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November 7, 2009 - Saturday
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Clean tech has seen a boost as the U.S. pours
government funding into renewable energy, and China looks set to reap
much of the benefits. Latest example: a Chinese wind-turbine company
has just become the exclusive supplier for one of the largest wind-farm
developments in the U.S.
The Shenyang Power Group has signed on to supply 240 of its massive
2.5-megawatt wind turbines to a 36,000-acre development in West Texas.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the wind farm is also slated to receive $1.5 billion in financing from the Export-Import Bank of China.
This comes as the U.S. has increasingly out-sourced much of its wind
turbine development. Less than a quarter of wind turbine components
installed in the U.S. came from domestic production, and Europe
currently holds the lion's share of turbine manufacturing. A Norwegian
firm launched the world's first full-scale floating wind turbine this September.
As a reflection of this, just 15 percent of the 2,800 new jobs from
the new wind-turbine development will take the form of U.S. jobs. The
U.S. government has tried to help the nation's renewable energy
industry with $500 million in grants -- but it will likely take a while
for U.S. wind power manufacturers to play catch-up after struggling
with an uneven market.
Still, this doesn't mean U.S. companies and entrepreneurs have been complete laggards. General Electric has invested in gearless wind turbines with an eye on tapping the European market, and one of PopSci's previous Inventions Awards went to the inventor of small wind power rotors.
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November 4, 2009 - Wednesday
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November 3, 2009 - Tuesday
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Category: Games
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October 31, 2009 - Saturday
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Lehman's caters to homes with no electrical power. Country or city where you want to cut back on power usage. Lehmans.com
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Posted October 29th, 2009 by Karen Geiser
If you are a gardener and a cook, homegrown gar lic
is a must-do on your fall garden list. Nothing beats the taste of
lovingly grown garlic and being a crop that grows well in many regions,
there is no need to purchase imported garlic in the store (check
labels!). Growing your own also opens up a whole new world of variety
possibilities.
Pictured is the basket of labeled garlic I use for my Thursday demos
at Lehman’s store and it’s interesting to hear folks who thought that
“garlic was garlic” be amazed at the options. I am planting fifteen
garlic varieties this fall, and one year a friend of ours (who is also
a Lehman’s employee) planted fifty different kinds! Some are sturdy
hard neck varieties like German Extra Hardy, the soft necks like Lorz
Italian are great for braiding, others like Georgian Fire have a more
pungent flavor, while some are great for roasting like Chesnok Red. Our
family favorite is Music, which is a Porcelain hard neck variety with
large cloves and an excellent medium garlic flavor.
Fall is garlic planting time in Ohio along with many other regions
in the US (except for the extreme south where they can do an early
spring plan ting).
Some say you just need to remember two holidays to grow garlic;
Columbus Day and the Fourth of July. The cloves can be planted anytime
after Columbus Day till the ground freezes and July is generally
harvest time.
The garlic used for planting is the same as the garlic you eat, you
just want to be sure to have disease-free bulbs and select the biggest
ones since large cloves will produce large bulbs. The little bulbil
seeds produced at the tops of the plants can be planted too but will
take two years to produce a regular bulb.
You can source your garlic from a seed catalog or simply head to the farmer’s
market to pick up a variety that you know grows well in your area.
Garlic likes loose, well drained soil that is rich in nutrients. We
prepare beds, add compost and make four deep rows in each bed. Divide
the cloves from the bulb and plant about 6 inches apart with the root
side going down and pointy part up. We cover them with 2-3 inches of
soil and add a thick layer of shredded leaves or straw to mulch the
beds. The mulch helps insulate the beds over the winter plus gives
weed control in spring.
The garlic will send up a few onion-like shoots in the fall, then
die back and take off growing again in spring. Come June you will see
the curly flower heads appear – these can be snapped off so more
energy is sent to bulb production. These garlic scapes are delicious in
stir-fry or chopped like onion scallions, plus I use them as a quirky
addition to flower bouquets. When about a third of the garlic leaves
have turned brown in July, it is time to start pulling the bulbs out of
the ground. I lay them in the sun to dry for a few days and then bundle
the entire plants in groups of 8 or 10 to hang from the ceiling of an
airy shed. When fully dry, the most beautiful bulbs get saved for the
fall planting, and I’ll clean the rest and store them in mes
 Garlic Twist
h onion bags in a cool closet for winter usage.
