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Terms and conditions
Welcome to the Jaeger-LeCoultre Website. Please find below the information about the Terms and Conditions of Use.
Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Terms of Use
- About Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre and these Terms of Use
- About Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre
- About our hosting services
- Our privacy policy
- Use of materials on the Platforms
- Your submissions and unsolicited communications
- Limitation of liability
- Trademark notice
- Copyright notice
- Our Archives
- Links & linking
- Termination and suspension
- General provisions
- Applicable law and jurisdiction
- Contact us
Jaeger-LeCoultre Privacy Policy
- About Jaeger-LeCoultre and this Privacy Policy
- Information you provide to us and how we use it
- Cookies and other information that we automatically collect
- What cookies does Jaeger-LeCoultre use?
- Sharing your information
- International Transfers
- Protecting your information
- How to edit, delete or access your personal information
- Updates to this Privacy Policy
- Contact us
- Credits
I. Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Terms of Use
Last updated: November 2013
1. About Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre and these Terms of Use
These Terms of Use govern your use of Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre websites and mobile applications (together the "Platforms"). In these Terms of Use, we use the term Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre (and "we", "us" and "our") to refer to the head office of Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre at the registered address below, and its associated affiliates. You can find out more about Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre here:
Daniel Riedo - CEO, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre
Laurent Vinay - Director of Communication
Tel. +41 21 620 30 00
Contact : email@example.com
We may make changes from time to time so please check back regularly to keep informed of updates.
Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using the Platform. You expressly acknowledge that you have been advised of these Terms of Use upon entering the Platform and have had access to the same. Consequently, by using the Platform, you signify your assent and agreement to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, then you are not authorised to continue use of the Platform.
2. About Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre
Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre has its registered offices at: Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, Branch of Richemont International SA, Rue de la Golisse 8, 1347 Le Sentier, Switzerland, registered on the Commercial Register of the Canton of Vaud, No CH-550.1.033.476-0.
The Platforms are owned and edited by Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre. Our VAT number is CHE – 107.769.243.
3. About our hosting services
Hosting Services for our website is provided by Richemont International S.A., Technical Centre, Fribourg, Switzerland. Watchprint, Switzerland hosts the e-Library and Studio Demarque, France, hosts the Auction on-line.
Mobile applications may be hosted by us or by other companies and you should refer to the relevant conditions of such other company.
4. Our privacy policy
Our information collection practices on the Platforms, such as the types of information we collect regarding visitors to the Platforms and the ways in which we may use that information, shall be governed by the terms of our Privacy Policy.
Customers purchasing products on-line or by phone through the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Client Relations Centre must read the Conditions of Sale.
5. Use of materials on the Platforms
Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre has created its various Platforms to provide information about its company and products for your personal use. Whilst considerable effort has been made to ensure that the visual representations of Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre products displayed on the platforms are representative of the colour, design and style etc. of the original products, slight variations, distortions and/or differences may be apparent when compared to the original product. This may, for example, be due to technical issues such as your browser or computer settings. Accordingly, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre cannot be held liable for any apparent differences in the product images represented on the Platforms and the original products. We strongly advise you visit one of our boutiques or authorised retailers.
You may download one computer copy, download the application on to your mobile device or print one copy of the material made available to you for your own non-commercial, educational, private or domestic use only, provided that proprietary notices, in particular intellectual property notices such as copyright©, trademark™, are preserved intact and are not modified, deleted or changed. Unless otherwise stated, you should assume that everything that you see or read on the Platforms (such as images, photographs, including any person represented in the photographs, illustrations, icons, texts, video clips, music, written and other materials) ("Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material") are protected by legislation such as copyright, designs and trademark legislation and under international treaty provisions and national laws worldwide.
You are not authorised to sell, reproduce, distribute, communicate, modify, display, publicly perform, report or otherwise prepare derivative or second hand works based on or use any Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material in any way for any public or commercial purposes. Furthermore, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material may not be displayed or communicated on any other platform, in a networked computer environment or on any other digital platform for any purpose whatsoever. In the event of breach of any of these Terms of Use, your permission to use Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material will automatically terminate and any copies made of Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material must be immediately destroyed. Any unauthorised use of Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material may infringe copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes. Certain functionality provided via this website may be covered by U.S. Patent 5,930,474.
6. Your submissions and unsolicited communications
This section concerns communications sent to Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre. It does not concern the communication of personal information to Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre in relation to the purchase of products by phone or through the Platform. The latter is governed by the rules stipulated in the Privacy Policy.
Any unsolicited communication or material that you transmit to Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre via the Platforms, by electronic mail or otherwise, including, but not limited to, any data, questions or answers, comments, suggestions, or the like will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary by Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre. By sending communications to Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, you automatically grant Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display such communication(s) alone, or as a part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known of hereafter developed and to sublicense such rights to anyone. Anything that you transmit may be used by Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre and its affiliated companies for any purpose, including but not limited to reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting, or developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.
Furthermore, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre enjoys a worldwide reputation for both the design and manufacture of high quality luxury items, including jewellery and watches. To this end, it possesses its own sources of creativity, in particular highly skilled teams of designers who conceive and perfect Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre's creations. As a result, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre cannot agree to or accept to be the receiver of unsolicited proposals of collaboration. Indeed, it is conceivable that Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre may already be working on similar ideas and/or creations. Consequently, you are advised that Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre is not interested in receiving ideas or other proposals relating to creations they may wish to submit.
7. Limitation of liability
This section applies to the Platforms and not to the products that may be sold online or by phone by one of our local or regional markets. Exclusions and limitations regarding products being sold are to be found in the Conditions of Sale.
Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre tries to ensure that the information provided is accurate and complete. However, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre does not warrant or represent that Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre's Material is accurate, error-free or reliable or that use of Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material will not infringe rights of third parties. Your use of of the Platforms is at your own risk.
Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre does not warrant that the functional and/or technical aspects of the Platforms or the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material will be error free or that the Platforms, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material or the servers that make them available are free of viruses or other harmful components. If use of the Platforms or Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material results in the need for servicing or replacing property, material, equipment, data or other element, Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre is not responsible for those costs. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Platforms is provided to you "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, REASONABLE CARE AND SKILL, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre and its suppliers make no warranties about the Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material, software, text, downloads, graphics, and links, or about results to be obtained from using the Platforms.
Under no circumstances whatsoever shall Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre be liable for any loss arising out of or in connection with the use of information available from the Platforms whether direct or indirect including, without limitation, any liability relating to any loss of use, interruption of business, lost profits or lost data, or incidental, special or consequential damages of any kind regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, even if Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Please note that in some jurisdictions consumer protection laws may not allow certain exclusions or limitation of warranties or liabilities, and consequently some of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply.
8. Trademark notice
In general, all trademarks, logos and service marks (collectively the "Trademarks") that appear on the Platforms are registered, unregistered or otherwise protected Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre trademarks or are licensed for use by Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre by third parties. Other trademarks are proprietary marks and are registered to their respective owners. Nothing contained on the Platforms should be construed as granting, by implication or otherwise, any licence or right to use any trademark without Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre's prior written permission or that of such third party who owns the trademark. Misuse of any trademark displayed on the Platforms, or any other content on the Platforms, except as provided herein, is strictly prohibited.
9. Copyright notice
All content (including Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material) on the Platforms are either Copyright © Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre or are licensed for use by Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre. All rights are reserved. Please refer to the section above on Use of Materials on the Platforms.
10. Our Archives
To trace the origin of antique timepieces crafted by the Jaeger-LeCoultre Manufacture, our Heritage Service can issue an Extract from the Archives at your request based on the details you supply. Signed by our antique timepiece expert, these high-quality official documents are an actual duplicate of the documents held in the Jaeger-LeCoultre Archives. They contain information about the timepieces referred to in your request (date of manufacture, description, references, origin, etc.).
To enable us to perform such a search on your behalf, we require quality photographs of your timepiece and its movement, along with the numbers engraved on the back of the watch and on the movement itself. To access the movement, we recommend you have your watch opened by a highly qualified watchmaker or an approved Jaeger-LeCoultre dealer.
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that every search incurs a fee of CHF 250.00 payable in advance. This fee covers the work performed by our antique timepiece expert and is thus non-refundable, even if the search fails to uncover any documentation. The document delivered to you incurs no additional charge. An Extract from the Archives for the timepieces featured in them will be sent to you within three months of the payment. To insure delivery of the document, please ensure that you enter your address, telephone number, and e-mail address correctly. All requests and payment (exclusively by debit/credit card) must be made via the Jaeger-LeCoultre website. If you have any questions, please contact Jaeger-LeCoultre Customer Services on +41 21 620 30 00. You can also contact us via the contact page by clicking on Customer Service.
Extracts from the Archives are written in English. They do not take the current state of the timepieces into account and cannot be deemed certificates of authenticity. Consequently, they may not be used when presented together with a timepiece as certification of its authenticity. If you wish to know the market value of your timepiece, we recommend that you contact a reputable auction house, such as Christie's, Antiquorum or Sotheby's.
11. Links & linking
The Platforms may contain links to other platforms operated by third parties not affiliated to Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre. The inclusion of any link to such third party sites does not imply endorsement by Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre of those sites. Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre has not reviewed all of the content contained in the linked sites and is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to any of the Platforms. If you choose to click through any link to off-site pages or third party sites then this is at your own risk. Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre does not authorise linking to any of its Platforms from a third party platform without its express prior written authorisation.
12. Termination and suspension
You agree that Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre may terminate or suspend your access to and use of the Platforms if Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre reasonably believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms of Use, or violated the rights of Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, its affiliated companies or any third party, or for any reason with or without notice to you. You agree that Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre may modify or discontinue providing any of the Platforms, with or without notice to you. You agree that Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre will not be liable to you or any third party as a result of such modification or discontinuation. The provisions entitled "Limitation of liability" and "General provisions" will survive termination of these Terms of Use.
13. General provisions
Unless otherwise specified, the information and materials presented on the Platforms are presented solely for the purpose of promoting Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre's products and services and in certain cases to present products for sale via a variety of means. Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre makes no representation that Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material is appropriate or available for use in every country of the world. You use the Platforms at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws, keeping in mind that access to Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre Material may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. Our products are available in many parts of the world. However, the Platforms may identify products that are not available worldwide.
If any provision, or part of a provision, of these Terms of Use is found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision shall be deemed not to form part of these Terms of Use, and the legality, validity or enforceability of the remainder of the provisions of these Terms of Use shall not be affected, unless otherwise required by operation of applicable law.
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the use of the Platform, and replace and extinguish all prior agreements, draft agreements, arrangements, undertakings, or collateral contracts of any nature made by the parties, whether oral or written, in relation to such subject matter.
The waiver by Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre of a breach of any provision of these Terms of Use will not operate to be interpreted as a waiver of any other or subsequent breach.
14. Applicable law and jurisdiction
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Switzerland, without reference to conflict of laws provisions. Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or in relation to the Terms of Use, including the validity, invalidity, breach or termination thereof, shall be adjudicated or arbitrated in accordance with said Terms of Use. Where the laws of Switzerland are different to the mandatory consumer laws in your own country, we will afford you with similar protection.
15. Contact us
If you have any questions or comments about these Terms of Use, or matters generally, please contact us at the address provided below. You can also use this address if you wish to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Manufacture Jaeger-LeCoultre, Branch of Richemont International S.A. .
Rue de la Golisse, 8
CH-1347 Le Sentier
Tel.: +41 21 620 30 00
II. Jaeger-LeCoultre Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2014
1. About Jaeger-LeCoultre and this Privacy Policy
Richemont Japan Limited, Jaeger-LeCoultre is a group company of Richemont International SA and has its registered offices at Hanzomon First Bldg. 1-4, Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083. In this Privacy Policy, we use the term Jaeger-LeCoultre (and "we", "us" and "our") to refer to Richemont Japan Limited, Jaeger-LeCoultre at the registered address above, the companies in the Jaeger-LeCoultre group and our boutiques. .
