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I've had my shimanos for a few years now. I love them. They breath well in the summer, and with the right socks, are warm in the winter. They are snug where they need to be, but have the toe box my wide feets need! They easily clip in, and twist off just as smoothly. Walking around a store is fine in any condition because of the grips that they offer. Also they are cute!
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Is the SH-WM62 cycling shoe compatible...
Is the SH-WM62 cycling shoe compatible with SPD cleats?
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and skips the false start that often gets people throwing out what they think is "dead starter".
What kind of water are you using? Do you know its pH?
The "false start" I mentioned is a process that a brand spanking new starter-to-be goes through when it's being built up from just flour and water. It's a phase where particular bacteria feed on your new flour soup very early on in the starter creation process. Starters from flakes, on the other hand, are (or should be) fully developed starters, just dried up. It is a revived starter. They skip that whole week or two of battling cultures and let your mixture jump in further into the game. You should see regular yeast activity pretty much right away, no "false start" involved.So what I'd want to know is what sort of feeding process are you following with your revived flake starter? How often and how much are you feeding, at what ratio? It's possible you may be feeding too little, too much water, not often enough. Or none of the above and it's something else. But we'd need to get more detailed info on your current process to see where and why things may be falling down.

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Keratoconus is an eye disease that affects the structure of the cornea. The cornea is the clear tissue covering the front of the eye.
The shape of the cornea slowly changes from the normal round shape to a cone shape. The eye bulges out. This causes vision problems.
The cause is unknown, but the tendency to develop keratoconus is probably present from birth. Keratoconus is thought to involve a defect in collagen, the tissue that provides strength tothe cornea and gives it it's shape.
Some researchers believe that allergy and eye rubbing may play speed up damage.
There is a link between keratoconus and Down syndrome.
The earliest symptom is subtle blurring of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses. (Vision canmost oftenbe corrected to 20/20 with rigid, gas-permeable contact lenses.) Over time, you may have eye halos, glare, or other night vision problems.
Most people who develop keratoconus have a history of being nearsighted. The nearsightedness tends to become worse over time. As the problem gets worse, astigmatism develops.
Exams and Tests
Keratoconus is often discovered during adolescence. The most accurate test is called corneal topography, which creates a map of the curve of the cornea.
A slit-lamp examination of the corneacan diagnose the disease in the later stages.
A test called pachymetry can be used to measure the thickness of the cornea.
Contact lenses are the main treatment for most patients with keratoconus. Wearing sunglasses outdoors after being diagnosedmay help slow or prevent the disease from becoming worse. For many years, the only surgical treatment has been corneal transplantation.
The following newer technologies may delay or prevent the need for corneal transplantation:
- High-frequency radio energy (conductive keratoplasty) to change the shape of the cornea so contact lenses work better
- Corneal implants called intracorneal ring segments to change the shape of the cornea so contact lenses work better
- An experimental treatment called corneal cross-linking causes the cornea to become hard and stops the condition from getting worse. The cornea can then be reshaped with laser vision correction.
Outlook (Prognosis)
In most cases vision can be corrected with rigid gas-permeable contact lenses.
If corneal transplantation is needed, results are usually good. The recovery period can be long, and patients often still need contact lenses.
Possible Complications
There is a risk of rejection after corneal transplantation, but the risk is much lower than with other organ transplants.
Patients with even borderline keratoconus should not have LASIK, the most common type of laser vision correction. Corneal topography is done before laser vision correction to rule out people with this condition.
In rare cases of mild keratoconus, other laser vision correction procedures may be safe to use, such as PRK. For patients treated with CK or CXL, PRK may be safe to perform and may help to further improve the vision.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Young persons whose vision cannot be corrected to 20/20 with glasses should be evaluated by an eye doctor experienced with keratoconus. Parents with keratoconus should consider having their child or children screened for the disease starting at age 10.
There are no preventive measures. Some specialists believe that patients with keratoconus should have their eye allergies aggressively treated and should be instructed not to rub their eyes.
