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Zeal Boutique Announces Must Have Accessories For 2018
Zeal Boutique made an announcement concerning must-have accessories for 2018. The company stated that it made the announcement as a way to help women better accessorize.
Popular clothing and accessory store Zeal Boutique recently listed some "must have" accessories for 2018. According to Zeal Boutique, all of the accessories mentioned are either the latest fashion trends that will be hitting the shelves in 2018, or the continuing trends from 2017.
Zeal Boutique shared that, as far as jewelry is concerned, big pendant necklaces are out, while shapes and tassels are in. According to the company, geometric shapes, such as triangles, bar necklaces, and dainty circles, are the fashion trend of 2018. Zeal Boutique also stated that bright tassel earrings offer a splash of color that is very sought-after in 2018.
Zeal Boutique also indicated that, as far as shoes go, the "invisible" shoes that were introduced in 2017 will be hitting shelves more and more in the year 2018. Zeal Boutique mentioned that invisible shoes will appear in more traditional styles, as well as styles that offer an artistic flare, such as clear heel blocks, wedges, and even laces. Zeal Boutique also indicated that glitter is another emerging shoe trend in 2018, and consumers can expect to see glitter on both flats and heels. Lastly, Zeal Boutique announced that slingback flats and loafers will be making a big comeback in 2018.
Zeal Boutique continued its announcement by sharing that both glasses and handbags will be going from big to small this year. According to the company, this means that microframes are in, as well as smaller, more compact handbags, including fanny packs. The company stated that fanny packs, or belted handbags, will be embraced by a much younger consumer base.
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MILAN-- Assicurazioni Generali SpA said on Thursday that it will raise its dividend payment for 2014 despite posting a 13% drop in net profit for the year, mainly due to one-off hits from the sale of a banking business and its activities in Russia.
Europe's No. 3 insurer said that it will pay EUR0.60 ($0.63) dividend a share for 2014, compared with EUR0.45 for 2013.
Net profit for the year declined to EUR1.67 billion from EUR1.92 billion, while net profit for the fourth quarter dropped 75% to EUR81 million.
The insurer said that the yearly result includes a charge of around EUR400 million for the impairment of its 38.5% stake in Ingosstrakh Insurance Company Ltd., and the loss generated by the sale of its Swiss banking business BSI.
While part of these charges was already accounted for in previous quarters, the company said that they also hit fourth-quarter results. At the same time the net profit for the fourth quarter of 2013 was lifted by capital gains on asset sales.
Generali's chief financial officer Alberto Minali said that the company wrote down the value of the stake in Ingosstrakh by EUR40 million to EUR230 million in the fourth quarter. Mr. Minali said that the write-down of the Russian business was due to the devaluation of the ruble coupled with worsening conditions of the company's nonlife business there.
In addition, the company has also made some provisions for a fine that the U.S. Department of Justice will impose under a tax-amnesty program because of BSI's activities while it was owned by Generali. Mr. Minali said that the company expects to receive the DOJ fine in the near future and will have 30 days to pay it. He declined to quantify provisions made for the fine.
After the settlement, the sale of BSI to BTG Patcual, which was agreed last year, will likely be closed by the end of the second quarter, Mr. Minali added.
The penalties will be deducted from the 1.5 billion Swiss Franc price ($1.5 billion) at which Generali agreed to sell the business to the Brazilian lender. The U.S. tax-amnesty program is part of the country's action to dig out undeclared assets stashed in Swiss bank accounts.
After the sale of BSI is completed, the company's management said that it plans to sell no more assets and that it is not looking for acquisitions.
The fourth-quarter results mark the end of the implementation of turnaround strategy aimed at strengthening its capital position and at improving profitability since Chief Executive Mario Greco took the helm of the company in the summer of 2012.
Generali said that it achieved the targets of its strategic plan a year in advance. Its return on equity rose to 13.2% at the end of the year compared with a target of 13% at the end of 2015 and 11.7% at the end of 2013.
Its improved capital position met the planned targets too. Its Solvency I ratio rose to 164% at the end of last year compared with a target of 160% at the end of 2015 and 141% at the end of 2013.
The stronger capital position allowed the company to lift its dividend payout to levels more in line with market trends, Mr. Greco said.
The company is now working on a new strategic plan, which will be presented to investors at the end of May.
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This week on The Clone Wars: Let's get back to basics with "Missing In Action." After a few fairly non-traditional episodes, we return to more action with #100. Wow! We made it! Uh... so how many more episodes do we have left? Hopefully lots. More after the break.
Unlike last week's "A Sunny Day in the Void," "Missing In Action" brings back Colonel Gascon and the boyos are back to what you might expect from the series. A nearly all-droid episode, followed by an episode with only 1 "human" (barely) character in the harsh reality of nature surrounded by robots and fear, has now given away to an episode which is par for the course. "Missing In Action" is by no means bad, it's one of the better episodes of the series... it just manages to recall other kid-friendly, adult-fan franchise shows in a way that didn't tickle me in quite the same way. Those were incredibly out-there. This is merely really good.
Click here for "Missing In Action" trailers and videos on YouTube
The Clone Wars without Clone Troopers probably seems like a cop-out, and I'm sure to anyone under 20 it really was. This week we get to meet Gregor, a Clone Commando who just happened to forget his identity and he was being used as slave labor on Abafar. It's a lot like that episode of Batman: The Aniamted Series called "The Forgotten," only less miserable. The Clone crashed on this planet and has been basically conscripted into the life of a dishwasher. The reality is that he's a missing-in-action solider, as confirmed by scanning something in his wrist which, apparently, can be done by an Astromech droid. So all these droids are carrying around a database of millions of troopers on them, or there's some sub-ether radio which acts as intergalactic wi-fi. I'm not sure which. I guess it doesn't matter.
Also, Walrus Man shows up a few times. You can't miss him. Hello, Kenner 1979!
Last week we got to see Meebur go through the "Space Madness," as it were, and was taken down a few pegs emotionally as he comes to terms with the possibility that he will die in a desert alone. For a series that kills people every week, it's hard to be dark... but this was dark. This week? "Your meal awaits you, sir!" WAC-47 introduces Col. Gascon to a pile of garbage behind a diner. Food is funny, garbage as food is funnier.
The reason for this is because the diner's owner, Mr. Borkus, doesn't want him reminding his dishwasher who he is or where he came from. The chubby Sullustian carries a vaguely Russian or Eastern European accent, and (surprisingly) actually has hair. Sure, he's going bald, but... hair. I like the hat. It has little burgers on it. Kudos on great character design there, particularly for a body type which I assume will not be recycled later on the series.
The droids were pretty much absent from the bulk of the story, and it seems like our brief tangent toward stranger places may be over again as or heroes stumble on, you guessed it, Separatist Battle Droids. No commanders, no Tactical Droids, no organic leaders... just plain ol' Battle Droids. I'm sure the reason for this was animation cost, but still, it'd be nice to see bad guys that aren't generic troopers show up. Remember Admiral Trench? Lok Durd? I don't mind villains of the week, although I guess if there are to be no new action figures of them as of late, there's really no reason to make them for the narrative when you have perfectly acceptable generic baddies to dole out week over week. I suppose Mr. Borkus took up the week's animation budget for the token new villain, and a diner owner is a much better addition to the Clone Wars galaxy. We've met killers, admirals, and warlords... but burger jockeys? We need more of those.
The episode winds up pretty much as you'd expect, with an intense action sequence of Gascon and the droids escaping while Gregor may or may not have sacrificed himself for the Colonel's mission. The sequence involved a lot of exploding fuel, with the clone tossing out a barrel of the stuff toward the droids, firing, and ka-blammo. I figure he'll be back soon, he seems like a nice enough fellow to not kill off just yet.
Takeaway from this week:
Mr. Borkus! Heh.
Gascon eating garbage. Anyone else reminded of Goof Troop?
Is there such a thing as a planet that isn't a Separatist Outpost? I mean I know we need excuses for combat, but after last week I was hopeful that the Decepticons didn't have to be everywhere.
I still want action figures of these droids, Colonel Gascon, and now let's throw Gregor into the mix. And Mr. Borkus, because why not. (Hat.)
Four stars **** because I more or less got what I expected. After seeing Gregor in action at Celebration VI I was expecting to see him do more or be the baddest-ass Clone we've ever seen, and while he was certainly a nice guy he didn't get to do a heck of a lot once he put on the armor. He also took the spotlight for the episode which, while not bad, and arguably essential to staying true to the series' mission statement, was sort of a bummer. I liked hanging out with the droids.
Next time: D-Squad returns, possibly for the last time, in "Point of No Return." There's no preview video online yet.
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There are very strong indications that the Presidency will soon approach the Supreme Court to make a pronouncement on the lingering crisis between the executive and the National Assembly.
This is aimed to confirm the powers of the President to appoint some heads of government agencies without recourse to the Senate based on the provisions of Section 171 of the Constitution.
Anti-Corruption War: Presidency Declares 'Full Support' For Magu To Remain As Acting EFCC Boss
Speaking on the matter, a top source in the presidency told reporters in Abuja, on Sunday, that the development was based on legal advice made available to the government on the different interpretations of the law on the matter.
The Senate had on July 4 passed a resolution suspending all issues relating to the confirmation of nominees and urged Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to respect the constitution and laws as they relate to nominees' confirmation.
This is after the Acting President had, in an interview in April, ruled out the possibility of President Muhammadu Buhari replacing the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, whose nomination was rejected by the Senate twice.
Osinbajo's statement peeved the lawmakers greatly, thus resulting to the decision by the senate to step down all requests for confirmation into executive positions from the Presidency.
However, the presidency's legal advisory, concluded that a judicial pronouncement, "preferably by the Supreme Court, is what will settle the matter."
Presidency, AGF Malami Describe Osinbanjo's Statement On Magu's Confirmation As 'His Personal Opinion'
He said although the Presidency believed that Section 171 was clear that certain appointments did not require Senate's consent, it (the Presidency) was not behaving as if its interpretation of the law had become a policy.
He said: "This is because, even after the Acting President, (who spoke when he was Vice President in support of the view of some leading lawyers) the Presidency has continued to send nominations to the Senate both while the President himself was around and while away by the Acting President.
"Since the time the Acting President spoke and when Senate recently expressed its disagreement we have been sending nominations severally including into the INEC and other boards and commissions. So we are clearly not acting unilaterally based on our own interpretation of the law, even though we believe firmly we are right.
"Here is the point, the presidency believes that Section 171 is clear that certain appointments do not require Senate consent, but the presidency is not already behaving as if it's interpretation of the law has become a policy.
"The presidency is persuaded that its interpretation is the correct one, but we are conscious and aware of the fact that only a proper judicial ruling on the matter would make it a settled policy that sits right with the rule of law. That is why we have not stopped sending all manners of nominations to the Senate, most of which the Senate has actually confirmed, even well after the Acting President spoke.
"In fact the conclusion of the legal advisory on the matter is very clear that a judicial pronouncement preferably by the Supreme Court is what will settle the matter. According to that legal advisory the divergent positions being held by the Executive and the Legislature on the subject of confirmation is one that requires timely and ultimate resolution. Such resolution could only be reached through judicial process. Such interpretation would lay to rest the lingering crises between the two arms."


