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How to recycle your old technology

How Green

Published April 16, 2012

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Just to show you that I care about the environment. I am recycling this article. I call it green blogging. I only used half the amount of my normal energy used to create this blog.

This is a good an informative article so read it, okay and then e-mail it to someone.

Innovators seem to continually outdo themselves with new technology. Companies release improved versions of a device just when you thought no one could improve upon the previous incarnation -- adding every update they can think of to make our old technology keep working.

Show your used gadget the same attention its designers did. Rather than add to landfills, you should investigate your many options to safely recycle this old technology.

Find a recycling center onlineThere are many different websites to help your track down recycling centers and programs. Earth911.com contains information about recycling, and has a search engine to locate recycling centers for almost everything. The site also provides the user-friendly iPhone and Android application iRecycle, which explains how and where to recycle almost any product. 

You can locate recycling centers near you, stay up to date on the latest recycling news and connect socially with other environmentally-friendly people. 1800Recycling.com also provides a search engine that allows you to find recycling centers near you. It also has many electronics recycling related articles. 

Recycles.org is a well-respected nonprofit recycling network. All Green Electronics Recycling is a full service electronics recycler that organizes pickups and drop-offs of recyclable equipment. The Environmental Protection Agency offers plenty of valuable information on how and where to recycle, as well. (Lots of options and no excuses)

Apple products
In keeping with the company’s products, Apple’s recycling program is simple and easy. You tell Apple about your old iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC. Apple hires PowerON, a leader in technological recycling, to estimate the fair market value of your product. PowerON will explain prepaid ways to ship your device to their facilities for official appraisal. Apple will then send you an Apple Gift Card if your gear has worth. If it doesn’t, your equipment will be recycled regardless. (That is leadership) 

Apple also accepts old Mac batteries at their retail stores for recycling. Apple can also recycle any old computer of any brand for you through WeRecycle!, a leading eco-responsible organization.

Cell phonesCell phones cause a great deal of waste if not disposed of correctly. Approximately one in three Americans replace their cellphones each year, leaving around 500 million unused or discarded phones. (Amazing!) By donating your cellphone, you can improve the life of someone less fortunate and reduce your carbon footprint.

ReCellular allows you to donate cellphones to other people. If the cellphone is damaged and unusable, ReCellular can recycle the materials for the creation of new phones. Another organization you can use is Cell Phones for Soldiers. They accept donations of gently used cellphones, which they transport to service men and women in all branches of the U.S. Military.

Erase your hard drive completelyHere is a final note of warning before recycling your computers or any other technology that may contain valuable information. Make sure you erase your hard drive completely before recycling your equipment. This is especially important if the device you are recycling carries sensitive information.

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Leon, green on

What Ya Talkin about Willis?

Harry Reid correcting a reporter

"How many times do I have to tell you guys that Nancy and I are the evil master minds behind Obama Care and the President is comic relief?"

Mrs. Clinton ponders what to do when Obama loses the election

"'Maybe I should start another land development company."

The first victim of Obama Care

When the Rhino found out that he wasn't going to be able to afford to keep his current health care provider if the law passes he just dropped dead. Since he isn't a donkey or an elephant this voter must be an independent.

Brady Hoke U of M's football head coach

Chris Christie, The State of New Jersey's head coach

"Why yes I am honored to look like Brady Hoke. Go Blue!"

Leon

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Who's Looking For You?

Ever get that advertisement, "Someone is looking for"? Well I see that ad quite frequently when I open my e-mail. As I read the ad one day, I wondered what the top ten list of people, organizations, or groups that you do not want to have contact you would look like. Here is my list.

10) Your bookie
9) Date Line sting investigator
8) The draft board
7) Boba Fett collecting a debt

6) Vinnie the mob's enforcer
5) Zombies
4) Angry extraterrestrials

3) Darth Vader looking for the Death Star plans, which by the way were sown into your underwear
2) The IRS

1) Satan (although number one and number two were a toss up, Satan wins by a pitchfork)

The next time you see that ad, what ever you do, don't open it because it just might be someone on the list above looking for you. Here is a web site if you really want to know who might be looking for you: www.mylife.com


Leon, here's looking at you and not for you

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Sports With Bin Laden

Laden with great news infidels! Lebron James found his inner jihad and finally put the ring of basket ball kings on his finger. His team the Miami Heat won the NBA championship defeating the Thunder. The Thunder showed up but the lighting did not. I am a big man not just in stature but in deeds too.  I can admit when I am wrong. I was wrong with 911 and I was wrong when I said that a team from the Western Conference would win the championship. Too bad it wasn't a team from the Middle-East that won but at least it wasn't a team from the west.

Congratulations hot indifels from Miami. Le Bron went through the Thunder like a run away camel in an open air bazar in Egypt. Only six more championships to go Sultan James to make good on your promise to win seven.

 

The NBA trophy. Pretty isn't it. It is almost as pretty as my third wife.

 

Until the next sports event I will be playing dead, your buddy Bin Laden.

P.S. ever notice how the word until has two ugly little letters in the front of it,UN. It reminds me of the UN in New York. Oh well gotta go.

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Truth, Lies and Resumes

Companies are screening more closely than ever before. Getting caught in a lie could raise enough questions about your character to cost you the job.

May 22, 2012

By Andrew Klappholz

FILED UNDER: Lying.

When searching for a job, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. You can stutter during a cold call, get lost on the way to the interview or even forget the name of the hiring manager. These are all honest mistakes and likely can be overcome with hard work and perseverance.

Lying, though, can be irredeemable. “The worst thing you can do in an interview process is to lie,” said Lorne Epstein, author of You’re Hired. “All you have at work is trust, but once you lose it that way, it’s over.”

