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Special Collections
This area contains 200 manuscript collections, comprising nearly 1800 linear feet of material, plus a number of individual manuscript items. Each of these collections is described in brief on ODYsseus the Libraries' online catalog. Additionally, many have detailed finding aids, searchable here. Others will be added to this list as they are completed. If you find you have questions about the collections after you have read the catalog entries or finding aids, please contact us.
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Collection Number: 71Collection Length: 1.20ftPeriod: 1897 to 1898
Howard Burt was a prosperous farmer, who lived in Hannawa Falls, N.Y. He was tried and convicted of murdering his father-in-law Asa Briggs in 1897, in an attempt to murder his wife Rhoda. The collection consists of materials relating to the murder and subsequent trial in Hannawa Falls, N.Y. that formed the basis for Irving Bacheller's book The House of Three Ganders. Included are newspaper clippings, transcripts of the trial and appeal, bullets, affidavits and photographs.Finding Aid: MSS71fa_0.pdf
Collection Number: 80Collection Length:Period: 1300 to 1500
A collection consisting of 6 vellum leaves and 3 folded vellum sheets of 14th and 15th century illuminated manuscripts. Includes portrait of St. Lawrence.Finding Aid: MSS80fa.pdf
Collection Number: 81Collection Length:Period: 1450 to 1500
A collection consisting of 75 incunabula leaves, chiefly Gothic type, originally bought together by the Leamington Book Shop, Washington, D.C. and acquired by the University in 1953. Includes 3 additional leaves acquired by the library. Includes bibliographical references.Finding Aid: MSS81fa.pdf
Collection Number: 1Collection Length: 4.00ftPeriod: 1890 to 1947
Born in Pierrepont, NY, and a graduate of St. Lawrence University, Bacheller was a best-selling turn-of-the-century author who later founded the Bacheller Syndicate which introduced several major authors, e.g. Stephen Crane, to American readers. His final career was that of circuit lecturer for the J. B. Pond Lyceum Bureau. Bacheller spent his final years in Winter Park, FL, home of Rollins College. The collection consists of business and personal letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works by Bacheller.Finding Aid: mss1fa.pdf
Collection Number: 186Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1930 to 1932
Dr. James M. Payson was a founding faculty member of the State School of Agriculture, which was founded in 1907 at St. Lawrence University. He was born in South Freedom, Maine in 1848. He was educated in Maine and began a teaching career there until coming to Canton to enroll in the Universalist Theological School here. He married Flora Bassett just before graduating in 1874. He then spent 19 years as a minister in Sherman, New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin until returning to Canton to serve as pastor of the Universalist Church. Upon the founding of the Ag school, Dr.Finding Aid: MSS 186fa.pdf
Collection Number: 181Collection Length: 7.25ftPeriod: 1969 to 1977
J. Moreau Brown was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and a vice chairman of the Bicentennial Council of the Thirteen Original States; two of the dozens of organizations formed to plan and implement appropriate events for the celebration of the nations 200th birthday in 1976. He had served earlier in his career as Director of Admissions for St. Lawrence University, as well as in positions at New York University and General Electric.Finding Aid: View Finding Aid
Collection Number: 146Collection Length: 10.00ftPeriod: 1891 to 1915
James Ricalton was born about 1844, in Waddington, NY, and died in Waddington in 1929. He was a school teacher, traveler, inventor, and photographer. After briefly attending St. Lawrence University (class of 1871) Ricalton left before taking a degree and moved to Maplewood, New Jersey in 1871 where he worked as a school teacher. By all accounts, he was an extraordinary teacher, and his legacy is celebrated in the South Orange-Maplewood School District.Finding Aid: MSS146fa.pdf
Collection Number: 106Collection Length: 2.00ftPeriod: 1807
Jefferson County became a county on March 28, 1805. It is bordered on the north by the St. Lawrence River, the south by Lewis County, the east by St. Lawrence County and the west by Oswego County and Lake Ontario. The county has approximately 44 villages and towns and 1 city with the county seat in Watertown. The collection consists of high school yearbooks, almanacs, programs and flyers from various functions in the county and information on Watertown including a photo book.Finding Aid: MSS106fa.pdf
Collection Number: 19Collection Length: 1.66ftPeriod: 1947 to 1993
Born in 1913 in Greenwich Village, NY, John DePol taught himself to draw while still a teenager. During World War II he was stationed in Ireland, where he took time to study lithography at the Belfast College of Art. However, it was not until 1947 that he began to teach himself the art for which he was to become famous--that of wood-engraving.Finding Aid: MSS19fa.pdf
Collection Number: 131Collection Length: 1.50ftPeriod: 1864 to 1920
John Reckard was born on January 13, 1842 in Leeds, Ontario, Canada. He lived for most of his life in Brier Hill, a small village outside of Morristown, New York. During his life John worked as a Wheelwright in Brier Hill. He joined the United States Army on August 3, 1863 and served in the 14th Regiment of the New York State Heavy Artillery Division. John was married twice. John died on February 18, 1915 at the age of seventy-three years old; he is buried in the Morristown cemetery in Morristown, NY. The majority of this collection is made up of the diaries of John Reckard.Finding Aid: MSS131fa.pdf
Collection Number: 149Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1832 to 1877
John Van Vechten (1822-1869) was the son of John Van Vechten (? - ?) and Letita Sebring (1790- 1854). Van Vechten's ancestors were among the early residents of New York City. It was through the extensive holdings of lumber interests in northern New York that he became a resident of Chateaugay when he came here to look after these interests.Finding Aid: MSS149fa.pdf
Collection Number: 38Collection Length: 2.00ftPeriod: 1826 to 1866
Jonathan Wallace, (1784-1873) was a Universalist minister in Potsdam, New York until he was asked to leave the ministry due to an inappropriate relationship with a parishioner. The collection consists of Wallace's sermon's (most of which are referenced to biblical verses) and long poems. Also included is a framed portrait of Rev. Wallace.Finding Aid: MSS38fa_0.pdf
Collection Number: 134Collection Length: 2.50ftPeriod: 1937 to 2001
Born in 1909, Joseph Dobose entered military training in the U.S. Army in 1942. On June 13, 1944 he arrived in Greenock, Scotland. On August 10, 1944 he landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. He crossed into Germany in early December 1944 and then returned to the U.S. in October of 1945 and was honorably discharged. In 1945 he was awarded the Combat Infantry Man's badge for exemplary conduct. This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, maps and personal documents of Joseph Doboze mostly relating to his service in the Second World War.Finding Aid: MSS134fa.pdf
Collection Number: 101Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1840 to 1876
Joshua Britton was born in Westmorland, NH in 1803 and died at Fork Atkinson, WI in 1878. He was ordained as a Universalist Minister in 1832 and served as pastor in Dudley, MA; Stoddard, NH; Bradford, VT and Fort Atkinson, WI. The collection consists of Universalist pamphlets and clippings as well as letters to Britton from the 1840's and the 1850's.
Collection Number: 166Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1850 to 1950
An example of a Buddist religious text from Burma, Southeast Asia. This collection consists of a total of 12 leaves of Burmese Kammavaca manuscript on gilt palm leaves or lacquered cloth. 10 of the manuscript pages have a cover of lacquered boards, representing a complete text used in a Buddist ordination ritual.
Collection Number: 129Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1859 to 1883
Born in Pierrepont, New York, in 1839, Orlando Knapp moved to Indiana, sometime around 1859, where he met and married Armina Cordelia Edmonds. They had two children before she died in 1862. At this point Orlando enlisted in the 12th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. While away from home he wrote to his sister, Charlotte, who lived in Pierrepont. After the war Orlando became a traveling salesman, working in Indiana, New Hampshire eventually settling in Howard City, Michigan. In the mid 1870's he ran a grocery store with his son James. He died in Howard City in 1917.Finding Aid: MSS129fa.pdf
Collection Number: 152Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1895
Leroy Wilson Coons (1872-1948) received his Bachelors of Divinity from St. Lawrence University in 1895, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by SLU in 1915. He was ordained in Universalist Church in Winthrop, NY in 1895 and led a number of Universalist churches in Maine and Massachusetts over the course of his career in ministry. In 1922, Rev. Coons was appointed Superintendent of the Universalist Church in Massachusetts, a position he held until his retirement in 1942. Rev. Coons married Elsie Loraine Thomas, (SLU n 1900) in the Canton Universalist Church in 1897.Finding Aid: MSS152fa.pdf
Collection Number: 173Collection Length: 16.25ftPeriod: 1840 to 1962
John Stebbins Lee (1820-1902) was born in Vernon, Vermont and was educated at Amherst College, graduating in 1841. He became a respected minister in the Universalist church and held teaching positions and pastorates in New Hampshire and Vermont. From 1858 to 1869, Lee taught Latin and Greek at St. Lawrence University, while also serving as the college's first President. After travelling through Europe and the Holy Land, Lee returned to SLU and taught at the Theological School for many years. He died in 1902 in Canton.Finding Aid: mss173_fa.pdf
Collection Number: 107Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1833
Lewis County became a county March 28, 1805. Lewis County is bordered on the north by St. Lawrence County, on the south by Oneida County, and on the east by Herkimer County and on the west by Jefferson and Oswego Counties. The county has approximately 30 towns and villages with the county seat in Lowville. This collection consists of a 1833-1868 land ledger, a fair souvenir program (1935), and a 1949-1950 flyer on the highway department.Finding Aid: MSS107fa.pdf
Collection Number: 114Collection Length: 0.50ftPeriod: 1958 to 1966
Log book of ships passing Massena, N.Y. on the Saint Lawrence Seaway kept by the Cook family from 1958-1966. Includes name of each ship, length, dates and direction.
