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Top 12 of 2012
Following the untimely and bitter end of the 2012 season last night, the Yankees are undoubtedly heading back to Yankee Stadium to clean out their lockers, and are going to prepare for what will be about a five month layover until Spring Training kicks up in February.
Now that the season has come to a close, it's time to reflect on everything that made 2012 a great baseball season. There's no need to dwell on the tragic ALCS sweep at the hands of the Detroit Tigers, so instead, let's take a look back at some of the best moments and times of this past season.
Just a note, I'll be including some personal highlights as well; some moments that made it personally a fun season for me, as a writer, a reporter, and most importantly, a fan. Without any further ado, Yankee Yapping is proud to present its Top 12 of 2012!
12. Catching up with Bernie Williams
Believe it or not, one of the best highlights of the season (for me) came before the season even began!
While I was covering a high school girls' basketball game in February, I happened to be sitting next to none other than the former Yankee center fielder, Bernie Williams. His daughter Bea led her team to a win, and getting to sit next to a Yankee legend – and a proud father – while it happened was truly an honor.
Read all about my evening with Bernie here!
11. The return of Andy Pettitte
He had an itch to come back, and he went ahead and scratched it.
In March, retired longtime Yankee favorite Andy Pettitte announced that he would be coming out of retirement. He signed a contract, got back in shape, and unfortunately it didn't work out for him in the end.
Pettitte was sidelined for the majority of the season after getting struck in the left ankle with a come-backer on June 27 – fracturing his fibula.
I've discussed my feelings on the whole "coming-out-of-retirement" spiel, but when Pettitte went down, I legitimately felt bad for him, knowing he wanted to pay dividends for the Yankees. At the very least, however, he pitched well in the postseason, as he always does.
10. Home opener shutout
There is nothing like Opening Day. Spring; the feeling of new life is in the air, and baseball is back.
The Yankees made their home opener this year one to remember, beating Albert Pujols and the LA Angels 5-0 behind a brilliant start from Hiroki Kuroda. The Yankee win was one of the first of their 95 victories in 2012, setting the table for yet another strong, winning campaign.
9. Beating up the BoSox
On April 20 the Yankees' most hated rivals, the Boston Red Sox, honored Fenway Park; their home that turned 100 years old. Red Sox Nation could only hope a nice ceremony and a champagne toast would be followed by a Red Sox win over the Yankees.
No such luck.
The Yankees beat the Red Sox quite decisively, 6-2, ruining their centennial celebration.
And it only got sweeter the next day.
Boston rebounded from the loss with a bang, touching up the Yanks for nine runs through the first six innings. Leading 9-1 in the seventh, the Red Sox had seemingly answered their loss with a win, but things are rarely what they seem in Beantown. The Yanks came back with a vengeance; plating seven runs in the seventh and adding another seven in the eighth, clawing their way back for a huge, 15-9 win over Boston.
Without question those two losses took a lot of air out of Red Sox Nation, and the BoSox went on to have one of their worst seasons since the 1970s.
8. A YES contribution
On June 8 the Yankees absolutely clobbered the Mets, beating their inferior cross-town rivals, 9-1. Robinson Cano led the way with two homers off Mets' ace Johan Santana, and Nick Swisher and Andruw Jones followed with homers of their own.
As a matter of fact, the Yanks smacked three consecutive homers that night.
During the game, I submitted a tweet to the YES Network, and they used it on their "Extra Innings" postgame show – marking the third time they have used my insight on TV.
Hosts Jack Curry and Bob Lorenz even agreed with my comment.
More YES Network action to come later.
7. A win over Atlanta
There's nothing like going out to your first game of the season. It took me a couple months, considering covering Minor League Baseball basically consumed my summer, but on June 18 (three days after my birthday!) I finally got out to the big ballpark in the Bronx.
The Yanks hosted the Atlanta Braves in an inter-league showdown, and backed by a dominant, complete game performance from CC Sabathia, won 6-3. The victory kept a 10-game Yankee winning streak alive; Cano and Mark Teixeira each going yard to pace the Yanks at the plate.
I did get out to one more game on Aug. 31 – yet it wasn't as memorable, the Yankees losing 6-1 to the team they eventually ousted in the ALDS, the Baltimore Orioles.
6. Welcome, Ichiro!
The Yankees made a splash before the trade deadline, acquiring Ichiro from the Seattle Mariners. The 38-year-old veteran outfielder joined the team on July 23, and certainly did a fine job on both sides of the field.
Ichiro played in 67 games for the Yankees – and 162 overall, proving just how durable he really is. In those 67 games in pinstripes he recorded 73 hits and scored 28 runs with 14 stolen bases, 13 doubles, and five homers.
Yes. He's still got it. Much like Derek Jeter, Ichiro has shown he is ageless. And he certainly helped propel the Yankees down the stretch and into the postseason.
Domo arigato, Mr. Suzuki.
5. YES Network Games
Another game, another YES Network appearance.
On Aug. 6, my tweet was used on the YES Network, during their "YES Network Games" competition. Michael Kay even admitted my question was difficult, although he, John Flaherty, and Meredith Marakovits all came up with the correct answer.
It's only too bad the content and nature of the question in a way foreshadowed the season's end.
4. Not so fast, Oakland
The 2012 Yankees had a handful miraculous late-game wins under their belt – maybe not as many as the '09 Yankees – but when the Bombers fought back this season, you could be sure they would win.
Case in point: Sept. 22 at home vs. Oakland.
Tied 5-5 in the top of the 13th, the A's were able to score four times and take a 9-5 lead.
Facing a surefire loss, the Bombers showcased some resiliency, and battled back to knot it up at nine, highlighted by a game-tying, two-run homer off the bat of Raul Ibanez. Ichiro later scored on an error for a 10-9 Yankee victory.
To think, while all this was happening I was hanging out with (of all people) Hulk Hogan.
3. Taking the tour
Game after game, the Yankees sit in their dugout; chill in the clubhouse. On Sept. 30 I got a taste of what that feels like.
The Yankee Stadium tour is offered year-round and on Yankee off-days during the regular season. It was something I had wanted to do for awhile, and I finally had my day.
Read all about my Yankee Stadium tour here!
2. Raul Ibanez's heroics
Baseball in October is sometimes defined as, "unlikely hero." And the Yankees certainly had one this year.
At the end of the regular season and into the postseason, Raul Ibanez proved to be the Yankees' most clutch player. With game-tying and game-winning hits, he made a name for himself and earned the respect and love of all Yankee fans.
Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth on Oct. 2 vs. Boston, Ibanez slammed a two-run home run, tying it all up, 3-3. Three innings later he came up and sank the Red Sox with a walk-off single – a hit that gave the Yankees a 4-3 win over their humiliated hated rivals, but more importantly, kept them alone in first place in the AL East going into the game number 162 of the regular season.
Talk about enough drama for one season. But it was only the beginning.
Against the Orioles – the team that crept up on the Yanks for first place in the AL East towards the end of the year – in Game 3 of the ALDS, Ibanez put on an encore performance.
Down 2-1 this time in the ninth, Ibanez swung his bat hard, lifting the ball deep into the New York night and into the seats for another incredible, game-tying homer. He came up, again in the 12th, and clubbed another death blow; another long ball to give the Yankees a 3-2 victory, sending the Bronx faithful home with smiles on their faces.
Two game-tyers and two game-winners within eight days of each other. And he still had some left.
Last Saturday in Game 1 of the ALCS when defeat looked imminent, Ibanez tied the game with one swing yet again, taking Detroit closer Jose Valverde's offering into the seats in right field.
Sadly for Ibanez and the Yankees the magic stopped there. But there's no question that Ibanez had the best October of any Yankee player on the roster.
1. Getting past the O's
The ALCS may not have ended the way the Yankees would have hoped for, but if nothing else, they should take winning the ALDS away from this postseason as a huge step in the right direction.
After all, the Yankees had not beaten a team in the ALDS not named the Minnesota Twins since 2001, when they beat the A's. By the numbers, the Yankees were 4-0 vs. the Twins in the ALDS – and 0-5 vs. everyone else. The biggest question on my mind entering October was, "if it's not the Twins, can the Yankees even win?"
