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Nearly 1 million children require humanitarian assistance, and UNICEF is on the ground working to provide critical aid to children and families.
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983, bio link)
"We Are Not Helpless" Stephen Stills - music link
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Carbon monoxide poisoning kills 4 youngsters and a dog on Tuesday says Maine Sheriff
Benchmark Reporter
According to the county sheriff, they all probably died on Tuesday night after experiencing carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator…
After Shock
Family, friends react with shock
The Sun Chronicle
Friends and neighbors of the victims of the tragedy in Maine reacted with shock and sadness Saturday… A sign posted outside the Wakelin home in Mansfield on Saturday night had “Do Not Disturb” written on it… Green and red balloons floated above a fence… Saturday would have been Brooke Wakelin’s 22nd birthday… A small crowd was gathered outside the home. They asked a reporter to leave the property…
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What is in the air you are breathing right now?
What will you be doing today; walking into poison?
Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?
CO and Air Quality News Links
Contemplating Catastrophe, Environmentalists Embrace Existentialism
MIT Technology Review
For the rest of us, climate change has become an existential threat in both senses of the word: it endangers our existence and it forces us to reconsider our position as free and responsible individuals inhabiting an absurd universe, on a planet rapidly becoming inhospitable to the civilization we’ve built upon it…
Hawaii's coral threatened by bleaching
CNBC
Coral reefs, already under threat around the globe, may be in particularly acute danger in the waters of Hawaii because of a phenomenon known as bleaching… The resource makes up less than 1 percent of the underwater ecosystem yet helps to protect 25 percent of marine species, generates tourism revenue and boosts fishing, according to data from The Nature Conservatory…
Earth's Water Cycle: Fresh water's long, ancient journey
Stephenville Empire-Tribune
We inhale oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. Plants do the opposite through their pores, and water that has been absorbed from the ground by ...
World cooperated when ozone layer had a hole - Central Maine
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
Now, however, that period of “climatic grace” is over. We humans have grown so powerful, so clever, and there are so many of us that we affect our entire planet. With rising carbon dioxide since the Industrial Revolution, last year was the warmest on record. Ice is melting rapidly in the Arctic, sea levels keep rising, the Gulf of Maine is warmer and more acidic, shellfish and coral reefs are suffering, lobsters are moving north along with ticks on land, and moose can’t stand the heat…
Progress made on air quality, but work remains
The Courier-Journal
There was a time in Louisville when you couldn’t walk downtown without getting flecks of black soot on your clean white shirt. The sun was blotted out by air pollution from factory smokestacks, motor vehicles, and coal furnaces in homes. Concerned city leaders began collecting soot in buckets on lampposts to demonstrate the need for action. Out of that came the Air Pollution Control District, which has been working since 1945 to make our air healthy and safe to breathe… And there is no debating that our air is cleaner now than it has ever been…
Mosquito tracks your breath then uses vision to bite, study reveals
TeCake
While explaining the bite procedure, researchers said — Mosquitoes can smell host’s carbon dioxide (CO2) plume from 10 to 50 meters away. Then the mosquito flies towards the host and at a distance of 5 to 15 metres it starts seeing the host. Then with the help of its vision it moves closer to the host’s body and when it is nearly 1 metre away it starts feeling the body heat of the host. At last the mosquito chooses the bite location and eventually decides to leave its mark…
"We Are Not Helpless" Stephen Stills - music link
Featured News Links – More news links below
Update Details
Carbon monoxide poisoning kills 4 youngsters and a dog on Tuesday says Maine Sheriff
Benchmark Reporter
According to the county sheriff, they all probably died on Tuesday night after experiencing carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator…
After Shock
Family, friends react with shock
The Sun Chronicle
Friends and neighbors of the victims of the tragedy in Maine reacted with shock and sadness Saturday… A sign posted outside the Wakelin home in Mansfield on Saturday night had “Do Not Disturb” written on it… Green and red balloons floated above a fence… Saturday would have been Brooke Wakelin’s 22nd birthday… A small crowd was gathered outside the home. They asked a reporter to leave the property…
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We have all been CO poisoned, some more than others
The following link takes you to a site with views from those who have been poisoned. The seriousness of carbon monoxide poisoning, the grief, suffering and disorientations experienced are clearly portrayed with the intent to help others and prevent future poisonings. With respect, please visit:
What is in the air you are breathing right now?
