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TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Stealth capabilities from unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured in Iran are more advanced than rival programs, a deputy commander said.
Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, said Iranian drones are more sophisticated than some U.S. counterparts. Iran's stealth drone program, he said, is among the best in the world, he told the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
In early December, Iran claimed it captured a Boeing ScanEagle, a low-budget drone used by the U.S. military and other Western powers.
"The technology used in the ScanEagle is very old and our UAVs are much more advanced than them," Salami said.
Iran said it was able to extract the data from the drone. Last year, the country said it was able to reverse-engineer an RQ-170 Sentinel drone operated by the CIA that strayed across the border with Afghanistan. This week, the military announced it began production of its own ScanEagle variant.
"We will use every opportunity to design all kinds of drones," said Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|5 Oct 1999
|Filing date
|27 Feb 1998
|Priority date
|27 Feb 1998
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Timothy Patrick McElroy, Christopher Patrick McElroy, Lucian G. McElroy
|Original Assignee
|Proto-Vest, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (13), Referenced by (18), Classifications (5), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a fluid stripping apparatus for stripping fluid from an object, and more particularly towards an apparatus used in a car wash system for stripping rinse water from vehicles.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Conventional car wash systems include a drying station near the exit of the car wash line for drying rinse water from the surface of vehicles. The sides of each vehicle are dried by stationary blower units located on the sides of the car wash line which include one or more vertical nozzles. The top surface of the vehicle is dried by one or more overhead blower ducts. The overhead blower ducts are frequently hinged at one end to permit vertical movement, and normally include a roller-type follower at its free end for following the longitudinal contour of the vehicle.
A specific fluid stripping apparatus is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,161,801 issued Jul. 24, 1979 in the name of Day et al., and owned by the assignee of the subject invention. The patent discloses the use of flexible, inflatable bags of generally rectangular transverse cross-section having an inlet for introducing air under pressure into the bag and an elongated opening at the bag end defining a nozzle to admit the stream of air to a vehicle for drying purposes. The nozzle end of the bag lies in the path of motion of the object to cause physical engagement between the nozzle end of the bag and the object to bring the stream of air emitted from the nozzle opening into close space relationship with the surface of the object.
Another type of blower apparatus is set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 5,553,346 issued Sep. 10, 1996 in the name of McElroy, which discloses an array of bags disposed about a U-shaped plenum for blowing water of the roof and sides of a vehicle.
Although the prior art is effective, there remains room for improvement in the effectiveness of drying the sides of a vehicle.
An assembly for blowing liquids from the surface of a vehicle comprising a U-shaped support plenum for distributing air to various surfaces of the vehicle and a blower connected to the support plenum for producing the pressurized air. The support plenum includes two vertically extending side supports and is characterized by a pair of first and second side bags extending from each of the side supports with the pair of side bags being coextensive and extending vertically along the associated side support and outwardly therefrom to elongated generally vertical nozzles for issuing an output flow from each bag.
Accordingly, the subject invention provides an improved assembly for drying the sides of a vehicle.
Other advantages of the present invention will be readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the subject invention;
FIG. 2 is an elevational view of the subject invention;
FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view taken along line 3--3 of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is a front view of the subject invention; and
FIG. 5 is a top view of the subject invention.
An assembly for use at the drying station of a car wash system is generally shown at 10 in FIGS. 1 and 2 and at 112 in FIGS. 4 and 5. While the invention has broader application, it is described herein with reference to a car wash system since it is particularly applicable to such systems.
The apparatus 10 of FIGS. 1 and 2 includes a U-shaped support plenum, generally indicated at 12, for distributing air to various surfaces of the vehicle (shown in phantom in FIG. 1). The support plenum 12 includes first and second vertically extending side supports or air ducts 14, 16 with an overhead support or duct 18 extending horizontally between the side supports 14, 16. The side supports 14, 16 and overhead support 18 comprise air ducting of generally circular cross-section with the overhead support 18 connected perpendicular to the side supports 14, 16. The support plenum 12 may be supported on the floor of a building which contains the car wash system, e.g., by plats 19 under the side support 16.
A blower 20 is connected to the side support 14 of the support plenum 12 for producing the pressurized air. In the preferred embodiment, the blower 20 is a twenty-five horsepower blower with a load limit design. Such a blower 20 which has been found to be suitable is that by Buffalo Forge Company, which can produce 9,000-12,000 CFM at the general 25 HP. In the preferred embodiment, the blower 20 is connected to the base or lower portion of the second side support 14, which supplies the pressurized air continuously through the entire length of the support plenum 12, i.e., through first side support 14, the overhead support 18 and the second side support 16.
Each of the first and second side supports 14, 16 and overhead support 18 include longitudinal openings 22 to allow air to pass therethrough. Such openings 22 are generally rectangular, and substantially slotted.
The apparatus 10 includes a plurality of flexible air bags 24, 26 and 28 connected to the support plenum 12 for receiving the pressurized air from the blower and directing the pressurized air toward the object or vehicle. A first side bag 24 and the second side bag 26 are connected to each of the first and second side supports 14 and 16. An overhead bag 28 is connected to the overhead support 18. The air bags 24, 26 and 28 are connected to the supports 14, 16, 18 at the longitudinal openings 22 to receive the pressurized air at an upper or first end and extend vertically downward to a second or nozzle end. The connection of the bags 24, 26 and 28 to the support plenum 12 are commonly known in the art to allow sealing of the bags 24, 26 and 28 thereto. As shown, a clamp or frame 29 holds the open ends of the bags to the respective supports or ducts.
The bags 24, 26 and 28 are each generally rectangular in cross section transverse to their length between the connection to an outlet 22 of an air duct and an outlet nozzle 30. The upper or central bag 28 has a concave nozzle 30 directed away from the overhead support 18. This concave nozzle 30 is shaped generally to fit the curvature of the top of a vehicle to minimize the distance thereto. The side bags 24 and 26 have vertically extending nozzles 32 which have a shallow V-shape from end to end.
