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Excellent information. I see that I've been making a couple of mistakes with my raised beds during the past two growing seasons (watering too much for one). I chose landscape timbers for one bed because I replaced what was used there by the previous homeowner. I didn't consider that they will rot from inside. I guess I will be replacing those with lumber after I harvest the peas. Thanks for sharing the MD. Great video!
Hi, we have been using raised beds for a few years now for growing veg. Makes it easier on the back for both me and the wife. We build them with pressure treated timber which seems to last for a long long time. To top that we have also fitted three foot high cloches over them to increase the growing season.
I gave up on landscape timbers. The best and easiest item to build with is the 8 inch concrete block. No mortar needed. You can usually find used ones very cheap or for free sometimes. Also, the holes can be filled with dirt and planted with things like garlic and chives.
Great idea R.B! We use pressured treated lumber for our other three beds and it has worked great. However, being able to utilize the holes in the blocks for planting as well is appealing. Also, concrete blocks, as you mentioned are cheaper and often available for free. Definitely something we will look into.
Years ago I had a raised bed that worked well. I've been without that since moving into this place 20+ years ago. I will have to move sooner or later and I was happy to see this video! Great food for thought, thanks MD.
I have been using raised beds for 32 yrs now and they work like a charm. I started building dry rock fieldstone beds…but only had enough rocks for the ornamental gardens around the house. Couldn't afford wood once the food garden passed the tiny stage, and cement blocks will leach alkalines into the beds. So I just mark out the beds and paths, then shovel the topsoil from the path areas onto the bed areas…silly to waste precious topsoil walking on it. Add as much compost and leafmould as possible, level the top and slightly bevel the edges. You will have to occasionally rake up the edges to neaten the look. I usually fill the paths with straw, leaves and woodchips to keep down weeds and hold in moisture. Then over the course of a couple years these organic materials break down to lovely dark compost, which is easily raked up onto the adjoining beds! A system that works very well.
Now, in the big gardens I am bringing into production this year, I will build the beds using the big troybilt tiller with hiller/furrower attachment. Would prefer to use my wheelhoes, but the areas will add up to nearly 1-1/2 acres…and with food prices rising so fast and high and civilization going down even faster…want to have all the beds built and in production this year. The wheelhoes work great, but much slower than an 8 hp tiller (hehe).
I take exception to one thing: DON'T use Roundup. It causes so many problems and has now been found in breast milk. Do the manual labor and pull any problem weeds out by hand.
I decided this was the year I was going to experiment with raised beds. Been practicing gardening, canning, etc., but MUST be more productive. So after building the first four of the several 4X8 beds I have planned this afternoon I found this video when I checked my e-mail. As is usual with me, I have planned way too many beds for my current needs, HOWEVER, should I ever need them all for survival, I will be ready. EXCELLENT VIDEO! Thanks so much.
Well be cheap or fugal whatever you want to call it we now use rocks we find on the property or marginal logs we pull out of the woods while collecting fire wood or cleaning up downed trees.
We would not use treated wood, I know MD says it's fine but we don't trust it. They also said Teflon was fine and many other things that turned out to not be so safe so why take the chance. Besides lumber has become very expensive. Cinder blocks we used them for many years again they were free then I read several reports that they do indeed leach out all kinds of noxious things lead mercury ect as they are made of coal plant fly ash waste. this again is not compatible with our organic garden. Just our two cents worth.
I put a pond liner in my raised bed, then lengths of perforated drain pipe (in a "sock") then soil. On the end I have a pvc pipe from the top down into the perforated pipe.
I water by putting the hose into the pvc, which fills the perforated pipe. The layer of pipe stores about 30 gallons of water, so I only need to water every two weeks or so throughout the summer. Water percolates up from the bottom, and keeps the soil evenly moist all the time. The plants love it.
It cost me a few bucks, but it's WAY easier and better than trying to keep the soil moist in 100+ temps by surface watering.


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The three watch companies at the vanguard of the British timekeeping renaissance -- Bremont, Christopher Ward and Schofield -- represent very different approaches, price points and designs. Yet they share one thing: a distinctively British take on the wristwatch. We spent some time with each to establish a solid cross section of timepieces from across the pond. Put the kettle on and settle in for our impressions.


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Sofia, 'The Grand Boulevard', 1907. By the British writer Harry de Windt.
In his book 'Through Savage Europe', a journey from the Adriatic Sea to the Caucasus, De Windt writes: '...This quaint mixture of the latest European fashions and Oriental costumes are the first things which strike the stranger on arrival in Sofia. But he soon discovers that this is a land of contradictions.
For instance, the man who drove us to our hotel from the station was an essentially modern Bulgar who, as far as dress was concerned, would have walked unnoticed up Regent Street, and who was as loquacious and full of information as a Maltese guide. Indeed he was up-to-date on every subject, from the newest style of motor-car to Mr. Chamberlain's fancy in orchids.
And yet his wiry little pair of ponies were adorned with necklets of blue beads as amulets against the (Turkish) "Evil Eye," any allusion to which was strongly resented by their driver…'
Atidje's story takes you back to 1973, when her family was caught up in dramatic events that no one could have dreamt would occur in the quiet, mountainous village of Kornitsa, on Bulgaria's Greek border.