Jain A, Paulus YM, Cockerham GC, Kenyon KR. Keratoconus and other noninflammatory corneal thinning disorders. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2009:chap 16C.
Sugar J, Wadia HP. Keratoconus and other ectasias. In: Yanoff M, Duker JS, eds. Ophthalmology. 3rd ed. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby Elsevier; 2008:chap 4.18.
Dahl BJ, Spotts E, Truong JQ. Corneal collagen cross-linking: an introduction and literature review. Optometry. 2012 Jan;83(1):33-42.
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i will confirm in about 2 weeks though.
can help you out if you want to try yourself though.
also, being as the foreguard is only plastic (and redicually over priced) im sure it could be "trimmed to fit"
(although, if i have a UGL and i need to use a bayonet, somethingsgone drastically wrong!!)
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My exact board isn't there but the Gigabyte P55A-UD3 is. I have the UD6 so it seems likely that I'm affected. Just as well I've been running with pcie_aspm=force for a while.
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One of the many OpenBenchmarking.org features that haven't yet been fully taken advantage is the opportunities presented by the vast collection of system hardware/software information and logs that have been submitted to this collaborative testing platform from Phoronix Media. OpenBenchmarking.org is much more than just being a storage place for benchmark results. After writing a simple plug-in this morning, here's a list of many motherboards that have broken PCI-E Active State Power Management support from their BIOS, which can lead to greatly increased power consumption under Linux...
My exact board isn't there but the Gigabyte P55A-UD3 is. I have the UD6 so it seems likely that I'm affected. Just as well I've been running with pcie_aspm=force for a while.
Running with pcie_aspm=force seems to sort it out, though. (No sign of instability...)
If your motherboard isn't on the list and you're affected, that means you should be running more benchmarks via the Phoronix Test Suite and opting to submit data to OpenBenchmarking.org
Michael Larabel
" To ensure some quality, each motherboard in the list had at least two unique submissions where ASPM could be detected as not working due to the ACPI table. "
What if they fix it in a BIOS update AFTER people go and make their submissions? The board would still be counted even though it shouldn't? I'd think you should be looking for cases where NO submissions say that the ASPM works on that board. Finding just two different submissions that say it doesn't work really isn't that helpful, IMO as mobo manufs. can claim they fixed it later.
I know this was written more in a "let's show what pts can do" way, but:
Toshiba Portable PC
Sony VAIO
are too vague.
My Lenovo W520 (4270cto) is affected. The "pcie_aspm=force" workaround works fine though.
What factors are you using to indicate that ASPM is broken on a given motherboard?
Not surprised that there are a crapload of Asus boards on the list given my experience dealing with their bios engineers who despite have all the proof in the world that something is broken won't listen to anyone until the issue becomes an epidemic.


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For the equipment management leadership position for Boy Scout Troops and Varsity Scout Teams, see [[Quartermaster]].
For the equipment management leadership position for Venturing, see [[Crew Quartermaster]].'' | + | {{Otheruses|''This article is about the '''Quartermaster Award for Sea Scouts'''.
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Sea Scout Quartermaster Award. 1. Quartermaster Medal 2. a. White knot b. Black knot
The Quartermaster Award is the highest rank in Sea Scouts. The award is rich in history. The oldest Venturing award, the tradition of the Quartermaster has made a great impact on current Scouting. Those who have earned this award are looked upon to be experts in seamanship, knots and lashings, leadership, and a variety of water-related skills.
The Quartermaster emblem is a medal consisting of the Sea Scout emblem on a ship's wheel that is suspended from a solid dark blue ribbon that is in turn suspended from a bar bearing the design of a double carrick bend knot.
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Written by on September 1, 2009 9th Annual Goodguys Del Mar NationalsThe Goodguys show in Del Mar is always a great show for us and everyone in attendance. Lots of top-notch builders debut cars and trucks they've done over the winter at the show and we usually scoop the first features on the new trucks, like Gary Coe's F-157 from a couple of years ago. This year was a whole 'nuther story! We knew that Kirk Johnson and Roseville Rod and Custom were going to bring down the silver '68 F-100 from our last issue--which was an exclusive--and we all thought it was a shoo-in for the Goodguys Truck of the Year late nomination. Much to everyone's surprise as well as those who hadn't seen the F-100 yet, there were two more trucks that arrived hoping for the nomination!