Collection Number: 73Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1798 to 1892
Lucia Millham (Mrs. Newton Millham) from Glen Cove, New York was the former Lucia Pink of Kew Gardens. In 1932 she graduated from St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York. This unprocessed collection consists of correspondence dating from 1798 until 1892, with most letters are from the Hazelton (Haselton) family. Other items included are a stockholder meeting notice of the Potsdam and Watertown Railroad Company (1853), pamphlet on Hon. William Kelly (Democratic Candidate for Governor of State of New York), deed between Louisa Olin and S. W.Finding Aid: MSS73fa.pdf
Collection Number: 24Collection Length: 4.00ftPeriod: 1893 to 1953
Diaries of Mabel S. Laidlaw and her daughter Helena Laidlaw Livermore of Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Collection consists of diaries kept by a wife and a daughter of a Doctor in Canton, N.Y., and provides a daily log of domestic life in the first part of the century. Other items include automobile records, autograph books, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, correspondence and microfilm of diaries.
The image at left comes from Mrs. Laidlaw's scrapbook.Finding Aid: MSS24fa.pdf
Collection Number: 26Collection Length: 0.75ftPeriod: 1899 to 1917
The diaries for 1901 and 1902 have been published as: Dear home Mabel Lila Wait was born in Canton, N.Y. on October 2, 1876. After her parents death she managed the family farm alone until she married Fred Roberts in 1901. Mabel and Fred continued to live on the Wait farm throughout their lives. They had one daughter, Gladys, born in 1908. In addition to doing farm work, Fred taught school in the Brick Chapel district. They both attended Grange functions in Crary Mills, and Mabel was active in the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid Society at Brick Chapel.Finding Aid: MSS26fa.pdf
Collection Number: 117Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1829 to 1868
Two account books for the town of Madrid, N.Y. Town Supervisor's account book 1829-1868 and "Book of public land of the town of Madrid", 1840-1859. Both contain names of individuals, dates, and amounts paid.
Collection Number: 99Collection Length: 0.75ftPeriod: 1951 to 1986
Maitland C. De Sormo was born August 26, 1906 in Canton, N.Y., was educated in Malone, N.Y., Hamilton College, New York University and Columbia University. He was a high school teacher for almost 40 years. He was the owner of Adirondack Yesteryears in Saranac Lake and was the author/editor of many articles and books on the Adirondacks. Maitland C. De Sormo died January 24, 1993 in Saranac Lake, N.Y. The collection consists of 117 letters from various historians (Paul Jamieson and Atwood Manley), the bulk of the correspondence is from individuals at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.Finding Aid: MSS99fa.pdf
Collection Number: 150Collection Length: 0.75ftPeriod:
Malcolm McCormick, born in Gouverneur, NY to parents James F (1889-1978) and Eula M. Mckenney McCormick (1892-1979) studied the arts and dance. Malcolm, a 1945 graduate from Canton High School was the soloist(lead dancer) at the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City from 1951-1959. He returned to northern New York after teaching in the department of dance and theater at UCLA. Malcolm brought with him an interest in the founding of Canton, NY and his father's alma mater, St. Lawrence University.Finding Aid: MSS150fa.pdf
Collection Number: 17Collection Length: 1.25ftPeriod: 1830 to 1903
The Man brothers, Alric and Dr Albon, moved to Westville, Franklin County, New York from Addison, Vermont in 1803. Albon had two sons; Buel and Ebenezer. Ebenezer Man was on the first Board of Commissioners of the Water Works, at the time of the Salmon River development, and land agent for Edward Ellice of London who owned large parcels of land around Malone. The papers are closely connected with the Parish-Rosseel collection (MSS. COLL. NO. 005) as Joseph Rosseel, land agent for David Parish, was the general agent for Edward Ellice.Finding Aid: MSS17fa.pdf
Collection Number: 49Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 1936 to 1972
Marianne Craig Moore, American Poet, was born November 15, 1887 in Missouri and died February 5, 1972 in Brooklyn, NY. Miss Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1909. She taught school at the United States Indian School in Carlisle, Pa., was a secretary to a girls school, 1921-1925 was an assistant librarian at the Hudson Park Branch of the New York Public Library, and from 1926-1929 edited the literary magazine "The Dial". Miss Moore was the recipient of many awards including the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize.Finding Aid: MSS49fa.pdf
Collection Number: 50Collection Length: 5.50ftPeriod: 1882 to 1959
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882 and died April 12, 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia. He was educated at Groton in Massachusetts, received a B.A. in history from Harvard in 1903, and studied law at Columbia University. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt in 1905 and they had six children. He was Governor of New York in 1928 and became President in 1932 until his death in 1945. The Franklin D. Roosevelt collection was donated to St. Lawrence University in February 1965 by Dr. Harold T.Finding Aid: MSS50fa.pdf
Collection Number: 207Collection Length: 0.25ftPeriod: 2002 to 2004
Mark Swanson spent much of his life as a resident of the Adirondack Park, and has written extensively in the form of personal journals and diaries over the last 50 years. Mr. Swanson describes his writings as "Thoreauvian in nature", documenting the author's "day to day life in and relationship with the region". He has lived in Saranac Lake since 1981, and was brought up around the Adirondack Park, where his grandfather was a state game warden and his great uncle a caretaker at Bog Lake Camp.Finding Aid: mss207fa.pdf


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As electrical system design work grows more complex and becomes more closely linked with other project design elements, design engineers are turning to their desktop computers for a helping hand. Facing more time and budget constraints — and the need to get projects designed right the first time — engineers are finding a reliable ally in new generations of PC-based electrical design software. Increasingly powerful, versatile, and user-friendly, the software is giving users more tools than ever to quickly and accurately perform complex calculations and design/evaluate systems that will work in a variety of real-world applications.
One fan of electrical design software, Tom Baker, leader of control/electrical systems for the gas, oil and chemicals (GOC) business of Black & Veatch Corp., an Overland Park, Kan.-based engineering, construction, and consulting company, says it's become indispensable as the electrical and instrumentation component of GOC projects grows more complex.
"It's a simple fact that the wiring running through the plants we design, from source to destination, no longer runs through just a few terminals, and that power gets to its destination in a single shot," says Baker. "You have branches, relays, and power moving to many different places before reaching its destination. Instead of a one-to-one relationship with circuits, you increasingly have to deal with a one-to-many relationship, and that poses a problem in designing a relational database to handle all of that information. Designers need to be able to see all of that on a computer screen and in a database — and that's been a challenge."
Likewise, Vic Steffen, vice president/group manager in the San Francisco office of Syska Hennessy Group, Inc., a New York consulting engineering firm, says electrical design software has grown in importance to engineers as it has evolved and improved over the years.
"It's definitely a tool we use here in designing power distribution systems for our projects," he says. "It's really streamlined things compared to how we designed years ago in the sense that it gets things done faster and provides very reliable data. That wasn't always the case when this software first came out. It often produced erroneous results that were quite obvious to an engineer. But now that the products have gone through the mill, they're much more reliable."
Attributes expand. Advances in information technology have produced an array of design software choices. While some packages are designed to be extremely user-friendly, others cater to more novice users. And, where some are designed to link easily with CAD-based drawing software, others are stand-alone products more oriented to doing calculations and generating reports in the pre-design phase. Users looking to purchase or upgrade; therefore, must understand their needs and evaluate products in light of the tasks they'll have to perform.
