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Joseph has come back home to Guwahati without a job but with lots of musical hopes and he finds that his girlfriend has had enough of him. She's been freewheeling behind his back with a musician that he dislikes and is issuing marching orders. Being dumped, of course, is par for the course for Joseph – Uma is his third girlfriend and, unkindest cut of all, she's even sold his bike and refuses to give him the money. After he's finished mourning her, with some help from his irrepressible friend Utpal, he decides the best thing to do is ask destiny for some help.
Relationships, like marriages, after all, are made in heaven. After strumming through some sad ballads and his memories, Joseph remembers the fleeting glimpse he had of a girl he had nine years ago at a bus stop. He doesn't remember what she looked like but thinks he remembers that she was wearing a grey skirt. And so the hunt begins.
The author grew up in Guwahati so he is familiar with the yearnings of young people in Assam and the neighbouring states of the North East, where every young man has a guitar, sports blue jeans and is ruled by the women in his life, whether it's his mother, his aunt or his girlfriend. There are a host of entertaining characters, Joseph and his friends, Rahul the nerd with glasses, Babu the bodyguard cum driver. There is also the sense of a morel liberal kind of society where even parents can also consent to orchestrated meetings and fall in love if the circumstances are right.
The story of Joseph's hunt is an entertaining laugh a minute story, as he rummages through Facebook looking for the girl he thought he saw. It also makes a statement on the nature of love and how life never is what we want it to be.
And while the ending is not what you might expect when you start reading the book, the problem is that Basumatary's story is so entertaining that you find it hard to accept what happens. As a matter of fact, you tend to wonder whether the author himself accepted it because he hurries the reader through those pages so that they hardly have an effect. Still ending notwithstanding, it's great travel reading, so enjoy!
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destiny my beta readers.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. The comments on the WiP are gold, and since they're here on the blog, I can find them if and when I ever finish Liz. (I think I started her in 2008?) And having looked over all of them, I think you're all absolutely right (except Lavender dies). Continue reading


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I started this blog to be real, and I want to talk about real things. So far, I have mentioned nothing that is actually affecting me mentally and emotionally in rowing. I'm going to change that right now. For many who know my rowing career, they know that there have been many ups and downs I have dealt with politically within the sport. Disclaimer! I know this to be a struggle and hurdle for all athletes in all sport and I am not trying to make myself out to be someone who has to deal with more. However, here's the deal.
I came home from the world championships knowing that I would be training in Victoria instead of London because I believe in doing at least 200km per week (to try to sum up how I feel). I was in the airport and decided to purchase "Conversations with Myself" by Nelson Mandela. I figured who better to learn about conflict resolution from than this amazing man? I am by no means comparing my situation to the struggle to end apartheid or racial discrimination but why not try to better my way of thinking and dealing with struggle than reading what Mandela has to say about it? There was one quote that I really related to that I felt was worded in a way that I could never express but is exactly how I would define my feelings toward conflict:
"But even when the clash between you and me has taken the most extreme form, I should like us to fight over our principles and ideas and without personal hatred, so that at the end of the battle, whatever the result might be, I can proudly shake hands with you, because I feel I have fought an upright and worthy opponent who has observed the whole code of honour and decency. But when your subordinates continue to use foul methods then a sense of real bitterness and contempt becomes irresistible."
Following is RCA's athlete assistance criteria (the criteria that must be met in order to receive $1500 per month from the government to help in living and training expenses). I have tried to point out to them that based on the document they have compiled, they are legally bound by the wording to card me, they refuse. I train six hours a day, six days a week at an RCA center in the effort to win an Olympic gold medal and they will not grant me the finances to do it. Please note what I have highlighted in bold. I think it's no mystery that my international performance likely fits the other criteria. Tongue in cheek. There is no amount of conversation one might be able to have when the opposing side is not willing to listen.
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|"Time and space died yesterday."
Last night I met, for the first time in my life, a convicted advocate of pure-capitalism. I knew such people existed; but it was the first time I actually spoke to one. Like an exotic fish, I gaped at the Swedish investment banker. Sadly, we had only just started our discussion before he had to leave. I'm hoping to finally understand this view of the world, what drives such believe? I want to delve under the rhetoric and see what is the implicit rationale he holds. I feel I may need to bolster my collection factoids: we did briefly talk of immigration in Sweden, where I got the impression his view is a stereotype that sketched in fears that Muslims are aggressively evangelical, that they want all women to wear the Burka, and have no interest in anything Swedish, except taking advantage of the social security system - a position I expressed my disbelief for. Fundamentally, his belief seemed to be that economic laws corrupt society and lead it to despotism. And there was me thinking that such laws are a mechanism by which we escaped oligarchy... ahh, some exciting conversations await the next time we meet!
Work-wise, I've been feeling rather incompetent, slow, struggling in slow motion to absurd the sea of acronyms and swamps of endless software gunk. Luckily my manager and colleagues, like a break in the clouds and a fresh breeze, shed a humble light on my predicament, helping me realise that it's normal to be stuck in a swamp, but if I keep clambering through, I'll get to dryer land. Maybe I'll even have the chance to walk a dream of democratic, rationaale argument...
Oh yeah, I've been thinking that "Rationaale", with emphasis roughly "rationAAArle", might be a fun word for my twisted take on rational and scientific: it is being open minded, it is the antithesis of dogma, it is the unification of differing positions by acceptance heterogeneity. For instance, it accepts emotional arguments as emotional arguments. It accepts cultural arguments in light of their cultural momentum. It is the gentle heart of science. It accepts all things by accepting them in their context. It is accepting that all things have context, and that the context needs to be made explicit in order to form a constructive collective reality.
You might have noticed that I'm also using a twisted definition of argument: for me an argument is just a statement of an idea or position; typically towards or against some other statement.
Maybe it's worth being a little concrete: our capitalist is arguing from some beliefs. A rationaale for this position is that he has a model that everyone knows everything perfectly, and that if power congregates, then it will, by some virtue of his image of pure-capitalism, be broken back into something else, saved by economic demand. This is the context, and now we can argue about realisation of this context, or lack of, within the world we see around us.
I guess I think that, fundamentally, we nearly all agree, but on top of this agreement lie layers of confused imaginations. These disconnected intellectual backdrops draw us apart and scare us from each other.
Oh yeah, I spent some time this week writing about argument mapping - perhaps
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Maintenance starts on Highway 23 in town this week
Milling and replacing the bituminous surface in Paynesville began this week (on Monday, June 27) for the Highway 23 maintenance project from Richmond to Paynesville. The contractor is asking that people not park on Highway 23 in Paynesville until the project is completed.
The resurfacing project began in early June and should last into July. In early June, crews built nine new turn lanes and bypass lanes between Paynesville and Richmond. Then, milling the existing bituminous surface and replacing the pavement began, with work in Paynesville delayed until after Town and Country Days.
Motorists should expect delays and should watch for heavy equipment and workers. No detours are planned, but motorists will be directed by flag crews in work areas. The project is expected to last until early July, with Highway 23 being restriped in Paynesville to allow for a center turn lane.
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ALDI Liverpool is a store belonging to ALDI corporation. It is open on: Mon - Sat: 8AM - 7PM, on Sunday 11AM - 5PM. This shop's address is: Unit 74/75 St.John's Centre, L1 1LS, Liverpool. ALDI Liverpool is frequented by many people inhabiting neighbouring towns like Liverpool city centre.
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Nominate 'overlooked or unexpected places' in Norfolk and Suffolk
A new £600,000 Arts Council England-funded project is inviting members of the public to nominate 'overlooked or unexpected places' for 10 site-specific art work commissions across the East of England.
On Tuesday the East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (ECVAN) announced the launch of New Geographies, a three-year project which will see leading UK and international artists commissioned to create 10 contemporary works of art.
Nominations are being sought for 'overlooked or unexpected places' in six counties, including Norfolk and Suffolk, with the first commission to be unveiled next summer.
Those already submitted include the Concrete Pyramid off Great Yarmouth's coast, the Pontins Holiday Park in Hemsby, the Petrified Forest of Mundon in Essex, the Chapel of St Peter-On-The-Wall in Bradwell-on-Sea and the abandoned Tesco site in Chatteris.
Donna Lynas, chairman of ECVAN, said: "The idea is for us to create a new map of the East of England, one based on personal thoughts and reflections rather than historical or economic centres."
