Sirius Satellite Radio Vs XM Satellite Radio

A satellite radio or subscription based radio is a radio service broadcasted by using satellite and it covers wider geographical area than local radio services. Today, satellite radio is leading the advancement of radio services in several countries, especially in the United States and Canada. Satellite radio service is being offered by two companies, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Both companies are offering over 100 channels of streaming music, news, sports and entertainment. 

Sirius Satellite Radio is offering more than 130 channels of satellite radio featuring digital quality music and entertainment programs, sports and news whenever and wherever you want to listen in US and Canada. It uses a fleet of satellites to broadcast high quality radio streaming. To me, Sirius Radio is on demand entertainment that you can listen whatever and whenever you want, which is making it more and more popular. With most advanced satellite radio devices, you can also see the artist and song information on display while listening to the channel.

XM Satellite Radio is also a famous satellite radio service of North America in head-to-head competition with Sirius Satellite Radio. XM provides pay-for-service radio, similar to cable television. Services of XM Satellite Radio include 73 different music streams, 21 local traffic and weather streams, 39 news, sports, talk and amusement channels and 23 play-by-play sports channels. You can also listen to XM Satellite Radio on DirecTV for which no XM payment is necessary, but you must have paid DirecTV subscription.

Local repeaters just like broadcast translator boosters make sure the availability of the signals even if the radio antenna is not clear to satellite. For example, by the skyscrapers repeaters strengthen the radio signals so as in main tunnels for providing ultimate services to the subscribers. So, it is also convenient for local programming to be broadcast such as traffic and weather in major cities and areas. One good thing I must say is satellite radio is free from commercials and also free from rules and regulations by federal committees and this is what you pay for to enjoy non-stop streaming. Choice is Yours!

Birthday is Racing with the Earth Around the Sun

Starting of just another day but with the call of a nice friend singing like a bird “Happy Birthday to you - may you have many many more” and it waken me up. For some moments, I was surprised oh…I got this day 26 times in my life but I still don’t know why am I having it again and again, in the same usual way??






                Grabbing my Birthday Cake with Vertu Ferrari in hand

I am so sure that I came into this world at right time and right place but it took me long time to figure it out and yet I still don’t know why am I in this world? I’ve completed 26 revolutions around the sun and it’s interesting to know that I always complete my revolution on 354^th day that means 11 days before the Earth do but I’m still on the same location – sounds confusing.

In the end, I want to thank all of you for being the part of my life in anyway and for helping me to get through the life. Well, I enjoyed my Birthday alone in the last years but now it’s the time to move forward for another round trip in the solar system and I wish I could find some new stars to shine with.  Birthday is the start-finish day of the race with the Earth around the Sun and everyday is the race day.

Medication Side Effects

As we age, we tend to get more side effects from lesser amounts of drugs. This is because the body mechanisms that eliminate drugs from our system are less effective; our liver and kidneys do not work as quickly to excrete these substances from the body. Drug side effects become extremely common, and most of them are not even recognized. Instead, the side effects are thought of as problems in their own right. Common drugs like codeine can cause depression and sleepiness. Simple tranquilizers like valium can muddy your thinking and your memory. Aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs become more irritating to your stomach, even though you may not feel the early symptoms as keenly. Somewhere between 10 to 20 percent of hospital admissions for seniors are the direct result of medication side effects. Most of the medications that cause the side effects were not medically required.

Prevention

This potential problem needs constant orientation. We tend to gradually accumulate an overflowing medicine chest. New drugs are started more frequently than older ones are discontinued. Usually, your entire medication program is seldom reviewed at the same time, either by you or by your doctor.

There is only one sure way to avoid medication side effects, and that is to take no medications at all. At the most basic level, you should always ask yourself whether elimination of all medicines might be possible. Of you think this might be possible, then talk it over to your doctor. At the least, you and your doctor develop a plan that involves many fewer medications, even if they cannot all be eliminated.

You can stop over-the-counter drugs by yourself. Ask yourself if you really need the medication. Try for a while without it and see if and problems come up. Talk over many questions with your doctor. Repeat this process at least every six months and prune your medications back to those that are truly essential.

Payday Loans for Urgent Financial Needs

If the money is short and you’re going through hard time and you have to pay some late fees or any overdraft charges and bills, obviously it’s a pathetic situation BUT WAIT! You’re not alone! Whenever you’ll face such kind of situation the payday loans is always there to support your short term financial crisis. You will get a quick loan within two hours of loan application to meet your urgent financial needs…sounds good!? Loan will be deposited to your checking or saving account so you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home to go and apply for the loan.

