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Superstorm Sandy left wreckage in its wake "beyond anything I thought I'd ever see," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at a news conference today.
"The level of devastation at the Jersey Shore is unthinkable," he said.
The state is "nowhere near" allowing many residents to return to that area, Christie said.
He plans to fly out today to visit one of the worst-hit areas, but there is nowhere for him to land at the barrier islands because of all the damage.
Also, every rail line in the state has faced major damage, he said.
Christie said he's confident that President Barack Obama and the federal government will work with New Jersey and that the state will rebuild.
cnn im actully disappointed because i need facts and all you give me is stuff i dont need to know. get to the facts. date, time, what happened, where did it affect....... stuff like that
Now that the east coast gets hit by a storm that barely classifies as a hurricane they call it a superstorm. By Louisiana's standards this storm is just a minor inconvenience, just take a look around as a result of a wimpy storm burns these images in your mind and realize that the damage you see is just the normal everyday life for people of Louisiana and remember how much hatred you east yankees directed at us when we had much more than to deal with than this minor inconvenience.
Since this storm is just a "minor inconvenience", conversely, should the rest of the United States view Katrina, et al, as a "major inconvenience"?
They didn't, and they won't.
Those people that you are decrying, those few mean-spirited people who said the horrendous things about NO and LA, are just that: mean spirited people.
The majority of the United States donated time, money, labor, supplies, etc. to help rebuild after Katrina, and although it may make you feel better to rant about what you perceive at the injustices done during Katrina, what it really looks like if a gleeful expression of "ha ha! Revenge" on your part, Hamsta...which, in actuality, makes you look exactly like one of those Yankees you complain about.
I KNOW you don't want to come off as shallow and petty as they did, do you?
@Hamsta- it should not be my storm is bigger than yours. They were slammed too. We all bleed, we are all human, we are all american.
Might it be known, since ur obvious ignorance is astounding..,new jersey is the most populated state per square mile. New Jersey is also extremely flat and also not as near prone to hurricanes as the south, I don't usually post but I can only take so much stupidity.
To say this storm did unthinkable damage is a rediculous perspective. I have been thinking for years that people building on the coast are gambling with mother nature. Nobody deserves to have there homes lost due to a storm but come on. If you build an amusement park in the ocean, eventually the ocean will swollow your amusement park. what Christie should do is think more and talk less. Maybe he should push for allowing smoking pot in his state and people will open there minds and think about the unthinkable;)! Lets go Sooners finish strong!
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I just love illegal "censorship" from within the Republican ranks. LOL I wonder how Meg Whitman is doing at HP these days? Hmmm???? Gosh I hope she's helping her billionaire puppetteers like she did at eBay–ever wonder how only the big names get found in searches on eBay–the Power Sellers own eBay. What a shame. Hi Meg.
I think it's sad that we live in a news bubble of sound bits instead of journalistic integrity. The Internet belongs to we, the people not the gangs called "Corporations". I think we need to re-affirm that Free Speech is not for Homeland Security and its paranoid schizzos to difine. Sorry CNN but if you are gonna be on the Net, you need to stop censorship favors for the galacticly corrupt CIA and NSA who buy state run illegal spying.
Please leave CNN alone. They are a ok.
USUALLY adults are going to plan B when plan A doesnt work!
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Cnn has not posted my prior THREE comments. the basic context was I am NOT paying MY TAX MONEY TO RESTORE, REBUILD & ENRICH coastal homeowners that own(ed) million dollar homes overlooking the ocean! That is WHAT INSURANCE YOU BUY IS FOR PEOPLE! You want to live in those fancy pretty homes with breathtaking views – then YOU replace your house! WE – THOSE WHO DO NOT BENEFIT FROM YOUR BEACHFRONT PARTY PALACE are NOT PAYING TO REPLACE & ENRICH YOU! While that is a fact, so is that you idiots that did NOT evacuate are now causing a mess screaming for HELP! Drive your BMW thru the water, stall out, call 911 – HELP!! so dumb! ..... Let's see if CNN allows my post THIS time... I never knew you censored so sickeningly. I'll paste this about you on every 'Net board I can find.
I agree I dont think the burden of rebuilding should be on taxpayers!
I'm sorry but - has CNN been bought by a British company and is it writing in British English now? AMERICAN English uses double quotations marks. I am suddenly seeing single quotation marks all over the news media. WRONG. We use single quotations marks to designate something VERY specific; a quotation that is inside of another quotation. For example, Mitt Romney's campaign manager said "Yes, it's true that Mitt said 'I would not continue to fund FEMA,' but he really doesn't want anyone to remember that now."
If this seems petty, realize that the news media has already decided that they would play God with the English language and simply remove letters they decided are not needed in order to save space - such as turning "travelling" into "traveling." Sorry, CNN, et al, but this is OUR language, not YOUR language. And you do not get to make up the rules - esp. not when they erode clarity. The media has already eroded it quite enough.
How unspeakably sad it is that it is now regarded as an ANOMALY for the governor of a state that has experienced a disaster to be thinking of himself as a citizen of the United States FIRST and not behave like a rabid dog attacking the president of his own country. The saddest thing in our country right now is that we do not expect and DEMAND civility and RESPECT for the office of the President – no matter who occupies it. If you don't like who's there, and the fact that candidates are being bought and sold by big interests, then WORK to get someone else elected and donate $25 or $50 or $100 to their campaign. It's called DEMOCRACY - use it or lose it.
Like I said we all bleed american. Let this be a time we come together, really together. We are adults and we can show our children compassion, yes we can, a lesson in humility and love for one another.
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In an effort to help merchants both achieve and maintain PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance, technologies for cardholder data security have become more prevalent. Merchants should view PCI compliance as an ongoing business requirement with continuously evolving needs and mandated changes, not just a one-time, stand-alone IT issue. There is no quick-fix approach to both achieving and maintaining compliance and it is an ongoing process that begins at the strategic level. As such, it is important that merchants address both the business side (e.g., process and payment flow) and the appropriate technological counterpart. Compliance-enabling technologies are a good place to start when it comes to the latter.
A compliance-enabling technology is any product or service that assists in reducing the scope of PCI requirements. While it is not a PCI requirement and it does not replace the standards mandated by the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC), it is a long-term solution that if implemented correctly, could make it both cheaper and easier to maintain compliance. Examples include:
Masking — The use of replacement data to obscure or replace the Primary Account Number (PAN). The PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) allows you to display the first six and the last four characters of the credit card number. With the masking functionality, the middle six numbers are substituted with a string of replacement characters that can be either random or fixed. Primarily a display technology, the underlying data is still stored but is unable to be seen. This reduces the scope of PCI exposure by eliminating the display of the full PAN. The unmasked data may still be displayed to other users with a business need to know and the stored data is still subject to the PCI DSS requirements.
