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I didn't have reduced sodium cream of chicken soup, so I used a cream of mushroom soup; wished I had the reduced sodium soup though. I also sprinkled on some French Fried onions a couple minutes before serving. Served it on brown rice and it was pretty good! My husband also gave it 4 stars!
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Tucked away in a tiny room at last summer's BIO convention, adjacent to a big top vendor circus that would make even P.T. Barnum jealous, a handful of stem cell company executives convened for a panel titled "Stem Cell Therapies...Fact or Fiction?" The meeting was sparsely attended. After trotting out some compelling statistics in support of their chosen field—that stem cell research spending in 2011 was $1.2 billion; that, as of June 2012, 4,067 clinical trials involving stem cells were ongoing worldwide; and that stem cell products will earn upwards of $21 billion in sales by 2020—the executives moved from a discussion of facts to address the fictions.
Eduardo Bravo, CEO at TiGenix, a Belgium-based cell therapy company, said the most problematic fiction was the initial hype around stem cells. "Pharma jumped in and burned their fingers," he said.
Pharma's fingers are still smarting. It's true that the vast majority of stem cell companies are in the earliest stages of product development, and the sector has not been immune to the typical setbacks common in bringing forward a new class of drugs. Tumors in patients receiving human embryonic stem cells (hESC), or immune rejection in allogeneic transplant—a term that refers to patients receiving stem cells originating from another person, embryo or fetus—helped to scare off potential investors, especially those that weren't already frightened by ethical concerns and political or regulatory uncertainty. But as stem cell companies have developed work-arounds and solutions to these problems, they still haven't been able to fully assuage would-be funder's fears.Time for the pitch
"Seven years ago, partnering discussions with Big Pharma lasted 15 seconds," said Bravo. "Now they last 15 minutes." Even as mid-sized organizations with stem cell programs like Celgene and Shire have "increased the pressure on Big Pharma" to take notice or be left behind, Bravo said the future primary players in stem cell therapeutics won't likely emerge from the Big Pharma set. "I think it will be someone new, like Samsung, General Electric, or Fuji."
Maybe that's fitting. After all, stem cell therapies are fundamentally different than small molecules in that small molecules were designed to address symptomatology, whereas "the promise of cell-based therapies is that they offer the prospect of restoring lost function and preserving against degeneration," says Martin McGlynn, CEO at Stem Cells Inc. "These are areas where the pharmaceutical industry's efforts in the past have not been stellar." The problem is that small molecules aren't the game-changers for patients or blockbuster sources of revenue they once were. As pharma moves increasingly toward specialty products and biologics that block the pathways leading to loss of function, perhaps it's time to reconsider stem cell therapies as an additional area for future growth. Stem cell technologies "could be partnered much earlier if there was vision and support from the [Big Pharma] C-suite, if they said to their executives, 'Go out and put some place-holder bets on the table. You don't have to go for winners, but put us in a favorable position if any of these technologies do pan out in controlled trials,'" says McGlynn.
What the numbers say
While stem cell companies continue searching for the funding and partnerships that will pay for the next round of clinical trials, early-stage data continues to accumulate. With the help of stem cell therapies, embryonic and otherwise, recent animal model tests have shown subjects to regain hearing, memory, and motor function. Human subjects with macular degeneration have demonstrated improvements in vision; paraplegics have regained sensation; and patients with aplastic bone marrow—a condition in which the body fails to produce the critical hemtaopoetic cells that in turn produce red blood cells, white cells, and platelets—have been essentially cured, their lives saved by stem cells. There are other examples of early successes with stem cells, and other programs targeting many of the biggest unmet needs in disease areas like Parkinson's, Huntington's, ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, traumatic brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, lysosomal storage disorders, diabetes, hematologic cancers, peripheral artery disease, and critical limb ischemia. Stem cells have been shown to provide protection even from radioactive bombs.


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Server virtualization and storage virtualization go hand in hand. Centralized, virtualized storage is crucial for advanced server virtualization to be flexible and easy to manage. Companies are realizing that to unleash the real potential of cloud agile infrastructure, storage virtualization has to become mainstream like server virtualization.
For many companies, there is a constant need for additional storage resources to support growing volumes of information. And if you don't focus on managing your storage infrastructure, you can find that one virtual server is running out of storage capacity, even while there is ample capacity in other parts of the network.
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Hey everyone,
We use Zimbra here in our school district. Great email platform[although I'd love to see backup available in the open source version that's the one thing that stopped me from using it myself].