Yes, they can. And moving forward, hopefully it gives them confidence. Let's say (hypothetically) the Yankees are up against the Chicago White Sox, or the Texas Rangers, or the Angels – or even the Tigers again in the ALDS next year. With the win over the Orioles this year, they now know they can win an ALDS against a team other than the Twins.
Beating the Orioles may have taken a lot of effort, but perhaps it gave them some knowledge.
Honorable Mention: The Hudson Valley Renegades
As I've written about several times, I had the pleasure of covering the Hudson Valley Renegades this season, a MiLB team. The 'Gades were a huge part of my summer. I spent many nights in the Dutchess Stadium press box, watching the team battle to win after win.
The Renegades went on to beat the Tri-City Valley Cats in the New York-Penn League Championship Series, winning their first league title since 1999 – and only their second league title in team history.
I had so much fun covering the Renegades, and it meant a lot when their manager, Jared Sandberg, told me that not only had he read several of my articles about the team/game recaps, but he was impressed with how well-written they were.
Very encouraging to hear, especially from a former big leaguer and the nephew of a Hall of Famer.
It's tough to say goodbye to the 2012 baseball season, because it was one heck of a time.
My only hope now is that 2013 will be just as awesome.


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According to a Nielsen study, Apple devices make up four out of the top five gifts American kids aged 6-12 want for Christmas.
Approximately half the children surveyed expressed interest in the full-sized iPad (up from 44% last year), and 36 percent in the new iPad Mini. The iPod Touch and iPhone are also coveted devices among these young consumers (36% and 33%, respectively). Kids are also likely to ask for dedicated gaming hardware this holiday, with 39 percent excited to own Nintendo's just-released console offering, Wii U, and 29 percent indicating they want a device from that company's portable DS family. Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 also proved appealing, with approximately one-quarter of kids 6-12 saying they want these high definition consoles.
Among consumers aged 13 and older, tablets and full-sized computers were the top electronics choices, with roughly one in five indicating they want to acquire the iPad (vs. 24% last year), any other tablet, or a computer. Reinforcing the notion that the tablet market is one to watch, non-Apple devices—lead by Amazon's Kindle Fire and Samsung Galaxy offerings—proved nearly as desirable as the iPad among teens and adults, while e-readers showed a slight decline in interest from 2011. Consumers 13 years and older were also interested in purchasing the Wii U, the iPhone and Internet-enabled TVs.
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According to a Nielsen study, Apple devices make up four out of the top five gifts American kids aged 6-12 want for Christmas.


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Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books; 544 pages; $17.99).
I flew through Veronica Roth's Divergent, marveling at how a college student could beautifully imagine and then, more difficult, skillfully render a unique dystopian world. Roth, I was certain, would pick up Suzanne Collins's torch and run with it.
Set in a future Chicago, Divergent introduced us to Beatrice "Tris" Prior, Roth's heroine. Factions mean more than family; in fact, your faction is your family. Tris was born into Abnegation. But at age sixteen, though, young adults may choose which their own faction. Typically, one stays with the group she was born into. So when Tris switches to Dauntless, some call her a traitor.
Tris is unique. She has an aptitude for not one, not even two, but three factions. For that reason, she is called "divergent," hence the title of the first book in Roth's Divergent trilogy.
Roth employs a technique that most YA authors of dystopian lit do not do: Tris alone tells the story. There is no hero as her co-narrator. Tris is it.
Sparks fly between Tris and a Dauntless leader named Four (No, that is not his real name.) When the two get together near the end of Divergent, I pumped my fist in the air with a cry of "Yes!" I think Divergent is so strong, so readable and compelling that Roth does not need any other narrator besides Tris. Tris is the star and she carries the tale on her slim but capable shoulders.
The same cannot be said for the second book, Insurgent.
Roth begins Insurgent just where Divergent left off–on a train. Her pace, from page one, is hurried, too hurried for my taste. The characters have no time to reflect on anything that has happened. Tris and others make decisions rashly. Then again, perhaps that is Roth's point. Most of the characters in this story are young adults.
I strongly urge you to re-read Divergent before reading Insurgent. There is no prologue to catch you up.
Insurgent is darker than the first book. The situation is dire. Roth creates many conflicts in her story: faction versus faction; fighting within a faction; Tris versus Four; Tris versus herself; fighting within a family; leader versus leader. Those are all pluses.
The real problem is Tris herself. Tris can no longer carry this story alone. Dare I say it? The story needs another perspective, preferably from the point of view of Four.
For most of the book, Tris is fearful, broken, and unsure of herself, quite unlike the Tris from Divergent. That Tris was fierce, brave, self-confident, and mighty. In Insurgent, Tris cannot even fire a gun. She battles inner demons. While this inner conflict should add to the story, I feel it does not. I miss the old Tris. I do understand what Roth is doing with Tris, though.
In this book, Tris is on the outskirts of her faction. Her peripheral role allows her to see things in a different light. This is how she becomes an insurgent. Yet, for me, it is too little, too late, when Tris wakes from her stupor and emerges as a real threat to her enemies.
Roth does accomplish some things, and she does them well. She introduces us to Four's mother and puts her in a very intriguing position, making for an interesting family dynamic. Roth reminds us that not everything is as it seems in this story. Not everyone is who he seems either. Her twists and turns are astoundingly clever.
The author drops a bombshell at the end of Insurgent, setting up the next book nicely. Yet, I fear she has set up far more questions than she will be able to answer (Think of Lost). It will be a tall order.


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- Makes 4 servings
- Active Time
- 30 minutes
- Total Time
- 30 minutes
- 1 1/2 cups quinoa, well rinsed
- 1 cup vegetable broth
- 2 cups frozen petite peas, thawed, divided
- 5 tablespoons chopped fresh mint leaves, divided
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 large leek (white and pale green parts only), halved, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
- 3/4 cup sliced shallots
- 8 ounces fresh shiitake mushrooms, stemmed, thickly sliced
- 1 14-ounce bunch asparagus, trimmed, cut on diagonal into 1-inch pieces
- Ingredient Info: Quinoa is a grain with a texture similar to that of couscous; it's available at supermarkets and natural foods stores
- Bring 2 1/2 cups water to boil in small saucepan. Add quinoa and 1 teaspoon salt; return to boil, then reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until quinoa is tender and water is absorbed, 15 to 17 minutes. Drain if necessary.
- Puree broth, 1 cup peas, 4 tablespoons mint, and garlic in blender until smooth
- Melt butter in large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add leek and shallots; sauté until soft and light brown, about 4 minutes. Stir in mushrooms, then asparagus; sauté until mushrooms are tender and asparagus is crisp-tender, about 5 minutes. Mix in puree and 1 cup peas; stir until heated through, about 2 minutes. Add quinoa; stir to coat.
- Divide pilaf among bowls; sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon mint and serve.
Per serving: 461 calories, 14 g fat, 22 g fiber


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Whatchu Want - The Commission - The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Jay-Z
I'm stickin' ice picks on the tip of ya dick
Give your testicles a swift kick, ain't that some shit?
Am I hard hard core, harder than a Plymouth
It ain't no myth, it's a nigga with the spliff
And a chrome four fifth pressed on ya back
So what you want, nigga? How you wanna act?
I hope civilized cause I love to see niggaz die
Brains all leakin' out on the street
And the pastor preachin' "He was a good man"
Played the bad man when the burner was in his hand
Now he's singin' sad songs with Elvis
Three to the head, bout six cross the pelvis
Ya fuck with the high guy ya die
Yeah the same motherfucker yellin' "Look up in the sky!"
I'm on some old neck shit, Suplex shit, hardcore sex shit, and Tec shit
What you want, nigga?
(What you want, nigga? What you, what you want nigga?
What you want, nigga? What you, what you want nigga?
A repetitive loop
All I need to destroy a soloist or group
Huh, I put it to ya boy
Hope you got the scoop
I keep the glock by the penis, the cleanest cut
Fuck the sluts with the big humongous butts
Huh, I use a rubber, but
My style is gushy like the hooker's pussy
And it don't take a lot of back talk to push me
Into flamin' 'em like that little nigga Damien
Pop 19 to my motherfuckin' cranium
Game tight, gun totin' motherfucker
Niggaz in the grave thought Biggie was a sucker
I tricked 'em- I gave 'em work then I sticked 'em
I stripped 'em, cause niggaz don't want the friction
Told you before how I bring the dra-ma
Slam Larry Johnson and his Grandma-ma
What you want, nigga?
