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- "Some of the spooky material in this book should be familiar to you. Some of it will almost certainly be breathtakingly new to you. All of it is essential to obtain a thorough understanding of the Dark Arts and of all the other formidable, scary, creepy things which are out there."
- —Description of the book on its back cover[src]
Dark Arts Defence – Basics for Beginners[1] was an introductory level Defence Against the Dark Arts textbook issued by the Ministry of Magic.
The book was presented only a theoretical examination of the topic, and lacked practical information on countering Dark Magic, such as how to use defensive spells.
In the 1995–1996 school year, when Dolores Umbridge was the professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts class of Hogwarts school, she supplied her fifth year students with a book each, and had them read from it and understand only the theories for their examinations. Although she claimed it was a "carefully-structured, Ministry-approved" guideline to repair the previously unstable curriculum, it was in truth to prevent the students from being trained in combat and become Albus Dumbledore's soldiers to overthrow the Ministry, a paranoid fear stemming from Cornelius Fudge.
Intercepting a Counter Incantation 'On-the-Go' was one of the spell techniques covered by this title.
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- In the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, this book is used in Dolores Umbridge's fifth-year Defence Against the Dark Arts class, rather than Wilbert Slinkhard's Defensive Magical Theory.
- Instead of the usual of students buying the textbook before the start of term, Umbridge handed out the books during their first class because, as it is written in the cover, it is a Ministry of Magic issue.
- Also, this book's latter title Basics for Beginners is the title of the first chapter of the book Defensive Magical Theory used in the novel.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, Umbridge used a book transfiguring spell to transform defensive books carried by members of Dumbledore's Army into this book. In addition, the books are pink with a cat playing with yarn in the front cover.
- The people who wrote this book also wrote Abracadabra: An A-Z of Spooky Spells.
- The illustration on the book's front cover contains an infinite regression.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Cutscenes)
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NEW YORK-Chief Yusuf Ole Petenya says out in the sweeping plains of Kenya, cows are like ATMs: Put food in, get daily sustenance back. So when drought choked Kenya and killed 90 percent of the livestock in 2009, it devastated the chief (also known as Shani) and his people, the Maasai. Speaking to a group in New York City, Shani showed the audience pictures of a farmer using branches to prop up his last cow and a zebra lying dead because the Maasai are eating trees instead of cows. The Maasai usually cross the border to their kin in Tanzania if they need help. "When they have a drought they come to us. When we have a drought we go to them," said Shani. "But last year, we didn't have a place to run to."
Everyone was suffering. It was time to find another cash machine.
After an elder told him the droughts were more aggressive and frequent now than they were years ago, Shani decided he and his people had to find a new way of living to survive. He pointed out the intricately beaded necklaces looped around his neck over his purple robe, the loops of beaded earrings in his ears, and the beaded staff in his hand. He said his goal was to help the 10,000 Maasai women begin a sustainable business creating beaded clothing and accessories and selling them to tourists.
Shani's visit to New York coincided with the UN's Commission on Sustainable Development, where leaders came together to figure out how to help developing countries. In one side panel, investment managers and officials from USAID spoke of investing in private enterprises like Shani's-combining Wall Street investment techniques and government dollars with entrepreneurial drive to create a "double bottom line"-a venture that creates both a social good and a financial return. "Philanthrophy's a wonderful thing but at the end of the day there's just not enough capital on the ground," said one investment manager. You have to bring investment techniques to business to create capital.
Shani completely agrees. He said, "No donor is going to give you money forever. At some point they will get tired and say, 'Hey, go somewhere else. I'm sorry. My coffers are running out of money.'" His people have to have businesses that sustain themselves instead of waiting for others to give them aid.
But there are obstacles to good entrepreneurial ventures. Bad business plans can accompany the best of intentions, just as well-meaning nonprofits can keep people in a state of dependence. If the developed world is going to recover some of the billions it has spent on foreign aid, investment managers will have to ask probing questions. Both Yale graduates and creative Pakistani farmers have to learn from each other to surmount the barriers to a successful enterprise.
When I told Burt van der Vaart about Shani's bead-selling enterprise, van der Vaart said he would ask a few probing questions. Van der Vaart is co-founder and CEO of the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF). Unlike more famous enterprise investment funds that are newer to the game, SEAF has been quietly investing in entrepreneurs worldwide since 1992 and has done about 335 investment deals.
Van der Vaart said he would first ask if the labor force is already skilled or if it needs training. The women are doing a handicraft that has spanned generations but as one audience member pointed out when Shani spoke, the women may have to adjust their designs to make something wearable in a Western world-instead of a souvenir that a tourist won't wear outside of Africa.
Van der Vaart asked if the tourists will pay in cash and if so, how will Shani prevent stealing? What is the competition? African vendors sometimes import cheap tribal trinkets that are actually made in China, which has a huge labor pool and an extensive labor infrastructure. Will the Maasai's high-quality handiwork be able to compete? Shani is counting on a global market, but van der Vaart said it's easier if the market is regional or local so Shani won't have to worry about transporting his products across bad roads and through tolls to the ocean. Western countries tax imports steeply, which adds to the cost.
And will the tourists come? Shani looks at Kenya's stark safari plains and exotic animals, and sees tourism as its main hope of income. But he also knows the global financial crisis is decimating the tourist industry. The talent is there. The desire is there. The Maasai want to make money for themselves, he says. They don't want to beg.
In Karachi, Pakistan, another enterprising man bounds into the room with his shirt off and pumps the hand of a befuddled salesman. Then he asks, "Were you able to pay attention to what I was saying?" He stands at the front of the room and delivers today's lesson: first impressions count. The scene comes from The New Recruits, a documentary that shows three business leaders (fellows with the Acumen Fund, an investment fund much like SEAF) fanning out across the world with their stellar resumés and good intentions. Their task is to help launch social enterprises, enterprises with that "double bottom line" mentioned earlier: They provide the poor with a needed service and also sustain themselves by making a profit. Joel Montgomery, the shirtless fellow teaching about first impressions, went to help Pakistani salesmen sell Micro Drip irrigation systems to poor farmers.
Montgomery-a Christian from Tuscaloosa, Ala., and a graduate of Yale and Thunderbird School of Management-went into the project with missionary zeal. One scene shows his skeptical Alabama family gathered around the dinner table, trying to dissuade him before he leaves. Montgomery's mom chides them, "Joel feels like he's on a mission, that the Lord's sendin' him to Pakistan." His dad replies gruffly, "The Lord sent Jesus on a mission and He ended up dyin'."
Montgomery's mission wasn't easy either. The documentary shows farmers dozing during one of Micro Drip's presentations and shows Montgomery out in the fields, struggling to guide his salesmen as they explain to the farmers how Micro Drip can save them money. Montgomery tells his dad on a video chat that he used to believe the market could solve all problems, but now he sees its limitations: "You can't come into a developing country with a perfect plan and expect it to work perfectly." Montgomery told me his sales people had master's degrees but couldn't take a calculator and find 90 percent of 100. And while locals formed the sales team, Montgomery couldn't expect them to completely understand the Pakistani consumer like he thought they could. It would be like grabbing someone off the street and saying, "Tell me about American consumers!" Montgomery said.
