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|Bob Scammell – Alberta Outdoors|
The outdoors reading season is well under way and forecasts say there is no end in sight: front of the fire reading material will be particularly good gifts this year for outdoors people.
Readers often ask which is the best general outdoors magazine to buy, and I am happy to say “Alberta Outdoorsmen,” and not just because I am one of its columnists. I have written for most of Canada’s outdoors magazines over the years, many of them now-defunct. Full Story >
|Colleen Crawford....Life as I know it|
Whenever I have felt a little blue or lost in the world, I have a cat or dog (or baby) tale to tell about the way they carried me through a moment.
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|Harper’s self-styled bagman survives scandal - National affairs by TIM HARPER|
After about 70 minutes of a tough morning’s work, Conservative senators brought down the gavel Thursday, satisfied they had got to the bottom of one thread of the Senate-PMO scandal.
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Senators heard from a trio of Deloitte auditors, mere players in a larger issue - a request from Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, to Conservative Sen. Irving Gerstein, to call a Deloitte managing partner and have him provide an update to the Prime Minister’s Office on the status of a supposedly independent, politically volatile, audit of the expenses of disgraced Sen. Mike Duffy. Full Story >
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Brooks Bulletin, September 29, 1955—By Jane Havens. Mr and Mrs. Walter Adams of Brooks are two old-timers who have watched Alberta grow into a thriving province. Mrs. Adams was born in Saskatchewan and came to Alberta at the age of two years. Walter, who will be 70 his next birthday, came from Minnesota in 1898 and homesteaded 35 miles northeast of Camrose before coming to the Brooks area. In 1902 he saw the first siding being put in where the town of Brooks now stands. He worked as a rider on the old Mike Stapleton place off and on from 1902-09. Full Story >
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It was nice to see a large crowd out for Friday’s Alberta Junior Hockey League game between the Calgary Royals and Brooks Bandits. There sas not only interest in the game but bidding on special Movember uniforms of the Bandits with all proceeds going to the Canadian Cancer Society.
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Joshua 1:2-6 NASB1995
“Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory. No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
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The Emmanuel d’Alzon Library first floor: students sit at the tables studying their math, physics, biology; empty walls surround them. They are unaware that those same walls were once home to the art of the talented students and faculty that came before them. This could be the future of Assumption College, a school founded in the liberal arts. Announced at academic council last Tuesday, the recommendations for budget cuts that will be presented to the trustees later this month include 20 percent of the target figure for saving coming from the art, music and theatre department. This would mean that the department would go from having eight full time positions to five full time positions. Students declared in studio art, art history and music would be allowed to finish their degrees, but eventually the majors and minors would simply fade away. For studio art, first level courses for drawing and painting would continue being taught for the core, but the fate of advanced workshop remains unknown.
This is a huge shock for students in the department, who came to this college anticipating that their degrees would actually mean something when they graduated. At least 12 students from the department went to the Student Government Association (SGA) meeting last Sunday to voice their concerns. Sources say this was the largest student turnout that SGA has ever seen. Sophomore Dana Mendes, a secondary education and visual arts major made a point at the meeting that the school seems to care more about money than the mission that they preach to us on the bells outside the chapel. She said, “If that’s the case, then take down ‘community, contemplation, longing for God, vocation and mission to serve’ and replace it with ‘money.’ It’s art that will allow us to wake up every morning and realize that it’s not just a job we’re going to, but our vocation, our passion and our calling.”
Liberal arts schools give students like us a chance to practice our passion in art, while also being able to learn and grow in other subject areas besides art. If the art department is cut, this will ensure that the students that come after us will not be able to experience this same type of education. Maybe Assumption will get more students by adding pre-professional programs, we don’t really know. But by cutting the art, music and theatre department, they are violating their own mission and guaranteeing there will be no more students like us. When I asked Hope Sutton, a junior graphic design major and art history minor, she said, “Denying majors and minors in the arts is pushing aside a key component to the Catholic faith. There are a lot of us in these majors right now who are confused and scared. We’ve been told we’ll be able to finish here, but by gutting our department, the college is stripping away the opportunity for higher level courses, networking, and firing mentors who have guided us since our first years.”
As majors and minors in the art, music and theatre department we feel that our voices don’t matter to those making the cuts. Some may think this is an easy cut to make because we are already such a small department. But we aren’t students in this department for the money or jobs we might get when we graduate, we are students in this department because it is our passion. We might be the minority, but we are possibly the most passionate about what we do. It is our professors who taught us that passion. It is that passion that Assumption claims to care so much about, and claims to be teaching their students. Any artist would tell you that art is more than just technique and skill. It’s more than just drawing and painting. It’s what our drawings, paintings, collages and designs say that matter. It’s the feeling and message we put into them. It is this passion that will lead us to not just sit back as our department is tossed away into oblivion, put on the shelf of the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library as a disposable part of Assumption College history. It’s not our decision, and we can’t guarantee that this won’t happen. But what we can guarantee is that we won’t be quiet about it.
Celia Smith, a junior, studies English and studio art. She is a staff writer for Le Provocateur.


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“Evening Star”, the second album by the duo Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, can nowadays be regarded a classic album in the genre of minimal drone ambient.
The tape looping system, already featured on their previous release “No Pussy Footing”, has been further improved, while Fripp’s guitar sounds have been further embedded in Eno’s sculptured textures.
The themes explored on the first four tracks are nature-inspired dwellings blending wind and water, of which the first three feature Eno synths and piano accompanied by Robert Fripp’s smooth guitar textures and treatments. The fourth piece, “Wind on Water”, is actually an excerpt of Brain Eno’s solo release “Discreet Music”, which came out after “Evening Star”.
The main course however is the 28-minute “An Index of Metals”, a massive and dense work of slowly evolving, layered drone textures. Both musicians expertly built a disturbing, almost creepy but also fascinating sonic epic into (what seems) nothingness.
All in all, these are marvellously rendered industrial-edged ambient soundscapes to fully immerse in.
|You can see what reviews I have done of this artist on the Brian Eno artist page
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The Illegal Income Tax
[COMMENT: Go to www.losthorizons.com for Pete Hendrickson's astonishing success in confronting the IRS as an illegal predator on the American People. (Author of Cracking the Code -- I.e. the IRS code.)
Also Google "From Freedom to Fascism", a quest to find the statutory requirement for us to file a 10-40 form on April 15. There is no such requirement. And go to www.themoneymasters.org for a real education on the Federal Reserve, which is tied to the IRS.
The IRS is a total fraud, along with and in cahoots with the Federal Reserve. Both MUST be scuttled, and our tax system returned to the American people and a limited government. See also http://www.theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/21PbAr/Pl/00Pol.htm#IRS_ And the Federal Reserve right below it.
The piece below is a treasure trove of information on the subject. Read his book, Cracking the Code for the gory details, available at www.losthorizons.com
Pete is (or has been) in jail -- a testimony to the rest of us on courage and determination in the face of tyranny.
