1. A tenant reports that the washing machine is not spinning properly?

2. The tenant reports that a tree has fallen over the side boundary fence?

3. The tenant reports that the oven is not working?

4. The tenant has report that the kitchen tap is leaking

5. The tenant has reported that there is a raw sewage in the back yard?

6. The tenant has reported that the clothes line is broken?

7. The tenant has reported that there was a break in and the glass in the front door was broken?

8. The tenant has reported that a power point is sparking?

9. The tenant reported that the fluorescent light in the kitchen will not work?

10. The tenant has reported that there has been a fire in the kitchen?

I saw something on TV about these houses that are built in a day by stacking modules of the house in whatever way you like. they have recycled denim for insulation and are filled with LED lights,but i cant seem to remember what they were called exactly, does anyone know?

Monday, July 20, 2009

Eco-Friendly Light Bulbs Flip Switch on Problems

Ann Geracimos
associated press

The government’s required switch from incandescent light bulbs to CFLs come with potential hazards:

Improper disposal of the mercury-powered bulbs may pollute landfills and groundwater.

An energy-efficiency measure is turning into a ticking green time bomb.

The federal government plans to require consumers over the next several years to replace incandescent light bulbs with more expensive but more energy-efficient and longer-lasting compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs).

But improper disposal of the mercury-powered bulbs poses an environmental hazard, and the federal government has given little guidance to consumers. The outlets for safe disposal are few and haphazard, and history suggests that compliance will be spotty.

The problem to the environment comes when millions get disposed of and the cumulative effect becomes problematic. That is when the [Environmental Protection Agency] gets concerned, said Neal Langerman, a former chairman of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Health and Safety. If you have a municipal urban landfill and have a population of 450,000 households disposing of one or two CFLs a year - you do the arithmetic. Put one-half milligram of mercury per bulb, it amounts to a significant loading, and mercury does migrate into groundwater.

Although California has banned CFLs from trash since 2006, local governments there estimate that less than 10 percent of CFLs receive proper disposal and recycling, said San Francisco’s KGO-TV.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090719/pl_politico/25114

I made my product but when i click open cfl i cant find it. What am i supposed to save my product as? i cant get the right extension for example plaidskirt.gfp

Alright, so Im conducting an experiment on plant growth inside as compared to outside. I have six 26-watt CFL screw-type light bulbs about 4 inches away from my plant and are each fairly close together. To power the lights I have three 3-slot extension cords feeding off of a single outlet. There is no carpeting on the floor. Is there any possible way that something would catch on fire ? My thermometer reads at about 80F degrees at the highest and the humidity is usually below 50. There is also no furniture other than a few blocks of wood laying around. Is there any danger in doing this ?

Today in my basement I noticed a burning smell. It was a lot like the smell of an iron. I traced it to a nearby CFL lightbulb, and upon turning it off out of fear of a fire starting I noticed a very small hole right on the very tip of it. It was right where that slight bump is on the glass tube. This was clearly the source of the smell. In addition, the light had been flickering earlier. To my knowledge no mercury has leaked out and it’s fortunate that I caught it before it could turn ugly. I want to know though, how might this hole have formed? I don’t think it was a result of something hitting the bulb because it was on the ceiling and the hole was very small, if I had to guess I’d say it was maybe two millimeters wide.

I am 15 years old, 6`1, and 163lbs. I can squat 230lbs. I can Bench press 160lbs. I can deadlift 305lbs. and I can power clean 160lbs. I can run a 5.28 second 40 yard dash and a 5.12 second 20 yard shuttle. With lots of hard work in the weight room and lots of time put into sprinting and agility work, do you think I could make it into the CFL when I am 24 years old? I plan to play football throughout high school and have 4 years experience. I am a sophomore.

I’m an American who loves the CFL. I used to be able to watch it when it was on CBC. Then they lost the contract to TSN. This upsets me because I can no longer watch the games. And if you want to tell me who you think is going to be in the Grey Cup go for it.

Todd Marinovich - QB
Just last month the Artist Formerly Known as Robo-QB was arrested in a public bathroom with a bent spoon and a syringe. What better guy to lead this team? The closest most quarterbacks come to getting in trouble with the law is a DUI, but Marinovich doesn’t fuck around. The spaces between his toes have seen more needles than a Christmas tree lot. Just don’t tell him to put the smack down… because he never will.

