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Monday, January 4, 2016
In a Vase on Monday: transistions
I'm sure I've written this before – I love to decorate for Christmas – but come the 26th, I'm over it. Completely and totally. This year I thought I'd keep a few elements of the poinsettia display, but update it with a slightly spring feel.
I'm not meticulous enough for real kokedama, but I wanted to bring a pair of Maidenhair ferns (Adiantum venustum) inside and put them in these great vintage wooden bowls. A little moss from the garden, left over Tillandsia usneoides and wire and I had something that would at least contain the root ball.
The silver goblets are reused from the Christmas display, this one is filled with Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream' foliage and a Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla stem. A couple more Grevillea leaves are underneath, along with some sort of Proteaceous cones I brought back from California.
The mix of tarnished silver and wood is a bit odd, but it's what I'd envisioned so I went with it. The tall vase is an oldie, when I want to fill it with cut flowers and foliage I drop a glass tumbler inside to hold the water.
In it are cuttings from Leucothoe fontanesiana 'Rainbow'...
A single Protea bloom (not from my garden, of course), more Grevillea foliage...
And a few fronds from a sword fern (Polystichum munitum) complete the mess.
I find small pedestals like this invaluable for displaying Tillandsia, I was thrilled when I recently spotted this wooden one at a thrift shop.
Another Protea bloom tucked in a very small silver vase, joined by a couple fronds from a wavy cloak fern (Cheilanthes sinuata/Astrolepis sinuata).
Have you noticed the long, thin, branch running behind? It's from an Arctostaphylos (Manzanita) and was brought to me by this kind lady. She noticed a leaning Arctostaphylos in my front garden and thought a matching brace would be just the thing to keep it upright. It will be! And it will eventually make it out there...
I couldn't help but cover the cut ends with a little moss collected from my garden. Then of course tuck in a few Tillandsia.
And another cone brought back from Southern California, this one from a Banksia.
More goblets, out front is Asplenium nidus 'Crispy Wave' joined by Lysimachia paridiformis var. stenophylla in the back...
And the second Maidenhair fern.
Not shown above – because it's not on the mantle but another group of plants nearby – this one in particular I'm curious about...
I bought the stem of three prior to leaving town. Back then they were tight cones, they've since opened to what you see here.
I thought it was a Protea, but the closest I've found to identifying it online is Protea scolymocephala, but I just don't think that's right. Help?
As you've probably heard "In a Vase on Monday" is an blogger's meme hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. This is my entry for the week, click here to see what others have done this first week of the new year...
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That is a dramatic mantle-scape. I think the wood and metal work well together because the plant materials have the same colors and tones. You are so lucky to be able to go out to the garden at this time of year. Looks like we are now going to have below normal temps. Ugh.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm lucky that I did this when the foliage in the garden was still visible. Yesterday I woke to snow and by the afternoon it was freezing rain. Now there's about an inch of snow topped with a quarter inch of ice. Plants bent over every which way...praying we get above freezing today so it can start to melt.Delete
Leucodenrun - not sure which one trying to find outReplyDeleteReplies
Leucadendron Rubrum or Leucadendron PlumosumDelete
... Love these!!! One of my all time favs. I like to buy them fresh for arrangements or wall hangings/wreaths, watch them pop ( it takes a while ) and when finished with arrangement I save the Leucodendrun, stashing away to enjoy in some secret or not so secret spot throughout the year and beyond. They are sweetDelete
I was leaning toward your Leucadendron Plumosum ID and another commenter below agreed. Thank you! Do you put them in water or keep them dry? Where do you find them? I remember seeing them at Garden Fever last year...which I thought was odd because they don't normally carry cut flowers. This year I made a quick stop downtown to grab a Christmas gift and found these at Solabee.Delete
dramatic! exotic! fabulous!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Sandra!Delete
I really love your mantel of plants...stunning and so exotic....especially Leucothoe fontanesiana 'Rainbow'.ReplyDeleteReplies
I've been a little obsessed with that plant ever since seeing it in the poinsettia arrangement that inspired the "challenge"...glad I finally got to use it!Delete
A great mantle arrangement! It's like a small garden in your living room with lots of interesting things to see! Love the leucadrendrons! Thanks to Susan for the identification. I like to leave the holiday stuff up as long as I can.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes! "a small garden in your living room with lots of interesting things to see" I think that's exactly what I was going for without really knowing it.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 04, 2016
This an amazing plantscape, Loree - so much to interest and fascinate the observer, and you clearly have put it together with such vision. I am so impressed - thanks for sharingReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for providing the push to do so. Your meme has really inspired me to do more of this kind of thing.Delete
Just wonderful! But if I ever make it to your house for another visit, you'll have to hide that tall wooden vase. I can't take my eyes off it!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for the warning! BTW it came from Cost Plus World Market eons ago. Is that store in your area?Delete
Always enjoy your Monday arrangements, so talented.ReplyDelete
Your mantle displays deserve to be immortalized in a book or calendar, Loree! I love that Leucadendron Susan identified. It's too bad I've never seen that one in my local garden centers.ReplyDeleteReplies
It's pretty elusive isn't it? I'm glad to have a name...now I can learn more. And thank you for your kind words. "52 weeks of Mantle-scaping"...do you think anyone would buy that?Delete
I think your unknown plant is what you get when a Protea mates with a parrot. That mantle arrangement is so fabulous. I am so jealous of your supreme talent.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ha! Sounds tricky, and like something better left to the laboratory. "Supreme talent" huh? You're kind.Delete
It's definitely a Leucadendron plumosum.ReplyDelete
Wow! That's so pretty! And your tillandsia look so good. I like how you combine them with so many different things. And I hope all your agaves do OK with your snow and freezing rain!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh those poor Agaves! I wish I could bring them inside and warm them by the fire.Delete
Crazy beautiful, Loree!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much Tim!Delete
Sorry I can't be of any help, but I love your mystery protea-like blooms - how cool. And I wish I could keep maidenhair ferns alive. I know someone else who's killed one recently too, so it's not just me haha. Must be the heat? (although it was kept indoors..)ReplyDeleteReplies
Leucadendron plumosum is the answer, I'll be curious to see if you ever run across them. Sorry about the maidenhair ferns...we always want what we "can't" grow - right?Delete
What an amazing collection of interesting plants. Here in Italy we keep the Christmas decorations up until Twelfth Night or La Befana as it is called here; another holiday when children are given sweets if they have been good or charcoal if naughty.ReplyDeleteReplies
I know several people who follow in your Italian footsteps, I wish I could be more relaxed about it but I just have to make everything go away!!!Delete
Your mantle arrangement is so exciting and tropical, Loree! I especially like the big Protea flower, and Tillandsia, and the Leucadentron flowers are magical with the contrasting fuzzy peach interiors.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Hannah, if I ever move to southern California I am going to go Protea mad!Delete
Me likey, especially all the containers.ReplyDelete
This is a masterpiece!!! I absolutely love it.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ha! You're kind Lisa.Delete
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This is the third of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides.
Infinite Summer: Looking back, do parts of the novel that seemed superfluous at the time now make sense?
Eden M Kennedy: Yes and no. The joke about "never try to pull more than your own weight" came back a few times in different contexts, which were all appropriate, but I agree with Kevin's ambivalence toward it, and I'm not sure I get why it's in there, given the story's history. Also, looking back on all the early Marathe/Steeply conversations, when I really had trouble giving a shit about what they were talking about, I think their conversations would probably reveal a lot more to me on a second reading. So no, they don't make sense yet, but I have faith that they do make sense.
Avery Edison: I'm starting to understand that even if one section doesn't give us any new information or make sense as a part of the story, it's still important because it builds IJ's tone. Infinite Jest seems to be less about a series of events that show what happened to a bunch of people, and more about a collection of vignettes that paint a picture of an entire world. Everything is necessary because even the tiniest details inform this portrait of an entire alternate universe.
Kevin Guilfoile: If we were talking about a conventional novel, there's clearly much here that could be trimmed to make it "better." But Wallace is aiming at something other than just storytelling, and the experience of the novel wouldn't be nearly as moving if he didn't structure it the way he did. There are a lot of scenes, frankly, that could have gone (given the ultimate context I probably would give DFW a pass for borrowing the bricklayer story, except for the fact, as Eden points out, it's almost entirely gratuitous), but I also give Wallace a great benefit of the doubt given what he's accomplished with this novel. To go scene by scene would be nitpicking as far as I'm concerned.