Montgomery told me for the first half of his nine months in Pakistan, he wondered, "Why in the world am I here? It doesn't feel like we're really making a dent in what we're trying to do here." But Montgomery says he took comfort from the book of Job, when God steps in and chides Job for his arrogance. When Montgomery read that, it lifted him out of discouragement.
Micro Drip came in where corruption and exclusively profit-based capitalism left gaping holes. Montgomery said the Pakistani government earmarked $2 billion to develop drip irrigation in the country. But thanks to corruption and a faulty program structure, poor farmers had no access to the subsidies. Nineteen of the 20 companies marketing drip irrigation decided to follow the major profits and focus on the richer farmers with large plots. Micro Drip was the only one that focused on the poor farmers-the ones who needed it most.
Montgomery and Micro Drip began with a focus on one-acre irrigation systems-at $300, which is one-fifth the cost of a normal drip irrigation system and still far too expensive for poor Pakistani farmers. Since the farmers were skeptical about irrigations' ability to improve their crop yield, Micro Drip had to adjust its approach to convince the farmers the technology would work. Montgomery's team focused on selling family nutritional kits-a mini drip irrigation system that could water a small garden. The farmers could pay for this $11 system in just six months with their increased crop yield. During Montgomery's time at Micro Drip, the company finally started to see progress in selling the mini-systems.
Acumen Fund chose to invest in Micro Drip since the technology saw success in India and a community of Pakistani business leaders committed to make it happen. Rajan Kundra, director of the Acumen Fund's portfolio, said its investors don't mind if the salesmen sell large or small irrigation systems. The key is building a company that can sustain itself-a process that can take two to five years. Is Micro Drip there yet? "They're getting there. They're getting there," he said. Sometimes Acumen Fund will decide to give a company more capital to bring it to the point of sustainability. He added, "We've also decided that certain ideas aren't going to work." In early stage investing, you're successful if half your investments pay off, he said.
Montgomery found that developing an enterprise in a foreign culture takes, above all, humility. He said too often both entrepreneurs and missionaries come into a country with the attitude, "We have the top technology. We have the top thoughts. We're going to help." But a successful entrepreneur has to be teachable. The developing world has resources the rest of the world could use, he noted. For instance, a poor farmer in Kenya can go to a small market and pay for tomatoes using his cell phone-an innovation that Americans would probably appreciate also. And in Pakistan, farmers recognize that the price of onions can fluctuate wildly. So every year the farmers plant one acre of onions, and every couple of years the prices soar and farmers make a killing off of one acre. "They're not stupid," Montgomery said.
The key is spreading the wealth-both for the Maasai whose cows are dying and for the investment manager looking at his portfolio. During his time in New York, Shani spoke to a philanthropist and said, "We need that connection between us and you. Because you guys have the money and have no idea what to do with the money. But we . . . know where we want to go, from Point A to B, but lack the means." He told the philanthropists they could pool their financial and entrepreneurial capital: "Package complete." The philanthropist said, "I like that."
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Mike Steinberger over at Slate has as a good recommendation for this Thanksgiving. Since wine-turkey pairing is the topic du jour, I thought I'd add my own suggestions. While I think I may take Steinberger up on the Oregon Pinot notion, I also might suggest a lesser known varietal also grown in Oregon. Gruner Veltliner is an Austrian varietal, reminiscent of Gewurtztraminer, that is very food-friendly white wine that has enough complexity to hold up to a big, strong bird like a turkey. And speaking of Gewurtz, why don't you give that a try, too? Traminette is a hybrid of Gewurtztraminer that is grown commonly in Missouri, and it would be an excellent choice.
As for other varietals grown in our area...a Cabernet Franc that's light on the oak might be just the red wine to consider. I believe that turkey is one of the most versitile creatures out there. Any number of wines can be paired with this queen of the table birds. Try a Viognier for a white. Or the Chambourcin from Augusta Winery here in Missouri for an ideal hybrid red.
I know that the first thing that crosses your mind when you twist out the cork of that last precious bottle of Pommard 1er Cru smuggled home in the half case in your carry-on luggage after your anniversary trip to France back in the days before the paranoia of the twittering fear mongers (nothing to fear but...) rendered corkscrews and even liquid itself verboten in-flight, before that rich, deep, very French odor of slate, raspberry and barnyard slips over the lip of the bottle, before your acknowledgement of the event you're celebrating, before your expectation of the table conversations that will be lubricated by maroon sunlight in bottle form, before the possibility slips through your consciousness of the extra-curricular activities (if you're lucky [sic!]) that might follow whatever event warrants such a fine bottle of magic...yes the first thing you will think of upon pulling that cork is, of course, the soil pH. Yes, you will wonder, yes, what exactly was the pH of the soil in which these grapes were grown?
Okay, maybe I'm making assumptions. In truth, unless the bottle belongs to a soil scientist, a vineyard manager, or someone with a serious problem, the last thing on your mind when you open a bottle of great wine will be the soil pH. After all, the acidity of the soil doesn't even relate, directly, to the pH in the finished wine. pH isn't a sexy wine word like "slate" or "shale" or "minerality," terms which have all become cliches among aficionados.
But soil pH is important if you're growing wine. The pH of the soil has an optimum range for vinifera, hybrids and native American varieties. Natives tolerate, and even prefer, the slightly higher acids of a low pH soil (remember, it's an inverse relationship, low pH = high acid). Cabernet franc, which I'm planting, prefers a pH of around 6.5. At this optimum range, soil nutrients are more accessible and are taken in at the right levels. While a low acid soil won't necessarily mean you wind up with a low acid wine, it can affect the overall health of the vine and thus the ripening and health of the fruit.
My soil tests showed that the pH of my first vineyard block at the new site was 5.5. Since I'm planting cab franc, I wanted to raise that pH to around 6.5. The way to do this, effectively lowering the soil acidity, is to add agricultural lime. It's a common necessity in our region. Your handy Extension person and or website can help you figure out exactly how much lime to add to your site to raise your soil pH.
Lime additions are calculated and measured and bought in tons. Even though I spent time growing up on a farm as a kid, I also lived in an apartment in Chicago for many years, so the idea of tons of anything is a foreign concept. I was sure it was going to be expensive to add appx. 800 lbs of ENM (effective neutralizing material, aka lime) to my one-acre bloc. Especially when a single 50-lb bag of pelleted lime cost six bucks.
There are two basic types of limestone...calcitic and dolomite. I have high magnesium content (call it 'mag' content to sound like you know what you're talking about) in my soil, so I wanted to add calcitic limestone as dolomite contains higher levels of magnesium. You can have too much of a good thing, and excessive levels of any nutrient can cause toxicity that is as dangerous, or even more dangerous, to your vines than not having enough nutrients. At first I planned on using bags of pellet lime, spreading them with a rented lawn spreader and a borrowed ATV. I thought this was a pretty clever solution, and when I figured out that it would cost me around 400 dollars to perform the entire operation, I was fairly satisfied. The problem was matching up the ENM rating of the limestone in question. ENM is measured in lbs per ton, so if you have limestone with a rating of 400 (per ton), and your experts tell you that you need to add 800 lbs of ENM, that means you need to add TWO tons of the material to reach your target. That's 4,000 lbs! A lot of stuff.
