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Svitolina beats Peer to claim Baku Cup title
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP)—Elina Svitolina won the Baku Cup title by beating Shahar Peer 6-4, 6-4 in the final on Sunday.
The 18-year-old Ukrainian, the 2010 French Open junior champion, landed four aces and broke Peer decisively in each set to claim her first career WTA title. She is the first teenager to win a WTA title in 2013.
The 149-ranked Peer, whose ranking has fallen from a career-best No. 11, was bidding for a sixth career title in her first final appearance since losing in Washington in July 2011.
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01-23-2014, 09:01 PM #1WD MyCloud for Macs & PC
Hi, it's getting complicated managing my music across my two Macs and PC. I am looking at getting a Western Digital MyCloud 2TB storage for my home network. However, I'd like to ask first if anyone has any experience using both Mac and PC with these things.
I want to read/write access for music, videos, pictures, and psd files. Any help is appreciated."Babe, if you were DNA, I'd wanna be your helicase so I could unzip those genes." So smooth.
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In order to have read\write access from both your Mac and PC you'll either have to use a file system that both can read and write to, or, use a driver that will enable write access from your Mac.
Formatting the drive as Fat-32 will allow read and write access from both the Mac and PC. But it's not recommended because Fat-32 is a non journaling file system susceptible to errors and limited to a maximum single file size of ~4 GB. Using ExFat gets around the file size but you'll still have a system susceptible to errors because of its non journaling nature.
It's best to format the 2 TB drive as NTFS and purchase a driver from Paragon Software. Their driver - Paragon NTFS works well and is only $19.95.
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Yes, the mycloud is a NAS drive. No need to worry about filesystems.
Sharing files that are in simple folder structures is a great idea when using a NAS. However, if you introduce file management tools like iTunes or iPhoto etc then things can get complicated really quick.
Only one iTunes instance can manage a library. I.e. only one can make changes to the library.
Unfortunately the idea of a shared library on a network share being managed by two or more iTunes instances isn't natively supported. You can use home sharing but that will only work when the machine that's the library owner is on.
There are a variety of third party tools that can sync library changes across machines but if iTunes is how your music is managed I suggest looking very carefully at the options.Not been around these parts for a while. Trying to change that . .
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Both replies above (Van and mrplow) are correct. However, the OP hasn't told us what kind of "home network" he has. Many users define a home network as having more than one computer in the house, not necessarily truly networked together.
First off, I didn't mean to leave the conversation hanging for quite a while and then resurrect the thread I've had some things to take care of over the last 30 days or so, taking away from my leisurely time. So my bad, guys -__ -
Anyway, I'm still as confused as before, especially with mentioning SMB and iTunes. I was under the impression that file system should not matter in this case. As for iTunes, I really have to have the managing computer on all the time? I don't think I understood this.
Also, I can connect all my PCs by ethernet to the router, if that helps and makes things function as a network. I'm willing to play around with the setup if it meant having network read/write access to my files."Babe, if you were DNA, I'd wanna be your helicase so I could unzip those genes." So smooth.
You don't need your computer on all the time if your iTunes library is on the NAS - you only need it on if that computer is the one sharing the files.
You are right - the filesystem of the NAS is irrelevant so don't worry about that.
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Alright, that sounds good to me.
A few other things I'd like to double-check on:
-This allows read/write access to any file type, other than music and videos? (Images, psd, doc, etc)
-And how do I protect an NAS from viruses and other things along those lines?"Babe, if you were DNA, I'd wanna be your helicase so I could unzip those genes." So smooth.
A NAS is nothing more than an external hard drive that works across the network instead of something like USB. So, anything that applies to an external HD applies to a NAS (for the most part - you configure a NAS through a web browser for sharing for example).Important Links: Community Guidelines : Use the reputation system if you've been helped.
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I have a WD MyCloud 4TB drive installed at work. It was a bit tricky to get setup at first mostly due to firewall issues.
To get setup WD has management software that you download from their website. You create users that have their own storage area plus the drive has a public area. Since my goal was to use it for backup on several company computers I have it setup to backup any file that is added or changed immediately. I have not really opened it up for the others to access it although they can access their files and any public files through the icon in their tray.
Once I installed the utility on each computer - we are a very small office - 7 computers - the backup started immediately and went smoothly. I, as administrator, can see and access each person's files and restore them. They can see and restore theirs and any in the public area.
As I said we only use it for backup. Actually it is redundancy since I believe in more than one backup. We have two servers that we use for sharing documents that are backed up to other devices. I just needed something that did the individual computers.
Now as to files it holds.... anything you want. Documents, videos, etc. As to iTunes well we are not using it for backing up those files so I can't comment.
One suggestion, assign a static IP. The interface the administrator uses opens a browser and searches for the ip address.
Also they offer an app for remote access to your data.
Hopefully this will help.
Thanks for the replies, guys. Gave me a much better idea of what to expect. So I've gotten a hold of a shiny new 2TB version of My Cloud, and yep it works nicely so far As for the software, it seems that I may not need it because I've been managing the drive and its folders through the web browser (intranet?).
Currently in the process of transferring files. Afterward, I'll use my WD 2TB external hard drive as My Cloud's backup. Once again, thanks for the information!"Babe, if you were DNA, I'd wanna be your helicase so I could unzip those genes." So smooth.
I also use a WD MyBook Live for some simple network connected storage and you're right - you more often than not don't need to use any special software. The only time you likely need to interact with the device specifically is through the web interface to set up shares and users. This is the joy of consumer NAS' - they look like regular HDs but just on the network.Important Links: Community Guidelines : Use the reputation system if you've been helped.
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I had Fedora 17 and ext2explore 2.2.71 worked as advertised. Since I installed Fedora 18, it no longer works. I already reinstall the program, but the program can't detect the partition. What alternatives do I have? ext2explore was the most recent program I could find
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Taking biofuels to the next level
President Barack Obama toured and met workers at a POET refining ethanol plant in Macon, Missouri Wednesday as part of his trip to Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. POET is the largest ethanol producer in the United States, and has recently announced plans to produce 3.5 billion gallons of advanced cellulosic biofuels by 2022. CAP's Jake Caldwell has the story in this repost.
