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10/10/2015

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10/10/2015

If These 34 Geeky Newborn Baby Photos Aren’t What Kids Are For, I Don’t Know What Is.

Geeky Newborns Who Are Already Winning At Life

Newborn babies can be a lot to handle, and the job of a new parent never stops. That means little to no sleep, so it can be hard to maintain your geeky lifestyle and follow your favorite movies, TV shows and books. What’s a geek to do?

09/10/2015

Its Bed time!
Cute on bed!

09/10/2015

monkey with cute teddy bear

09/10/2015

Giraffe Baby! This is something we call overloaded

01/09/2015

No Celebration would be complete without some chocolate bunnies. Bunny Cupcakes that you can make and share with friends and family.

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You’ll Need: (per cupcake)

1 Reese’s Cup
1 pink Sixlets
2 candy eyes
black food coloring marker
1 Tootsie Roll Midgee
1/4 Vanilla Tootsie Roll Midgee
2 Whoppers
1 gummy carrot
1 chocolate frosted cupcake
melted light cocoa confectionery coating (candy melts)*

01/09/2015

My friend tried to replicate this cute little lamb cake. What she got was perfection.

Have you ever tried to replicate anything at home?

01/09/2015

Who wants pink girly cake? Never too old to have a cute cake like this for my birthday:)

Have you ever tried to replicate these kinds of cakes at home?

18/08/2015

Morgan Stanley: Tesla will create driverless car fleets

A top automotive analyst predicts in a report Monday that Tesla Motors will embrace a future involving fleets of shared driverless cars and has raised his price target to $465 a share on the stock, up from the current $280.

Analyst Adam Jonas says Tesla has such a lead on connected, electric cars compared to rivals that it is likely to create a new division with a name like Tesla Mobility.

"We would be surprised if Tesla did not share formalized business plans on shared mobility within the next 12 to 18 months," he writes in a note to investors. "This could potentially be followed by commercial introduction in 2018."

Tesla shares were up almost 3.91% in midday trading, or $9.52 a share, to $252.67.

Not only did Jonas almost double his price target on the stock, but he says the business case is so compelling that some bulls might value Tesla shares as high as $611.

Jonas says the launch of a "Tesla Mobility 1.0 urban transport PODS (Position on Demand Service)" would come after introduction of the electric car maker's Model 3 in 2017, the car that is aimed at having a lower cost and wider appeal. At present, Tesla makes only the Model S luxury electric sedan, with a new crossover, the Model X, due by the end of the year.

He says the new division is likely because it would be in keeping with Tesla's sustainability message. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based electric car company is also best positioned to embrace a future of driverless cars that serve multiple customers.

18/08/2015

Futura Mobility Earns Impressive, 9th Consecutive Ranking in 2015 Inc. 5000 List

For the 9th consecutive year, Futura Mobility announces they have been awarded a spot on the annual list of fastest-growing private companies in America. Futura is a technology strategy and solutions company serving enterprise and healthcare industries. This announcement follows several strategic moves by Futura Mobility, making them a “2020-ready” company that is able to deliver services including secure communications platforms and healthcare analytics solutions in addition to their mobile technology and support expertise.

“We are thrilled that once again our business model and ex*****on has resulted in this distinct honor,” Futura Mobility Chairman Janet DeNicola said. “Such tenure and consistency is a true testament to the professionalism of our employees. Being on Inc. 5000’s 2015 List again shows we are doing it right; our customers expect and deserve nothing less.”

The President and Editor-In-Chief of Inc. Magazine tells us that only a tiny fraction of the nation’s companies have demonstrated such remarkably consistent high growth, particularly in the difficult economic environment of the past few years. David Gulian, Futura Mobility’s CEO said, “ranking for the 9th consecutive time with a 3-year growth of 154% is an honor and truly puts us in elite company.”

Futura Mobility in collaboration with partners Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, Practice Unite, and Real Time Learning Solutions agree that successful mobility solutions require data becoming usable information and having secure access to that information in a dynamic and mobile delivery. Together they help diverse enterprises such as Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, and Automobile industries solve real problems with measurable outcomes that improve the customer experience, quality, and financial performance.

18/08/2015

Dawn of a new Day in golf's higher echelon

Jason Day of Australia celebrates with his caddy Colin Swatton on the 18th green after winning the PGA Championship Sunday in Kohler, Wis., with a score of 20-under 268.

In his eighth year on the PGA Tour, Jason Day reached a major pinnacle by winning the PGA Championship.

And he could be sure that Tiger Woods was watching.

