Friday, June 25, 2004
June Bugg Bikers Boogie Blues Blowout Bash    
Sponsor: Renningers Antique This is the biggest and best 3 day party to hit central Florida. Come see for your self and be amazed. Takes place at Renningers Antique & Flea Market, 20651 US 441, beginning at 10:00am. This is on 160 acres of moss covered oaks for shade & refreshing breezes. Three day pass is only $20.00. Saturday and Sunday pass only is $15.00. 
Super boogie blues show only $10.00. All grassland camping, Limited RV and electric. First come first serve. 
There will be food, drink, and beer at non rip off prices. There will be a tattoo contest, biker babe beauty contest, cycle show with cash prizes, and vendors for all your biker needs. For more info call (352) 343-0388  

LUMBERJACK DAYS 
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July 22-25, 2004 Stillwater, MN http://www.lumberjackdays.com 651-430-2306 Lumberjack Days is Stillwater's annual summer celebration, held in Lowell Park adjacent to the beautiful St. Croix River in historic downtown Stillwater. National-act concerts and lumberjack shows along with one of the largest musically choreographed fireworks shows in the United States are just a sample of the free entertainment waiting for you at Lumberjack Days 2004.

THUNDERING WOMEN FESTIVAL 
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June 25-27, 2004 Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada http://www.thunderingwomen.ca 807-625-0328 Now how's that for a festival name? Women, men and children are invited to gather together in celebration of the musical, artistic and entrepreneurial pursuits of Northern Women. The Thundering Women Festival will honor, bolster and spotlight the potential and achievements of all women - your wives, partners, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, nieces and friends! 

Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair  
themselves

Jane was becoming frustrated with her husband's insistence that they have sex in the dark. Hoping to free her husband from his inhibitions, during a passionate evening, she flipped on the lamp--only to discover a cucumber in his hand.

Is this what you've been using on me for the past 10 years?!"

"Honey! Let me explain!"

"Why you sneaky bastard!" she screamed. "You impotent SOB!!"

"Speaking of sneaky!" he interrupted. "Maybe you'd care to explain our 2 kids!!!"
Thanks Geri

Uruguayan health authorities Tuesday announced a government 
-issued ban on tattoos for minors on certain parts of the body. The decree restricts tattoo parlors from tattooing the face, neck, forearms, hands, and genitals of young people under the age of 17. In order to tattoo the rest of the body, minors between 15 and 17 years old must receive permission from their parents. Ministry of Public Health Director Raquel Rosa said the measure stemmed from an objective to preserve work opportunities for youths. Also prohibited are piercings and decorative pierced jewelry for minors without parental permission. The health minister told the commission she recognized minors with tattoos on exposed parts of the body would have greater difficulty joining the workforce. "There are places where a tattoo works against obtaining a job," Rosa said. 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to consider the constitutionality of a law that extended the life of Terri Schiavo of Tampa, Fla. Lower court rulings have determined Schiavo, 40, has been in a permanent vegetative state for 14 years. Her parents are fighting to save her life while her husband is trying to remove her feeding tube. Michael Schiavo last October had the tube removed with the permission of the courts, but the Legislature passed a law allowing Gov. Jeb Bush to order it reinserted. The constitutionality of that law has been challenged and a petition to have it thrown out was upheld in a lower court and -- skipping a lower appeals court -- has now gone to the high court, the St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday. George Felos, attorney for Michael Schiavo, said the Supreme Court can bypass lower appeals courts on issues of importance that require immediate resolution. Terri Schiavo lost consciousness when she suffered cardiac arrest in 1990. 

SARASOTA - The first-degree murder case against Joseph P. Smith will be back before a judge Wednesday.

Pretrial motions will bring Smith's case back to court this week, even though it could be more than a year before Smith, 39, stands trial in connection with the kidnapping, rape and murder of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia.

Smith isn't expected to attend the hearings, court officials said.

The motion filed June 11 seeks to restrict the "viewing, copying, publishing, disseminating, distributing, displaying or otherwise use of certain photographic materials" of Carlie Brucia.

Chief Assistant State Attorney Dennis Nales said prosecutors will be at the hearings, but won't be taking a position on either request.

Prosecutors won't take a stand on the Herald's request to release the sealed documents that were mistakenly released because it was Smith's defense that asked for the records to be sealed in the first place, Nales said.

