This is indeed very touching………
A certain rich businessman had a beautiful daughter, who fell in love with a guy who was a cleaner.
When the girl’s father came to know about their love, he did not like it at all, and so began to protest about it.
Now it happened that the two lovers decided to leave their homes for a happy future. The girl’s father started searching for the two lovers but could not find them.
At last, he accepted their love and asked them to come back home in a local newspaper. Her father said “If you both come back I will allow you to marry the guy you love, I accept that you loved each othertruly.”
So in this way, their love won and they returned home. The couple went to town to shop for the wedding dress. He was dressed in white shirt that day. While he was crossing the road to the other side to get some drinks for his wife, a car came and hit him and he died on the spot. The girl lost her senses. It was only after sometimes that she recovered from her shock. The funeral and cremation was the very next day because he had died horribly.
Two nights later, the girl’s mother had a dream in which she saw an old lady. The old lady asked her mother to wash the blood stains of the guy from her daughter’s dress as soon as possible. But her mother ignored the dream.
The next night her father had the same dream, he also ignored it. Then when the girl had the same dream the next night, she woke up in fear and told her mother about the dream. Her mother asked her to wash the clothes which have blood stains immediately.
she washed the stains but some remained. Next night she again had the same dream she again washed the stains but some still remained.
Next night she again had the same dream and this time the old lady gave her a last warning to wash the blood stain, or else something terrible will happen. This time the girl tried her best to wash the stains, and the clothes nearly tore, but some stains still remained.
She was very tired.
In the late evening the same day while she was alone at home, someone knocked the door. When she opened the door she saw the same old lady of her dream standing at her door. She got very scared and fainted.
The old lady woke her up… and gave her a blue object, which shocked the girl. She asked “What is this…?”
The old lady replied…
“Try Surf Exel Washing powder… just a dab and it will remove all stubborn stains!!!” .
Nov 12, 2006
Global Warming
Ten ways to reduce your carbon footprint at workAdd to Clippings
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The signs have been around for a long time. Now people finally seem to be waking up to the threat posed by global warming. Last week, Nicholas Stern, the British government’s chief economist, delivered an ominous report on climate change, arguing that developed nations must cut emissions from burning oil and coal by between 60% and 80% by ’50.
“If we take no action to control emissions, each tonne of carbon dioxide that we emit now is causing damage worth at least $85,” Stern said as his report was released in London. “These costs are not included when investors and consumers make decisions about how to spend their money.”
There is still room to argue about how fast the environment is being destroyed. Nobody can dispute it is happening, though. So what can you do at work to reduce your own carbon footprint?
It isn’t that hard. Here are 10 ways you could make a start today.
One: Forget about that sales meeting in Frankfurt. There is no more pointless or wasteful human activity than platoons of business people trooping off to airports every week so they can all gather in an anonymous hotel and moan about the boss while pretending to be working. OK, so it’s a relief to escape the wife and kids for a few days, but hardly worth destroying the planet for. How about investing in some teleconferencing equipment instead?
Two: Change your expenses policy. Lots of people use planes for business travel because they are faster and more comfortable, and you can collect air miles for the next family holiday. How about telling staff they can go first-class if they use the train for a business trip, but they can only travel coach if they go by plane? It will be amazing how fast their bookings change.
Three: Switch off those lights. It is striking how you can wander around any city centre late at night and see office buildings ablaze with lights. Tell everybody that they have to switch them off as they leave the office. Even better, fix the lighting so it cuts out automatically at 10 pm — it is impossible for people to think straight later than that, and they would be better off going home anyway.
Four : Review your supply chain. We have all grown used to buying fresh vegetables flown halfway around the world when we go to the supermarket. How about the stuff on our desk? Most of us have no idea where any of it comes from. So make sure that as many goods as possible are being sourced locally or from environmentally responsible suppliers. You may even wonder if you really need those yellow post-it notes. Send an e-mail instead.
Five: Unplug the computer. How many of us can even remember that these things have an off switch? Instead we just leave them on permanent stand-by. By switching them off when we’re not using them, we can start cutting down on power consumption.
Six: Get rid of the plasma screens. When did it become fashionable to plaster office walls with great big plasma screens tuned to 24-hour channels? You can keep up-to-date with the latest happenings on the Web. Unless you’re in the news business, you don’t need it following you around all day.
Seven: Turn off the air-conditioning. Where does it say that people have to be slightly chilly to get their work done? We can understand why an office building in Hong Kong needs the air-con on during July. It is less clear why you need it in London in March.