Please take a moment to read the following policy which explains how we collect, use, disclose and transfer the personal information that you provide to us on our websites or mobile applications (together the "Platforms") when you visit a Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique or a Jaeger-LeCoultre authorized dealer, or contact the Jaeger-LeCoultre Concierge by telephone. It also explains how we collect information through the use of cookies and related technologies when you use our Platforms.
You can find out more about Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Terms of Use for using our Platform here.
We may make changes from time to time so please check back regularly to keep informed of updates.
2. Information you provide to us and how we use it
To access certain areas of our Platform, you will need to register with us. During the registration process you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (including your name, shipping and billing addresses, date of birth, e-mail address, telephone number and payment details). By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Jaeger-LeCoultre to provide you with the services you select.
In addition, we may also collect personal information from you when you correspond with us (for example, when you send us e-mail communications or send us letters), when you provide your details when you visit a Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique or Jaeger-LeCoultre authorized dealer, or contact the Jaeger-LeCoultre Concierge by telephone. Please note that calls to the Jaeger-LeCoultre Concierge may be recorded for security and training and development purposes.
We also collect certain information automatically about visitors to our Platform, described in the section headed "Cookies and other information that we automatically collect", below.
We will use the information we collect from you to:
- manage and fulfil purchase and repair orders and to provide after service care;
- deal with your enquiries and requests;
- send service related communications, including announcements and administrative messages such as order confirmation ;
- announce new products and events relating to us and other third party partners such as department stores and/or Jaeger-LeCoultre authorized dealers in accordance with your communications preferences (please see the ''Editing or deleting your personal information" section below for further information about how you can control these updates);
- conduct market research so that we can continuously improve the services we provide to our customers;
- prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activities; and
understand how our Platform is used so that we can continuously improve our Platform and offerings.
3. Cookies and other information that we automatically collect
Like most Platforms, Jaeger-LeCoultre logs IP addresses and uses cookies and similar technologies that allow us to recognise you and to customise your experience, and provide us with information about the way our Platform visitors access our Platform. You can find out more about how we use cookies and related technologies below.
a. What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or mobile application and are used to recognise your computer when it returns to a website or mobile application it has visited previously. Cookies are widely used in order to make platforms work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the platform.
We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors (for example, by remembering your language preferences) and to better understand how our Platform is used. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Platform before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
- First party cookies, served directly by Jaeger-LeCoultre to your computer or mobile device. They are used only by Jaeger-LeCoultre to recognise your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Platform.
- Third party cookies, which are served by a service provider on our Platform, and can be used by the service provider to recognise your computer or mobile device when it visits other platforms. Third party cookies are most commonly used for platform analytics or advertising purposes.
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are 'session cookies', meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are 'permanent cookies', meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. They can be used to recognise your computer or mobile device when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
4. What cookies does Jaeger-LeCoultre use?
The Platform serves only the following types of cookies to your computer or mobile device:
|Type of Cookie
|Cookies necessary for essential purposes
|These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through this Platform and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.
|Functionality Cookies
|These cookies serve a variety of purposes related to the presentation, performance and functionality of this Platform. Their overall purpose, however, is to enhance visitors' experience and enjoyment of this Platform.
IP address
For example, some of these cookies enable visitors to specify language or other Platform preferences
|Analytics Cookies
|These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Platform.
The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor and is aggregated. It includes the number of visitors to our Platform, the platforms that referred them to our Platform and the pages that they visited on our Platform.
We use this information to help run our Platform more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Platform.
|Advertising Cookies
|When you visit our Platform or click on advertisements or promotional areas on the Platform these cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising and promotion.
They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a platform and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
|Content sharing and social networking cookies
|These cookies enable users to share pages and content through third party social networking and other platforms. The companies that serve these cookies may also use your information to serve targeted advertising on other platforms.
a. How to control or delete cookies
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies and we have explained how you can exercise this right below. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Platform.
You can set your cookie preferences by changing your browser settings so that cookies from this Platform cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" facility).
b. IP addresses
We may collect information about your computer or mobile device, including where available your IP address, operating system, log in times and browser type. We use this information to better understand how visitors use our Platform and for internal reporting purposes. We may anonymise and share this information with advertisers, sponsors or other businesses.
5 Sharing your information
We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies outside the Richemont group except under the following circumstances:
- to third party providers who provide services on our behalf such as online and other payments, processing credit card transactions and handling credit checks and fraud prevention;
- to provide following third party providers who process your personal information on behalf of us
- we may disclose your personal information to any law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other third party where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party; and
- we may disclose your personal information to any third party that purchases, or to which we transfer, all or substantially all of our assets and business. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to ensure that the entity to which we transfer your personal information uses it in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
- In the case that you provide your personal information at boutique in department store or at Jaeger-LeCoultre authorized dealer, we may provide your personal information to such department stores or Jaeger-LeCoultre authorized dealers, and they shall jointly use your personal information as described in section of "Information you provide to us and how we use it"
6. International Transfers
Information we collect may be transferred to, stored and processed in any country or territory where one or more of our affiliated group companies or third party service providers are located or maintain facilities. While other territories may not have the same standards of data protection as those within your home country, we will continue to protect the personal information we transfer in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
7. Protecting your information
We want you to feel confident about using our Platform, and we are committed to protecting the personal information we collect. We limit access to personal information about you to employees who reasonably need access to it, to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have appropriate technical and organisational physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the personal information that you provide to us against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, damage or destruction.
