Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Bush Signs Into Law Obama-Murkowski-Allen Bill to Ban Dangerous Mercury Exports

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Representative Tom Allen (D-ME), and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today announced that President Bush signed into law the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (S.906), a bipartisan bill introduced in March 2007 to ban the export of mercury from the United States. The United States is consistently ranked as one of the world's top exporters of mercury, a substance that, when ingested, can lead to learning disabilities and physical ailments. This law will remove a significant amount of mercury from the global market and lessen the threat this substance poses to the world's most vulnerable citizens. Obama and Murkowski introduced this bill in the Senate and Representative Allen introduced companion legislation in the House of Representatives. This bill is also cosponsored by Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE), Carl Levin (D-MI), and Ken Salazar (D-CO).

"The President's approval of this bipartisan bill is an important victory for millions of the world's most vulnerable citizens who are exposed to the harmful effects of mercury every day," said Senator Obama. "Exposure to mercury leads to serious developmental problems in children as well as problems affecting vision, motor skills, blood pressure, and fertility in adults. Despite our country's improved efforts to contain and collect mercury over the years, we remain one of the world's leading exporters of this dangerous product, so I am proud this bill will finally ban mercury exports. I commend Senator Murkowski, Congressman Allen, and Chairman Boxer for working in a bipartisan way with industry and environmental groups to put the health of pregnant women and children first."

"I am pleased that President Bush has signed this important legislation which will slow needless mercury emissions, especially in the developing world," said Senator Murkowski. "Given our expanding knowledge about the health impacts of elemental mercury when it enters the atmosphere, it only makes sense to take reasonable steps now to safeguard the environment from the release of mercury that can affect fish and potentially those who eat fish."

"This legislation will eliminate a key source of mercury from reaching the global market," said Representative Allen. "Mercury is a potent neurotoxin hazardous to human health, especially for infants, children, and women who are pregnant or nursing. Maine people should be able to eat the fish they purchase in the supermarkets. We still have much to do to end mercury pollution, and I will continue to fight for passage of my legislation to establish a nationwide mercury pollution monitoring system and the legislation I support requiring utilities to reduce their mercury emissions."

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said, "The Mercury Export Ban of 2008, just signed into law, will protect millions of pregnant women and children from toxic mercury pollution. I greatly appreciate Senator Obama's leadership in this successful bipartisan effort."

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can cause serious developmental problems in children, ranging from severe birth defects to mental retardation. As many as 630,000 children born annually in the U.S. are at risk of neurological problems related to mercury. In adults, mercury can negatively affect vision, motor skills, blood pressure and fertility. As many as 10 percent of women in the U.S. of childbearing age have mercury in their blood at a level that could put a baby at risk.

The Mercury Export Ban Act will:

-Prohibit the commercial export of elemental mercury from the United States in 2013.

-Prohibit the commercial sale or transfer of federal mercury stockpiles held by the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense for any purpose except for transfer into permanent storage.

-Provide for permanent storage of collected mercury by the Department of Energy.

This legislation is supported by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Council of the States, American Chemistry Council, the National Mining Association, and the Chlorine Institute.


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POPULAR YOUR SITE??

quote above imply you to be ownself and doesn't imitate another person, may be in some cases really good to applied, but quote apparently seldom practised by many site owner at internet.



may be there is no manner genuinely accurate to count what mobile site total at internet, but without use tools or survai, we can see with kasat eye that site total bertebaran at internet increase fast relative day after day, there will be no habis-habis you will visit although you berselancar at illusion world during 7x24 clock non-stop. but on the other side, find new site innovative rarely is met, majority new site is made with take idea from site ever preexist. the result, we can see how many bertebaran site blog, portal, wiki, game, message, and sederet klasifi kasi another.



therefore, if you have brilliant idea and launch a site never thought by another person, so you must menabah heart if later your site has kembaran, intentionally also not. site a resemble to like site b, site b resemble to like site c, actually doesn't be taboo matter at internet remembers in such a way many internet users widespread in all the world and creativity broadness that can be developed in a site, so that exactly more expand information that can be accessinged user.



although may be there plagiator mencontek according to idea total, design, or even konten certain site. but along time walks, imitation site even also must find spirit self to can stand at bay in information jungle named internet.



of so much many free sites is accessinged by whoever, both for offered new creation and or is follower, there one similarity that has, that is all sites want to be popular. world wide web likes shop window rak-sasa that decorate millions site that compete to want to be front.



measures fame

“tolong will make me site if at look for in search engine will come up in list 10 atas”, such request a goat skipper bot left behind want mempopular the business at internet.



