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From Milk to Superfoods: Supping with the Devil?
I'd be surprised if many readers of this blog work for the fracking industry. Those charming people spend a lot on lobbying and public relations, sure — but their main aim in life is to remain obscure.
But food and drink? The branding, the packaging, the communications, the stores, the promotions, the trade shows, the hotels, the restaurants? Would I be wrong to guess that 75% of us have worked for a global food enterprise, directly or indirectly, at some point? I know I have: an industry talk here, a futures workshop there, a couple of healthcare events…
But two new publications this week have left me sick to the stomach. I just don't think it's defensible any more to turn a blind eye to the social and ecological crimes Big Food is committing, in other parts of the world, so that you and I can eat what we damn well feel like.
When it comes to the food business, I've been having my cake, and eating it, since 1995. That was when Vandana Shiva spoke at Doors of Perception 3 about the hidden but devastating ecological and social costs of global industrial agriculture. That was a wake-up call.
Food figured prominently in 2000, too, when we did Doors East in Ahmedabad We learned, then, that for eighty million women in India, who own or look after one or two cows, milk is their only livelihood.
It should not have been a surprise last week, then, to read a grim report entitled "The great milk robbery: How corporations are stealing livelihoods and a vital source of nutrition from the poor."
Left: Colombia's jarreadores (Photo: Aurelio Suárez Montoya). Right: mobile milk delivery in Kenya
In a long and scrupulously documented report, an NGO called Grain confirms the importance of so-called "people's milk" to the livelihoods and health of hundreds of millions of poor people in the global South — from small-scale farmers and pastoralists, to local cheesemakers and fresh milk vendors. They nearly all supply safe, nutritious and affordable milk at a mainly local scale.
The report chronicles in distressing detail the global push by Big Dairy corporations such as Nestlé, PepsiCo and Cargill to colonise this entire milk flow. Instead of fresh, high-quality milk produced and supplied in the most sustainable ways by small scale farmers, Big Dairy's strategy is to replace their local milk with powdered and processed milk, produce it on highly polluting mega farms, sell it in excessive packaging, display it in wildly over-chilled stores and, after all that, charge at least double the cost of "peoples milk."
A continued shift to large-scale farms would be an environmental and public health catastrophe. Big Dairy's farms guzzle enormous quantities of water, often at the expense of local communities that depend on the same sources. Their mega-farms also require a lot of land — not just for their cows to live on, but to produce their feed.
They also produce massive amounts of waste. An industrial farm with 2,000 cows produces as much waste as a small city.
We know the Big Dairy push is an existential threat to the South because it already happened in the North. The US lost 88 percent of its dairy farms between 1970 and 2006, while the original nine countries of the EU lost 70 percent between 1975 and 1995. Since then, land-grabs and market manipulation have accelerated — accompanied, along the way, by profoundly misguided programmes to impose a high-cost, high-tech "green revolution" on Africa's farmers.
Instead of new hybrid seeds, chemical fertilisers and pesticides, family farmers in West Africa said they want to use local seeds, avoid spending precious cash on chemicals and most importantly to direct public agricultural research to meet their needs.
Where agriculture was born — and is now dying
My sense of quease was further exacerbated last week by reading Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring by Rami Zurayk.
Zurayk, a senior Lebanese agronomist, was not surprised by the Arab Spring. He's been charting the collapse of traditional agricultural livelihoods in the Middle East since the late 1980s — latterly in his blog Land and People. That project grew out of a mobile agricultural clinic designed to help small producers rebuild the livlihoods that their enemy's assaults had shattered.
Zurayk explains that although the Arab Spring may well have been enabled in part by social media, its roots go much deeper.
The middle east is where agriculture first emerged, 10,000 years ago. The most important crops and animal species originated there. Yet today, middle eastern countries are the world's largest importers of food. More than 50 percent of the calories eaten in Lebanon are imported. In Iraq it's worse. In the 1950s, Iraq was self-sufficient in agricultural production, by 2002 she relied on imports for 80-100 percent of many staples.
What went wrong? Can things be fixed?
At one level, when Zurayk explains the between food and farming and the geopolitics of the region, prospects there look grim. Local food production is perceived by enemies of the small farmers to be a form of opposition to their military-territorial objectives. This explains the systematic bulldozing of olive trees, some of them hundreds of years old, in the West Bank and Gaza.
Neo-liberal economic policies have also had catastrophic impacts. Large scale export-oriented agriculture — promoted by global corporations, banks, and many development agencies as the 'road to growth' — has been a boon to local elites. In Lebanon today fifty percent of the farmland is owned by just 3.5 percent of the farmers — usually absentee landlords.
This export-scale agriculture involves the systematic abuse of agrochemicals. Industrial-scale monocultures have caused tremendous damage to biodiversity and to the fertility of the soil itself.
Industrial agriculture is also a major cause of social dislocation. Poor rural people are first displaced from their land; they then do marginalized work in contract farming; when that becomes unsurvivable, they are driven out of farming altogether into the 'misery belts' that surround most cities. There, as patterns of production and consumption have changed, obesity and malnutrition have become widespread among the poorer social classes — the majority of the Arab people..
The pattern is repeated in other African ex-colonies, too, such as Egypt and Kenya — wherever, in fact, a country is 'opened up' to 'modernisation and development'.
India steps back
As in the middle east, so too in India, farming and food retail are about more than trade. They are the very stuff of culture and ecology, of food security, of identity and of livelihood.
In 2007, we focused the whole of Doors 9, in Delhi, on food systems.We were told, then, that 29 percent of school-age children in Delhi are classified as obese, that the sugar content of their diet has risen 40 percent during the last 50 years, that its fat content had risen by 20 percent.
Powerful forces were already pushing India to speed up this industrialisation of food and the corporatisation of retail. The informal sector did not sell branded products — so big business did not like them, we were told. The construction lobby and landowners could not tolerate vendors' occupation of commercially viable urban space, for which they pay no rent. Delhi's municipal authorities wanted food sales off the streets as part of a "clean-up" ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
Large multinational retailers like Wal-Mart, TESCO, Carrefour, and Metro have been trying to expand into India for years — sometimes in partnership, always as teachers, with local business houses such as Reliance, the Tatas, Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla. The grand strategy is to offer cheaper food to price-conscious middle-class Indians.
Last week, India suspended plans to "open" its $450 billion supermarket sector to foreign firms such as Wal-Mart. The Financial Times complained that this retail "liberalization… would have improved the functioning of its supply chain". Prior to its suspension, the Economist had praised law for "opening up its underdeveloped and fragmented retail market". A Tesco spokesman said the move was a "missed opportunity for customers".
The language used by the the business press and the management consultants is soporific and reassuring: "Liberalization" "Opening up" "Opportunity."
