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I just thought I would take a picture of my energy saving bulb. These bulbs may not actually save energy after all.
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With 25/30 mph onshore winds today I did think that taking a large event table and several chairs on to Brancaster beach was being a tad optimistic.
I actually suggested to the guy carrying the table that he laid it on its side and used it as a wind break. Predictably the wind picked up (see foreground sandstorm), rain and hail swept in and they were reduced to grabbing everything and running for the car park.
On Thursday, I glanced at the empty lot formerly occupied by the River City Motel on Stockton Blvd in Sacramento. I pass it everyday on the way to and from work. I thought I saw a large dog, but I wasn't quite sure. A day later, I saw it again and was more assured that it was a dog. I figured it belonged to a homeless person who might be camping in the back right corner of the lot. But today, Melissa and I took a closer look and discovered that it was a scared, shivery, bony great Dane. Who abandons such a rare and valued breed of dog?
We assumed we could take her to our vet, scan her microchip, and contact her owner. We came back with some food and a blanket. She ate voraciously, but she didn't want to move. She huddled further into the corner for a while. But once Melissa got her moving, she walked with us and jumped right into the car for the ride to the vet.
She had no chip, so then we checked Craigslist for any posts about a lost great Dane. We quickly found the likely owner and have now verified it's Zoey, but a reunion is not so simple. Eight days ago, Zoey ran off from a doggie daycare in the area here she was temporarily staying while her owner tried to find a new owner for her. She can't keep her because she had to move and couldn't find a place that would accommodate her. I sense a bit of a financial crisis might be happening. So, tomorrow with her owner's blessing, we will call a great Dane rescue resource and hopefully send her on her happy way before she eats us out of house and home.
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It is unbearable to think of one family losing three brothers/sons. But this is what the Elsey family had to come to terms with. John and Mary Ann Elsey had 13 children, all of whom lived into adulthood, despite their modest rural background. John was a shepherd. Born in Tetford, he had lived and worked in Fulletby and Mavis Enderby since his marriage, before settling in Lusby. He and his wife were patriots, they named a daughter after the queen and a son after the prince consort. When the war came their sons joined the army, who can tell with what enthusiasm.
John Thomas, fourth child, second son was the first of the three brothers to die. He seems to have left Lincolnshire for Canada, though I am not sure when. He was certainly serving in the 31st Canadian Infantry battalion, which was linked to Alberta, when he was killed. Although the plaque in Lusby church gives May 4th 1917, the official records give his death as 1st May. He is buried in La Targette in Northern France.
Although he was the first Elsey to die his was not the first death to strike the family. Martha, his next younger sister, had married a Yorkshire man, Ernest Stirzaker, in 1910 and he was killed a week earlier than John Thomas, on 24 April. The news of both deaths in a brief period must have been an unbearable shock especially as there were others in the firing line.
Martha and her next brother Fred were close in age but also closely entwined by kin, as Fred was married to Ernest Stirzaker's sister Laura. (The link with Yorkshire hadn't started with the Stirzakers: Alice the eldest Elsey had married another man from the same community, Rastrick near Brighouse, in 1905. Presumably the other two Elseys met the two Stirzakers through that link.)
I have discovered most about Fred because he has a fairly complete army file. He took his oath in 1915 and was put on the reserve until June 1916, when he was mobilised. Apparently he had a painful Appendix/Peritonitis scar, but this wasn't enough to excuse him service. Like his father and several of his brothers he was a shepherd, short by modern standards, but stocky. He was in the East Yorkshire regiment and was posted to France at the beginning of 1917. He died in November. His widow who had moved back to her home town of Rastrick was sent his personal effects, which are itemised in the army record.
Frank, nine years younger than Fred was a waggoner before he joined up. His war record is one of the majority that have not survived so there is no information about his service apart from the fact that he died in April 1918, he was serving in the 1st battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment. He is buried in Haringhe cemetery in Belgium.
At least one other brother, Arthur Stanley, served in the trenches. In fact he was in France for over a year from spring 1916 to spring 1917. He was posted to depot in April 1917, before any of his brothers had died, so this was not the saving Private Elsey moment. Presumably he was wounded but the records aren't complete. He was pensioned off in March 1918 and so survived; he was to marry a local girl in 1919.
I think that you can make a good case for arguing that the Elsey family are very unlucky but in other ways they are representative of some important factors about the early 20th century. Even before the war started they had started to break away from the narrow Lincolnshire farming base from which they came. At least three of them married out of the county and one emigrated. They were literate, as previous generations would not have been, and the war changed the lives of the survivors in ways that could not have been anticipated. Some of them at least managed to pick up some pieces. Martha, whose husband had died first, remarried in 1919. She had children to think about. Her new husband was himself a widower.