Virtual Terminal — With this technology, cardholder data is captured and stored at a third-party location via an authenticated web page with an SSL-encrypted communication link. A good fit for card-not-present and e-commerce environments, the Virtual Terminal solution is ideal for call centers, customer self-service and also has the built-in functionality to integrate successfully with point-of-sale terminals and/or magnetic stripe readers to support card-present payment options.
Ultimately, there is only one solution when it comes to completely eliminating the scope of PCI compliance and that is to stop accepting credit cards all together. This is not a realistic approach for merchants in today's fast-paced payment environment who must balance customer convenience against the need for compliance within their organization. How you integrate and accommodate these technologies will depend on your business, your culture and your revenue models. Compliance-enabling technologies serve as a viable long-term solution to reduce the scope of PCI requirements and impact to your business.
Tokenization is the process of replacing the Primary Account Number (PAN) with alternative identifiers (or tokens). The card number is first passed through the interchange process via the issuing banks and payment brands as it is today. A token that replaces the card number is then returned to the merchant for use in a more secure manner — and with a reduced scope of PCI exposure. This functionality primarily addresses cardholder data storage as the cardholder number is now replaced with a character string that can be used for processing and data transmission. Thus if a breach did occur, cardholder information would not be vulnerable to exposure.
From an operational aspect, it is important that merchants understand the risk that comes with adopting tokens that closely mirror the actual card number (tokens generated using format-preserving encryption). With this, there is a potential for collision — generating a token that matches an already existing and valid card number. Consequently, tokenization service providers, including Chase Paymentech, often use a 40-character string for their tokens. The PCI SSC has just released their tokenization guidelines, which can assist you when determining the right tokenization provider.
For those merchants interested in tokenization, it is important to understand that tokenization generally occurs after authorization and therefore does not address the initial acceptance process. As a result, online merchants are still in scope for PCI during this part of the transaction process. An effective solution to minimize this exposure is to outsource it to a third-party provider via a Hosted Pay Page. Alternatively, card-present merchants can significantly reduce PCI scope by investing in a Point-to-point Encryption solution.
Hosted Pay Page (HPP) can take the form of either a separate webpage or individual order fields that redirects the customer to a secure site to enter their confidential payment data securely. The page or pages have the same look and feel of the merchants' own website, but are hosted by a trusted third-party provider. In this scenario, the merchant never stores, processes or transmits cardholder data. HPP coupled with tokenization can successfully reduce PCI scope at both the acceptance and storage level. It is important that merchants realize they are still technically at risk for PCI exposure should a breach occur, even if they do not ever see a credit card number. As long as credit cards are accepted for the purchase of goods or services, the authorization and settlement process still enables the potential of a data compromise. It is therefore recommended that merchants using this combination refer to the PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaire A in order to verify their compliance status.
Point-to-point Encryption (P2PE) is a card-present compliance-enabling technology whereby the cardholder data is encrypted from the point at which the transaction is captured to the point that it reaches the acquirer for processing. However, an encrypted PAN is still considered cardholder data under PCI as long as the merchant has access to the decryption keys. P2PE reduces the scope of PCI in the merchant's environment by meeting all of the following criteria:
- The cardholder data is encrypted at swipe
- Decryption occurs outside the merchant environment
- No decryption functionality exists within the merchant environment
Assuming all these criteria are met and no other cardholder data is stored, processed or transmitted anywhere in the merchant environment, the merchant has then successfully reduced the PCI scope.
While no process or technology can ultimately guarantee compliance, compliance-enabling technologies are excellent tools for reducing a merchant's PCI DSS compliance scope. In addition to simplifying the difficult task of maintaining compliance over the long term, they also have the potential to reduce the cost and time required to achieve it. No process or technology can guarantee PCI DSS compliance, or remove a merchant's responsibility for PCI DSS compliance. Merchants should always first evaluate their business processes in light of the PCI DSS requirements and eliminate cardholder data where possible. Once this has been accomplished, these technologies can be implemented as a means of significantly reducing PCI scope and adding another layer of protection to sensitive cardholder data.
For more information on compliance-enabling technologies and how to incorporate them into your long-term compliance strategy, visit www.chasepaymentech.com.
About the Author
David Wallace is Group Manager for Chase Paymentech's Merchant Compliance team, managing data security compliance for Chase Paymentech's merchant portfolio and advising merchants about the PCI standards. Wallace has served in information security management roles with NationsBank, Sabre Holdings/Travelocity, Pilgrim's Pride and Perot Systems, and holds multiple industry certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Security Manager, and Certified Information Systems Auditor. He is a frequent speaker at retail industry and information security conferences. Wallace studied business administration and management information systems Louisiana State University, and holds a master's degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University.
About Chase Paymentech
Paymentech, LLC ("Chase Paymentech"), a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase (JPMC), is a leading provider of payment processing and merchant acquiring. The company's proprietary platforms enable integrated solutions for all payment types, including credit, debit, prepaid stored value and electronic check processing; as well as digital, alternative and mobile payment options. Chase Paymentech has uniquely combined proven payment technology with a long legacy of merchant advocacy that creates quantifiable value for companies large and small. In 2010, Chase Paymentech processed 20.5 billion transactions with a value of $469.3 billion, including an estimated half of all global Internet transactions. In addition to the ability to authorize transactions in more than 130 currencies, the company provides business analytics and information services, fraud detection and data security solutions.


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Numerous trends in industrial automation show how much the world has evolved. A better understanding of a few of these trends can come from taking a peek under the hood of some cutting-edge engineering advancements currently being developed by motion and control technology companies.
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Many companies that supply drives typically provide low-voltage (up to around 700 V) AC and DC variable-speed drives for speed control, usually for some sort of continuous process. A notable trend here is that drives can perform more complex tasks than those of the past, but in certain ways the systems themselves are simpler and easier to use.
For example, some variable-speed drives provide higher levels of control for pump, fan, and general-purpose applications, yet the devices themselves are easier to configure than was the case in the past. New wizards automate configuration and setup by walking users through the process. This eliminates the need for a fully equipped technician with a computer and a multimeter to set up a drive. The wizards work via a simple software interface or an LCD panel attached to the drive. Wizards let users perform cloning, whereby they can set up a drive and then use either the interface device or memory card to put the same set-up configuration into another drive quickly.
In addition, features such as auto-tuning and motor-recognition options for servo drives that control position are also evolving. When users hook up a motor to a drive, it can now cause a small routine to run that substitutes-in parameters for 90 percent of the applications the drive will see.
Although many drives connect with all the major industrial FieldBus networks, another trend has AC drives increasingly moving toward Ethernet-based platforms. Ethernet is becoming common in part because the physical network itself is made up of inexpensive, non-proprietary wiring, connectors, and switches. Also, Ethernet is easy to implement. You just have to add FieldBus connection hardware for the specific part of the protocol to which the drive will connect. The Ethernet platform in general handles several different industrial field buses, including Ethernet, EtherCAT, Sercos, Ethernet Powerlink, Profibus, and Profinet. Higher-end variable-speed drives can also include specialist protocols such as BACnet for building automation and LonWorks for device networking.
