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Aeon Decor Swivel Radiator Valve Pair - 15mm
For easier than ever control over the temperature of your home, combine your Aeon radiator with the Aeon Decor Angled Swivel Radiator Valve Pair. The swivel mechanism makes these valves extremely user friendly. Made entirely out corrosion-free stainless steel, they are the premium quality that the Aeon clients deserve and come with a 20 year warranty.
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Showering you with stats at the end of April
As first full month of season comes to an end, many early trends stand out
April stats are often dangerous in their duplicity, treacherous in their trickery. At times, though, they've proven eerily instructive, too.
That's why we like to take a moment each year at the end of April to make mention of some of the more noteworthy numbers the first month has brought us. These are just a few of the odd, alarming, amazing or otherwise interesting stats that caught our eye. Feel free to add your own in the comments.
All stats are through Tuesday's play.
5: Number of American League East teams with a negative run differential.
4: Number of AL Central teams with a positive run differential (sorry, Cleveland).
Plus-48: The A's run differential, best in baseball. They're in first place in the AL West.
Plus-34: The Angels' run differential, second best in baseball. They're in third place.
11-1: The Brewers' road record.
2-15: The D-backs' home record.
8: Combined number of postponements and off-days for the Tigers in April's 30 days. They will begin May with -- you guessed it -- another off-day, before playing 50 games in 52 days (weather permitting). Come to think of it ...
22: Games played by the Tigers.
22: Games lost by the D-backs.
4-0: The Rays' record in one-run games.
7-16: Tampa Bay's record in all other games.
1-5: The Dodgers' record in extra-innings games.
13-7: The Dodgers' record in all other games.
51.89: Number of at-bats between home runs for the Giants last year, second worst in baseball.
27.12: Number of at-bats between home runs for San Francisco this year, second best in baseball.
21.2: At-bats per home run for Albert Pujols in his first two seasons with the Angels.
12.0: At-bats per home run for Pujols this year.
10: Home runs for Jose Abreu. He's on pace to become just the 12th rookie (and the first since Pujols) to hit 30 homers and drive in 100.
11: Home runs for the entire Royals team. No club in the Wild Card era has had a homer rate as low as Kansas City does now and has gone on to make the playoffs.
2: Ike Davis home runs.
2: Davis' grand slams.
2: Number of those grand slams that came against the Reds.
1: "Tonight Show" appearances for Robinson Cano.
1: Home runs for Cano. He has an .049 isolated power mark and a .366 slugging percentage at Safeco Field.
27: RBIs for the Twins' Chris Colabello, the 30-year-old undrafted outfielder signed by Minnesota out of independent ball two years ago.
.379: National League-best batting average for Charlie Blackmon, who went 6-for-6 on April 4.
.753: Troy Tulowitzki's slugging percentage, best in baseball by more than 100 points.
1.6: Home runs per nine innings given up last year by Aaron Harang, an extreme fly-ball pitcher.
0.0: Home runs per nine innings given up this year by Harang, who has the Majors' best ERA (0.85).
1.90: Atlanta's rotation ERA, after losing Kris Medlen, Brandon Beachy and Mike Minor to injury.
6.04: Minnesota's rotation ERA, after gaining Ricky Nolasco and Phil Hughes in free agency.
4.29: Strikeout-to-walk ratio for the Brewers' bullpen, best in baseball by 0.81.
.136 The opposition's batting average off Johnny Cueto.
3.12: ERA for Tigers starters.
5.48: ERA for Detroit relievers.
5: The number of shutouts thrown by pitchers 25 or younger (Sonny Gray, Henderson Alvarez, Julio Teheran each threw one, and Martin Perez did it twice) already this season, the most in a March/April since 1989 (Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Bret Saberhagen, John Smiley, Bob Milacki), according to Elias.
Minus-0.6: Prince Fielder's offensive WAR (as calculated by Baseball-Reference.com).
Minus-0.3: Fielder's defensive WAR. So he's actually been slightly more valuable at first base than at the plate (and not very valuable at either).
95.9: Average fastball velocity for two starters -- the Royals' Yordano Ventura and the Angels' Garret Richards -- per FanGraphs.com.
17: Number of times Ventura has hit 100 mph or higher on the radar gun, per BrooksBaseball.net.
14.03: Strikeouts per nine innings for the Nationals' Stephen Strasburg, the highest such mark for a qualified pitcher in March/April since Kerry Wood (14.28) in 2001.
6: Three-hit games for Juan Uribe. He had just seven such games in 2013.
