| No waste packaging | | 2008-07-19 11:42:57 | | [link]
Tofu packed into balloons, by Kamakura-komachi?! Surprisingly a great example for reduced packaging: Its elastic material is extensively stretched, and when pierced with a toothpick, the balloon bursts and only a tiny bit remains. How amazing! REDUCE with more flexibility! The same packaging concept is also applied to a pudding.
Japanese Design #7: A How-to-Reduce-Packaging Journal [...] | | By: learn about lean & six-sigma | | |
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| Optimizing your waste disposal system | | 2008-07-16 08:10:53 | | One of the biggest challenges in every chemical and industrial business is how to to reduce your solvent and waste disposal expenses while continuing to maintain environmentally responsible practice in your business.
Having your own waste recovery system is a way to go, mainly if you have a large industry and you can afford supporting it. [...]
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| Don't waste your money buying books | | 2008-07-15 11:09:00 | | Just a quick post today,Buying books including textbooks? I love to price check on this site and Alibris. Half.com and especially buying on campus, doesn't even compare.
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| Analysts: iPhone waste of money | | 2008-07-11 09:34:00 | | Apple's iPhone seems to be the smartphone that consumers long to have, but analysts say it's aimed at a niche market and spending on the phone may not live up to its buzz. Canadians will finally get a chance to buy the mobile phone that lets users play music, watch video, surf the Internet and check email when it rolls out Friday after hype and a price controversy. Exclusive Canadian carrier | | By: News Alert | | |
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| Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation Live DVD [DVDrip] | | 2008-07-05 12:33:00 | | Artist - Municipal WasteAlbum - Hazardous Mutation DVDYear - 2006Genre - Thrash / Punk / Metal / CrossoverType - DVDripWeb - http://www.myspace.com/municipalwasteCountry - Virginia, USASource - DVDFormat - AVI (640X272)Size - 459 MB (Total: 5 Parts)Tracklist:1. The Wizard (Speech)2. Intro/Deathripper3. Drunk As Shit4. Mind Eraser5. Unleash The Bastards6. The Thrashing Of The Christ7. Sweet Attack8. Mutants Of War9. Accelerated Vision10. Blood Drive11. New Song12. Terror Shark13. Toxic Revolution14. Substitute Creature15. Waste 'Em All16. Bangover*Plus Band InterviewsDownload/Descargar'NOTE: Download all parts' | | By: The Last Disaster! | | |
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| Don’t Waste Your Time On Low Start Up Businesses | | 2008-07-04 00:00:00 | | If you want to get in on the action here are some tips on how to run an online business. When you start your Internet home business, you can, with marketing knowledge, reach more customers than you ever thought possible. When starting an online business, it is crucial to have a plan for how [...] | | By: Resources Zone | | |
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| In-Camp Training - A Waste of Time? | | 2008-06-14 12:38:08 | | My batch of NSmen were twice lucky with the changes implemented for National Service. First, NS was trimmed from 2.5 years to 2 years. Second, we had the in-camp training (ICT) reduced from a 13-year cycle to a 10-year one.After being operationally read for about 1.5 years, I received the SAF 100 call-up to ICT. The comfortable civilian lifestyle made me think of various reasons (excuses) to seek for deferment. However, there were none. A call made at the eve of the ICT to the NS hotline informed that I had to bring full battle order to the my reservist camp. Information from fellow ICT mate Tengda said otherwise...Met with Bryan and Tengda at the entrance to Seletar Camp before strolling in to our Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive Defence Group (CBRE DG) camp.In the 5 days, we made new friends among our platoon. It was also totally cool to be able to see old faces when we returned back to our unit for updates. The backgrounds vary from each individual and there were muc | | By: My Encounters, My Life | | |
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| Principle Paper for Peace or a Waste of Time? | | 2008-06-09 08:30:15 | | In the last few days signs of disagreement and argument appeared between the two Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams although they declared the beginning of writing a principal paper about the points they agree on. Some analysts said that the reason fo such a declaration only was published for the sake of supporting Ehud Olmert [...] | | By: Middle East Post | | |
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| Twitter Is a Absolute Waste Of Time | | 2008-06-06 22:02:23 | | Twitter can be beneficial to bloggers in many ways but can also bring nothing to bloggers. If you are using Twitter just because
everyone else does and not using it in A focused way then you are likely to see it as nothing but
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Twitter Should be use the way it should be [...] | | By: The Land Below the Wind | | |
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| Lottery Tickets: Worthy Investment or Waste of Money? | | 2008-06-05 08:00:25 | | Our cousin, aunt and uncle are a loyal patrons of the Taiwan lottery. (Or at least my cousin was until a recent tarot reading convinced her to cut back on the lottery purchases.) But when she first arrived in April, she purchased 2 or 3 California Mega Millions lottery tickets and convinced me to do [...] | | By: Our Fourpence Worth | | |
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| Bioplastic from animal protein waste | | 2008-05-28 16:42:07 | | A process developed at the University of Waikato in New Zealand will allow animal waste to be turned into a useful biodegradable plastic.