Once I figured this out, I grew scared...my cost was doubling, not to mention the workload. But then I learned you could buy lime by the 12-ton truckload. And what's more, a good agricultural co-op will deliver and spread it for you. The problem is that you need to buy a minimum of 12 tons. I thought this might cost a fortune, but then I learned I could get 12 tons for a couple hundred bucks...a fraction of the cost per ton than what I'd been planning to spend on bag lime. The only issue is that you have to have a place for them to spread the extra lime. I had them dump two tons on my one-acre spot (at 400 ENM per ton, that would mean I added the required 800 ENM to the bloc) and then spread the rest randomly around our property. That way I'll be ahead of the game when we plant new blocs in the future.
I had the field disked ahead of time to allow the lime to work down into the soil. I had to wait a few weeks for them to come out to our property as, believe it or not, 12 tons is not a very large project. They were liming area corn and bean farms with hundreds of tons, so they had to work me in. I met them at the vineyard, showed them where I needed the lime and they took care of the rest. I'll let it rain, then rip and then drag the bloc smooth in the spring to further spread the lime. I'll test again every year to to see how the lime levels are shaping up. A couple years down the road I can make adjustments as needed.
This is probably confusing to novices. It was very confusing to me, but now that I've gone through the process I have a pretty good handle on the hows and whys of spreading lime. I also understand concepts like acid rain better. This is a problem in the northeast...acid rain can reduce pH of soils into the low 4-range (increasing acidity). That would be no good for wine grapes of any variety.
So now at Thanksgiving or on your birthday or whenever you pop open that next great bottle of wine, maybe the soil pH will be the first thing you think about. I know I'll be thinking about it for a long time.
Farming is a seasonal business. Everything you do is tied to what Mother Nature is going to throw your way. Sometimes all you can do is react, but there is also plenty you can do to prepare yourself and your vineyard.
I'm beginning a new feature. At the beginning of every month I'll try to establish a comprehensive checklist of all the seasonal items to accomplish in the vineyard. This is specifically tailored for my region and varieties, but I'm basing this off of several calendars I've seen, both from the ICCVE and the fantastic "Production Budgets for Arkansas Wine and Juice Grapes" document. (I can't find it online anymore, otherwise I'd link to it.) I'm lumping the next two months together because this is the slow part of the season and many of these tasks aren't tied to what's happening in the vineyard and can be performed at any time during the two-month period. Once I have the entire year covered, I'll keep the posts intact and simply review and adjust them as I learn from experience. I hope folks can find this a useful reference, and also feel free to make suggestions.
When Missouri viticulture comes up in conversation, invariably someone says, "I didn't know you could grow grapes in Missouri. I go into the whole story of how Missouri was the second largest producer before Prohibition, well ahead of California. I explain the state's German winemaking heritage, the strong showing of norton in international competitions in the late 1800s, and the fact that a few tenacious individuals even grow vinifera here. I've also visited vineyards in Canada and at nearly 7,000 foot elevation in Colorado, a pair of unlikely viticultural locales. But it wasn't until I started blogging and getting readers and reading other blogs from around the world that I realized how widespread this pursuit truly is. Carlos is growing wine grapes in Colombia. That's Colombia, South America, with an 'o,' and not nearby Columbia, Missouri with a 'u.' Louise is growing grapes in Kenya, where forced dormancy and baboons are issues we can't even comprehend. Of course, vineyards still grow where you expect them to, in countries like France. Bertrand has, in my opinion, possibly the best wine and vineyard blog going. And that's where I learned about one of the most traditional practices, bulk wine, a time-honored practice that it is completely new to me. His recent story about bulk wine is fascinating: going to the winery with plastic jugs to get your fill and then bottling at home. I doubt any wineries in the States are doing that.
It's a fascinating pursuit. It's an obsession. Maybe it starts with a glass of wine or a photograph. Or maybe you're bitten with the bug when you stand in one of the world's great vineyards. It happened to me outside the little village of Pommard, Burgundy. Whatever the case, once you're afflicted by this strange compulsion to tame unruly vines, tend them until they bear fruit and then stomp the berries into submission so that you can begin the long, slow process of making wine, nobody is going to be able to talk you out of it. I'm glad to see that folks from every conceivable clime are similarly afflicted.
A hard freeze turned the leaves brown overnight, and within hours they'd all dropped. The notoriously vigorous norton vines shed their dinner plate-sized leaves and exposed a few surprise missed clusters. I tried the berries (that weren't dessicated) and they were rich and without the usual norton acidic tang. It was a reminder to leave this varietal hanging longer to drop the TA as much as possible. I'm always overeager to harvest. I could have left them for another two weeks at least. Conversely, I should have harvested the traminette a week or even ten days earlier. It's a slow learning process, and you have to wait an entire year to correct your mistakes, by which time you're apt to have forgotten your lessons. How does the saying go? Insanity is doing things over and over again the same way but expecting different results. In any case, it's a great time of year...the season is over, and the weather pleasant for trellis repairs, which you can undertake at a leisurely pace.
_ Michael Amigoni is taking his grapes full-circle. Inland Sea Wines, a new Kansas City urban winery, is open for business.
_ Here's another new KC area winery.
_ "Extreme Viticulture" - growing organically in the northeastern US
_ "Eastern Cab Franc" - here's an article about the varietal I plant to plant. I'm also considering Barbera and Mourvedre. I'm leaning toward the latter...the late budbreak, thick skin and good disease resistance offers appeal.
_ "Hybrid Wines" - The title tells what this blog is about
_ "A Day in the Life of a Missouri Vineyard" - Annother MO vineyard blog
I need to prepare the soil for planting next spring on our first vineyard bloc. I've been having trouble finding the right implement...I'd like to rip the ground with a chisel plow (or v-ripper) to a depth of 24 inches. I thought it would be a challenge to start a vineyard without owning a tractor. But I caught our neighbor out in a field across from our property where he was discing some ground for winter wheat. He agreed to hit the bloc with the disk, cutting cross ways first and then going against the grain. It'll only be about 12 inches of soil work, but it should at least open up the ground enough for me to lime the bloc this fall and give me some more time to track down a ripper before I plant.
I need to add enough lime to raise the soil pH from 5.5 to 6.2-6.5, which is a better range for vinifera. In these photos you can see my neighbor, Poodle, cutting the edges of the vineyard block. The field has been in pasture grass for as long as anyone can remember, so I should be able to plant right away. If it were row-cropped, I'd want to leave it fallow or cover-crop it to work out any chemicals and add nutrients back into the soil.
In these photos you can see the tractor at work. I also added some lines so that you can see the eventual orientation of the rows. This is an area slightly larger than 1 acre, but it will actually only have an acre of grapes. I need to leave a 30-foot aisle in the middle of the bloc so that the electric company can get to that pole directly in the center.
