| Some states say no to teen tanning
WASHINGTON No smoking. No drinking. No talking on cell phones while driving. Now, the latest no-no in state laws aimed at underage teens is indoor tanning. Spurred by worries about skin cancer, Utah and Virginia this year joined 25 other states, including Mississippi, in placing limits on teens seeking a bronze glow from the ultraviolet lights of a tanning bed. North Dakota's Legislature is putting the final touches on a measure to also clamp restrictions on tanning salon patrons under age 18. Most of the laws require underage teens to get parental permission to lie under the tanning-bed heat lamps that emit intense UV light. A handful of states completely ban access to artificial UV light in salons for those younger than 13, 14 or 16. Others require teens to bring along a parent or a doctor's prescription.
TCP, Inc. To Boost Production to 800000 Energy Efficient Light ...
AURORA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As more Americans make the switch to use energy efficient lighting products in their homes, lighting innovator TCP, Inc. announces it is increasing its production of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) by 23 percent to 800,000 CFLs per day in order to meet the heightened consumer demand. TCP manufactures 70 percent of the CFLs on the market through name brand, private label and other lighting manufacturers (OLMs), including the n:vision line for The Home Depot. The company anticipates its production will jump to one million CFLs per day by the fourth quarter of 2007. "For the first time since the invention of the light bulb, homeowners are changing a century-old buying habit of using incandescent light bulbs," said Ellis Yan, CEO, TCP, Inc. "More people are seeing the immediate benefits of making the switch to CFLs.
CRM Conference: Database Solutions, LTD. Announces Successful
DATABASE SOLUTIONS, LTD., a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Technology Company for the Insurance and Financial Industry, announced recently that on March 18th through March 20th Database Solutions successfully exhibited at the LAMP 2007 Conference held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With over 43 of the top insurance and financial services firms in the world as members, 10 of which are on the fortune 500 list, Database Solutions had the opportunity to demonstrate the company's family of CRM products and Agent Intelligence online on-demand solution to agencies through out the United States, Canada, Mexico and overseas. Due to the overwhelming response from show attendees, Database Solutions has commenced product evaluations with exciting prospects showing excellent business potential worldwide.
Torres being held in Texas jail
Pasadena, Texas police arrested 32 year old Marco Torres around 11:30 Monday morning in Houston, without incident.
They tell us their operation started around 5 am.
About 8:30, their SWAT team followed Torres to the Lamp Light motel in Houston.
After monitoring him for about three hours, the SWAT team moved in and apprehended Torres.
They do not work the streets. They work warrants. That is what they are doing, is they are looking for people like this, and we want to take them off the street. They are looking for parole violations and that kind of thing, and highprofile warrants, said Officer Vance Mitchell.
Pasadena police say there has been a lot of cooperation in this case with Grand Island police.
Since the beginning, it has been thought Torres may be in the Texas area.
Larger Litters Result in Increased Output of High Quality Pork
Research conducted by the Prairie Swine Centre indicates that although low birth weight piglets reach market weight more slowly than their heavier litter-mates, and present a greater challenge in terms of survivability, the quality of their carcasses and the desirability of their pork are equal. The results were presented last month at the 2007 Focus on the Future Conference in Saskatoon. Larger Litters Result in Lower Birth Weights “Work has shown that, as the litter size increases, that is the number of pigs born per litter, we get a lot more of these very small birth weight piglets," says Dr. Denise Beaulieu, a research associate with the Saskatoon-based Prairie Swine Centre. “When I first started raising pigs in the 1980's, eight born alive per litter was the norm.
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