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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Solomon's words for the wise: Mosquito Spraying Set for Clinton ...

Mosquito Spraying Set for Clinton, Lycoming Counties on Aug. 7

The Department of Environmental Protection will apply treatments the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 7, in residential, recreational and industrial areas of Avis Borough and Pine Creek Township, Clinton County, and Jersey Shore Borough, Porter Township and the city of Williamsport, Lycoming County, to control adult mosquito populations. In the event of rain, the spraying will be rescheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 8.

The treatments will be administered by ATV and truck-mounted equipment to spray open spaces in residential, recreational and industrial areas. The equipment dispenses Biomist 3+15 at a rate of 1.5 ounces per acre.

This product is designed to provide quick, effective control of adult mosquito populations. The application material has a very low toxicity profile to mammals and is safe for the environment.

Certain mosquito species carry the West Nile virus, which can cause humans to contract West Nile encephalitis, an infection that can result in an inflammation of the brain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all residents in areas where virus activity has been identified are at risk of contracting West Nile encephalitis

Mosquito samples in 41 counties have been identified with the West Nile virus so far this year. No human cases have been confirmed.

Individuals can take a number of precautionary measures around their homes to help eliminate mosquito-breeding areas, including:

Dispose of cans, buckets, plastic containers, ceramic pots or similar containers that hold water on your property.
Properly dispose of discarded tires that can collect water. Stagnant water is where most mosquitoes breed.
Drill holes in the bottom of outdoor recycling containers.
Have clogged roof gutters cleaned every year, particularly if the leaves from surrounding trees have a tendency to plug drains.
Turn over plastic wading pools when not in use.
Turn over wheelbarrows and don?t let water stagnate in birdbaths.
Aerate ornamental pools or stock them with fish.
Clean and chlorinate swimming pools not in use and remove any water that may collect on pool covers.

For stagnant pools of water, homeowners can buy Bti products at lawn and garden, outdoor supply, home improvement and other stores. This naturally occurring bacteria kills mosquito larva but is safe for people, pets, aquatic life and plants.

Additionally, these simple precautions can prevent mosquito bites, particularly for people who are most at risk:

Make sure screens fit tightly over doors and windows to keep mosquitoes out of homes.
Consider wearing long-sleeved shirts, long pants and socks when outdoors, particularly when mosquitoes are most active at dawn and dusk, or in areas known for having large numbers of mosquitoes.

When possible, reduce outdoor exposure at dawn and dusk during peak mosquito periods, usually April through October.

Use insect repellants according to the manufacturer?s instructions. An effective repellant will contain DEET, picaridin, or oil of lemon eucalyptus. Consult with a pediatrician or family physician if you have questions about the use of repellant on children, as repellant is not recommended for children under the age of two months.

For more information about West Nile virus and the state?s surveillance and control program, visit www.westnile.state.pa.us.

Source: http://solomonswords.blogspot.com/2012/08/mosquito-spraying-set-for-clinton.html

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Canon Pixma MG3220 Wireless Inkjet Photo All-in-One

The Canon Pixma MG3220 Wireless Inkjet Photo All-in-One is a home multi-function printer (MFP) with a bargain-basement price and a few goodies like WiFi connectivity and an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. However, it's largely a case of "you get what you pay for", as its speed and photo quality are below the curve, and its display is primitive.

The MG3220 is a three-function MFP: it can print, scan, and copy. Matte black with rounded corners, it's reasonably compact and light at 6.0 by 17.7 by 12.0 inches (HWD) and 12.1 pounds. The paper feeder, which can fit up to 100 sheets of plain paper or take photo paper instead, is in front, below the output tray. At the top is the flatbed, which lacks an automatic document feeder (ADF).

To the right of the flatbed is the control panel, with start button, color and black-and-white scan buttons, a button for switching between 8.5 by 11 plain paper, 8.5 by 11 photo paper, and 4 by 6 photo paper. Other buttons include setup and fit to page. The green LED can only display a single character at a time, and you need to refer to the printer's user manual, which you install on your PC, to make any sense of it.

Also installed on your computer is Canon's My Image Garden software, which lets you organize your photos by calendar or event, create layouts, employ facial recognition and filter effects, and more. The MG3220 is AirPrint-enabled, letting you print to it from Apple mobile devices on the same WiFi network.

