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Big things about PM Modi’s address to the country
Coronavirus infection is increasing across the country. So far, more than 70 thousand people have been infected in India. So 2293 people have lost their lives there. Lockdown – 3 is going on nationwide. The states most affected by the coronavirus are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and Rajasthan.
PM Modi address to the country-> Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (12/05/2020) addressed the country once again. While addressing the country, the Prime Minister first bowed to the countrymen. After that, the world passed over 4 months while coping with the corona infection. During this period, over 42 lakh people from all countries were infected with compassion, more than three lakh people have died tragically.
He said that many families in India have lost their family members. I express my condolences to all. He said that a virus devastated the world. Crores of lives in the world are facing this crisis. The whole world is busy saving lives. His address came the very next day after talking to the Chief Ministers of the states.
Important points of PM Modi’s speech
PM Modi said that when the corona crisis started, there was not a single PPE kit made in India. The N-95 masks were nominally produced in India. Today the situation is that 2 lakh PPE and 2 lakh N-95 masks are being made in India every day.
As a nation today we are standing at a very important juncture. Such a big disaster has brought a signal to India, has brought a message, has brought an opportunity. When we look at these two periods from the perspective of India, it seems that the 21st century belongs to India, it is not our dream, it is the responsibility of all of us. But tired, losing, shattering, man is not acceptable. Being vigilant, following all the rules of such war, now we have to escape and move forward.
PM Modi address to the country
This is to make India self-reliant. Today we have the resources, we have the power, we have the best talent in the world, we will make the best products, improve our quality and make the supply chain more modern, we can and we will certainly do it.
Be it TB, malnutrition, polio, India’s campaign has an impact on the world. International Solar Alliance is a gift to the world of India against global warming. The International Yoga Day initiative is India’s gift to relieve stress from human life.
PM Modi mentioned five pillars to give a boost to the economy of the country.
PM Modi said, ‘This magnificent building of self-reliant India will stand on five pillars. The first pillar economy is an economy that brings a quantum jump, not incremental change.
The second pillar infrastructure is one that becomes the hallmark of modern India.
The third pillar is our system. A system that is based on the technology-driven systems that fulfill the dreams of the 21st century, not the customs of the last century.
The fourth pillar is our population (Demography) In the world’s largest population democracy, our Vibrant Demography is our strength. Self-sufficient is our source of energy for India.
The fifth pillar is Demand, the cycle of demand and supply chain in our economy, the strength that needs to be harnessed to its full potential.
The PM said that the global brands that you find today were also very local like this. But when people started using them, started promoting them, branding them, proud of them, they went global from products local. Therefore, from today every Indian has to become a vocal for their local, not only to buy local products but also to promote them proudly. He said that I am confident that our country can do this. Your efforts have increased my reverence for you every time.
Referring to Khadi, Modi said that I feel proud, remember one thing. When I requested you to buy Khadi from the country. It was also said that the country’s handloom workers should be supported. You see, demand and sales of both Khadi and handloom have reached record levels in a very short time. Not only that, but you also made it a big brand. There was a very small effort, but the result was very good.


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Google has issued Android 11 Developer Preview 2.1, which includes some fixes and a few minor changes only. It follows the original March 18 release of Android 11 Developer Preview 2.
This minor update to Android 11 Developer Preview 2 includes the following fixes and changes:
- Fixed an issue where a crash would occur when long-pressing to select an element within the recent apps overview.
- Fixed an issue where the status bar could crash in the background if its components weren’t all initialized yet.
- Fixed an issue where too many WindowTokens were created by SystemUI causing jankiness and dropped frames when navigating and scrolling apps.
- Fixed an issue where the Wear OS app could crash when trying to pair a Wear OS device.
- Fixed an issue where the Settings app could crash after tapping the search bar in the app.
If you are running Android 11 Developer Preview 2, you can download the 2.1 update via Android Settings.

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text: Natural beauty products retailer Korres expects to list on the Athens bourse early next year to raise funds to boost expansion abroad and pay down debt, its chief financial officer said in an interview on Thursday. Starting as a single homeopathic pharmacy in Athens in 1996, Korres now sells natural beauty products, ranging from sunflower shampoo to cedar perfume, at 6,500 stores in Greece and abroad. Earlier this month, it applied to list on the Athens bourse. «We estimate Korres shares will start to trade on the Athens Stock Exchange in the beginning of 2007,» Korres’s CFO Spyros Voutsinas told Reuters, adding the IPO was expected to take place in December after Greek authorities approve it. «There is growth and management’s strategic plans need funds which we do not have. Borrowing is already high,» he added. He said the IPO will finance its 2006-2008 business plan, which includes further expansion into foreign markets, such as Asia, the South Pacific and the Americas. «Greece is a small market. Growth margins are higher abroad,» Voutsinas said. «This explains why Korres is also focusing outside Greece.» Korres plans to issue 1.6 million shares, 75,000 of which will be privately placed. Greece’s Alpha Finance is the underwriter with P&K Securities acting as an adviser. «Part of the proceeds from the Athens Stock Exchange will be used to pay debt, which currently stands at 17 million euros,» Voutsinas added. Global expansion Korres exports its products to the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, while it operates stores through local distributors in Britain, Spain, Portugal, Romania and Finland. Exports contributed about 20 percent to 2005 sales. «We are in negotiations with local distributors in India and South Africa to sell our products through other retailers and stand-alone shops,» Voutsinas said. Korres also plans to open seven new stores in Spain, Romania and Taiwan in the next few months, including one in New York by the end of the year. Voutsinas said the retailer was considering setting up its own unit to extract raw materials from the plants used for its products to take advantage of Greece’s abundant flora. It now buys raw materials from foreign suppliers. In 2005, Korres saw a 16.3 percent rise in sales to 17 million euros, as consumers shift from chemical personal care items to healthier natural products. Pretax profits were almost flat at 2 million euros in 2005.