The new process, developed over two years by University of Waikato chemical engineer Dr Johan Verbeek and Masters student Lisa van den Berg, can turn animal protein waste like blood meal and feathers [...]
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| Australian winemaker turns waste water into winning wines | | 2008-05-20 15:28:00 | | World-beating winemaker Michael Fragos sees his South Australian vineyards as the perfect spot to grow grapes -- the soil, climate and afternoon sea breeze are all ideal.The only problem is the lack of water in one of the country's driest states, a hurdle that he and other McLaren Vale vignerons have overcome by using treated waste water to irrigate the deep green vines.A visit to the area is testimony to the long-running drought and scorching Australian climate -- any land where vines are not growing is crackling dry.
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| Dubai registers 163 percent growth in construction waste | | 2008-05-12 22:22:00 | | With no let up in its building boom, construction and demolition waste generated in Dubai registered a record 163 percent growth last year over the previous year, WAM news agency reported Monday.According to the annual report of Dubai municipality's Waste Management Department, a total of 27.7 million tones of construction waste were removed from various construction sites in the city in 2007. In 2006, it just 10.5 million tonnes.The construction and demolition waste makes up 75 percent of the t | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
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| Canon i850, i950, S600 Waste Ink Reset | | 2008-05-10 11:33:00 | | Start with the printer OFF1. Hold down RESUME and then hold down POWER2. Release RESUME3. Press RESUME twice, then release POWER4. Let green light blink until printer is done futzingSelect function with RESUME press POWER to execute:presses - light color - functionNumber of presses - light color - function0 presses - green - Test print (or exit service mode on i960)1 press - orange - EEPROM info print (plus grid nozzle diagnostic on i960)2 presses - green - EEPROM initialize3 presses - orange - Reset waste ink counter | | By: Complete CANON Printer Resetter, Repair and Troubl | | |
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| Canon i320 i255 Waste Ink Counter Reset | | 2008-05-10 11:05:00 | | Manual for Service Mode METODE 1 :Unplug power and USB. Open door and hold power button. Connect power. Close door, then release power button. METODE 2Turn off the printer. And disconnect the printer cable. Press and hold the POWER button, turn on the printer. The indicator (L.E.D.) should be green. Press and release the RESUME button , the indicator (L.E.D.) should be orange. Press and release the RESUME button again, the indicator (L.E.D.) should be green. Release both buttons. | | By: Complete CANON Printer Resetter, Repair and Troubl | | |
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| Canon BJC-2000 BJC-2100 Waste Ink Reset | | 2008-05-10 09:54:00 | | Remove the CartridgeUnplug the AC Power CordClose Front access panelHold down the RESUME/RESET button and plug in the AC power cordRelease RESUME/RESET after plugging in the AC Power cord.Press the RESUME/RESET once within 5 seconds and release the RESUME/RESET .Press and HOLD RESUME/RESET for two seconds or more and release it.Press and HOLD RESUME/RESET for two seconds or more and release it.Unplug AC Power Cord to set data.FINISH | | By: Complete CANON Printer Resetter, Repair and Troubl | | |
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| Canon BJC 1000 Waste Ink Tank Reset | | 2008-05-10 09:37:00 | | Remove CartridgeUnplug the AC Power CordHold down the RESUME buttonRelease RESUME after plugging in the AC Power cord.Press the RESUME once within 5 seconds and release the RESUMEPress and HOLD RESUME for two seconds or more and release itPress and HOLD RESUME for two seconds or more and release itUnplug AC Power Cord to set dataFINISH | | By: Complete CANON Printer Resetter, Repair and Troubl | | |
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| Viet Nam to pour 227m USD into solid waste treatment | | 2008-05-09 15:38:00 | | Viet Nam will invest around 227 million USD in building two solid waste treatment plants for eight northern cities and provinces, the Ministry of Construction said.
The investment is part of a waste treatment plan for the northern key economic region between now and 2020.
One plant will be built on 140-160ha in Hanoi ’s outlying Soc Son district to process the capital city’s waste and service | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| Only a couple of photos? Don’t waste my time | | 2008-05-02 09:05:04 | | That’s what buyers are saying according to a study conducted by Point2 (story by RISMedia).