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How is your week going? Very fast like mine??? Lots to say today so onto photos
This was my desk Tuesday night before I put away all my toys ready for next time I am able to play! Not much on there a few new bits of stash, some cheap Kanban stamps I got from hobbycraft, love a bargain! In the little red basket on the marker storage is lots of pre-coloured images, in the small plastic pots on the right is some computer printed sentiments cut out ready to use and the other pot has some bits and pieces of craft knives (new blades etc..) at the back you will see my copic marker list, all the normal things that stay on my desk all the time, ruler, glue, more pens. A few x-cut punches (these are little flower shapes), tissues and laptop, next to me is a small table with my bigshot on, all the different spellbinder dies i used and a million different flowers that i spent over an hour placing onto the card, moving them about and then taking them of again and then didn't use any on the card I made following the sketch over at A Gem of a Challenge.
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Gem of A Challenge # 40 = Sketch
Items used (made a list and didn't lose it yeahhhh lol its still on my desk along with the sketch!)
15 x 15 cm white card & white flower ribbon from stash/
Papermania Capsule DP (DoCrafts) Blueberry Pie
Copics, E13, E0, E00, E000 R20. B91, B93, B95, C0, C1, C2, C3,C5 C7
Stamp = Magnolia, Tilda with bow and a computer made sentiment.
Please check out The Stamping Ground and visit our great hostess Julia for details on how you can join in and share your mess/desk/floor/ table work area! and look around lots & lots of other crafters areas getting lots of inspiration, you get to see the most amazing art creations and many different kinds of craft and of course you get to meet some amazing people so give it a go but beware its addictive!
Now on to the story of Toby, I showed you a piccy of our tortoise a couple of weeks ago and lots of you asked questions about him and his obsession with mens boots!– No tortoise was harmed in the making of this and he is very happy and thriving! lol
Toby was given to us about 11 years ago, when his owners moved overseas, he came to us with a couple of toes missing but otherwise in good health, and we were told he was about 11 years old, at the time and we were also told he was house trained (how can you possibly house train a tortoise right!) and given instruction on what he liked to eat and drink.
So he settled in very well and lived in the house with us, Never in a tank, he can wander around (we have a stair gate so he cannot fall down any stairs) he has to have a large shallow dish filled with water that he likes to get in and bath and drink and yes poop whenever he wants and we were told he lived on a diet of soft fruit and salad vegetables, It was spring when he came to us and on warmer days we would take him into the garden, he loved stomping about the patio, hiding in the ornamental grasses, eating the strawberries that would hang over the edges of the plant pots and sitting on the edge on the edge of the bubbling water feature, (as well as getting into his own water).
One day we put him onto the grass (the grass area was not enclosed/safe so we had to keep a close eye on him), and well he started doing a funny little dance thing, we all watched with amazement as he went round and round in circles stomping his little feet it was a tortoise version of river dance! It felt like he had a purpose, and then he started using his front legs to dig!!
I had to find out what he was doing and why, I researched how he lived in the wild and I found out Toby isn't an everyday/normal pet tortoise, (which are generally Horsfield or Hermann) he is called a 3 Toed Box Turtle he can close both ends tight, so predators cannot get him, I have no idea where his previous owners got him from but we found out he needs lots of special care, so did lots more research and spoke to 'Tortoise specialists' and his diet in the wild would have been worms and slugs. Toby was dancing on the grass so that the worms would think it was raining and come to the surface, well we had to help out and make him as happy as possible so tried digging for worms, we tried all kinds of things, getting hints and tips from any where we could, do you know there is worm 'charming' competitions! I know! I had never heard of such a thing, but its true. But worms are very hard to catch! So we started buying them, for him from the fishing tackle shop and he loves them! And now has a very good diet of earth worms and soft fruit, (the occasional slug), He soon began to thrive and his skin and eyes glowed and he was/is very active, very fast and he loves climbing, he had put on weight, he is a member of the family. He doesn't hibernate as such because he is small he can't eat enough to see him right through winter, but he will sleep for around about month/6 weeks during winter. He has a little cardboard house lined with felt, in the corner with a 'proper' heat mat for the colder months.
A couple of years went by and then he reached puberty!!! One day we came home to find he was 'mating with my hubby's boots that had been left in the kitchen, (Shocked or what!!!) he soon became obsessed with boots and men's shoes and will chase around the room trying to 'mate' with your shoes, and can be a right nuisance and it can be very embarrassing, (try explaining to a 5 year old why Toby wants to play with Daddy's shoes) he will try to 'mount any shoe he finds attractive, he will stay there for hours if we let him, so no shoes allowed in the house. However occasionally when hubby forgets and leaves his boots on after being in garden or if he leaves them in the kitchen, this is what happens:
(Now for the serous bit – 3 toed tortoises are difficult to look after, you have to give them lots of care and a wide, careful variety of food, he has to have the correct living environment and are not really meant to be pets, We care for him very much and have spoken to specialists and continue to keep his conditions as perfect as we can, he is a good weight and very healthy, but I would not recommend anyone keeping tortoises for pets, they look very cute but need special care and can be expensive for equipment, vet bills, when he first came to us he did not have the correct diet and the vets think that could be why he lost some of his toes)
Hope you enjoyed looking round my desk and sharing the story of Toby - sorry for such a long post!


