![]() ![]() But, the number of species is generally much higher in these groups - up to 20 or more in the tropics - and the interactions are consequently more complex. Like seabirds, forest-dwelling birds form flocks led by one or two species and followed by other. There’s a good deal of thievery as well: gulls are notorious kleptoparasites.Įven more complex are the behaviors of forest birds, both in the tropics and in the temperate zones. Intriguingly, the foraging habits of cormorants who join the smorgasbord may actually disperse the fish in a way unfavorable to the other diners and thus act as “suppressors” per a University of Manitoba study from 1987. It is thought that diving birds, such as murres and murrelets, may be the nuclear species in these interactions, as their underwater foraging drives fish toward the surface, allowing surface feeders like gulls to take their pick. Smithsonian ethologist Martin Moynihan pioneered much of the work in this area in the 1960s, though the phenomenon has been known since the mid 1800s. Most mixed species foraging flocks have one or two “nuclear” species that propel the “associate” or “follower” species forward. And numerous factors drive the interaction. ![]() This isn’t quite as simple as plucking fruits off of a tree. There is something of a spectrum in this sort of collective behavior.įor example, seabirds such as cormorants, murres, murrelets, gulls, and kittiwakes often participate in foraging efforts that converge around large schools of fish. Though of course the different species of bird who frequent these trees must interact on some level as they make use of the same resource, the social dynamic is far less complex than that exhibited when birds of different species actively search for food together. Feeding aggregations usually occur around static sources of food, such as those provided by fruiting trees. It is important to distinguish these flocks from feeding aggregations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Once the pressure is off, it can become fun and you’ll see results. Rue’s approach can be used as a template of sorts, Herbert said, because he did take small steps to create his active lifestyle. “Sometimes it can be an hourly one,” he said. What Rue wants people to glean from LiveNow and his personal story is the decision to lead a healthy, active lifestyle is a daily one. “I’ve been overweight most of my life, worked out and tried all kinds of diets, but nothing’s worked like adopting a balanced approach and moderation,” he said. In September, he hopes to compete in his first half-ironman triathlon, a total of 70.3 miles. Rue’s choices have led to him set new goals and enter fitness races. The turning point for Rob was when he realized it was OK to make small changes. “Over time, he’s personally embraced an active lifestyle and the nutritional side of things. “It was really exciting to find out he wanted to do this,” Herbert said of Rue’s personal and community-focused goals. So, he worked at making incremental changes in what went into his mouth, he said. Rue said Herbert told him all the exercise in the world wouldn’t help if he didn’t start paying attention to nutrition. He worked out for three months, but wasn’t making much progress, he said. “Now, we can have a presence at event like the area cancer walk where maybe the presence of a funeral home would be inappropriate.”Ībout three years ago, Rue decided he needed to make some lifestyle changes, but didn’t start out doing everything right. “We created a completely different logo to make sure people weren’t turned off by a funeral home being involved in the project,” Rue said. “We see people every day whose lives may have been cut short by their decision to lead an inactive life, so we as owners decided to make a public statement in support of an active lifestyle,” he said.Ĭreating LiveNow also gives Littleton the opportunity to support other organizations and event it otherwise might not have been able to. But, every minute you have can be lived more fully,” he said.īeing in the funeral business, Rue said, he and his partners are reminded often what happens when people make the decision to lead a more sedentary lifestyle. ![]() Mortality is 100 percent and there is no guarantee that just because you make the decision to live an active lifestyle, you’ll live one more minute. “We work to do our best job for people in the community with our business, but as community members, we want everyone to live life more fully. He noodled active lifestyle concepts around with friend and Anytime Fitness co-owner Barry Herbert and enlisted marketing professionals at Cerium Group and Wilt PR. Rue assembled a team to help him flesh out his idea. As a business, we contribute a lot to different community organizations and events, so I started thinking, ‘What can we do that’s unique?’ and this idea came up,” Rue said. “We’re a funeral home, but we want to promote life. ![]() ![]() Even COVID-19 is presented as a thing that happened, contributed to some rough times, but no longer exists in any tangible way. It takes almost no time for The Big Leap to soften Nick to the point that he barely comes across as adversarial, much less villainous, in a show that’s so soft it rarely feels like it has any stakes at all. The behind-the-scenes maneuvering plays as a Cliffs Notes version of the detailed manipulations in UnREAL, but it’s still entertaining because Foley is funny and likably amoral, rather than irredeemably venal. The cynicism that infuses the show-within-the-show comes from Nick and his role in fabricating love triangles and ginning up situations that prioritize bickering and in-fighting over the participants’ real struggles. Wayne and Monica are skeptical, but their skepticism comes from the value they put on their own dance experience. Overseeing the entire mess with Nick are judges/producers Wayne (Kevin Daniels) and Monica (Mallory Jansen), neither especially pleased that this is where their respective dance careers have landed them. ![]() There’s Julia (Teri Polo), a former ballet dancer now doing social media posts about the wonderful journey of growing old, which isn’t such a wonderful journey. ![]() There’s disgraced NFL star Reggie (Ser’Darius Blain), recruited by Nick for his star power and his immediate chemistry with Gabby. There’s Mike (Jon Rudnitsky), whose entire personality changed when “they” shut down the auto factory where he worked, causing him to lose his joy and his wife, Paula (Piper Perabo), who beat cancer and may have been responsible for pushing Mike into the gig economy. This in turn caused her to stop talking to her former boyfriend Justin (Raymond Cham Jr.), whose own dancing dream died when his father kicked him out of the house after he came out as gay. There’s plus-size Gabby (Simone Recasner), who set aside her dancing dreams when she got pregnant at the end of high school. Perhaps aware that Fox would never, under any current circumstances, make a show as ostensibly wholesome as the fictional Big Leap, producer Nick (Scott Foley) has been brought in to stir up soap opera hijinks and mini-scandals.įortunately, the aspiring contestants give Nick plenty to work with, and they’re the real focus of the series, most of them battling multiple forms of adversity. The gimmick is that this isn’t an elimination show, though two of three episodes sent to critics revolve entirely around auditions and eliminations. A new Fox reality series of the same name is coming to Detroit to recruit a cast of amateur dancers with the goal of staging the aforementioned Swan Lake. That’s a lot of, well, big leaps to buy into, and maybe that’s why The Big Leap worked for me fairly well as a comedy and felt pretty hollow at every turn as an inspirational drama, though in this broadcast landscape “half-success” almost counts as “success.”Ĭreated by Liz Heldens, The Big Leap is a story of second chances. Cast: Scott Foley, Teri Polo, Jon Rudnitsky, Kevin Daniels, Piper Perabo, Ser'Darius Blain, Simone Recasner, Raymond Cham Jr., Mallory Jansen, Anna Grace Barlow ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a renter and not allowed to change your locks, or if you simply don’t want to change yours for any reason, the Wyze Lock is a low-cost yet full-featured model that connects easily to an existing deadbolt. ![]() If this model is backordered, our previous choice, the Schlage Encode Smart WiFi Deadbolt, remains a good option, though it lacks Apple Home Key support. We tend to prefer the tactile feel of keypads like the Encode Plus’s keypad over that of a glass touchscreen, and that feature makes this lock less fussy to use, so it’s a good choice for rental properties-especially as it’s an extra-tough commercial-grade lock and has a built-in alarm. Of the many locks we’ve tested, the Encode Plus is one of the easiest smart locks to install and one of the simplest models to use. Beyond modest cosmetic updates, this revamped model gives you the ability to unlock it by holding your iPhone or Apple Watch nearby, through Apple’s Home Key feature. If you want a keypad smart lock that works with Apple HomeKit, The Schlage Encode Plus Smart WiFi Deadbolt is an updated version of our previous also-great pick, the Schlage Encode Smart WiFi Deadbolt. If you can’t find this model, and if you don’t mind having to use Ultraloq’s plug-in Bridge to connect your smart lock to your Wi-Fi network, the original Ultraloq U-Bolt Pro is a perfectly great substitute and is less expensive, too (see Other good smart locks).