Sweet Twist of Blogging: Five Friday Pin Up and my first Blogging ...

In my last post I mentioned the last week was very busy which is why I was late in it out. ?Here is my run down of what happened Thursday-Sunday.

Thursday - Work in the day, met my friend downtown right after work for dinner, then crashed at her house for an early Friday morning

Friday - Went to the Marilyn Denis show, Thanks to Blissdom Canada. ?The entire show was bloggers who were attending the conference. ? Then in the afternoon I got a prenatal massage, (Amazing) and then made cupcakes for my baby shower on Sunday, then a family dinner in the evening.?

Saturday - Went to the Blissdom Canada Conference from about 7am-6pm, ?then went out for dinner and since I am now almost 36 weeks pregnant I crashed and went to bed quite early. ? Not that I slept well but I was in bed.?

Sunday - Went for a pre-baby shower manicure/pedicure, then baby shower and then had some friends hang out afterwards for some games. ??

So clearly very little time for writing and posting. This Monday started conference #2 with Online BlogCon. At least with this one I don't have to read everything right away and I can come back to those posts. ? I can barely keep up with the facebook posts let alone the BlogCon posts.?

Here are my thoughts on Blissdom starting with the Marilyn Denis show. ?It was very cool to see how the show operates. ? The timing, moving things around, getting people ready, it was all very quick. ?The hour flew by, ?started and then it was done, just like that. ? ?It was exciting to get some gift cards and a book as some giveaways as well. ? It was pretty fun, ?although it wasn't to then see myself on TV later on when I watched it.

The conference started Friday night with a small event I didn't attend. ?When I first booked the tickets to go to Blissdom Canada, ?I did not know I would be 36 weeks pregnant at the same time so I had to pick and choose what I felt I could attend. ? My focus was obviously the main conference day. ? It started with a newcomers meet and greet, which was quick but great to meet a few new comers as well. ? After that there was breakfast, which was a little disappointing as it only consisted of granola, fruit and yogurt and then a presentation by Dove which was simply their commercial on TV done in person.?After the opening remarks, the morning consisted of mircosessions, which sounded promising as the topics were very relevant and interesting. ?Unfortunately with only a half an hour each there wasn't really enough time it seemed to get into any great detail, ?I would have loved some more in depth content. We also only had time to attend three mircosessions out of about 25 that all had the potential for great information. ?The afternoon consisted of 5 speakers with Jian Gomeshi being the first and best. ? Not that he talked a lot about blogging, he is just a great speaker and was very funny. ? I am very interested to get his book now.
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I did meet a lot of really great people at the conference which is obviously one of the key reasons to go. ?Blissdom is full of really fun, passionate people and that was probably the best part for me as I still left thriving for some more content when I left. ?The other bonus was leaving with a great amount of free products and swag from the sponsors, that is always a nice perk.

Sunday was my baby shower so I did skip out on the Blissdom excursions day. ?I am not upset however as my baby shower was fantastic. ?My family did an amazing job at putting it all together. ?Pink and green turtles were everywhere, ?with tons of games, crafts and lots of delicious food. ?I got to see lots of friends and family, got some great advice and the baby got spoiled.? Hubby and I are now pretty much set for baby's upcoming arrival, now we anxiously wait for the next 4 weeks. ?It was really an overwhelming day full of a lot of love.


A few of my favorite things... Sea turtle cupcakes decorated by my sister and a create your own onesie craft that my sister in law planned.

With Blissdom last weekend and Online Blogcon earlier this week I have met so many new bloggers and been exposed to tons and tons of great new blogs. ? For this reason I need to get back into my Five Friday Pin Up. ? Here are some great things I pinned over the last little while.

1) Tomato Basil Parmesan Soup by We pass the time of day to forget how time passes :?http://pinterest.com/pin/149744756331466585/? ? ?I have been addicted to tomato soup lately. I have to make this.

2) Grandma's Lasagna by Wishes N Dishes :?http://pinterest.com/pin/149744756331553426/
Seriously, just look at this.

3) Broccoli and Cheese Muffins by It all tastes Greek to Me :?http://pinterest.com/pin/149744756331623841/? ? ?I want these for breakfast tomorrow.

4) Pumpkin Caramel Kiss Cookies by Something Swanky :?http://pinterest.com/pin/149744756331551969/? ? ?Oh pumpkin you do us right in so many ways.

5) Peanut Butter Glazed Chocolate Chip Donuts by A Kitchen Addiction :?http://pinterest.com/pin/149744756331624341/? ?