There is no question that the United States must reduce its dependence on oil. One-fifth of the oil consumed in the United States is imported from nations that are "dangerous or unstable" for travelers, according to the State Department. And since surface transportation is responsible for 65 percent of oil use in the United States, this task will require us to meet the challenge of oil use in the transportation sector head-on.
We will need to employ a variety of important measures to reduce oil use, including significantly more efficient fuel economy standards, investments in public transportation and high-speed rail, and smart growth development efforts. The production and use of alternative fuels, including natural gas and advanced biofuels, are also key components of a strategy to diversify our sources of energy for transportation. And each of these steps, taken together, can increase energy independence by reducing oil use by millions of barrels.
President Obama and his administration, including Secretaries Thomas Vilsack and Steven Chu and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, have demonstrated great leadership in promoting the production of advanced biofuels in a more innovative and efficient manner, while ensuring that we maintain the existing infrastructure for the current generation of biofuels.
Yet there is still much more work to be done.
The current generation of biofuels producers, the advanced biofuels industry, Congress, and the Obama administration should work together to promote this important energy sector with the following policy goals and recommendations:
Support sustainable biofuels. Bring advanced, cellulosic biofuels""made from agricultural waste, wood chips, or dedicated energy crops such as switchgrass produced in rural America""to commercial scale on as rapid a timetable as possible. Ensure a stable long-term market for advanced biofuels by making investments in the infrastructure needs of the current generation of biofuels.
Push for comprehensive, bipartisan clean energy and climate legislation in Congress that establishes a price on carbon pollution. The biofuels industry must raise its visibility and high-level support for federal clean energy and climate legislation. An economywide price on carbon will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reinforce a predictable price signal that will drive innovation and investment to produce cleaner fuels, create jobs, and deliver more renewable energy from rural communities.
Increase support for the current national Renewable Fuel Standard. The RFS II will require better funding and interagency strategic implementation of the program, particularly regarding its emphasis on rewarding biofuels' performance characteristics. Congress should also ensure that legislative definitions of "renewable biomass" adhere to certifiable environmental and land use safeguards on ecologically valuable and vulnerable public and private lands and provide a means to measure lifecycle greenhouse gas reductions.
Support loan guarantees for the construction and deployment of advanced biofuel refineries. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Biomass Crop Assistance Program has in the recent past been the sole federal source of loan guarantees to develop, construct, and retrofit commercial-scale advanced biorefineries attempting to produce cellulosic biofuels at commercial levels, and it should receive an additional $300 million toward this goal. This core funding will allow the program to issue loan guarantees for biorefinery projects established primarily in rural communities.
Provide incentives to farmers to begin growing advanced biofuel crops. The USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program provides funding to producers and farmers of renewable energy crops of up to 75 percent of the cost of establishing the energy crop and annual payments for up to 15 years for crop production, and should receive additional support.
Encourage farmer-owned and farmer-operated biorefinery and biofuel plant cooperatives and biomass enterprise zones. Direct producer payments and other targeted incentives can help farmers engaged in the establishment of farmer and locally owned biorefineries and biofuel facilities, but should be temporary and phased out over a 10-year period, and should have majority local ownership. Farmers will also need technical and financial assistance to encourage them to pool resources and enter into larger biomass enterprise zones that would maximize economies of scale and regional geographic proximity. Biomass enterprise zones could facilitate the co-location of biomass growing, production, and processing. And marketing alliances could encourage collaboration on facility construction, storage, and transportation infrastructure to enable biobased products to enter the retail market efficiently.
Dedicate $300 million for five USDA regional feedstock research centers. These research centers will ensure appropriate biofuel feedstocks and supply chains are available in different regions of the country, and support other Department of Energy bioenergy and biomass programs. Biomass growers are primarily located in rural areas, and the costs of collecting and transporting biomass means that many production facilities are also in these communities, providing jobs and raising regional revenues.
Import tariff phase down. The United States should gradually begin the phase down of the current 54 cent-per-gallon tariff on imported biofuels as Congress and RFS II provide a mandate for the biofuels industry to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022. All countries must take reciprocal action to remove trade restrictions on sustainable biofuels.
Spur consumer demand and retail infrastructure. The United States must create requirements and strong incentives to make biofuel blends reliably available at filling stations by promoting the installation of new blender fuel pumps and distribution infrastructure that allow drivers to choose between traditional 100 percent gasoline blends and 85 percent biofuel blends. It should increase renewable fuel infrastructure grants to $100 million in each fiscal year.
Mobilize government purchasing power. The federal government spends more than $230 billion annually on products and services and is a major consumer of transportation fuels. The United States should fully implement the existing Farm Bill biobased purchasing program to use the government's purchasing power to increase market demand for biobased fuels and products.
Biofuels and other types of biobased energy are not the only solution to all of the world's energy and transportation challenges. We also need an array of energy sources from sun, wind, geothermal, and other renewable technologies. Most importantly, we need comprehensive, clean energy and climate legislation that puts a price on carbon pollution, and will allow sustained private and public investment in renewable energy and cleaner fuels.
But with the right safeguards, biofuels can play a direct role in diversifying our energy sources and contribute to cutting our oil dependence, enhancing our national security, and spurring economic growth and development, particularly in rural communities.
Jake Caldwell is the Director of Policy for Agriculture, Trade and Energy at American Progress.
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This is a travesty. Nobody is even looking at what the emissions from burning biofuels will do. As linked in this post http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2010/04/through-looking-glass.html, there were two researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology who announced that their studies showed that ethanol produces less CO2 than gasoline. So I called on of them and asked him whether he tested for acetaldehyde, and he said, nobody does because the equipment is too expensive and it has to be heated.
So basically our government wants everybody to burn this junk with absolutely no investigation into what the effects on people, animals and vegetation will be.
Most smart people realize bio fuels greatly increase CO2 output. Poet is doing fine because they purchased a good number of bankrupt ethanol plants at a hugediscount. They banks and the farmer/investors got clobbered.
This is good, but what about models that turn trash to fuel, like Taylor BioMass Energy(TBE)?
There may be some NIMBY concerns like in the late '80's with incinerators, but if they
can build a wind-farm of the coast of MA, I imagine anything is possible.
I'm trying to grasp the logic of why a world population exponentially growing and headed towards major food and water shortages, would grow crops for fuel? On top of which, the fact the energy spent for energy returned in producing ethanol for fuel makes little economic sense. That is unless you consider the good it does to those taking advantage of green subsides by diverting money to them for feel good political measures, but will end up doing little to solve our energy independence.
