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Busy Shops Ranked as UK Consumers’ Top Christmas Hate Reports DiscountVouchers.co.uk

The most annoying thing about the Christmas season is shops being too overcrowded and busy – so says the results of a new user poll carried out by leading money saving website DiscountVouchers.co.uk.

Consumers use the DiscountVouchers.co.uk to save money on products and services from over 3,000 suppliers, and this week opened their hearts about Christmas in the website’s latest survey. 32% of respondents told DiscountVouchers.co.uk that busy shops are their least favourite aspect of Christmas, while 1.25% of miserly people said that they found the Queen’s Speech to be the most annoying thing. Second in the survey results was over the top hype levels in the run-up to Christmas.

The DiscountVouchers.co.uk poll revealed consumers’ Christmas pet hates to be: 1. Crowded shops, 2. Early Christmas hype, 3. None of them – I love Christmas, 4. Commercialisation 5. True meaning of Christmas is lost, 6. Everything, 7. The cost, 8. The Queen’s Speech, 9. Carols, 10. Christmas TV.

For more information visit www.discountvouchers.co.uk

DiscountVouchers.co.uk features more than 500 new offers and deals every day from over 3000 retailers including Marks & Spencer, House of Fraser, Lastminute.com and Sainsbury’s.

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Warning For Golfers As Player Awarded £400k After Losing Eye

Leading UK golf insurance specialist Golf Care has urged players to ensure they take out sufficient protection before stepping onto the course.

The warning comes after a Scottish court ordered a golfer and a golf club to pay damages of almost £400,000 following an accident which led to an amateur player losing an eye after being struck by a ball.

A judge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled on Friday that 44-year-old Anthony Phee from Sale, Greater Manchester, should receive £397,000 in damages – 30 per cent of which will be paid by Niddry Castle Golf Club at Winchburgh, in West Lothian, where the incident took place and 70 per cent by the golfer who struck the wayward shot.

The case has highlighted the importance of individual golfers having specialist golf insurance which covers them for eventualities such as this that can potentially occur on the golf course.

John Woosey, managing director of Golf Care, said: “It’s worrying that nine out of 10 golfers aren’t adequately covered when they step on the course. Mr Phee’s case proves that accidents happen and can cost golfers a fortune.”

The UK’s leading specialist golf insurance provider, Golf Care, offers policies that would have covered the liable golfer for this sort of incident which left the visiting player with only one eye after he was struck by a wayward tee-shot.

Mr Woosey added that in many cases, golfers think their home insurance will cover them for damage or personal liability, but the truth is that an inexpensive specialist golf insurance policy is the best way to ensure that individual golfers are adequately covered.

He said: “This sort of incident highlights just how dangerous a golf course can be, and a pay-out of £397,000 is a staggering amount.”

“The vast majority of golfers don’t realise how easy it is to compare golf insurance and aren’t properly covered. But whether you’re a single figure
handicapper or a golfing novice, we all hit poor shots. Why take the risk when for less than £30 a year you can be fully covered for incidents such as this – a small fee to pay for peace of mind every time you step onto the course.”

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Friedman Global Announces James Cross Joins Research Team

Friedman Global, a leading supplier of financial services has recently announced that James Cross has joined the company’s research team. With more than a decade’s worth of experience, he will be very critical to the growth of the business as well as the continuous rise of the company.

“Friedman Global has increased revenues for the past couple of years and improvement of the organizational foundation is a testament to that rate of growth,” said Michael Stone, COO of Friedman Global. “James Cross’s passion and knowledge makes him an invaluable member of the Friedman Global team.”

James Cross will be assigned to making analysis and forecasts on trends of the economy, other than observing developments that will in turn affect the economy as well as the investors. Besides giving critical information to Friedman Global’s clients, Cross will be monitoring all the products of the company.

“One of the most important things to note as of recent is that analysis of the market has now become very important for investors,” said Mr. Cross. “There are no words to describe my excitement in joining a firm that has a global reach and a commanding presence in the industry.”

Friedman Global has hundreds of customers that are being serviced for more than millions upon millions of requests for information on an annual basis. James Cross will be joining the company in the best time possible as Friedman Global has shown a record-setting development and growth due to its new product lines. Before becoming a member of Friedman Global, James Cross was an economist. He started his career at an early age and spent more than a decade in one of the most prestigious brokerage companies in the US.

