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Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds
Signet, July 2003, 6.50, 272 pp. ISBN 0451208862 Growing up wealthy made it hard for Nora Blackbird to survive when her parents went through the family fortune, skipped town, and began living the high life in a foreign country using funds �borrowed� from friends. Keeping Blackbird Farm is important to Nora so much so that she sold some acreage to a mobster's son who built a used car lot on the property. She now works as a society columnist for ...
Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too
Old East Coast money opened doors for the Blackbird daughters all their lives, until their parents swindled and cheated their way to a tax-free life in a foreign country. They left oldest daughter Libby with the furniture, youngest Emma with the art collection and middle sister Nora with the family home with a $2 million outstanding tax bill. To make a living, Nora writes a society column for the newspaper and sold five acres of family land to Michael ...
How To Murder A Millionaire
Nora Blackbird's parents left the US for a sunny, tax evaders resort leaving Nora's sister Emma with the art collection and her other sister Libby with the furniture collection. All Nora gets is the property that has been in her family for generations - and a two million dollar tax bill. For the first time in her life, Nora, a former socialite, is forced to *gasp* work. Rory, an old friend of the family who owns a Philadelphia newspaper takes pity on her...
Some Like It Lethal
Signet, April 2004, 6.95, 320 pp. ISBN 045121174X She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and grew up to be one of the most sought after woman in main line Philadelphia society. Her parents squandered the family fortune, raided their daughters' trust funds and moved to a South American country to live the high life because Argentina doesn't have an extradition treaty with the United States. Nora Blackbird wants to preserve the family home...


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Student's Art on Display in State Capitol
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October 12, 2012—
Lindsey Licht, a fifth-year exercise science major, is also an artist, and two of her sketches have been selected for display in the House of Representatives Office Building in Lansing, part of the annual Art in the House exhibit.
Two of Licht's pieces, a still life and animal sketch, will be displayed later this month joining artwork from other university and high school students. An open house launching the exhibit is slated for Wednesday, Oct. 17.
Licht's teacher is pleased. "I have had Lindsey in several art classes," says Susan Kilpela, senior lecturer in visual and performing arts. "She is an excellent student and artist, and I am confident that she will make a valuable contribution to society. She is also humble about her talents, a trait that I admire in students."
So, Lindsey is asked, why the interest in art?
"When I visited and fell in love with Tech, I wanted to go here. I chose an art minor because they didn't have an art major," she said.
Licht is no stranger to public exhibitions. In fact, she had artwork shown when she was in Midland High School.
Flipping through a couple of sketchbooks, she reveals the progression of skills over the years. She's sketched hands, feet, faces, full figures, even a pair of skis and a husky.
"People are the hardest," she says. "But I think it will come in handy if I end up working as an occupational therapist."
She hopes to focus on pediatrics and believes her art background will help, whether developing patients' motor skills or sculpting casts for youngsters.
Her sketch tablets show human forms done in timed sessions: gestures, for example, in 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Some poses take 10 to 12 minutes.
"It tests how quickly you can get the shape down, which helps you learn the body proportions better," Licht explains.
Her later sketches have added an accent color to the charcoal, highlighting the figures.
"It's cool to be acknowledged," she says of the Lansing exhibit. "I would still draw if my work wasn't noticed, but it's nice that other people see potential."
Graduating in December, she's glad her future in the health field will include art. "It's best of both worlds," she says. "There's art in a health career, and that's everything I need."
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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We have learned that the Mayor will be delivering a State of the County address at 10am in which she may be mentioning her thoughts about higher education in Maui County. We therefore will focus only on two areas in order to be able to attend this presentation.
1. Financial Aid, Recruitment and Housing Plans including statewide marketing initiative.
2. Additional Chancellor's Advisory Council Materials: WASC Accreditation Data Points; Employment Demand Data, County Demographics, possible developments that may influence College focus (e.g. Bioenergy/Fiofuels Development; Long Term Care Needs, others?), MCC Strategic Plan, Highlights of Strategic Plan Outcomes and Accomplishments, other critical information,
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iHeartMedia Communications, Inc. is the world's largest radio and outdoor advertising company with leading market positions in each of its two business segments: Radio and Outdoor. iHeartMedia is also one of the most innovative media players in the market – a leader in the converging media space, having developed best-in-class integrated media offers (e.g. Radio/Web) and having built significant positions in the HD arena. The company has recently unified and aligned its national marketing, partnership and sales teams to enable CCM&E to grow national digital ad revenue and pursue national multi-media marketing opportunities to meet advertisers' need to reach and engage consumers in powerful new ways across multiple platforms. The company is competitively positioned to win in the marketplace and is putting sizable investment and resources against building a world-class, digital sales force.
And as a result of iHeartMedia Media + Entertainment's quest to provide our clients world class products and platforms to advertise and reach consumers; and to meet the ever changing tastes of consumers - we are seeking world class sales talent to represent the face of creativity and innovation for iHeartMedia Media + Entertainment.
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• Prospects and develops relationships with key decision makers at major local and regional corporations.
• Self-generates leads through existing contacts, networking initiatives, and cold calls.
• Creates effective integrated campaigns tailored towards multi-media advertisers, combining broadcast and non-broadcast projects, special events, web streaming and other off-air projects.
• Develops presentations to corporations and agencies designed to sell integrated marketing solutions across the iHeartMedia brand.
• Meets sales targets from specific companies with competitive media commitments.
• Works with broader market sales and support team to ensure smooth execution of campaigns
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- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- 5+ years experience selling local TV advertising and/or Sports/Venue sponsorships at major network, venue or sports franchises with a proven track record of success.
- Strong network of C-level and key decision makers at direct advertisers and local agencies
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We do not know when it will be available.
Just a quick check, without asking for exact times or commitments, is the BT3 final release currently estimated to be at least a few weeks away, or is release imminent?
Just trying to decide whether to spend the money to download the BT3 beta ISO now, or wait. (I pay for data transfer.)
We do not know when it will be available.
there is no official eta from the crew
but i bet you will have to wait a little more, i know muts and all crew are really busy those times and they are not only doing bt3 dev.
so if it's a question of weeks , yes you can dl beta, but maybe it worth more to get one of these shitty magazine with bt inside(but i bet it will be bt2)
Watch your back, your packetz will belong to me soon... xD
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Is there likely to be a second beta or a release candidate before the final release, or is the plan to go straight to final?