Another study relating to the number of photos a listing posts compares photos to the number of Days on Market (DOM). The findings show that listings with more photos sold faster. This is the shake down on the photos to Days [...] | | By: Dothan Home Search | | |
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| What a waste of sleep! | | 2008-05-02 04:12:52 | | Okay, so I’m sitting here about to go to sleep when I get this urge to go check out Twitter.com. So its not a short visit. I already have an account there from way back when I was trying to stay updated on something. Anyhow, I decide to set it up so I can use [...] | | By: JeffreyMD | | |
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| News: When Green Goes Commercial: The Waste of Biofuel Production | | 2008-04-26 05:55:45 | | Biofuel is all about blue skies and clean water, a world with less pollution. An ideal like so many, which turns foul when the commercial world gets hold of it. Once the chase for profit comes primary, even the cleanest biofuel turns out to be a culprit to nature.When the Black Warrior River in Alabama got covered with an oily, fetid substance, the source of the pollution was traced to the Alabama Biodiesel Corporation plant, the state's biodiesel plant, a refinery turning soybean oil into earth-friendly fuel. The spills, resembling Italian salad dressing, were 450 times higher than permit levels allow and are similar to others that have come from biofuel plants in the Midwest.According to the National Biodiesel Board, a trade group, biodiesel is nontoxic, biodegradable and suitable for sensitive environments, but scientists say that position understates its potential environmental impact: As with most organic materials, oil and glycerin deplete the oxygen content of water very quickly | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
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| The perfect waste of time… | | 2008-04-22 07:26:00 | | The Eiffel Tower, Euro Disney, The Louvre Museum etc. etc. Back again after spending 4½ eventful days in Paris playing tourists with the girls.Today’s subject line doesn’t refer to the trip, but is the translated title of the new BREUMM album Det Perfekte Spild Af Tid. Been spending most of the day listening to it, and the fine lyrics combined with the catchy melodies simply make the album one of this year’s “must have’s”. Buy it via the band’s Myspace page.One Weekly Gun has been busy as two new tracks have been posted.+ Drive Your Wagon+ We Will Happily Sedate YouListen to two new tracks by Larsen & Furious Jane at Frekvens.dk. | | By: Hits In The Car | | |
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| New Report Says Vitamins A, C and E are 'a waste of time and may even shorten your life' | | 2008-04-16 16:21:00 | | Study from Great Britain shows vitamins do not extend life and may even cause premature death, according to a respected group of international scientists.After reviewing 67 studies involving more than 230,000 men and women, the experts say there is no convincing evidence that taking supplements of the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E can make you healthier.The review involved trials on beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium.It says in-depth analysis of the different trials does not support the idea that vitamins extend lifespan.'Even more, beta-carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E seem to increase mortality,' says the review.'There was no evidence to support either healthy people using antioxidants to prevent disease or for sick people to take them to get better,' said the review.Antioxidants are used by the body as protection against free radicals, which are molecules produced during normal metabolism.These can damage the body if they flourish in an uncontrolled way | | By: Whole Food And More | | |
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| Walkaways Waste Wachovia? | | 2008-04-15 08:11:49 | | Wachovia reported disappointing earnings today and highlighted that homeowners walking away from their mortgages, particularly in California, were at least part of the reason. They are certainly the reason Wachovia is cutting dividends.
Calculated Risk discussed the Wachovia conference call and the remarks made by Don Truslow, the Chief Risk Officer…
Don Truslow, Wachovia Corporation - SEVP, [...] | | By: Florida Mortgage Report | | |
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| Are Vitamins A Waste Of Money? | | 2008-04-12 14:12:00 | | That's all... well not really.What do you think? Please answer the following questions in the comments box, actually it's labeled -Your Reactions and Ideas.Do Americans spend too much on vitamins?Are Vitamins too expensive?Are Vitamins safe?Are all vitamins equal in quality?Is it possible to get all the vitamins and minerals (nutrients) our body needs from food?I have a reason for this post. You can find out later this week what I'm doing and why.I might even make this a contest. More on that Monday.Think about the questions and share your thoughts. www.AreVitaminsSafe.com | | By: Whole Food And More | | |