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O.J. Simpson - RB
The Juice is an obvious choice, so we won’t spend much time with his legal qualifications for this team. Double-murder, here’s your jersey.
Lawrence Phillips - RB
Arrested too many times to count, a washout in both the NFL and the CFL, Phillips has finally found a team that will take him. Young Lawrence, well… he has women problems. He knows more about battery charges than the manufacturers of DieHard and the Energizer bunny combined. He’s beaten every girlfriend he ever had and once punched a woman in the face after she refused to dance with him at a Miami night club. While at Nebraska, in what may be his most famous carry, he was accused of breaking into his ex’s room, dragging her by the hair down three flights of stairs, and jacking her head against a mailbox, which also earns him a nomination for the All-Caveman Team.
Rae Carruth - WR
Guilty of the most heinous crime in the history of the NFL (remember, OJ was acquitted), Carruth is an obvious choice. He orchestrated the execution-style murder of his pregnant girlfriend because she refused to have an abortion. While he only got into the end zone four times in his short career, you can rest assured that this wideout has been on the receiving end of numerous scoring drives since arriving in state correctional facilities, most of which were led by a couple of guys with swastika tattoos.
Michael Irvin - WR
With all the cocaine he’s done in his life, he could probably chalk the entire Texas Stadium field. He kept the Tarrant County courtrooms busy in the late 90’s, and despite finding God (was he lost?), he managed to mix in a few drug charges in this millennium too. His roster spot is further solidified by the fact that he once had a hit out on him †by a cop. Former Dallas police officer Johnnie Hernandez was arrested after he paid $2960 to an undercover DEA agent in order to have Irvin murdered. Awesome.
Mark Chmura - TE
Despite being acquitted on charges of sexual assault and child enticement, ‘Chewy’ gets the starting nod at tight end. Who knows what really went down with him and that 17 year-old in the bathroom of a drunken prom party? All we know is this †the court of public opinion is a bitch.
Barret Robbins - OL
Previously best known for disappearing the night before Oakland’s Super Bowl thrashing in 2003, Robbins trumped that the following year by attacking three police officers who, being armed, shot him twice in the chest. Police reports indicate that even after being shot Robbins continued to attack the officers, which is just the kind of spunk we need on this team. The good news is that Robbins survived his wounds. The bad news is that he is facing three counts of attempted murder of a police officer.
Nate Newton - OL
Newton was a shoe-in for this team when he got busted in Louisiana with 213 pounds of marijuana after being pulled over for a traffic violation (who breaks traffic laws with a van full of drugs?), but then he made a serious case to become a team captain six weeks later when, while out on bail, he got busted again. This time it was 175 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his car. One thing’s for sure - when it’s fourth and long, we know ol’ Nate is down to ‘go for it’.
Justin Strzelczyk - OL
Aside from only having one vowel in his last name (not counting y), Strzelczyk also had only one great defining moment. After a hit-and-run accident in New York, police chased his pickup 40 miles, during which Strzelczyk flipped off troopers and at one point threw a beer bottle at them. In the end, Strzelczyk crashed head on at 90 miles per hour into a tanker truck carrying corrosive acid, leaving an explosive scene police compared to an airplane crash. Strzelczyk didn’t make it out alive, he did, literally, go down in a ‘blaze of glory’, and you gotta respect that. And for those concerned, the driver of the tanker escaped with only minor injuries.
Chris Terry - OL
Arrested for wife beating in 2002. While that’s nothing new in the NFL, it is worth noting that in this instance he slammed her into a wall, head-butted her and stuffed her face into a pillow †while their two children watched. Our scouts feel these characteristics will be very helpful in stopping the pass rush on our quarterback, who is slow of foot and, of course, a smackhead.
Keno Hills - OL
Heroin and weapons charges for the former Southwestern Louisiana Rajin’ Cajun. Hills makes the team for his ability to acquire a fix
This is only the start. I’m writing down the defense as we speak.
It was to much text. Give me a break.
Randy Moss didn’t to to much to be called a criminal. I kind of tried to use the really dirty ones.

An energy-efficiency measure is turning into a ticking green time bomb.

The federal government plans to require consumers over the next several years to replace incandescent light bulbs with more expensive but more energy-efficient and longer-lasting compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs).

But improper disposal of the mercury-powered bulbs poses an environmental hazard, and the federal government has given little guidance to consumers. The outlets for safe disposal are few and haphazard, and history suggests that compliance will be spotty.

The problem to the environment comes when millions get disposed of and the cumulative effect becomes problematic. That is when the [Environmental Protection Agency] gets concerned, said Neal Langerman, a former chairman of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Health and Safety. If you have a municipal urban landfill and have a population of 450,000 households disposing of one or two CFLs a year - you do the arithmetic. Put one-half milligram of mercury per bulb, it amounts to a significant loading, and mercury does migrate into groundwater.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/20/eco-friendly-light-bulbs-flip-switch-on-problems/

Incadencents are bad because of the power they use. But the CFL’s are worse because if you put them in the trash you put mercury into the environment. What a way to save the environment!!!