8. How to edit, delete or access your personal information
We shall manage the personal information in accordance with the "Act on the Protection of Personal Information (2003)" (hereinafter the "Law"). Under the Law, you have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information that we hold about you in our records, to correct any inaccuracies and to update any out-of-date information. You can also ask us not to send you direct marketing communications (however please note that we may continue to send you service related (i.e. non-marketing) communications, such as e-mail updates on your order status). If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or wish to object to our use of your personal information, please write to us at the address listed below.
9. Updates to this Privacy Policy
From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy. When we do we will publish the changes on this Platform. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use the Platform. If material changes are made to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by e-mail or by placing a prominent notice on the Platform.
10. Contact us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or privacy matters generally, please contact us at the address provided below. You can also use this address if you wish to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you, deletion, update, and stop sending direct marketing communications.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Customer Service Center
Richemont Japan Limited, Jaeger-LeCoultre
Hanzomon First Building., 1-4, Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0083ル
Tel: 0120-79-1833
e-mail: email@example.com
11:00am to 07:00pm
III. Credits
© Jaeger-LeCoultre 2016
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When the film begins the warning label for Getaway with Selena Gomez and Ethan Hawke says Mayhem throughout and indeed there is. Basically Ethan Hawke has to drive Selena Gomez's armored Shelby GT500 car around town and crash into everything especially police cars. Pretty much there was a crash or explosion every 5 minutes throughout the movie. So who cares what the plot is, cars crash and explosions happened. There is a plot but really it is secondary to crashes, Ethan's wife is kidnapped and Ethan, an ex race car driver is forced to drive what turns out to be Selena Gomez's car which is now outfitted with cameras so the bad guy can watch and listen to the occupants. Selena's dad runs the bank the bad guy is trying to rob. He gets Ethan to cause accidents at strategic points to block traffic and then the bad guy makes his move. You have to let go of logic and just sit back and enjoy but 2 things still bugged me. Ethan is driving an armored car and yet he is scared of bad guys on motor bikes. Just wiggle your car and knock into them, motor bikes are notorious for falling down. The second point was when Selena Gomez "reprograms" the cameras by grabbing one and rotating its lens back and forth and voila it is now a live feed to the police. She is that good. For this movie, turn up your sound especially your bass, turn off your logic and sit back and enjoy.
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I had an existential crisis this weekend (what else is new?).The gallery for this week was to be video game-related Halloween costumes, and then I was like, "HOW THE F**K DO I TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HALLOWEEN COSTUME AND REGULAR COSPLAY?" It turns out that you can't, because cosplayer nerds don't go to parties. So instead we have the scariest cosplays that exist. Enjoy.


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A woman who used to work for a local county school system is behind bars after her sentencing for embezzling nearly a half-million dollars from work.
Forty-four-year-old Angela Potter is from Kinston and is now in the Greene County Jail. The former Greene County school's benefits specialist was sentenced to five to seven years in prison.
The woman has also been ordered to pay back $532,376.08 to the school system.
The SBI helped investigate Potter's crimes following her arrest in September.
Greene County Schools Superintendent Patrick Miller released this statement from the school system:
"Greene County Schools confirms that Angela E. Potter began work in Greene County Schools as a benefits specialist in May, 2001. Effective June 1, 2011, as a result of an investigation by the Greene County Schools, Ms. Potter was suspended without pay. Effective June 30, 2011, Mrs. Potter's employment was terminated by the Greene County Board of Education. Mrs. Potter was an employee of Greene County Schools for approximately 10 years. The embezzlement was discovered by school officials and was turned over to law enforcement officials for further investigation; Greene County Schools worked closely with the State Bureau of Investigation in this matter. The investigation by Greene County Schools and the SBI revealed the mishandling of school funds and resulted in the plea by Mrs. Potter on June 11, 2012. As a result of its investigation, Greene County Schools has implemented additional fiscal controls. Due to the possibility of future litigation, Greene County Schools will have no further comment on this matter at this time."
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Do you know what the best thing about today way? I went in to pick up my next 3 days of food...and it took 5 minutes to walk in and walk out. It has been a long week...I don't think my mind could have processed going into a grocery store and actually picking out food for the week. Honestly bc of the long week I probably would have just given up and had pizza. Thanks My Fit Foods for the mental break.
Pic of 3 days of food in 1 bag.
Breakfast: Oat Bake: Turning into one of my favorite breakfasts. How can oatmeal almost taste like a muffin?
Snack: Almond Butter Crunch: This is a snack I will make in the future. Apples..celery...almond butter. Easy Breezy
Lunch: Enchiladas: So good and filling. So much better than the weight watchers ones my mom used to by.
Snack: Oatmega Bar
Dinner: Beef and Broccoli: I really like this dinner bc I really like Broccolini...for some reason it is so much better than broccoli!!


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Ash's Infernape
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As a Chimchar, Infernape was discovered by Paul whilst trying to escape a pack of Zangoose. When it was trapped on the edge of a cliff, Chimchar used an awesome Flame Wheel and defeated all the Zangoose with a single attack. Paul was impressed and decided to catch it.However, Paul grew disappointed because Chimchar never displayed that kind of power whilst it was training with him. Although Chimchar helped Paul win many battles, including his gym battle with Roark, Paul still considered it weak and when Chimchar defended Ash's Turtwig from a Fire Blast in Glory Blaze, Paul had had enough. Deciding that Chimchar was too soft to use the kind of power he'd seen when it battled the Zangoose, Paul released it and Ash invited it to join him instead.
After joining Ash's team, Chimchar overcame its fear of Zangoose and was used in many battles. Chimchar weakened Maylene's Meditite and Lucario and defeated Fantina's Drifblim and Mismagius as well as Byron's Steelix and Bronzor and Candice's Abomasnow. Chimchar finally evolved into Monferno during Ash's first full battle with Paul after defeating Paul's Ursaring for the third time. Despite evolving Monferno was defeated by Electabuzz. After being knocked to the brink of fainting in a battle against Barry's Empoleon, Monferno went berserk with its Blaze ability and unleashed its full power against Team Rocket. While protecting the Pokémon, it evolved into Infernape. Infernape has many powerful attacks at its disposal such as Flame Wheel so it's set to be the powerhouse behind Ash's team. It was later used in a battle against Flint's Infernape, but lost due to its lack of experience. Like Paul's Torterra this was its only defeat since it evolved from Monferno and it has won every other battle it was in.
