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John W. Gardner, a retired accountant and World War II Navy pilot who left his estate to various charities, died Friday of pneumonia at Oak Crest Village in Parkville. He was 93.
"John is an incredible example for each of us. He loved people and our community," said William J. McCarthy, executive director of Catholic Charities of Baltimore.
"He deeply cared for people in need and had a passionate interest in and supported organizations that helped the poor, the marginalized and those in need of medical care," said Mr. McCarthy. "John was a champion of good works. He constantly brought others to understand the needs of people and organizations that improved lives."
Rebecca Rothey, director of major and planned giving at the Baltimore Community Foundation, called Mr. Gardner "humble and reserved. He was the exemplar of the greatest generation who served his country, family and community.
"He was understated but lived by those profound principles. Some people you are privileged to know, and John was one of them," said Ms. Rothey.
The son of a Ford salesman and a homemaker, John Wilson Gardner was born in Baltimore and raised in the city's Ashburton neighborhood.
In 1934, Mr. Gardner became a boarding student at McDonogh School, where he lived year-round on its Owings Mills campus studying and working on its farm.
After graduating from McDonogh in 1938, he began studying accounting at the University of Baltimore, which was interrupted by World War II.
Mr. Gardner enlisted in the U.S. Naval Air Corps in 1942 and was trained as a pilot to fly Grumman F4F Wildcats and F6F Hellcats, both of which were carrier-based fighter planes.
Assigned to the carrier USS Princeton in the Pacific Theater, in 1944 Mr. Gardner was called back, to the mainland where he was assigned to a naval air station in the South. There he was a flight instructor on SNB Twin Beech aircraft, planes that were used to instruct pilots, navigators, gunners and bombardiers.
During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, east of Luzon on Oct. 24, 1944, the Princeton was attacked by a single Japanese dive bomber and later sank.
"He said it was a single plane with a single bomb that sunk the Princeton and that he had been very lucky when he had been called back to the U.S. to teach," said Frank G. Lidinsky, a longtime friend and attorney.
"After the close of World War II, he was approached by World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, requesting him to be a pilot and instructor for his commercial air enterprise, Eastern Air Lines," said Mr. Lidinsky. "John declined because he wanted to return to Baltimore to take care of his disabled father."
Mr. Gardner earned a bachelor's degree in 1949 from what is now Loyola University Maryland. In the early 1950s, he began working in sales and later became an accountant for Davidson Transfer & Storage. He retired in the 1990s.
In 1951, he married Jane Baines, and the couple lived in the Loch Raven-Towson area. His wife died in 1988, and since 1997 he had lived at the Parkville retirement community.
"John was a very kind and generous man," said Mr. Lidinsky. "He established a number of charitable gift annuities during his lifetime with various institutions and benevolent associations."
The beneficiaries of Mr. Gardner's philanthropy, Mr. Lidinsky said, included the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, Jesuits Seminary Guild, McDonogh School, Catholic Charities, American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.
"In his philanthropy, he gave back to a school that made a huge difference in his life, a hospital that kept him alive, and he wanted to take care of the less fortunate," said Ms. Rothey.
"John had never forgotten that McDonogh had made it possible for him to attend the school because it had given him a scholarship back in the '30s," said Mr. Lidinsky.
"He never forgot that," said Kristen S. Kinkopf, who is director of mission integration and planning at Catholic Charities. "He exuded humility and gratitude and felt the obligation to give back."
"I was working in development and first met John in that context and he was really special," said Ms. Kinkopf.
"There were two things about him. It was is devotion to his family. When his father became disabled he helped his mother care for him. The second was his wife," said Ms. Kinkopf.
"He never, not once, did not refer to her as 'My Jane.' He admired her. He said he was a confirmed bachelor until she walked into a room, and said, 'That was the end of that,'" she said.
"John was especially moved by the work of Our Daily Bread employment center, our large facility on Fallsway in downtown Baltimore, and Christopher Place Employment Academy, which is an intensive residential program providing education and training, as well as recovery support to formerly homeless men of the Baltimore area," she said.
"He really supported the way Christopher Place Employment Academy works with people who have faced adversity and provides ongoing support to them," said Ms. Kinkopf.
Mr. Gardner had been a lifelong fan of Benny Goodman, whose records and CDs he enjoyed collecting and listening to.
