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There is plenty offered from a gaming computer, and they continue to increase in popularity. If you or others in your household play lots of video games this is the route to go. They are more advanced than home gaming consoles. You can also get them customized to suit your particular liking.
With a gaming computer you get amazing graphics and quality sound. You can make those quick decisions for a game that decide if your turn is over or if you get to continue playing along. The amount of information that can quickly be processed with a gaming computer is unbeatable. If you are playing various role playing games that take hours at a time you want quality hardware on your side.
You will find that a gaming computer is very stylish so it looks great anywhere you put it. They are also portable units so you don?t have to keep it stationary like you do with a desktop computer. You can get a set up with USB ports, Wi-Fi, ports to add a microphone, and even a location for headphones.
There are plug ins in the front of a gaming computer as well. That is where you can easily connect your joysticks, gaming devices, and so much more. The goal is for you to have the ultimate experience of a lifetime with your gaming computer that is unlike anything you have ever experienced before.
You can get some cool designs to with a gaming computer. For example you can get one that is see through or that has neon lighting with it. You want to get one that has a very fast processor with it. Lots of memory is going to allow you to store your favorite games. It should also allow for the use of a graphics card for real time playing.
Make sure you take the time to compare what you get for the price too. You don?t want to end up paying too much for a gaming computer. You will find many of them moderately priced that work just as well as those which are more expensive. Another element of the cost to evaluate is the warranty. You want to be confident that if it doesn?t perform for you like it should the manufacturer is going to take care of it.
A gaming computer can be a wise investment, and it can also offer hours of entertainment in your home. Take your time to explore the options you have available. Then you can make a well informed decision about which one you would like to have. They are reasonably priced and have many different features. Don?t assume that all of the gaming computers out there are the same as there is quite a bit of difference among them.
LA HABRA, Calif. ? The Southern California home where "Octomom" Nadya Suleman has lived for more than two years is for sale.
A real estate website says the 2,583-square-foot home on Madonna Lane is listed at $525,000.
The Orange County Register ( http://bit.ly/rq765j) reported the listing Monday.
Suleman's father Ed Doud purchased the home in 2009 for $565,000. Suleman owes a $450,000 balloon payment to Amer Haddadin, the note holder on the home. He had threatened Suleman with eviction several times over the past several months if she didn't pay the money.
Haddadin told the Register he has been trying to convince Suleman to sell the house all summer and had no idea that a sign had been put up in the front yard.
Agent Rebecca Mercado says the home was listed on Friday.
Cabinet?s? The design of the bathroom is one of the most important decisions in your home. In the frenzy to build a new home or renovation, special attention should be paid to the bathroom. This is usually when the day begins, it is important that the design of the bathroom is without error. Governments as a certain height and width, But Can Be larger individuals very uncomfortable with a standard size cabinet. Lockers must be thatSite built, were built or special, may cost a bit ?more, but given the time you intend to use, it is money well spent.
A closer look at the drawers in a cabinet, not only shows how they have designed, but also how well they work.
Not only work smoothly, but there should be lots of drawers to store all the modern equipment found in today?s bathrooms. Even expensive cabinets sometimes compromise the quality of the drawers. You have to bestable enough and big enough to hold heavy objects, such as electric hair curlers and hair dryers. The drawer slides should work without problems, and the tray should not wobble.
Particular attention must be paid at the bottom of drawers. What is the thickness of the material is, and how they determine is held in place for how long in conditions of extreme use. Smaller items should drawers available to other staff and should be easy in a part of the body where they canreached.
Very good use some wardrobe space under the sink. This area usually ends with exposed pipes, and in some, the unfinished back wall to see. More thought seems to be a plumber is given as the homeowner.
The exterior is often covered particleboard cabinets, many with a paper like material. These often look very good, but can not take a bath and in heavy traffic and small children. Cabinets that arepainting may require more work initially, but can be cleaned normally without damaging the surface, and can also more easily chipped or stained when they are touched. The material below the surface must be carefully selected for strength and durability. Being constantly exposed to moisture can warp some cabinets
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The first thing you should do if your life insurance claim is denied is contact your attorney. Your attorney can file an appeal on your behalf. Understanding how to file an appeal is important if you plan to do it yourself. Also, it?s important to know what the work entails, in case you want to file yourself.
Find out the Policy on Appeals
Your denial letter should include information on how to file an appeal. If you still have questions, you can contact your insurance company by phone or in writing about the appeals process. Ask them to respond in writing by resending the denial letter or some other written document on the appeals process. There?s usually a time restriction in terms of how long you have to file an appeal, so get that information as quickly as possible.
Gather and Submit Supporting Documents
Your denial letter should state why your life insurance claim was denied. Your job now is to provide additional or clarifying information and documents to get that denial overturned. It?s important to be as detailed as possible and focus on the reason for the denial, rather than just resubmitting miscellaneous information.
Once you file a life insurance claim appeal, you should follow up periodically to get a status report. Ask if any additional information is required and submit anything else the person handling your appeal needs.