Infernape had a major role in Ash's final gym battle on Sunyshore Gym where it easily defeated Volkner's Jolteon and used Blaze to finally control it and defeat his Luxray with a powerful Flame Wheel.
Ash's Infernape learned Flare Blitz in Familiarity Breeds Strategy, knocking out Brock's Sudowoodo. It later faced off against Paul's newly evolved Aggron with Flare Blitz which burns it and proceeded to deliver a Mach Punch defeating the powerful Aggron. It later battled Paul's Ninjask. Infernape used Dig and used its Flare Blitz underground which made the field burst out Infernape's flames which damaged Ninjask and canceled Paul's Drapion's Toxic Spikes effect and mist surrounded the field which made Infernape attack Ninjask by a single Mach Punch. Infernape battled Paul's Electivire in the final battle between Ash and Paul. Electivire used Thunder and slammed its tail to the ground which made the rocks fly towards Infernape. The so-called "Field Thunder" was done because of Infernape weakening the stability of the field when it used "Underground Flare Blitz". After a good battling, Infernape used Mach Punch. However, Electivire's tail caught Infernape's arm, constricting him. Electivire then proceeded to use Thunder for a long period of time. After Electivire let him out, the referee announced Infernape unable to battle, but Electivire prevented him from doing so. Suddenly, Infernape began to glow and activated its Blaze and fired a super-powerful blast of Flamethrower which not even Electivire's Thunder could penetrate. Infernape then attacked with a powerful Flare Blitz. Thanks to the Blaze-powered Flare Blitz, Electivire was burnt, gave way and stumbled to the ground, declared unable to battle, with Ash winning the full battle against his long-time Sinnoh rival Paul and ending their rivalry. In DP190 it helped make the ship hot to heal several Baby Pokémon.
Known moves
|When Pokémon Worlds Collide
|Flame Wheel
|When Pokémon Worlds Collide!
|When Pokémon Worlds Collide
|Dig +
|Different Strokes For Different Blokes
|Fire Spin
|Top Down Training!
|Flamethrower +
|Tag! We're it...!
|Mach Punch +
|Evolving Strategies!
|Flare Blitz +
|Familiarity Breeds Strategy!
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
- Infernape has used it's ability Blaze a number of times, twice as Chimchar, once as Monferno, and twice as Infernape. It lost control as Chimchar and Monferno, and finally controlled it as Infernape.
- Infernape has activated its ability more times than any other Pokèmon on Ash's team.
- It possibly developed a rivalry with Paul's Electivire.
- Infernape's Flare Blitz seemed to be stronger than that of Flint's Infernape, as its flame is blue instead of the normal Flare Blitz, which is red and yellow, as used by Flint's Infernape. Blue flame is hotter than the normal one. However, Flint's Infernape was seen using a blue Flare Blitz whilst battling Cynthia's Garchomp.
- Infernape is the first Pokémon owned by a rival from Ash, and which was later owned by Ash himself.
- Infernape has some similarities with Paul's Torterra. Both of them are the final evolution of a Sinnoh starter Pokemon, both have only been defeated in one known battle since their evolution, and both were knocked out with one move in that battle.
- Infernape also shares some similarities with Ash's Charizard and Ash's Pignite. All of them were Fire types that evolved from Starter Pokemon, all of them were abandoned by their original trainer because that trainer thought they were weak, and all of them became among Ash's most powerful Pokemon, proving that their original trainers had been wrong about their weakness. Unlike Charizard and Pignite's original trainers, Paul did not lie or fake a kind farewell to the Pokemon, but rather straightforwardly demanded they leave. Another difference is that unlike Charizard and Pignite's original trainers, who had the audacity to ask them to rejoin their team despite the appalling way they treated them, Paul did not attempt to get Infernape to rejoin his team after seeing how powerful it was, thus sparing himself the humiliation of grovelling to the Pokemon that he had abandoned. This could also be seen as Paul's one and only act of kindness for Infernape, as it means that Paul truly acknowledges Infernape's growth from the weak and timid Chimchar he abandoned.
- After evolving form Chimchar to Monferno, it become the first time Ash had 2 starter Pokemon that evolved from the same region.


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Florida Gulf Coast ousted San Diego State, 81-71, becoming the first No. 15
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Back in 2004, Mario Sorrenti staged one of his first exhibitions at New York's Roth Horowitz Gallery. The work on display, Draw Blood for Proof, predominantly consisted of Polaroids arranged in a giant collage format. It was a re-creation of the conversation he started with himself on the wall of his Lower East Side loft, in which he documented his life in pictures—professional, private, and interesting moments. When the exhibition was over, and just before it was dismantled, Sorrenti gave the project new life by photographing it again. He recently unearthed those snapshots, and with the help of creative director and steidldangin publisher Pascal Dangin has reanimated their subject matter once again, in the form of a fabulous book, due out this summer.
It's a beautiful book. Congratulations.
Pascal Dangin It's great to have finally arrived at this point. Mario had this book idea a long time.
Mario Sorrenti Almost ten years.
PD My experience with photographers is that a book is a milestone. As a publisher I want people to understand who Mario Sorrenti is. This body of work will engage people. In today's world of photography and consumerism, this book is really an inside view. He has his own life and his own world and experience. I was at the show, it's obviously very emotional to see all of those private personal pictures. Love, sex, commercials, fun, work—everything is here. And then suddenly for him to decide to rephotograph, not as a document, but as an image of an image, that's what really took me in. It's not a representation of the show. I think the photographs, the way they are framed and the way we decided to show them, they are 8 by 10...it may look funny, but I love it.
