![]() Like many other ant types, carpenter ants are attracted to sweet things, along with protein heavy prey-usually in the form of other insects in other words carpenter ants will be going after anything sweet in your trash, kitchen, and pantry. While carpenter ants are the largest ants that get into homes, they're still pretty small-they are ants after all. When you find evidence of carpenter ants in your home, it can be an easy thing to shrug it off. It can be difficult to tell the difference between carpenter ants vs termites, so if you're not sure what you’re seeing take a look at our helpful guide, or give us a call. ![]() Thorax with evenly rounded upper surface.Size ranging from 3/8 to 1/2 inch-although size can very smaller or larger dependent on species.So how do you know if you have carpenter ants, and how can you get rid of them in winter or any other time of the year? If the carpenter ants have nested in a location with plentiful heat, they will stay active, even in colder months. There’s a good chance that you’re reading this article because you’ve either seen carpenter ants in your house during the winter, or you’re concerned that your home may be a target for carpenter ant infestation. So what do carpenter ants do in winter? Great question. Why am I Seeing Carpenter Ants in Winter? ![]() ![]() But, do carpenter ants go dormant in the winter? Unfortunately, no. Carpenter ants are often found infesting homes and buildings during the spring and summer months. Carpenter ants are one of the most prevalent pests in in the upstate New York area, and they can cause some serious damage over time if you don’t keep careful tabs on a possible infestation. ![]()
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![]() The free PDF-XChange Editor enables users to also try the advanced features available in PDF-XChange Editor PRO in a free evaluation mode. PDF-XChange Editor, successor of PDF-XChange Viewer, is leaner, faster, and more feature-rich than any other free PDF viewer or editor currently available. Those who wish to view, edit, or modify PDF files on their Windows PCs, or even make PDF documents searchable with OCR, now have a real alternative to Adobe Reader with PDF-XChange Editor, the FREE PDF viewer and editor. ![]() Graphics can also be moved, resized, or removed. With its help you are able to edit, correct, add, or remove text effortlessly. PDF-XChange Editor is therefore a fully-featured PDF editor. The new PDF-XChange Editor, the worthy successor of PDF-XChange Viewer, does not only include all features of PDF-XChange Viewer, including the only recently added OCR feature, but now also provides you with an option to edit existing PDF documents. 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As the rows start dropping and you face more rows, it is harder to accomplish that goal. The point of the game is to clear all of the symbols. When you match three or more of the same character, you clear those symbols from the board. You aim the shooter and hit enter to send the character through the air. ![]() Inside the shooter is a symbol of a small character. ![]() Using your mouse or the arrows on your keyboard, you control a shooter located at the bottom of the screen. This game starts with just a few rows of symbols placed at the top of the screen. People of all ages now spend hours trying to move up to a higher level, beat the game and record the highest scores. Originally introduced in the 1990s, the game made a name for itself on college campuses across the country before finding its way into offices and homes. Though you can easily find online games and social networking games that involve matching colors and symbols, Snood is one of the oldest games of its type. Snood is one of the most addictive free color matching games online today. ![]() ![]() ![]() If the silt content is high, sediment will be deposited in the reservoir, increasing maintenance costs and decreasing useful life periods. The two most important considerations are the amount of silt carried and the kind and amount of salts dissolved in the water. The quality, as well as the quantity, of surface water is a factor. If adequate streamflow data are not available, the streamflow may be estimated from rain and snow data or from flow data from nearby streams that have similar climatic and physiographic conditions. From streamflow data, determinations can be made of the minimum, maximum, average daily, and average monthly flows the size of dams, spillways, and the downstream channel and the seasonal and carryover storage needed. If the streamflow has been measured regularly over a long period, including times of drought and flood, the studies are greatly simplified. In planning a surface water supply, extensive studies must be made of the flow in the stream or river that will be used. Though both surface and subsurface water come from precipitation such as rain or snow, it is far more difficult to determine the origin of subsurface water. Water supplies may be classified as surface or subsurface. The first consideration in planning an irrigation project is developing a water supply. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! 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There’s also the slyly scathing takes on teen tropes, material culture, and class. There’s the roster of catchphrases (“There goes your social life”) or the Mona May wardrobe-itself almost a character in the film (notably, the top keywords on Clueless’ IMDb page are “miniskirt,” “girl wears a miniskirt,” “short skirt,” “virgin,” and “girl wears a short skirt”). “For the politics questions,” Dash’s publicist says, “we just wanted to stick to just Clueless, so if you want to, just revert everything back to the movie.”