usually web developer with all efforts will explain how the difficult will expect a site will come up front in search engine, and final take outside magic terms, like search engine optimization, search algorithm, meta tag, keyword, web crawler, and as it, on the chance of the goat skipper understands if the site later not sepopular the hope.



actually you enough say found around 250.000 new yard that increases every the day at internet and please shadow if all want to come up highest in search engine.



don't forget to say the good message, that is found more than 1 billion internet user in all the world, and number increase every the day. so although a site doesn't occupied rank on in search engine, doesn't mean site not popular.



then, how measures fame a site? one other often be reference see from user visit frequency. found some ways that we shall study hereunder.



web counter

a web counter (common also be called hit counter) will count visitor total that accessing your site, web counter usually put on page in front of situsdan may be want showed by site owner denganfont large size if fantastic the total, and on the contrary angkadengan font pocket edition if minimum the total (gantungpada self confidence level the site owner! ).



for web desainer/developer doesn't want busy do web programming counter, found quite a lot site that offered web calculation free service counter. cukupdengan add sederet program code in halamansitus you, and will come up total visitor that accessing your site.



unfortunately, web counter not always trusted, during number in web counter can be modified by site owner. in this time web counter almost doesn't evoke impression means for that see it, possible because too general, or because belief undercommunication in number as described in web counter.



even though, not closed your possibility makes web counter be more interesting meagrely creativity, for example with is displaying user total that is accessinging your site, or display web counter that move according to live. one of [the] example such as those which on the market in site http: /www. chami. com/counter/classic/.



web statistics

web statistics usually give information better compared number that in web counter. the example, you can see visit quantity based on specified period, or divided appropriate geographical position, or show what used transfer data, and another information.



in web statistics, you not only see in the form of number, but also in the form of table and graph. information likes this very good for analyze site visit according to detailer.



web statistics takes raw data that comes from all request that attributed to your site (belongs also request that fail), request kept into a file logarithm in server web. this logarithm is then is processed by web application analytics and displayed to be informative web statistics report.



manner above of course need access right towards file logarithm in server web. how if we want to count statistic a site but doesn't has access in file logarithm at server web? its way by using javascript that tell server third-party each time a site yard is called by browser web, this method is known by the name of page tagging.



display web statistics with method reads file logarithm and or page tagging has surplus and deficit each. also be maked to use method hybrid that unite second method above on the chance of can give statistics information accurateer.



several web application examples analytics awstats, w3perl, webalizer, phpmyvisites, and as it.



web rank

list rank/ranking always menggemari because easy understood and synchronized direct in target. has fascination aloof if display list likes: richest ones at world, winner best movies oscar, and further. how with web list popular?



one of [the] penyedia information alexa internet, inc (http: /www. alexa. com). a company subsidiary from amazon. com. rank in alexa taken based on user visit alexa toolbar for internet explorer and sidebar integration in mozilla and netscape.



although found controversy hits information accuracy that displayed alexa, but information that displayed good enough is used as fame reference a site in general.



of course site that belong in list 500 big alexa. com be site that bo doubt again popu-laritas. on the contrary if your site stills in rank unfavourable follows alexa, so may be the mentioned be indication that you must repair site service or introduce your site broader again. you can see certain site rank information with type site address that wants looked for to pass site alexa. com and or by install alexa toolbar, or use extension searchstatus to mozilla firefox.



method other introduced by google with pagerank. pagerank measures heavy a site from scale 0–10 with certain algorithm based on analysis towards link, final show how tall importance level (importance) a site.



value excelsior pagerank you, so more heavyer your site, and of course also mean more popular. because calculation pagerank based on link, so emerge efforts reproduce link with tools and programiklan text-link. this matter is then causess site quality accuracy that has pagerank tall questioned, therefore google mobilely begin to give penalty for site that sell text-link to defend evaluation accuracy pagerank. pagerank can displayed to pass google toolbar or extension searchstatus in browser mozilla firefox.



popular your site!

really fun if your site occupieds tall rank and has good statistics, but how does manner mempopular your site?



before you devolve to read this part, previous necessary always we realize that to get good result, usually not or reachable instantly and without maximal effort.



and so it is with your site fame, be a process that must be built very seriously. several its way:



1. make connection timbal-balik mutual profitting with swop link in site other.

2. jump down to communities likes forum, blog, mailing list, and introduce your site by polite and doesn't break where you present communities ethics. even sometimes enough put link in footer (if permitted), you may be will get several new visitors.

