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The Android application sandbox is now ready for an alpha release. Details on how to get DroidBox running are available at the project webpage.
At the moment, the following actions are logged during runtime:
An analysis output looks like the following sample report:
The development continues with static analysis of Android packages. More specifically, permissions, activities and registered Intent receivers are to be parsed from the Manifest file to coordinate with the dynamic analysis. Some of the features planned to be implemented are:
The last milestone period is soon starting and the coding in this phase includes generating API flow graphs to better understand in what order the logged actions are executed. Additionally, generating treemaps on the sample behavior might ease the malware classification but will initially function as a proof-of-concept implementation.


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President Obama will be having his Wall Street fundraising dinner tomorrow at ABC Kitchen in New York. [ via Bloomberg]
The exclusive, invite-only event is targeted towards investment bankers and hedge funders, and dinner will be $35,800 per plate. It is being hosted by Evercore Partners CEO Ralph Schlosstein and his wife, Jane Hartley co-founder of the economic and political advisory firm Observatory Group.
The guest list also includes financial heavy hitters like Marc Lasry, managing partner and founder of Avenue Capital Group, Robert Wolf, UBS's chairman for the Americas, and Antonio Weiss, global head of investment banking at Lazard.
Although most of the details surrounding the dinner are under wraps, the restaurant itself is still open for business. We decided to go and check out how the president and his guests may be dining.

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On January 3, 2013, the beginning of the 113th Congress, Rep. McCaul became Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. The Committee has oversight of the Department of Homeland Security ensuring it is able to carry out its core mission of protecting the American people from terrorist attacks. As Chairman, McCaul will prioritize the threat of international and domestic terrorism, cyber security, airport security and fixing dysfunctional management within DHS which contributes to wasted taxpayer dollars, delayed security operations and corruption. Chairman McCaul will also prioritize border security and elevate this as a national security issue.
During the 112th Congress, McCaul, as Chairman of the Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee, McCaul authored the second edition of his report "A Line in the Sand:Confronting Crime, Violence and Terrorism at the Southwest Border".
In 2005, Congressman McCaul was named Vice Chairman of the U.S.-Mexico Inter-Parliamentary Group (I.P.G.) by then Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL). Every year the Group meets to discuss issues and events involving the two nations. These meetings give both American and Mexican lawmakers the opportunity to address the challenges facing our two countries.
Congressman McCaul has a strong track record as a leading fiscal conservative in the Congress. He never forgets that every dollar the Congress appropriates is the People's money, not the government's. As such, Congressman McCaul has fought against the failed $787 billion stimulus, the $700 billion bailout, the Cap and Trade national energy tax and the Affordable Care Act. In addition to his conservative voting record, Congressman McCaul led the charge against earmarks, which was adopted as the official policy of the House of Representatives during the 112th Congress.
In recognition of his pro-growth, pro-jobs voting record, Congressman McCaul has been awarded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Spirit of Enterprise Award each year he has served. Congressman Michael McCaul's stand against unprecedented government expansion and out of control spending has also been recognized by the American Conservative Union, which presented McCaul its coveted ACU Ratings Award.
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The Information Technology Industry Council awarded Congressman McCaul its coveted Legislator of the Year Award for 2009 for his support of congressional policies that benefit American technology companies. TechNet, the bipartisan political network of CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, also awarded Congressman McCaul its annual Founders Circle Award, one of four members of Congress recognized by the organization for their outstanding leadership to champion the nation's innovation economy.
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It was the first Ravens home game Modell has missed.
"I'm disappointed, but I'd rather be well and disappointed," Modell, 78, said in a phone interview before kickoff.
Modell was even included on the injury report that ran early in the game on the stadium's video board, showing him listed as out with the flu.
The ceremony honoring Modell has been rescheduled for halftime Saturday, when the Ravens play host to the Tennessee Titans in an AFC wild-card game.
Last night marked the last regular-season game as an owner for Modell, who has owned an NFL franchise for 43 years.
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People visit Qianmen Street during the Lantern Festival on a snowy night in Beijing February 28, 2010. The festival marks the last day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Qianmen Shang Yuan Lantern Party, Beijing
Highlight: Lion dancing performances
Time: February 23 to 28
Location: Qianmen Street, Beijing
Organizers plan to restore and expand the original Shang Yuan Lantern Party which used to be held in Beijing's central Qianmen area in the Ming (1368 – 1644) and Qing (1644 – 1911) Dynasties. Featuring an exhibition of elegant handmade lanterns by craftsmen from across the nation, the party will provide a festive gathering where visitors can appreciate the art of traditional lanterns with modern technology while enjoying riddles and fun games. Beijing craftsmen set up booths to entertain the festive crowds who poured onto the street to get an authentic taste of Beijing culture.
Qianmen has long been the place for lantern fairs. It's very location on the central axis of Beijing makes it a favorable option for tourists from far and wide. Many people pose by the flower altars and lantern stands to take pictures and record the moment of joy. Wang Shiren, member of Beijing Cultural Relics Protection Committee, said, "Lantern fairs date back to the Han Dynasty. That's some two thousand years ago. The tradition reached its climax in the Tang Dynasty, when the fairs were also held along the central axis of its capital city." And to the cheerful chorus of children, the lanterns are lighted up and down the street, bringing a joyful and festive atmosphere.
The Lantern Festival is celebrated everywhere on January 15th of the lunar calendar, right after the Spring Festival.
Traditionally, the Lantern Festival is a part of the Spring Festival.
This day is always the first full moon in the lunar New Year.
Across China, people celebrate by hanging up lanterns and festoons, attending dancing and singing performances, making "Yuan Xiao" or sweet rice dumplings and lighting fireworks.
This is also a continuation of the Spring Festival celebration.
On the Lantern Festival night, the moon illuminates the dark sky while many lanterns shine bright colors on the earth.
The traditions of viewing decorative lanterns on this night began more than two thousand years ago in the Western Han Dynasty.
In the earlier times, those beautiful lanterns were only seen in the imperial palaces.
Slowly it evolved into a celebration on the grand scale for ordinary folks everywhere.