The advantages of this bloc are its southeast-facing (but mostly south) exposure. The rows are perpendicular to the slope across most of the bloc, though one corner will have rows running directly up the slope. I'll cover crop the aisles with buffalo grass or fescue, so that will help prevent erosion. The bloc is also parallel to the prevailing winds. It's a windy ridge, so this should help with some frost issues as well as with drying out the grapes with the wind blowing down the aisles, which may help with fungus issues.
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Carl and Maxine Brandt and their granddaughter, Jes-c Brandt, spent June 2-8 on a mission trip in Kansas, Okla.
Working with World Mission Builders, the group constructed a 9,000 sq. ft. dining hall at Cookson Hills Christian Ministries as part of a longer project spanning June 3-15.
A team of 60 workers ranging from their 20s to their 80s volunteered on the trip, with a majority of the workers being over 65 years old. Jes-c was the youngest volunteer in the group.
During construction the workers battled the hot Oklahoma sun and fatigue, but with the help of donated crane services, the dining hall was pieced together.
Carl's favorite part of the trip was seeing the joy on people's faces when they saw the building coming together. Carl noted, "The parents and the staff were blown away by the work we had accomplished."
Cookson Hills provides Christ-centered care, education and therapeutic services for at-risk youth. Currently the facility works with approximately 80 students. With an increase in applications, Cookson Hills is expanding their campus to include 12 additional housing units for students and their families.
Carl and Maxine hope to return to Cookson Hills in October to help build more structures.
Their mission work in Oklahoma will continue in September as they travel to Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud, Okla. They will be building a chapel as a part of a larger project to place chapels in all of Oklahoma's prisons.
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It's OK to have a long reach, to take advantage of it, to try to create things by sticking to the puck in the attacking zone BUT, now, I think that Jagr won't fool anybody anymore.
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Despite the panic across Red Sox nation this morning, Theo Epstein is remaining positive and hopeful that his team can turn things around in the last 16 games of the season.
The Red Sox general manager spoke this morning about the team's swoon, and revealed that J.D. Drew has a broken finger, in an interview on WEEI's "Dennis and Callahan Show:"
"We have an opportunity ahead of us to play good baseball for two and a half weeks, ride that momentum into the postseason. If we don't do it, we don't deserve to be there," Epstein said. "We have to prove that we were the team that had the best record in baseball, four plus months, we're not the team that started 2-10 and went 3-10 most recently, so that's on us. We need to go out and do it."
Epstein said there wasn't one specific reason for the current collapse.
"It's never one factor," Epstein said."There are a lot of things that we're not doing well right now, and those are all contributing obviously. We're not getting very good starting pitching right now, our bullpen is in a downturn. We have some guys that are not having the kind of at bats that they've had throughout the course of the season. We're not playing great defense. We're making some mistakes with the balls in play so a little bit of everything contributed to it. It's not just one thing, it's just right across the board why we've had a really bad couple of weeks."
More from Theo's Q&A with WEEI:
On if the bad play becomes contagious throughout the team:
Epstein: "It seems that way. It's hard to tell whether it actually is. It probably is to a small extent and beyond that it's just seems that way when so many things aren't going well. I do think that when you have a run of bad starting pitching, it does obviously impact the bullpen, and has a little bit of effect on the offense as well. They go into at-bats early in the game feeling like they're down 5-0, sometimes they are, sometimes it just feels that way, and it's hard to have, especially with our kind of approach, you need to be patient, you need to have good at-bats, let the other guys knock you in, sort of the group offense mentality. Hard to have those kind of at-bats when you feel like you need to put a crooked number on the board all the time. I'm sure that's the way it is, guys start looking at each other wondering who's going to step up, sure. When you're playing well, we won two out of every three games over four months, there's a contagiousness to that when you're expecting things to go well, and when you're on the other side of the coin, sure, you're expecting things to go poorly.
"The thing we have going for us here, beyond the fact that we're a very good team just not playing like it right now, is that we've pulled ourselves out of this before. April was no walk in the park, different from September, you've got the length of the season to fix things, but you were around the team then, you remember what that was like, That was not fun. And this team did a great job of pulling itself out of that, so we certainly can do it again and have to. We've been punched in the mouth here a little bit, it's how we respond that matters."
On J.D. Drew's finger injury:
Epstein: "J.D.'s got a broken finger, he's had an avulsion fracture of his middle finger so it needs to heal, hopefully he can come back. We haven't ruled anything out with him. He wants to be out there. He cut back his rehab game, went 3-for-3, then in that last at-bat broke that finger. So, he's doing the best he can and we want to try to get him back as soon as we can. Same as the case for a number of other guys that we've had out for a long time here."
On John Lackey's struggles:
Epstein: "Again, I think it's a number of factors. We were pretty hopeful for a while there that he would pull himself out of it. He had a run of good starts, was starting to throw the ball better, had a little bit of regression here lately but that's what makes it frustrating. If it were that easy to pinpoint, obviously he would have made an adjustment by now so it's a continual struggle to try to pinpoint exactly what's going on with him and make adjustments so he can help us."
On the message he wants to send to the players:
Epstein: "For me the message is, and obviously I think this purveys the clubhouse, is that it's not what happens to you, every team is going to stumble, every team is going to get kicked in the mouth. It's how you respond. It's incumbent upon us to respond the right way. If we don't respond the right way, there's going to be night after night after night that every single one of those players is going to wake up and say 'Gosh we were three and a half up with 17 games to play, and we felt like it was slipping away from us, why didn't we just come out and play great baseball the way we had for most of the year.'
As much as this team [has] a massive problem, this is a tremendous opportunity to respond for the second time in one regular season after some horrendous play with great opportunity to be had beyond that. If we can right the ship and we will, not only will we be where we want to be at the end of the regular season but we're going to have great momentum heading into postseason. I'm glad we play the Rays four times coming up. If we can't right the ship against these guys, if we can't do what we need to do, we probably don't deserve to get into the postseason. As much of this looks like a crisis from the outside and obviously hasn't been fun from the inside, this is an opportunity. If we are what we think we are, to quote somebody else, then this is a great opportunity for us to go play well for two and a half weeks, ride the momentum into the postseason, and be the team we were for four months, the best team in baseball over four months, and we have to go do that."
On if players assumed they were already in the postseason a little prematurely?
Epstein: "I can't get into the minds of every single player in that clubhouse. I don't think so. There's always been a focus to go out and win that night's game. When Tito and I get together after the games, talk about how we played, and then he asks what happens in the other games beyond the scoreboard, we've always been talking about the Rays. Even when we were 10 up a couple of weeks ago, whatever it was. We never really fully erased them from radar. yeah you want the division, and we do want the division, still want the division. You look ahead of you, and in a division like this you're always looking around you. Sure it looked good. We put ourselves in position where it looked good. It still looks good if we play the way we're supposed to, but I don't think we ever took 100 percent for granted that we're in the playoffs. You have play until you spray champagne and then you can look to the postseason. We're not there yet and we've got a lot of work to do ahead of us now to get there."


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Hey still 9sec left don't jinx us!
gahhh i hate those late scores...it makes the score look like we barely won
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
Hate the late score too, but 2 TD win = Good.
