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|Thursday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: John Lackey vs. Chris Tillman
|09.19.13 at 11:29 am ET
The Red Sox and Orioles will face off for the final time at Fenway Park during the regular season on Thursday night, as John Lackey will take the mound for Boston. Opposing Lackey will be Chris Tillman, who will be looking for his fourth win against Boston this season.
It's been a odd last few weeks for Lackey. While he has struggled over his last two starts (11 earned runs in 12 innings of work), Lackey has compiled a 1-0 record over that stretch, thanks in large part to 21 runs of support during those two starts.
This sudden surge of offense has been odd to see in a Lackey start, as the team only scored 18 runs in Lackey's previous eight games.
Lackey was once again solid in his last start on Sept. 13 against the Yankees, as the right-hander held the New York lineup to four earned over 6 1/3 innings.
Lackey put together a great performance in his last start against Baltimore, holding the O's to just three runs in 7 1/3 innings in what ended up being a 4-3 Red Sox win.
Tillman (16-6, 3.70 ERA) has excelled against the Red Sox this season, as he is 3-0 with a 1.42 ERA in four starts. The right-hander has enjoyed his best season of his young career in 2013, as he is third in the AL in wins and win percentage (.727).
In his last start, Tillman took the loss against the Blue Jays on Saturday, despite going eight innings and only allowing four earned runs. In terms of Tillman's last start against Boston on Aug. 29, it was another dominant performance for the 25-year-old, as he only surrendered two runs over seven innings in what ended up being a 3-2 Baltimore victory.
|Thursday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: Jon Lester vs. Chris Tillman
|08.29.13 at 10:00 am ET
After struggling in June with an unsightly 7.62 ERA in five starts, Jon Lester appears to finally have reverted back into his role as ace of the Red Sox rotation with a 2.70 ERA in August.
Lester looks to continue his stretch of strong starts on Thursday, as the lefty and the Sox will face off against right-hander Chris Tillman and the Orioles in the finale of a three-game series at Fenway Park.
Lester had one of the strongest starts of any pitcher in the American League this season, as he went undefeated in six April starts with a 4-0 record and a 3.11 ERA.
Along with Clay Buchholz (1.19 April ERA), Lester was one of the chief reasons why the Sox led all MLB clubs with a 19-8 record that month.
However, it seemed like Lester hit a wall in June, as the lefty surrendered 38 hits in 28 1/3 June innings and gave up eight home runs, two more than he had allowed in April and May combined.
The Red Sox gave the beleaguered pitcher nine days of rest from July 14-22 by shuffling their rotation after the All-Star break. It appears that extra rest has paid off in a major way for Lester, who has a 4-1 record with a 2.31 ERA in his seven starts since the All-Star break. He has only given up one home run in his last 33 1/3 innings.
In his latest start on Saturday, his first career appearance against the Dodgers, Lester held one of the hottest teams in baseball in check for 7 1/3 innings and only allowed three hits. Koji Uehara retired the last four LA batters to secure the 4-2 victory for the Sox and give Lester his 12th win of the season.
"I know what I'm capable of. It's just a matter of going out there and doing it," Lester said after the game. "Since the break, I've felt good physically, and I feel like I'm in a good place throwing the ball right now."
|Red Sox lineup: Usual suspects for Sox as Daniel Nava returns to left field
|07.26.13 at 3:12 pm ET
After being rained out on Thursday night, the Red Sox will begin a three-game set against the third-place Baltimore Orioles in an increasingly crowded AL East.
Daniel Nava returns to the lineup on Friday night. Manager John Farrell had cited matchups as the reason for Nava's lack of play recently, with Jonny Gomes starting in five out of the last six games.
John Lackey (7-7, 2.95) will start Friday due to the rain out on Thursday. Lackey has pitched one game against the O's this season, where he earned the win after dealing seven innings, giving up just two runs on seven hits.
Chris Tillman (12-3, 3.84) will face-off against Lackey. Tillman has been extremely efficient in his last 10 outings, posting a 3.98 ERA with an 8-1 record. Tillman will make his second start Friday night since being selected to the All-Star team for the first time in his career.
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For the second day in a row Friday, John Lackey will wake up, get out of bed and prepare to pitch.
He had been slated to start against the Rays Thursday night, but after rain ruined those plans, forcing the teams to play Monday instead, the Red Sox pushed Lackey back to the series opener at Camden Yards. The 6-foot-6 righty will take on fellow right-hander Chris Tillman and the Orioles.
As noted in Wednesday's pitching preview, Lackey is fresh off of an outing against the Yankees Saturday that was his worst in the last month ' relative to his own recent success, at least. He was hit up for four runs and 10 hits in 6 1/3 innings, but to his credit, he did fan seven Yankees batters while issuing zero free passes.
'I feel pretty strong right now,' Lackey said after the game, a 5-2 Red Sox loss. 'The last month or two have been pretty solid. I'm just going to try to keep working hard at it and trying to give us a good chance to win when you go out there.'
It was the first time in seven starts he failed to pitch seven complete innings. The start of that streak happened to come against his opponent Friday ' the Orioles. On June 15, he tossed seven innings of two-run ball, allowing seven hits and one walk while striking out four. The Red Sox won, 5-4.
It is part of a larger stretch in which he has been the team's best starter, particularly in Clay Buchholz's absence. He owns a 2.95 ERA and 1.16 WHIP to go with his 4.35 K/BB rate on the season.
