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Introducing the new v2.0 - The Crusade Wiki
We've decided to go the wiki route to make things easily editable, searchable and organizable. I stumbled across PMWiki, which is based on PHP and a non-database file system, in an article on the blog of Treasure Tables and found it to be very easy to use, modify and administer.
This is a Chill Horror RPG campaign site set is the area surrounding San
Francisco, California, USA and recently expanded to London, England, UK.
We decided to do something different, as our old campaign was set in the
Midwest, St. Louis to be exact, where we live. That campaign ended many years
ago, as players got bored and White Wolf came out with their World of Darkness
setting and interest went in that direction.
NOTE: Surprisingly, with me being the webmaster, I play a PC and am not the actual CM, so this website is kind of geared toward that, as I can only list what I actually know of the world as my PC sees it. It's kind of a different take on the campaign, which will be reflected in the Campaign Logs. This new Campaign started on April 23, 2005, so that's when the logs begin. We also tried to have a different take on S.A.V.E., as we thought the organization gave players too much of an advantage, with knowledge and equipment resources ubundant. We call the new organization "The Crusade", which was just introduced in the 07/16/2005 campaign log. For the most up-to-date information, visit the What's New page.
We utilize the Mayfair version of the rules and playtest the new OWC version that is in development. Please visit the OtherWorld Creations, Inc. website if you're interested in playtesting the new rules.
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Hot Tip: Modernize Traditional Furniture with Semigloss Paint
Even the most traditional furniture can move into the 21st century with a fresh coat of semigloss paint. We hold onto old furniture for many reasons. Sometimes because it was passed down from someone we loved. Sometimes it's a reminder of a cherished period of our lives. And sometimes we keep it because the piece simply functions great. You just wish it wasn't so hard on the eyes. Well, say hello to semigloss paint, and bid the eyesore goodbye! Read more for details.
At Re-Nest, we believe that consuming less is a good thing, so this project extends the life of something pre-owned. Even better, using low VOC paint gives the project low toxity.
Difficulty Rating: Easy.
- Pre-owned furniture.
- Low VOC paint like Mythic Non-Toxic Paint. See colors in photos #4 and #5 above for examples.
- Large paint brush.
- Small paint brush.
- Sandpaper or primer (spray or paint).
- Used paper from your paper bin to protect the ground from paint. Alternatively, drop cloth (optional).
- Painter's tape. (optional)
How To:
- Dry wipe your selected furniture with a few rags.
- Wet wipe the furniture, especially areas with sticky or oily spots. Use a non-toxic cleaner that's safe on wood.
- Lay down paper from your used paper bin. Make sure you lay down enough paper to cover two to three feet beyond the perimeter of the piece you'll be painting. (You can also use a drop cloth instead of paper if you happen to have one.)
- Either sand the surface or paint/spray a primer. This will roughen up the surface to give your paint something to stick to.
- If you want to do a casual job, simply set your piece in the middle and start painting! You'll need a big brush for almost the entire piece and a smaller brush to go around any hardware and other areas you don't want painted.
- If you want to do an absolutely meticulous job, either remove the hardware, or use painter's tape to cover the edges of the hardware and other parts you don't want painted. (Please note: you don't need to tape the entire object you don't want painted, just the edges.)
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IT Management Slideshow: Office Romance is Not Just for Valentine's Day
On Valentine's Day, don't be surprised to see flowers and boxes of chocolate delivered to cubicles in your IT department from fellow colleagues. That's right: Office romance is alive and well, judging from to the results of a recent survey on workplace liaisons from career Website Vault.com. More than 2,083 professionals took part in the research. While this topic may drop somewhat far down on your IT priority list - lower than tech integration projects and cloud initiatives, perhaps, but higher than deciding which kind of pizza to order in for your next department lunch meeting - CIOs and other senior managers can't ignore this issue. For starters, you should know whether organizational standards specifically address personal relationships between employees (and managers). If so, then you need to make sure that your lovestruck employees are aware of these policies. (Many aren't.) In absence of formal corporate guidelines, you have a legal responsibility to promote an environment where sexual harassment is not tolerated. Likewise, be sure you're not tolerating in-office relationships or behaviors in the workplace that make other workers uncomfortable.


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Arthritis is a category of diseases of the joints. According to the National Institutes of Health, arthritis affects about one in every five people in the United States.
Arthritis is very painful and can be crippling, twisting joints and even rendering them unusable. Osteoarthritis can wear down the knees, while rheumatoid arthritis can twist and deform the fingers, and gout can make even sitting still agony.
Osteoarthritis (OA) occurs when the cartilage covering the end of the bone deteriorates, causing pain and swelling when bones rub against each other.
OA is due to a combination of factors, including genetics, injury, joint use or overuse and aging.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disease that causes inflammation of the lining of the joint capsule, the synovial membrane. Early in the disease process, affected joints may be swollen, painful, hot, and tender to the touch. As the disease progresses, the synovial membrane begins to release enzymes, dissolving the bone and cartilage inside the joint. Over time the joint can become deformed - and the pain can become unbearable. A lot is yet unknown, such as triggers, remission, and causes of periodic flare ups. Genetics and hormones play a role, as rheumatoid arthritis affects women more than men and often occurs after pregnancy.
Diet, lifestyle and hydration
What we eat affects our health no matter where it hurts, and arthritis is no different.
Because arthritis is a disease exacerbated by inflammation, the treatment of choice should by to cool the inflammation. Medical management usually starts with ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatory drugs.
