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Using HTTP authentication
In this section, you'll set up the server for HTTP authentication, so your web server can control the login process for the PHP application.
Up to now, you used a login system in which the user enters a username and password into a form, and when
the user submits the form, that information is checked against the MySQL database. If it matches, the application
creates a session within PHP and assigns a username to the
$_SESSION array for later use.
While this process works just fine, you run into a problem when you integrate with other systems. For example, if your workflow application was part of an intranet in which users might log in with usernames from other systems, you may not want to require them to log in again. Instead, you want them to already be logged in when they get there, if they've already logged in elsewhere. This is known as a single sign-on system.
To accomplish that here, you will switch to a system in which the web server actually controls the login process. Instead of simply serving the page, the server checks for a username and password within the request from the browser, and if it doesn't see them, it tells the browser to pop up a username and password box so you can enter that information. Once you enter the information, you won't have to do it again because the browser sends it with subsequent requests.
Let's start by setting up the server.
Before you start, be aware that if you use a server other than Apache 2.X, you must check the documentation for HTTP authentication to learn how to set it up. XAMPP uses HTTP authentication, so if you use XAMPP, you're all set. (Alternatively, you can simply skip this section. You'll build in the appropriate steps so the application works with either type of authentication.)
But how does HTTP authentication actually work? First of all, the server knows what kind of security it needs to provide for each directory. One way to change that for a particular directory is to set things up in the main configuration for the server. Another way is to use an .htaccess file, which contains instructions for the directory in which it resides.
For example, you want the server to make sure all users who access your user-specific files have valid usernames and passwords. First create a directory called loggedin inside the directory in which you currently have your files. For example, if your files reside in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs, you create a /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/loggedin directory.
Now you need to tell the server that you want to override the overall security for that directory, so open the httpd.conf file and add the code in Listing 3 to it.
Listing 3. Overriding security for a directory
<Directory /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/loggedin> AllowOverride AuthConfig </Directory>
(You should use the correct directory for your own setup.)
Now it's time to prepare the actual directory.
Next, create a new text file and save it in the loggedin directory with the name .htaccess. Add the code in Listing 4 to it.
Listing 4. Creating the .htaccess file
AuthName "Registered Users Only" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache2/password/.htpasswd Require valid-user
In Listing 4, the
AuthName is the text
that appears at the top of the username and password box.
AuthType specifies that you're using
Basic authentication, which
means that you'll send the username and password in clear text.
(If you create a high-security application you'll want to
investigate other options.)
AuthUserFile is the file that
contains the allowable usernames and passwords. (You'll create that file in a moment.) Finally, the
Require directive lets you specify who actually gets to see this content. Here, you say that
you will show it to any valid user, but you also have the option to require specific users or user groups.
Restart the HTTP server so these changes can take effect.
(For XAMPP, you can do this from the XAMPP control menu, or from the Services control panel,
if you've set it up as a service. For all installations of Apache V2.0, you can also
<APACHE_HOME>/bin/apachectl stop, followed by
<APACHE_HOME>/bin/apachectl start.)
Next, create the password file.
For all this to work, you need to have a password file that the server can check. In Adding new users to the password file, you'll look at manipulating this file from within PHP, but for now, if you have access to the command line, you can create the file directly.
First, choose a location for your .htpasswd file. It should not be in a directory that's web accessible. It's not very secure if someone can simply download and analyze it. It should also be in a location where PHP can write to it. For example, you might create a password directory in your apache2 directory. Whichever location you choose, make sure you have the correct information in your .htaccess file.
To create the password file, you need the htpasswd application, which comes with Apache. If you use
XAMPP, look for it in
Execute the following command in Listing 5, substituting your own directory
and username:
htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache2/password/.htpasswd roadnick.
You are then prompted to type, then repeat, the password, as in Listing 5.
Listing 5. Creating the .htpasswd file
htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache2/password/.htpasswd NickChase New password: Re-type new password: Adding password for user NickChase
-c switch tells the server to create a new file, so after you add the new user, the file looks something like this:
Note that this version of the password is encrypted, and you must keep that in mind when you add passwords from your application.
Now let's see it in action.
To see this in action, you need to access a file in the protected directory. Move the uploadfile.php and uploadfile_action.php files into the loggedin directory, and copy index.php into the loggedin directory as display_files.php.
In each of the three files, change the
include() statements
to account for the new location, as in Listing 6.
Listing 6. Displaying files
<?php session_start(); include ("../top.txt"); include ("../scripts.txt"); echo "Logged in user is ".$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']; display_files(); include ("../bottom.txt"); ?>
In this case, you fix the references to the included files, but you also reference a variable that should be set when the browser sends the username and password. Point your browser to http://localhost/loggedin/display_files.php to see this in action. As you can see in Figure 3, you should get a username and password box.
Figure 3. Username and password box
Enter the username and password you used in Creating the password file to see the actual page.
At this point, you've entered the username and login, so you can see the page. As Figure 3 shows, while the message says the user has logged in, the actual content doesn't seem to agree. You still see the Register and Login links, and the list of files still shows only those that an administrator has approved—and not those that the current user has uploaded and are still pending, as you can see in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Logged in ... sort of
To solve these problems, you have two choices. The first is to go back and recode every instance in which
the application references the username to look for the
$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'], instead of
$_SESSION["username"]. Good programmers are inherently lazy, however, so that's not a particularly
attractive option.
The second choice is to simply set
$_SESSION["username"] based on
$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] so everything will continue to work as it did before. You can do this in
top.txt, right after you start a new session or join the existing one (see Listing 7).
Listing 7. Setting the current user
<?php if (isset($_SESSION["username"])){ //Do nothing } elseif (isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) { $_SESSION["username"] = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']; } ?>   ...
The only way to make the browser "forget" the username and password you entered is to close the browser
so you give the
$_SESSION["username"] variable precedence. That way, you have the option to enable users
to log in as someone else. (You won't do that here, but you do have the option.)
Next, if neither the
$_SERVER variable is set, nothing happens,
and the page continues on as though the user isn't logged in, which happens to be the case.
Making this one simple change fixes your login problem, as you can see in Figure 5.
