Glass Bottle.......................... 1 million years
Monofilament Fishing Line… 600 years
Plastic Beverage Bottles…… 450 years
Disposable Diapers………… 450 years
Aluminum Can..................... 80-200 years
Foamed Plastic Buoy……… 80 years
Foamed Plastic Cups……… 50 years
Rubber-Boot Sole............... 50-80 years
Tin Cans……………………. 50 years
Leather................................. 50 years
Nylon Fabric........................ 30-40 years
Plastic Film Container........ 20-30 years
Plastic Bag.......................... 10-20 years
Cigarette Butt...................... 1-5 years
Wool Sock............................ 1-5 years
Plywood…………………….. 1-3 years
Waxed Milk Carton………… 3 months
Apple Core…………………. 2 months
Newspaper………………….. 6 weeks
Orange or Banana Peel...... 2-5 weeks
Paper Towel……………….. 2-4 weeks
Information Source: U.S. National Park Service; Mote Marine Lab, Sarasota, FL.
Sunday, 31 August 2008
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
i know you will not believe this....
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Friday, 1 August 2008
Prof. Randy Pausch (1960- 2008)
July 25th, 2008
Randy Pausch
Professor whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Randy-Pausch/83829780
line from the blog page:
Randy died this morning of complications from pancreatic cancer.
The CMU news story is here
: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2008/summer/an-enduring-legacy.shtml
Randy Pausch
Professor whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Randy-Pausch/83829780
line from the blog page:
Randy died this morning of complications from pancreatic cancer.
The CMU news story is here
: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2008/summer/an-enduring-legacy.shtml
Monday, 28 July 2008
Water-Wine-Blood
The gospels always have a spirit of movement.
From water to the Wine.
From Wine to Blood
It is always a movement towards more density and profoundness.
Our Spirituality is an invitaiton to growth...
“Deeper, deeper, tho it cost hard trials,
deeper let me go! Rooted in the holy love of Jesus, Let me fruitful grow.”
(Verse 3 of C. P. Jones’s hymn, Deeper, Deeper.)
From water to the Wine.
From Wine to Blood
It is always a movement towards more density and profoundness.
Our Spirituality is an invitaiton to growth...
“Deeper, deeper, tho it cost hard trials,
deeper let me go! Rooted in the holy love of Jesus, Let me fruitful grow.”
(Verse 3 of C. P. Jones’s hymn, Deeper, Deeper.)
The light of the world?
We waste lots of our energy formulating hugh abstract solutions for little concrete problems.
We often take Jesus and his Gospel to be so abstract.
What does it mean to be the light of the world?
We oftern fail this grace of light, by stressing more on the word world
But why we fail to see the our world, within the one who sits next to us.
We often take Jesus and his Gospel to be so abstract.
What does it mean to be the light of the world?
We oftern fail this grace of light, by stressing more on the word world
But why we fail to see the our world, within the one who sits next to us.
The Problems
It is important how we define particular situations as the problems.When there is a situatin that is demanding, is it obligatory to name it as a problem? No such rules are out there but we behave as if they exist.
A crying child can be seen as a problem and as an embaressment, or it can also be seen as an invitation for a careful response and attention.
It is important how i define people and situations around me.
A crying child can be seen as a problem and as an embaressment, or it can also be seen as an invitation for a careful response and attention.
It is important how i define people and situations around me.
Thursday, 24 July 2008
all those little things of love...
If God is love...how can we experience him?
it has been a question asked over and over again.
It is not that it is never answerd...
but that each one needs to be asnwered personally.
Like many of the answers in the world,
this answer also is a consolation and an assurance.
After long and tiring attempts,
we reach the same conclusions which the others have already affirmed.
Love is not a single big thing...it is a multitude of little things.
like the same way...
Experience of god may not always come in a single instalement...
it can be the greatest event in our lives,
built up by many little encounters and surprises.
We have a God of encounter and surprises.....
it has been a question asked over and over again.
It is not that it is never answerd...
but that each one needs to be asnwered personally.
Like many of the answers in the world,
this answer also is a consolation and an assurance.
After long and tiring attempts,
we reach the same conclusions which the others have already affirmed.
Love is not a single big thing...it is a multitude of little things.
like the same way...
Experience of god may not always come in a single instalement...
it can be the greatest event in our lives,
built up by many little encounters and surprises.
We have a God of encounter and surprises.....
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Do not cling to me.....
i saw an interesting topic at Yahoo answers on John 20:17.
Actually i was about to post on the same topic.
After the resurrection Jesus said to mary Magdalene: Do not cling to me.
what does it mean?
For me it signifies a lot.
It should have been an important moment in her discipleship.
A discipleship of marurity.
Jesus prepares her for a life of witness, and not of dependence.
