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Two new tidal turbines will be placed on the U.S. west coast for the first time
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will be measuring the environmental effects of tidal turbines through the first tidal energy project on the west coast of the United States.
The researchers involved in the project are Brian Polagye, a research assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Washington; Chris Bassett, a University of Washington doctoral student in mechanical engineering; Jim Thomson, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and oceanographer at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, and an extended team of researchers. Together, they will assess tidal turbines' environmental effects through a demonstration project that will consist of large-scale tidal turbines being used on the west coast for the first time.
Tidal power is a viable alternative energy option that is used in Europe more than the United States at this point. Despite this head start, Polagye says Europe is not that far ahead of the U.S. because they lack the environmental monitoring that this particular project will have. Little is known about tidal power today, and the University of Washington team
plan on changing that
"There really isn't that much information, anywhere, about the environmental effects of tidal turbines," said Polagye. "The results of this pilot project will help decide if this is an industry that has potential for going forward at the commercial scale, or if it stops at the pilot stage."
tidal demonstration project
will consist of two 30-foot-wide turbines located in Admiralty Inlet, which is a gateway to Puget Sound. The U.S. Department of Energy gave the Snohomish County Public Utility District a $10 million grant for this tidal project. They are now in the process of obtaining permits.
The turbines
are expected to generate 100 kilowatts of electricity, which has the ability to power 50-100 homes in Washington "during the pilot phase." University of Washington researchers have been in a pilot site approximately 200 feet below the Admiralty Inlet's surface measuring the speed of these waters in order to get an idea of what they will be dealing with. So far, they have measured currents that are up to 8 knots, which is equivalent to 9 miles per hour.
Researchers have been measuring the currents for approximately two years through the use of a monitoring tripod. It is 850 pounds in the water, and is capable of tracking ambient noise, water quality, temperature, salinity and currents. It also records communication between marine creatures. The monitoring tripod has helped researchers learn more about the environment in which the turbines will be placed.
"There's surprisingly little known about the oceanography of these very fast waters," said Thomson. "These kinds of tidal channels where water is going very fast only happen in a few areas, and have not been well studied. The currents are so fast that it's hard to operate vehicles and maintain equipment. And it's too deep for conventional scuba diving."
One of the major concerns regarding this project is the amount of noise the turbines will make, since this could affect marine life, which use sound to communicate. To further investigate the processes and effects of
this new technology
, researchers used the sound of a Washington state ferry to test how sound travels and spreads through the waters.
"When currents were more than about 2 knots the instruments are hearing considerable self-noise," said Polagye. "It's similar to when you're bicycling downhill and the air rushes past your ears."
As it turns out, the Admiralty Inlet lessens sound, making it so that the animals' hearing cannot be harmed. On the other hand, not hearing the sounds make it so they cannot avoid the turbines.
Despite this current concern, researchers feel that the Admiralty Inlet is a great spot for
"from an engineering perspective." The turbines should be installed by 2013, and the environmental effects will be closely monitored.
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Tengu's childhood as a Fire Nation colonial in a small mining town.
The Inn Keeper
He took a final look at his naked torso in the mirror. He saw the scars again – meditating on each one's origin: the knife wound from that bar brawl in Gaoling. The cut from the run-in with the Sandbenders in Si Wong. The burn from the Fire Nation guard who discovered him that time in Ba-Sing-Se. And all the others in between... The stories flowed from each ripple in his bruised flesh.
He finished dressing, picked up his knapsack and his money bag and closed the door behind him, making sure it was locked. He took out two gold pieces to pay the inn keeper. This inn keeper was a mean sort. As soon as he dropped the coins on the counter, the inn keeper took them to his teeth. He then eyed the mysterious stranger who had spent the last month secluded in his room, emerging only to grab an occasional bite to eat at the market down the street. He said, "I should really charge you more, you know – but I guess this will do..."
The cleaning boy came in behind the desk. He was carrying an incredibly large load of clean sheets. He accidentally dropped one on the dusty floor. The inn keeper blew his lid "You clumsy oaf! I must have told you a million times to sweep the floor before carrying clean laundry across the lobby! And look at that basket! Two extra trips won't kill you!" He slapped the boy furiously as he scolded him. "That was just an accident, you shouldn't be so hard on him, he's just a boy." The inn keeper snapped right back "What's it to you? You would do well to mind your own business!!"
The boy picked up after himself, but the inn keeper, infuriated by the stranger's reproach, took out his anger at him and slapped him again, this time making him bleed. The stranger took out a three-sectioned staff and knocked the man out cold. The boy rushed to his side. The stranger told him "There must be better jobs, and certainly better people to work for around here." The boy angrily replied "He's my father!" as he tended to the man's wound. The stranger's face was expressionless, but he was only concealing his surprise. His father was certainly never like that to him.
Memories of Guzheng
He walked out onto the street and turned towards the mountains in the horizon. The day was gray and cold – a soft, chilly breeze came from the snowy peaks to the valley below. He set his sugegasa straight and started his long walk. He thought about the inn keeper and could not help but think about his own father. He had loved him so much. His father had always been an honorable man, dedicated to his family. People accused him of being a traitor, since he never saw the point of taking sides in The War – he just wanted his family to be well and survive. He had been a well respected police officer in Guzheng. The town was somewhat off the grid, so The War missed it for a good 80 years. However, the nearby coal mine was eventually found by Fire Nation intelligence, so they quickly moved to colonize the town. Tengu was only six.
His older brother was drafted into the mining crew by the new Fire Nation government. He was 15 at the time. His father had been imprisoned upon the occupation. He pledged obedience to the new government so he could enroll as a mine security guard, wanting to be closer to his son, as well as securing a means to provide for his family. His mother was a seamstress, but her income alone would not provide for all four children (Tengu had two older sisters, 12 and 8). Things got better though, with time, as the noblemen of the new regime began entrusting their tailoring work to her. They were far from rich, but managed to live modestly and peacefully. At least for a while...
He remembered the day his father returned from prison. He was ecstatic. His older brother, however, was furious. He was, as every other teenage earthbender, a passionate enemy of the Fire Nation. Being forced to mine for them was bad enough. Having his own father renounce his ties to The Kingdom to serve them was beyond humiliating. He was the object of constant harassment and humiliation at the mine. He was branded the son of the traitors by his former friends. Twice they assaulted him on his way home from the mine. On both occasions, when Tengu's father had returned home, all hell broke loose. His older brother would accuse their father for selling out and for bringing shame to the family.