First reduce pain with Vitamin C-rich foods, which are responsible for the health of collagen. Select lots of bell peppers (yellow, red and orange), oranges, grapefruits, strawberries, pineapple, broccoli, kidney beans, kiwi and cauliflower.
Green tea for its natural antioxidant called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG). Studies suggest EGCG and other catechins in tea may prevent cartilage from breaking down, possibly helping to preserve joints longer.
Anthocyanins are antioxidants that help reduce inflammation by inhibiting certain inflammatory chemicals. These compounds contribute to the health of connective tissue, and maybe more powerful than vitamin C in stopping dangerous free radicals. Choose cherries, blackberries, black currents, blueberries, eggplant, elderberries, raspberries, red and black grapes, strawberries and plums.
Spices such as ginger and turmeric contain beneficial phytonutrients. Many spices have anti-inflammatory effects, mustard spice found in curry and the ginger. Ginger contains chemicals that work as well as many anti-inflammatory drugs. Try grating fresh ginger into stir-fry veggies, or steep ginger in your tea. Adding more of these foods to your diet will have you feeling better quickly.
Arthritis, as well as osteoporosis, also has been linked to insufficient hydration and to fluoride exposure, which tends to aggravate and increase the pain and degeneration of rheumatoid arthritis. It is known that communities with higher concentrations of fluoride in the water lead to a population with higher incidences of weakened bones and ligaments. Change your water and be sure to drink sufficiently.
Meditation can help reduce stress, pain and tension. Start and work your way up to 45 minutes a day.
Yoga is an exercise that can increase muscle strength, improve flexibility, and increase balance. It also increases energy, makes you feel good and can relieve many body aches and pains. Likewise massage can help increase blood flow, increasing warmth and relief to a stressed and painful area.
This is a lot to consider, I know, so start with one thing at a time. But do work your way through it all and you will find great relief. You may even be able postpone that replacement.
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|Projects in Scientific Computing: New Understanding of Life and Its Processes
Research that offers promise
for reducing side-effects
from chemotherapy.
If there were a mantra for molecular biologists, it might be this: Structure and function are related, two sides of a coin. To know how a protein does its job inside a living cell, look at the structural details, how it's put together. The twists and turns, helices and sheets of a protein's 3D shape define what biomolecules it can interact with and how.
In the 1990s, through a variety of genome projects, scientists are mapping and sequencing the genes of many organisms, and the resulting data corresponds to the root of protein structure: the linear sequence of amino acids, like beads on a chain, that precedes and determines 3D shape. As this data streams into the marketplace of knowledge, a few scientists, like Hugh Nicholas and John Hempel, are using it to open up new territory in understanding how amino-acid sequence interrelates with 3D structure.
Hempel, a University of Pittsburgh biologist, has for 20 years focused on a family of enzymes called aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). In the early 80s, he worked out the first two ALDH sequences to be solved and, in collaboration with Ron Lindahl at the University of South Dakota, has continued this work. In the past few years, scientists worldwide have expanded work in this area, and currently sequences are determined for over 200 related ALDH enzymes in a wide range of plants and animals.
In the late-80s, Hempel began collaborating with Nicholas, a Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center scientist who specializes in sequence analysis, the process of analyzing relationships among nucleic-acids (DNA and RNA) or proteins through comparison of their sequence data. In 1993, they worked on a group of 16 ALDH sequences representing the diversity of the ALDH family sequenced at that time.
In 1997, Hempel collaborated with a University of Georgia research group led by B.C. Wang in work that solved the first ALDH 3D structure. This made it possible for Nicholas and Hempel to embark on an ambitious project investigating the interplay between 3D structure and sequence data. Beginning in September 1997, Hempel's student, John Perozich, gathered 145 full-length ALDH sequences, the complete pool of sequenced ALDHs at the time. Using the sequence-analysis facility at PSC to align them, the researchers produced one of the largest multiple-sequence alignments achieved to date.
Nicholas and Hempel then applied techniques they developed to identify recurring sequence elements and analyze them in relation to function. They identified 10 sequence motifs, amino-acid patterns, that recur with a high degree of regularity in the 145 ALDH sequences. Their analysis of these motifs offers fresh insight into how sequence influences 3D structure. Their research, furthermore, offers an approach with potential wide application in other protein families.
ALDHs have been found in nearly every form of living thing. Their primary role in humans and other mammals is protecting the body from toxic compounds called aldehydes. Early interest (in the 70s), focused on an ALDH in the liver that helps metabolize an aldehyde (acetaldehyde) that comes from alcohol, changing it to acetic acid, which the body burns for energy. A drug called Antabuse sometimes used in treating alcoholism deactivates the relevant ALDH, making you sick if you drink.
Further research has found a number of closely related but different ALDH species, over 10 now identified in humans, with various functions. A number of these are the subject of public-health research. One of them, also a liver ALDH, is genetically inactive in about half of all Asians, causing severe alcohol intolerance. In 1996 researchers showed that defects in another ALDH cause a genetic disease called Sjögren-Larsson syndrome, which involves mental retardation, scaly skin and shortened life.
ALDHs also affect cancer treatment. A number of chemotherapy drugs work through conversion in the body to an aldehyde that attacks cancer cells. These therapies lose potency over time bacause the relevant ALDH increases in concentration, deactivating the aldehyde more quickly. Better structure-function knowledge will make it possible to develop specific ALDH-inhibitor drugs to regulate this kind of chemotherapy.
|This phylocenetic tree plots evolutionary relations among ALDH sub-families.
