Friday, June 26, 2009

Choose your style of hearing aid

Hearing impairment or deafness is mainly categorized into three types neural/sensor neural, conductive, or a combination of both. According to NIDCD (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders), around 17% of Americans (around 36 million) are suffering from some degree of hearing impairment.

Many of these people can use hearing aids to help them from hearing impairment. However, they must consult their ENT physician and get his approval in order to use one. Hearing aid solution differs based on the type of hearing impairment. But all of these designs have similar components like a microphone, amplifier, receiver, and batteries.

Hearing aids differ in styles too. Based on the usage and appearance, hearing aids are categorized as BTE hearing aids, ITE hearing aids, ITC hearing aids and CIC hearing aids.
  • BTE or Behind-the-ear hearing aids come in small plastic cases that rest behind the ear.
  • ITE or Inside-the-ear hearing aids come in shell like containers that fill the entire bowl of the ear.
  • ITC or Inside-the-canal hearing aids fit completely or partly into the hearing canal.
  • CIC or Completely-in-the-canal hearing aids are least visible hearing aids.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Who Should Sweep This Junk?

Remember the recent incident in the International Space Station – where the crew had to abandon it to save their lives. That was not any asteroid or space thing - they had threat from. Some thing was manufactured on the earth and was dumped into space by a NOBODY.

They do experiments, create machinery with millions of dollars collected from people, and leave it to some junk to destroy it! How drastic? This junk is small but very dangerous, and rotates in high velocities around the earth. It is potential of this momentum that makes them so destructive.

There are around tens of thousands of bits of space junk revolving around the earth. Thus, it makes it very crucial to sweep them off their orbit around the earth. This project can cost millions and might possess high amounts of risk. But it is still important.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Necessity of Tools While Gardening

Many homes have an outer view garden in many countries. Decorating the garden is one of the ways to appreciate the beauty of home. Most of us love gardening, and require tools to spruce up the garden. Check whether you have all the essential tools, and are in good working condition. Without gardening tools, it is almost impossible to maintain clean and neat garden.

You need garden tools to do routine work in garden, to grow plants and trees, while practicing, etc.

Tools differ based on the requirements of the garden.

You should also take the responsibility of taking care of your tools. After finishing your work, clean the tools properly because they are exposed to water and wet muddy plants. Many of us wash the tools, and keep them away but fail to clean the water on them. It is better to clean the tools with dry, and clean cloth, every time you wash them.


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Sunday, February 1, 2009

My Friend Enhances His Business with Language Translation Tool

With increase in usage of Internet, there is no communication barrier to operate business in various countries with help of language translation service. Many translation tools are available to increase the efficiency of company’s website. Recently, my friend improved his business opportunity with language translation tool.

To operate your business in different countries you need to change your website based on the language and requirement of the people in that country. Few countries do not speak English and to operate business in such countries you need the help of language translation services. This is the best way to reach the target audience in different countries.

With the use of the language translation tools marketing their products and services in different countries become easy. It increases the audience of web pages and converts the content to multiple languages. It increases the traffic for the website in foreign countries and increases the efficiency of the content to 10 times.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Profit And Loss Reports of Major Companies

With the start of another financial year, all the companies are busy with their quarterly revenues and annual revenues estimations. Some have already released their performance in the previous year amid recession. This time, recession seems to have impacted almost all the industries; but there are some companies, which have confronted recession successfully and reported good profits. The gains and losses of the major companies is as follows

  • Google has announced slump in quarterly profits for the first time since 17 quarters. For the last quarter of 2008, Google earned profits of $382 million, less by 68 percent from the 3rd quarter of 2007.
  • General Electric Co. announced a 46 percent decline in its fourth-quarter earnings.
  • Microsoft reported an 11 percent drop in its quarterly profits to $4.17 billion from $4.71 billion profits, a year ago.
  • The health care products maker Johnson & Johnson reported a 14 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit, with $2.71 billion earnings.
  • Citigroup Inc. is doing very badly these days. It has reported a loss of $8.29 billion in fourth quarter.
  • Even Bank of America reported a $2.39 billion fourth-quarter loss. It was successful in convincing government for a $20 billion bailout.
  • JPMorgan, which said that it is handling recession better than the other banks, reported a 76 percent drop in profits with a profit of $702 million.
  • Sony announced its first annual loses in 14 years with $1.7 billion of net loss.
  • Apple Inc reported a record quarterly profit of $1 billions with $7 Billion revenues.
  • General Motors has lost its 77-year record, of being top player of the auto industry, to Toyota. GM reported to sell 2.26 million vehicles in the quarter less from 2.35 million vehicle sales of Toyota.
  • South Korea’s Samsung Electronics reported a first ever-quarterly loss of US$16.2 million in the previous quarter and a slump of 26 percent in its annual profits.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Toyota out Beats Gm's 77 Year Reign

