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Eternal Reefs, Inc. creates permanent living legacies that memorialize the passing of a loved one. For families and individuals that choose cremation, Eternal Reefs offers a new memorial choice that replaces cremation urns and ash scattering with a permanent environmental living legacy.

Families and friends are invited and encouraged to participate in the creation of their loved ones memorial reef. From placing your handprint in the damp concrete during the casting, making a rubbing of the bronze plaque during the viewing ceremony or placing a flag on your loved ones memorial reef during our military honors ceremony, all Eternal Reefs activities provide peace of mind for everyone involved. Eternal Reefs can be found here

LASIK eye surgery — short for laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis — has resulted in making clear vision a reality for millions of people who used to rely on glasses or contact lenses. With increasing experience Read the rest of this entry »

If you see a wildfire, call 9-1-1. Don’t assume that someone else has already called. Describe the location of the fire, speak slowly and clearly, and answer any questions asked by the dispatcher.

Before the Fire Approaches Your House

• Evacuate. Evacuate your pets and all family members who are not essential to preparing the home. Anyone with medical or physical limitations and the young and the elderly should be evacuated immediately.
• Wear Protective Clothing.
• Remove Combustibles. Clear items that will burn from around the house, including wood piles, lawn furniture, barbecue grills, tarp coverings, etc. Move them outside of your defensible space.
• Close/Protect Openings. Close outside attic, eaves and basement vents, windows, doors, pet doors, etc. Remove flammable drapes and curtains. Close all shutters, blinds or heavy non-combustible window coverings to reduce radiant heat.
• Close Inside Doors/Open Damper. Close alt doors inside the house to prevent draft. Open the damper on your fireplace, but close the fireplace screen.
• Shut Off Gas. Shut off any natural gas, propane or fuel oil supplies at the source.
• Water. Connect garden hoses. Fill any pools, hot tubs, garbage cans, tubs or other large containers with water.
• Pumps. If you have gas-powered pumps for water, make sure they are fueled and ready.
• Ladder. Place a ladder against the house in clear view.
• Car. Back your car into the driveway and roll up the windows.
• Garage Doors. Disconnect any automatic garage door openers so that doors can still be opened by hand if the power goes out. Close all garage doors.
• Valuables. Place valuable papers, mementos and anything “you can’t live without” inside the car in the garage, ready for quick departure. Any pets still with you should also be put in the car.

Preparing to Leave

• Lights. Turn on outside lights and leave a light on in every room to make the house more visible in heavy smoke.
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Survival in a Vehicle

• This is dangerous and should only be done in an emergency, but you can survive the firestorm if you stay in your car. It is much less dangerous than trying to run from a fire on foot.
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This enterprising alternative energy company makes and sells the smallest nuclear power plant in addition to water turbines solar power and wind turbine units. I found this interesting site while aimlessly surfing one day and they have the worlds smallest nuclear reactor available for sale. If anyone buys one post it here and let us know about the performance. Thanks lol.

CNEA and its associated company INVAP, have developped the CAREM project: a low power nuclear plant (100 MWth, 25 MWe net), conceived with a new generation, innovative design.
-The CAREM NPP has a pressurized water reactor with several steam generators, whose characteristics make it different:* integrated and self pressurized primary system cooling by natural circulation

*passive safety systems*no plant requirments of Diesel emergency electric generators

* plant control performed by a distributed software system

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A new novelty water storage container has been released by WaterButts Direct lol. The water butt pictured is the Butt Butt Water Butt 215 litre novelty “Butt”.  I’m not kidding and you know you have to have this for your front garden.

The new Butt Butt Waterbutt has been designed by Gerardine & Wayne Hemingway. Keen to develop something new and contemporary the Butt Butt was conceived, which has the unique feature of being in the shape of a human bottom.

The Butt Butt has the advantage of being both a practical and fully-functional rainwater collection container and a fun eye-catching feature in any garden.

The Butt Butt is fitted with a tap and supplied with a lid. The front of the Butt Butt is flat allowing it to sit Read the rest of this entry »

Guidelines

• Listen to your radio, television, or NOAA Weather Radio for weather reports and emergency information.
• Eat regularly and drink ample fluids, but avoid caffeine and alcohol.
• Conserve fuel, if necessary, by keeping your residence cooler than normal. Temporarily close off heat to some rooms.
• If the pipes freeze, remove any insulation or layers of newspapers and wrap pipes in rags. Completely open all faucets and pour hot water over the pipes, starting where they were most exposed to the cold (or where the cold was most likely to penetrate).
• Maintain ventilation when using kerosene heaters to avoid build-up of toxic fumes. Refuel Read the rest of this entry »

Well winter is fast approaching so here are some good Winter Preparations and Emergency Lists.

Add the following supplies to your disaster supplies kit:

• • 72-hour Survival Kits
  • Rock salt to melt ice on walkways
    Mountain House Freeze-Dried Food
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This looks like an interesting new product to protect us all from the new all seeing eye:our Government. Im sure this is the beginning of a whole new market of technology that will evolve from the questionable new policies our Government has taken toward spying on us all and dissolving our rights one by one. Wireless Encrypted Email..Trace that M****r F****r. The Following is from the LittleBrother website.

Yesterday there wasn’t an option. You used a encrypted email service on a server so slow you couldn’t log in to check your email. If you were in Bangkok or Singapore and the internet speeds in your hotel room were too slow you had to go out and hunt for a cybercafe. Who owns the cybercafe you might ask, are they tracking your passwords? Recording your activity? Probably. Or say you’re in a taxi cab in NYC and you want to send an email, but the information you want to send begs for discretion… what do you do? Punt?

Thanks to a new innovation in encrypted communications that’s no longer the situation. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever just gotten fed up with your neighborhood and your job and your bill burdened life style? When I do I always check out this site www.EscapeArtist.com arguably the best information site on international real estate and information on living abroad. A favorite spot of expatriates seeking a better life its always refreshing to me when I feel burdened to search for real estate in a far off place,and let me tell you your US dollar goes really far in a lot of other countries. Check out a 200acre rain forest farm with caves and a private waterfall and river or maybe a cashew plantation or search for an economical second home just in case ….or a private island. Its just a good website with tons of Read the rest of this entry »