No one can say when the final release will be out. It all depends on how the bug fixes go & ultimately when the development team feels it's stable & polished enough to go "stable". The majority of software I've beta tested runs at least several months. Then possibly go into RC phase (release candidate). I doubt if the dev team have any real firm date either. In my experience when companies try and rush software out the door. It's not as good as taking the time to make sure the bugs are ironed out well. The beta hasn't been out two months yet, which at least for me is still early days. As for while it's worth the cost of downloading. Only you can really decide that. The benefit to downloading the beta is that you'll get a good sense if the stable version will run on your system or not. Rather then waiting until final, only to realize something isn't working quite right. I understand having to pay for bandwidth makes it tough to decide. Unfortunately no one but the devs can answer your question. Chances are at this stage, they might not even know.
The standard answer by most development teams is: "It'll be released when it's ready"
I heard that bt3 final going to come out around April, but i might be wrong.
When it comes out... there's going to be thunder and lightning because beta rocks big time
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Installing without GUI
- Install GHC 6.8.3 binary from GHC site (also works with GHC 6.10.1)
- Install cabal-install
- cd GenI; cabal install -f-gui
- make sure ${HOME}/.cabal/bin is in your path
- geni -m examples/ej/macros -l examples/ej/lexicon -s examples/ej/suite
- geni --help for more details
Installing with GUI
Note: if you are on MacOS X, contact us on the MailingList? for extra help.
- Make sure you can install GenI without the GUI
- Install wxWidgets 2.6 and graphviz (note: if you want to try wx-0.11, you'll need wxWidgets 2.8)
- Install wxcore and wx 0.10.3 by hand (I would be very interested to know if wx-0.11 works for people)
- http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/wxcore/0.10.3/wxcore-0.10.3.tar.gz
- http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/wx/0.10.3/wx-0.10.3.tar.gz
- for each one: runhaskell Setup configure; runhaskell Setup build; sudo runhaskell Setup install
- cd GenI; cabal clean; cabal install
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@rifleman - Thanks for the input - The fly creek is on the lightest / smallest side of what I would consider. How long was your tour? Would you consider it a TransAm route worthy tent? - Note, I am 5' 9" tall, and dont care if my bags are inside with me. The UL2 isn't much heavier, and my sister may join me for a week or two, so that might mater (she is 4' 11 9/10" tall )My trip was four weeks.I'm 5'11" and I kept my panniets inside with me.It's a cramped tent but don't care I wanted light weight,if I had it to do over again is get the bigger one.I didn't have any problems but a little condensation.As far as a trans am worthy tent ,I'd get something a little more stout I guess the word would be.The fabric is awfully thin and will definitely suggest a footprint.
@dbbcpa - what do YOU find the weight to be? Did you ever use it where you couldn't put stakes in the ground (concrete)?
One more suggestion. The most comfy sleeping pad I have used is also one of the lightest on the market. Check out the NeoAir line. Mine is 12 ounces, packs tiny, and is supremely comfortable. Oh and it is 2.5 inches thick. The only drawback is that it is kind of expensive.Every time I roll over on my neoair it sounds like im laying on a bag of potato chips


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What did Dane Roberts '13 know, and when did he know it? For the faculty, staff, graduates, family and friends at Investiture on Friday, not too many were in the know as to who the 5000th student to graduate from the Jones School would be. Few knew the dean would recognize this student or ask all the MBAs to look under their seats at the end of the ceremony. Of the graduates, one student stood tall and proud, holding a banner above his head letting all in Tudor Fieldhouse know: he would be the 5000th alumnus.
"I thought it was a fortunate honor to be part of this milestone for the Jones School," said Dane Roberts, grade-level chair, teacher, and teacher mentor at KIPP Sharpstown College Prep.
The father of four teaches sixth grade world history and geography and is moving into a school administrator role. "The MBA curriculum is highly relevant for education leaders. I have learned how to assess problems, think strategically about solutions, and plan and execute to drive results. I think these skills will be valuable no matter what my role in education is," Roberts said.
For Andrea Hodge, executive director of Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program (REEP), the commemoration was a particular triumph. "We are thrilled that the 5000th graduate was also in the REEP MBA for School Leaders. Dane Roberts exemplifies what is possible when opportunity and effort meet — he takes excellence to a new level, working full time during the MBA program as a sixth grade teacher at KIPP, excelling academically in the MBA, and supporting a family of six."
Five years ago, Roberts moved with his family to Houston to help start KIPP Sharpstown College Prep as its founding sixth grade social studies and writing teacher. While teaching at KIPP, his students — primarily from low-income families — have scored among the highest in the city on standardized assessments of both writing and social studies.
Even more important than the tests, in Roberts's view, are the rich learning opportunities he enjoys providing for his students: from visiting the city's sacred sites of four world religions, to taking a boat tour of the Port of Houston to learn about global trade, to taking students to the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park to develop character and leadership skills.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Philosophy and History of Western Civilization from University of Pittsburgh and this past weekend, with an MBA from Rice University. During his last semester at the Jones School, Roberts undertook an independent study course with Professor Robert Hoskisson to assess the strategic challenges facing charter management organizations (CMOs). His research was brought together in a case study of KIPP Houston Public Schools, which will be published in the upcoming edition of Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization.
Roberts is the recipient of many awards for writing and merit-based scholarships, including the Education Pioneers, Graduate School Fellowship. The Fellowship includes a 10-week summer consulting engagement with the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, which, among other initiatives, seeks to "create, expand and/or replicate systems of high-performing schools, particularly in underserved communities." He and Emily, his wife of ten years, are the proud parents of Eden (7), Zia (5), Maris (3), and son Clee (1).
To read more about some of the adventures Dane Roberts takes on with his students, http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/kyrie/article/Students-climb-mountains-both-literal-and-not-4355829.php?t=a2e813d3cf
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Jennifer Lopez Talks About Meaning Behind New Single 'First Love'
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By Kathleen Perricone
Jennifer Lopez has had plenty of romance in her life, but her new song is all about the feeling of the "First Love."
The American Idol judge called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Thursday morning to talk about her brand new single and explain what it's all about.
"For me, it's like that feeling when you find somebody that you are really are into, and you're like, 'Why didn't I meet you years ago? I wouldn't have had to go through all this crap,'" she jokes. But in all seriousness, "It's just one of those love songs, like 'I love you, I'm happy that I found you' type of thing."