Role of gender in workplace negotiationsPublic release date: 26-Sep-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sona Rai sr2763@columbia.edu 212-854-5955 Columbia Business School
Study finds that women are savvy bargainers who simultaneously negotiate economic outcomes and gender role expectations
NEW YORK September 26, 2011 A study conducted by Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris, Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership, and Emily Amanatullah, now an Assistant Professor of Management at McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin, finds that while women fare worse economically than men in many distributive negotiations, including salary negotiations, women do not lack the capability or motivation to bargain effectively. Instead, women are simultaneously negotiating social approval in light of gender role expectations and hence hedge their assertiveness in some contexts, such as when bargaining for themselves. They do not hedge or do worse when bargaining on behalf of others, a context where assertive negotiation reads as caring and therefore consistent with the feminine gender role.
The research appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology of the American Psychological Association. It reflects part of Prof. Amanatullah's recent doctoral dissertation at Columbia, advised by Prof. Morris, which was recognized as the best psychology-related dissertation of the year by the New York Academy of Sciences and also was similarly recognized by the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists and the Academy of Management.
The research involved survey studies of executives' experiences as well as laboratory experiments. For the experiments,Profs. Morris and Amanatullah created a computerized negotiation, which incorporated photographs and voice messaging in order to heighten the realism of the interaction. Participants were led to believe that they were negotiating with another individual about their starting salary at a new job; in reality, all participants were negotiating against the computer program. The test subjects were randomly assigned to one of two negotiation roles: one in which they advocated for themselves, and one in which they served as an agent, bargaining for a colleague. The survey responses showed that women did not aspire to lower salaries than men they also did not aspire to higher targets when they were advocates for others versus themselves, implying that lower aspirations are not the mechanism for women's lower negotiation outcomes. Results suggest that the mechanism driving women's lower outcomes is heightened concerns about social backlash.
The experiments revealed that the advocacy role uniquely affected female negotiators male performance was unaffected by this factor. Self-advocating female negotiators made larger concessions than male negotiators or other-advocating female negotiators. The magnitude of this difference in negotiation assertiveness was striking, with female negotiators in the self-advocacy context conceding away nearly 20 percent of the total value of the salary in just the first round of negotiation. Results of the current study support the argument that women negotiating economic outcomes in the workplace are simultaneously "negotiating" social approval, hedging their assertiveness in contexts where it could be seen as running afoul of gender expectations. Other experiments in the dissertation suggest that their concerns are not paranoid observers are more likely to form negative impressions of a self-advocating negotiator if the negotiator is female rather than male.
The study's findings uncover one source of the wage gap between men and women. Professor Michael Morris explains, "The current research has uncovered a missing link in the effect of gender on negotiations. Though women seemingly fare worse than men in most distributive negotiations, they are not less capable bargainers. Rather, women are savvy impression managers who consciously negotiate gender role expectations."
Professor Amanatullah continues, "The present results suggest a different remedy than training female negotiators to behave assertively. Training programs should focus coaching on role shifting. It may be fruitful to teach female negotiators how to reframe self-advocacy negotiations as situations of other-advocacy." For example, the researchers comment that when negotiating her salary, a woman might frame it as bargaining on behalf of her family. When negotiating budgets at work, a female manager might frame her actions as bargaining on behalf of her division or team. Also, women can swap negotiation roles with others to avoid self-advocacy. One woman can ask another manager to make the case for her promotion, and she can reciprocate.
Finally, the findings suggest possible remedies for ongoing salary negotiation inequality in organizational policies. Organizations that strive for salary equity must develop and implement policies for giving raises on the basis of objective performance criteria rather than on bargaining. When objective metrics are not available, peer or 360 degree ratings provide more accurate reads, reducing women's need to self-promote to achieve equitable pay. Overall, the findings imply that organizations can more effectively reduce problematic gender inequities if and when human resource procedures remove the need for employees to bargain assertively on their own behalf.
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Led by Dean Glenn Hubbard, the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School is at the forefront of management education for a rapidly changing world. The school's cuttingedge curriculum bridges academic theory and practice, equipping students with an entrepreneurial mindset to recognize and capture opportunity in a competitive business environment. Beyond academic rigor and teaching excellence, the school offers programs that are designed to give students practical experience making decisions in realworld environments. The school offers MBA and Executive MBA (EMBA) degrees, as well as nondegree Executive Education programs. For more information, visit www.gsb.columbia.edu.
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Role of gender in workplace negotiationsPublic release date: 26-Sep-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Sona Rai sr2763@columbia.edu 212-854-5955 Columbia Business School
Study finds that women are savvy bargainers who simultaneously negotiate economic outcomes and gender role expectations
NEW YORK September 26, 2011 A study conducted by Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris, Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership, and Emily Amanatullah, now an Assistant Professor of Management at McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin, finds that while women fare worse economically than men in many distributive negotiations, including salary negotiations, women do not lack the capability or motivation to bargain effectively. Instead, women are simultaneously negotiating social approval in light of gender role expectations and hence hedge their assertiveness in some contexts, such as when bargaining for themselves. They do not hedge or do worse when bargaining on behalf of others, a context where assertive negotiation reads as caring and therefore consistent with the feminine gender role.
