One of the hottest topics at the moment regards our impact on the environment. As such, we are all looking at ways to cut back on the amount of energy we use. As with many things, this energy conservation begins at home. Here is a selection of top tips to help you cut down accordingly.
Two of the biggest wastes of energy in the home are inefficient use of heating and cooling systems so, as a first step, ensure these are well maintained. Secondly, try notching your thermostats down a degree or two; you shouldn\’t feel the impact too much physically but you sure will financially. Also ensure your air conditioning unit has good airflow, and any obstructions are removed.
Household appliances are also big users of energy, notably washers and dryers. Ideally, washing should be line dried in the fresh air. This obviously is a big saver, but also adds certain freshness. If the dryer does have to be used however, try and do loads so that one load goes in as soon as another finishes. This helps to retain heat in the dryer and saves energy.
Another appliance that eats up energy is the refrigerator. There are not too many people that clean the rear of their refrigerators all too often but, if this is done weekly or at least monthly, dust will be kept to a minimum and the refrigerator will operate much more efficiently. Also, the seal around the doors should be checked often to ensure there are no leaks wasting energy.
Ovens and stoves should also be well maintained; dust, grease and grime reduce efficiency and vary the cooking temperatures produced dramatically. It is also worth having a thermometer to use in an oven to get the exact temperature, as LED displays are not always accurate. A side benefit of the thermometer is that you will likely find that your food cooks better.
These are only a few basic steps to help get you started with home energy conservation. Once started, you are sure to find many other areas you can cut back on or make more efficient. Not only are you helping to do your small bit for society, but your bank balance will look a whole lot better too.
categories: John Gerace Phd PE,John Gerace,energy edge technologies,Lower electric bills,Lower electric bills for hotel,Lower electric bill for hospitality,Energy efficiency hotel,Energy efficiency hospitality,Energy conservation hotel
Easily Find And Secure: Angel Investors, Private Investors, Institutional Investors And More! Raising capital for a start-up, corporation in expansion mode or a company in virtually any position presents it\’s challenges and roadblocks. There has been no period in recent history that can simulate the difficulties that current entrepreneurs and executives are having when trying to achieve the procurement of venture capital. The standards have become more stringent and the cross-collateralization of personal and corporate assets as security for loans has virtually become a mandatory prerequisite for any type of funding, equity or loan based.
When initiating the process of raising capital one should take into consideration the use of a combination of funding options such as but not limited to: traditional venture capital, bank institutional, institutional equity investment, hedge fund lenders, private money lending, angel equity and loan investment, a private placement memorandum as the mechanism for raising capital distributed in shares, international equity based funding, the reality of taking your small business public on the OTCBB and many other concepts of capital raising that can be placed into a simultaneous strategy.
It\’s a common mistake among entrepreneurs and executives to place all of their attention and time into one singular aspect of the above funding concepts. Instead, you should pick a multi pronged approach and go after multiple genres of financing for your business. Some avenues will yield success, some will not but you are more likely to achieve incremental funding successes as oppose to one gargantuan, be all and end all finance victory.
To achieve funding you\’ll need to be able to contact multiple finance sources to start the ball rolling. Find online membership database sites that are owned and operated by professionals in the venture capital industry.
There is a big difference between a generalized database of possible lenders and a strategic database of success driven finance solutions. Find the most cutting edge, full range database on the web and join them.
Emmerich\’s film 2012 caused a big panic, and all the disaster-porn films we\’ve seen for the last 50-60 years or so is scaring the heck out of viewers. So badly are they scared of the end that they are watching the same movies of disaster, over and over, with different actors, different titles, and different producers – all aimed to scare you and empty your pockets.
The World Isn\’t Coming To An End, it\’s just Hollywood, trying to make a buck.
Let\’s get real. Let\’s discuss some of what\’s going on:
1. Rumor: The World Will End With Planetary Alignment and the repositioning of the Earth along the Galactic Equator …. they are nuts! The phenomena of placement of the stars and galaxies in space is not new. These things have occurred before, and it wasn\’t the end of the world. Actually, the date predicted, Winter Solstice, 2012 is not as significant as other astronomical phenomena happening before this. This is just fear-mongering of the formerly unemployed \’ of the world writers\’ with nothing better to do than create movies to scare the bejesus out of little kids.