Due to the restriction at the nozzles 30 and 32 of the bags 24, 26 and 28, a bag pressure is created slightly greater than atmosphere pressure to keep the bags 24, 26 and 28 in an inflated condition. When inflated, the air pressure in the bags 24, 26 and 28 causes the bags to be somewhat stiff or rigid. Therefore, even though the bags 24, 26 and 28 are made of a flexible material, they are self-supporting when inflated. The bags 24, 26 and 28 are, however, sufficiently deformable under an applied force so that when engaged by a vehicle moving through the car wash, the bags 24, 26 and 28 may be pushed aside.
The embodiment of FIGS. 4 and 5 differs from the first embodiment by including only side supports 114 and 116 with each side support 114 and 116 have upper and lower ends. One of the blowers (20) is disposed at the lower end of each of the side supports 114 and 116 and a cap 34 is secured to the upper end of each of the side supports 114 and 116. Each cap 34 is spaced vertically above the upper extremities of the side bags 24 and 26 to produce a cushion air chamber in the upper end of each of the side supports 114 and 116.
The blowers are well known in the art and comprise a fan and an electric motor to rotate the fan.
In any embodiment, the assembly is characterized by the pair of first 24 and second 26 side bags extending from each of the side supports 14, 16, 114 and 116 with each pair 24 and 26 of side bags being coextensive and extending vertically along the associated side support 14, 16, 114 or 116 and outwardly therefrom to elongated generally vertical nozzles 32 for issuing an output flow from each bag. The first side bag 24 is disposed to direct the output flow therefrom forwardly along a first plane (A) and the second side bag 26 is disposed to direct the output flow therefrom rearwardly along a second plane (B) which diverges from the first plane (A). The side supports 14 and 16 define a central plane (C) and the first plane (A) of the first side bag 24 extends at an acute angle theta (θ) to and on a first or forward side of the central plane (C) and the second plane (B) extends at the same or equal acute angle theta (θ) to and on the second or rearward side of the central plane (C). In the preferred embodiment, the acute angles (θ) equal twenty degrees (20°).
The invention has been described in an illustrative manner, and it is to be understood that the terminology which has been used is intended to be in the nature of words of description rather than of limitation.
Obviously, many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings. It is, therefore, to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims, wherein reference numerals are merely for convenience and are not to be in any way limiting, the invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described.
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|19 Aug 1944
|20 Apr 1948
|Minit Man Inc
|Drier for motor vehicle washing and cleaning apparatus
|6 Jun 1949
|12 May 1953
|David R Shusett
|Automatic car washer with airactuated agitator
|4 Feb 1959
|24 Jul 1962
|American Monorail Co
|Compound boot
|12 Jan 1973
|30 Apr 1974
|Takeuchi Tekko Kk
|Apparatus for air drying vehicles
|7 Dec 1972
|7 May 1974
|Toyo Enterprises Kk
|Vehicle drying apparatus
|15 Feb 1985
|25 Aug 1987
|Omni Engineering
|Automatic tack-off machine
|9 Sep 1988
|9 Jan 1990
|Innovative Control Systems, Inc.
|Computerized car wash controller system
|13 Jun 1989
|13 Nov 1990
|Schleeter Robert H
|Drier/stripper for car wash
|6 Dec 1990
|12 Jan 1993
|Fowler Jr Floyd N
|Flexible whirl-cleaning nozzle
|26 Jan 1994
|6 Jun 1995
|Proto-Vest, Inc.
|Non-contacting drying system
|12 Jul 1993
|3 Oct 1995
|Gougoulas; Harry K.
|Forced air vehicle dryer and proximity control system therefor
|21 Mar 1995
|10 Sep 1996
|Mcelroy; Lucian G.
|Tapered bag blower system
|20 Dec 1994
|17 Sep 1996
|Wesumat Fahrzeugwaschanlagen Gmbh
|Vehicle drying or polishing apparatus
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|15 Nov 1999
|14 Nov 2000
|Wesumat Fahrzeugwaschanlagen Gmbh
|Device for positioning motor vehicles in front of a car wash
|4 May 2001
|18 Feb 2003
|Proto-Vest, Inc.
|Car wash blower retract system
|30 Jan 2001
|18 Feb 2003
|General Motors Corporation
|Portable panel position detector
|20 Jun 2002
|18 May 2004
|Mark Vii Equipment, Inc.
|Blower dryer for automatic vehicle wash systems and method of using same
|25 Oct 2002
|8 Jun 2004
|Proto-Vest, Inc.
|Retractable overhead nozzle system for car wash blower
|20 Nov 2002
|30 Nov 2004
|Classic Air Systems, Llc
|Apparatus and method for drying an automobile chassis
|10 Sep 2004
|19 Dec 2006
|Proto-Vest, Inc.
|Blower control system
|26 Aug 2005
|17 Jul 2007
|Bourgault Industries Ltd.
|Apparatus for drying ground
|3 Mar 2004
|23 Oct 2007
|Proto-Vest, Inc.
|Car wash blower control
|24 Oct 2012
|10 Sep 2013
|G. Thomas Ennis
|System and apparatus for stripping fluids from the surface of a vehicle
|16 May 2011
|24 Dec 2013
|Lucian G. McElroy
|Hinged nozzle vehicle drying assembly
|14 Jun 2016
|5 Sep 2017
|Morten Pedersen
|Vehicle air dryer
|3 Mar 2004
|16 Dec 2004
|Mcelroy Christopher Patrick
|Car wash blower control
|10 Sep 2004
|28 Apr 2005
|Proto-Vest, Inc.
|Blower control system
|25 Apr 2005
|27 Oct 2005
|Dollhopf Kenneth J
|Apparatus for drying a vehicle
|25 Apr 2005
|27 Oct 2005
|Dollhopf Kenneth J
|Method for drying a vehicle
|26 Aug 2005
|16 Nov 2006
|Bourgault Industries Ltd.
|Apparatus and method for drying ground
|16 May 2011
|22 Nov 2012
|Mcelroy Lucian
|Hinged nozzle vehicle drying assembly
|U.S. Classification
|34/666, 15/316.1
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|18 May 1998
Owner name: PROTO-VEST, INC., ARIZONA
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:MCELROY, TIMOTHY PATRICK;MCELROY, CHRISTOPHER PATRICK;MCELROY, LUCIAN G.;REEL/FRAME:009201/0282
Effective date: 19980210
|10 Mar 2003
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|3 Apr 2007
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 8
|9 May 2011
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|5 Oct 2011
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|22 Nov 2011
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
Effective date: 20111005


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SAO PAULO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The value of Grupo Financiero Banamex SA, Mexico's second-largest bank, may not reflect issues with lower profitability, posing a barrier to a potential offer by Brazilian rival Itaú Unibanco Holding SA, Deutsche Bank Securities said in a report.