(What you want, nigga? What you, what you want nigga?
What you want, nigga? What you, what you want nigga?
Aye yo
Time to bring 'em back
It's the Commission, niggaz
B-I-G lives on, Brooklyn
Uh, uh, uh, uh, Let's go!
It's fuckin' deadly
Lucky Lefty of the Commission, bow down
By now you fuckers know this is our crown
Two Uptown bullies, Brooklyn Biggie
Bedstuy Hov like Bedstuy Gold
Behold the fly-est (it's the Commission)
Bentley drivers, Louis Vuitton buyers
Jet fuel abusers, sippin'? Patruise?
+Once Upon A Time In America+'s muse
You based on us, you fiction
Ya eight's don't bust, you a constant contradiction
Ladies please use contraception
Conception's at a all time high with sexin'
Use protection
You fuckers shoulda never been born, shoulda never got signed
How the fuck you got on?
How the fuck you got Shawn?
I'm too advanced, the Lance Armstrong of the dance
Rubberband man before T.I. was
King of New York like B.I. was
B.K. all day, it's in my blood
You wanna see my mask and gloves?
What the fuck you want?
What you want, nigga?
(What you want, nigga? What you, what you want nigga?
What you want, nigga? What you, what you want nigga?
Two of the world's greatest
Brooklyn's Finest
The Commission lives on
BIG Forever
The Biggie Duets
Let's go
Writer(s): CARTER SHAWN C, HARVEY OSTEN S, WALLACE CHRISTOPHER
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Rose Fragrance Oil
1) Use in soap making
2) Put in bath oil
3) Use for meditation
4) Put on silk flowers or trees
5) Put on fabric softener dry sheets
6) A few drops on your pillow
7) A drop on your cold light bulb to scent a room
8) Keep a cotton ball with fragrance oil under your car seat
9) Throw some in your bath water
10) Refresh old potpourri
11) Add some to a gift package bow
12) On a hanky in your purse
13) Dresser drawer sachets
14) Add to plain lotion
15) Put in oil for massage
16) Use on a paper towel and tuck in stored shoes
17) Pour a smidgen down a funky drain overnight
18) In water for a cooling personal spray
19) Put on a doorway
20) A little on a sunny windowsill
21) Hide some in a linen closet
22) Add to lingerie wash water
23) In your wood stove water pan
24) On your heat vents
25) Under trash can liners
26) On a love note
27) Freshen a stale basket
28) Use as is on the skin for perfume
29) Add to a wooden necklace
30) Put on a bed headboard
31) Add to a burning candle
32) Put in water for a air freshener spray
33) Add to stored blankets
34) Use in aroma burner (with water)
35) Under the collar of a jacket
36) In a gym bag
37) On an artificial Christmas tree
38) Add to holiday ornaments
39) Perk up old sachets
40) Put some on a high traffic rug ( under )
41) Use a little behind your pet's ear
42) Put in old sneakers
43) Use in a one minute manicure
44) Refresh car air fresheners
45) Put some in a pencil cup to scent pens etc.
46) For aroma jewelry
47) In water on stove top
48) In cornstarch for a scented powder
49) Pour in the jacuzzi
50) On a tent when camping
51) Add to live flowers with no scent
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Lance Armstrong has destroyed America. First, he let down the United States Postal Team, breaking the government. Then, he destroyed fans of competitive cycling all over the nation, both of them, by breaking the good name of the sport by taking drugs. Then he destroyed the hearts of kids around the nation by showing them that truly there are no heroes (except us).
And now? Now he's managed to destroy the DVD industry of England. Or at least the DVD selling industry of one guy in England.
Thanks a lot, Obama.


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Lowndes Immigration Society, 1867
Richard A. Peeples, a former Clerk of the Berrien County Courts, was among the prominent supporters of the Lowndes County Immigration Society, which formed to seek labor alternatives to employing recently emancipated African-American laborers. Others in the Society included:
- Charles Henry Millhouse Howell, a planter with 2,200 acres in the 663 Militia District, the Valdosta District, on lots 36, 37, 57, 58, and 264 in the 11th Land District of Lowndes County, former owner of 17 slaves, in 1870 was employing and 13 freedmen and 5 other hands;
- Henry Burroughs "H.B." Holliday, father of Doc Holliday, originally settled in 1864 in the vicinity of present day Bemiss, GA and later moved to Valdosta, served as a civilian representative for Freedmen's Bureau of Lowndes County, in 1870 owned 980 acres in the 663 Militia District on lots 146 and 176 in the 11th Land District of Lowndes County, employed one hand and no freedmen, elected Mayor of Valdosta in 1872 and again in 1876.
- Daniel J. Jones aka Daniel Inman Jones, during the war received discharge from the Confederate states army by sending a substitute to fight in his place, in 1870 a planter with 3,600 acres of land in the 662 GMD on lots 126, 127, 128, 155, 157, 168, and 180 in the 16th Land District of Lowndes County, GA, employed 31 freedmen and 15 additional hands
- James Thompson Beville, former captain of the Valdosta Guards, 50th Georgia Regiment, in 1870 owned 2,045 acres in the 662 GMD on lots 62, 63, 64, 75, and 76 of the 16th Land District of Lowndes County, employed 9 freedmen and 11 other hands, later moved to California and lived to the age of 92;
- David Peter Gibson, appeared on the 1864 Georgia Census of men who had not enlisted in Confederate service, in 1870 owned 1000 acres in the 662 GMD on lots 17 and 18 in the 16th land district and lot 161 in the 11th land district of Lowndes County, GA, employed one freedman and 4 other hands, moved about 1880 to San Sebastian, FL where he organized the first attempt to dig a cut to form Sebastian Inlet;
- James A. Dasher, Valdosta businessman who sold the Trustees of the School for Colored Children a 1/2 acre lot south of the railroad tracks as the site for a new school, farmed 500 acres in the 663 Militia District on lots 77 and 78 in the 11th Land District of Lowndes County, in 1870 was employing 2 hands;
- John Richard Stapler, owner of the 1,960 acre Alcyone Plantation, Hamilton County, FL, in 1860 owned 69 slaves and 14 slave houses, one of the commissioners who chose the site of Valdosta, later acclaimed as the breeder of pineywoods cattle known as the Stapler Guinea Cow;
- Archibald Averett, farmed 880 acres in the 662 Georgia Militia District on lots 119 and 159 in the 16th land district of Lowndes County, formerly owned 25 slaves, in 1870 was employing 7 freedmen and 9 other hands .
- Philip Coleman Pendleton, editor of the South Georgia Watchman, owned 400 acres in the 663 GMD on Lot 106 in the 11th Land District of Lowndes County, employed no hands. Pendleton had originated from Sandersville, GA where he was co-owner of the Central Georgian newspaper, with O. C. Pope, Sr. In 1857 he moved to Station No. 9 on the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, which he named Tebeauville. During the Civil War, Pendleton had served with the 50th Georgia Regiment. He afterward located in Valdosta, GA and in 1867 established the South Georgia Times there.
- Colonel Sumner W. Baker, a lawyer whose office was on Patterson Street, Valdosta, GA
- Colonel William R. Manning, was a large land-owner and slave-holder in Coffee County prior to the Civil War, commanded the 50th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the Confederate States Army, in 1870 owned 1,540 acres in the 663 Georgia Militia District on lots 153, 154, 169, and 170 in the 11th Land District of Lowndes County, employed 3 freedmen and 3 other hands.
- Archibald McLeod
- William Zeigler, wealthy planter of Valdosta and former owner of 46 enslaved people
Following the end of the Civil War and abolition of slavery, Southern planters looked for ways of maintaining the economy of their slave-based cotton plantations. In lieu of slavery, cotton growers wanted a system to bind Freedmen to plantations and farms and to compel them to work under conditions deemed intolerable to white men. With contract terms to ensure profitability for the land owners, the risk was left to the Freedmen that their back-breaking labor would even pay enough to feed their families.