‘Clueless’: How the Greatest Clique of the ‘90s Transformed into a Shakespearean Tragedy‘Daily Show’s’ Trevor Noah Tears Apart ‘Clueless’ GOP Candidate Stacey DashThere’s a lot to revert back to in Clueless, director Amy Heckerling’s reimagining of Jane Austen’s Emma, which has persisted in the cultural vernacular for a quarter of a century. It means no questions about her one-month-and-four-day congressional campaign for California’s 44th district in 2018, run on a baffling platform against something that sounded like income inequality, but she called “Plantation Politics.” It means nothing about her brief stint as a Fox News pundit covering “cultural analysis and commentary,” where she said things like “I’m not here to judge” neo-Nazis and “there shouldn’t be a Black History Month” until there is a “White History Month,” and from which she was eventually suspended for saying Barack Obama “didn’t give a shit” about terrorism. On a recent Wednesday in Los Angeles, a few weeks before the film’s 25th anniversary, the three of us are on a conference call from our respective quarantines, where Dash’s publicist lays out the parameters.Staying on script apparently means no questions about Dash’s arrest in Florida last fall on charges of domestic battery against her fourth husband, Jeffrey Marty. She also spent the past eight years as a conservative commentator, endorsing Mitt Romney’s presidential bid in 2012, and later Donald Trump’s in 2016, before publishing her first book that same year, There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative. Dash, who is 53, played the clothes horse with a cute sneeze, Dionne Marie Davenport, in director Amy Heckerling’s cult classic. 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When reading a CrystalMaker file, CrystalDiffract now verifies that at least one, valid, set of atomic displacement parameters ("thermal ellipsoids") is present. Improved handling of thermal ellipsoid data. This saves having to load your data into a new window to take advantage of changed preferences. You can, for example, edit simulation preferences such as the minimum d-spacings and maximum numbers of diffraction peaks, then have these applied to the current window. A new CrystalDiffract > Apply Preferences command allows you to quickly update a diffraction window using the current preferences. This serial number is unique to your licence, and can be used in place of the licence code, when requesting technical support (please don't forget to specify "Mac" or "Windows" though!). The Help > Request Technical Support command now assists you by pre-loading important parameters into the support form, including the program name and version, its serial number, plus your operating system name and version.Ī new Help > Register CrystalDiffract command provides assistance in the registration process, supplying the program name, its serial number, and your operating system to the online registration form.Ī "serial number" is now displayed in the "About" screen ( CrystalDiffract > About CrystalMaker, Mac Help > About CrystalDiffract, Windows). The CrystalDiffract Tutorial, which was previously part of the User's Guide, has now been moved to a separate document, and can be accessed via the new Help > Tutorial command. The CrystalDiffract User's Guide has been streamlined to make it easier to use, with key topics presented at the start of the guide. Fixed a very-rare problem caused by a unit cell with dimensions smaller than the wavelength.Improved network licence checking, to prevent spurious "licence violation error" alerts when the program is re-launched following a crash."Save File" prompts are now displayed for any unsaved changes, when quitting the program.These restrictions have been removed in this version, and windows can now be freely resized/zoomed. If a window were moved to a secondary monitor, it could not be enlarged, even if the monitor had a higher resolution than the primary monitor. Previous versions of CrystalDiffract limited the maximum window size to the available space on the primary monitor. ![]() Improved window sizing on multiple monitors. Please note that these are dynamic menu items and will appear when holding down the appropriate modifier keys, such as control and/or option. These commands might be useful in presentations or teaching classes, when one needs to rapidly exit the software without "save file" alerts. Close All Without Saving (cmd-opt-ctrl-W).Three new menu commands have been added to the File menu, for closing one or more windows: ![]() ![]() With lower overall turnout in midterm elections, groups that are more likely to vote thus exude a larger influence on the outcome. Source: United States Elections Project 2. Chart 1 and Table 1: Voter turnout among the voting-eligible population (VEP), 1972-2016 If that holds, we’d expect a midterm turnout in the low 40s next year given 2016’s 59.3% VEP turnout, but of course that may vary. On average, midterm turnout has been about 17 points lower than presidential turnout in the 26th Amendment era. Chart 1 and Table 1 lay out the substantial differences in turnout that depend on whether or not the presidency is on the ballot. Since the 