And it's just one of the songs on her upcoming album, which Jennifer is especially proud of. "It's good! It was my 10th album, and in my mind, I was so stuck on it being something I was really proud of … and I am."
The title though is still under wraps. When Ryan asked if it might be named after one of the songs, "Big Booty," Jennifer laughed. "It's not 'Big Booty.' That's one of the songs on the album. You might have heard that … I blast that one in my trailer at Idol when I'm getting ready."
Although she's a fan of it now, it wasn't a song she wanted to record initially. "It was so dumb to me at first," she explains. "I was like, 'There's not way I will ever do a song called 'Big Booty,' especially after all the talk over the years about my butt."
But she came to see it differently after her 6-year-old twins gave their stamp of approval.
"I put it in the car … I had Max and Emme in there with me, and they just went crazy for it," Jennifer says. "The minute it came on, it was like an instant-listen thing … For them, it's just fun. It made me see we over-think things sometimes, and I don't want to over-think things. I just want have fun and be happy and make music that makes people happy and feel something."
Although the album doesn't have a title yet, it does have a release date: June 17. And with pre-orders starting in a few weeks, "they're pressuring me to finish," she jokes.
"First Love" is available for download on iTunes now!
Also, catch Jennifer at the iHeartRadio Music Awards tonight! She and Ryan are going to leave American Idol and head straight to the festivities. Listen to the audio above to hear them joking about how they're going to get there despite Los Angeles traffic.


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Halfway to the freshwater lagoon, the British couple split off from each other, goose-stepping through the tropical grass.
The wife makes it safely to a flagpole and crouches down, binoculars ready. The Jaribu stork they are stalking takes a step forward, and the husband freezes mid-stride.
"He looks exactly like that damn bird," Steve whispers across the table. It's just after sunrise and we finally have the restaurant patio at the Bird's Eye View Lodge to ourselves.
We're in Belize researching material for a television series, and we've committed a cardinal travelling sin. We booked a three-day sightseeing tour to visit the Mayan ruins at Lamanai and Altun Ha, but didn't read the fine print.
It turns out we're on a birding tour and what we thought would be an interesting inland add-on to our Belizean Barrier Reef snorkelling trip is beginning to feel like a Monty Python skit.
Almost on cue, the husband lifts his back leg up to take a step forward. He freezes, leg mid-air, as the stork moves along the shoreline. The wife whistles. He whistles back, loses balance, then steadies himself.
Steve rolls his eyes. I combat a case of church-giggles by pinching the inside of my forearm. We're one day into the tour and Steve is already more foul than fowl.
The screen door behind us swings open and the ibis thankfully flies off. Miss Verna, one of the lodge's owners, pokes her head out. "Meet Rudy at the van in 20 minutes, boys." With her accent, it comes out as baihz. "It's time for your river cruise."
Crooked Tree (population roughly 900) and its surrounding wildlife reserve offer a unique look at village life in Belize's countryside.
Tranquil and quiet, it's a welcome break from busy beach destinations such as Caye Caulker and Ambergris Caye. Crooked Tree's proximity to the New River also makes it an ideal jumping off point to explore the ruins at Lamanai.
If you depart from the docks south of Orange Walk Town, the trip to Lamanai takes roughly an hour by motorboat. Every bend of the river offers a new surprise. Keep an eye out for the former compound of software tycoon John McAfee, now burned to the ground.
Competing with the crocodiles and countless bird species are locals fishing by hand, whipping loose fishing line overhead like a lasso before letting the hook fly out into the river.
At the end of our boat tour, the river opens into a massive lake. Our captain points to the shoreline, gold rings flashing in the sun. It's obvious a large portion of Lamanai remains unexcavated, but it's one of the few Mayan cities continuously occupied until the Spanish colonial period.
We start at the Mask Temple, but I can hardly focus due to excitement. Steve and I have come to climb the High Temple. Unlike many other Mayan sites in Mexico and Guatemala, the temple stairs at Lamanai are open to the public.
Rainforest and ruins blur together until we emerge from a rough trail and spot a single rope twisting down ridiculously steep steps. Aside from a young dreadlocked couple, Steve and I are the only other climbers. The rope jerks and snaps in my hands until we emerge above the forest canopy.
Up top, the Lamanai valley fills the horizon, mind-bogglingly green.
Steve turns to give me a smirk and I know exactly what he's thinking: not a bird in sight.
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Jason Aldean to play "Concert For The Cure" in New Orleans
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Jason Aldean continues his support in the fight against breast cancer.
The country star has designated his upcoming show in New Orleans as his 2013 "Concert For The Cure." He will give the local Susan G. Komen for the Cure affiliate all the money he makes from his October 25th performance, along with 50 cents from every ticket sold on this year's "Night Train" tour.
Aldean explains that he chose Komen New Orleans after learning the organization was significantly underfunded last year.
The singer says his 2012 show brought in more than 500-thousand-dollars, so if he and his fans can raise that much again this year they can "help these women meet their goal and provide the services the town needs."
The 2013 show marks Aldean's eighth annual "Concert For The Cure."
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FONTANA -- Jaris is back to following his nose.
After several weeks of recovering from being thrown out of a second-story window, the Fontana police dog returned to duty this past weekend to search for explosives.
"He has a clean bill of health, and he is back to full duty," Lt. Gary Aulis said.
Jaris and his handler, Officer Steve Bechtold, worked during the Long Beach Grand Prix on Saturday and the Run Through Redlands on Sunday. Bomb-sniffing dogs were critical for both events, since law enforcement were concerned the Boston Marathon bombings would generate copycat attacks.
Dogs usually work in 30- to 45-minute search sessions before being given a break. But Jaris appeared to be making up for lost time.
During one search in Long Beach, he kept on sniffing for an hour.
"He had a lot of energy," Aulis said.
Police sent Jaris into a home in the 9500 block of Mango Avenue on March 31 to subdue a wanted parolee, Bryan Bills.
When the dog ran toward Bills, the man used the dog's momentum to throw him out of an open window, police said.
The 61/2-year-old Belgian malinois fell on his head on the concrete below. Bills, 28, was arrested.
Jaris suffered temporary nerve damage in an area between his brain and sinuses. The fall left a gash on his head.
Bills, who was charged with two counts each of injuring a police dog and resisting a peace officer, took a plea bargain April 12 in Fontana Superior Court. He pleaded guilty to one count of each charge and is scheduled to be sentenced May 10, according to court records.