[JR: I have said many times don't think we will grow any significant amount of crops for fuel. Gotta be non-arable land, low-water-use cellulosic biofuels — or nada.]
crops for fuel (CFF) is a reaction to peak oil. In the US, it is an essential component of its security for the supply to the military.
Given a ready supply of biomass which doesn't displace food production and is sustainable, you get almost twice the vehicle miles by using the biomass to make electricity for plug ins than through the ethanol route. Biomass is storable, and there is already a rail system for moving coal to power plants.
As for turning food (corn) into vehicle miles here in the US…there is a moral aspect to this which cannot be ignored.
Not such good news from India concerning jatropha as a fuel source…
"…initially specialists assumed that jatropha could flourish on wasteland, without irrigation it in fact requires moderate irrigation. …investments are stuck due to the poor quality of jatropha seeds."
If jatropha works it is going to require more water than anticipated.
Roughly 25% of the US corn crop goes to ethanol, it is subsidized by the tax payer, and the 2007 energy bill mandates that, by 2022, 36 billion gallons per year of biofuel be produced. In 2008 we produced a little more than 10.5 billion gallons per year. It will be a very difficult struggle to disentangle the farmer from his corn ethanol subsidy. It is a very bad practice and we need to switch to advanced cellulosic biofuels as soon as possible. But the advanced biofuels are not commercially ready while corn to ethanol is a well established fuel product and will continue to meet the requirements of the energy bill for many more years to come. By the time the advanced fuels are ready the corn/ethanol industry will be a very large and rich segment of the fuel industry.
The corn/ethanol industry already IS "a very large and rich segment of the fuel industry" – one which requires MASSIVE amounts of petroleum-based, nitrogen fertilizer and, again, nobody is investigating what effects this disruption to the essential nitrogen cycle will be on other vegetation.
Mandating the use of biofuels without FIRST proving the safety of their emissions is just as disgusting as the government allowing 70,000 industrial chemicals to be used without first testing the safety of any but a measly few hundred.
Cancer is coming to a member of your family soon, courtesy of the US Government: http://www.stateoftheair.org/
"advanced cellulosic biofuels"
It's always the _next_ thing which will make biofuels work. I will remain a biofuels skeptic until the feedstocks are specified concretely, and the full environmental footprint of their production is accounted for.
In the Pacific Northwest, "cellulosic biofuels" are just another excuse for more logging. More logging of forests, which tends to release the carbon already stored, while reducing the ongoing capacity of the forests for biological carbon sequestration.
Biological carbon sequestration. It's real, it's been working for millennia, and we need it. We should be protecting and enhancing it, not freelancing loose ideas around increasing biomass consumption to try maintain the liquid fuel fix.
Systems thinking, please!
Kevin – we don't know how to fuel some of our forms of transportation other than with liquid fuels. Better, IMHO, to use some sort of grown source to produce that liquid than to continue to dig up sequestered carbon.
Remember, that carbon that is in the plant was earlier in the sky.
Personal transportation, that I'm not expecting to stay long on liquid fuels. Electricity is just so much more efficient.
Once people understand that driving an electric car is like having a $1 a gallon pump at their house I don't think it will take long to get us out of ICE cars.
There's also this thing called a bicycle which happens to be the most energy-efficient means of travel.
I agree with Kevin, and I have a hard time reading something that has a pitch for smart growth in the third paragraph.
If we really hit the oil peak over the next few years, organizations from airlines to local school districts are going to hit economic survival crises. At that point there will be such a political uproar demanding any kind of liquid fuels, we will see intense political pressure for federal subsidies to build coal-to-liquid and gas-to-liquid plants, as well as for any kind of biofuels that can be produced in bulk, poor people, forests and topsoil be damned. If we have not developed environmentally sustainable alternatives, we will be washed away in this political tsunami. For ground transportation, certainly the move to electricity needs to happen, but it will take many years to switch out current fleets, so liquid fuel demand will remain. Aviation will not run on electricity, and shipping could be supplemented with high-tech sails, but will still need some measure of liquid fuels. This is why the dismissive and somewhat cynical comments by some of the people above on biofuels are a recipe for defeat. If you say "no" to any kind of biofuels, you are in effect saying yes to very high carbon unconventional fossil fuel alternatives. Have the depth to make distinctions and promote truly sustainable biofuels pathways. And many start in waste streams, which do not compete for land or food. (In fact, a pilot plant generating biofuels and other products attached to a sewage treatment plant in America Falls, Idaho validates the proposition that each and every one of us is a potential source of sustainable biofuels feedstocks.)
Patrick #13, I agree. Short term we may be faced with some "lesser evil" choices. Liquid biofuels would seem to less bad than gas from oil sands. Electricity from natural gas would seem to be less bad than electricity from coal.
Just adding a point. Approximately 50% of all US driving is done in cars which are 5 years old or less. Those people are spending a lot for gas and for them EVs will be very financially attractive. ($1 gas in a 30MPG car. 24,000 miles in a 30MPG car and $4 gas is over $3k a year.)
If we can find a low environment/food supply impact biofuel for the other 50% of vehicles that might be a good idea while we let them naturally die off.
We might even do something cute like using switchgrass to give us short term cellulose biofuel and let the switchgrass improve the marginal soil in which it will grow in order to increase our available land for growing food later as populations swell….
I must point out that efficiency is the only solution that allows people to keep on doing what they want (driving around a lot apparently) while dramatically reducing emissions and correcting our oil import problem.
Doubling and then doubling again our fleet fuel efficiency fixes everything in the liquid fuels department. We don't need to turn food into gas–we can export that corn to a hungry world–China for example. We don't need to hope that cellulosic ethanol can move from research to reality (I am not refering to orange peels here). We don't need to upset the people who like to fly around by rationing air miles. We win the oil endgame.
The 2010 VW Polo Bluemotion is getting 60+ mpg. US car companies can do just as well, or build similar performing hybrids.
Any CO2 benefit from corn ethanol has yet to determined. A recent study from Duke shows (again) net positive CO2 for ethanol http://www.physorg.com/news187509206.html
That being said, I am afraid we are stuck with the ethanol subsidies for a while. Looks like POET may have a solution for the incompatibilty of ethanol with the existing pipeline infrastructure, "This is a big pipe — extending 1,800 miles, crossing seven state lines, carrying 240,000 barrels a day — and it won't happen without an equally big boost from taxpayers" More subsidies, more land grabs.