3: Strikeouts for Andrelton Simmons, in 91 plate appearances.
2.74: Average number of plate appearances Chris Carter goes between strikeouts.
4: Walks drawn by Mets pitcher Jonathan Niese, in nine plate appearances.
1: Walks drawn by Brewers left fielder Khris Davis, in 101 plate appearances.
19.2: Percentage of Yankees games in which Derek Jeter has been rested on the bench.
0.692: Jason Hammel's league-best WHIP for the last-place Cubs. Trade bait?
1.83: League-worst WHIP for the Orioles' $50 million man, Ubaldo Jimenez.
10: Major League pitchers who have had Tommy John surgery since Opening Day.
.994: Mike Trout's OPS.
.732: Miguel Cabrera's OPS.
1.95: Jose Fernandez's strangely specific, publicly stated goal for his ERA this season.
1.59: Fernandez's ERA so far.
.454: Allen Craig's batting average with runners in scoring position in 2013, third best in history.
.182: Craig's batting average with RISP this year. The Cardinals, as a team, have dropped from a best-in-history .330 to .220.
.500: Average with RISP for both the Indians' David Murphy (8-for-16) and the Brewers' Aramis Ramirez (12-for-24).
92.9: Dee Gordon's stolen-base success rate (he has 13 steals).
66.7: Billy Hamilton's stolen-base success rate (he has 10 steals).
7: Game-winning RBIs for Josh Donaldson.
22: Walks for Carlos Santana.
14: Hits for Santana. In a related development, he's already grounded into as many double plays (seven) as he did all of last season.
0-11: The Astros' record in games in which they didn't homer. They have the sixth-best homer rate in baseball.
6-0: The Mets' record when backup catcher Anthony Recker starts.
18-for-46: How Chris Denorfia has fared in two-strike counts.
1-for-46: How Pablo Sandoval has fared in two-strike counts.
41: Hits for Melky Cabrera. Only 12 players have finished March/April with more.
3: Wins by Pirates starting pitchers, through 26 games. The "win" is misleading, of course (see below). But to put that in perspective, the Buccos had seven starting pitching wins through 27 games in 2010. They lost 105 games that year.
3: Wins by CC Sabathia, who has a 5.11 ERA and is getting 6.17 runs of support per start.
0: Wins by the Cubs' Jeff Samardzija, who has a 1.98 ERA and is getting 2.33 runs of support per start.
16.2: Percentage of the season that has been played, making it quite possible all of the above will be rendered moot.
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Former Waking The Dead star Claire Goose has revealed that she would love the chance to work on a costume drama, such as the award-winning Downton Abbey.
The 39-year-old was speaking about her new ITV drama, Undeniable, where she takes the lead role, alongside World Without End star Peter Firth.
The British actress, who became a household name through her portrayal of nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC medical series Casualty, said: "I'd love to do a period drama. I've never done one before, so for me that would be a new challenge."
Undeniable sees Claire play Jane Phillips, a woman who recognises her mother's murderer 23 years after the crime took place.
Jane is a troubled character who at first seems fragile, but has an inner strength and an obsessive determination to bring her mother's killer to justice.
Claire admitted that she is looking at more diverse roles these days, as she looks to stretch herself and develop other areas of her acting abilities.
"Undeniable was an incredibly intense emotional piece that I was so ready to do and now I'm doing a play [The Perfect Murder] that's very heightened. It's a black comedy and it's very funny," she said.
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MICE Experiment¶
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Movie Review by Roger Moore, of McClatchy Newspapers Earnest, righteous, historically accurate and often entertaining, writer-director Brian Helgeland's "42" is pretty much all you could hope for in a Jackie Robinson film biography.
Minus the excitement, which given how well-known Robinson's story is to baseball fans, is no cardinal sin. And the cast is more adequate than thrilling.
It's the sort of story that you find yourself hoping they don't screw up — that the baseball will be convincing, that the racism isn't watered down, that the actor playing Jackie (Chadwick Boseman) comes off as a human being, not an icon. And in those regards, "42" scores.
A brief history lesson — the narrated-over-newsreel footage context of the end of World War II — is followed by a much longer one, as we see Robinson selected to integrate baseball by the cagey old Brooklyn Dodgers general manager and president, Branch Rickey.
It's shocking to see Harrison Ford take on a performance this complex — a voice, a pose and a whole demeanor, doing justice to a religious man whose spoken reasons for integrating America's pastime — "Dollars aren't black or white. They're GREEN" — isn't the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Rickey hunts high and low for a black ballplayer of talent, modesty and forbearance. He needs a star who can take a lot of racist abuse from fans, players, umpires and others. Robinson, a four-sport athlete at UCLA and star of the Kansas City Monarchs, fit the bill.