Ĭompatibility: Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Assistant We encountered a few issues during setup and recently have experienced battery drain issues that the company has confirmed (see Flaws but not dealbreakers), but none of those hiccups prevent us from recommending it. It also has a comparatively quiet mechanism, and from an aesthetic perspective we like that it’s small and unobtrusive. No matter which method you use to trigger the U-Bolt Pro WiFi, it responds quickly. That said, the fingerprint ID remains our preferred way to unlock it (even if that feature is sometimes finicky). We found the feel and function of the lock’s number buttons to be superior to pecking numbers on the glass touchscreen of many keypad models. You can unlock the U-Bolt Pro WiFi six different ways, including with a numerical code, using an app, through a physical keyway, and-the pièce de résistance-via fingerprint. This model has Wi-Fi built in, so it doesn’t require a plug-in Bluetooth bridge like our previous pick, the Ultraloq U-Bolt Pro. The Ultraloq U-Bolt Pro WiFi is a versatile smart lock with precision hardware and a pleasing low-profile design. Compatibility: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant ![]() ![]() ![]() External collaborators need to have a Dropbox account to access the content unless they are accessing it via a shared link that is open to anyone with the link. ![]() You can share files and folders with collaborators outside the University of Michigan. External email addresses do not sync and must be added separately. For more information, refer to MCommunity Group Synchronization to U-M Google and Dropbox. MCommunity groups sync at all levels, including subgroups. You can share files and folders in Google Drive with MCommunity groups. Note: MCommunity groups larger than 1,000 members will not sync to U-M Dropbox. For more information, refer to MCommunity Group Synchronization to U-M Google and Dropbox. Subgroups and external email addresses do not sync and must be added separately. You can share files and folders in Dropbox with MCommunity groups. You can collaborate in real time with Dropbox Paper.Īll Google file types, such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides, can be collaborated on in real time. Refer to Shared Drives in U-M Google for more information. In shared drives: Viewer, Commenter, Contributor, Content Manager, and Manager Also, refer to Dropbox: Folder Settings and Permissions for more information. ![]() Visit the Dropbox Help Center for more information on Dropbox sharing permissions. Owner, Can edit (editor), and Can view (viewer).
![]() ![]() The company was founded in 1867 as Russell, Morgan & Co., a printing company, which originally specialized in printing posters for traveling circuses. In December 2019, The United States Playing Card Company became a subsidiary of Belgian card manufacturer Cartamundi. For decades the company was based in Cincinnati, Ohio, but as of 2009, the USPC is currently headquartered in the Cincinnati suburb of Erlanger, Kentucky. It also produces novelty and custom playing cards, and other playing card accessories such as poker chips. Its many brands include Bicycle, Bee, Tally-Ho, Congress, Aviator, Aristocrat, Mohawk, Maverick, KEM, Hoyle and Fournier. and founded in its current incarnation in 1885. It was established in 1867 as Russell, Morgan & Co. The United States Playing Card Company ( USPC, though also commonly known as USPCC) is a large American producer and distributor of playing cards. International Playing Card Company Limited "Peak Honors Are Slated For Western Colorado Mountaineers Who Died Climbing In 2006". 26, 2000, after a brief illness with acute leukemia. "Bob died at his home in Norwood, Colo., on Dec.
