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In North America and in Europe, a beverage can is produced, filled, distributed, consumed, collected and recycled back into a can within 60 days. The growing global markets for aluminium products are supplied by both primary (around 65%) and recycled (around 35%) metal sources. Through the use of only 5% of the original energy input, this metal can be made available not just once but repeatedly from these material resources for future generations. This property of infinite recyclability has led to a situation where today around 75% of the almost one billion tonnes of aluminium ever produced is still in productive use, some having been through countless loops of its lifecycle. Therefore, the life cycle of an aluminium product is not the traditional "cradle-to-grave" sequence, but rather a renewable "cradle-to-cradle". Today, recycling of post-consumer aluminium products saves over 90 million tonnes of CO 2 and over 100,000 GWh of electrical energy, equivalent to the annual power consumption of the Netherlands.įor most aluminium products, the metal is not actually consumed during the product's lifetime, but simply used, with the potential to be recycled without any loss of its inherent properties.
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Ulysses s grant memoirs5/21/2023 There are certainly stretches of his life which proved dull and uneventful – and sometimes spectacularly unsuccessful. Ulysses Grant’s life story is astonishingly fascinating. Fortunately, Grant and his biographers proved me very wrong! When I finished reading a dozen biographies of Lincoln a couple months ago I assumed I would be in for a slow spell until my encounter with Teddy Roosevelt sometime early in 2015. During that drive to Austin we had to do something.…so those of us on the trip decided to learn the presidents’ names in order. Sad, really. My only brush with his presidency involved memorizing his name as one of the then-forty presidents during a high school trip to the Texas State History Fair. Despite the pivotal role he played in the Civil War and the importance of his administration to Reconstruction, I don’t recall spending any meaningful time studying Ulysses S.
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It was the United States of America in the year 1967, and the market was steady and the GNP high, and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose, and it might have been a year of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not. Those who were left behind filed desultory missing-persons reports, then moved on themselves. Adolescents drifted from city to torn city, sloughing off both the past and the future as snakes shed their skins, children who were never taught and would never now learn the games that had held the society together. It was a country in which families routinely disappeared, trailing bad checks and repossession papers. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled. Īnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Things fall apart the center cannot hold
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Heart of Europe by Norman Davies5/21/2023 In Poland, the book was published officially only after the fall of communism. The work which established Davies' reputation in the English-speaking world was God's Playground (1981), a comprehensive overview of Polish history. Throughout his career, Davies has lectured in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Poland, and in most of the rest of Europe as well. Currently, he is Supernumary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. From 1971, Davies taught Polish history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) of the University of London, where he was professor from 1985 to 1996. Professor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
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21 Prayers of Gratitude by Shelley Hitz5/20/2023 It has been amazing to see God at work in each of our lives. You will get access to this group as well.
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Lakeshire park megan walker5/20/2023 Megan Walker was raised on a berry farm in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, where her imagination took her to times past and worlds away. But competing against Peter–and eventually playing by his rules–makes Amelia vulnerable to losing the only thing she has left to claim: her heart.ĪMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE | BOOK DEPOSITORY | INDIEBOUND Peter Wood, is after the same goal for his own sister. Amelia and Peter begin a rivalry that Amelia has no choice but to win. Little does she know that another guest, the arrogant and overconfident Mr. If she can encourage a match between Clara and their host, Sir Ronald, then at least her sister will be taken care of. When an invitation arrives to join a house party at Lakeshire Park, Amelia grasps at the chance. Amelia Moore wants only one thing–to secure the future happiness of her younger sister, Clara. With their stepfather’s looming death, the two sisters will soon be on their own–without family, a home, or a penny to their names.
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Shaman by Sandra Miesel5/20/2023 researched the many issues raised in this message - concluding that these e-mails are (you may want to sit down) essentially true. I heard that he has made remarks that he wants to kill God in the minds of children, and that's what his books are about." "He's an atheist and his objective is to bash Christianity and promote atheism. What is disturbing to me is that this movie is based on the first of a trilogy of books for children called 'His Dark Materials' written by Philip Pullman of England. "Hi! I just wanted to inform you what I just learned about a movie that is coming out December 7, during the Christmas season, which is entitled 'The Golden Compass.'. Here's the news, as harvested on the Internet by experts at, a giant Web site dedicated to researching urban legends. Those values viewers in the heartland are at it again, clicking "forward" on yet another wave of hot e-mails about sin, evil, magic and Hollywood.
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Hench by natalie zina walschots5/20/2023 By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.īecause the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she’s the lucky one. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy?Īs a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower-for good or ill-is a properly executed spreadsheet.Īnna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. “This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." - Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author
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Gen and Kimie are forced to watch their burning death, as his father demands that they survive in order to save the unborn baby. Gen’s mother, Kimie, is eight months pregnant when the bomb hits, and his father, older sister, and young brother are caught in the rubble of their crumbled home. But, as Spiegelman also points out, “… it performs the essential magic trick of all good narrative art: the characters come to living, breathing life.” Volume by volume, these images of death and destruction that young Gen and his remaining family and friends somehow survive will haunt you forever, too.īecause Gen’s father actively opposes the war and he condemns the political machines that make victims of ordinary families, the whole family is labeled as traitors and constantly suffer abuse from their neighbors and local officials. The strangely repetitive pose of the characters with their arms thrown behind their head to signify joy is definitely disturbing, not to mention the abundance of casual violence the characters seem to unthinkingly inflict on one another. “His drafsmanship is somewhat graceless, even homely,” Spiegelman admits of author Nakazawa’s simple drawings … and you can’t help agreeing. “ Gen haunts me,” the legendary Art Spiegelman, creator of the Pulitzer-winning Maus, begins his introduction to the new translation of the Japanese original, Hadashi no Gen. Keiji Nakazawa was six when “Little Boy” decimated the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
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The seveneves5/20/2023 In present-day Utah, an amateur astronomer notices a dusty blur near the Moon's equator, and is thrilled to blog about it on his phone. The project is designed also to engage those left behind, and prevent worldwide chaos. The brain-trust is tasked by leaders to engineer a self-sustaining environment capable of maneuvering away from larger fragments, and withstanding 5,000 years in near-earth orbit until the planet is stable enough to be terraformed into supporting life. The International Space Station, fitted with "arklets," populated with 1,500 people and the Human Genetic Archive, is the foundation around which the Cloud Ark will be constructed. Astronomers estimate only two years remain before debris enters and burns away Earth's atmosphere, surface, oceans, and all life. Seveneves is a speculative novel dramatizing humankind's effort to survive following the Moon's explosive fragmentation by some inexplicable agent. |