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August 2nd, 2011
Tuesday: Tigers vs. Rangers
- Austin Jackson, CF
- Brennan Boesch, LF
- Magglio Ordonez, RF
- Miguel Cabrera, 1B
- Victor Martinez, DH
- Jhonny Peralta, SS
- Carlos Guillen, 2B
- Alex Avila, C
- Wilson Betemit, 3B
P: Max Scherzer
- Ian Kinsler, 2B
- Elvis Andrus, SS
- Josh Hamilton, CF
- Michael Young, 3B
- Nelson Cruz, RF
- Mitch Moreland, 1B
- Mike Napoli, DH
- David Murphy, LF
- Yorvit Torrealba, C
P: Colby Lewis (former Tiger, albeit briefly)
Purcey designated to make room for Pauley
The new Tigers have arrived from Seattle, and in a somewhat unexpected move, David Purcey is on his way out. The Tigers designated Purcey's contract for assignment on Tuesday to make room new reliever David Pauley. Doug Fister already had a roster spot open for him once Jacob Turner was optioned to Triple-A Toledo on Sunday.
Had Al Alburquerque's elbow been an issue, the move most likely would've been to put Alburquerque on the DL instead. But both team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski and manager Jim Leyland said Alburquerque is in good shape and available to pitch tonight. With somebody having to go out, the Tigers essentially chose to keep just-recalled Daniel Schlereth over Purcey, at the risk of losing him to a waiver claim.
The Tigers have 10 days to trade, release or outright Purcey. Given his command struggles, it would seem unlikely, but still possible, that another team claims the former first-round pick on waivers. The Tigers, for their part, would like to get Purcey in Toledo and work on straightening out the command issues that left the Tigers in a bind to use him in any situations.
"We like his arm and we'd love to keep him," team president/general manager Dombrowski said, "but lately he's had problems throwing strikes. For us, it was based upon us. If he clears, we'll be happy to have him back at Triple-A and hopefully get him back throwing strikes."
It was an odd development for the talented lefty who came over from Oakland in the Scott Sizemore trade back in May. He pitched well for the first four weeks he was a Tiger, racking up 8 2/3 scoreless innings over seven outings, before his command seemed to desert him.
Add up his 12 outings since June 21, and Purcey walked 16 out of 60 batters he faced, while allowing 15 earned runs over 10 innings. Opponents were batting .395 off him in that stretch. The capper was the last four outings, when he walked seven out of 13 batters.
"He threw so well early for us," Dombrowski said. "He's had control problems in his career at times, but never to this extent."
Technically, you could argue that Purcey's roster spot was needed for Doug Fister, since both Fister and Pauley were added to the roster at the same time. But the alliteration wouldn't have been as good then.

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Bay City officials should go with the flow of their outcounty customers in the examination of options to improve the local water supply.
Bay County water customers outside the city have shelved a proposal to continue drawing water from the murkier inner Saginaw Bay and instead get cleaner, easier to treat water from Lake Huron.
It may be tough to swallow in a city that once called the shots for water service, but it's the best direction in the talks that may create a Bay County water system.
The water service saga here is complicated — way too convoluted for a county that shares a shore with one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world.
Bay City, which owns a water plant on North Euclid, has long supplied treated drinking water to the metropolitan area. The city has set the price, and the Bay County Department of Water and Sewer oversees the veins and capillaries of pipelines that deliver it.
Several years ago, the city's major water customers, unhappy with city prices and terms, started plotting their own course, with the possibility of building their own water treatment plant.
Faced with the prospect of losing its major water customers just as it lost its major sewer customers of Essexville and Hampton Township, Bay City officials changed their game, and joined the discussion of new ways to deliver water.
Bay City must do something, because it must upgrade its water treatment plant to meet federal regulations, a very costly prospect.
The new consortium had been examining the options of improving the city water plant while still drawing water from inner Saginaw Bay, building a new water treatment plant, and buying raw water from the Saginaw-Midland Water Supply Corp.
It's that cleaner Saginaw-Midland water from Whitestone Point north of Au Gres that the outcounty water customers seek. It's initially cleaner and so potentially easier and cheaper to treat to drinking-water standards than water from Saginaw Bay.
That northern water, by the way, is piped through two huge lines that run the length of Bay County, roughly following M-13 most of the way.
Why not tap into that source? It would seem a sensible part of Bay County's new plans.
Yet, Bay City commissioners at a meeting last month weren't ready to quickly embrace the idea.
They should.
Time's a-wasting. The water contract between the county and the city expires in 2015 — and that's when county customers hope to be shed of their old arrangement with Bay City.
Bay City can either get on board as a partner or be left without its major customers anymore — and stuck alone with the massive cost of upgrading its 30-year-old water treatment plant. That would be as disastrous to city finances and infrastructure as the city's loss of its major sewer customers, Hampton and Essexville, to the county system. The city subsequently hiked its sewer rates a startling degree, report customers who are just receiving their bills.
Still, City Commission President Christopher Shannon said at a recent Finance and Policy Committee meeting that he'd like the city to explore building a new plant, and selling the old plant.
Belay that dream.
The days of the city going it alone as the sole supplier of water to this area are coming to a close.
The only considerations for Bay City should be driven by the related criteria of cost and quality. Period.
Cost and quality are why the county customers have shunned Saginaw Bay as a raw water source. Provided Bay County can work a good deal with the Saginaw-Midland Water Supply, why wouldn't our county get its raw water from a pipe running right through out back yard?
We wouldn't expect the city to rubber-stamp every proposal the county customers pitch.
But we would expect the city to get over the daydream that it can act alone anymore.
Because the county water customers have made it clear that the city will need them, more than they'll need the city.


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I'm just thinking over my Gum cosplay and can't figure out how to make her hat:
The rest of it should be pretty simple, it's just this.
I've thought about a helmet but I think it may be a bit too bulky.
The other option is a fleece hat... Any other options that I didn't think about? This part is really bugging me! D:
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That's called an aviator hat 8D there's a deviantart tutorial on how to make one, or I'm sure there are more around the internet.
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Ooo! Now to find a decent printer and when I next go to Trago I'll have a go at making one! 8D
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This coming offseason, the Kansas City Chiefs will have many tough decisions to make about their roster that could greatly effect their future.
One of these decisions will be about the quarterback situation going forward.
Right now, there are four QBs that are tied to KC's current roster and I don't expect any of them to be the QB of the future for this franchise.
Here are seven reasons why Kansas City needs to start from scratch with the quarterback position for next season and beyond.