Helgeland, an Oscar-winning screenwriter ("L.A. Confidential") and skilled storyteller ("Mystic River"), provides his cleverest touches in the ways he makes Robinson's story resonate today. The California native had bristled at Southern segregation while in the Army. Helgeland plays up the racial threats Robinson received in spring training at Sanford, Fla. (where teen Trayvon Martin recently met his death).
He shows us a grand arc among the players, many of whom signed a petition to keep Robinson off the Dodgers. They witness the racism of opponents, fans and others and blush in shame.
The writer-director gives his star a lot of quiet moments, but Boseman, the center of it all, makes for a rather stoic and bland Robinson, which was what Rickey was shooting for but which doesn't do the movie any favors in the spark department.
The rest of the cast of "42" is no slam-dunk of A-listers. Hamish Linklater (TV's "The New Adventures of Old Christine") isn't built like an athlete of this or any other era. John C. McGinley may attempt the accent and homey slang of sportscaster Red Barber, but seems totally wrong. Christopher Meloni suggests little of what earned manager Leo Durocher the nickname "Leo the Lip." And Ford seems nothing like the real Rickey, even if he wins us over with gruff charm.
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It's the setting, the tone and the sentiment that "42" masters — the comically primitive attitudes of some of the white majority, the black fans and children inspired by Robinson's odyssey, the barriers that today's youth might be shocked to know ever existed.
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Overall: Rocky Top Barbeque, Walt Moulton, Jonesborough, Tenn.
Governor's Trophy: Smoke in the Mountains, Brandon Ray, Asheville, and Smoke This, Scott Jarrett, Hickory.
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Whole Hog: Bubba Jack's, Jack Chavis Jr., Charlotte. (Jeff Del Mastro, Mac's Smoke Shop, placed fourth.)
Anything But: Flaming Pig, Vick Wilkins, Red Springs.
Dessert: Scott Adams, Charlotte.
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Making Matzo at Daniel in New York City Recipe
To honor his approximately 50 percent Jewish clientele, French chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud has served homemade matzo in his New York City restaurants—Daniel, DB Bistro, Cafe Boulud, and Bar Boulud—during the Passover season since 2004. And people love it, probably because they don't expect to find traditional Jewish bread in an upscale French restaurant. The matzoh served at Daniel Boulud's restaurants may not be kosher, but that Boulud has cooked for many Jewish weddings and bar mitzvahs during his career should have some significance.
Boulanger Mark Fiorentino of Daniel is in charge of making the matzo for all the restaurants. Where does an Italian-American chef in a French restaurant learn to make Jewish bread? He attributes a visit to the long established Streits factory in the Lower East Side, where he observed the matzo masters at work, for helping him hone his recipe and technique.
Earlier this week I visited Daniel to watch the matzo-making process, along with a quick blessing from "Rabbi" Boulud. Fiorentino makes his matzoh in batches that use 50 pounds of flour at a time, but he pared down his recipe to just 1 pound of flour so you can make it at home. (You can get matzo at Boulud's restaurants until this Saturday, April 11.) Check out the recipe and photos from Daniel's kitchen after the jump.
Making Matzo at Daniel
Chef Fiorentino cuts the matzo dough into more manageable chunks.
He pats the dough down before putting it through the pastry sheeter.
Into the sheeter it goes. In. Out. Dust with flour. Repeat.
And look how svelte it's become. Fiorentino cuts the dough into smaller pieces before using a modified pizza cutter to score the dough and a roller docker to punch in holes.
Time to slide the dough into the oven.
The matzo gets a bit bubbly while baking.
Chef Boulud flips over the matzo.
This matzo needs a bit more time in the oven.
Boulud and Fiorentino inspect a few pieces.
Blistered and brown—it's done!
A pile of just-baked matzo waits before being bagged.
- 1 pound flour
- 7 1/4 ounces very warm water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons oil (any kind you want)
- Special Equipment
- Pasta maker
- Pizza stone (optional)
- Roller docker (optional)
Preheat oven to 500°F. In a large bowl, mix together all the ingredients until they come together to form a dough. Split dough into two parts to make it easier to roll out.
Flatten the dough with your palms. Pass the dough through a pasta maker over and over again until you reach the thinnest setting, or roll it as thinly as possible with a rolling pin.
