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That’s a good vid ag. I found #2 but I can’t find numbers 3-5.
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I don’t think they ever finished them. I will check.
I will put the second one up here. That is all the guy made. Maybe he will finish? The last one was Dec 2015.
AgamemnonI am assuming that is without pay.
Does that free up cap space, or not?
McDonald is an URFA. He does not count in the Rams’ cap space.
AgamemnonSpider eyes.
We have a winner! It’s a chart that depicts the unique eye patterns of different spider families.
Way to go, Ag!
BTW, Zooey has your $1000.00 in prize money.
When you ask him about it he’ll probably pretend he doesn’t know what you’re talking about. That’s just s little game he likes to play. Don’t worry, he’ll pay ya. Just keep on him about it.
Zooey wanted to say patterns of spider eyes. I told him to say bacteria tracks. So, I don’t think I will get it.
AgamemnonHow many people did that put out of work.
It is a Russian company. 😉
The Chinese are doing it too.
It is a conspiracy. AgamemnonI watched all 13 episodes. I doubt that it will be renewed. It is in the vast category of shows, that I would watch once, but never watch twice.
Any agreement with my take, regarding fight-scenes, pacing, the lack of physical presence for Danny Rand’s character, etc.?
Isn’t he a bit too bland for the role? Or, is that how the comic books portray him? Haven’t read them, as mentioned.
Also. Not a big deal. But on another site, I saw a photo from the comics. Looks like Rand is supposed to have two iron fists. The show makes it seem he can only manage one at a time. Again, not a big deal, from a martial arts fantasy point of view. But in a way, just having one makes him a lesser Luke Cage. I think if I’m in trouble, and have to face the Hand, I’d rather have Cage in my corner.
;>)
It wasn’t the actors or fights so much as it was the story telling. It could be an interesting story, but it isn’t, for me anyway. It is like it is written by people who shouldn’t be writing.
Watch some episodes of Billions. I like how that is written. They have most of them on youtube.
AgamemnonI like this, best.
I watch these:
Magicians
Expanse (..is sci/fi channel)
I quit watching the “Walking Dead”.
Masterchef Canada
Quantico, cause it is the only thing on that day.
The Originals
Grimm
Sleepy Hollow
Stan Lee’s Lucky Man AgamemnonI watched all 13 episodes. I doubt that it will be renewed. It is in the vast category of shows, that I would watch once, but never watch twice.
AgamemnonReady to bring the pain! 👊🏽 @kayvonwebster pic.twitter.com/VBsBmqB6Kg
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) March 14, 2017
AgamemnonHe was probably the best thing they could find at WR. I want a guy that doesn’t drop the ball. 😉
AgamemnonI don’t see Tru and Whitworth as being long term solutions. Woods, maybe? Unless something more changes, all they can do is minimum wage stuff. imo As for the rest, new coaches equal new eyes and they wanted the money used elsewhere.
Agamemnonhttp://www.bettervegetablegardening.com/growing-potatoes-in-straw.html
Wednesday 8. Mar 2017
Growing Potatoes In
Straw – Slideshow
Page ContentsGrowing Potatoes in Straw
Materials Needed
Slideshow
Crop Care and Harvesting
More …..Planting Potatoes In Straw The Work Smarter Method
Planting Potatoes in Straw
This method of growing potatoes is made for those of us with big ideas and limited time. Some gardening methods are just more fun by nature. Maybe the fun part is the actual lack of work involved in this method.
Apart from the reduced work load in using this method there are several good reasons for growing potatoes in straw.
Eliminate digging
Thick covering of straw can greatly reduce soil temperature
Reducing the weed factor
Reduces water requirements
Adding organic matter to your soil
Reduces soil born diseases
Eliminate tuber damage when harvestingStep By Step
Step 1. Put Potato on The Ground
Step 2. Throw Straw Over Top
Step 3. Harvest By Lifting Straw And Picking PotatoesWow! that was easy! There really isn’t much more to growing potatoes in straw than that.
Materials Needed
Straw
First, let’s define “STRAW” – Straw is the seedless dry matter derived from grain harvesting. For our purposes here we should consider any dry matter that is suitable for mulching as straw.
Photo of mulch used when growing potatoes in strawRoll-over image to enlarge
A good thick layer of straw, will help keep the soil cooler, reduce moisture loss and protect the growing potatoes from sun. Used here is a mixture of straw, dried grass clippings and various different types of leaves.
Follow this link for the different types of mulch materials you can use here and elsewhere in your garden.
Seed Potatoes
A rough guide for the amount of seed potatoes needed is 8 lb of seed potatoes to a 100ft row (3.6 kg to plant 30 meter row) This will depend a lot on how big your seed potatoes are and whether you cut them or not. Follow this link for more details on Seed Potatoes
Bed Preparation
This is an easy method method of growing spuds, however as with any crop some ground preparation is necessary. A simple way of combining weed control, ground preparation and fertilizing potatoes all in the one simple step is by sheet composting your intended potato patch the season before planting your crop.
