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Ways to avoid scams relating to cheap air tickets | Travel and Leisure
Finding vacation packages or cheap air tickets are things that people are always looking for as the cost of travel expenses and flying can quickly add up. Scammers know this, and will try anything to trick you into buying their ?cheap air tickets.? It is possible to safely buy cheap air tickets as long as you know what to look out for and avoid.
- Do not respond to unsolicited emails, flyers, or faxes. Typically, these deals are very enticing. However, they may not exist at all, or may have expensive hidden fees that won?t be revealed until after you?ve already given out your personal information.
- You should always steer clear of any memberships or clubs that offer cheap deals on air tickets but ask for money before you can see them. This scam involves you giving up money without knowing what you?re paying for. Once you have access to the ?cheap air tickets? you will often find that they are the same as other deals you have seen online.
- Scam artists like to pressure people into making a decision quickly. If you are faced with a cheap air ticket that requires you to make a payment at that very moment run away. This high-pressure tactic usually leads to you regretting your decision and being caught in a scam.
- Another pressure tactic is claiming that a cheap air ticket has a ?limited availability.? This pressures you into buying quickly, and is again often used by scammers.
- Always guard your credit card information and do not give it out to unknown sources. Many times a scam artist will sell your credit card information to identity thieves.
- If you believe you are the victim of a scam, or have stumbled upon one, contact your Attorney General?s office. They may help you recover any money you lost and potentially put a stop to other people becoming victimized by the same scammers.
- Check consumer reports, the Better Business Bureau, and online reviews for the company you are considering. If you see anything suspicious or something that makes you uncomfortable, move on to a different company.
There are many reputable companies out there that offer cheap air tickets. If you follow our advice and keep your eyes out for suspicious activity, you should be able to travel at reasonable prices to anywhere in the world. Scammers may be prevalent in the cheap air ticket world, but they don?t have to win!
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Could Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Pose Skin Cancer Risk?
FRIDAY, August 3 (HealthDay News) -- As the United States bakes under the summer sun, dermatologists often warn of cancer risks posed by ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. But research now points to a new and ubiquitous indoor source of these harmful rays: eco-friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Scientists say they found widespread chipping or cracking in the phosphor surface coating of nearly all the compact fluorescent bulbs they examined, allowing UV rays to escape.
Most of the bulbs "have cracks in the phosphor coating, probably due to the fact that the coating is brittle and has trouble making the tight bends required to make these bulbs compact," explained study lead author Miriam Rafailovich, a professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Garcia Center for Polymers at Engineered Interfaces at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, N.Y. "As a result, we observed, by eye, defects in nearly all the bulbs that we studied."
And, Rafailovich added that, "skin cells exposed to [compact fluorescent light] emissions showed the same damage as those exposed to UV light" when placed in close range (meaning less than one foot) to a CFL bulb.
The study is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and is published in a recent issue of the journal Photochemistry and Photobiology.
As Americans grow more concerned about environmental and energy issues, millions have made the switch from the old incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescents. The U.S. National Institutes of Health notes that the newer technology uses roughly 75 percent less energy than standard incandescent bulbs.
Each compact fluorescent bulb has a phosphor coating applied to its narrow glass tubing. The coating is designed to both enhance the bulb's luminescence capacity while at the same time absorbing UV radiation that would otherwise be emitted.
But the authors warn that if the bulb's surface area is riddled with "bald" spots, UV protection is lost.
To see how widespread the problem might be, the Stony Brook team set out to purchase a wide array of compact fluorescent bulbs commercially available in stores across the Suffolk and Nassau county regions of Long Island, N.Y.
They measured each bulb for levels of UV emissions, while at the same time examining each for signs of cracking in its phosphor coating.
The result: All the bulbs, regardless of manufacturer or brand, were found to emit "significant" levels of both UVC and UVA rays as a result of cracks in their respective applied coatings.
Further laboratory testing revealed that when healthy human skin cells were exposed to the UV emitted from the bulbs, damage ensued that was "consistent" with the damage typically caused by UV radiation from the sun.
By contrast, exposure to incandescent bulbs of similar strength prompted no skin cell damage.
