by admin | March 2, 2020 10:05 am | By Doc Mueller, Cooking ideas, Environment, Main, Today's Thought
This week, New York rolled out its’ ban on plastic bags. We all find much joy in not using plastic bags anymore, but is paper any better? Most of us want to band paper bags too and make everyone use reuse bags. (If we had to buy them at the counter to get our food home I’ll bet we would stop forgetting, I know I would☹
I say: let’s ban paper bags too. Research by the UK Environment Agency has found that paper bag production requires more raw materials and energy, and produces more waste than plastic bag production.
14 billion trees are cut down annually for paper packaging; plastic ones are by-products of oil refining. It takes four times more electricity to 
produce a paper than a plastic carrier. Besides, paper bag production emits 70% more air and 50% more water pollutants than its synthetic counterpart.
A paper bag has to be used at least three times to decrease its impact on the environment to match that of a plastic bag used just once.
New York joined the long line of jurisdictions that have banned plastic bags. Now there are about 66 countries and counting, Bangladesh was the first. The terrifying pictures we have all sen of plugged rivers or dead animals (from ingesting them) have made a mark on us all.
Globally, we produce around 300 million tons of plastic waste per year, which the UN has helpfully equated to the weight of the entire human population.
Only a small part of this is recycled or incinerated. Almost 80% is merely piling up around us, as litter in our streets, in garbage dumps, and our waters. Depending on the type of product, plastic takes up to 600 years to decompose, all the while contaminating the water we drink and the food we eat. The UN estimates that by 2050, we could have more plastic than fish in our oceans and seas.
Not all is lost, the reusable tote: Many people already have the habit of keeping them handy in our cars, handbags or backpacks and offices for that surprise trip to the grocery. The Environment Agency study estimated that reusable synthetic bags should be used up to 30 times to match the environmental impact of a plastic grocery bag used once, and canvas sacks at least 330 times. The idea is to go as natural as possible and to use them for years. Not only that, you can have them custom made for advertising your website, your business, your grandchildren, just about anything.
by admin | February 17, 2020 9:43 am | By Doc Mueller, Main, Success, Tech, Today's Thought
Years ago, I used to be a computer tech for dell. I had the A+ certification to help you with your issues on the phone etc. I was there when we were given the new software to go onto YOUR computer, and just do it for you was launched. This new prosses saved companies like Dell a fortune because no longer did they have to teach you to do it yourself. (Great for them, bad for you, most of the time.) In learning all this tech stuff, I found out that fixing computer issues was 10% knowledge and 90% being dam good at looking stuff up on the internet.
Jump to today! Now it seems that 50% (or more) of the help on the internet is outdated and that is only going to get worse as time goes on. Because the internet remembers everything and no-one goes back and deletes their old stuff because having all that on your blog etc.… makes your site look more active and well used. It also makes the site owner more of an “expert.”. My best tip for you today is LOOK AT THE DATE!!! If this article was written in 2016, it’s not going to help you. Try to go for help articles, step by step instructions, etc. That are less than one year old. That is still not a guarantee, but your results will be closer to the answer, I promise. If you have a really old computer look for dates around when you bought it. If it’s an internet thing like “How do I export my chrome bookmarks,” make sure it’s a current date.
by admin | February 3, 2020 8:18 am | Holidays, Love, Main, Today's Thought, Well Being
Just to show you how wonderful I am I’m posting all these Valentine quotes. Maybe one will be just perfect for your valentine.
I hope One of these is the perfect fit for your Valentine!
by admin | July 22, 2019 6:50 pm | Babies & Children, Main
To share in some of the joys of newborns, here are some popular baby quotes:
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown
Babies are always more trouble than you thought – and more wonderful. ~Charles Osgood
Babies are such a nice way to start people. ~Don Herrold
When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they’re seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into. ~Terri Guillemets
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. ~ Eda J. Le Shan
A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past is forgotten, and the future worth living for.
A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.
My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. ~ Stephen Wright
I can’t think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. ~ Douglas Feaver
Laughter is like changing a baby’s diaper. It doesn’t permanently solve any problems, but it makes things more acceptable for a while ~ Unknown
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~ Milton Berle
I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. ~ Robert Orben
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
~ L. Tom Perry
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. ~ Elaine Heffiner
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. ~ David Bly
by admin | June 1, 2019 6:48 pm | Babies & Children
To become a mother is one of life’s greatest blessings. It is a lifelong event that forever changes you. Becoming a mother changes your heart, your thoughts, and your actions. However, you may soon wish you had a few extra hands.
As a mother, you find that they first tug on your sleeve and later on your heartstrings.
by admin | April 15, 2019 11:59 am | Health, Love, Main, Success, Today's Thought
There are many ways to express love, and the least used way in today’s hectic lifestyle is by using poems.
Poems are a fun way to express love without being too pushy.
The Power Of Poems
Most often the female gender seems to find is very pleasing when love is expressed in poems. Escaping from reality gives these poem composers a chance to express themselves in a very “flowery” way. Tapping into this very old method of communicating love seems to appeal to the current generation, probably because of its novelty factor.
Using the internet as an ideal platform for expressing one’s self through love poems will allow the individual to create ways to impress the other party through these poems. For those who are rather shy in expressing themselves in other ways, poem writing can help them to express themselves without feeling any sort of inhibition. Poem writing is also another effective way of showing loved ones they are being thought of, and this, of course, is very ego inflating and rather warming. This is especially so for those who are using the online dating platform to show their feelings in a romantic way, as this will help to “sell” the individual in a better light overall.
Love poems can actually allow the creative side of an individual to be expressed. This is a great platform for the more artistic individual who is interested in wooing the other party, as in most cases it will be viewed in a better light and as well the individual penning the poems does not have to worry about facing any ridicule in person.
This week, New York rolled out its’ ban on plastic bags. We all find much joy in not using plastic bags anymore, but is paper any better? Most of us want to band paper bags too and make everyone use reuse bags. (If we had to buy them at the counter to get our food home I’ll bet we would stop forgetting, I know I would☹
produce a paper than a plastic carrier. Besides, paper bag production emits 70% more air and 50% more water pollutants than its synthetic counterpart.
Only a small part of this is recycled or incinerated. Almost 80% is merely piling up around us, as litter in our streets, in garbage dumps, and our waters. Depending on the type of product, plastic takes up to 600 years to decompose, all the while contaminating the water we drink and the food we eat. The UN estimates that by 2050, we could have more plastic than fish in our oceans and seas.
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