This week, Itaú Chief Executive Officer Roberto Egydio Setubal told shareholders that Banamex could be a potential way into Mexico's banking industry. Setubal said that so far there has been no contact with Banamex or controlling shareholder Citigroup Inc.
A purchase of Banamex, which has 16 percent of banking assets and 15 percent of loans in Mexico, could gain significant presence in Mexico, Deutsche Bank analyst Tito Labarta said in a client note.
Yet Banamex's weak profitability could influence how much price-sensitive Itaú would pay in a deal, Labarta said. Banamex's recurring return on equity at the end of September was 9 percent, compared with an average 13 percent to 14 percent for rivals Grupo Financiero Banorte SA and Santander Mexico Financial Group SA.
Based on price-to-earnings and book value valuation methodologies, Labarta estimates the value of Banamex ranging from $14.2 billion to $22.1 billion. However, since Itau is trading at a lower multiple, "a transaction at these levels could be dilutive" for shareholders of the Brazilian lender, he noted.
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text: I've got an intermittent problem with the ride-height system. Occasionally the dashboard indicator comes on steady, and the manual controls are disabled. Switching off the ignition resets it, for a while. I can sometimes cause this event as follows: Put a 50kilo load in the boot. With the engine running, starting with the ride height on low, manual or auto setting, press the up button. After between one and a half and two minutes the indicator will come on. If it doesn't, press UP again and it is likely to show the fault. It does this even while parked. Once it has happened, it occurs every time the height is increased. Driving around and trying again may not show the problem. At other times, it will change height correctly, although it takes 30 to 60 seconds per step, and always moves the back of the car up first. Going down takes about 20 seconds per step. I saw a review somewhere which said it changed in 3 seconds - can anyone confirm this? With the load in the boot, driving over bumpy roads and speed bumps doesn't trigger the fault, at any ride height. With a bigger load in the car, say 300 kilos, it will drive for perhaps 20 miles then put the indicator on. In thinking low air pressure, leaking control valve, leaking pipe (latter unlikely). Any thoughts? Is the compressor electric or engine driven?


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Starting in the mid 1980s, Australia shifted from a "family" immigration policy to one meant to bring in workers who would answer the country's economic needs. The new system identifies the jobs most in demand and rewards applicants who have experience in those fields and who have overall skills, such as language proficiency. The results have been dramatic, says Steven Malanga, senior editor for the City Journal.
- Where 70 percent of Australia's immigration used to be based on family relations, now 70 percent is based on the applicants' skills.
- Economic assimilation is much more rapid; one recent study found that, five years after arrival, the typical immigrant earns as much as the average native-born Australian.
- In America, by contrast, studies show a wide gap between the earnings of immigrants and those of native-born workers -- a gap that is growing larger over time as our immigrant population increasingly lacks the education and skills to make it in our specialized economy.
Shifting to this skilled-based system has made Australia a powerful player in the worldwide scramble for talent and skills. Its former immigration minister has boasted that the country is "beating the United States" and other industrialized countries in recruiting efforts.
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My lab puppy is 7 months old. When she first came to me, she wouldn't chew toys. It was as if she had been trained not to. Then, as I showed her it was okay to chew toys, she came to believe she could chew household items, as well. It started with cables and cords, and now it's tearing the stuffing from comforters.
If I don't let her chew toys and frisbees, she won't chew other things but then she is so bored. I know it is important for her teeth and development to chew.
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Your lab studies both the retina, which controls vision, and the hypothalamus, which controls all sorts of behaviors that range from the biological clock, hunger, thirst, blood pressure, blood sugar and mood. Why investigate these two systems?
BLACKSHAW: These two structures really aren't that different developmentally. During embryonic development, the retina emerges from the side walls of the hypothalamus. And, many of the same genes control the blueprints of both structures.
Our overall approach studying the retina and the hypothalamus is very similar too. We constructed high-resolution molecular atlases of the genes that are turned on and off in each of the systems over the course of development. I completed the atlas of the mouse retina as a post-doc at Harvard and we recently published the gene atlas for mouse hypothalamus development from our work here at Hopkins. These atlases give us the genetics parts list that is required to build these structures.
How will you use these atlases?
BLACKSHAW: We've already begun to use the retinal atlas. We rapidly home in on specific genes that are turned on at different points during development. Then, we manually turn certain genes on in the cells of the retina of a mouse when they normally are off or turn them off when they are typically on to see their direct effect on the retina, so we can determine their function. We've studied about 15 genes so far in the mouse retina. About two thirds of these genes turn other genes on and off. The other third are of completely new with no known function. Also, we found some interesting long non-coding RNAs.
What are long non-coding RNAs?
BLACKSHAW: These long non-coding RNAs seem to be a class of RNA with a new function. We found these RNAs are made in certain cell types from DNA but they don't translate instructions to make a protein. About 30 percent of transcription factors -- proteins that turn genes on and off -- in the brain and retina have these RNAs paired up next to the genes that encode the transcription factors. The RNA appears to regulate the activity of its paired transcription factor by controlling its ability to turn other genes on or off. For instance, we found one transcription factor that controls development of the eye and if its paired RNA is removed, the eye fails to develop, similar to what happens when the transcription is removed. The discovery of the function of these long non-coding RNAs is relatively new and we do not know if this method of gene control is unique to the brain and retina.
Of the other genes in the mouse retina that you've examined, do any others have exciting potential for future studies?
BLACKSHAW: One of the transcription factors we identified is important for the survival of photoreceptor cells--the rods and the cones that detect light and allow us to see. We've found that a small molecule binds to this transcription factor enhancing survival of the photoreceptors in mice that have a genetic form of hereditary blindness. We are expanding these studies to see if this small molecule has protective effects in other cells of the mouse retina damaged by other eye diseases. Perhaps, one day drugs can be designed from this molecule that may treat hereditary blindness or age-related macular degeneration in people.