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| 5 Hot Recycling Tips for E-waste | | 2008-03-30 09:55:00 | | E-WASTE: GREAT SOLUTIONS!It makes me furious that electronics become obsolete so quickly. Besides the obvious downside of having to shell out more money for a new item because the old one is a dinosaur, it creates the bigger challenge of disposal. What to do with all this stuff? Well here are some great solutions I have found that will really help to keep these items out of the landfill.This just may be a List you want to keep handy for future reference! 1. Costco's Trade-In & Recycle ProgramCostco has paired with GreenSight to give it's members this option for recycling electronics. You provide the site with the details about your equipment. It gives you a trade in-value. If you accept the value, you proceed. Then they give you a free, prepaid shipping label to send the equipment to them. You get a Costco Cash card for the trade in-value. GreenSight salvages any parts that can be used and then works with others to dispose of the remains without using a landfill.2. Green PhoneGreen | | By: Just a List | | |
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| Plastic waste killing birds | | 2008-03-26 11:20:03 | | Albatross in Midway island are dying due to consuming plastic waste
According to a breaking news report by By David Shukman [...] | | By: Comprolive | | |
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| Dirty Nuclear cost more than $150 billion just for the old waste | | 2008-03-22 13:19:00 | | Clearing up old nuclear waste from old nuclear plants in Britain is going to cost more than $150 billion (£75 billion) !!!That is an insane huge number. All that huge money is going to be wasted just to cover up old nuclear rubbish and to hide it to new location, where is going to stay deadly harmful and highly radioactive for next thousands of years!!!$150 billion is $150.000 millions. And absolutely no real intention about totally sustainable and harmless solar power.One could imagine $1 million.One could hardly imagine $1000 million(s).But, it is almost impossible to imagine 150.000 million(s).$150.000 million is going to be just thrown away for cleaning up old nuclear power plants in Britain (UK). Solar power is endless and absolutely free of charge. There are millions of roofs out there which are waiting to be covered by solar power shingles.Still, Britain's PM and government are planning new deadly nuclear power plants??? Before, old dirty and deadly dangerous sins have been eve | | By: Solar Shingles | | |
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| 4 companies fined in waste management debacle | | 2008-03-07 08:47:00 | | Four companies were fined $1.7 million in connection with a week-long fire that engulfed a waste transfer station nearly four years ago in Vaughan, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment said Thursday.
Three men were also sentenced to jail, the Environment Ministry said in a news release. The sentencing was handed down Thursday by Justice of the Peace Linda DeBartolo at the Ontario Court of | | By: News Alert | | |
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| Get Organized: Purging e-Waste | | 2008-03-06 08:33:00 | | I became consciously aware of e-waste - discarded TVs, monitors, computers, cell phones, batteries - when I lived in Germany. Germany has a very strict policy about trash and recycle, as do most countries in the European Union.When I first arrived in country, I found it very frustrating! I had to separate everything, including foods like veggie scraps that are biodegradable. Initially, it took me a long time to divide out all the trash. But over time, the process got faster and my appreciation for Germany's earth-friendly regulations grew more and more.After my European trash experience, you can imagine my surprise when I read this statistic in a recent Parade magazine: More than 1.5 million tons of e-waste are thrown into U.S. landfills every year.The consequence of e-waste? Electronics are full of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and cadmium. For example, an old TV can contain between 4-8 pounds of lead; a big screen TV may have even more. These heavy metal toxins in tras | | By: Get Organized! | | |
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| Urban Communities and Solid Waste Management | | 2008-03-05 21:42:29 | | Govind Singh
govind@delhigreens.org
An improvement in quality of life followed by an increase in resource consumption has had several unintended negative impacts on our urban environment. One of the outcomes of this increased resource consumption pattern is the large amount of waste generated from the various urban centers everyday. Such is the magnitude of this waste that [...] | | By: Delhi Greens | | |
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| All-Bran | Don’t Waste Your Time | | 2008-03-05 15:05:05 | | Anúncio criado pela Leo Burnett de Dubai para o cereal matinal All-Bran da Kellog’s.
Assinatura: “Don’t Waste Your Time” (Não desperdice seu tempo)
Boa sacada.
