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September 10th, 2009 | 
Author: It seems that the need for lemon law only becomes clearer as time goes on—and it’s now reaching the rest of the world. A just-released study in Australia has found that faulty goods such as cars and electrical appliances cost the Australian economy about $12 billion a year. Citing lemon laws in the U.S. that have saved consumers when stuck with defective vehicles, the study calls for Australia to enact the same type of legislation.
Laws protecting consumers have been around for hundreds of years, but legislation specific to defective vehicles took a long time to evolve. The 1906 Uniform Sales Act was an attempt to regulate commerce throughout the U.S., the need for which was brought about by the great robber barons who banded together to manipulate prices and profits. In 1952, after more than ten years of drafting and revisions, the Universal Commercial Code emerged. Its purpose was to modernize the law governing commerce and trade, but was not designed to consumers as it was for merchants.
The first milestone in lemon law legislation came with California’s Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act of 1970. Under this act, manufacturers were only entitled to a reasonable number of attempts to repair defective consumer goods. If unsuccessful, they were compelled to either replace the goods or refund the purchase price. The legislation also made it economically viable for consumers to bring warranty suits by providing for an award of attorney’s fees. The Song-Beverly Act became the model for nearly all the lemon laws that followed in other states.
In 1975, Congress enacted federal lemon law in the form of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty-Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act. While not as effective as the Song-Beverly Act, this legislation did attempt to encourage manufacturers to provide better warranties.
California led the way once again in 1982 with the Tanner Consumer Protection Act, which specifically defined guidelines for a “reasonable number of repair attempts,” and again in 1991 with the Automotive Consumer Notification Act, which was meant to reduce what is known as “lemon laundering” (the practice of reselling lemons to unsuspecting car buyers).
“It’s no fun being on the receiving end when manufacturers and their dealerships won’t take responsibility for defects in the cars they sell, even though they know the defects exist,” said Norman Taylor, leading California lemon law attorney. “The law is an attempt to put you in the driver’s seat.”
If you are driving a lemon, the law is squarely behind you. Contact a qualified lemon law attorney right away.
About Norman Taylor & Associates
Norman Taylor and Associates have been assisting consumers since 1987. At Norman Taylor and Associates, the goal is to provide clients with the highest quality of legal representation if they’re one of the unfortunate residents of California who’ve had the misfortune of purchasing defective vehicles or goods and who have recourse under the Lemon Law. They represent consumers in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. With a twenty two year history of successful cases, Norman Taylor & Associates has established their reputation as a firm of consumer advocates that get the job done.
Norman Taylor studied engineering at Arizona State University as an undergraduate. He attended Glendale School of Law, graduated and passed the Bar in 1986. Aside from advocating consumer rights he volunteers for international human rights efforts and sponsors drug education speakers in the public school system. For more information about the California Lemon Law, visit www.normantaylor.com.
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Brain teasers, jigsaws, crosswords, anagrams, sudokus, riddles and math puzzles are all forms of entertainment that most people enjoy at one time or another. The history of puzzles goes back hundreds of years, and there is evidence of puzzles and riddles in just about any civilization archeologists have studied. There are riddles and puzzles in The Bible, ancient Greek myths and fables of virtually every society. Not all puzzles are as plain to recognize as a Rubik’s cube or a maze, though. People will incorporate some aspect of puzzle solving into their lives every day, even if it is merely calculating the quickest route to work based on the current traffic perplexities.
Are you the kind of person that cannot walk past a picture that is hanging slightly crooked on the wall? You find you must even it up or it will nag at you every time you see it. Even if it is sorting your email into folders or stacking your compact discs, there is a degree of contentment that comes with taking something a bit disorderly and making it organized. While some areas of your life cannot help but be out of your control, there are some parts that when kept under your thumb will provide you with a measure of security and ease of mind.
Most people take advantage of their aptitude for creating orderliness in their employment. Many occupations take something from a situation that is raw or not fully utilized to something that is useful, profitable and desired by their customers or those they serve. Nearly every kind of job you could name takes something that is chaotic or less desired and makes it into something that is orderly or welcomed. A dentist fills a tooth, a contractor builds a house, and a salesman places his products in the hands of those who need and want them.