I am still behind on the Online Blogcon posts and catching up with all the attendees blogs/pages/twitter/pinterest so my debrief on that will be in the next couple days.

Have a SWEET weekend!

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Providea Conferencing Becomes the Latest Video Managed Service ...

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October 2012 - SPS Acquires Providea
April 2012 - Yorktel Acquires First Connections
February 2012 - IEC Acquires G2J
January 2012 - AVI-SPL Acquires Iformata Communications
June 2011 - Polycom Acquires HP Halo & Video Managed Services Division
April 2011 - AVM Acquires VC-Net
February 2011 - Carousel Acquires Omni Presence
February 2011 - Presidio Acquires Blue Water Communications
September 2010 - Dimension Data Acquires mvision
April 2010 - Viju Acquires CityIS

Telepresence and videoconferencing managed service provider Providea Conferencing announced that it will be acquired yesterday by Strategic Products and Services (SPS), a multi-vendor systems integration firm for an undisclosed sum.? The acquisition strengthens SPS' service portfolio of design, installation, and management of converged communication solutions, contact center solutions, IP telephony, unified communications, mobile communication, and internetworking.?? SPS is one of Avaya's top ten partners and has been on an acquisition spree for the past three years buying a number of Avaya solution providers including: Jones Communications (March 2012), Imagine Technologies (December 2011) , Spenser Communications (February 2011), Consultedge (August 2010),? Digivoice (2009)?? and PhoneXtr (2008).? The Company is funded by Court Square Capital Partners, a private equity firm that is reported to manage over $6 billion in capital.

The acquisition of Providea substantially strengthens the SPS portfolio in managed video services including both multi-camera, multi-codec telepresence environments, traditional videoconferencing, unified communications, and other AV disciplines related to visual collaboration.? The company was Polycom's Partner of the Year in 2012, had won Internet Telephony's Product of the Year in 2011 for their ClearTrac Control System, and had been specializing in Inter-Company telepresence and videoconferencing connecting enterprise customers to partners, vendors, and customers through a partnership with IP-V Gateways.? ?

This acquisition is one of four acquisitions of video managed service providers in 2012 with an additional six in 2010 and 2011.? The world is starting to figure out that managing inter-operability of disparate video systems, inter-connecting with multiple carrier and enterprise networks to maintain quality between business partners, and integrating video with unified communications applications is a complicated business and there are only a small handful of firms on the planet that do it well.? Especially on the high-end.? Those companies are getting snapped up by strong hands in a trend that appears to be accelerating.? Whose left?

In alphabetical order my list of the best of the rest: BCS Global,? IVCi, Glowpoint, Teliris, and YorkTel.? I predict the cloud-based interoperability providers like Blue Jeans and VidTel are probably getting eyed in this trend as well.

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China ends nuke plant ban set after Japan disaster

BEIJING (AP) ? China has decided to approve new nuclear power plants as part of plans to reduce reliance on oil and coal, ending the moratorium it imposed to review safety in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster last year.

The government's decision Wednesday that nuclear power is safe for China takes the country in the opposite direction from some developed nations such as Germany, which decided in the wake of the Fukushima disaster to speed its complete phase-out of nuclear power. Japan is planning to phase it out by 2040.

China is the world's biggest energy consumer, and building new reactors is a key part of Beijing's plans to curb demand for fossil fuels.

The communist government is aggressively promoting alternatives to coal and oil in order to reduce pollution and curb its reliance on imported petroleum, which it sees as a national security risk. Still, coal is forecast to remain the country's main energy source for decades.

The government said Wednesday it hopes to generate 30 percent of China's power from solar, wind and other renewable sources, as well as from nuclear energy, by the end of 2015. That's up from an earlier target of 15 percent from renewables plus 5 percent from nuclear by 2020.

The Cabinet on Wednesday passed plans on nuclear power safety and development that said construction of nuclear power plants would resume "steadily."

Only a small number of plants will be built, and only in coastal areas, according to a Cabinet announcement. The plants will meet the most stringent safety standards, it said.

No date was given for resuming construction of nuclear plants. Despite widespread public concern over possible radiation contamination from the Fukushima disaster and calls for improved safety precautions and emergency preparedness, China remains committed to building up nuclear power to help reduce emissions from coal-fired plants and curb its reliance on costly oil imports.

China suspended approvals of new nuclear plants after a tsunami triggered by the massive March 11, 2011, earthquake crippled the Fukushima plant's cooling and backup power systems, causing partial meltdowns in the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

China's leaders ordered safety checks for existing nuclear facilities, a review of projects under construction and improved safety standards.