Fonte: Dkcell Design
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| Waste, Recycling, and Space: Where Are Our Recycling Robots? | | 2008-03-02 11:40:00 | | What is the world's ugliest building? Esquire says it's the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. The interesting thing about the hotel is that it's only ugly because it's not finished, but if you finished it and get it a nice color and flashy lights it could very well be the coolest hotel outside of Las Vegas. It looks like a spaceship, or a spired pyramid of sorts. If you spruced it up it would look awesome. Heck, you could even go as far as to make it a space-themed hotel! So what's the problem with the hotel other than it's ugly? Well, apparently it's unfinished and it will never be finished. That means that North Korea has poured millions of dollars into this thing only to quit a good portion of the way through for whatever reason. Rumors are it's because there is some structural problems, but I don't buy that. My guess is that they simply ran out of money, or stopped funding it, or some such. It seems too idiotic to build something so massive only to get | | By: The World in the Satin Bag | | |
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| Don't Waste Money Through Thoughtlessness: A Rant | | 2008-02-29 23:04:00 | | The other day I passed by an HSBC bank that had a funny little ad in the window. It said "take advantage of our low $1.50 ATM fee." I'm not old, and even I remember when a $1.50 ATM fee was thought to be expensive. Nowadays most bank ATM fees are around $3. (If interested in articles about bank abuses, check out John Crenshaw's site.)I try to use my bank's ATM, which is still free. (Banks haven't been audacious enough to charge their own customers yet, at least for withdrawals. Charges for checking one's balance are not uncommon, however.) Occasionally, I'm forced to use other banks' ATMs. When waiting in line, I sometimes look at the discarded withdrawal receipts people leave on the counter and floor.It seems people like to withdraw $10 or $20, and they pay up to $3 to do so. That's 30% on a $10 withdrawal! Perhaps some of them needed just that much cash and no more, and needed it quickly. Others, however, are repeat customers. What's wrong with these people? Why not take out $60 rig | | By: Slacker Wealth | | |
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| Office Nonsense: What a Waste of Energy | | 2008-02-24 01:14:32 | | We all knew it had to happen at some point…well, here we go! My first office aggravation entry! Whoo hoo! Exciting! So, without any further adieu, I present my first awkward situation and the first time that I’ve put myself out there as someone NOT to be wrecklessly and witlessly tread [...] | | By: Joe's Journal | | |
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| Come Waste Your Time With Me | | 2008-02-23 00:51:24 | | I woke up the morning of my last full day on Gili Trawangan with a new sensation - energy! Apparently a night without alcohol can do that for a person. I walked through “town” and got an Indian chai tea and mini croissants from Scallywags - an organic restaurant I’d heard good [...] | | By: GoBackpacking | | |
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| Tips to Reduce Waste from Packaging Materials | | 2008-02-21 03:44:00 | | Packaging, they usually ends up as trash. They contributed some amount to the trash amount. In California as an example, one third of trash comes from packaging. That is huge amount of trash. Imagine the cost of this trash and money wasted for them. We buy them and throw them right away when we opened them.Landfill, the resting place of trash, everyday the trash amount grows,but do we have enough landfills? We need other solutions.Here are some tips to reduce the consumption of materials for packaging to help keep our environment clean and green:Many manufacturer companies use large and attractive packager to their products. This actually is wasting raw material and money. As buyer, we are the one that have to bear this waste and cost.Avoid from buying goods that is packed excessively. Choose simple packager and that can be recycled. If possible, purchase large package so you can reduce the trifles/smaller pack waste.Some foods and house goods are sold in re-filling pack. With this, w | | By: Macam-macam | | |
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| Government Waste?? Play Ball Mi Amigos!! | | 2008-02-14 12:17:27 | | Ya know, Dirty Harry was right, a good man knows his limitations, and my area of expertise is NOT the financial world, I have never claimed it was, but I do understand waste, the wanton waste of OUR tax dollars, money that we all work so hard to pay in, and I have to wonder how can the Senators [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
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| Roger Clemens: What a Waste of Tax Dollars!! | | 2008-02-13 23:06:46 | | News just hit the stands today that we found Osama Bin Laden, brought stability in Iraq, balanced the federal budget, paid off our national debt, simplified our tax code, eliminated earmarks and secured our boarder. Well, apparently people in Washington are acting like it.
Can someone please explain to me why Congress has time to stop Roger Clemens from allegedly sticking a needle in his butt?...
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| Speed bumps waste gas and add to global warming! | | 2008-01-29 01:26:39 | | We've all encountered speed bumps and odds are most of us hate them, especially the really enormous unpainted ones that tear holes in your oil pan in poorly lit parking lots. Well now we have another reason to despise speed bumps. They increase fuel consumption and emissions. A lot! In a study conducted the Millbrook Proving Ground in England, researchers found that their test car achieved 48 mpg (U.S.) when running at a steady 30mph. When the same car was forced to negotiate speed bumps with the constant braking and acceleration, the mileage dropped to under 26mpg with a corresponding increase in CO2 emissions. The results corroborate a previous study by the Transport Research Laboratory which found an 82 percent increase in CO emissions and 37 percent jump in NOx emissions on roads with speed bumps. [Source: Channel4] | | By: Auto News: Car Reviews, Car News, Car Shows | | |
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| Biotechnology Transforms Animal Waste to Human Wealth | | 2008-01-20 22:17:00 | | A North Carolina State University scientist has developed a system called thermophilic anaerobic digestion, which converts animal waste into various useful products, including methane gas for fuel, liquid nutrients for aquaculture, and nutrient-rich feed additives for the poultry and livestock industries.The thermophilic anaerobic digestion process involves enclosing animal waste in containers with heat-loving bacteria. The waste in the digester unit is heated to more than 115 degrees F. Bacteria in the digester then convert the waste into biogas, which can be used as fuel. The bacteria also destroy pathogens in the solid residue that remains. These by-products can then be processed as sanitary, nutrient-rich feed supplements. The demonstration projects in North Carolina indicate that the thermal recyclers are very productive. This simple method for processing animal waste, may someday lead to the productive use of the 500 million tons of poultry and livestock waste produced in the Uni | | By: The National Institute Of Science Media | | |
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| HA! PPC waste of time | | 2008-01-15 15:08:04 | | “For as much as 88.5% of the time people don’t pay attention to PPC adverts, which means that the click through rate is just 11.5% overall. This fact highlights the need for well-designed and wellexecuted SEO campaigns by companies for them to reach out to a majority of all those browsing the Internet.” (link)
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| Eliminate all waste … live in it! | | 2008-01-13 13:51:26 | | Copyright © learnsigma 2008 . This article may be out-of-date; visit the latest version at http://learnsigma.com/eliminate-all-waste-live-in-it/.
