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Industry Trends and Issues
The food and beverage industry is not without significant pressures. Margins are slim, the demand for products unpredictable, and the demand for customers service significant. These challenges become life-or-death business issues when compounded with rapid turnaround time; extremely short shelf life; a constant influx of new, improved, and differently flavored prepared and packaged products; climate- and weather-related threats; and the high variability of ingredients. Throughout the product life cycle, dynamic environment factors must be carefully managed if a product is to continue to meet customer requirements for quality and cost.
Part Two of the series Food and Beverage "Delights."
There are also many product categories, and to compete, firms must constantly innovate. They not only have to meet production demands, but they also have to provide true research and development (R&D), additional product quality and safety testing, and the ability to bi-directionally expand the supply chain around the world. Hence, many rightfully think it is one of the most competitive industries. Further on, we will examine the major issues and resulting pressures on food and beverage manufacturers and distributors today, and analyze what these pressures mean to them (and for some cases look at what actions could alleviate the conundrum).
For background and a definition of the industry see Food and Beverage "Delights".
Erratic Consumer Behavior
As consumers, we are fickle, and our behavior is ever-changing. We have new preferences and fads dominating our buying decisions. For example, refrigerated meats and poultry products increased their revenue by about 22 percent from 2003 to 2004, while frozen juice fell 15.4 percent, and seafood and dry-packaged dinners declined about 7 percent during the same time. Looking at the consumer demands for the next five years shows us that the rate of change will not slow down, and may even quicken. Furthermore, modern lifestyles and increased disposable incomes in many nations now dictate that food products not only come to us fresh, but also processed and packaged in different ways (as in fully cooked buffalo wings, marinated ribs, or grilled chicken breasts). This is because we want to spend less time in the kitchen preparing food (chopping and dicing) and more time in the active enjoyment of eating and drinking.
Moreover, cultural differences play a big part in how we prepare and cook our foods (according to kosher or vegan requirements, for instance), and distributors should know about the demographic details. Whether demanded by regulations or not, accompanying documentation has to provide ingredient statements, nutrition information, approved claims information, religious certification, details of allergens, and many other customer-specific requirements. As said earlier, we also tend to eat out more, choosing from a variety of restaurants and eating establishments. These trends require food products that are readily available fresh or at different levels of preparation to suit consumer convenience. The industry has to be ever more creative in providing choices that cater to consumer preferences, in order to increase turnover and gain market share.
Customer Consolidation
The consolidation of retailers is a fact, and is a global trend that affects not just groceries but all retail categories (see Challenging the Competition: Mega-mergers and Supply Chain Technology). A $400 million (USD) food processor recently commented that the percentage of business it derives from its four largest accounts continues to rise each year. One of its executives summed up this trend by saying, "The small customers are getting both fewer and smaller, while the large ones are getting fewer and bigger." The company has organized its business around these four major accounts plus "other accounts," reflecting the concentration of its business. Customer consolidation means fewer decision makers with more power, where each controls greater volume and market coverage. More importantly, a loss of business from a major retailer eliminates the manufacturer from a large segment of the business, with decreasing options to make up the lost opportunity and volume.
Thus, the food and beverage and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturers and distributors that supply the major supermarket retailers share many common business challenges, along with a tough competitive environment. This holds true whether the product is food, drink, personal care, cleaning products, or any other product stocked and sold by supermarkets. The customers—huge, powerful, and demanding supermarkets and retail chains—want products manufactured "to order," with lead times often measured in hours rather than days or weeks. In fact, in the sector it is routine to deal with delivery lead times shorter than the time actually needed to make the product. To top it all off, this circumstance is often bundled with highly variable forecasts, which shatters any remaining hint of predictability.
As indicated above, most consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers have a few very important customers that account for much of their output, and these customers will usually provide some form of demand projection or forecast. Such customers are so-called channel masters, which control a significant portion of demand. The term channel master describes the role of the major retailers (Wal-Mart, Kroger, Tesco, Kmart, etc.), food service companies (MacDonald's, Wendy's, etc.) and food service distributors (Sysco). When asked to describe channel masters, a vice president (VP) of marketing at a food manufacturer explained, "when they demand something, the manufacturer just has to say thank you'." These channel masters control access to the market. The channel master has the power to determine prices, promotions, placement, etc. Such customers want guaranteed supplies at guaranteed prices, though some specialty products do have seasonal variations. Their preference is to enter into price or supply contracts for periods of up to one year. The food services industry has organized buying groups to negotiate better prices, whereas major retail chains are large enough to negotiate their own pricing.
Furthermore, these exacting customers often demand that their suppliers come up with new product ideas and to run test production, without any guarantee that the new line will be approved. As if that were not enough, the costs of the finished goods are constantly being driven downwards—but consistent high quality is mandatory. Variability is the major enemy of food and beverage manufacturers, whether in terms of the attributes, shelf life, or potency of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished-goods inventory. These dynamics all create significant challenges for process specifications, and can add delays and costs to the process, and impact customer satisfaction if the quality for the products is not maintained within strict tolerances.
To thrive and grow in the sector, food manufacturers will have to increase their value, and differentiate through tighter relationships and with exemplary service for their mighty customers. They will have to address many demands of these customers in a variety of areas, including product quality, sales commitments and product availability, make-to-order (MTO) capabilities, vendor-managed inventory (VMI), on-time delivery, and customer service. For instance, product bundling is a common practice for retailers, as one retailer might want a three-pack kit simply because its competitor sells a two-pack. These requests are most efficiently executed in distribution when they support a final assembly postponement strategy. CPG manufacturers have to measure the most important metric of all: orders delivered on time, in full (see The Perfect Order—Inside-out or Outside-in?).
