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2010-01-12
02:30:46 pm, by Pablo Edronkin, 410 words 
Categories: TOURISM AND TRAVEL, Luggage and Travel Accessories, Financing Your Activities, Regulations and Formalities, Travel Advice, Problems and Issues, Luxury Travel, Collectors and Collections, TRAVEL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, Cargo, Valuables, Giveaways and Takeaways, Visas and Travel Permits, Citizenship and Passports
Tourist information for your convenience and economic advantage
Tourism can be expensive or cheap; it can also lead to very interesting investment opportunities and good deals.
Why pay more when you can pay less? That's an obvious question when you travel and as you probably know, just purchasing an airline ticket one day or another could make a significant difference. But visiting places can also become a very good way to actually make money or to increase your net capital. If you go the Netherlands you could, for example, buy some porcelain cheaper than in other countries and keep it at home in a collection or as an investment. In France or other wine-producing countries you could get yourself a bottle of something special, or you could go to Poland or Russia in order to buy amber at nice prices. In the Czech republic you find garnets that are almost unknown in other parts of the world and thus command higher prices. There are offshore banking opportunities, hand made rugs, crystal, semi precious and precious stones...
Every place offers some sort of opportunity for those keen enough to hunt for good deals. Nothing is free, of course, but likely far cheaper at its place of origin than in other countries: Get yourself a Persian rug in Iran and you will pay a sum. Now, try to buy the same rug in London, and the cost will be significantly higher.Since authorities know that and want to get as much tax money as they can, while of course, there are also illegal trade venues that must be stopped for a lot of reasons, anyone considering such opportunities should stay informed in order to outsmart those tax-hungry bogeymen, and at the same time, keep on the right side of the law, without exploiting the artisans who make those wonderful things, without hurting the environment or causing damage to endangered species, to mention just a few of such wrong scenarios.
There are books, booklets and papers related to such operations and how to engage in them in the proper way in all senses. Some are for free, while others cost some money. But if you are thinking about becoming a profiting tourist, even spending a little in valuable knowledge might prove to be a very sensible investment.
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2009-12-28
12:23:33 am, by Pablo Edronkin, 122 words 
Categories: HOBBIES AND CRAFTS, Languages, Shows, Concerts and Public Displays, Collectors and Collections, Downloadable Games
NASA offers sound clips for radio, online newscasters
WASHINGTON - NASA is making sound clips available for news producers to download from the agency's Web site.
The NASA Audio File page has sound clips with NASA scientists, researchers, astronauts, and officials supporting timely news releases about everything from the latest discoveries in space to climate change here on Earth. The page also will offer sound excerpts suitable for audio news features.
The NASA Audio File page can be accessed at: http://www.nasa.gov/audiofile
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
Source: NASA
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2009-11-29
12:18:26 am, by Pablo Edronkin, 509 words
Categories: Landmarks and Interesting Sites, Shows, Concerts and Public Displays, Collectors and Collections, Valuables, Society and Culture
NASA provides venerable Hubble hardware to Smithsonian
WASHINGTON - Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May.
Astronauts brought back the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, or WFPC-2, and the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, or COSTAR, after more than 15 years in space. The camera returned the iconic images that now adorn posters, album covers, the Internet, classrooms and science text books worldwide.
"This was the camera that saved Hubble," said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "I have looked forward for a long time to stand in front of this very instrument while on display to the public."
After Hubble's launch and deployment aboard the shuttle in 1990, scientists realized the telescope's primary mirror had a flaw, known as a spherical aberration. The outer edge of the mirror was ground too flat by a depth of 2.2 microns, roughly equal to one-fiftieth the thickness of a human hair. This tiny flaw resulted in fuzzy images because some of the light from the objects being studied was scattered.
Hubble's first servicing mission provided the telescope with hardware that basically acted as eye glasses. Launched in December 1993 aboard space shuttle Endeavour, the mission added the WFPC-2, about the size of a baby grand piano, and COSTAR, about the size of a telephone booth. The WFPC-2 had the optical fix built in, while the COSTAR provided the optical correction for other Hubble instruments.
The WFPC-2 made more than 135,000 observations of celestial objects from 1993 to 2009. The camera was the longest serving and most prolific instrument aboard Hubble.
"For years the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 has been taking pictures of the universe," said John Trauger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Today, we are taking pictures of the WFPC-2 and I guess if there was ever a camera that deserves to have its picture taken, this is it."
The WFPC-2 is on temporary display in the Museum's Space Hall until Jan. 10. The instrument will then travel to Southern California to go on temporary display at several venues. In the spring, WFPC-2 will return to the museum for permanent residency. COSTAR will be housed in the museum's new gallery called "Moving Beyond Earth."
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed and built the WFPC-2. The COSTAR instrument was built by Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. The project is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. The institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc., in Washington.
For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble
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