A long article in the Milledgeville Southern Recorder, April 10, 1866 edition laid out the philosophy of the southern white planters, asserting that it had only been through their ingenuity that the labor of African-Americans had ever been made profitable. The position of white planters was that slavery had been unprofitable in the early years of the United States; "From 1790 to 1800 the people of the southern states were seriously discussing the abolition of slavery on account of the unprofitableness of that description of labor."
In this southern post-war narrative, white men had devised the extensive cultivation of cotton, and thus enabled enslaved blacks to work profitably, a condition they could not achieve on their own account since "negroes lacked sufficient judgement or intelligence to cultivate cotton successfully, without continual supervision." In the white southern view, slave-based cotton production had propelled the economic growth of the country, yet the North had caused Secession and the Civil War by unfairly imposing tariffs on the cotton production of the southern states. "Convinced that the high tarriffites of the North would never be satisfied till they had reduced the Southern States to the condition of tributary provinces, paying into their coffers the whole profits of their labor, they seceded, a war ensued, which has ended in their conquest and the abolition of slavery."
Southern planters held that slaves and former slaves were unfit for anything but agricultural work, but readily admitted profitable cotton production required highly skilled labor: "Picking requires educated labor as much as spinning and weaving the fabric, and the training must commence in childhood. So well established was this fact, that a South Carolina or Georgia [slave] negro would always command a higher price than one from Tennessee."
The Milledgeville Southern Recorder article calculated a highly skilled freedman could pick two to three times as much cotton as any white laborer. Furthermore, the article asserted white men were unsuited for cotton cultivation, which was year-round, back-breaking work in intolerable conditions.
"It requires the constant labor of all the hands from daylight till dark, when the picking season commences to secure the crop. In a half hour after the hands enter the field they are as thoroughly wet from head to foot by the dew as if they had been plunged in a river. In two or three hours the scorching rays of an August sun are poured upon their bent backs with an intensity of heat of which no Northerner has any conception yet the vast fields are white white before them and they must toil on if they would secure the fruits of their previous labors. The malarious exhalations of the early morning, the saturation of the clothes with dew, and the subsequent exposure to the direct rays of the noon tide sun would prostrate any white man on a bed of sickness, of serious, probably fatal sickness in a week."
"On the best cotton lands from which the millions of bales were draw [by slave labor]…the malaria is so dead that no [white] man can live there constantly."
"After a killing frost, (say from the middle of November till Christmas,)…The pods become hard, presenting curved spines at the open end, which scratch the hands; besides it is cold work in the early morning."
It was said that in some of the largest cotton producing counties in Mississippi and Louisiana, the only white residents were the overseers who suffered as high as 60 percent to 75 percent mortality rate, even though "they perform no labor and avoid exposure to the morning dews and the heat of the noon-tide sun."
Can the labor of the freedmen be secured thus continuously and certainly, as the conduct of a cotton plantation profitably absolutely requires; Every man who understands negro character, especially every practical planter, will unhesitatingly answer no. Until some method can be devised to compel freedmen to enter into contracts of labor for terms of years, and to fulfil their contracts faithfully, till they become in some form or other fixtures to the soil, more or less permanent, their profitable employment on cotton plantations is impossible.
With the circumstances imposed by Reconstruction and failed attempts of white planters to regulate black laborers with the threat of "involuntary servitude," Lowndes County planters set upon a plan to recruit immigrant laborers from Europe. Among the prominent residents of this section who supported the Lowndes County Immigration Society was Richard A. Peeples, former Clerk of the Berrien County Courts.
Savannah Daily News and Herald
September 16, 1867
Labor Supply and Immigration
The subjoined proceedings of a meeting of a large number of the most intelligent and respectable citizens of Lowndes county, in this State, will be read with interest. [Note: Freedmen were not citizens until the passage of the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in Georgia July 21, 1868] We have long been persuaded that some plan ought to be adopted to secure the amount of efficient and reliable laborers which our necessities demand, in order that we may successfully cultivate our lands, increase their yield and fertility, and regain the means and the wealth necessary to repair the losses our State has sustained, and reach, it is to be hoped, a higher state of prosperity than we have ever yet realized. The change in our labor system was sudden and violent, and it is not to be supposed that the freed laborer will settle down at once and become a systematic and reliable farm worker. Thus far a very large number, if not a majority of the negroes seems to be rather depredating and nomadic – uncertain and unsettled – indeed, has not made up his mind yet as to the necessity and utility of a permanent home and continuous application to labor. This should, and will, probably, change in course of time, when his interest come to be more clearly understood.
Now, in spite of all malicious slanders to the contrary, the Southern people are disposed to deal kindly with the freedmen, and give them a fair chance to earn their living if they can be depended upon for constant and regular labor, so that the planters' calculation in pitching his crop shall be in no danger of failing, as been frequently the case in all parts of the South for the want of the requisite work and proper attention. And here is the real difficulty of the present position of the labor supply question.
We have urged this matter repeatedly upon the attention of the people of Georgia. There is a unquestionably great need for an increased supply of laborers and industrious cultivators and tenants of our lands. Some plan of encouraging immigration from Europe or the Northern States of steady laborers and agriculturalists ought to be put in operation, and it is important that it should be entered upon at once. If we had agricultural societies formed in the different counties of the State, perhaps those bodies might be the appropriate channels through which information might be diffused throughout the different countries of the Old World. Productive lands, situated in all parts of the State, can be purchased at very reasonable rates; but the difficulty is, there is no systematic method for making this fact known to foreigners who are anxious to buy, or for assisting emigrants in making selections. The desired object may be accomplished by one of three methods: 1st by appointing a commission to go abroad and induce immigrants to come to the State; 2d, by incorporating a company to promote the objects on the plan of land subscriptions or donations; 3d, by establishing a bureau, under the direction of the Governor, to take control over the matter.
Our friends in the county named have adopted the first.
Major Pendleton, a gentleman remarkable for his intelligence and tenacity of purpose in obedience to the requirement of the Valdosta Immigration Society, expect to leave for Europe about the 25th inst. Letters addressed to him at Valdosta up to the 20th, to Savannah up to the 25th, to New York up to the 30th, (in care of Wm. Bryce & Co.) will receive prompt attention.
The true condition of the labor question in the South-the value of negro labor-the reliance to be placed upon them as laborers-may be fairly inferred from the action of the planters of Lowndes, among whom are many of the most sensible, practical and far-seeing in south Georgia.
We invite attention to the movement. It is a significant one, in which the laborer now employed is perhaps most interested.
Whether he will see the necessity laid upon him, or heed the admonition of passing events, remains to be seen.
Meeting of the Valdosta Immigration Society.
{From the Valdosta Times}
Valdosta, Sept. 12, 1867
At a meeting of the citizens of Lowndes and Echols counties, held at this place today, the meeting was organized by calling Col W. H. Manning to the Chair and H. B. Holliday as Secretary. A committee of eleven was appointed to suggest business for the meeting, consisting of the following persons: Capt. J. R. Stapler, A. Averett, Wm. Roberts, J. W. Harrell, A. McLeod, D. P. Gibson, C. H. M. Howell, H.M. Coachman, J. C. Wisenbaker, W. Zeigler, Col. R. A. Peeples, and Maj. P. C. Pendleton. While the committee was out the meeting was addressed by Col. S. W. Baker.
Our space does not admit of more than an abstract of the proceedings. The committee charged with the duty of suggesting formally, subject matter for the action of the meeting, reported in substance, that, additional labor upon our farms and other industrial pursuits was an absolute and pressing necessity, that could no longer be ignored without great detriment to the country. They report farther: That, from information in their possession, it is entirely practicable to procure emigrant labor of the kind wanted, and that they can be best obtained by sending an agent direct to Europe from among themselves to obtain them.
That this labor can be had at a cost advance of probably less than $25 per head to be returned in the labor of the immigrant. And further that it is entirely practicable to obtain the labor required for the next crop.
These were the views of the committee in brief, and when presented in form, received the endorsement of the meeting.
A committee consisting of Capt. J. R. Stapler, Capt. J. T. Bevil and J. A. Dasher, Sr., was appointed to select an Agent to go to Europe for laborers. They selected Major P. O. Pendleton. The selection met the endorsement of the meeting, arranging for compensation, &c.