A few days before the lantern festival, people begin gathering oiled paper, silk cloths, bamboo sticks and flower to make all types of lanterns.
Some people go to the lively streets to pick a personal favorite.
The lanterns sometimes come in a series about certain folklore, holiday customs, or lucky mascots.
The Lantern Festival is also a romantic holiday.
In feudal society, young girls were not allowed to go out freely.
But on the night of the Lantern Festival, they were allowed to view the lantern lights in groups.
Sometimes couples would go on dates strolling down the streets lit with lantern lights.
Today people still invite others to view lanterns together.
Across China, the Lantern Festival is celebrated in many different styles.
In places near water, people put Lotus Lanterns in the river to let them flow down stream, carrying the loss they feel for the relatives that have passed away.
In the North, as traditional customs combined with modern science and technology, there evolved the Ice Lantern Festival.
The combination of the ice and snow with colored lights, carvings, designs, and special scenery yield a spectacular winter paradise.
The Lantern Riddle is a special word-game played by the Chinese people.
The Chinese people not only craft many types of beautiful lanterns for the others to appreciate, but also create many interesting riddles.
The traditional riddles are written on the lanterns.
Today, many people glue a slip of paper with the riddle at the bottom of the lanterns for the viewers to solve.
Those who solve the riddles correctly will receive a prize from the riddle's creator.
Just like China's other traditional holidays, the Lantern Festival also has its own special dish —"Yuan Xiao", or sweet dumpling soup.
Although the sweet dumplings differ in name and recipe from the North and South, they are always made with glutinous rice flour as the outside.
The filling is usually composed of different kinds of fruit kernels and sugar.
The sweet dumplings are always round and white, as it represents the moon on the night of the Lantern Festival.
Overview and HistoryIn the Stone Age, "Peking Man" lived near Beijing -- as many as 500,000 years ago. The earliest relics in China are stone tools dating to this time period. Between four and five thousand years ago there were agricultural settlements southwest of Beijing. They were the beginning of a city that would go through several name changes over the millenia.The legendary Yellow Emperor Huang Di battled Chiyou "in the wilderness of the Zhou prefecture." Zhoulu is a town to the west of modern Beijing. The Yellow Emperor's successor, Emperor Yao, established a capital city called Youdo. Youdo became a place called Ji, and Ji was taken over by the Marquis of Yan during the period of the Warring States (475 B.C.)Ji remained an important city for ten centuries. From China's first feudal empire through to the end of the Tang Dynasty, Ji was a strategic military center in the campaign to unite all of China.By the end of the Tang Dynasty in 907 A.D., the Qidan army came from the north and occupied Ji. They called it Nanjing, which meant "southern capital." During this time the Liao Dynasty ruled and carried out many reconstruction projects in the city, fortifying it for greater military use.The Nuzhen army conquered the Liao and established the Jin dynasty as of 1115 A.D., moving the city of Ji and renaming it "Zhongdu" which means "Central Capital." This meant more expansion and construction of palaces until the city spanned five kilometers across and contained an estimated one million people.Mongolian raiders invaded Zhongdu in 1215 A.D. and renamed it Dadu. Under Kublai Khan the Yuan Dynasty took Dadu as its capital and unified China!Since Zhongdu had been destroyed by fire in the change from Jin to Yuan dynasties, Kublai Khan took on a reconstruction project that was to expand the city into rectangular shape. It became the political center of the country with three main areas -- imperial palaces, the city walls, and the canal.By the coming of the thirteenth century, Dadu was a world famous city which astounded Marco Polo when he arrived. In his record he writes, "You must know that it is the greatest palace that ever was..."In 1368 Ming soldiers captured Dadu and renamed it Beiping or "Northern Peace." It went through another period of reconstruction which saw walls twelve meters high built around its perimeter, walls ten meters thick which took fifteen years to build. When they were done, Beiping became the official capital of the Ming Dynasty. With the completion of the palaces and gardens in 1420, Emperor Yongle renamed the city Beijing, "Northern Capital."Beijing grew once more and took on a rectangular shape with two distinct sections, the Inner City (Tartar) and the Outer City (Chinese). Its city planners gave it an organized arrangement that still felt relaxed.The Qing Dynasty came along circa 1644 A.D. and the Manchus built extended suburban gardens. These took more than a whole century to make, but when they were finished the open-air pavilions and palaces stood as a masterpiece of Chinese architecture. This was proper to show the power and refinement of traditional China, a fitting design for the capital of the empire.The Qing Dynasty lasted until 1911 but collapsed into chaos at the hands of the Northern Warlords. Beijing suffered a lack of leadership until 1949, when the People's Liberation Army entered the city. From Tian'anmen Square in the center of the city, Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China, with Beijing as its capital.Since then it has continued to expand, surpassing the nine gates of the inner city wall, beyond the seven outer gates, and into the suburbs. Beijing now takes up 750 square kilometers! The city retains its old symmetry with a central axis that runs north-south, and the Imperial Palace Museum at the center. This palace was once called the "Forbidden City" but it is now a museum open to the public.Getting ThereThe Beijing Capital International Airport is located 25km northeast of the city. It is the center of China's civil aviation network and it connects to 69 cities worldwide. The airport is linked to the city by bus, taxi and Beijing Subway Airport Line.The city government operates one bus line and private buses go and come from several hotels. The taxi stand is outside the terminal, as always, so don't ride with the drivers who harass you inside the terminal. A ride to the city center should cost about 70 RMB plus 15 RMB highway toll. You should also know that there's an airport tax of 90 RMB for international travelers. Keep your receipt!TransportationWithin the city you can choose from 67,000 GPS-equipped taxis, the bus or the metro. Half of their buses are running on natural gas now, which is a good move considering the city is adding fifty new bus routes per year. Whoa!The metro has two routes, the Loop Line and Line One. The Loop has sixteen stations and it runs parallel to where the city wall stood in the Ming era. Line One has twenty-one stops going from the suburbs on one side all the way across to the other side. It is safe to assume that there will be more metro lines to follow as Beijing grows.People and CultureOne of the unique sights in Beijing is a park filled with retired people doing their exercises early in the morning. Tai ch'i, QiGong, sword dancing and shadow boxing are forms of exercise and relaxation which have existed for more than two thousand years and are still popular today.Drinking tea in a teahouse and enjoying a folk opera in an old-style theater are both popular activities in Beijing culture. Beijing has more bars and pubs than any other Chinese city (more than 400), and it's also full of antique shops, silk markets and museums.Things to do, RecommendationsBeijing is massive and filled with interesting things to explore. For just a few examples, take a look at these:The National Stadium (bird's nest), the Water Cube, and ruins of the Yuan Dynasty city wall.If you like art, you have to check out the 798 Art District. It's named for Factory #798 and the district contains hundreds of galleries, bookstores and restaurants. Have fun!Text by Steve Smith.