The MG3220 is the middle model of three budget inkjet MFPs that Canon recently introduced; we'll be reviewing the other two soon. The Pixma MG2220 ($69 list) lacks WiFi connectivity and the auto-duplexer, and has a slightly lower rated print speed. The Pixma MG4220 ($129.99 list) sports a 2.5-inch LCD.

The MG3220 connects via USB in addition to Wi-Fi. We did our speed and quality testing over a USB connection with a PC running Windows Vista.

Canon Pixma MG3220 Wireless Inkjet All-in-One

Print Speed
The Canon Pixma MG3220 printed out our business applications suite (as timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software) at 2.0 effective pages per minute (ppm), which is slow even for a bargain-priced MFP. The Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J430W zipped through the same tests at 4.3 ppm, while the Editors' Choice Kodak ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer output the tests at a 3.2 ppm clip and I recently clocked the Epson Expression Home XP-400 Small-in-One at 3.2 ppm.

Output Quality
Text quality was typical of inkjets, fine for basic home, school, or business correspondence, but not for documents like resumes with which you seek to convey the impression of professionalism, nor for applications requiring very small type.

Graphics quality was a bit sub-par for an inkjet. Issues included dithering (graininess), posterization (abrupt shifts in color where they should be gradual), and trouble printing thin, colored lines. Graphics were fine for typical home or school uses, but not for formal reports or handouts for people you seek to impress.

Photo quality was slightly sub-par for an inkjet. A monochrome photo showed a tint, as well as dithering. The best of the test prints were about the quality you'd expect from drugstore prints; the others didn't quite rise to that level.

The MG3220 is a home MFP pretty much all the way, with no significant business features except WiFi connectivity that would make it suitable for home-office duty as well. As a home printer, its photo quality is fine for snapshots to pin with a magnet on a refrigerator, but you're not likely to be wowed by its print quality. If you're on a tight budget, your printing needs are light duty, you want a WiFi-enabled machine, and you're not overly concerned about image quality, this machine may fit the bill.

The Canon Pixma MG3220 comes at a bargain-basement price, and provides a couple of nifty features for a sub-$100 printer, namely Wi-Fi connectivity and an auto-duplexer. However, its display is primitive, it is slow, and its graphics and especially photo print quality are below the curve. For a little more money, the Editors' Choice Kodak ESP 3.2 lets you print from memory cards and preview images on a 2.4-inch display. The Kodak is also considerably faster, and prints better-quality photos.

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PSA Screening Could Prevent Prostate Cancer Spread, but Would It Save Lives?

Forgoing a test to detect prostate cancer could mean that three times as many men would fail to have the disease detected before it spreads to other organs, according to a paper in Cancer on July 30. This new finding arrives just months after the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force issued a recommendation against using PSA screening. The task force gave PSA screening a grade of "D," meaning it does more harm than good for most men.

The FDA approved PSA screening in 1986 as a diagnostic test to detect prostate cancer, and it has been controversial from the beginning. The screening has a high false positive rate because PSA levels rise from nonmalignant prostate growth. Additionally, many prostate cancers grow so slowly that they will never cause problems, and it is nearly impossible to tell which cancers need to be treated and which can be left alone.

Surgery or radiation used in treatment can produce incontinence or impotence. As with any surgery, there is a small risk of death or other serious complications, and it's painful, even under the best of circumstances. The task force analyzed several large studies and determined that the benefits of screening and treatment did not outweigh the risks.

The goal of the Cancer study was to determine how many cases of prostate cancer might be missed until they metastasized if PSA testing were eliminated. Metastatic prostate cancer, a malignancy that has spread to distant organs, is usually symptomatic, leading men to seek treatment. It's generally fatal within a few years. Researchers analyzed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program to determine the prevalence of men who were diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer as their initial prostate cancer diagnosis, rather than a less invasive form.

The researchers used data from 1983 to 1985, the three years immediately preceding the PSA screening test, to determine the rate of metastatic prostate cancer cases without screening and used the rate to extrapolate the number of cases in 2008, the latest year for which data are available.