Patrick Mazza, #13, if you want to make the realpolitik argument that we will use biofuels – because we can – and peak oil blah blah blah, and national security, and no one should ever be asked to actually conserve…then go ahead. But please, don't pretend biofuels are "green." They're filthy. They are not part of a clean economy.
It looks like your organizations, "Climate Solutions" is a big promoter of biofuels. Where does "Climate Solutions" obtain funding for its staff and operations?
Just askin'
We are on the brink of massive social, political, and economic disruption because irresponsible idiots with a short-term profit motive, and a government that is fueled by campaign graft, don't factor long-term consequences into their decisions. There is absolutely no compelling reason to believe that bio-fuels will be LESS harmful – environmentally or otherwise – than fossil fuels. To the contrary, and as Wit's End correctly points out, there is a grow corpus of research suggesting bio-fuels are every bit as harmful as their fossil antecedents. With the possible exception of jet powered flight, we don't need liquid fuels. We can get by just fine with electricity in virtually every other instance (including, Mr. Mazza, in the HVAC plants of homes, schools, and other buildings).
Hey Jake!?
Where is your data that emissions from biofuels are green???
Give me a link or two, please!
Mike wrote:
"Doubling and then doubling again our fleet fuel efficiency fixes everything in the liquid fuels department.
But we would also still have an economic model intent on "doubling and then doubling again" the size of the fleet. Growth will run roughshod over dreams of sustainability. And there's also the overlooked problem of Jevons' paradox.
Always remember this:
Maintaining industrialism and growth is a fool's errand, because improvements in technology (T) would be forever chasing the tiger's tail of growth in population (P) and per capita consumption (A) resulting in no significant reduction in ecological impact (I).
"Smart growth" is still growth, and the mathematics of the exponential function causes a doubling at a fixed interval. I've seen even intelligent people fail to integrate that fact into their political ideology. Or as Saint Albert has said for years:
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
Patrick Mazza wrote:
"Have the depth to make distinctions and promote truly sustainable biofuels pathways."
Please have the depth to understand that Industrialism 2.0 (with its intrinsic growth imperative) would only postpone the day of reckoning and thereby increase the ultimate level of suffering. I would like to see you talking about reducing population and affluence.
If we are going to resign ourselves to coddling the narcissistic screams ("political uproar") of a generation addicted to high speed with liquid fuels, then we might as well expect the relatively imminent termination of this species. I would rather focus on demanding more maturity from people. I find the real cynicism to be the proposition that we must acquiesce to the self-centered ignorance of a typical American suburbanite, with the implicit premise that a "new man" is impossible, so dreams of true "sustainability" must be deferred.
We need more systems thinking especially about economic systems.
I strongly feel that the limited supply of good quality (low life cycle carbon) biofuels are wasted on the automotive sector where there are many options to reduce carbon that haven't yet been grasped.
Would it not be better to make high quality biofuels and ringfence them for sectors where carbon reduction is much harder i.e. long haul aviation?
Aircraft technology is only improving very slowly and some progress could be made on tightening up load factors through fiscal measures, but other than that, there isn't a great deal that can be done in that sector.
substanti8, I, mired in my shallow cynicism, salute you.
Also, at the risk of sounding really ancient, I would like to say that when I was growing up, it was accepted that the only people who flew in airplanes (other than the military) were either Presidents, Hollywood stars, or very wealthy. It was okay!
"I would rather focus on demanding more maturity from people. I find the real cynicism to be the proposition that we must acquiesce to the self-centered ignorance of a typical American suburbanite, with the implicit premise that a "new man" is impossible, so dreams of true "sustainability" must be deferred."
Good luck with that. If you think that has the chance of a snowflake in hell then I'd suggest you need to get out in the world a bit more. Get away from your same-thinking social group and talk to a bunch of different people. Suggest to them that they move into multi-story apartment buildings in dense urban settings and walk/bike everywhere they want to do.
They'll probably tell you nicely to stuff it. But that's what they will tell you. To expect humanity to shift to an ecologically appropriate lifestyle in the next 20 years if it involves significant personal cost, effort or decrease in lifestyle is totally unrealistic.
The only way I see us getting ourselves out of this mess is to use techniques which do not significantly "bother" the vast majority of people.
We already know how to get ourselves off of coal. We have the technology to produce our power for roughly the same price with renewables. We know that wind brings down consumer utility costs. And if the price does go up a small amount we can keep the monthly household electricity bill steady by continuing to roll out more efficient electronics and appliances.
We can reduce our use of petroleum by requiring higher fuel mileages and giving people more and better public transportation options. And by raising our mileage requirements for new vehicles.
We can get ourselves off of petroleum totally for most ground transportation with electric vehicles.
We can do all of this stuff and not cause the average person discomfort nor require them to make major changes in their lives. That will work. Asking everyone to become a twenty-something bike riding single will not.
The kind of change that you want is long term and very difficult. It has a very low probability of being a successful route for saving our butts….
Substanti8, I am not advocating more vehicles although that is inevitable, nor am I pleased by the types of vehicles we have today and the pollutions oozing off them.
Technology will always be a part of human civilization. The question is how to fit the gadgets into a healthy biosphere–how to tame that technology. We have really screwed up so far. Switching the fleet over to 60+ mpg is a step. Making the vehicles recyclable and building them in zero discharge plants is another. Manufacturing them with clean energy, and running them on clean electricity is another. Reworking the road system to correct environmental impacts like storm water runoff is another. Finding tire materials and paving materials that are not a constant low level source of environmental pollution is another (Where does all the tire rubber and asphalt go? Into the air and into the watersheds). Some simple roadside monitors would be nice to signal vehicles of wildlife crossing, peds, and cyclists–and fine motorists who do not share the road.
That is one description of a near zero impact people mover system for people. From the technology side, I can't see any obstacles to making ALL our gadgets, even those (currently very wasteful, high environmental cost) suburban homes fit inside a recovering biosphere (except for things like space tourism which are clearly crazy)(not advocating building any new homes or new roads–but that will happen also). Picture near zero impact homes, ringed by gardens, embedded in native greenways. I am clueless as to why this hasn't happened already–why we didn't transition to permaculture 20, 30 or even a 100 years ago. That is why I read CP and other sites, trying to bridge my mental gaps. I am hopeful that the step change in information flow created by the internet will enable progress.