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"The Wedding Singer" is trite, predictable, silly and dated.
It also happens to be a whole lot of fun.
Check it out for yourself as Red Mountain Theatre Company takes you on a trip back to the 1980s, where cell phones weren't quite as portable, Twitter could have been a dance and Mark Zuckerberg hadn't shown his face – much less his Facebook – to the world.
Based on the hit Adam Sandler movie, "The Wedding Singer" tells the story of Robbie Hart, a happy-go-lucky wedding singer preparing for nuptials of his own. From the moment he meets waitress Julia Sullivan, you know where this is going – both are dating someone else, but they will, somehow, end up together at the end.
Eventually, Robbie is left at the altar, and Julia begins to see her money-grubbing fiancé for what he is.
For "The Wedding Singer" to work, you've got to like the wedding singer, and Todd Adamson pulls it off both comedically and vocally. Ashley Wieronski's Julia is pure cuteness, and she has a big voice to match.
What: "The Wedding Singer," presented by Red Mountain Theatre Company
When: Through May 19
Bottom line: Four out of five stars
Tickets: 205-324-2424 or www.redmountaintheatre.org
As Robbie's bandmates, B.J. Underwood sports big hair and a great sense of comic timing as Sammy (Hagar, maybe?) and Nick Mason is charming and appropriately flamboyant as George (no doubt based on Boy). Both Russ Hobbie and Sally Montgomery are fun as Glen, Julia's fiancé, and Rosie, Robbie's spunky grandmother.
But it's Stephanie Feigen and, especially, Juliet Brooks, as Robbie's ex-fiancee and Julia's best friend, respectively, who help raise "The Wedding Singer" to another level.
Number one, Brooks is the choreographer, and she puts the talented ensemble through some spiffy and fun paces. Anyone with a passing knowledge of what passed as "dancing" in the 1980s will get a kick out of it. (Ron Kellum directs with the same sense of humor, and Tom Vendafreddo is musical director).
Number two, both Brooks and Feigen have about the only memorable musical numbers in the show. There is the catchy anthem, "It's Your Wedding Day," but other than that, what you're going to come away remembering are the two songs featuring Brooks ("Pop!," "Saturday Night in the City," "Right in Front of Your Eyes") and Feigen ("Let Me Come Home").
The rest of the show would be forgettable, were it not for the likeable cast and tireless ensemble. They're having a great time, and they're going to put a big smile on your face, too.


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ESSEXVILLE, MI — The Coast Guard rescued a man who fell through the ice while snowmobiling on the Saginaw River near the Saginaw Bay.
A watchstander at the Essexville Coast Guard Station received notice that a man had fallen through the ice on his snowmobile at 9:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15.
A Coast Guard ice rescue team aboard a 20-foot airboat arrived about 15 minutes later and pulled the man from the river near the Channel Islands. The man was conscious but was slurring his speech because of hypothermia, according to the Coast Guard.
The man, whose named is not being released, received medical treatment at the Coast Guard station.
"It was an excellent response by our team in a dire situation," said Chief Petty Officer Zachary Hamilton, coxswain of the airboat and leader of the ice rescue team, in a statement.
"The man was in a dangerous situation because he wasn't wearing the proper clothing to be immersed in the water. We encourage anyone participating in ice recreation, especially those who are on the ice, to be properly clothed including at least a life jacket for an emergency entrance into the water."
The Coast Guard Sector Detroit Incident Management Division will monitor any pollution concerns stemming from the snowmobile in the water.


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Recent observational and theoretical studies have raised the possibility that the collimated outflows in gamma-ray burst (GRB) sources have two distinct components: a narrow, highly relativistic outflow, from which the gamma-ray emission originates, and a wider, moderately relativistic surrounding flow. Using a simple synchrotron emission model, we calculate the R-band afterglow lightcurves expected in this scenario and derive algebraic expressions for the flux ratios of the emission from the two jet components at the main transition times in the lightcurve. We apply this model to GRB sources, to explain the structure of afterglows and source energetics, as well as to X-ray flash sources. We find that, for a range of ratios of the component kinetic energies that can plausibly arise in models of magnetically driven jets from a neutron-rich source, the emergence of the wide component in the afterglow lightcurve may mask the jet break in the narrow component, which in turn may lead to an overestimate of the gamma-ray energy emitted by the source and hence of the required gamma-ray emission efficiency.
This work was supported by NASA Astrophysics Theory Program and U.S. Department of Energy.
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I don't know the answer to the insurance question. But I'm not sure you can find an OB that would only let you come in when you wanted to, for tests and such that you determine are important. That's just not how they operate. A midwife may be more open to the suggestion, but also may not be. Depends on the Midwife.
As far as UPing (Unassisted pregnancy), you can do most care for yourself such as keep a food diary to keep your nutrition in check. Check your own blood pressure at the grocery store. Keep your weight gain in check. Know what indications mean something may be out of balance..like swelling (not enough salt? Too much time on feet? etc). Or headaches and seeing spots etc.
If you want blood work and tests that's kind of hard to do on your own. There are lots of sonogram places around these days, but they are not usually diagnostic, they are for looking and getting pictures. Some will do gender identification and that's it.
The reality is, this depends all on your comfort level with pregnancy and knowing your own body.
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Your insurance should cover any bloodwork or care that you need. Mine did. I did not go to an OB for tests, I went to a clinic. It's easy to just go in and say "I'm having a home birth with a midwife (yes, I know, I totally lied) and she can't order bloodwork for me." They ran tests for iron levels as well as a lead test I requested just to be on the safe side. They didn't ask questions and were happy to do it.
You won't be able to get ultrasound without going to an OB, however. I personally am against ultrasound unless I strongly suspect a problem, but that's up to how each individual mom feels. I believe they are unsafe and would rather not expose my baby unless I feel I have to.
I did my own prenatal care the second time around after seeing how easy it was with my midwife the first time.
-check blood pressure at grocery store or get a blood pressure cuff to use at home (they make automatic ones now as well)
-urinalysis strips are easy to obtain and inexpensive and have directions right on the box. This is the brand my midwife used: http://www.amazon.com/Response-Parameter-Urinalysis-Reagent-Strips/dp/B001EUAXZM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338705723&sr=8-1
-check weight on bathroom scale
-eat healthily
-watch for signs of problems as IntuitiveJamie said above
-take own temperature
-check iron and heavy metal toxicity levels at local clinic
-check blood sugar levels with a blood glucose monitor (I didn't do this with either pregnancy)
-purchase a fetoscope to monitor baby (doppler is ultrasound, so a no-no for me)
I made a chart in Word and printed it out to write my info on throughout my pregnancy. I kept it in a folder with my other medical info to take with me in case I had to transfer to the hospital for any reason.
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We decided to forgo any ultrasound for our last pregnancy which we did UP and UC. That was mainly because I would have had to see the doctor to go over the ultrasound and I really didn't want to do that. When I was still considering an ultrasound, I managed to find a place that does them for free (one of those Christian Pregnancy Crisis centers, which will do them whether the pregnancy was intended or not) but their cutoff was 24 weeks and I was at 26. If you're eager to do one, but don't want the hassle of doctors/appts, I would recommend that route. Of course, not knowing the gender ahead of time is fun because it tends to drive the people around you a little bit crazy :)
Thanks for the replies! I think I am just going to go to a midwife/ob practice for prenatal care and then...oops, I had the baby at home. I do want ultrasounds, just to rule out multiples or placenta previa or any other issues.
That's what I do. And also, someone said that an OB or whatever might not let you forego some appointments/tests. That's not true. I skipped appointments with my twins and also with my last baby (they get annoyed, but they can't do anything about it), and they have no problem if you don't want to get weighed, pee in a cup, get a cervical check, etc. You can always decline those things, and you can decline the GTT and ultrasounds, too. However, I usually do those things anyway, because I feel it doesn't hurt to get those tests done, and I'm okay with 2 ultrasounds, an early one for dating and then the anatomy scan.
depends on who you find. I thought I could hold my own, but then ran into a couple (lately) who outright refused to see me for reasons like that I hadn't gone to any appointments for so long.
I tried to skip appointments but it didn't work at all. When I tried to schedule my next appointment, the nurse said, oh, you can't have that one yet, you havn't done your XYZ appointment. Also, you can refuse anything but they might get grumpier over time about that one. It might work better if I had more kids and could use them as my excuse, or if I had the courage to tell them, "look, I don't think these are helping me at all, so I'm coming to only half. Make them count." and stuck to that. Probably will never bother doing that, my current midwife is the best, so I've just gone t o everything. Oh darn that reminds me I forgot to schedule my next one! Ah, this is what I mean, there's so many things to go and do its just hard to remember period, you'd think they would understand.
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Fort Drum's 'Climb to Glory' statue, honoring the 10th Mountain Division, was knocked off its pedestal on Wednesday night.
The high winds sent a tent being put up for Veterans Day ceremonies into the 18-hundred pound sculpture, knocking it into a bed of mulch.
The statue has only minor damage because of the soft landing, and should be back up in about a week.


