Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 earlier this year but it didn’t talk much about the consumer features that this iteration of Windows is going to offer. Back then the company said that it will be ready to talk about these features in “early 2015.” A new report published today claims that Microsoft is now planning an event for late January, 2015 where it will lift the veil once and for all on the consumer features of Windows 10.

Even though Microsoft is going to have a presence at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 in Las Vegas during early January, “sources familiar with the company’s plans” reveal to The Verge that Redmond is going to put together a separate event in late January just for this purpose.

The event at which these consumer features are going to be unveiled is expected to be more significant than the one where Microsoft introduced Windows 10 for the first time. It was a small hour-long event held in San Francisco. This one might not be that short because apparently Microsoft has a lot of features that it wants to show off.

Once the consumer features have been detailed Microsoft may also confirm when Windows 10 consumer preview will be released. Rumors put the possible release timeframe within the first few months of next year.

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 It wasn’t easy accumulating the research data displayed in the following guide. I saw horrific sights working retail for seven long years in both a big box electronic store and a major shopping center. I saw things that will haunt me the rest of my days. I watched two kids get trampled by what I call Double-Wides because Circuit City clearanced-out Dreamcasts for $80 on Black Friday.… Read More

Jenny crossed “The Pond” in 1998 to work for the Mouse, Mickey Mouse that is at Walt Disney World to partake in an international program called the Fellowship Program. Always true to her roots she represented Wales at the United Kingdom Pavilion at Epcot for a year and a half and then held several influential positions working for the Welsh Development Agency as well as the British Consulate. Yet, what always pulled at her heartstrings was being her own boss and providing a high quality product that made a difference. She prides herself on putting her stamp on high quality and also giving back to others in need. She currently gives some proceeds to a non profit organization called Give Kids the World based in Kissimmee, Florida. The name LoveSpoon Candles was derived from her homeland of Wales in the United Kingdom. In Wales a LoveSpoon is a wooden spoon decoratively carved that was traditionally presented as a gift of romantic intent. Jenny loves her homeland of Wales and loves just as much providing high quality candles for all to savor.

How has your life experience made you the leader you are today?
I was raised in a modest house in Neath, Wales where my parents worked all hours of the day in the healthcare field. To this day, I never remember wanting for anything as my parents always provided for me and consistently ensured that my brother and I had the most fruitful life children could possibly have. I will never forget how my parents lead by example through hard work and a positive attitude. They believed that if you worked hard and helped others along the way as much as you could that all would take care of itself. I believe in this philosophy. As a matter of fact, a mantra that I live by comes from the late Zig Ziglar, “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” My husband and I instill this into our two boys Logan 10, and Dylan 6. We believe in working hard and showing people we care which is one of the main reasons I launched LoveSpoon Candles. I want people to see that I put as much thought and care into our product line so that people can cherish each candle as a special gift for themselves or a gift for one of their loved ones. Nothing makes me happier than when I see that our product allowed someone to kick back and relax. I have the best job in the world. I get to create a product that brings joy to so many people.

How has your previous employment experience aided your tenure at the helm of LoveSpoon candles?
First, I would say working for Disney for several years certainly allowed me to learn from the best in the hospitality business when it comes to guest satisfaction. I established early on in my career a solid foundation of providing the utmost in customer satisfaction from my Disney training. Additionally, while working at The Welsh Development Agency and the British Consulate, I was able to see first hand how companies from my homeland worked on marketing, promotions, sales and business development. I would say that when I look back now I guess I have been able to take the customer service training from Disney and blend it with my business training from The British Consulate and Welsh Development Agency to create the boundaries for our company LoveSpoon Candles.

What have the highlights and challenges been during your tenure at LoveSpoon candles?
The highlight is how much success we have seen in just over a year and that people are absolutely adoring a product that I make personally is such a great satisfaction. The challenge is simply having your own business. Each day is a challenge, yet I strive to offer a high quality product each and every day.

What advice can you offer to women who want to start their own business?
The advice I would offer to other women is that if you want to start your own business then simply do it! There will never be that perfect day, time, or season of the year to do so. There will always be the excuse of “I will start tomorrow” or “I just don’t have the time”. Life is meant to be lived out loud, so get out there and do it. As Dr Wayne Dyer says, “Don’t die with your music still in you.” My goal in life is to play my music as elegantly and as loud as I can and when all is said and done I can only hope that people appreciated the concert.