With people’s innate desire to fix and improve things, perhaps it is not such a great wonder that after working all day, people will engage in some physical or mental game. Even reading a good Agatha Christie mystery and trying to figure out which character did the murder is a form of puzzle solving. Many video games incorporate puzzles of a traditional nature, and all involve some type of original puzzle solving, too. Even when we think we are relaxing we are still working in our minds to bring order to chaos.
Another thing your mind is doing when you are puzzle-solving is seeking and creating patterns. Whether you are solving a jigsaw puzzle or making up your grocery shopping list, you are seeking out an insubstantial or hidden pattern and using that knowledge to resolve the situation. Usually we think of puzzles as things like crosswords, jigsaws, connect-the-dots, anagrams, word searches, etc. All these are notable examples of recreational puzzles that have a lasting attraction.
All types of recreational puzzles can be found online for free. Most can be played within your web browser with no downloading of special software necessary. Many types of puzzles can also be found in a printable format. Next time you sit down to spend a few leisurely minutes to work on a puzzle, you can reflect that you are in good company. Imposing order on chaos through puzzles is a form of recreation that is common to all civilized peoples.
Michelle Patelle, writer, mother and homemaker, invites you to visit onlinecrosswordpuzzle.org, onlinejigsawpuzzle.org, and onlinepuzzle.org for some handy indexes for finding puzzles on the net.
Article Source: Puzzles Are More Than One Thinks
There are many things in this world that we question. It is as if we need to know every single detail that goes on not just in our lives – but in the entire world. We all strive to understand what makes the world go round and dozens of scientific things. One of the biggest questions that we ask ourselves is how the world was created.
It is possible that there are thousands of different theories to answer this question – but as we all know only one of them can be right. One of the most common is the idea of Intelligent Design otherwise known as Creationism. This is the belief that God – an intelligent being created the world and everything that is in it.
This belief is based upon The Bible which dates back hundreds of years and is written by dozens of authors. This book tells us in detail that God created the world, plants, solar system, animals, and finally man in just six days before resting on the seventh day.
The one thing that makes this theory different from most others is that there is no scientific proof to back it up. Which is why so many scientists do not believe that it can be true. In their line of work everything can be explained by science or it simply is not true or even real. But according to Christians this whole idea of Creationism is based not upon science but upon faith.
They do not require the need of facts and fossils to prove to them that Intelligent Design is the reason of how the Earth was created. Though most of their findings are from a book they believe that this was real and that God still does many things in our lives today.
Learn the difference between Creationism And Evolution and why people have a hard time trying to Teach Intelligent Design.
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Our Earth turns counter-clockwise. In Timaeus, Plato described the shifting in the Earth’s crust as follows: “The globe makes all kinds of movements, forwards and backwards and then downward, wandering in all directions.” This uncommon portrayal of the behavior of the Earth’s surface perfectly describes a polar reversal. At the end of 2012, once the polar reversal has taken place, the Earth will begin rotating clockwise. At this time the Earth’s crust will have shifted, pushing North America in the direction of the pole. It will seem as if the Earth is moving itself in all directions: from left to right and from below to above and vice versa. There are plenty of directions the continents can move in! But where will they end up?
Fourteen thousand years ago the scientists of Aha-Men-Ptah calculated that their whole continent would be destroyed completely, come 9792 BC. With great certainty, they knew how the Earth would start behaving. It is highly probable that they based their predictions on the polar shift of 29,808 BC. They must have speculated that the same type of shift would take place in 9792, but in reverse, leading them to the conclusion that the continents would drift back in the opposite direction. After many calculations they also figured out that their entire continent would become the South Pole and would therefore freeze over and become uninhabitable. For that reason they decided to lay plans for a mass exodus to take place on that fateful day. Many were able to escape despite the multitude of difficulties they encountered, among them, a civil war.
Escape and Overpopulation
Because the Atlanteans had hundreds of years of preparation to survive the last cataclysm, there are billions, instead of tens of millions, of people living in the world today. Taking this into consideration, we encounter an unfortunate moral and ecological question: would it be better that a great many or that only a vital few should survive? For the time being, this question need not be answered. Few know about the forthcoming catastrophe. Even fewer are convinced of taking measures to ensure anyone’s survival. Perhaps only a few thousand will survive, a minute fraction of the percentage that survived twelve thousand years ago.