2. The Mayan Prophesy says the world is coming to an end. There is no known prophesy that the world is coming to an End and whoever said that should know that it can\’t be. The records of the Maya civilization were effectively destroyed, like all other Meso-American histories by the Conquering Spanish, and what was kept – was kept in secret archives to keep the truth away from the public because it would destroy the Catholic Church. The evidence indicated that the majority of the Meso-American population was, in fact, the lost tribes of Israel. This was written by Franciscan Monks at the time of the invasion, and British and other archeologists later. The actual Mayan Prophesy was simple – \’Live naturally, in natural time, or your biosphere (Earth – our mother ship) would not survive. We\’ll we did it. No lying about that. For the past umpteen years, we have been just like conquerors, raping, murdering, and killing mother earth. OOPS! I didn\’t do it – you didn\’t do it – the politicians allowed it – all for greed. Oil, Gold, Silver – rape the earth suffers the consequences. The end date of the Mayan Calendar had nothing to do with the end of the planet, it had to do with the end of an era.
2a. Note that when the Earth was first inhabited there was something of a 3 degree axis tilt and the planet was green, and water blue, and life was abundant. What by the name of God have we done to our mother?
2b. And now, YIKES, we\’re at 23 degree wobble now. Yes, something is happening, changes are occurring, but it\’s not the end. It scares people to think that changes are coming – people fear change. CHANGE IS GOOD!
2c. People will die. Yes, we\’ve burned fossil fuels, destroyed our air, cut down our forests, created deserts where there were none before and previously the planet cleansed itself with great floods. People are dying, we are more aware since Hurricane Katrina, that things are not right due to global warming, and Tsunamis, great floods, and thousands more deaths in countries where floods were a rarity.
2d. And there are many species are dying. Faster than ever before species are disappearing. One indication that might be considered, or two, are the frog population which began disappearing a few years back, and the bees. We are impacting nature and we don\’t step lightly – our footprint is huge and visible, and we are destroying all of life without mistreatment of our mother.
2e. More diseases, more horrible, more incurable – a sick society and planet produce all forms of diseases.
3. It\’s obviously human nature – It\’s obvious that the nature of the human being is to conquer. The continuous development of warfare, atomic, and nuclear weaponry is solely aimed at the destruction of mankind and hurting the planet. Previously, we had been the only big bully playing with nukes, now every schoolyard bully has them and someone is likely to play war games just to demonstrate my \’rocket\’ is bigger than your \’rocket\’.
3a. Human Belief in Ancient Religions – I must mention this, because this is the greatest manipulation of human beings on Earth. Sorry, priest, ministers, rabbis, I honor you all for what you know, but your DOGMA is not helping the situation. Each one of you has chosen an individual branch as part of the Tree of Life, and none of you are on the Expressway to God. Please stop telling your people they are sinners – as men of God, many of you have been caught with your own pants down around your ankles and some honey taking some money for some SINFUL and LUSTFUL experience you needed to have. It may not have been you, but we all know of whom I speak. I am not judging you – just stop judging others and stop playing the blame game which results in guilt. As you know – guilt has absolutely no survival value, it is responsible for many illnesses that do not resolve and result in death. Stop guilting others, or …
3b. Humans Mistreat Each Other, Animals, Plants, and Mother Earth Too – imagine all the drilling, the cutting of trees, the burning of fields, everything normal and beautiful of earth destroyed by greed to steal the resources and be billionaires, all at the cost of our mother. Imagine our planet as a great big fluffy dog, filled with life. And the dog feels the burring of something drilling into it – just like a flea. And another, burning like burning the trees – the dog begins to scratch and shake fiercely and the fleas fall off. You got a parachute for when this happens to us?
4. The Mayan Calendar – Interestingly enough ends on the Winter Solstice, 2012. Why, not because it\’s the end of the world – it\’s the end of the 5th Cycle of Life on the Planet. The 6th Cycle that begins immediately thereafter is an Age of Enlightenment. It\’s sounds like an exciting time to be alive – so get prepared!
WELCOME – this is reality.
Many of us will fall off, many of us will die. Are you prepared? Those who are not prepared, and those who think they are better or more greater, more important or more powerful than Mother Earth that we live on, will suffer.
Richard Branson is really making his fleet of Intergalactic Space ships to take the rich and wealthy off the planet, just like Roland Emmerich has set of Arks in his movie. Branson\’s ticket price is much cheaper.
I\’D RATHER STAY HERE ON EARTH
In 1987, the Harmonic Convergence, which was written about by Dr. Jose Arguelles, and my participation in it – by doing long travels through endless ruins, culminating at the El Tule Tree in Oaxaca in Mexico, spoke the prophesy that we had 25 years left of life as we knew it. We must return to natural, non-destructive living. Dang people, we blew it!
