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Apple introduces iPhone and Apple TV
May 28

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Apple Inc. today has introduced the much-anticipated iPhone at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco.

The iPhone is claimed to be “a revolutionary mobile phone” as stated on the Apple website. The device appears to be running a mobile version of the Apple operating system Mac OSX. It is approximately the same size as a 5th generation iPod, it has a 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen display that is used to access all features of the phone including number dial, as well as making phone calls. The iPhone plays music, movies, displays pictures and is able to connect to a wireless network.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the device by walking onto the stage and taking the iPhone out of his jeans pocket. During his 2 hour speech he stated that “Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone, We are going to make history today”.

Today Apple also released their Media Center device – Apple TV. It will directly compete with Microsoft’s Media Center operating system. Apple has taken a different approach to the media center market; rather than storing content (such as movies, music and photos) on the device, Apple TV connects to a computer (Mac and Windows) over a wirless network connection and plays all content stored on that computer. This makes it substantially easier for users to organize their media content.

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Laser Hair Removal A Solution For Clearwater Pcos Suffers May 28

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Laser hair removal can be a viable solution for many Clearwater, FL women suffering from a condition known as hirsutism, or hair growth on areas of the body where hair does not typically grow heavily. Examples of hirsutism include noticeable hair growth on the upper lip, thighs, belly, arms, nipples, toes, back, or chin and chest: places hair is expected to grow on men, but not on women.

Hirsutism can be extremely embarrassing for women. One cause of this condition is polycystic ovarian syndrome, or PCOS. Women with PCOS produce an excess of male androgens (hormones like testosterone) which results in excess hair growth in places only men grow hair. There are many ways to treat PCOS. However, once hair follicles are created, it is impossible to reverse hair growth once it has started through most prescription medication. More often than not, the hair growth is in sensitive areas which do not respond well to shaving or waxing. Maintaining excess body hair can be extremely frustrating and distressing to women.

Many PCOS sufferers in Clearwater, FL have experienced positive results with laser hair removal. The laser hair removal process involves a physician applying an intense beam of laser light to the area of excess hair growth. Laser hair removal is most successful in patients who have light skin tones and dark hair. There is a risk of skin irritation or swelling, and in some cases, changes to skin pigmentation. However, these symptoms are relatively mild and rare.

Laser hair removal is a non-permanent process which has a much longer-term effect in comparison to other methods of hair removal. Many women opt for this method because of the lowered risk of creating irritating bumps or ingrown hairs that waxing or shaving leads to.

It is normal for all women to have some hair growth on all areas of their bodies. However, if your body produces excess male androgens, those “peach fuzz” hairs develop into “terminal” hair, which is darker, thicker, longer, and much more noticeable. Over time, hair growth in PCOS sufferers who use laser hair removal treatments will diminish. Hair growth will most likely not go away entirely, but in many cases, it will be reduced significantly. Many Clearwater, FL women who undergo laser hair removal treatments on a regular basis are pleased with the results.

Treasury reveals cost of carbon tax on Australian families
May 27

Friday, April 1, 2011

Treasury documents released today under the Freedom of Information (FOI) act reveal that Australians could face up to an A$863 rise in household costs per annum if the government proceeds with its plans to put a tax on carbon emissions.

The documents reveal an a annual price rise of $218.40 for electricity, $114.40 for gas, $187.20 for petrol and $88.40 for food for the average household. The treasury modelling was based on a $30 carbon tax, but also estimated other prices such as a $40 tax which predicted a rise of over $1,100 to the average household’s annual budget. However, they do not take into account the compensation deals and offsets promised by the government if a price is put on carbon.

After viewing the treasury modelling, Treasurer Wayne Swan and Climate Change Minister Greg Combet released a joint statement saying without the finalization of compensation packages it is too early to predict price rises. “No final decisions on the starting price or assistance have been taken and therefore it is far too early to speculate on any potential price impacts,” the statement said. Until the final design and modelling have been settled, anyone who uses these figures to scare families about prices is engaging in a dishonest, misleading scare campaign.”

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said the figures demonstrated the toll a carbon tax would have on Australian families. This just demonstrates that the Government has known all along that its carbon tax won’t clean up the environment but it will clean out your wallet,” he said. That’s right and this is $863 a year in extra burden that the Australian people shouldn’t have to pay. This is an $863 a year hit on families’ cost of living. Families are doing it tough as things stand. They don’t need a bad situation made much, much worse by Julia Gillard’s carbon tax.”