"The inspection results show that nuclear security is guaranteed in China," according to a government report on its energy policy also released Wednesday. "China implements the principle of 'safety first' in the whole process of nuclear power station planning."

China currently has 15 nuclear reactors that provide about 12.5 gigawatts of generating capacity, and another 26 reactors are under construction that will add 30 gigawatts, the report said.

Nuclear power accounts for only 1.8 percent of power in China, it said.

The government report also said that China is now 90 percent energy self-sufficient, but acknowledged high demand will continue to put a strain on resources.

It also warned of "grave challenges" to its energy security in its growing dependence on imported petroleum. Imports accounted for a third of total petroleum consumption in the early 2000s and have jumped to nearly 60 percent now, the report said.

China will also encourage private companies to participate in exploration and development of energy resources, it said.

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16 Gauge Stainless Steel 24 x 84 Work Table with Galvanized ...

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Watch the Exciting Trailer For the... Iron Man 3 Trailer?

Are you excited for the first official look at Iron Man 3? Of course you are. So to tide you over until the official trailer is released, here's the official trailer for the official trailer that gives us a handful of tantalizing looks at what the official trailer has in store. Let's break down some of what it reveals. More »

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BBC airs unseen expose on its disgraced star

LONDON (AP) ? BBC reporters put their own bosses in the hot seat over their role in an expanding pedophilia scandal, airing footage from a previously unseen expose of one of the BBC's most popular entertainers and quizzing senior management about why they canned the bombshell program.

Monday night's powerful but often awkward broadcast centered on revelations that late children's television star Jimmy Savile was one of the country's most prolific predators, suspected of sexually assaulting more than 200 children over his decades-long career. The scandal's explosion has cut an ugly gash through the venerable broadcaster's public image, a wound made all the worse by the revelation that executives there scrapped what would have been a hard-hitting expose of Savile's misdeeds last year.

Tim Burt, a managing partner of the Stockwell Communications crisis management firm, said the BBC faces a major blow to its reputation at a time when it is entering delicate negotiations with the government about the terms of its charter.

"To have a civil war inside on a matter of editorial judgment and the handling of potentially criminal investigations could not have come at worse time," he said.

The broadcast set out to explain why the Savile investigation was never televised. The answer remains murkier than ever ? the BBC stopped short of accusing any of its bosses of a cover-up ? but viewers were given harrowing testimony about the scale of the abuse, including allegations that girls and, in at least one case, a boy, were forced to have sex with Savile in his car, his camper van, or dingy dressing rooms on BBC premises.

"I'm so full of self-disgust. I can't believe that I did such things," said Karin Ward, who described being cajoled into giving the presenter sexual favors when she was just a young teen. She said she should have tried to put a stop to it but "I didn't. None of us did."

The program was surreal in parts, not least because nearly all the children who surrounded Savile in archival footage were shown with their faces blurred out ? each one of them a potential victim of sexual abuse. Also bizarre was the fact that the BBC was effectively conducting a televised inquisition into itself. One particularly striking scene involved a journalist bombarding BBC boss George Entwistle with questions on what appeared to be his morning commute.

"I've never seen an organization do such a knocking job on itself," commented ITV journalist Kenny Toal. "Fair play to the journalists who spoke up against their bosses."

BBC editor Peter Rippon ? who stepped down temporarily only hours before the show was aired ? was hit by some of the hardest knocks. Under fire from his two reporters, he was shown to have put out a series of misleading statements about the documentary. Emails appeared to show he was enthusiastic about the expose at first, but abruptly changed his mind for reasons that remain unexplained.

Reaction was mixed, with some viewers criticizing the BBC for not having pushed its executives harder. Others congratulated the broadcaster on a compelling broadcast that must have been difficult to organize. The Mirror's deputy television editor Mark Jefferies said in a message posted to Twitter that the program was "very thorough, compelling and depressing" and which he said showed the BBC "at its best."

"Sadly it was highlighting BBC at its worst," he said.

The scandal and the alleged cover-up have already drawn unusual criticism from the prime minister.

"The nation is appalled, we are all appalled by the allegations of what Jimmy Savile did and they seem to get worse by the day," David Cameron said earlier Monday.

The BBC can expect harsh treatment at the hands of Britain's newspapers, said Bob Calver, a lecturer in broadcast journalism at Birmingham City University. He suggested that publications from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire, which has been shaken by revelations of widespread criminality at its newspapers, would be particularly harsh.