Based on your work in the retina, you believe that we may be able to one day treat hereditary blindness in other ways too?
BLACKSHAW: In the future, we may be able to regrow our retinas like fish and reptiles do. Cold-blooded animals don't stop growing like mammals, and they keep a little pool of stem cells squirreled away for the purpose of adding to the growing retina.
Since we don't have a pool of retinal stem cells, we can't regenerate our retinas. But, we do have a subset of cells in the eyes called the Muller glia cells that are support cells that pass on nutrients to the neurons and remove waste and other byproducts of metabolism. These cells resemble the retinal stem cells in cold-blooded animals in their shape and in what genes are expressed. With a little gene manipulation, we may be able to get these Muller glia cells to turn back into stem cells and then push them to become photoreceptor cells to repair the retina.
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Looking to set up an SMS messaging service for a web site
I'm looking to add SMS capabilities to my web site (much like facebook, in that you can send a text message to a number, and it will add it to my web site).
I've done some research, and found that this is typically done using something called a "short code" which is a 5 or 6 character "domain name" in the SMS world. Problem is, they cost $1700 to register and $900 / month to maintain. Which is a little pricey for my needs at this point.
I'm also looking to bill a nominal fee for each such message (probably in the area of $0.10 - $0.15 per SMS).
My questions are:
1) Do I need a short code to do the billing, or can I use a standard 10 digit (123-456-7890 ex) phone number
2) How do you set up such a system
3) Can the phone companies help with this, or is it done through a third party system?
Any help / ideas and links to resources would be appreciated.


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February 14 is Valentine's Day, and tonight, the Museum of Contemporary Art (1275 19th Street, 303-298-7554) holds its annual fundraiser and auction, Love4Sale, which includes donated paintings and sculptures. Organizers hope to raise a lot of money -- no hollow wish considering the high quality of the donated pieces.
But Love4Sale is only one of the sweetheart attractions at the MCA. Another is Vertical Articulation: A Social Sculpture in Beuysian Space (overview seen above), a painted installation by Bruce Price that covers the walls and the coffee bar in the museum's cafe. To paint it, Price used a series of related greens, accented by madder browns, reds and pinks -- choices inspired in part by the chairs in the room. And he employed two basic forms -- vertical stripes and diamonds -- assembled into several distinct combinations. The forms represent two kinds of information that Price believes he has translated into simple visual devices. "The stripes are based on social information, and the diamonds are derived from architectural information," he says. The widths of the stripes are based on the heights of various people he measured at an MCA event; simply put, the differences between their heights determined the intervals of the stripes. The diamonds are created using computations based on the dimensions of the cafe itself.
Despite the mathematical permutations -- with the measurements in metric denominations, no less -- the resulting patterns don't look scientific. In fact, they suggest nothing less than old wallpaper. "French silk wallpaper," says Price.
Though the artist has done painted installations before, Vertical Articulation is by far the most ambitious, and it's struck a chord with many people, notably Price's dealer, Ron Judish, who asked the artists to do the same kind of thing at his gallery, Ron Judish Fine Arts. Judish has plans to market the idea to his clients.
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Undaunted by brain cancer, Gary Carter made a brief appearance at his charity golf event last month at the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach in Florida, one of the last times he appeared in public before his death on Thursday.
Among those in attendance were teammates from his Mets days, including Tim Teufel, now the Mets' third-base coach, who described how Carter gave a short, emotional speech that captured everything about Carter and his indestructible personality.
"For me, that was almost like his Lou Gehrig speech," Teufel said. "He said he felt like the luckiest guy in the room. His wife and his kids were there, and he just said how thankful he was for everything he had. Gary has great faith, and he wasn't blaming God or anyone."
Darryl Strawberry, the slugging outfielder who was part of the 1986 Mets, called Carter "the best teammate I ever played with." Strawberry, who was at the January event, said that Carter was in a wheelchair, in pain, and that it was "difficult to see him like that."
"I just gave him a big hug and reminded him how much we all loved him," Strawberry said.
Bobby Ojeda, who joined the Mets in 1986, cited Carter's passion for the game and said his attitude was critical that season.Continue reading the main story
"When I first got there in spring training, there was this feeling that we were going for it all, that this is the year and nothing short of winning the World Series would be acceptable," Ojeda said. "Gary was right at the front of the bus on that."
Davey Johnson, his manager with the Mets, acknowledged that Carter enjoyed being noticed, but said that tendency had its value.
"He loved the limelight," Johnson said. "He loved New York and he loved to play on the big stage. That kind of pressure would make some guys wilt, but Gary loved it and he excelled under that scrutiny."
Carter broke in with the Montreal Expos in 1974 and was a franchise icon until he was traded after the 1984 season. Dan Warthen, a pitcher with the Expos at the time and now the Mets' pitching coach, was a roommate of Carter's in the minor leagues and again when they were first called up.
"He could rub some people the wrong way because of his energy, but it was honest energy," Warthen said. "A lot of guys were jealous, but they never made it to the big leagues, so there was a reason for their jealousy."
Warthen said he loved throwing to Carter because he knew hitters and how to get them out. He also said Carter helped pitchers by constantly chattering to hitters.
"He would drive them crazy," Warthen said. "They would tell him to shut up, but he would be asking them about their families or complimenting the umpire or talking about the pitcher. They would go nuts."
Johnson said the last time he saw Carter was at the golf event. "He couldn't get out of his chair, and I know he was in a lot of pain," Johnson said. "But you know what? He was still upbeat and positive. That's Gary. That's how he always was."Continue reading the main story


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Brandon Maurer vs Nick Tepesch Battle Sees Seattle Fall 5-0
Texas got a shutout performance from its pitching staff en route to a 5-0 victory over Seattle on Saturday at Rangers Ballpark.
Bettors who backed the Rangers were rewarded as -162 favorites at sportsbooks. Over-Under bettors saw the total score go UNDER the closing total of 9.5.