They then compared the expected rates to the actual rates for that year and calculated that approximately 25,000 men would have been given an initial diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer in 2008 without screening, as opposed to the approximately 8,000 who did.

Edward Messing, the senior author of the study, says that PSA is capable of detecting the disease earlier, which could, in theory lead to fewer deaths from prostate cancer. Marc Garnick, a prostate cancer expert at Harvard Medical School, points out, "this would have been a much more powerful study if they had mortality outcomes, not the incidence of metastatic disease."

In fact, Garnick says the clinical trials that have addressed mortality rates have already been done, and they indicate no difference in overall survival or prostate cancer survival in men who underwent screening. Studies like Messing's, he says, are trying to poke holes in the research. "Every single time these studies come out, the backlash is that the studies were flawed. I'm not aware of any program in medicine where randomized studies posed in prestigious journals come out with these negative conclusions, and everyone is trying to data mine the conclusions. It's unprecedented."

Garnick says that PSA screening is based on the faulty assumption that cancer starts small, becomes localized in the prostate, advances to nearby regions of the body, becomes metastatic, and then kills. If this were the case, screening studies should have showed that more lives were saved. "The screening studies show that there's no difference in mortality. The biology of the cancer trumps the stage of the cancer."

In addition, the largest difference between expected and observed metastatic cancer is in older age groups. "The headline seems to be coming from patients who are greater than 80 years old," Garnick says. But those patients often have many other health problems that lead to death before even aggressive prostate cancer.

Otis Brawley, a medical oncologist and chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society who was not involved with the study, says, "It certainly adds to the body of evidence, but it's by no means definitive." One problem is that many men whose initial diagnosis is localized, not metastasized, prostate cancer, end up relapsing even after having their prostate is removed. This means that the cancer had already metastasized by the time of the first diagnosis, but it could not be detected at that time. Those patients already had metastatic disease when screened, but they were not diagnosed at the time, and so they are not counted in Messing's study.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case-control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics. So the results from a modeling study, no matter how compelling, are not definitive. They should lead to other studies, and eventually clinical trials.

On both sides of the debate researchers agree that men should be informed of the risks and possible benefits of PSA screening and subsequent treatment before they start the process, a challenge when contradictory reports abound. Garnick says, "My heart goes out to both patients and physicians because the whole concept of screening, diagnosing and offering treatments is among the most complicated in medicine."

"What we need is a better biomarker that not only tells us that the patient has cancer but what the behavior of that cancer is likely to be," Garnick continues. "It becomes a circular argument until we get better biomarkers." For now, men and their families have to make tough choices about whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/psa-screening-could-prevent-prostate-cancer-spread-save-190000957.html

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Friday, August 3, 2012

Liberteks announces Community First Tech Responder Program ...

FOR RELEASE: August 2, 2012
CONTACT: Tim Cronin (518) 859-8647
Terri Luka?ko (518) 708-5128

Albany?s Eagle Hill neighborhood will be the first to receive coverage by Liberteks? Community First Tech Responder Program which will provide technology outreach and education in communities throughout the City of Albany, Larry Zimbler announced today.

?The Liberteks First Tech Responder will have information on home computer network security such as remote monitoring, hardware, software, virus protection, disaster recovery and back up solutions,? Zimbler said.

According to Zimbler, technology pro and Eagle Hill resident Terri Luka?ko will be Liberteks? Community First Tech Responder working in the community, providing technology assessments working throughout the neighborhood providing consultation and advice.

Liberteks will be participating in the National Night Out event sponsored by the Eagle Hill Neighbor Association at Lounello?s Park on Cortland and Beacon Streets on Aug 7 at 5:30 -7:30pm. Residents can visit Terri Luka?ko at the Liberteks booth and ask questions on technology issues.

The Eagle Hill neighborhood is bounded by Western Ave. to the north, Route 85 to the east, parts of Krumkill Road and the State Thruway (Interstate 87) to the south, and the Albany-Guilderland boundary on the west.

In her first neighborhood survey, Luka?ko found that 10 percent of the homes had unsecured networks. She will provide door hanger introductions for residents, and do surveys in the neighborhood and be available to provide proactive information about home network security.
Zimbler says Liberteks plans to continue to expand into neighborhoods throughout the city.