The research appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology of the American Psychological Association. It reflects part of Prof. Amanatullah's recent doctoral dissertation at Columbia, advised by Prof. Morris, which was recognized as the best psychology-related dissertation of the year by the New York Academy of Sciences and also was similarly recognized by the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists and the Academy of Management.
The research involved survey studies of executives' experiences as well as laboratory experiments. For the experiments,Profs. Morris and Amanatullah created a computerized negotiation, which incorporated photographs and voice messaging in order to heighten the realism of the interaction. Participants were led to believe that they were negotiating with another individual about their starting salary at a new job; in reality, all participants were negotiating against the computer program. The test subjects were randomly assigned to one of two negotiation roles: one in which they advocated for themselves, and one in which they served as an agent, bargaining for a colleague. The survey responses showed that women did not aspire to lower salaries than men they also did not aspire to higher targets when they were advocates for others versus themselves, implying that lower aspirations are not the mechanism for women's lower negotiation outcomes. Results suggest that the mechanism driving women's lower outcomes is heightened concerns about social backlash.
The experiments revealed that the advocacy role uniquely affected female negotiators male performance was unaffected by this factor. Self-advocating female negotiators made larger concessions than male negotiators or other-advocating female negotiators. The magnitude of this difference in negotiation assertiveness was striking, with female negotiators in the self-advocacy context conceding away nearly 20 percent of the total value of the salary in just the first round of negotiation. Results of the current study support the argument that women negotiating economic outcomes in the workplace are simultaneously "negotiating" social approval, hedging their assertiveness in contexts where it could be seen as running afoul of gender expectations. Other experiments in the dissertation suggest that their concerns are not paranoid observers are more likely to form negative impressions of a self-advocating negotiator if the negotiator is female rather than male.
The study's findings uncover one source of the wage gap between men and women. Professor Michael Morris explains, "The current research has uncovered a missing link in the effect of gender on negotiations. Though women seemingly fare worse than men in most distributive negotiations, they are not less capable bargainers. Rather, women are savvy impression managers who consciously negotiate gender role expectations."
Professor Amanatullah continues, "The present results suggest a different remedy than training female negotiators to behave assertively. Training programs should focus coaching on role shifting. It may be fruitful to teach female negotiators how to reframe self-advocacy negotiations as situations of other-advocacy." For example, the researchers comment that when negotiating her salary, a woman might frame it as bargaining on behalf of her family. When negotiating budgets at work, a female manager might frame her actions as bargaining on behalf of her division or team. Also, women can swap negotiation roles with others to avoid self-advocacy. One woman can ask another manager to make the case for her promotion, and she can reciprocate.
Finally, the findings suggest possible remedies for ongoing salary negotiation inequality in organizational policies. Organizations that strive for salary equity must develop and implement policies for giving raises on the basis of objective performance criteria rather than on bargaining. When objective metrics are not available, peer or 360 degree ratings provide more accurate reads, reducing women's need to self-promote to achieve equitable pay. Overall, the findings imply that organizations can more effectively reduce problematic gender inequities if and when human resource procedures remove the need for employees to bargain assertively on their own behalf.
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About Columbia Business School
Led by Dean Glenn Hubbard, the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School is at the forefront of management education for a rapidly changing world. The school's cuttingedge curriculum bridges academic theory and practice, equipping students with an entrepreneurial mindset to recognize and capture opportunity in a competitive business environment. Beyond academic rigor and teaching excellence, the school offers programs that are designed to give students practical experience making decisions in realworld environments. The school offers MBA and Executive MBA (EMBA) degrees, as well as nondegree Executive Education programs. For more information, visit www.gsb.columbia.edu.
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The engineering solutions to combat climate change already exist. Politicians must be brave enough to use them before it's too late
One word sums up the attitude of engineers towards climate change: frustration. Political inertia following the high-profile failure of 2009's Copenhagen climate conference has coupled with a chorus of criticism from a vocal minority of climate-change sceptics. Add the current economic challenges and the picture looks bleak. Our planet is warming and we are doing woefully little to prevent it getting worse.
Engineers know there is so much more that we could do. While the world's politicians have been locked in predominantly fruitless talks, engineers have been developing the technologies we need to bring down emissions and help create a more stable future.
Wind, wave and solar power, zero-emissions transport, low-carbon buildings and energy-efficiency technologies have all been shown feasible. To be rolled out on a global scale, they are just waiting for the political will. Various models, such as the European Climate Foundation's Roadmap 2050, show that implementing these existing technologies would bring about an 85?per cent drop in carbon emissions by 2050. The idea that we need silver-bullet technologies to be developed before the green technology revolution can happen is a myth. The revolution is waiting to begin.
Climate call
The barriers preventing the creation of a low-carbon society are not technological but political and financial. That's why at a landmark London conference convened by the UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 11 national engineering institutions representing 1.2 million engineers from across the globe, under the banner of the Future Climate project, made a joint call for action at December's COP17 climate change conference in Durban, South Africa.