The Technology Demands of Channel Masters
Channel masters also determine the business methods and technologies necessary to do business with them. To that end, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has pervaded the consumer and industry news, since channel masters are increasingly setting technical and business process requirements and deadlines for their suppliers. Despite the emerging technology's growing pains and hype, no one doubts that RFID will be an absolute requirement in the future. In fact, the issue is not if, but when (see As Hype Becomes Reality, a Radio Frequency Identification Ecosystem Emerges, When will RFID Hit Main Street?, and The Three Rs of RFID: Rewards, Risk, and ROI).
RFID is just one element of a continuing process on the part of retailers to drive costs out of the supply chain. The food industry was in fact an early innovator in the exchange of electronic communication based on the Wal-Mart electronic data interchange (EDI) model. EDI communication with several business partners has never been easy (see The Pain and Gain of Integrated EDI). For that reason, it is not terribly surprising that other data interchange protocols—such as extensible markup language (XML) messaging and more recently, global data synchronization (GDS) and product information management (PIM)— have emerged (see $40 Billion Is Being Wasted by Companies without Product Information Management Strategies—How Is Yours Coming Along?).
One fact is certain: the development of Internet-based communications with global supply chain partners will continue to expand as food distributors look for simpler but faster ways to exchange information. It is essential that trading partners and technology providers provide open systems that make it far easier for business applications to exchange information. These technology-driven requirements represent an ever-higher technology hurdle that manufacturers must clear to participate in the retailer's sales success.
For many, these technology demands should benefit both the retailer and the manufacturer. For example, AMR Research has reported that GDS reduces invoice and purchase order errors by more than 40 percent, while decreasing the time to introduce new items by as much as three weeks. Wal-Mart's drive toward "everyday low prices" is not new, but has clearly helped the retailer become the largest retailer in the world. Wal-Mart continues this quest by leveraging both its size and technology to drive costs out of its supply chain. If a manufacturer wants to do business with Wal-Mart, it has to provide more than just product. It must also meet Wal-Mart's technology requirements.
Wal-Mart is not an isolated example, but it is the one we hear about most often. Technology mandates also exist from Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Albertsons, and other major names. Often, a mandate is for the same technology but with individual twists. Meeting Wal-Mart's RFID requirements is not the same as meeting those of Tesco or Marks & Spencer. The manufacturer needs the ability both to meet the technology requirement and to tailor its response to the demands of the individual retailer. In fact, since every major customer may have its own way of managing sales order entries, the supplier's back-office or enterprise resource planning (ERP) system must be sufficiently flexible and workflow-enabled to support the user's particular method of managing customer orders. A midsized food company recently had an introductory meeting with buyers from a major retailer. A key part of the meeting consisted of the retailer probing into the food company's ability to meet the retailer's technical needs. It was clear that if the food company could not jump over the retailer's technology hurdle, no second meeting would be necessary.
Retailers continue to push other business practices that cut costs and increase product availability, such as point of sale (POS) information to help manage restocking by examining sales and stocking levels for generating sales orders and delivery schedules, for both short- and long-term delivery plans (see Point of Sale: To Stand Alone or Not?). This, in turn, should help food distributors with the call-offs against the customer's supply contracts, predicting where there might be shortfalls and overruns; food distributors should use this information to notify suppliers of any changes in their delivery schedules. With those objectives in mind, the channel masters insist on tighter shipping schedules. This yields fewer inventories across the supply chain, which reduces cost and also results in less stock handled, which in turn reduces labor and damage. Product availability or the elimination of out-of-stocks has a major financial impact on both retailer and manufacturer. A supply chain executive at Procter and Gamble (P&G) says of the impact of retail out-of-stocks, "retailers on average lose the sale 41 percent of the time, while P&G loses 29 percent of the time."
Indeed, with a reported average retail out-of-stock rate of about 7 percent, availability is a huge issue affecting manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The major retail chains dictate highly demanding service levels and delivery requirements, and expect zero errors. Their turnover volumes are so large that they often source the same products from several different food distributors. If a supplier's performance dwindles, the retail chain might suspend the order call-offs and switch to another supplier for a month or two. There are no guarantees: the major food retailers have all the power, so it is essential to establish a supply operation to support the "right the first time, every time" guiding principle. Most food and beverage manufacturers operate on relatively thin margins, and with the added overhead of retailer and regulatory compliance, the need to minimize rework becomes critical. For most companies, small percentages of rework translate into significant cuts into profits, and executing processes right the first time is vital to survival and growth.
Because of the tight time scales involved, manufacturers have to interpret forecasts astutely in order to set the production processes in motion, and order entry has to be very closely coupled with forecasting, demand management, and manufacturing planning. The fast-moving food and consumer goods industries were the primary innovators of efficient consumer response (ECR). This practice enables retailers to use vast databases of sales information to analyze customer buying patterns and predict future product and packaging requirements. Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR) is another industry initiative that enables companies along the supply chain to work together via the Internet to develop a single, more accurate demand forecast, and to create a plan for delivering product to meet that demand. This information is useful for food producers and growers to plan product strategies.
The APICS Dictionary (eleventh edition) defines CPFR as
a collaboration process whereby supply chain trading partners can jointly plan key supply chain activities from production and delivery of raw materials to production and delivery of final products to end customers. Collaboration encompasses business planning, sales forecasting, and all operations required to replenish raw materials and finished goods. CPFR is considered a standard, endorsed by the Voluntary Inter-industry Commerce Standards.
a collaboration process whereby supply chain trading partners can jointly plan key supply chain activities from production and delivery of raw materials to production and delivery of final products to end customers. Collaboration encompasses business planning, sales forecasting, and all operations required to replenish raw materials and finished goods. CPFR is considered a standard, endorsed by the Voluntary Inter-industry Commerce Standards.