YAY, we have a winning record.
Quality minutes logged by reserves, it'll pay dividends in the future.
Looked pretty good tonight. Rhoads has us going in the right direction. One more win this season and Rhoads has as many wins this year than Chizik had in two years here. Not missing him already.
"That's what I do. I drink, and I know things." - Tyrion Lannister
"Success is just failure that hasn't happened yet." - life advice from Latrell Spreewell
Late scores blow... Especially after the D really stepped up.
Originally Posted by jdoggivjc
Looked pretty good tonight. Rhoads has us going in the right direction. One more win this season and Rhoads has as many wins this year than Chizik had in two years here. Not missing him already.
Absolutely loving that stat!
2 more wins and a bowl! - based on that KSU/TAMU score I think we have a shot there but Colo will be tough as usual.
"Yep, that Cyclone that passed through Jones AT&T Stadium sure did Wreck 'Em, Tech." - Me, to my boss last Monday, Texas Tech Alumn
Things to work on?
Things to build on?
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Absolutely loving that stat!
That makes 2 of us!
Originally Posted by ISUKyro
Hey still 9sec left don't jinx us!
...Good Point! I'm sorry, (I wasn't thinking...)
Seriously, I guess anything could happen (to us)
Love the win...solid. Winning record, and promise!
A little disappointed by how many points we are leaving on the field. We had some fantastic field positions that we weren't able to capitalize on, not to mention the liability Mahoney has become as of late.
We now have the record we were "realistically" hoping for early in the season.
I think the most positive sign from our fan base is that we're all complaining about only winning by 2 scores. Frustration over late scores and several missed scoring opportunities after a WIN is much more fun that the moral victories we're usually talking about
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This webcast was pretty popular and had a large number of questions that I wasn't able to address on line, so I'll address some of them here.
Can these design processes be applied to systems engineering as well?
For the most part, absolutely – especially for the architectural patterns. However, keep in mind that the outcome of system engineering is specification while the outcome of software development is implementation. In addition, the Concurrency and Resource view of architecture is specific to the software domain.
Can you speak about the implications for tool qualification in a DO-178 level A environment?
The DO-178 standard identifies two types of tools (formally three types in DO-330, but it still works out to be effectively two): tools that could insert a defect through their use (development tools) and tools that could fail to identify a defect (verification tools). In general, you need not qualify development tools because verification will identify the defects so they may be fixed – provided, of course, that verification is adequate to discuss such defects. However, verification tools are usually relied upon to identify defects to they usually must be qualified. So modeling tools, editors, and compilers are not usually qualified but testing and test coverage tools usually are.
How large a development team does this scale to and what are some of the scaling issues?
The approach and practices discussed in the talk can be applied to small teams and large teams. Large teams always carry along with them greater concerns for project management and governance. The biggest issue in terms of the design practices per se has to do with the coordination of the work items among the various subteams. Hierarchical planning addresses that concern but does require more diligence and effort. Distributed teams also add some barriers that can be addressed through a combination of process and tooling. For example, Design Manager supports web-based reviews of models to support the review objectives of a number of safety standards. Practices around those issues will be addressed in an upcoming webcast on project management practices.
Can you comment on deploying this approach across a distributed team?
The concerns specific to distributed systems include:
1. Lack of project control
2. Lack of visibility of project and product status
3. Detailed coordination is more difficult because of delays, bandwidth limitations, and difficulty in
4. Difficulty in communication
5. Cultural and organizational differences
6. Configuration management and work product sharing
Cloud-based CM solutions are an approach to share work products and related information. Distributed project management/governance tools such as Rational Team Concert can address visibility of metrics and project status of distributed teams. These concerns will be addressed in the aforementioned upcoming webcast.
Hello Bruce- How what you discuss maps to ISO 26262. Have you ever check/tried Harmony mapping into this?
There are mappings to IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 and the Harmony process content under development. Right now, we have detailed mappings to DO-178B, DO-178C, and IEC 62304.
You have provided and example of SW Design Pattern, more related to SW architecture than to SYS. Are there any good Systems Architecture patterns used in embedded world?
There certainly are patterns defined within the Harmony process. They are similar or identical to some of the software design practices, but apply to designs that have not been allocated to specific engineering disciplines. The Deployment view (done with block diagrams (SysML) or UML (software) are used to show the allocation of responsibilities and requirements to different disciplines and the specification of the cross-discipline interfaces, such as the interface between the software and electronics.
You mentioned using TDD and other processes which include testing into a cross-functional team, how do you deal with keeping the independence of the test team as some standards like Cenelec state in order to verify and validate your safety critical system.
Independence of the development of the system verification test cases is required – that means that the designers/developers cannot be the same people that develop the test cases (it doesn't affect who executes the test cases though). Independence is not required for integration, although it is useful and it is not recommended for white box developer testing. TDD specifically refers to the white box developer tests so independence is not a concern. It remains a requirement for verification however.
You said we were mainly talking about collaboration between electronics and software. but are there more specific issues when developers interface with nuclear, avionics, mechanical, etc. as different disciplines?
The process I outlined specifies systems level requirements and creates systems architectures. The subsequent hand-off to downstream engineering takes place primarily at the subsystem level, including the allocation of subsystem requirements to different engineering disciplines and the specification of the cross-disciplinary interfaces. It is expected that disciplines such a mechanical, chemical and nuclear will accept their requirements and interfaces specifications and then proceed with the discipline-specific design in appropriate tools. The software development will continue in UML but it is difficult to imagine how mechanical or chemical design would be done in UML or SysML.
Is system level testing applied in Harmony? At what level of development probably not during the nanocycles? My understanding is that during nanocycle there is rather unit testing in place. can you confirm?
There are system verification activities done in the Harmony process but not during the nanocycles. The microcycle (sprint) has a verification activity at the end of each iteration that verifies the produced (but possibly incomplete) system meets all the requirements developed during that and previous iterations. The nanocycle TDD testing is fundamentally white box developer testing.
Bruce, please do not throw away napkins model. We often use them when we communicate and it works as long as we can share ideas during meetings etc. You well know how difficult it is to create precise and fully ready model, often not worth time spend on it. Can you please comment that?
I'm not saying that you should never develop napkin models, just that they shouldn't be the primary form of model and they shouldn't be treated as normative. Napkins models are useful for framing a discussion. They are not useful, in my experience, for specifying a normative design. If a set of napkins models are used for discussion to discuss trade offs, for example, the winning napkin should probably be developed into a normative high-fidelity model. IMHO.
Is Rational considering AUTOSAR in their Rhapsody Road Map?
Rhapsody already supports AUTOSAR as a profile in Rhapsody and is continuing to evolve it based on customer experiences.
What Time Frame do you think is necessary put together Design Pattern/ implement system
I think of the microcycle (sprint) as a 4-6 week period of time during which requirements are elaborated, functional software is developed, designs optimize the implementation, and verification is performed. The functional software and design optimizations are usually in the 2-3 week timeframe but this can vary +/1 a week and still stay within the overall microcycle timeframe.
What if Design Flaw shows up, can you trace it back?
