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Many people suffer from the blues during the winter months because of a lack of sunshine, but spring will bring us all warmth and sunny days soon! This Tidbits explores the gigantic star that our planet revolves around. • The sun is a huge star that is the center of our solar system. Earth is tiny compared to the sun. Our entire planet could fit inside the sun 109 times if it was a hollow ball! Of course, it’s not hollow; it is filled with hot gasses. How hot? The surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius). The core, or center of the sun, is estimated to be more than 28 million degrees Fahrenheit (15.5 million C). • The sun is 864,000 miles (1.4 million km) in diameter, almost 35 times larger than the diameter of the earth and is about 330,000 times the mass of earth.• On a mountain summit on a hot summer day, it appears that the sun is really close to earth. However, it is nearly 93 million miles (150 million km) away. It takes sunlight about eight minutes to reach us. Even with that distance, the light and heat keep our planet warm, allowing plants to grow and even giving us a sunburn if we are not care-ful. Without the sun, earth would be frozen and dark all the time and could not support life as we know it. turn the page for more!

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If you like a variety of colors available in a gemstone you will really like spinel. There are red, violet, pink, blue, orange, and black spinels. Finding your favorite color could take you on a tour of the world. The best red, pink and orange spinels originate from the rich gem gravels of Burma’s Mogok Stone Tract. The best blue and violet spinels are found in Sri Lanka. Gem spinel is also found in Vietnam, the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, and in Tanzania and Madagascar in Africa. Black spinel is mined in Thailand. Throughout history, spinel has been confused with ruby because red spinel is a rich, intense red similar to that of a red traffic signal. Frequently expensive rubies are substituted for by spinel in much the same way a diamond is substituted by cubic zirconia. Not to commit a fraud or theft but to prevent one. Spinel may take the place of a ruby that would have been displayed in public by an owner who is insecure about the rubies safety. Better to lose a $100,000 dollar spinel than a $1 million dollar ruby, don’t you agree?

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Q: Regarding your recent column on pipe insulation and freezing: You blew it this time. As a chemical engineer who has worked with construction and operation of vari-ous facilities, I can categorically tell you that pipe insula-tion will not prevent pipes from freezing -- particularly where power and heat are not available.Pipe insulation will slow the transfer of heat and cold into or out of piping. However, if heat is not available for a sufficient time, the water in the pipe will freeze if the surrounding air temperature is below 32 F. It might take awhile, but it will freeze.The simplest method for preventing damage to piping systems is to drain the piping as fully as possible, thereby keeping any remaining water from damaging the pipes when it freezes. The freezing water will simply expand into the voids and not split or break the piping.When heat is again available, the warming will melt the frozen water. Adding water back into the piping will per-mit it to operate as usual, eventually. I had this experi-ence in my house back in the ‘80s during a massive and long power outage. I drained the water and heating lines as best I could. When power came back I started the boil-er, after pressuring that system, and waited. Slowly, the three heating zones came back into operation -- except for about 20 feet of heating pipe in the uninsulated space in the attic. That took days and the sun’s heat to return to normal operation.However, in a heated garage with pipe insulation, leav-ing the garage door open (accidentally) in 15 F weather did not protect the piping. Luckily only a split in a 2-foot length of pipe needed replacement.I worry that your column will give a false sense of secu-rity to homeowners who are not engineers or tradespeo-ple and will find frozen and split lines after an outage. -- Ralph M., via email

A: You told them, Ralph, and I thank you! While pipe insulation slows heat or cold transfer -- keeping hot water inside the pipes from cooling more quickly as it travels through unheated spaces -- it should not be relied upon to prevent pipes from freezing during prolonged cold spells. Always check the entire run, including insulated sections, when monitoring for frozen pipes.

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The state of recycling in the State…Is actually pretty grimm. In 2005, Denvers Mayor John Hickenlooper launched the city’s sustainable development initiative, Greenprint Denver to identify opportunities for the city to lead by example, and to partner with community individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations and cultural institutions to help affect positive change in the community.

What does it all mean? It means the City of Denver realizes there is a problem in Colorado that needs to be corrected. In 2004, Coloradoans disposed of a whopping 9 pounds of waste per person, per day, one of the highest volumes in the nation. In 2009, the Douglas County Household Chemical Roundup Program reported that it collected 168,937 pounds of waste. 132,875 pounds was reported to be “paint products”. That’s over 3.6 times the total cumulative amount of all other “household materials” collected.

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• Sunshine Mine in Utah was expected to be a great gold find but proved to be disappointing and was abandoned after 15 years of work. Only about $400,000 in gold was extract-ed. Sunshine Canyon, where the mine was located, has been deserted since 1910.