Garlic goes in just about everything we cook; we especially love
the richness it gives soups and broths this time of year. We also make
use of garlic’s antibiotic properties by mincing cloves to eat raw to
help knock out sore throats, colds and other winter nasties. Garlic has
a host of other wonderful health giving qualities, so as you enjoy the
robust flavor you are taking your “medicine “at the same time. So
consider adding garlic planting to your fall garden list - even if
it’s just a few cloves in your flowerbed. Meanwhile, I’ll be heading
out to plant my nearly 4000 cloves. (I forgot to warn you that garlic
growing can be addictive….)
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October 21, 2009 - Wednesday
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Category: Games
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September 23, 2009 - Wednesday
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Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
About 20 years ago while driving to work at eleven at night. I was listening to a Preacher. He was talking about the "one world order." He was saying no matter who you vote for or who you think is going in the direction of leading this country that they are all headed for the same thing. A one world order.
So be you Liberal or Conservative. Its all headed in the same direction.
No matter what you hear in the political arena. The outcome is all going to be the same. All of it is run not by the president or the leaders that are visible in this world. It is all run by "king makers" who are behind the scenes. They pull the strings of those in the office of leader. They make the leaders of the countries dance to their tunes.
So was the preacher right. Are we all headed in the same direction no matter what?
I do enjoy posting what makes you think about what is happening.
Reality is that we have no control over what is going to happen or what is going on.
What has affected our nation is NAFTA. Sent all out jobs over seas. Where was the AFL-CIO when that happened. The unions who were suppose to guard our jobs.
Now the dairy farmers are having problems. Dry milk shipped from China and reconstituted as milk has cut the dairy farmers earnings in half and many are going out of business.
Unless you have a farm and a milk cow you will be drinking imported reconstituted milk.
I remember the 1950's the test done where rats were fed dry reconstituted milk and those fed real milks. Let me tell you the rats fed reconstituted milk look really malnourished.
Me. I am for getting my own milk cow.
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September 13, 2009 - Sunday
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Category: Games
Genealogy is a bad addiction Like a drug. It is always somewhere in the recesses of my mind. I can not shake it. It is one of my past times.
I found a web site called findagrave.
There I found the cemetery where my husbands family is buried at. Its an old pioneer cemetery that sets on someones private land and hard to find. Directions are up on a hill and around the corner past a hoop and a holler.
I joined "find a grave" and started correcting and adding graves that have no tombstones. The lady working that site transferred those graves over to my holding. What a surprise. I will do the best I can to put in the information I have.
I was married a year before I met my husbands family. Sometimes I think I could have been fine not meeting them. The tales I could tell. My children suggest I write a book. I guess I could call it "off takes." I have worked on my husbands genealogy as well as mine. All interesting people.
If you have photos of grave stones or if you like to take photos. Do check this web site out. Those photos help a lot of researchers. Some the people who do genealogy are shut ins. Not able to get out of bed or leave the house. It gives them something to do. If you know some of the out of the way cemeteries. Those are where our missing ancestors are buried.
I have added to it my grandfathers grave. It now sets in the middle of the National Forest. At one time it was his ranch. His son who was murdered is buried next to him with no stone on the grave. The son, my uncle, left a widow and 6 very young children. She sold the land and took the money and bought a boarding house for University students in Tucson, Arizona. There years later she married a engineering student who was 17 years younger than she. They were married until they died. They died in old age not to many years from each other.
Some of my husbands brothers do not have grave stones. I made sure their information went to the appropriate cemetery. Some day we may get together and put a stone on their grave that they may not be forgotten.
If you have relatives buried in the USA. Look to see if their stones are on there. Maybe you can contribute.
What I find is that when some people replace stones they remove the old stone. Much the pity of it. Many of the old stones are very ornate. Enjoy the stones and I hope you find the stone of some ancestor on the web site.