The realities that these words hide are evil, pure and simple.
State-of-the-art sustainability
These words are also profoundly old-fashioned.
With 12 million outlets, India has the largest density of small shops in the world. Her so-called "unorganized" retail sector, with its infrastructure of bazaars, mandis and haats, has evolved over centuries into an ecology of 40 million traders, shopkeepers, hawkers and vendors, together with 650 million farmers.
This amazing ecology is labour-intensive, low entropy, low-cost, decentralized, self-organizing, highly efficient — in a word: resilient.
In sustainability terms, India's legacy farming, food and retail systems are state-of-the-art. And it's this ecology that "organized retail" wants to sweep away.
The corporate take-over of retail is often justified in terms of efficiency. Corporate boosters argue that 40 per cent of horticulture produce in India is wasted. In the informal sector, the opposite is the case: fruit and vegetables that go bad are eaten by cows, or are composted. This recycling of organic matter is only possible in a highly decentralized system. The global giants are the real wasters. Globalised retail is responsible for the waste of 50 percent of food — not the small farmers and retailers.
Another argument is that farmers will get better prices in a more "efficient" system. Yeah, sure. Nowhere in the world is there evidence that corporations like Walmart and Tesco have increased returns to indigenous subsistence farmers. Their entire business model is based on industrialising production, buying at extremely low prices, and undercutting small retailers and street vendors.
Says Vandana Shiva: "the Walmart model is a model for genocide. A retail monopoly, by buying below the cost of production, and by robbing them of other markets through destroying other alternatives, will destroy farmers". In the past decade, 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India. For Shiva, this is a direct result of agricultural modernization, including the introduction of genetically modified crops.
A couple of months back I heard a woman from Pepsico talk about her company's big push into "superfoods". Pepsico will work every angle hard to persuade people to pay premiums of at least 25% on their 'super' eats. This has got to mean a *heap* of new work for designers.
But, after reading this week's reports, I've got to say something: for me, given what I know now, working for these guys would be like supping with the devil. During the past years of step-by-step incremental change, of being reasonable, of being grown-up, the situation on the ground — for millions of vulnerable people, and untold vulnerable ecosystems — has gotten steadily worse.
What, you will fairly ask, are you supposed to do with this statement? I don't know. It's a dilemma, not a problem to be solved.
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While concentrated, large-scale farming operations are rightly pilloried here, it bears mentioning that on a single front--efficiency--they come out ahead of small farms. Large, efficient food production operations will without doubt continue to be important in the future, as populations worldwide continue to grow and concentrate in cities. What all farmers desperately need is new regulations and policy support, whether large or small, in India or upstate New York. Agribusiness could be made to operate according to entirely different rules, with respect to their dismal records on the handling of excrement, antibiotic and hormone use, and animal quality of life, but only if our governments turned away from their lobbyists.
DMM, it's arguable that large-scale industrial farming is 'efficient' in only one sense - the monetary one. This article does a good job of explaining all the systemic inefficiencies that result from the industrial model - the hazardous industrial chemical waste, the carbon footprint, the abusive exploitation of aquifers and land, the wasteful process of putting food in disposable packaging, transporting it for long distances and refrigerating it, the inmense percentage of discarded produce, the concentration of power and wealth inherent to industrial exploitation.
While it's true that, as a producer, ideally you could individually address all theses individual issues and still come ahead in yield, the simple matter is that the producers don't care. As usual with our modern globalized production model, the results look better on paper because all the non-monetary costs and risks that aren't directly represented in a company's balance sheet are universally disregarded, and worse in fact, intentionally externalized (throw the hazardous chemical waste in the river so it's someone else's problem and all that).
To be fair, India's traditional farmers probably wouldn't care either if they were the ones responsible for an unsustainable form of living, such is human nature. However, they don't have to because the model they have *is* perfectly sustainable. The problem at hand is that sustainability is expensive, and producers (traditional or industrial) who care for it cannot compete with those who do not. At the end of the day, in an open market consumers vote with their wallet, and the overwhelming majority votes for the most mediocre product they can stand at the lowest price they can pay.
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If there's one thing the organic movement proves, it's that people will pay more for quality. Cooperatives, here I think of Organic Valley in the U.S. and AMUL in India, do exist to help small farmers compete with Big Dairy. Outrage over corporate manipulation of seed stock will, ultimately, result in the failure of Monsanto's efforts to take over the world. This doesn't mean we can afford to lose vigilance. The specter of Food, Inc. is always just over the horizon, and an ugly view it is.
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John Thackara is a writer, speaker and design producer, and director of Doors of Perception. In addition to this blog, he is the author of twelve books including In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World and Wouldn't It Be Great If….
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Q: Is the kinetic frictional force required to turn a wheel? Recently I wondered why rotating a wheel, like on a bicycle for example, results in changing the direction of its velocity. Hence I read about the Ackermann steering geometry and watched various videos on the steering mechanisms of cars. However, none of these sources could clarify my current misconception, namely, is the kinetic frictional force the cause of the turning of the wheel?
Moreover, I conceived a possible explanation for why it must be the kinetic frictional force, which is graphically shown in the image below.

In situation A, where the force required to turn the wheel is considered negligible, the entire wheel has a translational velocity $\vec{v_{T}}$ and rotational velocity $\vec{v_R}$. Since $\vec{v_{T}}$ and $\vec{v_{R}}$ aren't parallel, there is relative motion between the wheel and ground, therefore a kinetic frictional force must occur as long as sliding persists. Furthermore, $\vec{f_\parallel}$ will cause $\vec{v_R}$ to increase and $\vec{v_\parallel}$ to decrease, until both vectors are equal in size and opposite in direction. Then the relative motion of the wheel to the ground will be 0 in the direction of $\vec{v}$ (situation B), and $\vec{f_\parallel}$ becomes 0 as well. Now the only relative motion that remains is due to $\vec{v_\perp}$ and this component of $\vec{v_T}$ must become 0 in order for it to point in the direction of $\vec{v}$. This could solely be accomplished via $\vec{f_\perp}$, which will eliminate $\vec{v_\perp}$ due to the sliding motion. Eventually the wheel is going to end up in situation B, as was to be demonstrated.
I would be grateful if you could tell me if this given explanation is correct.
P.S. In this analysis, I ignored the fact that the wheel would tip over during the sliding because of an upward torque caused by the kinetic frictional force.

A: On my bicycle increasing or decreasing speed does not change the direction of the angular velocity vector of the wheels.  If I want to change direction, I apply a torque with the handlebars.  When riding without hands, a slight tip to the right produces a torque (which does require static friction with the road). That torque causes the front wheel to precess to the right, which shifts the center of support to the right.  Bottom line: I don't understand your question.