He was an active communicant of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Towson.
Plans for a graveside service to be held at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham, Pa., are incomplete.
There are no survivors.


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BRADENTON, Fla. - James McDonald is hardly concerned about the crispness of his fastball or the break on his curveball.
And for that matter, the Pittsburgh Pirates' right-hander isn't overly focused on controlling an opponent's running game at the moment.
All McDonald really wants out of spring training is to put the ball where it's supposed to go following a second half last season when the only place the ball seemed to go was the outfield and beyond.
McDonald took his tentative first steps toward putting the final two months of last year behind him, pitching a pair of scoreless innings Sunday in a 9-2 win over the Atlanta Braves.
The 28-year-old walked one, struck out one and settled down in the second inning after needing 21 pitches to get through the first.
He used just eight pitches to get three outs in the second, working a little faster than he's used to in an
effort to keep his defense involved.
"When you slow the pace of the game up, it slows your defense up," McDonald said. "If you keep the game going, the pitches come a little faster, guys will be on their toes a little more and I'll probably be a little better."
Things certainly couldn't be much worse than the second half of last year, when he went 3-5 with a 7.52 ERA. The precision that helped him get off to a 10-3 start evaporated as the Pirates found themselves in the clutches of an actual postseason race.
Manager Clint Hurdle believes McDonald is the efficient guy who dazzled at times in the spring and early summer, not the one who limped to the finish.
An offseason that saw McDonald welcome his first child - a baby girl - helped put things in perspective. And with catcher Russell Martin keeping him on schedule, McDonald shook off a first-inning walk to Jason Heyward - who also hit a towering foul ball that traveled well over 400 feet - to get out of trouble.
"When it was up and away or up, I was able to make an adjustment and get it back down in the zone," McDonald said. "That's a big thing."
Clint Barmes went 2 for 2 with a two-run homer for the Pirates. Non-roster invitee Brad Hawpe added a two-run single.
Heyward hit a solo home run for the Braves. Julio Teheran struck out two in two innings but Atlanta fell to 0-3 in Grapefruit League play after the Pirates had their way with the Braves' relievers.
Teheran and Sean Gilmartin - who pitched two scoreless innings of his own - are in competition for fifth starter spot. Manager Fredi Gonzalez all but called it a draw and said the team plans to send the 22-year-olds out there in tandem at least once more.
The thing that impressed Gonzalez was that neither pitcher had great command but remained effective.
"(Teheran) pitched good and his stuff wasn't like I saw in the Dominican last time, which was good," Gonzalez said. "He got through it. Most of the time you've got to go out and pitch without your good stuff."
Notes: Atlanta OF B.J. Upton went 2 for 3 with a double. CF Jordan Schafer added two hits for the Braves. ... New Pittsburgh closer Jason Grilli, who got the win, struck out two and walked one in his first appearance of the spring. ... Atlanta plays Miami today. Kris Medlen, who will start on opening day, is slated to work two innings for the Braves. ... Newly signed Pittsburgh reliever Jose Contreras, recovering from Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, said he has no timetable for a return. The 41-year-old Contreras signed with Pittsburgh on Saturday. ... Pirates CF Andrew McCutchen went hitless in two at-bats.

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DALLAS (CN) – A model who lost a hand and an eye to an airplane propeller did not "reject" an insurer's settlement offer of $200,000 as Courthouse News reported Tuesday morning – she neither accepted nor rejected it, but asked a judge to clarify the meaning of the policy, NBC and the Dallas Morning News reported later Tuesday, citing the CNS report and Lauren Scruggs' attorney.
Both NBC and the Morning News reported that attorneys for Scruggs and for Aggressive Insurance had reached an agreement on Scruggs' complaint in Dallas County Court, the terms of which were not released.
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Lauren Scruggs, the 23-year-old Texas fashion blogger who lost a hand and eye in a plane propeller accident last December, has rejected a $200,000 settlement and sued the plane's insurer, according to the Courthouse News Service.
Scruggs' complaint in Dallas County Court says the plane was insured by defendant Aggressive Insurance Services, as was a separate plane owned by (pilot Curt) Richmond. The policy for Richmond's plane contained a provision that extends coverage to other planes he piloted.