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We discovered the wonderful world of netaudio and netlabels some years ago. From the start we were fond of the idea of freely distributed music and how Creative Commons gave license models for it. Since 2005 we have done a monthly podcast, presenting our favorite tracks from netlabels all over the world. The netlabel scene is so rich in terms of sounds, styles and personalities that we're always coming back for more.
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Eloi Brunelle - Bernard (2005)
from Psychotronic EP [Epsilonlab 14]
An ageless dancelfoor stomper. You shouldn't care too much about the pseudo-philosophical talk, simply enjoy the compelling beat which makes every crowd to freak out.
Granlab - Memories (2006)
from Mitsommerkollektion [Broque 013]
Whispering ghostly voices, but you won't be scared. On the contrary - this is pure cosiness.
David Sugar - Boss Man (2006)
from Fresh Off The Chip [8bitpeoples 060]
A brillant 8bit / chiptune track. Only thing I have to critize: way too short!
Glenny 417 - Biskopsgården Night Life (2006)
from Find out what You Are Missing [Ageema Music Club]
I don't know where Biskopsgården is and what's really up there. But it sounds like a lot of fun.
Iambic - For You... (2007)
from Under These Stars, We'll Sleep Again [Laridae 031]
More proof that you don't need too much for getting an excellent song. Here it is one superb loop and a nice voice.
Arnaud Roy - Blue sox (2007)
from Another delayed action snowbal l [Vaatican Records]
The harp by itself is one of the most beautiful sounding instruments, here it also has been used for percussion.
Robintone - Cowboy Song (for Martha) (2007)
from she ate all the pancake EP [Beatismurder 09]
Home recording at its best, just admirable.
Elektronova - Das Muss Liebe sein (2007)
from Wortsport [Stille Macht Taub 013]
The German title means "This must be love". Yeah, that's right.
Tom Caruana - Get it off your chest (2008)
from Welcome Aboard [Budabeats 004]
Let it out when you're frustrated - if this is the result, I'm fine with it.
Ghosts and Strings - Judgement Day (2008)
from Canciones del Futuro [Resting Bell 037]
Mixes Tuvan overtone singing with pop harmonics and that fits like a charm.
Nic Bommarito - Lhasa (2009)
from Harp Fragments (12rec. 058]
Slide guitars and strings in a post-rockian journey.
Ketsa - between cloud and land (2009)
from The X Inside [BFW recordings 028]
Tricky beats, someone might call this "intelligent", for me it's just a good song.
Hoax - Progress (2009)
from The Insomnia EP [Qunabu 009]
Over 11 minutes long, maybe it doesn't happen too much, but the track will put you in such a good flow that you want to listen to it over and over again.
the menu - moss eisley canape (2010)
from Tatooine EP [Silenced 04]
Starts like your everyday Minimal House track, then it turns in something completely different and goes back to the days of Charleston. At the end it returns to presence. Strange enough - but that works.
Uniform Motion - The Pen Fallacy (2010)
from Pictures [aaahh-records 008 and no-source 007]
A broken flute, a 4-string guitar, fallsetto Chorus, that's it.


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Two days ago, Stanczyk wrote about SNA/Cluster Genealogy and FultonHistory.com. So today I wanted to wrap-up some loose (odds and) ends. Its all about the Zasucha and that is my focus. But I must digress for one minute …
Historic Newspapers
I mentioned Tom Tryniski, the owner of FultonHistory.com whose Herculean efforts provides us with 21.8 Million pages to search through. Today, I wanted to extend to Tom, the offer to correspond (click on the Post Missive picture on this blog page). I have been an Historical Newspaper fan ever since I found my grandparents and the birth of my uncle mentioned in Dziennik Polski (Detroit). So I am hoping for a discussion on what Roots Tech he uses to maintain his website. Stanczyk after all is a STEM worker and loves IT (that is Information Technology, not 'it'). That is my offer – an interchange of ideas and perhaps a blog article. Tom, if you are looking for ideas on Newspapers to scan (in the NY region), how about the Buffalo area newspaper: Dziennik dla Wszystkich (= Everybody's Daily). Come on help this Polish jester out! Just a reminder, the Library of Congress 's Chronicling America projects lists about 220 Polish language, Historical Newspapers [Polskie Gazety językowe] (that it has holdings of?).
The last blog post listed four ZASUCHA families:
Martin (father of Andrew in the above death notice) – Andrew(the deceased), Roman, and Jan
Adam – Michal, John, Karol, Marya, and Feliks
Josef – Benedykt (son of Josef), Feliks (a 2nd much-younger Feliks, son of Benedykt)
Jan – Roman (a 2nd Roman), Teofil, Josef, and Pawel
Those were Niagara Falls Zasuchas. When I queried Ancestry Public Family Trees, I found another Zasucha family in the USA for the same timeframe:
Wojciech (aka Albert in USA, husband of Urszula) – Tomasz (aka Toma) and Tekla
These were Albion (Calhoun County, Michigan) Zasucha. If the owner of Brubaker and Zasucha Family Tree (silverandsienna) would like to compare notes on these Zasucha and/or Pacanow, then please by all means email me or comment on this blog post.