Derek Lowe earned the victory for the Rangers, throwing 4 innings of work, striking out 1, walking 0, and allowing 0 hits and 0 earned runs. That effort was supported by 2 RBIs from Lance Berkman in the win.
Seattle's starting pitcher Brandon Maurer worked 6 2/3 innings, giving up 2 hits and 2 earned runs while striking out 2 in the loss. They got 2 hits from Kyle Seager in a losing cause.


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AVON — Vermilion and Avon combined for 95 points Monday afternoon in a West Shore Conference makeup game.
Had there been something at stake, it might have become a down-to-the-wire thriller with a final score of, say, 48-47. But there wasn't and it didn't.
Avon, tuning up for a huge Division I sectional final at Westlake on Thursday night, routed the Sailors 76-19, improving to 16-6, 11-3 in the WSC.
Vermilion had nothing to gain or lose in the conference race. And the Sailors (11-12, 4-10) had already blown out Clearview in their Division II sectional opener Saturday.
So, what did the Eagles gain from the one-sided victory?
"We were able to work some of the stuff we plan to use against Westlake," said Sierra Davidson, Avon's 6-foot-1 junior post. "It was nice to be able to practice it against a different team instead of just working on it in practice.
"We got to see Westlake play twice in the last week," said Davidson, one of three Eagles in double figures "They're a great team. We played them and it ended up being a close game (a 51-44 Westlake win on Nov. 29). We're preparing for them as best we can and if we can play our kind of basketball, it should be a good game."
Vermilion's only lead was 5-3 when senior Hannah Bartlome drove for a basket about two minutes into the game. The Sailors didn't score again until 1:44 remained in the first quarter, and Avon was in command 20-9 after eight minutes.
The Eagles put it out of reach with a 24-point second quarter in which eight players scored, topped by Regan Betts' six points and Jessica Yurkovich's five. By halftime, 10 Eagles had seen action and all had scored. For the game, 11 saw action and all scored.
Avon made 51-plus percent of its field-goal attempts and five of 10 3-point shots. The Eagles owned the backboards, 39-18. Brianna Conroy finished with a game-high 12 points, Mackenzie Meckes scored 11 and Davidson 10.
Meantime, turnovers, anemic shooting and the Avon defense held the Sailors to single-digit scoring in every quarter, to four total points in the middle quarters and seven for the second half. Freshman Makayla Lane scored a team-high four points, all in the fourth quarter.
"We're in the time of year right now where we're trying to prepare for our game with Westlake, so we were definitely trying different things that possibly we could execute when we play them on Thursday," Avon coach Meghan Larrick said.
"This was another day we could prepare and we had to use it to work through different things. We got to see a lot of kids play, but usually everybody gets opportunities with us. Tonight, same thing. Everybody was able to get an opportunity and everybody was able to contribute."
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VERMILION (19): Jessica Mello 0-0-0, Hannah Bartlome 1-0-2, Sarah Bartlome 1-0-2, Caitlyn Schnur 0-1-1, Jasmine Porter 1-0-2, Kasey Ramos 0-3-3, Jessica Burger 1-0-2, Jen Kovarik 0-0-0, Heather Habermehl 1-0-3, Catherine Schaefer 0-0-0, Makayla Lane 2-0-4. Totals 7-4-19.
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JEFFERSON - A Superior Court jury Thursday convicted a Jackson County man for beating an Athens man unconscious, wrapping him up in a rug and dumping him in a rural subdivision last fall.
Jurors deliberated for more than six hours Wednesday and Thursday before convicting Timothy Lamar Ransom of aggravated assault and aggravated battery.
Judge Currie Mingledorff will sentence Ransom at a later date.
Ransom, of Scott Road, was one of three men charged in the drug-related beating on Oct. 14, 2009.
The other two men, Bob David Scott and Daniel Maurice Weathers, pleaded guilty Monday to reduced charges and Mingledorff sentenced them to 12 years in prison and 18 years of probation.
On Oct. 14, 2009, the trio attacked a man they believed set them up to be robbed when they went to East Athens to buy marijuana, attorneys told jurors.
They beat the man with their feet, fists and a metal pipe, leaving him with brain damage, a broken jaw and a broken eye socket, before leaving him on the side of Scott Road, according to prosecutors.
A Jackson County grand jury originally charged Scott, Weathers and Ransom with four counts of aggravated assault, one count of kidnapping and two counts aggravated battery in February, but prosecutors amended the indictment in August to include additional charges of aggravated battery and kidnapping.
Jurors found Ransom guilty of three counts of aggravated assault and three counts of aggravated battery Thursday but not guilty of the kidnapping and fourth aggravated assault charge.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Wednesday failed to break a Republican filibuster, effectively killing a bill supporters said would provide job training for military veterans.
The Senate voted 58-40 in favor of proceeding to debate on the Veterans Job Corps bill, but the bill needed 60 votes to advance.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., argued in opposition to the bill, saying it would violate a congressional deal reached in 2011 on spending limits. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said its cost -- $1 billion for five years -- was offset by revenues, The New York Times reported.
"It's unbelievable that even after more than a decade of war, many Republicans still will not acknowledge that the treatment of our veterans is a cost of war," Murray said in a statement following the vote.
The White House issued a statement accusing Republicans of blocking "a common sense plan to create the Veterans Jobs Corps and put tens of thousands of veterans back to work."