MS This is true to the negative of the format it was shot in.
PD Each spread is a new photograph.
MS We wanted it to be as close as we could get to the size of a Polaroid.
PD It's a scaled-down version of the wall. We looked at a lot of ways to lay out this book and suddenly this one-to-one correlation became so apparent. You can spend hours and hours on this book and see something new every time. It's extremely entertaining.
MS The way it started…I must have been 22 or 23 and I was living in a small loft on Chrystie Street that had a long, white wall, and I wanted to make a conversation with myself all the way across it. Then I moved into a bigger space with a giant wall and I took all of my photographs and spread them across there. It just grew and grew, and one day the idea that came was that it would be exciting to actually re-create that wall in a work format.
PD You would need to buy two books if you want to re-create that wall. [laughs]
MS The way I work is that things keep changing and transforming and then have a life of their own. Someone asked me if I wanted to do an exhibition, and I transplanted that wall into the gallery. And then when the show was over I thought, This is the opportunity to actually photograph what is here. I started taking the Polaroids, and I realized, Oh my God, these are new pictures on their own! What I loved about it was that everything was re-cropped and reframed. From the beginning I realized it was about the relationships, image to image. Weird subconscious things started to happen. My grandmother's foot next to something I took for fashion. My brother's picture ended up next to a picture of a close friend from the neighborhood. All of these relationships started happening and again it was a conversation.
Was this organized chronologically or did it all just kind of happen?
MS No, we just laid it all out on the floor so we could see it and put it up. It just followed a natural rhythm of color and graphics. It got all confused, which was really interesting.
It's a story.
MS But that's the way it works in my life. I draw my inspiration from everything from my kids to fashion to art, and it affects each other and you lose track of time. I don't only do fashion. It all became important. A picture of my brother next to a fashion picture next to something I did for a portfolio next to a picture of me as a child. It became important on every level, the photographs, the memories. It's kind of an autobiography. And then the Polaroids sat in a box for another six or seven years. Then Pascal came to me and said, "I want to do a couple of books for you," and this was sitting on my shelf. It seemed the appropriate thing to start with, because it explains my first 10 years as a photographer and the birth of who I am today. And if you look at the pictures I am taking today and you put them all together, you can see that it comes from here, but is also very different. This is young and raw. It's experimenting.
PD People today know Mario for being this cool, edgy photographer, but it's commercial, and there's nothing wrong with that, but we also want to talk about the artist himself. So remove all the labels, and remove the marketing. It becomes just great pictures. And I think that's going to go a long way in today's fashion photography.
There are no captions, so the images are speaking for themselves.
PD Well, we also have a text written by Jim Lewis. He came to mind as soon as we started this book. I put the two of them together. I didn't want a scholar of photography. I'll always put text, but this book doesn't really need it. The text is just one page, one paragraph. No break, just a long string of words. I think it's very powerful.
MS It's sort of like free association, and in a way that's the same idea as the book.
PD It doesn't explain the photographs. He put in words what Mario did in photographs. It was great. We are very excited.
MS The way that I used to work…like this girl, Shannon Plumb, she came to deliver food to my apartment one day and I thought, Wow this girl is really interesting. I asked if I could take a photo of her and I started photographing her for three years, five years. We thought about what we could do to push the envelope for each other. And then she started to do her own artwork and film herself, and now she has these great films and she is this amazing artist. My relationships with the people I photographed in this book are extremely personal, from pictures of my sister to Shannon.
PD It's a fantastic book. People are going to be very surprised. There are a lot of layers.
Do you feel exposed at all? The exhibit was temporary, but this is permanent.
PD Well, he is an exhibitionist.
MS I'm completely exposed. I know there are going to be people that are horrified and people that are going to like it. I think it's kind of a relief in a way to be able to tell the truth.
PD I think it's very courageous to actually get it out there.
MS If you think about what photography has become today, with retouching and Photoshop, this is almost a document of an era before that. These are all Polaroids, unretouched. They are all handmade prints.
PD There was a desire to preserve. If you had precise photography, re-creating images, that would have been a big mistake. We could have made a pamphlet or catalog or something, but it would have never been a book that way.
It would have lost the sentiment.
PD It's also about not trying to say anything. It's just what it is.
MS [points to a photograph] That's Doctor Kevorkian. I went to Detroit to photograph him for George magazine before he went to jail. It was so intense. I will never forget this—I had him in the corner of a room and I was looking down into my Hasselblad, shooting him, and he was just staring into the camera and I was having this weird high or hallucination. It was so intense, and he looks at me and he goes, "You're really enjoying this, aren't you?" And he looked like this skeleton to me.
PD What else?
MS Polaroids are really important for me and for some of my friends. We were taking photographs with them all the time. Something about the colors we found really inspiring. They had this quality we were always trying to replicate in our photographs. We were always like, Look, I want this green or this blue in my print. We would search out different cameras and films we could use in the Polaroid—making it hot, making it cold, and pulling it out early. So we amassed such a large collection, and I would keep everything. So without even thinking about it, it all came together.
PD To me they are really like paintings, and people forget that, especially in an Instagram world.
Mario, you are a big Instagrammer.
PD He can't help himself.
MS It's just another way of reaching people with your ideas.
PD I had done a book like this before, but the size was interesting for this one. The blood became even more powerful, another way of saying "storybook."
MS To me, "draw blood for proof," it's literal, it's what's running through my veins. It's who I am in a very disorganized way. In a sense, it's throwing it all out there randomly and seeing where all the pieces land. It was ten years, give or take. There are a lot of relationships and friendships and family and losses, deaths. But also there's a lot of getting up in the morning and going to work and taking pictures as a professional.