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April 26, 2021
Canon has released its first quarter 2021 financial results, stating it has seen a stabilisation in its business performance and achieving sales growth for the first time in 11 quarters, but printing sales and profits were down.
The company reports that in the first quarter of 2021 overall net sales were ¥842.7 billion ($7.82 billion/ €6.47 billion), a 7.7% increase year-on-year. Operating profit increased by 114.6% to ¥70.6 billion ($655 million/ €542 million).
For Printing, even amid weak demand for office print, Canon posted stable profit. The OEM posted a decrease in sales of ¥469.4 billion ($4.36 billion/ €3.6 billion), a 1.8% decrease but profits of ¥53.2 billion ($494 million/ €408 million), only a 4% decrease year-on-year.
In the first quarter, sales for inkjet printers were strong in each region to an extent that it was difficult to keep up with demand for mainly home-use models, Canon added. Sales in the Prosumer Printing segment, which Canon uses to describe the segment which includes its inkjet and small laser models, net sales were up 4.4% year-on-year.
In its analysis, Canon said that the Office MFD market was impacted the second wave of COVID-19, but the company sees that hardware sales will increase as people return their offices as they get vaccinated.
Sales in the Office Printing segment were “somewhat sluggish”, the OEM said, due to lower hardware and non-hardware sales as fewer people were in offices due to lockdowns. Canon said: “Because of this, we did lower our full-year projection, but still expect an increasing number of people returning to the office in the second half of the year, including in the United States which has been slow to recover, thanks to vaccinations. And as a result, we expect overall print volume to return to about 90% of its pre-COVID-19 level by the end of the year.”
To respond to the need for digital transformation in office processes, last year, Canon launched the imageRUNNER ADV DX series. Canon said that this product “has been selling well not only because of its price competitiveness, but also because parts can be easily replaced, and it is environment-friendly through reduced power consumption.”
For the Printing segment, Canon raised its outlook to reflect continued strong home demand for inkjet and laser printers. Net sales projections for the segment for the whole of 2021 have been increased by 8.3% to be ¥1,954.8 billion ($18.15 billion/ €14.99 billion).
Canon concluded: “We are able to flexibly respond to changes in the printing environment caused by COVID-19, through our diverse product portfolio that includes both electrophotography and inkjet technologies, and covers a wide range of applications from business to home use.”
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Save-A-Lot food stores are helping change the future of diabetes by pledging $400,000 for the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) “Stop Diabetes” movement for 2010-2012. The St. Louis-based Supervalu subsidiary’s national sponsorship of the initiative will help raise awareness of a disease that’s reaching epidemic proportions, by offering educational health-and-wellness outreach to local communities served by the chain.
As nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with diabetes, that means that “[o]ne out of four Save-A-Lot shoppers has someone with diabetes in their household,” a number four times the national average, according to Save-A-Lot’s president and CEO, Bill Shaner. “We want to support our shoppers, associates and everyone who wants a cure,” he added.
Officials from the ADA commended the value-oriented discount grocery chain’s leadership role, which provides a significant opportunity to educate and promote health and wellness to its customers.
The banner, which operates nearly 1,200 stores in 39 states from Maine to California and serves more than 5 million shoppers weekly, is promoting the ADA initiative via the Save-A-Lot Web site, which also features more information on the cause and opportunities for visitors to help.