Shigeo Shingo once said:
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.
Well it’s pretty easy to spot this waste, it’s empty soda tins - made into a house! The question is did the guy who [...] | | By: learn about lean & six-sigma | | |
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| Winemaking waste proves effective against disease-causing bacteria | | 2008-01-02 11:25:00 | | A class of chemicals in red wine grapes may significantly reduce the ability of bacteria to cause cavities, according to a study published recently in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The findings suggest that specific polyphenols, present in large amounts in fermented seeds and skins cast away after grapes are pressed, interfere with the ability of bacteria to contribute to tooth decay. Beyond cavities, the action of the wine grape-based chemicals may also hold clues for new ways to lessen the ability of bacteria to cause life-threatening, systemic infections.
read more | | By: Machines Like Us - Science and Technology News | | |
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| Air and Waste Management Association-Connecticut Chapter Scholarship | | 2007-12-15 19:21:00 | | (Four Year College, Postgraduate, University/Scholarship)Purpose: Scholarship for Connecticut residents accepted to and enrolled in full-time courses of study in science and engineering leading to careers in the environmental field. Focus: Engineering/Technology; Earth Science; Biology; Physical Sciences and Math; Natural Resources; Natural Sciences Qualif.: Applicant must be: full-time student. High school students not considered. Award available to U.S. citizens.Funds Avail.: Minimum no. of aw | | By: FREE GOVERNMENT GRANT, COLLEGE MONEY & SCHOLAR | | |
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| Amazon's Kindle: Great Invention of Waste of Money? | | 2007-11-20 12:26:00 | | It's all over the net here, here, and here, and everywhere else. Amazon has released probably the only e-reader that has the potential to take off. While I am very interested in this product, I can tell you now that I'll never buy it. We'll get to that in a minute. Now, the Kindle is a rather remarkable little tool. It's better than some of the other readers because it looks easier to navigate, is not too complicated, and has a lot of features. I'm not going to get into the details of what it can do. If you want details read the links that I've given. If any reader to date has the potential to make e-reading a market-holding fad, it's the Kindle. But, like Sony's reader, this too has a high likelihood to flop. Why? Because it's $399 USD. That's 193 British Pounds, 270 Euros, or 393 Canadian...err bills (sorry, I don't know exactly what you guys call it over there). The Kindle is currently only a | | By: The World in the Satin Bag | | |
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| Reducing Waste During Construction of New Homes | | 2007-11-16 18:19:00 | | One of the big topics in building green is reducing the amount of waste generated during the construction process. The average 2,000 sq. ft. home generates about 7,000 lbs of waste. That is 3.5 tons of wood, plastic, cardboard, metal and misc. other building products dumped into landfills for each 2,000 sq. ft. (New Home Construction, Green Building Guidelines), home in America.There are many ways to control the amount of waste generated on a job site. One of the ways that we've been able to drastically reduce waste is to have our wall panels built off-site at a local factory that specializes in pre-fabricated walls. The walls are built the same way we'd build them on-site with the exception that they are built in a factory under controlled conditions. The walls are all designed using specialized software that allows the builder to minimize the amount of waste and build the walls as efficiently as possible.Another way we are reducing waste is by re-using damaged lumber for temporary | | By: Helpful Advice for Home Construction Improvement | | |
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| When Great Stats Go to Waste | | 2007-11-13 12:28:40 | | Check out the caption: "Alex Rodriguez' big stats haven't improved the Rangers or Yanks." Really, Philadelphia Daily News? In seven All-Star seasons, in which Rodriguez won (almost certainly) 3 MVP Awards and amassed a total WARP-3 of 81.5, he failed to improve his teams? Pretty hard to believe. | | By: Between the Lines | | |
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| What a waste | | 2007-10-04 03:10:00 | | In the process of building the attic, we (or should I say I) are getting Billy's tools organized. Because he is anything but organized.
Usually when he starts a project it goes something like this:
Billy: Where is my wrench?