Cut the dough into approximately 8 x 8-inch rectangles. Score if desired. Roll over the dough with a docker or prick holes with a fork.
Bake dough on a pizza stone (the best choice) or a baking sheet at 500°F for a couple of minutes until it turns golden brown and bubbly. Flip over to bake the other side for another few minutes.
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Villanueva adds veteran presence to bullpen
CHICAGO -- Right-hander Carlos Villanueva was available out of the bullpen for Sunday's series finale against the Mets, one day after losing his spot in the rotation because of Matt Garza's impending return.
The move adds a veteran weapon to a relief corps that has been impressive as of late. The 29-year-old has appeared mostly as a reliever in his career -- 245 of his 309 career appearances entering Sunday had come in relief -- so manager Dale Sveum isn't concerned about Villanueva getting back in the groove and finding a routine.
"He's done it many, many times, so I'm sure he has his own gig that way," Sveum said.
Sveum said that Villanueva will pitch in multiple roles and that the Cubs will not have a typical long man waiting for a starter to falter.
"Obviously, he's built up to pitch very long, but he's not that typical long guy where you sit there and you say, 'Oh, we have to save him in case our starter blows out in the first inning or gets beat up,'" Sveum said. "You don't do that with him. He'll just be one of the guys."


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The Raw Beauty Project made its debut on September 20, 2014 at ACA Galleries in New York City. This impactful, empowering exhibit has resonated with media across the world, igniting a global conversation and has been featured in "O", Oprah Magazine, TODAY.com, Huffington Post, as well as many publications across Europe.
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Texas on the Potomac is pleased to welcome you to our weekly feature, the Texas Twitter Tussle.
Every weekend, we will examine the use of social media by prominent Texas political figures by comparing their Twitter strategies.
Past tussles include the strategies of the state's two senators, Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, twin brothers Julian and Joaquin Castro , former Texas Representative Ron Paul vs. his son (and current Kentucky senator) Rand Paul, the Texas Democratic Party vs. the Republican Party of Texas, as well as Texas Governor Rick Perry vs. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Houston Reps. Al Green and Gene Green, conservative Reps. Louie Gohmert vs. Steve Stockman, former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords vs. the National Rifle Association, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott vs. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Battleground Texas vs. Battlefield Dallas, and Texas on the Potomac vs. the Dallas Morning News.
Today, we examine the social media efforts of Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Texas House Speaker Joe Straus.
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On Cotton Gin's 211th Anniversary, World Market Demands Gentler TouchBy Don Comis
March 14, 2005
More American upland cotton can be ginned in the future for the longer fibers demanded by foreign textile industries, thanks to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist Ed Hughs and colleagues.
To extract longer fibers, cotton has to be ginned by a roller gin stand. As they strip out seeds, the rollers leave longer fibers than the saw teeth of the cotton gin patented by Eli Whitney on this day 211 years ago.
The problem is that the roller gin is generally used only for pima cotton, leaving out upland cotton, which accounts for most of the cotton grown in this country. Roller gin stands slow down to a generally uneconomical speed of one bale per hour--or less--with upland cotton. Pima moves through at about 1.5 bales an hour.
With funds from Cotton Incorporated of Cary, N.C., Hughs and colleagues at the ARS Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory near Las Cruces, N.M., have found that a few adjustments can speed things up so upland cotton moves through the gin at four to five bales an hour, while pima rolls out at six bales an hour.
This will give farmers more incentive to boost upland cotton's fiber length to gain a larger share of the world market. This year, the United States is expected to export 14 million bales of its expected production of more than 20 million bales.
As another way of increasing cotton industry options, the ARS ginning team has invented a machine that eliminates the need to use defoliation chemicals on the cotton crop.
For the past two harvests, Hughs' team has been testing a tractor-mounted device that kills cotton leaves with a blast of hot air from propane heaters. Cotton farmers currently remove leaves by spraying with a defoliant before harvest. Either way, the dead leaves fall off, which makes for cleaner harvesting and processing.
In research funded by the Propane Education and Research Council, the team designed the thermal defoliator for organic farmers and farmers around residential areas who can't use chemicals.
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My latest victory in rejecting retail purchases and discovering...Secondhand Smarts. Last time, we met cast iron. Today, we return to the kitchen.
See the sad and lonely Pyrex lid.
Its mate, my most favourite and often used Corningware 2.5L casserole dish, slipped from careless hands to a sad end a few seasons ago. (A moment of silence, if you please.)
