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U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for July 19

July 20, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON, July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Following is the daily “Profile America” feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

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MONDAY, JULY 19: CELL PHONES

Profile America — Monday, July 19th. We’ve all seen them and heard them. People on cell phones talking in heavy traffic while driving, or loudly discussing very private matters while shopping in the supermarket. Well, take hope — this is Cell Phone Courtesy Month — a time for those who just have to stay in touch, wherever they are, to pay more attention to the highway and to hold down the volume of their conversation if they’re in a public place. Cell phones exploded from a novelty to a necessity during the last decade. In 1990, there were some 5 million cell phone users. Now, that number is just over 270 million. That means that about nine-out-of-10 of all Americans have a cell phone. Our average bill for this convenience is just over $50 a month. You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.

Sources: Chase’s Calendar of Events 2010, p. 348

Statistical Abstract of the United States 2010, t. 1112

Profile America is produced by the Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for “Multimedia Gallery” by the “Newsroom” button).

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Driver fined for reversing car into his own driveway!

April 28, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, April 28 (ANI): A man, who reversed his car into his own driveway, will now have to pay a fine for the ”offence”.

Maxwell Cannon, 25, was served a 60pound fixed penalty notice and told that he had committed a traffic offence by waiting on the zigzag markings of a pedestrian crossing outside his home in Harrington, near Workington in Cumbria.

Saying that he had been waiting for a break in the heavy traffic to reverse his car into his home last August, Cannon challenged the ticket at West Allerdale Magistrate”s Court.

However, the court upheld the penalty and even Carlisle Crown Court has now turned down his appeal.

According to Cannon”s lawyer Alison Whalley, it “offended common sense” that someone could not legally reverse into his own drive.

On the day of the incident a police officer told Cannon that he could have driven forward into the driveway but the latter said reversing out onto a main road was against the Highway Code could be dangerous.

But the judge, Recorder Ahmed Nadim did not agree with Cannon.

“We accept that he has intended to conduct his driving in a manner designed to mitigate the inconvenience to other traffic but that does not afford him an exemption under the regulations,” the Telegraph quoted Nadim, as saying. (ANI)

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Heavy rains lash Delhi causing long traffic jams

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Heavy rains lashed New Delhi on Thursday leading to traffic snarls and water logging in many areas.

The city received 93.2 mm of rains since last night.

However, the heavy rains also brought down the temperature in the capital with the minimum being recorded at 23.3 degree Celsius

The Delhi government has issued an advisory, asking people to avoid Dhaula Kuan and the roads leading to it.

The areas witnessing huge traffic jams are Mayur Vihar, Vasant Vihar, Munirka, Dhaula Kuan, Pragati Maidan, Moolchand, Lajat Nagar, Laxmi Nagar, Bhajanpura and Nizamuudin.

Traffic lights were also not working in many areas.

Office goers had a harrowing time as traffic moved at a snail’s pace. Roads were chocked, many cars broke down creating further chaos and most streets were water logged.

Met officials have said that there are no indications of the monsoon withdrawing from the country at present.

Delhi has received a total of 538.6 mm of rain this monsoon against an average of 573 mm.(ANI)

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Here’s how exposure to diesel fumes causes cancer

September 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 3 (ANI): American scientists have for the first time shown how exposure to diesel fumes causes cancer.

Qinghua Sun, an assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Ohio State University, says that diesel exhaust has the ability to induce the growth of new blood vessels that serve as a food supply for solid tumours.

The researchers found that in both healthy and diseased animals.

According to them, more new blood vessels sprouted in mice exposed to diesel exhaust than did in mice exposed to clean, filtered air.

They say that this finding indicates that previous illness is not required to make humans susceptible to the damaging effects of the diesel exhaust.

The researchers say that inhaled diesel particles are very tiny in size, which is why they can penetrate the human circulatory system, organs, and tissues.

This suggests that diesel fumes can cause damage just about anywhere in the body, they add.

Diesel exhaust exposure levels in the study were designed to mimic the exposure people might experience while living in urban areas and commuting in heavy traffic.

The levels were lower than or similar to those typically experienced by workers who use diesel-powered equipment, who tend to work in mines, on bridges and tunnels, along railroads, at loading docks, on farms and in vehicle maintenance garages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

“The message from our study is that exposure to diesel exhaust for just a short time period of two months could give even normal tissue the potential to develop a tumour,” said Qinghua Sun, senior author of the study.

“We need to raise public awareness so people give more thought to how they drive and how they live so they can pursue ways to protect themselves and improve their health. And we still have a lot of work to do to improve diesel engines so they generate fewer particles and exhaust that can be released into the ambient air,” Sun added.

A research article on the study, supported by Health Effects Institute awards and grants from the National Institutes of Health, has been published in the online edition of the journal Toxicology Letters. (ANI)

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Heavy rains lash Delhi causing traffic snarls

August 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Aug 21 (ANI): Heavy rains lashed several parts of the national capital this evening leading to traffic snarls in many parts of the city.

The downpour resulted in water-logging and traffic snarls in some areas.

Traffic jams were reported from Noida DND flyway, Pragati Maidan, Moolchand underpass, Dwarka underpass, Tilak Bridge, Vikas Marg and Ashoka Road.

According to TV reports, all flights originating from Delhi have been cancelled. (ANI)

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August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Tamilnadu Teachers Education University has announced Results of B.Ed. 2009 Examination. Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University is an exclusive University for Teachers Education.