What is the most important lesson you’ve learned in your career to date?
The most important thing I have learned is to of course surround yourself with a strong, positive group of people and secondly to never, ever cut corners. We at LoveSpoon Candles pride ourselves on providing the utmost in quality which is the reason why I carefully and methodically hand pour each of our candles. The longevity of a company is based on providing high quality products on a day in and day out basis, because let’s face it, people work hard and they want a product that they can appreciate.

How do you maintain a work/life balance?
Life is what you make it. For me, my work is part of my life, but my family will always come first. That is one of the great things about being your own boss, you get to choose the hours and I get to do so much with my husband and 2 boys. In our Family life we juggle between our boys playing baseball, football and acting. Oh yeah, and did I mention we have 2 golden retrievers that we love taking on long brisk walks! It is an invigorating life I lead, and I pinch myself every day! I am truly blessed to be able to provide a product that people can enjoy and at the same time represent my Welsh heritage and enjoy my family.

What do you think is the biggest issue for women in the workplace?
For me, it was having the confidence to speak my mind in board meetings. Yet, as I started getting more and more knowledgeable in my profession, I said to myself enough is enough! I decided to start voicing my opinion and taking on more of a leadership role. I felt I had a lot to offer to the companies that I previously worked for and I believe to this day they would say that I provided solid contributions. So I guess I would say the biggest issue is for women being respected for the strong individuals that they are, and frankly this can only be done by having the courage to shine your bright light in your office, boardroom or any other workplace environment.

How has mentorship made a difference in your professional and personal life?
I have been so blessed throughout my life to have so many tremendous mentors spend time with me and guide me over the years. I could not be in a position that I am in now if it were not for the mentors that assisted me along the way. I would encourage everyone to find someone that you work with or socialize with that embodies key attributes that you want to possess some day. Take them out to dinner, and offer to pay for them. Yet, be sure to ask them questions on their achievements. If you want to be successful you must spend time with successful people.

Which other female leaders do you admire and why?
Princess Diana. She was Princess of Wales and did so much good in helping others throughout the world which inspires me to be able to help others in a similar fashion.

What do you want LoveSpoon Candles to accomplish in the next year?
Expand more domestically. We have only been in business for a little over a year and I really want more and more people to be able to “Indulge Their Senses” with our LoveSpoon Candles whether that is with our Cornerstone Collection or our Monogram Series. I hope to fulfill that goal in 2015.

Kodo Kiyooka stumbled into a good thing by chance. It happened that one day he was hungry and tired, and wanted to make a simple dish that wouldn’t require much cleaning. A trained ceramicist, he thought to use an art piece he had made, as a combination pan-plate. The irony is that the object was a pan, heat resistant even, but in the tradition of the Duchampian readymade, created for a life of beautiful idleness.

A frying pan by the Japanese artist Kodo Kiyooka, who prides himself on making art that is also functional.

Putting the pan sculpture to use was a good decision. The simple but subversive act impressed Kiyooka’s gallerist friends, who began to show the art pans — now used as regular pans — as art. The vessels are now meant primarily “for every day use,” Kiyooka wrote via translator, in an email to HuffPost, but they double as “tools of self expression.”

Known today as the “Frying Pan Man” in his native Japan, Kiyooka has built a reputation by relentlessly perfecting the form of humble domestic tools, with 12th century techniques. He uses one of the oldest gas kilns in Japan to fire his materials, those being good quality sandy clay and organic glazes. His command over form and color recalls the words of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement, who in his 1919 manifesto famously claimed there to be “no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman.”

Kiyooka’s favorite glazes are carefully chosen. Sabiyuh, rust-colored and made of straw ash, brings out the iron in the clay; aohai, a plant-and-mineral based ash glaze, comes out blue. The goal with each piece (including bowls, mugs and pitchers) is to give the impression of something unbelievable: iron flowing out of clay.

