You are right, thematically there is nothing in common between technology news that BLOGVASION serves and Hurricanes but if the BLOGVASION reader will know how to behave after a hurricane, that will be just useful and informative. According to the PRWEB more people are seriously injured and killed on the picture perfect calm days after a hurricane has blown through and people are returning to their homes and lives. Number one culprit is stepping onto a wet lawn or puddle that is electrically charged by an unseen down power line. Following this tragic statistic, is the collapse of roof structures while examining damage and falling trees.

In order to save people from this danger Gulf Atlantic Industries of America, Inc. (GAI) that is a state licensed and insured South Florida general contractor serving Miami to Melbourne and Miami to Pt. Charlotte, specialize in disaster relief, new roofs, and hurricane protection products, including hurricane shutters, hurricane storm panels, and impact resistant replacement windows and doors.

GAI offer's 10 important steps to help ensure your safety following a hurricane. According to the PRWEB these are:

1. Have proof of residency in the form of a driver's license accompanied by a property tax document, insurance document, and or piece of mail that shows current address. This will be necessary to re-enter an evacuation zone or heavily damaged area.

2. Be extra careful on what and where you are walking through as well as using your hands to move debris. Look out for power lines, tilting trees, light poles, power poles, sharp objects, and wild life, especially alligators, snakes, and raccoons.

3. Upon arriving at your residence, do not walk right in. Survey the entire exterior structure, especially the roof for lose roof tiles that may slide off on to your head. When entering, remain in the doorway threshold, looking at the ceilings and walls to evaluate the durability of your surroundings.

4. Check your power source, electrical panel box, and smell for gas. If power is out use a flashlight, do not strike a match or a lighter. Feel your walls for wetness especially around receptacles outlets and do not plug in appliances and electronic devises prior to making certain that the prongs are dry.

5. Open up all your faucet's for 5-10 minutes to run water. Do not drink or bathe in water until you are given an all clear from the county or your municipality as water may be contaminated.

6. Check your windows and sliding doors to be sure they are securely in place as not to collapse on you and carefully remove any broken glass.

7. For those of you who have solar systems on your roofs, check that they are securely in place so that the simple closing of a door does not trigger the unit to come loose thus sliding off the roof crashing on to you. Same for screen pool and patio enclosures, carefully examine the frame structure.

8. If you are returning to a mid or hi-rise apartment or condominium complex check with the management office as to whether the elevators are safely operating.

9. Be extra careful upon checking the secure placement of your floor to ceiling windows. If loose frames or broken glass is detected, back away and hire a professional to securely board up the openings.

10. Upon opening a sliding door to a balcony terrace, do it carefully and look at the structure. Do not lean on any railings or knee walls. If it appears to be unsafe, close the door and tape off the area with warning signs from the inside.


References:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/florida/hurricane/prweb1143494.htm

The climate does not resemble the world is was created centuries ago. Not even the century but each year brings new and new surprises to human beings. One of the main fiend people are putting efforts in is our climate saving.

Correspondingly there is no my or your climate, his or her. Each person should save the surrounding he/she lives in. as Climate-friendly IT service provider S3 Consulting do. It joined leading global charity World Wildlife Fund a member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Among the companies are Dell, EDS, Google, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Pacific Gas and Electric, and the World Wildlife Fund that is dedicated to reducing the energy consumption of computers by 50 percent by 2010.

According to theSOURCEWIRE by 2010, the initiative seeks to reduce global CO2 emissions from the operation of computers by 54 million tons per year, equivalent to the annual output of 11 million cars or 10–20 coal-fired power plants.

Arne Josefsberg, Microsoft’s representative to the Climate Savers Computing Initiative board of directors commented:“We are delighted that businesses at the sharp end of the IT sector, such as S3, are taking the initiative and lending their support to our campaign in a way that demonstrates their awareness of the significance and potential impact of this issue. It’s through these collaborations that the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is working to effect widespread change.”

Chris Bullock, CEO of S3 Consulting added:“Having been a member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative for approaching a year, S3 has always tried to deliver a power efficient message in its service delivery – indeed carbon saving is very close to our hearts. The ability to work even more closely with the initiative offers S3 the opportunity to play a major part in helping organisations realise the importance of striving towards a greener computing landscape.”

References:
www.s3consulting.co.uk
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=40594&hilite=

Who won’t agree that nowadays people sit at computers for a along, long time? Even though it is not good for health our work or hobby or even illness to sit at a PC for hours makes professionals think over how to offer comfort while doing so.

May be the healing features of jeans will make me go to a shop and buy one pair of some sort of jeans. Though I am not sure. But for those who hardly ever imagined their lives without jeans, and such people really exist, can visit Makeyourownjeans.com. It created a new fashion product "Ayurvedic Organic Jeans". The product consists of the features that can heal the body and help loose weight too, using techniques go back over 5,000 years. This was originated in India, and it's called Ayurveda. So what is the technique of healing? Fabrics are dyed in medicinal herbs.