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Healthy options, better choices
Countywide report on availability of unhealthy products most alarming for youth
When Abbey Korte checks social media and sees someone she knows smoking, she doesn’t appreciate the photo or video the way some teens might.
That peer isn’t edgy, glamorous, mature or cool. That peer is a victim.
“They think that it’s their choice to smoke, but is it? In reality it was the advertising targeting them—targeting us—that made the choice,” she told a group of health professionals and media assembled at the Chico Elks Lodge last Wednesday (March 8).
Korte, 16, is a junior at Chico High School who participates in a club called KLEAN: Kids Leading Everyone Against Nicotine. This was her first public presentation on behalf of the group, made during an event organized by the Butte County Public Health Department to announce the findings in a retail survey conducted under the auspices of a statewide program, Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community. Following up on an initial report from 2014, surveyors logged the availability of products in neighborhood stores.
The numbers that most alarm county public health officials relate to youth.
It’s twice as easy to find fruit-flavored tobacco and alcohol than actual fruit, based on the proportion of stores that carry cigarillos and/or alcopops versus produce (see infobox). Cigarillos are small cigars, packaged brightly, that can cost less than candy; alcopops are sugary beverages also aimed at younger consumers.
Also, as the popularity of electronic cigarettes has skyrocketed, so has availability. E-cigs are now the tobacco product teens use most and over three-fourths of Butte County stores carry them, a jump of nearly a third from three years ago.
“It’s hard to make a healthy choice when the unhealthy option is so much closer,” Korte said, adding: “I don’t want to be targeted so someone can make money by killing my lungs.”
Korte’s passion is personal. As a young child she suffered from asthma, bronchitis and pneumonia. Her condition was serious enough that she had to take preventative measures.
Speaking with the CN&R after her presentation, she shared that she retains “these vivid memories” of herself as a 5- or 6-year-old sitting in the car in front of a store where people were smoking outside. Her mother would tell Korte to inhale before heading to the entrance and exhale only once inside.
“I’d hold my breath, and if I even got a little whiff of that smoke, it would just [trigger a] coughing fit,” she said. “I couldn’t breathe.”
That sensation—heaviness, fright—“kind of stuck with me,” she continued, even after she outgrew her asthma. She’s gone on to play volleyball and basketball and lead an active life, but moments of literal breathlessness remain embedded in her psyche.
“I still take that precaution even now,” Korte said. “When I see someone [smoking], I try to hold my breath, it’s just kind of habit, because I don’t want that in my lungs.”
She has a better understanding of why others put smoke in their lungs since joining KLEAN. She heard about the group while in another Chico High club, Interact (affiliated with Rotary), and felt inspired to confront tobacco.
Her friends don’t smoke, partly out of sensitivity to her, but acquaintances do. And while it can be difficult for teens to challenge one another about their choices, she feels she can impact her peers positively through social media.
“The people that I know that smoke, I don’t know that they know the risks,” Korte said.
Young people such as Korte represent lynchpins in promoting healthy choices.
Public health professionals need allies to compete with the well-oiled campaigns of advertisers.
“That’s where groups like KLEAN come in,” said Sherry Morgado, assistant director of Butte County Public Health. “We need youth talking to their peers, using social media, using all of the platforms kids use these days to get those messages out there—and having the youth themselves developing those messages, because they know what speaks to them.”
In addition, children influence parents’ household decisions. What the family eats obviously relates to what the family buys. The study examines supply; there’s also demand.
On that front, Butte County Public Health performs outreach in classrooms. Miranda Johnson, supervisor of public education, works through SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to inform students about what constitutes healthful eating.
“Over $1 million an hour is being spent advertising soda and chips and all sorts of unhealthy products, and a large portion is [targeted] toward our youth,” Johnson said. “The parents are not going to only purchase things that the children are not going to want to eat; if we can influence the children to make better choices, it also will influence the parents to make healthier purchases.”
Johnson said it’s important not to demonize stores—predominantly local businesses in Butte County, including actual mom-and-pop operations.
“We recognize that we all play a part in [what’s sold]: the consumer, the producer, all of us,” she continued. “So we all have to work together to make a change. The retailers aren’t going to change if we don’t pressure them also to change as a community, that we want the healthier products in the stores so that we can purchase them.”


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Shaun Hill, founder of Hill Farmstead Brewery in Vermont, US, criticised the drinking culture encouraged by the beer industry and called for more discussion around coping with alcohol abuse and addiction from within the beer community.
Speaking to The Morning Advertiser in Pilsen, Czech Republic, he said: “Mental health and alcoholism never get discussed in the beer industry.
“It would be amazing if, at Craft Brewers Conference (An American beer festival and conference) one year, there was a seminar or a talk on dealing with alcohol. It would probably be the worst attended seminar ever because nobody wants to admit it.
“I don't know anyone in the beer world who isn't struggling with it. Look at every photo from festivals like Mikkeller Beer Celebration; people are just drinking 10 glasses of beer every day and living this wild travelling lifestyle. It really isn't healthy.”
Hill also described how his own mental health suffered after his brewery was awarded the title of best brewery in the world by US website RateBeer for the first time in 2013, and claimed that he thinks about shutting down his brewery “every single day” due to stress.
A vicious circle
“When the first RateBeer (award) came out, we had five employees at the company, and the bathroom and the office were in my house,” he said. “People started coming to visit the brewery and waiting outside in the rain and snow, so we needed to borrow money and construct new buildings.
“I don't really remember much of 2014-2016 – [those years] are complete black holes to me. If I met you during that time, I wouldn't remember. Imagine brewing four to five days a week, managing a 15,000sq ft build out while also trying to keep your girlfriend, staff and customers happy. It was too much.
“My mental health at that time was probably s**t,” he continued. “I was doing 12 to 14-hour days and because I live 15ft away from the brewery, there was very little decompression. I would typically drink too much in order to artificially decompress, and then I wouldn't sleep well. Then when I woke up I would still be tired, so then I would drink as much caffeine as I could, which would then accelerate an overall sense of anxiety. It was a vicious circle.
“I felt like it [shutting down the brewery] every single day. But at the same time you need that darkness to define your success or have something to aspire to. It is only in relation to that time in my life that you then become to understand and put yourself into a better position.”
Hill was in Pilsen to speak at the 2018 Innovation Masterclass, organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD). Since being founded on Hill’s ancestral home in Greensboro, Vermount, in 2010, Hill Farmstead has gone on to become one of the most recognised craft breweries in the world, winning the prestigious RateBeer best brewery title five times (including the past four years in a row).
Despite this, Hill rejected suggestions that his brewery had benefited from hype surrounding his beers, and hit out at the ‘Instagram culture’ surrounding certain beer styles.
“We at Hill Farmstead are not responsible for hype around our beers,” he said. “We tell people when we are releasing our beers, but there is a difference between that and telling people there is a limited amount and that it is the greatest beer in the world.
“Internet culture is really pushing the scarcity model, pricing and hype to where it is right now. Most breweries are just constantly looking to brew a new beer with new hops every week just to churn it out and so consumers gobble it up.”
On the subject of the trend towards hazy, low bitterness beers, sometimes referred to as New England IPAs (NEIPAs), Hill said: “It's a really difficult thing for me to talk about. In the late '90s and early 2000s, The Alchemist (a US brewery) was using a particular yeast strain that was producing full-bodied, very rounded and soft beers that were highly aromatic and flavourful. That beer was unfiltered and that is why it was hazy and had that gentle glow.
“However, a number of consumers who likely went on to start their own breweries realised that beer that was unfiltered and had turbidity had more aromatics and mouthfeel, and because America is America, that then got taken to the extreme. Now we are seeing brewers trying to make beer that is deliberately ugly but claiming it is the tastiest beer they have ever made.
“To me, that is 100% a result of Instagram culture. Instagram came out in 2010, and that is about when those beers became an entity. If you look through my feed now you will see beers full to the top with no foam, or beer looking as much like juice as possible, which – by the way – it won't taste like. It will taste like rotting melon and overripe cantaloupe. To me, it is sort of sad in a way.”
Hill also expressed his concern that the rise of the internet, and subsequent decline of pubs, was changing the way in which drinkers communicate, warning of “psychological, physical and societal consequences” of a lack of interaction with one another.
“If you think about what is responsible for people failing to communicate with each other face to face, it is the internet and the different mode of communication it has given rise to,” he said. “The way in which people interact with each other is drastically changing and even the way in which we interact with beer is changing.
“I know a lot of people who are highly critical of almost every single beer, and never switch off. If you look at apps like Untappd, you have people rating every single beer they drink; just put the f*****g phone down and let's just talk about something that is not in relation to the beer we are drinking.
“There are loads of psychological, physical and societal consequences of this lack of interaction,” he continued. “I worry about the potential impact of the demise of the pub as a social centre, and what that means for communication and societal improvement.
“It is quite worrying to think about people who are highly critical all the time of everything around them, but not communicating with those around them, just living in a plastic device. Where does that lead us? Everyone is just completely buried in their phone and nobody is present.”
The Morning Advertiser attended the 2018 Innovation Masterclass as a guest of The Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD). To find out more about the IBD, and the services it provides to industry professionals, visit its website.