• Sunshine Mine in Idaho, located between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace in the Idaho panhandle, was a silver mine that produced almost 365 million ounces of silver from 1904 through 2001. Unfortunately, the Sunshine Mine has the distinction of being the spot of the worst disaster in Idaho history. A fire in the mine in 1972 killed 91 workers. A monument to the lost miners was erected near the mine and

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• Sunshine Hill, Texas, near Wichita Falls, got its name from the fact that at 1,208 feet (368 m) above sea level, it was the highest hill in the area. The school that was established there in 1889 was the only structure left in the town in recent years. Unfortunately, the school burned to the ground in March 2011.

• North of the border in Alberta, Canada, is Sunshine Vil-lage Ski Resort, one of three ski resorts within Banff National Park. It claims to have up to 30 feet (9 m) of snow in the winter! It also has summer hiking access and fun programs beginning in June.

• All of us need to be thankful for the sun coming up every morning and going down every night. There have been nu-merous religions that have the sun as their centerpiece. The Egyptians, Aztecs, Greeks and Japanese all had major tenets of their beliefs based on the sun. The Aztecs actually thought the sun died every night and had to be resurrected each day.

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Once a child has recorded 12 hours of reading or being read to, he or she may return the log to any library location and select a free book to take home. Completion will also entitle the reader to a 7-inch cheese pizza and 16-ounce fountain drink from Mama Lisa’s Little Italy Pizzeria in Castle Pines.

Reading logs must be returned to the library on or before March 28. Prizes are not guaranteed and are only available while supplies last.

Douglas County Libraries offers multiple youth reading programs every year in support of its mission to advocate literacy and lifelong learning. The spring program enjoys strong participation among county youth because books are popular prizes.

In conjunction with the reading program, Douglas County Libraries is offering many special reading programs through March. To register for any of these programs, call (303) 791-7323 or visit DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

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On March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York’s Lower East Side, a fire quickly engulfs the factory and claims 146 lives, mostly young women. Because manage-ment had locked the exit doors, many of the garment work-ers either expired from asphyxiation or leapt from windows -- a fatal, 10-story fall. The factory’s owners were eventually found guilty on charges of manslaughter.

On March 20, 1920, Bugatti delivers its first 16-valve car to a customer in Switzerland. The Bugatti was a symbol of wealth and status, and its cars were equipped with massive racing en-gines. The renowned American dancer Isadora Duncan was riding in a Bugatti when her trademark long scarf caught in a rear wheel of the vehicle, and she was instantly strangled to death.

On March 22, 1947, President Harry Truman issues an ex-ecutive decree establishing a sweeping loyalty investigation of federal employees in every department and agency. The pro-gram uncovered only a few employees whose loyalty could be “reasonably” doubted.

On March 19, 1952, the one-millionth Jeep is produced. The name “Jeep” is reportedly derived from the Army’s 1941 re-quest that car manufacturers develop a “General Purpose” vehicle. “G.P.” turned to “Jeep” somewhere along the battle lines.

On March 21, 1971, “The Andromeda Strain,” the first movie to use computer animation, opens. The sci-fi thriller, featuring scientists racing against time and an alien virus, was the first of many films to be made from a Michael Crichton book.

On March 24, 1989, the worst oil spill in U.S. territory begins when the supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of oil eventually spilled into the water, polluting more than 700 miles of coastline.

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This week’s column is going to be different from other columns you’ve read. I still have many things to cover in upcoming columns (topics including supplements-what, when, why and how; more talk on nutrition, and some helpful cardio tips). This week I want to talk about the importance of balance in our lives.

In order to find and maintain complete health and wellness, we not only need to take care of our bodies through exercise and healthy eating habits, but we also need to make sure we take care of our minds and our souls. If one of these areas is out of balance, or isn’t being cared for, it can be detrimental to the balance we’re trying to achieve.

I’ll be making a presentation which will include the following topics: weight training, heart health, nutrition, as well as mind/body/soul at the Jenny Lewis HEALTH, FITNESS & WELLNESS EXPO, March 31st, 10am-2pm at the Parker Pace Center. Please come see me and my Straight Up Fitness team, corporate sponsors and our 30 Health & Fitness vendors. We’ll have activities for adults and children, and tons of free stuff! Vendors will provide free goodies to all of our guests! You can also enter our raffle for a chance to win other awesome prizes!

Special thanks to Tim Munday, Publisher of Tidbits of Douglas County and Threaded Ink Media, their support! A special thanks to Pete Solano & Boulder Running Company for their sponsorship and support! This EXPO will be great!

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