Hollywood Sign was saved thanks to Playboy boss

Playboy boss Hugh Hefner finally become the savior of Hollywood sign which is considered iconic symbol of Tinseltown. Hefner donated the final amount needed fundraiser, Trust for Public Land before the deadline given for the purchase of land Cahuenga Peak that will be sold at a real estate developer. With the generosity of the Hollywood sign Hefner was saved from eviction.

Boss magazine 84-year-old man was giving a donation of U.S. $ 900,000. As quoted from the site campaign for The Trust for Public Land, savehollywoodland.org, Hefner himself has said that he considers this board as the beginning of his dream. "Dreams and fantasies of my childhood came from movies, and images that were created in Hollywood had a big influence on my life and Playboy. As I said before, the Hollywood sign is his Eiffel Tower Hollywood and I'm glad I could help preserve this important cultural part."

Previously, the governor of California Arnold Schwarzengger who also had been a part of Hollywood come to give support in an effort to purchase the hill where the establishment of the Hollywood sign it. Schwarzengger said that if the Hollywood sign a symbol that has been very well known in California. He recalled how glitter of Hollywood has been invited to leave his hometown in Austria. Schwarzengger migrate to the U.S. with little money just to pursue his dream to be an actor.

By fulfilling the target of U.S. $ 12.5 million was Cahuenga Peak successfully bought from this land owner, Fox River Financial Services. Will Rogers, chairman of the Trust for Public Land spoke of his gratitude to all parties, especially Hefner has provided assistance in the final moments. After this, the Hollywood sign will be protected forever and be a part of Griffith Park.

Fund-raising campaign was conducted Save The Peak City Council Member Tom LaBonge and community organization Trust for Public Land since February to buy Cahuenga Peak, the hill where the establishment of the Hollywood sign. Of investors from Chicago, Fox River Financial Services was originally given a deadline until 14 April for the payment of U.S. $ 12.5 million, which has been agreed as the purchase price. But because the fund has not been collected, the payment deadline postponed to 30 April.

Previously, Tiffany & Co.. Aileen Getty Foundation and contribute. Getty donate U.S. $ 500,000, until the remaining deficiencies to reach U.S. $ 12.5 million living U.S. $ 1 million. Finally, the deficiency is covered thanks Hefner gives U.S. 900,000 USD. In 1978, the Playboy boss was to contribute to the development board's iconic. And after 32 years had passed, he now come back to save the Hollywood sign. (KPL / actress)

Triangle of Satan

Segitiga Bermuda (NASA)

Many mysterious places on Earth, but the Bermuda Triangle( Segitiga Bermuda), or often called the 'Triangle of Satan' - the seas in the Atlantic Ocean region - considered the most haunted. And the story spread to the awesomeness that place throughout the universe.

The story spread through books, advertising telecommunications products to the big screen. Many who do not know where the actual location of the mysterious region.

Bermuda Triangle is really a region within an imaginary line connecting the three regions namely Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Miami in the United States.

The people who settled in Bermuda, has been desperately fighting assorted horror stories. For the living area of tourism, travelers can dijauh sensational stories because of it.

A 80-year-old grandfather of Bermuda, William Gillies has just issued a book entitled "Reefs, wrecks & Relics - Bermuda Underwater Heritage 'or' Reef, wreck, and Relics - Bermuda Underwater Natural Heritage '.

In her book, Gillies told the Bermuda Ocean dive experiences. As published The Royal Gazette, Wednesday, April 28, 2010, though no longer possible to go down into the water, but his memory about his youth as a treasure seeker in the wreck, has not disappeared.

"With the dive, I know the Bermuda ocean resources, 'he said.

One of the first memory about the sea of Bermuda is the event of a sinking luxury liner Spain, Cristobal Colon in the region of North Reef, October 25, 1936. When the ship was sinking, Gillies was six years old.

Gillies started penyelamannya in 1965, when he was 35 years old. The discovery of a bell from an old ship that sank sparked her passion for diving and looking for the remains of a sunken treasure on the seabed.

Interesting objects in the sand around the wreck and she often found. For example an old lamp pieces of whale oil as fuel.

Sometimes she and her companion selamnya found floating or pottery or porcelain pieces.

Some of the pieces that she reconstruction using fiberglass and resin. Some works are now on display at the restoration Gillies Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI).

Gillies acknowledged some mysterious object. For example, he found a rusty pipe in a wooden crate stored in a sailing ship was destroyed and sunk in the early 1900s.

There is another group of objects form a small ring-shaped kristan. "It may be used to decorate the dress of a woman," he said.

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Gillies experiences far from the impression of horror Bermuda Triangle. It was also felt by local communities.

The Royal Gazette in 1992, never ran a Bermuda resident's anger at a mobile phone ads boasted, with its product, people can still communicate, though 'lost in the Bermuda Triangle'.

"This will kill the Bermuda tourism. We should sue these people," said tourism entrepreneur, RJ Zuill, at that time.

People who saw the ad says to his wife, they would never go to Bermuda because of the specter of the Bermuda Triangle.

"It's very silly. Ships and aircraft through our area every day and no matter what happens," he said.

Dollar weakens against!!

Dollar weakens against the euro and yen on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve to maintain interest rates unchanged and repeated the U.S. pledge to maintain the level of "very low" for a "period."
A different voice by the Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig added to the decline in dollar sentiment as there is no other policy makers to join him on an object to continue the lawsuit on the expression of the needs of ultra-low prices for long durations.
The Fed has been targeting banks for overnight lending rate between zero and 0.25 percent since December 2008. Interest rates close to zero reduces the attractiveness of U.S. dollar against higher-yielding currencies.
Fed Statement added to the bearish stance on the dollar market, however the greenback still up nearly 1 percent against the euro this month and approximately 4 percent higher this year.

After the release of the Fed policy statement, implicitly prospect that the U.S. central bank will raise interest rates at the meeting of November federal slipped to 76 percent, based on trading in November futures contract on the Chicago Board of Trade. Prospects of rising interest rates by a meeting in November is around 87 percent before the end of the meeting setting Federal Open Market Committee policy.