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has also officially opposed the adoption of a carbon tax. A resolution was passed by all 30 members at their general meeting to reject the Federal government’s plan.

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Fuel leak prompts 17,000-vehicle recall by Toyota
May 27

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Toyota announced on Friday that it will recall around 17,000 Lexus vehicles in response to risks of the fuel tank in the cars leaking after a collision.

The Lexus HS 250h model was subjected to the recall following a US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigation. Despite previously passing Toyota safety inspections, the conclusions of an NHTSA sub-contracted investigator were that; when the vehicles in question collided with an object at more than fifty-miles-per hour, more than 142 grams of fuel, the maximum allowed by US law, leaked from the crashed car.

According to Toyota, further tests did not show any additional failure of the fuel tank.

In response to the findings, Toyota issued a recall of all affected vehicles, since the company had no solution immediately available. The recall includes 13,000 cars already sold, as well as another 4,000 still at dealerships.

Toyota says it plans to conduct further tests to determine the cause of the leak. A Toyota spokesman, Brian Lyons, said that the company was “still working to determine what the root cause of the condition is.” It’s still unclear when exactly the recall will take place, or when dealerships will be allowed to sell this model again. Lyons said that Toyota is “working feverishly to get this resolved as soon as possible.”

Toyota isn’t aware of any accidents stemming from the leaking fuel tank in the affected vehicles, first introduced in the summer of 2009.

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Ecommerce Its Meaning And Importance May 26

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The Internet is now a flourishing industry. With the knowledge advancing at a rapid rate, more and more people are exposed to computers and internet. Gradually they are learning to utilize the Internet for their day to day needs. Here Ecommerce websites take a front seat, reaching out to the millions of people looking for your kind of product or services online.

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Putting it simply, Ecommerce or Electronic Commerce means buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet. Before making any decision in business, it is worth taking into consideration the benefits, the company would reap on implementation of the new strategy of Ecommerce. Therefore, the most important thing that you must consider here is whether your business actually needs ecommerce? Is ecommerce website for you? The initiation of ecommerce websites has brought vast change in the method of buying and selling goods. In this regard, it is important to consider websites like ebay, amazon etc. They have extensively used the ecommerce process to generate sales revenue. So, whether you already have a business or beginning a new one, whether the volume of your business is large or small, you can always generate profit by displaying your products or services online, thereby obtaining a large amount of viewer exposure. In a nutshell, just any selling/buying business can profit by the ecommerce method. So how can you earn bigger sales revenue from an ecommerce website? The benefits of having an ecommerce website are many. Coverage – Your products showcased on your website, provides a huge exposure to the millions of visitors on the web. For example, if you have a computer showroom in a city, the visitors would include people from in and around the city. Infrequently there will be visitors from places outside your city. Thus your product exposure is limited. On the contrary, if your products are presented on a website, it connects you to the millions of people who use the internet and searching for similar product as that of yours. Time and Convenience – Time is one of the vital factor in our lives now-a-days. A customer may find it difficult to visit your store physically everytime. On the other hand, if you have your store showcased on the Internet, anyone can pay a visit to your online store at their expedient time. Your store closes at some point of time. But your e-store works 24X7 for you to fetch in customers. Moreover, with all your product images and descriptions provided on your estore, the customer gets a systematic idea about your product and you do not have to spend time explaining the same thing to each and every visitor to your store. Moreover, it greatly saves time consumed per tranaction. Any sales executive will definitely take some time to illustrate your product to each customer. Your ecommerce website does the same task to hundreds and thousands of your potential customers at the same time. As all the information about your product are provided earlier to your customer’s visit, much less time is required to convey the benefits of your product to them, thereby making it easier to close the deal. Thus, several number of transactions can take place within a day. Exhibiting your Product through Demonstrations and illustrations, gives a clear and thorough idea about your product without the hassle of hiring and training personnel to do so. Cost Effective – Setting up and maintaining a store in a prime location and its overhead expenses, hiring personnel etc costs you a lot of money. On the contrary using the ecommerce is a whole lot easier method of displayingexhibiting and providing information about your products. In addition advertising of your store and its products should be carried out from time-to-time. Web advertisement expenses are also less compared to print or other audio-visual medias, like radio or TV. In an ecommerce website all that you need is a top-notch website design, that have a look and feel equally capable as your competitor, Search Engine Optimization to rank your website with your other competitors, and the annual hosting fees. Broadly speaking, there are no major barrier of Ecommerce websites. Gradually, many people are beginning to comprehend the fact that, ecommerce is an extremely feasible means of purchase as compared to the age old traditional process of buying. Thus, with this ever upcoming technology, ecommerce will continue to mature globally and in due course become a key business strategy that needs to be implemented in order to prosper in the fast-growing market and keep abreast with your competitors.