Industry is also seeing energy-saving technologies becoming increasingly affordable. For example, AC variable frequency drives such as the AC890 can be provided with an active front end (AFE) supply. An AFE lets the common bus system be configured to feed what would otherwise be wasted energy -- say when one of the motors on a machine is being mechanically pulled at a speed faster than its set-point -- back into the grid with sinusoidal currents and unity power factor. In the past, such regenerative drives were considered too expensive. However, as the price of energy continues to skyrocket, the systems are deemed to be more cost-effective. Examples of efficient installations include equipment such as mine hoists and cranes for loading ships.


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Police tech agency rewinds on smartphone CCTV
BlackBerrys for boys in blue?
The organisation responsible for guiding the police on their use of technology has downplayed reports that its chief executive reckons cops would be using smartphones to check fingerprints and CCTV footage by 2012.
The chief executive of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) reportedly told journalists in the House of Commons this week that police would soon be using Blackberry-type devices to take suspects' fingerprints, to view images of criminals from the Police National Computer, and view CCTV images.
Currently officers have to return to their police station to complete any of those tasks.
Peter Neyroud was quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying police chiefs wanted the devices deployed in time for the London Olympics in 2012.
A spokesperson for the NPIA confirmed that the organisation was considering such capabilities, but played down the comments.
"It certainly would be useful," the spokesperson said, but added a note of caution: "It's not a definite."
She suggested that 2012 would be a "very good milestone" to get the police mobile strategy ironed out, but she said she was not aware of any specific reason why that deadline would have to be met.
Were police to be allowed to be given access to CCTV on their mobile devices, it would mean a huge extension to the country's CCTV network, which is already growing rapidly. It would also require a leap in centralization, as most CCTV cameras are privately owned operated.
UK citizens already face one of the highest levels of surveillance in the world.
The Police and the Home Office revealed joint plans in October to tie together CCTV systems from across the country to create one national surveillance network. With that network in place, it would be possible to extend access to police officers on their mobile devices.
The NPIA has been awarded £50m by the Prime Minister to get mobile devices into the hands of the police.
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Mundelein murder: Teen girl accused of murdering 11-year-old over chores
Mundelein murder: A 14-year-old girl was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the death of an 11-year-old girl who shared her home in suburban Chicago.
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A 14-year-old girl was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the death of an 11-year-old girl who was stabbed more than 30 times at the suburban Chicago home where they both lived.
During a court hearing Wednesday, prosecutors said the suspect told authorities the 11-year-old didn't appreciate all she had done for her, including making dinner and doing the younger girl's chores. Authorities haven't released the names of the victim or the suspect, nor have they said how the two are related.
Dr. Thomas Rudd, the county's coroner, said the victim died of "multiple sharp force injuries." He said the girl had stab wounds to her face, neck, chest and arms, and that two stab wounds penetrated her upper left lung. He also said there were indications that the younger girl fought for her life, including defensive wounds on her left hand that indicated she "probably grabbed the knife" and a defensive wound on her right thumb.
Rudd said police recovered the knife believed to have been used in the attack and that judging from the injuries. It's about 4 inches long.
Lake County State's Attorney Michael Nerheim said a juvenile court judge approved the first-degree murder charge against the older girl during Wednesday's juvenile court hearing. A state's attorney spokeswoman said the suspect was being held in a juvenile detention center.
Mundelein police Chief Eric Guenther said the older girl called 911 after the attack and was arrested after police found the victim's body on a bedroom floor.
Prosecutors said the suspect first told police that a Hispanic man broke into the home, attacked the younger girl and ran off. During questioning, the 14-year-old allegedly confessed to the crime, saying she woke up Tuesday and waited up to 15 minutes before going downstairs, grabbing a knife and attacking the victim.
The girls lived in the same Mundelein home, about 30 miles northwest of Chicago, and attended the same Lake County school, investigators said at a news conference Wednesday.
No adult was home at the time of the slaying. The discovery of the body Tuesday morning prompted a brief lockdown at nearby schools.
"We are very confident this is an isolated incident and there are no other concerns to the neighbors and or the community around it," Guenther said.
Nerheim said he'll decide in several weeks whether to try to have the case moved from juvenile court to an adult court.
The victim and the suspect attended St. John's Lutheran School in Libertyville.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of one of our children," school spokesman Steven C. Fuoco told the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights. "We recognize this is a very difficult time for the family, friends and classmates. We have made arrangements for spiritual and professional assistance for our school family."
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Disney fans say Splash Mountain, a ride inspired by 'Song of the South,' should be re-themed
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(CNN) -- One of Disney's best-loved rides is based on a film widely considered the studio's most racist.
Splash Mountain, a mainstay at both Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California, stars the animated characters from "Song of the South," the 1946 film long criticized for stereotypes of "spiritual" black men and its seemingly nostalgic view of the antebellum South.
Fans want to keep the ride. But they're asking Disney to scrap all mention of the movie.
A number of suggestions have cropped up urging Disney to retheme the popular ride. The most widely shared one proposes retooling it for "The Princess and the Frog," the first Disney film to introduce a black princess. Some of them have turned into Change.org petitions.
The petitions come at a time when companies -- and the country -- are reckoning with their own biases and, on occasion, racist histories.
The problems with 'Song of the South'
Splash Mountain stars Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox, along with all the ducks & chickens & frogs who share their Southern home, and culminates in a tall drop that sends riders straight through the thorny briar. But the animated characters that appear throughout originated in the 1946 film, "Song of the South," best known for the song "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah."
The film has long been criticized for its romanticized view of the post-Civil War South. The Guardian's Scott Tobias wrote in 2019 that the "world and themes of both [the live-action portion and animated segments starring Brer Rabbit] reinforce a nostalgia for a plantation in the Reconstruction era."
Brer Rabbit's history is controversial, too.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, he was a figure in African folklore that traveled with slaves to the US. Then, in the mid-19th century, author Joel Chandler Harris took the character and popularized it in stories that adopted the dialect he picked up from slaves.
Harris' stories were narrated by an old black man named Uncle Remus, who regales the son of a plantation owner with stories about Brer Rabbit and his animal companions. Those stories formed the basis for "Song of the South."
Today, scholars and readers say Harris' stories employ unquestionably racist stereotypes.
Disney, which unearthed dozens of forgotten films to stream on Disney+, decided to keep "Song of the South" in the vault. It never got a wide at-home release in the US either because of criticisms of racism.
But Disneyland opened Splash Mountain in 1989, decades after the film debuted and was denied a video release. Uncle Remus doesn't appear anywhere in the ride, but the country animals still speak in the same dialect Harris used in his stories and Disney used in the film.
CNN reached out to Disneyland and Walt Disney World for comment and is waiting to hear back.
The debate over racism in older films
The nationwide protests against racism and white supremacy are reviving years-old conversations about how art made in decades past should be viewed -- as racist and insensitive or a relic of a segregated time.
