A Republican Secretary of State Urges Action on Climate Change

As Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, George Shultz helped negotiate the most successful global environmental treaty to date: the Montreal Protocol, which phased out the use of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting chemicals. Those chemicals also act as potent greenhouse gases, so the agreement also makes him the negotiator of one of the most effective global climate treaties ever, despite being part of an administration that famously removed solar technology from the White House roof. Few modern Republican politicians favor such environmental effort, or even believe climate change is happening or that humanity could be primarily responsible for it. In addition, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is currently suggesting that the federal budget almost eliminate support for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy and other clean energy efforts from the Department of Energy. Still, Shultz continues to work for what he sees as improvements to U.S. national, economic and environmental security by addressing the growing threat of global warming through his role as chair of the energy policy task force of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Scientific American sat down with the 92-year-old Schulz to discuss what can be done to combat climate change in the present political environment. The interview was held at his home in the hills above Stanford, which boast solar panels and his electric vehicle?a Nissan LEAF?in the garage. Editor's Note: David Biello is the host of a forthcoming series on PBS stations, a sequel to the award-winning Beyond the Light Switch. The series, produced by Detroit Public Television, will continue to explore how transformation is coming to how we use and produce electricity, impacting the economy, the environment and national security. [An edited transcript follows.] Your long career in government was often focused on protecting the U.S. How will climate change affect national security?
I think in the energy area, we have to be constantly aware of three big objectives. Number one: we have to think of energy as a strategic commodity that is very important to our national security. Number two: we have to recognize that energy is the engine of the economy, so we want inexpensive, reliable, consistent energy. And number three: we have to recognize that energy produces pollutants as it burns, so it affects our environment. It affects the air we breathe; it affects the climate we create. So we have these three issues to keep in mind all the time, and you can't just do one or the other, but you've got to work on them all at the same time. How is the military addressing the energy and climate challenge?
We see supply trucks blown up as they're going into Afghanistan, and, of course, that means first of all that people are losing their lives. Second of all, the net costs by the time you get the fuel there are astronomical. So you want to create more fuel where it isn't, so you don't have that transportation problem. The answer is to figure out how to create more energy where you use it. The Navy is creating hybrid boats where, as long as you can go slow enough, you can propel your ship by electric power, which is more economical to create on the ship than liquid fuels, meaning you don't have to go into port and refuel as much. They look on this as something that improves their war-fighting capability. When a ship is in port refueling, it's not able to fight a war. The longer you can keep it on station, the more useful it is in its basic role. So all these things fit together. You've had a distinguished career in government. Have we missed chances along the way to improve our national, economic and environmental security?
I remember distinctly 1973. I was Secretary of the Treasury, and in that year?s Arab-Israeli war, we resupplied the Israelis. The British and French denied us access to their airports, so oil flowed to them and it was cut off from us: The Arab oil embargo. At that time, a lot of our electric power was produced by oil, so it had a huge impact here on our economy. At Christmas-time, lights were out and so on. It was a cultural impact as well as a national security impact. There was no Energy Department then, so the Treasury Department inherited the problem. I was, in effect, the de facto Secretary of Energy. And people would come in to me and say: "Look, here are these ideas for alternatives." They sounded reasonable, so they got some support. Then the crisis passed. The price [of oil] goes down and everything stops. We've been through that cycle, and this time, in my opinion, we just have to see to it that that doesn?t happen again. We have to keep the funding going for energy [research and development] because that's where the long-run future is. That's where people are going to create things that we probably don't even know about now that are going to make us more secure energy, more economically useful energy and energy that is more benign as far as our environment is concerned. So the pull back in energy R&D funding was a mistake?