Monalisa Boral Maitra is the Business Development Manager of Designarcade, an India based Website Design and Development Company, specializing in affordable ecommerce website design solutions. Visit them at www.designarcade.com or you can reach her at info@designarcade.com.

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UK mounts rescue operation for Spanish trawler in distress in North Atlantic storm
May 25

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

This afternoon the RAF launched an operation to rescue nineteen sailors from a Spanish trawler in difficulties in a North Atlantic storm.

Radio contact with the FV Cibeles was lost yesterday evening at 2030 UTC when the crew reported to the ship’s owners that they were in trouble. Last night, UK Coastguard picked up a satellite emergency beacon signal as winds reached speeds of over 70 mph.

This morning a RAF Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft located the ship adrift 180 miles off the Scottish Western Isles. A nearby tanker, the Aegean Spirit, diverted with the intention of taking the trawler in tow and arrived at 1500 UTC.

However, the tanker was unable to take the trawler on tow, and with no other vessels capable of towing the ship nearby, the Coastguard Rescue Seeking helicopter “Mike Uniform” was launched from Stornoway to extract the crew. The tanker remained on scene to offer some protection from the weather, currently reported as gale force winds and rough seas.

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Former Washington D.C. police officer sues district for racial discrimination and harassment
May 25

Friday, June 22, 2007

According to court documents obtained by Wikinews, Randy Squires, an African American male and a former police officer of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (DCMPD) has filed a lawsuit against the department alleging racial discrimination and harassment by a fellow officer. Squires is also suing the former mayor of D.C., Anthony A. Williams, and the district’s Attorney Generals office. Squires is also suing his superior officer, Robert Atcheson, for racial discrimination and harassment.

“Defendant Atcheson treated Plaintiff differently than similarly situated Caucasian police officers in several respect[sic], including but not limited to assignments, evaluation, and disciplinary actions, deprivation of overtime and use of departmental vehicles,” stated court papers filed by Squires’ attorneys, Donald M. Temple and Dhamian A. Blue of Temple Law Offices in Washington D.C.

Squires accuses Atcheson, a white-caucasian male and a lieutenant in the Environmental Crimes Unit (ECU) Warrant Squad and the Paternity Warrant Squad, of discriminating against him on the basis of the color of his skin and also harassing him while on the job. Squires originally started to work in DCMPD 1988, and shortly after he was hired, he began to work in the ECU. Atcheson was in control of the unit Squires belonged to.

In court documents, Squires alleges Atcheson treated him with “flagrant racial discriminatory conduct,” like using the word “mope,” which is defined as slang for “nigger,” and that the discrimination was “designed to intimidate, insult, emasculate and humiliate” Squires. In one incident in 2002, during a training exercise, Atcheson allegedly “deprived Squires of appropriate breathing apparatus, which is designed to save life in emergency and hazardous situations,” but that the apparatus was “provided to two other caucasian officers.”

Documents also allege that Atcheson had “falsified” a report to North Carolina State Police after Squires was arrested and wrongfully charged with “unauthorized taking of a police vehicle.” Court documents say that the report to N.C. police states that “Atcheson falsely told Plaintiff (Squires) that he had photographic evidence of the police car outside Plaintiff’s home overnight and of Plaintiff driving the car from his home.”

Court documents also allege that Squires allegedly informed his superior officer of Atcheson, only known as ‘Captain Brito,’ of the incident, but no action was ever taken against Atcheson. Squires initially filed a complaint against Atcheson with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC) in a letter on March March 8, 2005.

The Washington D.C. police department has investigated the claims made by Squires, which “revealed inappropriate conduct toward Squires,” but according to documents, no disciplinary action has been taken against Atcheson or his superiors.

The defendants “deny any and all allegations” that Squires has made against them and also state that Squires “failed to exhaust their administrative remedies and/or failed to comply with other mandatory filing requirements.” Defendants also say that “all actions taken by District (Washington D.C.) relating to Plaintiffs were necessary, reasonable, pursuant to lawful authority, and based on legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons” and that “the district denies that any district policymaker adopted, approved, condoned and/or maintained an unconstitutional policy, practice or custom of unlawful employment practices.”

Squires is asking at least US$350,000. Squires and the Defendants also request that a jury be present during the trial, which is scheduled to conclude on June 26.