Tengu turned seven. His mother threw him a little birthday party. She made his favorite, egg custard tart. They all sang and laughed. His father gave him a sugegasa that would shield him from the sun on his walk to school. After they had all gone to bed, his father went to his bed and woke him. He took him to the backyard and gave him something wrapped in a soft cloth. "Whoa!" Tengu exclaimed as he open his real gift. "SHHH!!! Quiet!" "What is this, father?" he asked. "It's called a sansetsukon – and I will teach you to use it." "Coooool!". "Go grab a few hours' sleep. We will begin practicing before dawn." And so it went on for two more years. His father would not teach him to earthbend, as it was forbidden outside of mine work. However, he needed to give little Tengu a means to defend himself, if push came to shove...
Tengu the Menace
It was almost noon when he noticed he was not alone on the lonely winding road up the mountains. He did not change his pace, nor did he turn around to get a look. He took care of making it look like he was blissfully unaware of their presence. They were three: one was hiding behind the big boulder to the right while the other two were behind him, on the high ground. When they came out from hiding, he recognized them from the market. "Hello there, stranger! I see you got your gold with you." He had not done a great job of hiding his money back in the market. He really had stopped caring. He looked at the money bag. He had planned to give it to Aang at the temple, but it was blood money. He figured it would not be well received. He tossed it to the mugger. "Help yourself." "Very kind of you, sir!"
One of the guys from behind him said, "I could use your hat..." "I'm sorry – it's a gift". The man teased him "Aww – come on!". Tengu turned around: the man had a knife. He dodged it, grabbed the man's arm and sent him flying against his partner across the road. "We don't have to do this. I gave you all the money I had – I just want to be on my way." The first man pulled out a sword. "What's the big hurry? We're just getting started..." Tengu took out his sansetsukon. He knocked them all out in under three minutes. He took the money bag back from the bruised mugger, and threw each of the robbers a gold piece. He was on his way once again.
Muggers. Inn Keepers. Contract targets. School kids. All of them were made equal by his sansetsukon. Tengu had gotten into a series of nasty fights at school. All of them over his father working for the Fire Nation. All of them began the same way: three or four kids would start teasing Tengu and calling him and his father names. All of them ended the same way too: someone would lay a hand on Tengu, and the staff would come out. His mother had to plead constantly to the headmaster not to send him off to the coal mines. Eventually, she forbid him to take the staff to school. No matter: Tengu was just as vicious in hand-to-hand combat. At night, she would roar at his father "You have been training our son to be a killer!" "I'm not training him to be a murderer – I'm showing him how to protect himself and his family!" Those words stabbed his memory. Not only could he not protect his family, but he had also become a cold-blooded murderer...
A Tragic Farewell
A group of rogue teenagers had been raising hell around town. They called themselves The Badgermoles. They were, in fact, no more than the grown up bullies who had attacked Tengu's brother years earlier. They targeted Fire Nation government installations and "Fire Nation friendlies", provoking mysterious, freak "accidents". For whatever reason, Tengu's brother had managed to evade their radar screen for quite some time now. He had earned his peers' respect at the mine following the same work ethos as his father: being disciplined, a hard worker and a team player. He figured he would be in it for the long haul, so he would just ignore the fact it was work done for the Fire Nation – it was just work. One day, someone in one of The Badgermoles' secret meetings remembered the mine's security guard's son. They planned an ambush at the mines.
One day he was sitting outside of the mine having lunch by himself when a boulder fell from the mountainside. He didn't even see it coming. He died on the spot. The town was small and news of any mining accident would spread like wildfire. Tengu remembered that he ran from school to the mine as fast as his feet would take him. His father had earthbended the boulder from off his brother's dead body and was holding him against his chest. He was rocking his brother's body and crying. Tengu had never seen his father cry. He was frozen in place. He did not know how to react: he did not cry, he did not scream... He just stood there....watching. His brother was 19.
That night the Fire Nation guards raided his house and arrested his father for treason. Some of the slaves had used the distraction created by his brother's murder to escape. As the mining site's head of security, his father was deemed responsible. His mothers and sisters pleaded with the guards. They screamed, cried and begged. Finally they threw themselves at the captain's feet. They were all arrested for obstruction of justice and assaulting a Fire Nation officer. Tengu, still in shock, was motionless and speechless. An unusually compassionate guard hid him from the captain.
The sentence was carried out next morning. Tengu's entire family were to be publicly executed by lightning as a lesson to the rest of the mining townspeople. Tengu, hidden in a nearby mountain, gripped his sansetsukon waiting for the right moment to attack and save his family. His father saw him from afar. He shook his head as he shed a lonely, single tear. A hooded bender took his stance and began the circular motion with his fingertips. All was over in a blinding flash of light. His mother and father would have turned 40 that fall. It would have been their 20th wedding anniversary the next spring. His sisters were 16 and 12. Tengu was 10 years old.
Tengu stopped walking. The mountainside was below him and now, the winding, narrow, road became steeper. It was cold and nightfall was upon him. It would be best to rest and continue the following morning. He hoped for better weather tomorrow...
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Ed Sheeran's pens track for good pal Sacha Baron Cohen
Ed Sheeran's latest track Brother's Blood will reportedly feature exclusively in new flick The Brothers Grimsby.
The film is Sacha Baron Cohen's latest cinema outing, and it sees the British actor tackle yet another in-your-face character. This time he plays football hooligan Norman 'Nobby' Grimsby, who turns spy when his secret agent brother Sebastian (Mark Strong) turns up.
Britain's The Sun newspaper reports that Ed's track will be part of the movie, but won't be available to download, nor will it feature on the film's soundtrack. The only way Ed fans will be able to hear the tune is if Sacha plays it on the radio during his promotional duties.
"Sacha and Ed have become big pals over the past few years," a source told the publication.
"During Ed's early days Sacha wasn't really familiar with his work. He had no idea who he was when they were introduced. But they're both creative geniuses and have an obvious connection on that front, agreeing to help each other out where possible."
Ed penned Brother's Blood with long-term collaborator Benny Blanco, who's also worked with Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
The Thinking Out Loud sing was missing from the London premiere of the film on Monday night (23Feb16), but stars such as Ashley Roberts, Annabelle Wallis and Sacha's wife Isla Fisher made sure the star power wasn't lacking.
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Casey and Jacinta Stearns of Princeton announce the birth of their daughter, Lacey Joe, born Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at Fairview Northland Medical Center in Princeton. She weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and was 21 inches long.
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chiles population is 17 million
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Average rainfall is 1522.The average temperature in chile is in the 80`s.
Chile is a popular South American country to visit thanks to its year-round mild or warm weather and attractions like its volcanic caves, surfing opportunities and mountain hiking trails. While the weather can get chilly in Chile during the middle of the year, temperatures do not typically drop below freezing.
