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Top 10 White Elephant Christmas gifts of 2011
Last December, our friends at Arc Thrift Stores of Colorado shared their choices for the top White Elephant Christmas gifts of 2010 -- and they've wisely continued the tradition this year.Big pics below.
Page down to check out their must-have countdown picks for the season, featuring Arc's photos and captions.
10. President Note Card Holders: Now you can have a say in what comes out of the mouths of politicians
9. Christmas Records: All your not-so-favorite Christmas carols.
8. Butterfly Clock: Perfect for the darkest, hidden corner in your basement. Behind that box you've never opened. Underneath all those old blankets.
7. Squirrel Purse: For when you're feeling a bit squirrely
6. Lip Radio: Lip service is a lot more exciting coming from this.
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http://www.sandiegomag.com/issues/april05/business0405.asp A small San Diego company is playing a big role in reducing air pollution in Beijing as China clears the air for the 2008 Olympics IN THREE YEARS, when athletes from around the world descend on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, they can thank a San Diego company for the cleaner air filling their lungs. The same holds true for Shanghai, host of soccer's World Cup in 2010. The cleaner air will be due in large part to a fuel additive produced by Ethos Environmental Inc., near the Mexico border in San Diego.
In the last decade hundreds of millions of miles in road tests have been conducted. Test after test, Ethos FR products have proven to reduce engine exhaust emissions by 30% and more, including measurable reductions in the emissions of hydrocarbons (HC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and sooty exhaust or particulate matter (PM). All of these emissions are highly toxic. As a result, fuel mileage increases have been significant, ranging from 7% to 19% fleet we. Ethos Environmental uses a opacity meter, a detection device for diesel vehicles that measures the percentage of opacity (light obstructed form passage through an exhaust smoke plume), to demonstrate dramatic reductions in emissions. In more that 1,000 heavy-duty diesel vehicles treated (a motor vehicle having a manufacturer's maximum gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 6,000 pounds), emissions were lowered by as much as 90%. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recommended practice SAE J1667 "Snap Acceleration Smoke Test Procedure" for heavy-duty diesel powered vehicles was used. Attached are samples of opacity test sheets, taken from diesel-powered engines, contrasting the positive results after using Ethos FR.
Fuel And Maintenance Costs Savings: • Increases Miles-Per-Gallon between 7% and 19% Fleet-Wide
Fines And Downtime are Reduced Due To Air Pollution And Repairs: • Reduces Toxic Emissions By 30% or More
Works With All Fuels: • Improves Combustion
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- Posted by christopherh (My Page) on Mon, Mar 27, 06 at 7:35
That's right boys and girls! You too can make a GAZILLION DOLLARS with this company! That's right! For ONLY $19.95 you can be in on this GROUND FLOOR OPPORTUNITY!!! You can get all your friends and neighbors to have this product in their cars and just like the 1,000 mile per gallon carburetor that was BANNED by the oil companies, you can thumb your nose at the local Exxon station! This guy claims a fuel savings of 7 to 19 percent. So it's probably closer to the mid range. So we'll take the average of his claims. 13 percent savings. My Expedition gets 19 MPG on the highway. So we'll add 13% increase. WOW WEE! It'll get 21.4 MPG! My Dakota gets 14 MPG. So add 13% and I'll get 15.8! If this product sells for under $3 I might consider it. Otherwise the gas is cheaper. And if I have to add it every time I fill up..... |
OK, it's easy to get excited about something when there is no apparent reason to suspect that it may be a scam. Gasoline and Diesel fuel are actually both blends of lots of different hydrocarbon chemicals. Thats just one of the reasons we have computer controls that provide instant adjustment of air fuel ratio's and timing curves. Oh, and yes today's diesels are computer contolled we simply have to wait for the fleet to age and pass before the majority of diesels are computer controlled. IMO, no additive dumped in a fuel tank is going to make a significant improvement in the efficiency, and cleanliness of the older designs. No additive is going to improve today's automobiles. What you described about getting people into this "investment" has all of the appearance of a classic pyramid scheme. The only guarantee's about that are a few people will get some money, and some of them will return it (or at least some of it) under the threat of prosecution. Many will lose their "investment". Pyramid schemes are illegal, and for good reason. If there was any merit to this product, they would have no short list of people (with big bucks) interested in investing, and they wouldn't be looking for the "little guy". |
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It's ashame people have to push unproven merchandise. Anyway, for those that want to just discuss fuel savings including saving gas at the pump, I found an interesting fuel savings talk forum. It looks like its new, but has a lot of fuel talk categories. They aren't selling anything, only a message board as we used to call them. |
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How to cite a film in a bibliography using APA
The most basic entry for a film consists of the personnel, year of release, title, type of film, country of origin, and distributor.
Last Name, F. (Personnel Type). (Year of Release). Film Title [Type of Film]. Country of Origin: Distributor.
Smith, J. (Director). (2009). BibMe: The movie [Motion picture]. United States: Columbia.
Begin the citation by including any personnel relevant to the film you are citing. A person's name should be reversed, with the last name coming first, followed by a comma. First names and any middle names are given as initials, each followed by a period. A suffix, such as a roman numeral or Jr./Sr. should appear after the person's first and middle initials, preceded by a comma. Follow each person's name with their title (e.g. Director, Producer, Writer, etc.) in parentheses, and any appropriate punctuation outside of the parentheses.
For a film with more than two personnel being cited, separate them by comma, and use an ampersand before the last person's name. If more than six personnel are cited, abbreviate the seventh person and any others that follow with "et al."
Smith, J. (Director), & Doe, J. (Producer). (2009). BibMe: The movie [Motion picture]. United States: Columbia.
After the personnel are listed, include in parentheses the year published. A period should be placed outside of the parentheses. The full title of the film, including any subtitles, should be stated and italicized. Only capitalize the first word of the title (and if given, the subtitle) or any proper nouns. The complete title should be followed by a description of the type of film it is (e.g. Motion picture, documentary), placed in square brackets. Place a period after the brackets.
Smith, J. (Director). (2009). BibMe: The real story [Documentary]. United States: Columbia.
Complete your citation by listing the country of origin, a colon, and the distributor of the film. End the citation with a period. If the film is of limited circulation, instead end the citation with the text "Available from", followed by the distributor name and the full address of the distributor, in parentheses, along with a period outside the parentheses.
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The summer months have been anything but a vacation in the Development Office as Holy Cross College continues to grow and it becomes necessary to expand the department. Charmaine Torma officially joined the college on July 1st as the new Director of Development.
Torma, a 1999 graduate of Saint Mary's College, comes to Holy Cross College just days after wrapping up work on a $4 million dollar capital campaign at Saint Joseph Church and School in South Bend. She spent much of the last two weeks working double-duty as she made the effort to meet with her new colleagues and map out strategy for the upcoming year.
"I am overwhelmed by the heartfelt welcome from both faculty and staff, and I am excited to get to know the Holy Cross family better," says Torma. "The welcoming community fuels my desire to advance the mission of the College by raising the necessary dollars for Holy Cross to educate well-rounded students."
Torma brings with her a variety of skills gained from professional experiences in fundraising and development. Most recently, Torma served as the Assistant Director of Reunion Giving at Saint Mary's College where she raised the most unrestricted dollars for the school's Reunion Giving program. She is a strong communicator and was also able to secure a $100,000 gift over the phone, doubling the Saint Mary's donor's gift from the previous year. At Saint Mary's College, Torma developed and implemented an entirely new campaign that increased the giving of Reunion 2012 alumnae by 58 percent and participation by 32 percent. She was also responsible for recruiting, training and motivating over 150 fundraising volunteers.