Adding that any location will be considered, whether poetic or prosaic, she said: "We hope these new commissions will be enjoyed not only by the people and communities that nominated them, but also bring visitors who will be able to explore the East of England through this new map of ideas and reflections – these New Geographies."
The commissions will be accompanied by an extensive community engagement programme and an artist and curator development initiative.
Hedley Swain, Arts Council England director for the south east, said: "New Geographies is an exciting project that will explore the unique landscapes and rich heritage of the East of England and then immortalise them through the creation of new contemporary art works.
"Community engagement really sits at the heart of this project and I look forward to seeing many more people of all ages and backgrounds getting out to see contemporary visual art, and perhaps being inspired as artists themselves."
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President Bush wants to talk about more than the war in Iraq in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. He wants to talk about health care -- and probably will talk about global warming, too.
The president plans to spell out a new health-care initiative with his address: A tax deduction for money spent on health insurance, much like the deduction that homeowners take for the interest paid on mortgages.
This, the president says, could be a way to get coverage for more of the nearly 50 million Americans who lack health insurance, without creating a new government health care program.
Bush provided a preview with his weekly radio address today: "The current tax code encourages home ownership by allowing you to deduct the interest on your mortgage from your taxes. We can reform the tax code, so that it provides a similar incentive for you to buy health insurance. ''
And the White House this evening rolled out a rough outline of what the president will propose. See it first here:
This, from the White House this evening:
"In his State of the Union Address, the president will propose a "standard deduction for health insurance" – just like the standard deduction for dependents.
"Under the president's proposal, families with health insurance will not pay income or payroll taxes on the first $15,000 in compensation and singles will not pay income or payroll taxes on the first $7,500.
"At the same time, health insurance would be considered taxable income. This is a change for those who now have health insurance through their jobs. The President's proposal will result in lower taxes for about 80 percent of them. The 20 percent of them with more generous policies will have the option to adjust their compensation to have lower premiums and higher wages to offset the tax change.
"The president's proposal levels the playing field for Americans who purchase health insurance individually rather than through their employers, providing a substantial tax benefit for all those who currently have health insurance purchased on the individual market.
"This proposal lowers taxes for all currently uninsured Americans who decide to purchase health insurance – making insurance more affordable and providing a significant incentive to all working Americans to purchase insurance coverage, thereby reducing the number of uninsured Americans.
"As we reform the Federal tax code, we will also support the innovative measures that states are taking to address the problem of the uninsured. Governors across the Nation have put forward plans to make basic private health insurance more accessible for their citizens.
"In his State of the Union Address, the President will announce a new effort – led by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt – to help governors reduce the number of people in their states without private health insurance.''
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), a longtime advocate of health care reform, had this to say about the president's proposal today: "I'm pleased the president is finally talking about the growing crisis in health care, however I am concerned that taxing health benefits may undermine the good coverage that many Americans already have, while inadequate credits will do little to make health care more affordable for those who are struggling to pay their premiums now.
"Americans need real solutions and effective action, so that quality affordable health care can be a reality for all, just as it is for the President and members of Congress,'' Kennedy said. "The bold health plans in Massachusetts, California, and other states have shown that when all sides work together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish."
Bush will take his health care plan and other proposals from his State of the Union address on the road, too: The president plans to tout the energy initiatives in his State of the Union address the next day in Wilmington, Del., and his health care plans the following day in Lee's Summit, Mo. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer delivered the Democratic radio response today, talking about Iraq and energy independence.
This is the text of the president's radio address:
"Good morning. For many Americans, the new year began with a resolution to live a better and healthier life. Whatever goals you have set for yourself this year, one goal we can all share is reforming our Nation's health care system.
"Americans are fortunate to have the best health care system in the world. The government has an important role to play in our system. We have an obligation to provide care for the most vulnerable members of our society -- the elderly, the disabled, and poor children and their parents. We are meeting this responsibility through Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. We must strengthen these vital programs so that they are around when future generations need them.
"For all other Americans, private health insurance is the best way to meet their needs. But rising health care costs are making insurance too expensive for millions of our citizens. Health care costs are growing more than two times faster than wages, and this is making it harder for working families to buy insurance on their own. Rising costs are also making it harder for small businesses to offer health coverage to their employees. Our challenge is clear: We must address these rising costs, so that more Americans can afford basic health insurance. And we need to do it without creating a new Federal entitlement program or raising taxes.
"Our nation is making progress toward this goal. We created Health Savings Accounts, which empower patients and can reduce the cost of coverage. We are working to pass Association Health Plans, so that small businesses can insure their workers at the favorable discounts that big businesses get. We must pass medical liability reform, so we can stop the junk lawsuits that drive costs through the roof and good doctors out of practice. We've taken important steps to increase transparency in health care pricing, and give patients more information about the quality of their doctors and hospitals.
"One of the most promising ways to make private health insurance more affordable is by reforming the Federal tax code. Today, the tax code unfairly penalizes people who do not get health insurance through their job. It unwisely encourages workers to choose overly expensive, gold-plated plans. The result is that insurance premiums rise, and many Americans cannot afford the coverage they need.
"We need to fix these problems, and one way to do so is to treat health insurance more like home ownership. The current tax code encourages home ownership by allowing you to deduct the interest on your mortgage from your taxes. We can reform the tax code, so that it provides a similar incentive for you to buy health insurance. So in my State of the Union Address next Tuesday, I will propose a tax reform designed to help make basic private health insurance more affordable -- whether you get it through your job or on your own.
"As we reform the Federal tax code, we will also support the innovative measures that states are taking to address the problem of the uninsured. Governors across the Nation have put forward plans to make basic private health insurance more accessible for their citizens. When I go before Congress next week, I will announce a new effort -- led by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt -- to help governors reduce the number of people in their states without private health insurance.
"All of these changes are based on a clear principle: Health insurance should be available, it should be affordable, and it should put you and your doctor in charge of your medical decisions. I look forward to working with Congress to pass the initiatives that I lay out next week, so we can help millions more Americans enjoy better care, new choices, and healthier lives.
"Thank you for listening.''
This is the Democratic response today:
"Good morning. I'm Brian Schweitzer, the Governor of Montana, the Big Sky Country.
On Tuesday, President Bush will deliver his annual State of the Union Address. He is expected to talk about the war in Iraq and the need for our country to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. I wanted to share some of my thoughts about these topics, which are very important to all Americans.
Along with many people across the country, I have serious concerns about the President's plan to increase U.S. troop levels in Iraq. His plan is just more of the same.
I lived and worked in the Middle East for six years, Salam Alaikum to those who speak Arabic. There, I spent time with many Muslim families and like our families in the United States they want opportunities, freedom to work and live as they choose and the ability to make their country a better place for future generations.
Mr. President there are animosities between Sunni and Shiite people in the Middle East that have developed over centuries. Outsiders can not resolve this conflict unless the Iraqi people want security and freedom as least as much as us.
The American people expect, and our troops and military families deserve, a real plan for success in Iraq that includes political solutions as well as military action.
Mr. President I heard you say that you want to embed American troops with the Iraqi army in Baghdad. Please, don't embed our men and women within Baghdad beside untested and potentially corrupt members of the Iraqi military.
We could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform for the role that they play in protecting Americans at home and abroad. No one has sacrificed more than the military families at home who have a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Democratic Governors were helping to reduce our dependence on foreign oil long before President Bush discovered our oil addiction just last year in his last State of the Union Address.
Here in Montana, for example, I have been working hard to promote renewable energy development and conservation, also to promote the development of coal to liquids facility as a bridge to new sustainable energy development and as an important step in reducing Montana's dependence on foreign oil.
Montana is producing renewable forms of energy including wind power and bio-diesel from oil seed crops.
In Kansas, Governor Kathleen Sebelius has been promoting ethanol on the national stage. And she has made alternative energy a priority for her second term. In Pennsylvania, Governor Ed Rendell has set energy efficiency standards for all state government vehicles.
This week I was proud of an action championed by Democrats in Congress. A bill was passed that will repeal $14 billion in subsidies given to big oil companies.
The legislation also creates a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve to invest in clean, renewable energy resources and alternative fuels, promote new energy technologies, develop greater efficiency and encourage energy conservation.
Last year Montana oil producers increased their oil production and we will increase it again this year. Congress should not be giving subsidies to multinational corporations to develop oil fields for foreign dictators. The market is driving the exploration boom in Montana, not freebies form Congress.
We have enough energy resources and green technology in the United States to enable us to stop relying on foreign dictators to supply us with fuel. Along with a smart strategy in Iraq, our energy independence can make us stronger and safer.