For instance, electrical design engineers who work on petrochemical projects at Dallas-based design engineer Fluor Corp. are increasingly interested in being able to mesh their work with that of mechanical, plumbing, and other disciplines. This has led the company to begin transitioning to a new electrical design software platform.
Troy Weaver, an electrical applications specialist with the company, says Huntsville, Ala.-based software developer Intergraph Corp.'s new SmartPlant Electrical 2007 software will offer better linkage to the enhanced SmartPlant plant design suite, giving Fluor designers a way to better tie their designs and databases to those generated by mechanical, piping, civil, and structural designers.
"It will enable us to do standard things like tracking cable runs, calculating voltage drops, and keeping equipment load lists, but one of the main benefits will be to keep everyone involved in a project in the same database rather than in individually generated spreadsheets," Weaver says. "Everything our engineers do will be captured in a database and used to produce drawings, templates, reports, or whatever is needed. It will take care of all the calculations, track revisions, and alert our users to changes in other designs that could affect our work, such as motor sizes. The goal in moving to this new software is to get all the databases talking to each other."
As more attention is paid to completing projects on time and accurately, Weaver says Fluor's adoption of electrical design capabilities that interfaces readily with designs of other disciplines will hopefully yield less bumpy and more glitch-free projects.
"This setup will produce better conflict and collision alerts, and with the shorter budgets and tighter schedules we're facing now, we have to all find better ways to do our engineering but ensure that all disciplines are seeing the same data at the same time," he says.
Some designers are attracted to software that can easily work with other programs that are vital to the design process, most notably CAD software. Bill Hodges, an electrical designer with LAN Associates, a Midland Park, N.J.-based engineering firm, lauds a recent enhancement to Volts, an electrical design software program marketed by Dolphins Software, Sacramento, Calif. The software now can "talk" with AutoCAD, one of the leading CAD programs, marketed by Atlanta-based Autodesk, Inc.
"Volts has integrated AutoCAD DXF, enabling seamless interoperability between Volts and AutoCAD or other DXF [drawing interchange format] CAD programs," Hodges says. "The new feature means we can now save time and money by eliminating the need to print reports and schedules and have them manually drafted into CAD files. This function should help minimize errors, increase productivity, and lead to improved documents."
Cashing in on customization. For other users, the most attractive feature of any electrical design software is its computing power and ease of use in creating complex diagrams. For some, high-end products, such as those marketed by Operation Technology, Inc., Irvine, Calif., (under the ETAP brand); Easy Power, Portland, Ore.; and SKM Systems Analysis, Inc., Manhattan Beach, Calif., targeted at experienced users might be the better choice.
Steffen, who witnessed the emergence of design software and saw it become more user-friendly and capable over the years, says the best software takes the hard labor out of the design process and serves as a check of whether competent design engineers are on the right track.
"The software is usually not a hands-off, totally automated system — we often use it to check the designs we've developed," says Steffen. "We'll lay out an electrical distribution system — complete with panelboards, busways, switchgear, and other components that power the building. We'll have the software check load flows, and flag something if we have more load on a circuit than it can bear — plus calculate short-circuit ratings at each point in the system to help us in selecting panelboards, distribution equipment and cable ratings, and perform selective coordination studies."
However, a growing number of users are seeking an array of different functionalities in electrical design software. Designers at Glumac, a San Francisco-based consulting engineering firm, are starting to use new design software marketed by Autodesk that is both powerful when it comes to design capabilities and robust when it comes to information accessibility and sharing.
Jennifer Ferguson, an electrical designer with Glumac, says Autodesk's new Revit MEP software will give experienced systems designers a way to build systems that use information stored in databases that house total project information.
"More than a drafting tool, this is a design tool that allows engineers to get more into the details of engineering because it supports them with calculations that you can't get in CAD-based design systems or other design software," she says. "In the past, we've had to use Excel or other programs to do electrical calculations, but with Revit engineers are able to develop detailed electrical designs. But it takes a design-level person to use it, because it's only as good as the information that's put into it."
Equally important, Ferguson says, is the software's ability to give electrical design engineers access to other relevant project information that affects their designs. Built to work within the emerging concept of building information modeling (BIM), Revit helps ensure that all of a project's design engineers are working off the same script.
"The holistic element of the software is huge," she says. "It helps ensure that your design works with the entire building so you don't have to come back and make costly design changes in the construction phase."
Black & Veatch's Baker agrees that one of the essential elements of any electrical design software is its ability to track and incorporate changes as a project progresses. The company is moving toward new generations of software that incorporate those features, he says.
"The big challenge in using any of this software is revision control," he says. "Some of the new design software we're working with has document management capabilities that track and cycle changes back to a master working file. What's really improved is the user-friendliness of how that change is presented. Data dumps of the past would overwhelm you. Change control and management functions are getting more mature in many of these products."
Staying ahead of the curve. For all the emphasis on making new generations of electrical design software more collaborative and easier to use, many users still value software for its ability to perform a variety of complex calculations and reflect emerging design trends.
Syska Hennessy's Steffen cites the ability of more software packages to perform arc flash analysis as an example of software developers' efforts to add important functionality.
"In electrical design, things tend to evolve, and new concerns with respect to distribution systems emerge," he says. "Means are now built into some software packages to calculate the energy release when a panel or switchboard fails that causes an arc flash. Software will calculate that energy release based on short-circuit studies and provide information as to the type of protective equipment that personnel will need when they work on the system."
For the typical user, however, modern electrical design software continues to provide the essential productivity-enhancing and labor-saving elements present in any software. As the process grows more complex — not to mention interdependent on other engineering designs — designers will be looking to turn more of that work over to software.
LAN Associates' Hodges says electrical design software has definitely transformed his work. "Electrical design is no big secret; it's just time consuming," he says. "Technology and software facilitates the design process by automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, and standardizing and managing design data. It increases productivity and eliminates or minimizes errors compared to the manual design process. The use of design software is necessary to remain competitive."
Zind is a freelance writer based in Lee's Summit, Mo.
Sidebar: Cracking the Whip on Design Software
The useful life of electrical design software has always been limited. Once a project is complete, all of the software's computing power usually sits idle until it's redeployed on a fresh job. But design engineers and software vendors may be looking at how to make it continue to work for project owners on into the future.
"The opportunity to take the electrical design beyond just documentation needed to build a structure, and go past that to apply it to the ongoing performance and maintenance of a building throughout its lifecycle is an intriguing capability," says Jennifer Ferguson, an electrical designer with Glumac, a San Francisco-based consulting engineering firm.
Ferguson can easily imagine the day when design software can be built to serve as a key facility management tool for project owners.
"I can see it becoming a living document of sorts that can be given to facility managers or owners and enable them to see how their systems are performing and identify areas that may need maintenance," she says. "Instead of going through a traditional troubleshooting exercise to determine the cause of a problem, the software and the model it built can be pulled up to see how the system was originally designed."
Some design software is currently capable of being used in a similar fashion. Vic Steffen, vice president/group manager with Syska Hennessy, a New York consulting engineering firm, says some clients do retain access to the databases and models built by design software. Owners sometimes use it as a reference tool when they modify, expand, or otherwise change a system component. "It's not just a design tool; it can serve as a maintenance and upgrade tool as well," he says.


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Sunday, June 21, 2009
The First Tomato of the Season
While I confess, I have plucked a couple of the small Romas to toss in a salad here and there, and I did have a few Fried Green Tomatoes too, and I considered having a salad or sandwich with the first of the bigger tomatoes. But ... I could really think of no better way to honor the very first big tomato to ripen from my garden than to eat it, straight up, unadulterated, but for kosher salt, fresh cracked pepper and a dab of real mayo on the side.
Homegrown tomatoes simply put grocery store tomatoes to shame. The aroma and flavor is just amazing... so juicy, so tasty. There just ain't nothin' like it. Mm Mm Mmmmm. I sure hope y'all planted some this year!!
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Mary, your blog is lovely and your tomatoes are gorgeous! I can't wait to someday be a homeowner, or at least a garden owner, but it's more difficult (and expensive) than it may sound here in Southern California. Truth be told, I've never had a fried green tomato, though yours look divine!ReplyDelete
Oh Yummy Mary! You are so right, there's nothing like home grown tomatoes. I was thinking about trying a plant or two but it's so late now I think I'll just have to wait until next year to give tomatoes a try.ReplyDelete
My mouth is watering...ReplyDelete
still waiting for ours. lots of people in the area have tomatoes getting really big but not ripening. some say it's because it hasn't been hot enough yet (WHAT!?! yeah right!!!). anyways, we planted late and i'm hoping that means ours will do what they're supposed to. :)ReplyDelete
I will have to enjoy homegrown tomatoes vicariously, as there are none for 300 miles in any direction. *sigh* Yours sure look tasty!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks Cori and thanks for stopping by!ReplyDelete
Kathy, The stores around here are still selling plants so I say go for it. Grab one, stick it in a container and in a couple of months you'll have tomatoes!