As one part of their project, Hempel and Nicholas classified the 145 sequences, each more than 700 amino-acids in length, into sub-families. These groupings, explains Nicholas, are based on evolutionary adaptation that's consistent with having a common-ancestor ALDH. In one form of adaptapion, the gene that codes for a protein reappears with little change when organisms evolve to another organism from one bacterium to another, for instance.
In another kind of adaptation, however, a gene duplicates within an organism. One copy of the gene can then diverge slightly in structure and take on a modified function, such as to react with a different form of aldehyde. Nicholas and Hempel tracked this adaptation by sequence analysis. "We think this happened at least 13 times in the history of ALDHs," says Nicholas. Through statistical measures of sequence similarity, Hempel and Nicholas grouped the 145 ALDH sequences into 13 distinct sub-families. "Sequences within a sub-family are more similar to each other than to the sequences in other sub-families."
The researchers also generated a "phylogenetic tree," which charts evolutionary relationships among the sub-families. Each branch represents a point of divergence, where a gene duplicates and evolves to a new function. Distance between branches corresponds to evolutionary distance as measured by how much the sequences differ.
This representation shows structure of an ALDH from rats. Colors show the conserved sequence motifs identified by Hempel and Nicholas. The spheres represent very highly conserved residues within each motif.
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Another product of Nicholas and Hempel's analysis is identification of conserved residues amino-acids in a protein chain are called residues, and a conserved residue stays the same across sequences. They found four 100 percent conserved residues the same amino-acid at the same position in all 145 sequences. This is reduced from 23 in their 1993 alignment of 16 ALDHs. Twelve other residues are 95 percent conserved.
The logic of evolution holds that conserved residues should be important in structure and function. Nicholas and Hempel's analysis of ALDH supports this view. The four invariant residues participate in binding with other molecules involved in ALDH's catalytic function. Most of the other highly conserved residues, they found, are part of motifs highly conserved short sequences that cluster around the enzyme's active site, the part of the 3D structure where it binds with other molecules to carry out its function.
The researchers also extended this kind of analysis to the 13 sub-families, using computational tools to search out what residues are conserved within a particular sub-family and discriminate that group from other ALDHs. This is a particular interest of Nicholas, who sees it as offering the potential to develop drugs that interact with only a particular ALDH, rather than the entire family: "If with chemotherapy you could give the patient an inhibitor for the ALDH that inactivates the chemotherapy, you could get by with a lower dose. You wouldn't want to inhibit basic metabolism, which inhibiting a broad spectrum of ALDHs would do. This work is a first step in that direction."
A major finding from the analysis is identification of 10 sequence motifs that are themselves highly conserved. "These are stretches of sequence from five amino-acids up to 14 or 15," says Nicholas. "They're spread uniformly along the entire ALDH sequence, but when you look at the 3D structure they fold back together and come into contact with each other."
This interplay between sequence and 3D structure, uncovered by Nicholas and Hempel's analysis, provides a new way of looking at proteins, say the researchers. "You can gain a great deal of insight," says Hempel, "looking at conserved residues and how they relate to 3D structure." With respect to Sjögren-Larsson syndrome, detailed analysis of several mutant ALDH sequences associated with SLS suggests hypotheses for precisely what happens to cause the syndrome, which Nicholas and Hempel are investigating with computational simulations. "It gives a synergy to the whole process of understanding how this works."
A particularly interesting finding, observes Nicholas, arises from seeing that the conserved motifs contain a small, highly conserved, water-avoiding (hydrophobic) amino-acid not directly involved in enzyme function. "Each of the motifs," he ways, "has not only a functional definition but also a structural definition." These small, hydrophobic amino-acids, he notes, are generally involved with turns or tight-packing with other proteins.
"This represents information about the interplay between sequence and structure that's generalizable to other proteins," says Nicholas. "It indicates that perhaps the details of how a protein folds into its 3D shape are determined by these smaller amino-acids that form at critical turns or packing junctions, where several strands of the protein come together to carry out function."
These insights from sequence shed new light on traditional ways of thinking about protein structure, which tends to focus on 3D patterns (known as secondary structure) such as helices and sheets. "Our results tells us," says Nicholas, "that it's the residues at the ends of these structures that are conserved. Perhaps you can think of a protein not as a bunch of helices, but as defined by the ends of the helices, where it turns. These may be two equally informative, inversely related ways of thinking, and the genomics data suggests we should look at the turns more than we have."
As a goal for this kind of work, the researchers hope to be able to build a sophisticated description based on conserved residues that identifies sequence elements that can predict 3D structure, not only in ALDH but in other protein families. "This provides a model for other systems," says Hempel. "We're developing tools needed to rigorously analyze and determine highly conserved regions and to correlate them with structure. To look at long segments with high degrees of similarity, we need capability like the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center gives us."
"To find these 10 different regions of conserved sequence," notes Nicholas, "took 60 hours of processing on our sequence-analysis facility [a VAX 8400]. You're not going to find this with desktop PCs."
John Hempel, University of Pittsburgh
Hugh Nicholas, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
|SEQ, the PSC Sequence Analysis Resource.
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Structure Function Relationships Among Aldehyde Dehydrogenases.
Aldehyde dehydrogenase complexed with NAD (Animation).