In any case, dealing with a channel master means increased volume and revenue, but it means increased complexity and cost of customer service. With tight margins throughout the industry, what does doing business with a channel master mean to the manufacturer's bottom line? For more information, see Living and Thriving with Channel Master Customers and Yes, We Have No Bananas: Consumer Goods Manufacturers Serve Demanding Customers.
A form of consolidation comes from food distributors. Many food distributors act as commodity brokers, negotiating annual supply contracts for major retail chains for a range of food products. Often, these are "own label" or "private label" products that are sourced from several different growers or food processors around the world to guarantee a year-round supply. Brands play a major role in the food industry. Stores count on brands to help promote their stores, and feel comfortably certain that consumers prefer branded products to "unknown products." Grocery stores will typically carry two or three brands in a category, with one of the brands often being the grocery store's own brand, a known store brand, or a private label. If a manufacturer is not able to gain shelf space due to the limited number of brands being carried, it cannot sell their products at all through that retailer. The existence of private label or store brands yields a business opportunity for manufacturers (see The Fragile Consumer Packaged Goods Market and Private Label Products). Most of the private label products are produced by manufacturers who package these products with the retailer's label. For some retailers, a large portion of their sales come from private label products. For example, half of Wal-Mart's grocery sales are from store brands. At Kroger, that number is 24 percent, while Safeway reports that 23 percent of its sales are store brands.
These products are processed and packaged to precise specifications, and containerized for shipment. A resulting common occurrence is that canned products will be stored as "bright stock," meaning they are simply cans without labels. Then, as demand is established, the cans are run through a labeling operation to give them a name brand or store brand label, depending on the order. Some containers might be shipped directly to a customer's own distribution center (DC), whereas others are shipped to a distributor's warehouse or to public warehousing. The logistics planning, documentation, and quality of the product must be precise if costs are to be kept under control. If the quality is not up to standard and the consignment is rejected, the food distributor has the problem of replacement, re-labeling, and disposal on the secondary market, almost surely at a loss.
About the Authors
Predrag Jakovljevic is a principal analyst with Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC), with a focus on the enterprise applications market. He has nearly twenty years of manufacturing industry experience, including several years as a power user of IT/ERP and related applications, as well as being a consultant/implementer and market analyst. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Belgrade (Serbia [the former Yugoslavia]), and has also been certified in production and inventory management (CPIM) and integrated resources management (CIRM) by APICS.
Olin Thompson is Lawson's vice-president of industry strategy. He has over twenty-five years of experience as an executive in the software industry, and has been called the "father of process ERP." Thompson is a frequent author and award-winning speaker on such topics as gaining value from ERP, supply chain planning (SCP), e-commerce, and the impact of technology on industry. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A man traveling over 125 miles per hour on the interstate was stopped by a highway patrol. Sorry, officer, said the driver, was I driving too fast?
No, sir. Our were flying too low.
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Here- why are you trying to cross the road in this dangerous place? Theres a zebra crossing just a few yards up the road, said the policeman.
Well, I hope hes having better luck than I am, said the pedestrian.
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In Australia, a race was proclaimed, with a huge payoff for the winner. The one stipulation was that only ostriches were allowed to run the race. A fellow decided to enter, but not having an ostrich, and hearing that the fastest ostrich in the world was the mascot of the local police department, he stole the bird and entered the race. As luck would have it, when the pistol shot went off to start the race, the ostrich buried its head in the sand and the fellow lost the race.
Moral: Never run afoul of the law!
Thanks to: Freddie Pitz - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada
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We've all been lost and depended on our wives to act as navigator.
Well, not long ago, Mrs. Jim Jr., her face buried in a map book, said "Turn here!" I did, and didn't notice the "No Left Turn" sign. Just my luck, a policeman was nearby and stopped me. I tried to explain that we were lost and I was following my wife's directions.
He issued me a ticket for "Driving Under the Influence of Wife."
Thanks to: Paulina A. Candia - Santiago - R. M. - Chile
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Lee Memorial Health: Team up to quit smoking
As health care professionals, we see the effects of smoking every day and night. Since Nov. 19, 2009, Lee Memorial Health System has been tobacco-free, meaning that all forms of tobacco, including cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, are prohibited on system properties—both owned and leased. Prior to and since then we have helped many employees and family members stop smoking. Unfortunately our community continues to have an adult smoking rate of nearly 20 percent.
This year, during the 6th annual Tobacco Free Florida Week, which runs April 21-27, the Florida Department of Health is teaming up with health professionals to help smokers quit for good. Dr. John Armstrong, Florida state surgeon general and secretary of health, is calling on the health care community to work with patients to help them successfully quit. "Patients who discuss ways to quit with their health care professionals are ultimately more successful in their quit attempts," he says. So, the Department of Health is launching Team Up to Quit—a statewide effort to raise awareness of the resources available to help Floridians quit using any tobacco products.
There are so many reasons to quit, but the most compelling reasons mean the difference between life and death. Recent research shows that smokers who quit can add up to 10 years to their life expectancy. Additionally, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if current smoking rates continue, 270,200 children alive today who are younger than 18 years of age will die prematurely as a result of smoking.
Lee Memorial Health System strives to be a role model of healthy living, which is why we decided to go tobacco free. We also want to be your advocate and support, especially if you are trying to quit smoking. We are caring people, caring for people and we are here to help you quit the use of any tobacco products. Talk to your physician about ways to quit, call the Florida Quitline at 1-877-822-6669, visit www.quitnow.net/florida or find face-to-face classes near you by visiting www.AHECtobacco.com.


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The name Daniel is of Hebrew origin.
The meaning of Daniel is "G-d is my judge".
In the U.S. in 2014, it ranked 10 in baby name popularity for boys with 13829 occurrences. It ranked 5299 in popular baby names for girls with 25 occurrences.
View the Daniel Name Popularity Page to see how the popularity trend for Daniel has changed since 1880, or to compare the popularity of Daniel to other names.