Prior to her work at Saint Mary's College, Torma gained valuable experience writing and submitting grant proposals for a youth development program in Chicago, creating and implementing a marketing campaign for an international lay Franciscan mission program in Washington, D.C., and communicating regularly with College staff while serving as President of the Twin Cities Alumnae Club (2007 - 2009) and D.C. Alumnae Club of Saint Mary's College (2004 - 2006).
"My professional experiences have positioned me to take Holy Cross College to the next level," says Torma. "I have a strong understanding of how a well-seasoned collegiate development office is run, but I also know that we are still small enough and there are going to be many times where it is 'all hands on deck.' I am not afraid of grunt work, and my goal is for the Development office to run like clockwork, where we are educating our students on the importance of philanthropy, while reminding our alumni the importance of expressing their gratitude for their Holy Cross experience through a gift to the College on an annual basis. The task ahead will not be easy, but I am confident that with my dedicated team we will reach our goals and help to build a stronger donor base for Holy Cross College."
Torma, her husband Mark and their two young children are members of Saint Joseph parish in South Bend where she says she will remain actively involved. In her free time, Torma says she enjoys reading, cooking and running. In addition to preparing for a 10K race this November, Torma is working toward her Masters in Higher Education Administration and is on track to finish her capstone in the summer of 2014.


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5 He that putteth not out his money to interest, Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. | 5 who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken. |
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For Cory Doctorow, fiction and activism go hand in hand. In novels such as Little Brother and For the Win, he tells a rip-roaring story but also imparts real-world knowledge on how to evade electronic surveillance. His young-adult novel Little Brother went so far as to include a recommended reading list for aspiring hacker activists.
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"The number of kids who have written to me and said that they became programmers after reading that, I couldn't even count them," says Doctorow in this week's episode of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
His latest young-adult novel, Pirate Cinema, is sure to inspire plenty more young hackers with its alluring tale of a band of tech-savvy anarchist runaways who attempt to take on the entertainment industry. The story tackles the issue of overzealous copyright enforcement, which has been in the news lately thanks to laws in countries such as England and Japan that prescribe harsh penalties, even jail time, for downloading copyright-protected materials.
Although Pirate Cinema presents a free-wheeling world of sex, drugs and computer crime that's sure to appeal to many teens, the book also makes clear that the law is watching, and that there are smart ways and not-so-smart ways to buck the system.
"None of the stuff that I think of as a bad idea is presented as a good idea," says Doctorow. "It's just presented as the kind of thing that a 17-year-old who is really upset might do."
Read our complete interview with Cory Doctorow below, in which he reacts to Disney acquiring Star Wars, celebrates the success of the Humble eBook Bundle, and explores the awkwardness of accidentally answering your videophone naked. Or listen to the interview in Episode 73 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which also features a discussion of sex in science fiction with hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley and guest geek Laura G. Duncan.
Wired: What do you think of Disney acquiring Lucasfilm?
Cory Doctorow: I'm kind of bummed about it. It just seems to me that we've entered this winner-take-all world where things that are a little bit successful become very successful, and then become mega-successes, and then merge with all the other mega-successes. I don't know. It feels like the finance industry or something to me, and it seems like it's somehow intimately related to it — this seems like a finance-driven decision rather then an artistic-driven decision, or a creative decision.
One of the things that freaks me out is that any publicly traded corporation that acquires an asset for $4 billion is going to be as risk-averse as possible about that asset. Not to say that Lucas was a real risk-taker, but I think that Disney has always been at its best when it took risks, and that one of the downsides to the increasingly high stakes associated with each individual project — you know, the businesses may have always been high-stakes businesses, but now every project is a high-stakes project — is that they're super risk-averse.
They always end up acting like dicks. That seems like a universal outcome of having billions of dollars at stake, is that anytime anyone suggests doing anything that might have a bad outcome, your risk-management people and your lawyers come along and say, "No, you're absolutely obliged to act like a total asshole to these people, just in case it turns out that they might cost you money down the road, because there's so much at stake here." It just feels like something that is just going to be about making sequels to sequels to sequels to adaptations to sequels, as opposed to inventing new cool stuff.
Wired: So now one company — Disney — owns Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel, in addition to all the Disney characters — basically the collective happy childhood memories of several generations.
Doctorow: Yeah, I'm less worried about that. I'm actually totally non-precious about that. I mean, your memories are your memories, and I'm totally unsympathetic to people who say that having seen the crappy prequels to Star Wars reduced their enjoyment of the first three. To me, the thing that actually reduced my enjoyment of Star Wars and the two sequels was just watching them as an adult instead of a kid, and I realized a lot of the things that I thought of as really interesting and great were either clichés, or that they had a superficial appeal but the more you thought about them the dumber they got.
I'm more bothered about the fact that if you look at Disney's pattern of acquisitions, they're acting like Procter & Gamble, they're acting like a packaged goods company. In fact, less innovative than a packaged goods company. Basically their whole business plan is about amassing huge amounts of capital, putting it into brands — that is to say, things that have already understood audiences and understood profiles — and then doing as little as possible to upset the apple cart. In fact, I think they're more likely to try to keep all of those things intact and to not ever upset or worry the people who grew up on them, because basically their whole approach is to maximize the amount of revenue they can get from you by continuing to spin out infinite variations on the theme of what ever it was you liked last time.


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I am a weekend chef, and am always trying out new recipes with my daughter, Amanda. We love collecting and sharing recipes with our family and friends, but find we just don't have as much time to devote to it as we used to. We have found that sharing online is an easy way for us to post even the most sought after family recipes, giving easy access for all the aunts and cousins to collect and share.
I was born and raised in Dallas, and have never been out of the state for more than a few weeks at a time.
I love gardening,but since moving to a town home, I don't have a large backyard anymore. So, we make do with an herb garden and a few planters of flowers and ivy each spring. This year, we are going to try our hand at growing a couple tomato and bell pepper plants on our patio.
My daughter and I share a lot of the same interests in music, books, and crafting. We always have at least 5 projects going, and lots of ideas for new ones to follow at any given time. We donate a day of our time at least 4 times a year to the soup kitchens in Dallas and Fort Worth, and are big supporters of the local SPCA.
We have 5 cats: two toms: Tigger, an American ginger tabby,& Shadow, a Russian Siamese; recent additions are Sabastian & Liam:two adorable little kittens-both coal black with their tails dipped in white paint! We are not sure, but their mother looked Abyssinian. Their father was feral, but most likely a Bombay breed.We just took in our first female, Kahlua. She was found in North Carolina along with 25 other cats & kittens on an abandonded farm, and a friend brought her down for us to foster.
We are experimenting with making gourmet cat and dog treats, and as soon as we perfect the recipes (with at least a 4 meow! or woof! rating) we will post them online for everyone. Doing this kind of thing makes a great fundraiser at work, as well as great gifts at holidays!
My favorite foods are primarily Tex-Mex and Cajun/Creole cooking. Amanda's favorites are Oriental dishes, especially Chinese and Thai cuisine. We recently discovered Kenyan cuisine, and have enjoyed the rich and spicy flavors it has to offer, as well.