Sarasota County Clerk Karen Rushing has said that a deputy clerk erroneously released paperwork that was under a judge's seal. Information obtained from the mistakenly released documents was reported by several media outlets, including television stations and The Associated Press.

According to Rushing, it doesn't appear the deputy clerk intentionally leaked the information and it was "just a mistake."

Herald attorneys filed a motion claiming the material should be released because the defense's argument that the records should be sealed to ensure a fair trial is no longer valid.

Owens ordered the discovery to be sealed for 60 days to allow Smith's defense to review the material and determine what portions, if any, they wanted to ask the judge to seal until after the trial.

Smith's lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Adam Tebrugge, was not available for comment Monday. He has said he is still in the process of reviewing the discovery material.

OUTLAW motorcycle gangs involved in the drug trade pose the biggest threat to society after terrorism, a police expert has warned.

Superintendent Fred Gere, who has studied bikie gangs in several countries, says they are like the new Mafia but are far deeper entrenched in criminal operations, including global amphetamines markets.  And they are becoming more business-like, cleverly using members and contacts nationally and internationally to boost their money-making activities. 

The West Australian superintendent is a member of the International Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association. 

He warns that some Australian law enforcement agencies might be lulled into a false sense of security when the gangs are quiet. 

"If you've got a clubhouse, you've got drug dealing," he said. 

"There is no doubt in my mind that if you've got outlaw motorcycle gangs in your town, your state, you've got criminal activity. 

"The reality that law enforcement, government and the community needs to be aware of is when they're quiet, that's when they're doing business – and doing real good business." 

While not all members are criminals, he says a number have significant criminal records and they drive the gangs' illegal activities. 

"You find a lot use their membership to enhance their drug transactions – not only at a local or national level, but also at an international level," Supt Gere said. "I believe outlaw gangs of today are what the Mafia was in the '70s and '80s." 

And we know you're a poser if...
- You spit out the bug that just flew in your mouth. 
- You spend more time shining your bike than riding it. 
- You're too cool to wave at the kids in the mom-mobile in front of you. 
- You grab for your hairbrush before your old lady. 
- You take your bike into the shop for oil changes. 
- Your $500 boots aren't scuffed from riding. 
- You think that a kick-starter is a mocha latte. 
- You set at least one mirror, if not both, to reflect yourself. 
- Your saddle bags say "Gucci". 
- You carry a lap-top in your saddle bags. 
- Your tattoos wash off. 
- You put your pony-tail back in the drawer after you get home. 
- You won't ride down a gravel road. 
- You've never seen a sunrise from two wheels. 
- You only ride on weekends, when you can. 
- You never ride to work. 
- All your leathers match. 
- There are no wrinkled, faded, creased, or scratched areas on your leathers. 
- You don't own a rain suit. 
- You've never ridden long enough to know that stock seats are never comfortable. 
- You've never had to replace a worn out tire. 
- You've had to replace your tires, but because they were too old and not too worn. 
- You like to ride by stores with big picture windows so you can admire your reflection. 
- You ride a Ducati. 
- Your longest road trip this year was to Hooter's for bike night. 
Thanks Babs

An Oaklyn man who participated in hours of beating and sexually assaulting a woman as an initiation rite for entry to the Pagans Motorcycle Club was sentenced Friday to 12 years in state prison.

Ryan Shavitz will have to complete 85 percent of the sentence before applying for parole. The sentence of Superior Court Judge William Cook follows recommendations in a plea agreement that required Shavitz to testify against co-defendant Richard Hill.

According to testimony at Hill's trial, the two men had forced a woman into a garage at Hill's home on West Beechwood Avenue in Oaklyn where they held her captive for hours.

The woman, who knew Hill previously, escaped when both men passed out and she ran, naked except for her socks, to a public phone on the White Horse Pike to call police.

She told Cook that during the incident she was choked to unconsciousness and threatened with murder.

"It's been 1,026 days (since the Aug. 17, 2001, attack) and not a day goes by that I don't think about what happened that night," she said.

"I ask the court to show no mercy, compassion or pity. I believe that if he would have killed me, he would have discarded my body and continued his mission to become a member of the Pagan motorcycle gang," she said.

The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. Conceived as a real estate ad, it originally read Hollywoodland. The sign stands 50 feet tall, stretches 450 feet across, weighs 450,000 pounds.