According to Rafailovich, "these bulbs are fragile, the phosphor is easily damaged, and possibly dangerous amounts of UV are emitted. Therefore, it's best not to use these bulbs at close range -- less than a couple of feet -- or look directly at them. To be safe, they should be used behind a glass cover, or kept at a distance of several feet or more."
Rafailovich said it's incredible that this situation has arisen at all. "You should not need suntan lotion to protect you from indoor lighting," she said.
In any case, one dermatologist believes using sunscreen each day is a good way to keep the UV away, whatever the source.
Dr. William Ting is a private practice dermatologist and medical director of California Dermatology Care in San Ramon, Calif. He said that doctors "have always had some suspicion about these bulbs in terms of exactly how much UV is getting through to patients. However, I don't think we're going to slow down the adoption of this technology, which means that people will increasingly find themselves in environments where they have no control over the use of these light bulbs."
His advice: "Everyone should be wearing sunscreen every single day no matter what, because even a short commute from home to work can lead to sun damage over time. And if everyone adheres to that there's no reason to be concerned about this issue."
Another expert agreed.
"Recommending that people apply sunscreen every day is always good advice," said Dr. Darrell Rigel, a clinical professor of dermatology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. "That said, I'm not sure what the risk is here. Is it a risk of some kind? Yes. It is a big risk? Probably not. And I would not alarm people that they're going to get skin cancer because they're exposed to a compact fluorescent [bulb]."
"For example," Rigel said, "most people work in offices within five to six feet of the long, standard fluorescent light bulbs that everyone is familiar with. And over the course of a typical work year of 2,000 hours you'd get the equivalent of about 20 minutes of street sun exposure in NYC in September. In other words, not a lot. So while more research is needed, at this point I wouldn't have people panicking about this."
The American Lighting Association, an industry group representing light bulb manufacturers, did not respond to HealthDay requests for comment.
More information
Find out more about compact fluorescent bulbs at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/could-compact-fluorescent-bulbs-pose-skin-cancer-risk-160412698.html
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Empty seats at Olympics as 2.5M seek tickets daily
LONDON?? About 2.5 million people a day are fighting to get their hands on Olympic tickets with pressure on the ticketing website running right through the night, organizers said.
Demand appears to have been boosted by Team Great Britain's strong performance in the medal standings and the start of the track and field events in the main stadium on Friday.
Frustration with an online system that has been unable to cope with demand has been compounded by television footage of empty seats in so-called accredited areas set aside for Olympic officials, sports federations, national Olympic committees, athletes and the media.
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London Olympic organizers (LOCOG) have asked those who do not intend to use their seats in these area to give them up, and have trimmed the seating in an effort to make more tickets available to the public.
But one in five of the accredited seats remained empty on Thursday.
Slideshow: Olympic Emotional Moments (on this page)LOCOG urged sports fans to persevere.
"A lot of them are applying for the same things, so obviously as they get to the check-out, they find that someone else has pipped them to the post and the product is not there that they've ordered," a spokeswoman told reporters on Friday.
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She said 100,000 tickets had been sold during a 48-hour period, but tens of thousands remained.
"So it is about persistence," she said.
"People are going into the system, they are successfully buying tickets, they are successfully attending the Games.
"But the sheer volume of people on the site, all through the day, and all through the night, by the way, is vast."
Slideshow: Graffiti Games: UK street artists take on Olympics (on this page)LOCOG has reclaimed thousands of accredited seats, including 2,400 for athletics, and sold them within hours.
The last-minute sales have boosted the occupancy rate in accredited areas from 60 percent on Tuesday to 81 percent on Thursday. No figures were available for earlier in the week, when vacancies were at their highest.
About 75 percent of the total 8.8 million tickets were sold to the British public. Spectator occupancy in all venues was 92 percent on Thursday.
Video: Olympic medalists face taxes on winnings (on this page)LOCOG put another 275,000 tickets on sale this week, mainly for soccer, which became available after logistics such as TV camera positions were sorted out.
Friday and Saturday are expected to be the busiest days so far at the Games, with 200,000 people in the Olympic Park, up from 135,000 on Thursday.
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USDA Awards $2.8M for Fayette County, W.Va., Flood Project ...
A flood mitigation project in Fayette County, West Virginia, is getting $2.8 million in federal funding. The funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be used to buy flood-prone properties in Dunloup Creek?s 100-year flood plain. The buyout program ?
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