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October 28, 2009

Gold Chains Throughout History

Filed under: General News — Tags: — edufrance-equateur @ 9:56 pm

For a lot of years, gold chains were synonymous with both dignity and integrity. For the most part, all in all this was basically true of individuals from all different stripes and social strata. For instance, there are the the contemporary and stylish 10K and 14K gold chains, and then there are also the various over the top style gold franco chain, cuban chain as well as both the yellow and white gold chain, which I think look particularly cool on the whole. Thus. if you wish to make a splash and get your really explosive with glamour then find yourself some bling bling jewelry items generally and some gold chains in particular.
I believe that you will begin to notice the overall style, elegance and general craftsmanship
which goes into each individual genuine treasure indeed. For their part, gold chains seem to demand a sort of aura of respect. Perhaps that is why so many gangsters also tend to wear them along with other bling bling items
such as a diamond dog tag for example. It is for the respect and status of it all.
Of course it should be duly noted that a gold chain is generally a focal point you can wear so that folks will notice your achievements and overall social standing. When it comes to this type of hip hop and bling jewelry a lot of folks also prefer various types like gold rope chain, gold pendant and gold rosary necklace as well. Personally, I tend to prefer the rather simplistic and unassuming ball chain as well as nice Casio Diamond G Shock Watches.

July 5, 2009

Vintage Jewelry Makes A Comeback

Filed under: General News — Tags: — edufrance-equateur @ 5:57 am

Vintage Jewelry like that found in many thrift stores and estate auctions is making a comeback, the gold and silver styled jewelry filled with rhinestones and other gems are as popular today as when grandmother wore them. This includes not only necklaces, but earrings filled with gems both large and small, the ankle bracelet and the pin that has been out of style for some time.

The vintage jewelry has become so popular that it is now showing up in jewelry lines today, the elegance that was once worn in everyday necklaces and earrings of gems is back. It is back at such a rate that vintage stores, thrift stores and other sellers of this jewelry from the past cannot keep up with the demand for it. Whether you are looking for gold chains, gold bracelets, ball chain or perhaps a white gold chain, there is something for you there.

The designers lines that are taken back to an age when jewelry was elegant and filled with shining stones, both real and what was known as paste is beginning to show up at store jewelry counters. The prices can range from under twenty to over one thousand depending on the quality of the stones and gold or silver that is in the jewelry pieces.

May 1, 2009

Should You Let Your Feline Outside?

Filed under: Off Topic — edufrance-equateur @ 8:22 pm

Based on my own experience, I firmly believe that it’s best to keep your house cat indoors. I wasn’t always this way. When I moved from New York City to the New Jersey suburbs many years ago I thought that perhaps some outdoor time would do my two mature cats some good; but after letting them out regularly, right after feeding them their cat food, I noticed that they were both changing, and the changes weren’t always for the best.

At that time, I had a female Tortoiseshell named Fey and a male Siamese named Sinatra. After being let out for a few days, I began to notice that Fey had a new past-time, chasing and killing baby squirrels – and of course, she’d bring them home to us as little presents, which made us all squeamish.

Sinatra had a different type of issue. It became clear that he was the target of some neighborhood “bully” cats. He’d come home with all types of scratches from being in cat fights.

After awhile, we decided enough was enough, and tried to reverse what we did, and make our cats back into “house” cats. Well, as you might imagine, they would have none of that. They would meow and hound us, especially after we had given them their cat food, making us quite miserable, until we reluctantly relented.Speaking of that, I do suggest a premium cat food from a good brand like Life’s Abundance. premium cat food is even more important in light of the recent pet food recalls of the mainstream brands.

I now am a firm believe of house cats remaining indoors. If you’re on the fence on the issue consider a few things before deciding to let them out. Once let out:

You won’t have control over the cat food that they eat once they leave your house. A neighbor might feed them premium food (if you’re lucky), cheap cat.

§ food or table scraps. You also won’t have any idea if they’ve been eating animals.

§ Your cat could potentially get hit by a car or ingest poison and you would never know.

§ Your cat might also get picked up by the local shelter.

Whatever you decide, I’m sure you’ll make the right decision for your pet.

February 18, 2009

Renault and Nissan Shift production targets

Filed under: Economy — edufrance-equateur @ 10:09 pm

The Nissan Motor Company, which is Japan’s third-biggest automobile manufacterer overall,  is in the process redesigning its leading March supermini model as a sort of cosortium with the French automobile manufacturer giant Renault SA (the biggest such producer in all of France). They are trying hard to appeal to those who are searching for a fuel-efficient ride. This economic news with a global impact comes on the heels of Nissan’s recent effort to move the facilities of the Micra, which is basically the March’s foreign version, from the United Kingdom to India within the next two years. All in all,  lot of these moves seem to be pure economic necessity. As an example, The global recession has not missed Japan’s automakers,  which in the last decade or so years had few problems selling their compact and fuel-efficient automobiles. Both Renault and Nissan have suffered deep cuts in new automobile orders, which has resulted in deep cuts lately in production and their global workforce. That trend does not appear likely to change any time soon as the America’s, Asia and the European Union continue to suffer from the global economic conditions which have been getting so much press as of late. One obvious reason for these particular troubles is that the world financial crises and resulting consumer credit crunch has made it much more difficult for first time automobile buyers. In addition, rising unemployment throughout much of the world has sharply decreased the number of people who are able to purchase a new automobile.