Pants on fire

Scott Thompson, the recently ousted CEO of Yahoo, is learning that lesson the hard way. Earlier this month, he resigned when it was revealed that he forged an entry on his resume, claiming he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College when, in fact, that degree wasn’t even given out there until two years later.

Thompson later said that his cancer diagnosis was part of his reason for leaving Yahoo, but the damage had already been done to his reputation and to the integrity of the company — not to mention all its shareholders. (Why didn't Yahoo check this out to begin with?)

  

“I don’t know who would hire this guy again,” Epstein said. “It’s a horrible reason to get fired. … When people do things that are egregious, criminal acts and lying scare people the most.” (Maybe he can write a book entitled "How I became a CEO through slight of hand" or maybe, "Lying Your Way to the Top")

Epstein works with college students and speaks to groups about the nuances of interviewing — all with the goal of helping people get the job that’s the right fit for them. Through his experiences, though, he’s seen some alarming behavior from job seekers.
“A lot of people lie on their resume,” he said. “I see people putting things on their resume that shouldn’t be there — especially skill sets that they don’t really know.”

Vicky Phillips operates The Diploma Mill Police, a free service that protects consumers from claims about fake colleges or degree and diplomas. “Our studies of consumer and employer behavior on the issue of falsifying education documents and credentials show that the practice of listing inaccurate or fake educational backgrounds is fairly common,” she said. “One survey we did in 2009 with site users resulted in 80 percent reporting that they would lie about their educational backgrounds if it meant they were being held back from a job that they personally believed they were qualified for.” (This sentence shows the moral character of our culture today, if 80 percent will lie to get a job then we have none)

The problem isn’t only prevalent at entry levels, either. Phillips said there are plenty of top executives, like Thompson, who turn to fudging — if not outright counterfeiting — their resumes.
“We took a peek at resumes on LinkedIn in 2010 and found a shocking number of high-level career officials publicly listing degrees from fake colleges,” Phillips said. “This is not minor fudging on one’s major as Scott (Thompson) did, but all out deliberate buying of fake educational packets — diplomas and transcripts — and then using them boldly and publicly to secure and advance in employment.” (And we wonder about corporate corruption and why it is happening. The first thing that companies should be doing is a true background check to make sure their potential new hire has good morals) She said the driving force behind this disturbing behavior comes from the simple fact that people don’t think they’ll get caught. Also there’s tremendous potential upside as extra degrees often warrant higher salaries. (When will companies learn a degree does not make you competent. If a degee makes you competent the U.S. should not be in the shape that it is at every level of our society. We have a serious leadership void) 

Epstein noted how cultural changes and the erosion of loyalty within the American workforce have led us to where we are now — a world where our business leaders and politicians feel that lying is fair game if it means a better chance of getting ahead. (Well they have a point what is the penalty for lying? Remember President Clinton and Monica Lewinski. What did it cost him, nothing. Just impeachment, big deal!)

We should have checked his resume a little closer before we elected him, huh?

“It’s a deeper cultural problem,” he said. “We don’t live in a society where honor is stressed as much as it should be.” The incident with Thompson could spark a change in thinking among desperate job seekers or at least prompt hiring managers to apply some due diligence, but it probably won’t, Epstein said.
According to reports, Thompson will walk away from this mess with $7 million for his 130-day stint at the helm of Yahoo. (The moral to this article is don't be a liar, that is unless you want to be a CEO, then it's okay)


Leon

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The Lying Games

Unemployment figures for the last eight years

 

2008	5.8
2009	9.3
2010	9.6
2011	8.9

2008	5.8
2009	9.3
2010	9.6
2011	8.9

It was a Wednesday night and I was on patrol keeping America informed when I came across the lie. Job creation. We down at the station had heard rumors that jobs had been created in the last couple of years in America but we found it hard to believe. So being the inspector that I am I dug in and this is what I found.

Employment, Hours, and Earnings
from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)
1-Month Net Change
Series Id:	CES0000000001
Seasonally Adjusted
Super Sector:	Total nonfarm
Industry:	Total nonfarm
NAICS Code:	-
Data Type:	ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS
Years:	2002 to 2012
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2002	-129	-146	-24	-84	-9	47	-100	-11	-55	121	8	-163	-545
2003	95	-159	-213	-49	-9	0	25	-45	109	197	14	119	84
2004	162	44	337	249	310	81	46	122	161	348	63	134	2057
2005	137	240	141	360	170	243	374	193	66	80	334	160	2498
2006	283	316	283	181	14	76	209	183	157	-9	204	171	2068
2007	236	93	190	72	139	75	-40	-18	73	79	112	89	1100
2008	41	-84	-95	-208	-190	-198	-210	-274	-432	-489	-803	-661	-3603
2009	-818	-724	-799	-692	-361	-482	-339	-231	-199	-202	-42	-171	-5060	-8663
2010	-40	-35	189	239	516	-167	-58	-51	-27	220	121	120	1027
2011	110	220	246	251	54	84	96	85	202	112	157	223	1840
2012	275	259	143	77	69								823	3690
Net loss of jobs still (4.97 million)														-4973

The next time the media lies and says that jobs are being created you tell them to go to: http://www.bls.gov  research and then report the facts correctly. Jobs cannot be considered created until the jobs that were lost have been recovered first. As you can see by the data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics America is still down almost 5 million jobs since the financial meltdown of 2008. The fact is we may not see real job growth for many more years to come. Even if America is fortunate to repeat the employment growth of 2011 it will take 2.7 more years to get back to zero jobs lost and this seems unlikely since we are in a four month downward trend in job replacement. Maybe it's time to change management America.


Leon

Just giving the facts mam, just the facts

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