The reasons we will suffer such devastation are simple: lack of preparation and planning. The last time a polar shift occurred, the Atlanteans were prepared. They had built enough unsinkable boats to carry everyone off the continent. They had also devised an evacuation plan, which they practiced in preparation for the coming event. Presently, there are few ships available to the public that will withstand the devastation of a polar reversal. There is no plan for escape.
A Catastrophic Shift?
In the event a polar shift of greater magnitude than anticipated should occur, all our present plans may be futile; that is to say, in a case such as one wherein the present polar landmasses would shift all the way to the equator in a very short period of time. Such a drastic shift would have disastrous effects on planetary life.
In the July 25th 1997 issue of Science magazine, there is published proof that such a monumental polar shift can occur. The facts were gathered by researchers of the California Institute of Technology and relate to a period of 535 million years ago. Geologists at the California Institute discovered “that a change of 90 degrees had occurred in the turning direction of the Earth’s axis.” Landmasses that were previously situated at the North and South Poles slid around the Earth and stopped on the equator. Two opposite points that were previously situated on the equator became the new poles. The researchers compiled the evidence found at the base of stones deposited during and after this interval of time, and discovered geophysical proof that all the big continents were subject to an impulse movement, a rapid, catastrophic rotation of great proportions involving the whole Earth’s crust.
Should we experience a catastrophe of the same magnitude as mentioned above, our numbers will drastically decrease. Few habitable areas will be left on Earth for some time due to the fact that the land under the South Pole is frozen and buried beneath enormous amounts of ice. When newly situated at the equator, the continent will require time to melt before anyone will be able to live there. Currently habitable areas will become colder and less able to sustain life.
According to the facts, a shift this drastic hasn’t occurred in 535 million years. However chances are that this could be when it happens again. A slight polar shift is disastrous enough; a ninety-degree polar shift would be a serious nightmare!
The current theory rests on a shift of thirty, maybe forty degrees; a bit farther than the previous shift. The longer the sun contains its energy, the more power there will be to unleash when it comes time to release it. A somewhat larger shift in the Earth’s surface structure is expected, but in the opposite direction than what took place in 9792 BC. Let’s hope the conservative estimate is true.
This brings us back to locating possible places that may provide sufficient space for human survival. The Earth’s crust is fairly rigid so the shape of the continental landmasses should not deviate much from their pre-catastrophic forms. Considerable differences can occur, but the whole should remain more or less the same; however, some parts will rise above sea level, while others will sink below it.
The sliding around of the lithosphere is what causes us the greatest consternation. When the crust loses its anchor, the continents will move around on the surface of the Earth; this will restrict the number of available choices for habitation. Doing some homework though, we may be able to map out some scenarios in advance, based on a shift of thirty to forty degrees for North America. The reality after the catastrophe, optimistically, should not differ much from at least one of our models. These models make it possible to pick out several starting points for a new civilization. Pessimistically, the shift can turn out very different from our predictions, so we need to keep our options as wide open as possible. Should a starting place fail to be suitable, we need to have a few backup locations chosen to take its place.
The assembly places we are choosing are important to people who want to survive the tidal wave with the help of unsinkable boats. After the catastrophe people in these boats will be separated from others in their boats, large distances of wide-open ocean between them. Groups of survivors will be completely alone, adrift on the open sea. Without a proper plan, chances for continued survival are slim; the odds of restarting a new civilization without those people diminish. The bigger the group, the better are our chances for survival. By establishing possible meeting places beforehand, we are offering everybody the ability to reach a new place they can call home where they will meet others who have the same goal in mind. In order to create this reality, we need to take the following into account:
Meeting places need to be prioritized and restricted to a certain number—a maximum of five assembly places per model. In order for us to survive the “nuclear winter”, designated meeting places have to be situated as close to the equator as possible.
According scientific calculations, choices would have to be situated in the following areas:
* South America (somewhere at the height of Lake Titicaca)
* Africa (Dragon Mountains)
* Asia (India, Thailand or Borneo)
We will be posting our choices of preferred meeting places on our website http://2012pro.com before the fatal date.
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Article Source: In 2012, where to assemble after the continental shift?
Knowing how to recycle used electronics not only provides benefits to you, but the planet and environment as well as people in a less fortunate situation than us. The process to recycle your used electronics has been somewhat simplified, but as of yet has not been used by as many of us as it should be, with many people still turning to landfills as a solution to ridding themselves of their used or broken electronics. This is a habit we really need to break, and by receiving a cash reward to recycle our used electronics in any condition I feel it is a habit that can be easily broken.