PD Today we are fighting for time all the time. We should do drugs to just realize what it is! But sometimes you just need that catalytic process. You need to put that milestone in your life, to revise how it is. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, it's nostalgic. We didn't want to make a book that is nostalgic, this isn't that. We didn't want white frames, that becomes memories. But it's important to recontemplate moments. Let's work harder and harder to preserve this way of living and photography and our profession. You have to force yourself.
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- Jan 6:
- Republicans vulnerable who voted to avert "fiscal cliff," raise taxes
- Jan 5:
- U.S. employers add 155,000 jobs in Dec. despite "fiscal cliff"
- Jan 3:
- 10 arcane provisions stuffed in "fiscal cliff" bill
- After fiscal cliff, lawmakers face battles on debt ceiling, spending cuts
- Jan 2:
- The losers of the fiscal cliff fight
- Winners and losers in fiscal cliff fight
- Fiscal cliff: For most, no tax boost
- Jan 1:
- Obama, Republicans reach "fiscal cliff" deal
- Dec 31:
- After day of bargaining, setbacks, no deal reached on "fiscal cliff"
- Dec 30:
- Fiscal cliff: Taxes and time weigh on talks
- Dec 29:
- Senate will try to strike deal to avert "fiscal cliff"
- Dec 23:
- Fiscal cliff: Already too late to fix payroll taxes for January
- Dec 22:
- Obama asks Congress for minimal package to avert "fiscal cliff"
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama urged Congress on Saturday to at least pass a short-term measure that would avert major tax-rate increases for most Americans in the new year while continuing to press for a comprehensive deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of severe budget cuts and tax increases.
"Congress can prevent it from happening, if they act now," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "Leaders in Congress are working on a way to prevent this tax hike on the middle class, and I believe we may be able to reach an agreement that can pass both houses in time."
Obama added that "if an agreement isn't reached in time, then I'll urge the Senate to hold an up-or-down vote on a basic package that protects the middle class from an income-tax hike, extends vital unemployment insurance for Americans looking for a job and lays the groundwork for future progress on more economic growth and deficit reduction."
In the Republicans' radio address Saturday, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said the onus was on Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to formulate a deal that can muster bipartisan support.
"We still can avoid going over the fiscal cliff if the president and the Democrat-controlled Senate step forward this week and work with Republicans to solve this problem and solve it now," Blunt said.
Senior aides to Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., planned to meet Saturday afternoon to resume negotiations. No further announcements were likely until Sunday afternoon, when leaders would present the results of the talks to their respective party caucuses, a Democratic aide said.
After arriving on Capitol Hill on Saturday afternoon, McConnell was asked whether senators will be able to strike a deal. He smiled and responded, "I hope so."
Reid was not scheduled to be at the Capitol on Saturday, but he was keeping in touch with staffers about the negotiations, according to senior aides.
The main sticking points in the talks remain where to set the threshold for extending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts and lowering the exemption on estate taxes.
The White House announced Saturday that Obama will appear on "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning. It will be only the second time that Obama has been on the NBC News show as president — the last being in 2009 during the health-care-reform debate. Sunday's appearance allows him to keep the pressure on Congress as talks on a deal enter their final hours.
Senate leaders appeared to be on the verge of an agreement Friday that would let taxes rise on the wealthiest households while protecting the vast majority of Americans from tax-rate increases set to hit in January.
As the Senate began haggling over critical details, the emerging deal faced an uncertain fate in the House, where Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, failed one week ago to persuade his adamantly anti-tax caucus to let taxes rise even for millionaires.
Still, on Friday, Obama pronounced himself "modestly optimistic" at a brief news conference at the White House. The ordinarily dour McConnell said he was "hopeful and optimistic." And Reid began preparing Senate Democrats for what could be a difficult vote.
"Whatever we come up with is going to be imperfect. Some people aren't going to like it. Some people will like it less," Reid said on the Senate floor before dozens of silent and attentive senators from both parties. But "we're going to do the best we can for ... the country that's waiting for us to make a decision."
According to people briefed on the talks, the developing package would protect nearly 30 million taxpayers from paying the alternative minimum tax for the first time and keep unemployment benefits flowing to 2 million people who otherwise would be cut off in January.
The deal also would likely halt a steep cut in Medicare reimbursements set to hit doctors in January and preserve popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals, such as those for research and college tuition.
But the two sides were still at odds over how to define the wealthy. Obama has proposed letting tax rates rise on income over $250,000 a year. Senate Republicans have in recent days expressed interest in a compromise that would lift that threshold to $400,000 a year.


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Earthy Day 2013 – We're Doing Our Part – Are You?
Earth Day is a universally loved celebration day. It is not narrowly defined as religious, nationalistic, familial, war-related or governmental. Rather, it is globally recognized day to celebrate the wonders of Mother Earth that we all share, with more than one billion people around the world expected to take part in some form of commemorating the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day. It is also a day intended to encourage everyone to stop, reflect on the state of our Earth and the environment, and consider what each of us can do to improve, enhance and preserve our world.
Carbonfund.org is proud to acknowledge our many business partners that are doing their part to honor Earth Day and helping to protect our natural environment.
We lead off with global IT services leader CA Technologies and its significant commitment to host the annual CA World event, its largest global gathering of customers and partners, during Earth Week as a completely CarbonFree® Event.
"Sustainability is integral to our business and we believe it's important to lead by example," explained Cynthia Curtis, chief sustainability officer, CA Technologies. "Ensuring CA World 2013 is a carbon neutral event demonstrates to customers, partners and employees that we are serious about our sustainability commitment. We believe that sustainability isn't just the right thing to do -- it's smart business."
CarbonFree® Business Partner Solosso Pte LTD of Switzerland, offering beautifully custom-designed men's dress shirts to the world's executives, chose Earth Day 2013 to launch a new campaign to plant a tree for each shirt purchased by its customers.
"As a clothing company, we want to lead the way to sustainability in an industry that is infamous for its carbon emissions," says Jan Klimo, Head of Business Development at Solosso.