Although not the full solution, it is critically important to point out just how easy it would be to cut fossil fuel use on the roads by >50% (mpg upgrades and less unplanned driving) and overall energy use in our buildings by >50% (lighting, appliances, HVAC, insulation, electronics, behavior). With ready-now technology, we can stop oil imports, stop unconventional liquids, and stop coal mining. Unlike most people around CP, I do not think this will be hard to do at all (might help if we cut the military budget by a hundred billion or so–how many nuclear submarines do we really need…). What is so hard about making 60+ mpg vehicles on lines that now make SUVs? Building some big solar thermal and a new super grid laid out on the existing ROWs?
Later in this decade, Global Warming will be obvious to all, scary, and finally real enough to motivate people to start thinking about a finite planet. Agreed, any trajectory that continues to degrade the finite biosphere eventually ends in environmental collapse. Systems thinking is needed across all of our technology and every place civilization intersects with the biosphere.


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CALL ME A PHILISTINE, but I have trouble seeing banged-up gym lockers and plaster utility sinks mounted on a wall as art, much less masterpieces. That's what one of the Whitney Museum's curators called Robert Gober's Ascending Sink, below, at a press preview late last month to launch a 550-work gift to the Whitney by collectors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner. (The exhibition of new works runs through March 6, 2016.)
I've heard of Cindy Sherman, the photographer who made a fetish of selfies long before the rest of us, and Jeff Koons, my least favorite artist of all time, and a few others, but most of the names were new to me, and most of the art, said to address such issues as advertising, technology, identity, celebrity and capitalism, inscrutable.
The Whitney's mission is to collect, present and interpret the art of our time, and this is the art of our time, so who am I to say? I'm glad the Hoppers and Calder's wire circus are still there in the permanent collection, though the latter has lost the prominent lobby placement it had in the uptown building.
And I was glad to move on to the Frank Stella retrospective, up through February 7, 2016, where I enjoyed the graphic works of his 1960s Pop phase, below, though he lost me with the busier compositions and Day-Glo colors of more recent times.
Mainly, I had come to see the museum's new home, by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The building didn't impress me, or seem much less brutal than the museum's previous location in Marcel Breuer's reviled Madison Avenue building, but I love the easy access to outdoor terraces and the views in all directions, notably over the river and the mile-and-a-half-long High Line, top.
The trip brought me to the Meatpacking District for the first time in a while. I miss Florent, the bar/diner that for many years was the only late-night place to go on Gansevoort Street, though not the metal cans full of cowhide and bloody animal parts.
I lament the fact that, because hole-in-the-wall Paradou was closed at lunchtime and Pastis being renovated and the Chelsea Market claustrophobic, I ended up having lunch at Le Pain Quotidien, the suddenly ubiquitous chain about which the best I can say is that it's handy when you need a kale salad.
Not being a tourist, or, I suppose, a young person, I felt unhappy with the changes I saw in the neighborhood where once I was young (I lived in the far West Village in the early '70s), particularly the blocks full of fashion emporia I have no use for. Why must it be all about shopping?
There's no charm to the new Meatpacking District, no soul, none of that New York grit.
Walking back along 14th Street toward the subway restored my mood somewhat. The city hasn't all turned into shiny metal and glass. Graffiti lives.
IT'S BEEN CALLED the 'crown jewel' of New York City's public gardens: see why. The plantings at the Conservatory Garden at Fifth Avenue and 105th Street — different every year — are exuberant. Their unrestrained color combos feel like the tropics; the attention to textural variation makes nearly every spot an arresting visual. High summer is the time to go, though this garden — made up largely of annual plantings, with a backbone of hedges and perennials playing a supporting role — will be fabulous through frost. Combine with a visit to the Folk City and Paul Rand exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York across the street for an ideal midsummer outing.
THE TWO POLES OF MY EXISTENCE are the immensity of nature that is the East End of Long Island and the intensity of humanity that is New York City. Which do I prefer? There's no contest; it's the former.
But with a couple of hours to kill in Midtown recently, while waiting to join a friend for Skylight on Broadway, I found much in the West 30s and 40s to command my attention.
Emerging into Times Square after the performance, the visual stimulation was an assault. There's something undeniably exciting about it, I admit, but… get me back to the country ASAP.
EVERY NOW AND THEN, I need a photo workshop to help me look at things afresh. In Europe last month, I was so busy chronicling all I saw as straight-up reportage that I rarely took time to be creative with my camera — or iPhone, in my case (I've given up carrying anything heavier).
This morning, at the Municipal Arts Society offices in Midtown Manhattan, I took a two-hour class called "Getting the Shot" taught by Timothy Schenck, a photographer specializing in art, architecture and construction. Tim ran through an astonishing amount of information in an hour. His reminders about basic mindfulness ("focus on the task") were not lost on me, and I loved being given permission to experiment ("tap into your individual vision," "try the unconventional"), along with composition (eliminate visual clutter, use negative space, remember the rule of thirds) and technical tips.
I asked how to take photos of a building besides just standing in front of it and holding the camera up, something I often find myself doing. Among Tim's suggestions: try a very low angle to take in, say, the cobblestones on a street; use 'leading lines,' like a row of houses diagonally pointing toward the subject building; look for a convenient bell tower for a high vantage point; take close-ups of a weathered door or interesting knob; tell a story about the building in a series of images.
All very helpful, so when our group of about 25 — most with SLR cameras, some with point-and-shoots, a few with cellphones — marched the 10 blocks south to Grand Central Terminal to put Tim's tips into practice, I was feeling inspired. The image, top, taken on 42nd Street just in front of the station, may be my favorite of the day.
It was crowded inside the station, with more tourists than commuters. I interpreted the part of the lesson about weeding out visual clutter to mean people — people en masse, at any rate. I gravitated toward quiet corners and was surprised there were some, even inside Grand Central on a Saturday afternoon. And when there weren't, I found that if I waited, a wave of humanity would pass and for a few seconds the coast would be clear to grab a shot of the station's grand Beaux Arts architecture.