He was instructed to contract with laborers for two or three years if in his opinion practicable and to allow a minster of the Gospel of the faith of the emigrant and also a brewer to accompany them if desired by them. Each subscriber was required to give a descriptive list of the number and kind of laborers wanted, and the Agent authorized to pay as high as $15 per month for labor, the laborer supporting himself.
It was the expressed and emphatic opinion of the meeting that no planter ought to employ a freedman who has been discharged by his employer for misconduct, but that the freedman should have a recommendation from his former employer.
On motion, a committee of ten was appointed to act as a Finance and Executive Committee. The following is the committee appointed by the Chair:
J. R. Stapler
J. W. Harrell
Jas. A Dasher, Sr.,
D. P. Gibson
J. T. Bevil
D. J. Jones
A. Averett
C. H. M. Howell
J. H. Tillman,
Executive Committee
After which the meeting adjourned to meet on next Thursday, the 19th, at which time a further report may be expected from the Agent who has been instructed to visit Savannah to obtain information and in furtherance of the views of the meeting.
All interested in this and adjoining counties are requested to unite with the meeting on that day.
The long journey of Major Philip Coleman Pendleton to Scotland in late 1867 to recruit Scottish immigrants to settle at Valdosta, GA, and work the cotton has been chronicled by his second great granddaughter, Catherine Pendleton in the Pendleton Genealogy Post.
Major Pendleton probably departed Valdosta via the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad traveling approximately 170 miles to the port at Savannah, GA. General Levi J. Knight, of Ray City, GA had been one of the original board members of the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad.
At 61 miles from Valdosta the Atlantic & Gulf RR passed through the Tebeauville station, now Waycross, GA. Pendleton himself had founded the community of Tebeauville, settling his family and others of the Pendleton family connection there in 1857. Originally, "The station was to be named Pendleton but Mr. Pendleton requested the station be named Tebeauville after his father-in-law, Frederic Edmund Tebeau of Savannah…Tebeauville had been the ninth station to be constructed on the Atlantic & Gulf RR… To this day many old timers refer to the section of [Waycross] where the Tebeauville station was located as "Old Nine". Pendleton had come from Sandersville, GA where he was co-owner of the Central Georgian newspaper, with O. C. Pope, Sr. During the Civil War, Pendleton had served with the 50th Georgia Regiment. He afterward located in Valdosta, GA and in 1867 established the South Georgia Times there.
At 111 miles from Valdosta, the train passed Johnston Station, known to the old-timers as "Four and a Half." Johnston Station had been the home of Benjamin Thomas Allen in 1864; his father was likely working as section master for the railroad. By the time of Pendleton's travels, the Allens had moved to Nashville, GA. By 1870 the family lived in Valdosta where B. T. Allen would be hired by Pendleton to work as a typesetter.
Pendleton arrived in Savannah, GA on October 18th, 1867.
Milledgeville Federal Union
October 22, 1867
Lowndes County Immigration Society.
Major P. C. Pendleton, Agent of the Lowndes Immigration Society, passed through Savannah on the 18th inst., on his way to Europe for the purpose of procuring Immigrants to this State under the auspices of that Association. The Association with which he is connected have authorized him to offer the most liberal inducements to emigrants from the old world to settle in Southern Georgia, where a rich productive soil and healthful climate invite the husbandman, and where the thrifty industrious laborer will find a generous welcome.
In Savannah, Major Pendleton stayed at the Marshall House, 123 East Broughton Street. The hotel had served as a Union hospital during the final months of the Civil War.
The Savannah Daily News and Herald
October 21, 1867
Major Pendleton will, we understand, visit Scotland and Ireland, and will go prepared to give all the information needed and to furnish to those desiring to come to Georgia, such aid and guarantees as will be satisfactory. We trust that he may be eminently successful, and that his mission will result in opening the way for thousands of industrious and thrifty families, who may desire to change the hard terms of the tenant system of the old country, for one more liberal and lucrative in the New World, which promises far better prospects to themselves and their posterity.
After a two week stopover in Savannah, Major Pendleton traveled to New York aboard the SS Herman Livingston
The first class sidewheel steamship Herman Livingston sailed for Baker, NY at 10:30am on November 1, 1867 with "P C Peadleton" and 19 other cabin passengers, four passengers in steerage. 1,416 bales cotton, 75 barrels of flour, 60 barrels of fruit, 2 bales deer skins, and 27 packages merchandise. On November 3, 1867 the SS Herman Livingston arrived in New York, where through passage to Liverpool was available.
It appears Major Pendleton reached Scotland by December 4, 1867, or perhaps he was able to arrange his recruiting campaign in advance of his arrival. Pendleton placed advertisements for workers interested in immigration to south Georgia in the Glasgow Herald.
Glasgow Herald
December 4, 1867
Important To Mechanics, Farm Labourers, Domestic Servants, &c.
Emigration to Georgia, Southern States of America
Wanted, a number of Agricultural Labourers, also a few Blacksmiths and Cartwrights of experience, to settle in Georgia. The country, although in a transition state, is under good government, life and property being as secure as in this country. The climate is pleasant and healthy; provisions moderate in price, and certain soon to be lower. There are a number of Scotch settlers already in the district.
The following are some of the further advantages which Emigrants may rely on:
- Wages nearly double those given in this country.
- Shorter working hours, with additional payment for extra time.
- A commodious dwelling house, with a piece of ground and sufficient time to cultivate it.
- Expenses of passage out defrayed, or assisted in same, and to be returned by instalments from their earnings until paid.
To working men of industrious habits, and especially to those with large families, this will be found an excellent opportunity of bettering their position in life, as land is cheap, and every facility and encouragement will be give for their acquiring land out of their earnings.
For general information, applicants will please apply immediately to James McLeish & Co., 48 St. Enoch Square, who will supply all particulars.
P. C. PENDLETON, of Georgia,
Representative of the Association in Scotland.
The Union Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Messrs, Baring Brothers, London.
Glasgow, Dec. 2, 1867
On December 8, 1867 Major Pendleton wrote home from Edinburgh, Scotland. His letter home from that location included the following:
Edinburgh, Scot., Dec. 8, 1867
…Not a word from home yet. I wrote from Savannah and New York how letters should be addressed to me…Whether the fault may be John Bull's P. master or Brother Jonathan's, or that of misdirection, I cannot say…The work given me to do seemed to me so important that I fain would try it, in the hope of future good to those who sent me and to myself and mine. I trust I may be able to get through with it and see home once more.
Arriving in London, Major Pendleton wrote home on December 21, 1867
London, Dec. 21, 1867
I have been to Scotland, made all the arrangements for emigrants, but no money yet has followed me. I am much distressed about it, but I hope I may soon be relieved, be able to do what I came to do, and be speeded back to you…I left a heavy burden in the paper, but I thought I was doing the right thing to come on this mission…The public sense of Great Britain has been very much shocked by the acts of the Fenians. Irish-Americans are looked upon with marked suspicion…I have had one of my fits of dyspepsia, though I have been constantly going, ever at work. The best medicine for me now would be for me to be placed in funds to take out the emigrants so ready to go…I have not gone about much. Take a short walk up and down the Strand for a little air and exercise. When I first came here I visited two or three points of historical interest. But my mind has been too much occupied with what I came to do, to feel interest in such things…When I have a moment from business to think of home, I think of the trials and labor you have to undergo. How I long to be home again with you, but I must go through the work I came to do if means be sent men and I am spared. May a kind Providence shield you all and bring me safely back to you! My mind has been on such a strain, since our unhappy war began – since our defeat – since this present enterprise- that I feel quite anxious for an opportunity for rest. Don't know if you ought to expect me before the 15th of February if the money comes – if not, sooner it may be…
He checked into the Charing Cross Hotel. On December 22, 1867 his letters from there included the following:
London, Charing Cross Hotel, Dec. 22, 1867
…In perplexity of mind about many things connected with my mission…I have not been able to write much for paper, It is a hard task, with so much to do, to think of in other matters…No money yet. Have telegraphed and am waiting reply.
Major Pendleton's efforts at recruiting were effective. Hundreds of Scots were eager to make the Atlantic crossing for the opportunity to work in south Georgia. But the new year came and the Lowndes County Immigration Society couldn't raise the promised money to pay for the voyage; Pendleton was forced to abandon the effort and return home alone. Pendleton sailed from Glasgow, Scotland, on the iron steamship United Kingdom.