We Americans use 6.5 billion barrels of oil a year. We only produce 2.5 billion ourselves. We import 4 billion from some of the world's worst dictators. I've got a plan.
We can save 1 billion barrels through conservation. Things like more efficient cars, homes and appliances. We can produce another 1 billion barrels of bio-fuels with crops like corn, soybeans, canola and camilina. My hope is Americans can produce 2 billion barrels a year from our enormous coal reserves to a clean-burning fuel for about $1.20 a gallon and for the next fifty years only touch a small fraction of our coal supplies.
We can achieve energy independence in 10 years, create a whole new industry with hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs, and you'll never have to send children and grandchildren to war in the Middle East again.
Mr. President lets create hundreds of thousands of jobs in America by producing our own clean fuels, bring our men and women home, and stop spending money in Iraq.
This is Brian Schweitzer, the Governor of Montana. Thank you for listening. God bless your family and God bless America.''
Does Bush realize most working people don't even take deductions because they're on the short form? I thought not.
Anyway, this sounds like it will do for Insurance Companies what his Medicare Presciption Drug Program did for Pharmaceutical Companies.
A Bonanza that will ultimately come out of the Taxpayer's Pockets.
I work, and I take deductions. In fact, the allowance to deduct mortgage interest payments is what convinced me to work hard, save money and buy a house instead of spending my money on rent each month. Tax deductions aren't always such a bad thing.
I am there.
We don't make or owe enough to take the long form itemized deductions any longer, yet we pay just north of 5k per year for health insurance premiums. Now, with the standard deduction something in the neighborhood of $10,300 what should we do?
Borrow a bunch so we can qualify?
But lets keep the powder dry. We haven't heard the details, which of course, is where the devil resides.
They should make it a clean, simple tax credit if they really want to help the little person.
Right, tom.
Amrican healthcare is a scandal. I don't know about all of you, but I make a decent midddle income salary and have a typical HMO plan, and the only major health crisis I can afford is a sudden death.
The Insurance companies and the Pharmaceuticals are running the show. They have been for decades. They pull the strings and make both the Rep and Dem puppets dance -- so If you're hoping for serious healthcare reform, don't hold your breath.
Americans are fortunate to have the best health care system in the world? I wish Mr. Bush would refrain from such overly exaggerated statements - it gives the remaining content much less credibility.
We have one of the worst, and probably the worst, health care systems in the Western developed world. Ours is the most expensive, and we are probably the only Western country with no universal health care. If Canada has it, why can't we? Health care should be free. How come when you call the fire or police departments, they save you for free, but when you call an ambulance, you have to pay???
Lower-income people should not be penalized. It's not your fault if you were born poor, and can't afford health insurance. Tax deductions are something, but they're basically nothing if you're already in the lowest tax brackets. I know, because I'm in them. Health insurance is just too expensive, so I haven't seen a doctor for a general checkup in over 5 years. But I am not a fan of big government either, because spending too much money only hurts the country, a lesson we have obviously not yet learned when it comes to Iraq. We need a new system, not just tax deductions which are good for those who can afford the insurance in the first place.
Isn't nice that McFool addresses issues that are important to Americans,than goes right back to what's really important to him and fellow wingers,Big oil,Drug and Insurance co's etc.
Well,there's a new sheriff in town Cowboy,and her name is Pelosi,Speaker of the House.And these issues will get attention finally,by the Dems.
This guy is a miserable,dildonic,fool.Thanks for voting him in "Earls".
Too much profit to overhaul the systems of both the insurance companies and the pharmaceuticals. Wall Street would wail!
Too much advertising money tied in too. Think of all the jobs lost if there is no need to advertise viagra or plavix! Don't you know they need to tell you what drugs to ask for from your doctor?
God forbid you try a natural cure before being put on constant testing and "maintenance" drugs.
I do know our county system does have basic check ups on a sliding scale. Any of you who can't afford insurance should look to your local health departments for help. Maybe if more people do, they'll expand those services and make them more convenient to the public.
Leo you are right believe me I just found out what a sudden death will cost. Let put it this way my back account will be short for a very long time like six years. Health Care and what is charge and is not covered by certain companies will put any American in a hole. Again Bush Talks while people who are sick suffer with huge bills. Don't die in this Country your family will be paying for years.
"I work, and I take deductions. "
So did we during our peak earning and debt years.
But things change, and some day the debt goes away, but the income may go down.
Then the medical insurance disappears and those (private) premiums go thru the roof.
" I haven't seen a doctor for a general checkup in over 5 years."
Even with private insurance this is very expensive. Hundreds of dollars. Not covered. 2k deductible.
This is just another scheme to help the rich. IF you really want to help the average american why not allow them to deduct all of their health expenses.
If you file the short form you get nothing and if you are lucky enough to file the long form, Doesn't mean your making "ooddles" of money, your health deductions are limited by your earnings. Either way if you are middle income you get nothing and if you are wealthly, you don't care about the cost of health insurance .
Bush just needs to go away and let someone who really cares about the people in this country run the show. GOD SPEED.
"Americans are fortunate to have the best health care system in the world."
This may be true if you define Americans only as insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies and their profit margins and you exclude the individuals that actually become ill and can't afford the horrendous cost of insurance and medicine.
Yes Mr. Bush you have once again spoken the truth. It's just about who you decide are Americans. Had you mentioned the invasion of Iraq, I might have asked you if your daughters are of fighting age and why aren't they sacrificing for freedom and democracy but since you didn't... I won't ask.
Raving Loon said:
"Isn't nice that McFool addresses issues that are important to Americans,than goes right back to what's really important to him and fellow wingers,Big oil,Drug and Insurance co's etc.
Well,there's a new sheriff in town Cowboy,and her name is Pelosi,Speaker of the House.And these issues will get attention finally,by the Dems."
Right, now it is Pelosi's big food Del Monte being exempted from the Federal minimum wage law. How come other US territories are not exempt? Oh right, cuz Del Monte's HQ is in Pelosi's District.
Yes, make my privately purchased health insurance a write off. While it is not a solution, it is a good step, in my opinion. If my employer provided insurance can be written off from their taxes why can't I buy my own and write it off on my taxes? Isn't that equality? And, why is health care tied to employment? Oh, right World War II government wage-control meddling led to this, and corrupted citizens now expect it. But, don't worry, more government meddling is sure to solve the health care crisis, cuz the politicians keep telling us so....
Universal health care is sure to create a greater divide between the haves and have-nots. There will still be private insurance that the well-off can afford and the universal health care will be worse, which means more health issues for the have-nots, which means a class divide. So socialists, go ahead and champion your class divisive universal health care plan.
canadian health is not free i pay 6000 to 7000 each year out of mt tax and from one province to the next it can change
My god! The best health care system in the world? Every developed country in the world offers their citizens a worry-free health care delivery system that is largely paid for through taxes on fuel and income. American taxes largely go to pay for the military and defense. Other developed countries use a single payer system which eliminates the vast number of HMO's and insurance companies which do nothing except add another layer of cost to our system. It's true that monetary constraints are imposed on Western European and Canadian health care doctors and industries. American politicians, the health care industry and lobbyists have conspired to convinence our citizens that we have not a superior but the best delivery system in the world. The real truth is that many Americans cannot even afford to visit a doctor when ill and a large number fear that as they grow older medical bills will consume all the wealth they have accumulated throughout their lives making the transfer of wealth to the hospitals and doctors and not to their children.
Just another scheme to enrich the insurance companies.
Thanks C. Morris, for setting me straight.
Stan -
Sorry about the mistake. Is that 6000-7000 mandatory, or can you choose to pay less for less benefits? More importantly, are you happy with your health care system? I'm just curious.
C.Morris - No kidding, I didn't know that either. I got into a car accident 6 years ago, they took me to the hospital, gave me 1 stitch, and I walked out an hour or 2 later. I got charged over $2,000 (but fortunately the car insurance paid for most of that). So I'm never setting foot in another hospital or doctor's office again, if I can help it. I really can't afford it. I'd rather go abroad.
If you'd like to wait 3-4 months to see a doctor and maybe die before your surgery is scheduled to be performed,then you'll like universal health care.
It's a failure in every socialist country there is...do the research. Castro is dying now because his doctors failed him and his system.
Do yourself a favor...get a job and buy some insurance...alot of us are tired of footing the bill for you losers.
By the way, Dale, my condolences for your loss.
