Google Sites Migration Goofs:
- As with Blogger, Google News, and other projects Google is now forcing people to switch from Google Site Classic to a new version. As with the other updated versions it feels like the new version is in some ways worse and in spite of efforts by Google there have obviously been migration issues (that have been documented by others online) and there are now a lot of broken links on my website and blog. Please bear with me while I update things... As an aside, you'll notice a lot of Google goofs of late. I think they may be trying to save money, re-distribute their computing power on other projects, etc?
google sites migration problems
https://www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/migrate-classic-to-new
https://www.k8oms.net/home/known-problems
https://digital.com/website-builders/google-sites/
https://www.onixnet.com/insights/migrating-off-of-classic-google-sites
https://www.steegle.com/google-sites/how-to/migrate-classic-to-new
https://www.k8oms.net/home/known-problems
https://digital.com/website-builders/google-sites/
https://www.onixnet.com/insights/migrating-off-of-classic-google-sites
google products getting worse
Google products/services getting worse?
Killing Weeds:
- salt (cheapest option is pool salt, less then $10 for 25kg)
- vinegar (people say 5% will work but double strength is cheap)
(Updated for 2020.) NEED PROOF THAT VINEGAR IS A WEED-TERMINATOR? Just look at the weeds growing along a pea-gravel path in my Herb Garden. These were photographed yesterday afternoon, just moments before I sprayed them with cheap, straight-from-the-bottle, store-brand white vinegar. Here’s what all that greenery looked like this morning:
I’d say those weeds are deader than dead. And that’s why I use vinegar on the gravel paths, brick walk-ways, and blue-stone patio here at A Garden for the House. For me it has proven an effective, eco-friendly answer to Roundup.
- bleach/chlorine (technically they contain similar/same active ingredients). Tablets seem to be the cheapest option
Undiluted bleach can zap weeds growing through the cracks in your walkway or driveway. Spray undiluted bleach on the weeds and let stand. The solution will kill existing weeds and help prevent new ones from sprouting. Bleach will kill grass, flowers, and other vegetation as well, so take care where you aim!
- burn them (includes naked flame via flame thrower type devices as well as boiling water)
- pull them (requires physical effort and time though. Difficult if you're dealing with larger areas)
- chemically (normally glychophosphate) based options
- desiccants such as polenta/cornmeal/baking soda, etc...
Gluten Cornmeal as Weed Killer
It is important to note that cornmeal gluten is only effective against seeds, not plants that are mature, and is most effective with corn gluten having at least 60% proteins in it. For annual weeds that are growing, plain cornmeal products will not kill it.
- pets/animals (some animals are known or can be trained to be selective)
bison eat weeds
I began teaching cows to eat weeds in 2004 with a pilot project at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. My first attempt was a learning process and I spent a lot of time looking at the science that talked about how animals learn and how they choose what to eat. Thanks to Dr. Fred Provenza and his colleagues at Utah State University, I knew that animals learned what to eat from their mothers and from experience. So I reviewed that research and decades of work by Pavlov and Skinner to figure out steps that anyone could use to turn cows, and other livestock, into weed eaters. Over the course of a few years, I refined the process and today you can teach your animals to eat weeds in about 8 hours spread over 10 days.
I’ve now trained over 1000 beef cows, a couple of small dairy herds, a flock of sheep and 34 bison at one of Ted Turner’s Montana ranches to eat many of our most problematic weeds. I’ve worked in California, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, and British Columbia and Alberta in Canada. I’ve even trained one of my co-workers to eat tomatoes, though she still refuses to try olives. I’ve helped folks in a variety of states turn their animals into weed eaters just by helping them over the phone or by email after they read the book and then called with questions. What I know after ten years of doing this is that the process works everywhere and for all animals because it is based on animal behavior principles.
The best part of training is that it’s a once and done deal. Your first group of trainees will train their offspring and their herd mates, and they will all remember from year to year which weeds are good to eat. You don’t even have to teach them to eat every weed in your pastures. Because the training process opens their minds to the idea that all kinds of things could be food, your livestock will begin to eat all the good things they find.
czech soviet base bison eat weeds
edible weeds
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- as usual thanks to all of the individuals and groups who purchase and use my goods and services
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Random Quotes:
- As Sittenfeld imagines it, Hillary was attracted to Bill first for his striking good looks (“a handsome lion”), then for his ability, unusual in Hillary’s male contemporaries, to appreciate her mind. Later on in Rodham, as in real life, these qualities become dangerous. Bill famously proposed to Hillary three times before she agreed to marry him; in Sittenfeld’s story, they break up after the third proposal and Hillary returns to her home town, Chicago, to begin a highly successful career in law.
Which is precisely the problem with this book: competent, decent, public-spirited people don’t make for compelling protagonists. The minute Bill left the story, I missed him. I wanted to throw my Kindle across the room at times, so enraging was his behaviour but even in fictionalised form, he is a compelling figure.
Hillary, a four-part documentary due to air on SBS later this year, further illustrates this point. Hours of interviews with Hillary show she is never not thoughtful about her extraordinary life, but it’s that measured approach which leaves the viewer frustrated. Asked about the unending sexism she’s faced, Hillary shrugs and says: “You’d get no points for being emotional. You’d get no points for trying to defend yourself. You just put your head down, you worked hard.” Words to live by, sure, but not exactly high drama.
- At the end of the Second World War, there were winners and losers. But today, a new world order could be established, one in which everyone is a loser. This demands a pattern of cooperation between countries completely different from that which emerged after the Second World War.
The spread of the coronavirus has set in motion fundamental change on many levels -- economical, political, intellectual and social -- and it will not stop when it ends.
An unexpected event sparked that change, like a butterfly effect, in which a simple event leads to very dramatic widespread change, just like the Austrian crown prince's assassination just before the First World War.
Economically, lockdowns have resulted in a huge downturn unseen since the Great Depression.
Politically, we are facing a stage that could lead to the crystallisation of a new global system of cooperating or competing -- but not necessarily rival -- powers. It could give birth to a new form of relations and alliances between countries.
Socially, change will be embodied in new forms of human interactions after all the isolation and social distancing.
Intellectually, change has come through the moral quandaries posed by the virus and the way to treat it.
Those older than 50 are the wisest but also the most vulnerable to death. Imagine what the world would look like filled with energy and knowledge, but without wisdom.
What will happen to Syria after the virus?
I believe the first thing violence and defeat does is pave the way to all subsequent tyranny.
The hungry do not think rationally and the bereaved become bent on revenge, and this applies to Syria and all downtrodden and poor countries in the world.
There will be disastrous consequences if more sanctions are imposed on Syria like those expected from the Caesar law (to be implemented by the United States in early June) at the same time as the coronavirus pandemic.
Everybody will emerge exhausted after the war against the coronavirus. No one in the region will be able to withstand the disastrous consequences derived from the continuation of pre-coronavirus wars in a time of pandemic.
- Mickelwait, the director of Abolition for Exodus Cry, argues that failure to verify age and consent of those depicted in the pornographic content is facilitating the abuse of women and minors.
- As protests across the US rage, President Donald Trump announces Antifa — an umbrella term for loosely defined far-left militant groups who oppose white supremacists — will be defined as "a terrorist organisation".