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UFC Fighter Thiago Silva Signs on with Team Ultimate Nutrition Full Combat
Silva, who is held as a top 10 lightweight, knocked out Keith Jardine in 95 seconds on Saturday night during UFC Fight 102. “Thiago is an incredible athlete. He is at the top of his game and is a perfect match for Ultimate Nutrition‘s Full Combat product line,” said Brian Rubino, Vice President, Ultimate Nutrition. “Ultimate Nutrition has stood for quality and innovation for 30 years and Thiago will help solidify our position. The signing of Thiago is another great event of our 30th anniversary celebration.”
“I am an avid user of their products and I am excited to be a part of Team Ultimate Nutrition Full Combat,” said Silva “Their new MMA line is in a class of its own within the industry and I love taking the Pre Combat, Post Combat and Protein Combat Powders.”
About Ultimate Nutrition.
Since 1979, Ultimate Nutrition has been fueling bodies with the best nutritional supplements to achieve your goals, whatever they may be. With Ultimate Nutrition being one of the most tenured companies in the industry, we were among the first to have amino acid tablets, carbohydrate powders, fat burners, and whey protein powder. Today, Ultimate Nutrition is among the leading innovators in the supplement industry, with products that can enhance your life no matter what your goals are.
Ultimate Nutrition uses only the purest ingredients to produce nutritional supplements, with quality that never wavers. No matter what the product may be, Ultimate Nutrition promises a consistency other companies can only dream about. You can be sure that what you see on the label is what is in the bottle. That was Ultimate Nutrition‘s promise and commitment over 30 years ago, and still remains our promise and commitment to this very day.


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Following ambitious European Union (EU) food waste reduction targets set earlier this year, the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste met to take stock of progress.
Food waste prevention is part of the EU’s plan for a “circular economy:” a transition intended to improve global competitiveness, encourage sustainable growth, and create new jobs. In the 2015 EU Action Plan for the Circular Economy, EU Member States committed to meeting the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3, reducing retail and consumer food waste by 50 percent by 2030. The 2018 Revised EU Waste Legislation expanded upon this target by including calls to reduce food waste at every stage of the food system and report food waste levels.
Under the agreement, Member States are currently developing national plans to achieve these targets including methods to record and report progress, awareness campaigns, and incentives for redistributing food. Some Member States started building policies toward targets: in 2016, the French government passed legislation that prohibits supermarkets from throwing away food approaching its sell-by-date, mandating that they redirect the food to charities or food banks.
“While momentum is growing, and progress in 2018 is promising, we need to do more—move more boldly and quickly to meet the target of reducing food waste by half by 2030,” says European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis.
Tackling the 88 million tons of food wasted in the EU each year requires involving all key players from public and private sectors in order to better identify, measure, understand, and create solutions to limit food waste, according to the platform. At the meeting, the platform highlighted the role of innovation and research in reaching SDG 12.3 by incorporating voices from EIT Food, a pan-European partnership connecting all stakeholders in the food system to accelerate innovation, and FOOD 2030, an initiative that aims to connect, organize, and scale up research and innovation on food and nutrition security.
As part of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), EIT Food aims to stimulate entrepreneurship, innovation, and research in the food sector to create a more sustainable and future-proof food sector. Their Zero Waste Agenda is one of four innovation programs and aims to develop solutions for food security, improve the efficiency of the food value chain, and reduce food waste. As part of their portfolio to combat food waste, EIT Food currently leads the social awareness campaign “Don’t be a food waster,” which targets all players in the food system—but places specific attention on consumers to educate them and equip them with food waste fighting knowledge and tools.