What will you be doing today; walking into poison?
Who will be responsible for the air you breathe?
You may be the only person who can prevent your own poisoning.
We are all vulnerable to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning.
Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again. The degree of the poisoning depends upon allowing yourself to be in a situation where someone else controls the air you breathe and the mechanisms for alarming notification.
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions that come with the carbon monoxide alarm. Know that if it is a U.L. 2034 Listed product (or CSA 6.19 Listed), it is a high level alarm that has been tested to alarm no sooner than 70 PPM at the lowest (the alarm must resist for one hour when above this level) and when over 400 PPM before 15 minutes at the highest concentration, after resisting alarming for 4 minutes when over this level.
Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be as soon as the gas is present in your presence. Pregnant women, infants & children, people with heart & respiratory struggles, those suffering depression or chronic headaches and all people of vulnerable health should be alerted as soon as the gas begins to concentrate, around 10 PPM (parts per million) or lower.
You most likely need a low level carbon monoxide detector to sound off when carbon monoxide hazards are just beginning, not after you’ve been exposed to levels that make you have headaches, flu-like symptoms, increased tiredness, heart stresses or worse.
Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others, unless you think $45.00, high level protection is good enough.
Help prevent injuries and deaths; don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY
Everyone has been poisoned by CO and will be poisoned again. The degree of the poisoning depends upon allowing yourself to be in a situation where someone else controls the air you breathe and the mechanisms for alarming notification.
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions that come with the carbon monoxide alarm. Know that if it is a U.L. 2034 Listed product (or CSA 6.19 Listed), it is a high level alarm that has been tested to alarm no sooner than 70 PPM at the lowest (the alarm must resist for one hour when above this level) and when over 400 PPM before 15 minutes at the highest concentration, after resisting alarming for 4 minutes when over this level.
Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be as soon as the gas is present in your presence. Pregnant women, infants & children, people with heart & respiratory struggles, those suffering depression or chronic headaches and all people of vulnerable health should be alerted as soon as the gas begins to concentrate, around 10 PPM (parts per million) or lower.
You most likely need a low level carbon monoxide detector to sound off when carbon monoxide hazards are just beginning, not after you’ve been exposed to levels that make you have headaches, flu-like symptoms, increased tiredness, heart stresses or worse.
Do not take risks with carbon monoxide. Take responsibility for the air you breathe and the combustion systems you are responsible for. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for others, unless you think $45.00, high level protection is good enough.
Help prevent injuries and deaths; don’t guess about carbon monoxide. Measure carbon monoxide for safety and knowledge. The more you test the more you learn. GET BUSY
Measurement is continuing education at its best. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Contemplating Catastrophe, Environmentalists Embrace Existentialism
MIT Technology Review
For the rest of us, climate change has become an existential threat in both senses of the word: it endangers our existence and it forces us to reconsider our position as free and responsible individuals inhabiting an absurd universe, on a planet rapidly becoming inhospitable to the civilization we’ve built upon it…
Hawaii's coral threatened by bleaching
CNBC
Coral reefs, already under threat around the globe, may be in particularly acute danger in the waters of Hawaii because of a phenomenon known as bleaching… The resource makes up less than 1 percent of the underwater ecosystem yet helps to protect 25 percent of marine species, generates tourism revenue and boosts fishing, according to data from The Nature Conservatory…
Earth's Water Cycle: Fresh water's long, ancient journey
Stephenville Empire-Tribune
We inhale oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. Plants do the opposite through their pores, and water that has been absorbed from the ground by ...
