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Designer Spectacles VS Cheap Prescription Eyeglasses

The way it is now, there are more reasons to cater to cheap prescription eyeglasses than going for the more sophisticated and sleek designer eyeglasses. While the need to accede to the fact that the present economic conditions call for all Americans to tighten belt is obviously logical and sufficient as a case for argumentation, it would be worth mentioning that there are peripheral and consequential conditions pertaining to the use of eyeglasses, albeit not unimportant.

Unwise Purchase of Expensive Eyeglasses

The American public is all agog about eyeglasses, especially of sunglasses, and most especially during summer. You can be one of these people who feel so strongly about this thing that it wouldn?t matter for you to cash it out up to the last dime for a pair of expensive eyeglasses (sunglasses) to the detriment of your next meal or the next mortgage premium.

You have to put it in mind that your use of this thing occurs only during the day as it would be the height of foolishness if you try strutting with it during the night. As a consequence, your shades are the most likely candidate to get thrown here and there after use. They get scratched and mercilessly battered around that you would soon find out you have spent 100 dollars or so on such a fragile pair.

Do not Be Deceived by the Designer Claim

Designer items such as designer eyeglasses are unfortunately bogus as they carry only the prestigious name of someone in the fashion industry. As such, they do not make these items themselves and so therefore, you are paying such a ridiculous price for what has been created by a licensing company.

In that case, you can buy cheap prescription eyeglasses without sacrificing quality if you wouldn?t mind the absence of the glaring logos. Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, Armani and a hoard of other names wouldn?t have the monopoly of quality.

New Designer Items are Produced to Supersede Old Ones

It is the old business strategy that operates on and on, all for the purpose of making huge profits. These businesses are banking on man?s tendency to try new articles (styles) and to dispense of old ones. Designer eyeglasses also go with motion, a vicious circle that will only incur unnecessary and untimely spending which on its worse stage, can eventually throw anyone to bankruptcy.

Before you get into such a perilous situation, you need to tame that voracious instinct that is inherent in every man. Start with simple things and for as long as the situation does not demand to acquire costly purchase, maintain the use of inexpensive commodities. With this principle, you will be able to keep track of your finances and keep yourself out of financial troubles.

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Google finally grabs Gmail domain and trademark in Germany: users can drop the 'oogle'

Google has offered its email client to willing Germans since 2005, however the typical Gmail domain had already been snapped up by a local businessman in Germany and the company had to plump for the longer googlemail.de addresses. Now, according to the Financial Times, both the Gmail trademark and domain were transferred across to Google earlier this month, although there are no specifics as to how much money changed hands in the deal. With that minor issue sorted, Google packs its backs for its next destination -- maybe it should try Iran.

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Ryan O'Neal Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer

Leukemia survivor Ryan O'Neal has now been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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Openwave, ?Inventors Of The Mobile Internet?, Sells Software Biz To Focus On Patents

Mobile messaging, in its traditional sense, is on the decline, and the patent world is hot, hot, hot, and today one company that plays in both areas showed where it sees its stronger ties at the moment. Openwave, which calls itself the "inventor of the mobile internet" for the early role it played in developing mobile data technology, today announced it was selling its core software business -- messaging and mediation operations -- and will instead concentrate on its patent holdings in smart devices, cloud technology and unified messaging. Marlin Equity Partners is buying the two businesses for an undisclosed sum, and says it will continue to operate and invest in the businesses, which will be called Openwave Messaging and Openwave Mobility. That transaction is expected to close this month. Openwave, meanwhile, will rebrand as Unwired Planet, "a name that recalls the company?s rich heritage of innovation," it said. It will focus on intellectual property -- specifically in the form of 200 issued U.S. and foreign patents and 75 further patent applications, "many of which are considered foundational to mobile communications."

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Is corn syrup killing the honeybees? (+video)

A trio of recent studies faults a common family of corn pesticides for disorienting honeybees, potentially leading to colony collapse disorder. The German chemical company Bayer, which manufactures the pesticides, disagrees. ?

Since 2006, something awfully strange has been happening to North America's commercial beehives. Beekeepers are finding that many of the boxed hives ranged throughout their apiaries have been inexplicably abandoned by worker bees. These ghost-hives typically have ample stores of honey and pollen, and hold gestating colony broods, sometimes even a lone queen.