3. emphasize at quality and not in quantity. better get 10 site visitors that spend average time above 30 minutes stays in your site, compared 100 average visitors only opens your site in count second! therefore then develop your site, study what desirable by visitor and what necessary repaired if there. consider visitor customer, and customer king!

4. insert your site in online directory (i don't know free and or pay)s to like yellow pages, your alumnus site, and others that has kategorisasi and good structure.

5. make article and or work writes another, add link aims your site in article, and publicize article appropriate in the place. conceive if your article interestings the readers, of course by dozens that angered will open your site link on the chance of will find furthermore information.



very your inadvisable does spam with bomb e-mail, robot program, or in whatever form disturb another person freshment just for chase fame.



really for a site, also can mean money flow fluenter. by having tall visitor statistics, a site can prepare advertisement installing service with relative cost enough expensive. but before tempted by fame and money, we necessary learn from sites that popular and can to survive long, again, they always build quality particularly formerly before get quantity. all return in aim actually site. site be be allocated so that another person can pick benefit, so visitor is jury actually to determine your site quality.



on a long term, loyal visitors that gets benefit from your site that then will make your site will survive.



limit coffee for guest

site likes a house open to that guests pays. but, don't until you only prioritise self in visitor number height, without do furthermore analysis hits siapakah that visit your site. this matter is caused by not all visitors visits your site to gets something worthwhile from konten site, between sekian many visitors, possible your site visitor diligentest a application software that walks automatically!



application known by the name of internet bots or abbreviated bots, made with various aim. there which are positive like robot search engine that help to register your site into search engine, but also there negative and made for certain, for example to gather address e-mail in every web yard that met, even possible to do offence denial of service, of course “tamu” that by like this is unnecessary is given secangkir coffee!



in the end, realita that your site popular if konten really can to interesting many people, so that make visitors always want to accessing your site according to periodically and malar. so how to produce site good be compared to chase visitor number semata.



but also, doesn't mean number and visitor statistics becoming not important, use statistics and counter for furthermore analysis in develop your site up at better again.

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make torn photo with photoshop

make torn photo


a photo keeps one million memories. may be make us smile tickle shadow funny event that expire. but, sometimes from that photo is your gets valuable lesson. better express your emotion with tips follows. joko nurjadi



open photo in work area

will use shortcut ctrl-o to mem-browse photo that be manipulated or with file menu - open. before we engage in, duplication layer background with depress ctrl-j. contents background with black colour from menu edits - fill - black. so that you not confused with quantity layer in working furthermore, accustom to give name in every layer you create, layer background copy we shall give name “foto1”.



add border

choose to edit - free transform to decry photo size. then create layer new from layer - new - layer. do ctrl-click in layer foto1 to get the selection. change to layer new, we step into menu select – modify - ex-pand and give value 10 pixels to enlarge selection. contents layer new with white colour to make border at around photo. then unite layer foto1 and border- from menu layer - merge down.



picture with pen tool.

use pen tool to draw form path from on picture downwards like in example, make trace scraggly resemble pattern zigzag robe paper. now is clicking icon brush and open window contains kind brush that used in option pothouse. here we shall see little arrow sign at the end of window. will click to will show choice reset brushes that will return default arrangement. choose brush first of the size 1 pixel. and change colour foreground color in layer palette to white.





stroke path

make layer new from menu layer - new - layer by the name of stroke. mobile here, choose to return icon pen tool. click right in path formed and choose stroke layer, so that formed line appropriate trace path. next continue pattern robe this up to lengthways up to out photo and final come in contact with end anchor point beginning. next click tab path in panel to find pattern path stored. click right in path and choose make selection. fill in feather: 0 in dialog box that appear.



cut photo

step above will creat a selection with form equal to path you will make. we shall use this to will tear photo. without cause the loss of selection, click in layer photo 1 and choose menu edits - cut to menduplikasi layer. furthermore choose menu edits - paste. a part photo will move to layer new. give photo name 2. your memories photo now divided two.



add shadow

to make photo seen real, you necessary add paper shadow, press ctrl j in layer photo 1 to menduplikasi. contents with white colour meng-guna paint bucket tool. to make shadow is seen vague, use select - inverse to turn selection and tarnish paper end with give select - feather as big as 10 pixels and press delete. shadow will be seen realer.



photo end result

perhaps you felt this photo stills too stiff. you can mendistorsi this photo with depress ctrl-t. click right to choose choice warp, next you can berkreasi meliuk-liuk robe photo likely wave to breezed wind. with like this, you can release your emotion without having to botch memories goods.

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