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Chile have average high temperatures of greater than 80 degrees F. The warmest month of the year is January, which features an average high temperature of 86 degrees. Te
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Chilean music refers to all kinds of music developed in Chile, or by Chileans in other countries, from the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors to the modern day. It also includes the native pre-Columbian music from what is today Chilean territory.Traditional Chilean clothing is very vivid, lively, and festive. It is also based a lot around comfort because most of the population in Chile work in jobs that use manual labor and modern fashion also has a lot of influence from traditional Chilean clothing because it is very patriotic, showing pictures that represent the country, it is very bright, and rare.One of the highlights of Chilean Cuisine is its diversity of Seafood.Vina del Mar Music Festival,Carnaval Andino Con la Fuerza del Sol,and Fiestas Patrias are the top holidays in chile.Amerindian is the major ethnic group.Soccer is the most popular sport in chile and tennis is the most successful in chile.Chilean society regards marriage as a rite of passage. Chileans believe that a wedding is not complete without a church ceremony.Traditional gender roles in Chilean society are breaking down as women gain more access to education. In addition, more women are entering the workforce.
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The original Chilean flag, hoisted for the first time amongst the determined fight for independence from the Spanish empire, looked nothing like today's version, which federal law requires Chileans to wave on all homes and businesses on certain yearly holidays.Some animals in chile are lizards, chinchilla, and guanaco, etc...The mode of transportation in chile is on the road.Chile and Argentina were close allies during the wars of independence against Spain.Chiles favorite trading partner is china.There are case of animal rabies in the country.


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Members of FIT4MOM Ahwatukee attended a swimming course at Gold Medal Swimming School last Friday, which assisted their children with learning the basics of swimming.
During the 30-minute session, more than 10 members of FIT4MOM Ahwatukee swam in the pool with their toddlers teaching them how to float on their backs, jump in the pool properly, and how to swim back to the ledge.
Becky Ross, manger at Gold Medal Swim School, said it was important for moms to spend 30 minutes with their child in the pool.
"As a swim instructor, I think it's great because they're exercising, they're learning to survive and having the time of their lives in the class," Ross said.
Owner of FIT4MOM Ahwatukee, Jamie McNeal, said the course was designed to teach each toddler the basics of swimming, and promoted exercise and wellness to each member of FIT4MOM Ahwatukee.
McNeal and members typically host different "play-dates" each week in an effort to lead a healthier lifestyle.
They also meet five days out of the week for an hour fitness program, where each member participates in various cardio and strength-training exercises, with their children in strollers.
McNeal said the swimming course was important to each member in FIT4MOM Ahwatukee because it promoted safety when entering a pool.
"Kids in Arizona need to know how to swim. We have these young kids who need to know how to get in and out of the pool and learn how to float. For my moms and my group it's about being part of the community… I really try to bring kids, get active in the community and lead an active lifestyle," she said. "Us as moms, we work out, and our kids are in their strollers seeing us workout. This is a great activity for us because it's active. We're all about being active so our kids see us being active and that is instilled in them."
FIT4 MOM Ahwatukee is searching for members, and will be hosting various activities throughout the month of April.
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A set of warning messages in run.log followed by the fatal error.
WARNING: Delphi failed at focusing depth 1 of NTR01A0001_001, retry
Trying moving the center on trial 5 FATAL: too many failed delphi runs (5), quitting... Fatal error reported by conf_energies(), QUIT
The simplest error is that the program is not finding the DelPhi directory. Make sure that line in run.prm ending in (DELPHI_EXE) has the link to the correct directory rather than MCCE_INSTALLATION
MCCE_INSTALLATION/bin/delphi DelPhi executable (DELPHI_EXE)
(**MCCE_INSTALLATION in the run.prm should be changed everywhere when you install the program).
There is another more terrible DelPhi error which will give you "too many failed delphi runs". Here DelPhi crashes drawing the boundary. There is no simple fix. The program automatically tries to move the protein relative to the grid, which sometimes will succeed. This is done automatically and reported in the log file. A trick which sometimes works is to change the size of some of the atoms in that residue - just by 0.05 A. Yucky but it may help you run the protein.


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Piling on the Isles is a national pastime for most hockey pundits, but Wednesday a pair of ESPN Insider pieces contained some praise for the boys in blue and orange.
True, the Islanders spend the second fewest dollars in the NHL on player salaries. Yes, their payroll contains two players that no longer skate for the team in order to reach the salary cap floor. And sure, compared to boo koo-bucks spenders like the Rangers, the Islanders drop dimes. But ... when frugal Garth Snow and Co. do open the piggy bank, their cents make sense.
Matt Wuest, the "Geek" behind CapGeek.com -- the best accumulation of "frozen" financial data this side of Bernie Madoff -- posted an article today listing the Top 10 bargains of the 2010-11 season based on player point production over cap hit. The New York Islanders have three of the top six.
That list is headed by Nashville's Sergei Kostitsyn, with Frans Nielsen (29 points, $525,000 cap hit) coming in second. Wuest writes: "Nielsen also made this list last season, checking in at No. 5. The Islanders have been reaping the rewards since locking up the Danish winger in 2008 with a four-year, $2.1-million deal."
P.A. Parenteau (No. 3) and Blake Comeau (No. 6) follow Nielsen, but will they remain Islanders? The contracts of both players expire at the end of this season. And as Wuest writes at the top of the article, the pending free agents that landed on the 2009-10 best bargains list usually received hefty raises over the summer. Will the Islanders cough up enough dough for the duo?
Complicating the decisions around Parenteau and Comeau is the recent outburst of Calder Trophy candidate -- and waiver pickup -- Michael Grabner. Although it's a rather pleasant complication. There aren't a ton of 23-year-olds posting 25-plus goals a season, so you can expect a significant raise off the rookie's $843,333 salary for 2011-12.
In case you've been in a coma since mid-January ... or more likely you just don't follow the Islanders ... Grabner is one of the hottest players in the league, netting 10 goals in his last six games. Not surprisingly he was named the NHL's player of the week for Feb. 7 - 13.
In his weekly Calder Watch post, ESPN Insider E.J. Hradek breaks down the sensational Austrian. If you don't know much about Grabner, it's a great place to start learning.
One of the best nuggets is the recounting of how he came to end up on the Island. From the post:
At training camp, however, Grabner didn't impress Tallon or head coach Peter DeBoer. On cut-down day, they decided to send him to the minors, but he'd have to pass through waivers to get there. That's when the Islanders, in the midst of their own rebuilding plan, claimed him.