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It would be really cool if Kristen sat on the other side of him; I will be watching to see.
i think hes sitting in kristens spot
HAHA Betty White this will be interesting :L
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Compares AR platform rifles with M-16 version
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Why are people so thick-skulled? It might help the discussion if once and for all people out there in la-la land would get their facts straight.
Mr. Rhoades gave a very good description of an M-16 rifle in his letter in the Feb. 7 issue of The Sentinel. The only problem with that is this discussion has nothing to do with an M-16 rifle. An M-16 rifle, and I am very familiar with one, has a selector switch on it that allows it to be on safe, fire, or automatic. When it is on safe it will not fire. When it is on fire it can be fired one round for each time the trigger is depressed. When it is on automatic you can hold the trigger down and it will continue to fire until you release the trigger or the clip is empty. These rifles are illegal for civilians to own unless they have been disabled so they can no longer be fired. Even then you must have a special collector license.
The AR platform rifles that are being used for hunting and target shooting are not the same. They are either set on safe or fire. There is no setting for automatic. When on safe they do not fire. When on fire you must depress the trigger for each round to be fired. When a round is fired, the action will cycle and it will chamber another round but it will not fire again until you release the trigger and depress it again. If you try to hold the trigger depressed it will cycle one time and stop firing.
AR platform or "modern rifles" may look similar to an M-16 rifle but they are not the same. If this is still too complicated for some people to understand maybe I can really start you at the beginning with a book about Dick and Jane and Spot and Puff.
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Chris Coco's weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week's best new music.
In this episode: some dubby slo mo disco, some re-rubs of amazing tunes from Sepalcure, Bon Iver and Radiohead, plus an unexpected journey into the strange world of the blue moon. It's all here and it's all summery.
The Four Tet remix of Radiohead's Separator is spot on.
i also featured sepalcure in my weekly mixtape: i feel saxy 7 check it out!
Oooh, lovely. Best Melodica for ages. Nice and eclectic. cheers Coco.
Fantastic Separator Rmx, I wish it never ended!
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The Four Tet remix of Radiohead's Separator is spot on.
Love pressure Remix is great and I and just found out that I can see you on 27th sept. at Space. Looking forward to it.
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love it and also your set at the big chill..couldn believe it! xx
Really lovely mix. Thank you Chris! From Bon Iver til the end, it is near perfect.
Loved hear something from Australia..but more than this, the last 5 tracks transported me back to someone I had forgotten about...the person I was before career and children! Ahh sweet melancholy! Such a beautiful surprise to listen to those tunes. Thanks Chris!
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11:30 a.m. UPDATE: Midtown Direct trains are no longer being diverted to Hoboken. Trains into and out of New York are still delayed by 30 minutes, according to NJ Transit.
An overhead wire problem is delaying NJ Transit trains along several lines this morning,
Trains on the Raritan Valley, Northeast Corrdior and North Jersey Coast lines are running 30-45 minutes behind schedule, NJ Transit said.
All Midtown Direct trains are being diverted to Hoboken, where riders can catch PATH trains to New York. PATH will cross-honor NJ Transit tickets in Newark and Hoboken.
Trains into and out of New York Penn Station are restricted to the use of a single track.
Amtrak trains are also affected.
Crews are in the tunnel under the Hudson River making repairs, according to NJ Transit's twitter feed.
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) — Alberta was alone in top spot with Manitoba and B.C. tied at 8-2 after a key morning game as the round robin draws to a close at the Canadian men's curling championship.
Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton defeated B.C.'s John Morris 7-6 in an extra end Thursday at the Tim Hortons Brier.
"It was a great game, puts us in a great position," said Stoughton, who already has three Brier titles on his resume, the last in 2011.
"It gives you confidence going into the playoffs that things are going pretty good for us. We feel that we're playing better now than we were at the start of the week. And I think . . . what you want to do is build on it."
Stoughton started the Brier with four wins — though none were decisive — before losing to Alberta and Quebec. He admitted both he and third John Mead needed to pick up their game.
This game wasn't mistake free either for Manitoba or B.C., but the last and most costly was made by the hometown favourites.
After exchanging deuces in the first two ends, it was singles until B.C.'s Jim Cotter missed a key double with his last rock in eight, letting Stoughton draw to the button for two to go ahead 6-5.
"It was a real tough double," said Morris. "We missed it by a hair."
"It was just one of those games where we weren't sharp enough, we were really close but we weren't sharp enough. Jimmy made a couple of clutch shots just to keep us in it."
Cotter, who has been a top-shooting fourth stone for much of the Brier, agreed it was a killer.
"That was a big deuce in eight for them. I just barely missed, the wrong side of the inch I guess," he said.
"Maybe it wasn't our best game but we hung in there, made him throw his last one."
Manitoba held the lead into 10 when Cotter had to hit to take one and force the extra end but Stoughton used the hammer to score a single with an easy double bump to sit on the button.
"As long as I didn't hit it thick we were going to be OK. A third of a rock, I think we hit it bang on," said Stoughton.
"We were probably 80 to 85 per cent curling and to win this we're going to need to be 90 per cent," added Morris. "We're just praying for a shot at the one-two game."
Exactly who will sit where in the top three spots wasn't decided Thursday morning. Manitoba was set to play Ontario and B.C. faced Saskatchewan in the evening draw, and Alberta was playing in the afternoon and Friday morning.
The top three seem untouchable but at the very least there is still a battle for fourth, with Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec the leading contenders.
In the only other game Thursday morning, Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue beat Northern Ontario's Jeff Currie 7-6. Gushue sits at 5-5 while Brier rookie Currie fell to 2-8.