Paulo so my wife was a loser because her insurace refuse to pay the cost of trying to save her life. I think Paulo you are a nut case
In response to the continued misinformation about Pelosi and the minimum wage increase comment:
"Right, now it is Pelosi's big food Del Monte being exempted from the Federal minimum wage law. How come other US territories are not exempt? Oh right, cuz Del Monte's HQ is in Pelosi's District."
Pelosi already commented immediately when it was brought to her attention and she said it was simply an over-site that the US territories were not included in the wage increase. It will be corrected in the Senate. So what's your problem?
You don't believe her?
You still think she is profiting from them?
Perhaps the big networks aren't following this story because Del Monte gives contributions almost exclusively to REPUBLICANS!!!
As for deductions, obviously you are not one of those who do not make enough income and therefore do not qualify for a deduction. So all the poor should have to pay more than you... because they are poor?
Your callousness reveals the hardness of your heart and the un-American attitude you have.
And as concerning entitlement, yes, I do think health coverage should be free, just like fire and police service. So many wealthy people in power in this country are profiting from the poisoning of the earth, the environment, our food, our water, our air, and even the medicines that we are given, that yes, I think anyone living in this country should be covered for the diseases and ailments that are the side affects and "collateral damage" of your profits and success!
Hell yes!
That's the LEAST that should be compensated for, but hey, anytime you wanna give me back my clean air and water.... I'm ready!
Dale, Paulo is not a nut case. He merely knows less about Castro's health than he does about socialized medicine.NO citizen of ANY modern industrialized country that has socialized medicine would EVER swap it for our system. NONE. The old "waiting for months to see a doctor, dying while waiting for surgery" routine is merely a scare tactic used by those who have a vested/financial interest in keeping things the way they are. Beware these sneaky people with a hidden agenda.
Paulo is indeed a jerk who probably has a hidden agenda. Socialized medicine is much more of a success than our system...based on most health care and mortality statistics. None of my Canadian friends would ever swap THEIR system for OURS.Dying while waiting for surgery...scare tactics indeed.
Dale,you're the nut!
I think there is alot more to the story than your telling...alot more.
So the insurance company said,"we're not going to pay."
Then what course of action did you take?...none?
So you're purposely overlooking the facts that Castro is 80 years old and has smoked cigars for decades? Think that those 2 facts might have something to do with his current state of health?
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested on Sunday that President Barack Obama shared the blame for killings at a gay nightclub in Orlando because his administration had downplayed Islamic terrorism.
While investigators were still recovering 20 or more dead bodies from Pulse Nightclub, Carson spoke to counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka.
"All Americans have a role to play," Gorka warned. "You must be aware you are on the front lines. Be alert and report anything that you see that is suspicious."
Citing a recent shooting in San Bernardino, Carlson argued that President Obama's administration had made America less safe by taking a politically correct view of Islamic-inspired terrorism.
"Doesn't the politicization of all of this, the relentless lying by the administration about the Islamic terror threat we face make it harder for people to want to step forward and say what they see?" the Fox News host opined.
"Absolutely, it's horrific," Gorka agreed, recalling that an Obama administration had spoken with him after he recently conducted a police training event.
"A young woman walks up from the administration, from the Department of Homeland Security and says, 'Look, Dr. Walker, that's all really interesting, but I disagree with all of it because the primary threat to America is white supremacists,'" he scoffed.
Later in the show, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich agreed with Carlson.
"The Obama administration had deliberately and willfully for seven years tried to avoid telling the American people the truth about an ideology which is an enormous threat to our civilization," Gingrich said, "and which is winning the war."
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Sunday, April 30, 2006
May to September
Tomorrow is May 1st, or the ancient Pagan Festival of Beltane, which in my book is the day I officially try to turn off the central heating.
We now have 5 months of relatively warm weather to look forward to, before we have to prepare again for the colder weather.
It is difficult to think about the cold nights, when you are cutting the lawn, wearing a T-shirt and shorts, but now is the time to start planning your renewable energy systems.
Solar Water Heating:
Now available as a low cost kit from Navitron in Wales ( www.navitron.org ) Expect to pay about £400 for the 20 tube panel, £70 to £130 for a controller, £35 for a pump and if you need it, £300 for a large 200 litre, twin coil storage tank. These systems are soon to be featured on BBC2's "It's Not Easy Being Green" shown on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm.
Wood Fired Central Heating.
Some very economical Stoves are now appearing as imports from China, and fitted with backboilers. Don't wait until October before you think about it, ask for a quote now, and most installers will be glad to do you an out of season special. Try Sussex Woodstoves in Horsham.
A stove might cost you between £400 and £800, but remember that you need a flue liner (about £80 per metre) and these days John Prescott's office is more or less insistent on a professional installation, which could be up to £1000 on top, and a 68 page guidline on how to install - I do wish he'd keep his fat fishy fingers out of everyone else's business. So budget about £2000 for a top job, then recoup this back over the next 5 to 10 years with very much reduced gas bills.
Low Energy Light Bulbs.
I have finally made ammends, and replaced the double dimmer switch in the living room with a simple dual gang switch. I can now go and fit low energy bulbs into the main ceiling lamp and the wall lights. The ceiling light is normally on for 6 to 8 hours per day so we now are going to save about 0.5kWh per day on our lighting bill. All the main supermarkets have low energy bulbs on special offer. They start saving after just 300 hours of usage.
Little Stack of Horrors.
Yes I am referring to my TV and VCR stack that has been drawing 20W in idle for the last 5 years! I finally identified the chief culprit - a Freeview box made by Thomson. This box can be switched from active mode - a green LED, to standby mode - a red LED, yet it makes no difference to the 8W power consumption! What on Earth were our Gallic chums thinking of when they designed that feature?? The box is now switched off when not in use.
So with a few simple measures I can now save a whole kWh per day in the living room, with no loss of comfort or convenience, and this extra kWh can be used to justify running our "one luxury item" the Bosch dishwasher!
Picture courtesy of "The Wicker Man" a cult spooky film with weird May Day happenings on a remote Scottish Isle.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
DIY Vegetarian Electricity
The day has finally arrived!
Following a few test runs, my Lister engine and generator was now ready to be run on vegetable oil.
The whole point of this project is to make heat and power from renewable fuels, and to reduce my consumption of fossil fuels. The Lister engine is an ideal way of converting waste vegetable oil into a viable domestic energy source.
I managed to pick up a scrap exhaust pipe from the skip at my local exhaust centre, and that was fitted in a somewhat temporary fashion - but worked very well in taking the majority of the noise out of the exhaust note.
A coil of microbore copper tubing was wound around the hot exhaust pipe - where it emerges from the cylinder head, and this was connected up between the fuel tank and fuel filter. The 16 turns of tubing acts as a fuel pre-heater and it warms up the vegetable oil sufficiently for it to flow like diesel. The Lister doesn't care what fuel it runs on, but I do!
Once heated up, the Lister runs normally on the warmed vegetable oil, without missing a beat. A temporary water cooling tank has been rigged up on the right handside of the engine. Eventually this will be replaced with a heat exchanger that will provide hot water an contribute to the central heating system - thus allowing me to burn less gas next winter.
The output from the alternator will be connected to a battery bank and inverter system that will supply power to the house.
This allows the engine to be run efficiently at full power for about 5 hours per day, using just about a gallon of waste vegetable oil, and recharging the battery bank. The engine is capable of generating 3kW of electricity - enough to power a kettle, but most of the time, my house only needs about 1/20th of this. Charging the batteries during morning and the early part of the afternoon, when houshold usage is low, will then allow us to run off inverted battery power for the remainder of the day.
The key to most renewable systems is the ability to store energy from times of plenty, and then trickle it out at the rate at which you need it. I suppose the same can be said for solar heating systems and rain water collection - it's just a case of storage, whereas grid systems lead you to believe that you can take as much as you want, whenever you want and it will always be available.
There are still several tasks to perform on this project. Firstly I need to build a new shed around the engine. I hope to use straw bale construction for this. The straw bales will not only attenuate a lot of the general engine noise, but will also offer good heat insulation from the elements.
Straw bales are readily available, quick to build with renewable resource and can be constructed without using excessive amounts of other building materials - such as cement and concrete blocks. The outside of the shed will be clad in shiplap boards - so that it looks like any other garden shed.
This building will house the whole of my renewable energy system, engine, inverter, batteries and veg oil filtering tanks. On the roof will be my solar water heater, which can also be used for pre-heating veg oil or warming the engine on cold but bright mornings.