"Game over, very happy for Jason. Great dude and well deserved. Hats off to Jordan, incredible season. Calling it early," Woods tweeted, adding in another tweet that he was watching from his new restaurant in South Florida. Always a commercial plug.

Day and Woods have become good friends on the golf course, but the fact Woods tuned in to the final round at Whistling Straits brought to mind Day's rookie season when he was filled with big talent, big goals and some big talk.

Going into that year, he was asked during a conference call with Australian writers if he thought Woods was aware of him.

"I can't say for sure, but I think he is," said Day, who was 20 at the time. "If I was him, I would be. I watch everyone. He watches a lot of golf. He has so much time. He played 16 events - what does he do with his time? He'd be aware of me. He'd be saying, 'Here's another kid coming up."' It was a slow climb. Now 27, Day idolized the work ethic of Woods when he was growing up in Australia and honed that powerful swing under Colin Swatton, his current caddy. No one ever questioned his ability, only the trophies. It took him three years to win his first PGA Tour event at the Byron Nelson Championship, and four more years before he picked up another title at the Match Play Championship.

Along the way were more nagging injuries than he cares to remember, along with whispers that he was an underachiever. All that has been put to rest.

This is a new Day, who has matured into one of the top three players in the world and figures to stay there.

16/08/2015

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13/08/2015

The Ford F-650/F-750 medium-duty trucks roll off the line on for the first time in the United States at the Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake in August 2015. The trucks were previously built in Mexico.

13/08/2015

Greece's parliament in emergency session to ratify €85bn bailout deal

But a spokeswoman for the Syriza government, Olga Gerovasili, warned the Syriza rebels that a government without a majority “cannot go far” and raised the possibility of early elections.

She told Greece’s Mega TV:

It is known that some Syriza lawmakers will not vote in favour of the accord. A government that does not have a governing majority cannot go far.”

Some calm has returned to commodity markets, with copper rising for a second session. Copper on the London Metal Exchange climbed 0.7% to $5,224.50 this morning. Copper on the Shanghai Futures Exchange closed 1.7% higher at 39.580 yuan a tonne.

The dollar has also recovered somewhat, rising from a one-month low against a basket of major currencies as the yuan’s slide slowed. The greenback has lost about 3% since China started devaluing its currency on Tuesday, taking markets off guard.

13/08/2015

Currency War: What you need to know

China’s surprise move Monday to reduce the value of its currency versus the dollar has Wall Street fearing a currency war. Adam Shell with America’s Markets.

Most investors have heard of the Cold War and the War on Terror. But Wall Street is now worried about another type of war, one fought on the financial battlefield and one most investors know little about: a so-called "Currency War."

Blame China for talk of a currency war on Wall Street. On Tuesday, China surprised markets by devaluing its currency, the yuan, by nearly 2% vs. the dollar -- the biggest one-day fall in two decades. The move is intended to bolster China's lagging exports and weakening economy by making Chinese-made goods cheaper to purchase abroad. The yuan was devalued further Wednesday, adding up to its steepest two-day decline since 1997, according to Gluskin Sheff.

In an attempt to get investors battle-tested, here's a quick primer on why a currency war impacts savings and investments.

What is a currency war? It's when countries use their currency as a competitive weapon. Simply put, it is when a country "engages in policies" meant to reduce the value of their currency in an effort to boost competitiveness by "stimulating exports and economic growth," says Alan Skrainka, chief investment officer at Cornerstone Wealth Management.

13/08/2015

'Mission: Impossible' still top of box office; 'Fantastic Four' flops

Hollywood's summer has had runaway sensations ("Jurassic World") and heartwarming hits ("Inside Out"). It now has its fiasco.

"Fantastic Four," 20th Century Fox's attempt to reboot the superhero team-up franchise, debuted with just $26.2 million at North American theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The result was bad enough that last week's leader, Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation," held the top spot with $29.4 million in its second week.

The overwhelming flop for "Fantastic Four" is a rare humbling for a Marvel superhero film, which often gross more than $20 million in just one night. The film has been savaged by critics and was dogged by reports of creative difficulties. Director Josh Trank even distanced himself from it Thursday in a tweet he soon-after deleted in which he alluded to studio interference: "A year ago I had a fantastic version of this," he wrote.

"Fantastic Four" was Fox's attempt to revive a franchise just 10 years after its launch. But those earlier films — neither of which critics or fans much liked — opened twice as well. The 2005 original debuted with $56.1 million and the 2007 sequel, "Fantastic Four: The Silver Surfer," opened with $58.1 million.