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How To Compare Car Insurance In Florida May 25

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If you live in Florida and are looking for good deals on car insurance in the area, you should know how to spot and compare car insurance in Florida. There are so many car insurance companies available wherever you might be and it can become quite overwhelming and confusing to choose among those companies.

Thankfully, there are many ways to compare insurance deals for Florida, and basically any other state. If you have a home computer, or even one that you use in the office and a reliable internet connection, you can easily check out all the insurance deals that companies near you are offering – without getting out of your home!

This is way better than the traditional method of inquiring about Florida insurance companies. Before, you have to call all the companies you can find in the yellow pages to get a quote, or to know what types of deals and packages that they are willing to offer you. However, with the advent of the internet, you can easily check out a lot of companies with just mouse clicks, patience and persistence.

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Using the internet, you can search for companies that offer car insurance in your area. Most often than not, the search results will give you a long list of companies. Make sure that you filter out these companies based on their popularity and their reliability. After you have narrowed down the list to those that are known to provide good coverage, you can then start your thorough research of whether the companies fit your needs.

You will know that an insurance company is on top of its game and is cutting edge when it makes available to its existing and potential customers many applications that can give the users quotes faster and more efficiently. Some websites have an application that can give you quote estimates based on inputs that you provide.

A lot of websites offer this application for free. They’re fairly easy to use and if you get stuck somewhere in the application and not know what to do, customer service is usually provided to help you get back on track. Some websites also offer a thorough set of instructions and a list of frequently asked questions or FAQs to help you on common issues that other users may have already encountered before.

When you search for insurance companies and do a state comparison, you will most likely find that a lot of these insurance companies have offices or even branches that are accessible to you in the state that you are living right now. Most websites of insurance companies provide the location of the office and contact numbers that you can use to get more detailed information about whatever it is you might want to know.

When you are shopping for car insurance, you need to know all the terms and conditions that you will have to agree with when you take the insurance package that they offer. Make a good decision by investing on thorough research on insurance companies before signing anything.

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Chicago requires blind students to take driver’s education
May 23

Monday, March 13, 2006

Mayra Ramirez, a 16 year old Chicago, USA student is blind. In order to graduate, she and dozens of other visually impaired students in Chicago schools are required to pass a written rules-of-the-road exam. “In other classes, you don’t really feel different because you can do the work other people do,” Ramirez said. “But in driver’s ed, it does give us the feeling we’re different. In a way, it brought me down, because it reminds me of something I can’t do.”

Michael Vaughn, a spokesman for Chicago schools said, “I can’t explain why up to this point no one has raised the issue and suggested a better way for visually impaired students to opt out of driver’s ed.”

Blind students are typically told that they must take the class to graduate; although, by law, any parent can request a change in a disabled student’s education plan. This law is rarely, if ever, disclosed to the students, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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Eliminate The Invaders In Your Home With Pest Control In Glen Burnie May 22

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Your home or business can easily become infested with a variety of pests including several types of insects, furry little rodents and even birds, bees and bats. The difficulty with unexpected Pest Control in Glen Burnie isn’t the unusual pests that invade your property, but the unique methods that each pest requires to eliminate the problem. For example, eliminating insects such as the cockroach is usually handled by a series of chemical applications designed to remove successive generations as the young hatch. Rodents on the other hand require the application of baits and traps to properly remove the problem.

Pest problems in your buildings can vary based on several different variables including the location of moisture, a ready source of food and a secure place to build a nest. Consider the termite. This is a small, whitish, pale or lightly colored insect with a social structure similar to the ant. However, the termite is no longer considered as a member of the ant species. Instead, it is considered as the infraorder Isopertera of the cockroach order Blattodea. You rarely see this insect outside of the nest and an experienced Pest Control in Glen Burnie contractor will need to find the nest and apply the proper baits for the termites.

Termites come in literally thousands of species, many of which actually perform a useful function in the wild, the breakdown and removal of dead plant matter, scientifically labeled as cellulose. Unfortunately, much of the material we build our homes with uses wood fibers and the termites aren’t smart enough to know they should find a different food source.

Another home invader that can be difficult to eliminate are rodents such as mice and rats. These pests usually enter your home or business through cracks in the walls or doors or holes that they gnaw away with their sharp front teeth. Once they have entered the building they quickly begin to build their nest in the warmer walls where they will birth their young. Mice and rats breed a lot and those new generations will soon find even more places to nest in the walls of your home which is why you should consider hiring an experienced contractor like Accutech Pest Management for your next pest elimination project.

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