Your Questions About Recycling

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Yes, but in the court of public opinion they are not responsible and intelligent enough to be held accountable for their actions. They are seen as oppressed and weak, what a double standard ! They are strong and capable and weak/easily manipulated at the same time. Just pick the one that works for the situation, aka feminism.

Juniper, how does that regurgitated and recycled tripe you spew taste the second time ? If women are systematically discriminated against in wages then why are there so few, if any, lawsuits FOR DECADES ? ? ? The only one I have ever heard of is the wal-mart suit. One suit does not a widespread problem make !

I’ll tell you why because a COURT of LAW is not the court of public opinion ! Anecdotes don’t fly, and neither does the apples and watermelons comparisons that sour grapes women make trying to show that they are being discriminated against. They can’t because they aren’t ! They NEVER have the “same job”, they choose to think it is the same job while retaining their gender privileges and hiding behind a “job title”, different job description.

BUT go here www.bls.com and look at all the hundreds of reasons why men should make more money than women. They do more, sacrifice more, risk more, etc etc etc !

Arguing against the facts just makes one seem like an irrational feminist, is that redundant ?

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The clumping litter gets EVERYWHERE, including under the covers in bed, don’t ask me how.

Clay litters usually track about 4′ from the box.

Litter ‘pearls’ aren’t much better.

Yesterdays News is usually large enough to stay in the box — it’s the fact that the litters are being caught between the cat’s toes and the big pad that get them tracked outside the box and dropped elsewhere around the house. Unless you’ve got an energetic ‘digger’ who flings litter everywhere as they dig a hole to China to do their business in.

You need a large piece litter, and the only type I’ve seen that keeps close to the box would be the Yesterday’s News which is a pellet form of compacted recycled paper.

An extra thing you can do is get rid of the carpet piece and get a piece of astroturf or fake grass type doormats to put where the cat would step when coming out of the box. The vertical ‘grass’ strands would make the cat spread it’s toes as it steps, letting the litter fall down into that mat instead of tracking away from the box. Putting the box into a corner would make it easy to have just 2 small mats or one larger one, to do the job that way.

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I’m not sure who told you that you have a 50/50 chance that a junk yard motor is good or bad. It sounds like something someone made up.
The fact is, you get a good deal on a used motor, that they bought from someone else, that didn’t have the time or space or need for it. Any good junkyard has a business based on repeat customers.
You bought one motor, they may have bought 10 this week. Before a car is disassembled, motors are tested. Bad motors are recycled and good ones are stored. The last thing a good junkyard wants is a return. It means they got ripped off. They will pay more for a bad car with a good motor, from a known source. If someone they know mislead them, they may not buy from that person again.
They don’t save bad motors to sell, because there are plenty of good ones worth saving. Even the workers avoid a mystery motor. Why spend the time taking one out, if their not sure if it’s good ? When in doubt, they throw it out.

The biggest problem with junkyard motors is they sit, while they wait to be sold. They can get stiff or even seize from sitting.
I always like to make sure a used motor turns freely. So I take the spark plugs out and lube the cylinders, first . Using a breaker bar, gently turning the bolt on the crank shaft pulley. It should turn smoothly. When you know it’s not seize, you can use it’s starter motor to spin it. I make a wire harness and use a car battery, to turn it over.
Then do a compression test. The test will tell you if each cylinder has the right compression. If it’s a good the motor, it should have great compression.

If you want to start it, without installing it, you have to secure it so it doesn’t roll over during testing. You have to have a starter, so you’ll need to mount one. A fly wheel bolts onto a motor without a transmission, an auto trans doesn’t use a flywheel, so you might have to buy a flywheel for testing, if you plan on having an auto trans.
You’ll need to rig a radiator, or only run the motor for a minute or two. Running it without coolant will ruin it.
Fuel can come from a gas can. On a fuel injected motor, an electric inline fuel pump is needed to deliver the right pressure to the fuel injection.
Ignition on a old engine was easy, just run a ground wire to the block and a hot wire to the coil connected to the distributer. A multi coil modern motor with a computer needs the sensors connected to start. So a harness would have to be made to do that.
I would just lube it and turn it over. If you want to wire a starter and do a compression test, OK, but running it would be a big job.