Absolutely. They were bad mistakes. I feel like every president since I've been alive has talked about energy independence. Is that the right goal?
The ability to generate the energy we use is of vital importance, just in security terms. And we are on the cusp of being able to do that because of fracking technology, which incidentally is a classic outcome of government [research and development] combined with entrepreneurial people. So already the natural gas picture in this country has been revolutionized. Already, our emissions are coming down because gas is substituting for coal. When you look back at your own career, are there any achievements or episodes that give you hope that this country might address climate change in a more coherent way?
We had a version of the climate change issue in a little different way when I was Secretary of State in the 1980s. There were a lot of scientists who thought that the ozone layer was depleting. There were some who doubted it. They all agreed that, if it happened, it would be a catastrophe. I had two private meetings a week with President Reagan, and we talked about it. We decided that we should take out an insurance policy. Rather than go and confront the people who were doubting it and have a big argument with them, we'd say to them: Look, there must be, in the back of your mind, at least a little doubt. You might be wrong, so let's all get together on an insurance policy. It wound up as a treaty called the Montreal Protocol. In retrospect, it's clear that the scientists who were worried were right, and the Montreal Protocol came on in the nick of time. So, on a lot of these issues, time is not on your side because [environmental problems] can get, if not beyond repair, increasingly hard to repair. I also worry about discontinuities. You can point to a number of things that might produce a discontinuity, where, in other words, suddenly things get much warmer quickly, and you scramble around to do something. We know that carbon stays in the atmosphere. It doesn't disappear. You know, a new ocean is being created for the first time since the Ice Age [in the Arctic with the meltdown of sea ice]. How could that happen? It's getting warmer. Is electrification of cars and other kinds of transportation the answer for taking the carbon dioxide out of that side of our economy?
I don't know that it's the answer, but it is one of the answers. You have to ask: How are you producing the electricity? So if you've got big coal plants producing electricity, you're not getting anywhere. If they're natural gas, you're much better off, but if it's solar electricity, you're even better off. We've had these renewable energy efforts in the past, like after the first oil crisis in the 1970s, but they weren't sustained. Are things different now?
Solar panels right now are almost competitive with the grid, and if you talk to the scientists working on them they are full of ideas for what they call improving efficiency. Getting more power out of a given sunbeam. But half the costs are installation costs, pick-and-shovel work. So I said to them: Why don't you start thinking about how you build something that's easier to install? If we could build something that's half the cost of installation, bang?the costs are way down. I think it's essential in this country, and I encourage it around the world, to maintain the funding for the [research and development] effort that's going on right now. There's a greater mass of it than ever before. The amount of money from the federal government is nothing compared with the total budget, and as I've seen here at Stanford, the federal commitment and the federal money is more than matched by private money. You've got solar panels on your home. Why did you do that?
I figure I've got to walk the talk. They've been on [the roof] for about six years. I have a little chart that has my electricity bill before and after, and if I take the amount of money I've now saved, I've paid for the panels plus the opportunity cost of that money. I also have an electric car. I drive it around campus and around town. I don't have any range anxiety. You have no range anxiety whatsoever with your electric car?
Well, I don't take it for long distances. Most of the driving everybody does is around where they live. And I have a charging device in my garage so I figure I'm driving on sunshine, and it's free. It doesn't cost me anything, so I kind of like it. What drives you to keep working on these problems?
I'm in my 90s and I live here on the Stanford University campus. It's dreamy. It's so nice. However, I have four great-grandchildren. It's fun to have little babies around again, but you look at these little kids and they're so full of vitality and curiosity and so much fun in them. You can't help but ask yourself: What kind of a world are they going to inherit, and what can I dredge out of my experience that might be put into place to help make it a little better? Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and @SciamBlogs. Visit ScientificAmerican.com for the latest in science, health and technology news.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/republican-secretary-state-urges-action-climate-change-110100019.html