In the classic truck world this kind of heated competition isn't usually part of the game, but it just goes to show that more and more people are building trucks and some very high-quality ones at that. Even in the current state of the economy when the street rod and muscle car markets have slowed down, trucks are hot! Les Allen brought this month's cover truck, his just-finished '56 Cameo, down from Washington state for the show, and that along with Ironworks Speed and Kustom's C6-pinned, tube chassis, gloss black '57 Chevy, things looked wide open as far as judging is concerned. This again was weird because there isn't usually this much competition!
All three trucks sat outside together in the Trick Truck Coral on Saturday for judging and it was a nerve-racking day for those involved to say the least, but there were many other great trucks to look at in the show and the weekend weather couldn't have been nicer. All in all there were about 2,000 entrants in the show and new for this year was the inclusion of the popular Air Ride Street Challenge autocross--even though it was a bit out of the way for some.
In the end, Kirk Johnson's '68 Bumpside got the nod for the nomination from this show, but that doesn't mean the race is over since the season just got started. We'll bet the others will be doing a little traveling to other Goodguys shows to pick up nominations themselves--what a year for classic trucks! Go to www.good-guys.com for more info on this year's shows.


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Wainwright's back to face Padres after long break
Stults takes mound for San Diego in first career start at Busch Stadium
It's been a week since Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright has pitched in a game, and he has enjoyed his time off.
Wainwright entered the All-Star break as the National League leader in innings pitched, so he decided not to throw in the All-Star Game on Tuesday and did very little throwing over the past week.
"I think that will benefit me more than any amount of bullpen sessions or throwing can do right now," Wainwright said.
The Cardinals decided to give Wainwright a few extra days off, and he will make his second-half debut when the Cardinals face the Padres on Sunday at Busch Stadium in the final contest of a three-game series after the teams split the first two.
Wainwright's innings haven't been too much of a concern because of how effective he has been with his pitch count, as he averages 14.1 pitches per inning.
The Cardinals are clinging to their two-game lead in the NL Central with still a lot of opportunities to play the Pirates (14 games) and Reds (10 games). Manager Mike Matheny said he met with his team recently to stress the importance of not looking ahead.
"Right now we're ready to play San Diego," said Matheny. "I think it's just real important for our players to convince themselves -- and it's not just a game -- but it sets us up for success to keep it simple. When you start thinking about what other teams are doing or series that are ahead, I believe that really goes in the opposite direction of what we're trying to do all year."
The Padres finally broke a 10-game road losing streak with a 5-3 win against the Cardinals on Saturday, but they are 5-19 in their last 24 games.
Three of those five wins have been when Eric Stults has been on the mound, as he will be on Sunday.
This will be Stults' first career appearance at Busch Stadium, and in many ways he has been the Padres best pitcher so far this season. He enters the game 8-7 with a 3.40 ERA, and Stults has an ERA of 2.80 since May 7.
Padres: Cabrera vs. Molina
This three-game series features an interesting matchup to keep an eye on, as the Padres boast one of the game's most prolific base stealers, Everth Cabrera, against the Cardinals' catcher, Yadier Molina, and his lights-out arm.
Cabrera leads the National League with 34 stolen bases, while Molina is arguably the best defensive catcher in baseball.
The Padres are second in the Majors with 76 stolen bases, but have been held by Molina thus far. Cabrera hasn't attempted a stolen base through the first two games of this series, although he hasn't had much of an opportunity.
Padres manager Bud Black credited the Cardinals pitchers and the job they do at holding baserunners, and he praised Molina's ability behind the plate.
"He's one of the best in the game," said Black. "He's got a cannon and he's accurate."
Cardinals: Holliday placed on DL
The Cardinals officially placed outfielder Matt Holliday on the 15-day disabled list on Saturday, to give his injured right hamstring enough time to heal.