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The late United States Senator Everett Dirksen is credited with being pretty casual about spending taxpayer money: " spend a billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
I doubt pretty seriously that Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris and his team subscribe to that mindset. They're more likely to subscribe to the Benjamin Franklin theory that "a penny saved is a penny earned."
That's why the idea that BPS would essentially overpay shareholders of Cabela's (NYSE: CAB) for their company didn't ring quite true when I first learned of the planned merger. The original announcement set the price per share of Cabela's stock at $65.50/share.
In an all-cash deal, we're talking about a $5.5 billion. That's a lot of money, even if you're Johnny Morris and playing the hottest hand since King Midas discovered he had "the touch".
Morris isn't cheap, but he's not known to overpay for anything. And Cabela's financial results had already begun to reflect the intense pressures now impacting all brick-and-mortar retailers.
With such a hard-bargainer facing Cabela's Tommy Millner and staff, I asked several merger and acquisition valuation specialists I knew what their feelings were about the mega-merger.
They responded that the deal was likely to happen, but the price was "far from set" whatever the announcement said.
A majority of the industry seemed perfectly fine with the price. But overpaying for underperforming companies is a longstanding tradition when it comes to the outdoors. With many companies still run by enthusiasts instead of bean counters, too-much value is routinely given to the "goodwill and other considerations" line on balance sheets. It's routinely tossed-out or deeply discounted in most acquisition valuations.
The entire deal seemed to be in jeopardy after federal officials said they would be looking - hard- at the credit card portion of what turned out to be a bifurcated acquisition.
While Bass Pro Shops would be buying the retail business, Capital One would be buying Cabela's World's Foremost Bank business. It would then assume the Cabela's credit card business.
With federal regulators putting the brakes on there - and asking for further details of the overall deal, the acquisition timeline looked to be in serious trouble.
That's when Columbus, Georgia's Synovus Financial stepped in. It announced it intended to buy "certain assets" of Cabela's financial division. In turn, Synovus would then resell the credit card portfolio to Capital One Financial Corp.
Problem solved, it seemed, and the deal was back on track.
On Monday, Cabela's quietly revised the sale terms. It would still be selling itself to Bass Pro Shops, but at a price $500 million below the original $5.5 billion valuation.
No reasons were given for the $500 million price drop, but it lowers the acquisition price to $61.50/per share, $4/share less than the original $65.50 price.
Meanwhile, shareholders of Synovus Financial Corp. were treated to an early first-quarter earnings announcement on Monday.
The reason? According to a Synovus spokesman it was "because the release contains an announcement of our acquisition of certain assets and certain liabilities for World's Foremost Bank (WFB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cabela's."
Why would that trigger an early release of earnings? Because serving as the middle man in the
Cabela's/Capital One portion of the Cabela's/Capital One/Bass Pro Shop transaction will net the Columbus, Georgia-based Synovus $75 million. And that cash contributed to a quarterly profit of 56 cents per share.
And Synovus also keeps the estimated $1.2 billion brokered time-deposit portfolio of World's Foremost Bank.
"This transaction," Synovus Chairman and CEO Kessel Sterling said in a statement, "will provide Synovus with additional liquidity to support organic growth, as well as incremental capital that will be utilized to accelerate progress toward achieving our stately long term (return on assets) and efficiency goals."
In short, big profit for smart work.
So who pays? Essentially, Cabela's shareholders. That's reflected in the half-billion price reduction.
The Cabela's/BPS deal is now expected to close early in the third quarter, subject to "Cabela's shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions."
The timeframe seems workable, but no one on Wall Street is making book on the final price.
As I was told yesterday, "all retail is feeling performance pressure, but companies already having problems are going to be under considerable pressure to perform through the typically slow summer months."
You can bet both parties in this transaction will be looking at quarterly numbers between now and Q3.
And as always, we'll keep you posted.
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Acer UK seeks new overlord for Blighty tentacle
Current chief off to gaze at the Northern Lights
Neil Marshall, the Brit Acer brought home to clean up its British business, has bagged a promotion. An internal candidate will be lined up to replace him as he moves further up the ladder.
Staff in Blighty were told this week that Acer UK managing director Marshall is rising to regional director for northern Europe, an area that includes the UK and Nordic and Baltic countries, according to Taiwanese multinational Acer.
Marshall will oversee the management in each region and report to European president Oliver Ahrens.
The remit handed to Marshall was to... er, marshall the troops, level the stock mountain the firm had amassed during the PC sales slowdown and get frustrated distributors back on side.
Marshall ticked those boxes but Acer continues to suffer the fallout from imploding netbook sales, and the firm's sales continue to decline along with those of most of PC rivals.
"We run on average with about 45 days of stock," he told The Channel, "that is always the target. We have much tighter controls on inventory management".
A loose grip on consumer notebook stocks, just as buyers were slowing purchases, cost Acer dear in 2011 when it was forced to write-down $150m of aged inventory.
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Dynetics has donated $30,000 in charitable gifts to Athens State University and the University of North Alabama, with $15,000 going to each institution. These two northern Alabama institutions were selected because the Huntsville area continues to seek graduates within the cybersecurity, logistics and supply chain management fields.
At Athens State University, the gift was given to the College of Business for their undergraduate and graduate logistics and supply chain management programs.
"The business environment continues to grow and there is a need for logistics and supply chain management specialists. Athens State is preparing their students for those future careers and Dynetics is definitely looking to fill positions such as these soon. We hope these students will look for a career and want to stay in the Huntsville area after graduation," said Ronnie Chronister, Dynetics senior vice president of contracts and Athens State University board member.
The University of North Alabama gift was given to support the new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Lab in the College of Business.
"Cybersecurity is a topic that is in the news daily and with more and more people being impacted in a multitude of ways. Teaching students to learn the latest skills and techniques will be critical when protecting consumers in today's world. Dynetics has been a leader in the cybersecurity industry for more than 20 years. We want to help UNA students at the ground-level and give them hands-on experience in a modern facility as they prepare for their future," said Jonathan Pettus, Dynetics director of cybersecurity and information technology solutions and a UNA graduate.
Dynetics and UNA also partnered to offer Dynetics employees a scholarship upon acceptance into any online or traditional graduate or undergraduate program.
The company will also offer one paid internship to both institutions each year. The Dynetics Internship Program employs more than 100 interns each summer from more than 20 institutions in the United States.