The statement calls on governments to move from warm words to solid actions. They need to introduce legislation and financial support to get these technologies out of the workshop and into our homes and businesses and onto our roads. Targeted regulation and taxation will also drive innovation. This will require bold politics, and spending at a time when money is scarce. It is far from unaffordable, however. The UK's Committee on Climate Change, which advises the British government, continues to support the view of the Stern report ? an assessment of the climate change challenge in the UK ? that the move to a low-carbon society will cost no more than 1?per cent of GDP by 2050.
Resistance to wind turbines and the power lines they feed, nuclear power and electric cars, as well as the economic costs, all make public opinion a powerful brake on change. However the alternative seems certain to be worse. It is not only the challenges of a deteriorating climate: with inaction comes a great risk to our economy in the long term. The green technology revolution, just like the industrial revolution before it, will give jobs to those countries which have created the right conditions for it to flourish.
China in front
Which countries these will be is still an open question. India, Germany, Australia and the UK were among the nations signed up to the Future Climate statement, whereas the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters ? China and the US ? were not. When it comes to investment in clean technology, however, that's not the whole story.
Although China is continuing to build coal-fired electricity plants at an alarming rate to power its rapid economic growth, the UN Environment Programme confirmed last month that it is now by far the world's biggest investor in renewable energy. Last year, China's wind, solar and biomass power industries received $49 billion of new investment, a third of the global total, and it now has the largest installed wind capacity in the world. When predicting who the front runner in this next great technological revolution will be, it is difficult to see past the emerging superpower to the east.
The US is going in the opposite direction. A natural gas rush driven by the development of controversial "fracking" techniques over the past decade has echoes of the oil rush that transformed Texas a century ago. The Financial Times reports that just one company, BHP Billiton, is investing as much as $79 billion in US shale gas fields ? over three times the amount invested in all US renewables in a year. This will secure cheap energy in the short term, but it is a finite resource and ultimately a dead end. In due course we could face the interesting prospect of the US turning to China to acquire its wind turbine technology.
Nuclear elephant
Investment in renewable energy is vital for a prosperous, low-carbon society. However, decision-makers cannot ignore the elephant in the room ? nuclear power. The enormous cost of implementing 100?per cent renewable power is not realistic for most nations, so nuclear offers our best chance of making a low-carbon society achievable and affordable. Yet the incident at Fukushima earlier this year has reinforced some long-standing concerns.
Unlike road use or smoking, nuclear power stirs anxieties in many of us that are out of proportion with its true risks. This is not to be complacent about the potential danger of a nuclear plant, but it is striking that nuclear power has killed fewer than 5000 people in its entire history. Compare that with coal mining, which in just one year and in one country ? China in 2006 ? killed 4700.
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In Arizona, marital property is subject to equal division between the spouses in a divorce. The task of determining the nature and character of certain assets as either separate property or community property can sometimes be difficult, particularly when transmutation has occurred. Recently, a unique new form of intangible property has made a quiet entry onto the divorce scene. Virtual assets are creating unique challenges for couples and their family law attorneys.
Recognizing Assets ? Virtual Goods and Virtual Real Estate.
Those who limit online marketplace activities to buying tangible goods on eBay and Amazon, for example, may be surprised to learn that virtual goods are intangible objects regularly bought and sold within online communities and to gamers. These virtual assets can take any digital form including:? designer clothes for avatars and toons, tokens for special game privileges, sports cars for better driving on a virtual racetrack, and even acreage on the virtual farm.
Some well-known providers of digital goods in the virtual marketplace are Facebook (using ?Facebook Credits? as currency), Playfish (using ?Playfish Cash? as currency), Second Life Marketplace (using ?Linden Dollars? as currency), and Xbox Live Marketplace (using ?Microsoft Points? as currency).
To give you an idea of the U.S. dollar (USD) value involved in some of these purchases, the ?Entropia Universe [later Planet Calypso], an online game created by ? Mindark, entered the Guinness World Records Book in both 2004 and 2008 for the most expensive virtual good ever sold, and in 2010 a virtual space station, a popular destination in this game, sold for $330,000 [USD].? ? Wikipedia. To the purchaser, the space station was likely an investment ? users of the space station could be charged a fee in virtual currency to enter.
When real community dollars buy digital goods and virtual real estate, then the online asset may be divided in the divorce as another type of marital property. And when virtual profits are accumulated, those may also be community property. If a spouse?s wages were used to purchase an online saloon where other participants pay to hang out, like Planet Calypso for example, then the saloon could be community property and, if it is generating value to the spouse, it should be analyzed carefully as property divisible in a dissolution of marriage. Putting aside the spouse?s emotional attachment to online assets, what are virtual properties really worth?
Virtual Currency.
To recognize a virtual asset as intangible property of value subject to division in divorce, think of virtual currency, or credits, as simply another medium of exchange. One thing of value is given in exchange for something else, the transaction just happens to occur in a non-physical environment. But there is a trade nonetheless ? something of value for something of value. These transactions occur continuously and on a very large scale in online gaming communities like World of Warcraft (using virtual ?Gold? as currency). Virtual currency may have real value in U.S. dollars (USD) and such trading can lead to real world profits.