The entire Muslim community stood up against the Communist government, demanded their rights, and cut the village off from the rest of the country, camping out for months in the main square. Atidje's husband was the leader of the rebellion. When the crackdown came, she paid her price.
Four decades later she still remembers vividly what happened that night, the deportation with her children, and her missing husband, who was sent to prison. Both of them now live in Turkey.
James Crouchman travelled mainly on foot across Bulgaria's North West - the mountainous lands between the Danube and the border with Serbia, today the Bulgarian province of Montana. He explored and documented on film an area full of history, where dialects overlap and once gold and silver miners came from as far as Saxony, brought in by the Ottoman Turks.
James: I met Asparuh from Glavanovtsi village. He gave me apples and told me he disliked Churchill. He was five during the worst bombing of WWII, but still remembers Allied planes flying overhead to target the oil fields in Romania just across the Danube, before returning and unloading their unused bombs on this part of Bulgaria. He told me about the sound the explosions made, echoing for miles around.
From Glavanovtsi I walked nearly 100km over four days to Belogradchik, crossing mountains and taking detours to villages on the way. People would often stop me and give me food or drink. In Protopopintsi village, two old ladies invited me in to their garden and gave me 'compot', not the British sort but fresh fruit juice from figs and peaches. It's a fascinating area, one that deserves to be spoken about more than just in terms of GDP and employment figures.
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A story of national identity and European citizenship, shot in Bulgaria, Belgium and Moldova and sponsored by the Bulgarian Memory Foundation. Reported/produced by Velislav Radev, directed by Janet Barrie.
On Bulgarian National TV , Sunday 23 February 2014.
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Един филм за националната самобитност и европейската идентичност, за Гражданската награда на Европейския парламент. Заснет в България, Белгия, Молдова, и спонсориран от Фондация Българска Памет.
Репортер / продуцент Велислав Радев Режисьор Джанет Бари
"When I first moved to Sofia, I knew hardly anyone, and spent most of my free days wandering the streets around ulitsa Pirotska, taking photos and drinking coffee in 'Halite'.
One of the first people I got to know was a fellow English photographer, a 50-something divorcee working for a financial institution in Sofia. In emails he referred to the city as 'So Fear' and the name stuck. It became some kind of title to our photography of our Sofia. For a year I lived in a flat with paper-thin double glazing next to a busy junction on Dondukov, so the sound of So Fear for me has always been a trolley bus pulling away from traffic lights, perhaps why I take so many pictures of public transport. "
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Soon after the introduction of martial law in Poland in December 1981 the new military leader General Jaruzelski received a warm welcome in Sofia from Bulgaria's leader Todor Zhivkov and his entourage.
Chairing a military council after the takeover, and consolidating all powers of Communist Poland, Wojciech Jaruzelski intended to crush the Solidarity trade union. For ordinary Eastern Europeans military rule in Poland was presented as a necessary measure to 'protect Socialism' across the block.
With permanently damaged eyesight from his time in the Siberian Gulag (1940-42), Jaruzelski was forced to wear sunglasses most of the time, and they became his trademark.
Alongside Mikhail Gorbachev and East Germany's Egon Krenz, Wojciech Jaruzelski was the last surviving leader of a Warsaw Pact Communist state. He died on 25 May 2014 in Warsaw.
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Скоро след въвеждането на военно положение в Полша през декември 1981 новият ръководител генерал Войчех Ярузелски пристига в София.
Поемайки изцяло контрол над Полша целта на Ярузелски е да унищожи независимия профсъюз Солидарност, изпраща в затвора лидера му Лех Валенса. Властите в Източна Европа представят военното положение в Полша като 'наложителна мярка за защита на социализма'.
Поради увреденото си в сибирския Гулаг зрение (1940-42) Ярузелски е принуден почти постоянно да носи слънчеви очила, които стават негова запазена марка.
Заедно с Михаил Горбачов и Егон Кренц, Войчех Ярузелски беше един от тримата останали живи бивши ръководители на комунистическа страна от Варшавския договор.Той почина на 25 май 2014 във Варшава.
Бяхте ли там през 1982? Спомня ли си някои от семейството Ви това посещение?
Какво знаете за военното положение в Полша 1981-1989?
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The 1st May 1986, and as every year tens of thousands of Bulgarians mark Labour Day by marching past their Communist leaders in Sofia. Unknown to them, just four days previously a fire at Chernobyl had brought about world's worst nuclear disaster.
By the 1st May the fallout had reached Bulgaria. The rain falling on everyone here was highly radioactive, but the nomenclatura seem oblivious to the danger in the air.
Were you there that day? Do you or your family remember these events? We'd like to hear from you.
Първи май 1986. Десетки хиляди българи отбелязват в София "Празника на труда" с традиционен парад пред комунистическите ръководители на страната. Манифестиращите не знаят, че само четири дни по-рано пожар в Чернобил е предизвикал най-тежката ядрена авария в света.
На 1 май радиационният облак достига България. Дъждът, който вали над парада е силно радиоактивен, но на трибуната сякаш не осъзнават опасността във въздуха.