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I actually thought I'd written about this as I've used it in a make-up video which I've linked below, it's a NEW addition to the ever-growing Clarins Ombre Matte Eye Shadow Collection and I'd go as far as saying that this is a go-to colour from the whole collection….you'll get so much use out it!
Inside you're greeted by a cute little pot with a gold lid – it's touches like this that make a product go from OK to luxurious and Clarins always falls into the high-end luxurious market, in my opinion!
In this post and what I'm using in the video which you can see below is colour CARBON 07 which is rich black.
It's a highly pigmented eye shadow and a little product goes a very long way!
The texture of the Clarins Ombre Matte Eye Shadow is rather unique – at first, I thought it would be like a cream eye shadow but as you can see in the picture below, it's a pressed powder.
When you dip your eye shadow brush into the product it still looks (and acts) like a powder however when you apply it to your eyes it turns into a silky power – not a creamy powder but a silky powder…..I hope this makes sense haha!
You all know that I love multi-use products, it just makes things so much easier and it's absolutely perfect if you travel too!
As you'll be able to see in the video which is linked below, I'm using it as an eyeliner.
As with all Clarins products – it's great!
You can purchase this from the Clarins website for £19.00 and even though it's pricier it's definitely worth it!
This will last you for many, many months and you're guaranteed great quality!
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Butterflies are fascinating little creatures. From the extremely showy to the deceptively plain, there is a wide variety butterfly species in Ontario and Eastern Canada. In this book, butterfly expert John Acorn and renowned illustrator Ian Sheldon aim to inspire readers and nature lovers to get out and get to know their local butterflies: • user-friendly format, including a Quick Reference Guide for easy identification • identifying features, wingspan, habitat and flight season for each butterfly • butterfly biology and natural history • detailed illustrations and supplementary photos With his signature witty, yet no-nonsense prose, John Acorn guides readers through the sometimes murky, always interesting world of butterflies.
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He was one of the first eight persons to accept Islam. He was one of the ten persons (al-asharatu-l mubashshirin) who were assured of entering Paradise. He was one of the six persons chosen by Umar to form the council of shura to choose the Khalifah after his death. His name in Jahiliyyah days was Abu Amr. But when he accepted Islam the noble Prophet called him Abdur-Rahman – the servant of the Beneficent God.
Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA became a Muslim before the Prophet SAW entered the house of al-Arqam. In fact it is said that he accepted Islam only two days after Abu Bakr as-Siddiq did so.Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA did not escape the punishment which the early Muslims suffered at the hands of the Quraish. He bore this punishment with steadfastness as they did. He remained firm as they did. And when they were compelled to leave Makkah for Abyssinia because of the continuous and unbearable persecution, Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA also went.
Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA went to the market-place and began trading with whatever little resources he had. He bought and sold and his profits grew rapidly. Soon he was sufficiently well off and was able to get married. He went to the noble Prophet SAW with the scent of perfume lingering over him.
"Mahyam, O Abdur-Rahman!" exclaimed the Prophet – "mahyam" being a word of Yemeni origin which indicates pleasant surprise.
Thereafter Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA grew so accustomed to business success that he said if he lifted a stone he expected to find gold or silver under it! Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA distinguished himself in both the battles of Badr and Uhud. At Uhud he remained firm throughout and suffered more than twenty wounds some of them deep and severe. Even so, his physical jihad was matched by his jihad with his wealth.
When the Prophet SAW decided to send an expedition to distant Tabuk – this was the last ghazwah of his life that he mounted – his need for finance and material was not greater than his need for men for the Byzantine forces were a numerous and well-equipped foe. That year in Madinah was one of drought and hardship. The journey to Tabuk was long, more that a thousand kilometers. Provisions were in short supply. Transport was at a premium so much so that a group of Muslims came to the Prophet SAW pleading to go with him but he had to turn them away because he could find no transport for them.
"Have you left anything for your family, Abdur-Rahman?" asked the Prophet SAW.
"Yes," replied Abdur-Rahman. "I have left for them more than what I give and better." "How much?" enquired the Prophet SAW.
The Muslim army eventually left for Tabuk. There Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA was blessed with an honor which was not conferred on anyone till then. The time of Salat came and the Prophet SAW, peace be on him, was not there at the time. The Muslims chose Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA as their imam. The first rakat of the Salat was almost completed when the Prophet SAW, may God bless him and grant him peace, joined the worshippers and performed the Salat behind Abdur-Rahman ibn Auf RA. Could there be a greater honor conferred on anyone than to have been the imam of the most honored of God's creation, the imam of the Prophets, the imam of Muhammad, the Messenger of God!
When the Prophet SAW, peace be on him, passed away, Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA took on the responsibility of looking after the needs of his family, the Ummahaat al-Muminin. He would go with them wherever they wanted to and he even performed Hajj with them to ensure that all their needs were met. This is a sign of the trust and confidence which he enjoyed on the part of the Prophet's SAW family.
The prayer of the noble Prophet SAW that Allah should bestow barakah on the wealth of Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA appeared to be with Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA throughout his life. He became the richest man among the companions of the Prophet SAW. His business transactions invariably met with success and his wealth continued to grow. His trading caravans to and from Madinah grew larger and larger bringing to the people of Madinah wheat, flour, butter, cloths, utensils, perfume and whatever else was needed and exporting whatever surplus produce they had.
Why creeping? Why should he not enter Paradise leaping and at a quick pace with the early companions of the Prophet SAW?
Some friends of his related to Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA the hadith which Aishah RA had mentioned. He remembered that he had heard the hadith more than once from the Prophet SAW and he hurried to the house of Aishah RA and said to her: "Yaa Ammah! Have you heard that from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace?" "Yes," she replied.
And so he did. In a great festival of charity and righteousness, he distributed all that the massive caravan had brought to the people of Madinah and surrounding areas. This is just one incident which showed what type of man Abdur-Rahman bin Auf RA was. He earned much wealth but he never remained attached to it for its own sake and he did not allow it to corrupt him.
"Musab ibn Umayr has been killed. He was better than me. We did not find anything of his to shroud him with except what covered his head but left his legs uncovered. . Then God endowed us with the (bounties of) the world… I really fear that our reward has been bestowed on us early (in this world)." He began to cry and sob and could not eat.
May Abdur-Rahman ibn Auf RA be granted felicity among "those who spend their substance in the cause of God and follow up not their gifts with reminders of their generosity or with injury. For them their reward is with their Lord, on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve". (The Quran, Surah al-Baqarah, 2: 262).


One year after James Oglethorpe founded the Georgia colony, he returned to London to report to the Trustees--and took a group of Georgia's Yamacraw Indians with him. Led by Chief Tomochichi, they wanted to make requests for education and fair trade directly to the king and the Trustees. Tomochichi traveled as both negotiator and diplomat, determined to protect his people from abuse, but he also wanted to assure the British of his concern for Georgia's welfare.
