Sunday, August 9, 2015
There are more pearls?!?!
Well on some episodes like "cry for help" and "friend ship" pearl said "i'm just a weak and defensless pearl" so..... are there more gems?!? what i mean is like is there more garnets or amathests or pearls? there must be right? tell me what you think comment down below
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Mayor Dewy (or how ever you spell his name) has a crush on pearl!!!
you can obvisley tell he likes her and she can tell but she doesn't like him
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Pearl has a crush on rose quarts
yes in the episodes "We need to talk" and "Chille tid" u can tell that pearl likes rose quarts
Friday, July 10, 2015
there r two charaters without gem names
Of course we know about steven but jasper also has a non-gem name
Monday, June 1, 2015
Going to make to doll series
Yes i will make two doll series once my dollhouse is painted
one called (actually i don't know what to call it yet) but it's going to be about my dolls in their regular life
and the second one is called daughter of the moon it's based off a book series called daughters of the moon anyway my series is about this girl named serena and she has a power, she can read minds but doesn't know why until she discovers that she is a daughter of the moon and she has to protect the world from the ancient evil called the Atrox
oops i probabley said too much already
one called (actually i don't know what to call it yet) but it's going to be about my dolls in their regular life
and the second one is called daughter of the moon it's based off a book series called daughters of the moon anyway my series is about this girl named serena and she has a power, she can read minds but doesn't know why until she discovers that she is a daughter of the moon and she has to protect the world from the ancient evil called the Atrox
oops i probabley said too much already
Saturday, May 30, 2015
DOLLHOUSE GOT A UPGRADE
Me and my mom got some paint for two rooms today so the living and stable are painted!
my first day in minecraft xbox 360 survival
Well Harrison (brother) and i just got the christmas texture and we were playing in survival and we spawned in a christmas village and Harrison spotted santa's toy shop in minecraft so while he was living in santa's toyshop i was living in a house in the village but then my food bar was getting low so i tried finding food in the village but then i just tried to sleep hoping that i wouldn't die in my sleep but then when it was morning i died and that's all i remember in my first night in minecraft xbox survival
My first day on minecraft xbox 360
So at first i start in creative (because i was a beginner) and so my first house was made out of diamond blocks and that's all i remember sorry :(
Monday, May 25, 2015
JUST GOT FLUTTERSHY AT BAB!!!!!
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
We Ate and Ranked All 27 Pop-Tart Flavors
It’s hard to imagine an American breakfast landscape without Pop-Tarts, or a Pop-Tart without frosting. Fortunately, only one of those things exists, and I ate it (hint: it wasn’t the landscape).
To be more accurate, I ate and ranked a staggering 27 different types of Pop-Tarts: all the ones that are on the market today – plus two seasonal varieties – for the sake of science. Turns out that Kellogg’s has been busy since the first four flavors of P-Tarts were released back in 1964.
Pop-Tart taste-test ground rules
All of the Pop-Tarts you’ll see below were lightly toasted, according to the directions on the box, because integrity is important. They were all, also, consumed in a 24-hour period to avoid any lapses in comparative tasting abilities. Toaster Strudels were stopped at the door.
27. Unfrosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon
I’m going to start this off with an admission that will color some of my other reviews: I’ve always thought cinnamon was a bit boring. To utilize a hip, timely cultural reference, if given the choice between chocolate babka and a cinnamon babka, I will not choose the lesser. Still, I know a lot of people who swear by Brown Sugar Cinnamon. I’m sure they would probably also agree that frosting adds a lot to a Pop-Tart – it’s something interesting to look at. This doesn’t have a lot going on. It feels naked, unfinished. There are greater Pop-Tarts to come.
Leap Second: Why June Will Be 1 Second Longer
It's a dreaded day for many Internet companies: On June 30, an extra second will be added to the clock, creating the potential to wreak havoc on computer systems not equipped to handle the change.