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Győr - Excursions around Győr
The roman catholic church in the village of Rábaszentmiklós was built in the second part of the XIIth century. The trefoil Romanesque-style church with a single tower is actually a unique example in architecture. The three foils of nearly identical base area are the symbol of the Holy Trinity.In the centre of the village stands the Cross of Győr, a column erected in memory of the reconquest of Győr from the Turkish army (1598).Saint's days in Csorna, Osli, Tétszentkút, Szany and MáriakálnokThe Csorna Premonstratensian provostship was founded by the count Osl family around 1180. The church is of medieval origin but Haubt Moravian architect changed it to the present baroque shape between 1774 and 1786. The provostship was under secular hands from the beginning of the Reformation until 1694, when the Premonstrants returned. The grace-picture of Saracen Mary, which most probably is a version of the Czestochowa grace-picture, was taken to Csorna from the Bohemian Grádics around 1757. A number of miraculous recoveries occurred in front of the picture, and – as a consequence - the place became a pilgrimage site.The church ale is on the last day of May.The first church in Osli was built by János Kanizsai, Archbishop of Esztergom to the honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A great honour surrounded the wonder-working picture of the Blessed Virgin, but the protestant Nádasdys destroyed the church and the grace-picture. The Esterházys later re-built the church. In 1690 Palatine Pál Esterházy brought here the lime-carved Virgin Mary-statue from Kismarton. Numerous miracle cures happened in front of the statue, which are also signalled by the votive presents. The statue is also called the Guardian Lady of Rábaköz by local people.The main church ale is held on the first Sunday after the Feast of the birth of Virgin Mary (8th September).According to the legend of Tétszentkút, an imperial soldier, Ailert Keresztély had a dream in 1715 according to which he would recover from his illness at the spring of the Tét forest. As this really happened, he built a small chapel beside the spring, in which a copy of the picture of the Helping Blessed Virgin was placed. The news of the miraculous cure launched the pilgrimage. The Szentkút church was built between 1715 and 1744 in the place of the chapel. The picture of the crowned patron saint, Saint Anthony of Padua was placed on the rococo high altar, above the grace-picture of the Helping Blessed Virgin.The church ale is on 12 September, the Feast of Virgin Mary.The chapel of Szany was built in 1753, and was extended and equipped with stained glass windows in 1901. In the place of the tiny water well a wild pear tree was once standing, which, according to the legend blossomed in January, amidst snow-covered and rimy trees. The wild pear tree would be Saint Ann and its blossoms the Blessed Virgin. On the request of the faithful, the bishop at the time authorised to build a chapel at this miraculous place. He then sent a picture painted in brass as a present, depicting Saint Ann, Saint Joachim and the young Blessed Virgin. This picture has enjoyed great honour since then. The faithful from Szany carried all construction material to the forest by hand, praying and singing. The chapel has been a dominant spiritual centre of Rábaköz since then.The church ale is on the weekend following Saint Ann's day (26th July).The ancient inhabitants of the village of Máriakálnok were Germans. The start of the pilgrimage in Máriakálnok goes back to the XVIth century. The wanderers often visited the water well outside the village, which was believed to have curing powers. According to the legend, a fisherman from Máriakálnok caught a lime-carved Mary-statue in the Danube, and built a chapel to its honour near the well. The old chapel was replaced by a new one to the honour of the visit by landlord János Viczay in 1663. Only the statue stayed unharmed by the devastating fire in 1873; János Zalka, Bishop of Győr, rebuilt the chapel. The statues were then given crowns and a silver sceptre was placed in Mary's hand.The major church ales: Holy Trinity Sunday, and the Sunday after the Feast of the Birth of Virgin Mary (8th September).
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Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012.
With the year coming to a close, we thought we'd ask our resident Doctor Cranfill to kick back, relax, and recall his favorite moments of the year.
- What is your New Year's Resolution? — See #6
- Biggest surprise of 2011? — That someone hasn't killed me yet
- Most embarrassing moment of 2011? — Finally admitting my love for [lastfm link_type="similar_artist_radio"]Third Eye Blind[/lastfm]
- Proudest moment of 2011? — Winning the Confederated World Heavyweight Championship
- A new-found obsession during 2011? — Deborah Ann Woll
- A personal change you made during 2011? — I changed my Chik-Fil-A usual order to Chicken STRIPS from Chicken Nuggets
- One way you're preparing for the end of the world in 2012 — Stockpiling ammunition
- You sold you soul in 2011 when you… — Allowed Sluggo to live
- Coolest thing you found in Los Angeles during 2011 — The Boiling Crab (seriously, that place is beyond delicious)
- What was your favorite viral video of 2011? — It's gotta be Honey Badger right?


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The third edition of the World Baseball Classic begins in September with four qualifying tournaments. The WBC's championship round will be held in California for the third time, continuing to move up the coast from San Diego in 2006 to Los Angeles in 2009 and now to San Francisco in 2013.
Dates were not announced but MLB announced other U.S. sites for WBC games. two first-round events will be played in Arizona, at the Diamondbacks' Salt River Fields spring-training complex as well as at their home park, Chase Field. Miami's new Marlins Park will play host to second-round games as well.
Other international venues have yet to be announced. The first-ever WBC qualifying round will start in September 2012 with 16 teams in four, four-team qualifiers being held in Jupiter, Fla.; Regensburg, Germany; Panama City, Panama; and Taipei, Taiwan.
France, Israel, South Africa and Spain will play for a WBC berth in Jupiter from Sept. 19-23. Canada, the Czech Republic and Great Britain join host Germany in Regensburg from Sept. 20-24, while host Panama will welcome neighboring Colombia as well as Brazil and Nicaragua from Nov. 14-18. The Taiwan dates have yet to be released; New Zealand, the Philippines and Thailand will play there.
IBAF, ISF Set Olympic Plan In Motion
In a letter to the International Olympic Committee, the International Baseball Federation and the International Softball Federation announced their intention to merge as a single sports federation, hoping it will aid the process of returning baseball and softball to the Olympics for 2020.
The two sports intend to apply as one sport with two disciplines, men's and women's, with a name for the united federation to be determined. IBAF president Riccardo Fraccari of Italy said in a press release, "We have learned a lot from being excluded from the Games, and we have spent a lot of time listening to the IOC. After much reflection internally but more importantly after having spoken to many, many friends in the Olympic Movement, we understood that merging out two IFs was in our best interests, not only for Olympic inclusion, but also and especially for our two sports in the long run."
More than 40 nations already have joint baseball-softball federations on a national level. This international merger still has many details to iron out but it's a long way from the acrimony of 2005, when the two sports were booted from the Olympic programme and when ISF president Don Porter blamed the exclusion on baseball's doping issues and lack of willingness to allow major leaguers play in the Olympics.
He told the Chicago Tribune in 2004,"We don't want to be typified as `women's baseball. We have to go on our own. Baseball has a lot more baggage than we do. We have never had a positive drug test." And in 2009 and 2011, Porter has declined a joint effort with baseball at reinstatement.
