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 Expanding its live TV offerings, Wi-Fi TV (PINKSHEETS: WTVN) today added live traffic cams as part of its array of live TV channels, live chat and breaking news stories.

"The future of TV will be based on the Internet because you can watch the picture on any device from a cellular phone to a laptop computer to a big screen TV, and you can get all the live interaction, such as chat and click-to-purchase, which only the Internet allows," said Lisa Pahl, a Director of Wi-Fi TV Inc. "The key to Wi-Fi TV is to allow a combination of Internet TV related features all in one place," she added.

The traffic cams are similar to other live webcams accessible on Wi-Fi TV (www.Wi-FiTV.com) which include webcams for geographic locations (Times Square, beaches), wildlife (Pandas, Sharks, Tigers), bars and nightlife spots.

Wi-Fi TV has also added more 24/7 live TV channels devoted to particular topics including various Religions, News, live governmental webcasts, Education, Cities (including Chicago, Las Vegas and others), Comedy, Music (including Rock, Classical, and others), and Spanish language stations.

About Wi-Fi TV, Inc.

Wi-Fi TV can be seen over the Internet in the United States, Latin America and globally. More than 200 channels of live TV programming, Country and Category specific breaking news and free voice over IP phone calls are available at www.Wi-FiTV.com. Wi-Fi TV viewers from 130 countries around the world are tracked on the home page (www.Wi-FiTV.com) by the independent NeoTracker.

Wi-Fi TV offers a free five minute trial with no sign-up required, a free 14 day trial and a choice of monthly recurring subscriptions for $2.95 or a annual subscription for $24.95. Members get unlimited, no additional cost access to hundreds of channels and other features.

Wi-Fi TV, Inc. has opened a new content and technology demo room for the press in Newport Beach, California. For further information, contact Colby Marceau, 949-716-9397, info@wi-fitv.com.

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The Jewelry Factory in Norristown recently changed their name to the "Jewelry Exchange," and management couldn't be more pleased. "We thought there might be some confusion in the marketplace, and we were expecting a decline in sales for a few months," a company spokesman stated. "However, to our surprise and delight, sales have increased steadily since the name change took effect."

The Jewelry Exchange is the nation's leading chain of independent jewelry stores, and operates in about 70% of the country under that name. In some markets, the company operates under the name the "Jewelry Factory" or the "Jewelry Source."

The company decided to rename the store in the Philadelphia suburb in order to solidify the brand name and create more cohesion with the national advertising campaigns. The name change took effect on June 8, 2006.

"We believe that our sales are growing because our customers enjoy our value, large selection, and casual shopping environment -- with no commissioned salesmen," the spokesman stated. "And, especially in these times -- with high gas prices taking a bite out of people's budgets -- our customers appreciate our factory-direct pricing, which saves them up to 80% on their jewelry purchases."

The Jewelry Exchange is owned by Goldenwest Diamond Corporation, and is the largest private importer of diamonds in America. The Jewelry Exchange was also recently named one of the top 25 jewelers in America. For more information, call (800) 441-0715 or go online at www.jewelryexchange.com

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NASA scientists have determined the formation of clouds is affected by the lightness or darkness of air pollution particles. This also impacts Earth's climate.

"When the overall mixture of aerosol particles in pollution absorbs more sunlight, it is more effective at preventing clouds from forming. When pollutant aerosols are lighter in color and absorb less energy, they have the opposite effect and actually help clouds to form," said Lorraine Remer of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Remer worked closely with the study's lead author, the late Yoram Kaufman of Goddard, on previous research into this perplexing "aerosol effect."

With this new understanding, scientists working to predict how the Earth's climate is changing will be able to take a big step forward. The effect of the planet's constantly changing cloud cover has long been a problem for climate scientists. How clouds change in response to greenhouse-gas warming and air pollution will have a major impact on future climate.

Using this new understanding of how aerosol pollution influences cloud cover, Kaufman and co-author Ilan Koren of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, estimate the impact world-wide could be as much as a 5 percent net increase in cloud cover. In polluted areas, these cloud changes can change the availability of fresh water and regional temperatures.

In previous research by the authors and their colleagues, both effects that aerosols have on clouds were seen with data from NASA satellites. Over the northern Atlantic Ocean, clouds that often produce heavy rain storms grew taller and were more frequent when plumes of pollution from North America or dust from Africa's Sahara Desert were present. However, when smoke from large fires billowed into the sky over South America's Amazon River basin, clouds were consistently fewer than when the air was relatively clear.

With these observations alone, the scientists could not be absolutely sure the aerosols themselves were causing the clouds to change. Other local weather factors such as shifting winds and the amount of moisture in the air could have been responsible, meaning the pollution was just along for the ride.

"Separating the real effects of the aerosols from the coincidental effect of the meteorology was a hard problem to solve," Koren said. In addition, the impact of aerosols is difficult to observe, compared to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, because aerosols only stay airborne for about one week, while greenhouse gases can linger for decades.

To tackle this problem, Kaufman and Koren assembled a massive database of global observations that strongly suggests it is the darkness (absorbs sunlight) or brightness (reflects sunlight) of aerosol pollution and not weather factors that cause pollution to act as a cloud killer or a cloud maker. These measurements were culled from the NASA-sponsored Aerosol Robotic Network of ground-based instruments at nearly 200 sites worldwide.

The scientists conducted an extensive survey of sky conditions at 17 locations (including Washington, Rome, Beijing, and Mexico City) that represented different types of air pollution and weather patterns. Automated instruments that act like a camera's light meter to record how much sunlight was coming from the sky took readings several times an hour at different times of the year.

No matter where in the world the measurements were taken or in what season, Kaufman and Koren saw the same pattern. There were lots of clouds when light-reflecting pollution filled the air, but many fewer clouds were recorded in the presence of light-absorbing aerosols.  "The probability that such a consistent relationship between aerosols and their effects on clouds is due to some other factor is very unlikely," Koren said.

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