John Perozich( Hugh Nicholas, Bi-Cheng Wang, Ronald Lindahl & John Hempel, "Relationships within the aldehyde dehydroganase expended family," Protein Science 8, 137-46 (1999).
John Hempel, Hugh Nicholas & Ronald Lindahl, "Aldehyde dehydrogenases: Widespread structural and functional diversity within a shared framework," Protein Science 2, 1890-1900 (1993).
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"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall..."
Prize Winning Photo of youthful Project leader at Stanford Field Site, 1955.
We all drove to and from the Stanford Village, the headquarters of SRI, and the field site in an ancient 4X4 all purpose humungous vehicle and we had to negotiate locked gates which were zealously guarded by one Immanuel Peers ("Farmer Peers"). Peers had a dairy and grazed his cows on leased land from Stanford, and had done so for generations as far as I knew. "You guys be real careful and don't let the bulls in with the cows. Next time I'll get my shot gun." "I plead guilty sir, we will be more careful next time," I promised when the inevitable happened and Farmer Peers' herd took a quantum jump in size. Peers was a neat guy--on Sundays he took his friends fox hunting at the field site--everyone all dressed in English riding style. I think the dairy is still there?
Well them early days was already getting hectic. It seems Dr. Alec Montflower Patterson had gone to the Pentagon and come home with a portfolio of big, important projects the government wanted done yesterday--in order to fend off impending nuclear war with the Russians. I knew how to spend money and Mr. Rubberband knew how to roll heads! (He was awesome). His arch opponent in Upper Management, Ray's Simon Lagree, was our very proper ever-beloved by-the-book ever-foot-dragging Chuck Hilly. Oh, yes, I forgot to introduce Gordon Rosekilly, of Rosekilly Machinery, San Mateo, who was always at my door to sell us junk. (see photo). When Frank Firth built our first hi-powered TR switch, Mr. Rosekilly immediately delivered a wonderful 1930 model Rootes Blower, which upon being demonstrated, spewed dirty oil and fumes all over our lab. Omar Spain was SRI Facilities Manager, Walter Jaye was our effective rising manager type, and well so far you have met the rest of the illustrious team members in the above photo as they all met for a High Level meeting in 1957. Yours truly is shown wearing the ever-popular official Lab tee shirts with a portrait of our Great Leader, Mr. Rubberband, and the helpful reminder "What Me Worry?" which was later stolen, rumor has it, by Mad Magazine. They made lots of bucks on our logo that's for sure.
The radar went together fairly smoothly. Leadabrand wanted more power so we doubled the voltage on the final RF power amp and cranked up the front-end drive to overload. ("More drive, I want more drive..." Ray always said.). The outside 440-volt circuit breaker was not too reliable and when some gigantic arc-overs threatened to burn up the transmitter, van and all, our wonder boy engineer Ronald PreTzell rigged up a giant golden watch fob (a solenoid, heavy weight and chain) to the Panic buttons so we could kill all the power if we had to. Running the transmitter way beyond Westinghouse specs was hairy at times, with corona buzzing in the back room and the coax feeds arcing over in the night sky--but the data came in and we had amazing radar echoes from the moon. Meteors, too showed up nicely on the screen.
The proposed SRI Giant Hydrogen-Filled Steel Framework Dirigible (GHFSFD) with 75 foot foot dish and spark gap radars, compared with a sleazy 747 and the ill-fated Titanic. Match cover sketch by Steel Nafford.
When it came time to build more dishes we were ready. The second major GSFD, 150 feet in diameter, was another masterpiece conceived by Steel Nafford, and built face up on the ground. It was finally lifted onto its mounts by L.L. Bean Rigging Company using the two largest cranes in the Bay Area on a Sunday morning. This disk was light weight and cheap compared to the million dollar precision dishes the Andrew Corp was building everywhere by that time. Mr. Dewey Bunson Berner from Hiller Helicopters of East Palo Alto came along to help Neil Stafford build the light weight dish proper. It was built of aluminum struts inward and outward from a giant steel ring. Sir George Durfey, ever resourceful, adapted Navy gun turret hydraulic drives to turn the thing around on its circular railroad track and soon young Murray Barroom had a PDP11 tracking computer installed and the disk was ready. Noise levels being high at Stanford the disk found limited usefulness for receiving but continues to be useful to the present day mostly for impressing out of town visitors and potential clients. And, it is the prototype for others of its kind, one of which was sent to Scotland which allowed our very own boy scientists Schlow Johnbohm an opportunity to rent a castle and go after high latitude auroral echoes. I got to go to Adelaide and Woomera to plan for our 85 foot disk there and came back a confirmed tea drinker and a temporary Australian accent. And so on, and on and on...
Our Ever-Inspiring Glorious
My first ride in an aeroplane was in 1956. Mr. Leadabrand said I could go to Fairbanks with him. Our Western Airlines DC6b zoomed us up to Seattle where we boarded--at midnight--the Pandemonium World Scareways flight to Alaska. PanAm was really classy in those days with stewards and stewardii upstairs and downstairs in their giant luxury liners--tri-motored Boeing Stratocruisers (converted WW2 bombers). At first I did not understand the tri-motor appellation until I found out that these four-motored planes with their 10 foot 4-bladed props were grossly underpowered, almost always always lost an engine on take off--or half way across the Pacific from a runaway prop--and they were said not to be able to fly on three. Fifty-five gallons of oil went with each engine and all of this ended up splattered on fuselage and windows after a typical flight, dimming one's night time view of the white hot exhaust manifolds. The Stratocrusers were certainly quiet inside and the seats were lush and padded so the fact that we were lucky to get 200 knots was acceptable. J. Loren Dye later kept a log book of the names painted on the front of these PanAm planes: The Seven Seas, The Northern Lights, The Queen of the Skies, The Monarch of the Skies, The Southern Cross, and we all kept track of which plane we were on whenever we flew--until Loren found out that whenever PAA lost a plane at sea they seemed to just shift the names around so no one was the wiser.