CH, I need to get over and visit your blog more often - I'll try to do better about that. Not sure about the temperature thing, but I can tell you that some people fertilize with a fertilizer that is too high nitrogen throughout the season - like Miracle Gro. If you already have fruit set and use MG, then the tomatoes will go dormant while the plant focuses on green growth and it'll take the fruit longer to ripen.
Aww Penniwig - that's so sad!!
I can't argue with a thing you've said. When are softball size Brandywines come in, we cut thick slices and place them on buns like hamburgers. They are incredibly good.ReplyDelete
yummy!!! I just stopped over from voting for you !!!!ReplyDelete
That is one gorgeous and perfectly ripe tomato Mary! Nothing better than homegrown veggies.ReplyDelete
That's the way to eat the first tomato! Yummmmmm!ReplyDelete
There is nothing is better than a homegrown delicious juicy tomato. Yours looks mouthwatering!ReplyDelete
We have 8 tomato plants out plus one grape tomato on the porch in it's own planter. That way we can eat more of it's goodness. Very nice blog by the way.ReplyDelete
Ohh, my mouth is watering looking at that beautiful tomato! We have had so much rain. I put my plants in about 3 weeks ago, a little late, and they are just about the same size. I'm hoping when the sun does finally come out we'll be able to watch them grow!ReplyDelete
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• The Schedule
Friday, November 4, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara vs. UC Irvine (9-13, 3-6)
at UCSB's Thunderdome (6,000)
Series record vs. the Anteaters – 65-9
Streak – Won 5
Last time out vs. the Anteaters – W, 3-0 (10/8/11)
Match broadcast live on BigWest.TV
Live stats available here
• Top 10 Talent
Senior libero Chelsey Lowe moved into 10th place all-time in UCSB history with her 40 digs last weekend. Lowe has accumulated 1,271 digs in her Gaucho career, passing Liz Towne (1985-88) for 10th in career digs. Next on the list is her predecessor, Leigh Stephenson (2005-08), who had 1,306 digs. Lowe, a native of Yorba Linda, Calif., is averaging 5.22 digs per set, which leads the Big West and ranks her 29th in the country. She has had at least 20 digs in 16 of the Gauchos' 24 matches and also leads the Big West in digs during conference play (5.35).
• They Can Dig It
Speaking of digs, as a team UCSB is averaging 17.56 digs per set, which ranks the Gauchos first in the Big West and 22nd nationally in the stat. UCSB also leads the conference in digs per league matches with 18.63. Chelsey Lowe and Leah Sully each rank in the top-10 in the Big West in overall digs, one of just two sets of teammates to do so.
• RPI Report
In the second Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) released by the NCAA on Monday, UCSB ranks 59th in the nation and is the second-highest Big West team ranked behind Long Beach State (No. 50). This bodes well for the Gauchos who don't face a conference foe with a conference record over .500 the rest of the season.
• Lily Lopez: Leading Lady
Though she no longer leads the conference in hitting percentage, senior middle blocker Lily Lopez still paces the team with her .323 clip, ranking her sixth amongst her conference mates and 112th in the nation. The native of Santa Ana, Calif. has had a terrific stretch – in her last 15 matches she is hitting s hitting .337 (157-39-350) with an average of 10.46 kills per match and 3.46 total blocks per match (nine solo, 43 assisted). In conference matches Lopez is hitting .323, which is fourth in the Big West. On the year she is averaging with 2.22 kills per set and 0.85 blocks per set.
• About Schmidt
It's rare when a senior as decorated as Stacey Schmidt can reach new heights, but that's exactly what the two-time All-Big West First Team pick did last weekend. Schmidt set a career-high with 24 kills against UC Davis and turned in a pair of double-doubles. The All-American leads the team in kills with 2.92 per set and blocks with 0.95 per set. She it hitting .288, eighth in the Big West, and her 0.29 aces per set are fourth in the conference.
• Double Dipper
In 17 of the Gauchos' 24 matches this season – this coming after she missed all of last year due to a torn ACL – Leah Sully has recorded a double-double, including in 12 of her last 15 matches. On the season the sophomore from Irvine, Calif. is averaging 2.80 kills and 3.71 digs per set – both ranking second on the team. Sully is also third in the conference with her 0.32 ace per set average.
• Killin' Kara
In Big West play, sophomore Kara Sherrard leads UCSB with her 3.12 kills per set, ranking her 10th in the conference in league matches. Sherrard has posted 11 double-doubles this season – including nine in her last 10 matches – and set a new career-best with her 22 digs vs. Pacific. Her 3.41 digs in conference play rank her third on the team and the Lancaster, Calif. native has recorded double-digit kills in 14 matches this season.
• Helping Hands
Freshman setter Hanna Nielson handed out 63 assists in the match vs. UC Davis, already placing her sixth all-time at UCSB in single-match history. Nielson's number actually tied two-time All-American Dana Vargas' career-high. The Saratoga, Calif. native cracked the 1,000-assist plateau already this year (1,024) and over her last 16 matches has six 50-assist efforts. Her 10.45 assists per set are fourth in the conference and 74th in the nation.
• Jenna's Block Party
Sophomore Jenna Wilson ranks fourth in the Big West with her team-high 15 solo blocks and the middle blocker is tied with Stacey Schmidt for the team lead with her 0.95 per set block average. In conference matches, Wilson is averaging 1.05 per set.
• Smoking Aces
As a team the Gauchos are averaging 1.18 service aces per set, which places them second behind Cal State Northridge in the conference.


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"Chinese Bridge" Summer Camp for High School Students
To promote exchange between the youth of China and the US, and enhance the understanding of high school students of Chinese language and culture, thus to stimulate their interest in learning Chinese language and culture, the Confucius Institute Headquarters/Hanban has been sponsoring the "Chinese Bridge" Summer Camp for high school students since 2007. Over 5,000 high schools students around the U. S. have attended the camp since then.
During the 3 week-long camp in China, students will study Chinese language and culture (paper-cutting, calligraphy, brush painting, tea ceremony, martial arts, etc.) in traditional classrooms, and participate in various sports and cultural activities (a friendly basketball match, international student get-together, host family experience, etc.); they will also experience various points of interest of China's long history, and viewing sites of natural beauty. Daily itineraries and curricula will be developed by schools and provincial departments of education.
Confucius Institute at UT Dallas helps the Headquarters/ Hanban organize the Summer Camp in the DFW area. Its duties include publicizing the Camp, screening and communicating with the applicants, answering questions, coordinating between the Headquarters and the participants, etc., which have to be facilitated in the US.


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Upside-Down Apple Cake
Makes 6 to 8 servings
It serves double duty, as a fancy breakfast cake that can be served cold or re-warmed in the oven. Using bananas in place of eggs keeps it vegan. Instead of conventional whipped topping, try topping the cake with "Maple Tofu Whip!" (for Maple Tofu Whip recipe: see under Episode #101)
3 tablespoons vegan margarine
4 teaspoons brown sugar
1⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1⁄2 teaspoon sea salt
1⁄2 cup brown sugar
1 apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
1⁄2 cup raisins
1 cup plain or vanilla nondairy milk
2 ripe bananas, mashed until smooth
1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
Confectioners' sugar or ground cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly spread vegan margarine over the sides of an 8-inch square baking pan, then line the bottom with parchment paper.
To make the topping, melt the margarine in a medium skillet over medium heat. Decrease the heat to low and sprinkle in the brown sugar. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens slightly and becomes syrupy, about 7 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the cinnamon. Add the apples and stir gently until evenly coated. Transfer to the prepared pan, spreading the apples in an even layer.
To make the cake, put the flours, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl and stir with a dry whisk to combine. Add the brown sugar and stir with the whisk to combine. Add the apple and raisins and stir until coated with the flour. Stir in the nondairy milk, bananas, and oil and mix just until incorporated. Do not overmix or the cake will be tough.
Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Put the pan on a baking sheet and bake for 45 to 55 minutes, until golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If the cake begins to brown too much during the last 15 minutes of baking, tent it with foil.
Put the pan on a wire rack and loosen the sides with a knife. Let cool for about 15 minutes. Invert onto a serving platter and carefully peel off the parchment paper. Let cool for 10 minutes longer before slicing. Sprinkle the cake with confectioners' sugar or cinnamon if desired. Serve warm or at room temperature. Wrapped tightly and refrigerated, leftover cake will keep for about 4 days.
