HOTEL KEY CARDS

From the California Bureau of Investigation:

“Southern California law enforcement professionals assigned to detect
new threats to personal security issues, recently discovered what
type of information is embedded in the credit card type hotel room key
used throughout the industry.

Although room keys differ from hotel to hotel, a key obtained from a
well known hotel chain that was being used for a regional Identity
Theft Presentation was found to contain the following the information:

a.. Customers (your) name

b.. Customers partial home address

c.. Hotel room number

d.. Check in date and check out date

e.. Customer’s (your) credit card number and expiration date!

When you turn them in to the front desk your personal information is
there for any employee to gain access by simply scanning the card in
the hotel scanner.

An employee can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning
device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your
expense.

Simply put, hotels do not erase the information on these cards until
an employee re-issues the card to the next hotel guest.

At that time, the new guest’s information is electronically
“overwritten” on the card and the previous guest’s information is
erased in the overwriting process. But until the card is rewritten for the
next guest, it usually is kept in a drawer at the front desk with YOUR
INFORMATION ON IT!!!!

The bottom line is: Keep the cards, take them home with you, or
destroy them.

NEVER leave them behind in the room or room wastebasket, and NEVER
turn them in to the front desk when you check out of a room. They will not
charge you for the card (it’s illegal) and you’ll be sure you are not leaving a
lot of valuable personal information on it that could be easily lifted
off with any simple scanning device card reader.

For the same reason, if you arrive at the airport and discover you
still have the card key in your pocket, do not toss it in an airport trash
basket. Take it home and destroy it by cutting it up, especially
through the electronic information strip!

Information courtesy of:
Pasadena Police Department

Since my grandson Piper Dude started playing bagpipes when he was 12 he has always adapted regular songs to the pipes.  So I thought this was an interesting obituary on a  piper who played alongside the greats of jazz.

He also was the lead artist on the Atlantic label and appeared on television shows.

 

They’ve changed again after they’ve had time to see what is necessary. The Atlanta Journal Constitution lists the following changes:

you can carry on Lipstick, baby food and small amounts of liquid nonprescription medicine, low blood sugar treatments including glucose gel for diabetics. 

Wear shoes that you can slip off easily and some type of sock so you aren’t putting your bare feet on the floor.   then you can take the socks off after you’ve gone thru security.

also allow more time to check in.  add an extra hour.

check the rules at www.tsa.gov

WHAT YOU CAN’T CARRY:

Personal items
All creams and lotions (i.e. suntan lotion, ointments, topical creams)
Bug sprays
Bubble bath / gel bath balls
Eye drops / gels
Gel deodorants (solid stick allowed)
Gel caps
Hair styling gels / hair sprays
Hair straightener or detangler
Lip gels / lip glosses / lip liquids (solid lip glosses, blushes allowed)
Liquid foundations
Liquid medications (up to 4 oz. of nonprescription is allowed)
Liquid sanitizers / Liquid soaps
Make up remover / facial cleansers
Mascara
Mouthwash / toothpaste
Nail polish / Nail polish removers
Perfumes / colognes
Saline solution

Food and drinks
All beverages (formula/breast milk allowed)
CamelBaks, similar backpacks and water bottles must be empty
Gel based sports supplements
Gelatin desserts / Puddings
Yogurts
Note: Baby food is permitted

Other Items
Baby teethers (with gel or liquid inside)
Children’s toys with gel inside
Gel candles
Gel shoe inserts

when people told me they could sell this product online and offline.  I thought who in the world would buy Jerky?

But the more I read about it and saw that people are actually paying for their kids college education with this product the more enthused I was.

So I ordered some and found it was deliciouis.  It’s high protein, low fat, in most cases low carb and no added preservatives or msg.  And even low in salt for this kind of product.

I joined the company, have started sending it out as prizes and gifts and low and behold  people are raving over it.  I was able to barter some for ads  and she’s raving over it too.  My goodness, this is going to be great.

You can order some to try for yourself at my site      It’s only $12 for a two 4 oz bags of a variety of beef jerky, turkey or buffalo.

If you like it and want to sell it, it’s $12 a month and you get the 2 bags. I signed up for the variety where I get a different flavor every month until I’ve tried them all. 

 The pay scale is great and I’m looking forward to the income too.

They lied…. said it was going to cool down but it hasn’t.  However we haven’t been as hot as the family in Va Beach and Hampton has been.

They keep telling us it is going to rain but it doesn’t. 

on my Noah’s Ark blog  http://friendsfromtheark.com      The company has retired a few of the older ones and replaced them with these new ones.  Come take a peek.

AND….stay tuned for new ones in the fall.

This is a great company.   They sent out email press releases to the community paper and I had a call from one of them for a photo shoot.

Then tonite a mom called me for a birthday party in Sept.  She had tried to contact a crew member that she had met at a previous birthday party but the crew member didn’t respond so she emailed the company and they gave her my name.    Most companies don’t do this type of thing.

So far I’m very pleased with them.