Figure 5. The corrected page
Before you add a new user, you need to make a couple of quick fixes to top.txt to accommodate the new structure. For one thing, you need to change the Login link so that rather than pointing to your old login.php page, it points to the newly secured display_files.php file. When the user attempts to access it, the browser will provide a way to log in (see Listing 8).
Listing 8. Adjusting the navigation
...

Home

Upload
 >
Files
> <?php if (isset($_SESSION["username"]) || isset($username)){ if (isset($_SESSION["username"])){ $usernameToDisplay = $_SESSION["username"]; } else { $usernameToDisplay = $username; } ?> >

 Welcome, <?=$usernameToDisplay?>.

 <?php } else { ?>
 Register

/loggedin/display_files.php" shape="rect">Login
 <?php } ?>

 ...
Notice that in addition to fixing the login reference and adding a new option for displaying the list of files, I commented out the message about logging out, because that subject is beyond the scope of this tutorial.
Now you just need to integrate the registration process with the password file.
Adding new users to the password file
The last step in this process is to integrate your registration with the .htpasswd file. To do that, you simply need to add a new entry to .htpasswd once you save the user to the database. Open registration_action.php and add the contents of Listing 9.
Listing 9. Creating the user on the server at registration
... if ($checkUserStmt->rowCount() == 0) { $stmt = $dbh->prepare("insert into users (username, email, password) ". "values (?, ?, ?)"); $stmt->bindParam(1, $name); $stmt->bindParam(2, $email); $stmt->bindParam(3, $pword); $name = $_POST["name"]; $email = $_POST["email"]; $pword = $passwords[0]; $stmt->execute(); $pwdfile = '/usr/local/apache2/password/.htpasswd'; if (is_file($pwdfile)) { $opencode = "a"; } else { $opencode = "w"; } $fp = fopen($pwdfile, $opencode); $pword_crypt = crypt($passwords[0]); fwrite($fp, $_POST['name'] . ":" . $pword_crypt . "\n"); fclose($fp); echo "
Thank you for registering!
"; } else { echo "
There is already a user with that name:
"; ...
Before you start, if you have a .htpasswd file already, make sure the user running Apache can write to it on your web server. If not, make sure the user can write to the appropriate directory.
First, check to see if the file exists and use that information to determine whether you will write a new file or append information to an existing file. Once you know, go ahead and open the file.
As you saw in Creating the password file, the password is stored in encrypted form, so you can use the
crypt() function to get that string. Finally, write the username and password out to the file and
close the file.
To test this, quit the browser to clear out any cached passwords, then open http://localhost/index.php.
Click Register and create a new account. When you finish creating the account, quit the browser again and try to access a protected page. Your new username and password should work.


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- PG: Jrue Holiday vs. Kyle Lowry
- SG: Jodie Meeks vs. Kevin Martin
- SF: Andre Iguodala vs. Shane Battier
- PF: Elton Brand vs. Luis Scola
- C: Spencer Hawes vs. Chuck Hayes
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She believes big firms can expect to lose more work, partly because some clients will prefer the localised feel of domestic firms, and partly because global firms will wind down less profitable practice areas that don't fit their international identity.
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Norman says the federal government's silence on privacy will remain one of the big issues for media lawyers. In recent controversial media reforms announced by Communications Minister
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For now though, Norman is content dealing with the tangible arguments over what has been written about a plaintiff's life and their behaviour.
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|Conspiracy Theories and Weird Science
onspiracy theories, and their prevalence in society. Of course they are only "theories" if you don't believe in them. If you do, they are secret truths that "they" are conspiring to keep from the public knowledge. Who "they" are varies by the situation, but one thing about modern life is that you can always find some powerful business group or government or secret society with a reason to suppress whatever truth you think you've happened upon.
Most sensible people would conclude that most conspiracy theories are bullshit. At the same time, most sensible people know of two or three things that were at one point considered conspiracies... until they turned out to be true.
I post about this every now and then, when a news item comes up that motivates me. Also included are weird science stories, such as Loch Ness Monster hunts. They aren't exactly conspiracies, but both require the same suspension of logical disbelief, so it's close enough.
A BBC production team just finished an extensive survey of Loch Ness, trying to find some evidence of the fabled Loch Ness Monster. Their methodology was impressive; their results were predictable.
I can't think anyone will be too surprised to hear that there's not really a bunch of 70 million year extinct dinosaurs in a 10,000 year old pond in Scotland, but some people do seem to still be clinging to the hope. I would love there to be mysterious monsters in lakes around the world myself, but I'm realistic enough to accept that there aren't. It's like bigfoot; it's fun to pretend, but don't go wasting any real time or effort on the fantasies. One mysterious creature somewhere is possible, but for things to persist over time there has to be an ecology that supports them, and a viable breeding population. Just one individual obviously isn't going to last that many years, and Adam and Eve fairy tales aside, a male and a female of a given creature is not a viable population. The inbreeding would lead to genetic disaster in just a few generations.
As for the Loch Ness Monster, all of the best sightings and pictures have been debunked, studies have shown that there's not enough fish in the loch to support any large aquatic life forms, much less a family of them, etc. However since lots of people really want to believe in Nessie (as well as other popular myths such as Bigfoot, UFOs, dinosaurs in Africa, Yeti, the risen Baby Jesus, Bush's excuses for the Iraq Attack, and so on...) it's unlikely that any amount of "proof" will ever dissuade them.
As the article on the BBC show says:
I personally still want to go to the Loch, at least as part of my whole Scottish castle/wilderness tour, someday. It's the homeland of my peoples, after all, at least according to my surname, and I want to walk through the gloomy moors and windswept crags and all the rest of the prototypical highland landscapes. And I'd love to sit in a murky forest at the edge of a cold, deep loch, and think about the mysterious creatures that might be swimming deep below the placid surface.
Even though I know they really aren't.
The top 10 conspiracy theories about 9/11 and other such events in recent years. Very interesting read, whether you believe any of it or not.
Funny article about a man who basically started the Bigfoot craze in the Pacific Northwest by laying down fake footprints in the 1950's. He and his family have been sitting back and smirking for 50 years, as other hoaxes have come up and various kooks arrive and try to find evidence that would seem to support the bigfoot theories.