All of the above Zasucha are of interest to me because:
- They all came from Pacanow (where my grandfather was born)
- My great-great-grandmother was Anna Zasucha, wife of Martin Eliasz (of Pacanow)
- Karol & Feliks sons of Adam lived at 235 11th Street in Niagara Falls
- My grand-aunt Mary and grand-uncle John lived at 235 11th street in Niagara Falls
Now besides the Zasucha, I also found the following affiliated families living at 235 11th Street:
Adam Ziglicki, Josef Ziglicki, and (Filip Kulczyki brother-in-law of Adam Ziglicki).
The Ziglickich are intermarried to Eliaszow/Elijaszow in Pacanow (hence an affiliated family).
Finally, there was a Rozalia Zasucha last residence Samsonow, coming from her mother, J. Zasucha living in Komorow to her brother-in-law Wawrz. Berusad(sp?) at 239 11th street in Niagara Falls on 7/1/1913 (SS Gothland). Now Komorow is a village in Pacanow parish. Samsonow is also related to my family tree as a residence for some Kedzierski related to my grand-uncle John's wife, Pelagia. There is also a Feliks Zasucha at 239 11th street (who was son of Adam, going to brother Michal) at 239 11th street. So I am thinking I am going to add Rozalia to the Adam children [Michal, John, Karol, Marya, and Feliks] which are very connected to my ELIASZ family.
I am now guessing that Wawrz. (short for Wawrzeniec = Lawrence = Lawrenty) perhaps married Marya Zasucha (a theory I will need to test and verify).
So … any Zasucha out there? Particularly, the children of Adam [Michal, John, Karol, Marya, Feliks and now Rozalia] Zasucha. Let's trade missives. The Social Network Analysis is trending towards a deeply connected family tree.
One very final aside …
Two other ELIASZ surfaced in this SNA research. Tomasz Eliasz (b. 6 September 1881 in Pacanow) son of Ludwik Elijasz. There was also a Stanley Eliasz (I believe a theater owner in Buffalo) who I believe was a cousin to my grandfather, but not the cousin that came to Detroit (aka Stanley Elyasz) who was the son a Martin Elijasz and Julianna Odomski. Tomasz was a 1st cousin twice removed and is in the family tree. I am aware of Stanley Eliasz (Buffalo theater owner) and his family, but as yet I have not been able to connect him to my tree. I think Stanley is also fairly closely related to our Detroit/Pacanow Eliasz family. It was interesting to see him turn up in the SNA (via City Directories).
SNA seems to find some very interesting and unknown familial relationships. At the very least it provides the fodder for future research to break through those genealogical "brick walls". Please drop me a missive and let me know if you are using this technique and what successes you have had.


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It's not like I've been especially impressed with anything Saj has done since that one spell, I was just holding onto some vain hope that he might not turn out a complete waste of space.
It's not like I've been especially impressed with anything Saj has done since that one spell, I was just holding onto some vain hope that he might not turn out a complete waste of space.
You still have to say that Fred has been guilt of underusing him. Just your 4 overs so far in this test? He wasnt shockingly expensive either.
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There is little logic behind bowling a bowler you think gives you less chance of taking a wicket ahead bowlers you think are better.
By their very nature, a 5th bowler is not as highly regarded as a 1,2,or 3 and its hard to find any point in the game where you would prefer a lesser bowler bowling than a better one.
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Harmison and Saj are very different bowlers. Harmison hits the deck at lot harder and they bowl completely different lengths
You seem to ignore the fact that there isnt anything to back up Saj as being any good. The only evidence you seem to give is that others have not had stellar records or actions have done ok. Well that means nothing. There are plenty of bad bowlers who are exactly that. People fall in love with what Saj supposedly offers without realising that that is not what is important. Its about production and potential to produce and he doesnt have it in him and there is nothing to suggest he does.
The final statement is funny. How is he one of the best fast bowlers in the country? What has he ever done to deserve such recognition? It makes me wonder what people think the important aspects of being a successful bowler are.
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But Fletcher will be under-pressure in the VB series & WC to do something good. But for me i hope they give him a chance to go on since i think he's the best coach to help England reach the aim of being the best side in the World.
My final thoughts on the matter.
We have a technical term, in cricketing circles, for a player that is erratic, expensive, struggles to bowl to a plan and struggles to take wickets. Its called a 'bad bowler'
I'd like to see them in County Cricket for this season to make sure they get plenty of overs under their belt before we even think about picking them again.
Mahmood wouldn't get into my first choice Lancashire side (excluding Flintoff), and it was only the 2005 season where he was regularly left out. If Jimmy hadn't been injured all last year he mightnt have got in the side then.
Mahmood - needs a year of bowling for Lancs. And he needs to get some good overs under his belt.
Giles - Just needs to retire really. Internationally anyway. He doesn't offer enough will the ball to justify selection.
Plunkett - Nothing against him. But he sort of lost out in the pecking order when he wasn't picked for the 1st/3rd test. I wonder why he didn't play because appererntly he can bat.
Read - This is the end I believe. Nothing against the man , but he needed a performance and although he was under immense pressure. He didn't perform. Hes going to have to score big , and improve his confidence really.
Trescothick - Cook and Strauss don't need disrupting at the top. It would be a bad move if he comes back.
Vaughan - As much as he offers as captain. I believe that Strauss would be a better option. Vaughany just doesn't offer enough with the bat.
Nixon - He'll get 2 ODI series. Unless he hits about 7-8 hundreds then I doubt he'll be considered again .
Fletcher - England need a new impotess. Fletcher is a little to defensive for my liking. We need someone with ruthlessness (Not with selection mind you).And someone who can improve the ODI team.
Flintoff - Get the captaincy of him. Strauss needs it. Flintoff needs (PROPER) time to re-cooperate on his ankle. If that means missing half of the summer (again) then so be it. And he needs to take a break from ODI cricket. As much as it effects the side it doesn't help his Ankle.
So the team for me next year -
1) Strauss (Captain)
2) Cook
3) Bell
4) Pietersen
5) Collingwood
6) Pothas
7) Flintoff (Or extra batsman if he isn't fit).