February 17, 2009

Renault delays plans for new Factory

Filed under: Economy — edufrance-equateur @ 10:32 pm

I am in Hawaii again, putting on my press and writing hat again.
Here is some more unfortunate economic news which shows further evidence (if any was needed) of the global economic slowdown, which some have even described as worldwide meltdown of sorts.
The Renault Corporation has announced that is has put a project to build an automobile factory on the back burner for the time being. All in all, this was annouced as the auto manufacturing giant reported a
painful 6-month loss of €982 million ($1.27 billion), as contrasted with net income of €1.42 billion just a
year previous. In one bit of rather good news for a change, the firm in question did not announce any
further job cuts for the current year, although it will continue a plan started in 2008 to gradually cut
some six thousand or so from their worldwide payrolls via various voluntary means. Mr. Ghosn said the work force would be 120,000 by the end of 2009, compared with 129,000 at the end of 2008 Renault has also somewhat retooled their relationship with their Japanese partner Nissan. By the way if you are visiting Hawaii and needto find a first rate Hawaii Nissan dealer, here is a good one.
In recent months, Nissan has sought to move the facilities of the British isles to the subcontinent of India within the next several years or so, rouphly. CEO Ghosn has basically shoffled his management team.
For example, he has named a brand new global sales chief, a new sales director plus even a new leader of
quality & engineering.

February 13, 2009

Renault and Nissan Post some Discouraging Numbers

Filed under: Business — edufrance-equateur @ 11:21 pm

The global economic and financial crises continues to make it’s presence known on the worl’d main automakers. As
recent numbers show, the Big Three automakers of the united States are not the only manufactures to feel the impact in a
major way. Unfortunately, the Renault company today posted an almost eight percent drop (79%) in full-year net profit because of the severe fall in demand for vehicles and did not offer a specific financial forecast for this year. The French giant is targeting positive free cash flow by slashing inventories, temporary eliminating the dividend and several other key measures. In addition, they will be attempting to get more out of their alliance with Nissan.
All in all, the CEO gave a bearish forecast regarding worldwide sales for the coming year.
When in Hawaii I have noticed the local Hawaii Nissan dealership has been a bit bare of customers lately.
The Hawaii Nissan is generally a thriving operation here too. This is very perplexing to me:
The Nissan CEO won widespread kudos way back in 1999 for bailing Nissan out of near bankruptcy,
but his image has taken a bit of a hit lately as ther sales have been steadily decreasing.
As has been previously reported, Nissan has announced job cuts in the vicinity of twenty thousand positions worldwide. I am not yet sure how Hawaii will be affected by this downsizing wave. As the saying goes, may you live in iteresting times. I would say that we in fact are.

February 12, 2009

Renault Nissan Alliance records 1.1% drop in 2008

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — edufrance-equateur @ 9:57 pm

I just got back from Hawaii and wanted to get posting some news: The Nissan Renault Alliance has officially stated sales of 6,090,304 automobiles globally last year, which is a 1.1% fall from the 6,160,625 automobiles moved the year previous.
All in all, this downspike was due to a 4.1% decrease in sales at the Renault Group overall. Specifically,
Nissan Motor Co announced that it expects to post a group operating loss of JPY 180 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31st 2009. It is the second downward revision of the group’s profit projection for fiscal 2008.
the yearly loss will be Nissan’s initial one since Carlos Ghosn became the chief operating officer back in 1999, when the Renault Nissan alliance was initially established.
All of this comes at a point in time when French auto manufacturers will recieve government assistance and also at a time when there has generally been more operational cooperation
between Renault and Nissan, respectively. By the way if you ever visit Hawaii and want to check out a Hawaii Nissan dealer You can go here if you would like to reserve a vehicle at a Hawaii Nissan.
Meanwhile, in related news directly out of Japan, it was reported that shares shares of Nissan rose yesterday, just a day after they officially announced a majore restructuring
plan which includes cutting about twenty thousand or so positions overall within the outfit. This is obviously not great news for employment crises but pretty welcome news for many investors.
Nissan has already carried out a substantial amount of restructuring back in 1999, when they initially partnered with their French counterpart Renault. Because of that, there is not a lot of excess weight left to cut at this time.