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
– T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
APRIL HAS BEEN CRUEL, an abrupt withdrawal from the stimulation and excitement of my monthlong trip to Europe in March. Though I was there but four weeks — and they flew — the trip had been in the planning all winter, so my head had been in Europe far longer. Now both mind and body are back in Brooklyn and I'm in recovery, chafing against the fact that I'm no longer hearing mellifluous Romance languages, hopping on and off trains with a sense of purpose, feeling intrepid and self-sufficient, exploring new streets and seeing new vistas, steeping myself in art and culture, walking a pair of sturdy boots into oblivion.
I came home to bills and taxes and issues I'd been happy to put out of my head completely for the duration of my trip. I've been feeling dull and grouchy, if only to myself, pissed off about being back in New York, but unwilling to kvetch out loud, for who would sympathize with someone who'd had those four weeks of freedom and delight? I couldn't even write a blog post; what could I possibly say or show that would hold a candle to Verona or Naples? I went out to eat with friends at restaurants new to me, including Eugene and Company in Bed-Stuy and Chavella's in Crown Heights, and though I liked them both and look forward to return visits, couldn't even be bothered to lift my iPhone to take a photo of my food.
"Mixing memory and desire," T.S. Eliot wrote — that's what April has done for me, mixing the memory of being in Europe with the desire to return. Be here now? Ha. I've been wanting to be there. I drove out to my house in Springs to check on things and found both house and garden in perfect order, just as I left them last November, but didn't feel the usual uplift.
It was only yesterday that I finally felt "dull roots stirring." I met a friend for lunch in Bryant Park during a brief spell of perfect weather, and it happened as I emerged from the subway, caught a glimpse of the Park's newly seeded lawn (thankfully rid of the skating rink and market stalls of winter) and the stately back of the Public Library, and the fountains, and the daffodils, and the carousel, and the happy people released from their offices basking in the novelty of an alfresco lunch, and even the green and blue glass skyscrapers which somehow on this day didn't offend but wowed me with their shiny brilliance. I was a bit early, so I went inside the Library and wandered through their current, excellent exhibitions: one of vintage photographs and another of World War I graphics.
Coupled with my first visit of the season, this morning, to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, below, where the cherry orchard is late to bloom but the magnolias are going crazy, I've at last begun to think, hmmm… maybe New York can hold a candle, after all.


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beige, cream, taupe, oatmeal, ecru, buff, fawn, gray;
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the name and the song itself go together like water and oil
it sound more like NES background music...sounds very very 8-bit
its good IDK y it has such a low score
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Bell Corruption Verdicts: Ex-Mayor Oscar Hernandez, 4 Council Members Found Guilty
'The Bell Eight' by Ted Soqui for LA Weekly
Updated at the bottom: The judge declared a mistrial on remaining counts. First posted at 12:14 p.m. Wednesday.
The jury in the corruption trial of six ex-city leaders of Bell found former Mayor Oscar Hernandez and ex-council members Teresa Jacobo, George Mirabal, Victor Bello, and George Cole guilty of misappropriation of public funds today. Former Councilman Luis Artiga was found not guilty on all counts.
The six were accused of padding their salaries, which amounted to six figures, by taking payment for sitting on do-nothing city boards:
Hernandez was found guilty on five counts and not guilty on another five. Likewise the four other defendants saw at least one guilty verdict, but many not-guilty decisions as well. The sixth suspect, Artiga, got off scot-free.
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Prosecutors said the defendants did the deeds mostly between January 2006 and July 2010.
[Added at 12:32 p.m.]: The jury was undecided on 10 additional counts. City News Serviced said the panel was deadlocked, though it wasn't yet clear if the jury could not reach a verdict or needed additional time to deliberate.
[Added at 8:59 p.m.]: City News Service breaks down the counts for those who saw guilty verdicts:
Former Mayor Oscar Hernandez and former council members Teresa Jacobo and George Mirabal were each convicted of five counts of misappropriation of
public funds and acquitted of five others. Former Councilman George Cole was convicted of two counts and acquitted of two others, while former Councilman Victor Bello was convicted of four counts and acquitted of four others.
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Dr. Aboolian is a wonderful plastic surgeon who treats you like family. He listens to what you have to say and helps determine the best plan of action. His Nurse and Office Staff are also very friendly and helpful. The entire team is compassionate, professional and top-notch. I highly recommend!
Dr. Aboolian is hands down the best plastic surgeon I have ever met and i've been to ALOT of plastic surgeons. Not only is he EXTREMELY talented with every procedure he does, his results are NATURAL and beautiful so you don't end up looking like a horrible botoxed-up clown. I came to Dr. Abolian for juvedurm fillers under my eyes and i honestly could not be HAPPIER and satisfied with the results. I had extremely baggy eyes from stress and insomnia and not only do they look extremely natural, I look and feel so much younger without looking like I got anything done. Dr. Aboollian cares a lot about his patients and this is important because he just wants to make his patients happy and to do the best work he can do. I love coming here because I know I can trust him with anything. I will definitely be coming back for other procedures.
Best plstic surgeon in town. Kind, expert, dedicated
I came to Dr. Aboolian upon the recommendation of a family member after I fell in the shower and had a large hematoma on my forehead. He was kind enough to fit me in right away and drained it so it wouldn't be as visible and painful. Dr. Aboolian even gave me his cell phone number so I could text him photos of the affected area later, to make sure it was healing as expected. He has a great bedside manner and I would highly recommend him to anyone.
Dr. Aboolian works miracles and accompanies his exquisite surgical skills with impeccable bedside manner. I went to Dr. Aboolian for a full tummy tuck, diastasis recti repair, and umbilical hernia repair after enduring 8 years of chronic back pain and a horrible "pregnancy pooch" that just never went away after two c-sections and two 9 pound babies. From the minute you meet him, Dr. Aboolian puts you at ease. He actually takes the time to listen to his patient's concerns and cares enough to really get to know you. The follow-up care I received after my surgery was amazing. Dr. Aboolian provided me with his cell phone number, and texted and called me over holidays to ensure that my recovery was going well. I ran into a slight wound healing issue initially, and Dr. Aboolian saw me in his office every 3 days just to keep an eye on the incision and watch for infection, until I was no longer at any risk for developing one. As for my final result, it is phenomenal. I could not have imagined my stomach every looking or feeling this good. Dr. Aboolian is the best of the best and I can't recommend him highly enough.