Favorite desserts are pecan pie, pralines, and cheesecake. My daughter leans more towards chocolate cakes and brownies. Summertime, though, means dragging out the ice cream maker and experimenting with grandma's old ice cream recipes-like Georgia Peach or triple chocolate chip flavors. My cousin recently found an old recipe for boysenberry flavor. None of us are brave enough to try it!


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GENEVA (AP) - After more than a week of negotiations aimed at ending Syria's civil war, the country's foreign minister announced Friday that the Syrian government won't immediately commit to returning for more talks on Feb. 10.
Foreign Minister Walid Al Moallem said President Bashar Assad will hear a report on what took place during the past week in Switzerland and make a decision along with the government on when to return for talks in Geneva with the opposition. The minister also dismissed the opposition's demand for the creation of a new governing body that could transfer power away from Assad.
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17th November 2007, 01:12 AM #1
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Thought it would be prudent to check before I put it through the scanner next week, that airport scanners (for carry-on) don't harm the data on flash drives.
CDs and hard drives I'm 99.9% sure are safe; floppies I would assume aren't, since film isn't, but that doesn't affect me. Flash drives, I don't know. The model is Kingston DataTraveler 2 GB USB 2.0 if that makes any difference.Desktop/main rig: Core i5 i2500K | ATI Radeon 6870 | Crucial MX-100, 256 GB | Toshiba 2 GB/7200 RPM HDD, WD Caviar Green Backup | 8 GB DDR3 | XP Pro SP2 64-bit | Dec 2011 - present
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Re: Flash Drive & Airport Scanners
I carried two USB flash drives through airport security scanners twice weekly for nearly a year -- and never had any problems.
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Basically you wouldn't have a problem with flash drives going through the airport x-rays since its the flash drive does not store its data on a magnetic strip. The x-rays does not erase the data when a floppy disk pass through it but rather the magnetic field emitted by the huge transformers that are utilized to operate the x-ray machines.
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As someone who works at an airport, I can safely say I carry my flash drives through on a daily basis multiple times without any issues. Same with hard drives etc. Just be aware current US Airport Regulations (If that is where you are flying through) require that you remove the laptop from the bag and cases that they may be in and place them into a bin by itself. The same goes for portable DVD players, Projectors and any other large electronic items you may have.
CD's and Hard Drives are also unaffected. Floppy disks I am not sure about as I never used them but I know zip disks are ok to go through so I imagine floppys may be ok as well. Film up to 800 ISO speed are ok to go through as well but you are allowed in the US to request a physical inspection of film in lieu of X-Ray screening.
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LPGA Qualifying Tournament – Stage II
Plantation Golf and Country Club (Bobcat and Panther Courses)
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Second-Round Wrap
Round two results>> Round three pairings>>
Katie Burnett Leads Pressure-Packed LPGA Qualifying Tournament
Symetra Tour professional Katie Burnett fired a blistering 4-under par 68 to take the second-round lead of the LPGA Qualifying Tournament stage two.
The former University of South Carolina Gamecock notched one eagle, five birdies and three bogeys to fire her second consecutive 4-under par 68.
"I've been putting well the last two days," said Burnett. "I didn't really hit it super close. I did a couple times when I had a wedge in my hands but I made a lot of putts."
Playing the Plantation Golf and Country Club's Bobcat Course, Burnett recorded her first birdie of the day at the par-4 second then quickly notched another one at the par-5 fourth. It wasn't until the 392 yard par-4 seventh that Burnett faltered with a bogey to make the turn at 1-under par.
Burnett then recorded another bogey at the par-4 10th but recovered quickly with two consecutive birdies at the par-5 13th and par-4 14th. The Brunswick, Ga. native notched her third and final bogey of the day at the par-3 15th then kicked it into full gear down the stretch.
The 22-year-old birdied the 508 yard par-5 16th then knocked in a pitching wedge from 125 yards for eagle at the par-4 17th.
"I can't remember the last time I made an eagle hitting it in from the fairway," said Burnett. "It's been a while, probably not since college."
Playing in her first LPGA Qualifying Tournament, Burnett's nerves were quickly calmed after a first-round 68 landed her near the top of the leaderboard.
"I think yesterday it took a little bit of the pressure off," said Burnett. "I made a few mistakes today because I had three bogeys but I kind of came in this tournament feeling like if I just played well I'd be fine. I really like final stage's courses so I was like if I get past this stage I would good in final stage."
Burnett recently graduated from the University of South Carolina in May then quickly set her sights on the Symetra Tour where she played in six events and finished in the top-20 three times.
Burnett currently holds a two-stroke lead heading into tomorrow's third round over Symetra Tour professionals Kelly Jacques and Taylor Karle, amateurs Breanna Elliott and Marina Stuetz, and five-time winner on the Ladies European Professional Tour (LET) Lee-Anne Pace.
The top 70 and ties on Friday will advance into the final Qualifying Tournament Stage III.
The final Stage III Q-school will be contested over 90 holes Nov. 28 through Dec. 2, on both the Champions and Legends courses at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla. Top finishers in the final stage will earn 2013 LPGA membership (total number of cards TBD) and all others who make the cut will receive Symetra Tour status.
Of Note… First-round leader Fiona Puyo followed-up a first-round 7-under par 65 with a second-round 5-over par 77 and currently stands tied for second…Four-time LET winner Melissa Reid sits tied for seventh after a second-round 2-under par 70…Amateur and winner of the first stage, Moriya Jutanugarn, slipped into a tie for 49th after a second-round 2-over par 74.


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We have had some beautiful sunny weather these past few days and our guestson our Wildlife Adventure Tour had a great photo opportunity to catch a glimps of our resident bears! These incredilbe creatures can be seen foraging along the coastline and are a thrill to see, no matter how many times you've seen them.
Our sea lions are out in force as well, and are very vocal - delighting guests with their cacophonic banter!
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A lecture given to the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1954 on the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the thermionic valve.
I FEEL honoured in being invited to give the opening lecture at this celebration of the jubilee of the invention of the thermionic valve. I feel that I cannot begin the lecture in a more appropriate manner than by trying to give you a picture of the inventor himself, for I realize that to many of the younger members of The Institution he is little more than a name.
John Ambrose Fleming was born at Lancaster in 1849, but when he was five years old the family moved to North London. His father, a clergyman and a doctor of divinity, was born at Kelso, in Scotland, of an old Scottish family of Flemish origin, as the name shows. At the age of 14 young John was sent to University College School , a day school conducted at that time in a wing of University College in Gower Street, where he was later to be Professor of Electrical Engineering. Although his interests were mainly in machinery and scientific matters, he had to work hard at Latin and Greek in order to pass the London Matriculation examination, which he did when he was 16.
He was then entered as a science student at the College. After two years he passed the first part of the Bachelor of Science examination, but owing to family financial difficulties, the classes for the second part had to be fitted in with work as a clerk in a Stock Exchange office. Fortunately the office hours were short and he had plenty of time for his scientific studies. He worked in this office for about two years, strange though it seems in these days for a student to have to interweave his classes with work in an office.
