electric lawn mowing

Most people don’t think twice about mowing and weed eating but did you know that according to the EPA, mowers, weed eaters and other such lawn/garden tools account  for up to 5% of the nations air pollution? This is not surprising when you consider the fact that over 80% of all homes mow and/or weed eat their grass. This adds up to over 50 million homes using 800 million gallons of gas each and every year! The problem is that these tools have not been regulated so unlike vehicles, there are no current fuel efficiency standards. This means that the engines in current use are highly inefficient and have changed very little over the years. The good news is that new laws set to take effect by 2011 will mandate that such tools  cut emissions by 35%. This is a good start but more can be done.

The fact is that most lawns are between 1/5 to 1/3 of an acre, hardly enough to warrant a riding mower or even a gas push mower. Such a lawn can easily be mowed by either a corded or cordless electric mowers. However, most people don’t even consider them because most big box stores put a much higher emphasis on selling the traditional gas mower.  Have you ever even seen a battery powered lawn mower at Home Depot or Lowes? I know I haven’t so I was surprised to learn that there are quite a few models available that have all the power of a regular gas powered mower at comparable prices. So when it comes time  to replace that old mower will you make the green choice? Learn more about electric lawn and garden tools at Greenegarden.org.

It’s a known axiom that we all have stress and life involves stressful situations. There are stressors everywhere some of which really take a toll on us and others which we can handle easily and with nearly zero affect on us. Stress can have both negative mental and physical effects on us to the point where our defenses get lowered and we are more prone to disease including heart attack, stroke, hypertension (high blood pressure), high cholesterol, ulcers, and poor teeth health (grinding due to nerves).

How to master your stress can mean the difference between success and failure. While this is a general way of looking at stress, it pretty much boils down to how you handle stress and how you let stress affect your decisions and your daily outlook on things.

There are a few things you can do to control stress and keep it at bay during difficult times:

1. Convert bad stress into good stress

This may sound strange but if you take a potentially negative situation and turn it into an opportunity, you have done just that! You have taken bad stress and changed it to good stress.

2. Work on breathing

Breathing!? Yes breathing! Slow deep breaths can help your concentration and you could become less accident and poor decision making prone. Use a technique called diaphragmatic berating. This involves slow deep and rhythmic breaths.

3. Attitude

How you perceive things can make a big difference on the end result. If you think you are going to do poorly, then you have already lost.

4. Stay healthy

This includes diet, relaxation, and exercise. Join a gym if you have time or take up jogging or even some home training can help improve your physical and mental health. Take a look at this portable masseuse for less than $60.00.

5. Put things into perspective

Often times stress can make our problems seem much bigger than they really are. If you put things into perspective, you may find while problems still exist, they are not as bad as you first thought they were.

Overall, learning to control stress can greatly improve lifestyle and overall well being.

You have just purchased your  teen a brand new cell phone, or perhaps they have had one for quite some time, but do you know who they are talking to and texting? Chances are, they know much more about the workings of their cell phone than you so they are probably one or several steps ahead of you when it comes to you spying on their phone usage. If your teen is texting inappropriate messages, they are probably deleting them long before you sneak into their room to look at their phone. Maybe you even have surprise cell phone audits from time to time but again, your teen is probably way ahead of you and deleting any and all messages they do not want you looking at.  Yet another possibility is that you trust your teen and you are sure they are not doing anything illicit with their phone, but are you sure? Consider these statistics, nearly 40% of all teen cell phone users are sending, receiving or posting sexually suggestive messages. 20% of all teen cell phone users are sending, receiving or posting nude or semi nude pictures of themselves.  Of those 20%, nearly a quarter of them say they have sent such pictures to those they only knew online.  Even if your teen is not sending messages of sexual nature, nearly 50% of them admit to having received them.

With these statistics in mind, how do you find out if your teen is engaging in such texting activities when chances are they are already deleted? Unfortunately most phones do not support recovering deleted text messages directly from the phone. Fortunately, there is good news because incoming and outgoing text messages are written to the phones sim card so just like a PC, the text messages can still be recovered from the sim even after they are deleted.  So as long as the phone has a sim, you can still get to this data provided you have the right tool and software which up until recently, was unavailable to the public. Luckily, Brickhouse Security (the maker of the Brickhouse Child Locator featured on the Duracell commercials) has introduced the Cell Phone Spy. This handy little device/software combo, allows you to retrieve the majority of deleted data from a cell phones sim card.  This device is so effective, that Brickhouse guarantees that you will be able to retrieve any and all deleted text messages that still reside on the sim. So if you have a teen would like to monitor their text usage more closely, this device is an absolute must. Click here to visit Brickhouse and learn more about this device.

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