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Last week Jordan heard on the radio that Josh Hamilton would be playing for the Bee's that weekend, so we made some arrangements, and were able to go to the game on Friday night. Unfortunately, an hour before the game started he was pulled from the roster. We were a little bit bummed, but still had a great time. We went with Jordan's parents and brother Landan. We were thinking about it, and Landan has been to almost every baseball game Reagan has ever been to. She has some serious baseball fans in her family.
^^Someday, I will stop posting picture of her with her finger in her nose, but for now, I still think they're silly.^^
^^As the sun started to set, the mountains started to do this pretty pink thing. Even if you don't like baseball, you might want to consider going to a Bee's game anyway, just to look at the view from the stadium.^^
We had a great time! Thanks for the tickets Dave and Martha!


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Soup is woefully underestimated. I have to work really hard to get people to order it at my restaurant. I think the assumption is that it'll either be too heavy or too light; or possibly that it won't offer the variety of tastes and textures that a plate with three or four discrete things on it will – and you've got to admit there may be some truth in that.
But maybe this simplicity and coherence is what is so great about soup. I can think of nothing more perfect for a dinner party at this time of year than a bowl of chilled soup (or room temperature, if the summer weather proves to be less than summery) to start. It doesn't demand to be cut up or forked about, so it won't disturb the flow of your guests' conversation.
There are plenty of benefits for the cook, too. A cold soup can be prepared in advance (indeed, I often find it improves after 24 hours in the fridge); it is easy to scale up the quantities as required; and you can just put it to one side until you're ready to eat. No heating, no fuss.
You will find with my recipes below that they do not involve loads of ingredients or need ages boiling away on the hob. Summer soups are all about brief cooking and lightness of touch; the key to cooking in the summer is to allow the wonderful, ripe ingredients to take centre stage. To this end, it's important that you try to get the finest of everything. You really need the vegetables to be flavoursome and in peak condition: the ripest, most fragrant tomatoes and firm, vividly coloured courgettes.
Pappa al pomodoro is my go-to summer dish. Something magical happens when tomato and bread meet, and for me, this dish harnesses that magic. It is a typical dish of Tuscany, where the cucina povera of the area often involves stale bread and thick soups that you can eat with a fork. It is a great way to use up a glut of tomatoes or an excess of bread. Its texture is probably the best bit: tomatoes, bread and oil make for a silky bowlful of deliciousness that is brilliant for the very young (or the very old with not many teeth!).
I have tried many different ways of making courgette soup, but I keep on coming back to this one that I first came across at the River Café. The herbs and the touch of cream somehow bring out the subtle, nutty flavours of the courgettes – just make sure you find lovely fresh ones. If you have any left over, this soup is wonderful stirred through pasta.
Gazpacho has to be the king of summer soups. Nothing is more refreshing, or indeed more healthy, than blended raw vegetables. They need very little to make their flavours jump out of the bowl beyond a little salt, oil and vinegar. Again, try to buy the best of everything – you'll really taste the difference between a pepper ripened in Holland and one ripened in Spain. I like to keep a jug of this in the fridge during the summer for whenever anyone needs a quick meal or snack.
The flavours of sorrel work beautifully in soup. It is not the most versatile of leaves as its acidity means that it doesn't necessarily get on well with many other ingredients. Potato and cream, however, are the exception: they manage to tone down the sharpness of sorrel, but not at the cost of its character.


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Recently, thanks to my friend Janice Fraser, I've had the good fortune of being exposed to the Lean Startup movement. I've been thinking and writing and talking about Lean User Experience for a few months now and have noticed that there doesn't seem to be a simple explanation of the concept on the web yet. So this post is an attempt to fix that.
1. What is Lean User Experience?
Lean User Experience (LUX) is simply an approach to UX work that has been tailored to work in the context of a Lean Startup.
That's it. It's not a new, fancy thing. It's not some special UX-on-a-diet, or UX-at-hyper-speed. It's simply a context-appropriate way to do UX work.
2. That's it? Why is that interesting?
It's interesting for two reasons. First, for UX professionals, working in a Lean Startup culture offers some unique opportunities to do amazing work. And for entrepreneurs who are seeking to create value for their customers, the ability to do good UX work is key. UX people have been perfecting the core Lean Startup techniques of Customer Discovery and Customer Validation (the critical early phases of Customer Development) for 20+ years!
3. OK, so what is Lean Startup?
Lean Startup is term coined by Eric Ries to describe a process for building a business. It combines Steve Blank's ideas about Customer Development with Agile Software development, the free, open-source software movement, and the ideas of lean manufacturing. At its core, Lean Startup is a way to find market opportunities and to create products and services that serve those markets in a sustainable way. (More on Wikipedia.)
4. And sorry to ask, but what is User Experience?
Simply put, User Experience (or UX) is a set of design activities that defines how people use and experience a product or service. UX is an umbrella term that shelters under it a vast array of design specialties.
5. How is all this related to Agile Software Development?
Lean Startup is founded on the idea of using rapid cycles and short iterations to create and test ideas. This makes it a natural match for the rhythms of Agile software development. Lean Startups tend to use Agile methods to build their technology.
6. Why all this "Lean" anyway?
"Lean" here doesn't mean skinny or slim or light. Instead, is used in the sense of Lean Manufacturing. Lean Manufacturing is a way of thinking about manufacturing process that is based on the Toyota Production system, or TPS. The core principles of TPS are:
Continuous Improvement
- Challenges – Form a long-term vision and meet challenges with courage and creativity.
- Kaizen (continuous improvement) – Improve business operations continuously, always driving for innovation and evolution.
- Genchi Genbutsu (go and see) – Go to the source to find the facts to make correct decisions, build consensus and achieve goals at best speed.
Respect for People
- Respect – Respect others. Make every effort to understand each other, take responsibility and do your best to build mutual trust.
- Teamwork – Stimulate personal and professional growth, share the opportunities of development and maximize individual and team performance.
(Source, Wikipedia)
Both user experience and agile practitioners should be able to recognize the ways in which these principles align with the core ideas of their practice.
7. What are the guiding principles of Lean User Experience?
As articulated by Janice Fraser, the key principles of LUX are:
- Design + product management + development = 1 product team
- Generate many options and decide quickly which to pursue
- Recognize hypotheses & validate them
- Rapid cycles: think/make/check
- Research with users is the best source of information
- Focus on solving the right problem
- Externalize. (Make your work and your process visible to the rest of your team.)
8. What kinds of methods work well for Lean User Experience?
Again according to Janice, methods that work well in Lean User Exerience work tend to have these characteristics. They are: lightweight, low-fi, lo-tech, external, face to face, collaborative, generative and decisive, fast, repeatable, routinized, goal driven, and outcome focused.
9. What's the most important thing to keep in mind when practicing Lean UX?
The most critical concept in Lean UX is that every design decision you make should be considered an hypothesis until proven otherwise. Your job as a team is to reduce the risk of any decision you make by validating the hypothesis as quickly as possible. This is the heart of the Lean Startup iterative cycle: hypothesis, test, learn, revise.
With this in mind, designers have a wonderful opportunity to go through the think/make/check cycle on a continual basis. By choosing rapid, lightweight methods and working with a team that is inclined to do the same, teams can move rapidly through many many concepts in a short period of time. They can make decisions rapidly and easily because the cost of being wrong is very low. They move forward with confidence because they go to the source–their customers–for their information.
10. Where can I learn more?
Stay tuned here, of course. And follow @jseiden, (me), @clevergirl, @thinknow and @LUXrco on twitter.
(Note: this entry also appears on the LUXr blog.)