On my very second Stratocruiser flight we lost an engine and landed at Bellingham. Years later flying from the Marshall islands to Hawaii in a military version a C97 our engine-out experience diverted us to a long miserable wait for repairs at Guam. But the pilot led me come up front in the flight and the view out the front was superb--great windows from floor to ceiling. The early days of flying for SRI got better when DC7s came along. They were very loud but much faster. One could fly all night to DC on the red-eye special, work all day at the Pentagon and fly home via a refueling stop in Chicago that same day. Ray thought we young engineers should commute back east at least once a month just to keep fit. Finally the luxurious Lockheed Super Cancellations came along with their very reclining seats and faster turbo-charged ride. I shall never forget my first 707 ride--New York to Miami in the days when PanAm had the only jet flight in the country. Shortly after that TWA started their 2:15 PM daily trip from SFO to Dulles and crowds lined up at the airport to watch a real, live 707 take off after using up all the runway and water injection besides. It was a long wait before Travel could get us reservations.
Well this true story is not about airplanes, actually. We all had tales to tell about flying because it was not long before Mr. R. and Mr. Vincent had projects all over the world and we all got to fly all the time. Since we had been told that work was fun we never doubted our great leader's call for more drive, or his cry "Faster" uttered in the halls ways when work seemed to be slowing down. But speaking of flying. a careful observer noted that Dr. Patterson could not be both in Washington DC briefing the President and Joint Chiefs AND teaching classes and running Engineering projects at SRI all simultaneously. Aftre hiring a private eye we learned that there existed two identical Dr. Pattersons, affectionately known as "I" and "II"--and that (quantum mechanically speaking) the average position of either of the two Dr. Petes was 35,000 feet over Kansas City at any given time. A portrait of our Founder and Very Great High Glorious Leader (F&VGHGL) found its way into the lobby where is probably resides to this day?
Came time to take the Stanford 61 foot dish to Fairbanks. It all got shipped by barge and rail and truck, and arrived in the dead of winter so Mr. Leadabrand and I went up and assembled the dish upside down in the snow, and with a little help we tied on the screen, too. A couple of months later J. Loren Dye and I went up to connect the dish to the mount. Our first exciting adventure was meeting Bud Hilton of Hilton's SteamThawing Service. Seems as if 40 below in Fairbanks can be troublesome if you want to pour concrete or get frozen snow off of a radar dish, but Bud showed up with truck and huge boiler and set us free in short order midst clouds of steam and artificial ice fog. It was at the Geophysical Institute that I first met a very nice grad student in wool shirts and jeans by the name of Bob Leonard. A young lady named Carol and Bob and a bunch of us from SRI took a trip down to Nenanna to see an old gold dredge on the Tanana River that winter--all lots of fun. In winter the sun comes up in Fairbanks in late morning, it grazes the southern sky and night sets in about 4 PM. There is not a lot else to do. We did eat well at the Fairbanks Inn, always on the look out for our favorite waitress, Miss Structurally Unsound, whose hour-glass figure narrowed at the waist to the vanishing point. We made jokes about our favorite bars being open 24 hours and since it was hard to tell when it was not night we could stay out too late all too easily. "Did I see the Institute vehicle parked in front of the Diamond Horsehoe again last night" asked someone from the Geophysical Institute on several occasions.
Mr. Leadabrand commends our Large Scale organ builder, Dick Stenger, who has just given a wonderful performance on a real steam calliope in the High Bay of Bldg 44. About 1972 I think.
Dedication speech by Slim Rubberband presenting authentic photo of our Glorious Founder, Alex Montflower Patterson I, II, to Commodore Lumbar Doldrums on the occasion of Doldrums sabbatical leave.
Young Dick Stenger, one of our all time best and most ingenious technicians was also the Large Scale Organ builder for Casavant Freres of Montreal had earlier he had introduced Roy Long and me to the wonderful world of pipe organs. We three, with organist C. Thomas Rhoads often visited all the major Bay Area theaters after the last movie show and climbed the organ lofts, and in fact we gave away a year of weekends restoring the Wurlitzer theater organ at the Lost Weekend Bar at 19th and Taraval in San Francisco for musician Larry Vannucci who became a dear friend. Roy even flew us in his overloaded Cessna to LA for a full weekend of church organ touring.