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Bogaerts best internal option at third
Red Sox have home grown prospect ready if search fails
By Ashley Marshall / MiLB.com | July 31, 2013 7:40 AM ET
Fantasy Focus is a regular MiLB.com feature in which we use a Minor League perspective to give you the edge in your fantasy league. Have a fantasy question? Tweet it to @MiLB or @AshMarshallMLB with the hashtag #fantasyfocus.
In this week's Fantasy Focus, we look at why the Red Sox should give serious consideration to utilizing Xander Bogaerts at third base and why Asher Wojciechowski could give the Astros a boost much like Jarred Cosart did earlier this year.
There's also your roundup of the notable Minor League rehabs, including the ongoing rehab of Curtis Granderson and the upcoming ones of B.J. Upton and Jonathan Niese.
Under the Radar
Asher Wojciechowski, now 23, was a first-round pick by Toronto in 2010 who had lost some of his luster after putting up a 4.70 ERA at Class A Advanced Dunedin in 2011 and then repeating the level with a 3.57 ERA midway through last year.
The Blue Jays elected to include him in the deal that sent Francisco Cordero and Ben Francisco, among others, to Houston in return for J.A Happ, David Carpenter and Brandon Lyon. Since the change of scenery, the right-hander has been exceptional.
He stormed into Double-A Corpus Christi and posted a 2.06 ERA in 43 2/3 innings to close last season, striking out 34 and walking 13. Back with the Hooks to begin this year, he went 2-1 with a 2.08 ERA in just six appearances before the Astros promoted him to Triple-A Oklahoma City. There, he's gone 6-4 with a 2.83 ERA in 98 2/3 innings, striking out 73 and walking 33.
Houston's already given Jarred Cosart a shot this year, one he's taken advantage of. If they give a look to Wojciechowski, he could similarly provide a shot in the arm to a team in need of pitching.
Will He Stick?
It's tough not to read between the lines on this one. Cody Asche -- the Phillies' No. 7 prospect -- was called up to the Majors on Tuesday after going deep for Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Monday. As noted by MiLB.com's Jake Seiner, the third baseman has been improving month-by-month, capped by a .330 average with a .978 OPS and seven homers this month prior to the call-up. Of course, the Michael Young trade rumors have been hot and heavy lately, so it's tough to imagine that the Phillies aren't calling up Asche with the idea of him replacing Young.
The 23-year-old has improved his stock this season, and that's especially been the case lately. But color us slightly pessimistic that he'll hit the ground running when he makes his Major League debut on Wednesday. His struggles in his first look at Triple-A pitching (.264/.327/.356 line in April) seem to be a grounded expectation of what's to come in the next few weeks in the Majors. There are better third-base options out there right now if you need one.
Rehabs of Note
Curtis Granderson has been on the 60-day DL since fracturing the knuckle of his pinky finger on his left hand against Tampa Bay on May 24.
He underwent minor surgery at the end of May when doctors inserted a pin in his hand, and he started taking swings again in mid June.
Granderson, who has appeared in five Triple-A games with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and four other Class A Advanced contests with Tampa, is currently rehabbing with Double-A Trenton.
Granderson is hitting .250 in eight big league games for the Yankees and is could rejoin the team this weekend in San Diego. He's an obvious start once he's back in the lineup.
Sidelined for almost seven weeks with a strained right adductor muscle, Braves outfielder B.J. Upton is expected to start a rehab spell with the Triple-A Gwinnett Braves over the next couple days.
MLB.com reported that Upton hit off a tee last week and then began jogging exercises, his first on-field activity since landing on the DL.
Upton was batting .177 with eight homers and 23 runs scored with Atlanta prior to his injury.
Jonathan Niese is a couple weeks away from returning to the New York Mets, but there is a legitimate expectation that the southpaw will see some Major League games before the end of the year.
Recovering from a partially torn rotator cuff in his throwing shoulder, Niese tossed two innings for the Mets' Gulf Coast League affiliate on June 27. MLB.com reported Niese may start for Class A Advanced St. Lucie next week.
Niese -- the team's Opening Day starter -- is 3-6 with a 4.32 ERA and 49 strikeouts in 77 innings this year.
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For now the #WhiteSox have assigned Avisail Garcia to Triple-A Charlotte. Probably won't be long before we see him though.- Dan Hayes (@DanHayesCSN) July 31, 2013
Stock Up
We're going with more of a rumor-based "Stock Up" selection this week. The Red Sox have been looking for help at third base over the past couple of weeks with Jose Iglesias slumping recently (and now moving along to Detroit in the Jake Peavy trade). With the Trade Deadline coming this afternoon, they are obviously looking at external options, most notably Michael Young with the Phillies. But of course, teams always consider internal options, and Xander Bogaerts -- Boston's top prospect -- tops the list there.
The 20-year-old infielder -- the youngest position player in the International League -- owns a .279/.380/.483 slash line with eight homers and 24 RBIs in 41 games since being called up to Triple-A Pawtucket. He's certainly provided some promising pop for the PawSox, and the usual shortstop has played five games at the hot corner, the latest coming Monday. That's a sign he's caught the attention of the parent club.
"I think Xander's doing everything that he can to tell us when he's ready to come to the big leagues. Whether that's this week or next month, that's still in the debate or in the conversation," Red Sox manager John Farrell told MLB.com. "But he's an exciting young player, I think we're all looking forward to the day that he begins his career, not knowing when that's going to be."
MLB.com's No. 6 overall prospect has been on the radar for years, but it seems he might be as close now to the Majors as ever before. If he's not owned in keeper leagues, he certainly should be by now. All other leagues should keep an eye on the transaction list because if/when the Red Sox call up their top prospect, expect him to hit the ground running.
Stock Down
A's No. 4 prospect Sonny Gray made a pair of relief appearances with the A's earlier this month and impressed by not allowing a run over four innings. Unfortunately, he finds himself here for the two starts he's made for Triple-A Sacramento since returning to the Minors.
He's allowed nine runs (eight earned) on 13 hits in 9 2/3 innings over those two starts for the River Cats. The 23-year-old right-hander's six earned runs allowed on Monday were by far a season high and inflated his PCL ERA from 3.02 to 3.38 in that one start alone.
His recent struggles may not hurt his prospect stock, but it's likely that the A's would like to see some better results before they consider a return to the big leagues, if they don't trade him for Major League starting pitching help. Because of all that, Gray is best avoided for now.