Unable to move on (emotionally, you understand) to a replacement, this sad lid has remained unused in a drawer, getting in the way. Only once did it come out - trying to partner with a cast iron skillet...and failing.
Will it end its days as merely clutter?
The Corningware 1.6L casserole dish has been on active duty ever since the loss of its bigger sibling. Bravely though it tries, it is not the same. I cannot make enough Mexican bean tortilla casserole to satisfy the hungries at our Second Saturday Vegan Potluck. I simply cannot.
Cute in its way - like trying on Daddy's shirt. But no.
Destiny strikes
Already heavily loaded with fruits, vegetables, gluten free bread, and heavily discounted vegan Anzac biscuits, and far from my car, I can't resist glancing into my favourite charity shop. I wiggle through the crowds in the kitchen section, and....there they were.
Though disguised, nested underneath a smaller non-Corningware dish, I knew them at once. Their smooth cool ridges were engraved on my memory. I knew they were meant for us. It was fate. Kismet. Karma.
It was 2.5 and 1.6!
They agreed to come home with me, to meet the others.
This big pair were a bit shy at first.
But I have a good feeling about them.
Little 1.6 is thrilled to have some company. How thrilled?
Nothing like a wee little 500mL to bring joy to a kitchen!
And we all lived happily ever after.
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November 29, 2017 (UkrOboronProm) BTR-4MB1, developed in Kharkiv by specialists of Morozov Machine-Building Design Bureau, has been introduced for the first time in Ukraine in the framework of the international exhibition "Arms and Security 2017".
The new BTR-4MV1 is equipped with an opto-electronic gun sight with a powerful thermal imager and a high-precision digital fire control system. Due to this, combat vehicle crew is able to destroy the enemy at the maximum range of the weapons not only during the day, but also at night or under the bad weather conditions. In accordance with the latest NATO armament trends, specialists managed to achieve a fundamentally new level of BTR-4protection.
"BTR-4MB1 provides the highest level of protection for this class of armored vehicles; the modular armor approach and multi-purpose compartments, allowing to room additional fuel tanks, floats or additional armor – we can now re-equip BTR-4MB1 in minimal time. In addition, the use of combat modules also allows replacing of armament of a combat vehicle. As of today, the BTR-4MB1 can be adapted for to perform any task – from patrol to amphibious vehicle for marines. This approach – used in the best samples of armored vehicles of NATO countries, is already implemented in Ukrainian BTR-4", – said the head of "Kharkiv Morozov Machine-Building Design Bureau" Oleksiy Babich.


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In the United States, there's that little notion of The American Dream. But Europeans have been slow to seek a piece of the entrepreneurial pie. "New money"--not to mention quick money--was distrusted in the United Kingdom, and failure was like a scarlet F. In Sweden, corporate security was the aspiration.
All that's changed, thanks to the Internet gold rush. While the dotcom bubble burst in Europe as it did here, the boom broke the mold, and now being an entrepreneur is all the rage.
While the shift of values that's occurred since the word "entrepreneur" seeped into the global consciousness may have sparked the rise in European small businesses, evolving infrastructures are what really allow for change. "Countries in Europe [used to be] very protected against foreign goods and trade," says Mauro Guillén, associate professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "[As foreign trade and investment open up,] people realize you not only have to start running faster, because competitors can come in, but also that new opportunities were created. So there's been a total revolution in the number of start-ups."
Last year, one in 33 adults in the UK started a business, as did one in 50 in Finland and Sweden, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study conducted by Babson College, The London Business school, the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Ernst & Young UK.
Hans Schöllhammer, professor of management at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, says increased support for small businesses has fueled the trend. "There was a time when venture capital markets were not as easily developed [in Europe]," he says. Last year, according to the GEM study, nearly $1.9 billion in VC funding went to UK start-ups, while more than $2 billion went to German start-ups.
It'll take a lot to match America's entrepreneurial drive, but between fear of economic stagnation and a new generation of European risk-takers, expect to hear much more from across the pond.


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MSU Extension soil testing lab offers new services
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- The Mississippi State University Extension Service Soil Testing Lab has new equipment that allows it to offer an expanded range of services to clients.
A new carbon and nitrogen analyzer tests both soil and plant tissue. The new instrument adds soil nitrogen tests to the list of services offered by the Extension Soil Testing Lab and streamlines the process of obtaining soil organic matter and plant nitrogen analyses.
Clients can now choose several different tests. First is the standard soil test for $8. A test for both soil and organic matter costs $10. For $4, clients can order a test for organic matter and soil nitrogen only, excluding the standard soil test. The plant tissue test remains $15 per sample.
