Potential fires need to be detected fast on aircraft. Some people find this topic too horrific to consider or discuss but Improvements to safety in a relatively safe industry are desirable. One does not need to look into the history of air travel very far to locate serious and fatal fire events and total hull losses.
Healthy Mind What Yoga Can Do For You posted by Annie B. Bond May 26, 2003 8:29 am filed under: Health Wellness, Fitness, Inspiration, Self-Help If you’ve been apprehensive about attending a yoga class because you’re afraid you won’t be able to bend into the shape of a pretzel, never fear! Yoga is a gentle, slow-moving exercise that helps to create awareness necessary to be in tune with your body. All that matters is that you do your personal best. If you can’t touch your knees at first, no problem: Postures can be modified to accommodate your current level. And yoga can help us in so many ways. Recently, when Cait was having a mild asthma attack, a friend showed her a special yoga breathing technique that almost miraculously stopped the attack in its tracks. Who knew yoga could be good for asthma? And that’s just the beginning. Check out this list of health and other issues that yoga can help with, here: Practicing yoga is a perfect way to help deal with Western cultural problems of incorrect posture, aggressive lifestyles, job stress, demanding family lives, overeating and indigestion, and stiff muscles and joints. The many benefits of yoga include increased flexibility, profound relaxation, clarity of thought, and improved muscle tone and strength, as well as improved balance, coordination, concentration, and oxygen intake. Yoga practice can also help manage anxiety, arthritis, asthma, back pain, blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, heart disease, menopausal symptoms, migraines, multiple sclerosis, and osteoporosis. For more information on yoga teachers in your area, go to the Yoga Alliance homepage. Forget about all this hard sell and just go back to what it says at the beginning: know that yoga brings a healthy mind.
Smoke detectors has a photo-cell that measures a certain amount of fumes across its sensor. You may not see the smoke or fumes but the photo-cell is very sensitive. If the detector goes off and stays on, you can try resetting the detector, usually by pressing the reset or red button. If your detector is beeping, they you need to change the backup battery. If all else fails, you can always remove the detector from the AC connection until the electricity comes make back on. Most AC detectors are all linked together. If one goes off, they all go off.