Connected to the house by just two heating pipes and a power cable, the whole system can be isolated, when not in use, and the house returned to conventional heat and power if needed.
This is pioneering stuff, widely forgotten since the advent of grid power in the 1950s, and not everybody appreciates the long term benefits of no longer being wholly reliant on grid power.
Recently, the friend of a neighbour, came around to see the engine. Now in his 70's, he told me how his uncle had a Lister engine like my one, back in the 30s, and how, as a young boy, he was allowed to start it. He then explained how in the 1950s, he built a bungalow on a plot of land, and ran a homemade generator set, until eventually the house was connected to the grid. He told me he used the radiator from an Austin 7, mounted on his inside kitchen wall, to warm the house from the engine heat - remember this was before central heating was cheap and commonplace. It just goes to show what goes around, comes around!
Saturday, April 22, 2006
E-Plan Diet Update
It's been about 210 days since I started my electricity diet, and there has been some successes and some failures.
We have managed to reduce our electricity consumption from 8.9 units per day (average) to 8.24 units, but we have found it difficult to stick religiously to turning off the TV/video stack when not in use. Left on idle, the TV stack can consume about 0.5kWh per day - doing nothing!
The fridge and freezer have used an average of 64 watts - considered an essential, but the TV stack has used an average of 34W, or 173kWh over the 212 days.
I have also had a laptop screen fail on me in January- so I am now forced to use the laptop with a more power hungry CRT monitor, and the computer is on sometimes for up to 18 hours a day.
Our main living room light is still an incandescent - this is because we use a dimmer switch, and having blown up a low energy bulb in a matter of days running it on the dimmer switch, (DON'T DO IT) we reverted to the 100W dimmed incandescent. I am however going to replace the dimmer with a dual light switch, and so have the option of having one lamp or three, in order to get the right level of illumination. 3 CFL bulbs switched on is still less that the incandescent.
We also have a rather wasteful pair of 4 bulb spot light units in the kitchen/utility room. I would like to replace these with CFL bulbs if I can find the correct miniature screw-in fitting. For the mean-time we turn these lights on when needed, and then straight off.
In the course of the last 200 days, we have managed to get a better feel for our consumption pattern, and also identified the main culprits of consumption. It is undoubtedly the low wattage devices being left on for considerable periods of time that use the power.
For example, the TV uses the same energy in the 18 hours of not being watched, that it uses in 6 hours of viewing! Turning it completely off for those unnecessary 18 hours, will half its annual consumption and save you 5% off your typical electricity bill.
Other improvements would be plumbing the dishwasher feed into the hot water -rather than the cold. The dishwasher accounts for about 12.5% of our daily consumption, and most of that is because it has to heat the water to 65 C from cold. We generally have a surplus of hot water, heated efficiently by our gas boiler, so it seems foolish to use wasteful electric heating for the 40 litres that the dishwaster uses.
The gas consumption has however been more of a success story.
The heating from October 1st to April 21st is down from 17809kWh last year to 15367 kWh this year.
This is a saving of 13.7% or nearly £75 off the gas bill!
Whilst we cannot live without domestic energy, I still believe that there is room for improvement, and certain trade-offs could be applied.
For example if we turn off the TV stack religiously every night, and convert the living room lights to CFL, the saving we make will go to power one of our kitchen luxuries - the dishwasher!
Friday, April 21, 2006
Bin Day, (Done That, Got the T-Shirt).
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - This is the underlying message of sustainable living.
Reduce your consumption of energy, water, materials, packaging etc, in an attempt to produce less waste.
Reuse items as much as possible rather than throwing them straight into the rubbish bin.
Recycle packaging materials, bottles, cans, newspaper card etc.
In our humble 2 person household we try to do this as much as possible. All vegetable and kitchen scraps, teabags etc are put into a small bin and then go into the compost heap.
Bottles and cans are taken to the local bottle bank, and paper and card etc is put out into the council provided recycling box once a week.
As a consequence of this, we only create about one half of a black bin-liner of household waste per week, and the majority of this is plastic food packaging, which is either difficult to recycle, or the council do not provide the means to recycle it.
The irony of this situation is that there is a high percentage of non-biodegradable, oil-rich plastics in every bag of rubbish - including the bag itself, and this is the very stuff that is being dumped into landfill.
If we go back 50 years to before the age of plastic packaging, foodstuffs would be sold in paper and card wrappings, with meat and cheese etc sold in greaseproof wraps. Groceries would be sold in brown paper bags and larger items in cardboard boxes. Almost 100% of the packaging materials could be re-cycled, were bio-degradable but because of the high percentage of open coal fires in the UK, most waste was burnt on the fire, so that the only waste product was ashes from the grate.
Whilst I am in no way recommending a return to the DIY incineration of packaging materials - especially because of the high plastic content, perhaps the supermarkets should re-examine their packaging policies, and offer foodstuffs in bio-degradable natural packaging materials. If they are not prepared to do this, then perhaps we should vote with our feet.
It is said that approximately one third of the cost of our supermarket foods consists of the non-edible packaging materials.
Part of the problem with re-cycling is that it only works if there is a market for the material that you are recycling.
One notorious example was when the directors of a council-contracted waste disposal firm working in Kent and Essex, decided that the most cost effective way of recycling some of the South East's mountain of waste was to ship it, several container loads at a time, to bogus addresses in the Far East - adopting an out of sight, out of mind strategy.
I do rather hope that criminal proceedings are brought upon the directors of that organisation, but I fear that because our local councils are sub-contracting out waste disposal to the cheapest operators, this practice is common place.
As oil prices rise, then the cost of plastic packaging is also going to rise. If oil becomes scarce in the next 50 years, then alternatives will need to be found for packaging materials, and it may become viable to recycle and reuse waste plastic. We may even end up excavating 50 year old landfill sites, in an attempt to extract the plastic-rich material. The irony of this, is that many of these landfill sites will have some of John Prescott's 100,000 new home built on them - but judging by the poor standards of this latest wave of house building, very few are likely to be standing in 2050!
So what can we do now to reduce packaging waste going to landfill?
Avoid buying foodstuffs in plastic wrappers?
Buy food in bulk from a cash & carry, so the percentage of food to wrapping is much higher.
Buy foods from traditional shops - greengrocers, butchers and bakers. These shops are more likely to be sympathetic to your viewpoints on plastic packaging.
Have vegetables delivered in a cardboard veg-box, to avoid half a dozen plastic bags.
Reuse your plastic carrier bags several times for carrying shopping home.
With sufficient numbers of people taking a pro-active stand on plastic packaging, the supermarkets could be forced to rethink their strategies.
However I suspect that however well intended our recycling efforts are, we will never stop the tide of household items that end up in landfill - TVs, computers, printers, ink jet cartridges, VCRs, child car-seats, the mountain of modern day waste is growing daily.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Shed Power II
The few days off over Easter allowed me to make some serious progress with my veg-oil fuelled generator set.
My friend Paul and I cleared out the old shed of all the junk and set up the Lister generator alongside the large cabinet that contains the 5kW inverter and battery bank.
Tonight, in fading light, I got the fixing holes drilled in the concrete shed base, to hold down the otherwise lively Lister-gen. I purchased 10mm expanding anchor bolts and a 16mm concrete drilling bit especially for the job - but it still took a lot of time and effort to drill the 4 holes in the concrete.
I have now had the engine running and making real electricity - and boy is it loud with that un-silenced exhaust. I need to make up an exhaust, or recycle an old car silencer.
The poor shed is somewhat falling apart - it is nearly 50 years old. I propose building a new concrete foundation around the existing floor slab, and making a base for straw bale acoustic and thermally clad walls.
Other outstanding jobs include the vegetable oil fuel heater, the cooling system and connnecting up the batteries and inverter to the output of the generator.
More pictures on my website www.powercubes.com/listers.html
Sunday, April 16, 2006
We got Juice!
Finally after several weeks of development, the Lister powered generator produced it's first power.
That's not the alternator smoking!
It's just steam from the merrily boiling kettle in the bottom righthand corner of the photo, ready for a nice cup of tea.
I had been waiting for the pulleys and belts from Beeline in Milton Keynes, and I picked these up yesterday.
The toothed belt drive allows the alternator to run in synchronisation with the engine and provides the necessary 2.5:1 step up ratio needed to make the alternator run at 1500rpm and produce 50Hz ac.
The engine and alternator are bolted down onto an old fabricated steel baseplate, which was bought very cheaply on ebay. With a lick of dark green paint (B&Q) it will look like new!