Major Pendleton arrived in New York on January 27, 1868. The following afternoon at the foot of Wall Street on the East river at Pier 16, he boarded the steamship Cleopatra bound for Savannah, along with Col. William Tappan Thompson, Associate Editor of the Savannah News and Herald, James Roddy Sneed, Editor of the Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph, 21 other cabin passengers and 14 passengers in steerage.
The SS Cleopatra arrived in Savannah, GA on January 31, 1868.
The Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph
February 7, 1868
The Foreign Labor Question – Among our fellow passengers by steamer from New York, a few days ago was our friend and contemporary, Major P.C. Pendleton, who has just returned from Scotland, where he had spent several months in securing field laborers for planters in Brooks and adjoining counties in Southern Georgia. He informed us that he found no difficulty in engaging the full number required as an experiment, viz. five hundred; but, unfortunately, his mission was brought to a sudden and unhappy conclusion. When everything was ready and he was about to collect together his laborers in daily expectation of a remittance to defray their expenses across the Atlantic, he received a dispatch from his principals, announcing their utter inability, from the unproductiveness of the year's labor, to furnish any portion of the money required, and requesting his immediate return. So much for the fall in prices and the oppressive taxation of the Government.
Major Pendleton informed us that any number of sober, energetic and skillful farmers could be procured in Scotland at reasonable rates, and that they are even anxious to come to the South and aid us in building up our exhausted country. As the Southern people are powerless, and the Government is in the humor of bounties, where could it better direct its appropriations than in filling up the country with just such a population. Our idle naval marine might be well and profitably employed to this end.
In early February Pendleton reached home again. A final account of the mission to secure European laborers was published in the Cuthbert Appeal.
The Cuthbert Appeal
February 13, 1868
Home Again
After about three months' absence in Great Britain, in obedience to the wishes of the Lowndes County Immigration Society, for the purpose of obtaining emigrants for this section of Georgia, we are, by the good Providence of God, "home again." It is painful to have to say that the enterprise has been a failure. This failure was not because emigrants could not be obtained and brought cheaply, but because of the depressed condition of affairs that arose soon after our departure, owing to the low price of cotton and the increasing political troubles in reality and in prospect. The uncertainties arising therefrom, the want of means to carry to successful conclusion the well intended objects of the Association, was the alone cause of the failure.
The number of emigrants desired could have been had in Scotland, with out difficulty, on the plan we were instructed to propose. Numerous applications wore made to be allowed to come under this plan of the society. Indeed, more than the means expected to be used, to aid their transshipment. – The failure is much to be regretted every way. First, because of the value of these labors to our planters and to the country, and second, because promises were held out to those who had consented to come in the way of assistance, ("holding the word of promise to the ear, but breaking it to the sense,"), thereby possibly placing in discredit any future effort that may be made by the South in the same quarter.
It is beyond all doubt that the Scotch [sic] laborer is, If not the superior, the equal of the laboring population of any part of the globe. They are industrious, thrifty and painstaking in farm duties, to an extent surpassing anything we know here among the laboring classes. They are very poor, and almost always must remain so, under the system there. A little help given them, and the assurance of homes and work to do, would induce a very large emigration. There were well nigh a thousand applications to the two agencies established in Edinburgh and Glasgow, either by letter or personally, all eager to come; some of them promising to help themselves in part, if they should be accepted; some to pay their way; being allowed to come on the cheaper terms on which a number could be brought, with the assurances of work upon arrival here.
We went there well endorsed, and credit and credit and confidence at once were given to our statements. It may well be adjudged that the failure to respond here was a painful disappointment to them as it was to us.
Thus much briefly, until the society shall have had a meeting and speak for themselves after which information more in detail may be given.


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Lake Istokpoga News Article
Marine Cooling systems
Cathouse Marine, LLC
Posted: 2/11/2010
Steve Northington
Although the cooling system on your boat shares some of the same features as your car or truck, the systems are actually quite different. For this article, we will use a standard inboard/outboard configuration for discussion.
First off, when you are cruising around in your boat, you are riding in one big huge radiator. Unlike your vehicles water supply, I doubt you'll ever ride long enough to heat up the entire lake to the point your marine engine will run hot. For most marine engines, raw water (lake or sea water) is drawn into the lower part of your outdrive through small holes by a water pump. Some boats have water pumps housed in the lower sections of the outdrive unit, and some have raw water pumps mounted on the engine, and they are driven by a belt, or shaft. Those mounted on the engine should not be confused with the circulator pump on the front of the engine, such as the one you have on your car or truck! As you will read later, it has a different job to do.
These raw water pumps pull water from the lake, and push the water towards the engine. Most raw water pumps are made with metal or plastic housings, and use rubber impellers to pump. Although many get years of service from the small rubber impellers, I think it is best that they are changed each year when normal service is performed. Often, when they do fail, they send debris and rubber pieces throughout the cooling system resulting in blockage. At that point, the system must be back flushed and cleaned.
After the raw water leaves from the pump, it will flow through oil coolers, power steering coolers or any other heat exchanger device your engine is equipped with. (Innercoolers for superchargers, fuel coolers, etc.) At the point the raw water reaches the engine, it enters a specially designed thermostat housing. This housing allows water to be diverted to both the engines water circulating pump, AND the exhaust system as well.
First, lets talk about why water goes to the exhaust system first, if not the same time as the circulating pump, or engine block. Water MUST get to the exhaust manifolds rather quickly so that they do not overheat. They must have a steady diet of cool raw water flowing through them all the time so that they stay nice and cool, even while the engine is getting up to operating temp. If not, the exhaust system would seriously overheat, and burn any rubber connection hoses associated with it. In extreme cases, it can catch the bilge of the vessel on fire. Your exhaust manifolds should never be excessively hot to the touch. I am not in anyway telling you to go out and touch them after running the boat either.
All the while the specially designed thermostat housing is diverting water to the exhaust system, it is sending water to the circulator pump, thus filling the engine block full of water. Now, here is the tricky part. When the engines cooling cavities are completely full of water, the flow to the engine is stopped, and all water travels to the exhaust manifolds. The circulator pump then (as the name implies) circulates the water in the engine block until the water reaches the predetermined designed operating temp. range. At that point, the thermostat opens and the specially designed thermostat housing returns to dividing the flow of water to the engine block/circulator pump and the exhaust system manifolds. Meanwhile, the thermostat regulates the desired water temp. and the amount of water exiting the engine block before it heads downstream to the exhaust.
It is very important to keep your cooling system in proper operation. The system often gets debris in it, such as sand, trash, grass and parts of broken impeller lodged about. I know of several on this forum that have had cooling system problems on both inboard and inboard/outboard engines. Sometimes it takes a while, but the systems can be cleaned and repaired.
The above system discussed is a typical marine cooling system. There are many other variations, including closed cooling systems and very high performance systems. Some systems are custom routed to suite the particular engine builder or application. Any comment is my opinion, and based on my on hands on experience, or repairs. Should you have a special request for a discussion/column subject, please email me at cathouse firstname.lastname@example.com. I would love some ideas. Steve Northington, Cathouse Marine, LLC.
Member Comments…
You're....... - crappyattitude
Comment on "Marine Cooling systems" - Maverick
Steve - You forgot the part about ensuring when replacing the thermostat that you do not install such backwards, otherwise the thermostat will not function properly and it will appear per your temp gauge your vessel is overheating when in fact it is not.
You had to know this ding was coming. LOL
Good article.
Marine Cooling systems - CAT BOAT
Comment on "Marine Cooling systems" - John C
excellent post. Very helpful for people like me that love boats but don't know how they work.
You asked for article suggestions:
How about a series of posts about checklists? Ones that we could print out and keep in the boat. Like:
1. Starting up procedures for an i/o (not after winterization, but a common Saturday AM)
2. Ditto #1 for inboard & outboard
3. Shutting down an i/o, i, and o motors
4. Storing gas - dos and don'ts
5. Top 3 ways to ruin a small outboard motor
6. 3 Motor Maintenance Jobs that anyone can perform
Comment on "Marine Cooling systems" - autiger86
Here's an issue folks need to know about . . . it's taken me 3 years with trial and error and in and out of the service bay to figure out the real issue and how to prevent it . . .