8) Panesar (He will be a number 8 in the future , why not now)
9) Harmison
10) Jones / Tremlett ( If Jones isn't fit move Tremlett to 8)
11) Hoggard
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In a country where the president calls his political foes in the east an oligarchy, and graffiti in opposition strongholds calls for his death, Chiaki Kinjo's job is daunting.
As a conflict resolution facilitator in Santa Cruz – the epicenter of dissent against Bolivian President Evo Morales – it is her job to get union members, neighborhood representatives, and parent association leaders to see eye to eye.
"Divisions in Bolivia have created so much violence," says Ms. Kinjo, who heads the Santa Cruz branch of Fundacion Unir Bolivia, a group that aims to bridge racial and political divides.
From the outside, it often looks as if Bolivia is on the brink of civil war.
Last week, Santa Cruz voters overwhelmingly approved statutes giving the province more autonomy from the central government. It's the first of four provinces planning to do so in coming weeks. But Mr. Morales dismisses the autonomy votes as illegal and hopes to counter them and revive his presidency by holding a referendum on his rule within the next three months.
Yet as Bolivia finds itself at a crossroads – in the midst of a power struggle that will either lead to consensus or more clashes – there is also a growing sense of conflict fatigue. And groups like Unir, in the absence of dialogue at the top, are trying to reach those who want to forge peace from the bottom up.
"Politics has entered all of our institutions and divided us," says Veronica Arrencibia, the head of a parent's association that participates in Unir's workshops. "We are trying to learn that we can accomplish our objectives, no matter what our views are."
Bolivia's racial and political rifts
Bolivia's poorer, mostly indigenous western highlands and the gas-rich racially mixed lowlands truly do feel like two separate nations. But regionalism and racism have escalated as Morales has attempted to rewrite a constitution to give the indigenous more power, while the wealthier regions have rejected his socialist agenda. "The tension has gotten much worse," says Father Marcial Chupinagua from the Catholic Archdiocese in Santa Cruz, which tried to mediate between the pro-autonomy governors and the central government.
It was in this environment that Unir began working in Santa Cruz two years ago to engender a more inclusive culture. Since then, the group has trained more than 500 citizens in negotiation and conflict resolution.
Yet here, where autonomy is the most explosive issue, the group does not tackle it directly. Kinjo says passions are too high. Instead they work around local problems – land use conflicts, for example.
In one workshop, participants from the governor's office took on the role of indigenous landowners fighting an environmental case while indigenous participants played the role of mayor or governor. When they put the two groups together, participants were asked not to share their political affiliations – a lesson that shows that ideology is often secondary to the root problems at hand.
Most of their participants are mid-level leaders. "This is part of our strategy," says Kinjo. "They can influence others at the top and the bottom." That way a larger phenomenon of common understanding and respect can begin to grow, she says.
Politicians blamed for stoking hatreds
But whether tensions will worsen as the autonomy movement gathers steam remains to be seen.
"Many people feel the government is trying to do everything it can to consolidate power, and the opposition is doing everything it can to consolidate power, and that both sides really don't care very much about how their power needs affect everyone else in the country," says Jim Shultz, a political analyst in the central city of Cochabamba. "Most people would like to see the country move along in a unified way."
That sums up the sentiment of the five members of the Canales family sitting on wooden stools in front of the booth they own selling batteries and blank CDs on a recent day. "She is pro-autonomy," taunts Jimena Canales, pointing at her sister Veronica.
"Every family has a black sheep," adds brother Marcos, smiling.
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But the tolerance that might be felt in the family unit quickly dissipates at the institutional and political level, and that is where Unir hopes to fill a void.
Ms. Arrencibia says the workshops have taught her to slow down, view an entire scenario, and make decisions based on priorities – documenting the entire process. Before, she says she'd be the first to react with a strike or taking over a government building.
During a workshop in the weeks before the referendum, which included participants from both sides of the conflict, she and another leader, Fernando Rosso, who supports autonomy, were asked to present conflicts to the group for mediation.
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I am a male 36 years old I have ended my CHOP chemotherapy for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. About two weeks after my chemotherapy ended and continuing to date, I have been suffering severe leg pain in both legs. The pain is from my upper thighs to my feet. It is a consistent deep bone pain with occasional sharp stabbing pains sporadically up and down both legs, the pain in my feet can best be described as if my feet were put in a vice and crushed. I was originally prescribed neurontin when my doctor thought my pain was due to neuropathy, but that did not help. I am now treating the pain with opiates. I started with a low dose of hydrocodone an am now taking 80 mg of oxycontin daily. The opiates do help, but besides the problem of not knowing the cause of the pain and how long it will last I am also worried about my tolerance level to opiates and possible future addiction to these drugs. I have tried walking exercises and I have tried staying of my feet altogether, neither seems to make a difference. Both my Oncologist and my Internal medicine physician believe this is due to the toxicity of the therapy and could last for up to six months. What do you think?
Erin McMenamin, MSN, CRNP, AOCN, Pain Medicine Nurse Practitioner and Program Manager at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
It is not unusual to have neuropathic pain in the legs after chemotherapy. Many patients need opiates for some time until the symptoms abate. This may even take a year or more in some patients. The nerves can be damaged by the chemotherapy and they regenerate at a rate of approximately 1 millimeter per day. That is why the legs usually take longer to heal then other areas of the body. Other medical problems such as diabetes may lengthen the healing process and can result in more severe symptoms. A sustained release pain medication (such as Oxycontin) with a short acting medication for breakthrough pain is appropriate. In many patients a neuroactive agent such as Neurontin can be effective also. However, the dose of the medication can be increased by a physician to a level of 3 Grams or the development of side effects. If your dose of the medication was increased to these levels by your physician, then it was an adequate trial of the medication. If not, you may want to have some more discussions with your doctor. Neurontin is the only anticonvulsant (other than Tegretol for Trigeminal neuralgia) approved for neuropathic pain. There are others that are sometimes used off label in individual circumstances.


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The Cleveland Browns were hardly the only team that showed up to watch former Baylor wide receiver Josh Gordon work out on Tuesday in anticipation of Thursday's NFL Supplemental Draft.