Holliday hasn't played since July 11, when he suffered the injury running out a ground ball against the Cubs, so the move is retroactive to July 12, meaning he could return as early as next Saturday.
"I think that was the part where you say, risk-reward," Holliday said. "You don't want to lose the eight days I've already been out by trying to come back a day too early, or doing something to where now you're back to having to go on the DL for 15 [days]. Time wise, it really made sense."
Worth noting
• The Padres are currently 1-1 in the midst a stretch that will see them play 17 of 21 games against teams with a winning record.
• Chris Carpenter made his second Minor League rehab start on Saturday. He threw 74 pitches over 3 1/3 innings for Triple-A Memphis and allowed four earned runs on nine hits.
• Brock Peterson became the 10th Cardinals player to make his Major League debut this season, when he pinch-hit and drove in a run with a groundout on Saturday.
Jamal Collier is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The IACD is part of an Expanding Cultural Diversity Project and was founded 1) to further awareness and understanding of the cultural diversity within and outside the United States through: networking and professional development opportunities, research and scholarship in cultural diversity, curriculum and instructional development, and leadership in cultural diversity education through the organization of conferences and the development of appropriate resources; and 2) to help students, educators, and community members acquire the competencies they need to communicate and interact effectively within a culturally diverse world.
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The IACD is the organization established to succeed the Illinois Staff and Curriculum Developers Association. The ISCDA was established during the 1990-1991 academic year through a Higher Education Cooperation Act (HECA) grant from the Illinois Board of Higher Education for a project titled Expanding Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum and in Classroom Teaching. One of the goals of this project was to facilitate an exchange of ideas and insights among persons interested in staff and curriculum development and in multicultural education.
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While at the Institute, Bayer visited a Dari language classroom of servicemembers attending the 48-week-long class. Students demonstrated the use of cutting edge technology used in the classroom geared toward more rapid acquisition of the target language and shared a variety of programs they use.
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As a part of his visit, Bayer was guest speaker at the opening of the Foreign Area Officers Orientation Course where he spoke to officers about the effect of the new national defense strategy announced at the Pentagon on Jan. 5.
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Caption 1: Lance Cpl. Isajewicz demonstrates the function of his iPad in learning the Dari language to director of Strategy Plans and Policy for the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, G-3/5/7, Maj. Gen. Peter Bayer, during his visit to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Jan. 11.
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Railroad Brat: Growing up in Portola in the 1930s and '40s
Editor's note: Jim Jenner submitted the following recollection of growing up in "wild and wooly" Portola during the town's railroad heyday. Jenner, who was born in the Western Pacific Hospital in 1932 and has subscribed to the Portola Reporter for more than 45 years, lives in Berkeley.
Memories of growing up in a wild and wooly railroad town like Portola during the 1930s and '40s remain the most vivid of my life. That experience alone should qualify a lucky kid like me as some kind of latter-day Huck Finn.
My grandfather, William Jenner, came to Portola in 1909 as one of the first Western Pacific telegraphers and locomotive engineers. Railroad pay, he said, was a damn sight better than what he got teaching school in Ohio. He suffered a cruel fate, however, dying in Portola in the great Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which also nearly killed my father and his sister.
My dad, Paul Henry Jenner, followed William's footsteps, quitting school at age 14 to work as a WP callboy in 1916. His job, in addition to notifying crews in person of impending assignments, involved being yardmaster, crew dispatcher, engine herder for passenger trains, delivery boy for Western Union messages and janitor. His pay was $50 per month for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Why it was necessary to personally notify crew members of impending assignments remains puzzling, as Alexander Graham Bell's magnificent invention had been around for well over a decade. But, many are the vagaries of railroad life, as you'll soon see. He rose through the ranks and became a locomotive engineer in 1928, finally getting promoted to the main office in San Francisco in the mid '40s.
Railroaders were a fascinating bunch of oddballs. Every one of them seemed to have some kind of unique, often wacky, nickname that was associated with a landmark event in their career. For instance, my dad was nicknamed "Boomer." Old Mr. Johnson, who lived across the street on California, was called "Highball." And then, of course, there was the inimitable "Over the Road Ray."