Variants of the name Daniel include Danail, Daneil, Danell, Danial, Danie, Daniyel, Daniyyel, Dannick, Danniel, Danniell, Dannius, Dannon, Dannyel, Dantrell, Danyal, Danyale, Danyeal, Danyel, Danyl.
The names Daneille, Danel, Danele, Danella, Danelle, Danes, Danett, Danette, Dania, Danialle, Danieala, Danieia, Daniela, Daniele, Daniella, Danielle, Danielly, Daniil, Danijel, Danil, Danila, Danilo, Danita, Daniyyel, Danka, Danna, Dannete, Dannett, Dannetta, Dannette, Danni, Dannia, Dannielle, Danousek, Danusia, Danut, Danya, Danyell, Danyellah, Danyelle, Deiniol, Deniel, Dinah, Dinelle, Taneli, Taniel, Taniele, Tanielle are all forms of Daniel.
Daniel has the diminutives (nicknames) Dan, Danny.
Daniel falls into the name categories biblical, classic, easy nickname, song.
Some famous bearers of this name include: Daniel Boone, Daniel Radcliffe.
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Local language versions of biblical names of Hebrew origin such as Hannah and David are still widely internationally popular today.
Modern Hebrew names are often derived from Hebrew vocabulary, for example Aviva (spring) and Dov (bear).
Children of Jewish heritage are usually given a Hebrew name for religious purposes and are sometimes also given a local language version of that name for secular purposes.
By custom, Ashkenazi Jews (Jews of German or Eastern European descent) name their children after deceased relatives. This is in order to honor the deceased relative, keep their name and memory alive, and to form a bond between the soul of the baby and the deceased relative so that they can live on within the newer generation.
Sephardic Jews (Jews of Spain, Portugal and the Middle East) in contrast, name their children after living relatives or deceased relatives. The father's parents names are generally used first and then the mother's parents names.
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After a child is born, the father is given an aliyah (religious honor to bless the reading of the Torah). After this a blessing is said for the health of the mother and child. If the baby is a girl, she is named at this time. If the baby is a boy, he will be named during his brit milah (ritual circumcision) generally eight days after birth.


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continues thus far with all approving and one suggesting minor changes.
Lesley Thomas and Randy Canterbury have also reviewed them.
Learning Needs and Evaluation Center is now the Student
Disability Access Center. Discussion of the cognitive
abilities bullet - Communicate effectively and quickly in both oral and
written formats – concluded that "effectively" alone was more
appropriate, thus - Communicate effectively in both oral and
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the Class of 2016 found that the student comments were generally
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Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
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|Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
Title card
|comedy, family, adventure, fantasy
|Developed by
DIC Entertainment
MGM/UA Television
|Directed by
|Michael Maliani
|Voices of
|(English Dubbing)
Carl Banas
Mairon Bennett
Len Carlson
Elizabeth Hanna
Greg Morton
Denise Pidgeon
Tara Strong
Cree Summer
Noam Zylberman
Christina Howley
|Country of origin
|Original language(s)
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|Executive producer(s)
|Andy Heyward
|Michael Maliani
|Running time
|approx. 22-23 min.
|Original channel
TV Osaka
|Original release
|September 19, 1987 – December 12, 1987
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater is a Japanese-American-Canadian co-produced animated series based on the Japanese character, Hello Kitty. The series involved her and her friends doing their own version of popular fairy tales and stories. Each of the 13 episodes consisted of two 11-minute cartoons, for a total of 26 "shows"; each show was a spoof of a well-known fairy tale or movie.[1]
Voice cast[edit]
- Tara Strong - Hello Kitty
- Elizabeth Hanna - Grandma Kitty
- Carl Banas - Grandpa Kitty
- Christina Howley – Mama Kitty
- Len Carlson - Papa Kitty
- Sean Roberge - Tuxedo J. Orville Sam
- Mairon Bennett - My Melody
- Noam Zylberman - Chip
- Cree Summer - Catnip
- Denise Pidgeon - Fangora
- Greg Morton - Grinder
- Fred Savage - Mowser
Each cartoon opens with the theater filling up with patrons, and usually a look at some comical goings-on backstage. The play then begins (with Hello Kitty or another character saying "Once upon a meow") and the stage transforms into whatever setting the story calls for (outer space, the American Old West, et cetera). Each show is a lighthearted takeoff of a children's story and a popular movie. At the end, the stage returns to normal, and the actors take their bow.
One exception to this format is the cartoon "The Phantom of the Theater," which begins after the actors have finished a show (specifically "Robin Penguin"); all the action in this story takes place backstage.
Episode list[edit]
|Spoof of:
|Release Date
|The Wonderful Wizard of Paws
|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
|September 19, 1987
|September 26, 1987
|The Pawed Piper
|The Pied Piper of Hamelin
|K.T. the Kitty Terrestrial
|E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
|October 3, 1987
|Peter Penguin
|Peter Pan
|Kittylocks and the Three Bears
|The Three Bears
|October 10, 1987
|Paws, the Great White Dog Shark
|Cat Wars
|Star Wars
|October 17, 1987
|Tarsam of the Jungle
|Sleeping Kitty
|Sleeping Beauty
|October 24, 1987
|Kitty and the Kong
|King Kong
|Kitty and the Beast
|Beauty and the Beast
|October 31, 1987
|Little Red Bunny Hood
|Little Red Riding Hood
|Snow White Kitty and the One Dwarf
|Snow White
|November 7, 1987
|November 14, 1987
|Paws of the Round Table
|Knights of the Round Table
|November 21, 1987
|Robin Penguin
|Robin Hood
|Hello Mother Goose
|Mother Goose
|November 28, 1987
|Crocodile Penguin
|Crocodile Dundee
|BedlahlGrinder Genie and the Magic Lamp
|Aladdin, One Thousand and One Nights
|December 5, 1987
|The Ugly Pumpkin Duckling
|The Ugly Duckling
|The Year Scroogenip Swiped Christmas
|Various Christmas stories
|December 12, 1987
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|The Phantom of the Opera
Two VHS videocassettes were released March 24, 1998, and another one VHS in April 14, 1998 of K.T. The Kitty Terrestrial, Catula and Paws: The Great White Dog Shark, are each containing four cartoon shorts, as well as the opening and closing sequences.