Jazzy Vegetarian Not Liver
Makes 6 to 8 servings
This tasty dip is a satisfying appetizer year-round, but it's particularly inviting during the holidays. It truly mimics the texture and taste of traditional pâté. I like to serve this snazzy appetizer with a variety of dippers, such as crudités, pita chips, or whole-grain crackers or flatbread.
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more if needed
3 onions, chopped
1 can (15 ounces) sweet peas, drained
3⁄4 cup chopped walnuts
4 ounces firm regular tofu, drained and cubed
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1⁄4 teaspoon sea salt
Freshly ground pepper
Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until very tender and lightly browned, about 25 minutes, adding more oil or water, 1 teaspoon at a time, as needed to prevent sticking. Let cool slightly.
Transfer to a food processor. Add the peas, walnuts, tofu, tomato paste, and salt. Process until slightly chunky, stopping to scrape down the sides of the work bowl as needed. (Depending on the size of your food processor, you may need to process the mixture in batches.) Season with pepper to taste. Spoon the mixture into a serving bowl. Cover tightly and refrigerate for about 4 hours before serving to allow the flavors to blend.
Reuben-Style Sandwiches
Makes 2 sandwiches
YUM YUM and my hubby's fave! If you'd rather not use a meat analog in this recipe, you can substitute sautéed tempeh. (see after this recipe!)
Thousand Island Dressing
1/4 cup vegan mayonnaise
1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
1 tablespoon catsup
2 teaspoons minced scallion, white and green parts
1 cup sauerkraut
2 teaspoons vegan margarine
4 slices rye bread
8 slices vegan swiss cheese
8 slices vegan canadian bacon or ham (see note)
To make the dressing, put all the ingredients in a small bowl and whisk until thoroughly combined.
To make the sandwiches, set a colander in the sink. Put the sauerkraut in the colander and press firmly with your hands to extract as much moisture as possible. Spread 1/2 teaspoon of the margarine evenly over one side of each slice of bread. Place 2 of the slices, margarine-side down, in a large skillet. Top each with 4 slices of vegan cheese, 4 slices of vegan canadian bacon, and half of the sauerkraut. Spoon 1 to 2 tablespoons of the dressing over the sauerkraut and top with another slice of bread, margarine-side up.
Weigh down the sandwiches with a heavy lid or sandwich weight. Cook over medium-low heat until the underside is brown and crispy, about 5 minutes. Flip the sandwiches and cook until the other side is brown and crispy and the vegan cheese is oozing. Serve immediately.
Note: The Thousand Island Dressing is sensational on salads, so that's a great use for any leftovers. Stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator, leftover dressing will keep for about 5 days.
NOTE: Tempeh Reuben Sandwiches: If you'd rather not use a meat analog in this recipe, you can substitute sautéed tempeh. Cut an 8- to 10-ounce piece of tempeh in half horizontally, then into 4 slices vertically. Heat 1 tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil in a medium skillet over medium heat. Put the tempeh in the skillet and sprinkle with 1 to 2 teaspoons of reduced-sodium tamari. Cover and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, until the underside is golden. Flip each slice and cook until the other side is golden. Proceed with the recipe as directed, replacing the vegan canadian bacon with 4 pieces of tempeh per sandwich.
Zesty Zucchini Oven Fries
These baked zucchini "fries" are super satisfying and make an ideal accompaniment to any sandwich, such as Reuben-Style Sandwiches or Eggless Egg Salad Sandwiches They stand in well for conventional french fries, but you'll have no guilt about eating this delightful squash-based substitute.
3 zucchini
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1⁄2 to 1 teaspoon chili powder
1⁄2 teaspoon sea salt
Several grinds freshly ground pepper
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Line a large, rimmed baking sheet with foil and lightly oil the foil. Cut the zucchini into thick matchsticks. Put the zucchini, oil, chili powder, salt, and pepper in a large bowl and toss gently until the zucchini is evenly coated. Spread the zucchini in a single layer on the lined baking sheet. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until slightly crisp and browning along the edges. Serve immediately.
Eggless Egg Salad
14 to 16 ounces firm regular tofu, drained
2 tablespoons vegan mayonnaise, plus more as needed
1 heaping tablespoon dijon mustard
1 carrot, diced
1 small stalk celery, diced
2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley or basil(optional)
1⁄2 to 1 teaspoon italian seasoning
1⁄4 teaspoon sea salt
1⁄4 teaspoon ground turmeric
Freshly ground pepper
Put the tofu in a medium bowl and mash with a potato masher or large fork until crumbly. Add the vegan mayonnaise and mustard and mash until well combined and the mixture has the desired consistency. Add the carrot, celery, optional parsley, italian seasoning, salt, and turmeric and stir until thoroughly combined, adding more vegan mayonnaise, 1 teaspoon at a time, as needed to achieve the desired consistency. Season with pepper to taste. Serve chilled or at room temperature.
NOTE: This salad makes a super sandwich filling. Use whole- grain bread spread with vegan mayonnaise or mustard or both. Add romaine lettuce or sprouts and sliced tomato. Serve the sandwiches with dill pickle spears and sweet potato chips on the side if you like.


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Hal Smith's three-run homer had barely landed before Casey Stengel headed to the mound to pull Jim Coates and bring in Ralph Terry. Among Stengel's many questionable decision during this Series was his preference for Coates over Terry (assuming he wasn't going to use Luis Arroyo) when he pulled Bobby Shantz earlier in the eighth inning. Terry was better than Coates during the regular season and pitched well as a starter in Game 4. But Stengel left him warming up in the bullpen when it came time to replace Shantz.
In fact, Terry had done quite a bit of warming before Stengel finally summoned him. It was reported that he had been up five different times and had pitched roughly half a game in the bullpen. But Terry nonetheless retired Don Hoak on a fly ball to end the eighth. Heading to the ninth inning, it was Pirates 9, Yankees 7.
Danny Murtaugh now had to make a pitching decision of his own. In the eighth, Murtaugh had finally lifted Elroy Face, for pinch-hitter Gino Cimoli. Now he had to pick between Harvey Haddix and Bob Friend.
Haddix seemed like the logical choice because Friend had started the previous game. But Murtaugh was as conservative as Stengel was mercurial. Ever since Murtaugh had taken over the Pirates, in mid-1957 when they were among the very worst teams in baseball, his mainstays had been Law, Face, and Friend. They were the ones who had "brung him" to this stage. Now that he was there, playing one game for the championship of baseball, Murtaugh had already placed his faith in Law and Face. Next, he would place it in Friend.
But Friend had nothing to repay it with. Bobby Richardson led off with a single. Ex-Pirate Dale Long, pinch-hitting for Joe DeMaestri who had replaced the injured Tony Kubek, singled as well. After four pitches, Friend was done and Haddix was in.
Stengel arguably had over-managed all Series, but now he under-managed. He left the lumbering 34 year-old Long, who represented the tying run, in the game instead of going with a pinch-runner.
Haddix got Maris on a pop-up. But Mantle ripped a single to right-center. Long made it to third. Seeing him runing the bases helped Stengel realized the error of his ways. He sent Gil McDougald in to replace the veteran first-baseman.
Next, with Yogi Berra at the plate, came one of the most famous and fascinating plays in baseball history. Here's the short version. Berra hit a shot down the first-base line. Rocky Nelson fielded it on a hop. He stepped on the bag to retire Berra and take away the force play at second. Mantle, realizing that the force was off, dived back into first-base, avoiding Nelson's tag. In came McDougald with the tying run.
I've always considered Mantle's play to be one of the best pieces of base-running ever. But as I thought about it, in preparation for this post, it seemed to me that Mantle's play was too risky. The safe play, once he had drawn Nelson's attention, was to move away from first base. That way, Nelson could not retire him without allowing McDougald, who was heading towards the plate, to tie the game. By diving back to first, Mantle gave Nelson the opportunity, through a tag that normally can be made easily, to end the World Series with the Yankees on the short end.
Thus, it seemed to me that Mantle made a poor decision, but bailed himself out by acrobatically avoiding Nelson's tag.
But I needed more facts to confirm this analysis. Where, in relation to first base, was Nelson when he fielded the ball? Where, exactly, was Mantle? And how about McDougald?
Fortunately, a film of Game 7 recently was uncovered in the wine cellar of then-Pirate part-owner Bing Crosby (1960 was a very good year). Crosby couldn't make it to Game 7 because he was out of the country (in some accounts he did not attend out of superstition). So he had someone film the television broadcast.