Any given day on Commercial Street you could be sure to see a gaggle of railroaders all standing around talking shop even though it was their day off. There never was enough railroading. Consequently, wives often became rail widows and tall tales would proliferate. One in particular deals with how the town of Portola got its name.
According to legend, Ignacio Bertola, one of the early citizens, was hit by lightning under a large pine tree near where land was being leveled to build company houses. Bertola had been missing for a day or so when he was finally found stone cold dead, prompting a compatriot to murmur, "Poor Tola."
Another tale, told by Hap Manit, a legendary rail character in his own right, involved my father. Hap claimed that there was a Jupiter locomotive in Reno that needed to be brought back to Portola. There wasn't a sufficient crew available to man the locomotive with both a fireman and engineer, so my dad was sent over to bring it back alone. He engineered and fired the locomotive all the way single-handed, which may not qualify him as a modern day Casey Jones, but did make him somewhat of a legend in his time. I believe this locomotive may be the same vintage as the one at Promontory Point in Utah at the site of the original golden spike ceremony. Whether or not such stories are true doesn't matter. A story is just that, no more, no less — with the passage of time a tradition held dear.
Working on the "road" in those days was very dangerous. Railroading, in fact, was more dangerous than coal mining or working in a steel mill, both notoriously dangerous professions. Accidents involving death and severe injury far exceeded those in the mines and mills. Paul Jenner himself was nearly killed in a train wreck near Reno Junction. A rock had rolled off the mountain at Scott Siding and was lodged directly in the middle of the track, leaving no time to stop and avoid a collision.
My dad, the engineer, saw the accident developing and yelled at the fireman to jump. Dad jumped and cartwheeled three or four times, breaking his leg in several places. The fireman stayed with the train and was crushed and scalded to death. Dad was laid up for almost a year. Evidently, there was no equivalent of worker's compensation in those days. This egregious inequity prompted people like my father to push for organizing rail workers so they could secure protection for themselves and their families. Big shot owners called these activists wobblies or, worse, commies.
There were also many wrecks down in the Canyon caused mostly by slides; but perhaps one of the most dangerous places was the switching yard. When I was about 13 a hobo had been riding in a boxcar that had been spotted in the yard. Once the train stopped, he stuck his head out the sliding door only to have the car suddenly jolted by the engine up front. The door decapitated him. Kids ran down to the yard to see where they had placed sawdust to cover the gore. "Out, damned spot. Out …" Lady Macbeth would say. This didn't deter us brazen young Huck Finns from hopping a freight car to ride as far as Blairsden, or even Spring Garden. Luck must have been on our side because we always managed to get back alive just in time for dinner, our parents none the wiser.
One of the most mysterious places was the roundhouse-turntable complex. On days off my dad would take me down to the roundhouse to wash his coveralls. They had a metal trough filled with scalding water and steam where the engineers could take their greasy, sodden clothing to wash. After all, no self-respecting engineer would make his wife wash such filthy gear; and, believe me, filthy it was. Just spending a minute or two around one of those soot-belching iron horses was enough to cover you, head to foot, with grease, oil and just about every imaginable kind of dirt.
Often there would be four or five engines lined up to go in the roundhouse for maintenance. One time the roundhouse foreman forgot to fill a boiler with water as an engine was being fired. It blew up, seriously injuring a couple of workers and causing thousands of dollars of damage. The foreman was fired unceremoniously in spite of more than 35 years of service. Due process? Are you kidding?
Another place for kids to explore was the freight house or shanty. The kindhearted foreman, a guy named Hance, would allow Tommy and me to go underneath the building in the crawl space on hot summer days. Mysteriously, a couple gallon jugs of Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer or some other goodie would inevitably come rolling down our way. What better use for salvage goods that were damaged in transit and were going to be destroyed anyway? One time we consumed over a gallon and a half of root beer. The next day my mother asked me why I was getting up so much in the middle of the night and whether or not I might have the flu. Now I get up for other reasons. To this day I cannot stand the thought of root beer.