Adam Caplan of SiriusXM NFL Radio reports that 21 teams showed up and saw Gordon run a 4.52-second 40-yard dash. While that isn't quite as fast as some pre-draft buzz indicated, it's plenty quick for a 6-foot-3, 224-pound athlete.
Caplan also reported that Gordon had a 36-inch vertical leap and 10-foot-1 broad jump, which are very good numbers.
In the traditional draft process, the Pro Day is not the end-all, be all. It's a little more important for Gordon considering that teams haven't seen him play in 2010. This 40-yard time doesn't figure to increase the early round hype surrounding Gordon, but we doubt that it will hurt his buzz.
At this point, conventional wisdom has Gordon going in the third round.
UPDATE: Caplan later reported that Gordon pulled his left quadriceps during his workout.
Josh Gordon pulled his left quadriceps, but was able to finish all routes etc during workout. Didn't drop a pass.
- Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) July 10, 2012
UPDATE II: Gordon spoke to reporters after the workout, and he acknowledged that he is not taking the most idealized path to the pros.
"The supplemental draft isn't the way you want to go into the NFL when you're growing up, but considering my circumstances, I've got to attack it with a full head of steam and do the best I can," he said, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Gordon went on to explain his departure from Baylor, which resulted from a failed marijuana test.
"Everything I thought I had, everything in front of me, just went down the drain. I didn't want to stop chasing my dream, so I transferred, sat out the season and worked as hard as I could to start from scratch."


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Well, somehow Willow learned about Easter--the egg hunts, the bunnies, the candy, etc. You know, all the important stuff. I figured we could just pagan it up to be a nice Spring celebration (although I sort of already did that with St. Patrick's Day, finding it too odd to be explaining to a four-year-old why we celebrate a holiday about Ireland). The beauty of making it a Spring celebration (just like in pre-Christian times), is that you get to keep all that important stuff!
And that is why I (over)ordered a LOT of wooden eggs from Casey's Wood Products this week. Now, some I want to felt over with my nice rainbow wool roving, and some I want to leave natural, obviously, but the other thousand or so?
The girls and I have been creating our own wooden Easter Eggs. And it RAWKS!
The first thing we discovered is that Sharpies work GREAT on these wooden eggs----you get great color saturation (and now, I do not know why I let the baby use Sharpies while wearing that dress), way less mess, and the marker tip allows you to get a ton of detail: Later I'll show you Matt's Mexican wrestler Easter egg--I am totally going to make him color all the girls' dollhouse dolls now.
Of course, though, it wouldn't really be our house if we weren't sloppily wielding some dangerously messy art supply, now would it? And so OF COURSE we got out the acrylic paints, too: In order to lessen the general level of mud-making (most of the wooden eggs are really quite inexpensive, but of course the girls gravitate toward the goose eggs, which are $2.25 each! Don't worry, though, because I'm going to steal the ugly ones and felt over them later), I limited the acrylic paints to two tones within the same color--red and pink, for instance, or blue and navy. The girls didn't seem to mind, and actually had fun observing the different gradations of pink their advertent and inadvertent mixing came up with:
Next on the Easter (uh, Spring) trail, I have to go over to Joann's tomorrow to buy elastic on sale, and I'm really really REALLY hoping to find this chocolate Easter bunny kit there. I loooove the idea of chocolate Easter bunnies, and hell, I'll eat one, but the chocolate always tastes cheap to me (unless it's also filled with peanut butter, obviously), so I'd be stoked to be able to make myself a yummy bunny with some nice dark chocolate.
Okay, in other news, last night I was doing some stuff on the Internet--I've been totally stressed lately, because some people on this etsy team I'm in are really taking this whole "political is personal" worldview, and basically acting the kind of crazy that you're supposed to just back slowly away from, NOT engage--and Matt walks into the room, sipping a cup of juice from a straw, and says, utterly out of the blue," Would it make you feel better if I told you that I have a secret blog?"
Did you get that, friends? Feel free to do the double-take with me. My husband has a secret blog.
If your husband told you that he has a secret blog, what's the first thing you would think of? Here are my top three: My Blog About the Cats I've Killed. My Blog About All the Little Boys Who Live in Our Neighborhood. My Blog About Funny Things I Do to My Wife While She's Sleeping.
But no, my husband's secret blog is way better. It's super-geeky, but super-awesome. It is--get this--a blog that he writes from the perspective of a super-villain wannabe (kind of like Dr. Horrible, but Matt TOTALLY denies the connection). It actually marries the crappest parts of our lives in a really cool way, since the super-villain wannabe is an academic, but is also tortured by student assistants and mired in bureaucracy.
Seriously, Matt doesn't want me to give you the link (his Google Analytics reads: 2. Me and him. And I thought my blog was underappreciated), but you will be so happy if you check out Super-Villainy. Only Matt says that you have to, HAVE TO start from the beginning, way back in September (can you believe that my husband has had a secret blog since SEPTEMBER???), and read the posts in order.
Oh, and he hasn't posted since January, but he says that's all part of the overall plot and his post tomorrow will explain everything. My guy, such an artist.


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Nutritionalist work to make local residents healthier
University of Missouri Extension nutritionists Tonya Wogoman and Jacquie Howell are working to make local residents healthier by sharing information on nutrition, fitness and food safety with local students, families and adults.
"The statistics are terrifying," said Wogoman, nutrition program associate. "The number of kids with diabetes, asthma and other health concerns is growing because of a lack of exercise and a poor diet. It is unreal how uneducated people are."
"Especially in this area," said Howell, nutrition program assistant. "We are working to get the word out to more people. Families are in such a hurry now that they don't have time to cook, but there are healthy options."
Howell, who joined the Extension office in January, works with a variety of agencies to help educate area parents who have children under the age of 5. Currently, the Purdy High School graduate, teaches nutrition classes to Woman, Infant, Child (WIC) clients at the Barry County Health Department offices in Cassville and Monett.
"I taught Head Start in Barry County for nearly 15 years," said Howell. "I liked teaching and this is an opportunity for me to help people."