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Wear a different shirt/hoodie with your pants (in my opinion wearing the same jeans a couple days in a row is better than wearing the same shirt). You can make it so you wear your hoodie like a shirt (just don’t take it off) and that way you will have 9 different “outfits” (just different tops). Try not to wear the same shirt too much in one week, but it should be alright with your hoodie if you change your pants.

If you want to have different clothes, you could trade with your friends or do a clothing swap.

Or if you have older cousins/people with older cousins who are close family friends, they always have old clothes that they can’t wear anymore and you could always wear their hand-me-downs (this was my childhood pretty much)

I have never done this, but you could go to thrift shops and get different pieces for cheap from there.

For money you can bring bottles from home to the recycling depot place, and you can get a few bucks change that you can spend on something new. Look up newspaper deliveries, or babysit. Make/Sell things on e-bay or whatever internet sites if you’re allowed. Have a bake sale. Have a garage sale.

If you’re super desperate and just want change, you could raid your family’s closet (as long as they don’t get super mad at you or anything). Like I took a couple of my dad’s old Christmas sweaters that he never wears and then I didn’t have to buy any “boyfriend” sweaters that were in. Or if you’re mom if fairly close enough to you in size, you could see if she has anything remotely wearable for you to borrow some days.

If you have old clothes that you wouldn’t wear anymore, you can revamp them to make them totally awesome without having to buy anything new. I had a pair of jeans (an old home-stay had left them at our house and didn’t want them) that fit nicely but were waaay too short, so I cut them and died them and now I have super awesome rainbow shorts. If you want to get some ideas you could look them up on youtube.

In fact if you have some type of material (doesn’t have to be bought. Can be old clothes), you can make your own clothes like shirts, vests, skirts (those are easy), hats etc…

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Throughout your life you will take jobs that you like and jobs you don’t like. Just remember this … “It’s just another gig”. If you can’t find anything else and if it’s a secure job – take it for now, and keep your eyes open. It’s not a career – but times are tough all over and having a job is much better than not having one.

Keep in mind that employers always look more favorably on applicants who have jobs – they appear more responsible and resourceful. If you find a better job in three months or six months – the fact that you are currently employed will be very much in your favor when you apply.

When I was around twenty I had a job loading boxes on trucks – my shift was from midnight to 8 AM and I hated it – but I did it for about ten months and it paid great money. I got in very good shape there. I worked at a recycling center, also – not as a “sorter on a line” but I strapped newspaper, accepted glass and aluminum, I compressed cardboard and drove a truck around picking up paper. It was no great career but I met some interesting people and paid my rent.

It’s just another gig. Take it.

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There area a lot of bogus answers here! 1-“it takes more energy to drive the trash to the dump” – so, if I recycle that aluminum can, that means the trash trucks stop running? 2- “because when you throw stuff away they burn it & if you recycled it they can re-use & turn it into energy” – what do you think they burn it for? TO CREATE ELECTRICITY! 3-“not recycling is one of the causes of global warming” – global warming is only a THEORY…NOT a FACT!…and used by the crazed elite (ie, Al Gore) to MAKE MONEY by scaring you into buying ‘carbon credits’ – what a snow job. By the way, Al Gore owns a company that sells carbon credits! I’ll die before I buy 1 carbon credit.

It’s OK to recycle. It makes sense to preserve our natural resources, and save energy used to create new items. In realistic terms, that doesn’t mean that 1 pound less of ore will be mined or that the electric producers will produce 1 kilowatt less of electricity. Think about it.