In 1870 he passed first class in the Bachelor of Science examination and obtained a post as science master at Rossall School, near Fleetwood, with chemistry as his main subject; he was then 21. After two years, however, he decided to resume his studies and went to the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. He worked there as a research assistant in the chemistry department and shared in the teaching work in the advanced chemical laboratories. In 1874 Professor Guthrie, the Professor of Physics at the College, founded the Physical Society, and at his suggestion Fleming read a paper at the opening meeting on some work which he had been doing on the voltaic pile. In the same year he left the College and went to Cheltenham College, again as a science master. Having obtained a copy of Faraday's "Experimental Researches," he followed up some of Faraday's experiments, and at the Bristol meeting of the British Association in 1875 he read a paper on the currents induced in liquids moving in magnetic fields.
In 1877, after three years at Cheltenham, he once again became a student and went to Cambridge, where he won an entrance exhibition at St. John's College. The urge to take this step was largely due to Clerk Maxwell's writings, which he had tried to study. He was at Cambridge from 1877 to 1881, four years. He says that "As a teacher, Maxwell was difficult to follow, but everything which he did or said bore the mark of genius and the utmost care." It is surprising to learn that during some terms in 1877, 1878 and 1879 Maxwell had as his only audience Fleming and a Mr. Middleton. "On one or two occasions," Flemingsays, "I remember Maxwell gave a university lecture to me as his only audience."
Although perhaps hardly relevant to to-day's proceedings, there is a point to which I should like to refer, because it has always somewhat mystified me. Although he sat at the feet of Clerk Maxwell for two or three years, in his "Elementary Manual of Radio-Telegraphy," published in 1908, Fleming says that, in the electromagnetic waves radiated from an aerial, if the electric and magnetic fields are plotted, a wavy line is obtained in each case, "but the maximum of one curve coincides with the zero point of the other." He advises the reader to make a model with two pieces of cardboard placed at right-angles and on each card draw a wavy line, but so that the maximum point of one lies over the zero point of the other. "One of these lines," he says, "should be marked E and the other H." All this was corrected and the wavy lines brought into phase when the second edition of the book was published. But the seed had been sown, and in P. P. Eckersley's book, "All About Your Wireless Set," we read "Flip! the electric strain goes past; flip! the magnetic strain goes past." He refers the reader to Fleming's graphical illustration. More surprising, in Volume 1 of Stanley's "Textbook of Wireless Telegraphy," published in 1919, he pictures the radiated fields being of different colours and refers to a red colour of electric strain giving place to a yellow colour of magnetic strain, and so on. It must be remembered that Fleming wrote his book 30 years after he had heard Maxwell's lectures, and that during most of this time electromagnetic waves formed no part of his mental activities.
While at Cambridge in 1879, Fleming was awarded the Doctorate of Science of London University, and the following year he obtained the Cambridge Bachelor of Arts degree, with a first class in the Natural Science Tripos. He then stayed on for a year as a demonstrator in mechanism. In 1881 he was appointed Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the new University College of Nottingham, but he had only been there a few months when he obtained an appointment in London, which he said he was "only too glad to accept."
In 1879, while still at Cambridge, he had been appointed scientific adviser to the Edison Telephone Company, which was involved in litigation with the Government; now, three years later, in 1882, he was appointed "electrician" to the Edison Electric Light Company, of which John Hopkinson was the scientific adviser. In those days the word "electrician" had quite a different meaning from what it has to-day. In 1884 he went to America to discuss with Edison the difficulties of the electric lighting industry in England, which were largely due to restrictive legislation. This close link between Fleming and Edison is of importance in connection with the thermionic valve. Since the British Association meeting that year was in Montreal, he took the opportunity of going to the meeting, and he visited many of the cities of Eastern Canada. He then returned to New York and made a thorough investigation of the electric light industry in America, which he embodied in a report to his directors on his return to this country.
Five years before this, in 1879, Edison had obtained a British patent for a carbon-filament lamp of high resistance. In 1884, the year of Fleming's visit to him, Edison exhibited at Philadelphia an interesting discovery which he had made the previous year: he had fixed in the bulb of a carbon-filament lamp a metal plate carried by a platinum wire sealed through the wall of the bulb, and found that if the metal plate was connected through a galvanometer to the positive terminal of the filament the galvanometer showed that current was flowing; but if the connection was made to the negative terminal, no current was indicated. This phenomenon was subsequently known as the Edison effect.
Edison made practical use of the device, but not for telegraphy. He connected the lamp filament with a suitable adjusting resistance across the mains in the power station. When the voltage between the mains had the correct value the filament had a certain temperature and the current flowing through the galvanometer was indicated by its pointer. If the voltage between the mains increased above the normal value, the brightness of the filament, and with it the current through the galvanometer, increased. Conversely, if the mains voltage fell below the normal, the galvanometer current decreased. The pointer of the galvanometer was made to operate as a relay and rectify any variation of voltage from the normal value.
The Edison effect greatly interested Fleming, and he got the Edison Swan lamp works to make him a number of lamps with the metal plate of different sizes and shapes and in different positions with respect to the carbon filament. From his experiments he came to the natural but erroneous conclusion that atoms of carbon carrying a charge of negative electricity were responsible for the current through the vacuum, but later he found that the hot cathode could be made of platinum, instead of carbon which Edison had always used. It was not until 1889 that J. J. Thomson showed that the effect was due to the emission of electrons. Fleming also says:
"The second discovery I made was that negative electricity from any battery could pass from the hot filament to the cold metal plate, but not in the opposite direction. The space between the filament and the metal plate is a one-way street for electricity."
He says that he described all these experiments in a lecture to the Royal Institution in 1890, and more fully to the Physical Society in 1896. Note these dates, 1890 and 1896; hence, many years before he took out his patent he had described this rectification.
In 1885, the year following his American visit, he was appointed to the newly-created Professorship of Electrical Engineering at University College in Gower Street. He says that the equipment of the department consisted of a blackboard and a piece of chalk.
His first association with wireless telegraphy was in 1899, when he was appointed scientific adviser to the Marconi Company. He had much to do with the design and equipment of the station at Poldhu from which the first transatlantic signal was transmitted in December, 1901. It was in October, 1904, twenty years after his visit to Edison, that it suddenly occurred to him that the Edison effect could be used to rectify alternating currents of high frequency. The next day he ordered a dozen lamps with metal cylinders round the filament from the Edison Swan factory, and on 16th November he applied for a patent, which, in accordance with the terms of his agreement with the Marconi Company, became their property. This was a bitter pill, for, in his own words,
"As the original inventor of the thermionic valve I have never received a single penny of reward for it, other than the retainer paid to me for years by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company. . . . One firm has sold valves for years made exactly in accordance with my patent specification, which they advertised and sold as "Marconi valves" although the Marchese Marconi had nothing whatever to do with the invention."
This patent, which is the basic reason for our gathering here to-day, referred only to the diode rectifier.
Up to this point I have confined myself to Fleming's upbringing, training and activities to that day in 1904 when, at the age of 55, he patented the thermionic valve. There were other activities to which I have not referred. Although I knew him only as rather an elderly man, I like to picture him in his younger days paying frequent visits to Switzerland, climbing Mont Blanc in 1885, and in 1887 both Monte Rosa and the Wetterhorn.