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS) announced an extra second will be added at the end of June to account for a discrepancy between Earth's rotation
The extra second will be added as the clock strikes midnight universal time, meaning the extra second will come for people in the United States at 8 p.m. EDT.
Leap seconds can be added in June or December, according to IERS. There have been 25 instances since 1972 of an extra second being added.
When the time comes, clocks synchronized to standard civil time will show the extra second as :60, however it's possible that programs not equipped to handle the extra second could have an issue.
Amazon Web Services said it plans to "implement alternative solutions to avoid the ':60' leap second. This means that AWS clocks will be slightly different from the standard civil time for a short period of time."
When the last leap second was added on June 30, 2012, it caused issues with a number of websites, including Qantas, LinkedIn and Yelp, according to reports at the time
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
RV Meets OMG: 12 of the Coolest Custom RVs on the Road
RV Meets OMG: 12 of the Coolest Custom RVs on the Road
From gussied-up Airstreams to posh “glam”-pers, RVs are rollin’ in popularity. Helped by the strengthening economy, sales have surged so far in 2015 after a strong 2014, the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association reports. The trade group says 8.5% of U.S. households now own RVs, up from 8.0% in 2005.
“What a wonderful place to be at today, having hit the bottom, to be at the top and see such a bright future for this industry,” cheered one official, Indiana Lt. Governor Sue Ellspermann, speaking this week at a RV industry event in Elkhart, where many of those motorhomes are built.
There’s nothing wrong with a cream-colored Winnebago, of course, but some creative people are thinking a little more “out of the box.” One Chicago Cubs minor league pitcher even chose to live in one this year. Take a voyeuristic journey through some of the hippest, fanciest, and just plain craziest motorhomes and towables out there.
Out of Africa? Texans offer sanctuary to endangered rhinos
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - In the Texas grassland, home to white-tailed deer and rattlesnakes, outdoorsman Charly Seale sees a vast sanctuary of open spaces that could be used to protect the wild African rhino from its biggest enemy - poachers in search of the animals' valuable horns.
Seale is part of an ambitious project organized by animal welfare groups in the United States and African countries to bring hundreds of orphaned baby southern white rhinos to the south Texas grasslands, whose climate and geography are similar to their native South African veld.
That is if governments will let them and the Texans can afford a transportation bill that could run tens of millions of dollars, all paid for by private donations.
"This is not for the faint of heart or for the faint of checkbook," said Seale, head of the Texas-based Exotic Wildlife Association's Second Ark Foundation, pointing out no public money will be sought for the effort, which is still in its early stagesRhino poaching hit a record in South Africa last year, home to almost all the rhinos in Africa, with 1,215 killed in 2014, according to South Africa's Environment Ministry.
International crime syndicates are after rhino horns, which are used in traditional Asian medicine and sell at prices higher than gold to the newly affluent in places such as Vietnam, where a belief, with no scientific basis, exists that they can cure cancer.
In January, South Africa said it had moved about 100 rhinos to neighboring states to combat poaching. In 2015, another 200 rhinos will be moved to what Environment Minister Edna Molewa said are "strongholds" where the animals will be safer from poaching. [ID:nL6N0V122X]
Some have ended up in Botswana, a country that allows the shooting of poachers on sight.
FORMIDABLE CHALLENGES
But what about Texas? If the plan goes forward - and there are many issues yet to be resolved - it would likely be the largest attempt outside of Africa to move rhinos out of harm's way.
The South African Environment Ministry says it has yet to receive a formal request for export but added that strict criteria under international endangered species agreements would have to be met, including zoo accreditation, standards of care and record keeping.
South Africa is home to about 20,000 rhinos, but under the Texas plan, called Project 1,000, far fewer rhinos would likely be approved for export to the U.S. state. Africa has two different species of rhinos: white, which number about 20,000, and black, whose population is about 5,000, according to the website savetherhino.org.