"The print media will not let this story go," he said. "Because BBC was not implicated in the phone hacking scandal, it was pointing the finger at the print media, which has long felt that the BBC is smug and gets special treatment. This is an opportunity for the print media to come back at them."

There seemed to be every sign of that late Monday. Murdoch's The Sun newspaper said that BBC chiefs were "accused of betraying license fee payers by misleading the public over pervert Jimmy Savile." BBC's revenues are paid by license fees from viewers.

Asked how the BBC could have avoided some of the scandal, producer Meirion Jones answered: "Very easily. By broadcasting a story about Jimmy Savile and how he was a pedophile."

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Associated Press writers David Stringer and Robert Barr in London contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bbc-airs-unseen-expose-disgraced-star-022041756.html

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Paranormal Activity 4 Review: Scary? Or Just ... - News For Shoppers!

Paranormal Activity 4It?s October again, which means one thing for the world of movies: it?s time for yet another installment of ?Paranormal Activity?.

The found footage franchise has been making?an impact with moviegoers for over 3 years now, and after an interquel and a prequel, it is time to finally continue the horror story in ?Paranormal Activity 4.

Though the film will bring in a crowd, is the new installment going scare the pants off moviegoers?

The plot behind ?Paranormal Activity 4? revolves around a family being haunted by a demonic presence that seeks something within their home. Does this sound familiar? It should because the plot to this film is just a rehash of its previous predecessor. It is one thing to follow the same formula, but it is another thing to keep to the structure and not establish anything; and that is exactly what ?Paranormal Activity 4? does.

?Paranormal Activity? is not known for having fleshed out characters, and the fourth installment continues that trend. The majority of the film follows Alex as she tries to figure what is wrong with the house. This kind of character is nothing new for this franchise, so it leaves no impression. Other characters either fall under being uninteresting or just being nonexistent.

Though the story and characters have fallen through, perhaps the scares make this film worth the price of admission. If that is your thought process, then allow me to be the bearer of bad news. The only terrifying moments in ?Paranormal Activity 4? are the nonstop bombardment of jump scares. ?A jump scare is good ?very now and again, but when the entire scare tactic is nothing but startling moments, then the horror film is no longer scarey. It?s just annoying.

As you can imagine, ?Paranormal Activity 4??is not a good time at the movies. The film establishes nothing to move the so called plot along; and to top it all off, it?s really not that terrifying. Movie-goers will be startled every now and again, but the scary moments will leave your mind as soon as they pass.? I have never been a fan of this film series, but ?Paranormal Activity 4? not only succeeded at being a disappointment, it found a way to make this franchise even staler.

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Fishy physics: Adaptation lets silvery fish reflect light without polarization, may help them evade predators

ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2012) ? Silvery fish such as herring, sardine and sprat have evolved special skin that gets around a basic law of physics, according to new research from the University of Bristol published Oct. 21 in Nature Photonics.

Reflective surfaces polarize light, a phenomenon that fishermen or photographers overcome by using polarizing sunglasses or polarizing filters to cut our reflective glare. However, PhD student Tom Jordan and his supervisors Professor Julian Partridge and Dr Nicholas Roberts in Bristol's School of Biological Sciences found that these silvery fish have overcome this basic law of reflection -- an adaptation that may help them evade predators.

Previously, it was thought that the fish's skin -- which contains "multilayer" arrangements of reflective guanine crystals -- would fully polarize light when reflected. As the light becomes polarized, there should be a drop in reflectivity.

The Bristol researchers found that the skin of sardines and herring contain not one but two types of guanine crystal -- each with different optical properties. By mixing these two types, the fish's skin doesn't polarize the reflected light and maintains its high reflectivity.

Dr Roberts said: "We believe these species of fish have evolved this particular multilayer structure to help conceal them from predators, such as dolphin and tuna. These fish have found a way to maximize their reflectivity over all angles they are viewed from. This helps the fish best match the light environment of the open ocean, making them less likely to be seen."

As a result of this ability, the skin of silvery fish could hold the key to better optical devices. Tom Jordan said: "Many modern day optical devices such as LED lights and low loss optical fibres use these non-polarizing types of reflectors to improve efficiency. However, these human-made reflectors currently require the use of materials with specific optical properties that are not always ideal. The mechanism that has evolved in fish overcomes this current design limitation and provides a new way to manufacture these non-polarizing reflectors."

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  1. T. M. Jordan, J. C. Partridge, N. W. Roberts. Non-polarizing broadband multilayer reflectors in fish. Nature Photonics, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.260

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