NOTE: the underlining is
mine for emphasis to skim the high points. E. Fox]
An open letter to my dear friend, Tim O'Brien, of the Small Government Alliance
Pete Hendrickson -- author of Cracking the Code
You know I love you. But I was taken aback, and quite disturbed, by what I read in your July 24, "Soapbox" article titled, 'Constitutional Crisis- Where liberty lives and dies.
While a typically great Tim O'Brien piece in most every respect, things said about the income tax were unfortunately incorrect. The errors have at least two ill effects: getting this important subject wrong makes getting other important subjects right impossible by way of the Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO) effect (as I shall explain presently); and it is the persistent proliferation of misunderstandings about the tax that has me playing Galileo the Heretic right now.
For instance, you repeat the long-standing product of poor scholarship and deliberate misinformation cultivated by those who want America to believe that the tax was the product of a Constitutional amendment in 1913 to the effect that the 19th-century tax was repealed in 1872. This is not true.
Looking at the 1870 law providing for the what-was-then standard two-year authorization of the application of the tax reveals that it merely went into hibernation in December of 1872. It was never repealed. Looking at the text of the 1913 enactment first reviving the tax after the 16th Amendment reveals the same fact, as that text directly references the many pre-amendment tax provisions, of which it makes use. Looking at the derivation tables for the more modern IRC versions reveals that 30-40% of the current code derives its authority from enactments prior to the 16th amendment. All of these authorities can be found on your CtC [Cracking the Code] Companion CD. But the easiest bit of research to debunk this myth is to look at pages 68 and 69 of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' to read the actual preamble to the 1939 IRC, in which the fact that our modern embodiment of the law relies on legislation dating back to 1862 is flatly acknowledged.
Please, don't ever again say, or even think, that the income tax -- or even just "today's" income tax -- began with, or is grounded in, a Constitutional amendment. In fact, any time you encounter such an assertion in someone else’s work, or one to the effect that the tax was repealed in 1872 (or at any time since 1862), treat it as a warning that anything else said on the subject of the tax by the purveyor of the error should be disregarded. (GIGO, don’t you know…)
You can easily see why this bit of cognitive accuracy is important. That myth about the 16th Amendment allows for the proliferation of another: that the tax is now something that it couldn't have been before, that is, a direct, un-apportioned tax on general American revenue. No matter how often and how clearly the Supreme Court has said, "No, this isn't so...", the persistent misunderstanding of the 16th Amendment and the origin of the tax feeds the notion that in 1913, a power never granted to the federal government came into its hands. This leads to a grumbling acceptance of the misapplication of the tax without suspicion or skepticism on the part of huge numbers of Americans.
Worse, the heavily-promoted myth about the significance of the 16th Amendment causes many Americans to overlook one of the chief defenses against a rogue government put in place by the genius of the founders: individual control over the state's access to resources. The lack of historical memory and of widespread current understanding of this potent weapon is one of the primary reasons for many of the threats to liberty faced by Americans today.
Misunderstanding the income tax is also a contributor to the modern mistake of viewing the Constitution as having been a massive screw-up on the part of the framers, or a massive "sleeper" subterfuge that somehow kept the federal government to a profile never rising above 4% of GDP for 125 years, with only periodic episodes of offense, all the while just waiting for the moment to leap out and impose tyranny. (Granted, at least one of those "periodic offenses" was pretty significant, but any decent scholar will acknowledge that the War of Northern Aggression was conducted in defiance of the Constitution, not in compliance with it.) Imagining the Constitution to have been the problem serves to displace responsibility from where it really belongs: those Americans who fail to discipline that ambitious state with the tools the founders provided.
As your own article observes, it is only when individual Americans preserve liberty in their hearts that their liberty can be secure, and that doesn't mean simply paying lip service to one's rights, and throwing a good barbeque on the Fourth. It means honoring and enforcing one's rights with action, even in the face of state disapproval. We have certain specifically recognized rights, and specifically enumerated restraints on government (not to disparage rights unmentioned, and leaving for another conversation the fact of enumerated powers and its implications), because it was anticipated by the founders that the state would encroach, and that we would need to actively bind it down. Too many of us having failed to do so thus far is not the fault of the Constitution, or of those who designed it or relied upon it. The fault is in US, and committing it is made easier and more likely by the perpetuation of myths such as that of the 1913 "origin"-- or even just "transformation"-- of the income tax.
A few other misunderstandings which make an accurate understanding of the tax impossible (again, the GIGO effect) appear in your subsequent exchange with Coffee Coaster's Brian Wright (www.thecoffecoaster.com) . To address one: the Supreme Court only struck down ten sections of a MUCH larger tax act in its ruling in Pollack v. Farmer's Loan & Trust in 1895-- it by no means declared the income tax unconstitutional. See 'The Supreme Court and the Meaning of "Income"' in CtC for the details on the court's ruling, and the subsequent jurisprudence on the issue of the tax, including an accurate discussion of the limited, loophole-closing purpose, meaning and effect of the 16th Amendment, as laid down by the High Court. (Also, see losthorizons.com/Intro.pdf for an even more detailed drill-down on these subjects.)
Further, the perfectly benign 16th Amendment was not "crafted" to provide for a subterfuge; it has simply been subsequently exploited as part of a subterfuge conceived a generation later, when it was noticed-- much to the voracious political class's delight, I'm sure-- that Donald Duck's exhortations to the American people during WWII led to a massive adoption of serfdom, and those who benefited have never looked back. Grandpa was really NOT a moron, but, unfortunately, Dad was...
Finally, you make a few comments about my current circumstances and suggest that it is a consequence of my analysis of the law being "rejected" in a courtroom. Nothing could be further from the truth-- indeed, the course of things just underscores how right I am. While it is true that my defense team made serious errors, the government was obliged to step deep into corruption to get its way with a jury even in the face of a less-than-sterling defense presentation. This involved refusing to let the jury see key evidence in the words of the actual statutes, even after they asked to see them; "interpretations" of statutes custom-crafted by the prosecution and selected as part of the jury instructions only after all the evidence had been presented; the prosecution being allowed to present hundreds of pages of documents containing variously vague or more specific allegations relevant to the charges despite putting not one single witness on the stand to validate and be cross-examined about any of this material; not a single witness ever testifying to any single element of the charges, but the jury being given instructions that essentially left it no choice but to convict, and much, much more. All of this had to be done because the government CAN'T overcome the truth about the tax revealed in CtC in a fair contest, and never has. "(To see a documented snap-shot of government efforts to suppress CtC, including details on many of the liberties taken by judge and prosecution in this last-ditch criminal assault, see http://losthorizons.com/ADocumentedCtCSuppressionHistory.pdf. )
Cheat it did, and thus, I sit here [in jail] in order to frighten Americans away from the liberating, empowering truth revealed in my books, even as readers across the country continue to receive complete refunds of everything withheld, or paid in, in connection with the income tax, Social Security and Medicare "contributions" and all, and/or acknowledgments of no "income" received and no tax owed. I'm not here because my analysis was "rejected", I'm here because my analysis is correct, and those grown accustomed to a lifestyle requiring that analysis to be kept from view are unscrupulous, and enjoy the benefit of widespread, deeply-rooted misunderstandings about the tax such as those that unfortunately compromise your otherwise typically excellent article on the true dwelling-place of liberty.