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- Only requires a 10-minute contact time, making it quick and easy to use.
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Love doesn't cost a thing – and for this weekend, neither do cats.
During the first-ever Empty Our Shelters adoption event, Saskatchewan animal shelters are teaming up to find homes for more than 400 animals province-wide.
"Unfortunately, cat overpopulation is an issue we're seeing across Saskatchewan, as well as across Canada," said Cathy Brin, public relations coordinator with the Saskatoon SPCA.
"So many humane societies and SPCAs are just in a horrible spot with cats right now, so we are running this adoption drive where all (adult) cats are free to a loving home."
The Regina Humane Society and Saskatoon SPCA are among the shelters taking part in the event running through Aug. 21.
All adult cat adoption fees are waived, while kitten adoption fees are reduced to $50 in Regina, and $75 in Saskatoon.
Regina is also offering a reduced dog adoption fee of $80.
Cats and kittens comprise the highest number of incoming animals during the summer months when populations swell following spring births and more pets, allowed outdoors, stray or roam freely.
A milder winter in early 2016 compounded the issue: the Saskatoon SPCA said this summer it had 75 kittens in foster care at one time – a record high for the program.
"When you're donating to the shelter, you're often donating to the little guys. To the little tiny baby kittens who need that little extra time out in foster care," she said, adding this weekend's event also serves to promote awareness for spaying and neutering pets.
"We hear a lot that people don't spay or neuter because they have indoor cats, but unfortunately all it takes is one trip outside to make a litter of kittens."
All regular guidelines are still in place for adoptions, to ensure animals find the right fit in a loving home.
It happened for 22-year-old Stephanie Gresiuk, who heard of the province-wide drive and decided to look for her new furry friend at the Saskatoon SPCA.
"I wanted a cuddly cat, somebody who would just hang out with me when I got home from work," she said.
Gresiuk met her match Friday, when her adoption application for one-year-old Nugget was approved.
"He's nice and chubby and cute and you know, heavy, which is ideal," Gresiuk said.
All Regina Humane Society and Saskatoon SPCA adoptions include spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations, microchip, complimentary veterinary exam and 30 days pet insurance.


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6yy 280 560 670 Oil Press - Chinaprice: contact company for price
Theoretical squeezing force KN : 3078
Working Pressure MPa : 50
Press tank diameter mm : 560
Press tank height mm : 670
Press tank capacity( L) : 165
Main motor Power KW : 2.2
6YY series hydraulic oil press cylinder to convert hydraulic
energy to mechanical energy, through the electric contact
pressure gauge and time relay control, complete the press
process of loading, prepress of oil plants, automatic press
cake step up step by step, press by pressure maintaining and
outlet cake.
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- Phone: 8637160101636
- Address: 100 Meter from East of Crossing of South Forth Rin, Zhengzhou, China
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- Business Description: Henan Wanda Chemical Equipment Co., Ltd. founded in 1996, is mainly
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One of Australia's hidden gems and best-kept island secrets nestled in the Keppel Group of islands, 14 kilometres off the coast from Yeppoon. A holiday on Pumpkin Island offers a blissful escape from the stresses of modern day life and a chance to partake in pristine nature. Easily accessible by private boat or the island own transfer vessel, from the Yeppoon Marina.
Experience the Great Barrier Reef as you never have before; fish and dive the surrounding waters, lounge on the beach, read a book, go bird watching; unique and rare species abound, simply float in the water or delve into the adventurous side of Pumpkin Island. Explore the largest reef in the world, with a scuba tank or without. Practice your casting at the famous Giant Trevally cove. Test your wits against the Spanish Mackerel, Coral Trout and Black Kingfish out in the deep sea. Or simply take a leisurely day exploring adjoining Little Pumpkin and its natural wonders with a glass bottom kayak on an island tour watching the graceful turtles and dolphins or spotting a whale or two in the distance.
Pristine protected beaches, sheltered coves and rare wildlife, not to mention fishing, snorkeling, swimming or just taking it easy, will keep you as busy on Pumpkin Island, or as relaxed as you wish. Pumpkin Island is a playground for families young and old, utterly romantic for couples and a hoot for a group of friends.
Five stylish units overlook the unspoiled beach. Each accommodates 4-6 guests, boasts a full kitchen, ceiling fans as well as barbeques on their respective private decks. Every cottage has a special name and decor as well as a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean. They are self-contained and eco-friendly, powered by wind and sun, yet well appointed and charming. They have their own private bathrooms, with large decks offering front row seats to the magnificent sunsets.
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Petitions to Wind Up (Companies)
In the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division)
Companies Court No 8828 of 2017
In the Matter of KAMKORP LIMITED
(Company Number 02498266)
and in the Matter of the Insolvency Act 1986
A Petition to wind up the above-named Company, Registration Number 02498266, of ,Mychett Place, Mytchett Place Road, Mytchett, Surrey, GU16 6DQ, presented on 22 November 2017 by the COMMISSIONERS FOR HM REVENUE AND CUSTOMS, of South West Wing, Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4RD,, claiming to be Creditors of the Company, will be heard at the High Court, Royal Courts of Justice, 7 Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL on 31 January 2018 at 1030 hours (or as soon thereafter as the Petition can be heard).
Any persons intending to appear on the hearing of the Petition (whether to support or oppose it) must give notice of intention to do so to the Petitioners or to their Solicitor in accordance with Rule 7.14 by 1600 hours on 28 January 2018 .
The Petitioners` Solicitor is the Solicitor to, HM Revenue and Customs,Solicitor's Office & Legal Services, South West Wing, Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4RD, telephone 03000 589694 . (Ref SLR1936419/U.)
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My toddler goes nuts for scissors and glue and anything she dubs "arts and crafts" so I'm always on the lookout for stuff that fits the bill.
Mr Printables fits the bill! It's got a ton of cool paper crafty stuff for kids, and the cone girls have been a big hit around here.
And PaperMatrix has some beautifully intricate paper crafts for those of you up for a challenge. I want to try my hand at those hot air balloons someday.
(Thanks to How About Orange for the tips.)