Hi, I am a passive smoker. :-( SOS

In spite of cutting down the crime in United States going out at night is still dangerous. Women are more unprotected than men. According to the Senate Judiciary Committee, three out of four women in the United States will be victims of one violent crime during their lifetime, so there was created a No-Contact Jacket, which associates protection with comfort.

Acoholic energy drinks contain a lot of sugar and flavoring. The difference is that this new generation of malt beverages also contains stimulants. A typical can has about as much caffeine as a venti cup of Starbucks, along with additives like guarana and ginseng that can rev the central nervous system.

Though flavored malt beverages make up less than 2% of alcohol servings in the U.S. The new alcoholic energy drinks have a further pull on the youth market: the promise that you can get drunk but still party all night because of the caffeine.

Law-enforcement officials want tighter regulations on the drinks. Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler, a Democrat who is helping lead a national campaign against the beverages, calls them "disgusting." He says: "The caffeine is a stimulant that triggers the false impression that kids can drink more and still function normally. The kids won't recognize they are actually drunk...And then all of a sudden, over a short period of time, it goes Bam, and they're gone."

Mixing alcohol, a depressant, with stimulants is nothing new. But alcoholic energy drinks are different because they are so obviously marketed to kids.

Researchers conducted - Caffeine won't keep you from getting drunk. In fact, drinking caffeine with alcohol could be more dangerous than drinking alcohol alone, from a psychological perspective. One of the fascinating things about how humans process alcohol is that we involve our brains as well as our bodies: we have at least some capacity to overcome alcohol's effects by sheer force of will. Mark Fillmore, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, has found that study volunteers who are warned that a certain alcoholic drink will highly impair their performance on a psychomotor test actually do better on the test than people who are given the same drink but no information about impairment. In other words, at least in a lab setting, those who are led to believe that they're about to get truly blotto end up not letting themselves get so blotto. They don't perform as well on their tests as sober people, but they perform a lot better than the average drinker.

Alcohol functions in your body pretty much the same, whether you mix it with caffeine or not: you will be impaired. The problem is, you may not feel as impaired if caffeine is present. Clinical and Experimental Research found that people who drank energy drinks with alcohol felt better than those who drank only alcohol — the former group had significantly less dry mouth and headache. They also perceived their motor coordination to be better, even though it wasn't.

So if your beverage of choice carries a silly name like Tilt, Bawls, Sparks or Rip it, you’re probably too young to drink anyway.

References:

http://www.oag.state.md.us/Press/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_beverages_containing_guarana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarana

According to a new report from independent research firm Verdantix, equity analysts divide into three distinct groups based on their climate change perspective. Regulations and risks in their financial models are believed to be the factors of climate change by 30% of analysts. As for the sceptics, 28% of the research participants, consider that climate change will have a material impact on profitability within 2 to 5 years. And cynics, comprising 30% of analysts, doubt climate change will ever impact valuations.

The 61st World Health Assembly set WHO on a course to tackle longstanding, new and looming threats to global public health. The Health Assembly produced a public health breakthrough by providing a platform for removing barriers and using innovative methods to encourage research, development and access to medicines for the common diseases of the developing world.

"This is a major breakthrough for public health that will benefit many millions of people for many years to come," said WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. "This is a contribution to fairness in health and this is pro-active public health at its very best."

The public health, innovation and intellectual property strategy purpose is to promote new approaches to pharmaceutical research and development (R&D), and to enhance access to medicines.

"At this World Health Assembly, we witnessed the interplay between the political, trade and health interests," said the President of the Health Assembly, Dr Leslie Ramsammy who is the Minister of Health of Guyana. "Child and maternal health, and the prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases rely on the supply chain and commodities. We are now much closer to having an increased flow of quality health commodities that will lead to better health."

Refereneces:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/wha02/en/index.html

Sounds strange or extravagant?
Anyway, seems we can do that and ask for instructions Oakthrift Corporation Limited, the company famous for its home, garden and pet products and umbrellas that is launching Plant –It™ seeded paper/card.

A unique manufacturing process which impregnates the card with wild flower seeds gives opportunity to grow wild flowers in our gardens.

According to the SourceWire, when planted, each handmade seed paper sheet acts like mulch to retain moisture for the seeds. Do not need your card anymore? Simply plant it indoors or outside following the simple instructions included, and they will be amazed at how it will grow into beautiful flowers.

Chief Executive of Oakthrift, Lloyd Freedman said, “The Plant –It™ seeded paper/card is made from 100% re-cycled paper, soy-based inks, and organic pigments which actually grow into flowers when planted! We are introducing a new product to the UK which is extremely successful in USA at a time when everyone is conscious of our environment. I have no doubt that we will emulate that success in the UK”

Reference:
http://www.plant-itcards.com/plant-itbrochure.pdfhttp://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=izXiL

Are you a victim of Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or passive smoke, involuntary smoking or passive smoking? I am.