"I'd seen him play in Manitoba during the time he was there and, like everybody else, our scouts had filed reports on him dating back to his time in junior," says Islanders Director of Pro Scouting Ken Morrow. "His speed was obvious and we knew he could score, so it made sense for Garth [Isles GM Garth Snow] to claim him."
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According to the composer, the five works on David Lang's 2003 recording Child constitute an "attempt to examine certain experiences as I remember (and misremember) them from my childhood. Each individual movement is in some way a memory of how I learned to do something." For this recording, Lang gathered the separately commissioned but closely affined pieces into a suite for a varied ensemble of winds, strings, piano, and percussion, presented here by the Italian chamber ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi.
Of the three Bang on a Can founder composers, David Lang's music has always been the glassiest, the sparest, and for some listeners the most precious. In recent years, his aesthetic has become leaner still, paring down already simple material to gaunt extremes in something approaching neo-plainchant. The national anthems (note the lower case; nothing vainglorious here ) takes fragments of text from the anthems of all 193 United Nations member states and unfolds at speaking speed, with plenty of room for breaths between phrases and plenty of clarity to the words. It has the feel of sad and eerie intoning. The Los Angeles choir clinches the right sound for Lang – unflinching, spellbound – while the Calder Quartet gives sleek accompaniment. Also on the disc is a new choral version of Lang's little match girl passion, the piece originally for four voices that won him the Pulitzer prize in 2008 and which, in the mouths of many, becomes a sort of collective prayer in the congregational tradition of Bach's chorales.
As one-third of the composer-collective Bang on a Can, David Lang is something of a genial father figure of the indie-classical scene. Talk to any of the world's main players and you're likely to hear them tell you about their life-changing stint in Bang on a Can's summer festival, which has acted as a sort of feeder school and incubator for the group's try-anything mentality. Lang's music has undergone many stylistic shifts over the years: In the 80s, he wrote bristlier stuff, but in the last decade or so, he's shifted quietly into a more pensive register. The Little Match Girl Passion, his 2008 work that won him a Pulitzer, was written for only four voices and some hand bells. This Was Written By Hand, his most recent recording, is a collection of short solo piano works played by the British pianist Andrew Zolinsky. The album holds the same, sustained melancholy mood: thoughtful, searching, elegiac, minimalist. Lang's way with repetitive phrasing doesn't feel like that of minimalists like Glass or Reich's, though.
David Lang's "love fail" is a meditation on the timelessness of love that weaves together details from medieval retellings of the story of Tristan and Isolde with stories from more modern sources. The recording also spotlights the vocal quartet Anonymous 4, whose commitment to medieval music and historical scholarship has been acclaimed worldwide.
In 2012, David Lang spent so much time racking up awards — from Carnegie Hall's 2013-14 Debs Composer's Chair to Musical America's Composer of the Year — that it's a wonder he was able to wrangle a project of the size and scope of death speaks. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Stanford Lively Arts to go on a program with his piece the little match girl passion, death speaks draws its initial inspiration from the work of Schubert — specifically the song "Death and the Maiden."
David Lang's "the little match girl passion," for vocal quartet doubling on percussion instruments, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. It's a strong, striking piece with a surprisingly potent emotional punch. Part of its effectiveness derives from the story itself, which is so achingly poignant that it can hardly fail to raise a lump in the throat. The text is primarily compiled from the story by Hans Christian Andersen and from familiar sections from Bach's "St. Matthew Passion," which sound fresh and new in English translation.
"The 60 fingers and multiple keyboards ofPiano Circushave come a long way since they formed in 1989 …the six players alternate between two grand pianos, four sampling keyboards and a spinet, transform the piano sounds in various ways, play a variety of conventional and unconventional percussion and incorporate a variety of mechanical and natural sounds. Totally compelling"This is a showcase album for the many and varied talents of those who made several recordings for ARGO during the 1990s, which includes David Lang's Face So Pale and Kevin Volans' Kneeling Dance, as well as one of the "classics" of American minimalism—Steve Reich's Four Organs. Three Dances by Robert Moran were written especially for Piano Circus.—The Guardian, October 2001
"Extraordinary to behold ….six pairs of eyes, watching, listening, timing each move to the split second. Breathtaking."—The Times, March 2002


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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526769 Current setup is daily with 7 backups so one week worth of logs per domain in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/*.log First a week worth of backup is a bit short, second for most domains the logs are really small, and with 7 backup files this directory gets crowded quickly. This patches changes to weekly, with 4 backups, so always a month worth of logs, and will nearly cut in half the number of entries in that directory. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel veillard com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/
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Verizon has announced that it has reached 350,000 DirecTV subscribers. The Baby Bell cites bundling video with telephony and high-speed internet, the convenience of receiving one bill for all services, and the breadth of content and flexible functionality of the satellite TV services as drivers of rapid DirecTV subscriber growth.
According to Verizon, a monthly package of calling, high-speed internet and DirecTV can cost as little as US$74.95. The operator also cites the results of a survey of 500 households that recently signed up to DirecTV via Verizon. According to the survey, four out of five would not return to their former provider of entertainment services (most likely to be a cable TV operator).
Significance: In the past few months, there has been speculation that the Baby Bells were interested in acquiring the leading satellite providers, including DirecTV and its rival, EchoStar. However, these and other satellite operators now appear interested in offering high-speed internet, voice and perhaps mobile services in direct competition to the Baby Bells and cable operators.
The results of Verizon's survey indicate that bundling increases customer loyalty, but we already knew that. However, it does not prove that Verizon will be as successful in churning cable operators to its FiOS ultra high-speed internet and TV service. U.S. cable operators are reporting rapid growth in VoIP subscriptions, which indicates that customers are also dropping their landline relationships with the Baby Bells.


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Biomass is a renewable energy source, because its supplies are not limited in plants, trees. biomass gets its energy from the sun, since all organic matter contains stored energy from the sun, there are 3 types of biomass 1. Wood and agriculture:- they use it for home- grown energy. 2. landfills:- its methane gas is produced as waste decays in a landfill. 3.Anaerobic Digetsures:_ breaks down animal waste. Landfills can collect the methane gas, purify it, and use it as energy source. Developing a strong biomass industry in the United States will have tremendous economic benefits including trade deficit reduction, job creation, and strengthening of agriculture markets. California uses wood and agriculture, it produces more than 60 million tons of biomass each year, in the mid-1800's wood and provided 90% of the United States energy, today biomass provides 2.9 of these country's energy. Biomass energy is currently used all around the world, especially in rural and developing nations.
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Deal seeks effort to help inmates leaving prison
ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Nathan
Deal says he's going to ask the state's criminal justice reform
commission to continue its work and focus on what happens when inmates
leave the state's correctional system.