World cooperated when ozone layer had a hole - Central Maine
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
Now, however, that period of “climatic grace” is over. We humans have grown so powerful, so clever, and there are so many of us that we affect our entire planet. With rising carbon dioxide since the Industrial Revolution, last year was the warmest on record. Ice is melting rapidly in the Arctic, sea levels keep rising, the Gulf of Maine is warmer and more acidic, shellfish and coral reefs are suffering, lobsters are moving north along with ticks on land, and moose can’t stand the heat…
Progress made on air quality, but work remains
The Courier-Journal
There was a time in Louisville when you couldn’t walk downtown without getting flecks of black soot on your clean white shirt. The sun was blotted out by air pollution from factory smokestacks, motor vehicles, and coal furnaces in homes. Concerned city leaders began collecting soot in buckets on lampposts to demonstrate the need for action. Out of that came the Air Pollution Control District, which has been working since 1945 to make our air healthy and safe to breathe… And there is no debating that our air is cleaner now than it has ever been…
Mosquito tracks your breath then uses vision to bite, study reveals
TeCake
While explaining the bite procedure, researchers said — Mosquitoes can smell host’s carbon dioxide (CO2) plume from 10 to 50 meters away. Then the mosquito flies towards the host and at a distance of 5 to 15 metres it starts seeing the host. Then with the help of its vision it moves closer to the host’s body and when it is nearly 1 metre away it starts feeling the body heat of the host. At last the mosquito chooses the bite location and eventually decides to leave its mark…
Cdc Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
New Movie Release 2015
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Public domain video from CDC. Carbon monoxide (sometimes referred to as CO) is a colorless, odorless gas produced ...
New Movie Release 2015
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Public domain video from CDC. Carbon monoxide (sometimes referred to as CO) is a colorless, odorless gas produced ...
Johnson County Contractor Licensing Conference
CO EXperts
A well put together video is found with the next link, but remember U.L. 2034 Listed CO Alarms are high level alarms. Use them for protection against accute levels, but be aware you can still experience symptoms of the poisoning even though the devices are in place.
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
DailyMotion
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-Nine U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan |
Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York |
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
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CO EXperts
Johnson County Kansas - Continuing Education – – Video Link
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
DailyMotion
About Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
JEMS.com - ...site has been designed with this in mind – to create a visual, interactive, educational resource which can hopefully end incidents of carbon monoxide poisoning and save lives… For more information, please visit - www.thesilentkiller.co.uk
Who is responsible for the air you breathe?
The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:
- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be before 70 PPM. It is for pregnant women, infants & children, the elderly and all people of vulnerable health. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
These following links may be of some use to you:
- 70 PPM to 149 PPM –resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions. Know when your fire department and emergency responders begin wearing their breathing apparatus and what their civilian evacuation levels are for carbon monoxide; it may be before 70 PPM. It is for pregnant women, infants & children, the elderly and all people of vulnerable health. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
These following links may be of some use to you:
-Alcoa Eagle Nest Camera
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Animal cameras - variety of locations
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Animal cameras - variety of locations
- U.S. Drought Monitor
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
- Federal Aviation Administration CO warning
- Carbon monoxide toxicity-Emergency Medicine Ireland
- Carbon Monoxide Survivor- Views from those who have been poisoned.
- Carbon Monoxide detection- National Fire Protection Association
Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning Minnesota Department of Commerce
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
- Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
- Federal Aviation Administration CO warning
- Carbon monoxide toxicity-Emergency Medicine Ireland
- Carbon Monoxide Survivor- Views from those who have been poisoned.
- Carbon Monoxide detection- National Fire Protection Association
Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning Minnesota Department of Commerce
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-Nine U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2014
Alaska | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida |
Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan |
Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York |
North Carolina | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island |Tennessee
Texas | Utah |Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin |
West Virginia
Texas | Utah |Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin |
West Virginia
Red Cross - Disaster Relief to safely assist law enforcement, fire department, utility company, city, county and state authorities as repair and rebuilding moves forward. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
Nationally, the Red Cross provides food and shelter to people affected by as many as 70,000 fires annually, or about one fire every eight minutes.
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