Both policies had limits of $1 million per occurrence and a sublimit of $100,000 per passenger. Both policies define the term "passenger" as "any person, other than the pilot, who is in the aircraft or getting in or out of it," according to her complaint.
Scruggs said Aggressive offered to pay her the $100,000 sublimit for each of the policies for a total settlement of $200,000. She said the insurer took the position that she was a "passenger" as defined by both policies.
Scruggs disagreed, saying that the sublimits are not applicable because she was not a "passenger,"and that "she was not in the aircraft or getting in or out of it at the time of the incident."
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Tamar's gorgeous fairytale birdcages and dreamcatchers, I decided to see if I could do something like this myself. Knowing I had to pack everything flat, I had to hunt around the teeny tiny craft shop here in town and see if anything caught my eye. I found some white metal hoops (not sure what they're really for) and twisted and tied ribbon scraps from the previous projects to cover the hoops. I also added some extra ribbon I had lying around.
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On page 134 of the Technical Manual, the power cell of the Type 1 and 2 phasers are described. One part reads 'When one considers that total stored energy of even the Type 1 phaser, if released all at once, is enough to vaporize three cubic metres of tritanium, it is reassuring to know that a full storage cannot be discharged accidentally'. We are subsequently told on the same page that the Type 1 phaser can hold 7.2 x 106 MJ
From this we can begin to guess at some of the properties of Tritanium. The equation which describes the energy needed to increase the temperature of a material is :
E = (specific heat capacity x mass x temperature increase) + (heat of fusion/kg x mass) + (heat of vapourization/kg x mass)
Unfortunately, in the case of Tritanium we know almost none of these numbers! For comparison, let's look at a block of Aluminium :
Density : 2,700 kgm-3
Specific Heat : 900 Jkg-1K-1
Melting Point : 933 K
Boiling Point : 2,740 K
Heat of Fusion : 399,903 JKg-1
Heat of vaporization : 10,874,101 JK-1
Room temperature assumed to be 293 K, the energy to boil a cubic metre of Aluminium would therefore be :
E = (900 x 8,100 x 2,447) + (399,903 x 8,100) + (10,874,101 x 8,100)
= 1.784 x 1010 + 3.239 x 109 + 8.808 x 1010
= 1.092 x 1011 Joules
Which is some 65.96 times lower than the energy required for Tritanium!
So, Tritanium must therefore have a much higher density, boiling point, heat of vaporization, heat of fusion, or specific heat than aluminium - or some combination of the five. Since we have never been given figures for these numbers, we can never know which it is. Assuming only one factor differed there are five possible answers :
Assuming that only the boiling point was different, Tritanium would have a boiling point of about 975,420 K.
Assuming the only the density was different, Tritanium would have a density of about 178,090 kg/m3. Over fifteen times the density of lead.
Assuming the only the specific heat was different, Tritanium would have a specific heat of about 358,650 J/kg/K.
Assuming the only the heat of fusion was different, Tritanium would have a heat of fusion of about 2.654 x 109 J/kg.
Assuming the only the heat of vaporization was different, Tritanium would have a heat of vaporization of about 2.664 x 109 J/kg.
Tritanium is one of the major materials used in Federation starship and shuttlecraft hulls; given that the Type 6 personnel shuttle, with a length of 6 metres, only has a mass of 3.38 metric tons then it seems unlikely that the density of Tritanium can be all that high - and you'd have to wonder why designers would try to do the 24th century equivalent of building a 747 out of granite!
Boiling point is a potential candidate to be responsible for the higher energy, but the episode 'The Arsenal of Freedom' indicates that the hull of the Enterprise-D can only withstand a few thousand degrees before sustaining serious damage. While I guess it's possible for a substance to melt at, say, 5,000 K and not boil until near 1,000,000 K, it doesn't seem very likely.
The remaining three are probably the best candidates - it seems fairly certain that Tritanium has a high specific heat, heat of fusion, or heat of vaporization. More likely, a combination of the three.
The above treats Tritanium as a single substance, but Michael Voelker has pointed out that the episode 'Rascals' confirms that Tritanium is an alloy of some sort. The episode also reveals that the 'molecular structure' of some Tritanium had broken down, indicating that either one or more of the elements exists in molecular form, or that there is a compound in there somewhere.
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