The natives spent a successful six months in England, becoming celebrities in London, visiting with the trustees and posing for portraits. Their big moment came when they met with King George II and Queen Caroline.
One of the natives died of smallpox and was buried at St. John the Evangelist Church. He lies there still, the last tangible relic of a remarkable meeting between the old world and the new on a journey that began on March 23, 1734, Today in Georgia History.
Tomochichi presented King George II eagle feathers as a symbol of peace.


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tvail November 28, 2016 November 29, 2016
11/9 – 13/2016 Summary: While we had planned to spend just one night at Kingfisher Marina in Demopolis, AL, we were feeling like we were moving a bit too fast (not part of the plan) and behind, so we opted to spend a second night and get caught up on some things (like the blog). Kingfisher Marina was a nice marina with lots of friendly folks to visit. We met Tom and Paula (yes another Tom and Paula) Hanaway on Tango Papa, and Tom and Glenda Smitherman on Genesis plus others. We ended up traveling with those 2 boats.
Tango Papa
We left Kingfisher Marina early on November 9th along with 6 other boats to pass through the Demopolis Lock just a few miles downstream. Genesis and Tango Papa traveled at about the same speed as us, so we ended up at the same anchorage that evening and rafted together. (To raft together, we set our bow anchor, and because we did not want to swing out into the channel, we also set a stern anchor. Once we were set, the other 2 boats came alongside and tied to us, with all 3 boats hanging on our anchors.) After we were settled, we had appetizers on the aft deck, and then folks joined us for a potluck.
Paula knitting
Tom's new socks
Genesis ended up having to return to Demopolis the next morning due to some mechanical issues, but Tango Papa followed us downriver for the next few days. They were only a week into their Loop and we were but 250 miles from completing ours, so we sort of took on the "senior" role even though Tom H. was older than Tom V. (by a week). Early evenings on the hook (without daylight savings time, sunset was an early 5:00 PM) included catching up on minor projects for Tom and knitting for Paula, which produced a new pair of socks for her beloved which were nice for our cool mornings.
We traveled south on the Tombigbee River which became the Mobile River before it flowed into Mobile Bay where we would be crossing our wake. Since there was only one "marina," (really only a gas dock) in this 250-mile stretch, we anchored out each night until we reached Eastern Shore Marina on Mobile Bay. Along the way we saw eagles, osprey, gators, turtles, deer and a wide variety of human inhabitants. As we entered Mobile Bay with Tango Papa, the scene changed dramatically. As Paula said, we quickly figured out "we weren't in Kansas anymore." Also as we traveled, Paula was organizing a wake crossing extravaganza for the following day.
Tango Papa entering Mobile Bay
This brings the summary to an end and is where, if you wish, you can read on for all the details. Or, you can go do something on your Christmas "to do" list. Thanks for stopping by.
Kingfisher Marina
Details – We last left you at Kingfisher Marina in the Demopolis Yacht Basin on November 8. We found the marina very nice and ended up staying two nights instead of just one. Because it was the last "real" marina for the next 250 miles, the marina attracted and welcomed Loopers and many stopped before the run to Mobile.
Amenities included golf carts (the sister marina boat store was a half-mile away), a courtesy car, large lounge with 4 washers/dryers (more than most) and lovely rocking chairs, a very restful area. There was a sign-up sheet for a 5:30 bus to dinner at the Red Barn, as well as other nightly events in town during season.
Tom and Paula Hanaway
After doing 3 loads of laundry, Tom and Paula met (believe it or not), Tom and Paula Hanaway on Tango Papa, a 36' Monk. Tom had actually spoken with Tom 2 days before in Columbus Marina when he watched us raise our scooter into position on the boat, but we didn't know his wife was also Paula. Not only that, but Tom was a pilot who had built 2 kit airplanes. Guess we had a lot in common. They were only 7 days into their Great Loop, having bought their boat at Green Turtle Bay in KY. We also met Rowland and Alex Harrison, a Canadian couple on Tosca II.
Afternoon boaters' meeting
Every day at 4:30 PM, boaters who were leaving the next day gathered on the patio above the marina office to discuss plans for getting through the Demopolis Lock 3 miles below the marina. It was decided Tom would call the lock at 6:00 the next morning to see if the lockmaster would let us through about 7:00.
Dinner at the Red Barn
After the meeting, a busload of people gathered and we had a very enjoyable dinner at the Red Barn with the crews from My Inspiration, Tango Papa, (both just week old Loopers) and one other non-Looper boat. It was a wonderful and reasonably priced restaurant with choices from seafood to steaks and leftovers galore. Tom got a great meal – Shrimp and Cheese Boat (mixed with rice). Paula was ecstatic to find watermelon pickles on the salad bar (a first since NC) and our waitress even got her a little cupful to take home!
Back at the boat, we decided to stay another day to catch up on some chores, both ministry and boat, and having been without Internet for several days, to catch up and post another blog. (If you've been following us very long or maybe write your own blog, you realize this blogging takes a lot of time. But, it is enjoyable for us, and we hope you enjoy them too.) Tom still got up and made the 6:00 AM call to the lockmaster, then relayed the message to the other boats that there was an upbound barge coming and to call the lockmaster back at 8:00.
The next day was consumed with chores too numerous and boring to mention. But at 4:30, we again went to the lock planning meeting and learned quite a bit more than the day before, as 2 local boaters were there who actually knew what was around the bends to Mobile. By the time the evening was over, there were a total of 7 boats eager to leave the next morning at daybreak (6:00 AM).
Tom & Glenda with Daisy
At the meeting, we met Tom and Glenda Smitherman (there sure were a lot of Toms at this marina) on Genesis, a 1969 Willard aft pilothouse trawler. They were not Loopers but lived in the area and were headed to FL for Thanksgiving. We visited their boat and learned their boat was named for Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God…" We enjoyed our visit and told them about Canyon Ministries. They were familiar with Answers in Genesis and had been to the museum but had not made it to the newly opened Ark Encounter yet. We then visited a bit more with Tom and Paula Hanaway and decided to anchor together the next night.
At 5:30 AM Thursday, Tom called the lockmaster to see about locking through at 6:30. There was no known traffic and he said to bring our group on down. At 6:00, 7 boats pulled out of the marina in a line and got through the lock with no wait. The reason for the daybreak departure was because of the long day – about 70 miles. With no more marinas until Mobile Bay, for 250 river miles south, and limited anchorages along the river, overnights had to be chosen wisely and coordinated with other boaters, as the anchorages that did exist were small.