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The annual Frieze art fair announced its full list of New York exhibitors last month, and now they’ve shed light on another aspect of the third New York City iteration of the fair: seven artists will create site-specific installations for the event. Here’s a brief breakdown:
- Eduardo Basualdo will build two soccer goals encased in glass.
- Eva Kotátková will erect a jungle gym.
- Marie Lorenz will ferry fairgoers around the island on a boat.
- Naama Tsabar will stage a miniature music festival.
- Darren Bader will “stage a series of absurdist interventions” and “compile a list of proposals for impossible artworks around the fairgrounds.”
- Koki Tanaka will “invite representatives from local communities to share their experiences and life-stories.”
- Cecillia Alemani, the fair’s curator, will stage a version of Allen Ruppersberg’s 1971 piece, Al's Grand Hotel. Fairgoers will be allowed to check in and stay the night at the pop-up hotel project.
Sounds like a regular art-lover’s playground. Stay tuned for more Frieze news.

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Something for everyone from a fairy tale themed carnival and parade, an all-weekend motor village and MC15 It's a Knockout. With fun fair, carnival shopping and food outlets and on the final night a firework display.
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Stopping Truck Bombers
Crash-rated barriers have long history with U.S. Department of State
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U.S. Embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
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no barricades were used at the embassy in Kenya when it was
bombed the same day.
By September of that year, however, 14 barriers, including moving-
wedge barricades and crash-rated bollards, were shipped to these
Harry S. Truman Building. At the dedication of the U.S. Department
of State headquarters, held in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 22,
2000, bollards provided a first line of defense by securing the diplomatic
and congressional drive entrances.
These custom, stainless-steel bollards feature lights to improve
visibility at night. They are designed to destroy the front suspension
system, steering linkage, engine crank case and portions of the drive
train of any 15,000-pound, non-armored or non-tracked vehicle hitting
them at 62 mph. The system will also stop a 30,000-pound vehicle
traveling at 44 mph.
These bollards are raised and lowered into the guard position by
a remote controlled, precision, hydraulic power unit or a precision
pneumatic power system. Under emergency conditions, the bollards
can be raised in as little as a single second. And, with the exception of
minor, non-structural damage, such as scratches, they are fully operational
after taking a 65 mph hit from a five-ton vehicle.
Yemeni port of Aden. Just one month after the dedication of the
U.S. Department of State headquarters and within hours after the terrorist
bombing of the USS Cole at the Port of Aden, on Oct. 12, 2000,
barriers were airlifted to Yemen for deployment there and at nearby,
U.S. Embassy in Yemen. At the most recent attack in September
2008, barricades were up protecting the entrance and keeping bombers
outside the compound. These barriers tested at K54, which will
stop a 65,000-pound truck, traveling at 70 mph. That’s 5.4 million
foot-pounds of energy!
At the entrance to the embassy, the barrier creates a sally-port
with a crash-resistant gate to tightly control traffic into the embassy. It
is lowered to let in a car, while the gate in front of the car stays closed.
The barrier in back then raises, and the car is sandwiched between it
and the gate. Once searched and approved, the gate opens, and the car
is allowed to enter the embassy.
U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan. Situated in the middle of one
of the most volatile areas of the world, this embassy relies on a crashrated
barrier to protect its facilities from the threat of terrorism. The
barrier protects the compound from charging vehicles and creates a
sally-port, similar to that at the Yemeni embassy, which tightly controls
traffic into the embassy.
U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan. In 2010, barricades helped
retain attackers by preventing a bomber’s vehicle from crashing past
pedestrian gates, forcing the attackers to detonate a truck bomb far
from the building. The barricades successfully stopped the attack vehicle
away from the building and diminished the high-pressure shock
wave of a bomb blast, saving lives and the property.
With more than 170 U.S. Embassies and Consulates in 130-plus
countries, it is imperative to incorporate premier, perimeter protection
that meets or exceeds U.S. Department of State and Department
of Defense certification standards, while providing high-security in
order to counter terrorism.
This article originally appeared in the November 2013 issue of Security Today.
Greg Hamm is the vice president of sales and marketing at Delta Scientific.


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A Summary is NOT a Review
A REVIEW evaluates a book, whereas a SUMMARY only describes the book.
A review states what is good and bad about a book; it offers an opinion. Either might suggest ways to use the book in the classroom or with students. A THEMED BOOKLIST may state or imply that all the items listed are highly recommended, such as the annual Notable Books for Children by ALSC (Association for Library Services to Children).
Which of the following SAMPLES is a review, and which is a summary only?
(A) The author, an experienced dog trainer, talks about dogs at work and as pets. Each chapter highlights vocabulary that might be new to readers. The illustrations are full color photographs of many breeds of dogs. There is an index, a list of projects for students to do in class, and websites for more information. For ages 10-16. ISBN 97300654321 $21.50 trade, ebook ed. available
(B) The author, an experienced dog trainer, talks about dogs at work and as pets. New vocabulary is highlighted in each chapter but some definitions are too brief and lack examples. The full color photographs are interesting and show many breeds, but are not always placed near the corresponding text. They are inclusive of children of many cultures and both genders. The index is brief and useful. The last chapter is a list of carefully selected websites for more information and of projects for students to do in class; these features are the real strengths of the book. Each project gives links to the curriculum, what ages to use it with, a detailed list of supplies and equipment needed, and even suggests a time in the school year that is best for that project. These could have been scattered throughout the chapters, but it is easier to compare projects and choose one when they are together in one chapter. A good purchase for school libraries and middle school classrooms, and for those public libraries that serve a signifcant number of homeschooling families. For ages 10-16, although teens may be put off by the illustrations which show only preteen youth. ISBN 97300654321 $21.50 trade, ebook ed. available but not seen
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3.2. The nervous system and co-ordination
The complex nervous system of insects integrates a diverse array of external sensory and internal physiological information and generates some of the behaviors discussed in Chapter 4. In common with other animals, the basic component is the nerve cell, or neuron (neurone), composed of a cell body with two projections (fibers) — the dendrite, which receives stimuli; and the axon, which transmits information, either to another neuron or to an effector organ such as a muscle. Insect neurons release a variety of chemicals at synapses to either stimulate or inhibit effector neurons or muscles. In common with vertebrates, particularly important neurotransmitters include acetylcholine and catecholamines such as dopamine. Neurons (Fig. 3.5) are of at least four types:
- sensory neurons receive stimuli from the insect’s environment and transmit them to the central nervous system (see below);
- interneurons (or association neurons) receive information from and transmit it to other neurons;
- motor neurons receive information from inter- neurons and transmit it to muscles;
- neuroendocrine cells (section 3.3.1).
