When the Hudson River (New York) was connected to Lake Erie by cargo canals, it really opened up trade and made New York boom.

The Mississippi River is navigable all the way up to Minnesota, and St Louis is located where the Missouri River connects to the Mississippi.

I'll never forget when the nice old actress Michael Learned (mom on the Waltons), doesn't make it, because of a dirty glove that got touched

That is so fetch!...

I turn on the hot water full blast. Then I get undressed, and then turn it to middle-warm. A few seconds later its at a stable temp and I get in and slowly adjust the temps to suit.

I used to use honey for this, but I found that I got better results with beer

Buy some clear bubble-wrap, take a can of spray adhesive and spray the glass. Cover the glass with bubble-wrap. This will seal the crack, and also provide extra insulation...

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This is being done to "preserve democracy", because the Earthquake damage will make it hard for Turks to vote, right?

I would never be so rude as to suggest that any delay would give Erdogan more time to give his opponents a heart attack, because that would just be cynical.

Even though his opponents do not currently "seem" depressed, you never know when they might commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head...twice.

/s

An analyst on youtube pointed out a lot of data on how screwed Russia is now. Many people who have skills and resources have left Russia.

This leaves the country with the people who could not leave. There has been a brain-drain of skilled workers and engineers.

Many of the high-tech weapons in the Russian military were made in Ukraine, back when it was a part of Russia. After the missile-cruiser "Moskva" was sunk, how will Russia build a new one?

They had one aircraft carrier and its non-functional. Why didn't Russia have air superiority over Ukraine at any time? They absolutely cannot afford to lose one more functional jet, or one more experienced pilot.

Shoulder-launched missiles and drones have decimated the Russ tanks, and draftees have been surrendering or defecting.

Many high ranking officers have been killed, and the officer Corp is unable to promote enough experienced officers to fill command gap.

Civilian contractors have been deeply corrupt for the last decade, especially after the annexation of Crimea and Georgia were so easy.

Russia has been exposed as a paper bear, and every month they continue, they get weaker.

The damage of the ruble means an entire population has seen their meager savings flushed down the toilet. If Russia even had enough money to buy more weapons, the factories have lost their best workers.

Who will run the machines? Illiterate farm boys?

Anyone in a low-skilled job is expected to suffer. It's a horrible mind-set.

Also, bats are very social, and sleep in clusters. If one gets something, it will spread rapidly if it is spreadable...

Contractors build what customers buy, not what is smart. I'll give you a great example.

If you are surrounded by free trees, you might consider a wood-burning stove, like the Franklin style.

But what size to buy? Plus you have to gather and chop the wood. People buy the large one because it "looks right", and they have yo keep adding wood frequently.

Where does the air come from that feeds the fire? There is n adjustable opening right now the lower front, so...it takes-in air from the room. Air that you burned wood to warm.

The fire is 1500F, so it doesn't care if you feed it 20F air from outside, or 70F air from the room. People heat the air in the room, and then throw half of it away up the chimney.

Duct some air from the outside to the intake, and you will only need to burn half the wood.

The wood is free, but, you just cut your gathering and chopping in half.

Plus now, you realize you can buy the smaller stove, and sell the big one.

Start with the battery and inverter first. If there is a power outages, you will have power for the fridge and TV. I am fond of Nissan Leaf modules.

Then, plan out the purchase of a dual-fuel generator as a back up.

The last phase is adding the solar panels and charge controller...if you wait on the panels, you can get the newest type, with the best cloudy-day performance.

You can get a sunburn on a cloudy day, so some frequencies of energy are making it through...

Just a few thoughts and suggestions. Best of luck.

If I eaten an entire house with a space heater in each room, I would agree with you.

This past winer we had a month that was colder than normal, and that month we paid $300 to heat. The following month we turned the central heat way down, dressed warmer, and used a space-heater in the small den where we ate and watched TV

I oncelived where there very old houses on one side of town.

Wrap-around porches shaded the ground floor. Basement stayed cool even in hottest summers and canned foods were stored there.

I've seen homes that were not that old, and built to rent. No overhang/shade, no basement, no insulation, no garage

Actually, the right thing to do is to tell a coworker a carefully-crafted lie, and then make them promise to never tell anyone.

Once it gets out and around the office, you will know for certain that they can't be trusted, and you can tell them that when they ask for personal information in the future.

A "Mackerel Tabby"...nice!

Thank you for a real genuine LOL

Prisoners of war have displayed a shocking ability to remember details about their stay. Take away TV and radio, and the normal amount of interaction with other people, and a seemingly small event becomes significant.

I think everything that had happened encouraged him to let her go back to her new life, with a man who was more intimately involved with her than he had ever been.

She had drawn her signature bird on the truck, and it was only as she was driving off that he realized that she was the recipient of the only package he had not opened, because her bird drawing was on the package too.

I'm sure there are others, but ...I can't name any. I certainly don't know if a compelling reason to visit Peru, except for "maybe" Machu Pichu

I knew Google was going to be successful when I typed in a search for a word that I wasn't sure how to spell, and one option was "did you mean XYZ?"

Heat rises, you may want to keep the top half insulated if you choose to remove some.

You could also attach a cord or two to the top of the door, which stretch across the garage to a pulley. Then the rope drops down and holds a counter weight.

It only needs to help the door lift up the first half of the lift.

Thanks!

Thanks for taking the time to share all that. More recently, an infamous chap was called Osama...and near the end of his life, the news began calling him Usama.

Same with Khadaffi/Gudaffi

A small distinction, but it reflects the difficulty in translating a foreign name into english...