In 2003, five DVDs were released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, each containing five cartoon shorts; the only one of the 26 not to be included was "How Scrinchip Stole Christmas." The opening and closing sequences are not included.
Home video[edit]
- Hello Kitty: Kitty and the Beast (also includes "Grinder Genie and the Magic Lamp," "Hello Mother Goose," and "Little Red Bunny Hood")
- Hello Kitty: Wizard of Paws (also includes "Snow White Kitty," "Sleeping Kitty," and "Peter Penguin")
- In 1989, episodes from "Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater" were in a video called "Hello Kitty and Friends Get Along from Burbank Video.
DVD list[edit]
- Hello Kitty Becomes a Princess (February 4, 2003), (Cinderkitty, Kittylocks and the Three Bears, Sleeping Kitty, Kitty and the Beast, Snow White Kitty and the One Dwarf)
- Hello Kitty Goes to the Movies (February 4, 2003), (K.T. The Kitty Terrestrial, The Wizard of Paws, Kitty and the Kong, Cat Wars, Paws: The Great White Shark)
- Hello Kitty Saves the Day (February 4, 2003), (Peter Penguin, Tar-Sam of the Jungle, Paws of the Round Table, Crocodile Penguin, Grinder Genie and the Magic Lamp)
- Hello Kitty Plays Pretend (February 17, 2004), (The Phantom of the Theater, Frankencat, Catula, The Pawed Piper, Rumpeldogskin)
- Hello Kitty Tells Fairy Tales (February 17, 2004), (Robin Penguin, Hello Mother Goose, The Ugly Quackling, Pinocchio Penguin, Little Red Bunny Hood)
In 2008, all thirteen episodes were made available to download on iTunes for $1.99 an episode or $21.99 for the entire series. To promote the series, iTunes offered the episodes "Wizard of Paws and Pinocchio Penguin" as a free download for a limited time.
In 2010, all 26 half episodes were made available to watch on hulu.
- ^ CHARLES SOLOMON (1987-10-09). "Kidvid Reviews : Cartoon Debuts Are All Drawn Out - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
External links[edit]
- Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater at the Internet Movie Database
- Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater at TV.com
- Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater episode guide at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater at Toonarific.com
- Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theatre on hulu.com
- 1987 American television series debuts
- 1987 American television series endings
- 1980s American animated television series
- 1987 Canadian television series debuts
- 1987 Canadian television series endings
- Television series by DIC Entertainment
- Television series by DHX Media
- Television series by MGM Television
- Hello Kitty
- CBS network shows
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Jack Bush wrote: Hi All,
I would like your advice on how to mask out / ignore a string that does not match a well established working regular expression pattern in Java.
Below is the code snippet that matches all the lines with correct regular expression string except one found so far:
public static void main(String[] args)
String correctPropertyDetail = "Los Angeles 4 Rose St 7 br h $350,000 J M&C Bunker Hill";
String incorrectPropertyDetail = "Los Angeles 4 Rose St S 7 br h $350,000 J M&C Bunker Hill";
Pattern pattern1 = Pattern.compile("\\A[A-Z][a-z]*|[A-Z][a-z]* [A-Z][a-z]* [A-Z]?[0-9]{0,4}/?[0-9]{0,4}-?[0-9]{0,4}|[0-9]{0,4}[a-z] [A-Z][a-z]* [A-Z][a-z]* St|Rd|Av|Sq|Cl|Pl|Cr|Gr|Dr|La [0-9] br [h|u|t] \\$([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3}|\\$([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3} ([A-Z][a-z]*){1,}\\Z");
Pattern pattern2 = Pattern.compile("\\A\\b[A-Z][a-z]*\\b|\\b[A-Z][a-z]* [A-Z][a-z]*\\b \\b[A-Z]?[0-9]{0,4}/?[0-9]{0,4}-?[0-9]{0,4}\\b|\\b[0-9]{0,4}[a-z]\\b \\b[A-Z][a-z]*\\b \\b[A-Z][a-z]*\\b \\bSt|Rd|Av|Sq|Cl|Pl|Cr|Gr|Dr|La\\b \\b[0-9]\\b \\bbr\\b [h|u|t] \\$([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3}|\\$([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3} ([A-Z][a-z]*){1,}\\Z");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(propertyDetail);
if (matcher.find())
System.out.println("Property detail is " + propertyDetail);
The difference between correctPropertyDetail and incorrectPropertyDetail is the 'S' after Rose St. A sample of few hundred lines of data has been picked up properly but a few incorrect ones managed to slipped through. Neither pattern1 nor 2 achieve the desired objective.
I am running JDK1.6.0_25, Netbeans 7.0 on Windows XP.
Your assistance would be appreciated.
Jack Bush wrote: Hi James,
Thank you for offering your valuable advice. I have made the suggested changes
but it still picked up the same incorrect string with an extra 'S'. As a result, I have applied the same suggestion throughout the rest of the regular expression which successfully prevented the incorrect string from coming through (great!), but also stopped many correct ones from being accepted. Below is the newly modified regular expression used?