The cell bodies of interneurons and motor neurons are aggregated with the fibers interconnecting all types of nerve cells to form nerve centers called ganglia. Simple reflex behavior has been well studied in insects (described further in section 4.5), but insect behavior can be complex, involving integration of neural information within the ganglia.
The central nervous system (CNS) (Fig. 3.6) is the principal division of the nervous system and consists of series of ganglia joined by paired longitudinal nerve cords called connectives. Primitively there are a pair of ganglia per body segment but usually the two ganglia of each thoracic and abdominal segment are fused into a single structure and the ganglia of all head segments are coalesced to form two ganglionic centers — the brain and the suboesophageal (subesophageal) ganglion (seen in Fig. 3.7). The chain of thoracic and abdominal ganglia found on the floor of the body cavity is called the ventral nerve cord. The brain, or the dorsal ganglionic center of the head, is composed of three pairs of fused ganglia (from the first three head segments):
- protocerebrum, associated with the eyes and thus bearing the optic lobes;
- deutocerebrum, innervating the antennae;
- tritocerebrum, concerned with handling the signals that arrive from the body.
Coalesced ganglia of the three mouthpart-bearing segments form the suboesophageal ganglion, with nerves emerging that innervate the mouthparts.
The visceral (or sympathetic) nervous system consists of three subsystems — the stomodeal (or stomatogastric) (which includes the frontal ganglion); the ventral visceral; and the caudal visceral. Together the nerves and ganglia of these subsystems innervate the anterior and posterior gut, several endocrine organs (corpora cardiaca and corpora allata), the reproductive organs, and the tracheal system including the spiracles.
The peripheral nervous system consists of all of the motor neuron axons that radiate to the muscles from the ganglia of the CNS and stomodeal nervous system plus the sensory neurons of the cuticular sensory structures (the sense organs) that receive mechanical, chemical, thermal, or visual stimuli from an insect’s environment. Insect sensory systems are discussed in detail in Chapter 4.
The arrows show the paths of nerve impulses along nerve fibers (axons and dendrites). The ganglion, with its outer cortex and inner neuropile, is shown on the right. (After various sources)
Varying degrees of fusion of ganglia occur from the least to the most specialized: (a) three separate thoracic and eight abdominal ganglia, as in Dictyopterus (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and Pulex (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae); (b) three thoracic and six abdominal, as in Blatta (Blattodea: Blattidae) and Chironomus (Diptera: Chironomidae); (c) two thoracic and considerable abdominal fusion of ganglia, as in Crabro and Eucera (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae and Anthophoridae); (d) highly fused with one thoracic and no abdominal ganglia, as in Musca , Calliphora, and Lucilia ( Diptera: Muscidae and Calliphoridae); (e) extreme fusion with no separate suboesophageal ganglion, as in Hydrometra (Hemiptera: Hydrometridae) and Rhizotrogus (Scarabaeidae). (After Horridge 1965)


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Dead Space 2 'Lullaby ' Trailer by Craig D at 13:38
Here's a trailer for Visceral Games' sci-fi survival horror sequel Dead Space 2 titled 'Lullaby', Dead Space 2 is coming to PC, 360 and PS3 at the end of January 2011. This trailer is also available in HD if you watch it full screen and click HQ.
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One of the most frequently asked questions about photography is the one as to whether photography is a natural talent or an acquired skill. If you look keenly, you will see that there are reasons to believe that photography is a natural talent. But then, we also have reasons to disprove the notion that photography is a natural talent. Again, if you look keenly, you will discover that there are reasons to believe that photography is an acquired skill. But then again, there are reasons to disprove this notion. So where is the truth? That is what we now set out to establish.
Photography as a natural talent
There are people who are able to excel in photography without undergoing any formal training. And there are people who, even with the best formal training in photography, never quite seem to get it. It is on account of these facts that some people argue that photography is a natural talent. But then, you have to keep it in mind that we also have some folks who go through formal training programs in photography, and emerge as excellent photographers. You go to a HR portal like www.paycomonline.com and you may find some folks who are earning very decent paychecks due to their photography skills. Among such people, who are getting decent paychecks at portals like www.paycomonline.com are individuals who don’t have any natural talent in photography. These are folks who only acquired photography skills through formal training programs. If photography was only a natural talent, would it be possible for someone to simply go through a formal training course and emerge as an excellent photographer? The mind boggles.
Photography as an acquired skill
As noted above, there are folks who don’t have any natural talent in photography to start with. Yet, by going through formal training programs in photography, they have acquired excellent photography skills. On account of this fact, some people will argue that photography is an acquired skill. But on the other hand (and as we noted earlier), we also have folks who, in spite of going through excellent training programs in photography, never quite manage to acquire solid photography skills. So the question arises: if photography were an acquired skill, how is it that such people are unable to ever acquire decent photography skills, in spite of going through training programs? The mind boggles again.
Given the evidence above, we come to the conclusion that photography is both a natural talent and an acquired skill. That is the best compromise we can arrive at, based on the observations made above.


New Mexico Executive Action: Racing to Top on Climate
Governor Lujan Grisham promised swift action to propel New Mexico to leadership on clean energy and climate and today, just weeks into her administration, she is making good on that promise. Last year she climbed a wind tower to show her commitment to clean energy. Now she is ensuring New Mexico will be among the states leading the way to solve the climate crisis.
After years of stagnation on energy and climate policy, in which New Mexico did little more than hope for high oil prices to drag the economy out of recession, the new governor is taking a much more proactive posture, ensuring New Mexico’s abundant natural resources will be protected and will be the basis of a new clean energy economy.
The Executive Order commits New Mexico to the Paris Climate Accord, requiring swift cuts in carbon pollution- at least 45% by 2030 as compared to 2005 levels. But this action goes much further, putting in motion the regulatory steps that will ensure the state meets that ambitious target and protects New Mexico’s air, land, water and climate. The order calls on state agencies to:
- Adopt a comprehensive market-based program that sets emission limits to reduce carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gas pollution across New Mexico. New Mexico will join an increasing number of states, including a dozen eastern states that limit carbon from power plants and California that has an economy wide cap. Oregon’s governor has also committed to implementing an economy wide cap.
- Adopt approaches to reduce greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant emissions from light-duty vehicles sold in state, including Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) emission standards and Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) performance standards. New Mexico will join Colorado as the newest interior states to require clean car standards, pushing back on Trump’s attempt to roll back vehicle pollution safeguards and ensuring New Mexicans will get access to the cleanest, most innovative cars on the market.