The whole concept is really ridiculous. There would have to be hundreds or thousands of these Bigfoot creatures in the wild, to maintain a viable breeding population. Every animal larger than a mouse that lives in the US has been extensively documented and studied and analyzed by now, but some would have you believe that unknown mystery primates, larger than humans, live in and around densely-populated areas. People sit in the woods for weeks at a time to get a good look at birds the size of your finger that only nest 100 feet up in certain kinds of trees. Every wolf in the area was hunted to extinction nearly 100 years ago, and bears almost went the same way. Backpackers and miners and hunters and loggers and others travel the area constantly, and everyone is looking for a Bigfoot.
But not one of the creatures has ever been captured, or shot, or roadkilled, or photographed in believable fashion, or died and had their body found? Please, give it up. Stick to UFOs or at least pick a conspiracy that you can somehow work the UN or NWO or black helicopters into, since then you have some adversary to blame the mystery on.
NASA is having to pay for a book to be written to prove that they did indeed land on the moon. Some of the most off the wall conspiracy theorists have fixed upon the moon landing as something to go on about, and the always-reliable FOX network produced and aired a laughably-scientific special about it. Lots of science sites have fun debunking it, but I think BadAstronomy slaughters it most efficiently.
It occurs to me that perhaps denying the moon landing like the holy grail of conspiracy theories. There are more convoluted and implausible ones, but they tend to be ones that an individual basket case cooks up; Nazis running the government (any government) and controlling the drug trade to get money to research AIDS to kill black people so that Jews can rule the world along with the Aliens who have replaced your local school board. But for a single event, is the moon landing the biggest one? There are a billion theories about JFK's assassination, but it's not like anyone is insisting it never actually occurred, and was all staged for some nefarious reason. (Actually, someone probably is, but there's no organized movement behind it, unlike the moon thing.)
The whole thing is pretty similar to people who argue against evolution/for creationism, where the only way you can deny moon landing/evolution is if you are just profoundly ignorant of the science of the whole thing, which requires you to be equally fervent in your faith. If you really know about the science you see things like this page discusses; (half way down) with the telemetry of radio signals. The official moon hoax reasoning seems to be that the US couldn't do it, but needed to look powerful and trick the people and the Russians into believing they had done it, to win the race to the moon. What this overlooks is that there are a lot of evidences of the moon trip over than photographs and videos.
So the hoax to fool the Russians involved the Russians, the US' bitter Cold War enemies. Not to mention every single amateur radio astronomer on earth, every other major country with a scientific team on earth, etc.
As I said, it reminds me of the evolution debate, where people who disbelieve it focus on superficial things that are hard to believe, and just have no idea at all of how more complicated things like a couple I quote near the bottom of the Evolution article, ascorbic acid and vestigial feature mutation.
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Yesterday this essay portion of the blog was all about Aliens,
UFOs, human supernatural belief, and other such things. I hardly remember
it myself at this point, to tell you the truth.
Whatever I went on and on about, a friend of mine read it and
had this to say in email about it.
Yesterday this essay portion of the blog was all about Aliens, UFOs, human supernatural belief, and other such things. I hardly remember it myself at this point, to tell you the truth.
Whatever I went on and on about, a friend of mine read it and had this to say in email about it.
Hard to explain why stuff don't grow where saucers crash, and why the govt. is so quick to hush...check them out, if not for just more ammo for your debunking...
Above Top Secret by Timothy Good
Alien Agenda by Jim Marrs (the same guy who wrote Crossfire about JFK assn...and Rule By Secrecy...the dark govt book.
I have started the Alien Agenda book and it is interesting... even accounting 1897, yes 1897 news article of a saucer crash, and days of news clippings across the US as to multiple witness to the craft in flight...and the town and the govt. trying to call it a hoax...interesting read even for the skeptic like you.
Check them out.
Here's my reply to him, very slightly edited.
I don't have a whole lot to add to that, but I thought it was an interesting-enough exchange to post it here. If you read something on this site that you disagree with, feel free to email your thoughts. I'd be happy to post more opinions and PoVs on stuff, but I don't get many mails of that nature.
Something I meant to add but didn't, is the basic observation that we tend to believe in things we are inclined to believe in. I'm a skeptic and a rationalist, and automatically regard any claims of conspiracies, magic, bizarre phenomena, etc with skepticism. I think it's bullshit, and am open to changing my mind, but I need damn good proof of that. Bill is not the opposite, he's not some sap who believes everything, but he's much more inclined to lend credence to accounts of supernatural happenings than I am. So he and I (or any 2 people with similar PoVs) could view the same phenomena, and afterwards both could pass lie detectors describing what they saw, and have very different accounts.
While looking around on the CSICOP website after finding the UFO article I mentioned to Bill, I saw another good article. By Paul Kurtz, it discusses supernatural beliefs. Occasioned by the Heaven's Gate cult suicides, you can see it here. He discusses the Heaven's Gate beliefs, UFOs in general, the way the media (uncritically) presents UFO mythology, how such "new age" beliefs fill a need in humans, and how they compare to traditional religions.
He doesn't go so far as to suggest it, but what do you suppose the odds of current cults growing to be popular religions over the next 50 years? Will Scientology, even with the utter lunacy of most of its core beliefs, become accepted? Or Aum Shinri Kyo, if it tones down the apocalyptic stuff? Or will the central UFO beliefs become codified and unified? It's sort of a cliché to see the fanatical splinter sect leader out in some desert with a pack of human sheep, waiting for the Revelation, or UFO, or meteor, or whatever. But what if everyone believes it?
I find this an extremely pessimistic possibility, even worse than the continued idle religious belief evinced by most people.
As I optimistically wrote yesterday, I sort of expect religion to die off over the coming years, as humans grow more technologically advanced and scientifically aware. The problem with this is that there's not much evidence of it over history. True, most scientists are atheists, but most people aren't scientists, and never will be. The average technical knowledge of most people in the Western world today dwarfs that of a scientist from 30 or 40 years ago, but that's just because we've grown up with microchips. Knowing how to operate a phone or microwave or computer isn't any special intellectual breakthrough, it's just a learned behavior, and not one that's especially amazing. Humans 5000 years ago knew how to hunt, grow food, make clothing, skin game, cook food, stay warm in the night, light a fire from rocks and wood, etc. Can you do that? I certainly couldn't, at least not much of it, and not very well. They couldn't program my digital answering machine, but I'd starve to death in a week in their world. So who is the smarter human?