Not everything was idyllic in this rambunctious railroad town. Bars outnumbered churches. I believe there were four or five on Commercial Street alone, not to mention two houses of "ill repute" east of town. One was called The Seven Steps, the other The Green Lantern.
Pug and I would sneak down through the pine forest to the edge of town and situate ourselves with a good view of the entrance to these infamous places. Pug had a cheap pair of Boy Scout binoculars. One day we saw a prominent railroader, whose name will go unmentioned, entering The Green Lantern. Pug looked at me quizzically and asked, "Does his wife know?" I got the distinct impression that most rail towns had whorehouses. In fact, a certain wag, well known for his risqué and hard-hitting railroad humor, described the town of Winnemucca as "Sinamucca."
And then there were the hobos and the gypsies. The hobos had a little tar paper, tin and cardboard village on the north side of the river. Most of them were only temporary residents, riding the rails from town to town searching for work. Banish the thought of calling these hobos bums. Many earnestly sought jobs even at the height of The Great Depression. I remember occasions when a hobo would come to our house and knock on the door, asking directly, "Food for work, ma'am?" My mother could not resist their plaintive pleas, making them at least a peanut butter sandwich.
The gypsies were a different story. Their encampment was also on the Feather River, a little further out of town. They came in caravans of canvas-covered wagons often drawn by horses just like you see in the movies about Dracula and Transylvania. Their reputation was that they were all thieves. Whether true or not, the sheriff, not one to mince words over constitutional niceties, would issue an edict allowing them to come into town only on Friday afternoons between 4 and 6 to shop. Evidently no civil libertarians rose to their defense.
One day a neighbor said she saw a wagon that had a bear tethered to the back. If you looked at the bear the gypsies would try to charge you money for the mere act of looking. Bold, those gypsies were, and very proud, too, as they steadfastly refused to camp anywhere near the hobos. The caste system had its infinite variations.
One of the busiest times ever in the history of Portola railroading was World War II. Troop train after troop train passed monotonously through, taking thousands of young men over to fight in the Pacific campaign. A very enterprising friend of mine suggested that since the trains all stopped in Portola, we make up a bunch of sandwiches and sell them to the troops. So we slapped a piece baloney between two pieces of white bread with a dab of mustard and mayonnaise, establishing quite a thriving little business. Our price was 10 cents a sandwich. I remember some poor soldier, destined for who knows what fate, leaning out the window and saying, "Hey kid, don't you think 10 cents is a little stiff for a lousy baloney sandwich without lettuce?" Au contraire. I like to think we were contributing to the war effort. After all, anything must be a relief from GI rations.
There are many other aspects of life in a rip-snorting railroad town in the 1930s and '40s that left indelible impressions on a young man seeking his way. One of my most lasting memories concerns the language and dialect of railroaders. Let's call it "Portolaise" or "Railspeak." Although not rising to the level of a true folk language similar to "Boontling," spoken in Booneville, it did come close, being virtually unintelligible to outsiders.
In addition to a wild array of unique and sometimes wacky nicknames, railroaders had a heavy lexicon of slang. For instance, an engineer was a "hog head" or "hogger," a switchman a "reptile" or "snake," a cop a "bull." Cars hauling livestock were not, as you would expect, livestock cars, but rather "pig palaces," coal trains "black snakes." The caboose was a "brain shack" and a locomotive did not have headlights, but rather "eyeballs."
The railroaders called themselves "rails" and anybody who had a high priority for train assignments was a "pool." Woe be it for anybody not from Portola; they were all "tourists" from "down below" or just "below." If you were going to San Francisco, you merely stated you were going "below." Those pitiful characters who ardently desired to become rails, but failed, were called "foamers" — a sort of rail paparazzi. What a lowly job it was, too, if you did make the grade, only to be assigned a "goat," i.e., switch engine.