Soil tests are useful for clients interested in improving crops, lawns, home gardens and wildlife food plots. Optimal pH and soil fertility are critical to obtaining maximum plant growth and economic yields. Soil tests take the guesswork out of fertilizer and lime applications. Reducing excess fertilizer application saves money and prevents the environmental impacts of nutrient runoff.
Forms, fee information, an online payment option and an instructional video for taking a soil sample are online at http://extension.msstate.edu/lawn-and-garden/soil-testing.


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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Sequoia Tree
Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia, Sierra redwood, Sierran redwood, or Wellingtonia) is the sole living species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae, together with Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood) and Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood). The common use of the name "sequoia" generally refers to Sequoiadendron, which occurs naturally only in groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
Giant Sequoias are the world's largest trees in terms of total volume (technically, only 7 living Giant Sequoia exceed the 42,500 cubic feet (1,200 m3) of the Lost Monarch Coast Redwood tree; see Largest trees). They grow to an average height of 50 to 85 metres (160 to 279 ft) and 6 to 8 metres (20 to 26 ft) in diameter. Record trees have been measured to be 94.8 metres (311 ft) in height and 17 metres (56 ft) in diameter. The oldest known Giant Sequoia based on ring count is 3,500 years old. Sequoia bark is fibrous, furrowed, and may be 90 centimetres (3.0 ft) thick at the base of the columnar trunk. It provides significant fire protection for the trees. The leaves are evergreen, awl-shaped, 3 to 6 mm long, and arranged spirally on the shoots. The seed cones are 4 to 7 cm long and mature in 18 to 20 months, though they typically remain green and closed for up to 20 years; each cone has 30 to 50 spirally arranged scales, with several seeds on each scale giving an average of 230 seeds per cone. The seed is dark brown, 4 to 5 mm long and 1 mm broad, with a 1 mm wide yellow-brown wing along each side. Some seed is shed when the cone scales shrink during hot weather in late summer, but most seeds are liberated when the cone dries from fire heat or is damaged by insects.
Giant sequoia cones.Giant sequoia regenerates by seed. Trees up to about 20 years old may produce stump sprouts subsequent to injury. Giant sequoia of all ages may sprout from the bole when old branches are lost to fire or breakage, but (unlike coast redwood) mature trees do not sprout from cut stumps. Young trees start to bear cones at the age of 12 years.
At any given time, a large tree may be expected to have approximately 11,000 cones. The upper part of the crown of any mature Giant Sequoia invariably produces a greater abundance of cones than its lower portions. A mature giant sequoia has been estimated to disperse from 300,000-400,000 seeds per year. The winged seeds may be carried up to 180 m (600 ft) from the parent tree.
Lower branches die fairly readily from shading, but trees less than 100 years old retain most of their dead branches. Trunks of mature trees in groves are generally free of branches to a height of 20 to 50 m, but solitary trees will retain low branches.
The natural distribution of giant sequoia is restricted to a limited area of the western Sierra Nevada, California. The giant sequoias are having difficulty reproducing in their original habitat (and very rarely reproduce in cultivation) due to the seeds only being able to grow successfully in mineral soils in full sunlight, free from competing vegetation. Although the seeds can germinate in moist needle humus in the spring, these seedlings will die as the duff dries in the summer. They therefore require periodic wildfire to clear competing vegetation and soil humus before successful regeneration can occur. Without fire, shade-loving species will crowd out young sequoia seedlings, and sequoia seeds will not germinate. When fully grown, these trees typically require large amounts of water and are therefore often concentrated near streams.
Fires also bring hot air high into the canopy via convection, which in turn dries and opens the cones. The subsequent release of large quantities of seeds coincides with the optimal post-fire seedbed conditions. Loose ground ash may also act as a cover to protect the fallen seeds from ultraviolet radiation damage.
Due to fire suppression efforts and livestock grazing during the early and mid 20th century, low-intensity fires no longer occurred naturally in many groves, and still do not occur in some groves today. The suppression of fires also led to ground fuel build-up and the dense growth of fire-sensitive White Fir. This increased the risk of more intense fires that can use the firs as ladders to threaten mature Giant Sequoia crowns. Natural fires may also be important in keeping carpenter ants in check.
The giant sequoia was well known to Native American tribes living in its area. Native American names for the species include Wawona, Toos-pung-ish and Hea-mi-withic, the latter two in the language of the Tule River Tribe.