My question is about the chat box. I couldn't tell you exactly what version of Zimbra we're running since I'm only a user of the email system and the IT staff at the board office handle the mail server. But I'm wondering if any of you have experienced issues with the instant messaging boxes. I like the fact that they're integrated and that you can use them within the email program. The problem I'm having is that if I'm having a conversation with someone, and I'm typing, and they send a message while I'm still typing, for some reason the text cursor leaves the chat window, the main Zimbra interface gains focus, and since I was in the middle of typing, I realize that at the moment the text stopped being entered in the instant messaging window, I'm now typing keyboard shortcuts and doing random things like starting a new email, deleting an email, creating a new contact, completely by accident. I have to revert any changes, go back to my inbox, then click back to the instant messaging window and continue typing. This happens every single time an IM comes in while I'm typing. I tried searching the forums but I couldn't find anything on this. Is there any plans for this to be fixed? Also, it would be nice to only hear the new instant message chime if I receive a new IM and the IM window is not the active window, instead of every time even if I'm in the instant messaging window already.


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Along with Zimbra Collaboration Server 7.1.2 & 6.0.14 the Zimbra Connector for Blackberry counterparts 7.1.2 & 6.5.7 have been released.
- 59968 Fixed the issue where orphan appointments from the same recurring meeting were not displaying properly.
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Date: Sep 11th, 2012
Mary Casanova will speak about her new book, Frozen, on Saturday, October 6, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. at Centennial Library, and 2:00 p.m. at Rum River Library.
Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose hasn't said a word in eleven years—ever since the day she was found lying in a snowbank during a howling storm. Like her voice, her memories of her mother and what happened that night were frozen.
Set during the roaring 1920s in the beautiful, wild area on Rainy Lake where Minnesota meets Canada, Frozen tells the intriguing story of Sadie Rose, whose mother died under strange circumstances the same night Sadie Rose was found, unable to speak, in a snow bank. Sadie Rose doesn't know her last name and has only fleeting memories of her mother—and the conflicting knowledge that her mother had worked in a brothel. Taken in as a foster child by a corrupt senator, Sadie Rose spends every summer along the shores of Rainy Lake, where her silence is both a prison and a sanctuary.
"Although this is a work of fiction, it's a detailed look at the issues of the day, wrapped in a stirring mystery," said Anoka County Commissioner Carol LeDoux.
Sadie Rose's search for her personal truth is laid against a swirling historical drama—a time of prohibition and women winning the right to vote, political corruption, and a fevered fight over the area's wilderness between a charismatic, unyielding, powerful industrialist and a quiet man battling to save the wide, wild forests and waters of northernmost Minnesota. Frozen is a suspenseful, moving testimonial to the haves and the have-nots, to the power of family and memory, and to the extraordinary strength of a young woman who has lost her voice in nearly every way—but is utterly determined to find it again.
"This is an opportunity for teens and readers of teen literature to meet one of Minnesota's finest," said Library Board President Bob Thistle. "Come to hear more about the creation of her inspiring novel, Frozen."
Copies of Frozen will be available for purchase and signing. The program is free and open to the public. This program was funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Mary Casanova
Mary Casanova is the author of thirty books, ranging from the picture book One-Dog Canoe to the historical fiction novel The Klipfish Code. Her awards include an American Library Association "Notable," Aesop Accolades by the American Folklore Society, a Parent's Choice Gold Award, a Booklist Editors' Choice, and two Minnesota Book Awards.
By Mary Casanova
Available: September 2012, University of Minnesota Press
264 pp., 5 1/2 x 8 ½, ISBN: 978-0-8166-8056-6, $16.95 hardcover
Praise for Frozen
"Compelling and believable." —Kirkus Reviews
"Suspenseful . . . Casanova creates a strong sense of place and ably establishes her story's historical context. The narrative confronts weighty issues including prostitution, mental illness, and political corruption . . . readers should find [Sadie Rose] an admirable heroine as she finds her voice and her future." —Publishers Weekly
"Mary Casanova knows the lakes and woods of northern Minnesota as few other writers do, and she brings them to life along with an intriguing mystery set in that region's dark past." —Marion Dane Bauer, author of On My Honor


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|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
To improve influenza vaccination rates in Colorado, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment launched the "Do Something Easy Flu Vaccine Pledge" Facebook app. It allows Facebook users to pledge to get their flu vaccination this season and use Facebook or Twitter to enourage their friends to get vaccinated.
