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How much do you pay for energy costs in the winter months? If you?re like most Americans, you generally see a spike in costs from the mild fall months. The good news is that this change in costs doesn?t have to be so substantial. Take advantage of these 6 tips to reduce your winter energy costs:
1) Regulate your thermostat
During the cold months of the year, it can be tempting to crank up the heat. But lowering your thermostat by a few degrees ? specifically at night and when the home is unoccupied ? can make a huge difference when you get your energy bill each month. Keep your thermostat in the 70 degree range for the best results. And if you get cold, you can always put on socks and a sweater.
2) Seal off unused rooms
Your heater has to work harder to heat more square footage. There?s really no reason to heat areas of your home that you don?t use. Reduce the space your heater is responsible for by sealing off unused rooms. You could save big when that gas bill comes at the end of the month.
3) Forget the fireplace
Heating your home with a fireplace is actually inefficient. The fireplace uses the warm air inside the home to fuel the flame, and it exhausts said air through the chimney. In other words, fireplaces actually cause your home to lose heat although they?re seen as practical substitutes for central heating. Don?t get caught in this cycle ? close the damper to seal the fireplace and prevent heat loss.
4) Insulate your water heater
Put a water heater blanket or insulation jacket around your water heater, and insulate the pipes around the water heater to improve efficiency. This is especially necessary for older water heaters in unheated spaces.
5) Ensure all your entrances are sealed
Warm air can escape from small cracks in doors and windows, which can affect energy bills dramatically. Make sure you adequately insulate and weather-strip your entrances. Your home will hold heat better, and your heating system won?t be forced to consistently run to keep the house warm.
6) Let the sun do some of the work
Keep your blinds open during the daylight hours so that the heat from the sunlight can take a load off your heating unit. Results will vary depending on how your home sits and how much shading is in your yard, but the effect is substantial for some homeowners.
Saving money on energy doesn?t have to be difficult. Take advantage of these 6 tips, and you?re likely to see significant savings on your winter energy bills.
Source: http://solargreen.tv/living-off-the-grid/6-ways-to-save-on-your-energy-bill.html
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(Reuters) - A bus carrying a university women's lacrosse team crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, killing the driver and one of the passengers, turnpike and hospital officials said.
In addition to the driver, the bus was carrying 23 students and three coaches from Seton Hill University, a Catholic school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, turnpike spokesman Bill Capone said.
The bus was near the Carlisle interchange in central Pennsylvania when it veered off the road, crashed through a fence and slammed into a tree, killing the driver, he said.
Three passengers were taken by helicopter to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where one of them died, hospital spokeswoman Danielle Ran said.
Nineteen others were taken to three area hospitals, mainly as a precaution, Capone said.
"We don't believe they sustained any serious injuries," he said of the 19.
The cause of the crash was unknown, he said.
(Reporting by Jane Sutton; Editing by Vicki Allen)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lacrosse-team-bus-crashes-pennsylvania-two-dead-165951101.html
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>>> in florida, it was a hot air balloon that crashed today. it happened in miami when the basket of the balloon got caught in some power lines . among those on board were donte stallworth did, an nfl wide receiver and free agent, who most recently played with the new england patriots. stallworth and his girlfriend were injured. a third passenger was not hurt.
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The nocturnal pests are equipped with a large number of genes that thwart chemical sprays, but scientists are probing for weaknesses
One of humankind's most intimate blood-sucking roommates, the bed bug, is notoriously resistant to the pesticides used against it. Now researchers have pinpointed the genes responsible for this resistance. The finding highlights how ineffective our current chemical arsenal has become, and could help researchers design pesticides better able to destroy the pests.
In the past 15 years bed bug infestations have spiked in the U.S., perhaps due to increased travel. Once the insect hitchhikers enter a new area, they spread readily: A single fertilized female can infest an entire apartment building. Getting rid of bed bugs can be expensive, time-consuming and tricky. Their paper-thin bodies let the bugs squeeze into cracks in furniture and walls, which are difficult to spray effectively.