Matthew Baldwin: Exactly. It would be akin to saying, "but does the Mona Lisa really need to have those mountains in the background"? And the short answer is, "Yes. Because it's the Mona Lisa."
IS: Were the hours (days, weeks…) spent reading the book well spent? Do you regret reading the book at all?
MB: Totally worth it, no regrets. That said, there were times during the reading (especially around page 700) when I wished I could take a break, just set the book aside for a week or two. But at the same time I knew a break would turn into a hiatus would turn into a fuck I can't believe I failed to finish this book again.
I felt like the protagonist in that Jack London story To Build a Fire, forcing myself to keep moving, desperately wanting to rest "for a moment" but aware that doing so would be end.
AE: A month ago, I would have said that I'd made a terrible decision in committing to reading the book, but now that it's over with I'm immensely glad I did it. Putting aside the sense of pride I get from the fact that I actually managed to read a 1,000 page book, I really did have fun, pretty much from the eschaton game onwards. There are themes in the book that I'm sure are going to percolate in my brain for a while, and I feel like a (slightly) emotionally deeper human being having read so much truly smart stuff on depression and addiction.
EMK: I do not regret having read Infinite Jest one bit, even though at times it was very, very difficult to motivate myself to stay with it, to find something remotely relevant to post about it, and to make my family understand why I had to go hide in the bedroom all weekend to get caught up. (They're REALLY glad I'm done.)
KG: I don't think I would have ever read Infinite Jest–I surely don't think I would have finished it–without Infinite Summer. And so I'm really grateful Matthew asked me to be a part of this. And not just for the book, but for the community around it. The posts by the other guides and the commenters and the folks in the forums (I really didn't have much time to dive in there, though I will now) and the readers following along on Twitter. The collective encouragement and wisdom of this group made it one of the most pleasurable reading experiences I've ever had. I'm grateful to all of you, actually.
I've already read the next two books in the IS queue (Dracula and 2666) and so I won't be reading along, but I will be stopping by here regularly for the excitement of watching smart minds wrestle with big ideas.
Apparently The Pale King has been delayed until the fall of 2010. Disappointed?
AE: I'm looking forward to reading it, certainly (especially after hearing a reading from it on this episode of To The Best Of Our Knowledge), but I'm not desperate to read it, and the year between now and then gives me more than enough time to tackle IJ again.
KG: I will definitely read The Pale King but I doubt I would have gotten to it before next year, anyway. I just spent a summer reading one book. My book stack needs some serious thinning.
EMK: No, I've got all this other Wallace to catch up on. I didn't think I'd want to read any more Wallace at all after IJ, frankly, but his essay about going to a porn convention sucked me right back in. And now that I've read more about his life and how all his personal head-work had led him up to writing The Pale King, I'm really more sorry than ever that he couldn't stick around to finish it. But I'm looking forward to reading it very much, whatever shape it's in.
MB: Had you asked me this yesterday, my answer would have been: not really. I felt like Wallace poured all of himself into Jest, and I'm frankly a little skeptical that there could be more of him to read, especially in another huge, sprawling novel.
But then, last night, I walked into a Barnes and Noble to pick up The New Annotated Dracula, and inexplicably walked out with Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. I stood for a moment in the parking lot, looking down at it and thinking, "how the hell did that happen?" So apparently my thirst for Wallace remains unslaked.


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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Every Passenger a Terrorist
"Welcome to Insolvent Airlines! How may I help you?" inquired Pollyanna, the ebullient ticket agent, as I approached the counter.
"I'm flying to Chicago today," I replied, handing her my government-issued photo identification card.
"Thank you Mr. Powers," replied Pollyanna. "How many bags will you be checking?"
"Just one," I said, placing it on the scale next to her.
"Thank you Mr. Powers," answered Pollyanna. She placed the baggage tag on my hard shell tool case. "Your bag is checked through to Chicago. Here is your boarding pass…"
"Um, are you forgetting to ask me something?" I blithely interrupted.
"What do you mean?" said the puzzled airline representative.
"You know," I said wryly. "The two questions! Have your bags been with you at all times? Has anyone unknown to you asked you to carry items for them?"
"Oh, those questions!" she emphatically replied. "The FAA no longer requires us to ask every traveler those inane questions. The federal government finally realized that passengers with malicious intent would simply lie about it when asked."
"Oh, I see."
"As I was saying," said Pollyanna, "here is your boarding pass. Please take your bag to the TSA agent for X-ray and explosive detection. Have a nice flight!"
"Thanks," I sighed. I wasn't looking forward to dealing with the Transportation Security Administration. After President Bush federalized airport security, air travel has changed dramatically. Once treated with some semblance of respect, passengers are now viewed as potential terrorists. We've all heard the horror stories – wheelchair-bound grandmothers hand-frisked by suspicious security agents; amputees required to remove artificial limbs for inspection; female passengers groped during hand searches by overzealous male agents, just to name a few.
Intended to provide the flying public with an illusory sense of security after September 11, the TSA has driven away many flyers with its heavy-handed tactics. There are several factors that led to the record losses experienced by domestic airlines over the last year. Some people are still afraid to fly due to the remote possibility of a terrorist attack. Expensive union contracts and management missteps are partially to blame for the bankruptcy of United Airlines and the pending failure of American Airlines. However, the airlines have not helped their cause by allowing the government security goons to treat their customers so poorly.
Besides, the myriad of taxes and tariffs imposed by revenue-hungry government agencies at the local, state, and federal levels add between 30% and 40% to the price of a typical domestic airline ticket. Everyone knows of the new September 11th Security Fee, but what about the Aviation Security Infrastructure Fees imposed on the airlines? Implemented to cover the remaining security costs that the September 11th tax does not, these fees are ultimately passed on to customers in the form of higher ticket prices. It's no surprise that travelers are seeking alternative modes of transportation.
Luggage in hand, I trudged over to the baggage screening area. There sat a number of TSA agents idly discussing the important events of the day. Who will Joe Millionaire pick to be his bride? What will J. Lo wear to the Oscars? When will Britney's new CD come out? Will Rachel and Ross ever get back together?
One overpaid but well-intended agent asked to take my bag in order to manually search it. I reluctantly unlocked the overstuffed tool case to provide access. Opening the case, the pimply-faced young man cautiously rummaged through it, clearly unaware of the identity or the function of its contents. He probably did not know the difference between the channel locks and the lock nuts, but who am I to judge?
My curiosity piqued as he continued his quest for something unknown to both of us. I decided to ask him about his intentions regarding my possessions.
"What exactly are you looking for?" I said.
"I dunno," he dim-wittedly replied. "They told us to look for anything suspicious."
"Oh, really?" I pressed the issue. "What kind of things do you consider 'suspicious'?"
"Anything that is out of the ordinary," he said.
Getting nowhere, I ended my inquiry.
After struggling for several moments to properly close the crowded case, he finally succeeded and motioned to place it on the conveyer.
"Wait," I pleaded. "Do you mind if I lock it? The latches open easily, and I don't want my tools to spill out all over."
"Well, you're not supposed to touch your bags after they've been searched," he informatively responded. "But, since we're not busy right now, I'll do it for you."
I handed him my key, and he dutifully locked the tool case. Ah, customer service at last!
Proceeding to the assigned gate, I mentally prepared for the inevitable security gauntlet. After presenting my government-issued photo identification – again – I was permitted to continue to the dreaded passenger screening area. Despite nearly a dozen government agents manning the two monitoring stations, a lengthy line ensued. Approaching the screening area, I was forced to endure the rants of yet another security agent who shouted at hapless travelers like a surly Catholic schoolteacher chastising rowdy students.
"Remove all metal objects from your pockets and place them in the tray!" demanded the squatty screener. "That includes change, keys, and watches!" I was grateful that I recently had the titanium plate removed from my head.
Placing my carry-on in the tray, I advanced toward the metal detector.
"Sir!" the security tyrant said to me, menacingly. "You must put your shoes in the tray so they can be X-rayed."
"Why do you need to X-ray my shoes?' I naively asked.
"Ever since that man boarded a plane with explosives in his shoes, we have been screening shoes."
"Oh!" I gleefully replied. "It's a good thing he didn't hide them in his underwear!"
A stern look from the TSA menace confirmed he did not approve of my futile attempt to be humorous.
Only then did I realize that strip searches and anal cavity probes might not be such a remote possibility for future air travelers.
