TALLAHASSEE – The cost of smoking cigarettes goes up Wednesday – and so does the cost of replacing that used schoolbook your kid left out in the rain.
Those and 159 other new laws take effect Wednesday, the start of the state’s fiscal year 2009-2010. Here’s a peek at some of the changes made by the Legislature and Gov. Charlie Crist that go into force on July 1:
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Natalie Tyler Tran is a video blogger on YouTube from Sydney, Australia, using the nickname communitychannel. She is a 2nd generation Vietnamese Australian. As of June 22, 2009, she has 163 videos available on her channel (not counting videos that may have been deleted) and is 1st most subscribed of all-time in Australia, 16th most subscribed of all-time on YouTube and the 7th most subscribed Director. She is also the number 1 most subscribed for the categories of Director and Partners for Australia of all time and the 52nd most watched person on Youtube. In addition, she was the first runner up in the Miss Youtube contest created by Michael Buckley of What The Buck. Her first video was created on September 25, 2006. Tran vlogs about her daily-life situations as a university student.
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In this TED archive video from 1998, paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins talks about her record-setting career as a runner, and about the amazing carbon-fiber prosthetic legs (then a prototype) that helped her cross the finish line.http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_on_running.html
Aimee Mullins (born 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American athlete, actress, and fashion model best known for her collegiate-level athletic accomplishments, despite a disability that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs.
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The UPC, or Universal Product Code, barcode is a method of marking consumer products so that they may be identified easily. Most UPC barcodes, called version A, and have twelve numbers. However, there are other versions such as the UPC version E with only eight digits, and the ISBN-13
version with thirteen numbers used for books. There are also other barcode systems such as EAN-13 and EAN-8 that are used outside the U.S. But the UPC version A barcode is the most common.
What do the numbers in the UPC version A barcode mean?
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The Original Gorillapod is the lightest and most versatile camera tripod available today. Featuring over two dozen flexible leg joints that bend and rotate, the Gorillapod will firmly secure your compact digital camera to virtually any surface — anywhere and everywhere!
The Gorillapod is the ideal camera accessory for photographers on the go. Throw it in your pocket or backpack and you’ll be ready for your next adventure! While the Gorillapod serves all the functions of a traditional camera tripod – steadying your camera under low-light conditions, taking timed group shots, etc. – it is the only tripod malleable enough to provide you with the perfect shot while wrapped around a tree branch, hanging from a pole, or perched on a jagged rock. The possibilities are endless!
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One of the keys to a successful career is making the right decisions at critical junctures, whether you’re fielding a job offer, asking for a promotion or plotting your next move.
Beyond those major decisions, every day presents myriad, small opportunities to make good — and bad — choices that could have a big impact.
In an uncertain economy, knowing how to proceed at these junctures becomes even more critical, according to Arizona-based business and workplace consultants Jamie and Maren Showkeir, co-authors of “Authentic Conversations.”
Here are seven tactics to help keep your career on track.
1. Don’t play the blame game.
2. Skip the gossip and get down to work.
3. Get the real story.
4. Don’t play the victim.
5. Think big picture.
6. Be a listener, not a talker.
7. You gotta have hope.
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A couple of weeks ago I was on a bus tour of the space shuttle launch area at the Kennedy Space Center Florida. For $58 you can ride a bus past some of the outlying security barriers and get within about a mile of the Discovery on the pad. This is about as close as an ordinary citizen can get without being asked serious questions by men with automatic weapons.
It was an impressive tour in all respects, but this story today brought back a part of the tour related by the guide: NASA Delays Discovery Launch Fourth Time
An all-day review of the craft’s readiness for launch left managers still under-confident about the operations of three hydrogen control valves that channel gaseous hydrogen from the main engines to the external fuel tank. Engineering teams have been working to identify what caused damage to a flow control valve on shuttle Endeavour during its November 2008 flight. NASA managers decided Friday more data and possible testing are required before launch can proceed.
Earlier this year (2009), O’Neal presented its new Element Fastrack motorbike helmet and if the customer reviews are any indication, the market seems to have literally fallen in love with it. So just what is it about the Element Fastrack helmet that’s got the market so excited?
First let’s look at the basics of the Fastrack helmet. The Fastrack is a full face street bike helmet that comes in basic black (gloss and flat) as well as 3 selections of multicolored graphic. It has an adjustable full ventilation system for the top of your head so that cooler heads will prevail, and also on the chin bar to keep your breath from fogging up the picture. To keep the wind from coming up under your chin (especially on those cold days), there’s a Velcro chin skirt.
The chin strap is a double D-ring type with a snap enclosure to keep the end of the strap from flopping around. The visor has a quick release system for easy use and the liners are fully removable and washable. And of course, the Fastrack helmet is DOT certified and exceeds DOT standards.
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The Nokia 5310 is an XpressMusic mobile phone, released in the fourth quarter of 2007. It is less than a centimeter thick and is available with blue, red, purple, pink, orange, silver or black trim, the main body also being available in gray, black or white. It is currently available in the U.S. through T-Mobile and in Canada through Rogers, In the UK Through Vodafone, o2, Orange and T-Mobile. It features many music specific features as well as a 2 Megapixel camera. It is one of few mobile phones measuring less than 1cm thick, at 9.9mm.
The phone has basic organizer functions including a calendar, to-do list, and notes. All of these plus the phonebook can be synchronized with a desktop calendar such as iCal over Bluetooth. [3] Also phone has a large music functions with dedicated audio chip, which delivers enhanced high-quality performance. WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Opera Mini) browsers.
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