Transaction to note
Grant Green's been covered in this space before, but after a five-game stint in Oakland that saw the second baseman go 0-for-15 and make three errors, he was sent back to Triple-A Sacramento and, it was safe to assume, he wasn't likely to be heard from again this season.
But the A's cut ties with the 25-year-old on Tuesday night, sending the former USC star back down the coast to the Los Angeles Angels in a deal for Alberto Callaspo.
One of the big things in Green's favor should be his positional eligibility, especially for an AL-only team (or perhaps a very deep mixed league). If the Angels, fairly well behind in the AL West race and likely to be giving extended looks to younger players, do so with Green, the .325/.379/.500 line he had in 87 games with the River Cats just might translate a little bit to a team that can afford to be a bit more patient.
Keep an Eye On
Gregory Polanco has caught the most eyes as the Pirates outfield prospect to watch, but keep paying attention to Alex Dickerson. The Bucs' No. 14 prospect has hit to a .417/.446/.708 slash line with six homers and 26 RBIs in 24 games with Double-A Altoona this month, much improved from the .185/.241/.346 and .264/.312/.417 lines he put up in April and May respectively.
Dickerson notably struggled at the outset for Class A Advanced Bradenton last season as well before turning it on in the later months and eventually taking Florida State League Player of the Year honors. It's tough to expect another piece of hardware for the first baseman-turned-right fielder this season, but this offensive uptick is certainly worthy of your attention.
A Wild, Wild, Whine
Ed. note: This section is on the lighter side of fantasy baseball, where staff writer Danny Wild bemoans his continued bad fortune as a fantasy owner. Shoot him an email if you can relate, or maybe some fantasy advice would be more appropriate.
There's been a lot of talk lately here at MiLB.com about whether me releasing Pedro Alvarez on May 10, when he was batting .193, was the right move at the time. Since then, he's hitting .273 and -- somehow -- leads the National League with 27 home runs. Would having him and his strikeouts have me out of last place by now? I doubt it. Still frustrating. He went from being notoriously streaky on a weekly basis to an All-Star.
I guess really the only "excitement" with my team at this point is seeing which of my players will be traded (or suspended) in the Majors. Angels infielder Howie Kendrick has been rumored to be on the market, with the Royals, of all teams, shopping for a second baseman.
Justin Morneau, hitting a robust .264, might head to Baltimore. I have a hold on Manny Ramirez, who evidently is not in the Rangers' plans this summer. With the Dodgers signing Brian Wilson, it only raises the probability that Kenley Jansen loses saves.
And the impending Biogenesis suspensions will probably mean Jhonny Peralta is done and I can hand the keys back to Jimmy Rollins and his pathetic numbers.
None of this matters since my team -- if you haven't been keeping score at home -- has been in last place every single day of this season.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AshMarshallMLB. Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Raymond and Danny Wild contributed to this report. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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1. Ligonier Ministries, the ministry outfit of R. C. Sproul, is offering extra copies of its current issue which covers what is commonly called the "New Atheism". Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and others have popularized this brand of thought. See if you can get a hold of this magazine issue, and equip yourself [Read More…]
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Two students among finalists for Rhodes scholarships
Two University of South Carolina students have been named finalists for a Rhodes Scholarship. Seniors Gurjeet "Jeet" Guram and Joseph "Joey" Montoya will interview for the prestigious award Nov. 20 in Kansas City.
Jeet Guram
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Guram, a baccalaureus artium et scientiae (BARSC) major, is studying biology, economics and political science and plans to attend medical school. The BARSC is a self-designed degree program available to members of South Carolina Honors College.
Founder of the university's chapter of the Roosevelt Institution, a non-partisan policy think tank, Guram says he is interested in the intersection of medicine and public policy. He is a recipient of the university's prestigious Carolina Scholarship, awarded by the A.T. and Frances Chalk scholarship fund. He is the son of Davinder and Surb Guram of Irmo and a graduate of Irmo High School.
Montoya is pursuing dual degrees in chemical engineering and mathematics, with a minor in music performance. Montoya's interest in catalysis and lab research with Drs. Christopher Williams and John Monnier in the university's department of chemical engineering led to his being published in the scientific journal, Catalysis Today. He is a student in South Carolina Honors College and is a recipient of the university's prestigious Carolina Scholarship, awarded by both the William B. Douglas and the David W. Robinson scholarship funds. Montoya is the son of Sara & Barry Montoya of Summerville and a graduate of Summerville High School.
The University of South Carolina has had nine Rhodes scholars.
Among the most prestigious and recognizable national fellowship awarded to U.S. students, the Rhodes allows recipients to study for two years at Oxford University in England. Up to 32 are awarded each year. For more information on the award, go to www.rhodesscholar.org.
The Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs assists university students competing for national fellowships and scholarships such as the Rhodes. For more information, visit www.sc.edu/ofsp.
The University Rhodes Scholarship Committee is chaired by Dr. Davis Baird (S.C. Honors College). Committee members include Dr. Madilyn Fletcher (School of the Environment), Dr. Carol Harrison (history), Dr. Kevin Lewis (religious studies), Dr. Robert Patterson (history) and Dr. William Rivers (English).


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Topic: Very generic question about tumor growth
I don't know if it's the genes that I inherited through my dad but I have been reading probably too much about CC and to no one's surprise I am quite frustrated.
One common thing I find is that the studies and average populations are sparse and most data seems to be statistically vague.
Since my dad will be getting a new scan in about 3 weeks I'm already obsessing about potential progression and growth. So far things have progressed reasonably slowly but he has deteriorated quite a bit and his last chemo hit him very hard. He has continued to have decent bloodwork and his only major symptoms are fatigue and mild stomach aches. As I've posted before, he has lung mets but his abdominal area was clean.
I am truly concerned that the next CT will show major progression and lots of bad stuff. Maybe this is just me being a pessimist and hoping that if things are stable or have little progression I will find some relief.
Anyway, my question is - in general - what kind of progression have you experienced CT from CT? I know it's a very generic question but I would rather hear from people directly than read another nameless/facelss study from a research center or university.
I really appreciate everyone's patience for my questions and warm insights and recommendations.
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New Haven FIRSTS: exploring local inventions with Colin Caplan
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Since New Haven was invented 375 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people have lived, worked, studied and visited our City. And some of them have changed the world forever through their inventions. From the first city plan in the U.S. to the pedal bicycle, New Haven has always been fertile ground for innovation!