Tillman (12-3, 3.84 ERA), meanwhile, will be looking to build on two strong outings of his own against the Sox earlier this year. In a pair of Baltimore wins, he went a combined 11 1/3 innings, giving up two runs on nine hits and six walks. He also struck out eight.
|Friday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: Ryan Dempster vs. Chris Tillman
|06.14.13 at 9:28 am ET
When the Red Sox take to the field against Chris Tillman and the Orioles at Camden Yards on Friday night, Ryan Dempster will get the ball in search of his third straight win. The right-hander has notched a victory in each of his last two outings, a seven-inning effort vs. the Rangers and then six frames against the Angels.
On the season, Dempster is 4-6 with a 4.40 ERA and 1.33 WHIP, and he has seen an uptick in effectiveness of late. He has pitched three consecutive quality starts, with his May 28 game vs. the Phillies (seven innings, two runs) preceding the Rangers and Angels contests.
He acknowledged his high home run rate (14 long balls in 13 games) earlier this week, but said as long as they are of the solo variety it doesn't bother him too much. Those things happen when he pitches to contact, which he often does with a strong offense behind him.
His last time out, Dempster gave up three runs on two walks and six hits, including two homers, against the Angels. He also fanned six to reach the 2,000-strikeout plateau for his career.
'The biggest thing is the longevity to be around long enough to get to something like that,' Dempster said after the game. 'I'm sure when I'm done playing I'll look back and maybe enjoy it a little more, but it is cool. I never play the game for stats, I play to win, but when you look back, that's a lot of strikeouts."
Tillman (6-2, 3.89 ERA) owns a 3.18 ERA in his last 10 starts dating back to April 22. More recently, the righty rebounded well after a stinker against the Nationals (six earned in 4 2/3) by yielding a combined three earned runs in 13 innings his last two contests.
He has thrown well against the Red Sox in his career, recording a 2.97 ERA in 30 1/3 innings. The Sox most recently plated two runs in Tillman's 5 1/3 innings of work on April 11.
Few Red Sox have a significant number of at-bats against him. Dustin Pedroia, however, has .841 OPS in 17 at-bats.
|Thursday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: Alfredo Aceves vs. Chris Tillman
|04.11.13 at 9:31 am ET
Alfredo Aceves will make his first start of 2013 on Thursday night, as he takes the place of injured starter John Lackey in the rotation. Aceves' counterpart will be Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman. Felix Doubront has been pushed back to start in Friday's series-opener vs. the Rays.
This will be Aceves' first start since June 21, 2011, when he went five innings and allowed four runs on four hits and six walks with four strikeouts in a no-decision against the Padres. In two relief appearances this year, Aceves has a 0-0 record with a 10.38 ERA. He has allowed five hits and five runs in 4 1/3 innings. He has allowed a home run in each of his first two outings.
Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington noted that it has been the plan all along for Aceves to join the rotation if needed, and after Lackey's biceps injury in Saturday's loss to the Blue Jays, Aceves will have that opportunity.
"It just made sense for us to stick with that," Cherington said. "We'll see what he does. He's certainly capable of being a good starting pitcher. He has the pitches in the mix. He's excited for opportunity. We'll see how it goes."
For the O's, Tillman will be looking to rebound from a tough outing on Saturday against the Twins. He pitched just 3 2/3 innings, allowing five runs on seven hits and four walks with four strikeouts, and was fortunate to come away with a no-decision. In his 15 totals starts in 2012, Tillman only allowed five or more earned runs once.
"I felt good throughout the whole game," Tillman said. "Physically, I felt really good. Mechanically, I felt like I was fine. All game long, I was kind of yanking, yanking my fastball and my changeup. Made some good pitches with my changeup, but I threw it to the wrong part of the plate."
The Sox might be a good opponent for Tillman to get back on track. He is 1-1 with a 2.88 ERA in 25 career innings against Boston.
Current Red Sox hitters are hitting a combined .222 with only two extra-base hits in their careers vs. Tillman. For the Orioles, Adam Jones has had the most success against Aceves, hitting .333 with a home run and two doubles.
|Friday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: Aaron Cook vs. Chris Tillman
|09.28.12 at 11:10 am ET
The Red Sox hit the road for their final six games of the season with a chance to play spoiler against the AL East's top two teams. They begin a three-game series with the surprising Orioles at Camden Yards on Friday night before heading to New York to finish out the season with three games against the division-leading Yankees. Aaron Cook (4-10, 5.13 ERA) is on the mound Friday and looks to help the Sox avoid a seventh loss in eight games.
Cook pitched last Saturday against the Orioles and allowed five runs on nine hits over 5 1/3 innings. The Sox lost that game in 12 innings, 9-6. Cook hasn't fared well against the Orioles this season at 0-2 with an 8.78 ERA in three starts.
Orioles catcher Matt Wieters has five hits in eight appearances against Cook lifetime, including four doubles. Mark Reynolds, who has faced Cook the most among active Orioles, has two home runs lifetime.
Chris Tillman (8-2, 3.08) takes the hill for the Orioles. He has been strong in recent outings with a 1.64 ERA over his past four starts. He started against the Sox this past Sunday, allowing one run and six hits over six innings. The Orioles won that game 2-1, although Tillman did not factor in the decision.
Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia is 4-for-10 lifetime against Tillman. He's the only active Sox player with double-figure at-bats vs. Tillman.
The Orioles, a game behind the Yankees and in first in the race for the wild card, lead the season series against Boston 10-5 and are 20 games ahead of the Sox.
|Sunday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: Felix Doubront vs. Chris Tillman
|09.23.12 at 8:07 am ET
Felix Doubront will look to build upon his first win since mid-July as he and the Red Sox look to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Orioles, who continue their playoff surge.
Following a seven-start stretch when he went 0-4 with an 8.39 ERA, Doubront (11-9, 5.08 ERA) comes into Sunday's game with back-to-back quality starts. On Sept. 13 against the Yankees, Doubront had one of his better outings of the season, pitching 6 1/3 innings and giving up two runs, but took the loss in a 2-0 New York victory. However, in his most recent start, Doubront gave up three runs over six innings against the Rays and earned his first victory since July 18.
Unlike the rest of the Red Sox rotation, Doubront has limited exposure to the Orioles lineup after making his first career start against Baltimore on May 22 of this season. Doubront gave up two runs in six innings of work in that start but took the loss as the Orioles went on to win 4-1. Before that, Doubront had only appeared twice out of the bullpen against Baltimore, giving up two runs in an inning in 2010 before pitching two scoreless innings against them in 2011.
In his nine career innings against the Orioles, Doubront has given up four runs, all of which have come from home runs. Fortunately for Doubront, only one current Oriole (Steven Tolleson) hit one of those home runs while the rest have posted meager numbers against the left-hander. As a group, the Baltimore lineup is hitting .233 against Doubront with an OPS of just .636 and no extra-base hits other than Tolleson's home run.
Taking the mound opposite Doubront will be one of the Orioles' young upstarts in the starting rotation, 24-year-old Chris Tillman. In two of the past three outings, Tillman looked tremendous, shutting out the White Sox through six innings on Aug. 28. However, he would leave his Sept. 2 start against the Yankees after three innings with an elbow injury. Since then, he has returned to the rotation, looking solid in a one-run, six-inning outing against the Mariners on Sept. 17.
Boasting a 8-2 record with a 3.22 ERA, Tillman has been one of the most consistent cogs in the Baltimore rotation since his first appearance on July 4. One of those losses, though, came at the hands of the Red Sox on Aug. 16. Tillman ended up throwing his third shortest outing of the season at 4 2/3 innings and gave up three runs in the process. Despite the brevity of the outing, Tillman was still forced to throw 110 pitches in the outing, his third-highest total of the season.
Tillman has made one career start at Fenway Park back in 2011 and shut down the Red Sox lineup, throwing five shutout innings. Over his career, though, Tillman's numbers are less impressive: 0-1 with a 5.73 ERA. Against the lineup he'll face Sunday, Tillman's numbers look even worse. In 27 plate appearances against him, the Red Sox lineup is hitting .360 with a .847 OPS against Tillman.
|Thursday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: Clay Buchholz vs. Chris Tillman
|08.16.12 at 9:41 am ET
Clay Buchholz gets the start Thursday night at Camden Yards as the Red Sox wrap up their four-game series against the Orioles. The start comes just one day shy of the five-year anniversary of Buchholz's major league debut in 2007.
After spending much of April and May with the highest ERA in the majors, the 28-year-old has been Boston's best starting pitcher for more than two months, leading the team in wins (10), ERA (4.24) and WHIP (1.28).
The Sox have won eight of Buchholz's 10 starts since the end of May and the righty is coming off his best performance of the year: a complete game in which he allowed just two hits and one earned run en route to a 3-2 win over the Indians.
In his three previous starts against the Orioles this season, Buchholz is 1-0 with a 5.00 ERA. The Sox won in his only start at Camden Yards this year, though Buchholz struggled, giving up five earned runs in 5 1/3 innings.
In 119 career at-bats, the current Orioles lineup is hitting just .210 against Buchholz, though five of their 25 hits have been for home runs. J.J. Hardy has been particularly successful against Buchholz, recording four hits, two homers and three RBIs in 10 at-bats.
Taking the mound for Baltimore Thursday is Chris Tillman. The 6-foot-5 righty boasts a 3.40 ERA along with a 5-2 record in just seven starts.
Tillman was called up from the minors on July 4 for a start against the Mariners, and in his season debut he carried a one-hit shutout into the ninth inning before he was removed with one out and two men on base.
Against Boston, Tillman has not had nearly the same success. In two career games against the Sox, Tillman is 0-1 with a 5.68 ERA. The six Boston players with plate appearances against Tillman are hitting a collective .464.
|Monday's Red Sox-Orioles matchups: Daisuke Matsuzaka vs. Chris Tillman
|05.16.11 at 8:10 am ET
There is indeed life for the Red Sox after a three-game sweep of the Yankees, even if said sweep was the first to occur in the Bronx since April 2004. That life begins quickly Monday night when Boston, the newest member of the .500 club at 20-20, sets its sights on the Baltimore Orioles (19-20) in the first of a two-game set at Fenway Park. Daisuke Matsuzaka will try to extend the winning streak when he takes the hill against Baltimore's Chris Tillman.