26th Amendment to the Constitution expanded the franchise to all eligible citizens 18 years or older, 1994-1996 was the closest midterm turnout has been to presidential turnout - 41.1% of the voting-eligible population (VEP) cast ballots in the 1994 midterm and just 51.7% of the VEP voted in the 1996 presidential contest. ![]() Ever since, presidential turnout has always exceeded midterm turnout. According to available data, the last time midterm turnout exceeded the previous presidential election was in 1838, when 70.8% of the eligible population voted versus the 56.5% who voted in the 1836 presidential election. The most fundamental difference between presidential and midterm cycles is that far fewer voters participate when there is no presidential contest. Turnout is always lower in midterm elections For the most part, this analysis is based on exit poll data: We used the national exit poll data for the presidential race in presidential years and the national exit poll data for the national House vote in midterm years. ![]() What follows is a look at the similarities and differences between the two kinds of national electorates. Basically, midterm electorates are smaller, older, and less diverse than presidential ones, but the demographic voting patterns and divisions that we see in midterms are quite similar to presidential contests. With politicos everywhere turning their eyes to the still-distant 2018 midterm election, we thought it would be useful to review some of the basic differences and similarities between the electorates in presidential and midterm cycles. Editor’s Note: The Crystal Ball is taking off next week for the University of Virginia’s spring recess. ![]() ![]() This has led stone tool analysts in recent times to generally prefer the term cortification as a better term to describe the process than patination. Īrchaeologists also use the term patina to refer to a corticated layer that develops over time that is due to a range of complex factors on flint tools and ancient stone monuments. Patina also refers to accumulated changes in surface texture and color that result from normal use of an object such as a coin or a piece of furniture over time. In common parlance, weathering rust on steel is often mistakenly referred to as patina. On metal, patina is a coating of various chemical compounds such as oxides, carbonates, sulfides, or sulfates formed on the surface during exposure to atmospheric elements ( oxygen, rain, acid rain, carbon dioxide, sulfur-bearing compounds). ![]() They may also be aesthetically appealing. Patinas can provide a protective covering to materials that would otherwise be damaged by corrosion or weathering. The patinas on leather goods are unique to the type of leather, frequency of use, and exposure. Patina ( / p ə ˈ t iː n ə/ or / ˈ p æ t ɪ n ə/) is a thin layer that variously forms on the surface of copper, brass, bronze and similar metals and metal alloys ( tarnish produced by oxidation or other chemical processes) or certain stones and wooden furniture (sheen produced by age, wear, and polishing), or any similar acquired change of a surface through age and exposure.Īdditionally, the term is used to describe the aging of high-quality leather. ![]() The external layer has been weathered by moisture and rain, leading to the oxidation of copper. ![]() Pre-colonial copper coin formerly used in the Copper Belt ( Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia). ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a direct improvement for the vanilla playermodel selector. Either way, if you want to add a bit of realism to your Garry’s Mod, here’s the addon for you!Įnhanced Playermodel selector being put to use. Unless you’re the guy that’s getting shot, stabbed and whatnot, that is. Comes with prop versions of the entitiesĪlright, that's going to be a hell of a clean up.This is a very simple mod that will add consumable entities in the form of pasta, pizza, milkshakes, and more that will heal you when you eat them. Want to go out for a pizza or drink a good ol' milkshake? The Food Mod is for you! Perhaps not the most useful to the average user, but it’s constantly updated and serves its purpose very well.Īll types of food that come with the mod. It will allow you to have a solid base to work with instead of creating everything from the ground up. If you’re interested in making your own NPC addons, VJ Base is what you need. Vital for any server owner that wants to add something to the base maps their server runs on.Īn array of NPCs, all based on VJ Base. This very lightweight add-on will allow you to save entities on a server map. This addon will add a function to your tool gun that will allow you to stack props in every way possible. Improved Stacker is a must-have for any Garry’s Mod players interested in building. Great variety of fonts and colors to choose from.The addon is still being updated to this day.Useful for quite literally any application where text might be needed. Each line can be customized, changing its font and color. They will appear as a floating text block. ![]() This add-on will allow you to plaster phrases and words around. This addon will add multiple functions to your tool gun allowing you to attach, move, weld, and align all your props.Ī prime example of what 3D2D Textscreens can do. With Smartsnap, precision building becomes very, very easy. Smartsnap being used in a Roleplay server.
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