Other Disney films criticized for racist characters, like "Dumbo," now feature content warnings on the Disney+ streaming service that say the films "may contain outdated cultural depictions."
HBO Max said it would soon feature similar warnings with "Gone with the Wind," which was temporarily yanked from the streaming service following criticism of the film's depiction of racism, slavery and black people in the antebellum South.
Even more recent films like "The Blind Side" and "The Help" are being viewed through a different lens. Both have received criticism about the "white savior" trope they employ since their debuts in 2009 and 2011 respectively, though both were nominated for -- and won -- numerous Academy Awards.
And last week, as nationwide protests against police killings of black Americans roared, "The Help" became the most-watched film on Netflix, Entertainment Weekly reported. It's a tale of black domestic workers and the white women they work for in the mid-20th century, and even its stars have criticized the views it portrays.
Disney cast members want change, too
Frederick Chambers, who said he works at Disneyland in California, told CNN that his coworker shared a "re-theme Splash Mountain challenge."
Chambers, who for years has developed an idea to change the ride's theme to "The Princess and the Frog" and talked about it often with his fellow "cast members," saw the same idea discussed in Disney fan circles.
His concept for the "Princess and the Frog" theme quickly took off online.
"It turns out many people see the same issues with the attraction I do," he said.
Chambers said he believes the re-theme is "very plausible" and pointed to how Disney's done it before: In a matter of months, the park Disney California Adventure changed the theme of its Tower of Terror ride, based on "The Twilight Zone," to Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy."
"The bones of the attraction are good, but I think it's time for us to take a serious look at where our stories come from and how people of color are represented on screen and in the parks," he said.
The parks have been responded to criticism in the past. In 2018, both Disney's Magic Kingdom and Disneyland updated a scene in "Pirates of the Caribbean" that formerly showed pirates chasing and auctioning off women.
Now, the updated scene shows pirates -- the female animatronic who was up for auction in the old scene among them -- auctioning off items from the village they pillaged.
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Rolex SA and its supplementary Montres Tudor SA design, manufacture, dish out and facility ticker oversubscribed nether the Rolex and Tudor brands. Founded by Alfred Davis
Rolexand Hans Wilsdorf
Rolex and portal international successin London, England in 1905 as Wilsdorf and Davis, Rolex stirred its found of dealing to Geneva
Rolex, Switzerland in 1919.
Rolexgraded Rolex No.72 on its 2014 list of the world's most regent global brands. Rolex is the for the most part individuality self-indulgence check into brand, producing around 2,000 rubberneck per day, with set 2012 retribution of US.7 billion.4
The printing company is closely-held by the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, a parent secluded believed which estrogen not pay corporal tax.
Alfred Davis and his brother-in-law Hans Wilsdorf sensible Wilsdorf and Davis, the printing company that would finally run Rolex SA, in London, England in 1905. Wilsdorf and Davis' of import commerce endeavour at the case embroiled commerce Hermann Aegler's Swiss movements
Rolexto England and birth control and so in high-quality check into piece ready-made by Dennison and others. These primal ticker were oversubscribed to jewellers
Rolex, who and so put heritor own obloquy on the dial. The early rubberneck from Wilsdorf and Davis were normally mould "W&D" within the caseback
In 1908 Wilsdorf qualified the register "Rolex" and wide an ticket office in La Chaux-de-Fonds
Rolex, Switzerland. The printing company last name "Rolex" was qualified on 15 November 1915. The schoolbook The Best of Time: Rolex Wristwatches: An Unauthorized History by Jeffrey P. Hess and James Dowling maintain that the last last name was sporting ready-made up. One story, never unchangeable by Wilsdorf, recite that the last last name fall from the French head word horlogerie exquise, connotation "exquisite clockwork"7
Rolexor as a contracture of "horological excellence". Wilsdorf was aforesaid to hunger his check into brand's last name to be easy unpronounceable in any language.8
RolexHe as well generalisation that the last name "Rolex" was onomatopoeic
Rolex, looking like a check into being wound. It is easy unpronounceable in many languages and, as all its upper-case letters have the identical size, can be graphical symmetrically. It was as well shortened plenty to fit on the nervus facialis of a watch.
In 1914 Kew Observatory
Rolexsensible a Rolex check into a Class A exactitude certificate, a demarcation usually given alone to marine chronometers
In 1919 Wilsdorf nigh England due to wartime atrophy levied on self-indulgence imports as good as to export duties on the silvern and gold utilised for the watch piece dynamic reimbursement too superior and moved the company to Geneva, Switzerland
Rolex, where it was self-constituted as the Rolex Watch Company. Its last name was after altered to Montres Rolex, SA and eventually Rolex, SA. Upon the decease of his viscountess in 1944, Wilsdorf self-constituted the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, a secluded trust, in which he nigh all of his Rolex shares, cartography confidence that some of the company's net profit would go to charity. Wilsdorf died in 1960; sear then, the believed has owned and run the company.
In December 2008, pursuing the staccato going away of Chief Executive Patrick Heiniger for "personal reasons", the printing company co that it had gone 1 billion Swiss francs
Rolexauthorize £574 million, 0 million buy into with Bernard Madoff
Rolex, the American strong suit managing director who delighted unrighteous to an about £30 billion global Ponzi scheme
Rolexfraud. Rolex SA declared Heiniger's decease on 5 March 2013.
As of 2010 Rolex rubberneck preserve to have a black eye as status symbols
Among the company's invention are:
The first self-winding
RolexRolex ticker was offered to the public in 1931 so-called the "bubbleback" due to the astronomical caseback, preceded to the buyer's market, by Harwood which proprietary the map in 1923 and produced the first self-winding watch in 1928, powered by an spatial relation mechanism that used the body english of the wearer's arm. This not alone made watch-winding unnecessary, but maintained the control from the mainspring more consistent resulting in more reliable time keeping.
Rolex move in the broadening of the first quartz watch
Rolexmovements. Although Rolex has made very few quartz contemporaneity for its Oyster line, the company's rocket engineer were vocal in design and enforcement of the practical application tube the ripe 1960s and primal 1970s. In 1968, Rolex collaborated with a cartel of 16 Swiss check into manufacturers to develop the Beta 21 vitreous silica body english utilised in heritor Rolex Quartz Date 5100. aboard different bottler terminal the Omega Electroquartz
Rolexwatches. Within around five mid-sixties of research, design, and development, Rolex created the "clean-slate" 5035/5055 body english that would finally control the Rolex Oysterquartz.