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Horses are indeed being transported to Mexico and Canada as they always have been. What Obama has done is to allow refunding of inspections which had been defunded prior, forcing the slaughterhouses to close. The inspections will cost US taxpayers millions while we subsidize foreign owned slaughterhouses that provide us with nothing in the way of jobs or revenue. Only international companies like Cavel have access to the foreign horse meat market. In the past these foreign plants have notoriously employed illegals and ex cons and provided no more than a handful of lowest paid jobs to US citizens. The communities near the plants lose property value, and deal with issues of water and air pollution among others. Our horses were still transported to Canada and Mexico throughout all of the years the US slaughterhouses were in operation, and that won’t change. Many breeders who were forced to cut back on their breeding operations will now be resuming their breeding programs, because slaughter of horses encourages irresponsible breeding, and in fact, serves to subsidize it.
By 2013 the European market is anticipated to be requiring strict regulation of the animals slaughtered for human consumption. Any US horse to ever be slaughtered to provide meat for human consumption will be required to have veterinary records from birth on after documenting all medications, vaccines, dewormers, etc. Administered, and all diseases or injuries treated. Since certain drugs such as bute, for example, have no safe withdrawal time established, and the metabolites are found in the tissues indefinitely, any horse having ever been given bute will not qualify for the European horse meat market. The Asian market is likely to follow suit, since our contaminated horse meat is currently being fed to their unsuspecting children and producing diseases like aplastic anemias and cancers. Our horses have not been monitored the way animals used for human consumption should be in order to assure safety of the meat being exported. All of us horse owners may find ourselves subjected to strict regulations, required veterinary control over administration of all vaccines and drugs used on our horses, and loss of many of the freedoms enjoyed at present if all US horses are seen as part of the food chain, whether or not we ever intended our own horses to end up at the slaughterhouses.

Those who neglect and starve their horses will not be able to provide the necessary documentation so that their horses, along with the many feral horses, will not even qualify as candidates to be purchased by kill buyers fulfilling foreign meat contracts.

So, none of the over-breeding and equine overpopulation issues will be solved, and the over-breeders can flourish while the taxpayers and the throw-away horses suffer for it. We haven’t benefited anyone but those who need to clean up their acts or be put out of business.

Horse slaughter is not a necessity, and there are viable alternatives that provide for humane euthanasia, environmentally beneficial and safe recycling of carcasses, and will ultimately need to be incorporated anyway as the foreign market for our tainted horse meat dwindles, as well it should.
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Here is an excerpt of an article from the IFH on new regulations to meet the requirements of the European Union regarding the monitoring of quality of North American horse meat for export…………………

“……While the current system may be inadequately implemented, this initiative is only the first in a series of new regulations that by 2013 are expected to generate an electronic database with full medical histories wherein the EID is to be an implanted microchip in each and every horse destined for slaughter. Any horses flagged for banned substances will be considered ineligible.

How then will the current enforcement of these regulations develop to guarantee this happens? It is doubtful the U.S. Will comply or adopt any formal procedures to provide sufficient information for the completion of a Canadian EID.

In any case, the market for North American horse meat may be on the verge of collapse.

Many European importers have promised customers that they will no longer purchase from the North American supply chain. This stems in part from the realization of the extreme cruelty of the slaughter pipeline in North America and Mexico, as exposed by GAIA, a respected animal welfare in Belgium, and Animals’ Angels USA,13 together with the growing awareness that horses in North America are not subject to the restrictions that apply to food animals…..”
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Here is a partial listing of drugs banned for use in horses to be slaughtered for human consumption. The FDA website has a full listing……………..

Http://www.vetsforequinewelfare.org/prohibited-drugs.php
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There are several basic logic errors in your concepts about alternative energy sources. First is solar cells and the fact that they will not produce as much energy in their lifetimes as they use in being produced and the disposal of manufacturing waste from them. The original concept for solar cells is they would be used in huge satellites, produced in orbital factories from lunar or other orbital materials sources. Here they would operate at 4 times the efficiency they can on earth because the filtering affect of the atmosphere is removed. Also in orbit they would operate 24 hours a day where on earth over a year they might average 6 to 7 hours a day. And then there is the waste issue, in orbit the materials can be easily turned into something else usable where on earth because of environmental laws they must be put into a dump instead of being recycled. Because of silly environmental laws the US now recycles less than one third of the manufacturing waste they did just 50 years ago and it costs more to dump it instead of recycling it.