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This phenomenon is called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), and two papers published recently in the journal Science say that it is correlated with the presence of a ubiquitous class of insecticide called neonicotinoids. A newer study published in the Bulletin of Insectology suggests that this insecticide is introduced into bee colonies through, strangely enough, high-fructose corn syrup.

The insecticide was developed by Bayer AG, the German chemical and pharmaceutical giant most recognized for its original brand of aspirin. Today, the $53 billion company has released a rebuttal to the suggested link between neonicotinoids and Colony Collapse Disorder.

The population of feral honeybees in the US has been steadily decreasing for the past half-century, and is now almost nonexistent. In the same timescale, commercial honeybees experienced a shallower decline in population. However, since 2006, they have started rapidly disappearing in North America and Europe. Many scientists agree that the confluence of factors that drove population decline before 2006 is still in effect, but that something probably changed in light of the new rash of colony collapses.

Identifying the causes of CCD is a complex proposition, but the disorder's symptoms and effects are quite simple. It usually occurs when worker bees first depart their hives to forage, in winter or early spring. Then they don't return. Their hives typically have an active queen, ample food, and a developing brood ? not exactly the home a bee would abandon under normal circumstances. Many scientists have since suggested that pesticides may disorient bees or affect their memory, making them unable to navigate home.

Chensheng Lu, an environmental scientist at Harvard and the lead author on the Bulletin of Insectology paper, was curious as to how the insecticide may be introduced into the colony, and decided to investigate high-fructose corn syrup, which for the past decade has been used by beekeepers to supplement hives that have been decanted of honey. Much of the US corn crop is treated with neonicotinoids, and so trace amounts of the insecticides can often be found in the sugary syrup.

Lu and colleagues designed an experiment that would expose hives to concentrations ranging from 20 to 400 parts per billion. Within 4 months, 15 of the 16 experimental hives had been emptied by what appeared to be CCD, according to the researchers.

As more studies are published on this subject, the link between neonicontinoids and CCD may become more apparent. In this case, Bayer AG could only be held indirectly accountable, as it is the beekeepers who are substituting the inexpensive syrup for bee honey, thereby introducing the pesticide.

Earlier today Bayer released a statement that criticized the Harvard study, asserting that the sample size was too small to be statistically significant and that the "authors ignored the scientific consensus that bee health is impaired by multiple factors, including inadequate diet, pests and parasites such as the varroa mite, microbial diseases, mismanaged colonies, and loss of genetic diversity."

These are not unreasonable criticisms. Though the study authors certainly didn't "ignore" a "scientific consensus" on the multiple factors that could cause CCD. They simply investigated one of them. Nonetheless, scientists are still puzzled by the many possible causes of the disorder. They're also concerned, and for good reason.

The common honeybee is widely recognized as the most important insect pollinator. They're extremely versatile, able to collect both nectar and pollen and to transport it. They are easily managed by beekeepers, and live year-round, which means they will service a wide variety of plants. They're also fecund; one simple colony can consist of one queen, a few hundred drones and roughly 80,000 workers. There is no realistic scenario in which we could operate our mass-scale farms without them.

Bayer's concerns about the studies are not all that surprising considering the company's financial interests. But if more research confirms that its neonicotinoids are afflicting the commercial honeybee population, then they are threatening an enterprise on which Bayer crucially depends: agriculture itself.

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What?s In A Name? Australia Wants Apple To ?Change The Name? Of The iPad Over 4G Incompatibility

Looks like we may see another development today in Apple's ongoing iPad/4G controversy in Australia. The country's Competition and Consumer Commission is meeting with Apple in court again today to try to get Apple to officially change the name of the device when it is sold in Australia. Although many people know it as "the new iPad" since launching the product in March, Apple has also been marketing the product as the new iPad with 'Wi-Fi +4G' in the country. But Apple quickly ran into trouble when the ACCC said Apple was misleading consumers: in fact, the tablet is not actually compatible with Australia's 4G network. Since then, Apple has agreed to refund consumers who bought the device thinking they were getting 4G; and the company has also been putting up notices wherever the iPad is sold warning them that it didn't work with Australia's 4G. But the ACCC, it seems, does not think that this goes far enough.

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