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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:32 PM
This property at 340 S. 14th St. is owned by Chris Polkinghorn. He was one of 11 property owners who the city identified last week as being often cited for codes violations. The list of names was released after Mayor Eric Papenfuse and other city officials declared a "war on blight" and a "zero tolerance" policy for repeated code violators. According to the city, Polkinghorn has been cited 27 times since 2005. 02/26/2014 Sean Simmers | email@example.com
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Despite not making the NCAA tournament last season for the first time since 2005, the future looks bright for the Xavier Musketeers. The 2013-14 season will usher in Xavier's transition to the Big East, the addition of Western Michigan transfer Matt Stainbrook to the starting lineup and the development of reigning Atlantic 10 Freshman of the Year Semaj Christon.
With head coach Chris Mack at the helm, the Muskies will look to improve upon their 17-14 record and seventh-place finish in the A-10 last season. Xavier is in its second year of rebuilding the program.
The Musketeers will rely on a lot of youth next season with five freshmen and two sophomores on scholarship. Xavier can expect a lot of competition for playing time as well as depth on the bench—something the Musketeers lacked last season—as it enters a new era in the Big East.


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This Day in the History of Hoaxes (and Stunts): June 16
June 16, 1946: Jim Moran Hatches an Egg
Publicity man Jim Moran began sitting on an ostrich egg, taking the place of the mother ostrich who supposedly refused to sit on it. He wore special "hatching pants" and sat in a "hatching chair" (a wheelchair with a compartment for the egg) in order to keep it warm. The egg hatched 19 days later. The stunt was designed to promote the 1947 movie "The Egg and I."
Mon Jun 16, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 15
June 15, 1936: A.D. Lindsay Acquires the Universe
On this day in 1936, Arthur Dean Lindsay had a deed of claim notarized declaring his ownership of "all of the property known as planets, islands-of-space or other matter." He subsequently filed this deed at the Irwin County Courthouse in Ocilla, Georgia, where it was recorded in the Deed Book. After bringing his ownership rights to the attention of reporters, Lindsay became widely known as the "man who owns the universe." Although skeptics questioned what gave Irwin County the right to give deeds to the heavenly bodies.
Sun Jun 15, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 14
June 14, 1870: Burial of Emile Coudé
On this day in 1870, the French doctor Emile Coudé, inventor of the curved "Coudé Catheter" used by urologists to relieve urinary obstruction, was buried in a churchyard at Villeneuve-la-Comtesse. Except that he wasn't. The man and his biography were invented as a joke by Welsh medical students in the 1950s. Some physicians didn't realize it was a joke and referred to the man in medical textbooks.
A few sources
still mistakenly claim that the coudé catheter was named after a French physician. In reality, the coudé catheter was invented by Louis Mercier (1811-1882). In French, coudé (the adjective) means bent; coude (the noun) means elbow.
Sat Jun 14, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 13
June 13, 1971: "Hanoi John"
On this day in 1971, John Kerry spoke at the Register for Peace Rally in Long Island. Thirty-three years later, during Kerry's 2004 presidential election campaign, a picture surfaced of him at the rally apparently on stage with Jane Fonda. The image circulated widely, but was soon identified as a politically motivated forgery attempting to link him to Fonda, who was widely reviled by conservatives. Fonda had not attended the rally. Her image had been composited into the photo.
Fri Jun 13, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 12
June 12, 1922: Margherita Hack Born
Margherita Hack (1922-2013) was an Italian astrophysicist, known also for being a vegetarian, feminist, and outspoken atheist. In 2005, she famously debunked the annual "miracle" of the liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro by noting that the substance contained in a phial in Naples Cathedral was simply hydrated iron oxide, which looks very much like blood, but liquefies when shaken. She said, "There is nothing mystical about this. You can make the so-called blood in your kitchen at home." This observation sparked widespread outrage in Italy. [
The Telegraph
Thu Jun 12, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 11
June 11, 1990: America Loves Donald Trump!
On this day in 1990,
USA Today
announced the results of a phone-in poll, showing that 81% of callers believed Donald Trump symbolized "what makes the USA a great country." The headline declared, "You like him! You really like him!" A month later, the paper admitted that 70% of the votes (5,640 of 7,802 calls) came from two phones in an office building in Ohio owned by financier Carl Lindner Jr. Without those votes, the survey showed that a majority of callers believed Trump represented "the things that are wrong with this country." [
LA Times
Wed Jun 11, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 10
June 10, 1865: Frederick Cook Born
American explorer Frederick Cook claimed to have been the first to reach the summit of Mount McKinley, as well as to have been the first to reach the North Pole. Both these claims were derided as fraudulent during his life, and his reputation suffered greatly. Cook had a particularly bitter rivalry with Robert Peary, who also claimed to have been the first to the North Pole. Modern analysis suggests that it's likely neither man actually reached the Pole. [
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 9
June 9, 1987: Save the Geoduck
The Save the Geoduck Committee held a protest in New York to bring attention to the "plight of the geoduck" (which is a kind of clam) because it was apparently threatened with extinction on account of a "voracious international appetite for aphrodisiacs." United Press International covered the protest, leading to nationwide attention for the group. In fact, the geoduck was not in any danger, nor was it used as an aphrodisiac. The Save the Geoduck committee was the creation of media hoaxer Joey Skaggs. [
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes (and Pranks): June 8
June 8, 1958: The Rooftop Austin Seven
Residents of Cambridge woke to find an Austin Seven parked on the 70ft-high rooftop of Senate House. The student ringleader of the prank later explained that he felt the roof "cried out" to be made more interesting. It took police and firefighters over a week to figure out how to get the car off the roof. [
The Telegraph
June 8, 1992: Pregnant Man Debunked
A Filipino male nurse, Edwin Bayron, who had received worldwide media attention when it was announced that he had become the first ever man to become pregnant, was exposed as a fake. He had initially fooled health officials by claiming to be a hermaphrodite, strapping on a fake belly, and doctoring his urine tests. He concocted the hoax in order to support a court application to legally change his gender so that he could marry his Army officer lover. [
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 7
June 7, 2009: The Birth of Little April Rose
A Chicago woman who identified herself only as "B" or "April's Mom" had attracted a large online following by blogging about her decision to give birth to a child diagnosed as terminally ill. On June 7, 2009 she announced that the child, April Rose, had survived a home birth, but had died a few hours later. But skeptics soon noticed that the photos of April Rose actually showed a lifelike doll and not a real baby. After this revelation, her entire story quickly unraveled, exposing the truth — that she hadn't been pregnant at all. [
Chicago Tribune
Sat Jun 07, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 6
June 6, 1944: D-Day
Allied forces landed on the beaches at Normandy. The invasion was preceded by Operation Fortitude, one of the largest campaigns of military deception ever undertaken, which involved the creation of fake field armies consisting of inflatable rubber tanks and planes. The Operation succeeded in convincing the Axis powers that the invasion was going to occur somewhere other than Normandy. [
June 6, 2011: Gay Girl in Damascus Kidnapped