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Colin Caplan was born and raised in New Haven, where he developed an early appreciation for architecture and history prior to earning a Masters degree in architecture from Tulane University. Caplan has worked with several architecture firms in New Haven, and heads up "Taste of New Haven," offering culinary and cultural tours that spotlight New Haven's diverse restaurant scene. He has been featured in national television shows and publications.
Caplan is the author of New Haven (Then & Now); A Guide to Historic New Haven CT; 101 Glimpses of New Haven; and Tales from a Connecticut Hamlet, about the Westville section of New Haven. More information is available at www.magrissoforte.com.
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BRUCE LEE!. Who would win and how?
BRUCE LEE!. Who would win and how?
Solid supporter of: Tomasz Adamek. Maurício Rua. Daniel Ghiţă
Cain Velasquez would beat him without dropping a single bead of sweat.
Sherdog.com - The number one MMA site on the web today!
^this. end thread
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war"
Cain would smash him within the 30 seconds, but i reallycan't accept an average BJJ Blue would 'handle' him. All fights start standing up.
*hits thread with lightening fast backfist*
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
If Bruce got his Nunchucks out that Velasquez is 'going down'
Sick of stupid Bruce Lee questions.
i used to know this fella who was OBSESSED with Bruce Lee and i had to speak to the fucker the whole time on the phone. EVERY time, without fail, he would bring up Bruce Lee. and he had a really annoying way of saying 'Bruce Lee' as well.
'leave me alone!!!1'
I used to fooking love Bruce Lee as a kid (i'm 41 now); nearly ALL kids of my generation who liked martial arts did. I started Tae Kwon Do because of Bruce, then I realised it was pony and started Muay Thai instead.


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Just a Thought -- Readlikes for "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
On the waiting list for Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn? You're not alone! Every once in a while, a book takes us by surprise with its sudden popularity and the waiting lists skyrocket! We are buying multiple extra copies to make the wait time shorter, but if you're looking for something fun to read in the meantime, we have some suggestions for you! Gone Girl is a twisty, complex thriller with unreliable narrators, slowly unraveling layers of deceit, and an unrelentingly suspenseful tone. If that sounds good to you, you might like one of the following titles, all of which share some of these characteristics!
Barr, Nevada. 13 ½
LaPlante, Alice. Turn of Mind
Lehane, Denis. Shutter Island
Lippmann, Laura. What the Dead Know
Lupton, Rosamund. Sister
Unger, Lisa. Black Out
Walters, Minette. The Breaker
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Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Mass Incarceration: An Interview on Contemporary Social Movements with David Gilbert
This interview originally appeared in Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 5:2, 259-270. For a PDF of the interview, go here. It is reprinted here with permission.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many activists looked to the prisons for political leadership, while viewing prisons themselves as institutions of repression and social control integral to larger systems of oppression. Around the world, the prisoner emerged as an icon of state repression and a beacon of liberation. If the prison served as the bricks and mortar of oppression, the prisoner became the flesh and blood of movement iconography. Black American prisoners held special sway within this global visibility of confinement, in part because so many prisoners became prolific authors connected to wider social movements of the time. In prison, black activists from Martin Luther King, Jr to George Jackson and Assata Shakur penned tracts that offered trenchant insights into race, class, and American power. Black activists proved the most incisive, the most creative, inheritors of a deep and multiracial tradition of political critique behind bars. These imprisoned author-activists articulate a profound paradox: one of the best places to understand the "land of the free" is the place where freedom was most elusive. It was both a sobering and inspiring message for a generation on the move.
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G.Skill International has announced the launch of its new Flare series high-performance DDR3 memory kits for AMD's latest 6-core processors.
The new module series operates at a clock frequency of 2000MHz and latencies of CL 7-9-7-24, with a voltage of 1.65V. It is available in 4GB (2GBx2) dual-channel kits.
G.Skill said its new 2000MHz DDR3 module series has passed the usual series of strict internal testing, with validation currently on Asustek Computer's M4A89TD PRO motherboard (AMD 890FX chipset).
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
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The U8230 smartphone allows users to switch between full and half QWERTY keyboards and to navigate programs via a 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen.
Huawei's U8230 uses the Google Chrome Internet browser which supports a variety of Google applications including Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Talk.
The company claimed that It is also fitted with a battery which has a capacity of 1500mAH - the longest battery capacity of any Android-powered handsets currently available.
The device will be available in the second half of 2009.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


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DUI taskforce plans checkpoint
The Avoid the 7 DUI Task Force will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint on this Friday, December 20th somewhere in Humboldt County. Officials say the deterrent effect of a DUI checkpoint is a proven resource in reducing the number of people killed and injured in alcohol or drug involved crashes.
Research shows that those crashes drop by an average of 20-percent when well-publicized checkpoints are set up. Officers will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. They'll also check for proper licensing and will strive to delay motorists only momentarily.
A grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety provides funding for the checkpoint. Authorities want to remind everyone if you see a drunk driver, call 911.


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Members of Mumfords & Vaccines form supergroup
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Members of Mumford and Sons and the Vaccines are gearing up for a busy Saturday night as part of the newly-formed supergroup Salvador Dali Parton.
According to "Nashville Scene," the band is made up of Mumfords banjo player Winston Marshall and Vaccines frontman Justin Hayward-Young, as well as Gill Landry from Old Crow Medicine Show, Jake Orrall from JEFF the Brotherhood, and Mike Harris from Apache Relay.
The quintet is supposedly set to play their very first rehearsal together on Friday ahead of six separate shows they've scheduled for Saturday night in Nashville.
They say they have no idea what they're going to sound like, but they plan to record all so they can eventually release all the highlights as a live album.
Here are the venues Salvador Dali Parton plan to play in Nashville on October 26th:
The High Watt @ 6:45 p.m. Central
The Exit/In @ 8:00 p.m.
The Stone Fox @ 9:00 p.m.
The Springwater @ 9:45 p.m.
Coyote Ranch House Show @ 11:00 p.m.