About the same time as Fleming's visit to Edison and his introduction to the Edison effect, much research was being carried out by Elster and Geitel in Germany on a phenomenon which had been known for many years, namely that when a metal is heated to incandescence the air in its neighbourhood becomes a conductor. They found that a metal plate in the neighbourhood of an incandescent filament acquired a negative charge, and that the effect is increased if the filament and plate are in an evacuated enclosure. In 1884 Hittorf, in Germany, noticed that if the cathode of a vacuum tube was heated to incandescence a small e.m.f. passed considerable current. So far as I know, however, no practical application of these findings was suggested. In 1904, the year in which Fleming took out his patent, Wehnelt noted that if a filament was coated with certain oxides, such as those of barium or calcium, the emission of electrons was greatly facilitated; hence equal emission could be obtained with a lower temperature with greater sensitiveness and convenience of operation.
The invention of the triode by Lee de Forest in 1906 was something for which Fleming never forgave him. It led to very much bitterness and almost endless litigation. Fleming had tried replacing the metal plate in the diode by a zigzag, platinum wire to see whether or not it was as effective as the plate in catching the electrons. It is amusing to read in his autobiography:
"Sad to say, it did not occur to me to place the metal plate and the zigzag wire in the same bulb and use an electron charge, positive or negative, on the wire to control the electron current to the plate."
Lee de Forest, who had been following my work very closely, appreciated the advantage to be so ' gained, and made a valve in which a metal plate was fixed near a carbon filament in an exhausted bulb and placed a zigzag wire, called a grid, between the plate and the filament. He thus put into one bulb the metal electrodes I had put into two separate bulbs and so made the first rudimentary form of the so-called three-electrode valve.
This I consider rather unfair. Fleming had taken a well-known device, the Edison effect, and simply applied it in a new way, namely as a rectifier of high-frequency currents, whereas de Forest had introduced modifications of various kinds, but all directed to the variation of the direct current passing through the valve from a battery, by means of a third electrode, either outside or inside the valve. In the subsequent patent actions the American courts held that de Forest's addition of the grid, although a contribution of value, was not independent of Fleming's invention, even if, as de Forest maintained, he was unaware of it at the time.
In his "Elementary Manual of Radio-Telegraphy," in 1908, Fleming says:
A very simple but effective form of oscillator valve was invented by the author in 1904, based upon researches made many years previously, namely in 1890, upon the Edison effect in incandescent electric lamps."
Then, without any mention of the third electrode, he says:
This glow-lamp detector has been much used by Lee de Forest, disguised under the name of an Audion, and claimed as his own invention. It was, however, described in scientific papers and in patent specifications by the author long previously."
This almost incredible distortion of the facts indicates the extreme bitterness of Fleming's feelings towards de Forest.
The Fleming valve was purely and simply a rectifier or detector; it was in no way an intensifying device. While Fleming must be credited with being the first to apply thermionic phenomena to wireless detection, the intensifying properties of the present-day valve are far more important than its rectifying properties.
When the Fleming patent expired in 1918, the Marconi Company applied for an extension, mainly on the ground that because of the 1914-18 War they had been unable to develop and make full use of the patent. The application was opposed by a number of firms and Government departments. The case was fought out in the law courts before Mr. Justice Sargant in December, 1918, and he dismissed the petition, as he found no sufficient reason for an extension of the patent. I was present in this case as an expert witness against the petition, and, of course, took part in some of the preliminary discussions, at some of which de Forest was present, together with his American lawyer. I thus have the advantage of having known personally Marconi and Fleming, and also de Forest, who is still alive and quite active in California. In connection with this patent action I naturally had to go very thoroughly into the claims of Fleming and de Forest, but, as it is now 36 years since the action, my memory of the details is naturally rather vague.
An interesting question is the extent to which Fleming's invention was adopted in the wireless industry. In a paper which I read at the British Association meeting at Portsmouth in 1911, on "Recent Developments in Radiotelegraphy," I said:
"The filings coherer has practically disappeared. The magnetic detector used by the Marconi Company is ideal in its simplicity and reliability, but is not so sensitive as the electrolytic or mineral contact detector. The Telefunken Company have recently given up the electrolytic detector in favour of a detector of the latter type. Another type of detector used to a certain extent is the Fleming valve, which combines extreme sensitiveness with comparative simplicity and reliability."
That was in 1911, seven years after the patent. Ten years later Leggett, in his "Wireless Telegraphy," says "Contact detectors are most used at the present day." That is surprising, 17 years after the patent. He then continues:
"The most common commercial receiver is the Marconi multiple tuner, but it is usually used with a magnetic detector of the Rutherford type. The universal crystal receiver is more sensitive, owing to the use of a low resistance crystal detector. The valve receiver, which utilizes two Fleming valves in parallel, is much less sensitive, but of recent years the Fleming valves have been replaced by Round valves."
He says "in parallel." There were two valves, but they were not quite in parallel: one was for rectifying the wave on the one side and one for rectifying on the other. The Round valves were 3-electrode valves developed by H. J. Round, who was working with the Marconi Company. This quotation shows the relatively small effect that the 2-electrode valve had on wireless at that time.
Now let us consider the genesis of the thermionic valve in America. I should like to refer to Fleming's statement that de Forest, before he invented the Audion, had been following his work very closely. What ground he had for this statement I do not know, but de Forest has always maintained that he was unaware of the Fleming patent when he applied for his own patent in 1906, and I can see no reason for doubting the truth of his statement.
The Edison effect was well known and 20 years old. Fleming did not modify it in any striking way, but simply used it as a rectifier. His invention alone made no outstanding contribution to the reception of wireless signals. It did not replace the crystal detector or the magnetic detector to any great extent, and I can well believe that it was not known to de Forest or his associates, who were experimenting with various devices along lines entirely different from those of the Fleming valve. Lee de Forest had been working on this problem since 1902 and had taken out about 40 patents before the end of 1906. Some of these were for gas-flame detectors in which the electrodes were two platinum wires with a gap between them in the flame of a Bunsen burner. He always used a circuit containing a battery, with the telephone receiver and the gas gap in series, and connected the aerial to one side of the gap and the earth to the other, so that the received signal affected the gap and caused a change of current through the telephone receiver. It was on the advice of his assistant Babcock that he got a local electric-lamp maker to make him a lamp with a platinum plate inside, but he still used it with a local battery and not as a rectifier. After experimenting with the aerial connected to a strip of tinfoil wrapped round the outside of a glass tube, he got the lamp maker to put two metal plates inside the bulb, one on each side of the filament.
It then occurred to him that the control electrode would be more efficient if placed between the plate and the filament, and after trying a perforated plate, he decided to replace it by a wire grid. From the beginning there is no suggestion of rectification of the high-frequency current; its function is always to control the output of the battery. It is interesting to note that de Forest's patent application of 25th October, 1906, "relates to devices for amplifying feeble electric currents," whereas the application of 29th January, 1907, "relates to wireless telegraphy receivers or oscillation detectors." In his "Radio Beam and Broadcast," A. H. Morse says, "in fairness to de Forest, it should not be overlooked that he originated the metal filament," but that is not correct, for in 1890 Fleming had found that the hot cathode could be made of platinum and not of carbon, as used by Edison.
The subsequent history of de Forest's patents is very unfortunate. After three or four years, owing probably to financial difficulties, de Forest allowed the British patent to lapse, with the result that the Marconi Company could make and sell in this country 3-electrode valves if they wished, an additional reason for their wanting an extension of the Fleming patent. In the United States, after much litigation, the courts decided that de Forest could not make 3-electrode valves without infringing the Fleming patent, and that the Marconi Company could not make them without infringing the de Forest patent, with the result that the industry was in a tangled mess until the Fleming patent expired in the United States in 1922.