As my carry-on reached the X-ray monitor, the examiner showed an inordinate amount of curiosity in it, pausing to examine its contents. Or, perhaps he just dozed off for a second, feigning interest. I couldn't be sure.
After escaping from the conveyer prison, my bag was quickly snatched by yet another agent.
"May I check your bag, sir?" she asked.
I'm not one to give in to authority, so I resisted.
"Do I have a choice?" I asked.
"Not if you want to fly today," she curtly responded.
I dejectedly complied. Just then, I wished I had packed something really offensive in my carry-on. I envisioned the inquisitive bag browser screeching at the sight of a large, battery-operated likeness of the male genitalia. Ah, sweet revenge! Oh, well. Maybe next time.
I packed lightly for this trip. Very lightly. I didn't even bring a change of clothes. It was the third day of what was supposed to be a daylong business trip, so my carry-on was stuffed with dirty clothing and various sundries that I had purchased during the trip just to get by. Even the clothes on my back were a new addition to my wardrobe. I purchased them the previous morning in order to maximize my comfort and cleanliness while minimizing any noticeable body odor.
Rifling through the unkempt pile of newspapers, magazines, business documents, and soiled undergarments, she pulled out a handful of disposable razors that I bought the day before.
"What's this?" she demanded.
"Well," I explained, "after a few days, a man accumulates a stubborn growth of hair on his face around the check and jaw areas, and, in order to alleviate the condition, he applies a facial cream and uses these devices to remove it . . . ."
"I know what they are," she interrupted. "But why are you carrying them on the plane?"
I explained my situation, to no avail.
"I'll have to confiscate them," she demanded.
"Alright," I sighed, nervously shifting side-to-side in my stocking-clad feet. "But can I at least get my shoes back?"
"Of course," she brusquely answered. I donned my threatening loafers, grabbed my bag, and headed for the gate.
One final identification check - the third time's a charm, I suppose - and I was boarding the plane that would return me to the chilly but comfortable confines of my suburban Chicago home.
With some idle time remaining prior to takeoff, I perused through Insolvent Airlines' in-flight magazine. It featured an article written by the company CEO welcoming passengers and thanking them for their patronage.
"Thanks in large part to the Transportation Security Administration," the CEO said in the article, "air travel is safer and more customer-friendly than ever."
As I looked around the nearly empty plane, I wondered how many of my fellow passengers (and non-passengers alike) thought that "flying the friendly skies" is safer and more customer-oriented than ever before.
More intrusive and invasive? Yep. More expensive? You bet, thanks to the post-9/11 taxpayer bailout of the airlines, the creation of additional taxes to pay for the massive new federal bureaucracy known as the TSA, and the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on upgrading baggage-screening capabilities throughout the country. More customer-friendly? Not a chance. Safer? I'm not convinced.


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Check out our review of the Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch.
We already had a good idea what we'd be seeing at Samsung's second Unpacked event of the year, scheduled for next week in Berlin, and the Galaxy Note 3 was at the top of the list. The other possibility was for the rumored Galaxy Gear smartwatch to make its debut, and now, thanks to a Samsung executive, its announcement has been confirmed.
The news comes from Lee Young-hee, Vice President of Samsung Mobile, who said in an interview with the Korea Times, "We will be introducing a new wearable concept device called Galaxy Gear at our own event in Berlin on September 4." This isn't the first time she has chatted about the Gear either, as in an interview with Bloomberg in March, she was quoted as saying the firm had been working on the watch for sometime.
Sadly, one of the most intriguing rumors surrounding the Galaxy Gear has been debunked, as Lee also states the watch won't have a flexible display at this point, but we should look out for other models in the future which may. Instead, the Galaxy Gear will, "Enhance and enrich the current smart mobile experience in many ways," although exactly what these ways are wasn't said. Samsung is going to be pushing the watch to, "Young trend setters," so prepare for a flurry of funky ads.
So, it's time to get excited about the Galaxy Gear. Well, yes, but there is one thing that's unusual about all this, and that's the use of the word concept. This implies the product won't be put on sale, and that it'll only be for show. We'd be very surprised if Samsung bothered to show a product no-one could buy, and instead wonder if the Gear will initially see a limited release instead. Perhaps it'll take a leaf out of Google's book and the way it's marketing Glass? If so, Gear will have to be something very special to make it worthwhile.
We'll find out all we need to know on September 4.
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Transportation experts are also working to find out whether the spectacular disintegration of the heavily used span over the Skagit River, 60 miles north of Seattle, was a fluke or a sign of a bigger problem.
A trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment Thursday evening when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and saw the span collapse into the water behind him.
Two vehicles fell into the chilly river. The three people in those vehicles were not seriously hurt.
As authorities try to find a temporary span, motorists will have to use alternate routes during the holiday and for weeks to come.
"You cannot overstate the importance of this corridor to Washington state," Gov. Jay Inslee said. Traffic on I-5 and surrounding roads was backed up for miles, a situation the governor said would continue indefinitely.
Officials were looking for a temporary, pre-fabricated bridge to replace the 160-foot section that failed, Inslee said Friday. That option could be in place in weeks. Otherwise, it could be months before a replacement can be built, the governor said.
The collapse came on the north end of the four-lane bridge near Mount Vernon, about 60 miles north of Seattle.
"He looked in the mirrors and it just dropped out of sight," Cynthia Scott, the wife of truck driver William Scott, said from the couple's home near Spruce Grove, Alberta. "He was just horrified."
The truck driver works for Mullen Trucking in Alberta, the Washington State Patrol said. The tractor-trailer was hauling a housing for drilling equipment southbound when the top right front corner of the load struck several of the bridge's trusses, the patrol said.
Scott, 41, remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators. He voluntarily gave a blood sample for an alcohol test and was not arrested.
The truck made it off the bridge, but the other two vehicles went into the water about 25 feet below.
Bryce Kenning, of Mount Vernon, said the bridge seemed to explode in front of him. The 20-year-old slammed his brakes, but there was nothing he could do.
"It was like time was frozen -- like a roller coaster where you're not attached to the tracks," Kenning said in a phone interview.
Ed Scherbinski, vice president of Mullen Trucking, said in an interview with The Associated Press that state officials had approved of the company's plan to drive the oversize load along I-5 to Vancouver, Wash.
Mike Allende, a state Department of Transportation spokesman, confirmed the truck had a permit.
"We're still trying to figure out why it hit the bridge," Allende said.
State officials approved the trucking company to carry a load as high as 15 feet, 9 inches, according to the permit released by the state. However, the southbound vertical clearance on the Skagit River bridge is as little as 14 feet, 5 inches, state records show. That lowest clearance is outside of the bridge's vehicle traveling lanes, Transportation Department communications director Lars Erickson said Friday. The bridge's curved overhead girders are higher in the center of the bridge.
The bridge has a maximum clearance of about 17 feet.
The permit specifically describes the route the truck would take, though it includes a qualification that the state "Does Not Guarantee Height Clearance."
It's not rare for trucks to strike bridges in Washington state. The state DOT said there were 21 bridge-strikes involving trucks last year, 24 in 2011 and 14 in 2010.
Officials performed a special inspection six months ago on the bridge that collapsed because there were indications it had been struck by a different vehicle.
A report released Friday said the checkup was done due to "impact damage," and inspectors identified tears, deformations and gouges on the northbound side of the bridge.
In that Nov. 29, 2012, impact, an overheight truck struck a metal overhead truss on the bridge, DOT spokeswoman Broch Bender said. An inspection crew determined the bridge to be safe, with only minor repairs required. She said those minor repairs were added to an existing list of bridge maintenance items to be completed at a future date.
There are no signs leading up to the Skagit River bridge to warn about its clearance height. State Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson said that under federal and state standards, the clearance is tall enough to not require signage.
Inslee said it will cost $15 million to repair the bridge. The federal government has promised $1 million.
The bridge is used by an average of 71,000 vehicles a day.
A Federal Highway Administration database lists the bridge as "functionally obsolete" -- a category meaning that the design is outdated. But it was not classified as structurally deficient.
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text: [dark sponge] decided to make his DS lite, solar powered. Or, at least charged via solar panels. He was able to find solar cells that were 60×60 mm, which means he could fit 4 of them on the outside of the DS. This gives him a total of 6V at 80 mA output. These panels charge the battery between uses. The DS has to be open and laying on its face for all 4 panels to be exposed, but this way of mounting them didn't alter the pocket-ability of the unit. He says he's been using it for a while and hasn't had to plug it in yet, but we have concerns about wiring the panels directly to the battery. As [cyrozap] points out in the comments on the instructable, this is a Lithium Ion battery, shouldn't there be some charging circuitry involved?