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This Week's Reading
What We're Loving: Pippi, Airports, PursesBy The Paris Review
If you've only ever seen the awkwardly acted 1969 film Pippi Longstocking, in which Pippi tokes up with her young friends (not to mention Peppi Dlinnyychulok, the very weird Soviet version), you're in for a treat. In the late fifties, Pippi author Astrid Lindgren published a comic strip about her precocious young heroine in the Swedish children's magazine Humpty Dumpty. Drawn & Quarterly is bringing these strips to the U.S. for the first time ever, and while they're fun to read, the best part—hands down—is Ingrid Vang Nyman's art. Relying on bold blocks of color and bright, simple designs, the panels are midcentury children's art at its finest. —Nicole Rudick
What would you do if you were a passenger in a hijacked plane that circles the Dallas metropolitan area for over twenty years? An interesting question, to say the least, and one Manuel Gonazales proposes in the first story, "Pilot, Copilot, Writer," in his Borgesian debut, The Miniature Wife: and Other Stories. However, instead of dwelling on the fantastical and farfetched elements of the plot, Gonzales concentrates on the interactions between the passengers, the emotions that birth from the subtle tragedy of plane travel that extends well beyond some of the character's years. The routines of ordinary life never seemed so extraordinary. —Justin Alvarez


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Nice of Merc to send Ross on his own.
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i found that as well.
Hey guys, don't know if it's me or not, but on the boot option screen the highlight is black. With a black background it's kinda hard knowing which option is highlighted.
Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69
i found that as well.
Same for me
We are working on that.
same thing for me too.
just comment in the /boot/grub/menu.lst the 'splashimage' entry..
to change colors use the 'color' entry(see grubs FAQ, Docs, man, wtw)
As pureh@te mentioned, we are working on it and should have an update soon.
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It's not hard to manipulate the GRUB file for yourself. Here's what i did, it just won't show the backtrack bootsplash, but it'll do until pureh@te and others are finished.
-First find the file by opening the bt4.iso with something like UltraISO.
-Navigate to /boot/grub/menu.lst and open file
-Comment out the "splashimage...." at the top by putting a '#' infront of it
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-Now save the file to a new location, wherever you want, just keep the file name so it overwrites existing menu.lstCode:#splashimage=/boot/grub/bt4.xpm.gz color green/black black/light-gray
-Move the new file to the iso by dragging to UltraISO (with that folder open) and when prompted select "yes" to overwrite the old one.
-Save iso by file->save, and enjoy
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The 68-year-old man who died in a motorcycle accident on Sept. 15 has been indentified as Ewald Josef Hackenberger of Berlin, Germany.
He is Levy County's 15th traffic fatality for 2013.
In August, more than 100 pounds of drink can tabs or pop tops were delivered to the Ronald McDonald House Charities on behalf of Retired Levy County Sheriff's Office School Resource Deputy (SRO) Donna Roe and the Bronson Middle/High School. Before retiring in 2012, Roe instituted the community service drive at the Bronson Middle/High School where students were asked to collect and turn in pop tops in exchange for community service hours. These hours are needed to fulfill their requirements for the Bright Futures scholarships offered to high school Students.
A one-vehicle crash at the Northeast 120th Street and Northeast 30th Street, a right-turn only intersection, on Saturday at 11 p.m. claimed the life of Cacie-Leigh Morgan, 23, of Bronson, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
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• Aug. 19, David Charles Albritton, 38, Morriston, VOP battery.
• Aug. 23, Cody James Blair, 22, Bronson, FTA, battery. Bond $31,000.
• Aug. 25, Brian Lee Bowmer, 25, Old Town, disorderly intoxication. Bond $500.
• Aug. 20, Joseph Jay Brocato, 49, Tampa, non support of children or spouse.
• Aug. 21, Ryan Bullard, 25, West Palm Beach, battery.
• Aug. 22, Gary Colon, 55, Williston, burglary, obstruction W/OV, theft. Bond $60,000.
A man who was served with a restraining order last week is dead after returning to the home he once shared with a woman and another man and getting into a shootout that left the other man wounded, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Department press release.
John Paul Robinson, who has a criminal record dating back to 1977 according to the Florida Department of Corrections, is dead of a shotgun wound to his upper left shoulder. The other man in the incident is hospitalized with wounds to his lower extremities.
Levy County Department of Public Safety Firefighters from Station 2 in Morriston, Station 4 in Fowlers Bluff, Station 5 in Rosewood, Station 6 in Yankeetown, and the Bronson Fire Department took advantage of the New Public Safety Complex to train on passenger vehicle fire suppression tactics.
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Didier Masson was one of those barnstorming pilots of the past who was always willing to go where others had never gone before.
When the Frenchman landed a plane in a San Bernardino field shortly after noon Jan. 7, 1911, he achieved the distinction of completing the world's first delivery of newspapers by aircraft - not exactly the first flight across the Atlantic but locally it was a big deal.
Masson achieved another "first" 100 years ago next month, when he became the first pilot in North America to bring aircraft into the dirty world of war when he dropped bombs in the Mexican Revolution.
In 1911, the Los Angeles Times, trying to take advantage of the public's fascination with flight, hired Masson and got him with a plane, "Pegasus," to deliver newspapers from Los Angeles to San Bernardino.
Once the flight was over, H.L. Twining, president of the Aero Club of California, described it as a "milestone in the history of aeronautics in the West," which was a bit of an overstatement when you consider the whole stunt went mostly wrong.
The plan was for Masson to make a 45-minute flight to Pomona, where the city had paid the Times to land the plane to refuel as part of its pageant that day. Masson was to go on to San Bernardino, deliver his papers about 8:45 a.m., and then fly back to Pomona to put on an aerial exhibition.
At the start, loading bundles of newspapers on the Pegasus was no easy task - these were very flimsy planes and the papers had to be precisely balanced on each wing before Masson took off from Los Angeles at 7:45 a.m. He was instructed to go toward El Monte, then fly just south of the foothills near today's Cal Poly, and land in Pomona.
But he took a more northerly route, and Pomona was nowhere to be found. Low on fuel, he landed just beyond Cucamonga and hitched a ride to Pomona. There, crowds, eagerly awaiting his arrival by air, were crushed when he showed up using ground transportation.
Nonetheless, Masson was put in a car and briefly paraded around town, all the while looking for his ground crew, which finally caught up with him.
He broke loose from the celebrating Pomonans - "I'll be back in a few hours," he promised the Pomona Progress. He and his ground crew made it back to Cucamonga and eventually got Pegasus aloft.
Pomona folks may have been unhappy but the 10,000 people assembled in San Bernardino were delighted when Pegasus appeared in the western sky. Masson landed about 12:40 p.m., about 5 hours after starting.
He planned to put on a brief aerobatics show at San Bernardino and then head back to Pomona for a second performance.
