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The first camera dates back to ancient Greece, with the pinhole camera obscura. But while the camera - in its simplest form-worked, there was no way of preserving images. The first permanent photograph was made in 1826 by Joseph Nicphore Nipce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris. The first digital camera, developed in the 1970s, weighed 8lbs, was the size of a loaf of bread and captured black and white images on a digital cassette at a resolution of .01 megapixels. Steven Sasson, an engineer working for Eastman Kodak, is credited with the design. Technology has come so far and so fast that anything currently on sale below four megapixels is of questionable worth because there are already camera phones - notably by Nokia and Sharp (for Vodafone) that take three-megapixel pictures. More are on the way, meaning that it is hardly worth paying a premium on such low- quality pictures. At the higher-spec end, once non-professional photographers move past nine megapixels - more than adequate to enlarge to A3 print size - it becomes overkill. Expected developments in digi-cam technology include such basics as moving the power button further from the capture button - so a rushed attempt to take a picture doesnt turn the camera off - and obtaining better quality in poor lighting, currently a big d owner.
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Question: As a business owner, when is it a good idea to invest in real estate? Answer: Investing in real estate can be tempting to many business owners who are hoping to cash in on increasing real estate values and to achieve the peace of mind that comes with being your own landlord. Banks make borrowing money for real estate easier than many other loan types, further enhancing the attractiveness of real estate investments. But when should you invest in real estate?
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are essentially closed-end real estate funds. They invest in commercial, office and/or residential properties. REITs typically generate high income (10%-to-15%) and some provide even higher returns. Because of their high yields, REITs are currently very popular. Lately, some REITs have been yielding over 20%. Here are some examples of REITs: CAP, Cominar, HR, RESREIT Retirement Residence, and Rio Can. These REITs trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Your stock broker should be able to provide more information. Money Digest publishes articles on REITs, income and royalty trusts on a regular basis.
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Nurturing gift ideas If you are taking a trip to Vail in the next week, stop by the Betty Ford Alpine Garden for some nifty home-and-garden holiday gifts.
Home And Garden: Brown thumbs and green thumbs alike, handy around the house, or maybe all thumbs–the 17th annual Fall Home/Garden Show, returning to the Del Mar Fairgrounds from Sept. 15 through 17, wants you to drop on by. Also on tap, the Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego will be raffling off a Dream Playhouse, furnished with a 15-inch LCD flat screen TV, a DVD player, and Corian countertops, among the other deluxe d6cor. The winner will be drawn at the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 19 at Qualcomm Stadium.
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The best promotional prospects for back-to-school in most discount store health and beauty aid departments are vitamins, acne preparations and popular-priced cosmetics, said chain buyers polled by DSN. While some retailers–like Zayre, Hills and Jamesway–promote these products in BTS circulars, all merchants surveyed will try to cash in on the seasons influx of school-age customers with special in-store promotions. Last fall, when Zayre didnt advertise skin-care items at all, but simply “went after the business with increased inventory,” according to an official, sales jumped 20%–equaling the overall department gain.
Consumers are spending more than ever on health and beauty treatments, a reflection of the increasing emphasis on looking young and attractive. If the market is to grow significantly in the future, operators will need to make treatments more affordable and accessible to a wider range of consumers, especially men.
Julio F. Gallo, M.D., FACS, co-founder, The MIAMI Institute for Age Management Intervention, says, We are heartened by the outpouring of interest in our new medical spa. Beautiful Forevers research and business development counseling was pivotal to our launch, and no doubt to the huge success we are already experiencing after just opening our doors last month. Adds Dr. Gallo, Cheryl has an amazing ability to combine business knowledge, marketing expertise and operational know-how with other aspects of medical and aesthetic treatments. She seems to know what will be hot before it is. She has been an invaluable asset in setting up the aesthetic treatments and office structure of our new comprehensive medical spa and cosmetic surgery center. Cheryl Whitman, CEO, Beautiful Forever, says, The medical spa business is an exciting trend, quickly gaining traction across the country. Consumers want more than they can get at the traditional day spa. They want a one-stop beauty destination where they can receive pampering as well as some on trend cosmetic and aesthetic procedures.
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Late at night, unable to sleep in the muggy heat, I channel-hop. I alight on BBC World–a documentary about a swish London ad agency working on a Brazilian liquor companys big international splash. Millions are at stake. In such circumstances, when are they not? The pictures gain something of the aura of holy relics. The money thats gone into them, before the hooch launches on the international market, is completely crazy. All spent in the service of image. Theres been some slight consternation at NI Towers around doing an issue on advertising. We advertise ourselves and print ads in the magazine. Might there be just a whiff of the double standard? But theres a gulf between our efforts and those of big-brand mass advertising that stretches from here to, well, almost eternity. We constantly remind our contributors theyve got to help us live up to our advertising promises. We print only a few ads in the NI–those that meet our guidelines and which might have something to offer our readers. And we cherish our independence–weve never had to bin a piece because it might have upset an advertiser. Bins are for junk.
of Little Rock in a merger before joining CJRW. George Thomas Jones has been named operations associate. Jones has a degree in communications with an emphasis in advertising and public relations from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
The SLDP sector has invested more than 19.3m [pounds sterling] in brand advertising from January to May this year, which suggests the total spend will go far beyond last years total anual figure of 31.9m [pounds sterling]. TV and press dominated the media spend althrough more brands have adopted the multi-media approach pioneered by the Mullerlove campaign in 2001 * Source NMR 2003, AC Neilsen May 2003
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THE Government is proposing building three million new homes in the UK by 2020 and bringing in schemes to help first-time buyers and boost the economy. Eddie Birkett said: In the rural areas of Northumberland you cant find a house to rent. There needs to be some sort of land release and some houses built. Can you see that being done and how do you see the supply of houses going?