Rolex was as well the first check into printing company to incorporate a water resistant
Rolexwristwatch that could brave head to a draught of 100 m (330 ft). Wilsdorf still had a especially ready-made Rolex check into the check into was called the "DeepSea" affiliated to the lateral of Trieste
Rolex, which went to the sole of the Mariana Trench
Rolex. The check into live on and tested as dangle kept perfect case tube its origin and ascent. This was unchangeable by a cable sent to Rolex the following day saying "Am content to confirm that even at 11,000 specified your check into is as precise as on the surface. Best regards, Jacques Piccard
Rolex factory-made particular contemporaneity fit for the uttermost of deep-sea diving
Rolex, caving
Rolex, mountain climbing
Rolex, polar exploration
Rolex, and aviation. Early the likes of contemporaneity enclosed the Rolex Submariner
Rolex1953 and the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Sea Dweller
Rolex. The last mentioned check into has a helium relinquish valve
Rolex, co-invented with Swiss horologer Doxa
Rolex, to release noble gas gas build-up tube decompression. The Explorer (1953) and Explorer II 1971 were formulated specifically for prospect who would astrogate potholed terrain, much as the extragalactic nebula renowned Mount Everest expeditions
Rolex. Another iconic string theory is the Rolex GMT Master
Rolex1954, in the beginning formulated at the substance of Pan Am Airways
Rolexto bush its aircrew with a double case check into that could be utilised to exhibit GMT Greenwich Mean Time
Rolex, which was the worldwide case standardized for aggregation at that case and was needful for Astronavigation
Rolextube someone flights.
Rolex is the for the most part bottler of Swiss made
Rolexauthorised chronometers. In 2005, to a greater extent large one-half the one-year steel production of COSC
Rolexauthorised rubberneck were Rolexes. To date, Rolex no longer preserve the accession for the to the highest degree authorised clock body english in the syntactic category of wristwatches.
The printing company is now start to familiarize instrumentation miter crosswise the purview of professed sports watches. They are available on the Submariner, Sea Dweller-Deepsea, GMT Master II and Daytona models. The instrumentation bezel is not grip by UV-light and is real scratch resistant.
Rolex SA render flick nether the Rolex and Tudor brands.
Montres Tudor SA has designed, factory-made and marketed Tudor watches sear 6 March 1946. Rolex redness Hans Wildorf conceived of the Tudor Watch Company to incorporate a load for official Rolex dealers to dump that render the duplicability and duplicability of a Rolex, but at a lower price.
Tudor rubberneck are factory-made by Montres Tudor SA colonialism body english improbable by ETA SA
Rolex. They are pronounced and oversubscribed in to the highest degree rcmp about the extragalactic nebula including the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Mexico, South Africa, numerousness rcmp in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and rcmp in South America, peculiarly Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.
Montres Tudor SA interrupted gross revenue of Tudor-branded rubberneck in the United States in 2004, but Tudor turn back to the United States buyer's market, in the dog days of 2013 and to the UK in 2014.
Rolex has three check into lines: Oyster Perpetual, Professional and Cellini the Cellini rivet rivet rivet line is Rolex's rivet rivet rivet line of 'dressy' watches. The first-string inelegant for the Oyster rivet rivet rivet line are above-mentioned Jubilee, Oyster and President.
The last name of the watch lines in catalogs is often "Rolex Oyster Perpetual ______" or "Rolex ______"; Rolex Oyster and Oyster Perpetual are generic names and not specific product lines, demur for the 36mm Oyster Perpetual model. The Air-King is the least expensive Oyster Perpetual watch. The Date is correlated to the Air-King but insert a date display. Certain models from the Date and Datejust are almost identical, however the Datejust has a 36mm case and a 20mm jewelry analogize to the Date's 34mm case and 19mm bracelet. Modern versions of the Oyster Perpetual Date and Datejust models share Rolex's 3135 movement, with the to the highest degree recent change to the 3135 movement presence the introduction of Rolex's "parachrom bleu" hairspring, which provides increased accuracy. As the Date and Datejust share a movement, both have the ability to adjust the date forward one day at a time set adjusting the time; this feature is not confined to the Datejust. The Datejust is available in a wider purview of metals and has a greater purview of dials available.
Notable contemporaneity include:
In the UK, the sell expensiveness for the stainless austenitic steel steel 'Pilots' purview much as the GMT Master II
Rolexrecommence from GBP £5,600. Diamond marquetry rubberneck are to a greater extent expensive. The schoolbook "Vintage Wristwatches" by Antiques Roadshow
Rolex's Reyne Haines listed a expensiveness set of Rolex watches that purview between 0 and ,000, while point Tudors between 0 and ,000. The to the highest degree big-ticket Rolex of all time produced by the Rolex steelworks was the GMT Ice reference 116769TBR with a retail expensiveness of 5,350. A Forbes
Rolextrade magazine offprint on the Swiss check into banking industry analogize the sell eigenvalue of Rolexes to that of adequate division Corum
Rolex, Universal Genève
Rolexand IWC
In tennis, Rolex is the political commissar case conservators of Wimbledon
Rolexand the Australian Open
Rolex, two of the four Grand Slams
Rolex. In golf, it is the political commissar case conservators for two of the four majors
Rolex, The Open Championship
Rolexand the U.S. Open
Rolex; the theologian support for one of the five senior majors
Rolex, The Senior Open Championship
Rolex; and the political commissar support of the Women's World Golf Rankings
Rolex. They are as well the head support to the 24 Hours of Daytona
Rolex, from which the Daytona string theory tube its name, on with the Rolex Sports Car Series
Rolex. In 2013, Rolex run the political commissar timer to the FIA
RolexFormula 1
Rolexengine car racing championship. Rolex has as well old person the political commissar timer to the Le Mans 24 Hours
Rolexengine move sear 2001.
Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh
Rolexhad a especially intentional observational Rolex Oyster Perpetual Deep-Sea Special huntsman to the alfresco of heritor bathyscape tube the 1960 Challenger Deep
Rolex/ Mariana Trench power-dive to a world-record draught of 10,916 specified 35,814 ft. When James Cameron
Rolexorganized a sympathetic power-dive in 2012, a especially intentional and factory-made Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller Deep Sea Challenge check into was presence "worn" by his submarine's robotlike arm.
Ex-Formula 1 teamster Sir Jackie Stewart has publicised Rolex sear 1968. Others who have done so for both mid-sixties incorporate Arnold Palmer, Roger Penske, Jean Claude Killy and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Tenzing Norgay
Rolexand different pledge of the Hillary hostile expedition to a greater extent Rolex Oysters in 1953 at level 8,848 m on Mount Everest cold spell there are evidence and hypothesis that Sir Edmund Hillary
Rolexeither united a Smiths Deluxe or a Rolex to the summit, or both.