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The first problem was IT access, the university IT people were very methodical with the way that they give out access rights and email addressed to "new" staff. I put new in inverted commas because I was not entirely new, I have worked as a university teacher there before but has a minor break of 2 years when I defected to another university. This meant that I couldn't get onto the VLE for the first 5 weeks of the 12 week module. The second problem was getting inside the head of the previous teacher and trying to convey the meaning of the presentations that had been planned. This, combined with the lack of IT access, did lead to some tricky situations, such as not knowing how a certain bibliographic database featured in one lecture actually worked, because I couldn't log on to the system to find out.
I was also told that I couldn't use the planned assignments because this group of third year students had done them in their first year, so I hastily invented some with no idea of how feasible they were and whether the students would be able to find out enough information for what I asked (The assignments were approved by the programme manager, so they could not have been too outlandish). After 2 years of sitting at a desk playing with a computer every day I had forgotten how exhausting it was to stand up and talk at people for two hours (Actually, although I more or less stood up and walked around for two hours, I did plan the sessions for student interaction, discussion and activities, so although I am capable of talking for Wales at any Olympic Talking event).
The benefits, however, overcame the problems. The students were great, polite, keen and receptive. I was really pleased to see the number of them that attended specially arranged talks with their subject librarian, a visiting lecturer and a field trip to the local Waterstones where the manger talked to them about being part of the book trade. I also learnt a more about the book trade than I had when doing a similar module for my Masters at Aberystwyth. Teaching a subject is a brilliant way of learning because not only do have to absorb the information, you have to understand it to a level when you can explain it to someone else. I had to update my background reading and find current statistics. I really would have like a longer time to do that and to put the module together.
As the semester this academic year was longer than the previous year I also had to write a few new lectures, but I found them much easier to deliver. In fact I did pepper the pre-written lectures with my specialist knowledge. The proof of the pudding is in the eating so I was very pleased when the students did their presentations (an "on-line encyclopaedia" article about an aspect of the book trade) and when I read their written assignments (pretend you are giving an annual report to the board or shareholders of a Bookseller). They had not only taken in much of what I had told them in the lectures but they had also found out a lot of information independently, despite my fears there was sufficient information out there for them to find, and some of them wrote very convincing annual reports (I did check that they had not just filched them from the internet).
I found out a huge amount of information about booksellers such as Waterstones, WHSmiths, Amazon and Barnes and Nobel just from reading their reports. Repetition is a good learning tool! I like lecturing, but I far prefer to plan well in advance. I just hope that the students liked it too.


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Risk Aversion Favors the Yen
The euro sank for a second straight day against the dollar and yen as bond market traders dumped anything but the safest sovereign debt. Vincent Cignarella discusses with Mike Casey on Markets Hub.
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Visnovsky back in lineup as Islanders host Bruinsby Eric Goodman
BRUINS (32-15-3) at ISLANDERS (21-25-8)
Last 10: Boston 6-3-1; New York 6-3-1
Season series: This is the third and final game between the New York Islanders and Boston Bruins. The Islanders will try for their first season sweep of the Bruins since the 2005-06 season.
Big story: Islanders defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky returns after missing over three months with a concussion. Goalie Evgeni Nabokov is also back, though he'll dress as backup to Kevin Poulin.
Bruins captain Zdeno Chara spent his first four seasons with the Islanders and can earn his 500th NHL career point with a goal or assist Monday against his former team.
Team Scope:
Bruins: Boston was on the road for seven of its first 11 games in January and it started with consecutive losses at the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings. But the Bruins have bounced back from the slow start out west with a 3-0-1 road record, including a 1-0 win at the San Jose Sharks on Jan. 11, and will head back to TD Garden for a four-game homestand after the game Monday on Long Island.
Bruins forward Ryan Spooner skated in practice Sunday at Nassau Coliseum despite being sick with the flu, while Chara did not participate due to a maintenance day as decided by coach Claude Julien.
"He's a big man, needs some time off, not in his mind but in our minds, so every once in a while we force him to stay off," Julien said of the Bruins top defenseman following practice.
Islanders: With such a tight race for Stanley Cup Playoff positions in the Eastern Conference, the Islanders will need to make up for surrendering a 3-2 lead to the St. Louis Blues with just 27 seconds remaining in regulation on Saturday and eventually giving up the extra point in the shootout.
Islanders captain John Tavares, who assisted on the first goal of regulation, but was stopped in the shootout, put the 4-3 loss in perspective following the game.
"We had the lead with 20 seconds left and we didn't get the job done," Tavares said. "That's a big point we lost."
Who's hot: Bruins center David Krejci has one goal and five assists in his past four games. ... For the Islanders, Tavares is in the midst of a six-game point streak with two goals and six assists over that span.
Injury report: Bruins forward Chris Kelly (broken ankle), and defensemen Dennis Seidenberg (right knee surgery) and Adam McQuaid (lower body) are on injured reserve. Spooner (illness) is questionable. ... Visnovsky (concussion) and Nabokov (lower body) return, while defenseman Travis Hamonic (concussion) has not played since Jan. 12.


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My life-long interest in the conservation of nature merges with my concern for the evolution of democracy. I look at tragedy as an opportunity for individuals and society to learn, grow, and evolve.
Prosecutorial misconduct in many places in the U.S. leads tens of thousands of people being wrongfully incarcerated (e.g. Steven Avery and Brandon Dassey), ruining the lives of innocent people, their families, and using up tax payer dollars.
Ornithologists focussed on how to protect this endangered North American warbler and realized that it needed immature Jack Pine trees in order to successfully breed. With careful forest management practices, such as regular controlled burns, young trees can be ensured. See mandala for the ecosystem that is required of this unique bird that migrates every winter to small islands in the Virgin Islands(?) There is also effort being made to coordinate and educate island residents how to protect this bird when it is living on the island.
Sketch in progress to show the understanding of the bigger system in order to solve problems, e.g. to protect the Kirtland's Warbler, an endangered bird with an EcoVictory story! Ornithologists have figured out how many acres of jack pine forest this bird needs to feed one nest. In this forest is a moth larvae that the bird feeds its young. The nest can only be built on young jack pine saplings due as the nest design is specific to the angle of the sapling limbs to the tree trunk.
I painted this for a Lebanese friend who was heading back to Beirut, in the week following the fall terrorist attacks in Beirut and then Paris.
The Dalai Lama's monks captured here diligently at work on the annual Kalachakra mandala. It takes about six of them working several hours a day for about ten days to complete this sand mandala. I sat for about two hours trying to capture this moment. After a year, the monks will schedule a time to release the mandal with prayers into a body of water; and then they will make a new one.
This was a special moment I captured while sitting in a NYC Starbucks near Union Square. It was Christmas day, and I was waiting to meet a friend when I noticed this father calming his newborn son. I only had a moment to sketch the magic, and I finished the drawing during the week while riding the subway. I had to rely on my memory to fill in the gaps.
A meditation moment where I experienced a comforting sense of resolution of something from my past, colored with highlight markers.


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GTA V PC Review
It's taken over a year, but Grand Theft Auto V has finally landed on PC.
GTA V on PC
The arrival of GTA V on PC has been a long time coming. Since its original release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 back in September 2013, the world's a different place. Jay Leno's tenure on The Tonight Show has come to an end. Scotland, the Grand Theft Auto series' birthplace, has voted to remain part of the United Kingdom. We've even managed to land a probe onto a moving comet. Planet Earth and the human race have taken a step forward into their next age, so has GTA V managed to follow in its footsteps, or has it lagged behind, languishing in a corner as it rests upon past laurels?
Grand Theft Auto V is already getting long in the tooth. For the majority of gamers, Rockstar's latest trip into the dark and corrupting criminality that festers beneath every city has made a name for itself even without this port. Every path has been tread and each warped yet accurate observation of the real world as we know it is no longer dripping with the shock or surprise factor they were sodden with as when GTA V first unfolded all those months ago.
What GTA V on PC presents isn't something necessarily new. No no, rather, the game pulls back the curtains on a director's cut of what is widely regarded as the last console generation's final and most awe-inspiring hurrah.
Where this first becomes apparent is the visual delight, gesticulating with great fervor by presenting a gorgeously well realized vision of modern society as if seen reflected in a hall of mirrors. Far from being beholden to previous entries, GTA V on PC is a visual delight to take in. Whether your rig is a lowly laptop or tower of technology that devours more electricity in a week than most countries do in a month, it's possible to make the game look as delightful as possible within your machine's means.
Textures on higher or even the highest settings are so well defined that you'll have a hard time believing that the paint on each building isn't weathered by the same elements that weather your own home. Everything from detailed particle effects to dizzying draw distances can be found in GTA V's soothing embrace. They are, however, far from the most impressive visual boosts that have been ladled onto the gourmet feast for the eyes that GTA V lays before you. That comes from the lighting.
Grand Theft Auto V's lighting has always been a pleasure, from the Xbox 360/PS3 to the present PC client. The increase in resources available to the game brings Los Santos to life in a way no one could have foretold. Lens flares dart across the screen with enough beauty to give J.J. Abrams goosebumps. Reflections bounce from shining surfaces and off into the noon day sun. Heck, even on some of the lower settings, it's almost possible to feel the heat on your brow when crossing the desert. At times it becomes so believable, sunblock is advised.
This beauty does come at a price though. Running the game at full pelt on any PC that isn't likely to give birth to Skynet isn't exactly easy. Making do is never a satisfying activity, but it's one that almost every player of Rockstar's latest PC outing has to take into account. Luckily, there's a treasure trove of options available to tweak the experience. Unluckily however, it can sometimes be difficult to ascertain exactly which feature is hindering performance. This isn't something bad necessarily. It can, however, be irritating when you just want to run the game on high without having to run down every option and tweak settings for an hour before the game can even begin.
One addition that doesn't make the headlines but changes the feel of GTA V's PC outing comes in the form of a heavy, cinematic depth of field. By softly dragging certain background elements out of focus, the game often takes on a more cinematic feel than one might expect. This isn't just a game about drive-by shootings and the recipe for a good batch of methamphetamine, this is a narrative present against the backdrop of social satire and violence to the point of ridiculum.
The tale of GTA V follows four interlinked characters as they forge a path both in tandem and alone through the urban jungle nestled within the fictional state of San Andreas. Retired bankrobber Michael teams up with aspiring professional criminal Franklin and a familiar, unhinged acquaintance by the name of Trevor. Story-telling that captivates the mind is backed up by the haul of vehement voice-work of a quality that reinforces the game's vivid presentation beautifully. More often than not you find that your nose drifts ever close to the screen in hopes that you ears will catch something extra.
These three aforementioned fellows pull the story forward at a pace which never feels rushed, although at times can drag on a little more than you'd like. A satisfying conclusion does make up for this, but you never really want it to end. It is a delight to hear Trevor reminiscing about his morally questionable antics before slamming down some delightfully existential truths, following it all up by insulting Michael and screaming wild nonsense out of the window.