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Exploration Geoscientist, England,London

Posted by Spencer Ogden
on Thursday, July 25, 2013

Location
England,London United Kingdom

Category
Geosciences

Employment Type
Permanent

Full Description
Exploration Geoscientist, London

~ 5 Years experience required in Industry
North Sea Experience

A leading E&P and Energy Company is seeking a mid-level geologist to join the exploration team in London. Looking into North Sea and Atlantic Margins

To develop and evaluate prospects through interpretation of geological and geophysical data. Working scale can be either regional or local depending on the need. Key responsibilities cover the following areas:

*Interpretation of Geophysical and geological data
*Prospect generation and evaluation.
*Planning/preparation of geological/geophysical work programmes.
*Identification and application of the best geoscience evaluation

Main Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

*To evaluate previous geological and geophysical interpretations and reports and literature relevant to project area, recommend and plan further work to achieve project objective.
*To interpret geological & geophysical data in order to identify and define play concepts, geological models, facies distribution as well as define and evaluate prospects and leads
*To evaluate risk and reserve potential
*To collaborate with other members of the team, both internal and external such as specialists of the Corporate Technical Services or Contractors, and to participate in the project discussions and synthesis of the overall results.
*To recommend reprocessing or acquisition of new geological and geophysical data or special studies to contribute to achieve project objectives.
*To contribute to the design and plan geological and geophysical work programmes within budget constraints for operated areas, ensuring the final product matches the original specification.
*To ensure Partners' geological & geophysical work programmes in non-operated acreage are technically sound and are completed to the required standards and within budget constraints.
*To present technical work
*To prepare reports, presentations and data packages for partners, authorities and government agencies.
*To propose exchange of well and seismic data with other oil companies and, after approval, carry them out.
*To identify potential new areas for company investments through analysis and interpretation of regional data.
*To keep abreast of developments in geological & geophysical acquisition, processing and interpretation techniques, in geoscience and regional geological knowledge, monitoring technical literature and participating in seminars.
*To contribute to Licence Round Applications.

Qualifications & Experience:

*Degree in Geophysics or Geology
*Previous relevant experience as a geoscientist with an E&P company
*Competent evaluator of geological and geophysical data
*Proficient/highly skilled in use of G&G technical Workstation/PC applications
*Ability to use PC applications
*High-level knowledge of Structural geology, salt tectonics, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, with expertise or specialist status in some are
For more information about this role please contact our London office

Job ref: 5646541CD_1374773869

Salary
?50000 - ?65000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Relocation

Experience
No experience needed

Education
Degree / Postgraduate / 3 year

Expertise
geoscience

Source: http://feeds.oilvoice.com/~r/JobMarketplace/~3/JLOK6GINcyA/3cb220f9.aspx

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Why Twitter Parody Accounts Should Stay Anonymous

Last week, after maintaining anonymity for three years, Josh Friedland, a freelance writer, announced that he was behind @RuthBourdain, a Twitter account that combined the food writer Ruth Reichl?s often rapturous accounts of food with the sarcasm and vulgarity of Anthony Bourdain. The account was an occasionally funny and often profane deflation of America?s current overblown food culture (?Jesus. This fucking cold, gray city. Snorting salmon roe off tiny pancakes. Golden showers of lemon. Money shot of sour cream. New York.?), and the author accumulated seventy-one thousand followers. Since revealing himself, Friedland has posted only four tweets to @RuthBourdain, all in reference to the revelation of his identity. The account is, for all intents and purposes, salted earth: rare is the parody Twitter account that remains funny after the author unmasks himself.

Parody accounts are, oddly, one of Twitter?s most distinguishing features. Anyone can have virtually any username on the service, as opposed to Facebook and Google Plus, which require users to display their real names. While fake Twitter accounts are sometimes created in an attempt to deceive, they?re just as often meant to be humorous, and have become a routine reaction to practically every news event, a fact lamented by Alex Pareene in The New Republic. Most fake Twitter accounts are, in fact, unfunny; some are in poor taste, like the fake Tsarnaev brother accounts that emerged almost immediately after the two were identified as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. But at their best, they ascend to ?the highest cultural rung? of ?the making-fun-of-others department,? as Louis Menand wrote of parody in the magazine in 2010. ?Part of the enjoyment people take in parody is the enjoyment of feeling intelligent,? Menand noted. ?Not everyone gets the joke.? The highly self-selected audience necessary for parody presents itself automatically on Twitter, which allows its users to choose exactly whom to follow.

@BPGlobalPR, created in May, 2010, by the comedian Josh Simpson, was perhaps the first Twitter parody to receive truly mainstream attention; the account was a brutal skewering of BP?s milquetoast response to the Gulf oil spill as well as of Twitter?s deployment in modern corporate communications. The resulting effect is surreal on its own; this, in turn, makes Twitter an exceptional vehicle for parody. ?A parody is an imitation of an imitation: its target is the manner of representation itself,? Menand wrote. ?If the original is solemn, then solemnity must be what is solemnly lampooned.? @BPGlobalPR began with a tweet declaring ?We regretfully admit that something has happened off of the Gulf Coast. More to come??a straightforward post?before it transitioned to producing more outwardly absurd tweets like ?BP has pledged 75 million dollars towards the 40 billion dollar cleanup cost. #makingitright.? This is only a short distance from a typical BP tweet downplaying the Gulf crisis, like ?Scientists report largely no oil impact on wildlife in #Alabama coastal marshes: http://bit.ly/ZPTPeN via @aldotcom.?