I have turned both the engine and the alternator through 90 degrees on the base (compared to the original Lister Startomatic configuration), so that the shafts face each other and this makes for a compact belt drive.
The cast iron slotted rails were salvaged from the same Startomatic unit, and with a little re-drilling of the baseplate and threading to accept some chunky M12 bolts, it makes the perfect adjustable sliding mount for the new Chinese 3kW alternator. The alternator is slid to one side of the base and this tightens the drive belt to the correct tension before it is bolted in place.
I have arranged a temporary water cooling tank - although this one is not really big enough for continuous running - but OK for a couple of hours. I also needed to make the veg-oil pre-heating coil around the hot exhaust and sort out the fuel changeover solenoid valve - to allow easy swap over from diesel to vegetable oil, when the engine has started and up to temperature.
So what has this little project cost?
Engine - 6hp 1950 Lister CS slow speed diesel engine £250 Ebay
Steel baseplate (+ engine for spares) £78 Ebay
Engine Spares (valves, guides springs etc) £80 Marine Engine Services Uxbridge
3kW Chinese alternator £245 Volvox Engineering Ltd
Pulleys, belt and taper bushes £83 Beeline, Milton Keynes
Time and Ingenuity Priceless!
So for a fraction under £750 you can have a totally bomb-proof generator set, that can run on waste vegetable oil, produce all your electricity needs from renewable fuel and the waste heat from the engine will provide a major contribution to heating your home.
If it breaks, you can fix it using simple tools and cheap spare parts. This engine is already 56 years old and still going strong. It would be interesting to see a modern generator set in 56 years time!
This engine uses one litre of waste vegetable oil per hour whilst running a 2kW load such as a kettle.
This project exemplifies the three key maxims of sustainable living:
Reduce, Re-cycle and Re-use
I reduced my electricity consumption so that I can easily meet my needs from a generator running on renewable fuel.
I recycled the old Lister engine and the steel baseplate.
I am re- using waste vegetable oil that otherwise would be dumped as waste.
More pictures of the alternator, drive and generator set are on my webpage - follow www.powercubes.com/listers.html
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Gas Up Again!
Gas prices have been in the news for the last few months. Wholesale gas prices have risen sharply, as a result of them being unfairly pegged to the price of oil, and by underhand practices on the part of European and Russian operators. We are at the end of a very long supply pipeline that stretches all the way to Uzebekistan, with each nation taking their cut as the gas passes through. As a result, our domestic suppliers have almost all been forced to put up their prices accordingly.
Some companies have devised cunning schemes to mask the true price of their gas from the consumers, and British Gas and Powergen have come up with "price freezing" tarrifs, that are solely intended to extract extra cash up front from the gullible.
Utilities that are offerng both gas and electric have realised that they can make far more profit by selling the electricity rather than the gas alone - and so you will see the dual fuel tarrifs that put the profit bias on the electricity in order to offset the loss that they are making on the gas.
If you are still paying your bills quarterly, then you are paying a hefty premium for the priviledge - definitely time to switch to monthly direct debit and spread the cost over the whole year.
So in a nutshell, all domestic energy prices going up, and you are lucky to have got to April without being further stung by the massive price hikes that they have planned for later in the year. You ain't seen nothing yet!
I check the Energy Helpline site, http://www.energyhelpline.com/mhl/news.aspx?tiid=131&p=1 to see how domestic energy prices are rising.
Last week, Scottish and Southern announced a 9% to 16% rise on their domestic tariffs, with effect from 1st May.
This will take my annual bills up from £714, to £796, almost a 12% rise, or £82 per year.
With the £82 that Southern want to charge me, I could go out and buy 200 litres of new vegetable oil from Tescos and with the Lister generator set, use this to supplement by gas and electricity bills next winter.
200 litres of veg oil will provide 450 units of electricity, enough for 6 weeks consumption - worth £36 (at 8p/KWh) and 1200kWh of heat worth £36 (at 3p kWh)
So as you can see, the gap between homebrew heat and power, and paying the robbing utilities is starting to close rapidly.
Monday, April 10, 2006
My Butt Overfloweth!
At 9:30pm I had ventured out to check up on the level in the rainwater butt, and to my amazement it was full to the level of the overflow, having been half full just 3 hours earlier. I quickly brought over the first of the blue plastic barrels and connected the overflow pipe to this.
This morning I went to check the level, and once again, I was gob-smacked to see that it had filled the 208 litre barrel in less than 10 hours. So in under 12 hours I had collected over 350 litres of rain water from only half of my roof area.
I now need to get the 12V pump working so that I can transfer it from the collection barrel into some more permanent storage barrels.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Here Comes the Rain Again
Rain closed play at about 6pm in Redhill on Sunday night. Initally retreating to the shed and then finally indoors, I abandonned the improvised rainwater collection system that both Messrs. Heath and Robinson would have been proud of, and left it to get on with collecting rainwater - as nature intended.
By 7:30pm it was coming down in a persistent drizzle, the sort that makes you either long for a hat, or better still, leaves you wishing you were less folically challenged!
With measuring jug and the second hand of my trusty 5 Euro watch, I measured a litre of fresh rainwater every 45 seconds, or in real terms, 17.5 gallons per hour!
Realising that my little tank was going to be full within minutes, I quickly rigged up a diverter to the main water butt - seen as the white pipe in the picture above. The 208 litre blue plastic barrel waits in readiness, and there are another 3 of those lurking nearby.
The black down pipe only carries the water from the rear roof and extension. The front roof rainwater still goes into the sluice and then into the sewer - not for long though.
I remember as a very small boy, playing with the rainwater that spewed from a downpipe on the new house that dad was building for us in the late 60's, filling up buckets and containers I found on the building site, as fast as I could find them - give me a child at seven and I will show you the man! I also had a small obsession with the diesel cement mixer he had on site, funny how things never change?
Water shortage? Not here there ain't!
Green Light on EcoStreet for a Green Revolution
The BBC is asking the public for their green ideas and inventions for simple things that we can all do to reduce domestic energy consumption and household waste.
Also with the new "Being Green" series on Tuesday nights, is the BBC giving a green light on a green revolution? Or have Tony and Michael been having private words in the BBC board room?
This week the magazine looks at a vacuum flask kettle that keeps water hot for longer between boiling.
Perhaps a better solution might be to invest in a modern efficient kettle, that allows you to boil a minimum of just 1 mugfull of water at a time.
When we upgraded our kettle last October, we found it difficult to find a modern one that had a very low minimum water level - fine if you wanted one with flashing blue LEDS, the latest fashion in kitchen appliances. The best we could find at Comet, was this Morphy Richards, that has a 500ml minimum. That's about 2 teacups or for comparison a typical coffee mug is 300ml.
So unfortunately if you want your own brew, you are already obliged to add 67% more water than you actually need, and that uses 67% more energy than you need.
So how much energy does a kettle use for a typical brew up?
I used half a litre of cold tap water and plugged mine into my low cost Lidl's energy meter and turned it on. It used a maximum of 2862W when first switched on and settled down to 2800W for 80 seconds. It then continued to boil for another 7 seconds before the automatic cut off turned it off.
Energy = power x time = 2800 x 87 = 243600 J
This is 0.067 kWh or the same that a 100W light bulb would use in 40 minutes.
Had the kettle allowed me to boil just the 300ml I needed and switch off instantly on boiling, I would have used just 55% of the electricity - or the same 100W lightbulb for 22.4 minutes - quite a saving.
Now to check out the toaster - tea and toast anyone?
Thanks to Tracy Stokes and her EcoStreet Blog for leading me to this info.
Why can't we all live in EcoStreet?
We'll I am sure we can, but first we will have to start brewing a new batch of Community Spirit, that the successive governments of the last 27 years have effectively distilled out of us.
(Yes Margaret, I do mean you, you might be a dotty old bat now, but I remember what you and your psychotic henchmen did to the miners, UK industry and students in the early 1980s).
"Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbours... but they've made it very clear, they got no room for savers..."
My apologies to the Small Faces, for the minor lyrical adjustments.
As a footnote to the kettle boiling experiments, I tried again this morning with only 300ml (1 mug) of water. It was boiling within 40 seconds - thus reducing the energy usage from yesterday by a factor of two! You have to stand over it whilst doing this and be ready to manually switch it off - because the automatic switch off may not be reliable with such low water levels. This may invalidate you kettle guarantee, and don't come running to me when you have reduced your kettle (and household) to a charred, smoking mass.