Leaving Demopolis, we were just 250 miles north of Mobile Bay where we would cross our wake. Our Loop was nearing completion!!! We had completed the Tenn-Tom Waterway and were starting down the Tombigbee River, which was widened by the Black Warrior River just before Demopolis. The Tombigbee River would lead us south until it was joined by the Alabama River, at which point it became the Mobile River, which flowed into Mobile Bay. The good news was that all we needed to do was follow the navigation markers and make sure were going downstream. For that, we used the time-tested method Tom used on the Colorado River for many years – throw a stick in the river and follow it.
The weather was amazing. How could you beat this weather in November? (Check out the forecast to the left.)
7-mile oxbow
It was a prolific wildlife day – 2 eagles, lots of blue herons, logs full of turtles, and our first alligators (big ones) since the southeast coast. Alongshore, there were sandy banks and large sandy beach areas and trees with Spanish moss. Though much of the river had been canalized (sometimes called "channelized"), there were still many oxbows (bends) that were not. Once, we traveled 7 miles (1 hour) to end up 1/2 mile away if we had traveled a direct line!
Rafting together
Dog walk for Genesis' Daisy
By our anchorage at MM (mile marker) 147, we had spread out, but 3 of us – Tango Papa, Genesis and us, – decided to raft together for the night at Pickens Landing, a wide spot in the river. Everyone visited on our aft deck and then we had dinner together on our boat. Unfortunately, Genesis had had mechanical trouble during the day and decided it was best for them to return to Demopolis the following day. It was quite sad, as "Genesis Tom" had some medical issues and they saw this as the likely end to their last big boat trip. We're praying for a miracle. After they called it a night, we taught the other Tom and Paula Qwirkle. That made 8 people we'd gotten hooked on the game, we thought.
Tango Papa in the morning fog
Tango Papa behind us in the last lock
Morning fog delayed Genesis' depart a bit the next day, but we were all underway at 8:00, sad to say goodbye. We got through Coffeeville Lock with no wait, along with Tango Papa and one of the other boats with which we left Demopolis. Coffeeville was the last lock of our Great Loop! We started counting each milestone that brought us closer to finishing. We had been through over 115 locks and Tom happily deflated the Walmart exercise balls wrapped in fishnet we had used as bumpers for the locks. We were once again back in tidal water and headed for the Gulf.
Old bridge site
On the way south, we passed the location where a barge was washed under a bridge (no longer there) during flooding in 1979. The barge was tipped on its side, washed under the bridge, then righted itself. One of the engines never quit and no one was hurt!!
We rafted with Tango Papa the second night behind a sand bar at Leroy 1 (crazy name for an anchorage, Paula thought), another wide spot in the river and shortly after, enjoyed apps of sparkling cider and spinach dip on our aft deck. Tom V. helped the Tom H. with an oil leak and the strainers on his boat before a combined dinner and another evening game of Qwirkle.
Big alligator on bank
Day 3 below Demopolis was another big wildlife day. Tom counted more than 100 sunning turtles in less than 10 minutes and we also saw 1 bald eagle, 1 gator, and 2 deer (the first in a long time). There were relatively boring tree-lined banks but also the occasional big sand beach.
While passing under the Jackson Railroad lift bridge at MM 90, we heard a radio call, "Trawler passing under the bridge, this is Satisfied Frog. Where are you going tonight?" Paula had them shift to a different frequency for personal communication and said, "Satisfied Frog, welcome back to the river." "Is this Paula???" Berrlin and Debra, who we had met their first day of their Loop in Clarksville, TN, had caught back up with us. It was such fun to hopscotch along the Loop and reunite with friends.
Tensas River sunset
That evening, we rafted 1/2-mile up the Tensas River with Tom and Paula. We had apps on the aft deck, watched another amazing sunset, followed by supper and Qwirkle, and finished with homemade berry ice cream from Life's TraVails on-board ice cream maker.
Gold Loop flag
Overnight, Paula was dreaming of gold and hatched an idea. At Eastern Shore Marina, we would be only 17 miles from crossing our wake. But we had boat work to do before we could do that and continue on to FL. (That sort of put an anti-climactic sting to it.) Having made some wonderful friends the past 6 weeks, many had asked what date we would be crossing our wake as they wanted to celebrate with us. But the whole work thing was delaying that and making it an unknown. What if the day after arriving in Mobile, we took the boat out for the day until getting to the path of the Intracoastal Waterway, crossed our wake, then turned around and returned to the marina? Then it would be official!!! Paula quickly texted 9 couples to see who could join us for the outing, not even sure of exactly where everyone was. Before retiring for the night, 2 couples were in and we had the beginning of a party!
Eastern Shore Marina
We had changed our minds several times about where to go in Mobile. We wanted to haul the boat out of the water, have the props checked, see if we needed to repaint the bottom, and do a few other maintenance items before crossing the Gulf in FL. Tom called Dog River Marina (not a great neighborhood), Eastern Shore Marina in Fairhope (thought the lift wasn't big enough for us, which turned out to be incorrect), Nelson Boatworks (couldn't stay on the boat while it was on the hard), and Turner Marine (more for sailboats). We finally decided to go to Eastern Shore Marina, at least for a few days, as Tom needed to leave for 2 days for a meeting in TX and other boaters thought the neighborhood around Eastern Shore was a nicer place for Paula.
Mobile skyline
In the morning, we pulled anchor at 6:15 from MM 39 for our final leg to Mobile Bay, MM 0. At MM 6, Mobile's tall skyline came into view. Paula got on the radio and told the other Tom & Paula, "We aren't in Kansas anymore!" Indeed we weren't. Gone were our rustic scenes and quietness along the Tombigbee. The Mobile River delta, an area up to 25 miles wide and 40 miles long, sprawled ahead. It was the widest-open water we had seen since Lake Michigan, 1,250 miles river miles behind us. The harbor was a busy place, the largest port of entry along the southern coast. Each year more than 40 million tons moved through the port, 12th busiest port in US. At MM 3, we passed a fleeting area where barges up to 4 deep for over a mile moved around loading, unloading, making up or breaking down 6-8 barge tows.
Scott's "water taxi"
Dinner at Sunset Point
Soon we were through Mobile…our last city before finishing our Great Loop, and out into the north end of the bay, making the final 7 miles of the day to Eastern Shore Marina. We picked up Satisfied Frog along the way in the bay and the 3 of us filed in. Close behind was Jaycie Lynn, who having gotten Paula's text, was making their way over to join us. It was a very tight, small marina and there were few spaces left after the 4 of us arrived. After catching everyone's lines, we walked around and found more boating friends and ended up with 14 for dinner at Sunset Point across from the marina. Scott ferried us over to the restaurant in his dingy. Around the table were Tango Papa's Tom and Paula, Jaycie Lynn's Scott and Mary Haws, The Journeys' Jim and Cindy Kosmos (who we hadn't seen since Lake Michigan), Satisfied Frog's Berlin and Debra Collins, Tosca II's Rowland and Alex Harrison, and Glorious Dei's Thad and Cindy Harvey. It was so much fun and we considered it a celebration of our next day's finish.