We have all been to offices where you can walk there in your shirt sleeves, then have to put on your jacket when you arrive because it’s cold. It’s crazy. Ask them to switch it off.
Eight: If you can’t cut, offset. There are plenty of ways to compensate for those carbon emissions you can’t avoid. If the flight to New York is vital, make up for it by paying for some trees to be planted elsewhere. Or instead of driving the car to work every day this month, take public transport.
Nine: Give people an incentive. It is easy for a company to target lower carbon use. It is harder to achieve it. So make it an explicit financial goal and award everyone a bonus — as long as they meet the target.
Ten: Don’t go to the office at all. You burn up gasoline getting there and back. Resources are used providing you with a desk and computer. And all so you can keep an eye on your employees. Why not let everyone work from home at least one day a week — after all, it will be one less day they have to complain to each other about their boss.
You don’t need to be signed up to a vegan, anti-capitalist agenda to be worried about global warming. Indeed, a few simple steps will make a big difference. Who knows, they might even make your business more efficient as well.
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The signs have been around for a long time. Now people finally seem to be waking up to the threat posed by global warming. Last week, Nicholas Stern, the British government’s chief economist, delivered an ominous report on climate change, arguing that developed nations must cut emissions from burning oil and coal by between 60% and 80% by ’50.
“If we take no action to control emissions, each tonne of carbon dioxide that we emit now is causing damage worth at least $85,” Stern said as his report was released in London. “These costs are not included when investors and consumers make decisions about how to spend their money.”
There is still room to argue about how fast the environment is being destroyed. Nobody can dispute it is happening, though. So what can you do at work to reduce your own carbon footprint?
It isn’t that hard. Here are 10 ways you could make a start today.
One: Forget about that sales meeting in Frankfurt. There is no more pointless or wasteful human activity than platoons of business people trooping off to airports every week so they can all gather in an anonymous hotel and moan about the boss while pretending to be working. OK, so it’s a relief to escape the wife and kids for a few days, but hardly worth destroying the planet for. How about investing in some teleconferencing equipment instead?
Two: Change your expenses policy. Lots of people use planes for business travel because they are faster and more comfortable, and you can collect air miles for the next family holiday. How about telling staff they can go first-class if they use the train for a business trip, but they can only travel coach if they go by plane? It will be amazing how fast their bookings change.
Three: Switch off those lights. It is striking how you can wander around any city centre late at night and see office buildings ablaze with lights. Tell everybody that they have to switch them off as they leave the office. Even better, fix the lighting so it cuts out automatically at 10 pm — it is impossible for people to think straight later than that, and they would be better off going home anyway.
Four : Review your supply chain. We have all grown used to buying fresh vegetables flown halfway around the world when we go to the supermarket. How about the stuff on our desk? Most of us have no idea where any of it comes from. So make sure that as many goods as possible are being sourced locally or from environmentally responsible suppliers. You may even wonder if you really need those yellow post-it notes. Send an e-mail instead.
Five: Unplug the computer. How many of us can even remember that these things have an off switch? Instead we just leave them on permanent stand-by. By switching them off when we’re not using them, we can start cutting down on power consumption.
Six: Get rid of the plasma screens. When did it become fashionable to plaster office walls with great big plasma screens tuned to 24-hour channels? You can keep up-to-date with the latest happenings on the Web. Unless you’re in the news business, you don’t need it following you around all day.
Seven: Turn off the air-conditioning. Where does it say that people have to be slightly chilly to get their work done? We can understand why an office building in Hong Kong needs the air-con on during July. It is less clear why you need it in London in March.
We have all been to offices where you can walk there in your shirt sleeves, then have to put on your jacket when you arrive because it’s cold. It’s crazy. Ask them to switch it off.
Eight: If you can’t cut, offset. There are plenty of ways to compensate for those carbon emissions you can’t avoid. If the flight to New York is vital, make up for it by paying for some trees to be planted elsewhere. Or instead of driving the car to work every day this month, take public transport.
Nine: Give people an incentive. It is easy for a company to target lower carbon use. It is harder to achieve it. So make it an explicit financial goal and award everyone a bonus — as long as they meet the target.
Ten: Don’t go to the office at all. You burn up gasoline getting there and back. Resources are used providing you with a desk and computer. And all so you can keep an eye on your employees. Why not let everyone work from home at least one day a week — after all, it will be one less day they have to complain to each other about their boss.
You don’t need to be signed up to a vegan, anti-capitalist agenda to be worried about global warming. Indeed, a few simple steps will make a big difference. Who knows, they might even make your business more efficient as well.