Officine Panerai PAM00365

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12 October 2010
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Officine Panerai PAM00365

Dedicated to fans of technical grand complications, the Officine Panerai Luminor 1950 Equation of Time Tourbillon Titanio – 50 mm (PAM00365) is a tribute to the genius of Galileo Galilei, a combination of some of the rarest, most exclusive and fascinating specialities in watch-making.

Produced in just 30 examples, the Luminor 1950 Equation of Time Tourbillon Titanio – 50 mm is the most technically sophisticated wristwatch ever produced by Officine Panerai: a tourbillon with equation of time, indication of sunrise and sunset times for the city chosen by the purchaser and depiction of the night sky of the same city on the back plate — via Watch Luxus

Rolex Romps 7 Million Chronometers in a Decade

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11 October 2010
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Watch enthusiasts know that when it comes to producing Swiss chronometers, there are the Big Three Brands – Rolex, Omega and Breitling – and then there’s all the rest. Just how big the Big Three are in chronometer production becomes startlingly clear when you analyze Swiss chronometer output by brand over the past decade — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Nautilus

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10 October 2010
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Nautilus, originally uploaded by PacificKlaus.

The crew of the Ocean Hunter III baited these with chicken, and then brought them up from the abyss (> 200 m) to diveable depths. The nautili clearly wanted to descend again, and we had a few minutes with each of them to take photographs.

Nautilus are ancient cephalopods, primitive relatives of squid and octopi.

Andre Geim: in praise of graphene

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9 October 2010
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics went to the discoverers of the one-atom-thick sheets of carbon known as graphene. Andre Geim of the University of Manchester, UK, who shared the award with his colleague Konstantin Novoselov, tells Nature why graphene deserves the prize, and why he hasn’t patented it — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Reuters blocks anonymous ‘uncivil’ comments

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9 October 2010
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Newspapers always publish their readers’ letters with the writer’s name and address appended there for everyone to read (Or at least they do secure in the knowledge that those vital facts have been supplied).

Newspaper websites are rather different, though. Here you may find the odd contributed comment deleted by the anonymous hand of the moderator, but mostly the vitriol flows free. There is “uncivil behaviour” by the bucketload; screens heaving with what Reuters calls “repetition, [issues of] taste, legal risk or political bias”.

No longer on Reuters.com, however, where new rules now rule out all of the above. Perhaps not much longer on major sites in the United States, either, where the swing against anonymity grows stronger by the month — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Honeybee Killer Found by Army and Entomologists

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9 October 2010
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It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees?

Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States alone have suffered colony collapse. Suspected culprits ranged from pesticides to genetically modified food.

Now, a unique partnership – of military scientists and entomologists – appears to have achieved a major breakthrough: identifying a new suspect, or two — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Afghan security firms ‘hand in glove’ with Taliban

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9 October 2010
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A Senate report has found evidence that many Afghan security personnel paid with US taxpayers’ money to guard American bases are hand in glove with the Taliban insurgents hell-bent on killing coalition troops.

One disturbing case uncovered by the Armed Services Committee in the western Afghan province of Herat illustrates the deadly double game played by some of these hired guns.

Two Afghan warlords involved were nicknamed by their British employers as Mr White and Mr Pink, after gangsters in the gory Hollywood movie Reservoir Dogs.

The two contractors were appointed in June 2007 by the defence contractor ArmorGroup to provide security at Shindand airbase — via richardfarner.newsvine.com

How To: Draft a Back Pleat

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9 October 2010
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I admit to being one of those people who think that very nearly everything could be improved with a modest pleat or ruffle to spice things up, so I was intrigued by this tutorial for drafting a double back pleat by Lauriana at Petit Main Sauvage. My relationship to her blog is usually much more aspirational as I’m a middling sewer at best and she’s constantly dashing off her own intricate patterns, but this seems pretty straightforward. If you can draft your own pattern, so much the better, but for a learning sewer like myself, she explains how to add it to an existing skirt pattern (or even an existing skirt, I suppose). I think it’s time for an wool autumn skirt with a pleat in a contrasting color… — via CRAFT

Perrelet Regulator Retrograde

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9 October 2010
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Perrelet Regulator Retrograde

Time is displayed in an orderly way, since the dial is divided into several segments. An imposing window at 12 o’clock indicates the retrograde hours for a half-day (12 one-hour zones). The minutes are indicated on a disc positioned at 6 o’clock. Anchored to the central axis, a blued steel seconds hand sweeps around the whole dial, while the days hand maintains its daily rhythm — via Watch Luxus

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