Matsuzaka (3-3, 4.64 ERA) will take the hill on seven days' rest, his longest break between starts this season, after being skipped over in the Yankees series. This will be the third time in 2011 that the righty has pitched on more than the regular four days between outings. The extra time off worked quite well back on Patriots Day when Matsuzaka surrendered just one hit and one walk over seven innings in a 9-1 Sox win over Toronto after resting for six days. However 11 days later in his second start with extra rest (five days), he lasted just four innings (3H, 3R, 1 ER, 4BB, 4K) before leaving early with what was deemed elbow stiffness.
In nine career starts against the O's, the 30-year-old is 4-3 with a 5.73 ERA. Current Baltimore hitters have performed fairly well, led by switch-hitting catcher Matt Wieters's 6-for-11 performance. With almost twice the experience, Brian Roberts (9-for-20, 4 doubles) has performed equally as admirably.
But if those numbers look scary for the Sox' prospects of finally bursting through the .500 bubble, those hopes may be restored by looking at the stats for Tillman (2-3, 6.15). The Baltimore righty's ERA is the highest among the five starters of a staff that ranks second-to-last in the American League in that category.
Tillman only has one career start against Boston and was knocked around for four earned runs over just 1-1/3 innings of work in an 11-0 loss on June 4 of last season. Although lefty Carl Crawford (6-for-12, two triples) may be the only Sox player with more than three appearances against the Baltimore righty, Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis may be the biggest benefactors of Tillman's start Monday night as right-handed hitters have blasted him to the tune of a .352 average in 2011. By comparison, lefties are hitting nearly .100 points lower at .253. Read the rest of this entry »
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This application claims the benefit of provisional patent application No. 60/354,374, filed Feb. 5, 2002.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to the field of steganography.
2. Description of Prior Art
The art and technology of steganography or secret writing/printing has been practiced from antiquity to the present day. Secret communication methods were widely used in Seventeenth Century England and earlier. In An Annotated Bibliography of Cryptography, David Shulman lists a number of treatises on cryptographic subjects published in England between 1593 and 1776, as well as scholarly books that contained chapters on use of codes, ciphers, and secret writing techniques. One such work, John Wilkins' Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger, describes the use of . . . secret inks and papers. Another source describing the antiquity of various means of secret writing and invisible printing is The use of Encrypted, coded and Secret Communications is an Ancient Liberty Protected by the United States Constitution. By John A. Fraser III., Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, U. of Virginia, Fall 1997 volume 2.
Various ingenious means such as 'invisible inks' have been developed to create a hidden mark or message. These hidden marks have been used to conceal messages and to counter the efforts of counterfeiters. In modern times, the art of hidden marks has been extended to the use of bar codes and other information-rich symbols containing variable information. Simple marking has obvious requirements for durability and readability, but in bar-coding and other advanced symbologies, it is desirable to have a means to obscure or hide a mark and make it uncopyable by computer printers.
The prior art consists of embossing and printing bar codes and other information-rich symbols. Bar codes have been used for the identification of documents and products since the early 1950's. Various bar code symbologies have been developed and commercialized, while the technology of scanning and printing has continuously evolved. Numerous developments have been proposed, patented and commercialized, to improve the readability, security and information content of printed codes, including the use of color, encryption, two-dimensional codes, special inks and error correction. Bar-coding is inherently inexpensive to apply because it is printing.
Because it is printing, bar-coding uses ink. All inks are readable through the interaction of the ink with radiation or an electromagnetic field. Visible inks absorb light in the visible spectrum and are thereby readable. Fluorescing or phosphorescing inks are excited by radiation of a particular wavelength and the light emitted is then detectable. Magnetic inks as used in document coding, are detected through their perturbation of a magnetic field. The prior art of printing has made use of various physical properties of inks such as reflectance, absorption, transmission, fluorescence, and color. No printing, especially that of machine-readable symbology has made use of the intrinsic emissivity of materials.
The deficiency in the prior technology is that it is not secure against copying on conventional computer printers and can be read, duplicated, and printed by unauthorized parties. Even fluorescent inks, holograms, and magnetic strips are susceptible to counterfeiting, alteration, and copying.
A primary object of the invention is to create, apply, and decode a machine-readable symbol, code, writing, or legend by means of differential emissivity. Another object of the invention is to create an invisible bar code. Another object of the invention is to create an anti-counterfeiting mark that cannot be replicated by a computer printer. Another object of the invention is to securely identify articles. Another object of the invention is to securely identify documents. Another object of the invention is to prevent the counterfeiting of documents. Another object of the invention is to imbed machine-readable information in a secure mark. Another object of the invention is to provide a means to read a machine-readable mark by means of differential emissivity. Another object of the invention is to enhance the information content of printed marks, symbols and code.
These objective are achieved by applying surface modifications in at least two patterns that differ in spectral emissivity by known amounts as measured in a given portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes at least a part of the invisible spectrum. The patterns form an information-encoding sequence of transitions of differential emissivity along a scan path over the patterns, that encodes a set of information. This information is decoded by a scanner sensitive to emissivity in the given portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and sensitive to transitions in emissivity of the known amounts, when scanned along the scan path, combined with knowledge of the expected emissivity values of the patterns. This provides secure informational marking of articles and documents, including mail. The patterns may be visible or hidden, but the emissivity values are not duplicated by standard office equipment, so authenticity of the patterns can be determined using the special emissivity scanner.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description and drawings, which disclose the invention, and illustrate examples of it.
The drawings are part of this specification and illustrate examples of the invention, which may be embodied in various forms. Some aspects of the invention may be shown enlarged and/or exaggerated to facilitate an understanding of the invention.