Eastern Shore sunset
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Crossing Our Wake…Party Time
Al Marks
New experiences… new friends… a life defining journey.
Great to hear you enjoying it, looking towards the finish.
What is next?fiish.end.
Tom Vail
We want to do it again!
Bob Breidenbach
Hi Paula and Tom, Good to read your blog. We almost caught up with you again, we crossed the Tombigbee on I-20 on 11/26 at 17:30. That is the very long day of our three day drive, the Abilene to Atlanta leg. We are back in Ocean View, DE. till Christmas Eve. Nice drive, kind of sad without our dog. Did I see you are taking the boat to Florida?
tvail
Bob, wow, so close again. Wouldn't it have been amazing to look down over a bridge and recognize our boat? I know it must be sad without your special 4-footed friend and different situations are a reminder she is not there. Nave wonderful Christmas in DE.
We are continuing on to FL. We didn't get to do the Keys last time.


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Demi Lovato Lends Her Voice To Clean Bandit's Next Single, "Solo"
Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato will perform 'Fall In Line' at the BBMAs.
Demi Lovato has two major collaborations on the way. Social media is already buzzing about "Fall In Line," the pop star's imminent duet with Christina Aguilera. (They will perform it for the first time at the Billboard Music Awards on May 20). However, she has another surprise up her sleeve. The pop star is lending her powerful pipes to Clean Bandit's new single. "Solo" arrives on May 18, which is likely the same day "Fall In Line" hits iTunes. And it's destined to be massive, especially in the UK.
After all, the Brits have a habit of dropping chart-conquering smashes. Clean Bandit has landed three number one hits ("Rather Be," "Rockabye" and "Symphony") and five other top 10 hits. In fact, they haven't missed the top five since 2015. They are also a good fit for Demi given their ability to build songs around powerful vocalists. And she's no stranger to bangers, having already featured on tracks from Cheat Codes and Jax Jones. See the group's announcement and the cover art below.
Really excited to announce our new single Solo with @ddlovato will be out 18/05 ☀☀☀ pre-order link in bio.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, have I got a treat for you, today! I have spent months and months now, burning the candle at both ends getting this ready. After my children went to bed at night and before they got up in the morning you could find me on my laptop, going through files I have given away on my website in the past and creating new ones, putting together a selection of resources for Christian Living specially tailored just for you!
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This is not just any library. This library has every freebie I have ever created to give away in all the years I've been blogging, plus it has some ebooks and printables that you've never seen before!
I've compiled a ton of files that will help you with your devotional life, your walk with the Lord… I even put some files in there to help you with your house work (because we want to get that out of the way so that we can get on with more important things, right?) Everything I've ever given away for free on my site is all in one place… and there are a whole bunch of helpful tools that I have never shared before! It's going to be GREAT!
What Resources for Christian Living Will I Find?
I'll be adding more files regularly, so keep checking back to Katsee what's new!
The Resource Library is fabulous, all by itself, but some blogging friends of mine have come together and made it even better! They have taken ebooks and printables that they sell on their own sites and put together a Faith and Family Toolkit which offers you even more resources for Christian Living! Best of all, they are offering to you absolutely free.
BUT, since these are files that they sell, the Faith & Family Toolkit will only be available for 6 days. On Monday, October 16, 2017 at midnight I will be removing all their files from my website. Their ebooks and printables are yours to keep, but you must download them before Monday at midnight!
Let me take a moment to introduce you to the wonderful bloggers behind the Faith & Family Toolkit! I think you will love them as much as I do!
Mandy Kelly at WorshipfulLiving.com used to help me with behind-the-scenes, technical work on this blog. Sadly, she, her husband and two of their children passed away in a house fire earlier this year, but her mother keeps her inspirational blog going in Mandy's honor. Any proceeds from the sale of items at WorshipfulLiving go to support Mandy's two surviving children.
Marsha Baker at Blessinks.com is an incredibly gifted artist! Her website is dedicated to showing people how to draw closer to the Lord by doodling through the Scriptures!
Lisa Yvonne at GracefulAbandon.com is a sweet large-family Mama with a delightful blog about Christian living.
Katie Landers at iTakeHeart.com is a sweet Mama who writes encouraging and practical posts about Homeschooling.
Rebekah Jones at RebekahRJones.com is the talented artist behind the incredible DeeperStill Bible Journaling Course.
Vicky Myers at VickyMyersCreations.co.uk is a clever and creative craft blogger who specializes in upcycling DIY projects. So much fun happening on her site!
Darlene Schacht at TimeWarpWife.com is one of the most sincere Christians I know. She takes Bible Study very seriously… and it shows in her Character!
Laura Mapstead at NaturalHealingHope.com is a sweet new friend I've met recently. Her blog is beautiful and made me cry. I rarely have guest posts on my blog, but I've asked Laura to share a guest post because I love her encouraging voice.
Amy Scheren at SimpleEveryDayHome.com dedicates her blog to easy, simple homemaking tips to help streamline our busy lives. Her suggestions make the biggest difference with the least amount of work… they really pack a punch!
Denise Smith at SaltedConversations Facebook Group is the only non-blogger I'm featuring. She has been an inspiration and a blessing to me and was one of the people who taught me to do Greek and Hebrew word studies during my Bible Time. Be sure to check out her Facebook Group!
Jenn at TakeThemOutside.com is a delightful lady! Her blog is all about activities we can do with our children to encourage a love of nature in them.
LaurieFleming at InspiringNHKids.com writes about delicious, family-friendly recipes that will inspire your children to want to help in the kitchen and eat everything on their plate (including the healthy stuff)!
Kimberly Stokes at ThePeacefulMom.com is a large family Mom with a treasure chest of knowledge to share. The tools on her website are practical, and the encouragement she dishes out to other Mamas is spot-on!
Gem at TheGoalChaser.com writes a blog about finding time to chase the "someday dreams" (as she calls them) while still tending to the needs of our families. She offers inspiration and tips to help busy Moms find balance.
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BrandiceLardner at GraceFilledPlate.com writes about following a sustainable lifestyle of eating well rather than chasing various fad-diets that come along. She not only talks about healthy food, but also about how our attitudes and general approach to food affect our health.
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Monark is a five piece pop band from Gauteng, South Africa. The band was formed when producer Ewald Jansen van Rensburg teamed up with friend and vocalist Eugene Coetzer. For a couple of years they worked towards finding the specific sound they were after. Once they felt they had discovered it, they gathered together the musicians that were needed to grow and perform the music.