Howell also works with WIC clients in Seligman and Shell Knob, and educates parents through the Parents As Teachers Program at Exeter, Head Start, library programs and Kornerstone's Teen Moms Program. She is currently organizing a Mommy and Me class for local mothers and preschool children.
Wogoman offers nutrition education at Monett Middle School, the Cassville Senior Center, Exeter Elementary School, ARC of the Ozarks and the Wheaton School District.
"I will work with all of the local elementary schools and some of the middle schools throughout the school year," said Wogoman, a Cassville High School graduate who began working for the Extension office in September of 2009.
"I have an associates degree in general education from Crowder College and additional classes in education through Crowder and Grace Harbor Washington State University," said Wogoman. "I worked as a paraprofessional at Southwest School for a year. I really like this position, because it allows me to do what I love in a different type of environment."
Although Wogoman and Howell are currently approaching area school districts and agencies with information about their programs, they hope that organizations will begin to understand the importance of nutrition education in the near future and contact them.
"We are covering things that are important," said Wogoman. "I hope that people will start to realize that it is really important for kids to get exposed to this information. This information could help make a change in the way kids think about healthy foods. They shouldn't think that unhealthy is always what tastes good."
Wogoman and Howell's programs are based around MyPlate and MyPyramid. Programs for older students and adults are offered once a week for six weeks, and programs for younger children can be held continuously.
"We teach people about the food groups and how much they should eat from each food group," said Wogoman.
"We also offer information on smart shopping, food safety and healthy lifestyles," said Howell. "We do some taste testing of healthy foods."
"I do some body image education with the teens too," said Wogoman. "During the summer, we offer a program called Kids in the Kitchen where the children get to cook. We usually offer that through summer schools and day camps."
Wogoman also offers information and assistance at the Cassville Community Food Pantry located in the Cassville United Methodist Church.
In addition to their normal nutrition education programs, the Extension office offers two special programs to area school districts.
"We offer Food Power, which gives kids an opportunity to visit different stations that offer information on nutrition," said Wogoman. "We also offer a 30-minute play for kindergarten through second grade students, which is similar to the 'Night Before Christmas.' It uses the ghosts of food to teach kids about eating healthy."
The University of Missouri Extension office located in the Barry County Courthouse in Cassville offers a variety of resources and materials designed to educate children about eating healthy and exercising. Available information includes food safety tips, healthy recipes and ideas for physical activities.
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Stuck on the Rage Road
Excerpt from the Fall 2008 issue of bp Magazine
Mood specialists are careful to distinguish between occasional hot flashes of anger and the long-simmering irritability and rage—angry outbursts lasting over several days, during both manic episodes and agitated states of depression—that is symptomatic of bipolar disorder. During a manic episode, experts say, mood changes can swing from irritability to euphoria to depression—all within a 25-minute period of time.
"Instantaneous anger that lasts a few minutes and occurs twice a week is not bipolar, it's being angry," says David L. Dunner, MD, FACPsych, director of the Center for Anxiety and Depression in Mercer Island, Washington. "Irritability can be present during highs and lows, but irritability without elated mood makes me suspect the illness may not be bipolar."
In other words, everybody gets angry. Just because you have a head-turning temper tantrum doesn't mean you have bipolar disorder. Anger is a common response to both physiological illnesses like cancer and heart disease and mental illnesses such as intermittent explosive disorder, major depressive disorder and substance-induced mood disorder.
"As bipolar disorder receives more media attention, it's easy for any type of abhorrent behavior to be attributed to it when in fact, this has to do with one's temperament," says Ronald A. Remick, MD, a consultant psychiatrist at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Bipolar patients are not angry, hostile, irritable people with short fuses," he emphasizes. "If people with bipolar illness have anger issues, they have anger issues."
It is, however, a side of bipolar disorder that has long passed under the radar screen. Many people with bipolar say that uncontrolled anger has destroyed their marriages, families and personal relationships, ruined their careers and left them emotionally isolated...


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Ex-aide to Miami Rep. Joe Garcia to head to jail in absentee-ballot case
Congressman Joe Garcia's former chief of staff will head to jail for orchestrating a fraudulent, online absentee-ballot request scheme during last year's elections.
Jeffrey Garcia, the Miami Democratic congressman's longtime political strategist, will spend 90 days in jail as part of a plea deal reached with the Miami-Dade state attorney's office, the Miami Herald has learned.
The deal, expected to be inked Monday, will require Garcia, 41, no relation to the congressman, to plead guilty to requesting absentee ballots on behalf of voters, a felony.
His attorney, Henry Bell, noted Garcia never "touched a ballot, manipulated a vote or otherwise interfered with anyone's vote."
"He accepts responsibility for his conduct which involved requesting absentee ballots for voters when it was the voters themselves who are required to make the requests," Bell said in a statement. "Jeff is a good person who made a mistake. He is sorry and is doing the right thing in admitting this and accepting responsibility."
Prosecutors tied Jeffrey Garcia to hundreds of phony ballot requests submitted for last year's elections on behalf of unsuspecting voters without their permission. Though none of those ballots were mailed, forged or cast, Joe Garcia's campaign planned to target those infrequent voters with telephone calls, fliers and visits to try to persuade them to vote for the candidate.
Investigators reopened their probe into the ploy in February after the Herald reported that almost 500 of the August 2012 primary ballot requests in Garcia's congressional district could be traced through Internet Protocol addresses that originated in Miami. Florida elections law prohibits anyone other than voters or their immediate family members from submitting online ballot requests.
In June, the Herald found that Jeffrey Garcia might have secretly funded bogus tea party candidate Jose Rolando "Roly" Arrojo in 2010 as a way to siphon conservative votes from Republican David Rivera, who defeated Joe Garcia that year but then lost to him in 2012.
The FBI is now investigating Jeffrey Garcia and Arrojo. Rivera is also under criminal investigation for his possible ties to another ringer candidate, Democrat Justin Lamar Sternad, who ran against Garcia in 2012 and has pleaded guilty to federal campaign-finance crimes.
Both Rivera and Garcia have denied any connection to the phony candidates. And Garcia, whose 26th congressional district extends from Kendall to Key West, has not been implicated in the absentee-ballot scheme. The congressman did not respond to requests for comment Sunday.