Well anyhow it was while Dick and J. Loren and I were in Fairbanks that we discovered that the Empire Theater had a pipe organ left over from the silent film days! Naturally we dropped out vital government project work and got the old Hope Organ playing again. The above libelous, untrue, fictional story by Jim Hodges borrows an actual daguerreotype of the work underway at 2 AM in the Empire Theater where our visionary leader Lumbar is vacuuming stale popcorn from the main pipe chest. Stenger was at the console at the time testing the hydraulic lift which was gummed up with old coca cola. In all fairness, Mr. Hedges is a likable, congenial person but he always got his facts mixed up trying to make up the funniest stories to post outside of the Lab Manager's office and later, upstairs, on the Lambert Dolphin Memorial Bulletin Board. Mr. Hodges was well intentioned, we do acknowledge that fact. Anecdotally, I think it worthwhile to mention my meeting with the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce and Ladies Aid society in Fairbanks in the early years (see photo, right). In a press interview describing the wonders of streaming charged particles from the sun becoming trapped in the magnetic field lines and ending up in Alaska, Dr. Patterson's remarks at a public meeting at Traveler's Inn had caused some careless, unnamed reporter to write that Dr. Patterson had come to their state with a new machine that could "turn off the aurora." The ensuing alarm and phone calls to E. Kinley Karter, SRI president, necessitated a series of home meetings to calm the local populace.
"Put the book down Daniel, Roy needs you.
Lambert has crashed the KL10 again"
SRI New Years' Party CA 1955 Ray Irvine at the Piano
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I was asked this question many times, so I think it should be present in a kind of FAQ in the future. Meanwhile...
Q: Where does the Instrumentation name come from ?
We here refer to the name that appears on the Instrumentation list in DevTools -> Instrumentation as showed in this screenshot.
By default we see android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner for all of our tests, so it would be very difficult to identify them
A: From the attributes of android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner in AndroidManifest.xml
That is, if the Label is not set in the manifest the default name is used. To set something meaningful for your tests set the label. In this case we shot Eclipse Android ADT manifest editor screen.


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A merchant and amateur horticulturalist from Dorchester, Mass., Marshall P. Wilder (1798-1886) was a key figure in American pomology during the mid-nineteenth century and a major supporter of agricultural education. A supreme organizer and institution builder, he was a founder and president of the American Pomological Society and United States Agricultural Society, and president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and New England Historic Genealogical Society. His 1849 address before the Norfolk Agricultural Society is often credited as an important catalyst for the creation of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and he served as trustee of the College from its opening in 1867 until his death in 1886.
The Wilder Collection consists primarily of printed works written or collected by Marshall P. Wilder, including materials pertaining to early meetings of the American Pomological Society and the United States Agricultural Society, his 1849 address to the Norfolk Agricultural Society, and his address to the first graduating class at MAC. Among the handful of manuscripts are a draft proposal to hold a national meeting of fruit growers (the inaugural meeting of the American Pomological Society), two letters regarding his donation of a large number of books to the MAC library, and a bound set of 22 beautiful watercolors of pear varieties painted by Louis B. Berckmans.
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- Agricultural exhibitions
- American Pomological Society
- Horticulture--Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Agricultural College. Trustees
- New-England Historic Genealogical Society
- Pomology--Massachusetts
- United States Agricultural Society
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- Wilder, Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney), 1798-1886
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30 Nov 2011 16:52:08 PM
Sean Sherk Planning a 2012 Return; Thinks He Can Beat Frankie Edgar the Second Time Around
(Sherk's hoping to get off the sidelines next year)
Sean Sherk has been noticeably absent from competition the past year since his UFC 119 split decision win over Evan Dunham, but it hasn't been by choice.
The 38-year-old former UFC lightweight champ, who has only fought twice since 2009, has had a rocky road the past three years with injuries forcing him out of fights with Gleison Tibau, Josh Neer and Jim Miller.
MMAHQ caught up with Sherk (36-4-1) during a recent seminar tour in the UK and "The Muscle Shark" said that he is planning on getting back in the Octagon next year and that he would like to take one final run at the lightweight strap before hanging up his four ounce gloves for good.
"It's a goal definitely and I've still got the skills and abilities to get back there up at the top. I've got to get back in there and get back to action as soon as I can. I know that next year will be very important to my career and to how I'm remembered in the sport and I'm ready to get back in there and start making a big difference in that division," Sherk says. "I need to get in the Octagon once or twice in the next year, get some wins and work my way back up to the lightweight title."Read More DIGG THIS


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National Philanthropy Day
The Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals honored 11 individuals and organizations that give back to the community during a ceremony celebrating National Philanthropy Day at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel. The 23rd annual event was the largest National Philanthropy Day event in Pittsburgh, treating more than 400 guests to food stations, hors d'oeuvres, and a presentation of awards to Pittsburgh's community leaders in philanthropy. Photography by Megan Wylie.Read More
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Tony Parker didn't transfer from UCLA following a disappointing freshman season, but not all of him is back.
The 6-foot-9 sophomore dropped 25 pounds since spending most of his first collegiate season injured, unhappy or both.
The man largely responsible for the transformation of Parker's new 255-pound body, UCLA strength coach Wes Long, is a major reason the four-star recruit decided not to return home to Atlanta as he referenced on twitter last season..
"We've got a great strength and conditioning coach in Wes Long and he really helped me," Parker said. "You definitely notice your ability to move a lot quicker, to go a lot harder… you're able to run the court faster. When you lose the weight, everything changes."
Having carved out a seemingly prominent role as the starting center a year after averaging 2.4 points and 1.2 rebounds, Parker isn't the only one happy he's still a Bruin. New head coach Steve Alford is likely breathing a sigh of relief at the development of his young center after UCLA finished last in the Pac-12 with a negative-1.6 rebounding margin a season ago.
Parker collected just five rebounds in the preseason opener on Thursday, but had 16 rebounds to go along with 17 points and four blocks in Monday's 109-79 win over Cal State San Marcos in the preseason finale.