I have a toshiba satellite M200 laptop with an intel PRO 3945abg wireless adapter and have been online for about 3 months now without shutting the laptop down or putting it to sleep while im at work or school or even sleeping because i download a lot of stuff from rapidshare like movies games and etc. I bought a rather strong notebook cooler (it can also double as a makeshift usb desk fan due to the high fan rpm) for it to assist in cooling.

I have not experienced anything bad yet. But is a wireless adapter in a laptop designed to be used 24/7 365 days a year without rest?

Will it wear out one day? Or exceed its operating life?

I know the hard disk is designed for continued use as well as the processor and video card. but not really the CFL lamp that lights my LCD screen. thats why i close the lid whenever i leave it out. to preserve the lamp.

Yes i do use my laptop as a desktop replacement.
Windows vista has been stable since they released service pack 1. So vista is very stable for me. So much more after i’ve installed service pack 2 after 4mos ago. Vista’s now like a concrete wall. Immovable and just solid.

Out of the 4gigs of ram, i always use 3.2gigs of it for i use a lot of programs at the same time.

Processor averages at 30% to 20% when i dont use the laptop.

And heat is not really an issue because of the industrial notebook cooler i bought.

I’m doing a summer project and need to know about the type of light bulbs / heat lamps needed to properly grow marijuana. I heard you can get CFL lights from walmart that work, but just how much do you need to cover like a 2ft by 1ft area. And I also know you need to change the lighting or heat after a few months of growing? Any experienced weed growers on yahoo answers? Oh and don’t answer if you are just going to say something like it’s illegal or it’s not good for you. …I know. Thanks

“So a funny thing happened to me on the way to cash my welfare cheque”

I’m 15 years old and i want to start using the p90x program but the thing is i dont know if i should do it. Im 6 feet 245 pounds (future NFL or CFL or mlb :p ) when people see mee at first glance i do not seem fat just the man boobs yeno? I work out I bench alot i just wanna do the p90x for the summer and workout at the gym but i dont know if i will be devoted.

AND is 17 % fat obese? and i wanna have a body like kimbo slice or brock lesnar please help thanks

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pBerkeley - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are proving that a camera phone can capture far more than photos of people or pets at play. They have now developed a cell phone microscope, or CellScope, that not only takes color images of malaria parasites, but of tuberculosis bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers./p

I’m not too good with electricity and electrical stuff.

i recently bought a laptop and a charger so i can charge it via the cigarette lighter in my truck.
i want to know how many full charges it will take to drain the trucks battery.

here are the specs:

===TRUCK BATTERY====
Overall Type: Starting
Transportation Type: Passenger car and light commercial
Battery Group Size: 65
Cell Type: Lead-Acid
Number of Cells: 6
Voltage: 12.0
Cold Cranking Amps
(CCA at 0 deg.F): 875
Reserve Capacity (RC):145 min.
Terminal Post Location:Top
Container Material: Polypropylene

the laptop has a 6 cell lithium ion battery with a 65 watt AC adapter,
my power inverter (cigarette to standard wall outlet) is 160 watts and peaks at 300

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if you need any more information just ask, and again, how many laptop charges would kill my battery on the truck?
10pts for best answer =)
well i know the truck will constantly charge itself as well as other device while its on, but if im gone camping for a week, and the truck sits in one spot for that week, how much charges will it take to kill it?

i want to get those flamless candles that you just turn on and they have a light. im not sure if glade makes them but what are brands that are really good?

also, does anyone have the glade scented plug in things ? the things you always see in commercials? or how about the ones that arent plugins that just could sit on a table? do they smell good and really last?

When I was a kid, someone recorded a bunch of simpsons episodes for me, and at the end of the tape, was a bunch of stuff that had been recorded over (and over and over I’m sure) There was a short part of a movie, and I always wondered what movie I was watching, but I’ve never come across it. It is a young woman, alone in a public, or high school pool, she starts swimming laps, and all the lights go out. When she swims to the edge to get out, someone (who must have been in the pool) grabs her at the bottom of the ladder, underwater, and handcuffs her to the bottom, she struggles, and drowns, then my tape goes back to some commercial or something… This has been bugging me, periodically for years, and I’m sure the movie was not worth all the thought, but I’d love to know what it is, Thanks!

If you ever watch the filipino channel, notice all the stars in the commercial and the shows. most of them are light skinned while most of the audience are dark….lol….I am beginning to see that most Filipinos lean towards being white to become more appealing to the eyes of foreigners………there are a lot of filipinos that bleach their skin, what is it about being dark or brown that disgusts them? haha

I myself is brown and am proud of it….lol