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Deal choked up as he told of how he has gotten to know inmates who work
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Last year, the commission worked on sweeping reforms aimed
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Bead Weaving, Color
Color Theory for Beadwork
By Mirrix President Claudia A. Chase
What is your favorite color? I don't have one. When I was a child the answer would have been a combination of pink and red. I was told early on though that pink and red do NOT go together. Since pink is born of red, I always found that notion rather silly. I still do. What I should have been told was: fire engine red does not go well with pale pink but there are other reds that do! So I painted my room green and blue. Green trim, blue walls. The green was soft like leaves before they fall in autumn. The blue was like a deep sky just after a rain. I could live with it.
I live with favorite color combinations which have a tendency to grow and mutate over time. But the themes do not change. They are my personal themes. I believe everyone who works in color has within them certain color themes. It takes a lot of looking back into our heads to find out just what they are. I do have favorite bead colors (which is a combination of finishes and colors, since beads do not any longer exist in the realm of just opaque color) that I rely on as the base of most of my work. You can tell which bead colors I love the most by the fact that they live in 100 gram packs. The accent beads live in bead tubes. By buying large quantities of the beads I love most I allow myself to freely use them. Since I have a tendency to not want to use up what I love most, this trick is imperative for me to freely create.
The worse decision to make when trying to pick what color bead to use in a piece is the one based on: gee I've got a lot of these beads I really should use. I don't think I've ever successfully produced a piece on that decision and I can tell you about a whole lot of pieces I've cut up and returned to the bead box after having done so.
Bead Weaving
Mini Mirrix: New Coils Now Here!
Until today, we only had the 14 dent warp coil/spring available for the Mini Mirrix.
This warp coil is perfect to use with 11/0 seed beads and, because the Mini is so thin, pieces with other size beads can usually be woven without a warp coil and will space themselves. Still, we often had requests for more coils for the Mini. People needle-weaving fiber, making the Tapestry/Bead Cuff Bracelet and those who simply felt more comfortable with the spacing of a warp coil, all wanted the option of more coils.
We are finally bringing those Mini warp coils to you! The Mini Mirrix now has 14 (the one that comes with the loom), 16, 18 and 20 dent warp coils available for it. Note that you can purchase the 20 dent coil and warp every-other-dent to make a Tapestry/Bead Cuff Bracelet or other similar piece with fiber and 8/0 beads.
You can purchase the new Mini warp coils here: http://www.mirrixlooms.com/store/warp-coils-mini/
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Triangle Beads Meet Dog Collar
I have always been fascinated with triangle beads. Taho used to make the ones with straight edges and Myuki made the ones with rounded edges. Now Myuki makes a line with straight edges, my favorites. I mean a triangle is not really a triangle unless in has straight lines!
I have a collection of them in all my favorite colors. But since I am a non-hoarder (I like to use things up and get overwhelmed when it seems my studio is filling up with too much stuff) I like to find the offending hoards and break into them. I found my box of triangles. Then I tried to figure out what to do with them.
The answer was easy: a dog collar for Sam with a lot of glitz. I am sure he will love the silk tapestry dog collar (and upcoming weave-along: I just have to finish the instructions) but there may days when he, for example, has to go to a party and just requires a little glitz.
I used a 12 dent coil, although technically there are 11 triangles per inch. Eleven warps were required. I used C-Lon beading thread. The piece was six and three-quarter inches when finished on the loom. It's still on the loom.
When it comes off the loom I will attach it to a 3/4 inch wide dog collar and sew it to ultra-suede that will be glued to the back of the collar. I am sure Sam will be thrilled.
Oh, I did add some size 8/0 beads just for fun. They are about the same size as the triangles. Notice that my theme is simple. I love complicated pieces as much as the next person, but I am also a fan of really, really simple. If you use beautiful materials, you can get away with some very basic techniques. In this case: simple bead weaving. I wove rows of one color. You can mix it up however you like. And yes, I will post the final project. I may decide to embellish the sides with small seed beads but I need to see how it looks on the collar before I make that decision.
Other items you will find useful to weave this piece: tulip beading needles, E-6000 glue, bead mats.
What are your favorite go to beads?
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Wrapped Leather and Bead Bracelets
This beautiful (and free!) wrap leather and bead bracelet tutorial is by Kim Holowatiuk
Sleepy Holow Leather & Custom Beading
Kim Holowatiuk is owner of Sleepy Holow Leather & Custom Beading in Alberta Canada. She has been making custom hand carved and stamped leather work since 2009 and has enjoyed beading for about 30 years.
Mirrix Loom (I used my Lani)
Round leather cord 1.5-2 mm
Variety of beads – I used 8/0, 11/0 and 4 mm rounds
#12 Beading needle
C-Lon Thread in color of your choice
Two fishing weights 1 ounce
Depending if you would like a single, double, triple (etc.) wrap, measure the leather cord around your wrist for an approximate length measurement. Add on some extra length for both the double loop closure and the addition of the button. For a double wrap, I start by cutting a strand of the round leather to about 30".
With your leather cord folded in half, create a knot closure at that end (Pic 2). Make sure that you make it large enough for the button closure to slip through but not too big that it falls out. I make a second knot/loop (Pic 2a) so there are two sizes to close the bracelet. This step is optional.
Next, slide the top loop through your warping bar (Pic 2b)
Attach each fishing weight to the ends of each strand with a single knot. (Pic 3)
Attach your warping bar and move your side bars up until the weights are just below your bottom bar (Pic 3a). If you have a bottom spring kit, you can slide the leather cord into a dent (Pic 3b)
Doubling your thread, bring it around one leather strand (Pic 4). Bring your needle back through the thread so you have a starting "knot" on the first cord (Pic 4a) and then weave back and forth through the leather strands to create a solid piece of woven thread for extra strength (Pic 4b).
Now you are ready to weave your beads on. Depending on how wide you want to make it, always start narrow and work you way to the desired width, adding one extra bead each row. Here I started with one 11/0 bead (Pic 5), then two (Pic 5a) worked my way up to three beads, the width I want. (Pic 5b).
Continue on bead weaving with your beads until you come down to the end of the piece. Finish with the same thread weaving as you started and weave back through the beads to finish and hide your ends (Pic 6).
Remove the weights from the bottom and attach your button (Pic 7 and 7a) to one or both of the leather cords (depending on how large of a button hole you have). Make a knot and glue ends. Ta Da! Your very own leather wrapped bracelet! (Pic 7b). Try it with suede (Pic 7c)or a single wrap (Pic 7d)!