"We're always searching for new and creative ways to reach out to the community to help improve our vaccination rates," said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, deputy director for disease control and environmental epidemiology at the department.
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Sacramento, CA (Sports Network) - DeMarcus Cousins posted 17 points and 14
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Isaiah Thomas also dropped in 17 points, while Jimmer Fredette scored 15,
Jason Thompson poured in 12 and Aaron Brooks contributed 11 for the Kings, who
won consecutive games for the first time since Nov. 5-7.
Glen Davis paced the Magic with 20 points and 11 rebounds in Orlando's second
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Arron Afflalo netted 18 points, Jameer Nelson had 17 and Andrew Nicholson
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I'll never duck a controversy
He walks and talks and quacks like a conservative, but he's much more than that. Meet Mallard Fillmore creator Bruce Tinsley, a cartoonist as politically incorrect in real life as his main character is in fiction. Hatched in controversy, Mallard now flies in more than 400 newspapers around the country, but Mallard's creator credits not controversy but God's grace for his success.
"I'll never duck a controversy" Continued...
Bruce Tinsley hesitates to tell how he dreamed up the idea of his born-again (or hatched-again), politically conservative cartoon duck. He fears that folks will think he's spinning a bald-faced yarn. "It's so politically correct," he says of the origins of Mallard Fillmore. "It's too perfect."
But he tells the tale anyway. Mr. Tinsley's bosses at the newspaper where he once worked had asked the artist to design a mascot for their weekend entertainment section. Mr. Tinsley's first idea was a blue hippopotamus. "The managing editor and the executive editor said they couldn't believe I submitted a drawing like that," Mr. Tinsley recalls. "It would offend fat women. My hippopotamus was appropriately gender neutral. I don't know why they came up with fat women as opposed to fat people."
So he submitted his next idea, which was, by his description, "a huge nose in a tuxedo."
"I thought this would be perfect because he was dressed up, a tux on, a top hat and a cane. That was immediately shot down, too, because they said a big nose would offend Jews and people of Mediterranean descent. The second thing they said was that noses in the '90s were associated with cocaine."
His third submission was a duck. "The duck won by default," Tinsley says. "It didn't offend anybody, although the executive editor did wonder if the duck shouldn't be wearing pants."
If Mallard didn't offend anyone at first, it wasn't long before his webbed feet were stepping all over liberal toes. Mallard the Mascot had become Mallard the cartoon, and Mr. Tinsley's new publisher and new editor asked him to pipe down his conservative voice. He refused. They fired him. "The publisher made no bones about it. He said, 'You're too conservative for us. We're more liberal than your old editor and publisher.' I'm not sure how that was possible. Maybe they were just less tolerant."
Mallard Fillmore, a conservative TV reporter employed by liberal bosses and working with an air-head anchor (Mallard might say that's redundant), is the conservative answer to Doonesbury. Indeed, many newspapers now run Doonesbury on the left-hand side of their editorial page, butting (that's an appropriate verb) Mallard up against Zonker and Co. on the right-hand side. While nothing is off limits, Mallard consistently skewers all matters liberal, from Bill Clinton to the news media with a few jibes at talk-show host Jerry Springer thrown in for fun.
Mallard is so conservative that occasionally he is tossed out of one of the more than 400 newspapers that carry him, in much the same way that Rush Limbaugh might be kicked out of NPR's Christmas party. That's when Mr. Tinsley finds out the size of his following. (Mr. Limbaugh, by the way, is a fan and occasionally reads aloud a Mallard strip on his daily program.)
In Colorado, for instance, The Denver Post's editorial page editor didn't care for Mallard's politics and yanked the cartoon. Mr. Tinsley's two-week series about Teddy Kennedy and Bill Clinton on spring break in Florida was the final provocation. It went beyond the pale of good taste, says Sue O'Brien, who rues the decision. "All I can say is we tried to stop running Mallard," says Ms. O'Brien, pain still evident in her voice. "We got absolutely clobbered. He has more dedicated fans out there than you would believe."
The clobbering was sufficient to convince Post Editor Dennis Britton not only to reinstate the duck, but to do so with a signed, front-page, top-of-the-fold explanation. "Mallard Fillmore, whether Sue and I think he's mean-spirited or not, has a flock of fans, many of whom chided us for being thin-skinned and narrow-minded," Mr. Britton wrote. "Clearly, we are both on occasion.... Most of you told us to lighten up, not to censor, to give the 'other side' a voice, to honor the First Amendment.... We think you made excellent points.... The Duck Flies Again."