Contact Details: www.friedman-global.com
contact@friedman-global.com
+852 8120 5478
Two Exchange Square
8 Connaught Place,
Central Hong Kong

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Don’t Play Russian Roulette With Your Christmas Presents, Warns Parcel2Go

UK parcel delivery specialist Parcel2Go has urged shoppers not to put their Christmas packages at risk by either sending them off with unreliable delivery firms or failing to wrap them properly.

Major online retailers eBay and Amazon have both announced their predictions for the busiest Christmas shopping day of the year (Sunday December 4 and Monday December 5 respectively), when hordes of people across the UK will go online to kick-start the festive buying spree. With many millions of Christmas parcels due to be shipped to addresses within the UK and overseas in the coming weeks, Parcel2Go has reminded British consumers to do everything possible to make sure their presents stay safe in transit.

It’s often the case that people who don’t normally have a need to send parcels during the year suddenly find themselves at Christmas with a stack of presents that need to be shipped off to relatives in time for December 25. Unfortunately it is these consumers that can find themselves in a mess if they choose to send gifts off with unreliable parcel couriers or perhaps fail to wrap their goods well enough.

Richard Mercer, marketing director at Parcel2Go, has urged all shoppers to take the correct steps to ensure their packages arrive on time and in the best condition this Christmas.

He said: “It’s easy to see how people who are unused to organising parcel deliveryservices with parcel couriers can get caught out at this time of year. There is always a lot going on and sending off parcels might seem a chore if it’s something you only do once a year.

“We’re calling on people to just take a minute to think about how awful it would be if the presents they’ve spent money on and time choosing didn’t arrive. Every Christmas, Parcel2Go helps many thousands of people to get their presents couriered to addresses in the UK and abroad safely. Our message is that it is certainly worth spending a few minutes finding a reliable courier and wrapping a parcel securely in order to avoid a nightmare before Christmas.”

Parcel2Go’s customers can have complete peace of mind by using the firm’s online parcel tracking feature to keep an eye on their domestic and international parcels and Christmas presents as they make their way to their destination.

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Carrentals.co.uk Introduces Savings on French Car Hire with Latest Ski Deals

Carrentals.co.uk, the leading online car hire price comparator, has announced a choice of new deals prices to help Brits save money on car hire when visiting the Alps for ski trips this winter. Whether flying into Geneva or Lyon, travellers can log on this week and find the right cheap car hire deal for them by comparing prices from all the top name providers.

Tourists rely on Carrentals.co.uk to help them compare and book the best value car hire deals around and the site offers deals from the likes of Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Holiday Autos and Sixt. This week the website has sourced new Geneva car hire prices to help ski fans save – prices begin as low as £22 per day with collections from Geneva Airport*.

Some tourists prefer to fly into Lyon Airport and drive through the Rhone countryside before heading to their ski resort up in the Alps, and Carrentals.co.uk is home to great value car hire France prices this week too. Trips to the Alps can be a blend of pleasure, convenience and value for money thanks to the new deals on Carrentals.co.uk – the new prices begin at only £19 per day with pickups from Lyon Airport**.

Gareth Robinson, Managing Director of Carrentals.co.uk, says, “Thanks to our team working hard to update our deals at all times we can always help people enjoy the benefits of cheap car hire – no matter where they are heading. The Alps are best explored by value for money rental vehicle and we have some terrific bargains on show right now.”

The Carrentals.co.uk service compares car hire deals from up to 50 rental companies, including Alamo, Auto Europe, Budget, Holiday Autos and Sixt, in over 10,000 locations worldwide. To compare the latest car hire deals visit www.carrentals.co.uk.

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LeatherTvBeds.co.uk Announces New Television Beds

LeatherTVBeds.co.uk is back better than ever and at the top of the TV bed game. They did something most companies fail to do, which is listen to their customers and design furniture accordingly. As a result, they are proud to offer a brand new line of tv beds designed for every decor, starting at only £349. There are bed sizes and styles to enhance any decor while remaining affordable.

Customer Service Manager Gene Reddington has been quoted as saying, “The new designs will enhance the decor of any modern, retro or eclectic style, while adding high-tech entertainment as an added value. Those customers who demand style and top quality will find both in our leather TV beds.”