\\A(?:[A-Z][a-z]*|[A-Z][a-z]* [A-Z][a-z]*) (?:[A-Z]?[0-9]{0,4}/?[0-9]{0,4}-?[0-9]{0,4}|[0-9]{0,4}[a-z]) [A-Z][a-z]* [A-Z][a-z]* \\b(?:St|Rd|Av|Sq|Cl|Pl|Cr|Gr|Dr|La)\\b \\b[0-9]\\b br [hut] \\$([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3}|\\$([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3},([0-9]){0,3} ([A-Z][a-z]*){1,}\\Z"
Note that it is the second sub-pattern "(?:[A-Z]?[0-9]{0,4}/?[0-9]{0,4}-?[0-9]{0,4}|[0-9]{0,4}[a-z])" that is responsible for making it work, yet also breaking the regular expression by not accepting the good strings as well. Some of the good strings include the example provided earlier. Can you see what is wrong with it?
I no longer have confident in myself who was responsible for coming up with a half baked, ordinary regular expression, largely due to a lack of familiarity with this subject. Instead, you are the competent person who can help me get just this one pattern working.
I am a novice amateur programmer and do not have resource and time to come up with a BNF specification, even though that would be an ideal situation especially in large project.
Again, your advice would be appreciated.


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Chrissy Teigen is still trying to figure out whether or not to make her wedding invite list 'very small or very big.'
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Although it was rumoured that the pair set a date for early this year to walk down the aisle, Chrissy confirms that this is inaccurate.
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Lauren Grodstein is the author of the bestselling "A Friend of the Family." Her new novel takes on the thorny issue of personal faith vs. doubt. Here's how it begins:
The first time Andy met Louisa, she was covered in blood. He was a bit bloodied himself, having just suffered a minor bicycle accident where Nassau intersects with Mercer and nobody can see himself coming or going. It was a Sunday morning in 1994, and Andy was wearing the ridiculous clothing he'd let himself get talked into by the cute salesgirl at Kopp's, purple spandex shorts — "junk huggers!" Rosenbaum hooted — and a black and silver nylon shirt. Anyway he'd been daydreaming, yes, but he was reflexively careful at that intersection. And then an Audi out of nowhere, some cursing, an unnecessary ambulance, and now here he was, cradling what was almost certainly a broken wrist and thinking about his dissertation and the way the Mercer County emergency room smelled like urine and paint. The orange plastic chair was hard under his butt; his bicycle-friendly spandex shorts offered no padding whatsoever.
Then, as CNN began to rotate through yet another story on O.J. Simpson, this girl sat down next to him, hair trailing down her shoulders and around her face, the most magnificent sample of human hair he'd ever seen. Brown and gold streaks and some blond in there too, curls and waves, like in a magazine. The face wasn't bad either, as far as he could tell from profile: a nice curve of the cheek, a slightly oversized, bumpy nose, a full mouth. But it was that hair he couldn't stop looking at. He had the absurd compulsion to stick his hands in it, and was grateful to his probably broken wrist for stopping what would have otherwise been a sure breach of etiquette.
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So you seem to know what I have and haven't had experience with yet you fail to show any proof that "break in" is real by example. [Gratuitous insult deleted by JA]
Until you can show that "break in" is real I have nothing further to say to you since you like to play games on here instead of being serious. No surpise actually.


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http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005EVORX6/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?qid=1385347703&sr=8-9&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70http://m.containerstore.com/mt/www.containerstore.com/shop/?productId=10030821Your criteria for a "hard sided" bottle is stringent, the only reason I'm posting a link to a possible solution is so this thread can come to some resolution. A 24oz cycling bottle works great on the bike and in the pack for backpacking trips. I've been interchanging the same bottles on the bike, for trail running and racing, and backpacking trips for the last 6 years or so without a single one failing. How are you going through bottles every few weeks? Whatever incremental savings or gains you think you'll get in your quest for an alternative solution aren't worth it IMO.Good luck.
Alright, don't get grouchy, Eugene.I said I went through cheap bottles (like Smartwater bottles) every few weeks. Dents turn into creases, creases turn into holes. A cycling bottle lasts much longer, but it's heavy enough to be a Nalgene as far as capacity to weight goes.I could just use a generic cycling bottle and waste a few ounces and satisfy your need for silence... or I could come to the ultralight backpacking forums looking for an ultralight solution.You're not obliged to comment and just because you can't see the use in a hard-sided bottle doesn't invalidate my question. If you don't have anything to offer, simply ignore the thread. There's a lot more off-topic stuff floating around, so I have little sympathy that a thread specific to ultralight gear isn't coming to a resolution as quickly as you want it to.This thread is useful. People who do ultra-running use hard bottles on the shoulder straps of their packs. Knowing one great ultralight solution is a nice way to shave ounces. I assumed someone happened upon an UL solution, and a few people have some great info so far.That being said, neither of your suggestions appear even remotely ultralight, and appear to have more features than a cycling bottle. I think you just googled the word "bottle" to try and remind me that I should stop asking questions you don't like. Fiji looks good, I will likely opt for testing those out.
Edited by mdilthey on 11/24/2013 20:28:23 MST.
Sounds like you are looking for "hard-sided" due to puncture resistance in future bike crashes? If so, why not just change the placement so your water isn't ejected or abraded.If a lightweight stiff bottle (that hasn't been mentioned) existed I imagine it would be quite popular and would be widely used.For the very slight weight penalty the purist/podium bottles are bombproof.