February 11, 2009

Riverside Driver In Critical Condition following accident

Filed under: Accident News — Tags: — edufrance-equateur @ 10:51 pm

Here is some Los Angeles are accident and personal injury related news: According to reports the Riverside Police Department are investigating an incident where a driver was found in his vehicle shot.

 

According to Detective Rick Cobb of the Riverside Police Department police officers found a man sitting in a blue Ford in vicinity of the 10000 block at Campbell Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. The man had a gunshot wound to the head according to the officer on the scene. Someone may need a good lawyer for this one.

 

According to the Riverside Police Officers the man had been driving the vehicle when a person outside of the vehicle shot him.  Police also feel the person that shot the gun fled after the shooting took place. The name of the injured man has not been released. All in all this is still a bit of a mystery. By the way if you happen to reside in Los Angeles or the southern California area generally and you require a top notch Los Angeles accident lawyer then by all means take a look at the law offices of Mr. Robert Mandell. He is indeed a leading Los Angeles accident lawyer and can assist you with a broad array of different cases. 

 

Detective Cobb did state that the man was transported to the Riverside Community Hospital where he was listed in critical condition. There has been no further word on the mans condition or if there are any suspects in the case.

February 10, 2009

Will Fat Injections Be Used Next For Breast Augmentation

Filed under: health/medical — Tags: , — edufrance-equateur @ 8:50 pm

Going to San Diego but before I do I want to switch gears a bit and change the subject a bit and sicuss the topic of Breast augmentation. There may be yet another way that numerous women will be able to enjoy receiving the benefits of having firmer and larger breasts that so many women have already been going under the knife to receive.  Every single day thousands of women all around the world opt for the choice they have available to them in the cosmetic procedure of having breast implants or Breast augmentation.  Is there another type of procedure that these women will have the benefit of selecting by injecting their own fat into their breast tissue?

Numerous plastic surgeons have found that a woman’s very own fat that can be used for injecting it into her breasts has been working rather well for touch-up procedures being performed after she has had reconstructive breast surgery.  This particular procedure has been used for a number of years. Incidentially live in San Diego and you need a great San Diego Breast augmentation surgeon then may I recommend Dr. Susan Kaweski as she is certainly one of the better San Diego Breast augmentation experts out there. She can help you not only in San Diego but other areas also.  Now there are further studies that are in the planning stages to decide if this very same method of injecting fat into the breasts can in fact be used for complete breast augmentation.  These tests will however have to be completed before it can be proven as being an effective means of breast augmentation.  Up to this point these fat injections have only been used for limited areas of the breast to soften-up the appearance of these particular areas after augmentation surgery has already been performed.  These injections have also been used to help the damaged tissue in women who have received a lumpectomy and radiation procedures.  Breast augmentation has certainly come a long way since its initial introduction and this very well could be the next step.

February 9, 2009

More High Speed Pursuit News

Filed under: Accident News — Tags: — edufrance-equateur @ 10:27 pm

In Philadelphia this fall, two officers, in unrelated police pursuits, were killed in collisions.

In September, a high speed pursuit left  Officer Isabel Nazario dead and Officer Terry Tull  seriously injured.  While pursuing a joyriding teenager (possibly dui related), police T-boned their cruiser in Mantua.
Just last month, Sgt. Timothy Simpson died when a man trying to elude police broadsided Simpson’s cruiser in Port Richmond.  Someoen is going to need a good lawyer for that one. The price of tragedy can be marked sometimes, not only in money and the loss of life but in the loss of potential life.

Darnell Bennett was fourteen years old when a Yeadon man fleeing police on a red Honda motorcycle, hit him on May 15, 2003. Bennett was walking home from school when McDuffy struck him causing permanent brain-damaged and crippled. At the deposition and in an interview last week, McDuffy first caught his attention at Bouvier Street and 66th Avenue, where Sweeny, a five-year veteran, was patrolling what he described as a “well-known drug location.”

Sweeney testified at the deposition that he believed that the motorcycle had been stolen, although he couldn’t specify why. And although McDuffy wasn’t speeding, Officer Sweeney reports that he was “driving in circles” and wasn’t wearing a helmet, which then was illegal. As reported in the previous article The countrywide average of people killed by police pursuits per day was 368 last year (Fatal Analysis Reporting System). Some cities like Seattle and Los Angeles have very bad numbers in this regard. many of these incidents are dui related.

After the collision, Darnell Bennett spent a month in a coma. After he came out of the coma, he spent an entire year recovering from broken bones and head trauma in area hospitals and rehabilitation centers.  By the way if you live in Seattle and need a superb Seattle dui lawyer then I would like to recommend the offices of Blair/Kim as they are among the top Seattle dui lawyer you can find.

Bennett has had multiple surgeries and ongoing physical therapy to improve his mobility, Currently he uses a cane to get around, but he falls so much that his neurologist predicts he’ll eventually have to use a wheelchair

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