Turning a Virtual Profit into a Real Profit.
The process involved in turning a profit by trading in digital goods for online currency is not all that complicated for the online gamer. The virtual currency has to transfer out of the online community in the form of USDs through PayPal accounts into bank accounts. Here is how Second Life virtual profits transition into spouses? bank accounts:
Step 1. The spouse, an online resident, sells digital goods to other online residents for credits or, in the case of Second Life, Linden Dollars.
Step 2. The spouse exchanges the accumulated Linden Dollars to online residents on the LindeX? (the in-game currency exchange) or the Xstreet SL? currency exchange (the virtual marketplace) for USD credit. This turns virtual Linden Dollars within the online community into something of common value in the real-world community ? a credit for USDs.
Step 3. Once the spouse has a USD credit balance from the exchange, the credit balance is moved to his or her PayPal account where the USD credit is processed ? the money is now in the bank. $55 million USD processed credits came through Second Life community residents in 2009.??
Virtual Asset Exchange.
Continuing with Second Life?s virtual currency, Linden Dollars, as an example of how profits are generated through online communities ? Linden Dollars are exchanged for USDs on the community?s LindeX? and Xstreet SL? exchanges.
Second Life?s year 2009 financials were reported as:
? 2009 User-to-user transactions = $567 million USD.
? 2009 USD value of Linden Dollars in circulation = $26.5 million USD.
? 2009 Sales of user-generated virtual items on ?Xstreet SL? = $1.6 billion Linden Dollars, $6.1 million USD.
? 2009 Total USD value of all Linden Dollars traded on the LindeX? currency exchange? = $115 million USD.
? 2009 Total USD value of all Linden Dollars traded on the Xstreet SL? currency exchange = $1.5 million USD.
And here is a brief look at the fourth quarter of Second Life?s 2010 economy:
? 2010 4Q Average exchange rate = $258.8 Linden Dollars to USD.
? 2010 4Q USD value of Linden Dollars in circulation = $28.3 million USD.
? 2010 4Q LindeX? volume = $30.5 million USD.
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With significant figures like these, it is apparent that digital goods and intangible real estate have determinable values outside the gaming community. When virtual assets are included in a couple?s financial portfolio, a good family law attorney can discern whether those assets are divisible as community property in the divorce.?
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Arizona Divorce and Division of Property, an Overview
Transmuting Separate Property into Community Property in Arizona
Kids' Sugar Cravings Might Be Biological Research shows children are hardwired from birth to prefer sweets, which may have once been an evolutionary advantage. But it appears they begin to scale back on their sugary preferences once they stop growing.
To hear Sarah Palin's eldest daughter tell it, she's not homophobic for asking a fellow bar patron last night if he was "a homosexual" after he heckled her.
On the contrary, Bristol Palin was the one taking the high road after being accosted by some guy, Stephen Hanks, who started berating her family.
"She was approached in a confrontational and inappropriate manner when two men aggressively shouted expletives aimed at her mother," her rep said.
Until recently, there had been a lack of information about the health risks from cell phones by doctors and scientists in the Unites States and Canada. Dr. Ronald B. Herberman?s recommendation to drastically reduce the use of cell phones, especially with children, has begun to shine a light on the information regarding phone radiation that has been lacking in the U.S. Dr. Herberman is by no means the first to bring attention to the dangers of cell phone radiation.
Research by University of Washington professor Dr. Henry Lai shows brain cells are clearly damaged by microwave levels far below the U.S. Government?s ?safety? guidelines. Dr. Lai notes that even tiny doses of radio frequency can accumulate over time and lead to harmful effects. He warns that public exposure to radiation from wireless transmitters ?should be limited to a minimum.?
Dr. Henry Lai?s studies confirm that cell and cordless phone microwave can:
The other exciting subject with reference to this topic. Damage nerves in the scalp Cause blood cells to leak hemoglobin Cause memory loss and mental confusion Cause headaches and induce extreme fatigue Create joint pain, muscle spasms and tremors Create burning sensation and rash on the skin Alter the brain?s electrical activity during sleep Induce ringing in the ears, impair sense of smell Precipitate cataracts, retina damage and eye cancer Open the blood-brain barrier to viruses and toxins Reduce the number and efficiency of white blood cells Stimulate asthma by producing histamine in mast cells Cause digestive problems and raise bad cholesterol levels Stress the endocrine system, especially pancreas, thyroid, ovaries, and testes
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For the last fourty years everyone has been told of the dangers of smoking. Today, wireless phone research stands where smoking research stood then. Recent news has stated that cell and cordless phones can lead to brain tumors. Dr. Vini Gautam Khurana, a Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon with an advanced neurosurgery Fellowship in cerebral vascular and tumour microsurgery from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, published a critical review stating that ?malignant brain tumour incidence and its associated death rate will be observed globally to rise within? the next ten years due to cell phone use. Dr. Khurana believes that children are at the greatest risk due to brain tissue that?s still developing. Still today, with the dangers we know about smoking, hundreds of thousands of people die yearly from smoking related ailments. Dr. George Carlo, Ph.D, M.S., J.D, is a public health scientist, epidemiologist, lawyer, and the founder of the Science and Public Policy Institute, believes that by 2015, ?one out of every 4 people will suffer from some symptom of illness from cell phone use.? Starting today, we need to limit the use of cell phones, especially among children, and eliminate non-essential calls.