- A statewide, enforceable regulatory framework to secure reductions in oil and gas sector methane emissions and to prevent waste from new and existing sources. New Mexico is the third largest oil and gas producing state in the country and has the largest methane hotspot. This action ensures New Mexico will capture, rather than waste, the methane coming off those wells and pipelines. It protects New Mexico from the dangerous rollbacks being pushed by the Trump administration that cut safeguards on methane pollution.
- Adopt new building codes. New Mexico’s energy conservation building code is ten years old. The newest model codes save home owners and businesses more than a quarter of the energy used in buildings built under the current code and will put money back in New Mexican’s pockets, and cut pollution by requiring less energy to power new buildings.
- Collaborate with the Renewable Energy Transmission Authority (RETA) to identify transmission corridors needed to transport the state’s renewable electricity to market. (Note: I am a member of the RETA board in my personal capacity) New Mexico is among the states with the best renewable energy potential in the country and is well positioned to sell power its own economy and sell clean energy to other markets. This will ensure the state is moving forward with the infrastructure needed to produce more clean energy.
- More to come: An inter-agency climate change task force will develop policies and regulatory strategies to achieve reductions in climate pollution will produce initial recommendations and a progress report on the Governor’s desk by September 15, 2019. This means the state will continue to make progress on cutting carbon through strategies that work for New Mexico.
Buckle up, I have a feeling Governor Lujan Grisham is just getting started in her efforts to lead the country and protect New Mexico’s land, air and climate. She’s also committed to pass legislation to put in place a nation leading renewable energy standard of at least 50% by 2030 and 80% by 2040, among other environmental priorities. The sun is shining in New Mexico!


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The Grays Harbor Public Utility District Board of Commissioners have approved the utility budget for 2018. The $123.3 million spending plan was passed unanimously by the board during their Nov. 20th meeting.
“This budget is about stability,” says PUD Commission President Arie Callaghan. “Our staff has put together a plan that puts the emphasis on maintaining the strength, safety and reliability of the PUD system and service and finding a practical cost which makes that mission possible. I believe the budget we passed does that.”
“For several years, utility reliability has been steadily improving,” said General Manager Dave Ward. “That reliability is born from prioritizing certain projects and making sure that they are funded for capital improvements.”
The budget includes $8.2 million in capital expenses, or renewal and replacement of the utility system infrastructure. The largest portion of PUD spending is $69.8-million in power costs, or 57% of the utility budget. While the utility will see some savings due to a reworking of their contract to purchase surplus power from Sierra Pacific Industries, a projected 5.4% increase in Bonneville Power Administration costs means the utility will increase rates beginning in April.
“At this point we are planning a three-percent increase,” says Ward. “However, by waiting to implement it we allow ourselves time to monitor factors like temperatures and load growth which may reduce the size of the increase.”
At the end of the year, the PUD anticipates an ending fund reserve of $7.9-million. That total is below district goals, but is moving in the right direction.
“Sound practice says we would maintain a minimum three month reserve,” said Ward. “When you consider that it costs roughly $10-million a month to operate the utility, you can see we are well short of that goal, but I feel that continued conservative financial planning will allow the utility to maintain a solid financial base.”

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Suddenly a male Caucasian Grouse (Tetrao mlokosiewiczi) flies up at our feet. The Caucasian Grouse lifts itself out of the rhododendron with powerful wing beats but without any audible noise, gaining only slightly in height and then gliding down the sparsely overgrown slope with wings held horizontally and wing tips hanging down. The first Caucasian Grouse is followed by 7 others; all males. The birds fly in formation down the slope for quite a while, allowing us to see the birds extensively. We are now at 2,750 m above sea level. In the further course we flush 2 more males of the Caucasian Grouse. The black bird with the pink eye area flies beautifully down the slope in front of the alpine landscape changing in different shades of green. The hanging, curled-in tail tips are just as good to see as the white undercovers.
The track climbs steeply up the mountain above the village of Sivrikaya. It leads us to an abandoned village, which is actually deserted this time. We park the SUV in the upper part of the village. At 12°C it is still fresh in the morning; a light breeze is blowing. A fantastic blue sky greet us. Everything in and above the village is heavily overgrown with eutrophic plants. Above the village we can already see the mountain slopes with their carpets of rhododendrons, which we are aiming for.
We go up the mountain with our trekking poles just behind the abandoned village. A path is not recognizable, but the vegetation consists largely of an alpine meadow, which can be crossed easily. The flowers alone are worth the walk. We walk exactly as described on the map by Tjeerd Burger in the trip report about Turkey, 15 July- 4 August 2013. First it goes well up the slopes above the village. The rhododendrons greet us from afar. I stop every now and then to scan the slopes but nothing is happening. No other birds either. After a while I get a little nervous as to whether we’re really in the right place. But we didn’t find any birds at the other places that are otherwise described in trip reports. Perhaps the birds have disappeared deep into the rhododendrons.
We are finally at 2,700 m above sea level. A whole carpet of rhododendrons stretches along the mountainside. Most is still in shadows. We must now begin to walk offset parallel to the slope. The slope has its incline, but it doesn’t appear to be that steep. However, if you then walk between or on dwarf rhododendrons, you realize how strenuous it is to cross such a field. But when we got through the first rhododendron field, we still haven’t seen any bird. We are now at 2,730m above sea level.
I notice that I keep drifting upwards. Now there is another rhododendron field on an even steeper slope ahead of us. Here the rhododendron is taller, almost knee high. This will make walking even more difficult. A little rest before the next field. We take the first steps forward and suddenly a male Caucasian Grouse flies up in front of our feet. The first Caucasian Grouse is followed by 7 others; all males. The birds fly down the slope for quite a while so we can see the birds properly. Great, we are now at 2,750 m above sea level. Unfortunately I didn’t take the camera out of the backpack. That won’t happen to me in the future. We still have most of the rhododendron field ahead of us. We finally managed to nail down this difficult target species. What a relief! In the further course we scare up 2 more males of the Caucasian Grouse. Now I’m faster with the camera too. The black birds fly beautifully down the slope in front of the alpine landscape. I can see the hanging, twisted tail tips just as well as the white undercovers. But it’s not enough for more than take-off pictures of the Caucasian Grouses. The question is: where are the females?
The landscape of north-east Turkey is breathtaking. Alpine peaks, mountain forests and alpine meadows alternate. A historic Silk Road crossing once ran nearby over the Ovit Pass in the Kaçkar Mountains. This unique, mountainous part of the Turkish Black Sea coast has a lack of large hotels, noisy crowds or developed ski slopes in addition to nature.
The area around Sivrikaya in the Pontic Mountains of Rize province is home to two very special species. Now, only the Caspian Snowcock (Tetraogallus caspius) is missing.
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A longtime innovator in the applied kinesiology (AK) discipline, Dr. Timothy Francis leads the Las Vegas practice Chiropractic Kinesiology and has instructed a number of orthopedic surgeons in his field. Dr. Timothy Francis employs a rigorous screening protocol in identifying the various dysfunctions within the body and determining exactly which approach will be most efficacious in enabling a return to balanced homeostasis.