Now admittedly, I wouldn't think the wind blowing was the spirits of the dead whistling their anger, and I wouldn't think thunder was the gods fighting in heaven, and the caveman here would think all blinking lights were magic, or fireflies, would run in terror from the sounds coming from my stereo (actually most modern humans would also, given my musical preferences) and the pictures on the television. Anyway, my point is that most human superiority over our distant ancestors is just in the form of learned behaviors, rather than any higher state of being, or elevated level of knowledge.
So there isn't human intellectual evolution. People today are nearly as likely to believe in magical invisible gods or spirits as they were thousands of years ago; it's just that such belief today is inculcated from childhood by religious parents, churches, etc. The human mind seems to be very susceptible to superstition, and there is a strong need in most people to believe in something more than the observable, physical world. People want there to be more, they want heaven, or reincarnation, or alternate dimensions, and they aren't real picky about the scientific basis of the belief system that gives it to them. As Paul Kurtz says in the Heaven's Gate article:
You can apply this psychological reality to many aspects of life, in my observation. Not just the intensely-held beliefs, but other lesser beliefs. People like to believe things, and when they hear about something new, they'll often start to believe it as well. Check out this excellent article with a run down of the of the major mass delusions of the past millennium.
Some rather obvious parallels to UFO sightings of the modern era in that one, eh? Of course that was before Roswell incident, which proved once and for all... how eager to believe bullshit people are?
This was initially the "Flux Says No" item of the day. Which means it was the one popular news item that I found dumb, and only commented on here to point out that it was dumb. You know, the daily feature I do twice a month.
Anyway, the only thing less convincing than the actual reports of cattle mutilations is the new "official" explanation for them.
This is fishy on numerous levels. I regard all UFO sightings, especially ones of the "strange lights" variety, as little better than bigfoot sightings; 80% hoaxes, 19.9% confused people, .1% unexplained. And when you throw in mysteriously mangled corpses, it just complicates things. True, you've got some actual physical evidence, but evidence that's so easily falsified. The explanation sucks also though. Farmers have seen dead, scavenger-gnawed animals their whole lives; why wouldn't they be able to recognize it in this instance?
The whole concept of aliens mutilating cattle is so dumb anyway, I wonder where it came from. So imagine you're an astronaut, and you travel to another world, where the people are technologically advanced, but don't have interstellar flight yet. You're landing and exploring, etc, but trying to keep from being seen. What possible reason would you have to land, mutilate livestock, and then leave the evidence around? I mean what could the possible scientific benefits be? If you wanted to experiment on an animal, you'd take it with you, and have a lab on your ship, not out in some field somewhere. And if you were trying to land in secret, wouldn't you turn off the ship lights?
If this is really happening, I.E. it's not just animals and superstitious farmers, I'd say they're doing it themselves for some sort of insurance scam, or whip up interest in something for a financial reason, or there are local pranksters. Maybe someone with a vendetta against a farmer, and wanting to hurt him by killing his animals, and clever enough to disguise it somewhat by making it look supernatural, to throw off suspicion?
In somewhat related news, there's a good
article on Bigfoot this month on CSICOP. Various evidence is
evaluated, claims are analyzed, and it's boiled down to this.
In somewhat related news, there's a good article on Bigfoot this month on CSICOP. Various evidence is evaluated, claims are analyzed, and it's boiled down to this.
It would be cool if there were Bigfeets out there, but to believe that there are thousands of creatures out roaming the wilderness areas of the US and Canada, creatures that we've never ever found one dead, or anyone has shot or captured, or gotten in a credible photograph, is just too big a suspension of disbelief for me. They say that Bigfoot is just sneaky and shy and hides. Well so do hundreds of other animals around the world, jaguars in the jungle, wolverines in bushes and burrows, etc. Yet naturalists have had no problem staking out and finding those when they come to water holes, to hunt prey, etc. And keep in mind we're not looking for one or two Bigfeet somewhere; we're talking about a population large enough to breed and perpetuate itself. That requires lots of them. Thousands. Funny how 500 people a year find their footprints, but no one finds one of them. Must just be bad luck...
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article about the prevalence of conspiracy theories is found here, and is
worth a read. The article briefly describes a bunch of well-known conspiracy
Interesting article about the prevalence of conspiracy theories is found here, and is worth a read. The article briefly describes a bunch of well-known conspiracy theories:
The article is more about the existence of such theories, especially the newly popular ones about September 11th, such as the vanishing Pentagon plane crash the French are currently flogging. A theory that's been totally debunked, not that factual issues ever really slow down such things.
I find conspiracy theories interesting, mostly in terms of why people believe such things in the first place, or feel a need to create and maintain their illusions. In some cases there is strong evidence for them; I've yet to see any realistic explanation of how Oswald fired 3 shots so quickly and accurately while using such a crappy rifle.
And even if you accept what might have been the single greatest feat of marksmanship in the history of rifles, the so-called "magic bullet" that hit Kennedy in about 7 places is just ridiculous.
But the plan here isn't to talk about JFK's murder. At least it wasn't initially.
My point is that there are always conspiracy theories, often ones that are patently absurd. Why? What is it in people that wants to believe such things?
Obviously humans have a deep need for self-delusion. There have been religions created ever since humans could think well enough to invent gods. Virtually all religions serve the same purpose, as a way to explain the mysteries of life, and usually to provide comfort with concepts about divine retribution, punishment for crimes or rewards for good deeds, usually after death. Most religions also have lots of rules and regulations, intended to regulate the lives of the believers.
Anyway, discussing the foundations of the need humans have for myth is another essay. But as I see it, this same sort of need plays into conspiracy theories. Humans don't want to believe in simple answers for apparently complicated events. "God did it." is probably the simplest explanation for anything, but in general that's not enough for adults, where magical thinking tends to perish in a battle with analytical rationalism.