It was reported that popular blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari, author of the blog "A Gay Girl in Damascus," had been captured and detained by armed men in Syria. But as a result of the media attention generated by this news, questions started to be raised about her identity, leading to the revelation that Amina was actually Tom MacMaster , a 40-year-old American man studying for a masters at Edinburgh University. [
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 5
June 5, 1961: Piotr Zak
On this day, the highbrow BBC radio
Third Programme
presented an "avant-garde work" titled "Mobile for Tape and Percussion" by the Polish composer Piotr Zak, who was said to be one of the youngest and most controversial figures in modern music. Two months later, the BBC confessed that Piotr Zak didn't exist. A
BBC spokesman explained, "We dragged together all the instruments we could and went around the studio banging them… It was an experiment to demonstrate that some contemporary compositions are so obscure as to be indistinguishable from tapes of percussion played at random." [
June 5, 2000: Shades for Men Lipstick
Ads appeared on the side of Toronto buses announcing the launch of a men's lipstick line called "Shades for Men." However, this product never went on sale. It turned out to be a hoax campaign used to test the effectiveness of bus advertising as a vehicle for launching new products.
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 4
June 4, 1872: The Great Diamond Hoax
Two prospectors arrived with a group of investors at a field in Colorado that appeared to be full of diamonds lying close to the surface — just as the prospectors had promised it would be. The investors enthusiastically paid a large finding fee, but later discovered (after the prospectors had disappeared) that the field had been artificially salted with diamonds. [
Wed Jun 04, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 3
June 3, 2002: The Retractable Capitol Dome
On this day in 2002, the
Beijing Evening News
ran a story alleging that the U.S. Congress was hoping to construct a new Capitol building that included a retractable dome roof. When critics mocked the newspaper for having mistaken a satirical story in
The Onion
for real news, the paper's editor denied this, saying "How can you prove it's not correct? Is it incorrect just because you say it is?"
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 2
June 2, 2001: Dave Manning Exposed
Newsweek reporter John Horn revealed that movie reviewer Dave Manning, whose positive blurbs often appeared on ads for movies put out by Columbia Pictures, didn't actually exist. He was a fictional person created by a marketing executive at Sony, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, entirely for the purpose of making it appear as if their movies were getting good reviews.
Mon Jun 02, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: June 1
June 1, 1997: Wear Sunscreen!
Mary Schmich published a humorous column in the
Chicago Tribune
on June 1 advising college grads that her best advice for the future was to "wear sunscreen." Two months later, the text of her column began circulating widely via email, but attributed to Kurt Vonnegut and said to be a commencement speech he had given at MIT. Even Vonnegut's wife reportedly received the hoax email and, believing it to actually be the work of her husband, forwarded it to family and friends. [
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June 1, 2007: De Grote Donorshow
The premise of the Dutch reality TV show
De Grote Donorshow
(The Big Donor Show) was that a terminally ill woman with an incurable brain tumor would decide which of 25 "contestants" in need of a kidney transplant would get to have her organ. Despite widespread condemnation, the show went ahead as planned, airing on June 1, 2007. But minutes before the end, the entire thing was revealed to be a hoax designed to publicize the urgent need for more organ donors. [
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: May 31
May 31, 1725: The Lying Stones of Dr. Beringer
On this day, Dr. Johann Beringer, a University of Würzburg professor, was given three unusual fossils that showed images (the sun and several worms) in three-dimensional relief. Beringer thought he had made a remarkable discovery and grew even more convinced of this when many more, similar stones turned up. He eventually authored a book about the stones. At which point, he found out that two fellow professors had created the stones to hoax him.
May 31, 2003: The Cesky Sen Hypermarket
Lured by ads throughout Prague promoting a new hypermarket called Cesky Sen ("Czech Dream") that would sell products at unbelievably low prices, hundreds of people showed up at the Lethany Fairgrounds for the grand opening. But all they found was a giant Cesky Sen banner. There was no hypermarket, nor plans to build one. Several student filmmakers had set out to record what would happen when consumer's expectations collided with reality, and so had launched a marketing blitz to promote a non-existent, too-good-to-be-true store.
Sat May 31, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: May 30
May 30, 2000: spud server revealed to be a hoax
It was purported to be a web server powered entirely by potatoes, and it served up web pages at an appropriately slow, potato-powered speed. After gaining international media exposure — both USA Today and the BBC reported about it — the makers of Spud Server admitted it was all a joke. There was no giant potato battery powering their site.
Fri May 30, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: May 29
May 29, 1947: Sea Monster Attacks Tokyo
The armed forces radio station in Tokyo interrupted its evening broadcast to report that a 20-foot sea monster had emerged from Tokyo Bay and was making its way inland. A series of bulletins provided updates on the progress of the creature as it derailed trains and smashed buildings. The report caused widespread panic. Military police were put on alert, and Japanese police were told to stand by to fight the monster. But after an hour, the announcer admitted the news flashes had just been a joke in honor of the station's fifth anniversary.
Thu May 29, 2014
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This Day in the History of Hoaxes: May 28
May 28, 1952: The Cornell War Broadcast Hoax
On the night of May 28, 1952, a group of Cornell students disguised by halloween masks raided the campus radio station, WVBR, and began broadcasting news flashes claiming that Russian planes had bombed Paris, Marseilles, and London. The reports initially caused hysteria in the dorms, although most people soon realized they were fake. The Dean of the University later described it as a "lunatic stunt." The students involved were suspended for a year. [
Cornell Archives
Wed May 28, 2014
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island Technical High School continues to keep moving up the charts.
The New Dorp specialized high school ranked 40th in the country and fifth in the state in U.S. News & World Report's list of the nation's best high schools, which was released Tuesday.
Those marks easily bested last year's rankings, when the school finished 77th and 13th, respectively, on the magazine's list.
At Tech, administrators weren't letting the big jump in the national and state rankings -- or the fact that it was the only Staten Island school to make the top 100 nationally or in the state -- go to their heads.
"You have to take it with a grain of salt, because Tech is so much more than just a ranking," Principal Vincent Maniscalco said.
All schools in the borough do well, he added, and there's no single indicator that makes for a great school.
"You can't forget to acknowledge both the accomplishments of the students and faculty and what they're able to do," Maniscalco said.
Assistant Principal Mark Erlenwein said one of the key things to look at in the ratings was the college-readiness index: Tech scored 91.2 out of 100. The figure is based on the amount of students taking and passing Advance Placement exams and courses.
"In the past five years, we've went from 500 Advanced Placement seats to over 1,800 Advance Placement seats in the school," Erlenwein said. "That's going from a population of approximately 800 students to 1,200 students."
And while the number of students taking the exams has tripled, the percentage of students passing the exams has remained at 90 percent, he said.
U.S. News & World Report's 2013 list was based on data from the 2010-2011 school year. Tech has made it each year since the magazine started the rankings in 2007.