A favorite phrase I must share, risking disfavor, was, "go to beans." This meant "eat lunch." The restaurant in the old depot at Portola was called the Beanery. Most every rail town had a beanery. Beans must have played a major role in these early railroad years. One wonders what it was like having to ride 112 miles on the High Line (Fourth Subdivision) with members of the crew having just dined in the infamous Beanery, especially in winter when the windows to the cab were closed tight. Curiously, Paul Henry Jenner, no lover of the noble legume, was the engineer on the very first High Line revenue train from Keddie to Bieber in November 1931.
The Western Pacific Railroad yard in Portola as it looked in the 1930s and '40s.
The use of common English, too, was often fractured. For instance, the word "don't" often prevailed in place of "doesn't," i.e., "He don't know anything (or nothing)." Ain't was probably the most-used word in the English language. A husband was an "old man," a wife was an "old lady" and everybody's name was invariably preceded by the simple three-letter word "old" or "ole": "old" Ray, "old" Jimmy, "old" Mr. Johnson, "old" Mrs. Murphy, etc. Even a mother, God forbid, was an "old lady"; a father an "old man."
I remember my mother constantly correcting me and Dad. Although we both knew correct English, we deliberatively avoided it. Cultural bonding required no less. After all, this rail town was a kingdom in its own right. This drove poor Mom nuts.
Portola railroaders of that era (i.e., the 1930s and '40s) definitely had a strong liberal bent and broad-minded view of the world. Many of them had traveled far and wide to big cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Reno, Elko and Salt Lake City. There, many of them had been exposed to a plethora of ideas and ethnic differences. As a matter of fact, having had to fight so hard, as we mentioned in our last installment, for the rights of workers, they voted Democrat almost universally. I can't remember a single instance before a decade or so ago that Portola went Republican. No political ax to grind, folks, just stating a fact.
As a result of this broad-minded atmosphere with its expansive acceptance of all types of people and philosophies, Railroad Brat himself benefited. When I moved to San Francisco later and enrolled in high school, my best friend was African-American. We were constant companions for three years, playing baseball night and day. I was bereft of all stereotyping. So, too, was the case when I went to the University of Colorado. Jerry, also African-American, and I became the first integrated college dorm roommates in the university's history.
Remember, a variety of ethnic types had helped build and run the railroad. There were the Chinese, Mexicans and southern Europeans, of course, and we often forget the Sikhs and Hindus, among others. In fact, the rail cart actuated manually was called a gandy dancer. Some attribute this name to the Indian name Gandhi (as in Mohandes Gandhi, a Hindu), although much controversy is acknowledged regarding its precise origin.
The impression that Portola, a railroad town through and through, was a compassionate and broad-minded place was brought home in the middle '50s when I returned for a visit and noticed that the United Nations flag was hanging in the high school science lab. Although I'm no politician and was not meant to be, I do know one thing for sure: Portola had heart.
Many do not realize that the Western Pacific Railroad Inc. sponsored a semiprofessional baseball team during this era. They were called the Portola Railroaders, later the Solons, and consisted of railroad employees as well as young college baseball players recruited to come up and play for the summer season while holding down menial railroad jobs. Many of them came from leading universities like UC Berkeley.
The team name change was attributable to the fact the players wore out their old uniforms, inheriting hand-me-downs from the old Triple-A Sacramento Solons, now the Rivercats. Play took place on a baseball field behind the high school that consisted of bare earth riddled with pot holes, rodent tunnels and nary a blade of grass in sight. You can imagine the bad hops this rugged terrain induced. Any decent infielder would sport at least one black eye per season.
A player of particular notoriety was Johnny Lusar, a powerfully built first baseman who was a locomotive engineer. He not only had the physique of Mr. Universe, but was the spitting image of Lou Gehrig.
The team was particularly active during the war and played such powerhouses as Tonopah, Fallon, Hawthorne and Herlong, to name a few. Admission was free and because there were very few seats most people remained standing. And, yes, there were no iPods or ringing cellphones.
It was not unpatriotic to play baseball during World War II because President Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself had decreed that even Big League baseball should continue to be played since it was good for the nation's morale. You history buffs may take note of the fact that it was during this era that baseball teams started playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the beginning of the games to show their patriotism. This doubtlessly assuaged any extreme sense of guilt. The day after a big Sunday game, we kids would all run up to that same diamond and pretend we were hog-head slugger Johnny Lusar.