And who says a watched pot never boils?
Less water than the Sudan?
The media has coined a phrase over the last couple of weeks, that per head of population, the South East of England has less water than the Sudan.
I accept that this may well be the case, with Prescott's misguided policy of cramming as many people into the one corner of the country where there are limited water supplies.
It doesn't help that most of the water supply network in the south east is over 100 years old and domestic supplies are often through very leaky lead pipes.
I contacted my water company last summer concerned with low pressure and poor flow, and they came and dug up the road to look for leaks. I share my supply with 3 other houses, and its all through only a half inch lead pipe. Needless to say they found two pinhole leaks in the first 6 feet of pipe, where it branched off the main. So as the pipe is 60 feet long before it enters my house, there could easily loads more leaks!
As I am just one of about 100 houses in my road, built in the late 1880s to 1920s , there must be thousands of feet of 100 year old lead piping, all in very poor condition. Think of the total volume of water seeping out into the ground per day - yet it's only the spectacular big leaks that the water companies seem to bother about, whilst 30% of their supplies is leaking through pinholes!
I propose we subject the water company managers to Chinese water torture, and make them accountable for every drop of water that THEY waste. With moderm area metering, they know exactly how much they put into the main, and how much we consume - so clearly the rest is leaking away. Not surprising that the front gardens of Surrey never seem to need watering - the water company does that for free!
Perhaps I will call them up and ask to be put on a compulsory meter. They can dig the road up again, put me on a separate metered supply, and at least update some of their worn out infrastructure - such a shame that it might interfere with the Shareholder's profits. But if they don't have much water to sell in the first place, they won't be making much profit this year!
To help remedy the situation I have decided to sort out my grey water and rain water storage systems in an effort to reduce my water consumption.
Whilst not on a meter, I believe that it is important to realise how much water we use in a typical day. A few tests and measurements came up with the following figures:
Bath 125 litres
Shower (not a power shower) 3 litres per minute - so perhaps 15 litres per shower
Dishwasher 49 litres
Washing machine 40 litres
Toilet flush (No. 2) 10 litres
Cooking 10 litres
Misc (handwashing, teeth cleaning etc) 10 litres
So in a typical day, you could easily get through 250 to 300 litres and that's before you start spraying the stuff onto your car and garden. For households with children, these figures will increase significantly.
So if we deduct 50 to 100 litres for toilet flushing, potentially we are pouring away at least 200 litres per day of perfectly good water that could be recycled for loo flushing, and garden watering. A 200 litre grey water storage tank, will hold a whole day's waste and provide ample water for flushing the loo. So with this system in place, it could mean water savings of up to 35%, and give me all the water I need for watering the new vegetable patch.
The problem with waste water is that it generally disappears down a plug hole, through a pipe and emerges outside the property in an awkward place to get at it. Once down the plughole - we generally forget about it completely, and care little for where it goes - just so long as long as it goes! (Nobody likes a blocked sink, drain or loo - except my father in law, who as a retired plumber, looks at them as an occupational challenge and sets off like a ferret down a rabbit hole!)
It should be remembered that the water companies in the UK not only supply us with about 3000 m3 of pure drinking water per year, but they also remove about the same volume of grey water and sewage, a task that not many of us would like to volunteer for!
There are also the problems of plumbing up a toilet so that it can use grey water - fine if you can place the greywater tank above it, an upstairs tank used for example, to flush a downstairs loo.
Fortunately all of the grey water from my kitchen and bathroom ends up in the same sluice (photo above), and so it would be relatively easy to put a storage and filtering tank there, where the existing rain water butt is located.
The waste pipes emerge through the wall at about 12" above ground level, so it's going to be more of a coffin sized trough rather than a conventional tank. I'm thinking that a single sheet of steel or aluminium (8 x 4 feet) could be folded up into a substantial trough, about 6 x 2 x 1 feet - holding 340 litres. Perhaps farm suppliers might have something of a similar shape - for a livestock watering trough, complete with ball valve? As the ball rises, it flicks a microswitch and starts an electric pump, to pump the water up to a storage tank in the loft or upstairs bathroom.
However, as this area is going to become the patio, the tank could be clad in decking and made to serve as a permanent bench seat. Great for sipping your morning breakfast coffee on a sun drenched patio.
It's a good idea to let the natural force of gravity do much of the hard work, and letting the water filter through a strainer and then settle in a storage tank for a full day will help clean up the grey swill.
It might also be good policy to use less agressive detergents, particularly in the washing machine and dishwasher, if the water is going to be used for plant watering. Any strained out hair and food waste can always be put onto the compost heap.
Pumping the filtered water to a higher tank, might cause a few problems. I have considered using a solar powered pump that can shift about 12 litres per hour. A small pump like that will run happily off a 15W solar panel.
That's enough water for about 1 toilet flush per hour. And speaking of solar, we have had 4 good days of sunshine, and my solar panel has already heated up to 60C and contributing to the hot water tank at 9am these last few mornings.
As well as recycling the grey water, I will also re-jig the guttering on my house and extension, so that what rain we receive this year will be collected in a large water butt. I have some 208 litre plastic barrels that will be pressed into service for this.
An update will be supplied, when the system begins to take a more physical shape. Off now to the farm suppliers to look at polypropylene drinking troughs.
Catch some sun and collect some rain.....
Friday, April 07, 2006
Alternators and Alternatives
Tuesday started bright, sunny and frosty and at 8am I had picked up a Luton van from Leatherhead and was heading along the M25 at 15mph in the general direction of Southampton.
The prime reason for this mission was that 3 pallet loads of Chinese alternators had just arrived, and at least one of them had my name on it - metaphorically speaking.
The first task was to rendevue with Mark Walker of Volvox Engineering at the Fleet Services on the M3, as he had the necessary paperwork to release the consignment from the shipping agent's warehouse.
By 11am we had 18 large plywood cases in the back of the van and were northbound back up the M3 with a full load of 3kW, 5kW and 7.5kW alternators.
The photo shows the 3kW alternator alongside my 6hp Lister engine, ready to have the two shafts coupled together with a toothed belt and pulleys. An 80 tooth pulley on the engine will drive a 32 tooth pulley on the alternator, so when the engine is doing 600rpm, the alternator is turning at the necessary 1500rpm to make 50Hz mains electricity.
Before this can happen, I have to make a small alteration to the old Startomatic baseplate to allow it to take the new alternator on sliding rails, allowing the belt tension to be adjusted.
The alternators have an iron cored rotor, wound with an electromagnet field coil. Around the outside of the rotor are the 4 pole stator windings that produce the 230V ac.
When the engine spins the rotor up to speed, the residual magnetism retained in the soft iron core, causes a current to be generated in a special winding in the stator that is used to generate about 50 volts to excite the rotor. A rectifier turns this 50V ac into dc and feeds it back through slip rings into the rotor winding, strengthening the residual magnetism and producing more power.
The clever bit about these alternators is that they use an automatic voltage regulator (AVR) that controls the rotor field current and helps to keep the voltage output of the alternator within reasonably tight limits, even though the speed of the engine may change when you add or remove large electrical loads.
The second photo shows the "doghouse" on top ofthe alternator that contains the rectifier, AVR, voltmeter and a whole host of interesting Chinese style electrics, designed so that you can get both 230V and 115V from this alternator. You can also just see the sliprings on the end of the rotor shaft.
So we are close approaching the time that we will have vegetable oil power, produced from this very simple but very rugged home generator system.
Meanwhile the solar water panel has been earning its keep. There is hot water at 60 C coming from it at 9.00am on sunny mornings until 4 in the afternoon.
Monday, April 03, 2006
It Ain't Easy Being Green!
This is a popular misconception, created by the media. Being green is very easy, it's all about reducing consumption and minimising waste.
Increasingly it's about taking a standpoint against the global corporations that are trashing our planet, our country and our neighboourhood. Watch out Sainsbury's, McDonalds and BP, we will soon be parting company.
It's also the title of a new TV series (almost) - Tuesday BBC2, featuring Cmdr. Dick Strawbridge and his family. Having sold up in Worcestershire and moved down to a rambling farmhouse in Cornwall, they set about a new green lifestyle.
Whilst the programme is good entertainment value, with a few important messages and a likeable, lively presenter, it did have a fair budget behind it, and not everyone can rustle up £535,000 for a listed Cornish farmhouse property and then have £50K available to re-roof it. Nor does everyone have access to a small army of student volunteers as a workforce. *
Suitably inspired by programme 1, and with the pleasure of the first Daffodills emerging around the apple tree, I thought I would give some thought to what could be done with a more average property in Suburbia - mine in fact.