I have a 2000 model Mercruiser 5.0L 240HP inboard/outboard. I have had some issues with what I now know is vapor lock, or something of the kind. With the preliferation of ethanol tainted fuels during the past few years, this problem only started in 2007. For 7 years, I didn't have a lick of trouble, but I have seen it be much worse when I have used cheap, ethanol blended fuel. However, ethanol free fuel is now almost impossible to find.
What happens is when I run the engine fairly hard and get it to a little above normal operating temp - - around 180 degrees in my boat - - and then shut the engine down quickly, it will vapor lock. When I go to crank it back up, it turns over, revs up and down a few times and dies. Then it won't start until it sits for 45 min - an hour and cools down. You can poor gas in the carb and the engine will start and run until it burns up that fuel, but that's it. That initially led me to believe I had a fuel pump or fuel line issue.
I have found (with a little help from a mechanic), that the prevention is this. Before turning the engine off, let it idle for several minutes to allow the engine temp to cool down back to around 170 degrees on my boat - - and I watch the temp gauge to ensure that it has gone down. Since I have been going through this procedure, I haven't experienced this vapor lock situation.
Thought this might be a good topic that you could explain the ins and outs of vapor lock in laymen's terms and the affect of ethanol blended fuels. Hopefully, this could save some folks a lot of aggravation and money that I have already experienced.
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Playing with different partners, Fantoni and Nunes participated in the Italian open pairs championship last weekend.
They were really welcomed back.
Fantoni came in second and got hundreds of likes and congratulations on Facebook including some from top Italian experts.
This is madness. I find it shocking that they are back playing. It seems that there are people feeling sorry for them because they got caught. How is that possible?
Several top players have agreed that allowing Fantoni and Nunes to play in open competition will ruin our game.
We have to show the bridge world that we do not accept this.
The Italian federation might not be able to kick them out as they lost their lawsuit, but all international events should refuse to invite them.
And if they don't, it is up to us. We have to refuse to play against them and we should refuse to play in any event in which they are participating.
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There are days I despair for the human race. This is certainly one of them. Last month, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Moron) gave a speech denouncing science as Satan's work to undermine Christianity. Seriously.
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"All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell," Broun said. "And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior."
According to Broun, the scientific plot was primarily concerned with hiding the true age of the Earth. Broun serves on the House Science Committee, which came under scrutiny recently after another one of its Republican members, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), suggested that victims of "legitimate rape" have unnamed biological defenses against pregnancy.
"You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I've found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth," he said. "I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says." (Emphasis mine)
This man sits on the House Science Committee. That's like letting a 5-year-old write the budget. Or Paul Ryan. Such profound, and deliberate, ignorance of basic education should disqualify Broun from having anything to do with policy making, much less science policy. This isn't controversial stuff like "When does a fertilized egg become a person?" There's a debate to be had there. This isn't a question about something fundamentally unanswerable like what happens after we die. This is hard, proven and not that difficult to understand facts that Broun is childishly rejecting because he (mistakenly) thinks that it means he can't worship Jesus.
Broun is a fundamentalist fanatic and, while there is no constitutional grounds on which to remove him, there are certainly common sense grounds. Anyone willing to supplant reality with a literal interpretation of a religious text written 6000 years ago is a mentally disturbed person. They are engulfed by a cult-like mentality and are a danger to themselves and those around them. If you find this idea startling, ask yourself if you would be comfortable having a member of the Taliban in a seat of power in the United States. If the answer is "no" but you're fine with Broun, you are letting your familiarity with Christianity blind you. There is precious little difference between Broun and the people we went to war with Afghanistan over. What separates him from the violence exhibited by fundamentalists in the Middle East is that rule of law in the United States restrains Broun. For now, at least.
Make no mistake, anyone that insists that science is "lies straight from the pit of Hell" does not have the best interest of the country at heart. That person wants a populace of fearful sheep, bullied into submission or whipped into a killing frenzy as the situation dictates. It's time we stop giving them a pass because we're afraid of being accused of "attacking Christianity." Christianity has nothing to do with Broun's delusions. Broun and his ilk seek to inflict their sick and warped vision of the world on to the rest of us and the only way that happens is if we allow it.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Krista Voda Heads To Cotton Bowl For Fox
It will be January 2nd at 2PM ET when Krista Voda takes her reporting skills to the Cotton Bowl game on Fox for the third consecutive year.
Voda will be reporting from the sidelines while Brian Baldinger and Pat Summerall will call the action. Also, Jeanne Zelasko will be handling the hosting duties.
"I couldn't be more thrilled to have been invited back to the Cotton Bowl," said Voda. "The Cotton Bowl and the people who work for it are top-notch. I have never witnessed better hospitality or more passion for an event!"
"This year, once again, should be an incredible match up...Texas Tech vs. Ole Miss...especially with so many hometown kids coming back to play in the Dallas area," she continued. "One of my favorite things about covering the Cotton Bowl, or any event, is that the storylines are the same. Similar to NASCAR, you have athletes overcoming obstacles and also the thrill of competition. How could it get any better?"
Voda has a diverse TV sports background that includes The Kentucky Derby, NFL football and even men's college basketball. This college football special usually features Voda working hard to follow the storylines of the game and also handling all the special TV features that go with a Bowl setting.
There is no doubt that Krista Voda is one of the most underutilized "talent" on the roster at both SPEED and Fox Sports. This past season she established herself as a regular co-host of The SPEED Report, but that interfered with her pit reporting duties on the NASCAR on Fox broadcasts and also made for some tough airline miles when she returned to Charlotte after hosting the Truck Series pre-race shows.
How SPEED and Fox utilize this versatile announcer in 2009 with the looming budget issues should be very interesting to watch. Voda has strong studio hosting skills, is an experienced pit reporter and has earned her stripes with the entire Fox family of networks over the past several seasons.
Up next, however, is the Texas Tech vs. University of Mississippi match-up that will thankfully not have tire troubles, single-file racing or a pit road speed limit.
The Daly Planet welcomes comments from readers. Just click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions. The rules for posting are located on the right side of the main page. Thanks for stopping by.
Posted by Daly Planet Editor at 9:15 PM
5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I thought I had outgrown stick and ball ( I'm 61). Looks like I'll have to watch just because of Krista. Oh well........
- December 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM
- Vicky D said...
This is great news for the viewers she'll do a terrific job. I'm not much of a college football bowl watcher (except GA Tech).
- December 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM
- Newracefan said...
Good for Krista she deserves it.
- December 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for passing this info along John. A lot of Nascar fans don't realize how versitile Krista is in the sports broadcasting world. By doing other sports it in know way takes away from her dedication to the Nascar community.
- December 19, 2008 at 7:37 PM
- 3bud said...
Great for Krista. She deserves the reconigition. I hope to see her get more air time this next season with SPEED and The Camping World Truck Series. Maybe have to try and check out the game.
- December 19, 2008 at 10:25 PM
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A controversy is raging in household Bushatz, and its name is "gun ownership."
Servicemembers are, by and large, weapons people. And why shouldn't they be? If anyone knows how to use a weapon correctly and effectively, it's a member of America's military. Downrange their weapon is like an extra appendage. Back home it's a tool for hunting, target practice, training and (if need be) protection.
But that doesn't mean I like having one in the house.
Don't get me wrong, of all guys on earth, my husband knows how to use his weapon correctly. He also knows how to safely store it so that our 3-year-old (or anyone else for that matter) won't be able to get his sticky little jam hands on it.
But I still don't like it.
Of all people, you'd think I'd be OK with it. My father's gun safe was his pride and joy. He held a license allowing him to buy and sell guns at will, using it to help private owners legally sell their weapons without going through an expensive shop or dealer. He took us to the firing range for target practice. There were never any accidents. Never any stories that ended with "and then he accidentally shot himself in the foot." Never any reasons to not feel safe around guns.
But I still don't want one in my house.
And then there is my husband. Why wouldn't he want a gun in the house? He knows that it brings protection. He knows how to use it.
So the battle discussion rambles on. He says "yes," I say "no." He says "just a shot gun." I say "then we should store the ammo somewhere entirely different." He says "then what is the point of that?"