Unfortunately, the film has not yet been aired – I understand it will be shown later this year on the Major League Baseball network. But the New York Times was as curious as I am about Mantle's play. So it reviewed the film and interviewed some of the players who witnessed it (Mantle and Nelson are both dead). The Times even asked the great first-baseman Keith Hernandez for his take on Rocky Nelson's decision to tag first instead of trying to start a game-ending second-to-first double play and his decision, after stepping on first, not to throw home to cut-off McDougald and the tying run. The Times also posted three pictures of the attempted tag play.
The still pictures tend to confirm, I think, that Mantle exercised bad judgment. To be sure, Nelson's momentum in fielding Berra's shot took him into foul territory. But the pictures suggest that Nelson, although not in an ideal position, was in a much more advantageous one than Mantle. It seems to have taken an astonishingly bit of athleticism, and perhaps a little bit of luck, for Mantle to evade the tag. What still isn't clear, since the broadcast didn't include multiple views, is how close to home McDougald was when Nelson looked towards second and saw Mantle.
In any event, Nelson's best play probably would have been to throw to second initially and then complete the double play. The ball was hit so hard that Berra would have been hard-pressed to beat the return throw. But being so close to first base when he fielded the ball, it's easy to understand why he instinctively stepped on the bag.
One can certainly make the case that Nelson then should have thrown home. The catcher, Hal Smith, told the Times he thinks they could have gotten McDougald. But once Nelson saw Mantle stranded near first base and preparing to dive back to the bag, it was probably reasonable to think that his odds of tagging the Mick out were at least as good as his odds of throwing McDougald out at the plate.
But Nelson probably wasn't computing odds. Smith told the Times that he later asked Nelson why he didn't throw him the ball. Nelson told him, "To be truthful, I didn't see you." But Smith added, "I understand Rocky's position, he sees a runner right there and thinks he can get him; he thought he could get Mantle."
Here, according to the Times, is why Nelson didn't get Mantle:
For a split second, Mantle and Nelson eyed each other. Mantle made an initial move toward first, then gave a head fake toward second. He quickly reversed himself, sliding and sprawling toward first on the inner side of the bag with his left hand reaching out. Nelson lunged forward, angling himself toward Mantle instead of moving to the base.
Or, as Keith Hernandez told the Times, "it was like an elephant and a gazelle."
Hernandez concluded that he would have attempted the same play Nelson did — step on first immediately, then try to tag Mantle to end the game instead of throwing home. "I can't blame the guy," Hernandez explained. "You have to make the play; it's right there in front of you." "Kudos to Mantle," he added. "What a deke."
With that deke, the Yankees had tied the game at 9-9.


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After all these years of living in the area, I realized that I had never run up to the top of the Middlebury College Snow Bowl, so it seemed like a fun thing to do on a perfect Sunday afternoon. Starting in the Snow Bowl parking lot, I headed up the dirt road just to the left of the ski patrol cabin. I figured, correctly, that this would ascend on the Voter trail, which was after all the easiest way to ski down from the summit, and should make for an easy climb. Note to self: those bunny trails which are so easy in the winter, can be very steep from the runner's perspective!
On Sunday afternoon I hustled into the Town Hall Theater, set up my camera in the back of the room, and waited for the show to start.
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Up to 6,000 evangelical Christians rallied and prayed against gays, same sex marriage and abortion at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Saturday. The event was the 17th "Call to Conscience" rally organized by anti-gay evangelist Lou Engle, reports the San Jose Mercury News.
Thousands of Christian conservatives spent 12 hours Saturday praying and fasting in front of the state Capitol at a gathering organizers described as spiritual repentance "when there is no hope for a nation." The daylong religious event was led by Lou Engle as well as other pastors and speakers to protest gay marriage, pornography and abortion. Many of those attending slapped red "Life" stickers over their shirts and set up blankets and folding chairs facing a large stage with banners that read: "Only One Hope God."
People close to the front of the stage held up their hands when called to prayer. They jumped and danced to musical performances between sermons. The gathering filled the west lawn of the state Capitol and hundreds of people spilled into the next block, but the rest of Capitol Mall's five-block-long lawn went unused despite large screens and barricades set up for the occasion.
Engle, Mike Huckabee and other social conservatives blasted Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional in a landmark ruling last month, reports the Sacramento Bee.
Among the speakers was Tony Perkins, a leader of the religious right and head of the Washington lobbying group the Family Research Council. Perkins railed against U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker for overturning Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage. He said Walker's ruling diminished the legal rights of religious people opposed to gay marriage. "If (the ruling) stands, in one generation we will have gone from banning the Bible in public schools to banning religious beliefs in society," Perkins said. The event's organizer, conservative Kansas City evangelist Lou Engle, urged the crowd to "break the altar of homosexual marriage."
The event was free of charge but people were "regularly asked to put donations in the 'offering stations.'"
Not on their prayer agenda: Hunger, poverty, homelessness, human rights, domestic abuse or HIV/AIDS. However, the Sacramento Bee adds the crowd was also asked to pray for "clergy addicted to pornography, bisexual women—even middle-aged men who play video games."


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I know that the Friedrichsbad in Baden Baden is a mixed naturist bath (I've been there), but I wonder if there are more mixed nudist baths, hot-springs, thermes or spas like this one.
The Schwabenquellen bath in Stuttgart, Germany is also a nudist bath, but they have one day a month when they require a bathing suit.
Other baths in Germany do it the other way around like the Schenkenseebad in Schwäbisch Hall (not too far from Stuttgart or Baden Baden). It has one day a month for people who like to swim in the nude.
In general in Germany most saunas in public baths are mixed and nudist.


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36% of Americans believe in UFOs, that is, though most Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are actually explained as such mundane things as misidentified meteorological phenomena, astronomical phenomena, aircraft, and so on, there's ~ 5% that are as yet unexplained and that these unexplained UFOs are machines from somewhere other than Earth.
Have you ever observed a UFO that has never been sufficiently explained? Do you believe that some unexplained UFOs are machines from somewhere other than Earth? If so, why (what are your reasons or arguments for believing so)? What evidence is there to support your belief?
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Maybe global warming will be a motivator for many of us to jump ship(earth)?
I just wish the 'get out and push' would help....LOL
I also didn't get into gamma ray radiation which is virtually impossible to defend against in any practical way.
At least their food will never spoil.
Neither will their corpses. LOL
No. Nope. Nada.
I still haven't read anything that trumps the technological advance that happened during my grandmother's lifetime, when transportation leaped from horse and buggy to space travel.
Mapping the human genome in biology is/was a quantum leap.
That it may be, but it's not of much interest to the average person yet because it's just something we know, it's not something that's become part of our everyday lives outside academia. I still think my grandmother's generation experienced the greatest technological changes in their lifetime. Horse-drawn transportation to a man on the moon is hard to beat. She also saw her world go from lantern light and gaslight to nationwide electrification, with all of the changes that brought with it. When she was a child, there wasn't even radio. A handwritten letter would take weeks to go from coast to coast. When she died, with airmail, a letter could go coast to coast in a day and through the miracle of the telegram, information could go almost anywhere in the civilized world almost instantaneously.
Not to be too critical but it is unlikely that a satisfactory example can be provided to your question since the parameters of what would be needed to provide that answer are unclear.
For example: "greatest technological changes" means what?
By what measure? Starting from what basis? Who decides?
You said a couple of things above that seem to me to be contradictory;
"part of our everyday lives"
"greatest technological changes in their lifetime"
you give as an example the changes in transportation ie. buggy to space craft.
So I feel compelled to consider how much of that "technological change" your grandmother experienced as a "part of her everyday life".
Am I correct that she was not an astronaut and had no direct experience with space flight?
I would venture to say that the biggest effect on most of her generation in their "everyday life" was going from buggy to automobile, correct? For some maybe from flying in a prop driven plane to flying in a jet propelled plane.
These are indeed big changes but are they the "greatest technological changes" every to occur in "any" generation?
In my generation and yours we have seen in communication far greater technological advancements by orders of magnitude over what her generation experienced in transportation.
So without objective conditions/requirements to measure and test I see no way anyone can provide you with a satisfactory example that would sway you from your position.


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Very complete bindings to both the KDE API and the Qt APIs. The Korundum package includes both a QtRuby Qt-only binding along with the full combined Qt/KDE one. The QtRuby package contains just Qt bindings with no dependencies on KDE.
Very complete bindings to both the KDE API and the Qt APIs. The Korundum package includes both a QtRuby Qt-only binding along with the full combined Qt/KDE one. The QtRuby package contains just Qt bindings with no dependencies on KDE.