Wood from mature giant sequoias is highly resistant to decay, but due to being fibrous and brittle, it is generally unsuitable for construction. From the 1880s through the 1920s logging took place in many groves in spite of marginal commercial returns. Due to their weight and brittleness trees would often shatter when they hit the ground, wasting much of the wood. Loggers attempted to cushion the impact by digging trenches and filling them with branches. Still, it is estimated that as little as 50 percent of the timber made it from groves to the mill. The wood was used mainly for shingles and fence posts, or even for matchsticks.
Giant Sequoia is a very popular ornamental tree in many areas. Areas where it is successfully grown include most of western and southern Europe, the Pacific Northwest of North America north to southwest British Columbia, the southern United States, southeast Australia, New Zealand and central-southern Chile. It is also grown, though less successfully, in parts of eastern North America.
Giant sequoias are grown successfully in the Pacific Northwest and southern US, and less successfully in eastern North America.Immature seed (female) cones of cultivated tree in Portland, Oregon, USA (fall)Giant Sequoia cultivation is very successful in the Pacific Northwest from western Oregon north to southwest British Columbia, with fast growth rates. In Washington and Oregon, it is common to find giant sequoias that have been successfully planted in both urban and rural areas.
Report: Smoke from wildfires kills over 300,000 per year worldwide
Published February 20, 2012
The Wall Street Journal
VANCOUVER – Smoke from burning forests and grasslands kills on average 339,000 people a year worldwide, an international research team said Sunday in the first systematic global health study of air pollution from wildfires.
Every year, accidental and deliberate wildfires burn an area that, taken together, is larger than India. The dense plumes of fine particles and compounds released in the complex chemistry of combustion typically stay aloft for weeks and can travel hundreds of miles downwind. Smoke from fires in Central Siberia during 2003, for example, caused air pollution in the US.
To estimate the public health consequences, scientists led by fire researcher Fay Johnston from the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, studied the impact of the fine particulate matter released during such blazes between 1997 and 2006, using satellite data, computer models of wind patterns and mortality tables developed by the World Health Organization.
"I personally was surprised that the estimate of deaths was so high," said Johnston, who presented the findings at a symposium Sunday during a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement for Science (AAAS) in Vancouver. The findings were also published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were hit hardest by the ill effects of smoke from wildfires and deliberate burning for clearing land, the research team said.
In Africa, about 157,000 people died annually as a consequence of smoke pollution, the scientists said. In Southeast Asia, 110,000 on average were killed every year by medical conditions related to inhalation of wildfire smoke.
By comparison, public health experts estimate that urban air pollution generally kills about 800,000 people every year, and the indoor fumes from household fuels cause about 1.6 million deaths annually.
The medical consequences of smoke from wildfires are likely to worsen in coming years, however, if predictions of long-term rising temperatures due to heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions come true, researchers at the AAAS meeting said.
Hotter and drier summers to come will result in longer fire seasons and more intense wildfire fires that may be harder to control, they said.
Researchers have estimated that for each additional degree centigrade in global mean temperature, there could be more storms and a five percent increase in the amount of lightning, which can ignite dry forests and savannahs.
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
Anybody's Daughter
Donna had spent several years as a social worker, but now worked as an administrative assistant at St. Francis Hospital. Work, church and Brianna. That was her mother's entire life. No man, no girlfriends, no fun.
Brianna wasn't having any of that. She was gonna have a life, no matter how hard her mother tried to keep her on a short leash like a prized pet.
Donna finally walked over and gave her daughter a peck on the cheek, then repeated the same words she said every single morning: "You be careful."
Brianna bolted through the front door and hurried down the street. As expected, no one was out yet. Her legs grew shaky as she scurried past Sydney's house. Brianna had wanted to tell her BFF about hooking up with Jaden today, but he made her promise not to. Anyway, Sydney had the biggest mouth in the whole seventh grade. Brianna couldn't afford to have her business in the street. She'd made Sydney swear on the Bible before telling her about Jaden.
As she neared the end of the block, she saw it. The burgundy Escalade with the tinted windows was parked behind Mario's Fish Market just like Jaden had promised. Brianna was so excited her hands began to tremble. She was only a few feet away from the SUV when the driver's door opened and a man climbed out.
"Hey, Brianna. I'm Clint, Jaden's brother. He's in the backseat."
Brianna unconsciously took a step back. Jaden's brother didn't look anything like him. On his Facebook picture, Jaden had dark eyes, a narrow nose and could've passed for T.I.'s twin brother. This man was dark-skinned with a flat nose and crooked teeth. And there was no way he was nineteen. He had to be even older than her Uncle Dre, who was thirty-something.