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Wheaton College, Billy Graham's alma mater and a top evangelical school, joined Catholic groups in a lawsuit against the Obama administration's contraception mandate even as a federal judge's ruling clouded prospects for such actions.
Wheaton, located west of Chicago, filed the suit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C., joining Catholic University of America, which launched its suit two months ago. The University of Notre Dame and dozens of other religious organizations, mainly Catholic, have also filed suits in federal courts around the country to overturn the mandate.
Wheaton is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a legal advocacy group that has spearheaded many of the challenges to the policy, which will require most employer health insurance plans to provide birth control coverage.
The mandate, issued by the Health and Human Services Department, goes into effect on Aug. 1, but most religious organizations have a year's grace period while they try to work out an acceptable accommodation with the administration.
Faith-based organizations, mainly Catholic hospitals and universities, have strenuously objected to the religious exemption provided under the proposals. They have been joined by a number of evangelical groups in lobbying for changes to the mandate or strategizing to overturn it.
Wheaton President Philip Ryken said that while evangelicals do not ascribe to the Catholic teaching against artificial birth control, the mandate requires coverage for so-called "morning after" pills like Plan B, to which the college objects. Ryken said Plan B is an "abortion-inducing" drug, though studies show that the pill apparently does not cause abortions.
Ryken also said the exemption that the Obama administration has proposed for churches and religious groups excludes many faith-based hospitals and colleges. Having the government decide which faith groups qualify as sufficiently "religious" is a violation of religious freedom, he said.
"In effect, we are co-belligerents in our fight" against the mandate, Ryken said of the Catholic groups that oppose the mandate. Ryken was joined in the call by Catholic University President John Garvey and Kyle Duncan, lead counsel for the Becket Fund.
"This mandate is not just a Catholic issue – it threatens people of all faiths," said Duncan. "Wheaton's historic decision to join the fight alongside a Catholic institution shows the broad consensus that the mandate endangers everyone's religious liberty."
Ryken said Wheaton had been considering a lawsuit for months but had been waiting for the Supreme Court ruling on the health care law. The high court upheld the law in a landmark decision last month.
While the legal battle lines are clearer, it's still not certain that Wheaton and other groups will prevail in the lawsuits and whether any rulings will come in time to affect the presidential campaign this fall.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Nebraska rejected an effort by seven Republican state attorneys general and several Catholic institutions to block the implementation of the law.
U.S. District Court Judge Warren K. Urbom said the attorneys general couldn't show the states would be harmed by the mandate, especially since it does not go into effect until Aug. 1.
Urbom added that the religious plaintiffs failed to show that the mandate's religious exemption wouldn't apply to them and that the Obama's administration is still working with religious groups to craft an acceptable accommodation for faith-based groups.
''In short, the individual plaintiffs have not shown that their current health plans will be required to cover contraception-related services under the Rule, and therefore their claims must be dismissed,'' Urbom wrote.
Duncan said Urbom's ruling was a technical one that did not address the core arguments against the mandate. He said it would have no bearing on other rulings that are expected in the coming months, or once the mandate goes into full effect next year.
Duncan and Ryken and the others also rejected the accommodation being proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services as "a shell game" that would still leave religious institutions underwriting objectionable policies.
The accommodation currently being negotiated by the HHS seeks to work around religious objections by having insurance companies themselves, rather than faith-based employers, pay for the birth control coverage.
David Gibson is an award-winning religion journalist, author and filmmaker. He writes for RNS and until recently covered the religion beat for AOL's Politics Daily. He blogs at Commonweal magazine, and has written two books on Catholic topics, the latest a biography of Pope Benedict XVI. Via RNS.
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While I'm still doing Deepak and Oprah's 21 day mediation, I'm relying on my runs to help keep me calm and centered. As has been the story all this fall, this past week the weather has truly been a gift. We continue to enjoy mostly sunny skies and relatively warm (at least for November) temperatures. Perfect running weather. Do you feel that your body has a set point, a pace where your effort feels comfortable? Where you can just run by feel? Right now, my sweet spot seems to be about 8:40-8:50m/m. I'm liking that. Don't get me wrong, I do love me some speed. On Saturday, my legs wanted to go and I hit 8:28 m/m.
The challenge for me has been those long, slow runs. You wouldn't think holding back would be so hard. Sunday for my long run, I attempted that 12 miler again. I willed myself to go slow down so I wouldn't crash and burn like last week. By mile 4, I knew this was going to be a good run. I was pacing around 9m/m and feeling good, even singing along with my playlist. I pushed past the spot where I melted down last week. I did have to make a pit stop at the Walgreens at mile 8 to address some very painful chafing issues. Once I took care of that, I ran my final 4 miles, negative splitting the back half of this run. I couldn't have been happier!
|I tried multiple times to capture a jump off this picnic table at the park by my house. I couldn't get it right. Feeling a little foolish and starting to worry that my neighbors might see me, I headed inside.
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Herpetogaster, together with other pedunculate or discoidal fossils such as Eldonia, probably belongs in the stem group to a clade known as the Ambulacraria, represented by both echinoderms and hemichordates (Caron et al., 2010).
Herpetogaster – from the Greek, herpo, "to creep," and gaster, "stomach." The name refers to the creeping aspect of the animal and the large stomach.
collinsi – after Desmond Collins, a former curator of palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum who led expeditions to the Burgess Shale between 1975-2000.
Burgess Shale and vicinity: none.
Other deposits: none.
The Walcott and Raymond Quarries on Fossil Ridge. The Collins Quarry on Mount Stephen and Stanley Glacier in Kootenay National Park.
Herpetogaster was described in 2010 as a possible member of the ambulacrarians (Caron and Conway Morris, 2010).
Herpetogaster consists of a main body with a pair of tentacles at the front and a flexible stolon. The body is divided into thirteen segments and coils clockwise when seen dorsally. The tentacles are long and flexible and branch several times. The stomach is the most conspicuous portion of the gut and is often preserved as a highly reflective film, as in Eldonia, a closely related form. The anus is terminal and the mouth is located between the tentacles. The stolon sometimes exceeds the length of the main body, and terminates with a flat disk. This structure was evidently used for anchoring the organism to the seabed, or to other organisms).
This animal is known from 101 specimens. Only 6 come from the Walcott Quarry, where it represents only 0.011% of the specimens counted in the community (Caron and Jackson, 2008); most specimens (68) come from the Raymond Quarry.
Specimens of Herpetogaster were found associated with the sponge Vauxia, suggesting the animal lived on or near the seabed. It is not clear if Herpetogaster was permanently anchored, and whether or not it fed only on particulate matter in the water column, or could hunt small preys using its prehensile tentacles.
CARON, J.-B. AND D. A. JACKSON. 2008. Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 258: 222-256.
CARON, J.-B., S. CONWAY MORRIS AND D. SHU. 2010. Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes. PLoS ONE, 5(3): e9586.


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Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)
Lohengrin (1848) [194:43]
Lohengrin - Jess Thomas (tenor)
Elsa von Brabant - Claire Watson (soprano)
Ortrud - Christa Ludwig (mezzo)
Friedrich von Telramund - Walter Berry (baritone)
King Heinrich - Martti Talvela (bass)
Herald - Eberhard Wächter (baritone)
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper/Karl Böhm
rec. live, 16 May 1965, Vienna State Opera, Austrian Radio.
ORFEO C862133D [3 CDs: 61:50 + 76:15 + 56:38]
This disc captures, unadulterated and unadorned,
the opening night of a new production of Lohengrin at the Vienna
Staatsoper. One glance down the cast-list will tell you that this is
something special. It must have been even more special to have been
in the theatre, for not only was Karl Böhm in the pit but Wieland
Wagner himself was directing the staging, something illustrated generously
in the accompanying booklet. The sound, recorded for broadcast by Austrian
Radio, is in mono, which is undeniably regrettable, but it's surprisingly
good for its age. The only place where it brings real losses is in the
chorus scenes, which are many in this opera. The natural point of comparison
for this set is Kempe's
classic set, which shares the same orchestra, the same Lohengrin
and the same Ortrud, and was recorded two years previously. The comparisons
are fascinating.