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Sadly, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will not be held at UCLA, or at least not for the year of 2011. Instead, the Los Angeles Times and USC have negotiated and come to an agreement that USC will host the massive book fair that in the past has completely taken over the UCLA campus. The L.A. Times cites its move to USC as a means to become bigger and better.
The move to USC will supposedly allow more to experience at the festival as well as greater public access due to USC's centrality and proximity to public transportation. The UCLA Newsroom stated that while UCLA is disappointed that the Festival of Books will be located elsewhere, it is not surprised. In negotiations, the Times wanted to increase profits and reduce costs which would require more subsidization on UCLA's part, subsidization that UCLA cannot provide at this point in time.
For UCLA students, the move of the Festival of Books is a hard loss. The Festival of Books was a springtime tradition, a weekend for students to walk onto campus and instead of going to class or a club, to see a panel of their favorite author or to find some new exciting treasure to read. It was a weekend to forget about classes for the day and enjoy the pleasures of books without having to travel. The Festival of Books was like a literary circus coming into our very home. It will be sorely missed by the students.
As a second-year, I only had the chance to experience the fair once. My friends had told me about it and I was excited for its arrival. It exceeded my expectations. Rows upon rows of books covered the campus. As I walked around I could hear through speakers a famous celebrity like Sarah Silverman talking or I would happen across a poetry reading that would make me pause and reflect. It's unfortunate that the classes following mine will not get to share in this experience.
Even though it will be at USC, thirty minutes across town from UCLA, I will still consider attending the festival. I think many people will as well. USC and UCLA may be rivals, but when it comes to the literary world, we can put that aside for a good book.
The L. A. Times Festival of Books will be from April 30th to May 1st.


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Madhav Rajan, an expert in the economics-based analysis of management accounting issues, became dean of Chicago Booth July 1, 2017.
Rajan previously served as senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2010 to 2016. That role included leadership of Stanford's MBA program, with oversight of admissions, curriculum, the student experience and career management. He launched new joint-degree programs with Stanford's engineering school and rolled out initiatives for tighter integration with the rest of the university. He also held the Robert K. Jaedicke Chair in Accounting.
Rajan completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Madras, India. He holds a PhD and two master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. Before going to Stanford in 2001, Rajan held faculty positions at the Wharton School. He held a visiting professorship at Chicago Booth in 2007-08.


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After much reflection on what to do with this blog, I have decided that I will include more regular updates about my weight loss efforts, as well as the book lists and reviews. I'm trying to work on a schedule for posting and a more defined list of what I will be posting about. Please bear with me as I make these changes.
So, in that interest, I have decided to create a new category called Health and Wellness and it will contain all of my weight loss, moderate low carb way of eating (woe), mental health, exercise, and other health related posts. I have started some new things, kept up with others, and all around felt better over the last few months.
Fist off, an update on my weight loss: I'm currently at 35 pounds lost. I haven't been tracking my inches lost very well, but I found a notebook with old measurements from 2015 in it. From that last measurement to today, I've lost 3.5 inches from my chest, 3 from my hips, an average of 5 from my thighs, and an average of 1.75 from my upper arms. Overall, my clothes are loose and I am now down one size in most shirts and pants (some brands still don't fit right).
Now for the new things. Someone in one of the Facebook groups I'm in mentioned the Hogwarts Running Club. I don't run, but I do walk a lot. They don't restrict their group or races to just runners, if you walk or bike, you can join too. They use an app called Charity Miles to log their miles. So far I have begun walking a lot more, and I completed my first ever 5k. I had to do it in 2 parts, but I walked 5k in a day THREE times since joining this group. It's really playing into my geeky side and everyone there is so encouraging it makes my face hurt from smiling!
Another thing I joined due to a recommendation from someone on a Facebook group is Nerd Fitness. This is a fitness site with a very nerdy/geeky focus. It touts 'leveling up your life' and goals are called 'quests'. I signed up for their Nerd Fitness Academy and am currently working my way through their quests and doing their Beginner Body Weight Workout, which is kicking my butt at the moment. I know it will get easier, and I intend to keep going!
Unfortunately, somewhere in March I managed to really injure my foot. My GP figured it was only bruised tendons, but turns out that I have two old fractures and must now go to see and orthopedic surgeon. This has set me back in both my walks and my workouts, but I will get back into things!


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I was going through my folders and saw that I saved a screenshot of this. There was a call for ideas to be used in Dragon+ Magazine. This was after release of Curse of Strahd. They wanted suggestions for creepy toys that may be at home in Blinsky's collection. I thought of something on the spot. Wrote it up and sent it in. I kinda freaked when I opened up that issue and saw my suggestion! A few suggestions got an art piece. Richard Whitters hit it out of the park. Thanks dude, you made my day 🙂
A bag of glass-eye marbles fashioned in various shades of green, blue, brown, and hazel. When you roll a marble on the ground, it always appears to be looking at you.


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"I am the one, pick me! I will be perfect for this empty corner here."
"Now is the time to use me in an imagery."
"I must be moved! Try putting me in the office instead of the living room"
The challenge is whether or not I will obey these little voices. Will I listen to my subconscious and go with the flow? When I was younger I considered that there is no way to go wrong when you do that, but after rigorous experimentation I discovered this is not 100% true. So in an attempt to minimize mistakes I rationalize. Has any person, living or dead, ever made a good decision by rationalizing? I dare say NOT!
So why does the reluctance to obey the subconscious comes later in life? Is it a phase or will it get stronger by time? Do spontaneous combustions of smartness give way to other useful attributes like............ hm ............... let me think of some....................... Nothing comes to me now but I am sure that there are some. Just like I am sure that life is a wheel, one day you are on top and another you are squashed under it.
Just like I am sure that tomorrow I will create greatness, I will find new ways to criticize me and the things around me. For now I am not sure whether I will always be able to redress mistakes and afford making new ones.