Jeffrey Garcia was fired as the congressman's chief of staff in May after investigators raided the homes of the cousin of Giancarlo Sopo, the congressman's communications director, and the family of John Estes, the congressman's 2012 campaign manager. Jeffrey Garcia admitted to his boss that he had directed the others to submit the online ballot requests. Sopo was placed on unpaid leave and resigned in July.
Shortly after Garcia's dismissal, investigators — now on high alert for fraudulent online ballot requests — searched the home of a staffer for then-Miami mayoral candidate Francis Suarez in an unrelated case. The staffer, Juan Pablo Baggini, submitted ballot requests on behalf of 20 voters. But unlike Garcia's campaign, the voters had given Suarez's campaign permission to do so.
Baggini and Esteban "Steve" Suarez, the campaign's manager, received probation in August. Francis Suarez, a sitting city commissioner, dropped out of the mayoral race a few days later.
A grand jury convened by State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle revealed in December that the Miami-Dade elections department had flagged thousands of fraudulent online ballot requests — the handiwork of an apparent computer hacker — during last year's elections.
The Herald's subsequent analysis found that 2,552 requests had been made over a 2½-week period during the summer. The origins of most of them, which targeted mostly Republican voters in two state House districts, were masked by foreign Internet Protocol addresses.
But 472 of them that targeted mostly Democratic voters in Garcia's congressional district had come from IP addresses in Miami.
When prosecutors took another stab at the case, they linked those addresses to Estes and Sopo. Sopo's attorney, Gus Lage, said Sunday that Sopo didn't personally plug voters' personal information into the online request forms — though his cousin, sister and friends did, after they learned from Sopo that Jeffrey Garcia was looking for people to do the time-intensive work.
"What happened was Jeffrey Garcia compiled the information which was then delivered to these individuals," Lage said. "They put it [into the forms] independently."
Last month, Joe Garcia released the results of an internal review conducted by an attorney and political donor who cleared the congressman's remaining staff of any involvement in the absentee-ballot requests.
Last week, Republicans pounced on Garcia when a newly released campaign-finance report disclosed that the congressman had paid $25,000 to Jeffrey Garcia's company, Palm Media, for consulting work. The consulting took place earlier in the year, but Garcia did not send the congressman an invoice until recently. Joe Garcia had already paid Jeffrey Garcia another $25,000 this year as a "bonus" for winning last year's race.
The two men, graduates of Belen Jesuit High School, have been friends for more than a decade. Jeffrey Garcia, who is married, has been known as a loyal but hard-charging campaigner who earned the trust of his clients but also butted heads with Democratic Party honchos.


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Utilities Roll out the Smart Grid in Canada
Recently FortisBC Inc., an integrated energy solution provider serving approximately 162,000 electricity customers in Canada, selected Itron's smart grid solution to support the utility's Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project. This follows on the heels of BC Hydro, another Canadian utility, announcing its plan to upgrade nearly 2 million electric meters over the next two years. Both utilities expect to improve customer engagement and reduce costs through operational efficiencies, and a key technology is the communications infrastructure on which both solutions will run.
Earlier this year, Cisco helped rally the industry around the utilities need for an architectural approach based on open standards, that would address interoperability and cybersecurity across disparate systems. The Cisco GridBlocks ArchitectureTM provides such framework, and its implementation for the utility field area network is what BC Hydro and FortisBC are using to deliver multiple applications and manage devices over a common communication network. As these Canadian utilities modernize the electric grid they are looking to deliver applications such as automated meter readings, distribution automation, and energy management programs over time. And reducing Opex with a single communication network that can scale to support all these applications will be critical.
To quote Mark Warren, director of customer service at FortisBC, the utility sees
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A day in the Beautiful Bay of Islands
New Zealand's Bay of Islands provides the perfect setting for a great day out if you are visiting Auckland.
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Northland is often called The Winterless North and if you're visiting New Zealand during the cooler winter months, Northland's more mild climate is very easy to enjoy. It's easy to while away a few days in the region, but if time is limited, then a day trip from Auckland to Paihia in the Bay of Islands by coach is a really good option.
As well as the spectacular destination of Paihia itself, the scenic drive from Auckland north to the gorgeous Bay of Islands is itself a feature of the day.
The first highlight is crossing Auckland's iconic Harbour Bridge for spectacular views of the harbour and downtown city highrise buildings. Seeing the harbour at each end of the day, with the rising and setting sun, is definately worth the early start!
The seaside beach communities of Orewa and Waiwera are particularly picturesque, as is the village of Warkworth.
Native forests and sub-tropical bush, rolling farmland and ocean vistas really make the road trip visually interesting. I really enjoyed the coach driver's commentary, interesting facts (and maybe some fiction!), stories, history and cultural knowledge was amazing.
On arrival at Paihia, we transferred from the coach to the catamaran "Dolphin Seeker", skippered by another font of local knowledge. The primary destinations of the afternoon cruise are the Cape Brett Lighthouse and the Hole in the Rock, but if there are dolphins in the area at the time, you can expect some minor detours so everyone can enjoy seeing these amazing creatures frolicking in the bow waves. The "local" dolphins usually seen are the common and bottlenose and sometimes orca and whales cruise through. There are 144 very beautiful, natural islands in the Bay of Islands and the region is renowned for its marine life.
At the Hole in the Rock, which is literally a hole in a rock, well, a small island, the skipper carefully navigates Dolphin Seeker through to the other side. A little scarey (breathe in!) but he knows what he's doing and will only do it if the sea conditions allow it. There is time to take photos of the Grand Cathedral Cave before heading back to the inner islands of the Bay and Paihia.
There is a little time to have a wander around the village of Paihia, perhaps a beach walk, before reboarding the coach for the drive back to Auckland. Hard not to nod off in the comfortable recliner seats. This is quite a long day tour, departing at approx 7.30am, returning approx 8.10pm, but a wonderful excursion full of outstanding scenery, interesting history, cultural highlights and sealife encounters.


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