly behind Logan's on the left side of the road.
The Fox and Hound web site: http://foxandhound.com/restaurantinf...d-indianapolis
Mapquest: http://mapq.st/RrfWqS
We have an area set aside that we can use from 6:00 until 3:00 AM.
Anyone under 21 will be welcome until 10:00.
We will hang out at Fox & Hound until at least 10, maybe 11 then drive about a half mile down the road to Perkins at the corner of 82nd & Allisonville Road.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks and hope to see you there!


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Corned Beef 'n' Sauerkraut Bake Recipe
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- 1-3/4 cups sauerkraut, rinsed and well drained
- 1/2 pound thinly sliced deli corned beef, julienned
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded Swiss cheese
- 1/4 cup Thousand Island salad dressing
- 2 medium tomatoes, thinly sliced
- 6 tablespoons butter, divided
- 1 cup coarsely crushed seasoned rye crackers
- Preheat oven to 400°. In a greased 1-1/2 -qt. baking dish, layer half the sauerkraut, corned beef and cheese. Repeat layers. Drop salad dressing by teaspoonfuls over the cheese. Arrange tomato slices over the top; dot with 2 tablespoons butter.
- In a small saucepan, melt remaining butter. Stir in crumbs; sprinkle over top of casserole. Bake, uncovered, 30-35 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Corned Beef 'n' Sauerkraut Bake in Casserole Cookbook 2001, p70
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What's in a Name?
Some people's names (such as "Will Power") suggest a certain personality or career choice. Given below are some last names and professions (in no particular order). For each last name, your task is to think of a common first name, such that it suggests one of the given professions. Each last name and profession must be used just once.
Example: Sonny Day would suggest a meteorologist.
Last Names: Ding, Flay, King, Lynn, Payne, Peace
Professions: Musician, Author, Chef, Comedian, Architect, Politician
The hint provides the first names.
HintFirst Names: Amanda, Bill, Cam, Joe, Sue, Warren
AnswerBill Ding - Architect (building)
Sue Flay - Chef (souffle)
Joe King - Comedian (joking)
Amanda Lynn - Musician (a mandolin) [also: Vi Lynn = violin]
Cam Payne - Politician (campaign)
Warren Peace - Author ("War and Peace")
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Martinez brings 'contagious' energy to rotation
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's hard to miss the energy and charisma that Carlos Martinez brings to the mound, along with an upper-90s fastball and complementing curveball. It was all on show again Thursday as Martinez pitched the Cardinals to a 7-2 win, the fourth for St. Louis in as many starts for Martinez.
And apparently you have to listen to the 22-year-old, too, to get the full appreciation of his gregarious personality.
"He comes back in and he's saying all kinds of stuff, sounds like a rooster sometimes," manager Mike Matheny began to explain after the team's series win. "I haven't figured that one out yet. Whatever he's doing, guys are laughing, and they're smiling. That energy that you're talking about when you bring young guys up is contagious. And then he made a couple things happen, too.
"If you're just out here making all kinds of noise and not producing, that's a whole different animal. But he's doing a nice job making things happen on the mound and, today, at the plate."
Martinez's athleticism was on display, first as he singled home two runs in the fourth inning and then as he laid out to stop a Gregor Blanco bunt from getting past him in the fifth. The latter play briefly knocked the wind out of him, but Martinez bounced back up and later closed the inning with a bases-loaded strikeout of Buster Posey.
Afterward, with bullpen catcher Roberto Espinoza translating, Martinez described his five-inning start as "the best one I've had." His manager concurred.
"This was his best, no question," Matheny said. "I thought he had a consistent, fluid delivery. It looked like his arm was timed up with his body. It looked to me more like pitching today, rather than raring back and seeing how nasty he could be."
The Cardinals have never questioned the potential, long labeling Martinez as one of the most exciting young arms in the system. He has begged for a chance to start since arriving as a reliever last season, and he now finds himself with that chance as the Cardinals have three starting pitchers on the disabled list.
Martinez threw a season-high five innings (one walk, six strikeouts) on a season-most 88 pitches Thursday. One of his tasks now is to improve that efficiency so he can go deeper. The upside is certainly high, and with the Cardinals' decision to open the year with Martinez in the bullpen, the club sets itself up to use him as a starter as long as needed.
Thus far, that's proven to be a winning combination.