Their first single "Smiling" was released in May 2013 and immediately gained mainstream attention and popularity on major radio stations throughout South Africa: charting at no.3 on 5fm and currently climbing the Kia Take 40 SA chart (September/October 2013).
Their first studio album is due early 2014, and will be released through Universal Music.


Honey Creek Disposal provides curbside yard waste pickup as part of its contract for services with the City of Eudora. This service is availble to all City residents.
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Faguo is Chinese for France. Founders Frédéric Mugnier and Nicolas Rohr came up with this name during their inspirational visit in China, motivated to create a menswear brand that is all about pushing boundaries. Today, Faguo creates functional fashion items such as shoes, bags and belts that fit perfect within a modern lifestyle.
For every sold item, the brand plants a tree in France and they are committed to conducting a carbon audit every four years to know and decrease their impact on the environment.
Faguo concentrates on comfort and practicality, modernizing their basics season after season. Come and find their selection of t-shirts and modern belts at Hutspot Rozengracht, Rotterdam and Eindhoven.


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Diesel Engine Overheating Damage Avoided: How one Company Saved Big Bucks
One of the great thing about the internet and having a web site is how you can get feedback from customers (or potential customers) in a much easier fashion than in the old school days. Bell Performance has many testimonial statements on file that were collected by sales people or sent in by satisfied customers over the years. We even have one from before 1920 (look on our Facebook page to see a copy). In the past year, we've added some additional areas on our web site where customers has give us feedback, good or bad, on their product experiences and order experiences, because that's important to us. If someone had a bad order experience (like it didn't get there fast enough), we want to be able to make it right for them. And if someone buys a Bell Performance product and has a great experience, we definitely want to know about that and enable them to tell it to the world.
How One Customer Saved Big Bucks and Headaches
One such case came in to our email inbox during the week of October 11th (2012), from a customer who purchased X-tra Lube oil treatment and Dee-Zol fuel additive.The customer, who we will call Michael B., operated a business in south Alabama that involved forklifts and freight trucks and long haul services. In 2012, he purchased some oil additive (X-tra Lube) and diesel fuel additive (Dee-Zol) from Bell Performance in the hopes of extending the life of the motors in his equipment.
The value of the additives became immediately apparent when Michael B. encountered a serious problem with one of the trucks in his fleet. Here's how he told the story:
"Had a 90s model Freightline Cabover with a 28 foot flat bed and a piggyback forklift attached. An employee loaded up with concrete blocks and had just passed the last exit before the (Alabama) state line and the temperature gauge pegged out. Employee made the decision to continue driving to the next weight station of the next state. Distance was approximately 10 miles He entered entered into weigh station with steam rolling out as if truck was on fire. When notified by said employee, the descion (sic) was made to let the motor cool down. When cooled, they discovered that radiator had no water in it. Driver admitted to not doing basic pretrip procedures that morning. Filled radiator back up with water. Started up the motor. No damage whatsoever. Driver then continued to the job site with load and used the truck for another two years later. Last time I saw it, it was still going strong."
So the driver neglected a crucial aspect of pre-trip maintenance and did not see that the engine had no coolant in it. At least that's the initial idea, although the problem could have been that there was a coolant leak or some other problem that caused severe overheating in the engine. When the engine redlined as described, whatever coolant was left boiled off, giving the effect that he described ("steam rolling out as if truck was on fire").
X-tra Lube Saved Big Bucks
At any rate, this was a serious situation because of the potential for catastrophic engine damage in multiple areas. Large truck engines are typically five figure investments, not something any business wants to absorb unnecessarily. So they cooled the engine down and put water back in the radiator (no mention of whether there was still an existing leak or not). And the motor started right back up with no signs of problems or diesel engine overheating damage. And Michael B. reports the truck is still going strong 2 years later.
If we're doing an autopsy on what happened here after the overheat, it seems that the truck engine was saved, in whole or in part, because of the X-tra Lube oil additive. X-tra Lube is formulated with friction-reducing particles that reduce friction and heat even under the most extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. An ordinary oil additive would have failed and/or been burned off by the severe overheating taking place. That would have led to catastrophic seizing and damage, with a major repair bill to follow. But the MBL particles in the X-tra Lube kept working and providing extreme residual lubrication that enabled this truck to keep going the extra ten miles to the next weight station, with no damage afterwards.
So it's safe to claim that a $25 investment brought this company a return of 400:1 or more. X-tra Lube proved itself under this worst-case scenario. Imagine what it can do for your vehicle.
Topics: Diesel, Heavy Trucks and Equipment, X-tra Lube
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The Fast and the Furry-ous: Watch Rats Drive Tiny Cars in the Name of Science
BY Ellen Gutoskey
Supersmario/iStock via Getty Images
If you've ever driven to the grocery store to pick up some cereal, you might have more in common with rats than you previously thought.
According to New Scientist, Kelly Lambert and her colleagues at the University of Richmond recently discovered that the clever creatures can learn how to operate tiny cars when there are Froot Loops at the end of the 'road.'
To build the car, they fitted a plastic food container with wheels, an aluminum floor, and a steering mechanism made from three copper bars. The rats could complete the electric circuit that powered the vehicle by standing on the aluminum floor and holding onto the bars, and they could steer by touching the left or right bars.
It's a more complex task than the usual maze-related experiments we're used to seeing, and the rats rose to the occasion admirably. The tests included 17 rats—six female and 11 male—who took turns driving the car in enclosures as large as about 43 square feet. The researchers varied the location of the Froot Loops so the rats would have to practice steering in order to reach their reward.
"They learned to navigate the car in unique ways and engaged in steering patterns they had never used," Lambert told New Scientist.
The study not only proves that watching tiny animals drive tiny cars is adorable, it also suggests that learning to drive had an interesting therapeutic effect on the rats. Throughout the experiment, Lambert's team measured two hormones in the rats' feces: corticosterone, which indicates stress, and dehydroepiandrosterone, which relieves stress. As the rats became more skilled drivers, their dehydroepiandrosterone levels increased, and their corticosterone levels decreased. In other words, the rats relaxed once they mastered their task. Lambert has found the same pattern in other experiments that involve teaching rats new things; for example, learning how to dig up buried food also caused a decrease in corticosterone. The findings were published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research.
It's not all that different from what humans experience, which Lambert calls "self-efficacy or agency." Mastering something new helps us feel like we can successfully take care of ourselves—maybe you even remember feeling pretty good when you learned how to drive a car.
Discovering that rats' brains have such high neuroplasticity, or ability to adapt to new challenges, gives scientists an opportunity to devise more complex experiments that relate more closely to human cognitive conditions, like Parkinson's disease or depression.