The therapy localization (TL) is a diagnostic procedure that provides a reliable rapid screen that enables diagnosing the patient and determining what types of supplements will work best. Potential pathways that offer therapeutic benefit include homeopathic medicine, naturopathic herbs, allopathic medicine, and nutritional supplements such as vitamins, minerals, and glandulars. This broad TL screening related to specific organs, muscles, and reflexes may also indicate that no supplement is needed at present.
The advantage of this approach is in providing an optimal level of specification for the patient and avoiding the tendency to use the same techniques and therapies for every physical condition. Applied kinesiology offers a uniquely complementary approach to holistic health and is often in tandem with traditional Western medicine treatments.


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Arrival Feature Trailer (2016)
Feature and final Trailer for Arrival.
A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications.
The movie is based upon the short story "Story of Your Life" written by Ted Chiang in 2000 an the film had been planned since as early as November 2012.
With 46 reviews counted, Arrival has a whopping 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
This film reunites American Hustle co-stars Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams.
Arrival will be Director Denis Villeneuve's first time at the helm of a science fiction film. Which seems to be his new favorite genre because as soon as he finished Arrival, he started working on the new Blade Runner sequel.
Not much new stuff in this final trailer for Arrival. Which is probably a good thing. Paramount Pictures is probably just releasing this basically an extended TV Spot to keep gaining exposure for people who may not yet be aware of the film. People that already know about Arrival who are sci-fi fans probably plan on seeing it based on the cast and glowing reviews it has already received.
SPOILER ALERT...SPOILER ALERT.
This film has a very unique concept. We know that after the aliens come to Earth, Louise (Amy Adams) is enlisted to communicate with the aliens. She is eventually granted access to their entire language. As seen in this trailer, the aliens have a special "weapon" which Louise comes to find out that the weapon they mean is in fact memory, and she understands that the creatures have found a way to view time as a nonlinear process. In the process of learning the language she learns the ability of their weapon and can clearly see into both her past and future.
Could Arrival be the best science fiction film of 2016? For me it looks like it will be between this film and Passengers, both of which have not been released yet so far so time will tell.
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Lhoist B23-7's 4023 and 3138 head east running light to Rockwood to pick up empties as they pass over Piney Creek just east of Westel.
Lhoist B23-7 4023 prepares to head for Rockwood to pick up empties as the 4021 works to plant. Both units were built for the Southern Railroad in 1982.
Siemens "Velaro" e320 (british class 374) # 4023 of Eurostar after arrival from Paris in London St.Pancras station.
Arranged at very short notice due to high fire risk on the Montagu Pass, GEA 4023 crosses the Malgaarten river between George and Mossel Bay.
A GEA class Beyer Garratt storms up the west side of the Montagu Pass, past the twin peaks, a couple of kilometers beyond Camfer.
GEA class Garratt #4023 catches the last few seconds of sunlight at Camfer.
The GEA has been working flat out for most of the 25km at 1 in 36 gradient, lifting the train some 1600 feet from George to the summit at Topping, journey time around 48mins. Stack talk, out of th... (more)
GEA 4023, a 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt catches the sunset as it heads for Camfer
Class GEA works a mixed train up the 1 in 36 grade of the Montagu Pass between George and Oudtshoorn
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A bitter breakup of a well-known Ohio company, Timken, approved by shareholders in a battle led by CalSTRS and one of its investment funds, Relational, has become a case study as activist shareholders try to squeeze more profit from companies.
Under the control of the Timken family, the company won praise for repeatedly investing heavily in modern steel-making equipment that keeps jobs in the rust-belt city of Canton, while also being a major donor to local education and arts.
Now some fear the vote to “maximize shareholder value” by splitting Timken into two separate companies, Timken and TimkenSteel, creates two weak takeover targets, more vulnerable to economic downturns and less likely to continue community support.
Suzanne Berger, an MIT political science professor who studied Timken for her book “Making in America,” told the New York Times it’s not “classical greed” but the creation of financial markets that harm long-term investments and industrial companies.
“We’ve got a financial system in the U.S. where California teachers have to protect their pension funds by hurting manufacturing in Ohio,” Berger told the Times, which tracked the Timken split and published a lengthy report in December.
Since the split in September, Relational Investors and CalSTRS (except for an index fund) have sold their Timken shares. Relational bought shares at $40 and sold at $70, a gain of $188 million in about two years, the Times said.
The California State Teachers Retirement System, with investments worth $189 billion at year‘s end, stands by its role in the Timken breakup, seeing no long-term harm to Canton, home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which elected its 2015 class Saturday.
“The family remains as involved in both companies as it was in the old one,” Ricardo Duran, a CalSTRS spokesman, said last week. “In fact, the stock appreciation gives them greater wherewithal to make the local investments that have so endeared them to the community.”
Relational, a San Diego firm, targeted Timken after calculating the company might be worth more if it split. (In 1965 the Timken family established the free-admission Timken Art Museum in San Diego, which has a Rembrandt and other masterpieces.)
Both CalSTRS and the larger California Public Employees Retirement System have more than $1 billion invested in Relational. But CalPERS did not join the drive to split Timken.
“Timken was a risky target for Relational’s executives,” said the Times story. “They could be painted as Gordon Gekko types trying to make a fast buck by attacking a well-regarded, family-run company that had outperformed the stock market.
“Getting CalSTRS on board helped neutralize that threat. The pension fund, long a champion of better corporate governance, made the case that Timken’s board was dominated by family members who paid themselves liberally and put their own interests ahead of shareholders’ interests.”
Pushing a principle of the shareholder rights movement, CalSTRS argued for more independent board members, noting that nine out of the 12 Timken board members were from Ohio.
A Relational co-founder, Ralph Whitworth, quoted in a CalSTRS news release in September, said the Timken split created two industry leaders and “ensures the long-term vitality and competitiveness” of the two companies.
“It’s the right answer for all constituents, including the city of Canton, which will now be the home of two world-class companies,” said Whitworth.
Much of the focus on public pensions has been on their impact on government budgets. Pension debt soared during the recession, and state and local governments are putting more money into pensions, squeezing funding for other programs.
But state and local public pension systems, which often expect investment earnings to pay two-thirds of their pensions, also have an impact on the business world through huge investment portfolios. CalPERS was valued at $294 billion last week.
Public pensions have been leaders in the drive for better “corporate governance” through corporate board independence and diversity, the Sarbanes-Oxley financial reforms after the Enron scandal, and Dodd-Frank after the 2008 debt-binge meltdown.
And public pensions, seeking above-market returns, were early investors in private equity leveraged buyouts, regarded as “creative destruction” that helps the overall economy by some, mainly destruction by others but a major force in the corporate world.