Not knowing the man behind the Twitter curtain?that it could be anybody openly mocking one of the wealthiest and most powerful corporations in the world?was key to @BPGlobalPR?s initial sense of frisson. By the time Simpson eventually revealed himself as the creator, there was little left to say.

When Dan Sinker, the head of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, created the @MayorEmanuel account, which spun the former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel?s infamous volcanic temperament into a full-fledged Twitter personality, he thought he needed to maintain his anonymity throughout Emanuel?s 2010-2011 Chicago mayoral campaign. ?The minute the identity is revealed, something really does fundamentally change,? said Sinker, who unmasked himself and stopped updating the account after the election was over. He cited the example of Dan Lyons?s The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a parody blog supposedly written by Jobs that lost most of its comedic potency after Lyons revealed himself as the author, as instructive. ?You?re not mistaking this as the actual person,? Sinker said. ?But you?re able to suspend your disbelief and enter into the logic of the world of that parody account easier when you don?t automatically assign an additional author or face to it.?

What?s most powerful about Twitter parodies, according to Sinker, is that ?if you?re following the account in real time, it?s popping up within the context of the rest of the reality you have built in Twitter.? The unreal and the real are combined in a single stream. An @MayorEmanuel tweet admonishing voters to ?VOTE, BITCHES? appears at the same time that the actual Rahm Emanuel tweets ?Hey hey hey?? or CNN reveals the results of the election. In this sense, Twitter seems to be a powerful answer to a fundamental problem parody has faced over the past several decades: as Menand noted, ?the barrier between the authentic and the parodic has collapsed.? If parody is everywhere, if it is diffuse, it requires a medium that can properly contain and convey it?a real-time outlet. (This is also why Stephen Colbert?s character works so beautifully via tweets, outside of the constraints of his television show.)

Yet Twitter also constantly undermines the parody it creates. The primary currency of social media is fame, and it is fame that drives the authors of popular parody accounts to uncloak themselves, destroying the account in the process. If fame is all the authors of parody accounts care about, as @MayorEmanuel wrote in one of his last tweets, ?it?s pretty clear that the party?s over.?

Illustration by Jordan Awan

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/07/why-twitter-parody-accounts-should-stay-anonymous.html

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Russia urges debate on wheat aid for Egypt

By Polina Devitt and Maha El Dahan

MOSCOW/ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Russia and other countries should hold discussions on possible humanitarian deliveries of wheat to Egypt, the world's largest importer of the grain, as it faces an acute shortage, Russia's deputy agriculture minister said.

Egypt has less than two months' supply of imported wheat left in its stocks, ousted President Mohamed Mursi's minister of supplies said last week.

"We need to discuss questions related to humanitarian aid deliveries to Egypt with the world community ... There have been no requests (from Egypt) yet," Deputy Agriculture Minister Ilya Shestakov told a news briefing in Moscow on Monday.

Shestakov's remark appeared to be a reversal of policy since Russia rejected a request from Mursi in April for help securing supplies of vital commodities on concessionary terms when the former president of Egypt visited Moscow.

"If it's for free or long-term financing, definitely Egypt will accept it," a Cairo-based trader said.

"Right now economically, with the money from the Gulf, Egypt is in a better position compared with two weeks ago," the trader added.

As of last week, Egypt, which usually imports about 10 million tons a year, with Russia as a major supplier, had just 500,000 tons of imported wheat left.

Earlier this month in addition, it bought 180,000 tons from Romania and Ukraine on the international market on commercial terms for delivery in early August.

Grain traders expect Egypt's state grain buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) to issue a new tender to purchase wheat soon, although GASC's vice chairman said last week that high prices and availability of stocks made that unlikely.

The idea that Russia could send wheat as humanitarian aid came as a surprise because of Russia's status as a big commercial supplier to Egypt and the fact that its own wheat stocks are low.

"It wouldn't make much sense really, because the wheat trade is in the hands of the private sector rather than the government, unless they have some old crop wheat that they would like to give as aid when they are cleaning up their silos," a second Cairo-based trader said.