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Green has long been a primary color of television, and now consumers are onboard with it when it comes to televisions — 89 percent of households say they want their next television to be energy efficient.
The finding is part of a new report from the Consumer Electronics Association. It shows that a third of all consumers say they anticipate making some sort of environmentally friendly buy of consumer electronics in the next two years.
According to the study, “Going Green: An Examination of the Green Trend and What it Means to Consumers and the CE Industry,” price and features continue to be the primary purchase drivers for CE products, but green attributes will increasingly be a factor. In fact, 53 percent of consumers say they would be willing to pay some type of premium for televisions with green attributes.
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Several exciting new stores have opened in Durham City recently – check them out below.
Home to over 40 independent businesses, the city is now at 100 percent capacity after a series of new openings.
Graham Soult runs Gateshead-based retail consultancy CannyInsight.com and said Durham Market Hall “consistently succeeds in offering such a fantastic mix of new and established independent businesses”.
Despite the difficulties experienced by many indoor markets and high streets, eight new businesses have opened durham city center.
Here are eight new businesses that recently opened in Durham City:
Opened in July this year, this store is an LGBTQ+ oriented independent bookstore specializing in independent authors and small press.
Opened in early August, this shop offers a cake stand with delicious Turkish treats and cakes to take away, as well as custom cakes made to order.
READ ALSO: A County Durham baby from Chilton, near Aycliffe, has been diagnosed with cancer
Canny Kandy Corner is a traditional sweet shop now under new ownership of established Durham toy and gift shop Bear Bottom.
A traditional family run authentic Turkish hairdresser.
This is a long established shop in Durham which recently added a new flower stand in March.
Upcycle Me is a company specializing in handmade products made from discarded or damaged goods including costume jewellery, keychains, trinkets and much more
After 12 years of trading online, vintage retailer QuirkshopUK opened its new physical store in April.
The company offers designer and branded clothing and accessories for women, men and children with quality items for every budget, age, size and style.
A new independent tasting menu restaurant Coarse has secured premises at Reform Place, just off North Road, and opened earlier this month on September 15th.
The restaurant opening was featured here in The Northern Echo in November last year
The Riverwalk is also a project that continues to bring new businesses to the city.
Mr Soult said: “The Riverwalk program continues to cement its position as Durham’s premier leisure and dining space, with Pizza Punks and independent cake and cafe Maple Patisserie among businesses to open in recent months. TGI Fridays is also still on track to open later this year, with signage now in place for the Brazilian-style Estabulo bar and grill.
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“September also saw the opening of the independent bookstore Collected on the Riverwalk, having successfully traded as a mobile bookstore on Durham Market Place in 2022.
“Collected combines a specialization in women’s writing with delicious coffee and cake and will host regular in-store author events – a great example of retail becoming more alive and interesting!”
Walkergate has also seen new business in recent months with the opening of Rio Brazilian Steakhouse and Lane7, as well as the soon to open Bohemia.
Mr Soult concluded: “Brilliant independent retailers like Moon Jewellery, Discovering Durham and Elvet & Bailey are showing what is possible and I would encourage any business considering trading in the city to get in touch with me to do so I can point out the support and opportunities that this offers and be available to encourage them along the way.”
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Audio: Importance of Chilled Beef Exports Highlighted at Cattle Industry Summer Business Meeting
At the Cattle Industry Summer Business Meeting – held July 12-14 in Denver – producers serving on the beef checkoff’s Export Growth Committee heard from members of the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) staff regarding global trends in beef production and consumption, the positive impact of exports on carcass value and ongoing efforts to expand market access for U.S. beef.
Committee members also reviewed year-to-date export results for U.S. beef, which USMEF Economist Erin Borror explains have been bolstered by an exceptional performance for chilled U.S. beef in key Asian markets. Borror notes that the United States now holds more than 50 percent of the chilled beef import market in Japan and South Korea, and more than 70 percent in Taiwan.
Dan Halstrom, USMEF senior vice president for marketing, adds that chilled exports are especially important to the U.S. beef industry because they represent a consistent, 52-weeks-per-year business. Exporting chilled product also allows USMEF to better showcase the flavor and tenderness of U.S. beef for customers in Asia.
Joe Schuele: The strong performance of U.S. beef exports were the main topic of discussion at the Cattle Industry Summer Business Meeting in Denver. IN this U.S. Meat Export Federation report, USMEF Economist Erin Borror explains that chilled beef exports to key Asian markets are a primary factor in this year’s growth.
Erin Borror: So what’s driving this? Chilled U.S. beef. Your high-quality beef is what’s driving this. We’re growing market share, but we’re also growing consumption. This is all underpinned by the availability of U.S. beef, of course, we’re producing more. Consumer confidence, rebuilding that confidence after BSE, especially in places like Korea, where it’s not been easy, and end-user success. So telling our customers ‘how can U.S. beef be profitable for you.’ These are all key factors driving success in main markets. This is our chilled market share, specifically, over 50 percent in Japan and Korea. Their chilled beef imports come from the U.S. And we ship more chilled beef to Japan than frozen. Taiwan we’re over 70 percent. Part of the way we’re driving growth in market share is we’re competing on a wider range of cuts. We are displaying some of these end cuts that Australians supply, we’re actually competitive on those, and we’re teaching them how to utilize these block cuts.
Joe Schuele: Dan Halstom, senior vice president for marketing, explains some of the advantages of chilled beef exports.
Dan Halstrom: The importance of chilled is it tends to be a 52 weeks a year business, so if you buy frozen, you can buy when the price is low and not buy when the price is high. But with chilled you are buying every week. The customers are importing it every week. The other obvious advantage of chilled is when you freeze something and thaw it – and the meat scientists in the room will tell you – that you start to break those cells down you have more cooking loss, less juiciness, less tenderness. But when it’s chilled, you’re holding it at 30 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit all the way from the packing plant to the customer in Korea or Japan. So chilled is the goal here in the Asian markets and it’s working well.
Joe Schuele: For more information, please visit USMEF.org. For the U.S. Meat Export Federation, I’m Joe Schuele.