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Getaway! To the Air!
In honor of Getaway Month, I'd like to present a getaway option that doesn't actually include leaving LA. It's called a helicopter. Perhaps you've seen one chasing a fugitive in the neighborhood? Well it just so happens that going up in a helicopter is thrilling and can give you views of LA that you had never imagined (kind of like you're flying through the Laguna Beach opening title, only LA). If you have the stomach for it, the good people over at
Group 3 Aviation will gladly take you up in the air for some fresh pespectives.
Talk to Claudia about their helicopter tours to Hollywood, Downtown, the beaches, or do it all on the Grand Tour. They have deals if there are 3 or more and mention AT to get $10 off . Or charter a helicopter to go someplace specific–Palm Springs? Santa Barbara?
Seeing the city from this perspective gave me a newfound appreciation for all that this great city holds. I saw neighborhoods I'd never been to, saw my own street, the street I grew up on. And somehow what normally takes an hour in the car was travelled in about 6 minutes by air.
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Archive for the 'Internet TV' Category
Delivering TV over Web
TV coming as a service over Broadband/Internet… everybody is rolling up their sleeves and getting ready. Biggest hurdle – negotiating content license with Content Creators & Publishers.
A group of deep-pocketed companies, including Microsoft and Verizon, are exploring delivering TV service over the web, a move that could disrupt the economics of cable TV and lead to a new generation of "virtual" cable companies that provide TV without owning the pipe into the home.
Neither is close to rolling out their own web TV service, but both are determined to secure the rights so that they have the option of doing so in the future. They're not alone: Cable operators are looking at web delivery to leap the confines of their wired network, and video-on-demand services such as Hulu, Apple and Amazon, as well as other brands not generally associated with TV, are looking to enter the TV market.
The notion of an "over-the-top" video service that bypasses cable and satellite networks has been around for a long time but generally has been held back by two main factors: programmers' reluctant to license new players and cable, telco and satellite operators' control over the access to the home. They've also been held back by the limitations of the web itself: The infrastructure just isn't there to support as many live simultaneous streams of content as a popular live event like, say, the Super Bowl would create.
"Somebody is going to pull the trigger this year. It may not be 250 channels in HD, but it will be at a minimum a good handful of channels with subscription on-demand and the ability to get the content on lots of devices," said Braxton Jarratt, CEO of Clear Leap, which also provides enabling technology for web-delivered TV.
Experience Trumps Features
Steve Jobs was quoted saying the following at the launch of iPad2 earlier this week:
Logitech Revue sold 93,400 Units as of Q4 2010
The Logitech Revue has two primary peripherals – MiniController and the TV Cam. Per Logitech's 10-Q for the quarter ending 12/31/2010 – Revue and peripherals sales were $23.4million.
Assuming all of this was only Revue and using an ASP of $250 (instead of $299, since they dropped it during the Holidays) – it would result in an approximate sale of 93,400 Units in little less than 3 months ….
Note R&D expenses were incurred for Revue development – with the development being outsourced? 10-Q makes special note of increase in Consulting Fees due to Revue. And also Marketing & Selling expenses were higher due to Harmony and Revue. All those loft parties apparently did no good …
A detailed analysis at some point with a better model may be more useful. Below are the significant statements pertaining to Google TV and Revue (mentioned 23 times) in the 10-Q.
For home entertainment systems, we offer the Harmony line of advanced remote controls, Squeezebox wireless music solutions and, in the United States, a
line of Logitech products for the Google TV platform, including the Logitech Revue companion box, Logitech Mini-Controller and Logitech TV Cam with HD Vid service. For gaming consoles, we offer a range of gaming controllers and microphones, as well
as other accessories.
Adoption of the new accounting guidance primarily impacted the revenue recognized from Logitech Revue and our
LifeSize video conferencing products. The adoption had no impact on revenue recognized from the remainder of our peripherals, as they are not multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements.
The sale of Logitech Revue consists of two deliverables: the hardware with essential software delivered at the time of
sale, and unspecified additional software upgrades to the essential software on a when-and-if-available basis. Logitech allocates arrangement consideration to each of these deliverables using a selling price hierarchy. Under the new accounting
guidance, the selling price is based on VSOE of fair value, if available, TPE if VSOE is not available, or ESP if neither VSOE nor TPE is available. The relative selling price of the hardware with the essential software is based on ESP. The relative
selling price of future upgrades to the essential software is based on TPE. Amounts allocated to the delivered hardware and essential software are recognized at the time of sale provided the other conditions for revenue recognition have been met.
Amounts allocated to the future unspecified software upgrade rights are deferred and recognized ratably over the estimated 24-month life of the hardware. There was no impact to prior period financial statements from adopting the new accounting
guidance as it relates to Logitech Revue, because there were no sales of the Logitech Revue prior to adoption of the guidance.
We achieved retail sales growth in all product families during the three months ended December 31, 2010 compared
with the same period in the prior fiscal year, with double digit percentage growth in pointing devices, video, gaming and digital home. Digital home is a new product family combining Harmony Remotes, Logitech Revue with Google TV and peripherals
associated with the Google TV platform.
To date the platform has not met widespread consumer acceptance and our sales of Logitech Revue and related products have
been below our expectations.
In the three months ended December 31, 2010, our retail average selling price increased 3% compared
with the three months ended December 31, 2009, and increased 16% compared with the three months ended September 30, 2010, reflecting in part the launch of Logitech Revue in October 2010
In the Americas region, retail sales increased 31% and 35% and retail units sold increased 6% and 16% in the Americas
region in the three and nine months ended December 31, 2010 compared with the same periods in the prior fiscal year, reflecting strong sales of products with higher average selling prices and in particular, Logitech Revue. All product lines
produced double digit percentage sales increases in both the three and nine month periods ended December 31, 2010 compared with the same periods in the prior year. Sales of the Digital Home product line were especially strong, based on the
newly-launched Logitech Revue.
The launch of
Logitech Revue and the associated peripherals contributed sales of $23.4 million to our new Digital Home product family in the three months ended December 31, 2010.
Marketing and selling expenses increased 43% and 46% in the three and nine months ended December 31,
2010 compared with the three and nine months ended December 31, 2009, primarily due to the addition of LifeSize sales and marketing personnel in December 2009, and variable demand generation activities focused on Harmony remotes and Logitech
The increased advertising and marketing spending related primarily to approximately $27 million of variable demand
generation activities in connection with our Harmony Remotes and Logitech Revue, as well as other new product launches.
Consulting fees related to our development of Logitech Revue for Google TV also contributed to the increase in research and development expense compared with the prior year.
Boxee Business Model & Box Subsidy
Netflix: Taking on the Cable Guys
Netflix, with +20m customers, has meaningful & significant subscribers. And I think it is getting to ready to use that muscle. They are a business, much like Google:
– With no original content from them – they license, aggregate and distribute
– With no network infrastructure, with zero investments in networks (but they do partner/pay CDN operators)
However they do have the power of subscribers to back them up!
But you can summarize it in a sentence: If the broadband guys insist on gouging us to get video to our customers, we're going to make a very public stink.
Hastings says the list will detail "which ISPs provide the best, most consistent high-speed Internet for streaming Netflix," and offers a preview: Charter is tops, right now.
But if you invert Hastings's description, you get what he really means: We're going to tell some broadband customers that they're getting screwed and should switch to a new provider. Heads up, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, etc.
Intel in the Living Room
Intel has been attempting to enter the living year for over a decade now – and finally it is beginning to happen. Their dream has been for an Intel-powered CE device to be the center of the living room. They tried with the StrongARM line of processors right after their acquisition from DEC (late 1997). The StrongARM business was sold to Marvell in 2006. Intel, then followed by launching Viiv, to create an Entertainment PC for the living room. Sadly that effort also went nowhere …
Things are beginning to change. Intel is finally entering the living room – I can say this is true for my home and any of the households who have bought any of the following: the Boxee box, Logitech Revue, Sony GoogleTV products. All three of these are powered by the Intel 4100CE chip – code named Sodaville. The Sodaville chip has an Intel Atom processor.
The thrust is not only on the consumer front but also via service providers such as Comcast. There have been reports of Comcast running trials with a Set Top Box (STB) being powered by the CE4100 (you can read a review of the SOC by Anandtech).
The one thing that history does tell us in this case – Intel will not give up!
GoogleTV & Sony: Bad Marketing Combination?
WSJ and NYTimes recently reported on Google requesting partners to delay launch of GoogleTV products. May be the existing partners have also given up? The pictures below were taken yesterday showing the GoogleTV demo in the SonyStyle front display window at Atlanta's flagship mall – the Lenox Mall.
GoogleTV product may be ready or not, having a front window display in a premium shopping mall that shows a cryptic error message with a blank screen furthers the negative image of Sony and Google.