Brianna bit her lip. Something unsettling tinkered in her gut, causing her senses to see-saw between fear and elation. But it was love, her love for Jaden, that won out. It didn't matter what his brother looked like. They probably had different daddies.
She handed Clint her backpack and stooped to peer inside the back of the SUV.
At the same horrifying moment that Brianna realized that the man inside was not Jaden, Clint snatched her legs out from under her and shoved her inside the Escalade.
The man in the backseat grabbed a handful of her hair and jerked her toward him. Brianna tumbled face-first into his lap, inhaling sweat and weed and piss.
"Owwwww! Get your hands offa me!" Brianna shouted, her arms and legs thrashing about like a drowning swimmer. "Where's Jaden? Let me go!"
"Relax, baby." The stinky man's voice sounded old and husky. "Just calm down."
"Let me go!" Brianna screamed.
She tried to pull away, but Stinky Man palmed the back of her head like a basketball, easily holding her in place. Clint reached between the front seats, snatched her arms behind her back and bound them with rope.
When Brianna heard the quiet revving of the engine and the door locks click into place, panic exploded from her ears. She violently kicked her feet, hoping to break the window. But each kick landed with a sharp thud that launched needles of pain back up her legs.
"Don't touch me! Let me goooooo!"
The stinky man thrust a calloused hand down the back of her pants.
"Damn, girl," he cackled. "I like this big old behind."
"Cut it out, Leon," Clint shouted. "I've told you before. Don't mess with the merchandise."
Clint reached into the backseat again and stabbed Brianna's arm with a needle just above the elbow.
A flash of fire lit up her entire body and in seconds, her eyelids felt like two heavy windows being forced shut. She tried to scream, but the ringing in her ears drowned out all sound. When she blinked up at Stinky Man, he had two—no three—heads.
Brianna could feel the motion of the SUV pulling away from Mario's Fish Market. She needed to do something. But her body was growing heavy and her head ached. The thick haze that cluttered her mind allowed only one desperate thought to seep through.
Mommy! Uncle Dre! Please help me!
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Stanton not making excuses for recent woes
PITTSBURGH -- With clarity and conviction on Tuesday afternoon, Giancarlo Stanton assessed his frustrating season.
You don't need to remind the Marlins' slugger that he is 1-for-20 over his last six games, and batting just .245 with 13 homers and 34 RBIs on the season.
The 23-year-old is not making excuses or offering any alibis.
"I haven't shown up to play, all season," Stanton told MLB.com. "And that's the most frustrating thing in the world. I've probably had two 15 at-bat stints where I've played OK, and that's it -- all season. All [darn] season."
Don't misinterpret Stanton's candor for him saying he hasn't cared or properly prepared.
"Read it exactly how it is. I haven't shown up to play," the slugger said. "Did I prepare less? No. Did I care less? No. It just hasn't been there. As the person that I am, and how prepared as I am, that's unacceptable."
The Marlins may have the worst record in the National League, and much has been made about the overhaul of the roster from a year ago to now.
None of those distractions has hindered Stanton's desire to succeed. Neither has trade speculation weighed on him.
And while there have been numerous reports that teams were ready to make "substantial offers" for Stanton, the bottom line is before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline, the Marlins told other clubs that the slugger was unavailable. No firm offers were actually discussed.
As an organization, the Marlins are planning to approach Stanton after the season about a multi-year contract. Whether he is willing to listen or accept still has yet to be determined. He may opt to go year to year in arbitration and wait for free agency.
Stanton is arbitration-eligible in 2014, and he would qualify for free agency after the 2016 season.
The Marlins are hoping to build around the slugger for the next couple of seasons.
Clearly, the club is counting on Stanton providing big production in the middle of their lineup.
"It seems like he's had a tough time getting it going," manager Mike Redmond said. "He seems to be able to sustain his at-bats for a few games, but he hasn't had that long stretch where we feel like he's locked in. It looks to me like he's a little out of whack and just missing some balls."
In his fourth big league season, Stanton has already established the reputation of being one of the premiere power hitters in the game. He has 106 home runs in 441 games.
"I've said this all year, he's such a big part of our lineup," Redmond said. "We need him in the middle of that order. Hopefully, he will not only get some big hits [Tuesday], but throughout this whole road trip. We're going to need him."
The Marlins have 52 games remaining, and the solution to Stanton's slump is simple.
"Work, work and work," Stanton said. "That's why this game will smack you in the face sometimes."


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