Dr. Aboolian is great. He's very personable and knowledgeable, which made me trust him instantaneously. I took sometime researching my doctor, looking at their before and after pictures plus review other patient reviews. It's been 4 months since I've had the lipo done, and the results look good so far. My skin still hasn't fully retracted, which I knew it may not fully retract, but we'll see. I'm going in to see him again another 6 months and I'll assess then to see if I need any tummy tucking. =)
Dr. Aboolian was recommended to me by a friend. He was the first and only surgeon I interviewed. I made a quick decision based on my gut feeling and ended up very happy. I had a mommy make-over about 5 months ago (mini tummy-tuck, lipo and breast lift). The results came out very natural, as desired. He is truly an artist! Dr. Aboolian is a very caring doctor, It felt like I was his most important patient. He has a great team working for him, the whole experience has been very positive from start to finish. What really blew me away was the follow-up care; he gets back to you quickly and pays attention to every question and concern. I will be going back for all my future cosmetic procedures :).
Look no further, Aboo has magic hands! He is so skillful and I'm stunned with my natural looking results. It's really a blessing to be taken care of by the finest in the business. I would recommend him to everyone. Go in for a consult and you'll be sold that he's the one within minutes of talking to him. Truly the best!
I visited 4 surgeons before selected Dr. Aboolian. Dr. Aboolian is a great physician. He is kind, compassionate and a wonderful counselor. He assisted me in making the best decision for my body with fantastic results. I am very pleased with my results and highly recommend Dr. ABoolian. You will not be disappointed!
Dr Aboolian and his staff were so amazing. They were everything from caring to professional to everything in-between. From my first five minutes in the consultation with Dr. Aboolian I knew I wanted him to do my surgery. He was honest and is not just in for the money. He made me feel beautiful as I am and told me about all the scaring I will have, no other doctor told me about how much scaring I will have and I had consultations with a lot. It has been 6 weeks since my surgery and I have seen Dr. Aboolian 5 times. The night of my surgery, which was on a friday he called me, he called me saturday, he called me sunday his nurse called me monday and tuesday and Wednesday I was in the office so he could check everything. I have never been cared for by a Doctor. His work is amazing also, I am in love with my breast, the size and the shape are perfect and the scaring is exactly how he told me it will be. I love Dr. Aboolian and would refer anyone to him!
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Comment from: Diana, 65-74 Female (Patient) Published: January 23
I am 65 and just had knee replacement surgery. Two days later my blood pressure dropped drastically (but no other symptoms) and I was sent for a CT scan which showed I have a blood clot in my lungs. I was put on a heparin IV for 4 days and am now taking rivaroxaban, it's an alternative to warfarin which is rat poison and it demands lots of blood tests etc. It's expensive but well worth it!
Comment from: Janesman, 65-74 Male (Patient) Published: December 06
I have been diagnosed with PE (pulmonary embolism) twice within the last 2.5 years. My symptoms were not the usual. I had no shortness of breath, no problems listening to the lungs, D-dimer test negative, pain was in my right side lower abdomen. All tests were negative to PE, but I eventually found out that I had a large clot both times. Only severe pain the first time, and my insistence to my family doctor the second time, that I needed to be admitted into hospital probably saved my life.
Comment from: Pam, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: November 01
I broke my foot and had to have surgery to have a metal screw put in. Two months later I woke up one morning with pain in my right ribcage radiating into my back and up into the right side of my chest. I didn't consider it a heart attack since it was on the right side and I don't have a gall bladder so I thought I'd dislocated a rib since I'd done it before. The next evening as I climbed into bed I had a searing pain in the left side of my chest and I knew I was going to pass out. I tried to get to my husband but passed out. When I came to, I managed to crawl through the door and get his attention. I was taken by ambulance to an emergency room where the nurse and doctor that cared for me immediately had suspicions and sent me for a CT right away. I had a massive PE (pulmonary embolism) and was transferred to a hospital with an available ICU. It was 10 days before I came home. I was put on a heparin IV, Lovenox shots and Coumadin. They finally removed the heparin but then my liver enzymes went way up. Finally they put me back on the heparin and stopped the Lovenox which finally resulted in my enzyme levels dropping. I am now home and on 7.5mg of Coumadin per day. I am extremely fatigued though and wondering when I will be back to normal.
Comment from: Janesman, 65-74 Male (Patient) Published: August 21
I have had pulmonary embolism (PE) twice in the last 3 years. First time was 3 months after surgery to remove my prostate because of cancer. Symptoms were pain that was awakening me at night. The pain was located near my liver region, not in the chest. After 5 nights of this I was flown by chopper to hospital at 1.30 am. It took the hospital 13 hours to find I had PE. The D-dimer test came back negative, so this confused the medical staff. Eight months ago I had a disc removed from neck (C5/C6). Anesthetist before the operation said I would receive a Clexane injection (blood thinner) 24 to 48 hours after the operation because of my risk to PE. A junior doctor at 36 hours after the operation removed this chartered medication. His or her belief was that the chances of PE from a neck operation were almost nil. Four weeks later I was almost fainting while trying to work. My local doctor said nothing was wrong with me. Another week later I was admitted again to hospital. A CT scan showed I had 4 large clots, of which 1 was very massive.
Comment from: lhessler816, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: April 11
I thought I had pulled a muscle from shoveling snow and bowling. My friends were actually making fun of me because they thought I was just that weak. I took it all as a joke. That night, after a massage, all of a sudden I got really sharp stabbing pains all over my chest, my back, and my side. My boyfriend thought I was having a stroke. I couldn't breathe in; I couldn't stand up, or anything. I laughed it off as being really, really sore, and for the next 15 minutes sat in the bathroom crying because I didn't know what was wrong. My muscles loosened enough that I could crawl back into bed, and propped up with a pillow, I took four Tylenols, and fell asleep taking shallow breaths. The next four days got worse and worse – it felt like my bra was too tight no matter what I did. The pain radiated into my right shoulder and was very extreme. Then I started coughing up lots of blood. I went to the ER. After some research, I told the ER doctor that either I had bad pneumonia or a pulmonary embolism. I didn't know the reality of it – just what I read. And there it was – after high D-dimer levels, a chest X-Ray, and a CT scan – I had a PE with a very large infarction. I had recently started taking birth control to regulate periods. Yes – I was a smoker, but didn't understand the risks. I'm not smoking anymore, and I'm on Xarelto for the next 3 to 6 months. And it sucks. I have the worst headaches and my eyes go fuzzy. I get head rushes, lose my breath from walking to and from my car, and it feels like there's a knife stuck in my lung. It's been four weeks and I haven't slept thought a whole night since. Oh – and I just turned 30. I had no idea what I was in for.