Payday loans are helping people to come back from their current weak financial position so they don’t have to disturb their routine to meet unexpected expenses. One really good thing I felt about these payday loans is that anyone can be qualified who meets the minimal requirements such as you have to be US Citizen and must be 18 or older. And you are receiving or earning a regular income of at least $1,000 per month and holding a valid account as mentioned above, with direct deposit. Another great deal is that you don’t have to worry about your bad credit because to approve your loan they do not perform credit checks…bingo!

I think now you are feeling relax with their great offer – NO? Worried about the misuse of personal information? Just Kickback! You don’t need to fax your details. They will get all the necessary details through the website using a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connection. Let me remind you payday loans will only finance you for the short term until your next pay day and is not suitable for continuous financial problems. However, your loan can be extended upon your request before the maturity date. You can read FAQ’s section on the website and also contact their friendly customer service representatives, always ready to help you in your hard time.

Avoiding AIDS and Other Preventable Infections

The major infectious diseases of the past, such as smallpox, polio and tuberculosis, have greatly decreased as national health problems. This is principally a result of preventive measures. Now, the major infectious disease threat to individuals below age 65 is a new disease, AIDS.

AIDS, the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, is caused by a virus. This virus first was recognized to cause human illness in 1977. The virus attacks a particular group of the body's white blood cells (a subclass of the T lymphocytes) and persists for a long time in these cells. The virus destroys the cells' ability to fight off additional infections, and the additional infections are frequently fatal. This virus makes the important body defense mechanism, the immune system, deficient (unable to fight back). In contrast to immune deficiency syndromes that are present at birth, it is usually "acquired" during adult life when the individual becomes infected by the AIDS virus.

The AIDS virus is transmitted from person to person body secretions - such as semen, vaginal secretions, or even breast milk - or by transfusion of infected blood. It can be transmitted to the fetus by an infected mother. In some infected individuals, the immune system appears to remain intact; these individuals are not sick but still may be able to infect other. In others, there are relatively minor symptoms such as fatigue and swollen lymph glands. Over time, the immune system is profoundly altered in at least one-half of infected individuals; after the first major infection, death will often follow within a year or two.

AIDS was first discovered in homosexual men who have had large numbers of sexual contacts. The frequency of sexual exposure greatly increases the probability of coming in contact with the virus. Seventy to 80 percent of all cases continue to occur in gay men. Increasingly, however, cases are reported in intravenous drug abusers who become infected through contaminated needless and syringes, after heterosexuals contact with prostitutes, or after other heterosexual contact. The number of different sexual contacts is critically important; the larger the number of possibilities for transmission of virus through different partners, the larger the risk. Gay men in stable, monogamous relationships are at little, if any, increased risk. The problems with blood transfusions of a few years ago have been almost entirely eliminated because all blood is now tested for the presence of the virus before transfusion. It does not appear that the disease can be transmitted by coughing or other non-intimate contact. Medical personnel do not appear to be at substantial risk.  

Rapid progress in understanding AIDS is being made, but a vaccine or a cure is not yet available. A test that detects antibody to the virus with reasonable accuracy is available. Early studies with this test indicate that as many as 1 million persons in the United States already have antibodies to the virus. This suggests that they have been exposed to and possibly infected by the AIDS virus- an alarming statistic for a virus that has been around for only a few years.

Control of this disease depends largely on quarantine of the virus through the collective health actions of individuals. I strongly argue the following three measures; they not only help prevent AIDS but also other sexually transmitted diseases and other serious infections such as hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) and septicemia (blood poisoning).

1. Decrease the risk of sexual transmission.
Recognize that casual sexual activity, either homosexual or heterosexual, paid or free, can be hazardous and that the risk goes up. With the number of different individuals involved. Regular and careful use of condoms (but not other birth control techniques) can greatly reduce the risk of infection. Practice “safer sex”.

2. If you think you may have been at risk for infection, get tested.
The test should be positive within a month if you have been infected, but not right away. Do this not only for yourself but to avoid the tragedy of unknowingly spreading the disease.

3. lend your efforts to the war on drugs.
Particularly emphasize those things that can influence friends and children to avoid the many serious risks of these practices.