But things continued to go wrong for Masson, and Pomona. A strong wind was blowing out of Cajon Pass, and on takeoff Pegasus plunged into the wheat field of H. Warren, according to the Times account the following day.
The farmer, far less intrigued about the age of flight than the crowd, was enraged after the plane and then hundreds of spectators flattened his crop.
An attorney with the ground crew quickly cut a deal with Mr. Warren -- $30 soothed his loss.
Things weren't so great in Pomona when the crowd was informed Masson wouldn't return. The angry Progress later intimated the Times was only interested in getting to San Bernardino and didn't care much whether the plane ever got to Pomona.
Masson survived the San Bernardino crash, and the wrath of Pomona, and went on to even more dangerous tasks.
About May 29, 1913, the exact date's unclear, Masson was hired by revolutionaries to drop explosives on ships at Guaymas on the Gulf of California. In a Martin biplane, he and a passenger dropped bombs from about 5,000 feet, missing everything by a large margin. After four futile attempts, and discouraged by being shot at from the ships, they decided revolution was just not for them.
After serving in World War I, Masson moved to Central America and was a French consular officer and manager for Pan American. He died in 1950 in Mexico, a quiet passing for a man who cheated death so many times.
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WILLOUGHBY, OH -- George Smith and an investment group that also owns Family Entertainment Group LLC (Barrington, IL) have acquired Cleveland Coin Machine Exchange Inc., according to an announcement today by CCME's Ronald A. Gold, who is retiring.
Smith, an amusement industry veteran, will serve as chief executive of Cleveland Coin, one of North America's oldest and most respected amusement companies and a former equipment distributor. "We have worked diligently over the past two years to make this combination of our companies a reality," Smith said.
Both CCME and Family Entertainment Group are regarded as leading operators serving indoor water park resorts in the U.S. Smith said the union is part of a strategy to consolidate top firms in the amusement industry.
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Hairy Flower Wasps are native to Australia. They belong to the wasp family Scoliidae and occur throughout most parts of Australia. They are large wasps with body lengths that usually measure from 1 to 3 cm although some can reach almost 4 cm in length – and that is large for an Australian wasp.
There are two main groups of Hairy Flower Wasps that occur within Victoria.
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Like most insects that visit flowers, Hairy Flower Wasps drink nectar. Nectar provides them with food energy in the form of sugars that they use to power their wing muscles.
Flower wasps are frequent visitors to flowers and due to their size and colour, are extremely obvious when sitting on a flower.
Adult female flower wasps are designed to dig. They are large and powerful wasps. The female wasps are often seen visiting compost heaps or wood piles or flying around the dead stump of a tree. They are searching for scarab beetle grubs (such as the Christmas beetle group) in the ground and are quite capable of digging into compost heaps or saw-dust of a tree stump to find beetle grubs.
A Flower Wasp visiting a flower Photographer: Otto Rogge. Source: Otto Rogge Photography
Most wasps feed on other insects. Some, like the paper wasps catch their prey and kill it immediately to feed their young. However, many wasps have developed the technique of paralysing their prey and laying an egg inside the host. The hatched larva then feed inside the living host. Flower wasps are one such group of wasps.
Having located a beetle grub, the female stings and lays an egg inside it. The sting from the wasp does not kill the beetle grub but only paralyses it. There is a good reason why the female wasp does not kill the beetle grub. If the sting were to kill the beetle grub, then its tissue would immediately start to rot and decompose. When the wasp egg hatches inside the paralysed beetle grub it is surrounded by living tissue – the food that it needs to eat. The developing wasp larva knows which parts of the beetle grub to eat first to prolong the grub's life for as long as possible; thus maximizing the chances of complete development of the wasp larva.
An insect that slowly kills its host, usually near the end of the larval development is called a Parasitoid. This contrasts to the term Parasite in which the host usually is not killed.
Parasitoids are important natural population regulators in the insect world.
No – flower wasps are solitary and do not make a nest or form a colony. If you see several flying around a compost heap or tree stump it simply means that several wasps have found the area.
Yes – flower wasps do have a well developed sting. However, unlike a honey bee or a paper wasp, flower wasps do not have a nest or colony to protect, and therefore are not aggressive.
Importantly, they will not attack people for just being near where they are searching for food.
The only way you could get stung by a flower wasp is to accidentally stand or sit on it. This can occur as the flower wasps fly at ground level looking for beetle grubs.
To our knowledge, no one has ever had a problem with the sting of a flower wasp other than the pain of the sting itself. Usually the application of a water-ice pack placed on the sting site will quickly reduce the pain and swelling. Unlike the honey bee, the barb of the sting will not remain in the victim's skin.
To discourage the flower wasp, you would need to remove it's habitat from your area. However, there are a number of good reasons to leave it be.
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Sylvia Shaw Judson (American, 1897-1978)
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Sylvia Shaw Judson grew up in Lake Forest and was the daughter of well-known architect Howard Van Doren Shaw and the poet Frances (Wells) Shaw. Judson studied at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago on and off between 1915 and 1918 and later in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Her works have been exhibited in museums, at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition (1933), and at the New York World's Fair (1939). Shaw's work can be found in the collection of the White House, in the offices of the President of the Philippines, and at the Massachusetts State House.
Sylvia Shaw Judson received much posthumous attention in the late 1990s when her Bird Girl sculpture (1938) appeared on the cover of the book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," by John Berendt. The sculpture also appeared in the opening scene of the movie with the same title.
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Ozzy Osbourne says the new Black Sabbath album means more than just the reunion of his legendary group. The singer tells "NME" he's also hoping it will help restore his image.
He admits he still regrets having done the MTV reality series "The Osbournes," which brought viewers into his home and showed his family life with wife Sharon, kids Kelly and Jack, and their many misbehaving dogs. It also changed his reputation from the scary, bat-biting heavy metal icon to the lovable, stumbling, bumbling dad. And even though the series wrapped up its four-season run nearly a decade ago, Ozzy is still looking to put it behind him. He says one reason he's excited about the new Black Sabbath album is that it sullies the memories of the show.
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"Phillips is just as good as some of the UFC veterans I've fought. I won't underestimate him. He's been on tear since his loss to Pavel Kusch. I don't count that fight as a loss, though. I think foot locks are cheap and Pavel got lucky. Phillips is a game and tough fighter, he's high level and an opponent I want to add to my collection."