With its struggle to survive the recession at present, the General Motors has another bad news. It is no longer the world’s auto industry leader. Toyota has surpassed the General Motors the previous year and thus took the crown from General Motors.

Though the General Motors celebrated its 100th anniversary the previous year, it didn’t expect that it would end its 77-year successful reign in such a tragic way, the same year. At present the General Motors is struggling to restructure with a $13.4 billion bailout form U.S government.

It is just one week back when Toyota declared an annual 4 percent decrease in its business with 8.97 million sales for 2008. General Motors released its poor annual results of 8.35 million vehicle sales, down 11 percent compared to the previous year. Thus the great General Motors of U.S have yielded to its Asian rival Toyota with about 620,000 lesser sales.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Segregation Rises in US Schools

US is going to have the first Black President. People have elected him in spite of all the racism of the nation. But what we see here is that racism is still going on in US schools and has even rised.

In a study from University of California in Civil Rights Project, it was found that the Black and the Hispanics are increasingly segregated from the White students of the school. This segregation even increased since the Supreme Court has declared voluntary desegregation in 2007.

This decision, taken by Supreme Court on Voluntary desegregation, helped local authorities to promote school desegregation. This rather intensifies the trend.

I thought that people are now not much concerned about racism, since they have elected Obama as President. It is pity to be ill treated in an educational place, just because you are not white in color. Let’s wish this leaves our country very soon.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Food Crisis Will Hit Billions on the Earth

What are you going to expect the world to be by 2100?

Skies with traffic of flying cars, tours to other planets, hi-tech gadgets, roaming robots.

But it also means increased pollution, global warming and what is worse is the severe food crisis that is going to hit almost half of the worlds’ population.

According to a study by the US journal science, the temperatures are going to increase at record levels and harm the harvests of staple crops to such a level that there will be famine in all parts of the world.

The majority of the affected will be the citizens of those poor and densely inhabited regions of the equatorial belt. They are already suffering from a severe food crisis and I can’t even imagine what the still worse of the present situation could be.

Have you ever heard of the prolonged summer of USSR in 1972? It affected the global cereal market for two years. The situations would be hundred times worse than that.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Desperate For Income: Beware Of Scammers

The number of jobless has increased to a record level everywhere. You had an income source till yesterday but were laid-off today. Now you are looking for some work which can earn you some decent amount to help you maintain your house.

Well I can’t help you in any way to get a job, but I can help you from losing more money, especially in these crisis times. This is a suggestion against an international scam marauding on money of people who are desperately looking for income.

Work from Home! This has become so popular these days among many citizens worldwide. This popularity is been en-cashed by many scammers and has increased in recent times.

You receive a message in the form of a letter, email, or a call. It says that you can make some good money by some small work from home and you need to pay some money as a deposit for that. You pay the money, as you are desperate for some income.

But as soon as you pay the money you don’t hear anything from them. Before you try to resolve your mistake, your money is gone!

Monday, January 5, 2009

The Pollution behind Outspreading Technology

Global PC penetration is increasing rapidly. People are crazy after mobile phones and other portable gadgets like iPhones, laptops, etc. It is hard to find people without a TV or refrigerator in the nation.

All these news about outspreading technology products are true and may sound good, but not for longer time. You may be using a brand new mobile phone which is rocking the mobile market. How likely is it that you will use that mobile for more than 10 years?

As you are going to buy a new gadget after you are worn out of this mobile, what are you going to do with it? I bet it will go into garbage. And no where from there. They are not going to vanish into thin air from the garbage. They continue to exist on the earth longer than you.

There are many other electronic devices like digital cameras, computers, PDA’s, etc. which are going to prevail the same way as the cell phones.