Our most precious resource, our nation?s children are exposed to a risk that no one seems to notice: cell phone radiation. While scientists around the world are pressuring their local governments to restrict the use of wireless devices by children, the U.S. And Canada don?thing. Go to any mall, movie theater, or school and you will see young people all with one ear to the newest devices on the market. The brain of a child is constantly developing, undergoing changes and obtaining more information in a few short years at a rate that will not be matched for the rest of their lives. Add to this the radiation from cell phone exposure through the inner ear and it creates a laboratory with unknown consequences. Studies over the last 5 years have shown that the rate at which children develop autism is concurrent with increased cell phone use. The studies also suggest the electromagnetic radiation from wireless devices (like cell phones) in conjunction with environmental and genetic factors all increase the incidence of autism.
With the prevalence of the link of cell phone use to cancer in the media as of late, professions other than just those in the medical community are beginning to take notice. The article Cell Phone Use and Cancer: The Debate Continues from LawyersandSettlements.com discusses not only the possible link of Senator Ted Kennedy?s brain tumor to cell phone radiation, but the Larry King Live show from earlier this month on cell phones.
On May 23, 2008, The Larry King Show?s topic was ?Are Cell Phones Dangerous?? CNN Medical Director, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, was very supportive of the fact that mobile phones could be dangerous. Guests on the program that evening included Johnnie Cochran?s widow and his neurosurgeon. Johnnie Cochran had died from a brain tumor 3 years ago. At that time, his daughter had attributed his death to his cell phone use. The tumor which killed him was located behind the ear the he had used while talking on his phone.
Near the end of the program, Dr. Gupta made 2 suggestions which he felt would decrease the potential risk from mobile phone usage:
Use a case on your hip to hold your phone. Use a wired headset to keep the cell phone away from the ear.
Both of these suggestions are wrong!
The reason why carrying a mobile phone on the hip isn?t any safer than carrying it in your pocket is the fact that it transmits radiation directly into the body while your cell phone is on. For men, studies done by the American Society for Reproductive Health have shown that this radiation affects men?s fertility and can lower sperm count. For pregnant women, carrying a mobile phone this way may affect the unborn child?s future behavioral patterns, according to a recent UCLA study. What should be done is when the cell phone is not being used, shut it off.
As for wired headsets, studies in Europe by one of the most influential consumer protection organizations concluded that wired headsets increase radiation into the ear by as much as 300%! Bluetooth devices are nearly as dangerous since the signal from the phone transmits radiation directly into the ear. The solution to this is the WaveShield.
If you?re one of the world?s jet setters, you?re sure to be familiar with all the little annoyances and hold ups that can make travelling to business meetings more of a chore than it should be. While the world may be getting smaller every day, getting from one global office to another can still take up a significant portion of your working week ? especially when you have to spend so much time sitting around in airports. However, there are plenty of little tips and tricks that can make your business travel run more smoothly and help you stay a happy worker.
When you?re travelling frequently for business, it makes sense to buy a neat passport and document wallet. In this, you should keep all of your boarding cards and important bits and pieces without letting them get muddled up ? a crucial point if you?re getting three or four flights in the space of one day.
You can fly throughout the UK using only your driver?s license, but it makes sense to take your passport wallet with you when you travel anyway ? just in case an unexpected overseas meeting arises. However, keep your driver?s license in a different wallet to the one with your passport, so you?re less likely to have both stolen.
A really good piece of hand luggage is another essential when you?re likely to be jetting from one place to another on tight schedules. Choose something big enough that will allow you to take everything with you but one small enough to be carried on the plane with you. Do a little research before splashing out, by checking the websites of all of the airlines you usually fly with and taking a note of the hang luggage size restrictions they state. Choose a wheeled suitcase with a hard body if you?re hoping to keep your suits and smart clothes uncrushed during the flights.
It?s also essential that you familiarise yourself with all the various airport requirements of places you are travelling to ? as you don?t want to be caught out by things like the 100ml liquid rule in UK airports at the last minute. You should be able to find all necessary information online, as well as the ability to check in online- helping you beat the crowds.
Another essential for anyone who travels a lot for work is a little financial security, something like business travel insurance can prove very useful if you find yourself stranded somewhere or if your business faces losses due to uncontrollable circumstances. Beat the business travel blues by making sure you are well prepared from the outset.
Given how preoccupied everyone is with the economy, education is even less of an issue in this presidential campaign than usual. Most of the Republican candidates do not even include education positions on their websites. And the two GOP heavyweights who have garnered the best reviews from education reformers on both sides of the aisle are not even in the race: former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is sitting the campaign out, and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty dropped out after finishing a disappointing third in the Iowa straw poll. But as President Obama gets ready to put the debate about how to reform No Child Left Behind on the front burner (he's planning a big speech at the White House for this Friday), the GOP candidates can't avoid education forever. As some start to drop hints about what their education plans might look like, here's a handicapper's guide to the leading contenders and their views - and record - on education.