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September 13, 2009 - Sunday
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Category: Life
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September 11, 2009 - Friday
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Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
It is an empty nest. Not total of my choosing. I have gone through those phases of life It is the place in life where I am at now
For I have been a child. A young adult. A parent A working parent A grandmother A working grandmother. Now a mother of middle age children They have their own burdens to carry
Even I, took life one step at a time Some times stumbling, Falling Making dumb mistakes Getting up again to go on further
Because of happenings of life I live away from my children One son has followed Two children have told me they will follow later The other three Very entrenched in the area where they live
Life is strange Getting old is the pits
Every night I hate to go to sleep At night I fight the pain to wake up tired from a sleepless night To fight the pain during the day Life goes on for me It is my fate to feel the pain
First in the morning are my prayers to God He has helped me through another night Then my plan of the day Thinking what do I want to do today What can I accomplish My projects are
A genealogy book in the writing For in this book of the past I write of the unsung heroes who were my ancestors and those who were my kin Who fought to accomplish what they could in their lifetime
Tomorrow I scan old documents I touch them carefully as like every thing that grows old They crumble at the slightest unkind touch In essence I am preserving their memory For the generations to come so that they may not forget.
Then there is my quilt to work on A part of me that I will give to another that I may be remembered by
Then again I may work The sheep fleece to be washed, dried in frames and combed To be dyed from common plant dyes To make into blanket of many colors
I am going to design a Navajo loom It will take up less room in this over crowded house
On my list of things to do in the future Is to go to the small quilting shop To help her set up a website so that she may succeed
A friend gave me a business card of another home business Asking me what I can do for them
I am under no obligation
I think to myself if my arm would stop hurting if I had full use of my hand If I did not have muscular pain and cramps If I could sleep a full night through I might accomplish much more today. Then life is spelled with an "if" in the middle One day I will only accomplish a little Then I do accomplish what God wants me too
Like the wind on the rock Each day The wind accomplishes only a little Yet, with time it wears away the rock
So let me get myself together Take a shower, throw something in the crock pot for dinner Go face the world
Accomplish only one thing to completion I will then feel like the day was worth getting up for
Of my children, grandchildren and great grand child I love them all so very much They area a little part of me and a little part of Art
They are in my every thought Life is just that I have to give them room to grow on their own
I do not always agree with what they do Nor do they agree with what I do It is each ones life to live to try their best to raise and help the next generation
To love their children all they can To fill each day with happiness To enjoy each day to the fullest
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September 5, 2009 - Saturday
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Category: Life
If you are going to answer these its best to do while you are healthy. If you were faced with making a decision when you are ill. The decision becomes bias. This booklet is on this web site. http://www.rihlp.org/pubs/Your_life_your_choices.pdf
I had to help make the life or death decision for my brother. He was on life support. It was the advice I gave to my niece. Why they called me from the hospital? I do not know. It was not my decision to make. I called his oldest daughter.
Reasons behind my advice is that between the time his heart stopped and they started life support had been too long. They got his heart started but he had no brainwaves. They waited for his children to get there and they made the final decision. He was disconnected from life support.
This is from the booklet "health choices" an interesting booklet.
There are four answers: 1. Difficult but acceptable 2. Worth living, but just barely 3. NOT worth Living 4. Can't answer now
I can no longer walk but get around in t wheel chair? I can no longer get outside--I spend all day at home? I can no longer contribute to my familys well being? I am in severe pain most of the time? I have severe discomfort most of the time (shortness of breath, nausea, diarrhea)? I rely on a kidney dialysis machine to keep me alive? I rely on a breathing machine to keep me alive? I need someone to help take care of me all the time? I can not longer control my bladder? I can no longer control my bowels? I live in a nursing home? I can no longer think clearly-I am confused all the time? I can not longer talk and be understood by others? My situations cases severe emotional burden for my family (worry or stress)? I am a severe financial burden on my family? I can not seem to "shake the blues."?
My own mom was totally paralyzed for a year. I do not care what stress or financial burden people thought she was. She was cared for at home by the family.
So its different for everyone.
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