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Changing Seasons Wire and Bead Woven Bracelet
When you move to Seattle they make you sign a contract where you agree that you'll tell everyone that the weather here is terrible. "Rains all the time!" you have to say, because of the contract. And it's a good thing they make you do that, because it's one of the fastest growing cities in America right now and I'm not sure how much more growth we could handle! But I'll let you in on a little secret… the weather isn't so bad. Yeah, winter is kinda grey and there's this point in the springtime when you're ready to move to Hawaii just for a glimpse of the sun… but summers are heavenly and it never really gets too cold in winter and autumn is usually pretty darn nice. Today, October 1st, is sunny and in the 60s, and that's pretty nice.
But I digress. My point was going to be that in fall, I always miss New England. The colors, the smells, the crisp air… it all feels to quintessentially "autumn".
This bracelet was meant to capture that time in New England when the trees are just starting to turn and the landscape slowly turns from green to orange.
It is made with crystals, beads, C-Lon thread, a glass button and SoftFlex wire and is made using the No Warp-Ends Kit!
I love using the SoftFlex here because it allows the bracelet to hang like a bangle. I also love how you
can see through the beads and crystals to the wire warp. I also used a green thread for the beads that you peeps through.
This bracelet is so fun to wear and so easy to make!
Now… what to do… Free Ebook? Projects+? Weave-Along? Kit?
What do you guys think?Let me know in the comments!
Update 10/10/2014: You can get the Projects+ ebook for this bracelet in our online store. Free for a limited time!
Bead Weaving
Product Feature: The No Warp-Ends Kit
The No Warp-Ends Kit is one of our best selling accessories here at Mirrix Looms.
And no wonder, it makes weaving small beaded pieces so fun and easy!
What does it do?
The no warp-ends kit eliminates the need to weave-in warp ends when bead weaving. When you're done weaving, you'll only have to deal with two ends!
It is perfect for using with any kind of warp material including wire.
Set up with the no warp-ends kit is very easy and once you have it in place, you can weave as many pieces as you want (as long as they are the same size) using the same set up.
What can I make with it?
No Warps to Weave in Bracelet Kit
Interweave No Warp-Ends Checkerboard Bracelet Package
Beaded Leather Cuff Bracelet Ebook
How do I get it?
You can purchase the No Warp-Ends Kit for your Mirrix Loom here.
Or, get a Loom and No Warp-Ends Kit Starter package here!
Bead Weaving, Bead/Fiber Combination, Tapestry Weaving, Uncategorized
New iPhone? Weave this Case!
Smart phones have gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. Petty soon there will be smartphone suitcases to haul them around in. The best way to keep up with the changes is to make your own.
I admit it, I am being forced to upgrade myself. My iPhone 6 has not arrived yet, but to prepare for the arrival I am making a her an iPhone carrier. I made one for my iPhone 5, but the 6 is just going to fit.
This piece was created from hand painted silk and size 8/0 seed beads. I used a ten dent coil, 41 warps across. The warp is Maysville Carpet Warp. I am using size D C-Long beading thread for the beadwork. The piece will be a tad more than 3 1/2 inches across and about 6 1/2 inches tall (which means I have to weave 13 inches). It will be able to accommodate any of the iPhone 6 (I would make it a tad taller for the iPhone 6 plus) and other brands. It is lined with silk and embellished on the side and top with size 11/0 seed beads. The strap is also made of hand painted silk braided on a kumihimo disc. Almost everything needed to make this piece is available on the Mirrix website. Please see bottom of this post for resources.
There are no set rules for this piece. I will be playing with different colors silk sometimes building up straight lines between colors and at other times shading them together. I will be adding the occasional row of beads both for their decorative quality and because they are very helpful to keep the warp from pulling in and keeping the right spaces between them.
To begin, not using the shedding device, weave a row of beads. Tie the two ends of the beading thread together on the right and then sew through the first bead so your thread is on the back of the piece until you need to use it again.
Weave a strand of silk, remembering to bubble! Use the shed where the side warps are raised so the tail of the silk is behind the weaving.
Weave the first silk thread back and forth a few times before inserting a new threads. I am working with two in the picture below
In preparation to insert a new row of beads, bring the bead thread to the front of the weaving between warps one and two.
Engage the shedding device to open up the next shed and insert a row of beads. There will be two beads between the raised threads.
After you've woven the beads sew through one bead to get your bead thread on the back of the weaving.
Wrap the previous silk thread around the side warp thread twice in order to fill in the space the bead left on the side of the piece.
In the picture below I am using thread silk wefts and blending them together by crossing into each other's color area.
I have added another row of beads.
My piece thus far!
In the next blog about this Smart Phone case I will show you how to do both the on-loom and off-loom finish work and show you how to make a square braid to use as the strap. You meanwhile need to find a pretty piece of silk with which to line it!
For great tapestry instruction where you can learn all sorts of amazing tapestry techniques to use in this piece check out the following:
Tapestry Weaving by Kirsten Glasbrook
Tapestry 101 by Kathe Todd-Hooker
The Tapestry Handbook The Next Generation by Carol Russell
Claudia's Craftartedu online class
Rebecca Meezoff's wonderful online class
Links to supplies:
Twelve Skeins of hand painted silk
Six Skeins of hand painted silk
Bead Weaving, Bead/Fiber Combination, Tapestry Weaving
Introducing: WeaveWith
A customer, Tina (Check out her awesome blog on weaving beads here), gave me a great idea the other day. In addition to weave-alongs, we should have some project themes that Mirrix-ers can all work on at the same time. It reminded me of what someone at Convergence told us that her guild did. They would have a theme, I think the theme at the time was "leaves", and everyone would weave a tapestry following that theme.
Beginning in October, we will begin a new program called WeaveWith. These events will be similar to weave-alongs, but without the same amount of structure. We'll post weekly (an email will be sent out to everyone signed up) about whatever project/s we are working on (that fall under the chosen theme) and everyone participating can post on social media and in the comments section of the blog posts about their individual projects. This will be a great way to get inspired and involved with the amazing Mirrix community!
What should our first few themes be? Answer in the comments!
Bead Weaving, Bead/Fiber Combination
One Idea for finishing beadwork
There has been a lot of discussion lately about how to finish beadwork to hang on a wall. Anyone who knows me, knows I hate to weave in warp ends and hence refuse to do it. Okay, I am stubborn, but I also have the hardest time threading needles so to have to do that a zillion times to finish a piece . . . I just won't do it. Plus, my version of "patience" doesn't cover that activity (which is amusing considering all the things I do that others believe take patients . . . all a matter of perspective).
I found two pieces in my stash that represent one way of finishing a piece. Since they are already finished, I can't show you how I did it, but I can tell you how.
I wove both pieces on a Twelve inch wide Mirrix Loom. The could have also been woven on the Eight inch Mirrix Loom or any loom larger.