Wind turbines are also very inefficient and currently their power costs more than any other because of just a few basic facts that are due to design flaws in the machinery itself. The main problem is the propeller on a post design copied from the old Celtic windmills of 1000 years ago. There are new and better designs out there that could be used but they are not acceptable to the environmental community because they are not visible. So the why things are not proceeding is mostly because the major environmental organizations are only letting those programs that pay them off with enough money proceed. And the fossil fuel producers pay the best so the real answers like nuclear and space based solar have laws written to keep them from doing what they could, at least in the US.

Http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/
http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/index.html
http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/spacepower/index.html
http://www.permanent.com/s-index.htm
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/868/1

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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.

The Marshall killed his wife after she drowns his children. HE SNAPPED. He was sent the mental institution where he met a new wave psychiatrist in Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley). You have to remember the time period of the movie. Mental health was advancing away from cavemen therapy (ICE WATER; LOBOTOMY; PSYCHOSURGERY; ISOLATION; TORTURE; ETC) toward medication (PHARMACOTHERAPY) and experimental therapy like we saw in the movie (Gestalt therapy) where the patient is made aware of the “here and now” through role playing/confrontation.

There are clues throughout the movie which show that Dr. Cawley is caring, and genuinely concerned for his patients. The Nazi, Dr. Jeremiah Naehring is OLDSCHOOL. He wants to chain patients to the floor (all of them, remember?) and he wants to poke and prod at their brains. You can feel his contempt for the whole experiment throughout the movie. He just wants to play like the old days in Warsaw.

How else can you explain the anagrams that the good doctor presents at the end of the movie? There was one for him, his wife, and the doctor. Do you think they went through the trouble to make those up? When he was talking to the nut job in Ward C, the guy did say “YOU DID THIS TO ME.” And the gun..Marshall was sure it was his gun, but it was toy. That say anything about his mental state? Then there is the lighthouse. Look at that place. Do you really think they went through all the trouble to, not only empty it, but make it look like nothing was there, that quickly? The men guarding the lighthouse were put there in support of the Marshalls conspiracy/fantasy. All part of the treatment.

So they arrived on a boat. Do you think if you put some crazy guy on a boat, one who thought he needed to investigate a so called conspiracy at Shutter Island, drove the boat out a few miles, turned around and told him that they were heading in to investigate, that he would’nt immediately buy into it? It was his fantasy.

The good doctor was trying to stave off the Nazi, but it seems as if he was given one last chance to cure the Marshall, or else it was lobotomy time. Long story short, THE TREATMENT WORKED. The problem was, the Marshall had nothing to live for, he now was cognizant of the fact that he killed his wife, and he was partially responsible for the death of his kids. If your wife murdered your children, and you felt like it was your fault, and then you killed her, the woman you adore, would you want to live? So that final morning, sitting there on the front steps, he is aware of his hallucinations, and he is aware of reality. He was told that he recycled, and that if this final treatment didn’t cure him, that he would be lobotomized, that he would have no more memories, that he would be a vegetable. SO HE PRETENDED TO RECYCLE. His final words testify to that “Would you rather die as a hero, or live as a monster.” But before he even said this, his shrink shakes his head at the good doctor, indicating that the treatment didn’t work, that he did recycle. This proves that everything they said in the final 15 minutes was actually true. That is why he got up and walked away with the orderlies, that showed that he was aware of what was going on. He wanted to end it.

Somebody posted that it was foolish to believe the final 15 minutes of the movie when they were screwing with your head the first 2 hours. That’s BS. Shawshank, Sixth Sense, Beautiful Mind, ETC ETC ETC. It’s the basic structure of a story of this genre. THE TRUTH COMES OUT IN THE END. It’s an “AHA!!!” moment.

Summary, He was a Marshall, he killed his wife, he went crazy, he was cured from the experiment, and then he chose to forget his miserable life through lobotomy. No other way to see it. Watch the movie again. Listen to the words of his “partner,” the good doctor, and Leo himself.

Hope this helps…link below talks about history of psychotherapy..