"I've never seen a lack of confidence from this kid no matter what the situation," Matheny said. "Maybe one time when he came up last year, it looked like he was a little shell shocked, and that's when [catcher] Yadi [Molina] knocked some sense into him on the mound. After that, I haven't seen a guy where I didn't look out there and not think, 'This guy has complete confidence and is going to get the job done.' That's one of his greatest strengths."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Tim Counts, a spokesman for the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement Agency, says most of the people taken in custody are illegal immigrants with criminal records.
"Based on investigations, we are looking for specific individuals," says Counts. "Now having said that, we often encounter people who are in the country illegally that we were not initially looking for, and we often arrest those individuals as well."
Maria Diaz, who works with the Latino community in Willmar, says the arrests started on Tuesday morning.
"I got reports from community members that immigration had gone to their homes and taken people to Minneapolis," says Diaz. "I thought it was just an isolated incident, one or two maybe, and then it just going for the whole day."
Diaz estimates as many as 100 people have been taken into custody. ICE officials say because this is an ongoing operation, they won't say when the arrests began or confirm how many people have been arrested.
Willmar, a city of 19,000, is located about 100 miles west of the Twin Cities. One of its major employers is the Jennie-O turkey processing plant, which has some 1,500 employees.


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Saturday Night Live
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Premiere: 1975
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Would it be nice to print out the complete call tree of a stored procedure? By complete call tree, I mean the following:
· At the very top level, the call tree should identify all the procedures that are called directly.
· For any given level, the next level of the call tree should identify all the procedures called by the procedures at the current level.
· If a procedure calls another procedure on a different server via a linked server, that call should be identified on the call tree.
· The leaf level identifies the procedures that do not call any other procedure.
In other words, the procedure call tree should recursively identify all the dependent procedures that are called either directly or indirectly regardless whether they are on the same instance or a different instance.
I don't know whether there is any tool out there that would print out such a procedure call tree. But this is not a trivial task if you want to be 100% complete. For instance, if another procedure is called through a piece of dynamic SQL, all bets are off. In that case, what is called will not be known until the run time when the dynamic SQL is executed. That is beyond the reach of any static code analysis.
Another difficulty is that there is no rigorous T-SQL parser that is publicly available you can use to shred the code of a stored procedure to find all the stored procedure calls. Using a rigorous and efficient T-SQL parser would have been the ideal way to accomplish this task.
Fortunately, as long as we are not talking about looking for all the dependencies including called procedures, views, tables, and so on, we can manage to get the procedure call tree with a little bit of regular expressions on the fact a stored procedure is always called with an EXECUTE statement. Although there are syntactic variations, it is rather straightforward to single out all the EXECUTE statements in a piece of T-SQL code, and then parse for the stored procedure names being called.
The attached Perl script does exactly that. If you want to find out what are being called by a procedure, say, p_MyGreatProc in database myDB on server NYSQL, you can run the Perl script as follows:
cmd>perl spCallTree.pl NYSQL.myDB.myOwner.p_Foo > callTree.log
Yes, the script is written to demand a four-part procedure name on the command line on purpose so as to remove any ambiguity, and all the stored procedures in the output are presented in the four-part format for the same reason.
An example of the logged output callTree.log may look like the following:
NYSQL.myDB.myOwner.p_Foo =>
'NYSQL.db1.dbo.p_Foo1' =>
'NYSQL.db2.dbo.p_Foo2' =>
'PASQL.db1.dbo.p_Foo3' =>
'CASQL.db2.dbo.sp_executesql' => undef
'NJSQL.db3.dbo.sp_executesql' => undef
'NYSQL.db.dbo.sp_executesql' => undef
'NYSQL.db1.dbo.p_Foo4' =>
'NYSQL.db2.dbo.p_Foo5' => undef,
'NJSQL.db2.dbo.p_Foo6' => undef
In this example, p_Foo calls several procedures directly or indirectly across a bunch of servers, including NYSQL, NJSQL, PASQL, and CASQL, and undef signifies that the procedure does not call any other procedure. So for instance, in the above output, NYSQL.myDB.myOwner.p_Foo calls NYSQL.db1.dbo.p_Foo1, which in turn calls NYSQL.db2.dbo.p_Foo2, which in turn calls PASQL.db1.dbo.p_Foo3, which in turns calls CASQL.db2.dbo.sp_executesql.