The average American will have nine operations before the age of 85. Surgery accounts for half of all hospital admissions and over 40 million inpatient operations per year in the United States. These procedures carry an inherent risk—globally, major surgical complication risks range from 3 to 16 percent, and death rates from 0.2 to 10 percent—yet there is remarkably little effort to discover how to reduce surgery’s high rate of complications, ensure access to surgery, reduce unnecessary surgery, or understand how to make its provision more cost-effective.
This is emblematic of a distortion in thinking about where the risks in healthcare are—or how policy can help ensure medicine saves more lives. Pharmaceuticals get the headlines, but are only a fraction of life-saving care. And while federal funding has supported an enormous output of new discoveries, there has been little recognition of the need to ensure these discoveries are effectively put into practice and reach ordinary Americans wherever they seek care. At least half of the major complications that occur in hospital care such as surgery are avoidable with existing knowledge. Recent findings indicate that simple tools like checklists can transform that care to make it safer, more effective, and less expensive.
Through the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Michael Zinner and Atul Gawande are developing strategies for improving the quality and safety of technological care like surgery, enhancing our understanding of how such care is distributed across socioeconomic and racial/ethnic lines, and charting a path toward expanding nationwide access to higher quality care. The Center for American Progress held an engaging presentation and a lively discussion of the policy dimensions of their important work.
Kay Firth-Butterfield, Portfolio Head, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, World Economic Forum speaking during the Session "Saving Face" at the India Economic Summit 2019 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
"SENTOUKI" is probably a dwarf, if compared to the other adjacent rocks of Meteora. A generous and saving rock:
On “Lazarus’ Saturday” (the day before Palm Sunday) in 1943 (April 17, 1943) the entire family of my grandfather, Christos Charal. Papachristos—six souls—found a hospitable bomb shelter just below Sentouki.
During the ruthless bombing of Kalambaka that day by the Nazi German airplanes, all family members ran for life; they ran all over the cliff, crossed the stream gulch (recently covered by the local municipality) and then climbed to the opposite side of a steep slope: There they all found shelter under the rocky mass and remained hidden there, watching their own house being devoured by the wicked flames. If they had stayed in it, no one would have survived!
My grandfather rebuilt the house with his own hands later, but the Nazis then burned Kalabaka—not once but twice—in the autumn of 1943:
• 16.9.1943 (Thursday, the day after the feast of the city’s patron, St. Bessarion)
• October 18, 1943 (Monday).
"Sentouki" is surrounded by the streets "G. Liakata," "A. May / N. Plastira" & "I. Metaxas". Its latitude and longitude are:
• 39° 42'31 "(39,7088) North
• 21° 37'23 "(21.6232) East
Here are just a few important DATES, garnered by the “Memories of War” book, by KI. Karasimos (ed. 2009, ISBN 9789609315647):
-18.4.1941 (Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday): German entry to the unfortified/open town of Kalambaka
-17.4.1943 (Lazarus’ Saturday, i.e. the day before Palm Sunday): aerial bombardment by the Germans of Kalambaka (the Italians had abandoned it and retreated to Trikala since March 8, 1943)
-23.4.1943 (Maunday Thursday) the victorious battle of Kalambaka
-16.9.1943 (Thursday, St. Bessarion’s (the city patron’s) feast): arson of 120 stores & houses by the German nazis
-18.10.1943 (Monday): burning of the rest of the houses in their entirety by Germans - Kalambaka was completely burned down
-18.10.1944 (Wednesday): German departure
Dates of massive Nazi executions for retaliation: I deliberately decided not to mention them here in this post, today, on Easter Sunday in 2018:
We celebrate the Resurrection and we thank God for what we enjoy: Peace, Freedom.
Nonetheless, let’s pray for unexceptionally All, for each and every one of our fellow countrymen, to get to enjoy the divine goods of freedom and peace: our heartfelt thoughts accompany our brothers incarcerated in a Turkish prison. Courage; Resurrection will be celebrated by you too, as free men: Light always destroys darkness…
Lamp, complete with insects and dirt, in a pathway to a church's main door.
The driveway to the church can be seen in the comment below.
Taken in the Yamanote line. There was a sticker like this one, in each car, always on the same window.
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Vu dans la Yamanote. Il y avait un autocollant comme celui-là dans chaque voiture, à chaque fois sur la même fenêtre.
Part of my set Tsunami impact on Tokyo
Home energy saving kits are now available to borrow at all Dublin City Public Libraries.
The Home Energy Saving Kits have been developed by Dublin's energy agency Codema and contain six practical tools to help the public save energy at home. The items in the toolkits address three key areas of energy use in the home - space heating, hot water and electricity consumption - and can help identify common problems such as lack of insulation, poor ventilation and the appliances in the home that might be driving up electricity bills.
I'm guessing the pipes were for the toilets that never got installed. And the gravel was for the floor that never got poured.
Title based on an Iron & Wine song.
She had a bit of a smudge accident so I ran her through photoshop and played with her a little.