The International Legal Technology Association has planted 1500 trees this Earth Day, in honor of its membership, expected to eclipse 1500 this year.
Nextiva, a leading unified communications and business VoIP service provider, and a CarbonFree® Business for the past five years, is planting a tree for each of its customers this Earth Day.
"We feel the tree planting activities align perfectly with our goal of being a "green" organization. We have a strong commitment to providing great customer service, so we are honoring our customers with tree planting certificates as "thank you" notes to recognize their loyalty to Nextiva," explains Kambria Nagy, Marketing Communications Manager at Nextiva.
MaMa Organic Market of Bethesda, Maryland has launched a program to plant one tree for every customer purchase. This is an important initiative intended to honor the store's namesake, who they lost at a young age, and whose commitment to nature and the world's less fortunate creatures inspires the company's dedication to sustainable operations and customer service.
Carbonfund.org business partner Nice Touch Communications (NTC), based in New York City, was an early leader in charitable giving programs with its Telecom for Charity Every Day is Earth Day initiative. NTC is a sales and consulting firm that has been providing voice and data solutions for over 15 years, and they launched Telecom for Charity in 2008. NTC works with businesses, non-profits, charities and other organizations to provide top tier telecom services while also donating 5% of each customer's monthly telecom bill to their selected charity through the Telecom for Charity program.
"We wholeheartedly believe in what Carbonfund.org is doing; and feel our program can be a great way to generate support with minimal effort for a long time to come," says Jay Frank, Program Director for Telecom for Charity.
These are but a few examples of the ways that Carbonfund.org is working in conjunction with our loyal business partners to help them honor the environment on Earth Day and beyond.
If you haven't taken action for Earth Day, it's not too late.
Plant trees for your customers, clients, family, friends, neighbors, network as part of our Million Tree Challenge – we're over halfway there!
Support our clean energy and carbon reduction projects around the world.
Join in the global celebration of Earth Day and help us hasten the transition to a cleaner energy future.
CA World '13 Goes Big with Zero Impact as a CarbonFree® Event
The theme for CA World '13 is "Go big. IT with impact." However, as they put it, in one very important way, CA World will go big with zero impact.
CA Technologies, one of the world's leading providers of IT management systems and energy management solutions, and sponsor of its annual CA World event, is committed to lead by example in order to advance the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. This focus made the decision to host CA World '13 as a CarbonFree® Event an easy choice.
What does this mean exactly? CA Technologies partnered with the Carbonfund.org Foundation to calculate all estimated carbon emissions associated with CA World based on attendee travel, lodging and meals, and the venue's electricity and heating fuel consumption. Then, CA Technologies chose to neutralize the resulting event emissions by supporting two projects that mitigate an equal amount of greenhouse gases:
- A landfill methane gas-to-energy project in New York State that will capture methane (a gas about 23 times more damaging than carbon dioxide) from landfills and convert it into heat energy for four counties in New York.
- A rainforest and biodiversity protection and preservation project in the Amazon Basin of Acre, Brazil that provides rainforest preservation, biodiversity and endangered species habitat conservation, and sustainable economic opportunities and improved water and soil quality for the local population.
"At CA Technologies we take our commitment to sustainability seriously. We believe it is simply smart business," said Cynthia Curtis, Chief Sustainability Officer, CA Technologies. "CA World is our largest event -- bringing together thousands of attendees from around the world to showcase our solutions. At an event of this magnitude, it was important that we highlight our commitment to sustainability. By working with Carbonfund.org, we are offsetting our greenhouse gas emissions through meaningful projects that help mitigate our environmental impact and create local jobs."
"This is one of the largest events of its kind to fulfill the commitment to become truly CarbonFree®," explains Eric Carlson, president of Carbonfund.org. "CA Technologies donation for the CarbonFree® Event program is quite a significant action by a leader in IT service solutions and a company clearly committed to sustainability in all aspects of its operations."
CA World is the flagship event for CA Technologies, providing the opportunity to share and showcase innovation and best practices—from CA and from their customers and partners. This year, those best practices include leadership in the area of event emissions neutralization through the CarbonFree® Event program for CA World '13.


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Climbing Accident: Despite Warnings, Three Injured in Mount Washington Avalanche
Three climbers were injured including an Iraqi War veteran on a fund-raising climb when an avalanche ripped down Central Gully (WI 1, first climbed in 1927) in Huntington Ravine on New Hampshire's Mount Washington last Thursday.
The climbers, part of a group of 12 included Keith Zeier, 26, of Brooklyn who lost a leg to an IED in Iraq and was climbing with a prosthetic limb. The climb was to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Zeier and the two other climbers carried away by the avalanche did not sustain life-threatening injuries. Four rangers and 19 volunteers from the Harvard Mountain Club and the Appalachian Mountain Club rescued the climbers.
According to the Mount Washington Avalanche Center, the 12 climbers were roped into four teams, and included a film crew. The highest team triggered a soft-slab avalanche approximately 20 feet wide and 180 feet long that swept over the lower three teams. The climbers below the lead team were carried over an ice bulge and fell 800 feet to the base of the route. Another group was able to self-arrest and avoid being carried away. The fourth team was swep downslope but stopped when their rope snagged on an exposed rope.
The climbers had begun their ascent at 8:30 a.m., having been advised the evening before by a USFS Snow Ranger who noted that there was an increasing avalanche danger.The day of the climb the danger was "Moderate," meaning that human-triggered avalanches are possible.
The Avalanche Center reports that the team had pressed on with the climb due to pressures of accomplishing the fund-raising ascent. It also notes that a fast-moving group could probably have made a safe ascent, but that 12 climbers, a film crew and one climber with an artificial limb simply moved too slowly, during which time falling snow increased the avalanche danger. This was "clearly a complex situation where a lot decisions needed to be made as the day unfolded," notes the Avalanche Center. "We believe that this was an avoidable accident that fortunately resulted in very minor injuries considering the magnitude of the incident."
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