Not only are TV beds attractive, they provide dual functions. A flat screen TV is housed inside the footboard, along with the corresponding electronics. A lift raises the TV by remote control, and the person(s) in the bed are able to enjoy TV programs without having to get out of a warm bed. When lowered, no one knows a TV is in the footboard. This provides security for the electronics, and prevents damage from falling objects, burglars or being damaged by someone falling in the dark.

In the living room, entertainment centres house all the necessary electronics in an attractive design. Unfortunately, some centres are too large for a bedroom. Their designs work against most bedroom decors, and trying to place the TV and other devices on bedroom furniture looks terrible. The devices can also fall from the furniture and become damaged or ruined. A TV bed solves the problem by creating a comfortable place to sleep, watch TV and storage for the electronics at the same time. The TV bed does not detract from the desired focal point of the room.

TV beds resemble sleigh beds, but with the curves and flares removed for modern decor and function. Many different colours are available, from shades of brown, black and whites. White TV beds are available as well. There is also a television bed available for under £350. Choose headboards with buttons to fit classic decor, or a TV bed with slight flares at the top resembling a sleigh bed. They are available in single, double, king and super king. If you love watching TV in bed, then you will truly love having a leather TV bed.

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New DiscountVouchers.co.uk Fashion Deals Help Brits Save on Top Brands

Fashion fans who want to refresh their wardrobes ahead for the autumn and winter weather can log on and save at top stores right now thanks to deals on show on DiscountVouchers.co.uk. New Look, ASOS and White Stuff are all available among the big names offered by the voucher codes website this week.

Home to deals for more than 800 leading retailers, DiscountVouchers.co.uk is the place to go online for all the very latest savings on top brand products and services. Fashions from top high street store New Look are on show right now with a choice of New Look discount code available such as women’s printed t-shirts 2 for £12 and 30% off winter warmers – tailored coats, cosy parkas and retro jackets.

Updating a wardrobe with some top brands and styles for autumn and winter can be done thanks to DiscountVouchers.co.uk this week offering savings at fashion outlet ASOS. The voucher codes specialist is offering new ASOS discount deals such as free delivery worldwide on all orders and up to 70% off the sale at ASOS.

Another famous clothing outlet to be featured in the latest DiscountVouchers.co.uk deals released this week is White Stuff. Shoppers are able to bring their closet up to date thanks to new deals for saving on White Stuff clothing – deals to be had include up to 50% off during the sale at White Stuff.

Doug Scott, managing director at DiscountVouchers.co.uk, says, “Thanks to the fact that our team updates our site in real-time we can always get people savings at all the top name fashion outlets. With the autumn and winter weather kicking in now, money off clothing from ASOS, New Look and White Stuff is a real benefit to people’s budgets.”

DiscountVouchers.co.uk offers consumers money saving deals at major high street brands and specialist retailers, including stores like Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Travelodge, First Choice, lastminute.com and Boden.

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Axceleon Unveils Microsoft Azure Render Farms

Axceleon is actively demonstrating the Microsoft Azure integrated workflow rendering process and render farm to customers and prospects.

Axceleon has released CloudFuzion for Azure and is showing existing Media & Entertainment customers and prospects how easy it is to integrate existing studio workflows into a cloud based render farm on Microsoft Azure with no impact on the artist.

CloudFuzion is integrated with applications such as Autodesk Maya, 3dsMax, Softimage, Adobe After Effects and allows launching of image renders from the application directly to an Azure render farm anywhere in the world. CloudFuzion will move the scene, including any attributes or references, from the studio data repository to the Azure render farm and in turn will move the resulting rendered images back to the studio data repository as part of an automated workflow. The animator or artist is oblivious as to where the images are being processed or rendered.

Also released was a CloudFuzion implementation of a high performance cluster running on Microsoft Azure for use by power utility & energy companies worldwide.CloudFuzion is integrated with applications such as PSLF and SSTOOLS from General Electric Energy, and PSS®E from Siemens and these applications can be run on a CloudFuzion managed Azure cluster.

CloudFuzion is a workflow automation solution, no render wrangler required for media& entertainment industry, with color coded job status, a simple self-service user interface and also supports split frame/tiling and stitching of large 3dsMax and Maya images for further render acceleration along with processor affinity settings to maximize 3D application core usage by machine.

CloudFuzion also enables single threaded applications to use many cores in a multi-core machine or computer. This enhances the speed of processing and further improves the time to results, a major productivity tool for engineering studies and financial analysis.