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Through 11/29, Ashford drops the price of the Bulgari Women's Ovale Watch, Model OV32GL from $2,652 to $2,100 with code AFFOVALE. This watch retails for $5,100 and features 18K gold, Swiss quartz movement, and scratch resistant sapphire crystal. Shipping is free and sales tax is not charged in most states.No longer available


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More than 40 faith groups are joining together for the fifth annual prayer service for justice and peace at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 310 N. Third St.
Participants represent Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Unitarian, Hindu, Sikh, Native American, Buddhist and other faith traditions.
Gov. Tom Corbett and members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly have been invited.
"As they face difficult decisions in an uncertain economy, with many people in need across Pennsylvania, we will be praying for our elected leaders," said the Rev. Sandra Strauss director of advocacy for the Pennsylvania Council of Churches.
A reception will follow. An offering will be collected for Downtown Daily Bread.


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Serialized Dramas - Television - Report - New York Times: Don't Touch That Dial.
Don't Touch That Dial
By BILL CARTER, Published: October 29, 2006
IN every television season some new lesson about the American audience is imparted. This season's lesson was clear within the first weeks of the fall: you can ask people to commit only so many hours to intense, dark, intricately constructed serialized dramas, to sign huge chunks of their lives away to follow every minuscule plot development and character tic both on the air and on Internet sites crowded with similarly addicted fanatics.
Ask for more and you will get what happened to every network this fall. "The Nine" got low numbers. "Vanished" was banished. "Kidnapped" went unransomed. "Smith" was swift-kicked. "Runaway" sounded like a command.
"The message we received was that people have strains on their lives," said Kevin Reilly, the president of NBC Entertainment. "People are saying, 'I've got my handful of shows like this, and I don't want more.' "


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Holy Cross and Archdiocese of New Orleans officials should know by Thursday if the lower 9th Ward school will be allowed to relocate to Baton Rouge for the remainder of the 2005-06 school year, Coach Barry Wilson said Monday night.
Holy Cross officials are attempting to hold evening classes at Dunham Academy in Baton Rouge pending approval of Dunham officials, Wilson said. A decision by Dunham officials is expected at a Wednesday night meeting, Wilson said.
Holy Cross also will attempt to field a football team for the final five games of the regular season if feasible, Wilson said. Holy Cross suffered heavy damage, particularly from flooding, due to Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29.
"We're going to try and play here at Dunham, '' said Wilson, who initially evacuated to Memphis, but has returned to Baton Rouge where he played for LSU. "We're trying to get the school up and running and see if we can get five games in, if we can get enough players together. That's all we can do.''
Holy Cross principal Joe Murry could not be reached for comment. Wilson acknowledged the daunting challenge the Tigers face in trying regroup the football team over the next few weeks.
"I don't know if it's realistic, '' Wilson said. "But we're going to try and do it. It's going to be difficult. We don't know how many players we'll be able to get (together). We'll have to find housing for them. So it's going to be tough. We felt like this was going to be our best team.''


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Markets for agricultural commodities have long existed, but organic growing is a much newer sector lacking exchanges to efficiently guide prices. Judges at the PowerMoves.NOLA entrepreneur festival on Friday (July 4) rewarded a startup that provides just such a trading platform with the $25,000 prize in the second of two business pitch competitions for the day.
The founder of the firm, called Mercaris and based in the Washington, D.C., area, said the money will support operations until the company completes a larger round of fundraising in the next month or two.
"This is a great bridge to get us through," said Kellee James, chief executive of Mercaris.
In her pitch to a four-judge panel of investment firm executives, James said organic food has grown from a niche interest to a major industry. Because of the additional care and costs involved in production, she said, "It's a separate supply chain from the conventional commodities."
Major buyers in the sector, such as the Whole Foods grocery chain giant, now have to call growers individually and laboriously to research prices, she said. She said her platform, which serves as a marketplace and a data resource, speeds the process.
The PowerMoves festival debuted on Thursday, running alongside the Essence Festival, to offer support to minority-owned businesses from New Orleans and around the country. A third business pitch competition takes place Saturday in the middle of Essence festivities at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
James said in addition to the win, the event offered encouragement by introducing her to high-caliber minority entrepreneurs, whom she assessed as being ready to attract venture capital investment, assembled in one place.
"As a minority entrepreneur, this is really rare and really special to see," said James, who is African-American. "All these folks should be super competitive for VC funding. The quality is there. If VCs are wondering where the minority entrepreneurs are, they should come here."
Her competitors included firms providing wearable technology, finance services, digital communication services, facial recognition technology, chemical products and even an artificially intelligent robotic bartender.
PowerMoves organizers cited a statistic that less than 1 percent of firms winning venture capital are black-owned. That showing and other studies motivated them to create the event, they said, to help minority businesses nationally and position New Orleans as a center for minority business growth.
Earlier Friday, an Internet portal providing hair care consulting, including chemical hair analysis, for black women won $25,000 in another contest. PowerMoves also includes a business coaching camp, a yearlong fellowship and other business support programs.
In addition to James, six entrepreneurs pitched in the afternoon contest, sponsored by Entergy:
- Alberto Tarajano, co-founder and chief revenue officer of Access Personal Finance of Miami, which delivers lines of credit as an employee benefit to help people avoid payday and predatory lending.
- Tarik Rodgers, president of Blue Infusion Technologies of Dallas, maker of BearTek Gloves that give users control of phone calls, music and other functions of digital devices with simple finger movements.
- Marisa Bryce, CEO and co-founder of ConversePoint in Chicago, a messaging platform that pares down electronic messages to key information to reduce "message noise."
- Brian Brackeen, founder of Kairos of Miami, provider of facial recognition technology for consumer identity confirmation, event attendance monitoring, customer research and other purposes.
- Lisa Dyson, CEO of Kiverdi from Berkeley, Calif., which makes oils and chemicals for products such as detergents, biomaterials and fuel additives that reduce the use of petroleum and cut carbon dioxide emissions.
- Barry Givens, CEO and founder of Monsieur in Atlanta, maker of an artificially intelligent robotic bartender that mixes cocktails for home and commercial consumption.