Very complete bindings to both the KDE API and the Qt APIs. The Korundum package includes both a QtRuby Qt-only binding along with the full combined Qt/KDE one. The QtRuby package contains just Qt bindings with no dependencies on KDE.
Korundum/QtRuby - Ruby-KDE/Qt bindings
NEW - The book Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby is now available.
Being Smoke-based bindings means that they offer full access to most KDE 3.x and Qt 3.x classes.
Hello world example:
require 'Qt' a = Qt::Application.new(ARGV) hello = Qt::PushButton.new("Hello World!", nil) hello.resize(100, 30) a.mainWidget = hello hello.show() a.exec()
You can call all Qt public and protected methods, and all friend methods such as bitBlt() etc
All virtual methods can be overridden, not just event handlers
'foobar = 5' is a synonym for 'setFooBar(5)'
Any underscores in method names are removed, and the following character is capitalised. For example, you can use either of these two forms to call the same method:
create_standard_status_bar_action() createStandardStatusBarAction()
The full range of Qt operator methods is available, for example:
p1 = Qt::Point.new(5,5) => (5, 5) p2 = Qt::Point.new(20,20) => (20, 20) p1 + p2 => (25, 25)
Signals and slots are declared as list of strings like this:
slots 'setColor(QColor)', 'slotLoad(const QString&)'.. signals 'clicked()'..
Currently C++ type signatures must be used, a future version of QtRuby will allow ruby type signatures instead.
Connect slots and signals like this:
Qt::Object.connect( @colormenu, SIGNAL( "activated( int )" ), self, SLOT( "slotColorMenu( int )" ) )
And emit signals like this:
emit colorChanged( black )
You can call constructors in the conventional style:
quit = Qt::PushButton.new("Quit", self, "quit")
Or you can pass a block if you prefer:
w = MyWidget.new { setCaption("foobar") }
The block will be called in the context of the newly created instance.
Ordinary arguments can be provided as well as a block at the end:
w = MyWidget.new(nil) { setCaption("foobar") }
They are run in the context of the new instance.
And there's more! You can also pass an arg to the block, and it will be run in the context of the arg:
w = MyWidget.new { |theWidget| theWidget.setCaption "foobar" }
When a ruby instance is garbage collected, the underlying C++ instance will only be deleted if it isn't 'owned' by a parent object. Normally this will 'just work', but there are occasions when you need to delete the C++ ahead of garbage collection, and whether or not it has a parent. Use the dispose(), isDisposed() and disposed? methods like this:
item2.dispose if item2.disposed? puts "item2 is disposed" end
Ruby passes numeric values by value, and so they can't be changed when passed to a method. The Qt::Integer class provides a mutable numeric type which does get updated when passed as an argument. For example, this C++ method 'findByFileContent()':
# static Ptr findByFileContent( const QString &fileName, # int *accuracy=0 ); acc = Qt::Integer.new(0) fc = KDE::MimeType.findByFileContent("mimetype.rb", acc)
It supports the arithmetic operators, and so expressions such as 'acc + 3' will work.
There is a similar problem for bool arg types, and the mutable Qt::Boolean class can be used like this:
# QFont getFont(bool * ok, const QFont&initial, # QWidget* parent = 0, const char *name = 0); ok = Qt::Boolean.new font = Qt::FontDialog.getFont(ok, Qt::Font.new("Helvetica [Cronyx]", 10), self) if !ok.nil? # font is set to the font the user selected else # the user canceled the dialog end
Use 'nil?' to test the value returned in the Boolean
If a method call can't be matched in the Smoke library giving a 'method_missing' error, you can turn on debugging to trace the matching process:
a = Qt::Application.new(ARGV) Qt.debug_level = Qt::DebugLevel::High a.loadLibrary("foo") # Non existent method
Will give the following output:
classname == QApplication :: method == loadLibrary$ -> methodIds == [] candidate list: Possible prototypes: static QWidget* QApplication::widgetAt(int, int, bool) ...
Here, the list of candidate methods 'methodIds' is empty
Another debugging mechanism allows various trace 'channels' to be switched on.
You can trace virtual method callbacks:
Or trace QtRuby garbage collection:
QtRuby supports $KCODE values of 'u', 'e' and 's' or the corresponding '-K' options from the command line. Qt Designer .ui files have UTF-8 strings so if you use any 8 bit UTF-8 characters, you will need to set $KCODE='u' or use the -Ku command line option.
A 'rbuic' tool is included in qtruby/rubylib/designer/rbuic to compile .ui files into ruby code. As described above, Qt Designer uses UTF-8. In addition to the options in the original uic C++ utility an '-x' flag has been added. This will generate a top level stub in the code:
$ rbuic mainform.ui -x -o mainform.rb
Will add this to the end of the generated code:
if $0 == __FILE__ a = Qt::Application.new(ARGV) w = MainForm.new a.setMainWidget(w) w.show a.exec end
Then you can test the example code straight away:
$ ruby mainform.rb
Use the '-kde' option to require the 'Korundum' extension rather than the 'Qt' one. If the '-x' option is used in conjunction, it generates a KDE top level. For example:
$ rbuic -x -kde knotifywidgetbase.ui -o knotifywidgetbase.rb
Will generate this top level code:
if $0 == __FILE__ about = KDE::AboutData.new("knotifywidgetbase", "KNotifyWidgetBase", "0.1") KDE::CmdLineArgs.init(ARGV, about) a = KDE::Application.new() w = KNotifyWidgetBase.new a.setMainWidget(w) w.show a.exec end
You can load a Qt Designer .ui file at runtime with the 'qui' extension, for example:
require 'Qt' require 'qui' a = Qt::Application.new(ARGV) if ARGV.length == 0 exit end if ARGV.length == 2 QUI::WidgetFactory.loadImages ARGV[0] w = QUI::WidgetFactory.create ARGV[1] if w.nil? exit end w.show() a.connect(a, SIGNAL('lastWindowClosed()'), a, SLOT('quit()')) a.exec() end
You can use the QtRuby shell in bin/rbqtsh to create widgets interactively from the command line.
Use the bin/rbqtapish tool to discover which methods are available in the QtRuby api. This command:
$ rbqtapish Qt::TextEdit
Will list all the methods in the Qt::TextEdit class
$ rbqtapi -rsetCaption
Lists all methods whose names contain the string 'setCaption'
The best way to start programming QtRuby is to look at some existing code and start messing with it.. The are various samples under qtruby/rubylib/examples and korundum/rubylib/examples.
Instead of
require 'Qt', use
require 'Korundum' for KDE programs.
The KDE K* classes such as KApplication are renamed as KDE::Application. The other KDE classes are in the KParts::, KIO:: or DOM:: namespaces, with the same names as their C++ counterparts.
Use the 'rbkdeapi' script to introspect the Korundum api from the command line. For example:
$ rbkdeapi KDE::Action
Will list all the methods in the KDE::Action class. There are currently (as at KDE 3.3 beta 2) 977 classes/30841 methods in the Smoke library runtime, so the coverage of the Qt/KDE api is pretty complete.
Here is a minimal ruby dcop slot implementation:
require 'Korundum' class MyWidget < KDE::PushButton k_dcop 'QPoint mySlot(int,QString)' def initialize(parent, name) super end def mySlot(counter,greeting) return Qt::Point.new(50, 100) end end
This slot is passed an integer and a string, and returns a Qt::Point.
Note that the class doesn't have to inherit from DCOPObject. If you include a 'k_dcop' slots declaration a 'listener' dcop object instance is created automatically, and these four methods are added to your class:
interfaces() functions() connectDCOPSignal() disconnectDCOPSignal()
The name of the object is always the ruby classname, and you can only instantiate one instance for each ruby class that has 'k_dcop' declarations. See examples/dcop/dcopslot.rb and dcopsignal.rb for an example of the simplest approach.
If you wish to use the full functionality of a DCOPObject, you can subclass it and call all the methods, not just the four above. Additionally, you can instantiate more than one instance per class and rename the dcop object with the setObjId() method or by passing the name to the constructor. See the examples/dcop/petshop.rb code for an example of a more complex dcop object.