Tamilnadu Teachers Education University Website – http://tnteu.in/

Direct Link to TNTEU B.Ed Results - http://68.164.102.76/tnteu/

Note: Meanwhile, the site is unresponsive due to some technical or heavy traffic.

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US Embassy in China relying on own air monitoring system

July 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, July 1 (ANI): The US embassy in Beijing has set up its own air monitoring station out of concern for the health of its staff.

The embassy has been releasing its own private air quality reports since last year, which differ significantly from the ones issued by the Beijing Government, spokesperson Susan Stevenson said in an interview last week with Canwest News Service.

People can check the air quality near the embassy on a Twitter feed called BeijingAir, with the latest information updated every hour, the China Daily reports.

From 1 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, the air quality was unhealthy, according to the embassy monitoring station, while the capital’s environment protection bureau said that the average air quality yesterday in Chaoyang district, where the embassy is located, was “moderate”.

The air quality for June 18, when the sky was murky at noon, was slightly polluted, according to the official data, but the result was different on the BeijingAir Twitter, with the hourly measure creeping into the “hazardous” range for seven hours.

The China Daily calculated that only five days were above “moderate” level in May on BeijingAir, but the local environment bureau said on its website on May 31 that the capital’s air quality was the clearest during the same period since 2000, with 25 blue-sky days.

“This is a single site. It cannot be used to measure the air quality across the city. They can’t be compared,” Stevenson said.

Li Xin, chief engineer of the municipal environment protection bureau, said yesterday that the bureau has 27 monitoring stations across the city and publishes average air quality data every day.

“The embassy is located in the central business district, which has heavy traffic, and its monitoring station cannot represent the overall picture,” Zhu Tong, an environment professor with Peking University, said. (ANI)

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Easter Weekend: Travel Chaos Underway

April 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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Major routes have already become congested, particularly on the M25 around Heathrow and on the Birmingham M6 toll road.

Heavy traffic has also hit the picturesque A303 through Wiltshire and the A66 in Cumbria.

With forecasters predicting temperatures could reach 19C (66F) in parts of southern England, travellers are keen to make the most of the bank holiday.

The RAC predicts that 33% more people intended to take short trips by road this year than last, and is expecting congestion on the M25, M1 and M6.

The AA said resorts such as Brighton and Bournemouth could be busy as well as historic cities such as Cambridge and Edinburgh.

More than 30 sets of roadworks are in place across the country whilst 51 have been suspended until the end of Easter Monday.

The Highways Agency, which is responsible for England’s motorways and major roads, said it had completed 37 sets of roadworks in time for Easter.

On the railways, passengers on a number of routes face service suspensions while a £55m programme of engineering work goes ahead.

P and O Ferries will carry 132,000 passengers on its Dover-Calais route from Good Friday to Easter Monday – an increase on the 98,000 figure last Easter.

A total of 200,000 passengers will travel with the Channel Tunnel high-speed Eurostar train company in the period from today until Easter Tuesday.

Those travelling by rail will have to contend with the closure of the West Coast Main Line between Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire and Rugby in the West Midlands from Easter Saturday until 12 noon on Easter Monday.

Services in and out of London’s Liverpool Street and Waterloo stations will also be disrupted by engineering work, although 64,000 train services will run over the holiday period (today to Monday) which is around 5,000 more than last Easter.

The most popular destinations for Brits travelling abroad this Easter include Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia.

British Airways said its top long-haul destinations for the holiday period were New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.

Follow our live traffic updates from the Highways Agency and your reports.

Twitter Users: If you see anything on the road, please tweet a message with #eastertravel when you pull over. To follow our live travel updates please follow: skytravelupdate.

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Traffic jams ‘triple heart attack risk’

March 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Mar 14 (ANI): Being in heavy traffic triples your risk of heart attack within one hour, warn researchers.

Researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention that people who have had a heart attack are likely to report having been in traffic shortly before their symptoms began.

In the German study of patients who had a heart attack, researchers found the patients to be more than three times as likely to have been in traffic within an hour of the onset of their heart attack.

The researchers also observed small but statistically significant increases in the chance that a heart attack occurred within six hours after exposure to traffic.

Time spent in any mode of transportation in traffic was associated with a 3.2 times higher risk than time spent away from this trigger. Females, elderly males, patients who were unemployed, and those with a history of angina were affected the most by traffic.

“Driving or riding in heavy traffic poses an additional risk of eliciting a heart attack in persons already at elevated risk,” said Annette Peters, Ph.D., lead author of the study and head of the research unit at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muchen, Germany.

“In this study, underlying vulnerable coronary artery disease increased the risk of having a heart attack after driving in traffic,” the expert added.

To reach the conclusion, researchers reviewed cases of heart attack through the KORA registry in Augsburg, Southern Germany between February 1999 and December 2003. They used a standardized interview with 1,454 patients to collect data on potential triggers of heart attack, including exposure to traffic in the four days prior to heart attack symptom onset.

The patients had a known date and time of heart attack and all had survived 24 hours after the heart attack. Participants were asked what they did the day of the heart attack, where they went, the means of transportation and time spent in traffic.
he average age of the participants was 60 years and about 25 percent were women.

The study showed that about 8 percent of the heart attacks in the group were attributable to traffic, Peters said. (ANI)

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