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For many years copper has been the main raw material used by the Mexican artisans of Santa Clara del Cobre for the fabrication of their beautiful artisan items. Originally artisans relied on the natural supply of copper of their lands for the fabrication of their items. But has the supply of the original sources has decreased and the demand for items as copper sinks ( ) has increased they have had to think and look for new and alternate sources of copper material.

Thankfully they have found a reliable source of copper in the recycling industry. Trucks loaded with tons of copper junk coming form many parts in central Mexico arrive every week and deliver their precious load to the artisans shops. Artisans pay the load of copper according to the cleanness of the material Cheap Moise Kean Jersey , the cleaner your copper the closer you will get to be paid at international market prices for pure copper, that lately has been increasing steeply making this recycling business more profitable for the copper gatherers. Though all junk serves, artisans specially avoid junk made of copper wires covered with too much soldering due to the harming potential that this impurities have for the very characteristic look of their handmade copper items.

The high demand and good price paid for copper junk has created a new industry of copper gatherers in central Mexico with a number of benefits for the environment turning old useless junk yards into a profitable mine of copper and preserving natural copper sources for more strategic applications. And at the same time it has also benefited the economy of the abundant population of this region of Mexico that has seen a growing industrialization in recent years.

So now many people may have one more reason to buy a copper sink; that they are environmental friendly.

Author is a freelancer writer and webprenur living part-time in Mexico and the United States.
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The first two responses were?


?Meetings are looooooooooong,? and ?Meetings are BOW-ring (this workshop was actually held in my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas ? thus the Texas twang.)?


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Most people believe that meetings are necessary evils, and in many cases, they are. But one of the most important things we can remember about meetings is to NOT have one unless the meeting is absolutely necessary. When your employees and coworkers are in staff meetings, they are not producing. Nothing is ever produced until after the meeting is over. Some one of my first pieces of advice to people who want to make meetings more effective is to have fewer of them.


About five years ago Cheap Marko Pjaca Jersey , I made this statement in a class, and a young lady in the front row raised her hand and said, ?That sounds really good, but my whole job description involves going to meetings.? I was intrigued, so I asked her to tell me more. She was a personal assistant to a manager of a Fortune 500 company Cheap Mario Mandzukic Jersey , and she was hired by her boss to attend the meetings that he could not attend himself because there were not enough hours in the day. After class, she and I sat down and identified 32-hours of wasted meeting time that she was participating in every week. These were meetings that neither she nor her boss was actually needed for, but that one of them attended every week. Over the next year, this one person increased productivity of her team by over 200%. Granted, this is an extreme case Cheap Mario Lemina Jersey , but there are probably hours in each of our weeks that are wasted by ineffective meetings.


The tips below are strategies that I have collected over the years from class members who swear by their effectiveness. I hope they work for you as well.


1) Have an Agenda: Outline ahead of time what points will be covered in the meeting. Write it out, and distribute it to participants ahead of time. This will help avoid the ?chasing of rabbits,? and help participants be more prepared for the meeting.


2) Follow the Agenda: This sounds very elementary, but you'd be surprised by the number of people who take the time to create an agenda, and then totally disregard the agenda during the meeting.


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