The most interesting contrast, and the factor which impels this release,
is the conducting of Karl Böhm. Where Kempe is rapt, Böhm
is driven. Like his live Ring
and Tristan from Bayreuth, he prefers fast tempi,
and this drives the drama along at an exciting pace. You can tell that
when you compare the timings: Böhm is more than 20 minutes faster
than Kempe. In fact he achieves the feat of making this one of the very
few Lohengrins on disc (perhaps the only one?) to fit each act
complete onto a single CD. Yet Böhm never feels unduly rushed.
Instead, the strength of his vision convinces the listener that this
is an entirely appropriate view of the piece. Furthermore, he knows
how to relax when he needs to, and he does so liberally, particularly
for the Grail music. The Act 1 Prelude is markedly slower than what
follows it. He broadens out the soundscape after Lohengrin's arrival
in the middle of the act, the excitement of the crowd giving way to
a gently meditative first utterance from the knight.
That first utterance is, in fact, something pretty special. Jess Thomas
is on top notch form here and he sounds sensational in his farewell
to the swan in the first act, as in his declaration of love for Elsa.
He is, perhaps, a little anonymous in the second act, but he is moving
and remarkably sympathetic in the bridal chamber scene. In fernem
Land, similarly slowed down by Böhm, unfolds at an unhurried
pace and in one single-minded direction. He was an extraordinary swan
knight for Kempe, and it's exciting to hear him in the live context
here. Claire Watson is also on her very finest form as Elsa. There is
clarity and purity to her voice that, to my ears at least, comes close
to making her the equal of Elisabeth Grümmer - high praise indeed.
She is helpless and vulnerable in the first act but brims over with
optimism at the start of the second, and her address to the breezes
is a delight. Perhaps you don't get quite the same sense of impending
doom in the bridal chamber scene, but she summons up the correct sense
of terror as that scene reaches its climax and she is full of pathos
in her sense of loss in the final scene.
Kempe's set gave us the finest Ortrud on disc in Christa Ludwig,
and she is every bit as sensational here. If anything, the live event
inspires her to give of herself with even more commitment. The dramatic
temperature of the whole set rises when she enters at the start of Act
2. There is something darkly insidious in her vocal presence, and the
way she seems to pour scorn on her husband is magnificently dramatic.
She then inveigles her way into Elsa's confidence with the skill
of the greatest of con artists, and the power of her invocation at Entweihte
Götter! is so great that it brings the house down, forcing
Böhm to halt proceedings for about twenty seconds. She then chews
up the scenery in the great crowd scene at the end of Act 2 and manages
a wonderful groan of defeat when the swan is revealed as Gottfried at
the very end of the opera. Her husband both on and off the stage, Walter
Berry, isn't quite the match for Fischer-Dieskau either in vocal
beauty or in acting - he sounds overly gruff in the first act - but
he rises to a climax at the start of Act 2 and is never less than a
convincing stage presence. It's a real treat having Martti Talvela
as the King, his rich, fruity bass giving the part an extra level of
character that it doesn't always get. Eberhard Wächter is
luxury casting as the Herald.
I doubt that anyone will take this as a top choice, especially not over
any stereo sets, because sound quality is important in this opera. However,
it's a remarkable record of a live performance, capturing a collection
of Wagner greats and a few surprises, and it will be especially interesting
for anyone who knows and loves the Kempe set.
Incidentally, this whole production was double cast. The other cast
that alternated with this one included the likes of James King, Gustav
Neidlinger and Astrid Varnay. Having not one but two such legendary
casts available for one opera in the same city seems like an extravagant
dream to us nowadays, but what fun to dream it!
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AP Exclusive: Casey Affleck opens up in the wake of #MeToo
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Casey Affleck has been mostly absent from the public eye for the past year, but in the wake of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements and with a new film coming out this fall, he is for the first time addressing lingering questions about earlier harassment allegations.
The 42-year-old actor, producer and director is taking responsibility for the "unprofessional" atmosphere on the set of 2010's "I'm Still Here" that led to civil lawsuits from two women who worked on the film. He also spoke to The Associated Press about what he's learned from the #MeToo conversation and what he's doing at his production company to bring new voices into Hollywood.
During Affleck's best actor campaign for "Manchester By the Sea" in 2016, the spotlight was turned back on the civil lawsuits filed by a cinematographer and a producer who worked on "I'm Still Here" for breach of contract. One of the women also sued for sexual harassment, and both described an uncomfortable atmosphere on the set of the unconventional mockumentary.
"It was an unprofessional environment ... the buck had to stop with me being one of the producers and I have to accept responsibility for that," Affleck told the AP of the making of "I'm Still Here," which he produced and directed. "I contributed to that unprofessional environment and I tolerated that kind of behavior from other people and I wish that I hadn't."
He added: "I behaved in a way and allowed others to behave in a way that was really unprofessional. And I'm sorry."
Although the lawsuits were settled out of court, Affleck's name in 2016 and 2017 became associated with a long list of men who have abused power in Hollywood. While Affleck has addressed the lawsuits, including in an AP interview from July 2017 , he also has not spoken publicly since #MeToo and Time's Up overtook the culture ten months ago.
In that time, Affleck also opted out of presenting the best actress award at the Oscars — traditionally the responsibility of the previous year's best actor winner. Instead, Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence handed the trophy to Frances McDormand.
"I think it was the right thing to do just given everything that was going on in our culture at the moment," Affleck said. "And having two incredible women go present the best actress award felt like the right thing"
Affleck said he's been learning a lot in the past few years listening to the conversation and has moved away from a place of defensiveness to one of finding his own culpability.
"I think bigger picture, in this business women have been underrepresented and underpaid and objectified and diminished and humiliated and belittled in a bazillion ways and just generally had a mountain of grief thrown at them forever. And no one was really making too much of a fuss about it, myself included, until a few women with the kind of courage and wisdom to stand up and say, 'You know what? Enough is enough,'" Affleck said. "Those are the people who are kind of leading this conversation and should be leading the conversation. And I know just enough to know that in general I need to keep my mouth shut and listen and try to figure out what's going on and be a supporter and a follower in the little, teeny tiny ways that I can."
Of his decision to do an interview now, Affleck said, "If I'm not promoting a movie, I'm not going to do any press, so that's why you haven't heard from me."
He's also taking these lessons both to work and home to his two sons, who are ages 14 and 10.
"I want to be in a world where grown men model compassion and decency and also contrition when it's called for, and I certainly tell (my sons) to own their mistakes when they make them," he said.
Over the past year, Affleck has been spending time with his kids and girlfriend, and hard at work on various projects, including "The Old Man & The Gun," a kind-hearted film where he plays a cop trying to track down an older bank robber, played by Robert Redford. He also has directed a film, "Light of My Life," a father-daughter story co-starring Elisabeth Moss which he said some people will see soon.
"The Old Man & the Gun," his third collaboration with director David Lowery, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in theaters on Sept. 28.
"(Lowery) always assembles a really nice group of people around him," Affleck said. "It sort of makes its way into the movie. It's such a nice experience to watch one of his movies."
At his production company, Sea Change Media, he said he and his development partner Whitaker Lader are looking to shepherd filmmakers with stories that aren't well-represented in Hollywood.
"It's nice to be able to take the teeny tiny bit of experience that she and I have and use it to help other people get started," Affleck said. "There's really no better feeling than that."
A Q&A and Video of this interview are available here: https://apnews.com/e50db6e255364f7da01412a6734a3685


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China is moving to tighten its grip over social networking services even more, citing possible threats to stability.
On Friday, Chinese authorities released a new blueprint for the country's future that covered economic and social reforms including loosening the nation's decades old one-child policy. But in the online space, the government showed no signs of shifting gears in its vast censorship of the Internet.
The government instead pointed to problems with its existing system to manage the flow of online information. Currently, there are too many different overseeing departments, resulting in inconsistencies and a lack of efficiency, the government said in a posting, explaining the reforms.
"At the same time, due to the rise of online media, the Internet regulatory systems that manage the media and the industry are falling far behind to catch up with the new changes," the post stated.
The government referred to the growing popularity of Chinese social networking and instant messaging tools as a major worry. The services can rapidly disseminate information and mobilize society, the posting said.
The authorities specifically mentioned Weixin, a mobile chatting app developed by local Internet giant Tencent. The app has taken China by storm, and boasts over 200 million monthly average users. Outside of the country, the app is better known as WeChat.