This was, however, not the end of the story, for in 1943, two years before Fleming's death, the United States Supreme Court decided that the Fleming patent was entirely invalid, and had always been so from the beginning, on the ground that Claim 1 was not limited to high frequencies but included all frequencies, whereas Fleming's earlier publications had shown that the rectifying properties of the valve were known. In 1915 the Marconi Company had made a disclaimer limiting the patent to high frequencies. When the application was made for an extension of the Fleming patent, it was not the original patent which was to be extended but only a certain portion of it; they disclaimed some of it. In the United States, however, the Supreme Court held that "Fleming's claim for more than he had invented was not inadvertent, and that his delay in making the disclaimer was unreasonable. This improper claim, for something not the invention of the patentee, rendered the whole patent invalid, unless saved by a timely disclaimer, which was not made."
In the editorial of the Wireless Engineer of June, 1944, I said, after reviewing this patent case, "We cannot help wondering whether a more suitable title for this brief review of the judgment of the Supreme Court would not have been 'Alice in Patentland.'''
Fleming was knighted in 1929 and became known as Sir Ambrose Fleming.
In conclusion, I would like to mention that de Forest published his autobiography in 1950, and with characteristic modesty it was entitled "Father of Radio." He concludes his reference to Fleming by saying, "He lived to the ripe old age of 95, dying in 1945. He never yielded in his firm conviction that he was radio's true inventor."


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A friend tells this story: While living in Hawaii, a volcano erupted near his village, and after the initial blast, which destroyed the top of the mountain and those villages in the vicinity, the lava continued to slowly ooze out over the next several months, so slowly that you could walk up to the wall of it, reach your hand out, press against it, feel its warmth. How high was this wall? I imagine twenty feet, more or less -- so high that you'd have to tilt your head back to see the sky. The village my friend was staying in was downhill, spared the initial blast, but the lava kept oozing out, and the scientists came, to calculate its movement, how long it would take to reach the village, which house would be the first to be swallowed, to ignite, beneath the slow-motion wave. Is this better than a flood, better than a fire? It gives you time to move everything, if you are able, but it also gives you time to wonder if it's a waste of time to move, to wake up day after day and hope that the disaster won't reach you, in spite of what the scientists say. If you were able, if you had the resources, you could move the entire house, put it on a barge and float it to the next island. But I got the idea that the houses were not much more than thatch and mud, I got the idea that most simply went each day to the wall of lava, put a hand to it, hoped it would slow down, hoped it would run out of juice, hoped it would simply stop.
My grandmother does have one story she tells about that trip to Mexico, though she never mentions my grandfather when she tells it. She was walking down a village street, the village in the shadow of a volcano, and a boy came running up to her with a ball of hot lava in his hands, and he shaped it into a monkey right there in front of her. On one of her shelves sits a small statue of a monkey, and she holds it in her hands as she tells the story, as if it were still warm, as if she could still transform it.
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Simply beautiful! I wish I had a barn to hang one on. ENJOY! Jlily |
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- Posted by pattytricia (My Page) on Tue, Jan 22, 13 at 20:33
I was looking for one of these to get the other day. Beautiful!! |
- Posted by jeannespines 4 (My Page) on Wed, Jan 23, 13 at 1:59
Wow! I missed this post ...that looks really great! We have lots of quilt squares on barns here in IA, too! What a great barn! Beautiful! Jeanne S. |
- Posted by party_music50 z5a NY (My Page) on Fri, Jan 25, 13 at 8:43
Really beautiful! I've never seen anyone decorate a barn! :) |
- Posted by chickiebabeblue (My Page) on Tue, Jan 29, 13 at 8:51
Love it! The colors look great against the barn background. The weeds are okay...just another design element. Hmmm maybe some pampas grass! Jeanne |
- Posted by calamity_j z7bc (My Page) on Mon, Feb 11, 13 at 12:22
WOW!!! I don't have a barn, but I would put that on the front of my house!!!! |
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I quite literally squealed with glee when I saw this photo of Tami Taylor–er, I mean Connie Britton–and Hayden Panettiere decked out in gorgeous gold dresses for their new country music drama, "Nashville," which debuts October 10th. As someone who is obsessed with Connie Britton, sequins, country music, southern accents, sassy ladies, and melodrama, I will definitely be tuning in. Check out a preview of the show after the jump! [Entertainment Weekly] Keep reading »
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Monthly news summary of all the happenings and up and coming events in the Scottish Traditional Music scene.
Various Artists - Transatlantic Sessions Series 5 (DVD): Filmed and recorded at the splendid old hunting lodge of Glenlyon in the Scottish Highlands, the brilliant fifth series of this most popular music show bringing together the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland to perform what has been called "the greatest backporch shows ever". Forty two tracks from the six programmes, plus five extra tracks (for reasons of screen time not included in the television series) are featured on this double DVD.
Music directors and hosts Jerry Douglas (dobro, lap steel guitar, guitar) and Aly Bain (fiddle, viola) with House Band: Russ Barenberg (guitar, mandolin), John Doyle (guitar, vocals), Nollaig Casey (fiddle, vocals), John McCusker (fiddle, flute, whistles, small guitar), Michael McGoldrick (pipes, flute, whistles), Donald Shaw (accordion, piano, harmonium), Danny Thompson (bass) and James MacKintosh (percussion).
Featuring: Eric Bibb (vocals, guitar), Sam Bush (vocals, mandolin), Phil Cunningham (accordion), Béla Fleck (banjo, vocals), Sarah Jarosz (vocals, hammerhead banjo, guitar), Alison Krauss (vocals, fiddle), Amos Lee (vocals, guitar), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, vocals), Kathleen MacInnes (vocals), Iain Morrison (vocals, guitar), Jim Murray (guitar), Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (vocals), Declan O'Rourke (vocals, guitar), Dirk Powell (vocals, fiddle, banjo, accordion), Eddi Reader (vocals) and Sharon Shannon (accordion).
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More Media Coverage on Brain Concussions
An incredibly powerful story on football-related brain concussions was recently published in GQ Magazine. The article – titled Brain Game – was written by Jeanne Marie Laskas and covers a lot of ground in how a Pittsburgh pathologist's research into Mike Webster's cause of death in 2002 caught the attention of the NFL and its owners to the point where they're trying once more to bury and/or discredit the studies. If you thought you knew enough about brain injuries, this is one story that will open your eyes and make you mad!
And if this chilling article finally gets to each of you and you haven't already heard, the Amen Clinic is currently offering free brain scans and followup analysis as part of their new independent study on the impact of brain concussions in the NFL. We need 100 of you guys to sign up so this detailed study can be completed and publicized immediately.
Click HERE to read the original post on how to sign up for the Amen Study.
Here's an excerpt from that GQ Article – this is a MUST-READ (link to the entire piece Click HERE):
Game Brain
Let's say you run a multibillion-dollar football league. And let's say the scientific community—starting with one young pathologist in Pittsburgh and growing into a chorus of neuroscientists across the country—comes to you and says concussions are making your players crazy, crazy enough to kill themselves, and here, in these slices of brain tissue, is the proof. Do you join these scientists and try to solve the problem, or do you use your power to discredit them?