To find clues that uncover how bed bugs are able to survive pesticides, a team of researchers from the University of Kentucky first sequenced the genes that were active in 21 pesticide-resistant bed bug populations obtained from infestations. By comparing the active genes in the field bed bugs with a susceptible lab-bred population's active genes, they identified 14 genes in the collected DNA having variants associated with pesticide resistance. Different populations carried different combinations of the gene variants. The team reported on March 14 in Scientific Reports they found as well that each of the bed bug populations tested carried at least two resistance variants. (Scientific American and Scientific Reports are both part of Nature Publishing Group.)
All of the genes identified were active (gave rise to specific proteins) primarily in the outer epidermis?an insect's tough, fingernail-like cuticle?rather than the digestive tract, which is where most insects develop mechanisms of pesticide resistance, says Subba Reddy Palli, a professor of entomology and one of the researchers involved in the new study. That finding made sense, given that bed bugs, which eat only blood, are exposed to pesticides solely by contact with their exoskeleton, which now appears to be chock full of protective genes.
Next, the team demonstrated that the genes they had identified caused resistance. They hobbled the genes by injecting young bugs with special RNA fragments designed to specifically silence the resistance genes. When the treated bugs were exposed the pesticides, they were susceptible. (The technique does not alter germ line genes, however, so the next generation would still be pesticide-resistant.) "A few other papers found similar genes," Palli says. "But no one had done the functional study yet?the gene silencing."
The high number of resistance genes in all populations examined by Palli and his colleagues is "horrifying," says Rajeev Vaidyanathan, an associate director of vector biology in the Center for Immunology and Infectious Disease at SRI International, who was not involved in the study. That the bugs have multiple ways of undermining the effects of pesticides is ?devastating,? he adds.
The Kentucky researchers' bed bug genomic studies and those of a few other groups are "absolutely critical" for understanding the molecular basis for pesticide resistance, Vaidyanathan says. "This is step one. Step two is identifying novel targets for pesticides."
Two of the mechanisms suggested by the genetic findings were already flagged as contributors to bed bugs' pesticide resistance, Vaidyanathan says. One involves the metabolic enzyme cytochrome p450, which helps to break down toxins. (Humans have the same molecule.) A gene variant that confers resistance enables the bed bug to produce large quantities of the enzyme. The other mechanism relies on a protein found on the surface of nerve cells?an ion channel that tells the cell when to fire. Commonly used insecticides target that ion channel and cause nerves to fire continuously, paralyzing and quickly killing the insect. The resistant bed bugs often carry a mutation in the ion channel that prevents the pesticide from binding.
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AP10ThingsToSee - One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky, Monday, March 11, 2013 in New York. Construction continues on the office complex going up on the site of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Matthew Ziegler, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky, Monday, March 11, 2013 in New York. Construction continues on the office complex going up on the site of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Matthew Ziegler, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - Pakistani men, part of an angry mob, react after burning belongings of Christian families in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, March 9, 2013. A mob of hundreds of people in the city attacked a Christian neighborhood and set fire to homes after hearing accusations that a Christian man had committed blasphemy against Islam's prophet. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - The mother of Ram Singh, the man accused of driving the bus on which a 23-year-old student was gang raped in December 2012, cries as she speaks to journalists outside the family's home in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 11, 2013. Indian police confirmed that Ram Singh, one of the men on trial for his alleged involvement in the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus committed suicide in an Indian jail Monday, but his lawyer and family allege he was killed. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - A fishing boat washed ashore by the March 11, 2011 tsunami sits in a deserted port area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, at dawn on Monday, March 11, 2013. Japan marked the second anniversary of its earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe that killed nearly 19,000 people. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda, File)
AP10ThingsToSee - A member from the production Le Noir performs at the Marina Bay Sands on Tuesday March 12, 2013 in Singapore. Le Noir has a crew of twenty cirque performers from around the world like Russia, Australia, Lithuania, Canada, Bulgaria who specialize in different acrobatic acts, some of which were formerly from the production Cirque du Soleil. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
This week's collection includes a barefoot man kneeling in prayer in St. Peter's Square, a soaring slam dunk by LeBron James, a show of athletic prowess during the production "Le Noir" in Singapore and One World Trade Center emerging from the clouds in a dark New York City sky.
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