"I've said it all summer long. I think (Parker) really started to develop some confidence when he lost his weight," Alford said. "Losing 20 pounds, he started moving better. Both offensively and defensively it started flowing so much better for him. Hopefully he's gained a lot of confidence in the exhibition season because he's played really well. Tonight he was really good."
The Bruins are certainly looking for changes in the front court after last season, but the personnel is virtually the same. On top of that, starting power forward Travis Wear will be out at least another two weeks following surgery to remove his appendix and last season's leading rebounder, Kyle Anderson, has taken over point guard duties.
Parker seems assured of the opportunity to make an impact. If he can provide any sort of a physical inside presence, its safe to say Alford will give him all the playing time he can handle.
Former Bruin De'End Parker returned to UCLA Monday a member of his fourth college team in five years.
The Cal State San Marcos senior was in the UCLA starting lineup for the second game of the 2011-12 season, injured his leg and never appeared in a Bruin uniform again.
Parker went home to San Francisco for Christmas break and never came back. He couldn't stand to leave Carmen Johnson, the woman who raised him in the stead of his biological mother, Johnson's best friend.
The combination of Johnson's battle with cancer and heart problems were of great concern to Parker, one of the 13 children she raised, three of which belonged to Parker's mother.
Parker was dismissed from UCLA for conduct detrimental to the team and transferred to the University of San Francisco before joining Cal State San Marcos this year. He scored 12 points on 4 of 9 shooting on Monday.
Parker averaged 11.7 points for USF last season and had 14 points and four assists in his Cal State San Marcos debut on Friday in the Cougars' preseason loss at San Diego State.
UCLA is taking its time warming up from beyond the 3-point arc.
The Bruins' second exhibition game saw an improvement from Thursday's 1-for-12 performance, but UCLA was just 2 for its first 12 before finishing 4 of 17.
Norman Powell, who was responsible for the Bruins' lone 3-pointer in a 96-66 win over Cal State San Bernardino on Thursday, wasn't a factor Monday, but Anderson was.
The sophomore, who more notably recorded a triple-double of 22 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, was 2 for 2 from deep.
The Bruins are now 5 for 29 from 3-point range in two exhibition games, but Alford was quick to point out they're averaging 103 points per game.
"If I have to do one or the other, I'll take the 103 a game" Alford said. "I think that's going to end up being a strength of ours because we've got some guys that can make the 3-point shot…We haven't gotten a lot of easy looks from 3. They've ended up being more difficult 3-point shots."
UCLA opens the regular season Friday against Drexel at Pauley Pavilion.


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Member since -2004
Joining ABWA in 2004 gave me the courage to transform our family printing business from outdated to new printing technology which gave us the edge over our local competition and helped to grow our business. Most importantly, ABWA gave me the opportunity to learn and practice leader skills so that I could be an effective leadership in a male dominated industry. Our business' success is in part attributed to my membership in ABWA.
Biggest Challenge
Like many working women, my biggest challenge is to find the balance between my work and family life. I believe organization is the key to happiness (and fewer headaches). One invaluable tip that I learned at an ABWA conference is to create a "prioritized to-do list" along with a "to-don't list" at the beginning of each week. I know first-hand it is the distractions that will derail you every time and cause you the biggest angst.
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In our challenging world, it is easy to forget who you are. So every week when you are checking off the items on your to-do and to-don't lists remember to check in with you! Make sure you are not getting lost in the muck and mire of life and taking life too seriously. Remain authentic and stay true to yourself. Ask for help when needed AND always be willing to share your knowledge and experiences with others.


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Nothing spells heartwarming comfort better than a pan of stuffed pork chops, my Mom's specialty, with homemade sausage stuffing.
Everyday pork chops are easily turned into something super special and impressive enough even for guests!
Assembling them couldn't be simpler – it's more about technique than precision.
The pork chops are covered in stuffing, stood up on their flattest side and stuck together in a row so the stuffing is layered in between. It's kind of like making your own pork rib roast.
You can use skewers to hold them together if needed and you can use as many pork chops as you like. I've seen my Mom make triple this amount. {You will need to make the full batch of stuffing if making more than eight pork chops, the recipe below is a half batch.)
You can use any type of pork chop you like – boneless or bone-in – thick or thin – they all work – it's completely up to you, keeping in mind the thicker ones will take longer to cook.
You can also use your own favorite stuffing recipe instead or even the instant boxed version for a time saver. I hate saying that because I think homemade is better but I know how pressed for time some of you are and I want you to be able to make this.
I use my Mom's Thanksgiving stuffing made with onions, celery, breakfast sausage, chicken and stuffing croutons.
You can add a chopped apple or pear and/or a handful or two of dried or fresh cranberries to it.
Pork loves a touch of sweetness to help bring out its best plus fruit pairs well with the sausage in the stuffing and its right for the season. A touch of sweetness to balance the savory.
You can't ask for more than that.
Or this.
Satisfaction completely guaranteed.
- 6 ounces pork breakfast sausage roll (like Jones )
- ½ cup diced yellow onion
- ⅓ cup diced celery
- coarse salt and fresh black pepper
- ½ of a (14 ounce) package herb seasoned stuffing (like Pepperidge Farm )
- 1 (14
ounce) can low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon melted butter, plus more for greasing pan
- 4 - 8 *pork chops (I use thin center-cut)
- 3 or 4 skewers
- Set a large skillet over medium heat and brown the sausage, breaking it apart as it cooks into small crumbles. Once it's cooked remove to a large mixing bowl. If there's a lot of grease drain some of it off leaving about a tablespoon in the pan.