Design flaws manifest themselves initially as failed test outcomes, then change requests, then as work items, and ultimately as updated design, code and tests. Good tooling – such as Change or Clear Quest can manage the traceability among the various forms defects take, the work products affected and the workers making the changes.
In defensive design couldn't that also result in extra money which may be a deterrent and as a result not performed?
That is absolutely true and this gives rise to the software folk wisdom "we have time to fix it but we don't have time to do it right." I personally believe that the "rush to code" and the lack of defensive design is short sighted. As Grady Booch says "If we developed houses the same way we develop software, the first woodpecker would have destroyed civilization."
I would like to know why this approach cannot be applied to Waterfall models of development
It can be, but the result is no longer waterfall.
Should the aspects of Defensive Design be considered during analysis (and then designed and implemented) or after should this be put off after implementation of the "working model" - please explain tradeoffs
Defensive design is, first and foremost, an optimization of robustness and so it typically added into the design phase, which follows the creation of the initial functionally-correct high-fidelity model. Code, of course, is continuously being generated and updated during both the functional modeling and the design optimization. The problems with deferring the defensive design approach include 1. If time is short, it will be removed and 2. It is much harder to go back and "make it right" later than it is to "make it right" the first time. This is why, for example, TDD puts developer testing as a parallel activity to modeling and coding. The idea is to avoid defects rather than introduce defects now and find and remove them later.
Can you elaborate on what is meant by 'Continuous Safety Assessment'?
With the software development activities, design and technology decisions are made. These can have impacts on safety. For example, deciding to add a thirty party math library or using a commercial CORBA ORB have impacts on safety that must be addressed. Therefore in parallel with the software development activities, such decisions are examined by the Safety Czar to look at how they impact safety. This may result in new concerns and work items that must be addressed. In the Harmony process, "Update the Hazard Analysis" task runs in parallel to the entire microcycle so that technical decisions can be reviewed and safety concerns can be addressed.
Bruce, for someone who knows UML, how do you suggest to pick up SysML most effectively?
If you know UML, then the biggest changes when you move to SysML are just adopting the name changes (for example, "class" becomes "block"). There are some other important changes, such as the addition of parametric diagrams (useful for trade studies) and continuous behavioral modeling in activity diagrams. There are a few books on SysML but none that I'm really happy with. I'd probably look online for presentations that address my concerns. Also, you can defer learning about SysML features that might be new to you until you need them.
Note the project I'm using employs Rational Software Architecture Real-Time Edition (RSARTE); to what extent are some of these approaches applicable to that as well?
All the design practices can be performed within RSARTE. The Harmony process and practices are tool agnostic. I spend most of my time with Rational Rhapsody so I use that tool for examples and work, but other tools can be applied as well. Certain of the flows are made more difficult with some of the less capable tools. For example, in the High-Fidelity Modeling workflow there is a Translation task which produces code from the model. With Rhapsody (or RSARTE), that is mostly a matter of pushing the Generate/Make/Run button. In a less capable tool, you might pop up vi or edlin and bang out the code by hand. The workflow remains the same though.
The system seems extremely thorough but not very agile - how is this more agile then previous methods?
is really all about avoiding defects with continuous testing, being responsive to changing needs and circumstances, and dynamically project planning and governance. This talk focused specifically on the design practices, which included high-fidelity modeling, TDD, continuous integration, continuous safety assessment, and continuous traceability. These practices are what makes the approach agile. These certainly aren't all the practices in place – if it was then I wouldn't need the other four parts to the series! In addition, developing safety critical systems levies another set of needs of the development team and these can be address in an agile way as well.
What if you have portion of your system that is safety-critical (vital) and non-vital, would you recommend splitting to use your techniques (Rhapsody) and standard not critical processes (maybe like Enterprise Architect)
If part of the system is non-critical, then you must have architectural partitioning to ensure that any defects in the less-robust-and-verified parts of the system cannot affect the safety of the safety critical parts. I would tend to use the same tool for all to facilitate architectural allocation and refactoring personally.
What are your recommendations for Information Security-specific design patterns?
Check out Security Patterns: Integrating Security and Systems Engineering http://www.amazon.com/Security-Patterns-Integrating-Engineering-Software/dp/0470858842/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362597852&sr=8-1&keywords=security+patterns.


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and six assists as the team had its losing streak extended to 10 games.
George Mason made good on an impressive 58.6 percent from the floor in the
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CAIRO (AP) - A sit-in by opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's continues around the presidential palace in Cairo today.
Soldiers have sealed off the palace with tanks and barbed wire, and Egypt's military leaders are wading into the political crisis after protests turned violent this week.
The turmoil began last month after Morsi granted himself authority free of judicial oversight and his Islamist allies rushed together a draft constitution. The move touched off street clashes between the president's supporters and protesters accusing him of becoming a new strongman. At least six civilians have been killed and several offices of the president's Muslim Brotherhood torched in the unrest.
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Wow--that IS a great site! Nice find!
List for excellent texture sites. Please refer to each site for details on reuse of their textures in works.
- http://www.cgtextures.com/
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...ntest-results/
- http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/index.htm
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/31288116@N02/sets/
- http://grungetextures.com/
- http://www.estoneusa.com/
- http://home.earthlink.net/~k42mene/M...l/Finishes.htm
- http://www.tutorialsforblender3d.com...res_index.html
- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Texture_Tools
- http://www.textureking.com
- http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/
- http://mayang.com/textures/
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/textures/
- http://texturelib.com/
- http://lostandtaken.com/gallery/tag/paper
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/chorand...7607835630011/
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Wow--that IS a great site! Nice find!
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Superb and really easy to navigate....excellent find, redrobes!
Hey guys listen to this...
I dumped about 70Mb of textures at this site and idly put in a request if anyone could get some Persian rugs for my Werthers Skull (Feb Map Challenge). I had to make up some rugs using fractals.
Well Marcel went out and photographed a whole suite of them including all the frills around the edges....
Amazing ! I wouldn't have the faintest clue where to go to even take the photos...
Edit -- Whoah check the res of these texture files out too...
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Great find RR... excellent work, all of you people just make me feel so happy and warm and fuzzy....
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More textures here.
We should really gather all these great texture sites into one post and put them into a sticky.
You could just append this thread onto the end of that one if you wanted.
Bill Stickers is innocent! It isn't Bill's fault that he was hanging out in the wrong place.
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I guess, although that one was meant to be land and sea fill textures only so it didn't get flooded.
That's a good point. Perhaps we should make separate sticky threads for each category? What do you think?
Bill Stickers is innocent! It isn't Bill's fault that he was hanging out in the wrong place.
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|Great Divide Canada
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|CANADA - Banff. AB to Roosville, MT (256.6 mi.)
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The Great Divide Canada route, which connects to and extends our Great Divide Mountain Bike Route northward, showcases some of the most magnificent scenery in the entire Rocky Mountain chain. Paradoxically, the route feels somewhat more settled, or civilized, than many sections to the south in the United States. One reason for this is that Great Divide Canada passes through a string of national and provincial parks, which, not surprisingly, attract a great number of visitors. While the majority of the route follows dirt and gravel roads, keen mountain bikers will be happy to learn that there's also plenty of singletrack trails to ride in close proximity to the route, particularly around Fernie, Banff, and Canmore.
