25 Secrets of Endless Love

1. We remember the moments in life, not the days.

2. Face-to-face conversations don't work by phone.

3. Gifts are not a substitute for caring.

4. People are not yo-yos. Drop them, and they may not return.

5. When kids are ready to talk, be ready to listen.

6. An ounce of love outweighs a pound of promises.

7. You can prepare your children for life, but you can't live it for them.

8. Uncles and aunts are the parents who didn't give birth to you.

9. A strong marriage is the union of two staunch individualists.

10. Turning your back and walking away ends more than just a conversation.

11. Marrying for money is a high price to pay.

12. Yell at your children and get the same in return.

13. If you take things for granted, you won't have them for very long.

14. Caring should be demonstrated 365 days a year, not just on holidays.

15. A well-fed child can still be starved for affection.

16. The most important things a child can inherit are fond memories.

17. Sharing an hour of memories with an elder is often better than a week's worth of medicine.

18. The two greatest time savers are saying, "I don't know" and "I was wrong."

19. Watch your children grow, and they will teach you what you've taught them.

20. Never go to bed before settling an argument.

21. There's a difference between nurturing your children and smothering them.

22. Relationships are built on the little things.

23. If we give our children everything, we deprive them of aspirations.

24. Celebrate holidays as a family.

25. Never stop courting your spouse.

-- Lord let me live from day to day,

In such a self-forgetful way,

That even when I kneel to pray,

My prayer shall be for others.

Others,

Lord, Yes,

Others; Let this my motto be,

Help me to live for others,

That I may live like thee!

"The one who kneels to the Lord in prayer, can stand up to anything."

Mobile Phones -- Useful Tips

Important

for those who has Mobile Phones.

Something to learn about...

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD ..

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies.

Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival.

Check out the things that you can do with it: -

*EMERGENCY*

*I*

*The Emergency Number worldwide for **Mobile** is 112.*

If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.

**Try it out.**

*II*

*Subject: Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does you car have remote keys?*

This may come in handy someday.

Good reason to own a cell phone:

If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call Someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end.

Your car will unlock.

Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.

Distance is no object.

You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

Editor's Note: *It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our carover a cell phone!"*

*III*

Subject: Hidden Battery power

Imagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger.

Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery.

To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.

This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.

AND

*IV*

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone:* # 0 6 #A 15 digit code will appear on the screen.

This number is unique to your handset.

Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.

when your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code.

They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.

You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either.

If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

Please spread this useful information around.

Hairband Made By Condoms Is Selling In China......Beware Girls Before Buying

Beware when you are travelling to China ,

just try to be careful when you are buying hairbands down

the road who knows what it is made from??

These Hairbands were made from used condoms and threads.

That was so disgusting, No one would not want to use them.

BEIJING (AFP) - Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China , threatening to spread sexually-transmitta ble diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday

In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province,

China Daily newspaper said.
'These cheap and colourful rubber bands and hair ties sell well ... threatening the health of local people,' it said.

Despite being recycled, the hair bands could still contain bacteria and viruses, it said.
'People could be infected with AIDS, (genital) warts or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while waving their hair into plaits or buns,' the paper quoted a local dermatologist who gave only his surname, Dong, as saying.

A bag of ten of the recycled bands sells for just 25 fen (three cents), much cheaper than others on the market, accounting for their popularity, the paper said.

A government official was quoted as saying recycling condoms was illegal.
China 's manufacturing industry has been repeatedly tarnished this year by a string of scandals involving shoddy or dangerous goods made for both domestic and foreign markets.

In response, it launched a public relations blitz this summer aimed at playing up efforts to strengthen monitoring systems.

What Happens To The Rubbish We Produce????

What happens to the rubbish we produce?

How much waste we produce and what we do with it are vital if we wish to live in a sustainable society. The reasons behind the processes we employ are discussed in our topics sheet – the problem with waste.

Waste from our homes is generally collected by our local authorities through regular waste collection, or by special collections for recycling. In addition, householders may make special trips to their civic amenity (CA) site, or organise a bulky waste collection in order to dispose of particular items.

Whilst it is difficult to monitor reduction and reuse schemes, councils and waste management companies do collect figures allowing us to note how much of collected waste is intended for recycling (or recovery) and how much for final disposal through landfill. The main methods currently employed are landfilling, recycling, composting and energy from waste plants.

Landfill

At the most basic level landfilling involved placing waste in a hole in the ground and covering it with soil. Today, the engineering of a modern landfill is a complex process, typically involving lining and capping individual "cells" into which waste is compacted and covered to prevent the escape of polluting liquid or gases. Systems are installed to capture and remove the gases and liquids produced by the rotting rubbish.