• Death caused by heart disease of non-smokers who live with smokers - 35,000
• Death caused by lung cancer in non-smoking adults - 3,400
• Coughing, mucus, chest discomfort, and reduced lung function
• Lung infections 150,000 to 300,000, 7,500 to 15,000 children younger than 18 months of age are hospitalized
• Asthma attacks - 200,000 to 1 million children have asthma
• Middle ear infections in children - 750,000

And where are the problems of secondhand smoking? Working place, public places, and at home. I am only safe at home.

According to the National Cancer Institute there is no safe level of secondhand smoking and it can be equally harmful at any stage of its “development”.

But according to the advertising slogans of cigarettes hardly one can predict that they are under the threat of death, cancer, asthma...

Let’s have funny analyses of the cigarette slogans:

Pall Mall. Wherever particular people congregate.
Result: Particular people with less particular diseases

L&M. Just what the doctor ordered.
Result: Doctor and patient on the same way to death

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
Result: Bad knowledge of language.
Good taste not always leads to bad death

You're never alone with a Strand
Result: You are always surrounded by doctors

If you smoke, please smoke Carlton
If not enjoy the life ;-)

References:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Secondhand_Smoke-Clean_Indoor_Air.asp
http://www.onlinecheapcigarettes.net/pages/37.php?action=news&name=Cigarettes_tobacco_slogans____&news=31

Before you go on another diet conquer emotional eating. For decades Americans, in their obsession to lose weight, have ignored emotional eating. They go on diets and use techniques such as calorie counting in hopes of losing weight. “Eating emotional feelings is the largest contributing cause to being overweight. The true way to success is to conquer emotional eating,” - says Richard Kuhns, author of The Scale Conspiracy E-book.

In his book he points out that decades of approaching the weight problem with diets has most overeaters hypnotized into believing that they really have an eating problem. Yes, while those who are overweight definitely would agree that they have an eating problem or a food problem, the truth is that overeating is only a symptom.

What do you often do when you feel: Frustrated? Bored? Happy? Excited? Upset? Depressed? Unhappy? Angry? Like rewarding yourself?

If your answer is "eat" in response to one or more of these questions, you are an emotional eater.

The book points out that the truth is that overeaters use food to dilute various emotions. You're bored and there's nothing to do so you eat. You got a lot accomplished so you eat to reward yourself. You're happy being with your friends so you eat to celebrate a good time. You're angry or upset about something so you eat to sooth yourself. You are stressed and under pressure so you eat to relieve the stress and pressure.

The book also covers other emotions such as confusion, depression... food is also used to dilute those emotions and feelings. It doesn't matter whether the emotions are good or bad feelings.

Yet, most of us have no idea how to take the emotions straight and leave food out of the process. But may be we have to try it?

Reference:

http://www.dstressdoc.com/BingeEatingEbook.htm

People who spend hours and hours playing video games exhibit the same personality traits as people with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, researchers say. The new UK research fuels concerns that video games could further alienate an already isolated group of people and increase mental health problems like depression. 400 gamers were examined, most of them were males.

The more time a person spent playing video games, the researchers found, the more likely they were to show three specific traits usually associated with Asperger's: neuroticism and a lack of extraversion and agreeableness. But people with Asperger's may be more vulnerable to becoming addicted to playing video games because it allows them to escape into a world where they can avoid face-to-face interactions.

People with Asperger's typically find social situations stressful. They often can't make eye contact and fail to pick up social cues, like boredom, in other people. The condition tends to isolate children and can trigger depression, which according to researchers, video games may encourage. The exact cause of Asperger's is unknown, although researchers suspect there is a genetic component. Treatment for Asperger's usually consists of improving social skills and breaking repetitive behavior, the very things video games discourage.

I’ll try being easy with games and not to get addicted gamer!

References:

http://data.bolton.ac.uk/staff/jc4/ubccru/text/individualdifferences.htm

Buy One Get One Tree campaign by innocent is teaming up with Carbon Clear again and throughout May, for each carton of smoothie sold and registered, innocent will grow a tree in one of Carbon Clear’s projects in India. Each carton has a unique code which when registered on the dedicated website will see a tree planted.

If your pet has some problems with health and it needs some medical surgeries and you don’t know how to save him, you can ask for a help to a new community. That formed a canine blood donor program which was launched by the University of California, Davis, and School of Veterinary Medicine.

Roughly 1,200 pet dogs will be screened during the coming year to develop a group of 200 to 400 regular donors. This new donor program will allow developing a large, reliable source of blood products for patients, without maintaining a colony of donor dogs at the hospital.