And our final decision? Well, I'm not going to tell you that because, frankly, I don't want anyone knowing whether we have a gun in the house or not. We'll call this my contribution to "PERSEC" for the day.
Is this a debate in your home? How do you handle it?
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Apple Announces March 2 iPad Event
Confirming a date first reported by BoomTown, Apple this morning distributed invitations to a special event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on March 2. Their text–"Come see what 2011 will be the year of," a smirking riff on all those "Year of The Tablet" stories, and art–a calendar date peeling back from an iPad–leave little doubt as to the event's topic: iPad 2.
As I've noted here before, the iPad 2 is expected to be thinner than its predecessor and manufactured with the same unibody approach Apple's been using for the MacBook. It's also expected to feature an LCD backlit display, a front-facing camera and FaceTime video chat support. Finally, some reports suggest it is powered by one of Qualcomm's multimode chips and will run on both GSM and CDMA-based networks around the world.


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FIL @ BLSDSC Friday 16th March 2012
Posted by gazjjohnson on 19 March, 2012
This is going to be a somewhat briefer than normal entry for an external event, as I was hosting the day – thus not as much chance to make notes and have useful networking; more a case of a lot of running around and keeping multiple plates spinning in the air to keep everything on track, on time and running smoothly!
This annual FIL event at the British Library's Boston Spa Document Supply Centre (where oh so many of the inter-library loans we obtain for staff and students come from) has been running for many, many years. While the format varies a little from year to year it always features some aspect of behind the scenes touring as well as an update from BL staff on plans and forthcoming activities. Given the recent roll out of the new BLDSS (Document Supply Service) here at Leicester and across the country, I along with many of the other delegates were eager to hear what was next.
I was there at 8.30am, and despite not being on the delegates list (heck, I'm only national Chair of FIL and running the day – why would I be on the list!) I still made it through security and to the conference centre. It had been at least 10 years since I was last on site and I was interested to see how much of the leafy campus had changed, and how much was still the same. The buildings do have a certain monolithic quality to them, as befits such a nationally recognised organisation – although there was less of a "bunker" quality to the place than I remembered.
Myself, along with fellow FIL Committee member from Newport Helen and local head of BL Customer Services Kate, spent the next hour arranging the rooms, stuffing delegate packs and arranging a selection of freebies around the room. Most of the delegates were coming by train and then transferring to a coach the BL had kindly organised. We were supposed to see the coach around 10am, but due to a slight delay in getting out of York (couple with I hear a scenic tour of the North Yorkshire countryside) it didn't appear until almost the time we were scheduled to kick off. This meant I had to do some creative programme juggling with the aid of the morning speakers to keep us on track – and importantly give the delegates as much of an opportunity to talk to each other as possible. Experience sharing is at the heart of all FIL events, and so while the temptation to reduce breaks to make up lost time was there it's not an option I'm ever keen to employ.
Following a warm up and introduction to the day from yours truly we moved onto the first two talks. First up Lucy Wilkins of Bristol University gave us an overview of her experiences at the big ILDS conference in the States late last year. Lucy had been sponsored by FIL to attend and it had clearly been a valuable and eye-opening experience for her. She was followed by Margaret Rowley from Worcestershire Health ICT Services who talked about the parallels and differences between the NHS and other interlending sectors. This was useful not just for the insight but also in attracting more health librarians to be in attendance than would normally be at the event. It really added depth I think to the exchange of experiences between the delegates during the day.
At this point half the group went off on a tour, while the rest listened to Andy Appleyard and Anthony Troman from the British Library. Andy did a marvellous impromptu slot when the slides for the session went AWOL for a few minutes, but we were soon back on track. I was very interested by a number of things the BL has coming down the line – electronic signatures, a greater focus on accessing BLDSC items on mobile devices and even lighter touch DRM than they currently use.
An excellent lunch followed, and then for those whom had been a tour a chance to hear from the BL guys. I went on the tour which took us around part of the operation that suppliers us books and journals; and included a few updates on the BLDSS. I would have liked to have seen the robots selecting books in the repository building itself, but sadly that wasn't on the agenda for today. Maybe next time.
After a tea break we split the groups once more for two discussion workshops led by myself and Lucy (which ran twice so everyone could get involved). Lucy's looked at the tips, resources and skills that we all use everyday – with a particular focus on what areas we need to upskill new entrants to ILLs with. This will be a useful output that will help shape some upcoming FIL training. Mine looked at the visibility and perception of ILL services within organisations and by their patrons; although it took an interesting detour in the second session to discuss charging arrangements for ILLs. Lucy and myself will be writing these sessions up for the FIL site in the near future (along with the slides from the event)
Finally Lucy and I shared some highlights from our workshops with all the delegates, and after some brief final discussions we packed everyone onto the coach – and I cleared up the rooms. Being FIL Chair gets you all the best jobs.
The feedback from the event was very positive, and there were some great ideas from the delegates for topics to tackle in future events. I'm even already thinking that maybe a FIL @BLDSC in the autumn might not be an unrealistic proposal…


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Have I ever found anything that I didn't care for at Trader Joe's? Yes, yes I have. I was not a fan of the Creamed Honey or the Flattened Bananas. I think those are the only 2 things. Great thing about Trader Joe's is that if you buy something & you don't like it, take it back & they will give you a store credit towards your next purchase. Can't argue with that. Enough about not liking things – onto my new found love: Trader Joe's Cranberry Apple Butter.
I found this on my last Trader Joe's trip when I was picking up some of my favorite pumpkin butter. I just knew that I wouldn't be disappointed. Guess what? I was right! This ranks right up there with my pumpkin butter, but Mr. Pumpkin will always be #1 in my heart. 😉
So, how did I use this new spread? I eat a lot of sandwiches for lunch and have grown bored with my turkey/chicken, cheese, sriracha & spinach so I tried out a new combo – roast chicken, strawberry cream cheese, cranberry apple butter, sliced Honeycrisp apple and spinach on toasted Pamela's Gluten-free Bread.
What an awesome combination this turned out to be. I love the crunch that the sliced apple added to the sandwich and the cranberry apple butter added a nice tart bite to it as well. Great fall treat!
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Princeton inaugurates Society of Fellows
This fall, Princeton University will inaugurate the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, a program designed to bring to campus some of the best recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Six postdoctoral scholars have been named.
The Society will give the postdoctoral scholars an opportunity to enhance their research and teaching while bringing to Princeton an infusion of fresh ideas and interdisciplinary approaches. Together with the Society's Senior Fellows, a group of Princeton professors, the postdoctoral scholars will create a center aimed at fostering a closer exchange among undergraduates, graduate students and faculty.
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Liberty News
Kitchen donations aid flood relief efforts at Nashville school
Liberty University, in partnership with Gleaning for the World and Liberty Dining Services, sent a truckload of commercial kitchen equipment Wednesday to a private school in Nashville, after floodwaters rolled over parts of the city on May 3, afflicting millions of dollars in damage.
Donelson Christian Academy (DCA) suffered 10 feet of water.
"It ruined everything," said Scott Small, director of Liberty University's supply chain management system.
Chuck Faulkinberry, resident district manager for Liberty Dining Services, which is operated by Sodexo, heard about DCA's hardships from another district manager for Sodexo, Brad McNealey. While DCA did have insurance to cover much of the damage, it did not cover the $120,000 worth of kitchen equipment that was destroyed.
"I was stationed in the Deep South — from Florida to Louisiana — about five years ago, back when we were having all of those hurricanes," said Faulkinberry. "So I was always the one in need and Brad would help me out. I called him after the flood, and he said he has three schools in desperate need, the first one being Donelson Christian. They'd been praying for any help they could get."
Faulkinberry remembered several pieces of equipment that Liberty had in storage and, after gaining approval from the administration, offered to donate anything that could fit on a truck.
As staff filled the delivery truck at Liberty's 12th Street warehouse on Wednesday, Faulkinberry remarked at how if they had waited much longer, the equipment would have been sold. A large display refrigerator had been stuck with a Post It note reading "eBay."
"Someone was looking out for us," said Faulkinberry, looking up at the ceiling.
He estimated that all the donated equipment, if purchased new, would cost between $60,000 to $70,000.
After the truck had been loaded, Faulkinberry thanked the warehouse staff for the blessing they were a part of. "This will go a long way in helping them out."


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