Jodi: Which one?
Billy: The orange one.
Jodi: Where did you use it last?
*silence*
Billy: I think it was in the downstairs bathroom. No wait! It was in the basement | | By: Organized Chaos | | |
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| That’s not waste… gosh no! That’s just fill dirt. | | 2007-10-02 23:16:57 | | There is a remarkably brief piece of legislation called H.R. 2169 coming up to vote soon. Environmental-action.org is advertising it as legislation “that would help fight mountaintop removal mining.” The bill itself, though, is named `Clean Water Protection Act’ and reads (almost in its entirety):
`(25) FILL MATERIAL- The term `fill material’ means any pollutant which [...] | | By: Hell's Handmaiden | | |
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| How To Fully Automate Your Website So You Don’t Waste Time Working | | 2007-09-16 11:00:34 | | So you don’t have a way of managing all of the customer responses coming through your inbox? I can relate, please let me share a personal story.When I first started my online business, I didn’t know what an autoresponder was, and I was intimidated by setting one up on my site. I simply had an HTML form set up that would send e-mail address of people that wanted my newsletter straight to my inbox. I can only imagine the amount of money that I was leaving on the table. I had no way of responding back to my potential customers. When I saw a newsletter signup come into my inbox, I would copy and paste a reply back to them.The times have changed. Not only is the above situation not acceptable, but there’s no way you can effectively grow your business without an autoresponder.After all, since you now have your website set up to sell your e-book, you are going to need a way to handle the various types of correspondence being sent to you from potential customers.Autoresponders are an effective and economical innovation (software program) designed to “respond” to any messages a website receives. Thousands of online businesses use autoresponders to send a confirmation “thank you” notice when anyone registers with their email address on the site. Think of them as an answering machine for your website.Using an autoresponder is a critical component to having a successful ebook business. Not only do you need to respond to messages and inquiries, you must implement an email sales campaign to promote your ebook. If you were to try to manage the emails yourself, the task will eventually become impractical and extremely time consuming. You could hire someone to answer them, but when your site is receiving several hundred hits a day with an average of 50% registering to receive more information; you would need to hire several people thus making the cost very prohibitive. In business, “time is money and money is time”, and online, and autoresponder is the only solution.If you do not have an autoresponder, you will lose sales, and lots of them. If you are not using an auto email program to get these non-committals to return to your site, you will not be able to sell your ebook to them. It’s really as simple as that.How does an autorepsonder work? By utilizing the information you input into the programs, the Autoresponder will automatically answer any email or sign-up your site receives. You can even program a variety of responses and how many times you want to send your customers an email; plus any sales receipts, download information and access, support problems – can all be effectively handled by an autoresponder. Obviously if there is a support situation, you or your webmaster will need to step in and fix the problem, but the autoresponder can easily let the customer know that someone will be emailing them soon to help.Due to the nature of your business (e-book sales), you will need a variety of email autoresponses depending upon the situation. A typical list of responses for an e-book sales site might include some or all of the following:1) Thank you response for visiting and signing up; 2) Free newsletter emailed to all sign-ups; 3) Special offer emails to entice purchase; 4) Purchase notification/invoice; 5) Thank you for purchasing; 6) Informing of your newest e-book; 7) Offer free course/bonus for signing up; 8) Notification of problems/complaints received from customers; 9) Notification of feedback received. Basically the uses of the program are endless, in fact anything that you would want emailed to several customers can be handled through an autoresponder. And just like the almost limitless uses, there are a vast number of autoresponder companies vying to handle your e-business correspondence.Many sites have free autoresponder programs available which handle minimal email tasks; however because you are trying to sell ebooks, you should look for a system or service that does not limit the capabilities of your emails. Make sure you get unlimited email size plus you will need the ability to send multiple emails to the same person over a period of time. Remember, the reason for sending several emails over a course of time is based on the fact that most customers (about 60% - 70%) do not purchase on their first visit. If they are interested in learning more about your ebook, they will sign up for more information. And this is when you use an autoresponder to send multiple targeted information emails to drive those reluctant customers back to your site for the purchase. You will also want to have the ability to track your emails to assess the effectiveness of such a campaign. We use www.aweber.com and www.getresponse.com is also a good solution.The messages you will want to send will depend upon the reason for the need to respond. One way you can handle this by having multiple email addresses for your site. Here is a short list of email addresses you will need:1) support@yoursite.com 2) Yourname@yoursite.com 3) Yourassistant@yoursite.com 4) sales@yoursite.com If you need additional addresses, do not hesitate to set them up and use them; the more