The Russian government, meanwhile, plans to start buying grain on the domestic market to replenish state stocks after the end of harvesting campaign in late September or October, Shestakov said.

Officials said previously that the government might buy 6 million tons of grain for its stocks this year.

Taking into account state restocking campaign and low carryover stocks, Russia's supply and demand balance of grain will be tight this 2013/14 marketing year, which started on July 1, Shestakov said.

He kept the ministry's 2013 grain crop forecast unchanged at 95 million tons and said that from this amount 71 million tons would be used to cover domestic demand. He pegged the 2013/14 exportable grain surplus at 20 million tons.

(Additional reporting by Sarah McFarlane in Cairo; Writing by Polina Devitt and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Jane Baird)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-urges-debate-wheat-aid-egypt-091319539.html

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Washington Nationals (47-47) at Miami Marlins (35-57), 1:10 p.m. (ET)

Henderson Alvarez makes his third start of the season since coming off the disabled list and will try to help the Miami Marlins complete a three-game series sweep of the Washington Nationals.

A whitewash would be some consolation to a horrible first half of the season for the Marlins, who have won their last three contests.

Alvarez is coming off a 6-4 loss to the Braves on Tuesday at Marlins Park as he allowed five runs -- four earned -- over six innings. The right-hander, who was on the 60-day disabled list earlier this season due to right shoulder inflammation, has faced the Nationals just once before. That came in a Blue Jays uniform on June 12, 2012 when he suffered a loss.

Taylor Jordan, a native of Merritt Island, Fla. and a Brevard Community College alum, gets his first career start in the Sunshine State. The righty, who will make his fourth big league start, has thrown 5 2/3 innings in each of his previous two appearances. That includes a loss at Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Last night, Ed Lucas beat out a potential inning-ending double-play grounder to score Adeiny Hechavarria from third in the bottom of the 10th to cap a 2-1 Miami win.

Steve Cishek (3-4) was credited with the win. The right-hander pitched his way out of the 10th inning after putting runners on second and third with one out.

Giancarlo Stanton hit a home run to left field off closer Rafael Soriano in the bottom of the ninth inning to tie the game. It was Soriano's first blown save since May 21 against the San Francisco Giants.

"I never think homer," Stanton said. "You may swing harder in some counts, so whatever, whatever. But I had two strikes, so that was more, 'Get the barrel on the ball.' It was still a ball, but I got my hands to it. That's thing. If the ball is up and you get your hands to it, it's going to go if you get on top of it."

Dan Haren pitched six strong innings in his best outing of the season. The right-hander lost seven consecutive decisions in his last nine starts, but surrendered three hits with one walk, while striking out seven batters in a no-decision for the Nats.

Ryan Zimmerman went 2-for-5 for the Nationals, who only have one victory six games into this seven-game road trip.

All-Star Jose Fernandez started the game for the Marlins. The right-hander gave up one run on four hits with three walks and four strikeouts. The only run he allowed in six innings of work came in the top of the fourth inning when a Jayson Werth sacrifice fly scored Bryce Harper.

The Nationals lead the season series, 5-3.

Source: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/14/2677343/washington-nationals-47-47-at.html?storylink=rss

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Freak show: Lincecum spins no-no

BOX SCORE

SAN DIEGO ? This was, without any doubt, the happiest of Lincecum Days.

Against the Padres, Lincecum is forever Cy Young. But he was even more than that Saturday night. For all the lofty heights he?s reached in his career ? two Cy Young Awards, two World Series rings, eternal admiration in the Bay Area ? his accomplishment at Petco Park might taste the sweetest.
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Lincecum threw the first no-hitter of his career, the 15th in franchise history, the seventh in the Giants' San Francisco era and their third in five years, joining Matt Cain and Jonathan Sanchez after dazzling the San Diego Padres in the Giants? 9-0 victory at Petco Park.

Hunter Pence made the most spectacular defensive save, charging to make a sliding catch of Alexi Amarista?s sinking line drive to end the eighth. Lincecum raised a fist as Pence scrambled to his feet.

[RELATED: No-hitter is meaningful for defensive stars Pence, Sandoval]

Pence once joked that Cain wouldn?t have thrown his perfect game since he wouldn?t have made the catch that Blanco did. Turns out he?s a handy man to have, though.