Бяхте ли там? Спомня ли си някои от семейството Ви за тези дни? Ще се радваме, ако споделите тези спомени.
Bulgaria's Communist leader Todor Zhivkov at a traditional parade on the day of the Cyrillic alphabet and Bulgarian culture in Sofia, 24 May 1982.
Carefully rehearsed and meticulously orchestrated, the parades in front of the embalmed body of the ex-Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov were also an indicator of the place in the hierarchy of each member of the party nomenclatura. While teachers, pupils and students waved obediently at Number One and his lieutenants, others were trying to spot who was in and who was out on the tribune.
There were several of these parades each year, all the way to the end 1989. Even the day dedicated to letters and culture was no exception from the military discipline of marching past Sofia's Mausoleum.
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Bulgaria's Communist leader (1954-89) Todor Zhivkov at the heart of the "Banner of Peace" festivities in and around Sofia.
By 1989 four such gatherings were held in Sofia with thousands of children from over 130 countries participating. Supposedly non-political, the movement was nominally under the patronage of UNESCO and other UN agencies, but became a focal point of Communist Bulgaria's cultural management in the 1980s.
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What ecofab girl doesn't love to receive a dazzling, fragrant bouquet in the middle of the week, especially for no reason at all? But all those toxic pesticides sprayed on commercial flowers can leave a bad after–smell.
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Organic Bouquet is the largest online provider of eco-friendly and organic floral gifts. All of our flowers are grown in a manner that is not only environmentally friendly but also provides outstanding resources for farm workers and artisans. Organic Bouquet partners with select flower farms in California, Ecuador and Colombia. All of our flower farms follow stringent growing practices which are monitored by multiple certification agencies and associations. When you purchase flowers from Organic Bouquet, you are helping to improve the life of a flower farm worker, their family and the local floral community.
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Repairing concrete slab in shower
I need advice on repairing a concrete slab. I am enlarging my shower. The original shower has a 3 inch recessed concrete pan in the concrete slab. I have removed the concrete slab around the original drain. I removed the concrete in part of the recessed concrete pan so I could relocate the drain. I need to patch the concrete area where the old shower pan slab was removed. I also want to bring the old recessed concrete shower pan up to the height of the rest of the home slab. I assume I would coat the old shower pan concrete with a concrete bonding agent then mix and pour Sakrete Concrete Mix 5,000 PSI Fiber-reinforced into the old pan and cut out slab area?
I am not sure if this is the correct way to repair the slab?
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The holiday season has been dominated by Apple in the recent past and 2013 Christmas wasn't any different. Apple's gold iPhone 5s turned out to be the most popular smartphone during Christmas. According to data published by uSwitch.com for December 2013 iPhone 5s won over Samsung Galaxy S4 for the third consecutive month. The data analysed was based on live … Read More
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South African President Thabo Mbeki continues flying back and forth from his country to Zimbabwe in an effort to resolve the conflict between Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change(MDC) who won the fair election in March, 2008 and President Mugabe who won the fraudulent election in June of this year. Mbeki has instituted a blackout on information regarding progress of the discussions although rumors continue circulating of some form of power sharing between the men. President Mbeki is under pressure to show some results prior to the Southern African Development Community(SADC) meeting at which some participants already are demanding retaliation against Mugabe for the violence he has inflicted on his nation. Botswana called for barring Mugabe on grounds he is not the legitimate ruler of the nation.
Mbeki failure to initiate mediation efforts in the spring of this year encouraged Mugabe to proceed with the violence accompanying his "election" in June. His supporters were encouraged to brutalize, rape and kill and now these individuals fear if Morgan Tsvangirai assumes power they will be prosecuted.


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Home > News & Events > News > Articles > Kennedy School's Center for International Development to Receive Fund for Sustainable Development
In an effort to address one of the world's most pressing public problems — sustainable development — Harvard's Center for International Development (CID) and the Ministry for the Environment and Territory of the Italian Republic will work together to create The Fund for Sustainable Development at the Kennedy School of Government.
The fund will support training and research programs on sustainable development and natural resource management with an international orientation and a vision toward achieving shared prosperity and reducing poverty while protecting the environment.
"The Fund for Sustainable Development will help generate solid solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems," said Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood. "We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with the Italian Ministry for the Environment and Territory in this worthwhile endeavor."
The fund will be managed by the Director of CID, who will also chair an Advisory Committee, consisting of representatives from Harvard and from the Italian Ministry for the Environment and Territory.
"Harvard University and the Italian Ministry for the Environment and Territory will work together in designing and testing innovative ways to address sustainable development in developing as well developed countries," said Italian Ministry General Director Corrado Clini.
More specifically, the fund will support efforts in the following areas:
• Research to foster problem-driven scholarship on the broad topic of sustainable development. Results will be disseminated widely through books, journal publications, conferences and dialogues with the policy community;
• Teaching, including the preparation of course materials on the topic of sustainable development for use at the Kennedy School and for dissemination internationally through the Kennedy School's Case Program, and the promotion of efforts to place practitioners and students in appropriate executive education programs and research opportunities; and
• Fellowships that will enable senior leaders to spend time as Visiting Fellows at CID, and the creation of an international competition to bring younger professionals to CID to help strengthen the international network capacity in the field of sustainable development.