To make the Internet "more secure," China plans to bolster its regulatory systems, and increase the scope of their legal authority, the government said without offering further details.
China has already gained notoriety for its strict censorship of the Internet, and has blocked foreign sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Local social networking services, however, continue to operate, but self-censor content by sometimes deleting politically sensitive or anti-government posts.
Despite that, in recent months Chinese authorities have been cracking down on Internet users for allegedly fabricating rumors online. In September, China said it would hand out jail sentences to users found guilty.


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A Unix C library contains three different sets of functions in two families to handle character set conversion. One of the function families (the most commonly used) is specified in the ISO C90 standard and, therefore, is portable even beyond the Unix world. Unfortunately this family is the least useful one. These functions should be avoided whenever possible, especially when developing libraries (as opposed to applications).
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The New Evil Empire
and the Soviet Union used to be
By John Kaminski
Remember the Red Menace, also known as the Communist threat? Or how about the Third Reich, the creator of which became the chief metaphor for evil in the 20th century?
Most Americans, certainly those younger than 30, don't remember either. Hell, they don't even remember Vietnam or Nixon or The Beatles. The terms and their connotations are totally unfamiliar, unless encountered in history texts. Millions of Americans simply do not remember what America used to stand for - freedom, justice, equality - and as a result, don't fully comprehend the appalling reality of what America has become.
Once upon a time, back in the days of Elvis and the hula hoop, when I was a little shaver, I was taught in school that when Germany took over France, Poland and other European countries, that was wrong, and the United States sacrificed almost a half million of its own young people to reverse those situations in the name of freedom. And that happened twice, 1916-18 and 1941-45.
In the same vein, I grew up being taught that the Soviet Union's annexation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and all of Eastern Europe was an evil deed, and that for many years in a period called the Cold War, the American military objective was aimed at overturning this unjust oppression. Back in the 1950s when I was in elementary school, we used to have routine Civil Defense drills where we used to have to hide under our desks pretending we were about to be nuked by the Russians. Really!
It's a new world now. For one thing, the population of the planet has doubled in those mere 50 years. And for another, it is the United States that is now sweeping the world, scooping up all these other countries in the name of capitalist democracy, and telling lies about why it has to go to war. And instead of railing against the powerful giant stealing freedom from all these hapless victims, as it did in years past, the American press is now cheering it, justifying it in the increasingly ambivalent names of capitalism and democracy. Worse, the American people are cheering it, too, something that's never really happened in U.S. history, when the people support a war that they know is based on lies.
Of course, the American press is cheering it because it is the American military doing it. Even the German and Russian press aren't really criticizing it in a serious way. Because there is no country that can oppose America, which spends more on its military than all the other countries in the world combined, yet still complains that it needs to spend more, even as its bridges and schools are falling apart and its manufacturing base has completely disappeared, precipitating its imminent economic collapse. Still the military spending increases, and war plans ooze out like an evil ink stain spreading across the globe.
The evil empire, number one threat to peace in the world, is now the United States. No more Red Menace. No more Third Reich. Now it's a War on Terror executed by the biggest terrorist of all - America, the nation that killed its own people by the thousands in order to trigger World War III and capture all the world's oil fields.
Now the shoe is obviously on the other foot. The United States has now assumed the role of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia at their worst and all rolled into one. It has troops poised and threatening in 127 other countries. By the diabolical mechanisms of the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund, it has already plundered most other countries financially, stealing their utilities and impoverishing their inhabitants. And those nations who resist this financial con game, like Yugoslavia, are simply invaded and coerced into servitude. Those nations who play the game, like Russia and Argentina, are reduced to abject poverty with a few pro-Western billionaires owning everything.
And woe to those nations who won't play the game, like Iraq. They are obliterated and turned into permanent war zones. Their people are murdered in their sleep by hopped-up American soldiers who are told by their cynical leaders that they are spreading democracy, when really what they are spreading are endless opportunities for plunder by politically connected corporations.
And America's leader lie about absolutely everything. Never at any time in my personal history has there been a time when an American president has not at least accidentally told the truth about something, but that time is now.
Once upon a time, Americans used to preach the cause of freedom and justice for all. It's actually written in their Pledge of Allegiance. But they don't adhere to that anymore. After all, Americans have canceled their Bill of Rights, which once made them famous - made them loved! - all over the world. Now they are feared all over the world. Reviled. When Americans launched their worldwide war on terror - based on a treasonous event in which they killed large numbers of their own people - they betrayed the whole world. They betrayed every dream of freedom anybody ever had anywhere.
The people who did it did it for a few billion dollars. Can you blame them? It's easy money blowing up countries and blaming it on somebody else. Even you might do it if you had the chance. Americans support such an idea. It's capitalism at its best, controlling the market, make money on the destruction by selling the weapons, make money on the reconstruction by involving your friends in the contracts, no public bids, of course. So you lose a few dark-skinned lives. The world is overpopulated anyway. Look at it as population control (although that it another, much larger topic).
Things have become so ugly in the United States that the liberal opposition candidate for president tells peace activists to "Get over it!" That there will be no peace no matter who is president. That America is united to overrun and ravish the whole world, simply because there is no one to stop it. This is the America that was venerated and admired all over the world. This is what America became when there was no other power to keep it honest. It became dishonest - and a killer nation.
People overseas make a mistake when the say they have nothing against the American people, that it is simply the American government they loathe and fear. It is the American people who have permitted this to happen, and they who bear the blame and will reap the whirlwind for their inaction.
Once, America set an example for the world to establish representative government and take care of its less fortunate. Today, America is still setting an example for the world, an example that democracy is a hoax, and that all we can expect for our children's futures is a dark abyss of endless war based on phony pretenses.
The thing that made the episodes with Nazi Germany and Soviet Union have happy endings was that there was somebody to fight for freedom ready to rescue those oppressed by military tyranny from a foreign power.
But now, who is ready to defend the freedom of those in Afghanistan, or in Iraq, or in Macedonia, Serbia, the Philippines, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala ... or Palestine?
Who is ready to defend freedom now that the Americans have declared freedom incompatible with security?
But these things tend to even out over time. Rome wasn't built in a day and it took centuries to fall apart, but eventually it was picked apart by jackals and sycophantic traitors from within.
The world will yet have the last laugh on America, after its own leaders have finished picking the bones of its financially depleted carcass.
Because Americans have given up defending true freedom around the world, the day will soon arrive (sooner than they think) when they will have to defend their own freedom against the very monster they have created by their own selfish indifference. The corporate beast that consumes freedom around the world will one day soon turn its gaping jaws on America itself, and the Americans, who have decided to forget how to defend true freedom around the world, will necessarily have forgotten how to defend their own.
Once upon a time, when I was a little shaver and the president was some guy named Ike, I was told that America was the greatest nation in the world because it was a champion of freedom and justice, and rescued the oppressed whenever people were in trouble.
So ... were they lying then and telling the truth now, or telling the truth then and lying now?
And when the rest of the world comes calling to rectify this murderous tyranny and worldwide oppression that America now practices, what will you say to them when they aim their guns at you? That you didn't know?
John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a collection of his Internet essays published by Dandelion Books and featured on hundreds of websites around the world. For more information on how to get this book or to financially support his work (seriously needed now), go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/. Or, to read some more of his recent essays for free, go to http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html
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Find a Drummer loop
To open the Loop Browser, click in the upper-right corner of the GarageBand window.
Drummer Loops appear in the Loop Browser with a yellow icon . To show only Drummer Loops in the Loops Browser, select Drummer from the Loop Packs pop-up menu at the top of the Loops Browser. Preview a loop by clicking it in the Loop Browser.
Add a Drummer loop to your project
When you've found a Drummer Loop you like, drag it into an empty part of the Tracks area. GarageBand automatically creates a new Drummer track with a region of the Drummer Loop. All the settings in the Drummer Editor are configured to reproduce the sound of the Drummer loop.
You can now edit the track as you would any other Drummer track using the Drummer Editor. You can also create your own regions in the track, and edit them freely.
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You can add additional Drummer Loops of the same type (Acoustic, Electronic, or Percussionist) to an existing Drummer track. Adding Drummer Loops from multiple Drummers to the same track may cause the loop to sound different from the preview.
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Google's Nexus 7 might turn a small profit after all, according to a third-party estimate by IHS iSuppli.