06/08/2015

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06/08/2015

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06/08/2015

GoDaddy Inc. Trending On The NewYork Stock Exchange

GoDaddy’s Sales Jump 17%

Web-domain leader GoDaddy taps into digital expansion of small businesses

GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving rings the opening bell as the company begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange in April. The stock listing caused GoDaddy’s loss to widen in the second quarter.

GoDaddy Inc. said sales jumped 17% in the second quarter, but the newly public company also saw its net loss widen as it moves into the digital expansion of small businesses.

The company said Wednesday that its revenue totaled $394.5 million in the quarter ended June, up from $338.5 million in the same quarter a year earlier. However, its loss also widened to $71.3 million from $37.6 million due to its stock market listing in April. It had costs of $29.7 million related to its listing.

Its shares fell 5% in after-hours trading. The company’s stock had gained in the lead up to Wednesday’s earning call, closing 3% higher at $29.47 a share.

06/08/2015

Private rents rising by 2.5% a year, says ONS

Rents paid to private landlords in Britain went up by an average of 2.5% over the last year, the fastest rise for two-and-a-half years, figures show.
The largest increase was in London, where rents rose by 3.8% in the year to the end of June, according to The Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Excluding London, rents rose by 1.7%.
The figures - which are classified as experimental by the ONS - show rents went up by 2.1% in Scotland, and 0.8% in Wales.
Over the same period general inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), was nil.
The Money Advice Trust (MAT), which runs National Debtline, said the rise was "a real concern".
"While many households will be able to shoulder these increases in housing costs as the economic recovery continues, we fear that rent arrears will continue to increase," said Jane Tully, the head of insight and engagement at the MAT .
The housing charity Shelter said the increase in rents meant that some tenants were now paying half their monthly income to landlords.
It called on the government to build more affordable homes.

28/07/2015

Profit jumps at American Airlines

Dramatically cheaper jet fuel helped American Airlines nearly double its second-quarter profit to $1.7 billion despite lower revenue.

The world's biggest airline said Friday that it was American's most profitable quarter ever, after excluding one-time costs and gains.

Friday's results from American capped a bright earnings season for the nation's biggest airlines, several of which reported record profits in the April-through-June period.

Still, American warned that a key revenue figure will decline in the third quarter.

Investors worry that cheaper fuel is tempting the airlines to grow too fast, leading to lower prices after five straight years in which airfares rose faster than inflation. American doesn't disclose average fares, but a key figure shows that passengers paid less per mile in the second quarter than they did last summer, and a top American executive said that trend could continue into the second half of next year.

American's message to investors Friday: Don't be fixated on revenue per seat.

"Our largest cost has fallen 50 percent" since last summer, said Chief Executive Officer Doug Parker. "The revenues haven't fallen nearly as much as the costs have fallen, and as a result earnings are growing."

American's fuel bill dropped by more than $1 billion -- a 37 percent savings -- compared with the same quarter last year.

That helped American Airlines Group Inc. report net income of $2.41 per share. Adjusted profit, which excludes one-time costs, was $2.62 per share, topping the $2.58-per-share forecast from nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.

Revenue fell 5 percent to $10.83 billion, a sharper drop than Wall Street expected. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast $10.93 billion.

25/07/2015

Mazda's small CX-3 pounces on style

In a hot segment increasingly clogged with new entries, Mazda is counting on its little CX-3 crossover to stand out from the crowd.

The new 2016 CX-3 is a style play, hoping that its attractive looks and fuel thrify, advanced engine will tear buyers away from subcompact SUV competitors. Some of the latest include Honda HR-V, Chevrolet Trax, Jeep Renegade and its corporate cousin, the Fiat 500X.

After a morning of driving through hills north of Los Angeles, it became clear that CX-3 has the potential to shake up the segment. It's a confident driving machine. The 146 horses from its four-cylinder, 2-liter high-compression Skyactiv engine provided plenty, though not an overabundance, of pep. There's a full suite of techno and safety tech plus, if you order it, a potent Bose sound system.

In the end, though, we suspect CX-3 will win the majority of buyers based on looks and the price -- winning hearts and minds -- a potent combination with a target of young, mostly single customers.

On looks, it's as shapely and impressive on the road as it was when the sheet flew off late last year at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The accomplishment is no small feat. Designers will tell you that make small cars look good, not just cute, is a challenge.

Mazda team did it by resisting the urge to simply downsize its popular CX-5 crossover.

25/07/2015

Stocks post sharp weekly losses after 4th straight down day

Stocks tumbled Friday as Wall Street suffered a fourth straight day of losses and sent the major indexes down more than 2% for the week.