"The fact that the Government of Italy and Harvard join forces to fight poverty in developing countries and protect the earth shows the emergence of a global consciousness to address global challenges," said Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Center for International Development and professor of the practice of economic development at the Kennedy School.
William Clark, Harvey Brooks professor of international science, public policy and human development at the Kennedy School added: "The Fund for Sustainable Development will significantly enhance Harvard's capacity to promote policy-driven, collaborative research on core challenges of sustainable development, ranging from food, water and health security to clean energy and the conservation of natural ecosystems and the services they provide to society."
Harvard's Center for International Development (CID) was established in 1998 and serves as Harvard's primary center for research on sustainable international development. CID is a university-wide research center, dedicated to bridging the gaps between disciplines, pulling together Harvard's top minds as they, in collaboration with colleagues throughout the world, push forward the science of explaining the sources of and remedies for entrenched global poverty and the political and environmental circumstances that surround it.


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241 sec. 1 - Evidence (Fall 2014)
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This course examines the law of proof, with special attention to the Federal Rules of Evidence. Topics include relevance, hearsay, character evidence, authentication, witness competence, impeachment and rehabilitation, expert witnesses, scientific evidence, and presumptions.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Northern Arizona men's tennis team traveled to Los Angeles to face Loyola Marymount and the Lions ended the Lumberjacks two-match winning streak with a 7-0 win over NAU.
"It was a tough day for us in Los Angeles today," said head coach Ki Kroll. "I thought we competed well but we played a very good team today in Loyola."
The match started out with Loyola Marymount taking the doubles point with wins from the No. 1 and No. 2 teams with both scores resulting in an 8-2 win for the Lions.
Alexandre Locci was able to compete very well at the No. 2 position in singles play against Felix Van Kann but eventually dropped his match to Van Kann 6-4, 7-5. Loyola was dominating in its performance against NAU as all singles matches only went to two sets. Trevor Unger was able to force a tiebreaker in his first set against Cristobal Rivera that went 7-5 in favor of Rivera and would eventually win the second set by a score of 6-2.
"We had a difficult time today but LMU is a really good team," said Locci. "Everyone needs to put a little more focus for our first conference match next week."
This was Loyola Marymount's second win this season over a Big Sky team as the Lions first win was against the defending Big Sky Champions, Sacramento State.
After facing a tough opponent in Loyola Marymount, the Lumberjacks will now set their eyes toward Big Sky play as they will head out on their first Big Sky matches against Idaho State and Weber State.
"With conference matches next week, we should be able to learn from this loss and move forward," said Kroll.
Northern Arizona will begin its first Big Sky road trip against Idaho State on Saturday, Mar. 1 at 10 a.m. in Pocatello.
- Todd Volmari/Sebastian Bustamante (LMU) def. Jordan Gobatie/Fabio Tomasetti (NAU) 8-2
- Cristobal Rivera/Felix Van Kann (LMU) def. Trevor Unger/Kester Black (NAU) 8-2
- David Doehrin/Luke Bohuslav (LMU) vs. Alexandre Locci/Alan Barrios (NAU) 4-5 (Unfinished)
Order of Finish: 1,2
- David Doehring (LMU) def. Jordan Gobatie (NAU) 6-4, 6-2
- Felix Van Kann (LMU) def. Alexandre Locci (NAU) 6-4, 7-5
- Todd Volmari (LMU) def. Fabio Tomasetti (NAU) 6-2, 6-3
- Cristobal Rivera (LMU) def. Trevor Unger (NAU) 7-5, 6-2
- Sebastian Bustamante (LMU) def. Kester Black (NAU) 6-3, 6-3
- Luke Bohuslav (LMU) def. Alan Barrios (NAU) 6-4, 6-3
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In my continuing research over Asian American diversity, one of the recurring issues is religious diversity. I blogged earlier that Asian Americans are the least Christian of all racial groups in the US. About 46% of those who are Asian American are either Protestant or Catholic according to multilingual surveys. So the other 54% are a combination of non-Christian religions and those who say they have "no religion" (which is a tricky issue when we talk to Asian Americans). Of the non-Christian religious adherents among Asian Americans, the biggest three are Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. There's some debate over what percent of Buddhists are Asian (versus white) and what percentage of Muslims are Asian (should we count Middle Easterners as Asian or White?). But nevertheless where there are Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims, there are likely Asian Americans.
One of the neat resources made available by the Association of Religion Data Archives are county-level maps of religious groups supplied by the Religious Congregations and Membership Study. And as of their data collection in 2010, we have enough data to map adherents of non-Christian faith traditions by county. I recently had a chance to study a few of these maps (which are all free and online by the way), and would like to share them with you here. This is a map of Hindu adherents according to 5 equal-sized groupings or quintiles. The Hindu-Asian connection is clearest since the vast majority of Hindus in the US are south Asian. [Read more…]


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Sounds like a fabulous time. I think other countries do street food so much better then we do. Even in NYC, unless you are in Chinatown or parts of Queens you are often limited to hot dogs and pretzels. Then again, they don't have the NYC Health Department to deal with.