- Add the onion and celery, season with salt and pepper and cook until tender, stirring often. Add it to the bowl with the sausage. Add the stuffing to the bowl and mix it with the sausage, onion, and celery.
- Pour the can of chicken broth over it and mix well. Drizzle the butter over it and mix well. Cover the bowl with plastic and let sit 5 - 10 minutes. Taste the stuffing and season with salt and pepper if needed.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. and grease the bottom of a large roasting pan.
- Lay two of the chops on the bottom of the pan and then press a layer of stuffing over top of each one. Stand one of the pork chops up on its flattest end and place the other one right up against it. Repeat until all the chops are used. Stick the skewers through them to hold them together.
- Pack the stuffing into all the nooks and crannies then pile whatever is left around the base of the chops.
- Cover loosely with aluminum foil for about the first 30 minutes - bake 45 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes depending on the thickness of your chops and how many you are using. Check one of the chops in the middle with a meat thermometer for doneness. Look for an internal temperature of 145 (for medium rare), 160 for medium and 170 for well done.
- Let rest 5 - 10 minutes before serving.


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January 21
Sen. Ron Wyden came to Hood River Sunday, looking and talking like an experienced high school civics teacher.
Education was the dominant theme as Wyden touched on numerous subjects, including expressing support for the compromise Healthy Forest Initiatives legislation and opposition to the federal Energy Bill.
"Education and job training. That's the ball game, folks," the Portland Democrat told a group of about 40 citizens in the Circuit Court room of Hood River County Courthouse. Sunday's forum was his 20th in two weeks, a fulfillment of his campaign promise seven years ago to hold one such event a year in every Oregon county.
"We need to emphasize lifelong education in our our state. This is not your grandfather's economy," Wyden said, stating that the typical person will change jobs three or four times in his or her working life.
"The economy, the economy, and the economy," Wyden said, in answer to one man's question about the top three issues he hears about at town halls.
"There's just so much hurt all across the state. Almost every issue is tied to it," Wyden said, who also said he would vote in favor of Oregon Ballot Measure 30, in support of the $800 million tax increase for 2003-05.
Health care, transportation and infrastructure development, and education are all linked economically, according to Wyden.
He termed as "a priority effort" support for community colleges such as Columbia Gorge Community College, saying higher education programs act as "a bank on which you can draw," and that job retraining efforts go hand-in-hand with the need to sustain infrastructure, such as roads and communications systems, in the interest of economic revitalization.
"This is a pinnacle of how we get high-skill, high-wage jobs," he said.
On the national front, Wyden said the Bush Administration's newly-passed energy bill is "an abomination — as bad a piece of special interest legislation I've ever seen," citing its relaxed controls on production of highly-enriched uranium.
"The most patriotic thing you can do is create a completely new energy bill," he said. Such a bill should emphasize production of solar, wind, and geothermal energy, Wyden said.
He also criticized the Bush Administration's tax cut plan.
"The middle class doesn't seem to be moving up," he said. "As far as the tax cut is concerned, most Oregonians got a small cut in federal taxes but are seeing big increases in local fees and charges — and they got a significant cut in services."
Wyden acknowledged that the intent of the tax cut is to provide economic stimulus, but argued that the current legislation goes about it the wrong way.
"With a tax cut that helps the middle class, and a smaller tax cut (for the rich) yet we would have the money to do some of these things. If we change the priorities, we can stimulate job growth."
Immigration was the third major national issue addressed by Wyden Sunday. He stressed that the extensive immigration law proposed by President Bush last week is just that — a proposal.
"There is no bill. He gave a speech," Wyden said of the president. "It may be a trial balloon."
Wyden said he would measure any immigration legislation before Congress in three ways, primarily that all discussions must "rest on the rule of law."
Also, lawmakers must "make sure it is fair to the people here already," he said. "We've got to be sensitive to the needs of the people who are here legally."
Third, "I'm in favor of saying that those who have been here illegally but have a positive work record and no criminal record should be given the right to earn citizenship." Wyden acknowledged that such talk is "controversial."
"We're at a big decision point," he said, regarding treatment of immigrants, legal and otherwise. "For years we've tried to have it both ways. We've claimed to be opposed to illegal immigration yet we look the other way at the people who make our beds in our hotels, cook our meals in restaurants, and bring in the crops from our fields."
"We live every day under this contradiction. It is unfair to everyone," he said.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
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All internet shoppers.
I am looking for various coupon/deal/bargain web site designs. While there can only be one winner of this contest, I will likely choose more than one design for private purchase.
Examples of popular coupon sites include:
- I have no domain picked out for this project, but would expect the winning designer(s) to be able to add a simple logo when the contest is ended. Feel free to use the fake domain "MyCouponSite.com" during the design process
- Coding is not required, but if the designer is a skilled CSS coder, I am willing to pay $75 for translation into fully compliant HTML. (no tables please!)
- The design should include room for "categories" as is common of coupon sites.
- An "about us", "privacy policy," and "contact us" page link should be included. If design is not provided for these extra pages, please make sure the main page design is easily customizable for these additional pages.
- Each participating merchant included in the web site will need its own page. These pages should be based off the main page design - ultimately, I just need a template to include the coupon/deal information for every merchant.
I understand it is difficult to create a "theme" without a domain name but I hope that will inspire designs that are clean and classy enough to reach across any general coupon web site domain name