For nearly 12 years, EnFuzion has been widely deployed in the energy, financial, bioinformatics, telecommunications, scientific research and engineering market segments, as well as for 3D rendering, where it helped users to get more results faster.

ABOUT ENFUZION & CLOUDFUZION
EnFuzion® and CloudFuzion®, high performance cluster computing software, is developed here in the United States by Axceleon. The CloudFuzion® platform is available as a service (PaaS) and used on larger public clouds, such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2, compute grids and high performance internal cloud computing environments and runs natively on all major OS platforms Windows®, Linux®, Mac OS® and Unix®.

EnFuzion® cluster computing software is currently deployed in power/energy utilities, 3D applications, financial services, bioinformatics, scientific research, telecommunications and engineering, where it helps users to get more results faster.

EnFuzion® was one of the first size able deployments of grid computing technology on Wall Street in 2000.

To learn about CloudFuzion®, please visit CloudFuzion Website www.CloudFuzion.com and EnFuzion3D Website at www.EnFuzion3D.com.

Contact Details: Axceleon Inc
101 Main St. Suite 275
Huntington Beach, Ca 92648.
(714)960-5200

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Spain Visual Integrates Three New Destinations In Its Newly Enhanced Version Of Its Platform

Spain Visual presents a new version of its website about Spain tourism with a substantial increase in content and significant improvements in design and navigability.

The day 02.11.2011 presents a new version of Visual Spain tourism website spainvisual.com, with plenty of improvements content, design and navigability.

. They have added three new destinations to the site, Aragon, Extremadura and Val d’Aran in which the site presents 85% of tourism in Spain.

. It expands the video section to offer to companies making corporate video commercials for the web at affordable prices.

. As for video content have been integrated for 19 spots these areas bringing the total content of the portal video spot is 564 spots.

. Added photo content to improve information in various areas.

. It has completely changed the layout design making it more friendly and substantially improving the navigability.

. They have integrated the latest deals flights low cost of Iberia, as well as banners for the company Smart Boxes regarding short breaks at very competitive prices.

. They have enhanced the content of social media channels such as Vimeo, Youtube and Facebook, as well as the opening of a specialized blog on holiday in Spain to boost brand awareness.

As for expansion plans in a period of 12 to 18 months will come to its presentation in Mandarin Chinese and Russian to match the industry’s future.

Best regards.
Pombo Arian
Product Manager

Contact Details: Pau Roig 43
Premia de Mar (Barcelona)
618334524
http://www.spainvisual.com

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Fireworks and Fancy Dress on a Budget with New DiscountVouchers.co.uk Deals

Treating the kids to fireworks, fancy dress and fun days out this Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night need not cost the earth thanks to new deals sourced and published by DiscountVouchers.co.uk. The money-saving website, which helps shoppers save at over 800 famous names, is this week home to new deals for Alton Towers, Asda and Dealtastic.

Getting the kids dressed up for a fun night of Halloween trick or treating can eat into a parental budget, but this year sees DiscountVouchers.co.uk able to help with new deals for saving money at Asda. Shoppers can get online this week and use the latest George discount vouchers to enjoy deals like Halloween costumes from just £5.

The DiscountVouchers.co.uk website can help people afford more for Bonfire Night too right now, thanks to new deals for savings on fireworks. Dealtastic is on show on the DiscountVouchers.co.uk website this week with fireworks vouchers available such as ‘save up to £64 on fireworks at Dealtastic’.

Family days out to one of the country’s leading theme parks can be had for Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night too thanks to the latest deals published on DiscountVouchers.co.uk. Kids can enjoy big thrill rides and night-time fireworks thanks to the latest Alton Towers discount vouchers which parents can use to get 40% off for Halloween and fireworks at Alton Towers.

Doug Scott, managing director at DiscountVouchers.co.uk, commented, “Our mission is to help people save money at as many stores and suppliers as possible, so we’re delighted to be able to help people save on Bonfire Night and Halloween. Money off days out as well as savings on fireworks and costumes can be a real bonus to consumers right now.”

DiscountVouchers.co.uk offers consumers money saving deals at major high street brands and specialist retailers, including stores like Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Travelodge, First Choice, lastminute.com and Boden.

For more information visit www.discountvouchers.co.uk

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