I love the idea of bowls, but I think it will be tough to take off here because of our desire to eat and drive/move, which lends itself to things you can manage with one hand from a smoothie to a burrito. I could see it really taking off at stadiums, although how would one then instagram their avocado-blueberry-granola bowl?


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Good morning. Have you updated your profile on Author Central? If not, be sure to keep it updated. Here's a link: https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/home?ie=UTF8&pn=irid3718536
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Kindle Direct Publishing has changed the publishing industry.
For the first time since the beginning of publishing an author can publish her own books and receive the majority of the income from those books.
Some indie authors has sold enough books to become bestsellers.
I have put up 5 titles myself even though I continue publishing with a traditional publisher. That makes me a hybrid author.
Uploading a book to the KDP Platform is not difficult. But one should look into the books LET'S GET DIGITAL and LET'S GET VISIBLE by D Gaughran before jumping into it.
Hope this helps!
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Lyn, I'm a hybrid too :)
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If you have older book titles, you may want to consider putting them up on Kindle. It'll introduce your older books to a new audience. Uploading to Kindle is easy.
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I agree with Sheila.
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Fridays are park dates with our home learners group and Daddy Cameron was able to join us once again. Oh, and there was a "cold" front that came through last night and the weather was pretty wonderful for an August morning. Once we arrived home from the park date, I took the boys outside to do some painting while Daddy Cameron did some work.
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As you may have read in The Roanoke Times this morning, there is a bumper crop of gun bills winding through the legislative machinery in Richmond.
The good news is, no lawmaker has gotten asinine enough yet, at least to put in a bill requiring that all citizens be armed at all times. But its likely thats only because the movement to liberalize gun laws proceeds incrementally, and we havent reached that point yet.
To get there, we have to adopt some other asinine measures first. Such as 180-degree turns to previously adopted laws.
Remember all the hoopla youve heard over the years about concealed carry permits, and how the state should grant them to trained, law-abiding, sane individuals who are not habitual drunkards or dope fiends? Virginia currently does that (except they dont have to be meaningfully trained any longer).
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Constitutional Carry.
Put 2A on the same level as the rest of the BoR.
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A seminal band in the insurgent country movement, Killbilly fused lightning-hot bluegrass licks with the energy and ethos of punk, launching some notable No Depression names along the way. Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Alan Wooley wrote and performed all parts on the 1986 Killbilly cassette Foggy Mountain Anarchy, and was joined by Craig "Niteman" Taylor on vocal and harmonica for the band's inaugural gig March 12, 1987, on KNON community radio in Dallas. That show was the first of more than 600 that the pair would play in years to come, augmented by almost 100 different players. Killbilly's live show gained notoriety, combining bluegrass and country instrumentation, including banjo, pedal steel, and fiddle, with thrashing, raw intensity, even including covers by acts like Hüsker Dü. The lineup primarily featured banjo player and vocalist Stephen Trued, who later died from complications of hemophilia; acoustic guitarist, mandolin player, and vocalist Harris "Stealth" Kirby; bassist and vocalist Richard Hunter; and drummer Michael Schwedler. After selling a handful of self-produced cassettes (Bootleg, Not for Sale, Alive From the City of Hate, two eponymous tapes) at shows in China, Europe, and all over North America, the band took a major-label bow with 1992's slicked-up Stranger in This Place. Their swan song, Foggy Mountain Anarchy, followed just two years later, satisfying more fans of their live act. Notable alumni include guitarist Rhett Miller and bassist Murry Hammond (Old 97's), bassist Mark Rubin (Bad Livers), two-time national banjo champion Jeff Scroggins (Big Twang), touring banjo player and manager Louis Jay Meyers (co-founder of South by Southwest Music Festival), and publicist Nan Warshaw (co-founder of Chicago's respected independent y'allternative label Bloodshot Records). Taylor retired from professional music after the band's final performance November 4, 1994. Wooley went on to play with the Cartwrights and Jack Ingram's Beat Up Ford Band.
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Breast cancer totally surprised me. I don't have a family history, but one day in 2002 I was in the shower and I felt a lump. I was 37 at the time. The doctor didn't think it felt like cancer and said I was so young I shouldn't worry about it. But he told me to get a mammogram and an ultrasound just to make sure. I put that off for a few weeks, but when I finally got the tests, they knew immediately after the ultrasound that it was cancer. The supervising doctor said she had seen thousands of cases and was sure about it.
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And then I discovered something new: Chinese dragon-boat racing. There was a woman I saw in the chemo room―she had a bubbly personality and these amazing biceps. Her name is T. K. (short for Takako Kimura), and when we started talking, she told me about her involvement in the Los Angeles Pink Dragons, which is a dragon-boating team for breast cancer survivors. I had never really been athletic. Still, I went out to try it, and I met such amazing, positive women―mostly in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, and one in her mid-80s. Paddling in sync with them helped me regain confidence in my body. I couldn't believe how hard it was, but I wanted to keep doing it. That's how I found my true love, outrigger ocean canoeing, which I do three days a week. I'm in better shape now than I was before cancer.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. - The West Virginia University baseball team (0-2) lost a close 6-4 contest to UNC-Wilmington (6-4) Friday evening at Brooks Field.