Electromagnetic waves outside the visible wavelengths of about 0.4–0.7 microns.
This invention is a method for creating machine-readable codes and marks which are detected and read by means of spectral emissivity, comprising the steps of:
The codes and marks thus created are useful in marking and labeling documents and products in such a way that the mark cannot be detected by eye, or detected, scanned, and reproduced with standard office copying or scanning equipment, yet they can be detected and decoded using specialized scanners as later described. These codes and marks can be employed to identify objects and documents to determine their authenticity. They may also serve to carry concealed information regarding the origin, application, authorship, history, proper application, intellectual property ownership, derivation, and authenticity of documents and objects.
This invention may be used to deter counterfeiting of documents and objects and to identify genuine articles. An example of such an application is the concealed labeling of expensive designer handbags to determine if they are supplied through legitimate channels. Another example is the hidden coding of driver's licenses to distinguish authentic licenses from counterfeits.
Special inks for this invention are composed of a suitable carrier liquid containing a suspension, solution, or other composition of pigments and other materials of known intrinsic spectral emissivity in either the total electromagnetic spectrum, or in a given portion of the spectrum. Carrier liquids may be based on water or hydrocarbon, including liquids such as alcohol, ethylene glycol, or others as known in the art of ink making. Examples of materials with known emissivity that are readily adapted to conventional printing processes, are elements such as the following:
Material Emissivity Carbon 0.80–0.93 Cobalt 0.36 Copper 0.10 Gold 0.14 Manganese 0.59 Silver 0.07
Source: Roeser and Weasel, National Bureau of Standards, Spectral Emissivity of Materials, Surface Unoxidized for 0.65μ, Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 49th Edition, Chemical Rubber Company 1968, page E-228
An alternate composition of the special inks for this invention are inks that dry or cure with a predetermined surface texture, creating a surface of predetermined emissivity. Examples of such inks are those comprising dense suspensions of colorants, pigments, or other particulate materials such as ferric oxide.
The use of surface texture of ink to control spectral emissivity is based on the principal that: "The emissivity of oxides and oxidized metals depends to a large extent upon the roughness of the surface. In general, higher values of emissivity are obtained on the rougher surfaces . . . ". From the above Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, page E-228. In addition, a surface may be embossed or physically textured before inking, or an ink may be embossed after drying to produce a desired emissivity.
The variable emissivity features described above may be embodied in a label. The substrate material for the label may be paper, a metallic film or foil, plastic, or other material.
Printing may be accomplished through any method, such as offset, ink jet, xerographic, or press. Although the symbol thus created may be visible to the eye and therefore copyable by standard office equipment and scanners, the information contained in the variable emissivity code will not be so readable or copyable. A symbol copied on conventional office equipment may appear similar to the original, but even the bulk presence or absence of the variable emissivity code can serve to determine if a symbol is authentic.
Scanning the symbol can be accomplished by means of a laser spot scanner as used for non-contact emissivity measurements as known in the art. Such instruments can detect emissivity differences on the order of 0.05 at a spatial resolution of 0.1 mm or less as required for bar code reading. Although emissivity measurements and estimates are employed to correct the temperature measurements of very hot objects, spectral emissivity measurements can now be made at room temperature. Scanning is accomplished by means of a scanner, which can detect and measure the emissivity of a particular spot. The preferred embodiment of the scanner is comprised of the following elements: a laser, scanning mirror or prism, mirror/prism deflection motor and controller, photo-detector.
For example, active laser pyrometer technology is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,417,822 issued on Nov. 29, 1983 to Alexander Stein. Such instruments obtain an accurate temperature measurement by discounting the emissivity of a surface. In U.S. Pat. No. 4,840,496 issued on Jun. 20, 1989, Elleman et al. disclose a narrow laser beam contactless pyrometer, capable of scanning a small area and determining the emissivity and temperature.
In a preferred embodiment, the pattern is printed on a surface using a black colored carbon-black ink and a black colored inorganic ink. Preferably ink jet printing is used for both inks. The carbon-black ink can be any combination of an aqueous or other vehicle and a carbon black product as known in the art. Examples of such inks are given in U.S. Pat. No. 5,184,148, U.S. Pat. No. 4,530,961, and U.S. Pat. No. 5,281,261. The inorganic ink contains a vehicle and one or more inorganic dyes such as nickel sulfide inorganic dyes. The surface can be a paper of conventional 12 lb. glossy white label stock or any other surface of known emissivity that differs measurably from the emissivities of both inks.
The two inks can be printed in complementary patterns in a single pass, such that the whole area of the mark is covered with one or the other ink as in
Optionally, an enlarged area ahead of the pattern can be applied using one of the inks or other surface modifications as in
Although the present invention has been described herein with respect to preferred embodiments, it will be understood that the foregoing description and drawings are intended to be illustrative, not restrictive. Modifications of the present invention will occur to those skilled in the art. All such modifications that fall within the scope of the appended claims are intended to be within the scope and spirit of the present invention.
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Re: Date/Time stamp transfer from video to DVD (Please help)
In a nutshell:
You need a program that supports DVD subtitles (eg. ConvertXtoDVD or similar)
You have to extract Date/Time information from your videos and save it as subtitles (eg. 1, 2, 3 etc)
Now burn your video and use the remote control to switch subtitles ON/OFF
p.s. never heard about external DVD burners...