Comment from: OkieAnnie, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: April 05
I recently experienced my second pulmonary embolism. My first was 10 years ago, and reflecting back the symptoms were very much the same both times. My first occurred at age 55, following a knee scope the previous day. The scope was performed early in the day and I was released in the afternoon. The next morning, about an hour after waking up, I became nauseous, my heart was racing, I had a crushing pain in my chest, and it was difficult to breathe. I made it to the couch before passing out. My neighbor came over to check on me and I was taken to the hospital. The diagnosis was a pulmonary embolism. I spent a week in the hospital, after which I was sent home with five days of Lovenox and Coumadin. My second pulmonary embolism occurred a month ago. I began having difficulty breathing, my heart was racing, and I was suddenly very tired. I headed for bed, only to decide I was too hungry to get to sleep. Within about 15 minutes I was nauseous and vomited. The next morning I felt better, but was tired and dragged all day. Once again that evening when I tried to go to sleep, I felt very hungry. However, this time I avoided eating. Within 15 minutes of lying down, I began having chest pains, was nauseated, and my heart was racing. I took my blood pressure, which was 139/72. I slept on the bathroom floor. The next day I went to the ER and had a CT scan, which revealed a saddle embolism in both lungs. I was immediately transferred to a larger hospital with a better-equipped ICU. I remained in intensive care for three days before being transferred to a medical/surgical unit for another eight days. I am now at home taking Coumadin indefinitely and Lovenox for the next five days.
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JOURNEYS; Where Desolation Is Just a Mirage
By RICHARD WOODWARD
Published: November 29, 2002
STATE ROUTE 118 in West Texas isn't so much a road as it is a portal to another dimension. One of several two-lane highways branching off Interstate 10 into the cavernous heart of Big Bend Country, an area larger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined but home to fewer than 40,000 souls, it is the ideal gateway to the region's shockingly unspoiled and otherworldly terrain.
To enter it, particularly at night, is to abandon Newtonian axioms of space and time. The few lights visible from ranches and trailers in the Davis Mountains seem dim and far away compared to the millions of stars overhead. Coyotes outnumber cars on Route 118 after dark. Except when passing through the towns of Fort Davis (population 2,108) and Alpine (population 6,200), it is possible to follow the road to its terminus, in the Big Bend National Park, and not see another driver for hours. Hit scan on the radio and the FM band often spins end-to-end in silence, unable to pick up any signal of civilization.
Only the condition of the pavement offers a hint that someone is watching out for you. Texans are rightly proud of their roads, and the hundreds of miles that crisscross the mountains and high desert of the Big Bend are immaculate. Arriving in this landscape after New York City where, according to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the average speed of a Manhattan motorist is 4.8 miles per hour, I find the urge to wheel across lonely plateaus at 100 m.p.h. and up hard to resist. Perhaps nowhere else in the American West is driving such a sensual and liberating experience.
Slow down, though, and you will notice that the Big Bend is not without cultural attractions. The town of Marfa (population 2,424), named after a minor character in ''The Brothers Karamazov,'' has become the unlikely destination for contemporary art pilgrims from around the globe, curious to see the installations by Donald Judd and other artists at the Chinati Foundation. The Presidio County Courthouse, a Second Empire-style fortress from the 1880's and still the tallest building (at 100 feet) for hundreds of miles, reopened in 2001 after a $2.7 million restoration. Art galleries and a theater company are taking root.
Tourism is the main business of the Big Bend and has been since the 1960's when overgrazing doomed cattle ranching. On each of my four visits to the area over the last 10 years I've noticed signs of creeping ''Santa Fe-ism,'' some of them, like decent coffee and an excellent bookstore in Marfa, not unwelcome.
A luxury resort, the Cibolo Creek Ranch, opened nearby in 1994. Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall used to vacation on its 35,000 acres and one of the Dixie Chicks was recently married at one of the three restored forts that house the ranch's guests. At a new restaurant in Lajitas (population 220) called Ocotillo you can order ''ancho-cured wild boar quesadillas.'' Remoteness from major cities -- El Paso is three hours by car, Houston is eight -- insulates the region against too much urbanity. Retirement communities have begun to spring up in the towns near the National Park, although temperatures over 100 degrees in May, June and July discourage thick settlement. The attitude of most locals toward strangers could not be more welcoming, as if the trip itself earned you a free drink.
But to those who ponder, as I always do, whether they could live in the Big Bend, Chet Cheatam, bartender at the Hotel Limpia in Fort Davis, offers some realistic advice. ''You better have money when you come here because you're not going to make money,'' he said. ''It's just too empty. And too far.''
The Big Bend, so named because the Rio Grande makes a U-turn during its trip south toward the Gulf of Mexico, is no secret to Europeans. Hiking the trails of the Big Bend National Park, you hear German, French and British voices echoing in the canyons of the Chisos Mountains.
Some make the journey for the chance to see a cougar or a golden eagle, or to walk among carpets of wildflowers in the dead of winter. More bird species can be found here than in any other United States national park, but the park is among the least-visited in the country, according to Mark Flippo, a park ranger. Fewer than 900 people a day on average wander its 810,000 acres.
The Chihuahuan Desert, and extending between the United States and Mexico, is both a bridge and a barrier. In photographs of the Big Bend taken by W. D. Smithers during the 1910's and 20's, Mexican peasants ford the Rio Grande with pack mules, hoping to sell wood or hay to United States soldiers chasing Pancho Villa and others across the desert. For a long time, trying to make a living here, other than as a bandit or a smuggler, was for many a losing struggle, and for many it still is.
The towns in the region have adapted to the harsh environment. Alpine is the hub of the Big Bend, offering fast food and higher education at Sul Ross State University, where Larry McMurtry once taught. But unless I need gas or groceries, I find it too crowded.


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