WVU starter Jason DiAngelo (0-2) worked three solid innings before the Seahawks exploded for four runs in the fourth, headlined by Chip Grawey's three-run double.
Grant Psomas put the Mountaineers on the board with a mammoth two-run home run to left center field in the sixth inning.
UNC-Wilmington countered in the bottom half of the sixth with one run after Jon Davis's sacrifice fly scored Lee McClean, who doubled.
WVU pulled within one run of the Seahawks in the top of the seventh after a single by Jarod Rine drove in Brandon Halstead, who reached on an error. Rine scored two batters later on a double to right center by Psomas.
McClean gave UNC-Wilmington an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth inning with a solo homer off WVU reliever Marty Fagler.
Ronald Hill (3-0) picked up the victory for the Seahawks after tossing six and one-third innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on five hits while striking out five and walking two. Blake Cross recorded a 1-2-3 inning in the ninth for his second save of the season.
McClean went 2-2 with three runs scored and two walks and Jaimie Hemingway added two hits and one run for UNC-Wilmington.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif.- The No. 7 USC women's volleyball team, led by junior outside hitter Jennifer Kessy's 16 kills and 11 digs, defeated California, 15-6, 15-6, 12-15, 15-13, in a Pacific-10 Conference match in front of 689 at the North Gym on Saturday.
The Women of Troy improved to 11-2 overall, 4-2 in the Pac-10. California dropped to 6-8, 1-4.
In addition to Kessy, USC got 14 kills from junior middle blocker Jasmina Marinkovic and 9 kills from freshman outside hitter Antoinette Polk. Cal had 3 players with double figures in kills, led by sophomore outside hitter Brook Coulter,s 13.
USC looked headed for an easy sweep, but let an 11-3 lead in the third game get away when USC Coach Lisa Love emptied her bench. Cal looked like it might send the match to a fifth game, leading in Game 4, 13-11. But USC rallied with 4 consecutive points as junior middle blocker Alaina Kipps ended the match with her eighth kill. USC next travels to Oregon on Thursday (Oct. 9) and to Oregon State on Friday (Oct. 10).


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I have an 8.8 Ford rear end that needs the outer housing bearings replaced.... I can't get the old bearings out. Any old tricks to remove them short of buying an $80.00 slide hammer bearing remover?
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I have a Ford 8.8 rearend that needs the outer axle housing bearings removed. Any suggestions... old tricks...? Any thing short of buying an $80.00 sliding bearing remover that I would use once every 30 years.
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sorry for the double post i guess I'm frazzled
just an idea, never tried it = put the tire/wheel on it. then hit the tire with a large hammer. i have a slid hammer.
I have a drift pin that was made from an old 3/8 drive extention that would fit through one of the axel retaining bolt holes and I would hit it with a 3 lb or larger hammer , this wouldwork for all but the toughest ones . When that didn't work I would rent a puller . But on the other hand Advance Auto and many of the others will lend you the tools if you buy their parts .
just another thougt use a peace heavy about 6 ft fasten it to the axel on one stud slide a tire iron through a link on the other end and whip the chain
I used a $20 slide-hammer puller, but that barely got mine out. I had to tap one of them inwards slightly before it would move outward. Dang near wore me out. Might try the $40 one next time. Auto Zone will let you use theirs if you let them hold a cash deposit while you have it.
Somebody told me he used a long steel rod that would barely fit through the diff splines and punched them out from the other side of the housing. Sounds like a good story, but I never tried it.
"Somebody told me he used a long steel rod that would barely fit through the diff splines and punched them out from the other side of the housing. Sounds like a good story, but I never tried it."
Actually, I did just that, except I used a long peice of 1/2" Re-bar. Long enough to reach the back side of an axle bearing and still stick out the other end where I could hit it.
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Quote from: annette on August 15, 2009, 11:54:25 PMStill in lock up here for 29 years now!!In the lockup..whaddya mean? Annette, you're the warden!!! :jail: :-D :fishhit: 15 years and 5 kids later, and the inmates are running the asylum over here.
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WHOOPS! WSU Accidentally Puts Picture Of Rival UW On Planner Cover!
In Pullman- the rivalry has just gotten worse.
WSU bookstore "The Bookie" has released the 2014-15 planner-- with a very noticeable mistake.
A picture of rival UW graces the cover of the planner!
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Anyone done dog shows for a hobby?
So I am not sure what the pros and cons are for doing dog shows. I was wondering if anyone ever tried and can help me decide further.
I have the dog, his brother is Best in Show in Italy, along with his father.
I met a show handler and breeder. Very nice and willing to help as long as I am ready to do it.
I just don't know what is all involved.
Lots of time, lots of money, lots of tolerance when it comes to dealing with group politics. AKC Comformation champion Doberman owner here and won't bother to do it again.
Many call show dog's a poor mans race horse. (hole to throw money in)
Rent the movie Best in Show .........
Sometimes I'll watch them on TV...lol...I have thought about trying to get into something like Schutzhund but never had the desire to show a dog.
never done it but hung out with some AKC folks for awhile when I was curious about Rally...btw, I thought about entering for rally & there was no way I would have been able to figure out the entry form on my own.