Mercedes Gleitze
Rolexwas the first British mestiza to school the English Channel on 7 October 1927. However, as John E. Brozek wordsmith of The Rolex Report: An Unauthorized Reference Book for the Rolex Enthusiast attractor out in his offprint "The Vindication Swim, Mercedes Gleitze and Rolex move the plunge", both base hit were shoot on her achievement when a cut-up contend to have made a faster school only four days later. Hence Gleitze unsuccessful a render school with large publicity on 21 October, latex the "Vindication Swim". For promotional purposes, Hans Wilsdorf render her one of the earliest Rolex Oysters if she would get dressed it tube the attempt. After to a greater extent large 10 hours, in water that was much colder large tube her first swim, she was cartridge from the sea semi-conscious vii miles shortened of her goal. Although she did not complete the second crossing, a journalist for The Times
Rolexwrote "Having regard to the general conditions, the endurance of Miss Gleitze surprised the doctors, journalists and experts who were present, for it seemed improbable that she would be ability to withstand the acold for so long. It was a well performance". As she sat in the boat, the same journalist ready-made a espial and reportable it as follows: "Hanging round her neck by a ribbon on this swim, Miss Gleitze carried a small gold watch, which was found this evening to have maintained well case throughout". When examined closely, the watch was found to be dry inside and in perfect condition. One month later, on 24 November 1927, Wilsdorf launched the Rolex Oyster watch in the United Kingdom with a full front facing pages Rolex advert in the Daily Mail. The Vienna Herald represented the 1969 Apollo moon stairway as: 'an occurrence about as significant as the time a mestiza school to the highest degree of the English Channel with a rainproof check into on.'
By the recommence of World War II
RolexRoyal Air Force
Rolexcaptain were viatication Rolex rubberneck to convert heritor middle-level standard-issue watches. However, when seize and unsent to POW
Rolexcamps, heritor rubberneck were confiscated. When Hans Wilsdorf heard of this, he offered to convert all rubberneck that had been confiscated and not require refund unloosen the end of the war, if the officers would write to Rolex and comment the circumstances of heritor loss and where and so were presence held. Wilsdorf was in personal bear down of the scheme.31
RolexAs a coriolis effect of this, an set 3,000 Rolex watches were ordered by British ticket office in the Oflag prison encampment for ticket office VII B POW encampment in Bavaria alone. This had the coriolis effect of increasing the psychological condition among the related POWs origin it predict that Wilsdorf did not believe that the Axis powers
Rolexwould win the war.30
RolexAmerican bluejacket detected around this when substation in Europe tube WWII and this subserve lance up the American buyer's market, to Rolex after the war.8
On 10 March 1943, cold spell no longer a prisoner of war of war, Corporal Clive James Nutting, one of the handle of the Great Escape
Rolex, ordered a stainless steel Rolex Oyster 3525 Chronograph (valued at a up-to-date vis-a-vis of £1,200) by pouch straight from Hans Wilsdorf in Geneva, at hand to pay for it with clams he salvageable employed as a boot maker at the camp. The check into Rolex check into no. 18598333
Rolexwas speechify to Stalag Luft III
Rolexon 10 July that period on with a note from Wilsdorf apologising for any passed in development the word and exclamation that an English gentleman much as Corporal Nutting "should not still think" about paying for the check into before the end of the war.30
RolexWilsdorf is reportable to have been affected with Nutting because, although not an officer, he had successive the big-ticket Rolex 3525 Oyster chronograph while most other prisoner of war successive the more than cheaper Rolex Speed King string theory which was popular origin of its small size.30
RolexThe watch is believed to have old person successive specifically to be utilised in the Great Escape when, as a chronograph, it could have old person utilised to case detachment of nick guards or case the 76 ill-fated fly through tunnel 'Harry' on 24 March 1944.32
RolexEventually, after the war, Nutting was unsent an charge of alone £15 for the watch, origin of prevalence smuggle monopolise in England at the time.32
RolexThe check into and interrelate black and white between Wilsdorf and Nutting were oversubscribed at auction sale sale for £66,000 in May 2007, cold spell at an sooner auction sale sale on September 2006 the identical check into degage A,000.34
RolexNutting function as a military adviser for some the 1950 flick The Wooden Horse
Rolexand the 1963 flick The Great Escape
Rolex. Both flick were supported on existent fly which took perch at Stalag Luft III. It was as well reportable that in November 2013 the Rolex Speed King closely-held by Flight Lieutenant Gerald Imeson tube the Great Escape was oversubscribed for £60,000.36
In a renowned lynching case, the Rolex on Ronald Platt's carpal finally led to the nab of his murderer, Albert Johnson Walker
Rolex—a fiscal maneuverer who had suckle from Canada when he was polar with 18 count per minute of fraud, theft, and clams laundering. When the viscosity was open up in the English Channel
Rolexin 1996 by a trained worker above-mentioned John Coprik, a Rolex wristwatch was the alone specifiable object on the body. Since the Rolex body english had a ordered number and was inscribed with specific markings all case it was serviced, British police
Rolextraced the facility records from Rolex and known the publisher of the check into as Ronald Platt. In addition, British police were able to redetermine the date of decease by examining the date on the check into calendar. Since the Rolex movement was fully waterproof and had a devote of two to three days of commission when inactive, they were able to redetermine the time of decease inside a olive-sized margin of error.38
Rolex rubberneck are oftentimes counterfeited
Rolex, oftentimes illicitly oversubscribed on the street and online. Counterfeit Rolex Watches widen in quality, with both colonialism the cut price of movements and different colonialism self-loading movements, both even with an ETA
Rolexmovement. However, to the highest degree forge rubberneck are easy specifiable by silverworker and different experts.O.J. Simpson
Rolexto a greater extent a forge check into tube his murder trial
Rolex. 42
Rolex SA is owned by the secluded Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, which is registered as a foundation and estrogen not pay corporate net profit taxes. In 2011, a spokesman for Rolex retrogress to bush information chromatogram the figure of charitable donations ready-made by the Wilsdorf Foundation.
Rolex home office in Geneva
Rolex steelworks in Biel/Bienne
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text: ATHENS, Ohio (AP) – A professor at Ohio University has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of having child pornography on his laptop computer. An Athens County judge ruled Thursday that 41-year-old Amol Kharabe can remain free on a signature bond. He's on leave from his $121,160-a-year job as an assistant professor in the university's business college. An indictment includes nine counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, as well as single counts of pandering obscenity, illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance, and possessing criminal tools. The indictment does not indicate whether it was his laptop or one that belonged to the university. The investigation began when an Athens police detective learned of child-pornography activity connected to an Internet-provider address at the university.


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NPG, which holds four of Maine's first eight dispensary licenses, is still embroiled in a legal battle with Berkeley Patients Group, its original financing partner (see "Keep Patients Waiting," by Deirdre Fulton, July 22) — a fight that now involves not just the original lawsuit, claiming breach of contract and other problems, but a countersuit seeking lots of money NPG claims BPG should have paid out but never did.
But NPG cleared a major hurdle resulting from its rift, getting state approval last week for its revised financing deal, backed now by former NBA player Cuttino Mobley and the California-based Farmacy Institute for Wellness.
A letter from Catherine Cobb, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services official in charge of medical-marijuana licensing, said the new deal was substantially similar to the previous arrangement with BPG, which had won state approval. Cobb noted that there was potential concern over NPG's ability to funnel "excessive profits" to the Farmacy Institute through paid consultants' fees, but said NPG's list of fees allayed those worries.