In the case of sp_executesql, more procedures may be called inside the dynamic SQL string executed by sp_executesql. But since we can't evaluate the string, the script does not look further, and simply points it to undef. In case of EXECUTE on a dynamic SQL string variable, the output will simply identify the variable just in case you want to examine it further.
The Perl script callTree.pl finds out the call tree by scanning the code of the top most procedure for any EXECUTE statement after it has removed all the comments and quoted strings. Well, you would not want to include any reference to EXECUTE mentioned in a comment block, right? For each EXECUTE statement, it parses for the name of the procedure being called, including all the four parts (if necessary). It calls sp_helptext to get the code for the called procedure, and then scans the code for any EXECUTE statement. And this continues recursively until no more procedures are called.
I wrote this script fairly quickly as a throw-away script, but have used it many times. I can't claim that it's bug free, but so far has worked fine. You do need to have Perl on your machine to run the script. I've been using it with Perl v5.10.0, binary release 1003. You can download the latest release of ActivePerl from ActiveState.
If you need to debug a production issue that involves a procedure makes nested procedure calls with some of the calls going across liked servers, you would appreciate the need to see the complete call tree, and therefore, the utility of this little Perl script.
I have seen a fair amount of cross-server nested procedure calls, and they are simply nasty. I definitely have better things to do than manually find out which calls which and where. I'm sure you too. So hopefully you'll find this little script useful.
And if you have a better or a different way of printing out the complete call tree for a procedure, let me know.
What dou you think about showplan xml, like this:
<ShowPlanXML xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/showplan" Version="1.1" Build="10.0.2531.0"><BatchSequence><Batch><Statements><StmtSimple StatementText="exec t1" StatementId="1" StatementCompId="1" StatementType="EXECUTE PROC"><StoredProc ProcName="t1"><Statements><StmtSimple StatementText="create procedure t1
set nocount on
" StatementId="2" StatementCompId="3" StatementType="SET ON/OFF"/><StmtSimple StatementText="
exec t2" StatementId="3" StatementCompId="4" StatementType="EXECUTE PROC"><StoredProc ProcName="t2"><Statements><StmtSimple StatementText="create procedure t2
set nocount on

" StatementId="4" StatementCompId="6" StatementType="SET ON/OFF"/><StmtSimple StatementText="
exec t3" StatementId="5" StatementCompId="7" StatementType="EXECUTE PROC"><StoredProc ProcName="t3"><Statements><StmtSimple StatementText="create procedure t3
set nocount on" StatementId="6" StatementCompId="9" StatementType="SET ON/OFF"/></Statements></StoredProc></StmtSimple></Statements></StoredProc></StmtSimple></Statements></StoredProc></StmtSimple></Statements></Batch></BatchSequence></ShowPlanXML>
What about showplan xml? If you are thinking about getting the complete call tree from the showplan xml of a proc, it's would not be a good road to take, if it ever gets where you want to go. Sure, the format would be easier to parse. You may not get a complete plan if your proc uses a temp table without executing the proc. But you can't always execute a proc when doing code analysis.
There was a bug in the script I posted here in it did not handle nested T-SQL comments 100% cleanly. I have updated the script.
I posted a PowerShell solution http://chadwickmiller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EA42395138308430!590.entry


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After weeks of battling against the elements, Bratton man James Glasson and his three teammates completed the world's toughest rowing race on Tuesday.
Mr Glasson, who was born in Trowbridge and grew up in Bratton, finished the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge following 48 days at sea, travelling 3,000 miles from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua.
The 40-year-old professional polo player took part in the challenge as part of the Atlantic Polo Team, along with fellow polo players Bobby Melville, Henry Brett and Fergus Scholes.
Taking on 19 teams from around the world, the Atlantic Polo Team were the second team to reach land, but the first four-man crew to finish, after starting on December 4.
Mr Glasson, who is now based in Sussex, said: "We have had one of the hardest races since they started doing this and there were times where we were in really vulnerable positions, but that is the nature of the Atlantic.
"We are delighted with the position we finished in as at the end of the day we came with the intention of doing well. We are professional polo players and we wanted to win.
"But we never dreamed that we would achieve what we have. It would have been nice to win the overall race, but to be the first four-man crew was the main aim.