Individuals were very nice, but group politics seemed to rule. Membership in the local AKC chapter required sponsorship and multiple hoops.
Show folks travel a lot! Like every weekend.
Maybe you could attend a show sponsored by a local chapter?
I'm assuming you've already attended obedience/behavior classes or know something about behavior training. You could also try a Conformation training class.
If you love dogs and love spending time with them and working on the bond and have a lot of free time, I thinkit could be very rewarding. If you already have a very full schedule and a somewhat limited budget, possibly more stress than what you really want to deal with.
Is that your dog in your avatar?
I have mutts so no conformation shows for me! Take a handling class and see how it goes. Training is good for bonding no matter what sort.
If that sort of showing doesn't appeal to both of you then you may get some feedback from others in the class. Lots to do with dogs these days. I started in obedience and moved to agility. There is flyball, disc, diving, tracking, herding, hunt, rally, skijoring, carting, sledding, weight pull, schutzhund and other protection sports and I don't know all the rest. Any dog can have fun in any of these but suspect some are more suited to given breeds or dog than others. Heavily built breeds aren't good jumpers, tiny dogs aren't going to be good at pulling you on skis and so on.
Years ago, I tried the dog show bit. I had a doberman that did quite well in puppy matches and non point specialty shows. When it came time for his first real AKC point show, I was so excited. We got there, and the person mentoring me opened the show book and said, "We might as well pack it up." I said, "Why? I want to see these dobermans. They must be really something." She said, "Oh, I don't know what they LOOK like, but I can tell you right now, this dog will be number one, this one will place...etc." She was right on the money by just looking at kennel, judge, and handler names. There were over 41 dobermans entered.
This was in PA area back in the 80s.
Needless to say, I then entered my dog in obedience, which seemed a fairer game. Then bagged the whole show scene all together. The money and time going towards the shows was put towards weekend camping trips with my dog. The mental photos I have of him standing in a morning dew covered meadow in the poconos mountains, and his happy-dappy dobie face there are far more enriching than any show photo. And was less stress on the both of us.
I have had 3 grooming shops, vet tech, painted trophies for various animal shows, and been a vendor for many. I groomed many a pet for show. It takes a big chunk of time and money and can be an obsession that makes aquarium enthusiam look like a drop in the...er...tank. It's kinda like adopting a new life style. Get your feet wet slowly.
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We explore and develop radiation treatment techniques for optimum physical dose conformation to the tumor target volume. Our efforts are focused on proton radiotherapy and advanced photon treatments, as well as on their comparison.
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As a basis for treatment optimization we work on a variety of modeling projects including relative biological effectiveness in proton therapy, outcome models for the relationship between the dose distribution and clinical outcome, and spatial modeling of microscopic disease for gliomas.
Intensity modulation is crucial both in photonradiotherapy (IMXT) and in proton radiotherapy (IMPT). In particular, we develop robust optimization methods for handling uncertainty in IMPT, direct aperture optimization algorithms, VMAT plan optimization, and multi-criteria planning methods.
We develop concepts and methods to consider the time component in the whole radiotherapy chain, from imaging over planning and optimization to treatment delivery.
To increase the precision of the dose application we develop new targeting techniques. To increase the accuracy of the dose prediction we perform Monte Carlo simulations. We develop in vivo range verification to enhance the precision of proton treatment delivery.
Optimization projects: opportunities for students and postdocs
Opportunities for students of operations research, math, physics, computer science who are interested in optimizing cancer therapy, especially in radiation oncology. The projects are suitable as PhD thesis projects, or as part of postdoctoral fellowships. Some may also be suitable for MS theses.
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April 4, 2016: Fazal Khan made 2nd place (out of 400) in the radmed treatment planning challenge.
April 1, 2016: Karen Doppke, MS was elected as one of the 100.
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February 22, 2016: Petra Trnkova, PhD received the Varian "Early Career Medical Physicist Scholarship Award" for her presentation "Proton Spot Scanning Radiosurgery for Static Targets" at the Winter Institute of Medical Physics.
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July 24, 2015: Yang Kyun Park, PhD, Justin Phillips, PhD, Greg Sharp PhD, and Brian Winey, PhD were honored as "Editor's Pick", "Featured Article" and Cover Image for their publication "Proton dose calculation on scatter-corrected CBCT image: Feasibility study for adaptive proton therapy" in the August 2015 edition of Medical Physics.
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Modbus DIA Server
From Digi Developer
Enabling the DIA Modbus Server
The DIA Modbus server allows remote Modbus masters/clients to query your DIA devices as if they were Modbus devices. However, the data has been cached by the Digi gateway, so if the DIA device is sleeping and wakes only once per hour, then the Modbus data returned will be repeated (stale) for the entire hour.
Data Models
Block Devices
Each device appears as a distinct Modbus destination with the I/O such as:
- 4 analog inputs (field to system)
- 4 analog outputs (system to field)
- 16 digital inputs (field to system)
- 16 digital outputs (system to field)
More information is on this Wiki page: Modbus_Dia_Block_Register_Map
How the Modbus Unit Id (or Slave Address) is mapped to DIA device is covered on this Wiki page: Enable_Modbus_Query_of_Dia_Devices
Channel Mapping
(Future work) You build custom Modbus maps on a channel-by-channel basis.