Now, softball apparently has decided it can't go it alone, and with no World Baseball Classic or Major League Baseball to develop softball internationally, it needs the Olympics much more than baseball does. Porter told Reuters, "We feel if we can work together it might be much more possible to regain Olympic status."
A joint IBAF/ISF plan for the Olympics would make the event go something like this: baseball teams participate in Opening Ceremonies, have a five-day, eight-team tournament, leave their rooms in the Olympic village to the softball players who come to the site, play their one-week tournament and then march in the closing ceremonies. The two sports would share one facility. The whole plan would be much less expensive and presumably increase the chances of big leaguers playing in the Games.


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It's surpassed anything I imagined!
Greetings from the Olympic village! The swim team arrived on Monday, and I have finally finished unpacking the cornucopia of clothes that we found waiting for us in our rooms upon arrival. I have seven suitcases stuffed into my dorm room! We are going to be styling during the games.
We had our preparation camp in Vichy, France, before coming to London. It's safe to say that we were taken care of extremely well in France. We had beautiful sunshine to accompany us when we trained at the outdoor pool there, and for good measure, we also had an indoor pool with a waterslide. Since there was an extremely competitive group of people at that camp, we had as much fun trying to get down the slide as fast as possible as we did racing in the pool.
But I did get some great work in since our Olympic trials a few weeks ago, and I am really excited to begin racing this Saturday here in London. The competition pool is the most breathtaking venue that I have ever seen. The pool has beautiful details, down to the very last tile laid on the bottom. The stands are so vast that when you're near the starting blocks, you can only barely see the top row. I can't wait to feel the energy when it is filled with spectators watching us compete.
The village is also quite amazing. It's my first Olympic Games, so I don't have anything to compare it to, but all of my teammates say that it's the best one they've seen. My suite has a gorgeous balcony view overlooking the center square of the village, and I have been enjoying some serious people-watching in my downtime. It's a blast trying to guess which country everyone is from, as well as which sport they play.
So far, my Olympic experience has surpassed anything I could have ever imagined, and the Games haven't even officially started!


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The official visitors guide for Zanesville and Muskingum County is hot off the press
Zanesville-Muskingum County Chamber of Commerce creates the annual guide with information promoting travel to our city and county. 100,000 copies have been distributed to hotels, travel centers, and other attractions across the state of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Michigan.
Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce, Kelly Ashby said, "our guide is full of information about attractions, the museums, the wilds, things to do, restaurants , places to stay and the arts and also some fun facts about Muskingum County and how we got started and some great history information in here as well."
Every year the guidebook features Longaberger and The Wilds, plus a new element 200 years history exploring John and Annie Glenn and The National Road.
"We try to do some new information each and every year, give it a little bit of a new look but a lot of the same great info for how to travel and how to plan your travel to Muskingum county. Also the 2013 calendar of events, some of the highlights. Not all of the events because there are so many events that take place in Muskingum County."
Ashby says she is very pleased with the new look and if you are interested you can call the Chamber of Commerce, stop by the Welcome Center or visit their website.


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Type: Umbrella
Status: Resolved
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: None
This issue is about reviewing state transitions in hbase to ensure we're sufficently hardened against crashes. This issue I see as an umbrella issue under which we'd look at compactions, splits, log splits, region opens – what else is there? We'd look at each in turn to see how we survive crash at any time during the transition. For example, we think compactions idempotent but we need to prove it so. Splits are for sure not, not at the moment (Witness disabled parents but daughters missing or only one of them available).
Part of this issue would be writing tests that aim to break transitions.
In light of above, here is recent off-list note from Todd Lipcon (and "another"):
I thought a bit more last night about the discussion we were having regarding various HBase components doing operations on the HDFS data, and ensuring that in various racy scenarios that we don't have two region servers or masters overlapping. I came to the conclusion that ZK data can't be used to actually have effective locks on HDFS directories, since we can never know that we still have a ZK lock when we do an operation. Thus the operations themselves have to be idempotent, or recoverable in the case of multiple nodes trying to do the same thing. Or, we have to use HDFS itself as a locking mechanism - this is what we discussed using write leases essentially as locks. Since I didn't really trust myself, I ran my thoughts by "Another" and he concurs (see below). Figured this is food for thought for designing HBase data management to be completely safe/correct. ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Another <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:50 AM Subject: locks To: Todd Lipcon <firstname.lastname@example.com> Short answer is no, you're right. Because HDFS and ZK are partitioned (in the sense that there's no communication between them) and there may be an unknown delay between acquiring the lock and performing the operation on HDFS you have no way of knowing that you still own the lock, like you say. If the lock cannot be revoked while you have it (no timeouts) then you can atomically check that you still have the lock and do the operation on HDFS, because checking is a no-op. Designing a system with no lock revocation in the face of failures is an exercise for the reader :) The right way is for HDFS and ZK to communicate to construct an atomic operation. ZK could give a token to the client which it also gives to HDFS, and HDFS uses that token to do admission control. There's probably some neat theorem about causality and the impossibility of doing distributed locking without a sufficiently strong atomic primitive here. Another
Issue Links
- is related to
HBASE-2696 ZooKeeper cleanup and refactor
- Closed
- relates to
HBASE-2231 Compaction events should be written to HLog
- Closed
- All
- Comments
- Work Log
- History
- Activity
- Transitions
I think the general pattern that all transitions need to follow is:
1) HLog that the RS intends to do some operation
2) Perform the operation in a way that is still undoable (eg create compacted HFile but don't yet remove old ones)
3) HLog that the RS has finished the action
4) Clean up from part 2 (eg remove the pre-compaction HFiles)
We assume:
- Whenever a RS has failed, the master will open its HLog for append.
- This steals the write lease and increases the generation stamp on its last block.
- Thus the next time the RS attempts to hflush(), it will receive an IOException (I think a LeaseExpiredException to be specific?)
Failure cases at each step:
Fail before 1) no problem, data isn't touched
Fail after 1 but before 3) the transition is an indeterminate state. When the master recovers, it can roll back to the pre-transition state
Fail after 3) when the master recovers, it can complete the "cleanup" transition for the regionserver (even if the regionserver got halfway through cleanup)
This pattern relies on cleanup being idempotent, and state transitions being undoable.
