Tucson is on its way to becoming the world s center for straw-bale construction.
By Kay Sather
JUDY KNOX AND her husband Matts Myhrman say Tucson is on
its way to becoming known world-wide as the center if not quite the
birthplace of straw bale construction. This weekend Out on Bale,
the straw bale education organization they founded here in 1991,
will host a home tour and gathering of the movement s practitioners
from all over the world. The first straw bale structures were built in Nebraska in the
late 1800s by pioneers who considered them a temporary answer
to their need for shelter in areas where wood, and sometimes even
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At InVision, David Bainbridge and I have been working hard to figure out why some users are getting randomly logged-out of one of our client-side applications. Part of what makes this issue so challenging to debug is that there are
many services that touch requests coming out of this application. And, even though we are using
request tracing headers in our distributed system, we are struggling to connect the dots as those requests pass-through Amazon s load balancers. Yesterday, however, David discovered that Amazon s load balancers will record (and modify) the HTTP header,
X-Amzn-Trace-Id, within their request logs. I think this may really help us!
Bigfoot, hunting dogs, cast iron, wild medicine: New outdoor books worth the read
Updated May 06, 2021;
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All aspects of the outdoor world continue to draw new book titles with new perspectives and often new information, even in well-trod territory like pocketknives, cast-iron cookware, Bigfoot, and wild foods and medicines. Here are some of the recent releases that I’ve explored, enjoyed and, in many instances, ensconced into my personal library.
“Swiss Army Knife Camping & Outdoor Survival Guide: 101 Tips, Ticks & Uses,” by Bryan Lynch. Fox Chapel Publishing, 2019, 224 pages, $12.99.
I’ve carried several versions of the Swiss Army Knife over the years, but only ever used a few of the many blade and tool offerings on the devices. Lynch has given me many ideas to try out and taught me the uses for some of those tools that I previously never got around to deciphering. Fox example, I now know that the reamer tool can be used in making a quick flashlight pouc