The upshot is a line of kitchen items so carefully considered they “blossom into art,” to cop a phrase from Gropius. Take Kiyooka’s calling card, the frying pan. The bulk of the shape is a perfect circle with a vertical rim, as clean of line as a box by Donald Judd, the American minimalist. The miracle is of an object Platonically rendered, just as Judd’s boxes elevate a simple form by magnifying it. (You could even say, if you were a dad, that the frying pan-ness of Kiyooka’s frying pans hits the viewer like a frying pan to the face.)

Gropius would surely be proud. The German artist was inspired by the self-empowerment of his country’s working class post-World War I. He thus adopted the rhetoric — and punctuation marks — of a revolutionary. The end hope, he wrote in his manifesto, was no less than the creation of “a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!” By his reckoning, all work is craft until touched — through no effort by the worker — by “the grace of heaven.”

Consequently, a skilled potter like Kiyooka deserves the same respect as a blue chip sculptor. Make no mistake: this is a kumbaya-spirited ethos, the kind a third grade art teacher might insist on, but few top gallerists practice.

Anyone who’s walked into a major museum in the past decade knows the reverse to be true. As traditional art has diversified, so too has the line brightened between it and craft: the difference, it seems, depends on who is making the work. Those who make their own goods are artisans. But as the operations of the artworld’s most powerful prove (see: Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or really any of Larry Gagosian’s current and former friends), the label of “artist” has come to mean the person who doesn’t use his hands. Instead, the artist oversees armies of artisans, who hammer out their bosses’ visions the way Chinese workers serve the dreams of the late Steve Jobs.

Where does this leave Kiyooka? His devotion to his craft, echoed in a passionate aside via email on “weight, balance and thickness,” is a Bauhausian triumph. So is his response. Channeling Gropius, he proposed that he is neither artist nor artisan but “some of both.”

The week of Thanksgiving is in full force here in the United States, so we imagine that many of our readers are currently in the process of preparing for an enormous, multi-course meal surrounded by friends and family of equally rapacious appetites. Who can resist a full day dedicated to gorging yourself on a cornucopia of turkey and its various side dishes, followed by the ritualistic, food-induced coma?

To celebrate this time of festive eating, we’ve put together a list of the 15 best banquets in art to help you make your Thanksgiving the greatest feast possible. These works of art span the decadent dinners of the Roman Empire to medieval Europe all the way to 20th century America, capturing the day of plenty in all its sumptuous glory.

1. John Currin’s “Thanksgiving,” 2003

Is this what your Turkey face looks like?

2. Jan Mandijn’s “Burlesque Feast,” c. 1550

This is like a snapshot straight out of your Thanksgiving family album, right?

3. Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Want,” 1943

The most iconic of the American feast paintings, don’t you think?

4. Jean Leon Gerome Ferris’ “The First Thanksgiving,” c. 1912-1915

We highly doubt the first Thanksgiving really looked like this, but we’ll let you be the judge of that.

5. Diego Velazquez’ “The Triumph of Bacchus, or the Drunkards,” 1629

When in Rome.

6. Kent Bellows‘ “Self-Portrait with Wine Glass (Gluttony),” 2000

Hands down the most intimidating diner we have ever seen. (Courtesy of The Kent Bellows Studio & Center for Visual Arts)

7. Jan Steen’s “The Merry Family,” 1668

Look, even the infant is getting into the festivities.

8. Doris Lee’s “Thanksgiving Dinner,” 1935

Where are all the male chefs, amiright?

9. William Hogarth’s “An Election Entertainment,” 1754

These electoral entertainers really know how to feast.

10. Vincent van Gogh’s “The Potato Eaters,” 1885

Times were hard, but at least there was tea and starch to be had.

11. Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s “Wedding Feast in front of a Farm,” c. 1620-1625

Literally farm-to-table, guys.

12. Jacob Jordaens’ “Fest des Bohnenkönigs (Feast of Beans),” c. 1640-1645

While they’re not potatoes, you can’t really forget the bean’s crucial role in proper dining either.

13. Adriaen Brouwer’s “Das Schlachtfest,” c. 1630-1640

These guys are clearly in the post-eating phase. Hence the many passed out revelers.

14. Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” 1495-1498)

THE feast.

15. Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party,” 1974-1979

Let’s face it. At times you’d rather dine with Virginia Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe than your weird relatives.

In honor of Thanksgiving, we’re revisiting a post previously published last year.