Define a dcop slot like this in one ruby program:
k_dcop 'QPoint getPoint(QString)' def getPoint(msg) puts "message: #{msg}" return Qt::Point.new(50, 100) end
Call it from another program and print the reply, like this:
dcopRef = KDE::DCOPRef.new("dcopslot", "MyWidget")
There are three different ways to specify a DCOP call:
res = dcopRef.call("getPoint(QString)", "Hello from dcopcall") res = dcopRef.call("getPoint", "Hello from dcopcall") res = dcopRef.getPoint("Hello from dcopcall")
If the dcop slot has a 'void' or 'ASYNC' type, the result will be true if the call succeeds or nil if it fails
You can set a dcop attribute like this, instead of calling:
klipper.setClipboardContents("Hello there klipper")
Assign to the DCOP attribute:
klipper = DCOPRef.new("klipper", "klipper") klipper.clipboardContents = "Hello there klipper"
Amaze your friends! Do the programming equivalent of leaping over tall buildings in one bound! Here with one line of quite clear code, we read a file from disc and assign it the 'clipboardContents' klipper attribute via dcop:
klipper.clipboardContents = IO.readlines("myfile").to_s
Instead of:
result = dcopRef.isFoo()
You can use this more rubyish form:
if dcopRef.foo? puts "foo is true" else puts "foo? is false" end
Similarly you can use foo? as an alias for methods of the form hasFoo(). See examples/dcop/dcoppredicate.rb and dcopslot.rb
Any underscores in a method name are removed, and the following character is capitalised. For example:
res = dcopRef.get_point("Hello from dcopsend")
Is a synonym for:
res = dcopRef.getPoint("Hello from dcopsend")
There are two different ways to specify a DCOP send:
res = dcopRef.send("mySlot(QString)", "Hello from dcopsend") res = dcopRef.send("mySlot", "Hello from dcopsend")
The result will either be true or false (but not nil for fail like DCOPRef.call() method described above).
When a call of the form 'dcopRef.getPoint(5, "foobar")' is made, the C++ type signature is obtained from the list of those returned by DCOPRef.functions(). However, if a method name is overloaded the ruby argument types are used to derive a type signature, in order to resolve the call like this:
String => QString Float => double Integer => int TrueClass|FalseClass (ie 'true' or 'false') => bool Qt::Widget etc => QWidget KDE::URL etc => KURL Array => QStringList
Specify the full C++ type signature using the form 'dcopRef.call("getPoint(int,QString)", 5, "foobar")' if these rules fail to pick the right method.
k_dcop_signals 'void testEmitSignal(QString)' def doit() emit testEmitSignal("Hello DCOP Slot") end
Connect slot 'mySlot' to a DCOP signal like this:
res = slottest.connectDCOPSignal("dcopsignal", "SenderWidget", "testEmitSignal(QString)", "mySlot(QString)", true)
There is a ruby translation of [tutorial/tutorial.html Qt Tutorial #1], and the corresponding ruby code is in qtruby/rubylib/tutorial/t1 to t14.
And a Qt4 version of the same tutorial translated to Ruby by Darshan Ishaya Qt4 Tutorial #1[tutorial2/tutorial2.html Qt Tutorial #2]
The Qt Designer [colortooltutorial/designer-manual-3.html Color Tool Tutorial], with ruby code in qtruby/rubylib/designer/examples/colortool.
Paul Lutus has written a tutorial on how to get started with Ruby GUI programming with Qt
For KDE, there is a ruby translation of this [kde3tutorial/index.html KDE 3.0 tutorial] originally written for C++ by Antonio Larrosa Jiménez. The sources are in korundum/rubylib/tutorials/p1 to p9.
The book Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby is now available.
You can obtain recent SVN snapshots on the Rubyforge QtRuby/Korundum site.
There are two IRC channels (#qtruby and #kde-ruby) in FreeNode. If you prefer e-mail, you can use the kde-bindings mailing-list (low traffic) or ask in the ruby-talk mailing list (you may use the Ruby Forum gateway to post in ruby-talk from web).
A series of articles on ruby QT (inspired by the work done for the dradis project):


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Lyne Bessette Wins Stage 2 at Tour de L'Aude
Courtesy Team Saturn
In what can only be called a Tour de Force, the Saturn Cycling Team rose to the top today in the second stage of the Tour de L'Aude. The 115 kilometer stage took the riders around the breath taking, picturesque, French countryside up to the category one climb and back down where it all started in Rieux Minervois. Despite a comfortable cushion, yesterday's leader of the Tour, Nataliya Kachalka, would not finish the day as she started. The Leader's Jersey passed on to the shoulders of Anita Valen (Power-Plate Bic) who was second in the finish to stage winner Lyne Bessette.
The race got off to a brisk start with speeds well over 50 kilometers per hour for much of the first hour. Saturn's Katie Mactier had a go off the front, only to be re-absorbed by a furiously fast bunch. Mactier's teammate Ina Teutenberg was next, but after her strong showing at this Tour last year, the other teams would not let her get far, and thus the bunch arrived intact to the bottom of the climb.
After a superb lead-out into the bottom of the climb by Petra Rossner, the Nurnberger Team was well placed with Judith Arndt and Trixi Worrack at the front. Also there were the climbers one would expect including Jolanta Polikeviciute, Valentina Polkhanova and Mirjam Melchers. Saturn had Mactier, Bessette and Manon Jutras. Over the top a group of 22 had formed, and it was clear that this group was the race.
On the second and last time bonus sprint, Jutras attacked, dragging a French rider with her. The French rider would not work with Jutras and lost contact with her on a rise out of one of the quaint French towns. Alone, Jutras powered into the wind holding off a raging chase as she bore down on the points sprint. Valen took the sprint, and after a slight hesitation, Bessette jumped hard, with only Valen able to respond. With Valen sitting on, Bessette bridged the 30 seconds up to Jutras. Once the two connected, the gap to the chase group widened. Climbing steadily past a minute, then a minute thirty, the two Saturn riders buried themselves to gain precious seconds as they worked into the head wind with Valen sitting contentedly on the their wheels.
In the final kilometer, Jutras attacked, and Valen closed the gap. With 400 meters to go she jumped hard, but Bessette was able to come by to nip her at the line for a brilliant win. Jutras came home in third. Valen's impressive ride moves her into the Leader's Jersey by 3 seconds over Bessette Third is in the overall if Jutras.
Tomorrow is another afternoon stage of 120 kilometers taking the riders through more towns, up and over the dales of the beautiful French vineyards and down to the river of L'Aude. With another category one climb featured, the two Saturn riders will have ample opportunity to try to pry the Yellow Fleece from Valen's shoulders.
1. Lyne Bessette (Can) Saturn
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U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co will invest $100 million alongside investment firm Associated Partners LP to build wireless communications infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The way the deal is structured, KKR is making minority investments in three businesses managed by Associated Partners, according to the Journal.
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Besides the initial investment, KKR could also contribute more funds later, some of the people told the newspaper.
In its latest ventures, Associated Partners is aiming to ramp up its business upgrading wireless systems in rural areas, which generally lag behind those in urban areas in data handling capacity, the paper said.
The deal is expected to be announced Monday.
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A Missing Jar of Cosmic Building Material
Finders Keepers is a humorous science fiction about god and backpacking in Europe. Not so much about god as about the people he has working for him creating the universe. Donald and Danielle steal some time from making the Milky Way to make love on the newly created earth. Unfortunately they lose a jar of cosmic building material too.
This Jar is the focal point for the two storylines that follow. One continues with Eternity and the stressful and oh so human lives people lives there with their cocktail parties and work issues. The other follows a cast of humans and downcast Eternians on Earth and how their travels interweave each other's as an unsuspecting New Zealander finds the Jar.
A Young American, Jason Medley takes to backpacking in Europe. That part felt genuinely self experienced to the point that some parts got a bit wordy. Jason meets Theo from New Zealand and they have a sort of bromance while traveling around Europe. Yes that is the New Zealander who found the Jar.
There is a bit of love here and there which helps the story.
It is a well crafted story and the weave created by the people trying to get the Jar or finding out about it is clever and I enjoyed it most of the time.
I have a hard time beside the wordy bit in the travelogue to say anything bad about this book.
Finders Keepers serves as a fun pastime and I wouldn't mind reading more by the author.
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Finders Keepers by Russ Colchamiro (3 Finger Prints 2010) – review copy – Amazon US | UK
Caught in the netherworld between college and a career, novice backpacker Jason Medley and adventuresome Theo Barnes stumble through this novel filled with European hash bars and hangovers, religious zealots and stalkers, saucy girls and overnight trains—all under the looming specter of adult responsibility. But when a jar of the universe's DNA accidentally drops to Earth from eternity, these new friends find their loyalties put to the test, unaware that a motley crew from another realm is feverishly chasing them across the globe with the fate of the Milky Way hanging in the balance. Traversing Europe, New Zealand, and the backbone of eternity, this hilarious buddy story not only tackles friendship, sex, love, and desire, but also God, reincarnation, and what really happened to the dinosaurs.