you categorize your customer’s emails, the better you, your webmaster and your autorepsonder program will work. The autoresponder will know the difference between newsletter sign-ups, customer logins, purchases, and so on. This is all configured in the program, as is sending notification emails for receipt of a customer’s inquiry at one of your listed email addresses. Again, you or your webmaster will manually have to answer any inquiries received at a site listed address. Unfortunately at this moment in time, autoresponders cannot read and answer emails. I would imagine that sometime in the not too distance future this will become a possibility. One can always hope!Now you understand why autoresponders are an important if not critical ingredient in developing a productive, functioning, 24/7 e-book sales site. Using one will help increase your sales, drive those hesitant potential customers back to your site and take care of those everyday tasks associated with having a professional and courteous Internet business. Offering excellent customer service is a significant business building tool, especially for online businesses when a customer assesses you and your site faster than you realize. | | By: Various Ways to Earn Money Online | | |
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| When is 'Spying on Your Competition' a Complete Waste of Time? | | 2007-09-11 08:50:38 | | Your brain screams "Gimme Fast", "Gimme Easy", "Do it for me automatically"! So when you see the headline that reads..."Imagine Spying On Your Competition To Build A Massive Targeted Keyword List Of 3000 Or More Keywords On Auto-Pilot... In 10 Minutes Or Less And Skyrocket Your Adsense Profits Quickly And Easily"You think "Hmmmm. Sounds good. Looks intriguing...""Never Build Another Keyword List The Slow And Hard Way!"Gosh. Is it possible?"You must understand that this is a numbers game."O.K. Now tell me something not quite so obvious.The above headlines and subheadlines are quoted directly from a sales letter for a relatively new piece of software (no names will be mentioned here) that's intended to eliminate all the "hard work" of doing keyword research. It sounds exciting. No more tedious keyword research. Yes! I find life is so much more enjoyable when I don't have to engage my brain.Don't pull out your credit card just yet.With this particular product there's no need to review the | | By: Various Ways to Earn Money Online | | |
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| Meetings are a waste of time are they ? | | 2007-07-26 08:27:00 | | HOW TO HAVE A GOOD MEETINGFirst of all, consider whether the meeting is really necessary. To have a meeting just for the sake of it is a waste of time and resource. Could the business in hand be dealt with by a telephone call, an exchange of e-mails, an audio conferencing call or a video conference or could it simply wait until the next scheduled meeting?If a meeting is necessary, make sure that the right people are going to be there. Too many people and the meeting is likely to be unproductive; too few and affected individuals are likely to feel excluded. If the meeting is of a standing body, extra individuals may need to be invited for particular agenda items.Make sure that everyone knows in good time when and where the meeting will be held, who will be there, and what will be discussed. If you know that someone is out of the office or on holiday until just before the meeting, make special arrangements to advise them of the relevant details.Make sure that everyone has the agenda, min | | By: Gordon Whyte's Blog of the daily challenges of an | | |
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| Rangers Waste Brilliant Outing By Millwood | | 2007-07-14 09:14:29 | | As a Rangers fan, I find nothing more maddening than watching an AL West rival celebrate a walkoff win on their home turf.
Yeah, this was one of those nights.
Texas squandered a brilliant start by Kevin Millwood, and lost in the bottom of the 9th inning to the Anaheim Angels on Friday night, 2-1. Millwood pitched seven innings and gave up just one run on five hits and three walks, striking out seven.
Not only did tonight mark his 300th career start, but he also notched his 1500th career strikeout. It’s probably his finest 2007 effort to date, topping his start last Sunday against the Orioles when he gave up one run in six innings of work.
After throwing a no-hitter through the first 3.1 innings of the game, shortstop Orlando Cabrera rapped a hard single past Michael Young into left field to break up Millwood’s no-hit bid. Vladimir Guerrero followed with an infield single off Millwood’s leg that landed in fair territory down the third base line. After a brief visit by | | By: Baseball Time in Arlington | | |
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| Lots of Newspaper Space to Waste Today | | 2007-07-11 18:30:00 | | "A rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks." -- the late Hunter S. Thompson, on the subject of sportswritersBoth of today's New York tabloids have stories in them that would better be left in my cat's box (if I still had one). I know it's the All-Star break and they have to write something on this off-day before the second half begins.The New York Daily News has some drivel they deemed worth two pages called "Building a Case for '09," with their own drunks, er, "experts," giving their best "guesses" as to what the Yankees will (or should, in their own warped views) look like when they open their new ballpark in 2009.This is a real exercise in stupidity. Trying to determine what the Yankees will look like at the end of this season, let alone by April 2009, is really ANYONE'S guess, and you might as well take out your crystal ball, or Magic 8 Ball to determine that.Naturally, they all predict they will sign all the "sexy" free agents, like Torii Hunter, Miguel Cabrera, Mike | | By: The Mighty Quinn Media Machine | | |
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