![]() ![]() Finally, the coolant returns to the radiator to cool it down, before going back again to the engine. It works with the use of a water pump that helps it reach the heater core as well so that the interior of the car keeps a regulated temperature. This constant circulation is what ensures that heat from the engine is dissipated. Well, the liquid is poured into the car’s cooling system and is circulated throughout the car’s engine and other surrounding car components in order to regulate temperature levels. How does antifreeze work?īut, how exactly does an antifreeze liquid do these things? More than the technical definition, the more important thing you need to understand is that antifreeze is an important car fluid that works in ensuring that your vehicle keeps running no matter what the weather and temperature condition. Technically, these two things used to be different, but with technological advancements, nowadays, coolant and antifreeze have become interchangeable terms, since both of these have the capacity to cool down a car engine and prevent it from overheating, as well as help it continue to run when temperatures are below zero. In order to help you make the right choice, here are the most important things that you need to take into account when buying an antifreeze/ coolant: What is an antifreeze or a coolant?įirst of all, let’s define what antifreeze is, and whether it’s the same as a coolant. ![]() After all, without these antifreeze solutions, there’s a high chance your car won’t be running really soon.īut, when it comes to choosing the best antifreeze/ coolant for your engine, just how do you make that decision? How do you choose which one is right for you? After all, not all coolants are made the same and will give you the same performance. We often forget that coolants exist and serve an important purpose in our vehicles, and that really should change. May not work under extremely low temperatures.It’s suitable for cars, motorcycles, and trucks as well. Moreover, it also has excellent corrosion resistance and reduces the risk of electrolysis to enhance protection for your vehicle and make sure it’s always at the top of its game. It’s designed to effectively raise water’s boiling point and at the same time lower its freezing point so that your engine is well protected against severe temperature and weather changes, thereby prolonging your car’s service life. My top pick is the Evans EC53001 High Performance Waterless Coolant, a highly rated Amazon’s Choice product that is guaranteed to work exceptionally well for both gasoline and diesel-powered engines. Evans EC53001 High Performance Waterless Coolant I’ve taken the time to research and review several different options for you to choose from, so you are sure to find one that works for you and your car. Take a look at these ten best antifreeze/ coolants that are guaranteed to perform well and give you the best value for your money. Things to Consider Before Buying an Antifreeze or Coolant.How often should you change your car’s antifreeze?.Engine Ice TYDS008 High Performance Coolant P-restone Original Extended Life 50/50 Antifreeze/Coolant ![]() Genuine Ford Fluid Orange Pre-Diluted Antifreeze/Coolant ShellZone Pre-Diluted 50/50 Antifreeze/Engine Coolant Zerex G05 Phosphate Free Antifreeze/Coolant Toyota Genuine 00272 SLLC2 Engine Coolant / Antifreeze Valvoline Multi-Vehicle Ready-to-Use Antifreeze/Coolant ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Rinse well and let air dry before returning outdoors. You can do this by dumping the water in the basin, removing any remaining debris, and scrubbing all surfaces with one part vinegar to nine parts water. Clean your bath and change its water every 2 to 4 days.Keep your bath filled every day to provide the best service to wildlife – birds depend on the resources you provide! This will also keep your heating element functional and birds happy.There are a few things to keep in mind before purchasing your new bath so that you are able to attract the most winter birds and ensure they are enjoying the new addition to your yard. Heated bird baths are more aesthetically pleasing and efficient than immersion heaters and birds enjoy them more too!ĭe-icers are only able to melt the center portion of water in a bird bath when temperatures dip far below freezing, so if you are in a cold northern area consider buying a heated bird bath instead. Heated bird baths are the full monte – a bath with heater contained within the basin so you don’t have to see an unsightly heater at the bottom of the water. De-icers come in various sizes and shapes to suit the size of your bird bath, but remember a de-icer is only compatible with your bath if it is made with a plastic or fiberglass basin (not ceramic or concrete). You can buy de-icers that are thermostat-controlled, meaning they only turn on when temperatures dip below freezing which saves you money. A de-icer is an immersion heater that can be added to your existing bath to These are a good purchase if you already have a bird bath without a built-in heater and want to keep the water from freezing. ![]() |