The above examples are for the compaction case, but I think the same general ideas apply elsewhere.
Lastly, as an optimization, we can add a step 5 on the regionserver which is "log that the state transition is entirely complete". Thus the master knows it doesn't have to do anything with regards to this transition.
For discussion, it may be worth giving some terminology to the phases. It seems to me we have prepare (enters the "will rollback" state), then commit (enters the "will roll forward state"), then complete (ends the state machine, no action necessary).
I ran into a weird situation today running TestReplication (from
HBASE-2223's latest patch up on rb), the test kills a region server by expiring its session and then the following happened (almost all at the same time):
- Master lists all hlogs to split (total of 12)
- RS does a log roll
- RS tries to register the new log in ZK for replication and fails because the session was expired, but the log is already rolled
- RS takes 3 more edits into the new log
- RS cleans 6 logs over 13
- Master fails at splitting the 3rd log it listed, delays the log splitting process
- Master tries again to split logs, lists 7 of them and is successful
In the end, the master wasn't missing any edits (because log splitting failed and got the new log the second time) but the slave cluster was missing 3. This makes me think that the region server should also do a better job at handling KeeperException.SessionExpiredException because we currently don't do it at all.
I'm upgrading this to blocker for 0.21, any GC that kills a RS that rolls after sleeping and still gets some edits can result in data loss.
Over in
HBASE-2696 we now have one place that we handle ZK Expired and Disconnected events. We need to figure out how to handle a Disconnect, especially on RS side, which relates to much of the discussion here.
Made this an umbrella issue, critical rather than blocker and moved it out of 0.90.
The reason to take down priority is that perhaps half of the issues raised in this umbrella have been addressed elsewhere (review of splits and log splitting). The other items have also had some work done (region open) but more to do so will leave issue open though moving it out of 0.90 since thought is we can release w/o completion (I'm in a room w/ j-d and ryan going over 0.90 issues and this is what we think).


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text: 2009/9/15 Charles سمير Doutriaux <email@example.com>: > Hi there, > > I have a user that failed to install numpy 1.3.0 on her Mac 10.5.8. > > Turns out she is not using gfortran but g95. > > Is it a known feature? Is g95 not supposed to work with numpy? Probably not for Mac. Most likely no one has done the work necessary to get the right flags for Mac builds of g95. Also, she will need to use --fcompiler=g95. I highly recommend using the gfortran builds from this site, though: http://r.research.att.com/tools/ -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco


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The Tigers Basketball team lost a tough game Tuesday night as they fell to Arcadia University 62-51. At halftime the Tigers were only down five points but Arcadia fought off an aggressive Tiger attack as we closed the gap to two points. Arcadia then pushed their lead to 19 with six minutes remaining to hold on for the win. Ashley Brown led the Tigers with 16 points and 7 rebounds.


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Lit. "Discoursing together." A term used by the Sufis for the calling of a person by God through some outward means, as when,. according to the Qur'an, Surah xxviii. 30, God spoke to Moses out of a tree. ('Abdu 'r-Razzaq's Dict. of Sufi Terms.)
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"I thought it was
very good,'' Mott said. "They went off nicely. They were off easy in 13
and picked it up. It's all we needed. I think the most important part
was that the rider (Penny Gardiner)
felt like (Flashy Gray) was there when she needed her.''
Close Hatches, who is undefeated in three starts, the latest the Gazelle (GII), galloped under exercise rider Joanna Trout.
The filly is from
the first crop of Juddmonte stallion First Defence, who was a Grade I
winner for the farm. His dam, Honest Lady, was a Grade I winner for
Juddmonte. Bobby Frankel trained First Defence
and Honest Lady.
Next came the tandem of Silsita (with Hall of Fame rider Gary Stevens aboard) and Unlimited Budget (handled by exercise rider Patti Krotenko).
The Fair Grounds Oaks (GII) winner
Unlimited Budget, moving on the outside, proved best by a couple of
lengths over her workmate, timing out at :59.60 for five furlongs.
Silsita's final clocking was 1:00 Their splits were: Unlimited Budget --
:12, :23.60, :35.20 and :47, with an out time of
1:13.60 for six furlongs. Clockers caught Silsita in early fractions of
:12, :23.60 and :35.20.
Next from the Pletcher clan came Oaks eligible Princess of Sylmar with exercise rider Jake Nelson up alongside the sophomore stakes filly Fusaichiswonderful.
The former, a daughter of
the A.P. Indy sire Majestic Warrior, did her running on the outside and
registered splits of :13.20, :25,20 and :37.60 en route to a final time
of :49.20. Her workmate was given the same final clocking. Princess of
Sylmar galloped out in 1:01.60.
Midnight Lucky
opened her career on Feb. 13 with an easy 7 1/4-length victory over
maidens. She followed up that win with an eight-length triumph in the
Sunland Park Oaks on March 24.
"I never imagined
something like this," Borel said of having any Hall of Fame dreams when
he started riding. "It is especially special this time of year getting
ready for the Derby and the Oaks."
"When she became
available, I immediately went that way,'' Flint said of Napravnik. "She
rode for me in New Orleans. Believe it or not, I've had good luck with
her. She's got the hands.''
Seaneen Girl, who
finished third in the Fair Grounds Oaks (GII) in her only start this
year, isn't difficult to ride, Flint said.
"Very kind, no
problem whatsoever,'' Flint said. "There's no magic key with her. She
tries hard, and she loves the racetrack. And I figure, too, a girl
riding on Oaks day – (Napravnik) won the race last
year – I think she's a wonderful rider. I think the world of her. She's a
very nice person, and that means a lot to me. And I know her, and I
feel comfortable with her. And that's why I did what I did.
"When that
opportunity came about – I mean I never would have let the other guy go,
but he has no business with other horses here. And he asked me if
there's anything, and I said, 'No, I don't have nothing
else. So I find out she was available, I got a hold of Steve Bass (Napravnik's agent) as soon as I could.''
Under exercise rider Edward "Rocky'' Seely, Seaneen Girl galloped a mile and a half Saturday.
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