Household waste recycling

Recyclate from recycling collections are frequently sent to a materials recycling facility (MRF).At the MRF the materials typically travel along a conveyor belt and the specific fractions are gradually removed. Metals may be extracted using magnets, paper taken off by weight and other screening devises used. Following separation the constituent material are baled prior to sending to reprocessors.The activities at these plants are specific to the material being processed – pulping and shredding of paper, granulation of plastics, melting of metals and glass to name but a few. Many goods produced with recycled content will end up in the shops as ordinary household products, such as bin bags, stationery, furniture, or even filling for duvets and pillows. See our information sheets on each specific material for further details.

Composting

The biodegradable component of municipal waste that will break down is know as BMW and includes kitchen and garden waste, paper, card and more. Composting allows this material to break down and results in the formation of compost that can be used as fertilizer.Although compost can be made at home, councils are increasingly developing centralised composting schemes for residents’ garden waste to tackle this large and problematic part of the waste stream.A Waste Watch information sheet on composting is available here.

Incineration

Incineration is the burning of waste. Incineration may be carried out with or without energy recovery. The energy released from burning the rubbish is often used to generate electricity.

Additional technologies

Research and development of new technologies to deal with the waste we produce are constantly developing. Among the techniques are alternatives to incineration such as pyrolysis and gasification and also anaerobic digestion, mechanical biological treatment and more. For further details please see our information sheet Waste and recycling - collection and disposal.

Waste At Home

So you would like more information on waste at home:

Get general information, such as how much we recycle here

Find your nearest bring bank, or get your local authority details here

Find out about a particular waste material, then click here

Find out why it is a good idea to buy recycled products here


What we produce!

We all produce waste of some sort, whether it is the empty drinks can, or the grass clippings from the garden. We estimate that nearly 30million tonnes of household waste were collected in the UK in 2003/04. That's over 500 kg, or half a tonne, of rubbish per person per year!

So where does it all go?


A total of:

• 72% of municipal waste is landfilled - which means it's buried in the ground.
• 9% is incinerated - which means it's burnt - this is also called energy from waste
  

Dealing with our rubbish in this way is not an ideal solution. When we bury or burn our rubbish we are losing valuable natural resources and wasting the energy, water and transport costs used in its production. Land filling and incineration can harm the environment if not properly managed. Many landfill sites are nearly full and we are rapidly running out of suitable land, close to where the rubbish is produced, for new sites. In any case, these sites are often unwelcome neighbours - we keep producing the rubbish, but we don't want it disposed of near to where we live.

The alternative?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle



We would all benefit from:

• Reducing the amount of rubbish we create
• Reusing as much of our rubbish as possible
• Increasing the 19% of waste that we currently recycle and compost (although the latest figures suggest we are now recycling 23%)

That is what the 3Rs are about - reduce, reuse, recycle.

Reducing - every year the amount of rubbish we produce increases and this leads to increased costs for society - both financial and environmental. The majority of the resources that we use to make things - only to throw them away - can't be replaced. Throwing away our rubbish puts pressure on the environment - not only from the landfills and incinerators, but also because we have to extract and process even more resources, and transport our new goods and our old rubbish so increasing vehicle emissions. As consumers, we have the ability to reverse this trend - buy only the right quantity of what we really need, choose products with less packaging, and buy from producers employing sustainable practices.

Reusing - we can cut down on the amount of rubbish we have to get rid of by reusing our materials. Computers, furniture, clothing - so many items can be reused. Setting the printer to print on both sides of a sheet of paper, repairing our broken appliances and shoes or finding a charity that will make use of them - we help ourselves and others, and delay the point at which materials become waste.

Recycling - putting materials aside for recycling helps in many ways: we send less rubbish to landfill or incineration, and we save valuable materials and energy - for example, plastic bottles can be converted into fleeces and garden furniture, whilst recycling aluminium cans saves 95% of the energy used in making a new can. New technologies are furthering our ability to recycle what was previously our waste and turn it back into the resources that we need.

If you would like to recycle more, but do not know where to take your recyclables, then visit this site recyclenow. Here you will also find contact details for your local authority.

Buy recycled - If you find that a material is not being recycled in your area, it may be because the markets are not strong enough for the local authority to pay for collecting it. To help alleviate this, support those industries that use recycled materials by buying recycled products. Buying recycled 'closes the loop' in recycling - remember that it's not enough just to recycle, buying recycled ensures that the materials you send for recycling are actually used again.

You may also be interested in other ways to use your power as a consumer to help promote sustainability - visit green choices for further suggestions on environmentally friendly shopping.

Sustainable solutions - The problem of what to do with the waste we produce is worldwide though the solutions have to be provided locally. In the UK there are many organisations - governmental and independent, local and national who are trying to move Britain forward towards a sustainable society. (see our links page).The reports and information they have produced are a valuable resource to help us all move on and really begin the "good riddance of bad rubbish".

Recycling and beyond Wasteline information sheet explaining the benefits of reducing, reusing and recycling waste - facts, statistics and a glossary of terms included. For a referenced version please open the pdf of the same name.

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