Texas Governor Rick Perry. Perry got an unintentional boost on education when Secretary of Education Arne Duncan foolishly attacked him last month over the quality of schools in the Lone Star state. Texas schools are not as bad as Duncan claimed. But reforms under Democratic and Republican governors preceding Perry arguably deserve more of the credit than Perry does. He's also presided over a state with embarrassing curricular debates and revisionist history, and Perry himself has made some questionable statements about teaching creationism in public schools. In Perry's favor, he has resisted efforts to weaken academic standards in Texas schools and has tried to hold higher education in Texas more accountable while making colleges and universities more productive. Still, those pieces don't add up to an agenda yet, and Perry's get-Washington-out-of-education rhetoric is hard to take seriously without one. Grade: C. (Read TIME's cover story on Rick Perry.)
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney version 1.0 was a pragmatic moderate on education while he was in the statehouse. He supported better academic standards, accountability, and charter schools. During the 2008 campaign, Romney defended No Child Left Behind, and he clearly understands the need to improve education and training as part of America's competitiveness strategy. But in a tough primary race with an electorate energized by the Tea Party, we're getting Romney version 4.0 or 5.0, who has been trying to distance himself from anything that sounds like a national program. So while he led a state that is in many ways a national model on education policy, he's not going to let school reform become another Romney-care style political liability. Whether he can tack back to the center after the primary is the unanswered question. Grade: Incomplete.
Former Utah Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman. The former governor and Obama Administration appointee has become the darling of moderates from both parties. He believes in evolution! He thinks climate change is a problem! He's just like us! Yet some of his positions as governor of Utah suggest a less enlightened viewpoint when it comes to schools. Most notably, Huntsman tussled with Bush Administration Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings about whether Utah should be allowed to use its own school accountability system that would not disaggregate results by race and ethnicity - even though Utah has an achievement gap problem. At the same time, however, he raised teacher salaries in the state and enacted an extended kindergarten program over the objections of conservatives. A Republican the teachers' unions could love? Not so fast. He passed a statewide private-school voucher plan. Grade: B-. (Read why Democrats fear Jon Huntsman.)
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Bachmann arguably has more actual education policy experience than anyone else in the Republican race - and that's the problem. She got into politics to fight against education policies that she didn't favor, including the push for statewide academic standards. She made a name for herself deriding programs like the federal School-to-Work initiative as Soviet-style collectivist planning. Later, she helped launch a charter school that stumbled and, according to multiple accounts including Ryan Lizza's profile of her in The New Yorker, started achieving better results only after she had left its board. Not surprisingly, Bachmann on the campaign trail has been talking up eliminating the Department of Education and undoing Obama's education policies while offering only rhetoric as an alternative. Grade: F.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In 2009 and 2010 Gingrich was full of good things to say about President Obama's education plans. He even appeared on NBC's Meet the Press alongside Arne Duncan to tout education reform and told Politico's Mike Allen that the Secretary was "a serious innovator." But these days, other than telling debate audiences that he agrees with President Obama on the need for more charter schools, Gingrich is largely quiet about education. That's too bad. The former Speaker's penchant for big provocative ideas is exactly what the Republican primary could use on education, but so far Gingrich seems content to play it safe instead. Count that as another intellectual casualty of a GOP primary careening to the right. Grade C-.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul. If you genuinely want the federal government out of education, Ron Paul is your guy. Give the Texas libertarian credit for a consistent stance even when it's politically unpopular. Many candidates talk a good game about state and local control, but when push comes to shove, they're not going to eliminate the federal government's more than $60 billion investment in public schools, financial aid for college or many of the other policies that families with children really care about. Paul would nix them all. It doesn't make for a very interesting education policy - and is one that would arguably move the country backwards in terms of school quality and equity - but you can't accuse Paul of playing politics with education. Grade: Gentleman's C, just because consistency and principle are so rare in politics these days.
Andrew J. Rotherham, who writes the blog Eduwonk, is a co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education, a nonprofit working to improve educational outcomes for low-income students. School of Thought, his education column for TIME.com, appears every Thursday.
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The car video systems are fitted inside the automobiles for getting wonderful entertainment. These equipments are really advanced and give great performance.
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In car video has become increasingly popular in recent years, as more families discovered DVDs and games to keep passengers entertained while traveling. As anyone with kids can attest, the entertainment can be a godsend on long trips during everyday use
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There are brands that provide with car videos according to your requirements but before starting to look for a car video, it?s important to know what exactly you should look in an auto video system. There are two types of car video systems which are as follows: Backseat systems and in dash video systems.
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BEIJING ? China said Wednesday that tariffs it imposed on imports of U.S. chicken last year are legal, after the United States filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization saying Beijing violated international trade rules.
The Commerce Ministry said on its website that China "believes the anti-dumping and countervailing measures it has taken on chicken products originating in the United States are in accordance with the law and conform to WTO rules."