When baseball season was over and winter was upon us, there was ice hockey. The Feather River, then unfettered by the Frenchman and Lake Davis dams, provided expansive frozen surfaces for home-brewed games. In fact, the Western Pacific used the freezing of this river to harvest ice to refrigerate cars for perishable goods. The ice deck was east of the old girder bridge and dam. Our tools of engagement were a shaved pinecone and modified broomsticks. I often wonder if Wayne Gretzky got his start near a railroad ice deck.
Railroad workers use ice from the frozen Feather River to refrigerate cars carrying perishable goods.
Rails and their families had very few professional entertainment outlets in those days. One of the most exciting times, though, was when the carnival or so-called tent show came to town. Once in a while a Ferris wheel and other rides would be provided, but most of the time the tent show consisted of just a very large tent with various side shows and demonstrations inside. For example, there was a fat lady who you had to pay extra to see. You could also throw a ball at a guy sitting in a chair. If you hit the bull's eye, he would be dumped in water.
There were also those devices that looked like binoculars affixed to a machine through which, for a nickel, you could peep at a picture of a lady that was not a lady or a man, but both — an honest-to-goodness real-life hermaphrodite. We kids tried desperately to look in these machines because most of our education in such matters had been provided by National Geographic and magazines like Sunshine and Health Nudist, which had been swiped from the local smoke shop.
The most rousing events in the tent show, though, were the boxing matches. The carnival invariably had a former professional boxer of low national ranking among its employees. Management would announce that their boxer would challenge any guy in town to fight with a big purse being awarded to the winner after a series of elimination bouts. The community's very honor was challenged derisively.
Every tough, strong man in Portola, railroaders to the contrary notwithstanding, took umbrage, thinking he could whip this lowlife, thus insuring Portola's dignity and fame. A virtual mob of contestants lined up to fight. The carnival shill would invariably take a dive in one of the later fights, a local tough, not infrequently a railroader, being declared victor. This, of course, would foment a huge crowd for the rematch, which the carnival entrant usually won by a dramatic knockout in the last round. More than one rail bit the dust. The abused fans lost not only their admission money but whatever bets they had placed on the fight.
Years later I met an old Shoshone Piute native in Cedarville. He told me that years ago he had fought in these tent shows and had been hired out of Reno to travel with the circus, specifically to garner money in staged fights. He said the toughest fights were with railroaders, who were "smarter than the loggers or miners." He was 95 and didn't have a scratch. God bless America.
The most miserable day of my life was July 1, 1946. That was the day my dad was promoted to headquarters, 526 Mission St., San Francisco. He was "kicked upstairs," trading his overalls for a suit while his kid traded the wide-ranging adventures of a rambunctious railroad town for the fog-swept and lonely streets of a huge city where the people barely mumbled hello. It was a quantum leap for both of us.
Paul Henry Jenner, who quit school at age 14 to work as a call boy, was now assistant to general manager in charge of safety rules and instruction, an "officer" or "management," as they say. Since the safety record of the railroad was poor, brass had finally realized that something drastic had to be done. He was assigned an instruction coach that was hitched to various trains and ported over the Western Pacific line from Oakland to Salt Lake for the purpose of holding lectures on operating and air brake rules and all other aspects of railroad safety.
The coach was a marvel to behold. It had room for 20 or more students and all the accoutrements of a true classroom. Also included were a kitchen, bed and small living area — a self-contained home away from home. He must have felt like Lucius Beebe being hauled around in a luxurious private Pullman. Far cry from the 14-year-old call boy of 1916!
Boomer "pulled the pin" and went "whistling off" in 1963 after 46 years of service. The coach sits today in the yard at the museum, awaiting restoration under the able guidance of Norm Holmes, museum founder and director. As for me, I am left with only memories of those halcyon days growing up in a zany, broad-minded railroad community that afforded more adventures than even Huck Finn could endure. What more could Railroad Brat ask? Life was good.
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