With the occasional pulling of his strip, Mr. Tinsley joins the likes of fellow Christian cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose Christmas and Easter cartoons are routinely censored by the Los Angeles Times. And like Mr. Hart, Mr. Tinsley uses those holidays to openly proclaim his faith.
Mr. Tinsley, like his Denver fans, is appalled at the sensitivity of the keepers of the First Amendment. "I have newspaper editors who will say, 'I can't stand Mallard Fillmore, but we publish it because we think it lends balance to our page.' And then again, I have other newspaper editors who say, 'It makes too much fun of the media. Why am I going to publish something that makes fun of journalism?' I can't believe how thin-skinned they are."
Mr. Tinsley, who grew up in Louisville, Ky. (where the newspaper does not publish the work of its native son), discovered "early on" his interest in art. "As a matter of fact," he says, "probably too early on. It really kept me from doing things like taking notes in class and paying attention. I was always doodling and getting in trouble for it."
At home, the environment was conservative and informed. His parents discussed politics, read the newspaper aloud at night, and usually watched the evening newscasts. In high school, he found a stark contrast between his teachers' views and those of his parents. "I think in a lot of ways what kind of solidified my conservatism was my perception that all the opinion leaders for future generations were really liberal. There were very few exceptions. Going to high school and college at the time I did, and then working for newspapers from the time I was a senior in high school and on through college, would either make someone an arch-liberal or conservative."
From the beginning of his career, Mr. Tinsley noted the lack of balance in newsrooms, and the need for a strong conservative voice. Once he created Mallard and imbued him with decidedly conservative (Mallard would say common-sense) philosophies, Mr. Tinsley and Mallard found themselves the victims of that imbalance. Mallard, however, was not duck soup. Mr. Tinsley had done some work for The Washington Times, where the editors liked Mallard and published a few strips. From there, King Features called and Mallard was airborne.
As the counterweight to Doonesbury, Mr. Tinsley ridicules everything from condom distribution in schools to the NEA. And while Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau occasionally belittles religion, or at least its practitioners, Mallard represents Mr. Tinsley's own efforts to live out his faith. "As far as it relates to my strip, I don't want to be too narrow doctrinally," he says. "But at the same time, I don't want to come out there and do something that's so ecumenical and inclusive that it's the spiritual version of the Republican Convention last August that says nothing. I respect people of other faiths, but on the other hand, I'm a Christian, and I hope it informs, every day, the strip I do. Mallard can be a pretty grumpy, misanthropic kind of guy, but I shudder to think how he would be if the strip were not to some degree informed by my Christian faith.
"Mallard typifies the spiritual struggle that I have all the time. By my human nature, I don't much want to be the kind of person that Jesus expects us to be. I'm constantly amazed by God's grace and by the expectations we're expected to live up to. In the strip, Mallard kind of has that approach. He's Everyman in the sense that he really is disinclined to live the kind of life that Christians are supposed to live, and he has to overcome that, just kind of his natural human frailty."
Mr. Tinsley was raised a Presbyterian but joined a Baptist church when he was 16. He did not have a dramatic moment of conversion, but came to believe in Christ as his understanding unfolded. "None of the important moments in my life, like falling in love with my wife, have happened suddenly," he says. Mr. Tinsley and his wife, Arlette (who is expecting the couple's first child in November), are new to their town in Indiana and have not yet settled on a church there.
Conservatives are the iconoclasts of this generation, he contends, tilting at the liberal status quo, railing at the hypocrisies and pointing out the flawed thinking and theology of the Flower Children Who Are Now In Charge. "There's that strain that associates liberalism with the wonderful things about Christianity, associates liberalism with compassion, with charity and with concern for our fellow man," Mr. Tinsley says. "But quite frankly what I see from many liberals is a sort of trading of a personal conscience and personal sense of charity and compassion for what in the '60s and '70s was called a social conscience. Sort of like, I will turn those aspects of my life over to the government to manage. It'll make me feel less guilty if instead of giving to charity myself, or doing work for charity, or having compassion on my fellow man, if I just force somebody else to pay lots of taxes to salve my conscience."