It's no fun to think that Princess Diana and Dodi were killed by their drunken limo driver going way too fast as he fled from the paparazzi vultures. So vast conspiracies must be invented, and of course motivation for them must be found. Apparently Arabs believe in this conspiracy, that British agents killed them since they didn't want Diana... doing something. Screwing an Arab? Disgracing Britain? Marrying a heathen? The actual logic of it is secondary to the desire to believe in it, and the people who do feel persecuted by those they see as the conspirators. In this case it's a sort of defense mechanism, and the same holds true for the Sept 11th events. Arabs want to think the world is against them (and they're often right), so they come up with conspiracies to keep the white woman away from them, and the Jews to blame them for the terrorist attacks.
In another way, conspiracy theories give us control over the uncontrollable. It's painful to think that random events or one lone individual can do such horrible things. It's spooky to think that an evil cabal orchestrated them from behind the scenes, but at least that way there's something to oppose or fight or worry about. Better that the evil government is spreading AIDS, or selling crack to blacks, than that those phenomena are forces of their own. If you are going to be suffer something, it's nice to have someone to blame for it.
Conspiracy theories are also fun to think about. Even if the events or outcome of them is gruesome and horrible, such as the Pentagon crash, it's interesting to speculate about how it might not really have happened. You get to analyze photos and indulge in wild theorizing and make stuff up. Instead of just thinking about the hundreds of innocent people who died in a hijacked plane, you can spend your time thinking how it might have been faked, or an illusion, or a cover up, etc.
I don't really have a conclusion to this, it's just some thoughts I have on the topic. Feel free to email and tell me I'm full of shit, if you are of that opinion. Or perhaps I know exactly what secret forces created all of these events, and I'm just dismissing them to throw you off the trail...
Fascinating page of the day can be seen here. It's a wild-eyed conspiracy thing that appears to show the damage done to the Pentagon Sept 11th was far less than a crashing plane would have done. If you'll recall the original report was that a truck blew up next to the building, and from these pictures, all from military and other official sites, all apparently un-edited, the damage certainly looks a lot more like what a truck would do than a plane. The site doesn't really argue the case, just presents the evidence and it's very interesting to look at it.
Of course the arguments come in with why would the government cover it up, where did the plane go if not into the Pentagon, how did they get the air traffic controllers who tracked the plane from multiple airports to go along with it, etc. Interesting pictures though.
I posted some weeks ago about the very interesting Hunt the Boeing website, which is a compilation of photos of the Pentagon after the 9/11 events, when one of the 4 hijacked planes (allegedly?) crashed into it. From the photos it looked like there was a good case to be made for no plane having hit the building, just since the damage appeared to be very insubstantial, certainly compared to the utter disaster that was the WTC crashes. You expect a huge, gaping hole going through the building, 50 foot trenches dug, etc. Nothing like that is visible in the shots, and they are real shots, taken from government and news sites.
So the Hunt the Boeing page is well worth a look, but I didn't really take it seriously at the time. It's more of an illustration of how mysterious the damage of a crashing plane can be. By the photos you can't see that it hit really, but as there's no real conspiracy to follow up on that, it fizzles out. I mean if the plane didn't hit there, where did it go? It didn't crash anywhere else or we'd have heard about it. I didn't fly to Hangar 18 and get interned with the Aliens, it wasn't tractor beam'ed in by the time traveling USS Enterprise, it didn't fly through the Twilight Zone. It was seen on radar by dozens of air traffic controllers and stations, there were eye witnesses of it hitting the Pentagon, etc. So theories that it didn't hit and that a truck bomb was the source of the Pentagon destruction weren't real believable, but that doesn't make the photos less interesting to view.
A site that does it's best to debunk the Hunt the Boeing presentation is here.
So how did a plane hit the Pentagon and not do more apparent damage? The roof still standing in the overhead shots hides damage to the B and C rings, past the A ring which was totally demolished. All 3 have been completely removed and are being rebuilt now, so there was obviously extensive fire damage beyond what's visible overhead. A good quote from the debunking site:
There aren't any pictures of the plane coming into the Pentagon, at least none that I've seen, but there are some amazing security camera shots. Click the arrows on the page to go back and forth through the half dozen images. You don't see a plane or a truck, for that matter, but by the shape of the enormous fireball, it certainly looks like a plane crash. Unless the imaginary truck was full of jet fuel.
On the destruction theme, there are some amazingly clear shots of the Pentagon and WTC site from space.
I know I should throw in various remarks about how cool pictures don't mean diddly compared to the horrible loss of life and human catastrophe, etc. But I'm not real good with those, as they call them, "human emotions". I mean I was sad at the time, horrified by the scenes, but I've managed to forget all of that now, and it's just a cool topic for discussion.
And yes, I'll say "hello" to Satan for you after the inevitable lightning bolt strikes my callous ass down.
have read articles about how the US government used the UFO hysteria of the 50's and 60's as a propaganda tool. One of the main reasons they allowed all the insane stories about a UFO crash in Roswell, NM to continue was because they had been testing a special high altitude weather balloon, that was of a type being used for spying on the Soviets. There are also reports that numerous other US spy plane testing flights and such were reported as UFOs, sometimes apparently by the Air Force or other branches of the government themselves. It was a handy way to cover their tracks. An interesting article about some researchers who have concluded that UFO sightings began as a form of Cold War hysteria can be seen here.
Of course conspiracy theorists will point out that this is just what "they" want us to think.
One funny thing you'll hear is that NASA knows all about aliens, but is keeping it secret. Given that their funding is continually threatened, and they have to cancel projects all the time, and the fact that the public is fascinated by life on other planets, why on Earth would NASA cover it up? If they had any evidence of life on Mars or elsewhere, much less actual UFOs on earth, they'd use that, and argue that due to our need to investigate it, prepare for it, etc, we must boost the NASA budget 100x. Instead we're left with plans for missions to Mars to poke around in rocks to try and find fossil evidence of bacteria from three billion years ago.
Other people are just as convinced that UFOs to exist, and that there's a huge government cover up, and media conspiring with them to keep things quiet. An article here opinions that of course UFOs are real and all but proven, but mysterious media forces are conspiring to keep it quiet by not reporting on it, or interviewing ex-pilots, etc.
"But," you say, "aren't there about 20 network shows about aliens, such as The X-Files, and regular "news" features about UFO sightings, specials perpetuating the Roswell landing myth, Fox airing Alien Autopsies using special effects dummies while claiming it's a real corpse, or absurd specials about Aliens building the pyramids? (Which isn't even open to debate, they've found unfinished-pyramids with the ramps used to drag blocks up still around them, and demonstrated how blocks of that size could easily be moved with tools of the age.)