The below piece is a bead weaving mounted on tapestry weaving and then embellished with beads. To finish the bead piece, I tied off pairs of warp threads and buried them behind the piece. I then sewed it to the wool tapestry. The wool tapestry was finished by tying off warp ends and folding the header and footer to the back and sewing them down. I then sewed the final piece to silk . After I sewed it on the cloth I centered the piece on a wooden frame designed for stretching canvas. I tacked the silk to the back with large head but short nails.
The back of the piece. Since I thought the tacked silk would look awful on the back, I decided to cover the back with silk tacking it down with the same nails. But since the raw edges were sandwiched on the back, the piece looks a lot more finished. I then embroidery my initials in beads. I added a wire hanger. Done.
The second piece lacks the woolen tapestry. I used the exact same method but really went to town with bead embroidery on the silk. Notice how I've used bugle beads to embroider all around the piece once on the silk to hide the edges The other beads are just crazy freeform. It was a while back. I must have been in one of those moods.
With this piece I also felt a need to cover the back. I tied the warps in pairs and folded to the back. Sewed to the silk, embroidered the heck out of it and then attached to the wooden frame.
Here's the back:
And how do you finish your pieces?
Bead Weaving, Bead/Fiber Combination, Social Market for a Mirrix 2014, Tapestry Weaving
Tying up loose ends, literally.
I've shared all my Mirrix projects with you but often the finishing touches had not been applied, so I thought I'd tie up those loose ends and show you the finished pieces, all of which are Mirrix milestones for me. From left to right is…
1) the cuff I wove with Claudia's wonderful hand-dyed silk and some gorgeous crystal beads. This is my first ever attempt to combine beads with fibre! As much as I wanted to I could not make an ugly bracelet with these materials. Here's the post that explains why I would ever want to do such a thing. I finished it with a 9 strand braid, for which I followed this great video tutorial on Youtube. The video is geared toward people who want to make decorative bread, but I found it perfect, and easy to follow since the instructor uses such generous wads of dough for each strand.
2) My First tapestry on a Mirrix! Although my heart is with tapestries that are finely woven, my next tapestry will be with a larger EPI (this one was 12) so I can get it done faster and feel less encumbered by it in the context of a weekly update. With that said, I love this piece! The main tapestry is wool, and the indigo is hand-dyed by me, as is the shag poof which is 100% silk. And as I mentioned in a previous post I received advice from my hair-stylist brother about how to trim the shag. Surprisingly he didn't seem to be too fazed by the request. As you can see the top selvage is warped due to the shag being too bulky, so I may attempt to have it mounted on a custom cut rock so the selvage will lay flat (when glued) and also have it slant forward so we can see the tapestry underneath the shag. I'm not completely set on that idea though.
3) My first attempt at weaving beads. Today I finished it off with some hardware and it ended up looking very vintage, almost art nouveau when worn. So I'm much happier about it than I expected. I may need to make more like it, next time on the no-warp-ends kit.


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Really, that big full moon you saw rising or setting a few days ago was, in fact, smaller than it was a few hours earlier when it was high in the sky.
The setting and rising moon seems huge by comparison to the way the same moon looked a few hours earlier when it was overhead. In reality, the true angular diameter of the Moon is about 1.5% smaller when it sets or rises as compared to when it is high in the sky, simply because it is farther away from you by almost one Earth radius.
"Look how big the moon is!" is the result of an illusion created because of the ways our eyes focus and the way our brain interprets visual information, something called oculomotor micropsia.
To see what this means, the next time you look at the horizon moon cross your eyes. Doing this will cause oculomotor micropsia and double vision, but notice that the moon's angular size looks smaller than it did.


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The Roads Most Traveled
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Americans -- at once deeply in love with convenience and yet increasingly phobic about boredom -- have no ready notion about ways to celebrate the 50th anniversary today of the federal act that began the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
There's a convoy out there, scheduled to arrive in Washington this afternoon after two weeks of photo ops on the endless asphalt ribbon, with Ike's great-grandson and a few Department of Transportation officials along for the ride. The American Road and Transportation Builders Association issued a playlist saluting the anniversary of the 47,000-mile system -- "Life Is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane; "King of the Road" by Roger Miller; "Freeway of Love" by Aretha Franklin -- which gives you that awful feeling of being trapped in a car with someone who makes bad mix tapes.
For most -- but not all -- people, it's like celebrating the anniversary of that gray stuff in padded envelopes. Oh, Ike, what did your grand project do to us? Even with our complete dependence on interstates -- and the billions we've spent making and maintaining them; they are our pyramids and our lifelines -- we are remarkably unpoetic about them. Their uniformity and rigidity of width and function, among the general's points of pride in his system, discourage such nonsense.
Construction began on I-70 in Missouri in 1956 and that beginning was soon popularly and mythically told as an end to some dream America was having about itself. Interstates have never been assigned their proper grandeur; often they're seen as the enemy of national character. Culture keeps insisting on interstate amnesia: Forget any happy memories you have of spending time on them. "The mind goes clean," Joan Didion wrote of her Corvette summers on the outer-L.A. freeways more than three decades ago, and she meant it as the highest compliment. She picked up on the transcendence of wide, open highway; readers took it as disconnect, worry.
Forget the joy of that first hour or two you're on the interstate, the euphoria of embarking, of having set off, such as when I-66 segues to I-81 South, and think instead about the horrific banality of the 17th hour, I-40 now, between Memphis and Little Rock, still in the same, redundant world, same Hampton Inns, same Denny's, same Love's "country" store truck stops, same Waffle Houses, until you cross the unmarked Waffle House line on the U.S. map, another way of knowing the true West from the true South -- 376 of them in Georgia, 99 in Texas, two in New Mexico, etc. You are not allowed any joy here on the interstates, that's the official enlightened line. It's all supposed to be bad for you -- bad Cinnabons, bad truckers on meth, bad bladders, bad exits. The horizon is pretty; the mountains are pretty. The interstate is never called pretty.
Our writers and storytellers largely shun the interstates; our thinkers bemoan them for having dulled the national character. If Interstate 35, which runs from Laredo, Tex., on the Mexico border, up to Duluth, Minn., is our modern Mississippi, then where is the Huck Finn analogue, who is the Mark Twain? The argument might be that the interstates are so soulless that they don't inspire anything like art.
Our traffic reporters, in helicopters, bring us daily litanies of their outer-metropolitan woe. News footage of cars on interstates or cloverleaf interchanges have become cliche stock to illustrate the mass immolation of the environment and our sense of simplicity. Our movies about the road are always about how tedious the interstates are -- and so the plot hinges on taking the off-ramp far out into the prairie or hills, until you can't hear the interstate anymore and finally stop seeing signs pointing you toward it, so that our protagonist can get deliriously lost in "real" America.