In a leveraged buyout, companies are bought, often with loans using the company’s own assets as collateral, made more cost efficient, sometimes through layoffs and splits, and then sold for tax-advantaged profits.
Activist investors like Relational are a smaller and less controversial trend. Instead of buying a company, an activist buys a large number of shares in a company and then, as a shareholder, urges changes intended to increase the company’s value.
CalSTRS has $5 billion invested in nine “governance” funds that are activist investors. CalPERS has $3.8 billion invested in the governance funds of eight activist managers, three in addition to Relational that also are in the CalSTRS portfolio.
Ted White, a managing director of one of the CalSTRS funds, Legion Partners, is a former CalPERS governance portfolio manager. CalSTRS invested $200 million in the small fund that had $20 million under management and took 30 percent ownership.
Legion Partners had been managing investments for private individuals in small companies, said Duran, the CalSTRS spokesman, and the big pension fund had been having difficulty finding a “true small-cap activist manager” in an area with growth potential.
“The folks at Legion presented a solid investment thesis, a good investment team and a compelling incentive structure,” said Duran. “The 30 percent ownership aspect is a mechanism to reduce our fees as the seeding partner while simultaneously better aligning our interests.”
Not all corporate breakups under activist shareholder pressure are bitter battles. A Wisconsin company, Manitowoc, announced last week that it will split into two companies, one manufacturing cranes and the other food and beverage equipment.
Manitowoc’s management and board of directors said they agreed with Relational Investors and billionaire Carl Icahn that the split should produce more value for company shareholders.
How is the CalSTRS portfolio of activist funds performing? Charts in the corporate governance annual report last fall show the CalSTRS funds yielding a little more than the public equity index.
Reporter Ed Mendel covered the Capitol in Sacramento for nearly three decades, most recently for the San Diego Union-Tribune. More stories are at Calpensions.com. Posted 2 Feb 15


Software development life cycle is usually presented as circle of steps, such as Requirements & Analysis, Design & Architecture, Developing & Coding, Testing and Maintenance. Steps are connected with arrows in that order.
Are steps really done in that order?
Let’s look at Reversed software development life cycle. Let’s start with the first step when it is development of a new product started.
Step: Requirements & Analysis
When you start building a new product, you do not have the product yet. Imagine your product. What problem will it solve. How will it be used. How would the world look like, if product existed. You can define requirements and make analysis on imaginary product that does not exist.
In software development processes Test-driven development and Behavior-driven development tests are written before a production code is written. The product is tested before it even exists. The product can not exist if it does not pass all tests or if tests do not exists.
Step: Developing & Coding
You write the production code for tests.
Step: Design & Architecture
From Principles behind the Agile Manifesto: The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams. It does not state when design or architecture emerge. Let’s say that the design and the architecture is implemented after some of the product is made. This means after some of the production code is written.
After all tests passed the product is prepared for a production use. This is the last step in the cycle.
Reversed software development life cycle
Reversed software development life cycle is not completely reversed Software development life cycle. Steps Maintenance and Requirements & Analysis are switched. In Reversed software development life cycle is the first step the same step as in Software development life cycle. It is same for the last step.


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The research shows that while much has been achieved to improve housing management in remote Indigenous communities under the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing (NPARIH) reforms, other areas require further development.
Housing standards and tenancy management have generally improved in the case study communities. Government housing agencies have come a considerable way in bringing remote Indigenous housing into the mainstream housing system.
In most locations there was agreement that tenancy management arrangements had improved under delivery by government housing agencies. Very few respondents wanted to return to previous tenancy management arrangements.
The most effective arrangement for service delivery is one that is adapted to the local context. This is best achieved through a hybrid model, involving a partnership between the government housing agency and knowledgeable, preferably Indigenous, third party providers delivering a culturally appropriate service.
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute 2016


Tips on storing car for winter
As many of us pack our favorite Porsche away for the winter, the following winter car storage tips can be used to maintain the integrity of the car and minimize any damage from improper storage. These tips can be used for both air-cooled and water-cooled cars.
1. Store your car with a full tank of fresh gas to minimize condensation of water. But before you fill the fuel tank up, add some gas stabilizer to the tank prior to the fill up. Drive the car for a few minutes to ensure that the gas stabilizer is through the entire fuel system. Change the engine oil and filter. This will help assure internal rust and corrosion protection and reduce sludge buildup.
2. For water-cooled cars, flush and refill the cooling system with new coolant if needed (typically every two years for the green stuff and every five years for the newer orange stuff (Dexcool)).
3. If you have not flushed the brake system in the past two years, now is a good time to flush and refill the brake fluid. Get another person to help out and work from the farthest to the closest wheel from the master brake cylinder.
4. Top off the transmission and differentials with appropriate lubricants.
5. Spray WD40 on all hinges (hood, doors, trunk, etc). It is also a good time to lubricate door latches, handles and key cylinders.
6. Wash (and wax) just prior to storage.
7. Clean the interior, and dress all vinyl and rubber with appropriate treatments.
8. For soft top cars, put the top up. For all cars that are being stored inside, leave a window or two down to allow air to circulate into the interior.
9. Jack up the car and place jack stands so as to relieve weight from the springs and prevent flat spots on the tires (more common on older bias ply tires).
10. If a cover is used, use only soft cotton or comparable material that breathes and allows air circulation.
11. To absorb excess moisture, place a couple bags of desiccant in the interior of the car and one or two in the truck. This will help minimize condensation, rust and mildew damage to interior materials.
12. Disconnect the battery while the car is in storage. To prolong the life of the battery, attach and plug in a battery trickle charger. Letting a battery sit too long and discharge is a quick way to ruin it in a short time.
13. Cover the exhaust and air intakes to the motor to keep moisture and small animals out of these areas.
14. For manual transmissions leave the car in neutral and the hand/emergency brake off. For automatics, leave the car in park and leave the hand/emergency brake off. Block the wheels as necessary.
15. Place a vapor barrier (poly film) on the floor under your car when stored in a garage. This helps keeps ground moisture away from the undercarriage of the car.
16. If you store your car outdoors, exercise caution when using heavy tarps. Tarps can trap moisture underneath next to car, which can induce corrosion and bleached spots in the paint. Also, wind whipping the tarp can abrade the paint surface leaving it dull. Dust can also get trapped underneath and can act as a fine abrasive material on the paint surface.
17. Keep your comprehensive insurance on the vehicle in the event there is a mishap in the garage or storage area. Discounts may be available from your insurance company when the vehicle is being stored. Make sure you have all your normal coverage reactivated when you are ready to put it back on the road.
Depending on your situation, and experience, some other storage measures may be considered and/or necessary.


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The broad class of “sweeteners” contains caloric sweeteners (like white sugar, brown sugar, uncooked sugar, corn syrup, honey, maple syrup, molasses, and fruit syrups) in addition to pure and synthetic calorie-free sugar substitutes (together with aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, stevia, and sugar alcohols).
