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#Energy #Saving Tips:
- Turn lights, appliances and electronics off when they are not in use. Unplug idle power adapters and cell-phone
- Replace light bulbs with CFLs
- Keep cool with ceiling fans
- Power down your computer
- Use natural light, heat and cooling
- Use smart power strips
Today’s wastage is tomorrow’s shortage.
Save energy ! Save world!
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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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Little choices mean a lot when it comes to building safety into a treehouse. Here, I borrowed a detail from my friends in the timber-framing business and added cast-metal structural washers to the half-inch bolts that anchor the rail posts. With a 3-inch wide face, there's no chance a sudden, excessive force pushing out on those posts can pull the wood out over the bolt heads. As a bonus, they look pretty cool, too.
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.
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.
A mother in our program shows her savings proudly: 38,000 FRW, or the equivalent of 62 dollars, which she saved over the course of 4 months. Financial literacy and savings is a key training we provide to families so that they can pay for all the things they need and want. Rosatha has saved enough to pay her family's health insurance, to buy a goat, and get new fabric for a dress.
Jimmy Elliott representing Rae Systems & AFC International Inc. presenting a plaque to Commissioner Santiago, of the City of Chicago Fire Department, during EMS week at the Chicago Fire Academy. Plaque honors the City for equipping their paramedics with Carbon Monoxide detectors, that have proven to have saved hundreds of residence in the last year. Sony a77 and Zeiss 135mm f/1.8 ZA.
This horseshoe crab washed up in the surf, so I put it back in to the ocean. (It didn't even grant me three wishes for saving its life - and on my birthday!)
15"x15" mixed media collage & acrylic paint layered over tissue paper on very nice gallery stretched and paper backed & sealed canvas.
Please come and see it live at holiday in st elmo, we're gonna need your support. A supposed 75% chance of rain midday. I oughta make some spice cookies, temptation and incentive!
Handless Hawk and his Lego pal get rescued from the Joker by Greedo and his Green Team. (This weekend's garage sale "gold".)
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
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.
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.