On the surface, the life of nineteen-year-old Jesse St. Claire is like so many other suburban slackers. He sleeps in late while living at home with his parents and spends the money from his job on his car. Beneath the surface, he's a kid waiting for an opportunity to do more with his life while trying to learn how to become a man. The only company he's ever worked for is a corrupt suburban mortgage brokerage his stepfather's cousin owns and Jesse suddenly finds himself homeless after standing up to his irrational stepfather. He begins working for a new company while also given an opportunity to stay in the caretaker's cottage at the long neglected and abandoned Kettering mansion. Over the next year his fortunes change while also discovering the truth about his mother, his biological father and the past. It is a past his mother desperately wants to keep secret and others are willing to kill to keep forgotten. Jesse has to battle for the truth no matter what the consequences.

The pigeons flying over the Monte Verde Neighborhood toward the low-income housing development known as Masada look no different than other birds at first glance. Hundreds of pigeons fly in and out of the rookeries in Masada every day with little fanfare. What most people don't notice is that a select few carry a secretive cargo strapped to their back. Fifteen-year-old Jesse Kane and his best friend Andy have covertly taken a handful of these pigeons for years so they can sell the cocaine they're transporting. They do it for the money they can bring to help lift them out of their miserably poor lives. Jesse struggles against the life he's been given by his dysfunctional parents and the life he knows exists somewhere. With the help of his girlfriend Lacey he hopes to find it while turning his back on the lifestyle he's always led. This proves to be harder than he ever could've imagined while struggling for more than a new life. He finds himself struggling to stay alive and protect those he loves.

RJ Wright is a work in progress. His poetry portrays the journey of a man discovering the multifaceted aspects of his identity. His style as a writer and spoken word artist is continuously growing so each poem has a life of its own. RJ invites the audience in on his journey. His work is hard-hitting and memorable; quote-worthy and breathtaking. Erica Nicole

Destiny awaits Leigh as she steps away from her old life. Destiny pushes her to heights she never could have imagined. Destiny plummets into your heart as she finds herself and who she may become. Join Leigh in a toss of a hat adventure to find her destiny in this spunky shifter love story that comes face to fang with vampires and makes you fall for a Fae!

Data are presented on time-dependent behavior of bolted joints made from 64-ply IM7 carbon fiber/K3B thermoplastic polyimide quasi-isotropic lay-up tested in pure bolt bearing and in bearing bypass. Composite panels were aged at temperatures of 177 and 204°C for 5 000 and 10 000 (h) to simulate cumulative effects of supersonic flight conditions on a bolted composite joint. Changes in joint-bearing capacity and determination of time-dependent behavior have been covered in this study. Test coupons sized and drilled to correspond to the ratios found in actual joints were loaded over a wide range at both with and without clamp-up forces. Testing at 177°C simulated supersonic cruise temperature. Bearing creep testing revealed time-dependent behavior only in a very narrow loading region, above which bearing failure occurred almost instantaneously and below which no damage occurred. Testing of aged material showed degradation in material aged at 177°C for 5000 h; however, material aged at 177°C for 10 000 h demonstrated a recovery in bearing capacity, while material aged at temperatures of 177 and 204°C for 5000 and 10 000 h showed neither increased nor equivalent performance degradation. Testing with neat resin demonstrated that the matrix material becomes more brittle both with temperature and with aging. It was concluded that this material experiences no significant time-dependent deformation for temperatures at or below 204°C.