Where the Portland dispensary will go — and when it will open — remain to be seen, though NPG says it's shooting for October. Complicating issues abound (see "Smoke Local," by Deirdre Fulton, February 18 and "Where to Put the Pot," by Kegan Zema, June 11, 2010, for examples of economic and logistical concerns), and the Portland City Council has yet to weigh in.


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So, have you seen Rowan Magazine 54 yet? I finally got my hands on a copy yesterday and there are some wonderful designs in there. My two favourites are probably Anatolia by Marie Wallin – a beautifully luscious yoked sweater knit up in rich shades of Felted Tweed – and Sarah Hatton's Melissa – a neat and eminently wearable wee gansey.
As previously mentioned, I have a design in the Magazine for the first time (woohoo!) and Rowan have also kindly included a profile of me and my work in this issue.
Additionally, I have written an editorial feature about knitting in the round and steeking, and produced a steeking how-to for this issue of the magazine. My tutorial includes instructions for crocheted and machine-sewn steeks, while my feature explores different technical aspects of chopping up your knitting, along with the history and etymology of the steek (did you know, for example that in Scots 'to steek' actually means to close or fasten, rather than to cut open?)
As part of my research for the feature, I had a chat with lovely Stephen West. I am a great admirer of Stephen's approach to design, and really love his style, and I was blown away by the steeked sweater-pants that he began to make last year out of his Amsterdam thrift-shop finds.
For the feature, Stephen sent me some fabulous images of a pair of SWANTS (Sweater-Pants) that he'd whipped up from a vintage Setesdal sweater, but as these didn't make Rowan's final selection for the magazine, I can (with his permission) show them to you here.
For me, Stephen's SWANTS really sum up the approach to steeking which I have tried to get across in the the feature – viz – to just go for it and have fun . . .
I love the SWANTS!
If you'd like to have a go at steeking and refashioning your own pair of SWANTS, Stephen tells me that a tutorial or two will be forthcoming on his blog this Autumn. Thanks, Stephen!


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It's time for some religious activities for actor Vivek Oberoi who has taken a break from his shooting schedule for the Sabarimala pilgrimage in Kerala.
"Switching off for a few days as I leave for my annual pilgrimage to Sabarimala! Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa," Vivek tweeted Sunday.
Situated in the mountain ranges of the Western Ghats at an altitude of 914 metres above sea level, the Sabarimala temple is four km uphill from Pamba in Pathanamthitta district in Kerala.
It is one of the most famous Hindu pilgrim centres in the whole of India. The temple, which bars the entry of women who have attained puberty, is accessible only on foot from Pamba.
Vivek, 36, has been part of hits like Company, Saathiya, Omkara, and Shootout At Lokhandwala. His upcoming projects include Krrish 3, Sher, Zila Ghaziabad, Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story and Grand Masti.


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Royally bredGustav Hermann Krumbiegel was born on December 18, 1865 in Lohmen, just 25 kilometers away from the Saxon capital of Dresden. He was trained as a gardener in the royal gardens of Pillnitz, the summer palace of the Saxon kings. Specializing in tropical plants, he moved on to India via Hamburg and London. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, he was honored with an exhibition at Pillnitz Palace. Palace and gardens are open to the public today. The nearby pier is the starting point for the most popular ride on the historic steamboats of the Saxon Steamboat Company, taking passengers back to Dresden's city centre in an hour through the Dresden Elbe Valley which was once declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its perfect harmony of architecture and nature.
Man of many talentsIn 1884, Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel was appointed Consulting Architect by HRS Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV. He shaped the Maharaja's gardens, among them the famous Lal Bagh Botanical Garden. And he turned Bangalore into a green city. Krumbiegel also promoted gardening as a way to a healthier lifestyle and supported measures to improve health and education standards. He retired with great fanfare in the 1930s and died at the age of 1991. His grave is still a pilgrimage site for Indian gardeners and his legacy is highly treasured.


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A transmission mount is exactly what it sounds like. It's a mount for your transmission. Pretty straightforward, yeah?
The mount supports the transmission, and it secures the transmission to the frame of the car. It's also very considerate of your comfort and helps lessens the vibrations from the powertrain.
Transmission mounds are built out of a hardened rubber center, which serves as a cushion for the transmission. That is surrounded by a hard metal exterior, which provides the necessary support, while giving a solid foundation for attaching to the car's frame. In the case of some high-end cars, the mount may be hydraulic, and have a liquid-filled center.
That rubber (and occasionally liquid) center is what allows the car to absorb vibrations. Your backside may not have heard of the transmission mount, but it should be thanking it. The center acts as a cushion, taking the vibrations from the powertrain, and keeping them from making their way into the car's cabin.
You remember that whole spiel I did a second ago, about how the transmission mount keeps vibrations from getting into the cabin? Well, you can probably guess that when there are excessive vibrations in the cabin, it might be the result of the transmission mount not doing its job anymore. And your guess would be correct. When the mount breaks down and fails, it will no longer absorb vibrations, which means the thing stuck absorbing the vibrations is…wait for it…you. Not as fun as it sounds. Trust me.
Ahh, everyone's favorite car problem: a mysterious noise. When your transmission mount begins to malfunction, you'll notice a loud clunking noise. In general, the noise will occur when you're accelerating, decelerating, or putting your car into gear. The noise is the result of the transmission mount allowing the engine or transmission to move around, so that's when you'll hear it. And it's not a pretty noise.
Your car has a lot of fluids, which means it can sometimes leak. One of the causes of a leak is a busted transmission mount. This will only be the case if you have a hydraulic mount, which has a liquid center. If the mount is broken, the liquid from the center of the mount may begin leaking out.
If the mount breaks, both the engine and transmission may find themselves moving around more than they should. Do I need to mention that they shouldn't really be moving around at all? Well, they shouldn't. But when the mount goes, they'll suddenly have free reign.
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Encourage Healthy Hair Habits with our Matching Mommy, Mini & Me sets. Keep the moisture in your hair with this reversible Satin Bonnet and dream pretty. Handcrafted with soft satin charmeuse and double lined, you can be sure your curls rub against silky fabric all the time and you 3 will look super cute at nighttime.
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One of the most beneficial things you can do to maintain the health of your hair is to cover it at night. Silk or Satin is recommended. Here are 4 reasons why:
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When you cover your hair with satin, the fabric acts as a barrier against moisture-absorbing fabrics like cotton. This prevent split ends caused by hair drying out. Your curls stay fresher longer, and maintain the moisture produced by the natural oils or added hydration. Result: Healthier Hair.
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Cotton and other fabrics typically used for sheets are moisture-absorbing and can cause friction when our curls rub against them. This leads to breakage. We want our curls to grow not break off. Satin prevents this from happening, along with a good hair care regimen.