"I had my parents and friends waiting for me when we got in and it was an incredible feeling when we reached the finish. From day one you are thinking about arriving at the end and it was even better than expected."
During the charity endurance race, which is renowned for its tough conditions, no outside support was allowed and no extra supplies such as food and water were given to the teams.
Mr Glasson added: "There were some tough times and periods where we wondered what on earth we were doing, but we are good friends and even when the physical and mental side took its toll we stuck together and got through it."
The team is aiming to raise more than £100,000 for The Brooke, Right To Play and Hilton in the Community Foundation through the challenge. To donate, log on to www.atlanticpoloteam.com


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Canon was able to cram a nice f/2.0 lens into the SD4000's slender and stylish body, making this a great camera for a night on the town. We got surprisingly sharp portraits of singers and musicians in tricky lighting at a rock concert. It was also rock-solid when shooting HD video, with decent stereo sound. Unfortunately, you'd miss all the action by the time you change settings on this annoyingly menu-driven compact.
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Barn Players Theatre Hosts Auditions for SHOUT!: THE MOD MUSICAL, 2/26-27
Auditions for Phillip George, David Lowenstien, and Peter Charles Morris's SHOUT!: THE MOD MUSICAL begin Saturday, February 26 and 27 from 11:00am-2:00pm. Auditions will be held at St. Pius Church, 55th and Woodson, Mission, KS.
SHOUT! flips through the years like a musical magazine and takes you back to the music, the fashion and the freedom of the 60's! This smashing revue tracks five groovy gals as they come of age during those liberating days that made England swing! Join this non-stop journey through the infectious and soulful pop anthems and ballads that made household names of stars like Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield and Lulu. SHOUT! uses letters to an advice columnist, true confessions, quizzes and advertisements as a frame for terrific new arrangements of such chart-topping hits as "To Sir With Love," "Downtown," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "Son of A Preacher Man," and "Goldfinger." With its irresistible blend of hip-swiveling hits, eye-popping fashions and psychedelic dances from the 60's, this fun-filled musical will make you want to throw your head back and SHOUT!
Those auditioning must have one prepared audition piece highlighting their vocal range and style. The piece should be 16 bars in length. An accompanist will be available; A Capella auditions will not be accepted and singing with a backup CD is discouraged. Those auditioning are more than welcome to prepare two pieces if they would like to highlight their upbeat vocals, as well as their ballad capabilities.
Bring a headshot/resume if available. Those without will have their picture taken at the audition.
The callback list will be posted at the end of each audition day.
Invited Callbacks will be held on Sunday, February 27th from 3:00 - 5:00 pm, immediately following the open call. Those called back must be present promptly at 3:00pm for callback assignments. Callbacks will consist of learning one number from the show, as well as 'step touch' choreography to go along with it.
Rehearsals will begin March 20th. Typical weekly rehearsal schedule will by Sunday through Thursday nights from 7 - 10pm. Conflicts with the rehearsal schedule must be kept to an absolute minimum during the rehearsal process. No conflicts will be accepted during dress/tech week (4/24 - 4/28). The production dates are April 29th - May 15th; Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:00pm. All performances take place at The Barn Players Theatre, 6219 Martway in Mission, KS.
The following is a cast breakdown (all ages are subject to change):
BLUE (age 24 - 28)
A blue-blood fashion model. Blue is sophisticated, poised, cool and aloof
Low b-flat to High C with a high soprano belt
GREEN (age 33 - 42)
She is a good-time girl. Blousy, middle-class and zany...she is a bit frayed at the edges and hopelessly single.
Mezzo-soprano with belt...comic actress
ORANGE (age 31 - 38)
The mother of the group, Orange is domestic and maternal. Wise, soulful and mature, she is slowly asserting her new-found independence.
Low b-flat to High b-flat with a soprano belt
RED (age 18 - 26)
The baby of the group, Red is quirky, enthusiastic and naïve. A hopeless romantic, she is insecure about her looks.
Low b-flat to High C with soprano belt
YELLOW (age 25 - 30)
Yellow is an uninhibited and brash American amongst these Brits. She is a ray of sunshine with a surprising vulnerability.
F below middle C to belted E-flat. Alto Rock Belt
Gwendolyn Jones (35 - 60)
An advice columnist (non-singing role)
For more information, please contact Eric Magnus, Artistic Director of
The Barn Players, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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