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Primor'e Local Politics and a Coalition for Reform
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ALL POLITICS is local. This saying has particular significance for the 1993 elections in Primorskii krai. While a Moscow executive engineered a founding election, in Primor'e executive power focused on local power consolidation. The implicit tension between these two goals--one central and one local--largely dictated electoral results in the region.
Localization 1--the process by which local issues take precedence over national ones--had two important consequences for the elections in Primor'e. First, it found expression in strong local executive power and shaped the governor's goals in his bid for a seat on the Federation Council. Second, it gave rise to a loosely formed opposition group, which, in the context of the elections, crystallized into a "reform coalition" under the leadership of a strong single-mandate candidate. Reform coalition candidates won two of the three single-mandate seats in the State Duma and one seat in the Federation Council. The lines between the two camps were far from clear and gen-
I would like to thank Timothy Colton and Jerry Hough for their invaluable assistance in conducting this study and their insightful comments on written drafts. Special thanks to Joel Ostrow, Jane Prokop, and Alexandra Vacroux for their assistance in establishing research contacts in Vladivostok, and to Yitzhak Brudny and Margot Light for their support and comments. I would especially like to acknowledge David Woodruff, whose detailed knowledge of the region, insightful explanations, and helpful comments have immeasurably contributed to this study. All errors are, of course, my own responsibility.


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Monday, June 17, 2013 at 6:00 AM
Forest Park Middle School teacher Maria Plecnik helps 13 year-old Chandalay Coleman with a writing assignment. Plecnik received a low value-added rating from the state even though her principal and students give her high marks.
Schools get rated based on how well students perform on standardized state tests.
Not so for teachers. Their main evaluation comes from often brief classroom observations by a principal.
Practically no one fails.
The new value-added measurement Ohio is phasing in aims to gauge how much a student learns from one year to the next, and how much an individual teacher contributed to those results.
[audio href="http://audio2.ideastream.org/statenews/2010/0613_value_added_part_i.wav" title="Grading the Teachers: Measuring Teacher Performance through Student Growth"]Ohio is using a new measurement, called value-added, to judge a teacher's performance.[/audio]
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This series about valued-added, a new way that Ohio is using to measure whether teachers provide a year's worth of learning to their students, is the result of a partnership between The Cleveland Plain Dealer and StateImpact Ohio. StateImpact reporters Molly Bloom and Ida Lieszkovszky worked with Plain Dealer reporter Patrick O'Donnell and Plain Dealer data analysis editor Rich Exner to produce these stories.
[/module]Matt Cohen, the chief research officer at the Ohio Department of Education says there should be a link between student performance and teacher evaluations.
"If we say that teachers are very important to the instruction, to the learning of kids, and if we believe that, and most people do believe that, then there should be a connection," he says.
"That's one of the great things about value-added," says John White with the North Carolina statistical analysis firm that Ohio hired to calculate the new value-added numbers.
White explains value-added like this: "Teacher value added uses all available student testing history and links the individual students that are connected to teachers in specific subjects and grades to measure the amount of progress those students are making."
The model predicts how much improvement students should make based on past results.
In a nutshell, if a student ends up performing better than predicted, the teacher gets the credit with a high "value-added' grade. But if the student scores less than expected, the teacher gets the blame and a low grade.
Eventually, this grade will be a major component that determines a teacher's pay and employment.
"We're basically measuring whether or not they maintained their same relative position with respect to the statewide student achievement from one year to the next," says White.
[module align="right" width="half" type="pull-quote"]"To say that a teacher's very low on value-added doesn't in and of itself tell you that that's a bad teacher. We can't say that, and we're not trying to say that. We are trying to say that's a piece of information that a teacher, and the school should make use of."
- Matt Cohen, Ohio Department of Education[/module]
An analysis by StateImpact Ohio and the Cleveland Plain Dealer found that most teachers fall in the middle of the rankings.
Our findings also show that students in wealthy districts are three times more likely to have teachers with the highest value-added scores than their peers in high poverty schools, who are more likely to encounter teachers rated "least effective."
Or, to put it another way, teachers in poorer districts overall aren't doing as well as their peers in richer districts at adding a year's worth of knowledge.
"To say that a teacher's very low on value-added doesn't in and of itself tell you that that's a bad teacher," ODE's Matt Cohen says. "We can't say that, and we're not trying to say that. We are trying to say that's a piece of information that a teacher, and the school should make use of."
Cohen says student test scores aren't the only thing that matter; classroom observation and other tools will help determine a teacher's final evaluation.
Some teachers who've been part of this experiment don't take a lot of solace in that caveat.
Forest Park Middle School teacher Maria Plecnik says her bosses, colleagues and students all say she's a highly effective teacher. Her latest evaluation backs that up.
"The only person who doesn't find me effective is the state of Ohio who has never stepped foot in my classroom," Plecnik says.
[module align="right" width="half" type="pull-quote"]"The only person who doesn't find me effective is the state of Ohio who has never stepped foot in my classroom."
- Maria Plecnik, 7th grade teacher[/module]
Last year, her value-added score was "least effective." This was Plecnik's last year of teaching - she quit the profession.
Other teachers have taken the news more positively.
Emily Brown is a Toledo teacher who saw her ranking in 7th grade reading slip from "most effective" to "average" last year.