Some compare todays coastal housing market, where prices increased the most, to the investment craze that led to the technology stock crash a few years ago. Home prices in some regions have more than doubled in the past five years, leading to concerns that the speculative bubble might burst. There have also been record levels of conversion of apartments into condominiums in many areas of the country as demand for homeownership has also led to increased demand for condominiums. Investors can earn a greater profit by selling apartments as condos rather than renting apartments. In markets like Miami, where the condo market has been particularly hot, some units have even changed hands the same day as speculators have been buying many of the condos. The bad news for homeowners in Indiana is that they have not seen their home values rise like many other areas of the country. The Indianapolis areas home prices grew at nearly the slowest pace of the top fifty markets, or 19 percent during the past five years. Homeowners in the Boston and San Diego areas saw their homes appreciate more than 75 percent during the same period. The good news is what has not gone up will probably not go down. That is, home prices in Indiana are not likely to fall with a possible drop in prices in those areas of the country that may be experiencing a bubble. So there is less risk associated with purchasing a home in Indiana compared to many other areas of the country. This also makes homes in Indiana relatively affordable compared to many other areas.
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Late at night, unable to sleep in the muggy heat, I channel-hop. I alight on BBC World–a documentary about a swish London ad agency working on a Brazilian liquor companys big international splash. Millions are at stake. In such circumstances, when are they not? The pictures gain something of the aura of holy relics. The money thats gone into them, before the hooch launches on the international market, is completely crazy. All spent in the service of image. Theres been some slight consternation at NI Towers around doing an issue on advertising. We advertise ourselves and print ads in the magazine. Might there be just a whiff of the double standard? But theres a gulf between our efforts and those of big-brand mass advertising that stretches from here to, well, almost eternity. We constantly remind our contributors theyve got to help us live up to our advertising promises. We print only a few ads in the NI–those that meet our guidelines and which might have something to offer our readers. And we cherish our independence–weve never had to bin a piece because it might have upset an advertiser. Bins are for junk.
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The SLDP sector has invested more than 19.3m [pounds sterling] in brand advertising from January to May this year, which suggests the total spend will go far beyond last years total anual figure of 31.9m [pounds sterling]. TV and press dominated the media spend althrough more brands have adopted the multi-media approach pioneered by the Mullerlove campaign in 2001 * Source NMR 2003, AC Neilsen May 2003
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A schoolgirl joined VIPs when a multi-million-pound housing project was launched by an MP. Sunderland Housing Groups The Lakes in Albany Village, Washington, was officially opened by MP Joyce Quin (pictured). Aneira Ball, 10, of Washington, who won a competition run by the housing group to design a house of the future, presented her design to Ms Quin.
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Mr. Klinghoffer is NRs literary editor.FALL is here at last and Ive been looking forward to it for a number of rea- sons: crisp autumn air, orange leaves, pumpkin pie, and the probability that the sexier women on our city streets would begin to put their clothes back on again. By winter, they may be fully dressed.The male instinct tells us to celebrate this. Recently I conducted a survey of my male friends, in their twenties and thirties, and found they had all taken note of the evolution in fashion: shorter shorts, shorter skirts, chiffon-type skirts that are long but see-through, suggestively ripped Levis, very tight and small white T-shirts baring eight inches of tanned stomach, very thin loose T-shirts worn without a bra. No shape or location of anything, no ques- tion as to firmness or softness, is left ambiguous.
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Attention: Travel and Tourism Editors
Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN), operator of the five world-class mountain resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone in Colorado and Heavenly in California and Nevada, is working hard to make it easier for guests to take their ski and snowboard vacation this winter.
Heres our list of the top four ways to save on nearly every aspect of a ski and ride vacation this season with Vail Resorts.
New service gets you from the air to the slopes and everything in between This is just another way Frontier makes traveling to your favorite mountain destination a breeze, said Frontier Vice President of Distribution, Sales and Marketing, Jim Young. With one-stop booking, extensive accommodation options, and the in-flight experience youve come to expect, choosing which of Frontiers eight mountain destinations you want to visit will be the most difficult part of the process. As the leading seller of ski vacations in North America, Ski.com is excited to welcome Frontier to the mountains and we are very proud to have been chosen to power Frontier Ski Vacations, said Harry Peisach, Ski.com president and CEO. Ski.coms personalized customer service combined with Frontiers convenient Ski Country routes provides Frontier Ski Vacation clients a one-stop resource to book complete ski vacation packages including discount air and great deals on lodging, lift tickets, equipment rental, ski school, ground transportation and more.
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