The route begins behind the magnificent Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, headquarters for the national park of the same name. Considering the hotel's size and its teeming crowds, you may find it surprising how quickly the Spray River Trail — an old fire road, actually — whisks you into country possessing a very wild and remote feel. (Signs acknowledging that you've entered grizzly bear territory are no doubt partially responsible for this feeling.) A climb up the Goat Creek Trail takes you to the Smith-Dorrien Spray Road, a primary, and potentially dusty, backcountry tourist route. The incredible scenery continues through Kananaskis Country and its Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. From there, a tough climb up and over the Great Divide via a powerline route through the Elk Pass delivers you to Elk Lakes Provincial Park. It's a six-mile ride from one trailhead to the other that would require more than 200 miles of driving if you had to do it in a car on roads! Subsequently, a 40-mile-plus dirt road leads to Elkford, by way of a wilderness corridor where you'll want to keep an eye out for big moose and even bigger logging trucks.
There's a long climb on pavement out of Elkford to the narrow Fording Road, whose gravel surface leads through Tembec Forest Research Management units around the back side of Fording Mountain. Then, following a brief stretch on Highway 43, the smooth pavement of Lower Valley Road twists through a rural residential area outside Sparwood.
From Sparwood, you can choose to follow the main route through miles of unbridled wilderness or the Fernie Alternate, a more populated and mostly paved option. Make your choice wisely because the main route is extremely remote. After 6.7 miles on Highway 3 you'll turn onto paved Corbin Road, which leads to a large active coal mining site. There's a gradual climb up and over Flathead Pass into the upper headwaters of the Flathead River. This scenic drainage is called the "Serengeti of North America" by biologists for its unrivaled wildlife populations, and it's the last major valley in British Columbia to be completely undeveloped. The rolling road following the Flathead River is known to locals as "Grizzly Bear Highway" so be very "bear aware." For dispersed camping, overnighting at Corbin and the Butts Patrol Station might be the safest choices. There's a climb over Cabin Pass and a stretch of riding along the Wigwam River. Leaving the river means doing some route finding following an undeveloped trail used by outfitters. A short steep climb will most likely necessitate unhooking your trailer and pushing bike and BOB up separately. After navigating through some clearcut deadfall you'll rejoin a gravel road and head over the last Canadian pass. Paved Highway 93 leads you to the international border and the northern terminus the U.S. Great Divide Mountain Bike Route.
On the Fernie Alternate, a 14-mile stretch of highway riding is required. Traffic can be heavy, but the road generally has a decent shoulder. The booming ski-resort town of Fernie makes a great place for a layover, with its copious motels, sporting goods stores, restaurants, and hiking/mountain-biking trails. From there, back roads wind through stands of conifers and poplars to Elko (watch for the occasional sign marking the TransCanada Trail). A dizzying and delightful series of paved and gravel byways, one of which proffers a brief glimpse down on the immense Lake Koocanusa, then wend their way to Grasmere. From there, it's a seven-mile ride on the highway to the international border and the northern terminus the U.S. Great Divide Mountain Bike Route.
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The elevations encountered on Great Divide Canada are relatively low when compared to those along the Great Divide route in the central Rockies of the United States, where riders must tackle mountain passes of nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. The high point on Great Divide Canada, Elk Pass, is a mere 6,443 feet. Generally, road quality is quite good, although you'll find that surfaces range from smooth pavement to rutted dirt, where you'll be thankful that you're riding a mountain bike and not a road bike. As a rule, if you're not riding uphill, then you're headed downhill.
You can ride this route from early summer to mid-fall. Be aware that snow can occur at any time. If it is a heavy snow year, high-elevation roads in the north may not be open until late June or early July.
We discourage you from attempting to ride this route solo; in fact, a minimum group size of three is strongly recommended. If a rider is debilitated in the backcountry, you will want to have at least one person to stay with the injured/sick rider, and another to go for help. A growing number of backcountry travelers are carrying cellular phones for such emergency situations – but be aware that reception is still very spotty along much of the route.
Because June is typically a wet month in the northern Rockies, and often a cold one at the higher elevations, we recommend that you do not attempt to ride prior to late June or early July. High-country snowpack may prevent certain portions from being passable until then, anyway. Concerning the other end of the cycling season, plan on being off the route by mid-October at the latest. Regardless of when you strike out or how long you intend to be there, pack along raingear and cold-weather clothing. Snow or cold rain is possible any day of the year at some of the elevations encountered, and hypothermia is an ever-present possibility.
The narrative leads you in a north-to-south direction only. The route was laid out going north to south and, as you'll see, some of the downhills encountered when you're aimed southward would be very tough to negotiate as uphills in the opposite direction.
Great Divide Canada features some of the most magnificent and forbidding mountain country you'll ever see — anywhere. You'll need to deal with a couple of long stretches without basic services — both on maps A and B. Careful planning will be required to ensure that you have enough food to get you through (though surface water and primitive campgrounds are plentiful). With the exception of large grocery stores in Banff, Sparwood, and Fernie, you'll find food sources to be small-town establishments, often more akin to convenience stores than to supermarkets; consequently, you may find it necessary to exercise flexibility when it comes to menu planning. Also be aware that showers, flush toilets, potable water, and laundromats can be few and far between. It's wise to have some back-country camping experience before riding Great Divide Canada, and you'll also want to know the recommended precautions to take when camping and traveling in bear country.
You should also carry bear repellent, available at sporting goods stores in the larger towns of Canada, and become familiar with its safe and proper use. Always be bear-aware, and follow these rules when camping:
Some campgrounds will charge a cyclist traveling by himself less if they have hiker/biker sites, but often they will charge the price of a regular tent site, and that can easily be $10-$20/night. If you're friendly and ask around, you can often get yourself invited to camp in a yard. In national forests you are allowed to camp anywhere on national forest land as long as you "pack it in, pack it out." Many city parks are free to camp in.
You may also wish to sign up with Warmshowers, a reciprocal hospitality site for bicycle travelers, for other overnight options.
If you're in need of a shuttle to complete your Great Divide trip, download our Great Divide Shuttle Options (PDF/1.6MB) for suggestions.
The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route is extremely hard on equipment. The weight of your gear exponentially multiplies the stress of riding steep, fast, rough downhills. Wheels, tires, and drivetrains (chains, cassettes, bottom brackets, chainrings) take a lot of abuse and might need replacing along the course of the entire route. Suspension equipment on the bicycle helps to mitigate the abusive nature of the terrain. That said, nylon pivots of some full-suspension bikes wear out extremely fast and are not recommended. Suspension seatposts, good handlebar grips, and front-suspension forks help smooth out the many miles of washboarded and chuckholed roads. Weighting a suspension fork with panniers works well, evens the weighting of the bike, and adds little extra stress to the fork. Trailers also work well and lighten the rear triangle of the bike.