The Second Ark Foundation, which has worked to preserve the African addax and the scimitar-horned Oryx, is working with South African wildlife organizations to handle the logistics.
"There is a lot of red tape on both sides and there would be a need to quarantine the animals," Seale said. "Most of the rhinos that would be transferred are orphan, baby rhinos."
The challenges are formidable. Most of the rhinos would be under three years old and younger animals would have to be fed milk by bottle. They are typically darted in South Africa, and would then be transported by truck and shipped as air cargo.
Rhinos are not the best of travelers. Their health could be put in jeopardy by a long trip and airplanes can only move a handful at a time. But if it goes according to plan, the rhinos would be housed on ranches in south or southwest Texas that can run in size to 100,000 acres-plus (40,000 ha-plus).
The rhinos would be well guarded, with their DNA sequences stored in a database and micro chips placed in their horns while they are kept under surveillance at the ranches, many equipped with helicopters to keep an eye on the animals.
If things go well in Texas and South Africa can put a lid on poaching, the Lone Star-raised rhinos could eventually be returned to Africa. None would be hunted in Texas, said outdoorsman Alan Warren, who is part of the Texas group.
"It's not about hunting, it is about preserving and saving the species from certain annihilation in South Africa," Warren said.
This is the real reason Walmart is struggling
Strapped consumers. A strong dollar. An incomplete turnaround plan.
OK, these factors are probably part of the reason Walmart (WMT) is underperforming on sales and profit both, with the stock down about 3% on the latest, disappointing earnings news.
But Walmart faces a bigger problem that shareholders and company executives may not have come to terms with yet: American shoppers are losing interest in what traditional department stores sell. “People no longer waste money just to show the stuff they have,” says Sarah Quinlan of Mastercard Advisors. “We’d rather have an experience. This is how we will continue to spend going forward.”
Walmart remains a prodigious retailer, with nearly $500 billion in annual sales, making it America’s biggest company. It’s certainly not going away. But growth is painfully slow and could very well stay that way. Same-store sales in the U.S. grew just 1.1% compared with 2014, which is less than inflation and income growth during the same period of time (both were around 2%).
This weak performance comes at a time when consumers are gaining purchasing power and ought to be spending more. Median household income is still lower than it was a decade ago, but it's been improving lately. And other trends are making shoppers more optimistic. Gas prices are about $1 per gallon lower than they were a year ago, freeing roughly $1,000 a year for the typical household. U.S. employers have created nearly 3 million new jobs during the last 12 months, enhancing job security. If Walmart can only boost sales 1% during a consumer boom, imagine how it’s likely to weather the next recession.
Walmart isn’t the only underperforming retailer. Macy’s (M), Kohl’s (KSS) and J.C. Penney (JCP) all reported sales below expectations recently. Retail sales are up a scant 1.9% so far in 2015, compared with last year. Real growth in retail sales, after accounting for inflation, is effectively 0.
Consumers are saving more and using extra income to pay down debt, but they’re also shifting purchase preferences in ways that could be lasting. As Yahoo Finance has previously reported, Americans are spending less on teen apparel, electronics other than smartphones, and general department store merchandise, including much of what Walmart sells. But they’re spending more on air travel, hotels, restaurants, jewelry and furniture. For the most part, Walmart isn’t positioned where the growth in spending is.
Demographic and economic trends, meanwhile, are working against Walmart. More people are moving from suburbs to cities, giving up the basements and spare bedrooms where they used to stash bulk purchases from a superstore. Baby boomers, who essentially made Walmart, will soon be downsizing their homes as they streamline for retirement. Household formation among the next generation of home owners remains weak, as young people grapple with student debt and put off big spending decisions.
Walmart has a logical plan to improve its numbers: improve the quality of its stores, sell more groceries and local offerings, and compete more aggressively against online giant Amazon (AMZN). But most of those initiatives rely on consumers spending more for the same kind of merchandise they bought in the past. Don’t be surprised if consumers spend on something else
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