All-Purpose 5-5-5 Organic Fertilizer
Gardeners supply fertilizerNot everybody has the time or materials available for adding animal manures or sheet composting, all is not lost. You can still produce and excellent crop by using a good quality All-Purpose 5-5-5 Organic Fertilizer when the garden bed is being prepared and later on as a side dressing.
Planting potatoes in straw is an excellent method for growing potatoes in any garden. It is especially good for any situation where you are unable to dig the ground up to plant potatoes, like this garden, featured in the slideshow. This potato bed is built over top of construction fill, consisting of bricks, stones and old broken concrete.
Slideshow
growing Potatoes in Straw
Start Over
helpful itemsUsually this is done on top of garden soil that has been dig over and fertilized, so all you really need is:
Straw or good mulch material
Spuds
Water SourceCrop Care
The straw retains moisture keeping the soil cool and reduces (not eliminates) the need for watering. So as with other potato growing methods check regularly to ensure soil moisture is adequate. Follow this link for more details on Watering Potatoes
Harvesting
Photo of harvesting potatoes grown in straw
Talking of harvesting, this is the easiest part of the whole growing in straw deal. A simple matter of lifting the straw and gathering the potatoes. Don’t you just love simple, it leaves more time for other gardening pleasures.
too many pictures to move them all here.
Agamemnonhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100127-dinosaur-feathers-colors-nature/
Dinosaur True Colors Revealed for First Time
“Dino fuzz” pigment discovery in feathers may strengthen dinosaur-bird link.
By Chris Sloan,National Geographic magazine paleontology editor, for National Geographic News
PUBLISHED January 27, 2010
An illustration depicting dinosaur Sinosauropteryx in true color, with a striped tail and orange back feathers
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Sinosauropteryx is the first fossil dinosaur to have its color scientifically established.Illustration courtesy James Robins
Pigments have been found in fossil dinosaurs for the first time, a new study says.
The discovery may prove once and for all that dinosaurs’ hairlike filaments—sometimes called dino fuzz—are related to bird feathers, paleontologists announced today. (Pictures: Dinosaur True Colors Revealed by Feather Find.)
The finding may also open up a new world of prehistoric color, illuminating the role of color in dinosaur behavior and allowing the first accurately colored dinosaur re-creations, according to the study team, led by Fucheng Zhang of China’s Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology.
The team identified fossilized melanosomes—pigment-bearing organelles—in the feathers and filament-like “protofeathers” of fossil birds and dinosaurs from northeastern China.
Found in the feathers of living birds, the nano-size packets of pigment—a hundred melanosomes can fit across a human hair—were first reported in fossil bird feathers in 2008.
That year, Yale graduate student Jakob Vinther and colleagues, using a scanning electron microscope, discovered melanosomes in the dark bands of a hundred-million-year-old feather. In 2009 Vinther’s group went on to show that another fossilized feather would have been iridescent in a living bird, due to microscopic light-refracting surfaces created by stacked melanosomes.
These earlier findings proved it was possible for melanosomes from dinosaur times to survive in fossils.
But until now no one had found the pigments in dinosaurs—other than birds, which many paleontologists consider to be dinosaurs. And no one had used melanosome shape and density to infer color.
Agamemnonhttp://electronicdesign.com/power/harvesting-power-using-triboelectric-generators
Harvesting Power Using Triboelectric Generators
Jan 31, 2014 William WongResearchers at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology are harvesting energy using triboelectric effect technology, or contact electrification. Processor Zhong Lin Wang and his students are taking advantage of the triboelectric effect to harvest small amounts of energy, essentially turning static electricity into something useful. They can power LEDs and other devices using the harvested energy (see the figure).
Static electricity is a form of the triboelectric effect. It occurs when some materials are rubbed together and the friction generates static electricity. Walking over a rug on a dry day and touching a metal doorknob is shocking, but not too useful. Georgia Tech researchers can turn this shock into manageable power that could drive sensors and mobile devices.
The approach uses two modes of operation. In one, two materials are brought into contact with each other. In the other, two materials slide against each other. The amount of energy is tiny. But like most energy harvesting technologies, the collection of these small amounts enables useful work to be done, whether it’s lighting an LED or running a microcontroller.
The triboelectric generator has increased power output density by a factor of 100,000. In theory, a square meter could provide 300 W. Originally, the team at Georgia Tech was investigating piezoelectric generators, which use movement and different underlying technology. Triboelectric generators are a laboratory phenomenon now, but practical uses are on the near horizon.
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