Her first encounter with Jesus, turns her towards Jesus himself.
And this encounter prepares here for a life of witness and faith.
also...it is a lesson that teaches us about the growth relationships
Actually i was about to post on the same topic.
After the resurrection Jesus said to mary Magdalene: Do not cling to me.
what does it mean?
For me it signifies a lot.
It should have been an important moment in her discipleship.
A discipleship of marurity.
Jesus prepares her for a life of witness, and not of dependence.
Her first encounter with Jesus, turns her towards Jesus himself.
And this encounter prepares here for a life of witness and faith.
also...it is a lesson that teaches us about the growth relationships
replacing the past....the hugh parther way
We can't change the past,
but we can replace it.
God was there when it happened,
and that is the only past i have.
To begin healing the past and defusing the future, merely say,
The past is God with me.
The presentis God with me.
The future is God with me.
It is always the same
but we can replace it.
God was there when it happened,
and that is the only past i have.
To begin healing the past and defusing the future, merely say,
The past is God with me.
The presentis God with me.
The future is God with me.
It is always the same
Did you remember today...
God is all pre-occupied about you.
Have you remembered God today?
We have many personal-hells around us.
Do not ever try to turn them into heavens altogether.
first, try to turn them into the earth.
then, if it interests you, you can turn them into heavens.
but i am sure, you will be satisfied with the earth around us....
Have you remembered God today?
We have many personal-hells around us.
Do not ever try to turn them into heavens altogether.
first, try to turn them into the earth.
then, if it interests you, you can turn them into heavens.
but i am sure, you will be satisfied with the earth around us....
Inspirational Cards
"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it." Edward R. Murrow
"When all other means of communication fail, try words." Author Unknown
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." Stephen King
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writing, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it." William Bernbach
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." Carl W. Buechner
"When all other means of communication fail, try words." Author Unknown
"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." Stephen King
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writing, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it." William Bernbach
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." Carl W. Buechner
Monday, 14 July 2008
The way we divide our world.
We are a curious lot.
we have almost all the insolvable problems of our world.
how can we divide our world?
with not much delibration we divide it into those whom we love and those whom we do not.
well..then how about those who love us, and whom we fail to in return.
thats why ,we are forced to think about the ways in which i fashion our world.
do we intergrate or disintegrate it.
we have almost all the insolvable problems of our world.
how can we divide our world?
with not much delibration we divide it into those whom we love and those whom we do not.
well..then how about those who love us, and whom we fail to in return.
thats why ,we are forced to think about the ways in which i fashion our world.
do we intergrate or disintegrate it.
Friday, 11 July 2008
Letz talk space
we often talk about space
we love cars with more space
we look for the appartments with more space
we demand more space in even our intimate relationships
we have this space-talk always in one or other forms...
Do i give enough space for MYSELF...
we love cars with more space
we look for the appartments with more space
we demand more space in even our intimate relationships
we have this space-talk always in one or other forms...
Do i give enough space for MYSELF...
Saturday, 28 June 2008
believing in the good ground...
some fell on the wayside, to to trodden underfoot.
some on the rock, never to grow enough
some amidst the thorns, to be pierced later
but, some indeed reached the good ground....
i believe and hope in the good ground
after the wayside, the rock, and the thorns...
i will reach the good land....
some on the rock, never to grow enough
some amidst the thorns, to be pierced later
but, some indeed reached the good ground....
i believe and hope in the good ground
after the wayside, the rock, and the thorns...
i will reach the good land....
Friday, 27 June 2008
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008
On failing successfully...
failure is important: When you win, party like mad.
probably, he who never made a mistake never made a discovery
Professor Mark Dodgson, Director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre at the University of Queensland, suggests that failure doesn't get the credit it deserves. He points out the positive side of failing. *****read or listen to it here******
*Bridge design has always learned from failure.
*We continuously witness failures in science, technology and business.
*Many new ideas, or innovations, fail because of the sheer complexity of the science or technology or businesses or markets they emerge from.
*Most importantly it entails personal recognition that failure is a valuable opportunity to learn, reflect and develop the strength of our characters.
*It also points to the value of perseverance.
*The other side of failure is that celebrating our occasional successes is hugely important
probably, he who never made a mistake never made a discovery
Professor Mark Dodgson, Director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre at the University of Queensland, suggests that failure doesn't get the credit it deserves. He points out the positive side of failing. *****read or listen to it here******
*Bridge design has always learned from failure.
*We continuously witness failures in science, technology and business.
*Many new ideas, or innovations, fail because of the sheer complexity of the science or technology or businesses or markets they emerge from.
*Most importantly it entails personal recognition that failure is a valuable opportunity to learn, reflect and develop the strength of our characters.
*It also points to the value of perseverance.
*The other side of failure is that celebrating our occasional successes is hugely important
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