Robust Block Server
This version runs only on Digi gateways with the Modbus/IA Engine. DIA uses Modbus/UDP on localhost to the IA Engine, which provides a mature and robust multi-master solution.
It allows up to 32 incoming Modbus masters via:
- Modbus/TCP in TCP/IP or UDP/IP
- Modbus/RTU on gateway serial ports, or encapsulated in TCP/IP or UDP/IP
- Modbus/ASCII on gateway serial ports, or encapsulated in TCP/IP or UDP/IP
- Digi Realport on Windows set up for UDP mode, which enters the Modbus/IA Engine as a Modbus/RTU or Modbus/ASCII master encapsulated in UDP/IP
Gateway Configuration
By Web UI
To enable correct bridging of Modbus into the DIA, create a simple Industrial Automation configuration summarized by these steps:
- Click the Applications | Industrial Automation link on the left side of the display
- Confirm a Modbus Protocol table exists, or add one if required. The table name can be anything
- Click the Table Name to see the Table Settings page
- Add at least one message source (an incoming Master/Client). This could be Modbus/TCP on Ethernet or any other selection. More than one can be created.
- Add a message destination to a Modbus/TCP in UDP/IP on IP 127.0.0.1, UDP port 8502. To start with, route all messages to this and place it in the first row (index #1).
- reboot the gateway
By CLI over Telnet or SSH
set ia table=1 state=on name=DigiDia family=modbus accessmode=multi set ia table=1 ownerperiod=15000 set ia table=1 addroute=1 set ia table=1 route=1 active=on type=ip protaddr=0-255 protocol=modbustcp set ia table=1 route=1 transport=udp connect=passive address=127.0.0.1 set ia table=1 route=1 ipport=8502 replaceip=off slavetimeout=1000 set ia table=1 route=1 chartimeout=50 idletimeout=0 lineturnmode=off set ia table=1 route=1 fixedaddress=0 rbx=off set ia master=1 active=on type=tcp ipport=502 protocol=modbustcp table=1 set ia master=1 priority=medium messagetimeout=2500 chartimeout=50 set ia master=1 idletimeout=0 lineturnmode=off errorresponse=on set ia master=1 broadcast=replace
The Final Result
Your final IA Engine Configuration should look something like this (web colors may vary - this is a NDS web customization):
Configuring DIA
DIA YML Changes
Below is an example YML showing use of DIA 1.3 with auto-enumeration of XBee AIO and LTH sensors. Any device discovered will be automatically added to the Modbus server/slave list.
Important points:
- You MUST use the special Modbus 'sub-class' for the DIA drivers - such devices.modbus.mbdia_xbee_aio:MBusXBeeAIO. These behave like the normal DIA drivers, but have the added Modbus calls to create the Modbus register maps
- You must include the Modbus server presentation: presentations.modbus.mbdia_pres:MbDiaPresentation
- name: xbee_device_manager driver: devices.xbee.xbee_device_manager.xbee_device_manager:XBeeDeviceManager - name: xbee_autoenum driver: devices.xbee.xbee_devices.xbee_autoenum:XBeeAutoEnum settings: xbee_device_manager: xbee_device_manager short_names: True devices: - name: ain driver: devices.modbus.mbdia_xbee_aio:MBusXBeeAIO settings: sample_rate_ms: 60000 power: "On" sleep: False channel1_mode: "CurrentLoop" channel2_mode: "CurrentLoop" channel3_mode: "CurrentLoop" channel4_mode: "CurrentLoop" - name: lth driver: devices.modbus.mbdia_xbee_sensor:MBusXBeeSensor settings: sleep: True sample_rate_ms: 15000 awake_time_ms: 5000 presentations: - name: mbus_srv driver: presentations.modbus.mbdia_pres:MbDiaPresentation settings: mapping: "('auto', 1, 20)" auto_enum_name: xbee_autoenum
Seeing the Modbus 'Unit Id/Slave Address' assignment
The Modbus DIA server maintains a text file in the gateway's Python file systems named 'mbus_map.txt'. Every time it boots, it starts by reading this file (if it exists). Any new nodes seen are appended. You can edit this file at any time, reordering the lines.
This is a static example of mbus_map.txt, where the devices were manually entered by name in the YML as mapping: "( (1,'solar'), (2,'outdoor'), (3,'indoor') )"
# DIA Modbus Server unit_id mapping as of 2010-03-24 15:01:56 1,'solar','XBeeAIO','00:13:a2:00:40:4b:90:24!' 2,'outdoor','XBeeSensor','00:13:a2:00:40:4a:6e:83!' 3,'indoor','XBeeSensor','00:13:a2:00:40:32:14:FA!'
This is a dynamic/autoenum example of mbus_map.txt
# DIA Modbus Server unit_id mapping as of 2010-03-26 21:46:48 1,'lth_14_c6','XBeeSensor_LT','[00:13:a2:00:40:32:14:c6]!' 2,'lth_15_1a','XBeeSensor_LT','[00:13:a2:00:40:32:15:1a]!'
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