Thank you Veterans

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It’s Veteran’s Day and all of us at Easterday Construction Co., Inc. would like to thank all the veterans that served our country honorably.  And as always, a thank you to our current service men and women that are away from their families defending our country.  Your efforts make our way of life possible.

I am reusing the picture of the eagle on the tombstone from a previous post.  The picture was taken at Fort Snelling by Frank Glick.  I think it is a beautiful and moving picture.  I was contacted earlier this year from the photographer and I have included the credit below.  Several people contacted me asking me where they could obtain a copy of this picture, so now I have that information available.

Image © 2011 Frank Glick, used with permission, all rights reserved. www.liketophoto.com

More WECS’s

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Definition of a WECS per the Culver Zoning Ordinance – 2010-007:

Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) – Equipment that converts and then stores or transfers energy from the wind into usable forms of energy and includes any base, blade, foundation, generator, nacelle, rotor, wind tower, transformer, turbine, vane, wind farm collection system, wire, or other component used in the system.

Below are some WECS’s that are not traditional wind farm turbines that could fall under a WECS ban.

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Down with DST

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Well, here we are suffering through DST (Daylight Savings Time) again.  While “Falling Back” isn’t a traumatic as “Springing Forward”,  I still prefer leaving things alone.  I used to think Indiana was progressive for not participating.  That was confirmed when I lived under DST for a few years in Georgia that pretty much confirmed my feelings, so I was pretty vocally against the change when it happened.

I ran across an article by an economist, Allison Schrager, titled:  “The US needs to retire daylight savings and just have two time zones—one hour apart”  I learned a few things including how little of the world observes DST.  The cool map above is from her site.  The Wikipedia link to Daylight Savings Time above shows a map that indicates large portions of the globe that did observe DST no longer do so.

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Bath Fan & Speaker In One

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Homewerks Worldwide has developed a bathroom exhaust fan with bluetooth music streaming capability.  The fan will move 90 cfm at a noise level of only 1.5 sones.

I didn’t realize music in the bathroom was such a thing!  Previously I told you about the Kohler Moxie Showerhead (here) that streams music along with the water.  (See what I did there?)  Before that I told you about the Amerec’s Ipod Shower Docking Station (here).  I guess no one sings acapella in the shower these days.

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