The broader market slumped despite a 10% surge in Amazon.com (AMZN) shares on stronger-than-expected earnings. Late Thursday, the e-commerce giant reported a surprise second-quarter profit instead of a loss. Its rally Friday lifted Amazon market capitalization above that of retailing titan Walmart (WMT) and Chinese e-commerce rival Alibaba (BABA). Shares closed up $47.25 to $529.43 after earlier hitting an intraday record of $580.57.

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 163 points, or 0.9% to 17,569 and the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 22 points, or 1.1%, to 2080. The Nasdaq composite index tumbled 57 points, or 1.1%, to 5089. For the week, the Dow tumbled 2.9%, the S&P 500 2.2% and the Nasdaq gave back 2.3%.

Oil prices dropped further below $50 a barrel as U.S. benchmark crude fell 31 cents to close at $48.14 a barrel in New York. Oil was down more than 5% for the week.

Wall Street has been under pressure this week as several high-profile blue-chip stocks such as McDonald’s (MCD), Caterpillar (CAT) and 3M (MMM) reported disappointing earnings.

Friday, one of the big earnings disappointments was the biotechnology company Biogen (BIIB), which sent its shares tumbling 21% after it reported second-quarter results below expectations and slashed its full-year profit and revenue forecasts.

News of another big deal in the health insurance industry also did little to help the broader market. Anthem (ANTM) said it is buying rival Cigna (CI) in a $54 billion deal that will create a mammoth for-profit insurer. Anthem shares fell 3% and Cigna dropped 6%

25/07/2015

Obama says entrepreneurs in Africa can give hope, deliver growth

U.S. President Barack Obama told African entrepreneurs in Kenya on Saturday they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa, and said governments had to help by ensuring the rule of law was upheld and by tackling corruption.

Obama was addressing a Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the start of the first presidential visit to Kenya, his father's homeland and the biggest economy in east Africa, which has been hit by a spate of attacks by Somali Islamist group al Shabaab.

Security was expected to top the agenda in talks later on Saturday with President Uhuru Kenyatta but Obama is also keen to increase business ties with Africa, where China overtook the United States as the continent's biggest trade partner in 2009.

"Africa is on the move. Africa is one of the fastest growing regions in the world," Obama told the conference, where he was greeted by applause when he began with the words "Jambo", the Swahili for "hello". "It is wonderful to be back in Kenya."

"Entrepreneurship offers a positive alternative to the ideologies of violence and division that can all too often fill the void when young people don't see a future for themselves."

He said government had a vital role on issues such as establishing the rule of law and curbing corruption, citing two issues often cited by businesses as major obstacles. He said more had to be done to help new firms secure capital.

25/07/2015

Ukrainians struggling as their economy shrinks

Many Ukrainians are feeling the effects of their country's severe recession. Fuelled partly by the debilitating war in the east with Russian-supported militants, Ukraine's economy is shrinking.
The country may also be on the verge of defaulting on some of its international debts.
This week, Ukraine's Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has been in the United States to reassure Washington that the government is making progress in tackling the troubled economy, cracking down on corruption and dealing with the shaky cease-fire with the insurgents.
But for many ordinary Ukrainians, life is hard. On the outskirts of Kiev husband and wife team Andrei and Yulia Burda run a speech therapy centre, a non-profit organization they founded for children with special needs.
It's a modest operation occupying just two small rooms in the corner of a school, and Andrei and Yulia make do with contributions from the 20 families whose children they help

With this they pay the rent and buy some basic, inexpensive items to assist them in their work - as well as a Bassett Hound puppy named Bobby.
At home they are equally frugal. With their two daughters and Andrei's mother, they rent a small one-bedroom flat near Kiev's centre. Together they make plaster of Paris figures and cloth dolls that they sell at a local art fair. Andrei also provides a dog grooming service for Yorkshire terriers.

18/07/2015

Blue Bell Creameries gets a new lease on life through Forthworth billionaires investment

When Sid Bass decided to invest in Blue Bell Creameries on Tuesday, the big question on everyone’s mind is whether he did so from his heart?

The billionaire from Fort Worth, who significantly multiplied his inheritance many years ago through investments in oil, gas and Disney, made a multimillion dollar investment in this company which hasn’t sold anything since April.

Even though it may appear as if Bass is showing state pride, investment experts strongly believe that he is being more opportunistic than anything else.

Mark Freeman, the CIO at Westwood Holdings in Dallas said that in his experience investors such as Bass or Warren Buffet always keep financial interests ahead of their emotions. Distressed situations may create opportunities but a keen investor like Bass wouldn’t just throw money at it because it’s one of Texas’ most iconic brands.