His most controversial storylines were the Kennedy-Clinton spring-break trip in 1996, and the 1994 series on the anniversary of Woodstock. "Essentially I was making fun of this bunch of aging hippies who now are either burned out, living in an attic somewhere with cats, or else they're people who are the editors and publishers of newspapers and professors at universities. I got a lot of really angry mail about that."
He also learned about the power of local teachers unions when he published a two-week story about homeschooling, which praised home education while belittling public schools. Several newspapers dropped the strip, some under pressure from teachers.
While Mallard has his cantankerous critics, he also has some high-profile fans, like Judge Lance Ito, who requested an original cartoon Mr. Tinsley had drawn of him. And Sen. Jesse Helms loved a cartoon in which he made fun of the senator from North Carolina. "I don't get that from liberals. Maybe conservatives are more tolerant of that kind of thing."
The marketplace of ideas needs more strips like Mallard, Mr. Tinsley says, and more conservative columnists, and stories written from a wider range of viewpoints. "I don't believe in the idea of objectivity as an attainable goal. I think the best we can hope for is lots of different subjective points of view from which a reader can draw his or her own opinion."
He has published two collections of Mallard Fillmore strips, and awaits the arrival of the Mallard Fillmore doll. "I'm not like Bill Waterson," Mr. Tinsley says of the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. "I don't have any ethical problems with making a lot of money off of those kind of things."
As for any similarities between Mr. Tinsley and his duck, they are not hard to spot. "Mallard is pretty close to me," he says. "I'm a little taller."


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Our 45th Jörðgarð (TM) Map of the Week comes from our forthcoming puiblication "The Northwest."
Prison Towers of the North Kingdom
There are three prison towers where vampires feed upon the incarcerated in the kingdom. They are a part of the castle complex in each of the three ducal seats, Green Meadows, Grain Meadows and Timbertown. The ruing vampire draug, Mstislav,o has issued strong edicts regarding the handling of the prisoners in the towers. His orders are based upon a desire to maintain as high a quality level of blood in the prisoners as possible and the wish to have the towers draw as little attention as possible. Unlike many of the other vampire draugs, Mstislav does not underestimate the ability of the human population to start a rebellion against its rulers, should its fear of them and the bloodsucking monsters of which they are aware overwhelm them.
Mstislav also has learned that humans who live on the brink of insanity (or over it), in a constant state of fear, produce blood that is of inferior quality from the standpoint of a vampire draug's needs. Because each prisoner feeds vampires with some regularity, there is no way that Mstislav can completely remedy this situation. After a prisoner has fed a vampire, it is weakened and it notices the wounds upon its throat. It knows that one of the bloodsucking monsters has attacked it.
However, Mstislav theorizes that a prisoner's reactions to an attack are less strong when he or she becomes aware of the attack only after it has happened. Therefore, all vampire draugs are under orders to use their sleep command upon prisoners in a tower and to make certain that the command has succeeded before they feed. This prevents any prisoner of being aware of the feeding until it is past and eliminates possible screams in the night.
The three prison towers are run by trusty-jailers and their wives. The trusties are not free men but rather privileged tower prisoners who are appointed by the dukes in whose prison towers they work. All of the current trusties are convicted murders who have spent at least five years as vampire fodder in a prison tower. When a new trusty is placed in charge of a tower, he or she must meet certain conditions. A new trusty must have a husband or wife who is willing to live with him or her in the tower and share the jailer's duties. Tower prisoners who are troublemakers or who have been convicted of heinous crimes are not considered. He or she also must be able to read and write.
Together, the trusty and his wife are required to see that the tower's prisoners have heat in the cold months and that they are well-fed year round. Food is delivered daily to the prison tower, and firewood is delivered whenever a new supply is needed. There is enough of both delivered to take care of the trusty and his wife as well as the prisoners. The trusty and his wife also are required to take care of the prisoners' urine urns and bed pans. There are no jakes in the cells.
Key to the Prison Tower Dungeon Plans
All three prison towers in the kingdom are identical. Each tower is 70 feet/21m high. Each consists of eight stories, each with 8-foot/240 cm high ceilings. The ground floor is of stone. The floors of the upper stories are made of oak beams six inches/15 cm thick. The peaked roof complex is 3½ feet/105 cm high. The ground floor is the jailer's lodgings. The seven identical upper stories each has four prison cells.
Ground Floor - Jailer's Lodgings
1. Jailer's Reception Room. This room contains a desk and a bookshelf with prisoners' records. These contain information on each prisoner's crimes, sentence, date of entry in the tower, dates when the prisoner has fed vampires, notes on incidents involving the prisoner and the date of death or departure.