Now the cards are on the table. Natural disasters are not caused by nature but by those politicians who paid no heed to the warnings 20-30 years ago. Politicians refused to grant health to the planet at Kyoto and the disastrous earth changes continued.
What can the scenario possibly be — to cause the end of life as we know it? Who knows, asteroids, meteorites, some crazy Anti-Semitic Iranian ex-president who stole the presidency from the people in order to try to wipe out the State of Israel, some angry Korean president who is dying because of his anger at the United States over a 60 year old situation, or errors by our own major powers in their thinking that nuclear energy is stable enough to survive what our earth going through with hurricanes, tsunamis, typhoons, earthquakes, while this huge dog is shaking off us fleas.
HOW TO SURVIVE?
Like a Boy Scout: Be prepared. More than anything else – it\’s your mind and soul that need preparation. Since we all know that the soul is immortal, you will survive in one form or another. We have prepared the first of several guides on survival. This first one was just updated Nov. 2009, originally written in 1991 – to help you survive what is undoubtedly going to be a life-changing experience.
The title is – \”The World is a Mess, and We Are Responsible – Isn\’t It Time To THINK RIGHT?
categories: 2012,End of the World,Mayan Prophesy,Crystal Skulls,Planetary Alignment,Winter Solstice 2012,Doomsday,Mayan Prophesy,Pacal Votan,End of Planet
As the uncertainty of Obama’s health care reform plan looms, budgeting next years Illinois health insurance quotes is an immeasurable feat. Although, there’s no way to predict the cost of a new health plan, comparing products and services provides valuable insight.
To approximate costs, create a list of following products and services itemizations: types of medical care/products, number of covered members, age, prescriptions and other options). In example, various diagnostic examinations, such as MRIs, mammograms and cancer screening, increase the cost of medical care. Remember to include vaccinations, eye examinations as well as other medical expenses.
Determine how much of an Illinois health insurance quote is affordable by referring to last year’s medical bills. Sum up the total of your premium, deductibles, coinsurance, out-of-pocket and/or co-payments.
Create a prioritized list of medical products and serves. For each Illinois health plan, cost compare the various health care inclusions. For instance, one medical policy may cover annual eye examinations, while another doesn’t; thus, compare premiums and the cost of the out-of-pocket service to determine which offer the best savings.
To obtain several Illinois health Insurance quotes, find a licensed broker, representing three to five medical insurance companies. Ask for different types of health plan policies. For instance, Mike Novelli, a licensed representative provides hassle-free Illinois health insurance quotes for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna, United Health Care and Anthem.
When you receive the quotes, break down the cost comparison into a column: For each policy, create a column to determine the most valuable option. Are there any minimum requirements as well as the annual limitations? What should you expect to cover in annual out-of pocket costs?
For each health plan policy, compare family and individual premium costs, coinsurance and deductibles.
By cost comparing all necessary expenditures to accommodate your unique health needs, you can be sure that you are obtaining the most cost competitive Illinois health insurance quote possible.
California voted for the three strikes rule in 1995. There was much concern by CA criminal lawyers regarding the effect of such a law. Criminals who were second and third time offenders got much more severe sentences. For example, when Curtis Wilkerson stole some socks, he was prosecuted for a felony. Since he was a convicted robber in 1981 at the age of 19, he got life in prison.
A small band of students and teachers at Stanford has decided to make an effort to get some of these situations rectified. Convicts like Wilkerson have reached out to the group for assistance in overturning some of the more appalling results of the three strike rule. Cases like this demonstrate how such a law doesn’t really work. In fact, it has had little impact on the crime rate in California.
The history of the three strike rule is sad and ugly. When two young girls were murdered by individuals who already had criminal records, the state of California, as well as the country went into mob mode. The law was approved by an overwhelming seventy two percent of voters.
Simply, the rule requires that when someone is convicted for a 2nd time, they get twice the sentence. Additionally, when you get your third strike you get twenty-five years to life. The controversy over this rule is additionally exacerbated by the fact that while the first two strikes must be violent, the third does not.
In addition to the socks stealer, the Stanford group has clients who have stolen a dollar in loose change and stole some tools from a parked truck. In fact, well over half of the third strikers are in prison for petty theft, drug, or lesser offenses.
A California study determined that crime rates had already begun to decline prior to enactment of the three strikes rule. Further, there was no marked difference between the rates of counties who used it more than those who didn’t. Additionally, the law has increased the age of inmates and increased prison spending by five hundred million dollars per year.