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Those who born on 8th, 17th, 26th of any month. Then you are ...
You have a very strong personality and people will find it hard to understand you. You are more likely to suffer in your younger years. You might be also the one responsible to look out for your family. You often suffer all the way through life. You will learn life in a very practical way. You are the one who will fight for justice and may even die in the war too. You are normally very reserved with a handful of friends and most of the time, live life alone and always prepared to help others. However, once you settle down, (which is often late), then your had lucks will disappear. You will face unexpected problems such as encountering poisonous animals, and accidents. You are highly- disciplined, persistence, and courageous, and it is your strength that will take you to success. You are a great part of a family team. You are a fighter! Your Best match 1, 4 and 8. Good match 5.
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After recently signing an exclusive contract with ABS-CBN, sexy actress Diana Zubiri will take on her first acting stint as a Kapamilya star via the drama anthology Maalaala Mo Kaya. She will be starring in this episode with Erich Gonzales and Patrick Garcia.
This Saturday (October 13), Diana will play the role of Yoli, a role model for her younger sister Merlie (Erich) who trusted and obeyed every single thing that her 'ate' asked of her--including the idea of having a relationship with Ramon (Patrick). Believing that Yoli's intention for her was good and pure, Merlie followed Yoli, only to find out that she was just manipulated by her older sister.
How can betrayal and infidelity shatter the solid bond between sisters? Aside from Diana, Erich and Patrick, also part of the episode are Miles Ocampo, Mark Joshua Sayarot, Dexie Daulat, Juan Rodrigo, Raquel Montessa, at Wowie de Guzman. It was researched by Agatha Ruadap, written by Benson Logronio, and directed by Dado Lumibao.
Diana's first-ever MMK episode as a Kapamilya airs this Saturday, after Wansapanataym on ABS-CBN.
Patrick Garcia to act opposite Erich Gonzales in Maalaala Mo Kaya
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text: With Help From Above October 6, 2010 03:27 AM Tweet Field agronomist Missy Bauer and Doug Rupp evaluate how NDVI field mapping alerted them to soil fertility needs and disease and pest pressure. © Photo: Rhonda Brooks TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Rhonda Brooks Editor, Farm Journal MagazineEditorial Director, Farm Journal Media Email Doug Rupp stares intently at a sheet of printer paper in his hand. The paper shows details of one of his best corn fields, awash in varying shades of green. Red lines that look out of place zigzag back and forth across the page. Rupp says the lines indicate pinch-row compaction problems caused by his center-fill planter last spring. "We could see the wheel tracks in every field, even on our heavier ground, because they showed up red on the map," Rupp says. "Without the map, we wouldn't have known there was a problem." The map Rupp references is the result of remotely sensed imagery, a type of high-tech aerial photograph of his fields based on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). (See sidebar below for more information.) "NDVI imagery gives us a really accurate layer of spatial information that we can use to help Doug and other farmers fine-tune their management and agronomic practices," says Missy Bauer, Farm Journal associate field agronomist. Bauer is one of Rupp's advisers for the 2010 Ultimate Farm Quest program. The program is designed to help Rupp take his northwest Ohio operation to a higher level. Top Producer will be reporting on his experiences with the program throughout the coming year. The accuracy of NDVI-based maps is significant, Bauer says. Such maps show information on a meter-by-meter basis as opposed to a yield map, which provides data based on a 20' to 35' swath, depending on the combine header used. That accuracy is good news for Rupp, Bauer says, because now he knows he needs to make adjustments to his planting practices next spring. Bauer adds that corn rows affected by pinch-row compaction yield an average 7 bu. to 10 bu. per acre less than unaffected rows. Set Some Goals. Two of the best times to implement the NDVI aerial mapping process are just prior to tasselling or just before drydown, says Nicholas Morrow, a field representative for GeoVantage, Inc., which provides NDVI mapping services. Morrow is based in Fort Collins, Colo. "When you implement it depends on what you want to achieve," Morrow says. "There are hundreds of uses for this technology." Bauer says that when NDVI mapping is done early in-season, farmers can see and correct some problems in corn such as insufficient nitrogen levels. Along those same lines, Morrow adds that NDVI mapping after canopy closure supports what he calls guided scouting. "You can get a lot more acres scouted in a day, because the imagery tells you those areas that need your attention and those that don't," he says. At harvest, NDVI mapping provides information that correlates closely to yield maps. Morrow says the maps help verify what farmers see from their combine and on their yield monitors. He adds that some state crop asso-ciations use NDVI maps to validate their test plot results and even go so far as to throw out yield results that don't mesh with the maps. Along with correcting compaction problems, Rupp will use information from NDVI maps to fine-tune management zones in his fields. Bauer anticipates the NDVI information will help Rupp make his variable-rate nitrogen applications more exact next season. NDVI maps are also useful for analyzing drainage in a field. "Doug has tiled his fields well, but even so, he found at least one area where he's planning to go back in and increase the amount of tile," Bauer says. "I don't know that we would have known the field needed additional tile without the maps." Evaluating the Payoff. The NDVI aerial imagery service costs between $2 and $4 an acre, on average. While there are no startup fees, most companies do require their customers to commit to a minimum number of acres. GeoVantage has a 2,000-acre minimum, but two or three farmers can pool their acres to reach that number. Allied Environmental Group, based in Xenia, Ohio, is another company that provides NDVI services as part of an overall focus on precision technologies and data integration. Monsanto Company is launching its new IntelliScan program this fall on a limited basis to corn and soybean growers in the Midwest. IntelliScan provides information on field productivity levels, based on satellite imagery and aerial mapping, says Bob Starke, regional agronomy lead for the company. Farmers interested in NDVI mapping may also want to check into technology, such as the AutoCopter, which allows growers to conduct their own field mapping. More information on this technology and equipment is available here. Morrow says farmers who want to give the technology a try should expect a good return on their invest-ment in those fields that contain varying soil types and terrain. "That's where you'll get your greatest payback," he says. "You want to pick those areas and the fields that you know you really want to improve." Morrow also encourages farmers to work with their local seed retailer, Extension specialist or consulting agronomist to locate companies that provide NDVI mapping services. Such resources can help farmers evaluate and implement decisions based on information the maps ultimately provide. Technology helps when Mapping out Plant Health The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a spatial measurement that uses a combination of near-infrared and red light reflectance to assess relative vegetation biomass and vigor in fields. Measurement results are aligned with an image file, such as an historical map, satellite image or aerial photograph. The resulting information then forms the basis for a detailed, color-coded map that visually showcases trouble areas in fields. NDVI measurements that detect healthy vegetation in a field show up as green areas on the map. Green turns to shades of yellow and red wherever the NDVI measurements detect variations and less-than-desirable plant health. The colors used to denote plant-health variations are selected by the company providing the NDVI mapping service. Plant-health variations result from factors including inadequate nutrient levels, poor drainage, compaction, disease and insect problems and even equipment malfunctions. 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