And don't the tabloids, which are arguably read by more people than mainstream media, constantly talk about alien landings, abductions, etc?"
Well yeah, and oddly the article doesn't really address that issue.
In fact there is a long history of mainstream media promoting anything sensationalistic, and ignoring skeptical arguments or evidence to the contrary. This article, for instance, talks about the vastly skewed (towards the conspiracy theorists) TV shows.
That's just one of dozens of examples listed in just that one article, by a skeptic.
Perhaps the mainstream media and government cabal that's suppressing news of the Aliens all around us allow the tabloids and Fox News to report on them, since that automatically brands it as bullshit to people, who know that their every word of celebrity gossip and predictions of the future and such are utter bullshit?
So mainstream media doesn't want to admit there are Aliens, because...? It would give them a huge story to cover, and guarantee enormous ratings more or less forever. You think they were all camp out around every unimportant celebrity trial for fun? They'll do anything that gets them ratings, and if there were any actual credible evidence they'd be all over it. Especially in this day and age of lowered journalistic standards, from cable, Fox News, the Internet *cough*, etc.
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University of Washington celebrates record 18 start-up companies in FY14
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More than 400 invited guests, including Washington Governor Jay Inslee and UW President Michael Young, turned out July 29 for the 2014 UW Start-Up Celebration held at C4C's New Ventures Facility, which featured a record 18 new spin-outs spanning a broad range of industry sectors — from medical devices and therapeutics to software and clean technology.
The celebration began under a tent outside the New Ventures Facility, C4C's business incubator in Fluke Hall, and featured remarks by Governor Inslee and UW Provost Ana Mari Cauce, along with Vikram Jandhyala, UW Vice Provost for Innovation, and Linden Rhoads, Special Advisor to the Vice Provost for Innovation. Guests then headed into Fluke Hall to C4C's third floor Idea Lab for an Innovator Showcase poster session, where they were able to meet the founders and leaders of the 2014 UW start-up teams and learn more about the variety of new technologies headed to market.
Read the Puget Sound Business Journal story, and check out our photo gallery from the event below.
FY 2014 UW Start-Up Companies:
AnswerDash – Has developed contextual Q&A technology that provides website and web application users with instant context-sensitive answers right when and where they need them. As users ask new questions over time, an "answer layer" builds up over a site or application, enabling future visitors to find answers easily without having to ask again.
Applied Dexterity – Advancing the field of robotically assisted surgery by creating a research surgical robot that allows researchers in engineering, surgery, and computer science to experiment, innovate and collaborate.
BluHaptics – Creating a control system for underwater remotely operated vehicles that can perform a variety of undersea tasks too dangerous for humans.
Deurion – Developing products for diagnostics and mass spectrometry, an analytical technique that produces spectra of the masses of atoms or molecules constituting a sample of material.
Ennaid Therapeutics – Commercializing cures for mosquito-borne diseases, including Dengue virus and West Nile virus.
Lodespin Labs – Creating the next generation of iron oxide magnetic nanoparticle tracers for medical imaging.
MarqMetrix – Providing real-time product quality improvement through optical, or light-sensing, measurement technology — most notably its use in an optical measurement device known as the Raman BallProbe™.
Medical Models – Using specialized medical imaging software and 3D printing to create custom physical models to assist medical students and patients when confronted with specific injuries and anatomical abnormalities that are typically only visible in scan data.
NaviSonics – Developed a handheld, ultrasound-guided catheter system to assist neurosurgeons with placement of extraventricular drains during surgery to relieve elevated cranial pressure, reducing neurosurgical revision rates and improving patient safety.
Oricula Therapeutics – Developing medications to protect hearing and balance from the effects of aging and ototoxic drugs, or medications that are toxic to the ear.
PET/X LLC – Integrates PET (positron emission tomography) and X-ray mammography to determine which targeted breast cancer therapies will be effective on an individual patient.
Polydrop – Developing robust new technology that improves adhesion and durability in paints and coatings for aerospace and automobile manufacturers. The technology diffuses the electrostatic charge that accumulates from friction, and provides electromagnetic interference shielding for paints and other coatings used in the transportation industries.
Shockmetrics – Creating non-invasive devices that measure the amount of oxygen in a patient's muscles to detect medical shock.
Spark Medical — Developing a novel football helmet that protects against skull fracture and traumatic brain injury, particularly concussion.
Stasys – Commercializing a novel device to assess the state of blood coagulation in trauma patients within minutes, helping emergency physicians save lives.
Taggpic — Developing computer software that automatically recognizes buildings, structures, and landmarks in digital photographs, as well as the precise location where photos were taken.
VerAvanti – Developing medical devices focusing on the Endoluminal Optical Imaging, or Angioscopy, segment of the medical industry. Angioscopy is a medical technique for visualizing the interior of blood vessels.
Universal Cells — Developing methods for accurate and reliable gene editing in stem cells.


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- The novel The Dogs of Babel will be adapted for the big screen, Variety reports.
- A new Parents Television Council study has found that TV portrays sex between married people as boring, TV Week reports.
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The highest court in Massachusetts has overturned the second-degree murder conviction of a Springfield man who killed a 19-year-old woman when he fired shots through her front window because he thought someone living there had stolen his TV.
Daniel Horne was convicted in the 2009 death of Brittany Perez.
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Monday, December 20, 2004
Don't go towards the light!
Yet another break in holiday programming to bring you the following exchange of emails regarding the highly publicized possibility that terrorists are hoping to use lasers to blind airline pilots during landing. It all sounded pretty menacing, so one of my brother's friends wrote him to ask if it could be true. Joshua, said brother, and his friend Rob are students at the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers at the University of Central Florida. A technical but less scary than conjecture explanation:
From: Drew Thoeni
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:38 PM
To: Joshua Duncan
Subject: Some help needed here
OK, so there's this story in the news about terrorists using lasers to blind pilots in the cockpit (from five miles away) while they are landing a plane in hopes of blinding the pilot and crashing the plane. I have a lot of theoretical problems with this that you may be able to confirm or, if I'm wrong, set me straight on.