Well-made camping gear is essential for the many nights of high-elevation cold, dew, and rain. A well-ventilated, free-standing, three-season tent covered by a rainfly with ample vestibule space and a "footprint" ground tarp is a must. Sleeping bags should be rated to below 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and inflatable mattresses add comfort and warmth. A lot of effort must be taken to keep your possessions dry. Pannier covers, dry bags, and plastic freezer bags all work well to keep the rain and dew off clothing and gear. Good rain gear is also essential.
A high-quality water filter is mandatory; advisably, carry one filter per person in your party. Surface water should be ingested only after running it through a good water filter.
The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route narratives, including the U.S. sections, are also available in text format. These files are not a substitute for the maps, only a means to customize the narrative to suit one's handlebar map case.


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Body Rot RepairWritten on April 1, 1999 BODY SUPER-SECTION
Hate that! You buy a car that looks solid, then a few months later rust bubbles appear. Take a grinder to 'em and--sure enough--there's a bigger problem than you thought.
That's what happened to our budget-built Duster. We initially took it to Car-Nation Auto Body hoping for a minor repair to the lower edges of the quarter panels. The guys at Car-Nation broke the news that: 1) The rust needed to be cut out to fix it; 2) By the time we repair that area, we might as well fix the door-dings in the quarters; and 3) If we have to match-paint the quarters, they're not going to look the same as the 30-year-old paint on the rest of the car. So, you guessed it--the Duster's getting painted.
But for now, have a look at how to fix mild quarter rot the easy way. The techniques shown aren't for hard-core rust-belt Swiss cheese or full-on show cars, but you can probably do them yourself if you have the right tools--in this story, "the right tools" means air tools, many of which may not be in the arsenal of the backyard dude. However, bodywork is very painstaking and much patience is required. In our experience, patience runs way thin when using hand tools, so the investment in a compressor and air tools is way worth it.
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Car-Nation's Leo Hovel began the job with a 36-grit sanding disc on a small air grinder. What looked like a few easy-to-patch bubbles proved to be rust all along the bottom edge of the quarter, which had been covered with body filler. The grinder almost always reveals about twice the problem you had anticipated.Once we decided to cut out the rust and weld in a new patch panel, Leo used masking tape to mark the cut line. By removing as little metal as possible, the repair would not be visible from inside the trunk (it was below the level of the trunk floor) and a crucial bodyline would not have to be reconstructed.In addition to slicing along the taped line with an air-powered cutoff wheel, several factory spot-welds also had to be drilled. The secret is to drill only the weld and the first layer of metal, leaving the second layer intact so that you can weld to it again later.At the bottom edge of the quarter is a pinch-seam where the inner and outer sheetmetal is welded together. A hammer and chisel can be used to separate the two, but an air chisel (use earplugs!) will be cleaner and faster. Check out all the rust and crud that fell out! We even collected 32 cents.Fortunately, the inner half of the quarter-panel wasn't rusted too badly. Also, note the hole where the plug goes for the factory trunk drain. Year One sells new plugs, and patch panels for the inner quarters. We didn't need them, so Leo thoroughly grinded off all the surface rust and sprayed the area with 3M Weld-Through Coating to prevent rust from coming back.Bummer: Year One doesn't make patch panels for Dusters, and we didn't want to buy full quarters just to get the lower rear patches. The solution was to make do with spare sheetmetal, and Leo found a similarly shaped piece in a Jeep Grand Cherokee fender. If you're in the same predicament, another solution is to buy a rust-free panel cut from a similar car--there are many wrecking yards in the Southwest that will mail 'em to you.While it's best to get donor sheetmetal that's as close to the right shape as possible, still expect some fitment work. Leo added the pinch-seam flange to the bottom of the panel by tapping it over a straightedge, and then drilled holes in anticipation of spot-welding it back in place. He also sanded all the old paint off the panel and sprayed it with Weld-Through Coating to ensure good adhesion of the new paint.The fit of the new panel was great! Vise-Grips and welding clamps were used to hold it in position for welding. We've seen some custom shops butt-weld the new sheetmetal to the old, but it's a tough technique for beginners. Instead, Leo overlapped the new metal behind the original quarter-panel and slightly flanged the top edge of the repair panel to bring it flush with the level of the original metal. Doing so assures that not too much body filler will be required to hide the repair.As is always the case with sheetmetal, you don't want to weld too much at a time because that will heat and warp the repair. Instead, Leo placed tack-welds several inches apart, let the metal cool before adding more welds, and continued the slow process until the entire seam was attached. After each spot-weld, a body hammer was used to tap down the sheetmetal while it was still warm. That prevented the welds from creating high spots that would need to be repaired.
This view from inside the trunk shows that the body hammer was backed with a prybar because a dolly would not fit into the crevice at the edge of the trunk.It wasn't practical to patch the entire repair with a single piece of sheetmetal, so a second piece was used to repair the rusty portion where the inner and outer quarter-panel sections were spot-welded behind the bumper.Once all the welding was done, a 36-grit disc was used to grind all the welds down to the level of the original sheetmetal. Again, care must be taken not to overheat and warp the metal while grinding. The pointed end of a body hammer can also be used to tap down high spots in the welding.Here's the repair after all the welding and grinding was done. Next comes the part requiring even more skill. When we asked Leo about the finer points of the application and the working of the body filler, his answer was, "You have to have experience." Practice a lot.There's no getting around the fact that this type of repair is going to require some plastic body filler. Mix the filler according to the directions on the can, making sure to prepare it on a clean surface and to use a clean spreader. Add the filler in smooth, even strokes, making sure there are no air bubbles. It will seem like you're adding a ton of filler, but most of it will get sanded off.Leo began the smoothing process using 80-grit paper on an 8-inch dual-action sander set at a very low speed to avoid removing too much material at once. This step takes more time than you'd expect, but as you shape and feel the repair, you'll see that you'll remove all but a thin film of the body filler.As the repair takes shape, high spots will be revealed by shiny metal; low points (arrow) will be spots that are sanded less than the surrounding area. The difference between a high and a low spot will barely be discernible to the novice eye and hand, and it takes a lot of sanding skill and experience to get this part right. The high spots can be lightly tapped down with a body hammer, but the low spots may require more body filler.After judging the repair, Leo decided that there was one low spot requiring more filler. For the second application of filler, make sure to cover the entire area with a thin coat. If you only add filler to the trouble spot, there'll be a seam in the texture of the body filler where one layer ends and another begins. It's easier to smooth the entire layer than to try and blend a second layer of Bondo to the level of the first.Once the second application of filler had been cut down with 80-grit and the DA sander, more finish work was done with 80-grit on an air-powered longboard. Leo used regular black spray paint as a guidecoat; the layer of black makes it easier to discern the high and low spots while sanding. At this point, any flaws in the repair should be minor and easily repaired with sanding. If further hammerwork or extra filler is needed, it means you weren't thorough enough in previous steps. A third layer of filler should never be needed.
Once the area is leveled to perfection, it's a good idea to assure the shape of any bodyline. To do this, Leo marked the line with tape and sanded to it using 80-grit on a hand-powered soft block. He first taped one side of the bodyline and sanded, then moved the tape to the other side of the line and sanded from the opposite direction.


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