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There is no single cookie cutter mold for packaging solutions across all industries - or even within the same industry, for that matter. Each industry and product has its own specifications that require different strategies. In the electronics industry, for example, packages need to be able to protect all of the small parts within a device, while the food industry requires products be kept in a sanitary environment.
64 percent of Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) failed sanitary standards, while 56 percent had higher levels of contaminants than would be expected from cleaned containers.
When product focus, objectives and best practices are not clearly defined and documented, the results can be potentially devastating. For instance, if an electronics company puts saving material over the security of its product, numerous devices could be damaged before they even reach the hands of their customers. The same theory holds true within the food industry.
Studies zero in on current produce packaging complications
A new study indicates that plastics involved with packaging fruits and vegetables in Canada could compromise the health of many customers throughout the country. Packaging Digest explains that a study held by the University of Guelph investigating the use of Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) found that this packaging strategy was compromising the quality of the produce they contained.
The study deduced that a high percentage of the RPCs were not effectively cleaned, leaving the food they held susceptible to pathogens such as salmonella and norovirus.
According to the news source, some retailers require the use of such RPCs in the transportation of fruit and vegetables from farm to store. However, the study found that 64 percent of RPCs failed sanitary standards, while 56 percent had higher levels of contaminants than would be expected from cleaned containers.
The staggering results of this study resulted in an increased demand for corrugated boxes - both aiding in sustainable packaging and reducing future risk of contamination.
Corrugated box packaging alternatives
Because produce can vary in size, shape and weight, the following variables should be considered when selecting a box design:
Typical box styles such as the half-slotted container are ready to use and can store large amounts of product. Telescope style boxes are also a convenient box style to incorporate as they have a lid that can "telescope" over the body of the package, making it a convenient way to access the produce inside on multiple occasions.
Temperature monitoring labels monitor quality and safety
WarmMark Environmental Indicators, developed by Shockwatch, help protect the vitality of products as they move from one point to another by monitoring temperature fluctuations above or below a defined level. As reported by the National Resources Defenses Council in the United States, 12 percent of produce spoils during distribution and retail operations. In effort to disengage that percentage of lost goods, temperature monitoring labels offer the following benefits:
Corrugated boxes and shipping condition monitoring labels can be used across varying markets without second thought. The versatility of these two core packaging products to incorporate both strength and resilience against temperature and environmental changes continues to be a mainstay within the packaging food and produce industry.


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Apple presents the iPad mini many months ago, a smaller version of the popular iPad. Just like the big brother also sold this extremely well, but was a big point of criticism the display, which unfortunately had no retina resolution. Also the processor was “only” a dual-core, but the tablet has a pretty good battery life, and was packaged in a very thin housing. Now it is gone for three months, then the iPad mini will be a year old, so you can now speculate on a successor.
Apple’s next generation iPad mini may not go into mass production until the fourth quarter of 2013, which will likely bring about a 2014 release date for the device, according to industry supply chain sources.
A successor to the iPad mini will be presented according to the latest rumors in the autumn, but unfortunately without a retina display but probably only with a thinner body and a better processor. The iPad Mini with Retina display, there are, however, only in 2014. In addition to coming up with the improved Mini iPad, a new fifth-generation iPad. That is to lose 20-30% of weight and probably also comes with a processor upgrade. Yes after the iPhone’s successor is also expected in the fall, we can expect the traditional autumn event with a true handy devices fireworks from Apple.