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After turning in a couple of impressive scoring performances in some of Kentucky's early victories, week three of the college basketball season was not as pleasant for Kyle Wiltjer. Wiltjer found himself under the critical eye of Kentucky head coach John Calipari for his defense despite an 81-70 win over Morehead State.
Former Grant High School star Mike Moser also struggled as the No. 24 UNLV Runnin' Rebels fell to the upstart Oregon Ducks (3-1). UNLV was able to rebound the next night against Iowa State with Moser registering a double-double of 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Here's a glance at the week in college basketball for some of Oregon's best high school basketball players from the past:
Kyle Wiltjer, No. 8 Kentucky Wildcats (Jesuit)
Wednesday, November 21 - Kentucky 81, Morehead State 70 - 9 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block
Friday, November 23 - Kentucky 104, Long Island 75 - 7 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds
• Despite two more wins by Kentucky, and two more starts from Wiltjer, head coach John Calipari was not happy with Wiltjer's defense. Calipari limited Wiltjer's minutes because he was a liability on defense against Morehead State. Kyle Tucker of The Courier-Journal quoted Calipari saying the following after the game:
"They went at Kyle," Calipari said, "and I told Kyle, 'This isn't last year. You want to be on the court, you've got to guard somebody. They went at you every single time.' He's got to learn."• For Central Kentucky News, Larry Vaught elaborated on Calipari's comments about Wiltjer. Calipari wants Wiltjer "to be nasty":
If [Wiltjer] doesn't guard, he's not playing; it's real simple. I told him, I said it to him in front of the team, 'If this is what other teams do to us, the minute I see it, if you don't stop the guy, do something to stop him, then you're out..." Calipari said. "Kyle is capable. But, listen, here it is: You stop the man or you're sitting. ... He's got to anticipate, he's got to be rougher, he's got to be nasty."Mike Moser, No. 24 UNLV Runnin' Rebels (Grant)
Friday, November 23 - Oregon 83, UNLV 79 - 9 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists
Saturday, November 24 - UNLV 82, Iowa State 7 - 15 points, 12 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 assists
• Eric Prisbell of USA TODAY Sports caught up with Moser, "UNLV's spark plug," for an in-depth interview. Of the numerous questions he was asked, Moser said the following about how he's better this season:
"Naturally just experience helps a lot. ... I definitely became a better ballhandler and a lot better shooter, which is a big thing I worked on from the summer until now. Playing more on the wing this year, I am getting a lot better at it. I've been working with Coach Stacey (Augmon) on a lot of fundamentals."• For SI.com, Evan Williams writes that UNLV's loss against the Oregon Ducks highlighted the Runnin' Rebels "glaring holes." Of those holes, one stems from Moser's "alarmingly slow start":
Moser needs to play like an All-American for the Rebels' engine to click on all cylinders. No. 43 was a no-show in the season opener versus Northern Arizona (just two points), and disappeared again against Oregon.Stephen Holt, Saint Mary's Gaels (Jesuit)
Thursday, November 22 - Saint Mary's 76, Drexel 64 - 6 points, 8 rebounds and 1 steal
Friday, November 23 - Pacific 76, Saint Mary's 66 - 15 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists
Sunday, November 25 - Georgia Tech 65, Saint Mary's 56 - 10 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists
• Raphielle Johnson of NBC Sports writes that despite the presence of Holt, among others, on the perimeter, Saint Mary's is still trying to figure out "life without Rob Jones" after a disappointing showing at the DirecTV Classic in Anaheim over the weekend (1-2):
Jones' presence gave Saint Mary's a front court player that could go out and get them points when teams focused too much attention on [Matthew] Dellavedova, and while the Gaels entered Sunday's game with three players other than Dellavedova averaging double figures [including Holt at 12.5], they don't have that consistent interior option right now.Stephen Madison, Idaho (Jefferson)
Tuesday, November 20 - Idaho 72, Wisconsin-Green Bay 62 - 19 points, 7 assists and 4 rebounds
Friday, November 23 - New Mexico 73, Idaho 58 - 9 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists
• Madison is averaging 15.3 points, 5 rebounds and 3.5 assists for Idaho through four games. He's also second on the team in minutes behind Kyle Barone at 30.3 per game.
Michael Harthun, Portland State (South Medford)
Wednesday, November 21 - Portland 81, Portland State 60 - 11 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist
Sunday, November 25 - Oklahoma State 81, Portland State 58 - 12 points, 1 assist and 1 rebound
• Harthun is averaging 10.3 points, 2 rebounds and 1.3 assists for Portland State through four games. He's leading the team in minutes at 28.3 per game.


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Powdery mildew on cucumber.
The topsides of leaves are covered with a white powdery growth. Areas of the leaves and stems turn brown, wither, and dry. Fruit may be covered with the growth.
ANALYSIS: Powdery mildew
This common plant disease is caused by either of two fungi (Erysiphe cichoracearum or Sphaerotheca fuliginea) that thrive in both humid and dry weather. The powdery patches consist of fungal strands and spores. The spores are spread by the wind to healthy plants. The fungi sap the plant nutrients, causing yellowing and sometimes the death of leaves. A severe infection may kill the plant. Since powdery mildew attacks several different kinds of plants, the fungi from a diseased plant may infect other types of plants in the garden. Under conditions favorable to powdery mildew, infection can spread through a closely spaced planting in a matter of days or weeks.
ANALYSIS: Downy mildew
This common plant disease is caused by the fungus Pseudoperonospora cubensis. Irregular shaped yellowish to brown spots appear on the upper sides of leaves, usually at the center of plants. Under moist conditions, a purplish mildew develops on the underside of leaf spots. Leaves die as spots increase in size. Spread is rapid from crown toward new growth. The causal fungus overwinters in areas with relatively warm climate and can be introduced to other areas by wind. Moist conditions favor disease development.
At the first sign of the disease, treat the plants with a fungicide containing chlorothalonil. Continue treatment at intervals of 7 days for as long as the disease is a problem. Grow varieties resistant to powdery and downy mildew.
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• The Trail Blazers have nabbed a new, high-profile member: Spaniard Rudy Fernandez, a standout, shooting guard
• Oregon's State Board of Higher Education gave the go-ahead today to the University of Oregon to build a $200 million basketball arena
• The Northwest's oyster supply is being killed by a microbe that thrives in warm water
• Frost damage in April and cold weather during the pollination season could cut this year's cherry harvest by 50 percent, and picking is not expected to start until about June 20, 10 days later than usual
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"Into the Woods"
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Through Sunday
Review gets three out of five stars
"Forbidden Broadway" once wonderfully parodied Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" as "Into the Words," poking fun at the composer's intricate wordplay.
It's the blessing and curse of "Into the Woods." When performed well, you get the benefit of Sondheim at his best - a plot ingeniously weaving favorite fairy tales in and out of each other, with songs as clever as any he has written. When execution is poor, though, it can lose an audience entirely.
There's some of both in CenterStage's "Into the Woods," which boasts some strong performances that manage to overcome some shoddy technical work that threatens to ruin the whole darned thing.
"Into the Woods" brings Cinderella, Rapunzel, their princes, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and his beanstalk together, their stories intersecting with that of a baker and his wife, desperate to lift a witch's curse so that they can have children. It's definitely a Sondheim take on happily ever after - the characters' quests for better lives lead to disaster and death, a grim take on Grimm, to say the least.
What director Paul McCracken has done well is cast the leading roles, chief among them the women, including Jennifer Gamble as Cinderella, Leah Luker as the Witch and the delightful Kimberly Piazza as Little Red Riding Hood. Best of the lot, though, is Kristy White as the Baker's Wife. It's a demanding role, and she's more than up to the task as a singer and actress.
The guys are good, too, led by Brent Jones as the Baker, Frank Thompson and Hal Word as the two princes, Reid Watson as Jack and Andrew Duxbury as the Narrator. Where "Into the Woods" strays from the path is in the technical area.
Sondheim uses every moment to advance his plot, and you must be able to hear the actors. At Saturday night's performance, the characters of Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and Cinderella's step-family were so poorly miked they didn't even need to be on stage. Worse than that, though, was poor Lee Fowler as the Wolf. An intricate costume was fun to look at, but it muffled everything he had to say or sing, ruining the usually engaging "Hello, Little Girl."
Another downfall? Some dismal special effects accompanying the Witch. If they're not special, don't use¤'em.
"Into the Woods" is a tall order, and CenterStage largely succeeds. Some attention to detail would have taken it to another level.