Receiving a cash payment when we recycle our used electronics is a great incentive for us, to keep us away from trashing our devices and gadgets and preventing them from polluting the environment and earth with their toxins for hundreds of years. Making sure we benefit to the maximum when we receive the cash payment is therefore the primary task. When you recycle your used electronics online you are already eliminating some costs and beginning the benefit – the next step to ensure greater benefit still is to recycle your used electronics to a site that will pay for your shipping, handling, insurance and even the packaging for the used electronics you are going to recycle, this may sound like a difficult task, but I have found these sites and will guide you shortly.
The next thing to bear in mind is the condition of the used electronics to be recycled, some sites will only accept them in certain conditions, whilst others will allow you to recycle your used electronics with them regardless of the condition, old, scratched and even broken – and the beauty of this is that they will also provide you an accurate quote based on the information you provide them so you know how much cash you are going to get before you have even started the recycle process with the used electronics you have. Again, this is not something you will have difficulty in finding within a site as I have the perfect solution for us all to recycle our used electronics.
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Presently electronic surveying equipment has turned into an indispensable device throughout the whole construction industry. It is with the utilization of the equipment by which a worker can much more easily determining accurate dimensions in order to be certain that the construction labor being carried out is accomplished properly. Though surveying has been around for many hundreds of years now (both the Egyptians and Romans previously utilizing it to construct their roadways and edifices (pyramids included) it’s in fact very tough to figure out just definitely when it was first started.
All the tools which is now utilized now will be built from three separate mechanisms that are adequate for measure distance, and angles as well as the elevation of an object. But the great part regarding all surveying equipment along with electronic variants is that they’re capable of measuring one or more of the parts we had mentioned previously.
However since the’re so many various pieces of equipment to decide from it could become a little overpowering when an person must to render a choice as to the ones they should get, most certainly if a individual has minimal or no background in surveying. Next we’ll share specification regarding a few of the variants of surveying equipment that are currently in use right now.
1. Electronic Levels
These shoot a beam of infrared light which is is not possible to see to the naked eye and assists to building a an area or great reference elevation and is used in order to get measurements during construction jobs. There are two distinct types of electronic levels that a lot of surveyors are presently using either a single beam or a rotating beam.
The solitary beam projects a light that can either be projected to an additional spot either vertically, horizontally or at a angle. Although the rotating beam furnishes the surveyor with a level of reference covering a certain open area. All these kinds of levels are leveling themselves and will not begin functioning till the tool has straightened itself properly. Plus if at at some point time should the level after being moved or knocked the light is automatically stopped and will only come back on if theequipment straightens itself out.
2. Electronic Distance Measurer’s
Often it is frequently described to as EDMa and are used to precisely measure the length between one point and too the next. This particular section of electronic surveying equipment works through measuring what long it takes the laser to move from the EDM to a prism found at a different place and then sent back to the EDM again. However before the invention of this specific piece of electronic equipment tapes or chains were added in order to provide accurate measurements of the gap between 2 places.
Such to all current electronic surveying equipment they’ll use a computerized system that is capable to collect and recording all of the data gathered out on construction area prior it it being transferred over to a machine and the data is printed. This therefore renders the assignment of the surveyor much easier to execute and will furnish them with accurate readings as well as measuring continually.
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Colon cleansing can be a difficult topic to navigate due to the fact there is so much conflicting information when it comes to choosing a method to cleanse the colon. The reason for the conflicting information is simply that the colon cleansing business is not yet regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This means that manufacturers can basically make any claim they can imagine without any fear of penalties being imposed. This is why it is especially important to do your homework before deciding on which system will work best for you.
The colon can become clogged with hardened feces and other waste material over times. This is not in dispute. The questions usually revolve around which method of colon cleansing works best. The systems that are most commonly recommended are herbal based dietary supplements.
These systems use all natural herbal ingredients which have been proven to work. In some cases the ingredients have been used to successfully treat abdominal symptoms for hundreds of years. There are other methods out there such as hydrotherapy, over the counter medications, and enemas, but they all have drawbacks not associated with herbal remedies.
For instance many people think that enemas are the perfect solution when it comes to colon cleansing. Unfortunately this is a mistaken belief which can have serious consequences. An enema is a useful tool for battling occasional constipation, but it simply does not clean the colon in any meaningful way. In fact, over use of an enema can lead to dependence upon them to have a bowel movement.