It also proves that rats are a lot cooler and smarter than we like to give them credit for. From collapsing their skeletons to chomping through brick walls, here are some other talents you didn't know they had.
[h/t New Scientist]
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I found out from a knitting friend that our local hospital loves to get knitted things for infants and children. Love this! So I'm going through my scraps to make cute hats. These are out of a lovely very washer-friendly yarn: DY Choice in the Baby Joy DK. The two colorways have speckles!
All three had pompoms as you can see in the bottom photo, until I washed them and one came out. Didn't have enough yarn to re do, so I improvised something fun, because a baby hat without a fun topper seems naked to me.
Here's what I did: using a knitting needle and crochet hook, I did a provisional cast-on (crochet method) of about 25 Stitches. Put down the hook (or not) and then conventionally bind off all the stitches with either the hook or another knitting needle, leaving a long tail. Knot the resulting length about three times, then take the two tails, thread a darning needle and poke through the top of the hat and secure the ends. Voila!
Time to find more yarn scraps to knit!


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Carpenter ants are common sights in the Americas, Europe and other parts of the world. Because carpenter ants cause damage to wooden areas where they nest, their presence can be mistaken for a termite infestation. However, while termites eat wood, carpenter ants merely make galleries in wooden areas for shelter.
There are 24 pest species of carpenter ants in the United States alone. For this reason, carpenter ant identification can be difficult. Size and color of carpenter ants can vary among species and even among individuals within one colony. Carpenter ants measure from 3.4 to 13 mm in length and can feature black, red, brown, yellow, orange, or red and black coloration. Although carpenter ants are among the largest ant species worldwide, size is not a reliable factor in carpenter ant identification because workers within a species vary in size.
Carpenter ants are often mistaken for termite swarmers, particularly during swarms when winged male and female ants fly out of their colony to mate. The most important characteristics to look for when identifying any winged ant are elbowed antennae, a pinched or constricted waist and a front pair of wings that is longer than the back pair. Termite swarmers will have straight antennae, a broad waist and both pair of wings similar in length.
Locating carpenter ant nests can be accomplished by following the trails of the worker ants themselves. Search for a clean and smooth cavity in the infested area, as well as slit-like windows in the surface of the damaged wood. Small piles of wood shavings can often be found below the openings. After identifying a colony, it is advisable to contact a pest control professional, as several satellite colonies may exist elsewhere within or around the home or building.


CrowdStrike is the latest security vendor to put its money where its product or service is with the offer of a $1 million warranty covering costs of a data breach for customers of its Falcon Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) Complete service.
Product warranties, while still rare in the security industry, are becoming popular among enterprises looking for more guarantees from their vendors. More than a dozen security vendors now offer some sort of warranty for their offerings, but many are relatively narrow in their scope.
Proofpoint, Symantec, SentinelOne, and Trustwave are among the security product vendors that reimburse customers for various security failures with their products or services. Symantec, for instance, offers coverage for its LifeLock identity theft protection service from $25,000 to $1 million for stolen funds, while SentinelOne offers $1,000 per endpoint infected with ransomware and up to $1 million in aggregate per year for a ransomware attack that slips past its endpoint product.
CrowdStrike's new warranty – which comes at no extra charge as part of its EPP Complete service – covers any costs associated with a data breach that occurred within the systems the service protects. Those expenses include incident response, legal, notification, credit monitoring, forensic investigation, and public communications.
EPP Complete is basically a turnkey service that includes both the Falcon endpoint protection technology and the CrowdStrike EPP security team that administers and monitors the systems, notes Austin Murphy, vice president of managed services at CrowdStrike.
The EPP team was spun out of CrowdStrike's IR practice, of which Murphy was the former director.


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Bollywood singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan feels humbled and honoured on being chosen for the Padma Shri and has dedicated the country's fourth highest civilian award to his musical partners Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.
"I am humbled and honoured. I think it is one of the biggest civilian awards that one can get. Now I have a responsibility to make good music" Mahadevan told ANI today.
Mahadevan, Ehsaan and Loy have given Bollywood many hit tracks for films like 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag', 'My Name Is Khan', 'Lakshya' and 'Mission Kashmir' among others.


I was opportuned to attend a Pastors' Wives' Conference a few years ago and it was interesting and illuminating to hear some of the issues that some Mrs. Pastors are facing.
As I was saying, Marriage comes before Ministry. Let me back up for a second here…I am not saying that you must be married before you can go into Ministry. What I am saying is: even if you or your husband was called into ministry before you got married to each other, you must reprioritize so you get the right results.
I daringly say this to Mr. & Mrs. Pastor: It is more important to preserve and protect your marriage than it is to preserve and protect the ministry. Ah?! Yes – Ah!
Dear (male) Pastors, take care of your bride – let God take care of His.
Too many marriages are in deep trouble because of the wrong priorities when it comes to these 2 "M" words.
So knowing that our marriage can make or mar ministry, what should we do to balance marriage (family) and ministry – in that order? (MFM  – may be a good memory jogger).
• an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.
• keep or put (something) in a steady position so that it does not fall.
• offset or compare the value of (one thing) with another.
There needs to be a clear demarcation between your marriage/family and the ministry…and a set time for everything. Otherwise you will find yourself doing everything for others and nothing/not enough for your spouse and children.
Articulate your purpose – You need to be careful that in "being all things to all men" that you don't end up being nothing to yourself. If you don't know your purpose and pursue it, others will determine your purpose and push you around to fulfill their own purpose.
Accept that life comes in "ages" and "stages" – Ecclesiastes 3:1 (written by the wisest man that lived) tells us that: "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens" (NIV).
Depending on the ages of your children and the stage your family is at, there are some things – in ministry – that may need to take a "back seat." For instance, I remember how much our adorable son was a distraction when I attended Choir meetings so I opted to serve elsewhere in church we'd fit better and I'd be more effective. In Ministry, the secret is in functioning not "featuring" – we need God's approval not men's applause.
Never think that if something happens to you, the world would end – it won't! Even when Jesus died, the world didn't end. People went about their normal businesses including the women who went to "dress" the body only to discover that He had risen.
When you don't take the time to rest, you unduly stretch yourself and get stressed. Caring for yourself is evidence that you care for your spouse, family and even the ministry. Your diet also shows how much you care for yourself.
Simply put: When you don't enjoy your life, you are not fulfilling God's purpose for sending Jesus.
Bottom-line: Ultimately, the key to obtaining and maintaining balance in your marriage and ministry is remaining in balance with God. So, help us God!
Pastor Ada Adeleke-Kelani is a Co-Pastor of RCCG, Kings Throne Calgary.
She is also a Procurement Manager with Shell, a Community Builder and mentor.


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