Paul Kruse, CEO of Blue Bell, said that this additional capital was going to help ensure their ice cream makes a successful return to the market & to their loyal customers. The company didn’t offer any information on how much of the company Bass now owns or if he likes the ice cream at all.

Bass is part of four brothers who had inherited their fortunes from their uncle, Sid Richardson the oil tycoon. He is currently listed as 1118 on the Forbes billionaire rankings with assets worth $ 1.7 billion. Prior to the recession he was listed within the top 400 with over $ 3 billion worth of assets.

Blue Bell had earlier closed all operations in order to investigate an outbreak of listeria and had recalled all their products on the 20th of April. They also laid off 1450 employees.

It was announced last week that the company was going to be having a trial run at their Alabama plant which was the first hint of a return.

15/07/2015

UK unemployment rises for first time in two years

The UK unemployment total has risen for the first time in two years, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The ONS said 1.85 million people were unemployed in the March-to-May period, an increase of 15,000 from the previous quarter, with the jobless rate at 5.6%.
The ONS also showed that the pace of pay rises continued to pick up.
Average weekly earnings including bonuses rose at an annual pace of 3.2% in the latest three-month period, the fastest rate in five years.
Pay excluding bonuses rose by 2.8%, which was the highest pace since February 2009.

The ONS figures showed there were 30.98 million people in work in the March-to-May quarter. That was down 67,000 from the previous three-month period and the first quarterly fall since April 2013.
The employment rate was highest in the South West of the country, at 77.4%, and lowest in Northern Ireland, at 67.9%, according to the ONS.
Compared with the same period a year earlier, there were 265,000 more people in work, with 272,000 more people working full-time and 7,000 fewer people working part-time.
"It's possible that the rate of improvement in the labour market that we have seen over the last three years may have eased off, though it is too early to be certain," said ONS statistician Nick Palmer.
Martin Beck, senior economic adviser at Ernst and Young, said: "Having become accustomed to persistent declines in the unemployment rate, the labour market data for the three months to May came as something of a shock."
David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said the jobs figures suggested the economic recovery was not as strong as many hoped.

15/07/2015

Fed's Yellen: Remain on track to raise rates this year if economy evolves as expected

The Federal Reserve remains on track to raise rates this year—as long as the economy evolves as expected, Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday.

Yellen is set to appear before the House Financial Services Committee to delivery a monetary policy report later Wednesday. In her prepared testimony, she said the U.S. has made progress, but labor market conditions are "not yet consistent" with maximum employment.

Markets will eye her testimony closely, looking for clues on how the Fed sees the U.S. economy—and therefore when it may start to raise interest rates.

Stocks, which were only slightly positive, briefly turned negative after the release of Yellen's remarks, before turning flat. Treasury yields rose after the release, but they could have been responding to data on U.S. producer prices.

Reiterating that the timing of an initial rate increase will be decided on a meeting-by-meeting basis, Yellen said the Fed is likely to begin hiking the fed funds target rate this year if the economy continues as expected. Markets are currently pricing in the first rate hike in December, but only barely so.

Inconsistent economic data—including an unexpected dip in retail sales last month—have added to the dovish case for keeping rates near zero. Still, Yellen also said earlier this month that she expected to begin normalizing monetary policy sometime this year.

15/07/2015

10 U.S. companies take the most foreign money

Do you know how much revenue companies you own get from overseas? Given the drama in foreign markets – that’s a question investors should answer. And for 10 companies – the answer is quite a bit.

Exxon Mobil (XOM), Intel (INTC) and Apple (AAPL) are among the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 that haul in the most revenue from regions outside the U.S., according to an analysis by S&P Dow Jones Indices.

The amount of revenue coming from nations outside the U.S. for big companies in the S&P 500 continues to creep higher. Companies in the S&P 500 reported getting 47.8% of their revenue from overseas markets, according to data released this week from S&P Dow Jones Indices. That’s up from 46% in 2013.

Regarding the individual companies that collect the most from foreigners – Exxon Mobil is the biggest. The company ranks No. 1 and No. 2 in terms of its receipt from two separate countries or regions: Europe and Canada. The energy giant’s revenue from overseas of $245 billion is roughly two-thirds of its total revenue. Just from Canada alone, Exxon collected more than $115 billion or 32% of total revenue.

Tech giants Intel and Apple also count heavily on foreign sales specifically from Asia. Last year, the two companies grabbed more than $30 billion from Asia. For Intel that’s more than half total sales, while for Apple its 17%. Intel gets 80% of its revenue from overseas while Apple grabs 60% from outside the U.S.

15/07/2015

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