1) These would have to be very powerful lasers to have any real affect at five miles out. Such lasers are hard to come by.
2) Assuming you had one, it seems it would require more than just a household 110 volt plug, so you couldn't just plug it in anywhere and start burning out pilots' eyes.
3) Even if you could get one, and power one, you'd have to hit a pretty small target.
4) Even if you hit that target, you'd have to *focus* on that target toget to concentration of power needed to burn their retinas. Of course you could just get a more powerful laser and have to worry less about focus, but then we start over on point 1.
Your thoughts?
From : Joshua Duncan
Sent : Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:05 AM
To : Drew Thoeni
CC : Rob Bernath, Sarah Duncan
Subject : RE: Some help needed here
I'm going to have to side with you on this one. (Rob, correct me if you see an error.) On your points...
(1) True enough. Not only hard to come by, i.e., regulated, but also expensive. A cheap 5-Watt solid-state green laser will run you about $35k new. There's always eBay, but you still probably wouldn't find one say below $15k or so. And I'm not even saying that 5 watts would be enough ... just an example.
(2) Invariably so. We used a small 10-Watt green laser last year, and still the head is about the size of a shoebox. Then there's the power supply, which is probably about 5U of rack space, and a chiller the size of a medium toolchest. And you need probably a good 30 Amps of 110 to run it all. And it takes half an hour to warm up.
(3) A small *moving* target, no less.
(4) Not necessarily focus; your eyes will do the focusing. But you would have to have a sufficient power density at that large a distance. A good laser will give you a divergence angle of about a milliradian (probably can do better, but that's typical).
Some basic calculations:
tan(theta) = y / x -> y = x tan(theta)
So the distance multiplied by the tangent of the angle will give us an indication (ballpark) of the beam's size at 5 miles' distance: (5 miles)(5280 ft/mi)(12 in/ft)(tan 0.001) = 316 inches
The power density of a 10-Watt laser at that distance would be (10 W) / (pi * (316 inches) ^ 2 / 4) = 127 microwatts / square inch.
Pretty darn small. Not going to hurt you. The sun dumps about a kilowatt per square meter on earth, so that works out to 657 milliwatts / square inch (4000 times higher), if I'm doing the math correctly. I'm not figuring numerical aperture and all those fun things that you have to take into account for careful calculations, but it should be a decent estimate. And of course, that's a $100,000 laser.
I've heard stories of spy planes that flew over Russian ships where supposedly the pilots got their eyes zapped by lasers, but still not to the point of blinding them, and it's a lot more feasible to get a big laser on a ship. Now, of course, it's a lot easier to do damage with a pulsed laser system, and my calculations are for continuous, but even still ... it's going to be a big system that could cause someone eye damage at 5 miles, and it's still a small target moving a few hundred miles an hour.
Oh, and I might also note ... there are co-pilots for that sort of thing. And, though it's not widely known, with the instrument landing systems that are currently in use, planes can land themselves. The main reason they don't is so that the pilots get more practice.
The short answer ... umm, no.
From : Robert Bernath
Sent : Sunday, December 12, 2004 1:54 PM
To : Joshua Duncan, Drew Thoeni
CC : Sarah Duncan
Subject : RE: Some help needed here
Sounds like a good estimate to me. You could always go more advanced into a channeling regime but that would require a half million dollar laser and probably a few million dollar tracking system (the things only governments like to build).
My brother has told me stories that he heard about this (for those who don't know, he is a pilot for USair) and he was saying that what people were trying to do was to blind the pilot's night vision (in the version that he heard). For night flying the cockpit is very dark so that you can see outside and just a very bright flash would cause temporary "blindness". My brother was saying though (as you noted Josh) that that is why you have two people. Also, you can just turn up the lights and fly it in with instruments. He didnt think it would cause any problem with landing, more just a big irriation to have.
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
My Grown-up Christmas Cliche List
The plan for this column was supposed to be the top 10 holiday films, but instead I was beat to the punch by this fabulous, thoughtful email from Bobbi Brown (makeup artist)'s mailing list. It's Bobbi's Christmas wish list! How exciting. I thought it would be her favorite blush and mascara, but instead it's full of these gems...
It has it's own Oprahlike haze of pseudowisdom about it, doesn't it? I especially love the flip-floppiness of points 2 and 3, but here is what I always wonder--if you don't do what you love, do you have to love what you do? And how do you spread beauty? Does it come in a jar? Is it like a ham glaze? Is laughing silently allowed? How about being fake? Or sitting at your desk at work, just breathing?
The general originality of the list makes me think perhaps someone gave her an early Christmas present: An Optimist's Book of Shallow Cliches. Maybe we should all make affirmation flash cards and read them calmly to ourselves on the way to Pilates, or while drinking 3 gallons of magnetized water, or soaking in an endangered rose petal bath, or whatever else celebrities recommend you do because it works so well for them.
This time of year seems to bring out the advice giver in all celebrities. Apparently the fact that they're photogenic and have lots of free time makes them an expert on living a happy life as well. Or it could be the money and its tranquilizing effect on all their nutty relatives, ergo, happy holidays.
Bobbi's Resolution #1 - Stick to makeup.
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Top Non-Traditional Christmas Songs
The Christmas listing continues. Yes, I know I said that new Christmas songs should be outlawed, but after 7 years of brainwashing in the form of working at Express during the holidays, I still have a few favorite non-traditional Christmas songs. Only 10 though, because, let me tell you, 10 hours of ExpressMix including Tina Turner, Bing Crosby, Backstreet Boys, and non-English-speaking singers is enough to make a person insane! You might argue with the choices, but please remember that many of these songs were my life raft in a sea of angry shoppers, endless boxes of clothing, steam iron burns, crappy leftover holiday food, and extraordinarily late hours of work not excluding inventory marathons. I give you, in order of my childhood to the present...
Sarahphrase's Best of Semi-Christmas Music:
Next time... More Best of Christmas, topic: Movies! Suggestions?
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
A Few of My UnFavorite Christmas Things...