She says she's not discouraged, and the results from value-added may be useful, "because how are you going to know if they gained anything?"


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By Diane Burroughs
Some of the most rewarding parrot species to keep as pets and companions fall into the medium-sized category, somewhere between budgie and macaw. Often, a budgie or cockatiel owner has a rewarding experience as a pet bird owner and decides to "step up," so to speak, to a larger pet bird. Whether it's an Amazon, Pionus, conure, African grey, small cockatoo or mini macaw, there are myriad medium-sized species out there that make great pets. Along with being larger than the ever-popular budgies and cockatiels, these parrots have a list of essential items that new owners must stock in order to keep their pets happy and healthy.
The Bird Cage
First, the cage must be large enough for a parrot to climb and explore, as well as flap its wings without striking the bars. Likewise, bar spacing is important–large enough to allow the toes through for easy climbing but narrow enough to prevent the bird from sticking its head out between the bars. Pet parrots in the medium and large categories use their feet often with climbing, eating and exploring toys, which indicates a high level of intelligence in the avian world. Studies done at Macquarie University reveal that using one foot more than the other–not favoring a combination and using both–when performing tasks is an indicator of a parrot's degree of intelligence. The more a parrot prefers one side or the other, the higher its intelligence, says Dr Culum Brown, Director of Advanced Biology. This study confirms that that healthy parrot feet are active, thus proper perches and toys are vital to parrot mental stimulation.
Cage bottoms are another area that warrants careful consideration. A metal grate as far as possible above the newspaper bedding is essential to preventing the parrot from reaching through and shredding the newspaper into confetti. Budgies and cockatiels rarely engage in this type of behavior, so it can create a mess that some owners new to the larger species never bargained for or planned on. Parrots are messy feeders and players, and good cage construction can minimize the mess.
Bird Perches
Natural wood bird perches are the most popular type of perch. They come in a variety of thicknesses and sizes. Other perch materials include rope perches, pumice or pedicure perches (good for keeping sharp nails dull). There are even heated perches called the Thermo Perch to keep avian feet warm and bathing perches that attach to shower walls. Most parrots learn to love a gentle misting with warm water.
Water and Food Bowls
Other bird supplies to provide for parrots in the medium-size category are sturdy food and water bowls. They must hold enough food for an appropriate meal and enough water to keep the bird hydrated throughout the day. Unlike small parrots, parrots in the medium category love to bathe in their water bowls and make "soup" by fouling their water source with food. They also like to toss their water bowls to the floors of their cages if they can. With all of this in mind, bowls that clamp securely to the cage but are also easy to remove for frequent changing are the best to use. Quick Lock Crocks are dishwasher safe bowls that lock down but come off easily. Often, bowls that screw into place are the best choices. Birds can quickly learn to unfasten bowls secured in place by only metal rings hung from the cage sides. The birds will pull these bowls free and drop them, creating quite a wet mess in the process.
Bird Treats
Nutritious bird food treats are also important for busy parrot feet. Some birds will learn to relish their favorite treats to the point of "double fisting" these birdie delicacies if they are offered two at once. They will clutch one in each claw, balancing on the perch on a hock because that leg's foot is already in use, then lift the other foot to the mouth to eat. Problem solved!
Although they can be fattening if fed too often, pine nuts and peanuts are loved by most parrots. The same goes for sunflower seeds. Fed sparingly by hand, however, they are a special treat every pet bird should enjoy.
Medium Sized Bird Toys
As the Macquarie University study revealed, intelligent parrot species require mental stimulation through use of their feet. An assortment of parrot toys will keep a parrot mentally stimulated and happy.
There are several types of good toys to keep a bird occupied. Among the best are foraging and destructive toys. These toys allow a parrot to explore a toy's hidden crevices and compartments to find items to shred or eat. Crinkled paper and fabric included in the toy design will be items most bird enjoy shredding and preening. Toys that contain a variety of seeds and nuts as a reward for foraging behavior will quickly become a bird's favorite item to explore.
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In order to meet my self-imposed, annual mileage goal, I'm compelled to ride at night after work when we've lost Daylight Savings Time during uncivilized weather, also known as Winter.
First, a disclaimer. I am not employed by MagicShine or Cygolite. I don't own stock in either company or in the parent company of either company or the parent company of the parent company of either company. I have no relatives or friends who are employed by either company or multitudinous parent companies. I am not know nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party, Democratic Party, Republican Party, or Tea Party. In fact, it's been a long time since I've even been to a party. That should cover it. Give me a break.
I bought a MagicShine light last year and it was a HUGE improvement over the LED flashlights (yes, plural) I had jury rigged on the bar. As an aside, I have had no problems with the MagicShine or the battery.
Then, Santa Clause gave me a Cygolite Expilion 250 this year, which I promptly mounted on my helmet. This turns out to be another HUGE improvement.
Most of the time I can run each of them on low power and have plenty of light. It's really nice to be able to aim the helmet light into the corner I'm about to navigate and aim it here and there to avoid obstacles.
Last night, I aimed it at a motorist who was doing a rolling stop at a stop sign to my right, and he quickly came to a full stop.
I ran the helmet light on medium power tonight, and initial results seem to indicate that I can trigger traffic lights (so equipped) to turn green if my aim is good. We'll need more research to confirm or deny.
