| Simple ways to save your skin
For great skin in winter you need two things: moisturizer and sunscreen. It’s that simple.Oh sure, there are different lotions, serums, formulas and spa treatments for improving skin tone and feel, but in the end it pretty much boils down to wearing sunscreen with a minimum sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 every day, and liberal use of moisturizers, said Dr. Rex Largen of Nebraska Dermatology."If a person started wearing sunscreen when they were 10 or younger, they would do a tremendous amount toward protecting skin from the usual signs of aging — age spots, skin cancer and wrinkling," Largen said. .
Winterizing helps save on gas bill, repairs
Frigid temperatures and snowy weather seem to be around to stay, and preparing your home for winter may save a bit of money when the next heating bill comes. Ryan Snow, president of Western Heating in Orem, said it is important to winterize a home in order to prevent heat from escaping and to keep a furnace working correctly. Heat can escape through drafty areas around doors and windows, and Snow said homeowners can attend classes on reducing these leaks from local home-improvement stores like Lowe's or Home Depot. Snow said one of the most important ways for a homeowner to save money during the winter is simply to change the filter in the furnace and get a furnace tune-up once a year. Filters are usually about $7 to $10 and should be replaced every three months, which can easily be done without professional help.
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Grain prices have reached record highs and oil prices are flirting with $100 a barrel. At first blush, this could seem daunting, but Ms. Woertz sees opportunity. The high oil prices mean the world is more conscious about energy security, Ms. Woertz says. That translates into greater demand for corn-based ethanol and soy-based biodiesel -- both key products that ADM makes. And while the higher grain prices have cut into biofuel's profitability, it has prompted farmers to plant more acreage, which means more grain to handle and ship across the Corn Belt and overseas. But with more mouths to feed as the population grows, there are growing worries about the long-term sustainability of farming for fuel instead of food. Ms. Woertz envisions expanding ADM's biofuels production beyond corn and beans.
Rhetoric will leave off where McCain begins
In one sentence on primary night in Wisconsin, U.S. Sen. John McCain nailed Barack Obama — and defined precisely the terms of the fall campaign. Be not intimidated by the growing certainty that the rhetorically gifted Obama, and not his fingernails-across-the-chalkboard opponent, will emerge as McCain's opponent in November. With Hillary came the high negatives that gave Republicans hope of a built-in general election advantage. With Obama comes an army of high-end liberals, affluent and well-educated, along with an energized swell of blacks and the young drawn specifically to him. The prospect of running against a "movement" has unnerved some Republicans, to say nothing of those — affiliated or not — who have listened to Democrats lay out their vision for America through a long series of debates.
Democrats laugh the loudest
First, it throws the Republican race into disarray. People (including me) were already writing post-New Hampshire and pre-Michigan that the nod appeared to be John McCain's for the taking. McCain had momentum after his New Hampshire win, and he had won Michigan against George W Bush in 2000, so it wasn't entirely unreasonable to think that he might be on his way to glory. But that was stopped cold by Michigan voters. Now, not only is there no Republican frontrunner; there's not even anything resembling a likely victory scenario for any of the top-tier candidates. Second, the result seemed to confirm that Republican voters are deeply unenthusiastic about the choices before them. The Republicans, far more than the Democrats, usually have by this point in the process an “establishment" candidate around whom the party faithful have rallied.
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