For the 8 GB Nexus 7, the bill of materials totals $151.75, or $159.25 with manufacturing costs included, iSuppli said. The bill of materials for the 16 GB model is $159.25, or $166.75 with manufacturing.
Factor in additional costs such as distribution, marketing and tech support, and iSuppli estimates that Google "will at least break even" on the 8 GB Nexus 7, priced at $199, and will turn a "modest profit" on the $249 version with 16 GB of storage.
Estimates aside, Google Senior Vice President of Mobile Andy Rubin has already said that the Nexus 7 won't rake in the profits. "When it gets sold through the Play store, there's no margin," Rubin told All Things Digital last month. "It just basically gets (sold) through."
But there's a bit more room for profit in the 16 GB model, which is priced $50 higher the base model even though the storage only costs $8 more. That would explain why retailers such as Gamestop and Staples are only selling the 16 GB version. At the moment, the Google Play store is the only place to get the 8 GB version.
The bill of materials estimate from iSuppli is another example how cutthroat the low-end of the tablet market can be. When the Kindle Fire launched last year, iSuppli estimated a total cost of $209.63, which meant Amazon was losing about $10 on every tablet sold.
It's worth keeping all this in mind, in light of rumors that Apple will enter the small tablet market later this year. Apple's supply chain management is good enough that the company may be able to beat Google on the cost of materials, but I'm skeptical of speculation that Apple will release a 7.8-inch tablet for $200. If Apple wants to profit from the hardware, a $250 to $300 tablet seems more likely.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In a night of commanding words from some of the most accomplished women in entertainment at the annual Women in Film Gala Wednesday night in Beverly Hills, from the likes of Issa Rae, Viola Davis and producer Cathy Schulman, Amy Poehler put her own unconventional spin on the "empowerment speech."
Poehler, who was accepting the final honor of the evening, the Entrepreneur in Entertainment Award, simply read off a list of names: "A League of Their Own," Patti Smith, "Fleabag," ''The Virgin Suicides," Judge Judy, U.S. Women's Soccer, "American Psycho," ''Russian Doll," Dolly Parton. She continued listing off female creators and female-created shows and films for two and a half minutes.
"Thank you, thank you," Poehler said. "More, more, more."
It was simple, brief, and got the point across to the ballroom full of women working in the industry. She followed a riotously funny speech from "Insecure" creator Rae, who decided to take inspiration from her hip-hop idols and buck the social convention of women being humble. She said she was just going to say the opposite of, "What I would normally say."
"You future hoes need to bow down," Rae said as the inaugural recipient of the Emerging Entrepreneur Award. "Entrepreneur means I did that s--- by myself."
Producer Cathy Schulman, and former Women in Film board president, who was being recognized for her advocacy in entertainment, took a vastly different approach with a vulnerable and open story about the personal and financial trials she's had to endure while trying to "make it."
Although she won an Oscar for producing the film "Crash," she said she never made a dollar from the film, which earned almost $100 million at the box office, and even went into credit card debt trying to make sure the production had what was needed. She's produced 30-something films and raised a daughter too, but she said she has from pre-school through graduation only picked her up from school four times.
"I've paid a deep price for my advocacy," Schulman said.
She said there's still, "A long way to go" and she hopes, for one, that the words "diversity" and "inclusion" are decoupled.
"Diversity is a counting mechanism," she said. "Inclusion is not something you can count, advertise or market. Inclusion is what happens when diverse people are actually present in equal numbers in decision making positions."
Davis, who is working with Schulman on a project called "The Woman King," which she described as "'Braveheart' only with all black women and no Scottish brogues," said that, "In a world that has a bad habit of erasing us girls...we need champions like Cathy."
Women in Film, the advocacy organization putting on the event with the help of sponsor Max Mara, announced a new initiative at the event called Entrepreneurial Pathways which is intended to help knock down the roadblocks to capital for female filmmakers and creators.
Kirsten Schaffer, the executive director of Women in Film, said that women currently get only 16% of the overhead deals and 23% of the overall deals in television. Their goal is to, "Strategize ways to advance parity."
The organization raised over $50,000 for program over the course of the event.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Declaring the Great Recession only partly to blame, White House economists say the increasing number of Americans dropping out of the labor force dampens economic growth and demands policy changes that create more job opportunities and add workers.
In a new report released Thursday, President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers point to an aging population as the biggest single factor contributing to the lowest participation rate in 36 years. The report also says the elevated unemployment rate, which climbed to 10 percent in 2009, drove workers to put off looking for a job.
But they say other factors might be at play, including long-term declining rates for 24- to 54-year-old men and a more recent decline in the participation in the labor force by women.
The decline in the labor force — currently at 62.8 percent compared to a high of 67.3 percent in 2000 — has been one of the more baffling indicators to emerge during the economic recovery, clouding an otherwise improving jobs picture. The participation rate has declined even as companies have increased hiring and as the unemployment rate has declined.
Obama critics have often pointed to the number of Americans dropping out of the labor force as evidence that his economic policies aren't working.
But Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said a voluntarily retiring aging population and the trends showing a decline in participation by some workers precede the Great Recession. Indeed, some economists were even predicting the current level of participation before the recession and the financial crisis hit in 2008.
"The participation rate is one of the most puzzling and misunderstood aspects of the economy," Furman said Thursday.
"But the declining participation rate also subtracts from potential economic growth and exacerbates our future fiscal challenges," he said.
The report presented the White House with an opportunity to push for its economic agenda.
Furman said the most effective response to a declining labor participation rate would be a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws that would increase the size of the labor force. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that an immigration overhaul that passed in the Democratic-controlled Senate last year would add 6 million workers to the labor force by 2023. Republican leaders in the GOP-controlled House have said they do not intend to vote on an immigration bill this year.
Furman said other Obama pushed measures would help, including an increase in the minimum wage and a long-term, $302 billion transportation infrastructure plan.
The report comes just a day after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testified before Congress that the labor force participation appears weaker than should be expected.
"Demographics and an aging population is driving and should be expected to drive the labor force participation rate down," she told the House Financial Services Committee. "So the question is, has labor force participation fallen more than would be expected based on demographics? And my personal judgment is yes, it's fallen somewhat more than that."


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— New York Giants (@Giants) January 15, 2014
McAdoo: "We're going to be an up-tempo attacking-style offense. We're going to play w good energy. And we're going to rely on fundamentals."
— Tom Rock (@TomRock_Newsday) January 15, 2014
Eli Manning and Ben McAdoo spoke on the phone last week, before the new OC interviewed. "We had a great conversation," Manning said. #NYG
— Ralph Vacchiano (@RVacchianoNYDN) January 15, 2014
McAdoo navigated thru 4 QBs over a month this season and GB still made playoffs...ex-TE coach big on using TEs #giants
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Ben McAdoo will be the new GIANTS OC. Ok Ben bring it! #Drive4Five
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Pumped at the hiring of Ben McAdoo by the @Giants!!! Time to get back to winning football
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Excited to see the giants offense under Ben Mcadoo
— Elan (@Elan_M) January 15, 2014
Thanks for Ben McAdoo GB. Good hire Big Blue.
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— Julian Cruz (@HulianDaCuban) January 15, 2014
@RealAndrewMeyer @Giants not happy as a #Packers fan. Good hire G Men.
— Joe Irving (@JoeAtWork87) January 15, 2014
Ben McAdoo as @Giants new OC, I'm down with that. Great move!!!! #giantsnation #giantschat
— Jamal Harrington (@AlphaQ17) January 15, 2014
@JoeAtWork87 I was hoping the Giants would hire him ..Rodgers endorsed him well & he seems to be a good up & coming coordinator
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1. More free storage in Google Docs: at least 20 GB.
[ update: 15 GB free storage as of May 2013 ]
2. A new HTML5 interface for Gmail that loads faster, stores email offline and integrates with other Google apps like Google Calendar and Google Docs.
[ update: not true ]
3. An updated Android keyboard that uses Google Scribd data to provide useful suggestions.
[ update: The Jelly Bean keyboard features "bigram prediction and correction" (June 2012). ]
4. Google Earth as a WebGL web app and vector-based maps in Google Maps for desktop.
[ update: the new Google Maps interface features a WebGL-powered Google Earth (May 2013) ]
5. A database of things, where you can store important names, book titles, products, concepts and useful information about them.