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The company he founded later built the Space Needle for the 1962 World's Fair. A spokesman says the company plans to appeal the judge's decision. NLRB Once Again Caught In The Middle Of A Thorny Boeing-Machinists Dispute By Ashley Gross • Jan 21, 2014 Elaine Thompson / AP Photo Listen Listening... / 2:01 The National Labor Relations Board once again is being called into the middle of a thorny dispute between machinists and the Boeing Company. Could the agency find itself in as much political hot water this time as three years ago? 2011 is the year the NLRB exploded onto the national consciousness, all because the agency's general counsel filed a complaint against Boeing over its decision to build a Dreamliner plant in South Carolina. That drew heated responses from many political conservatives. Labor board drops high-profile Boeing complaint By The Associated Press • Dec 9, 2011 WASHINGTON — Republicans say they aren't prepared to celebrate after the National Labor Relations Board dropped its high-profile lawsuit against Boeing on Friday. The Machinists union approved a four-year contract extension with Boeing this week, in which it agreed to withdraw allegations that the company built a nonunion plant in South Carolina to retaliate against past union strikes in Washington state. In return, Boeing promised to build the new version of its 737 airplane in Washington state. GOP Sen. Committee chairman subpoenas NLRB documents in Boeing case By The Associated Press • Aug 8, 2011 The chairman of the House Oversight committee has subpoenaed documents from the National Labor Relations Board relating to its lawsuit against Boeing Co. NLRB lawsuit against Boeing 'could hurt workers' By The Associated Press • Jun 17, 2011 NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gov. 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Michigan baseball fans can expect a star-studded roster for the next few seasons.
The Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game at Comerica Park on Monday featured 36 of the best high school baseball players in the state of Michigan.
Six of those players will go on to play at the University of Michigan next season: Jackson Lamb of Temperance Bedford, Brett Adcock of Bay City Western, Johnny Slater of Southfield Lathrup, Carmen Benedetti of Grosse Pointe South, Harrison Wenson of Detroit U-D Jesuit and Hector Gutierrez of Detroit Western International.
Slater, Benedetti, Wenson and Gutierrez helped lead the East to a 9-4 victory, but the best part about the All-Star Game experience was getting to know their current and future teammates.
"Every kid here, we're all gonna stick together," Gutierrez said. "We're all gonna keep in touch, see how each other's doing and root for each other.
"We all got along great here; it's gonna be fun."
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Gutierrez got things rolling in the first inning for the East squad, coming up with a three-run double over the rightfielder's head off of his future teammate Lamb to make it 4-1.
He didn't take much credit for it, though.
"I knew (Lamb) threw hard," Gutierrez said. "And he got ahead 0-2, and I was expecting a curveball and all I did was stick my bat out, and I got lucky and got it over the right fielder's head."
Slater, Gutierrez's future roommate at Michigan, started that rally to lead off a four-run first inning for the East by knocking a single back up the middle against Lamb and then stealing second base.
The four Michigan recruits all batted in the first inning and contributed to the four runs.
All four Wolverines on the East squad started, and they batted first (Slater), third (Benedetti), fifth (Wenson) and seventh (Gutierrez).
Benedetti, who shared Michigan's Mr. Baseball award with Lamb, hit a triple in the fourth inning to drive in a run and extend the East team's lead.
Benedetti is looking forward to his time at Michigan with his fellow All-Star recruits.
"All of them are great kids, and I'm very excited to play with them next year," Benedetti said. "Our team chemistry should be very good."
Lamb struggled a bit on the mound, but impressed with his bat, hitting a 400-plus-foot triple to the warning track in centerfield in the fifth inning.
Wenson, the starting catcher for the East, didn't get much of a chance to handle the bat, getting hit in his first two at-bats.
Adcock came into the game late to pitch, and also went 1-for-2 at the plate.
Lamb (20th round - Texas), Slater (31st round - Atlanta), and Wenson (38th round - Detroit) all were selected in the recent MLB Draft, but plan to delay their professional dreams for a chance to play at Michigan.
"We've got a good class coming in, so it's definitely gonna to be fun," Slater said. "I definitely like playing with these guys; it's gonna be fun."


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Easton city Council listened to a series of plans Wednesday night to pump more than a half-million dollars of state funds into projects.
The projects range from street improvement projects in the West Ward, to blight elimination work on vacant buildings in the West Ward and South Side.
Council also heard plans to obtain $300,000 from the state for a revolving loan program at the Easton Public Market.
The Easton Public Market is a food market planned at 325 Northampton St., the site of the former Weller Health Education Center in downtown Easton.
The city has already awarded about a $1 million to the project.
Jared Mast, the project manager, told council the money will be loaned to entrepreneurs at the market.
When they repay their loan, he said, the money will be recirculated to make new loans to other startups in the city.
Another $300,000 is being sought from the state to support the Redevelopment Authority's blight elimination program.
The authority plan is eyeing four properties for the program, two in the West Ward and two in the South Side.
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Another day, and as of 2:10 p.m. just more rumors on the status of free agent Ilya Kovalchuk. The latest is that the Kings are back in the mix. A little earlier was buzz that he might be headed to Russia's KHL for a slightly larger offer than he got from the Devils (though fans have been quick to point out that a lighter income tax makes the actual value of the KHL offer substantially larger).
NJ.com Devils fans are trying, with varying degrees of success, to be patient through this, and one pastime is theorizing on what's taking so long to get this done. Here's a theory from goofcity79, commenting on the post, which cites a Russian Website, asking if Kovalchuk is ready to play in the KHL:
This is a sketchy report because there is nothing to report. My prediction: Devils have an Agreement In Principal with Kovy, but they need to clear cap room to sign him. So, everyone has "gone dark" until there is room to sign him and the deal is done. Of course, if the room cannot be cleared then these weird Plan B's might come to the fore. It wouldn't surprise me if this drama goes on for several days if not weeks.
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Letters by: Perry Zielak
Like many that choose to live here, I think Ann Arbor is a special place. However, there are ways our fair city can improve. We should have better roads and infrastructure. We should have more police officers to make us feel safer Downtown. We should improve our funding of human services. I've heard other candidates talk about these same ideas, but only Sally has articulated a way to pay for these priorities.
Sally has talked about the need for an economic development plan. By attracting smart growth to Ann Arbor, we can raise revenues to pay for things like better roads. An economic strategy means better buildings than the out of place skyscrapers popping up Downtown. An economic plan means better cooperation with the University of Michigan instead of just throwing our hands in the air when they buy another property. A city of our size and caliber needs to have a plan and staff to create and direct economic development.
I could talk about Sally's ability to work with diverse groups, her ability to listen to both sides of an issue before making decisions, or that she would be a full time mayor. But most importantly, she is the only one offering a specific way to pay for the things we want. It is for this reason that I hope you will join me in voting for Sally Hart Petersen on August 5th.
Perry Zielak
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