Alright, I don't want to go on trial for asking for a bottle. This is a little ridiculous.NO, I'm not looking for a bottle for bicycle crashes. I mentioned seeing a Platypus break as an example of a potential risk in arid environments that could be avoided with a hard-sided bottle. After popping a platy, I decided I wanted to look into how much of a weight penalty a hard-sided bottle is. I know that basic cycling bottles exist, but they have a cap the size of a Nalgene bottle and a shape designed for bottle cages that uses more plastic than a regular cylinder or rectangle. In short, they're NOT minimalist.The Fiji bottle is a good example of a volume-maximizing shape with a minimalist cap. The Fiji is what I am looking for, assuming it is a bit more durable than a Poland Spring or Smartwater bottle over a few weeks.Maybe you don't care about a few extra ounces. Fine! Have at it! Use a cycling bottle! If you don't have a suggestion, simply resist the urge to post telling me you don't think it's a valid question!Also, someone posting one correct answer doesn't mean the thread is over. It's not a big deal to wait and see if anyone else has an additional suggestion. BOTTOM LINE: If you don't have a bottle suggestion, you don't need to post. You guys are acting like ultralight queries are banned here... we've had 4-page discussions on toothbrushes...
I think the larger issue is that you have mutually exclusive criteria. You want hard sided and non-plastic.. But the suggestions are too heavy. Ok, light and plastic... But the suggestions aren't hard sided. Grr. Hard sided and light, but the suggestions are plastic. Or the top is too big. Or it won't last an infinity number of years. You need to pick which two criteria are most important and accept some penalty in the third. You're young and smart enough to know how google works, which means you're having no better luck in finding a solution to your very stringent criteria. So cut people some slack.Sounds like you need to gather some smart people and launch a kickstarter campaign for the perfect water container.I use a sawyer squeeze and accept that the pouches will eventually fail. They're cheap enough to replace as needed and light enough to carry an emergency spare rolled up inside my pack.Google "law of diminishing returns", "all the things in the world that will kill me", and "how to have reasonable expectations for the world around me". That last little bit was intentional snark ;)
Gee Max,I really don't have an answer for you.But I'm getting a little bored with this thread.Do you mind ending this and moving on to something more interesting?thanks so much,Bill :)
http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=82490I like Dave C's response.
Max, I formerly used two 20 oz Gatorade bottles, which weighed 40.1 grams each. So 80.2 grams for a total capacity of 40 oz.Now I am using three 16 oz aluminum beer bottles which weigh 26.7 grams each. So 80.1 grams for a total capacity of 48 oz. The real weight saving benefit for me comes in being able to leave my 28.3 gram Foster's can and lid at home, and heat my water for meals directly in the aluminum beer bottles. Uncapped, of course. I do have to watch closely to keep it from boiling over and grab it off the stove right at the moment a full boil is reached.The aluminum of the beer bottles is pretty thick, about 2/3 again thicker than a regular beer can, based on weight vs. diameter and capacity. Pretty puncture resistant, though I don't know how it would compare in a worst case scenario vs. the Gatorade bottles or a Platypus.
Check out some of the water bottles at your local health food/ organic store. I found some that are BPA free and are a blue color. These are a little thicker than regular water bottles.I consider regular water bottles Aquafina, Dasani etc extremley bomber. Im almost positive you could make one last a whole year being used 365 days a year. They do not puncture or shatter like hard bottles might. There is a reason why reg bottles are so popular, they are cheap too, and easily replacable. Oh yeah, and light.
Yea, sorry if I didn't delineate my criteria too much. -Cheap water bottles (Aquafina, Gatorade, etc) leach phthalates over time (say that 3 times fast!). A phthalate is a chemical with a really weak covalent bond that breaks off of plastics over time through regular use, right into your water.Here's more info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhthalateLong story short, phthalates have been linked to breast cancer, endocrine disruption, and lots of other not-so-nice conditions. So, I'm happy to buy a soda and drink it, but I'm not going to re-use it for longer than a couple of days. The older your plastic bottles get, the higher your exposure is.High-quality BPA-free plastics like those found in cycling bottles and Nalgenes don't leach as much, as fast. I still replace em every year or so, but I don't stress about it. What's this mean for a hard-sided bottle?It means I'm looking for something that isn't from the recycling bin. If the Fuji bottles are higher quality plastic (still investigating) they'll do. After this thread, I need the tropical island effect. I feel like you guys are just getting on the anti-bottle-thread bandwagon at this point. Seriously, it is not that hard to ignore a thread and refrain from commenting uselessly... thank you!
You are sensitive to used water bottles. There is no problem with that. I consider an ultralight water bottle to weigh less than 1.5 oz. for a 1 liter size. Is that a fair definition? If not, you would need to define your weight restriction and then we might help further.
Edited by jshann on 11/24/2013 22:03:55 MST.
"Go home, Max! We don't want your bottle thread here! You're asking too much! Get lost!""Gatorade or Death!!!"HA. Wrong! There is a hard sided bottle that weighs less than a nalgene with UL-specific properties, and I found it thanks to this thread!http://www.bradleyalpinist.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=11&products_id=211Big cap for use with gloves, super durable and flexible to prevent cracking, weighs LESS than a Nalgene, and is BPA free. Thread closed.
" But chemicals, I can avoid.So I try to, if I can."Well, you can avoid SOME chemical exposure routes.But is it even a significant portion?Probably not.You are surrounded and bombarded by chemicals in virtually every thing manmade. Everything you touch, wear, sit-on, and use.And even, ....breathe.The question is, does any of it matter.Undoubtedbly it does.Its just near impossible to isolate and correllate any cause-effect from anything over 40 yr periods with so many compounds.You likely have measurable blood levels of many common chemicals. Its a fact.Flameretardants, plasticizers, solvents, pesticides, fuel additives, etc. They are in everything you buy, and use.Drinking out of something isnt necessarily a more dangerous exposure route than any other.
Edited by livingontheroad on 11/24/2013 22:12:14 MST.
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I knew someone out there had an answer :)Sometimes a thread just needs to stew for 48 hours so the right people chime in.
Define "UL specific properties"? The posted German bottles look heavy.