[ update: not true ]
6. Data sync for Google Chrome extensions.
[ update: available in Chrome 20 (June 2012) ]
7. Chrome for Android, with data sync, web apps, session restore, Cloud Print, built-in Flash and smarter address bar.
[ update: launched in June 2012 (Flash support and web apps not available) ]
8. Google's search engine will answer complex questions using inferences.
[ update: Google Knowledge Search started to address this issue, but it's not yet there ]
9. Google Personal Alerts will notify on your mobile phone if there's something interesting around (one of your friends, a store that offers a discount for one your favorite products, a museum you wanted to visit, a shop recommended by one of your friends).
[ update: Google Now, released in June 2012 ]
10. Google will learn to embrace Facebook and will start using Facebook Connect.
[ update: not true, Google launched Google+ ]
11. Google Online Store: the place where you can download Chrome/Android apps and games, e-books, buy magazine subscriptions, music and movies.
[ update: Google Play, launched in March 2012 (not integrated with Chrome) ]
12. Android's growth will slow down, but it will be the most popular mobile operating system because many companies will use it to create smart media players, digital cameras, TVs, game consoles and even home appliances.
[ update: not true ]
13. Picasa Web Albums will become a Google Docs app and Picnik will switch to HTML5.
[ update: Picasa Web Albums will be replaced by Google+ Photos and Picnik switched to HTML5 and became Google+ Creative Kit (October 2011) ]
14. Google will acquire Disqus to make it easier to manage your comments and to improve Blogger's commenting system.
[ update: not true, but Google unveiled a Disqus-like commenting interface powered by Google+ in April 2013 ]
15. Google Profiles will no longer be optional: when you create a Google/Gmail account, you'll also create a profile.
[ update: almost ]
16. Voice search and visual search for desktop.
[ update: both true (June 2011) ]
17. Google will buy LastPass and offer an online password manager.
[ update: not true, but Chrome started to sync passwords (February 2011) ]
18. Google Wave will be resurrected, but it will have a simplified interface.
[ update: many Wave features are now included in other Google services - Google Docs discussions, contextual spell checking in Google Search, Google Docs and Chrome ]
19. An online music player that will let you listen music from the Google Store or Google Docs, podcasts from Google Reader, online radios and more.
[ update: Google Music, launched in November 2011 (no integration with Reader and online radios) ]
20. Google Fast Flip for web search powered by Google Instant Previews.
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At the point where Lake Geneva empties into the Rhone River, you can hardly miss the spectacular Jet d'Eau – a 140 metre jet of water, and officially the world's largest fountain. Two groups of pumps spray an astonishing 500 litres of water per second into the air at 200 km/h – meaning that at any given time there's about 2,000 litres of water in the air! You can see just how huge it is in this view from Cathedrale St. Pierre on Wikipedia Yet another 'world's largest'! Will they ever end? Thanks: Allan, Maite Elguero


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SELMA, Calif. – At 6:15 a.m. last Saturday, Avtar Singh dialed 911 from his home in the Central Valley farming town 200 miles north of Los Angeles. He told police he had just killed four people and was about to kill himself. Then the line disconnected.
Selma police found Singh, 47, dead in his living room. His 36-year-old wife and three-year-old son were dead in a bed in the master bedroom. His 17-year-old son lay dead in his bedroom. A third son, 15 years old, was barely alive in another room and later died. All had been shot in the head.
The burst of bloodletting that wiped out Singh's family in their modest one-story house marked the end of a nine-year evasion of authorities for a once-feared military officer from India. Accused of murdering a human rights lawyer in his homeland, Singh took flight, living briefly in Canada, then the United States, building a family and a small trucking business along the way.
The two governments eventually found out about his past. But Singh stayed one step ahead of halting efforts to return him to India to face justice. He managed to stay free despite worldwide Interpol notices that he was wanted for murder, despite his arrest by U.S. immigration authorities for being here illegally and despite his prosecution by local authorities for domestic violence.
Even so, his family's immigration problems, strained finances and fears he would face extradition to India were weighing heavily on him, an associate said.
"When you look back on it, there were tell-tale signs," said Charles Stephens, a Fresno immigration consultant who assisted Singh with the family's asylum case. "He was basically on edge, anxious."
During the last year, Singh's past caught up with him.
In 2011, he was arrested after his wife said he choked her, and police discovered Singh was a former Indian Army major who was wanted for the 1996 killing of Jalil Andrabi, a lawyer and prominent human rights advocate in the disputed Himalayan region of Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Singh was posted to Kashmir in the 1990s, at the height of protests in the region, where rebel groups were fighting Indian security forces for independence or a merger with Pakistan.
Andrabi was abducted in 1996, just before he was to leave for Geneva to address a United Nations session about human rights violations by Indian forces in Kashmir.
He was picked up by Indian troops, tortured, and killed, according to a police investigation. His body was recovered in a river — shot in the head with eyes gouged out.
Singh was charged with Andrabi's killing. The probe also accused him of involvement in six other deaths.
Despite the charges, Singh was posted by the army to another region in India. A judge directed the Indian government to confiscate Singh's passport and not issue another one, but Singh fled India for Canada in 2003.
The Singhs lived in Canada with family relatives for two years and applied for asylum, but their claim was denied, according to Singh's U.S. asylum documents provided to The Associated Press by his immigration consultant.
Canadian authorities let Indian officials know Singh was living in Canada in 2004, according to court documents obtained by Andrabi's attorney, Hafizullah Mir, and shown to the AP.
After his cover was blown, Singh and his family crossed illegally into the U.S. and settled in Fresno County, where Singh filed an asylum case for himself in 2011.
"He told me, 'My job in India was to eliminate terrorists who were against the Indian government. I was good at that, they never found the bodies when I did it,' " said Stephens, Singh's immigration consultant.
In his asylum application, Singh said he did not kill Andrabi, but knew who did. "I am being made a scapegoat," he said, adding that he would be killed if he returned to India.
Singh lived quietly in California initially, working at a truck wash and at a sandwich shop. He eventually started a trucking business — he owned five tractors and trailers — which he named Jay Truck Lines, after his third son, a U.S. citizen.
"He was so nice with everyone, with our community. And he was very good to his wife and children," said Balvir Singh Grewal, who worked as a driver for Singh. "I never saw him angry."
Community members in Fresno said Singh did not hide that he was an Indian army major — but he omitted the salient detail that he was wanted for murder in his homeland.
"We don't go anywhere. We don't have outings or a happy life. We are fearful," Singh's wife told a social worker in March in preparing for an asylum claim.
Singh, working as a truck driver in 2007, was detained by immigration agents in Iowa. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had received an anonymous letter stating Singh may have committed fraud to obtain legal status in the United States, said ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
At the time, Kice said, ICE did not know about Singh's murder charges in India. While he was placed in removal proceedings, Singh was released on a $4,000 bond.
Two years later, India requested that Interpol issue a so-called "red notice" that Singh was wanted in India.
When Singh resurfaced in Selma in the domestic violence case in 2011, Interpol in Washington passed the message of Singh's whereabouts to Interpol in India, said agency spokeswoman LaTonya Miller.
Interpol Washington officials said the U.S. does not consider an Interpol notice alone to be a sufficient basis for the arrest and detention of a person.
So Singh bailed out of jail on the felony domestic violence charges. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor of false imprisonment, and was sentenced to three years of probation and a 52-week batterer's treatment program, said Sonia De La Rosa, spokeswoman for the Fresno County District Attorney's Office.
In March 2011, immigration agents in Fresno were notified about the Interpol notice.
But, because Avtar and Singh are common names in India, ICE officials said, the agency tried contacting India through Interpol to obtain fingerprints and crime reports that would corroborate that the Singh residing in Fresno was the same person being sought for the Kashmir murder.
The Indian government did not respond to repeated inquiries, said Kice of ICE.
"Given the unresolved issues surrounding Singh's identity and possible role in a serious human rights crime, last year ICE attorneys in San Francisco moved to administratively close his removal proceedings — putting the deportation process on hold — until the outstanding evidence could be obtained," she said.
Indian officials have not responded to repeated requests from the AP about why they never sought to extradite Singh.
Investigators are still trying to determine what pushed Singh to kill his family and himself.
Grewal, Singh's truck driver, said he spoke with Singh by phone about 30 minutes before he shot his wife and kids. "He told me to pick up a load in Iowa. He was very nice. I don't know what happened, I was completely surprised."
Associated Press writer Aijaz Hussain in Srinagar, India, contributed to this report.
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