"Cars," the current Pixar hit that gets almost everything right about our transportation system, preaches to our children about the big, bad interstate. In the film, I-40 is built away from curvy and true Route 66, leaving behind the desert town of Radiator Springs.
Lightning McQueen, a shiny red NASCAR punk who finds himself stranded in this podunk, finally gets it (about life, about character, about morals) when the hot little Carrera who owns the faded, quaint motel in town takes him up the mountain and shows him the cruel, ambivalent interstate busily rushing by in the distance. He's repulsed, heartsick.
And so he rhapsodizes: We're too self-absorbed to take time to see. He gets serious about helping Radiator Springs rediscover its mid-century neon kitsch glory. (Or something like that. Maybe it will become clearer next summer, when children are watching "Cars" over and over on DVD players in the back seats of minivans, too fidgety on interstate trips to simply stare out the window and look at stuff anymore.)
There's that whole Charles Kuralt thing. That NPR thing. That Jane and Michael Stern diet of undiscovered chili and pie. That is what America officially loves, while the interstates are what we officially loathe. It's that William Least Heat-Moon problem of the intellectual wayfarer: I won't really see America from the interstates, so I have to get off.
"This is the America that is calculatedly heartwarming, represented by people who are purported to symbolize America -- people who are Platonic ideas of Americans: a lobsterman from Maine, a logger from Oregon, a rancher from Texas," writes Robert Sullivan, in the introduction to his new, white-stripe-hypnotized travelogue on (and ruminative ode to) the interstates, "Cross Country." (His last book was about rats. Another book was about New Jersey's forsaken Meadowlands. Oh, we like him.)
In spite of all the millions of people currently doing it, Sullivan notes that crossing the country entirely via interstate "seems, to many Americans, like the wrong way to go." Backroad America offers "a kind of antique-shop America. It's an America that appears in magazines alongside recipes; it's the America where presidential candidates are televised."
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What if the government had left Route 66 intact as it was, and people got bored with it anyhow, and the motels and curio shops closed all the same? Imagine the whining about the traffic light in Beatrice, Neb. Even before the highway act was signed we were already going suburban; we were already homogenizing, Woolworthizing, turning Texacoid, watching for the next orange roof of Howard Johnson's. The interstate didn't create us, it is us; it is something we built. However it may depress you to pull off at a building that is a gas station and a Taco Bell and a Pizza Hut and a KFC all in one, however dislocating it may be to sleep in a Sleep Inn one night and then sleep in the same exact Sleep Inn four states later the next night -- isn't all of that somehow swept away by that endless glorious panorama through the windshield?
Does tedium really destroy the mind, or does it, perhaps, enhance it? Although no one has figured out yet how to celebrate the hypnotic qualities of our interstates, there should be no shame in loving them. It's always a great day out there, somewhere. It's one amazing ketchup-delivery device, from farm to plant to packet to truck to McDonald's to French fry to mouth.
The interstate is one of the few places we can all feel good about having paid our taxes. Could anything this expensive, so fought over in Washington at budget time, ever feel so apart from pure politics, once you're out on it, once you're sailing along? The cleanly executed merge -- from ramp to northbound, from span to southbound -- imparts a feeling, a grace. To take enormous satisfaction in a smooth merge, you don't have to be a dancer or an athlete or a superhero, and yet the interstate makes you feel like you are.
Somewhere just before Amarillo, Tex., westbound on I-40, you start seeing the billboards for "Tucumcari Tonight!" It's a notion left over from Route 66. The people of Tucumcari, N.M., know you're making good time. There's this hope you'll stop anyhow. They've built those boxy chain motels next to the interstate. When I was a boy, on our endless journeys between the here and there, the "Tucumcari Tonight!" billboards reminded my dad to tell the bad joke about the Indian chief with the broken leg. (He yells at a couple of his tribe members: "Two! Come carry!")
On all the spans and interchanges, on all the flats, at all the rest stops, through the blazing heat and blinding snow and creepy fogs, really, all my life I've felt happiest and saddest while encapsulated, on a straight shot at 75 mph, mulling over a poem I can't finish called "Tucumcari Tonight." It's not about small roads and neon. It's no ballad. It's about interstates, and about my fractious family, and 44-ounce fountain drinks. It's about being American in the worst and best way. I just wind up staring at all that road and sky. I always get where I'm going, but I never get past the first line.


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Not in agreement with accepted beliefs; holding unorthodox opinions
Doxa (Greek) "opinion, judgement"
As a philosopher with heterodox views, the French monarchy found it best to send Voltaire to exile.
Part of Speech: Noun
A prediction of the outcome of a disease; any forecast or prediction
Gignoskein (Greek) "to know"
After the doctor completed a quick analysis of the patient's test results, he then concluded the prognosis of his condition was negative.
Part of Speech: noun
A standard, rule, or test on which a decision or judgement can be made
Krinein (Greek) "to separate; to decide"
Colleges across the country have different criteria in which they use to choose future students.
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A general pardon for offenders, especially for political offenses
Mnemonikos (Greek) "mindful"
The soldier was granted amnesty for his offenses before the court marshal.
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A severe mental disorder in which a person becomes unable to act or reason in a rational way, often with delusions and withdrawal from relationship.
Phren, Ohrenos (Greek) "heart"
Joseph's schizophrenia caused for delusions therefore making him believe his father was going to kill him.
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To call to court to answer charges
Ratio (Greek) "reason"
After committing a very serious crime, the criminal was set to be arraigned in court and after he'd be expected to set a plea.


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Break time?
Do any of you moms get break time from the kids? Like going out with friends for a couple ours, going for a jog, shopping by yourself, etc... ? How does your husband feel about you going out? Does he get cranky or is he fine with it?
Hey Bre! So I have a 6 week old.. and YES! I already have gone out for girl time.. once for dinner, another time for nails and lunch.. I think it's MUCH needed, gives you a break and time to regroup and come back as a better Mom! My husband actually encourages me to set up times and days like that.. he loves alone time with our little guy.. they always need time with me not around too :) Do you get girl time or breaks??
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Ah.. I love this!! And I agree! I also say it's probably DIFFERENT time they are spending together if I am around too.. I try not to hover, but I think he feels more confident in his abilities with Monroe when I am gone more.. and it makes sense because I get to spend all day with Monroe by myself.. he deserves some alone time too :)
I don't get breaks very often maybe a couple times a year and when I do it seems to be a problem with my husband. I don't think he can handle the kids by himself.
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