Currently celebrating its 20th year in business, Liberteks located at 1648 Western Ave., provides computer and technology services for businesses and consumers in the Capital Region. For more information contact Larry Zimbler at 452-0550 x1 or visit www.liberteks.com.

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Since 1991, Liberteks.com has committed itself to excellence in consultative selling and service to small businesses and personal computer client. Liberteks.com provides timely and critical information along with expert assistance in the ever-changing computer marketplace.

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Source: http://www.liberteks.com/blog/?p=598

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Real Estate Suggestions Real estate franchise

Posted by admin in Tips on 08 2nd, 2012 | no responses

Have you ever heard of a Real estate franchise? HomeSmart is a relevant example that starting with the year 2000 appeared on the Phoenix marketplace and is specialized in advanced technologies. If in 2000 the company counted only two agents, nowadays it has more than 4,000 agents and it is widespread not only in Arizona, but also in California. HomeSmart is one of the first 10 real estate brokerages in the USA and is considered the biggest one in the Southern.
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Matt Widdows was the person that created HomeSmart and became a family business until now. Thanks to Matt?s background in technology and everything that is related to real estate and the support of his wife were the main ingredients to his success. At the beginning, the company was specialized accounts receivable systems used in the medical field. When Matt began to take advantage of his rights as a real estate licensed agent and let the company to someone else to take over in 1994, his following step was to get involved into the real estate industry.

Thus in 1999 he created HomeSmart after putting into practice his technological knowledge and implemented it into real estate business. HomeSmart was basically a source of agents specialized in operating with edge tools, that were working in professional manner and with maximum efficiency. The employees were given the right conditions to work with their clients in a safe and comfortable environment, with no time pressure or lack of information.

The technology implemented by HomeSmart was useful to the IT field due to its ability to combine technology and human aid, within customer service. In general the collaboration between these two parts is not successful and one of them has to support the consequences. It is not the case of HomeSmart, which is specialized in it.

Even nowadays, HomeSmart occupies a significant place in the Real Estate Industry due to its high-level results in providing customer service. It has professional agents that are known to be among the best ones in this field and due to their preparation, the company managed to franchise its systems. Real Estate franchise refer to allowing someone else to take your brand and promote it somewhere around the world, after having been taught by you how to do it.

A real estate franchise is a profitable business for every entrepreneur who wants to make sure of his future positive results and after getting in touch with the managers of HomeSmart their tasks will look even easier than they have ever thought of.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Meetings show to include business travel for first time | ABTN

Posted Wednesday, 1 August, 2012 - 14:53 by Rob Gill

Meetings and events show EIBTM is to include business travel for the first time at its trade show in Barcelona this November.

Reed Travel Exhibitions, which also owns the Business Travel Market held annually in London, announced that EIBTM would feature business travel at the show from November 27-29.

Corporate travel activities will include an exhibitor pavilion on the showfloor and education sessions run by ACTEAssociation of Corporate Travel Executives: A non-profit association that represents the global business travel industry. It provides executive-level educational programmes and carries out independent industry research. Its members come from all areas of business travel - from corporate buyers to suppliers. Provides members with a forum for sharing ideas and also offers independent advice. . For full details, click here

Organisers said that it had decided to make the move after research from last year?s show found that 57 per cent of international hosted buyers also had responsibility for business travel within their companies.

Graeme Barnett, EIBTM event director, said: ?The incorporation of business travel to EIBTM is a logical extension to the current show profile.

?We are very excited about the new possibilities and increased return on investment that it will deliver for our exhibitors already operating in this field, as well as introducing new specialist buyers and suppliers to the event.?

EIBTM, which is celebrating its 25^th birthday this year, has also formed a ?strategic partnership? with ACTE to provide the educational sessions at the show.

Ron DiLeo, ACTE executive director, said: "This collaboration is extremely timely, as business travel and meetings continue to converge.

?Face-to-face meetings are vital to business success and a healthy economy. Executives must travel to network and push forward initiatives.?

Business Travel Market is scheduled to take place next year at Excel from June 19-20.

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Source: http://www.abtn.co.uk/news/0117666-meetings-show-include-business-travel-first-time

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