By Jeanne Marie Laskas; X-ray image by Nick Veasay
on a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner's office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player. Omalu did not, unlike most 34-year-old men living in a place like Pittsburgh, have an appreciation for American football. He was born in the jungles of Biafra during a Nigerian air raid, and certain aspects of American life puzzled him. From what he could tell, football was rather a pointless game, a lot of big fat guys bashing into each other. In fact, had he not been watching the news that morning, he may not have suspected anything unusual at all about the body on the slab.
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SB has had a bit of a wobbly week this week, settling in , being nervous of school etc so en famille stepped in and helped her and her family with some talking at it seems to have worked out really well. Today on her phone call SB was pretty up beat, she didn't have any problems, school boring, but she was going to work on that. she is gaining some french and the french family are filling her days and weekends. i am breathing again, and think it is going to be ok . they have done some stuff with scouts, played with young cousins, a bike ride got rained off, enjoyed baking with FrB
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It took Tim Lincecum an inning to get settled, and it was this inning that cost the San Francisco Giants dearly as the two runs that the St. Louis Cardinals scored on a Matt Holliday single that drove in Jon Jay, and a sacrifice fly from Allen Craig that brought Matt Carpenter home, seemed impenetrable for most of the game, even after the Giants got one back in the second inning off of a solo home run from the struggling Hunter Pence.
That feeling of helplessness was a testament to how well Adam Wainwright was pitching, using his curve ball as well as advertised, but also setting up with a sinker and a cutter combo that did well to avoid hard contact from the San Francisco lineup. By the time that the Cardinals added two more runs in the fifth inning, which finally chased Lincecum from the game, the three run lead seemed insurmountable.
The game didn't truly get away from the Giants though until Jon Jay drove a Jose Mijares offering off the wall in center field to score Daniel Descalso and Pete Kozma to give St. Louis a 6-1 lead in the sixth inning. Then, in the seventh, Allen Craig scored on a double off the bat of Yadier Molina, who later scored on a Pete Kozma single to push the seemingly ever-expanding score to 8-1. A garbage time home run from Pablo Sandoval that also brought home Marco Scutaro in the ninth inning, made the score a slightly more respectable 8-3, but that was it for the Giants, and the game woulld mercifully end with a five run deficit.
The St. Louis Cardinals are now one win away from going back to the World Series. Nothing is going to come easy for the San Francisco Giants, who will send Barry Zito to the mound with the season on his shoulders Friday night. Lance Lynn will counter for St. Louis with the first pitch scheduled for shortly after 8:00 PM ET.
The Win Expectancy Graph
The Most Important Play Of The Game
Take your pick from any of the run scoring plays for the St. Louis Cardinals, or anytime that a curve ball was swung at resulting in contact or a miss for the San Francisco Giants, it didn't really seem to matter. The Giants were outplayed tonight by the better team, plain and simple. According to win probability added, it was Matt Holliday's single in the first that resulted in the biggest increase in the probability of the Cardinals winning.
After struggling over the last two games in the series, Holliday knocked in two runs tonight with two singles. It's almost as though he's really, really good. In fact, if we look at the last seven years, only two players have accumulated a higher amount of wins above replacement according to Fangraphs: Albert Pujols and Chase Utley.
Still, if we were inclined to give out a player of the game award, it would most certainly go to Adam Wainwright who threw seven innings tonight, giving up only a single run over four hits and no walks, while striking out five opponents. It was as good, if not better, as any start that a Cardinals pitcher has made this postseason.
The Shamsky Award
Named after Art Shamsky, who single handedly increased the Cincinnati Reds' chances of winning by 150.3% in a losing effort during a game in 1966, The Shamsky Award is given to the player on the losing team who contributes the most to them winning.
Hunter Pence scored and drove in his team's first run tonight. If only he could've coordinated his breaking out of a serious power drought with the rest of his team getting on base. He increased his team's probability of winning by six percent in total with his plate appearances.
The Aggravating Thing The Broadcast Crew Did
Via 30FPS.
The Aggravating Thing That The Manager Did
Throughout the season, Bruce Bochy penciled in Hector Sanchez as the starting catcher whenever Tim Lincecum was pitching, and typically, this move would push Buster Posey to first base, and Brandon Belt to the bench. Bochy did this once again, despite the glaring difference between Belt's offensive talents and Sanchez's offensive talents. It was frustrating to see offense sacrificed on a night when the team could've really used a good at bat or two. Sanchez went 0-for-3.
The Aggravating Thing For Yadier Molina
This happened to Yadier Molina in the bottom of the third inning.
The Things You Won't Believe
Talking heads are still inferring that there's something meaningful about Matt Holliday running into Marco Scutaro in Game Two, which is only slightly worse than making mocking jokes about this practice.
So the Giants only want to win games in which their players are injured by the opponent? Do I have that right?
— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) October 19, 2012
Hunter Pence hit a home run.
Adam Wainwright threw the fourth most curve balls in baseball this season, and tonight he showed a willingness to throw it in situations that other pitchers would not. It comes in a bit slower than a usual hook, but on average it has more movement on it, horizontally and vertically combined, than any other curve ball in Major League Baseball. This could very well be the result of two different curves: one that sweeps and another that spikes. He appeared to be able to do both tonight.
Matt Carpenter has gotten on base four times this series. That's as many times as Pablo Sandoval. Carpenter had his first plate appearance in the second inning of Game Three.
All nine players in the Cardnals starting lineup got on base on Thursday night. The last batter to do so was Allen Craig who drove in the second run of the game on a sacrifice fly in the first inning.
Coming into tonight, Buster Posey had seen 54 pitches from St. Louis pitchers, 35 of those pitches were on outer-third of plate or further outside.
If St. Louis wins the NLCS, the World Series will be contested between two 88-win teams. Ten teams won more games than the Cardinals and Detroit Tigers this season.
Don't give up entirely though, as 11 of 76 Major League Baseball teams that have fallen behind 3-1 have come back to win the best-of-seven series.
Tweets Of The Game
That was some nastiness from Lincecum on the called strike three. But I worry about his split ends.
— Dave Brown (@AnswerDave) October 19, 2012
Yeah, basically Sandoval has pretty much reached the point where anything he does entertains me.
— Matt Klaassen (@devil_fingers) October 19, 2012
Tim McCarver has pronounced "Descalso" about 19 different ways during this series.
— Bill Baer (@CrashburnAlley) October 19, 2012
Life's not always sunshine & daffodils. So if you can get a feel good when your team wins, grab it and hold on 'til it ain't warm no more.
— Karl Welzein (@DadBoner) October 19, 2012
Stray Observations
Tim Lincecum threw 25 pitches in the first inning, 19 pitches in the second inning, and then, just eight pitches in the third inning. I imagined things getting progressively more difficult for Lincecum each time through the order, but it seemed to me that he did a better job of keeping the ball low in the zone, especially on his breaking pitches, after the first few innings. However, he fell behind to batters far too often, once again, and was finally lifted with two outs in the fifth inning, after having given up four earned runs on six hits and three walks.
How is Matt Carpenter?
There was a moment, not too long ago, that San Francisco Giants fans would have been prepared to allow Angel Pagan walk via free agency this coming off season, while hoping that the team would concentrate its efforts on locking up Melky Cabrera to a long-term contract. Yeah, not so much any more.
