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Earth Day is April 22, 2012. It's a time for those of us in Florida to celebrate the miraculous beauty of our precious planet and all its offerings, as well as to make changes to our own habits and lives that will help to preserve the earth for many generations to come. Making such changes will not only benefit the planet; they will benefit you, and all of its present and future inhabitants.
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Perhaps poet T.S. Eliot was onto much more than he realized when he wrote, "April is the cruelest month..." Sadly, April showers bring more than sweet summer flowers. They also help to create an assortment of hazards that can do serious damage your Florida home sweet home.
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The Internet: it's a part of every Florida household, an indispensable resource, a source of endless entertainment, and an incomparably effective communication tool. Most of us can hardly imagine life without it. Its advantages are many, but it has its drawbacks, too. Chief among them is loss of privacy. What you search for, shop for, and look at on the Web is not just saved; it's shared, and used by advertisers who tailor their marketing strategies accordingly.
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Last summer, Apple introduced the iCloud, an intriguing method of saving data on a remote server-as distant and nebulous as a cloud itself-rather than on a local hard drive. The cloud allows users to store and remove data from a remote server through a network, but the cloud isn't new and it isn't limited to Apple's iCloud; the concept has been around for a while, and has existed in one form or another for years. According to industry journal InfoWorld, "[c]loud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT's existing capabilities."
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Do you consider yourself one of those people to whom nothing is shocking? Have you seen and heard it all? Do you merely roll your eyes, unsurprised and unimpressed, at the quirks and foibles of your fellow humans?
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