First a quick survey of what resources are available:
1 A good sized back garden, 65m long by 6m wide, with good black fertile soil.
2. A collection of sheds, with a few machine tools, equipment and garden implements.
3. DIY Plumbing and guttering - easily modified to capture and store rainwater and greywater.
4. A 100 square metre semi-detached house facing south west with 65 m2 of roof area
4. Not only a fertile garden but a fertile imagination and the drive to make things happen.
5. An engineering background, good tinkering skills and a few good mates.
Time to come up with a plan, it's early April now, and I need to get cracking.
1. Get rid of all unnecessary rubbish, better allocation of storage space
2. Install rainwater catchment system
3. Install greywater storage system
4. Prepare vegetable plots - get planting
5. Permanent site for solar heating panel
6. Veg-oil engine and alternator installation
7. Battery bank, inverter and back up power system
The bulk of my fossil fuel energy use is over for another six months, the days are getting longer and it is time to tap into the natural resources to get the best out of them. Perhaps its easy to overlook the natural resources when you are living in the middle of an urban environment.
Not being blessed with the multitude of stone built outhouses of Dick Strawbridge and family, I have to make better use of the 3 sheds and greenhouse. These have become dumping grounds for unwanted household possessions, to its time to have a clearout and regain some square footage. The advantage of the sheds is that they can be south facing, to make the best use of solar gain, and useful roof space to put the solar water heating and small pV array.
Reducing fossil fuel use for next winter and water consumption are high up on the list of priorities, and also making better use of the 390 square metres of back garden space, for growing a few vegetables, and housing various renewable energy products.
The rubbish heap at the bottom of the garden has been mostly cleared, the biomass rubbish burned and the ashes scattered to improve the quality of the top soil. This area has had the compost heaps located there for the last 5 years so has good rich soil. It also receieves the most hours of sunshine as it is not overshadowed by the hour. This will shortly be rotorvated to provide 60 m2 of new vegetable beds.
The small greenhouse, also towards the north end of the garden is needing a few panes replaced but very soon will be ready for planting tomatoes, peppers and other useful crops.
Other projects include a rainwater capture system. I have aquired some 208 litre plastic barrels, and these will make ideal storage butts for rainwater and grey water. Renewing some of the roof guttering will allow all of the run off from the roof to be diverted to a water catchment and filtration tank. The rainwater can be used for toilet flushing and garden watering, and I have a convenient spare room on the first floor, about to be converted into a 2nd bathroom, where the rainwater capture tank can be located. As this room has an open fireplace with a 208mm square steel beam supporting the chimney breast, I can afford another 250kg of rainwater tank over this beam.
With more hosepipe bans being announced this morning by local water companies, in the south east, saving water is going to be a priority this year.
Grey water from the kitchen and bathroom can also be collected, and whilst these rooms are on the ground floor, there is a 1m fall down the length of the garden, which will allow the grey water to fill a tank next to the vegetable plot and lawn and be used for watering purposes.
Domestic energy consumption and bills have been driven down this last 6 months. We are now almost out of the heating season, down from 90kWh per day to about 40kWh. A new method of keeping the living space at 17 C during the day, and turning up to 19 C for a few hours in the evening has made a major reduction to the gas consumption. October to March inclusive is down from 16597kWh last year to this 14488 kWh this heating season. This 13% saving of gas, 2109kWh, is worth about £60 off the gas bill.
Equally, electricity usage for the same period is down from 2020kWh last year to 1492 units this year, a 26% saving amounting to £42 off the electricity bill.
So, a £100 saving on the utility bills in just 6 months. The e-plan diet certainly seems to be working!
By the middle of March, the solar water heating panel was beginning to make a significant contribution to the domestic hot water, as the hours of sunshine per day, incident on the panel slowly increased. It is now time to get a more permanent and reliable installation.
Not only that, but the garden seems to be flourishing from the extra sunshine and the first of the long awaited rain showers.
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you drew that yourself? WOW awesome :D
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I still need lots of exercise to increase my ability, but this year I have to focus on learning because I was sitting in third grade. Exam is coming!
On the sidelines of the daily routine I often make sketches, lately I'm trying to make a story .. Well, almost a comic.
Title: Umbrella Time, the girl in this wallpaper is the main character, named Haruna Asahi (16 years).
The short story, Haruna has the ability to see the hearts of others .. rather the dark side of the heart. Over time, he uses his ability to help people around him. However, the days of peaceful eventually disturbed by the presence of Midori[b][/b] who appears to have similar capabilities with Haruna. Surprisingly, Midori means stop Haruna!? ... What do Haruna opposed by Midori. What is this?
Something like that .. (* '▽ `*)
Picture of this one was not telling the original story, hhe.
Ok, I'll draw the other characters as well for the next wallpaper.
Drawing is fun!
Hope your holiday fun!
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this is very beautiful piece
you are a pro ^^
so thanks for this one and keep up the good work :3
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WOW! Clouds looks real. +fav
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Really very nice job! I loved it XD
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I think that the story is really interesting! Hope it gets developed more!
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Retirement's arrived - they stop paying you brass.
Employment has gone and you're put out to grass.
Time on your hands? Well, perhaps so to start.
Idle? Try hobbies - writing or art?
Rest? Not when grandchildren come on the scene.
Enjoy them? Grandparenting's some people's dream.
Money? Not likely - the tax man's out there!
Eat, drink and be happy - and let down your hair.
Never 'old age' but "I'm still young inside." - - - And -
Try to take all of these years in your stride.
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Busy year for campus tour program
An Under-18 girls soccer team from New Brunswick visits Memorial's St. John's campus. While visiting campus, they took time to show off their new "zag" messenger bags and water bottle on the soccer field.
By Jill Hunt
Memorial's Office of Student Recruitment opened its doors to the Meet & Greet Centre just over a year ago, and what a busy year it has been. For the 2009-10 academic year, the total number of campus tours increased almost 24 per cent, with a total of 1,374 visitors on organized tours.
"Increasingly, we are seeing research that indicates that a campus visit is the top influencer in making the decision to apply to university," said Shona Perry-Maidment, director, Office of Student Recruitment. "Knowing this, it is essential for our team to offer the best possible Memorial experience to prospective students and their influencers while visiting Memorial's St John's campus."
The Meet & Greet Centre is ideally situated off the main entrance of the Arts and Administration building. This is where tours gather and prepare for their visit of campus. Tour can be personalized or completed in groups. It's also where visitors to campus and new students come when they need directions or assistance on how to get somewhere on campus.
"Prospective students tell us all the time how thorough our campus tours are," said Meaghan Green, on-campus recruitment events co-ordinator. "They are surprised how much time we spend preparing and individualizing their tour. An individualized tour typically includes a complete general campus tour, a faculty/school meeting and a visit to our residence and the dining hall. It takes about three hours from start to finish."
Throughout the campus tour, our expert tour guides highlight the various buildings around campus, referring to interesting aspects found inside the building as well as its historical background. Tour guides will also point out where schools and faculties are located, along with what services and resources are located in those buildings.
"The collaboration between our office and the faculties and schools and administrative units is one reason our tour program is such a success," said Ms. Perry-Maidment. "Our partners are extremely supportive of our tour program, and work with us to provide the best possible experience for prospective students."
In Fall 2009, The Office of Student Recruitment saw a 21 per cent increase in tours from the previous year, in spite of the Newfoundland and Labrador School Board policy prohibiting school travel for October and November 2009 due to H1N1 outbreaks in high schools. In Winter 2010, the office saw a 41 per cent increase in tours and in Spring 2010, the number of tours increased by 12 per cent.
If you are interested in arranging an undergraduate tour, visit us online at www.mun.ca/become or call the Meet & Greet Centre at 864-3777.


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BOSTON (AP) Massachusetts authorities say a man who opened fire at a gay club in Orlando, killing at least 50 people, mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers in a 911 call he made during the massacre.
Massachusetts State Police said in a statement Sunday afternoon the agency learned of the gunman's comments during a conference call with federal law enforcement officials.
Police say the shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, referenced the Tsarnaev brothers in the call. Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) perpetrated the April 2013 attack in Boston that killed three and injured more than 260.
State police say Mateen's name does not appear in any local databases of "potential terrorist suspects."
They say law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts are working with federal authorities to learn more about Mateen's comments.