So today I'm pulling into work and turn the radio to my favorite little station that only comes in clearly at night and hear one of my favorite Christmas songs of all time, "The Twelve Days of Christmas." But not any version will do, you know. It has to be the Muppet version from the John Denver and the Muppets Christmas Album, which I recently bought in CD version, since I no longer have a turntable. That album is necessary, so that you can hear stylin' tunes o' the past, such as...
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting FAT
Time to put a penny in the old man's hat
If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do
If you haven't got a ha'penny then GOD BLESS YOU
(repeat ad infinitum in Miss Piggy voice)
And let's not forget the 12 days song itself, with one verse sung by Beaker. Who can resist? However, that did remind me of the Darker Side of Christmas--those songs, movies, foods, etc. that come up every single year and are no better this year than the ill-starred year they first appeared. So here it is with input from many of you...
Sarahphrase's Worst of Christmas
That's the list for now... But don't think I'm above adding, because you know I will!


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Universal Pictures has dated and named its James Brown biopic, which is set to be headlined by "42" actor Chadwick Boseman. The studio will release "Get on Up" on October 17, 2014. Currently slated for the same release date is the 20th Century Fox's "Frankenstein", which stars Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy.
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Boseman's inclusion was reported earlier this week. Director Tate Taylor might reunite with his "The Help" stars as Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, along with "True Blood" actor Nelsan Ellis, enter talks to take supporting roles in the long-delayed project that has been developed by producer Brian Grazer.
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- Salt and freshly ground pepper
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European Parliament prize for journalism
The first European Parliament Prize for Journalism will be awarded this year to journalists who have dealt with major issues at a European level or have promoted a better understanding of the EU institutions and/or EU policies.
There will be four different categories for the prize: written press, radio, TV and internet. The winner in each section will receive €5,000.
Individuals or teams of up to 5 people are eligible to submit articles or reports, whether one-offs or parts of a series. The contributions must be published or broadcast between 1 May, 2007, and 30 April, 2008, in one of the official languages of the European Union. All entrants must be nationals or residents of an EU Member State and registered journalists.
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An independent national jury of three to five members of the journalistic profession will be set up to select winners in each category within the 27 Member States, with an overall jury, led by a European Parliament Vice-President, selecting the four winners on an EU level.
The national jury, which will be chosen in due course, will decide who the winners from Malta are by 15 July, 2008. The prize will be awarded in October 2008.
As specified in the rules, journalists in Malta must submit their entries to the European Parliament Valletta Office by email, registered mail or hand-delivered with acknowledged receipt at 280, Republic Street, Valletta.
The European Parliament Valletta Office is being kindly assisted and supported by the Institute of Maltese Journalists (IGM) and the Journalists' Committee, who have promised to encourage their members to submit works for this competition.
Given the wide coverage the Maltese media gives to European issues, editors from all media are asked to encourage their staff to submit their work.
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WOOSTER, Ohio — Karl Ruth's driveway is his playground.
He has claimed the section in front of the garage for an array of container gardens, which hold plants ranging from common crops like strawberries and lettuce to more exotic choices such as goji berries and pomegranates. The arrangement lets him grow fruits and vegetables where they're less vulnerable to birds and squirrels, but it's also an opportunity "just to play with things," he said.
Playtime might involve helping himself to the sweet fruits that grow on his three fig trees, lifting potato plants from buckets to harvest the tubers or learning about the growing habits of a pomegranate tree, a plant he first encountered during a visit to northern Italy when he was an exchange student in Europe in the 1970s.
"A lot of it," he said, "is just curiosity."
He'll share the sources of his fascination as well as the bountiful backyard garden created by Ruth and his roommate, Tony Sigler, when their property is featured on next Saturday's Purple Ribbon Garden Tour. Ruth and Sigler's garden is one of eight stops on the tour, a benefit for the domestic violence agency Every Woman's House.
Ruth said he started growing things in his driveway after he tired of fighting "the birds and the squirrels and the squirrels and the squirrels." Now he lets the creatures feast on the plants that grow in beds behind the house while keeping the plants he wants for his own consumption close to the garage and the house's back door. The frequent comings and goings of Ruth, Sigler and their next-door neighbors tend to scare off furry and feathered marauders, he explained.
Some of the plants grow in commercially made pots, but many are in repurposed containers or vessels Ruth constructed. Wooden containers on wheels were crafted from old fencing and lined with heavy plastic and a layer of newspaper in the bottom.
Strawberries grow in baskets that hang from a metal support he had custom made. Five-gallon buckets lining the driveway are filled with tomato plants that lost their tags when a helper mistakenly threw them away, so the harvest will be a surprise.
There are plants filling shelves, plants hanging from the deck railing and plants suspended from hooks under the garage eaves. Ruth plans to train a peach tree into an espalier, a flat, spread-out form that will cover a blank wall on the side of the house.
Dealing with cool weather
When the weather turns colder, he sets up a portable greenhouse in the driveway so he can continue to grow cold-tolerant crops such as cabbage, carrots and parsnips. Tropical plants go into the house to spend the winter, many of them in the first-floor room that Ruth and Sigler turn into a lush indoor oasis.
This time of year, though, they're more likely to retreat to their backyard, a gently sloping city lot with a shady deck and a profusion of plants — some edible, others strictly ornamental.
A sizable dieffenbachia perched on a plant stand holds court in a shade garden just off the deck, its fronds stretching above a green expanse of ferns, hostas and variegated Solomon's seal.
In a sunnier bed edging the lawn, Greek oregano rampages among the yellow flowers of prickly pear cactus. Ruth likes the look of the oregano, so he lets it ramble as a ground cover instead of keeping it tamed. "As I need to, I just yank it out," he said.
A kiwi vine clambers up a trellis so enthusiastically that Ruth has to cut it back frequently to keep it in check. Several fruit trees dot the yard, including a couple of Asian pears Ruth is training into a drooping form by tying strings to the branches to pull them downward. Eventually he hopes the branches of the two trees will intertwine, creating an arch.
Ruth said the garden is a matter of constant compromise between his desire for a more formal appearance and Sigler's preference for a natural look. It's also a place for incorporating the finds Sigler is always bringing home, such as the sandstone they used to create a patio edged with the more formal-looking brick that Ruth likes.
It's been a 13-year transformation for the yard, which was just an expanse of grass when the two moved in.
And like most gardens, the evolution is bound to continue.


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