All caloric sweeteners have roughly the identical variety of energy (about 20 energy per teaspoon and 60 energy per tablespoon). Sugars are a extremely concentrated supply of energy that don’t fill you up, so it’s simple to see how a high-sugar eating regimen can promote weight acquire. Most caloric sweeteners don’t have any dietary worth exterior of supplying energy — that’s why you’ll usually hear them known as “empty energy.” (Blackstrap molasses is the one exception. It’s a concentrated supply of iron, calcium, magnesium, and different minerals, however like different sweeteners, it’s calorie-dense and ought to be used solely in small quantities.)
Honey, white sugar, brown sugar, and different caloric sweeteners are thought-about low-quality carbs as a result of they’re made up of easy sugars that may quickly increase your physique’s blood-sugar ranges. Consuming sugary meals and consuming sugary drinks is principally like getting on an emotional roller-coaster experience that sends you up and down, and may doubtlessly zap your power degree. People with diabetes, who’ve an impaired capability to manage their blood sugar, ought to dramatically restrict their consumption of all caloric sweeteners and sugary meals.
There are a selection of different good causes to chop again on sugar in your espresso, cereal, and home made baked items, in addition to added sugars in packaged meals like soda and different sweetened drinks, cookies, sweet, snack bars, and sweetened yogurts. Apart from the truth that the energy from sugar add up and may sabotage your weight-loss objectives, sugar also can negatively influence the well being of your tooth by selling cavities and decay. As well as, scientists are presently exploring whether or not a high-sugar eating regimen has a adverse influence in your pores and skin by inflicting irritation in pores and skin cells, leading to zits and untimely getting old and wrinkles. A excessive consumption of sugary meals and drinks has additionally been linked to excessive ldl cholesterol, excessive triglycerides, and elevated danger of growing sort 2 diabetes.
Concentrated sources of fructose, comparable to sugar, honey, agave*, fruit juice, dried fruit, and candies and syrups that include high-fructose corn syrup are frequent triggers for these with irritable bowel syndrome, and ought to be prevented in the event that they worsen IBS signs.
*A particular be aware about agave: Agave is a liquid caloric sweetener that’s fabricated from as much as 90 p.c fructose. Agave has a a lot larger share fructose than different sweeteners like sugar, corn syrup, and honey, that are throughout 50 p.c glucose and 50 p.c fructose. Fructose doesn’t increase blood sugar as a lot as glucose, so agave is typically beneficial as a greater sweetener possibility for people with diabetes, prediabetes, or metabolic syndrome. Nevertheless, agave has its personal downsides. Concentrated sources of fructose like agave could improve triglycerides, which might negatively influence coronary heart well being. As talked about above, fructose may also be problematic for people with IBS. As with all different sweeteners, you need to restrict your consumption of agave to no quite a lot of teaspoons per day.
Now that why you need to restrict your consumption of sugar, honey, agave, and different caloric sweeteners, right here’s what you need to know in regards to the zero-calorie sugar substitutes.
Synthetic sweeteners and zero-calorie pure sugar substitutes are generally utilized by individuals to trim energy and general sugar consumption. Sugar substitutes do provide some advantages when used instead of caloric sweeteners. For one factor, they assist many individuals who can’t kick their candy tooth obtain their weight-loss objectives. Sugar substitutes don’t increase blood sugars or promote insulin secretion, so that they’re useful instruments for diabetics, who have to dramatically restrict their consumption of sugar and different calorie-containing sweeteners.
Curiously sufficient, sure sugar substitutes also can assist keep wholesome tooth. Xylitol, a sugar alcohol discovered in lots of manufacturers of sugarless gum, can really inhibit tooth decay by re-mineralizing the tooth. Chewing sugarless gum usually also can assist defend your tooth by stimulating saliva to clean away meals particles. The sugarless gum acts like a pure toothbrush and buffers the acid in your mouth to assist defend your tooth enamel.
Although sugar substitutes might help people handle their weight and management diabetes, they’re definitely not for everybody and should have some downsides. (Apart from, many individuals choose to devour whole-foods diets and keep away from meals that include synthetic sweeteners.)
First off, aspartame — marketed as NutraSweet and Equal — is regularly reported as a set off for migraine complications. Folks with a sensitivity to aspartame ought to keep away from all meals and eating regimen drinks containing this synthetic sweetener.
Secondly, sugar alcohols, one other class of sugar substitutes that features sorbitol, maltitol, and mannitol, are frequent IBS triggers. If sugar alcohols trigger you digestive discomfort, avoid all meals, drinks, sweet, and gum that include them.
And at last, in my expertise, utilizing extreme synthetic sweeteners and zero-calorie sugar substitutes can typically intensify sugar cravings by protecting the style of sweetness in your style buds and in your thoughts. When you select to make use of sugar substitutes, my private advice is not more than two packets or gadgets per day (e.g., one packet in your espresso and one eating regimen soda).

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The story fails on multiple levels to make its central claim that congressional oversight regarding the use of human informants against the Trump campaign is hurting intelligence-gathering in Moscow.
Adam Schiff is portrayed by many in the media as a straight shooter. His record in reality is of fanning the flames of every single Trump-Russia collusion allegation out there.
This story gives a glimpse into how the original Russia narrative may have been spread around to overly compliant journalists and other members of the ‘resistance.’
Americans should be reassured that the federal law enforcement agencies are working to keep America safer rather than focused on revenge against political enemies.
‘I’ve filed formal complaints about them having Fox News on. . . Just, at least, for God’s sake, put Al Jazeera on.’
The written testimony of former FBI Director James Comey discusses five conversations he had with Donald Trump, beginning on January 6.
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Are you searching for a way to better the world and possibly better yourself? Have you ever thought about being a mentor? Miss. Kelli shared her knowledge of mentoring and the benefits of mentoring on The Rhode Show! Watch it here!
Mentors help to develop a child’s self-esteem and confidence. The Children’s Workshop Foundation believes students who have mentors have a desire to stay in school, and believe they can be whatever they want to be.
Benefits to Mentor:
•They are happier when they return to work
•They feel satisfied that they’ve volunteer their time and knowledge to such a great program
•They have a greater understanding of today’s youth by getting to know them
•They actually have an overall good feeling about themselves because they are making such an impact to the life of a child
•Mentors report that they also have a better feeling and relationship with their own families do to these wonderful relationships they build with their mentees
Benefits to Mentees:
•They participate more in class
•They show better attendance at school
•They improve academically
•They are just happier with school – better attitude towards school
•They get more involved with school activities
Who would make a good mentor?
Qualities of a mentor – someone who enjoys being around children, someone who is committed and willing to be a positive role model to a child. They need to be dependable, honest and ready to have fun with their mentee.
Is there on-going training and support for the mentor?
Yes – there is training for mentors and mentees.
Mentors help to develop a child’s self esteem and confidence and desire to stay in school and realize that they can be whatever they want to be with hard work.

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