The case is one of several that U.S. trade officials have filed against China this year at the WTO. The United States also has filed complaints about Chinese tariffs on steel products and its subsidies for wind power equipment.
The ministry said China would study Washington's request for talks on the issue and would handle the issue according to WTO dispute settlement procedures.
China imposed the poultry tariffs in September 2010. It said U.S. chicken producers benefited from subsidies and were exporting their goods to China at unfairly low prices.
Countries are allowed to impose punitive tariffs to offset both practices, but U.S. officials said China did not follow proper procedures when it imposed them.
The tariffs were imposed against Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim's Pride, Keystone Foods and many smaller companies, said Toby Moore, a spokesman for the U.S. Poultry and Egg Export Council, a trade group.
China was among the top two markets for U.S. chicken exports before the tariffs were imposed. The other was Russia. Since then, exports have dropped 90 percent, U.S. trade officials said. That could cost more than $1 billion over two years.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Just as a federal judge was about to get involved, the Cherokee Nation reached an agreement Tuesday to allow descendants of slaves once owned by the Oklahoma tribe's members to vote for its principal chief.
Attorneys for the slave descendants, called freedmen, said the agreement calls for extending balloting for this Saturday's special election until Oct. 8 so that those qualified to vote can be notified and participate.
The agreement came during a hearing in federal court in Washington, where U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy was poised to deliver his ruling on whether Saturday's election could continue without the freedman participation. Freedmen attorney Jon Velie asked the judge for a 15-minute recess to negotiate over a proposal made by the tribe. After more than an hour huddling in the hallway with his clients and discussing the proposal with other attorneys, Velie returned to court to announce the deal.
Kennedy gave the parties until 10 a.m. Wednesday to submit a written agreement.
The agreement is a temporary reprieve in the long-running debate over whether the freedmen should be given full membership rights in the one of the country's largest tribes. But the lawsuit brought by the slave descendants ? to keep their right to vote and other tribal benefits after tribe members voted to cut them off ? will continue in federal court.
"The main thing is to have an election that doesn't violate tribal or federal law," Cherokee Nation Acting Principal Chief S. Joe Crittenden late Tuesday. "This order should re-establish the status quo as it existed during the June and July elections."
The freedmen also are suing the U.S. government, citing an 1866 federal treaty with the Cherokee Nation they say guarantees their tribal rights. An attorney for the United States, Amber Blaha, told Kennedy at the hearing that the Interior Department believes they have the right to full citizenship rights under the treaty and an election without their participation would be illegal.
Saturday's special election was ordered by the tribe's Supreme Court after recounts from a flawed election in June were reversed several times, with the longtime chief and his challenger each being declared the winner twice. Tribal experts believe the freedmen could swing the vote to new leadership of one of the country's largest tribes.
Chad Smith, who was chief until a temporary replacement was named after the June election, has actively campaigned for the last decade to remove non-Cherokee freedmen from the tribe's voter rolls. His challenger, longtime tribal councilman Bill John Baker, also backed their removal but not as vocally and is believed to have the support of many freedmen who voted.
Baker and Smith issued statements late Tuesday blaming each other for the election mess.
Baker said Smith and others had "bungled" the freedmen issue and told supporters it was "time to end this sad chapter in our history of Smith and his Supreme Court tarnishing the Cherokee name."
Smith countered that the agreement was "in direct violation" of the tribe's highest court ruling that freedmen are not citizens of the Cherokee Nation. He accused Baker's attorney of pressuring the tribe's election commission to give the freedmen "special treatment in this election."
Although no official breakdown exists, attorneys for the freedmen estimate that between 330 and 500 freedmen voted during that election. The tribe initially announced Smith had won by 11 votes, but subsequent tallies had the margins at seven, 266 and five votes.
After ballots were counted a fifth time from the June election, the tribe's Supreme Court said it couldn't be sure the tally was correct and ordered a new election.
But in the meantime, it upheld a 2007 vote by tribe members to revoke the freedmen's suffrage rights after three-fourths of voters favored doing so.
Tribal Attorney General Diane Hammons told Kennedy the agreement would basically return the freedmen to the "status quo" before the Supreme Court ruling by allowing those who were qualified then to participate now.
The Cherokee Nation has about 300,000 members, making it Oklahoma's largest tribe and one of the largest tribes in the U.S. About 2,800 freedmen held tribal rights after fighting for years to regain citizenship privileges that they believe were granted to them under the 1866 treaty, which gave the freedmen and their descendants "all the rights of native Cherokees."
Amid mounting pressure from the federal government, which included the freezing of $33 million in Cherokee funds by the Housing and Urban Development Department, the tribe's election commission decided to allow freedmen to cast provisional ballots for chief ? but said those votes would only count in the event of a court order.
Tuesday's agreement would count those votes and stipulate that a letter go out to other freedman by Thursday notifying them of their right to participate. Blaha said that it would also require the tribe to submit its election procedures immediately to the U.S. government for review and that no ballots be counted until the end of the extended election period.
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Associated Press writer Justin Juozapavicius in Tulsa, Okla., contributed to this report.
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