There was some blame heaped on Brandon Crawford for his less than perfect relay throw home when Matt Carpenter scored the Cardinals third run, but blame lies solely with Hector Sanchez who had time and should have been able to handle the ball on the hop, no matter how intimidating Carpenter's footsteps might have been.
The Cardinals finally got to the Giants bullpen, after being essentially shut out in the previous three games. St. Louis collected six hits from 16 plate appearances.
Tim Lincecum In Slow Motion
It's just not the same anymore, is it?


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Anna Gristina, a Manhattan madam who ran a multimillion-dollar prostitution ring for the last 15 years is a suburban soccer mom with four kids. See, you never know. Check out the interesting details, photos, and how she was caught here!
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Anna Gristina, 44, was arrested after a five-year investigation. She is due in court today on a charge of promoting prostitution from an apartment in Manhattan's Upper East Side, owned by a high-powered 'lawyer friend' who prosecutors claim helped her launder money. She has pleaded not guilty.The five-year-long investigation was run by a Manhattan district attorney's office unit that pursues cases against police and other uniformed city workers, according to a transcript of her February 23 arraignment. A co-defendant has yet to be arrested and hasn't been identified.
The divorced mother-of-four lives in suburban Monroe, north of New York City, with her children, husband and a number of rescue animals. When she was arrested on February 22, she was meeting with an investment banker at his Morgan Stanley office for a meeting to try to raise money to finance what prosecutors believe may be an online start-up that would match prostitutes with wealthy men. Morgan Stanley representatives didn't immediately respond to an email on Monday evening.
During hundreds of hours of surveillance, Gristina was heard saying that 'she has connections in law enforcement who are poised to help her out, to let her know if there is trouble on the front that she needs to be concerned about', District Attorney Charles Linehan said, according to the court transcript. She said her contacts came in particularly useful around the time of the Eliot Spitzer investigation. Minors were involved in some of the encounters Gristina arranged, the prosecutor said. He cited information from at least one eyewitness account – a confidential informant who was one of Gristina's prostitutes. The DA also said Gristina had not reported any income to the government in a number of years so she will likely be charged with tax evasion as well.
(Anna Gristina)
According to the Daily News, the escort service offered clients a three-tiered pricing system. Costs ranged from $1,000 for the 'Dream Model girls', $1,500 for 'Calendar Girls, fashion models and budding actors', and $2,000 and up for the 'Ultimate Elite Model' category. Neighbors say a steady stream of young women – usually of Eastern European descent – would come and go from the second-floor apartment, as did a number of suited business men.
Prosecutors 'did a large investigation of her, but in terms of what actually exists, in fact, and what is still ongoing investigations, a matter of speculation', defense lawyer Richard Siracusa said.
(Anna Gristina's politician ex-husband Dario and his family)
Her ex-husband Dario Gristina, a Conservative Republican Candidate for NYS Assembly, told the Daily News:
'We divorced a long time ago, I am surprised.'
Gristina is being held on $2million bond at the infamous Rikers Island prison. If convicted, she could face up to seven years in prison.
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As for future visits by Phish, Fey feels the band has grown too large for Red Rocks and may have to play larger Denver-area venues (such as Mile High Stadium) from now on. If that comes to pass, Gerace will be among the few Morrison residents who'll be sad to see the Phish-heads go. "Everybody says all of them are broke," he says, "but that's not entirely true; there are a lot of kids spending daddy's money. When they were here, I made some of the best tips I've ever gotten."
KWMX-FM/107.5, one of the more uninspired spots on the dial of late, switched formats August 2, but its new alter ego, dubbed K-Hits, doesn't yet seem like a big improvement. The music, which is meant to appeal to the demographic currently in thrall to KALC-FM/106 (Alice), covers a lot of territory, but not in a good way; thus far, programmers seem to be going out of their way to play the worst current hits alongside the lamest offerings from the Eighties (e.g., Naked Eyes' "Always Something There to Remind Me"). Just as tepid are Rick Stacy and Leah Brandon, a new morning team imported from Los Angeles station KYSR. To their credit, they aren't trying to compete with Alice's Jamie White in the number of times they say "penis" over the air. Unfortunately, though, their Andy Rooney-meets-Jerry Seinfeld bits are undeniably weak. On one recent show, they cackled wildly while making bland observations about doughnut shops and lawn sprinklers, apparently under the mistaken impression that people tuning in would hear the laughter and assume something funny was going on. Wrong. Turn down that nitrous-oxide feed to the studio, folks.
By the way, am I the only person who's noted that the new nickname of Alice's AM sister station--Ralph--is a slang term for vomiting? Or am I just the only one impolite enough to mention it?
Count D, a co-founder of Lord of Word and the Disciples of Bass who parted from the group under tense circumstances, has resurfaced with a new act: J. Jones & the Soul Pursuit. "It's a blend of old influences and new," Count says. "There's a lot of Curtis Mayfield, as well as Jodeci, R. Kelly and people like that." Lead singer Jamie Jones is also a Lord of Word veteran, as is guitarist Maurice Avatar and numerous others. The sound, though, is closer to R&B than hip-hop. Your first chance to hear it is Saturday, August 17, at the Ogden Theatre, where the band opens for Judge Roughneck.
Opening elsewhere. On Friday, August 16, the Carpetbaggers carry their luggage to the Skyline Cafe; Lionel Young plays at City Spirit; Strung Out goes trainspotting at the Mercury Cafe, with Diesel Boy; and the Idiots wise up at Seven South, with Old Bull's Needle. On Saturday, August 17, Artopia, featuring turns by Kandombe and others, returns to the Eulipions Center; the Czars are rushin' to the Lion's Lair; Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise startles Leftover Salmon at the Fox; and Freak Hungre and Liquid Chicken squawk at Cafe Euphrates. On Monday, August 19, the Reejers come back to the Fox. And on Tuesday, August 20, Bears of the Sun go to the Little Bear. Where two bears are better than one.
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i had this problemm last year - spotted and yellowing on my pach. cleaned out, dusted with diatam.earth, and used neem. toward the end of summer noticed an improvement. here is it march 1st, not a bad winter at all, and pach. is showing the same signs. i have tried out extension service to no avail. last yr no help, no answer this yr. i need to find out a place to have my plant tested and figure out what i'm fighting against. i live in 19380 area (just west of philly). any help welcome |
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lily, one of the most common issues with pachysandra in your area is volutella blight - begins as tiny tan or brown spots that eventually merge together and kill an entire leaf. Does your problem look anything like this? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Volutella blight
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 2, 12 at 13:27
how about just posting a picture ... never heard of surface application of diatam. earth in teh heat of summer .... nor late summer oiling ... i would start with asking what kind of tree ... how long have they been there .... how do you water them ... do you fert ... are they near a lawn that is sprayed ... etc .... post a pic if you want to get anywhere with this. i doubt we can do much for you w/o such .. check out the link ... ken |
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to morz 8 saw that picture today. sure looks like my problem-a biiig one. diam.earth:Diatomaceous Earth kills aphids, white flies, beetles, loopers, mites, snails, slugs, leaf hoppers, and harmful pests. neem oil i used to manage fungus, neem is very effective at smothering insect eggs and soft-bodied pests such as aphids, mites and white flies. what tree??? |
Lily, a thorough clean up of any leaves or debris, thinning the plants if necessary to increase air circulation, avoiding watering in later afternoon or evening so plants aren't spending a night wet...may help if its really volutella. |
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