The herbal solutions work from the top down which makes perfect sense when you think about it. The supplement works its way through the digestive tract acting like a snowplow pushing debris and waste material out in front of it. There are no chemicals being added to your system and no danger of dependence.
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Article Source: Cleanse the Colon – The ABC’s of Colon Cleansing
When realizing the term data acquisition (DAC) it’s important to first know what is being acquisitioned: real world data. And real world data translates directly into the life sciences.
Life science, or biology, is a discipline of science that has, for hundreds of years, formed opinions of scientists, doctors, and thinkers alike. Theories and medications have been created with the study of life science, just as crimes have been solved, and organisms understood. The basic way living organisms interact with one another and their surroundings, how these organisms are structured, how they grow, what their origin may be, and their general evolution, is more or less what the term ‘life science’ encapsulates.
Real world data gets manipulated by a computer, where its signals and waveforms are processed, extracting critical information and storing it digitally in a computer processed machine. The data gets measured by components of data acquisition systems where sensors convert measurements and electrical signals before a computer manipulates the data and its signals and waveforms are processed. Critical information is then obtained and stored digitally in a computer processor, completing the first and second steps of the data acquisition process.
After life science has been converted to wavelength data, it is recorded by a data logger. Data logging is an electronic device that collects data over time, or in a specific radius, and is collected by one of three means, which include: built in instruments and sensors, or external instruments and sensors. After said data is collected, manipulated, and transformed, useful information is highlighted to suggest different types of scientific conclusions.
This process, seemingly lengthy, has allowed many growths in scientific understanding and continues on a number of levels to produce further understanding of organisms, and their relationship to the world at large.
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Global Positioning System Navigations, also known as GPS Navigations in layman’s terms, is a navigation system supported and relying on a network of satellites.
Almost everything that can make life less of a hassle can be invented in our day and age. We see this in the case of the GPS devices, which proves especially all-powerful when make a foray into places we are completely clueless. Gone are the days which are as recent as 15 years ago when folks will have to arm themselves with maps and a bit of arithmetic just to know exactly where they are.
The Many Uses for GPS
GPS navigation mighty sound like the new kid on the block, but the network of “Global Positioning Satellites” , courtesy of the US government, has been around since the 1970’s.
Some twenty-four satellites crisscrossing the earth high above compose the GPS network. The GPS receivers at the ground are fed with data from several satellites at a time. With this information, the receivers can, by a process similar to triangulation, tell the user his or her exact location in latitude, longitude, and sometimes altitude too.
The Armed Forces are the originally intended beneficiaries of this (at that time) new technology. Your past history lessons will remind you that travelers over the hundreds of years relied on the essentially the same technology for generations: the compass, sextant, maps and hand calculations. While radios were quantum leaps, GPS devices compute your coordinates in real time, with precision up to three feet!
But where how does the public’s accessibility of this government property come in? Although the US Government retains ownership of the GPS network, it keeps the broadcasts unencrypted. The bottom line in this is that just about anybody with a receiver can avail of free GPS data. Companies and outdoor folk alike have started to use receivers in many different applications.
Here is one example of GPS devices’ use that starts right in the home. Think of all those parents who fret about their teenagers especially if they have started learning to drive on their own. But what if the parents don’t want the kids to know about the arrangements? Auto shops offer small, hidden GPS receivers in kids’ cars. Parents can then use simple computer software which tracks in real time their kids’ movements on a map.
GPS devices also plays a valuable role in logistics, for sure. Transporting a load of, electronics for example, from East Asia to North America is complex and intricate tangle of ships, trains, and trucks. It’s up to the shippers how to make the cargo go faster, but now at least they can just put a GPS receiver into their cargo and know where it is at any given moment.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the geocaching craze popular among outdoor clubs? Geocachers hide a little container in a public place, for example, ranging from a plastic container with trinkets inside to a shoe box with a used book. They then go to geocaching groups with forums online and post hints of latitude and longitude just enough to start a good geocaching expedition. Then other geocachers search for these boxes with their GPS data. The fun is rooting around for a mysterious well-hidden container in what could be an area with a 25-foot radius. Successful participants can keep the little treasure and put in their own cache for the next hunters.
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Article Source: GPS Devices for Urban Living and Outdoor Fun