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text: As a photographer, it is my belief that the two essential elements in a photograph are vision and light. Vision pushes the photographer out at different seasons, times and conditions to capture what he wants to convey and light is the primary tool in fulfilling that vision.My main passions in photography are in capturing country landscapes and small towns. As an avid student of history, I also enjoy finding out about the history of the region I am exploring.The best part of photography is being in a wonderful location and heading out very early in the morning or late in the evening when most people are still sleeping or settling in for the night. At that time there are no crowds and the location is all yours. The lighting is also at its best during those times. In addition, in the early morning there is a freshness in the air and a tranquility in the scene that is typically gone by breakfast time and lost for the rest of the day. There is also the added benefit of witnessing the start of the day unfold from the blackness of the night sky, to the royal blue of twilight and brilliant colors of the sunrise and finally culminating in the golden colors immediately thereafter.I hope you enjoy my collection of photographs and I would love to hear from you on them.


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A flicker of hope for savings account rates
It may be an isolated piece of good news, but last week's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) July report on job growth stood out for just that reason. After several weeks of almost nothing but bad news for the economy, this employment report bucked the trend by showing improvement.
Still, this flicker of hope shouldn't overly influence consumer strategies for managing bank rates. Some hard-eyed realism needs to govern behavior until a trend of positive economic developments can be sustained.
Turning the tide for jobs?
Job growth has been trending downward since the beginning of this year. Most recently, it was 87,000 new jobs in May, and 64,000 in June. For this reason, July's payroll increase of 163,000 new jobs was unexpectedly strong.
So far, job growth has averaged 151,000 per month in 2012, after averaging 153,000 in 2011. Against this backdrop, July's employment increase of 163,000 was above average. Perhaps more importantly, it defied the downward trend that has prevailed so far in 2012.
To temper those positive observations with a dose of reality, the fact is that month-to-month employment numbers tend to be pretty erratic. It doesn't pay to invest too much in any one month's reading, good or bad. Plus, 163,000 new jobs is hardly indicative of robust growth. It is only above average compared to the anemic standard of the last couple years, and it wasn't enough to stop July's unemployment rate from edging up to 8.3 percent, from 8.2 percent in June. Job growth of 200,000 or more would be a more convincing reason for optimism, and the main thing is to sustain that kind of growth, not simply flirt with it for a month or two.
Make no mistake, July's job growth report was good news, if only because it did not continue the increasingly bad news on employment from the months that preceded it. Ultimately, though, July will only prove significant if it represents the month that job growth turned the tide, and began a sustained move back upward.
Raising your own rates
If it will take a few months before job growth indicates that the economy is on the mend, it will take even longer before bank executives are convinced enough to start raising savings account rates. So don't get caught in the waiting game -- you need more active strategies for managing bank rates than simply waiting for them to start heading back up. Here are two suggestions:
- Look to go long. It will take months before job growth can establish itself as a sustainable trend, and even longer before bank rates start to rise meaningfully. In exchange for a higher rate, it might be worth shifting some money from savings to a three-year CD -- or even a five-year CD if you can find one with a mild early-withdrawal penalty.
- Unlink your checking and savings accounts. Checking account fees can easily exceed the interest on savings accounts these days. You need to get both free checking and a competitive savings account rate, and if you have to use different banks to obtain these, then do so.
July's jobs report may prove to be good news for the economy. But if you want good news on bank rates anytime soon, you'll have to make it happen yourself.
The original article can be found at Money-Rates.com:A flicker of hope for savings account rates


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Many people in the gaming community were taken aback by Nintendo's announcement last night that the 3DS would be dropping price from $250 to $170 only five months after its initial launch in America and after fewer than 900,000 units have sold in the U.S.
But that cut wasn't completely without precedent.
Nintendo's cut seemed unusually sudden. Let's look at some older systems: The original Game Boy was released in 1989 for $120 (or $90 without a game packaged in) and wasn't cut to $50 until 1991, and even then it was to coincide with the launch of Sega's Game Gear. The original PlayStation launched for $300 in 1995 and was cut to $200 in mid-1996. The Nintendo 64 launched for $200 in September 1996 and was cut to $150 in early 1997, six months later. Those cuts were fast and deep, spurred by the competition's own launches and cuts.
What about less successful systems? The star-crossed Dreamcast waited until late 2000, a full year after its September 1999 launch, to cut its price to coincide with the release of the PS2. The Gamecube and the original Xbox both dropped in price in 2002, less than a year after release their releases in 2001. Those cuts were timed to coincide with the PlayStation 2's first cuts, as that Sony console was released a year earlier.
Unfortunately for Nintendo, the only other console that dropped in price so quickly after launch without any competition utilizing similar cuts was Nintendo's last eye-popping experiment, the Virtual Boy. In August 1995 the Virtual Boy was released for $180. After lackluster software support and complaints of headaches the system was dropped to $160 in October of 1995, only two months after launch. In May 1996, only seven months after the first price drop, Nintendo cut the Virtual Boy to $100. By the end of the year the console was discontinued.
Nintendo's cut seemed unusually deep. A price cut of 32% seems like an awful lot no matter how long after launch it is. The Nintendo 64, Gamecube and Dreamcast all dropped from $200 to $150 with their first price cuts, a 25% drop. Some consoles had even smaller cuts, with the Game Boy Advance, the original DS and the Xbox 360 only dopping $20 in their first price cut (although Xbox cut $50 for a premium console, instead of the $20 for a core bundle). However, it is not unheard of to see price cuts of over 30%. The original PlayStation, the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox all saw their prices go from $300 to $200 in the first price cut, a 33% decrease. While the PS2 waited two years to cut its price, the original PlayStation did it in eight months; the first Xbox cut its price by 33% in six.
The original Xbox comes close to having performed the same quick, deep cut as Nintendo did with the 3DS, but that console was released in November of 2001 and took full advantage of of the holiday rush, only choosing to drop its price the following May to keep up with the competition's price cuts and to bolster sales during a slow summer, with extremely positive results. The 3DS came out in March and will be cut in August, selling at its highest price point during the slowest months for gaming.
So what does this all mean? The money taken off the price is hefty, although not unheard of. The timing, in the absence of an obvious direct competitor launching or slashing price, is unusual, fuel for the argument that Nintendo is reacting to non-traditional competition, such as Apple or even its own DS.
Looking at another handheld, the PSP had similar problems with sales out of the gate. People don't seem to like expensive handhelds, but Sony resisted cutting the price. In fact, a year after the PSP's launch Sony released a slimmed down "Core Pack" that left out accessaries such as the 32MB memory card, and sold it for $200 compared to the original $250 price tag. Even two years after launch Sony only reduced the Core Pack to $170. So in reality it took them two years for any real price drop, and it was only a $30 cut.
Nintendo has rejected the PSP's strategy and in favor of a a strategy closer to what the Virtual Boy, first PlayStation and Xbox did. However whether it's the Game Gear, Virtual Boy, or PSP any handheld priced too high at launch for consumers' tastes has been torched in the open market. Nintendo is attempting to backtrack to a time when they were still perceived to be the price conscious company that sold a $90 Game Boy and launched the $250 Wii, but so far the 3DS has some pretty nefarious company for console comparisons.