Lincecum had taken a no-hit bid to the seventh inning twice before in his career. He?d never taken one to the eighth. He hadn?t even thrown a complete game since May 21, 2011, when he three-hit the A?s.

It cost him a career high 148 pitches ? 10 more than he?d ever thrown in his career -- but he struck out Chase Headley, got Carlos Quentin to fly out to left field, and then Yonder Alonso lofted a fly ball that left fielder Gregor Blanco squeezed to set off a celebration.

Posey tackled Lincecum from behind almost the moment Blanco made the catch as the team stormed the field. Ryan Vogelsong doused everyone with the water bucket. And the Giants gleefully propped up their former ace who mixed guts and guile as he pulled one more start out of his brilliant past.

Lincecum walked four, hit a batter and struck out 13 ? his most since a 15-strikeout game in 2009.

Starting pitching report

Just like in 2009, when Jonathan Sanchez had been banished to the bullpen before returning to throw his no-hitter against the Padres, this was a feat that you couldn?t see coming.

Lincecum hadn?t won in six starts since June 4 and his drought was even worse on the road. He entered with an 0-6 record and 5.82 ERA in his last seven starts away from AT&T Park. He hadn?t won on the road since April 3 at Dodger Stadium.

But there were signs in recent weeks that he had turned a corner, had learned to mix his pitches and to use his curveball to set up his more reliable changeup. And four years and three days after Sanchez?s feat, Lincecum joined franchise lore.

By the second time through the lineup, Lincecum had struck out every Padre at least once except for Carlos Quentin. And he matched a career best by striking out six consecutive hitters from the second to the fourth innings. The only other time he did that was June 23, 2011 vs. Twins.

That was one measure of how good his stuff was. It was fooling everyone.

Lincecum?s 26 swings and misses were the most in a start in his career. He got nine of them on sliders, six on changeups, six on fastballs and five on curves.

In summary, everything was sharp. Everything was lethal. Even if he doesn?t throw 95 mph any longer.

Lincecum hadn?t had a double-digit strikeout game all season before he fanned 11 against the Mets, then followed it up with something even more brilliant against his favorite foil.

He put together consecutive double-digit strikeout games for the first time since 2010. He has 34 double-digit strikeout games in his career.

[RELATED: How Tim Lincecum no-hit the Padres: `I'm evolving as a pitcher']

Bullpen report

The bullpen was busy from the sixth inning. But nobody was going to come through that gate until Lincecum gave up a hit.

At the plate

The Giants? offensive awakening continued, and two of their most important hitters could exhale after a trying first half.

Pablo Sandoval doubled in each of his first two at-bats ? his first game with multiple extra-base hits since ? yep, Game? 1 of the World Series, when he belted three home runs against the Detroit Tigers.

Hunter Pence hit a bases-clearing triple in the fifth inning, giving him as many RBIs with one swing as he had in his previous 17 games combined. Pence also homered to complete a five-RBI night ? his most since 2009 with Houston.

Pence was 1 for 26 with runners in scoring position before the triple, which made it 8-0.

And Brandon Belt hit a two-run homer that traveled 414 feet. It was his 10th of the season, setting a career high.

One more: Sandoval has knocked in a run in three consecutive games ? the first time he?s done that since May 11-15.

Buster Posey did his usual thing with three hits and three runs, too ? proving once again that when the middle of the order hits, good things happen.

In field

Sandoval?s defensive range has been much maligned, but he made a clean stop down the line of pinch hitter Jesus Guzman?s grounder and then set and fired across the diamond for the out to end the seventh.

The play of the night belonged to Pence, though.

Attendance

The Padres announced 40,342 paid. You tend to hear Giants fans loudest here. But by the ninth, everyone was a Lincecum fan.

Up next

The Giants and Padres complete their four-game series at Petco Park on Sunday, then head off for the All-Star break. Barry Zito (4-6, 4.62 ERA) takes the mound, and unbelievably, he?s still looking for his first road win of the season. The Padres will start left-hander Eric Stults (7-7, 3.50). First pitch is scheduled for 1:10 p.m. PDT.

Source: http://www.csnbayarea.com/giants/lincecum-no-hits-padres

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