Your mistaking my attempt to help you find an answer to your little quandary for grouchiness. You asked for suggestions, I offered up two solutions within your parameters in a straightforward manner. We can "kick the can" here for days. You seem to be mildly amused at the suggestions others have made in your thread, but if you read through it very deliberately you will find several viable lightweight solutions for simply carrying liquid.So, let's lay out your criteria: 1. Non BPA2. Non Nalgene 3. Not a repurposed bottle like a Gatorade bottle (*yet now a reused Fiji water bottle is what you were looking for?)4. Narrow mouth w/ simple screw top5. "UL" 6. Minimalistic in design7. "Hard sided" but not too hard, definitely not "soft sided" like a Platy or Hydraflask8. Durable, but not built like a tank Miss any? You never included what volume size you were looking for. 16oz? 20? 24? liter?
Edited by Eugeneius on 11/24/2013 22:27:32 MST.
The "ultralight" bottle is a platypus 2L. Whenever you start adding the "D" word into the mix, things get heavier, but the hard-sided nalgenes were overkill.This is lighter than a nalgene hard-sided bottle with similar durability and is exactly what I'm looking for. Any lighter, and they might as well be a Platypus.The "magic" bottle that is hard-sided, durable, but lighter than a few ounces doesn't exist (that I have found) but these offer a nice compromise. The cap isn't perfect... but they fill so many of my other requirements (if you wanna call them that) that I'm willing to look past it. Honestly, I'm tired of searching. If you have a better idea, post it.
@ Eugene, and others,If you're just looking to argue, i'm not doing it. If you want to know what I'm looking for, it's been clearly indicated in the thread.
But what exactly does this bottle weigh Max?I didn't see it on the web site you gave us.Perhaps I missed it.thanks,bill
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Later he came out like, "I'm gonna use other big rappers' names and dis and downplay them to bring attention to me." Which is a great plan, but all you're doing is creating hatred for yourself from other artists. When he made the record about me, I didn't think it was funny or cool. He'd made two records at the time. In "How to Rob" he talked about how he was gonna rob all these major rappers and artists. It was a jokey kind of record, but a lot of people took offense. I wasn't mentioned in that record. But the other one, called "Murder, I Don't Believe You," or something like that ["Life's on the Line"], set my whole thing spinning, so when we saw each other, it was immediate brawl confrontation. We don't like each other.
I didn't start this. I'm an artist who really went out there to make my records while asking myself, "What can I do to elevate myself and do music?" People started making more records that had more feeling. All the artists came into it making records with feeling about different aspects of life beside the criminal aspect. And this is where the whole hatred really started for him and trickled down. I guess when he got his record deal, he felt the need to call my name and disrespect what I am doing, which is crazy.
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I have the problem with. So I never got that story, but people ate it up, and the media eats that up. I never really got that story. Why would I be mad at you if your man got it? I would get your man; I would be hollering to your man. There really was no beef with me to him. It was always with him to me, you understand. So when I come back now and say I don't like him for this, this and this reason, everyone goes, "Well now, it's getting out of hand." But he already said his piece. He already came out and spoke about how he feels about Murder Inc. I was kind of upset about the fact that the people were kind of receptive to these things he was saying. I really didn't see it was gonna be well-received until it started to get this way. I told myself I needed to start making some records. Because I see there's a lot of ignorance. The people aren't getting that these two men have a real problem, and it's not about records. And since he made it about the records, that's all the people see, the music.
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My subscription finally ran out, and for the first time in 10 years, I'm not renewing it. I want so much to play this game, but all my friends, family, and most of my guildmates have moved on. Without them around, the game is a lonely experience. Thanks for the good times WarcraftPets, WoW developers, and all those other crazy people i've interacted with over the years. Maybe I'll come back, but I doubt.
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Re: Horde BalloonAs a member of the Horde I tried to get the Alliance balloon by infiltrating Stormwind. Unfortunately the quest giver is not visible at all, nor is her quest on the minimap.
I mention this here under the Horde Balloon entry because I assume this is the same for Alliance attempting to infiltrate Orgrimmar. Don't want anyone to corpse flop their way to the vendor only to find out they aren't visible!
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Re: Enchanted BroomWhile the pet is unusual and often gets positive comments from passer-by, its constant "swish-swish-swish" sound can get very very annoying if you keep sound effects turned up in game. Not to mention, even if YOUR sound isn't too loud, perhaps your guildmate's is. Play with your pets responsibly folks!
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Re: Alliance BalloonUnfortunately as a Horde member, even if you are able to get into Stormwind unmolested, the quest giver does not appear. She isn't hostile or anything, just not visible (and neither is her quest on the minimap)
I assume this is the same for Alliance attempting to infiltrate Orgrimmar.
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Landro's Pet Box as a random chance drop. The drop rate is low, and you will not see a rare pet if you already own it (making it hard to track opening statistics). But it is an alternative to the current prices of $150+ on eBay if you have UDE points to burn :)
Posted: January 26, 2010 11:11:43 AM | Edits: 1 | Rating: +2
Re: Core Hound PupThis pet is almost continually doing its active idle animations (yes I note the irony). If it isn't up on its hind legs begging, it's digging for a bone, fighting over said bone, or rolling over. Basically, it's just REALLY excited to be your pet.
Oh and like KT, and some of the other newer pets, he is GIGANTIC on pet biscuits. This can lead to targeting issues, especially if you are a tank and he's doing his begging animation.
Posted: December 09, 2009 8:12:55 AM | Edits: 0 | Rating: +14
Re: FigurePetsFrom the FigurePets booth at BlizzCon: Sleepy Willy, Panda Cub, Eggbert, Muckbreath, and Worg Pup are the possibilities for set 2. They had those 5 in a case and said 3 of them were coming next ;)
I got myself a Murky while i was at the Con, and he's fricking ADORABLE.
Posted: August 23, 2009 9:33:35 PM | Edits: 0 | Rating: +1
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