As I was leaving my apartment tonight, a fellow hailed me down to let me know that he's seen me venture out for the last few nights and that I am well lit. I gratefully acknowledged. Interestingly enough, a minute or so later, I rode by another fellow who yelled out, "think you've got enough lights?" I waved, kept riding, and happily pondered these things in my heart.
In addition to the two main lights, I have a little CatEye blinky running up front, though the MS probably washes it out.
On the back of the bike, I run 3 Planet Bike SuperFlash lights in blink mode.
I wear a high-vis wind jacket and reflective strips around the ankles.
So far, so good. Cars approaching from the rear grant me wide berth. With the new light upfront, I can see really well and can be seen really well, and I have reserve power in each of the main lights as needed. I am Fredly and admit it.
If you are contemplating night rides, get plenty of lights and go for it.
If you ride at night, what do you have for lights and visibility?
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We are keeping it really low key for privacy reasons and relaxation.
Our midwife, who she brings with her, my husband and myself.
If we had other children we'd keep them with other family that wouldn't be in the room with us.I know I couldn't relax with that. And my mom will be there but not in with us, but she'll be a simple "yell out the door" away though. She's fine with that which also makes it easy for us :)
Not tooooo sure about having it photographed yet......
And we're planning the setup in our bedroom.
This will be my first homebirth, but my plans are for midwife, dh, and my best friend to be there. Dh's mom will probably want to be there, but I don't want her there. I don't think my mom will be able to come. Oh, and my kids will probably be in the house, but they are ages 10 to 13 and they have a family room with tv, video games, and computer to keep them occupied!
With my other kids I labored pretty fast (longest labor was 5 hours) so once things start to really progress for me my plan is to stay in the bedroom/bathroom. We have a really good sized bedroom/bathroom/tub.
Mel (35) married to Matt (36) with Matthew (14), Ashlyn (12), Carissa (11), and our Angel in Heaven, Samuel 9-26-12, Savannah Rose born on 8-24-13
My midwifery team is two midwives and an apprentice. I had my husband at my first birth and my husband and my son at my second birth. That's it! It was just the right number for me and I never wanted anyone else. I was happy for it to be my midwives and my family. Almost all of my support comes directly from my husband, and it's an intimate, personal family event for us. I definitely appreciated my privacy as I was working through contractions and pushing.
Both times, I had the tub in the living room. During my first, longer, birth, my midwife stayed in the bedroom in between monitoring me to give me some privacy. But once labor picks up and is moving toward transition, all of my midwives are in the living room with me and supporting me from around the tub. My husband gets in the tub with me. This has worked out great for me. I do like to move into the bathroom on occasion for privacy or for showers, but I am happy to be in the big, open living room for the times I am in the tub.
If I ever have any more kids, I will have to make the same decision about upstairs/downstairs and where to put the tub and whether I prefer the living room or bedroom. Honestly, I have no idea what I prefer, so I am no help there. :P
A wife - and mother of three children, born at home.
"calm like a bomb"
As far as spaces go, I plan on laboring in our room like I did with our first. I don't do the birthing tub thing, so I don't know how to address that concern for you. It sounds like the layout of your house is similar to ours, so if I did do a pool it would probably be downstairs as well. If that was the case I'd just have my MIL & son stay upstairs or go play outside (if its day time). Everyone else will be with me and helping, so there's no need for them to retreat anywhere.
Victoria(27) & Luis(28)
Adrian Alexander: 9/23/10 Victor Manuel: 2/7/13
Both born at home, perfect as can be!!
Born Safely at Home
Morrighan Claire
It would be too many people for me.
I had two midwives and an apprentice, DH, and a friend.
The friend was one too many people. I mean, she was mostly great. With a little training she could be a good doula. I had wanted her to come and make sure my midwives and my DH got fed; I kind of expected her to hang out in the kitchen I guess and come see the baby be born at the end. Instead she insisted on "supporting" me and while it was fine most of the time, I'm a "leave me the hell alone" person in labor and I found it annoying at points. Also my midwife kind of deferred to her as my "support person" and instead of talking directly to me and giving me directions, she'd tell my friend to relay the message. Especially when it was something I wasn't going to want to hear like "I think you should try getting out of the tub for a while" or "We need to do an internal exam to make sure you're progressing." (My labor never really followed a pattern so I understand why the midwife wanted to check on things and try stuff, but I admit I didn't really like being prodded or told to get out of the tub). Probably people who hire doulas would appreciate this go-between role. I didn't.
There's no way I'd want my mom, my MIL, or even my friend at my birth again. I'd need someone to be around for DD if I had another one since she's young, but that person would be instructed to stay AWAY from where I'm birthing.
ERFing Gluten-Free Sheep-Farming CPST Mom to 2 adult boys, 2 little daughters (Aug '10, Dec '14)
I really wanted a professional photographer and a doula, but the thought of more people makes me anxious so we nixed both ideas. I also have a three year old DS, but he will be going to my sister's house 10 minutes away to "bake a birthday cake" for our new addition, as he tends to panic when he sees me hurt or uncomfortable.
Wife to III & momma to my gentle and sweet yogi, Asher 9/18/09 and my rainbow, Jude 1/11/13.
Missing my babe 02/12.
My house is tiny. Like 900 sq but it is laid out well so I'm not to worried. And my mil is two blocks away and my neighbors have offered to take the boys if need be so we have options. It really all depends on how things happen so who knows!


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Temperance Banner (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1, Monday, September 2, 1872
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