2. Well Room. The well is here along with a cupboard containing extra bedpans, urine urns and other supplies.
3. Lodgings. The trusty jailer and spouse dwell here.
4. Spiral Staircase. Extends from the ground floor to the eighth story.
Upper Floors - Prisoners' Cells (each floor identical)
4. Spiral Staircase. Extends from the ground floor to the eighth story. At the top, the staircase extends to the crawl space beneath the roof, to facilitate roof repairs.
5. Bed.
6. Footlocker.
7. Table with a Single Chair.
8. Wood Stove. The jailer and his wife fire it from the outside. Prisoners are not allowed access to fire.
9. Slot for the Bedpan and Urine Urn.
10. Barred and Locked Cell Door. The torches on the stairway wall are the only light sources for the cell in the dark hours. The torches are kept burning 24 hours a day. Prisoners are not allowed access to fire.
11. Slot for Food and Drink.
12. Stovepipe. It extends directly below the ceiling from the wood burning stove to a bronze chimney outside the wall.
You can get the dungeon plan of the prison tower in two versions:
1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 map in FMP format, fully editable, from our Jörðgarð web page (20 MB).
2. As two JPG flat map of 11280 x 1280 Pixels each (total 2.1 MB), available above.
Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð web site.
The Jörðgarð web site:
Next: The town of Vladimir's Throne in the North Kingdom.
Mark Oliva
The Vintyri (TM) Project


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Beamline 11.3.1 web site
Source characteristics
Bend magnet
Energy range
6–17 keV
Channel-cut Si(111)
Flux (1.9 GeV, 400 mA)
1x1011 photons/s/0.01%BW at 10 keV
Resolving power (E/ΔE)
Medium sized hutch with Bruker AXS D8 diffractometer and Oxford Cryosystems Cryostream Plus
Bruker AXS APEXII CCD
Spot size at sample
280 µm x 90 µm (100-µm diameter with collimator)
Sample format
Crystals as small as 15 µm x 15 µm x 15 µm
Sample preparation
Mount in oil in a mitegen loop
Sample environment
90–500 K nitrogen open flow system
Special notes
Bruker AXS APEX2 software for data collection and processing. SHELXTL software suite for structure solution and refinement.
Experimental techniques
Single crystal x-ray diffraction
Scientific applications
Chemical crystallography
Local contact / Spokesperson
Advanced Light Source, Berkeley Lab Phone: (510) 486-4457 Fax: (510) 486-7696
Beamline phone number
(510) 495-2117


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – After flyers failed to stop litterbugs, the frustrated mayor of a Malaysian town told his officials to blow the whistle on offenders — literally.
Khazali Din, mayor of the northern Alor Star city, said Thursday that those who throw garbage on the streets will be greeted with a sharp whistle blown by patrolling city officials, and a fine of up to 300 ringgit ($85).
"I've been trying so many methods, but they failed. I think this is the best way because people will feel shy or embarrassed when they are caught red-handed," he said.
The whistle offensive started Monday, but Khazali said his officers are not yet adept at pouncing on offenders, so no one has been caught yet.
The litter monitors must learn to act "on the spot, on the dot," he said, adding that the city will give the whistle campaign until at least the end of the year to show results.
Some offenders may be let off with a warning, without having to face the full music, he said.
Here's the other story:
Malaysian men who call their wives ugly could go to jail
Men in Malaysia who call their wives ugly could find themselves thrown into prison.
The government is being asked to consider criminalising 'emotional violence'.
Women's groups say husbands who demonstrate a pattern of causing psychological damage should face counselling, fines or jail.
Offenders could include a man who 'tells his wife she is ugly or humiliates her until she feels emotionally pressured', the head of the government's Women's Development Department said during a conference on violence against women.
Noorul Ainur Mohamad Nur said emotional abuse could deeply scar a woman's dignity and self-confidence.
About 90 per cent of some 800 women who called the country's Women's Aid Organisation for help last year reported being psychologically abused, though some were also physically assaulted.
The Women's Development Department proposed the legislation after lobbying from human rights groups.
There were no immediate details about when Parliament would discuss the plan.


text: No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani and her husband Gavin Rossdale drop off their son Zuma at school on November 27, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. The couple looked to have a serious conversation as they got to the car. Perhaps Gwen is upset about Gavin touching their nanny's butt while on a hike with the boys this last weekend!