The donor program and its new UC Davis Animal Blood Bank are situated in the campus's William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.

Dogs have 13 different blood types. The preferred donor type is dog erythrocyte antigen 1.1 negative. Donor dogs for the new program must be 1 to 8 years old, weigh at least 55 pounds and have never been pregnant or had puppies. Each dog will be given a health check and screened for infectious diseases, and a unit of blood will be collected.

In addition to providing blood products for dog transfusions, the teaching hospital annually carries out 400 to 500 transfusions for cats, pigs, horses, cows, sheep and goats.

The UC Davis veterinary hospital currently is limiting its community blood collection to dogs because the tests necessary for screening the health of cats are too expensive.

The new animal blood bank will store regular blood products for all of these species. It also will store umbilical cord blood for future use and will process adult stem cells from horse patients, which can be used to treat ligament, tendon or joint injuries and promote healing of some fractures.

Now you know how to save your pets or help others to treat theirs.

References:
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8551
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=88831

A 35 years Indonesian fisherman named Dede Koswara got a simple cut on his knee as a teenager and after that began growing tree-like welts all over his body. The welts soon became into mossy, branching growths. Dede was sacked from his job. His wife left him and he has been raising his two children. He was made into the village freak. To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases. Local doctors had no cure for his condition.

But now an American dermatology expert who flew out to Dede's home village south of the capital Jakarta claims to have identified his condition, and proposed a treatment that could transform his life. After testing samples of the lesions and Dede's blood, Dr Anthony Gaspari concluded that his affliction is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus, a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers.

His white blood suspected doctors that he may have the Aids virus, nut tests shoved that he did not and it became clear that his immune condition was something far rarer and more mysterious.

Dede Koswara’s problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts.

Dr Anthony Gaspari believes that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by daily doses of a synthetic form of Vitamin A and several surgeries, which has been shown to stop the growth of warts. The doctor is also trying to get more American support for this special patient.

Good luck, Dede!

References:

http://www.healthbolt.net/2007/11/14/the-man-who-turned-into-a-tree/

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=142852&in_page_id=2

A new study from Yale University suggests the converse trend: rather than feeling tolerance in our society, the overweight and obese say they feel more heavily discriminated against now than they did a decade ago.

Led by Tatiana Andreyeva, a postdoctoral research associate at Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, a team of researchers questioned 1,100 subjects, aged 35 to 74, twice over a 10-year span . Participants answered nine additional questions about everyday experiences, such as how they were treated in restaurants, and whether they had encountered name-calling, harassment or threats. The subjects were asked to indicate the reasons they felt they had been discriminated against whether it was because of age, gender, race, height or weight, physical disability, religion or sexual orientation. Between the two survey periods, the rate of discrimination due to height or weight increased from 7% of respondents to 12% of respondents.

The study is one of the first to track patterns of discrimination based on weight. It's worth noting, however, that the survey relied on people's own perception of discrimination. In addition, the authors found that rates of discrimination by age and gender also increased in the same time period, suggesting that several forms of bias - or perhaps sensitivity to perceived bias - is on the rise overall, not just against the overweight. If rates of weight discrimination are indeed on the rise, say the authors, then it's up to society to mandate legal protections for those who are overweight, just as laws protect people from discrimination by race, gender, disability and age.

P.S. As to me I’m not thin, I do not keep any diet, I love chocolate and feel so happy…

References:

http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/frontburner/fb_4-11-08.html

http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/frontburner/fb_4-10-08.html

Facing the problem of addiction is never an easy task. Products that couses addictions always are advertised and untiadvertisment does not work. If that wasn’t tough enough, there are so many choices in drug rehabilitation that making the right choice can seem impossible.

A new booklet reveals the three barriers that stand between an addict and lifetime sobriety. With this knowledge, anyone trying to help a person addicted to drugs or alcohol will have a greater understanding of the causes of the problem with which to make decisions. The route to sobriety for the addicted person can seem more accessible. “The Life Cycle and Mechanics of Addiction” is available to anyone.

It was written out of the thirty years of experience of Gary W. Smith, the Executive Director of Narconon Arrowhead.

“Without an understanding of the true causes of addiction, some people may never be able to make a full and lasting recovery. Here at Narconon, we see that more people make a lasting recovery with a rehab program like ours that addresses each of the three barriers thoroughly,” - says Ryan Thorpe, Director of Admissions at Narconon Arrowhead. “

Effective rehabilitation and education has been the business of the Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation and education network for more than forty years. The Narconon program was founded in 1966 by William Benitez in Arizona State prison, and is based on the humanitarian works of L. Ron Hubbard. In more than 120 centers around the world, Narconon programs restore drug and alcohol abusers and addicts to a clean and sober lifestyle.

Reference:

http://www.stopaddiction.com/