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Hi Zimbra Team and Others,
I was wondering and hoping that there might be another webinar soon please?
After the installation of 4.5 GA it would be nice if I could also watch a a flash presentation.
Excellent upgrade smooth as silk on CentOS.
Brilliant work Zimbra, you have made a top notch contribution to the open source community - I thank you.


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Lab Introduction
The Eagle River Campus LRC Computer Lab is located in the Eagle Center, room 214. (view Campus Map)
The lab has Windows workstations with common software applications used for word processing, spreadsheets, publishing, and presentations, as well as course specific software. The lab is open to students currently enrolled in courses offered by the Chugiak/Eagle River Campus.
Scheduled Hours of Operation
Available Resources


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I am struggling with this connector. I have an imac with latest OS/patches. When I install (ok) and point at my account - I get periodic dialogs to "allow access to keychain" - however the mac grinds to a halt - really slow - seems to be doing something - no idea what.
Any ideas ?


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Book your room at Windsor Excelsior Hotel
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Located on Copacabana, just across the street from the beach.
Windsor Excelsior Hotel is right across from Capacabana Beach, within walking distance to Ipanema Beach, Leblon Beach and a metro station. This hotel is located close to major Rio de Janeiro attractions including Sugarloaf Mountain, and Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
Rooftop views
The 12-story Windsor Excelsior Hotel serves a lavish complimentary buffet breakfast daily. Designed with both the business and leisure traveler in mind, this hotel offers a roof deck with a panoramic view overlooking Copacabana beach, pool, wide sundeck, and cocktail bar.
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Windsor Excelsior HotelAvenida Atlantica 1800 Copacabana Rio de Janeiro RJ 22021-001
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Located on a beachfront boulevard, the Excelsior Copacabana Hotel is located near popular beach destinations including Copacaba Beach, Ipanema Beach and Leme Beach.
The hotel maintains a barraca (beach shack) with complimentary towels, umbrellas, and lounge chairs on Copacabana Beach.
A staffed business center offers 6 workstations, a printer, copier, and fax machine.
The fitness center contains cardiovascular machines, free weights, a sauna, and a steam room. Complimentary transportation is provided to the airport and downtown (but not from either area). Complimentary self parking available on-site.
- Outdoor pool
- Poolside bar
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Concierge services
- Free breakfast
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Business center
- Total number of rooms - 233
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 12
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fitness facilities
- Pool umbrellas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Rooftop terrace
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms 7
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Conference space size (meters) - 399
- Number of meeting rooms - 7
- Beach umbrellas
- Free beach cabanas
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Year Built 2000
- Conference space size (feet) - 4295
- Free self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Room service (24 hours)
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Minibar
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Soundproofed rooms
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is provided each morning.
Excelsior - Known for its sumptuous buffets that include a complimentary breakfast buffet for guests. It serves à la carte meals for lunch and dinner. International fare with Brazilian touches. Views of Atlantic Avenue.\
Rooftop bar - Poolside bar serving snacks and drinks until early evening.
Nearby Things to Do
The 7.5-m (25-ft) rooftop pool offers panoramic views from its wide sundeck. The fitness center contains cardiovascular machines, free weights, a sauna, and a steam room.
The hotel faces Copacabana Beach and provides complimentary beach towels as well as umbrellas, and lounge chairs(complimentary, but gratuities are customary).
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at 2 PM
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is Noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
- Tourism fee: BRL 3 per accommodation, per night
Hotel Name
- Excelsior Windsor
- Hotel Windsor Excelsior
- Windsor Excelsior
- Windsor Excelsior Hotel
- Windsor Excelsior Hotel Rio de Janeiro
- Windsor Excelsior Rio de Janeiro
- Windsor Excelsior Hotel Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
We should mention
Parents or a legal guardian traveling with children under 18 years must present the child's birth certificate and an identity card with photo (passport, for example) at the check-in. For international travels from Brazil, if just one of the parents is traveling with the child, she/he must present – in addition to the child's certificate of birth and identity card with photo – a letter authorizing the trip signed by the other parent with a notarial certification of signature. In case the parents or the legal guardian, as applicable, cannot or are unwilling to give this authorization, a judicial authorization is required. People who intend to travel to Brazil with children must consult with the Brazilian consulate before traveling for more information. Children 10 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.