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Starting today, Whataburger fans can snap for burgers as the company launches its channel on the popular photo and video messaging app Snapchat.
To celebrate the launch, Whataburger is asking fans to follow them on Snapchat to find out how they can win the prize burger lovers only dream about: a free Whataburger each week for 10 years. While the company has given away “Whataburger for a Year” in the past, this will be the first time Whataburger offers “Whataburger for a Decade” to one lucky fan.
“Whataburger’s launch into Snapchat will allow us to entertain fans, showcase the Whataburger lifestyle and, of course, highlight our delicious food,” says Pam Cox, Whataburger’s vice president of corporate communications. “We’ve seen how popular Snapchat is among our Millennial customers, and think this social platform gives us a great chance to interact with more fans in fun, new ways.
Whataburger fans can find the company on Snapchat by searching for WhataburgerLife. Here’s what social media fans had to say about wanting Whataburger to join the popular app (content provided directly from Whataburger’s Twitter page):
Whataburger created a strong social media presence by staying on top of the latest trends and pop culture. The company has nearly 2 million fans on Facebook, more than 500,000 followers on Twitter, and more than 135,000 on Instagram.
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EarthLink, which provides Internet connections and services, signed a long-term deal with the struggling Clearwire and plans to launch the new "in-home" service in the first half of 2013. Customers would get a modem-like device that would connect to the Clearwire wireless network and function like commonly used hard-wired broadband.
Financial terms weren't disclosed, but Clearwire has been eager to cut network partnerships or sell assets in order to raise cash. A Clearwire spokeswoman declined to comment on the EarthLink agreement.
The service will allow EarthLink to reach more customers and may offer a cheaper, or even faster, option to customers in certain situations, said Jennifer Spindel, EarthLink's vice president of consumer products.
The company wouldn't limit connection speeds, but there would be limits on the amount of data consumed, she said. EarthLink hasn't finalized its pricing plans or details on the device that customers would use to connect to the network.
Ms. Spindel couldn't give details on how the deal expands EarthLink's reach, but said it would be able to provide access to three of every 10 people that it currently turns away for service.
The service will first be available to consumers, but the company plans to look into offering business-oriented services as well as mobile devices. The service will launch late in the first quarter or early in the second quarter of 2013.
Clearwire, which is intertwined with network partner Sprint Nextel Corp. S, +1.90% is playing catch-up with the major U.S. carriers in rolling out 4G LTE, a transition from its original WiMax 4G service.
The EarthLink agreement provides access to the WiMax network. While the companies can expand their agreement to include LTE, there is no commitment to do so, Ms. Spindel said.
Numerous investors have walked away from the cash-strapped Clearwire, which holds a major chunk of precious airwave licenses as its prime assets and seeks to sell wholesale wireless services. The company said it had $1.2 billion at the end of the second quarter and, based on its needs, has enough cash for "at least" the next 12 months.
EarthLink shares recently traded up four cents to $7.16, while Clearwire rose 3% to $1.71.
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text: The major Chinese sports brands have issued preliminary figures indicating the market is not slowing down. Anta Sports Products said that sales under its own brand rose at a low-teen rate in the first quarter, while those of other branded products distributed or licensed in China went up by between 65 and 70 percent. Those brands include Fila, Descente, Kolon and Sprandi. At Li-Ning, same-store sales rose at a mid-teen rate in the quarter, wholesale revenues went up at a low-teen rate and e-commerce grew by more than 30 percent. Another Chinese brand, Xtep, said that its total retail sales went up by more than 20 percent, with same-store sales rising by the low teens. China Donxiang reported a mid-single-digit increase for the Kappa brand, with all the growth coming from digital sales.


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Many people now want to buy Ethereum because it is one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrencies on the market. It started its initial boom in 2017 and has many benefits when compared to other cryptocurrencies. For one, the system is decentralized, which means you can send payments all over the world using the internet, without having to use a third-party or the bank. However, Atlanta residents can also find ATMs similar to those at banks that allow you to make payments using Ether.
While some startups and dotcoms take years to become established, Ethereum quickly rose to the second-largest digital currency in just a few years. Vitalik Buterin came up with the idea about five years ago in 2013. Now, millions of people use this currency and have digital wallets that contain it. However, the primary attraction is that third-party apps can also use the network.
Ethereum’s currency is called Ether, and it has risen in value in recent months. More and more people are turning to digital currency, which is why there’s been such an uptick. However, public trading has been going on since 2016 and ether is only limited to $18 million a year, which means you can make money and use it as an investment opportunity.
Many organizations now accept bitcoins for payment, and most of those organizations also take other cryptocurrencies, such as Ether. However, the biggest benefit is that you can trade or make exchanges.
The Future of Money
While still ahead of its time, Ether and Ethereum platforms could become the future of money. Such digital currencies can shake up a financial system in many good ways.
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FLOW and GRANRODEO announced today the dates for their first joint live tour.
The tour will kick off in 2018.
— FLOW×GRANRODEO (@FLOWxGRANRODEO) 13 de outubro de 2017
Two dates were announced:
- 23/01/2018 – Osaka (BIGCAT)
- 24/01/2018 – Tokyo (Zepp DiverCity Tokyo)
Fanclubs to both groups will have the opportunity to purchase tickets for these two exclusive shows.
On a side note:
FLOW×GRANRODEO are going to release a new single. The single is still untilted, and is scheduled to be released on 24/01/2017.
More details regarding this release will be unveiled in the upcoming months.


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NEW DELHI: As per a new report by IDC, Apple continues to be the market leader in the wearables segment. The report claims that the company has shipped a total of 46.2 million wearables this year.
The report further adds that the worldwide market for wearable devices grew 31.4% during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), reaching a new high of 59.3 million, while the shipments for the year grew 27.5 percent for a total of 172.2 million.
Apple has once again retained its top position in the wearables segment with 16.2 million wearables shipped and out of these 10.4 million were Apple Watches. The smartwatch segment together grew by 54.3% in 2018 and it accounted for 29.8% of all wearables. The IDC report claim that Apple Watches accounted for nearly half of the market.
IDC also forecasts that the growth of Cupertino-based tech giant will continue in the same manner courtesy the new Apple Watch Series 4.
Along with this, the IDC report also adds that recently revised category of ear-worn wearables has grown substantially this past year. The segment consist of devices like Apple AirPods, Google’s Pixel Buds, Bose’s QC35II and others.
The ear-worn devices grew 66.4% and captured 21.9% of the market. The company claims that the growth of this category can be attributed to the increasing popularity of smart assistants and the ditching of smartphone's headphone jack.
Lastly, the smartwatches grew 55.2% to capture 32.3% share. The Wristbands reached 30% of the market share because of the products launched by Xiaomi, Huawei and Fitbit. The Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi captured the second position with 12.6% market share. Huawei managed to grow by a sizable 248.5% and is next on the list followed by Fitbit and Samsung


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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: End Coming for Windows in Enterprise
If you ask cloud computing evangelist Marc Benioff about the future of Windows and PCs in the enterprise world it comes as no surprise that he sees this era rapidly coming to an end.
That change, he believes, may be closer than ever if this week’s release of Windows 8 gives chief information officers the pretext to rethink which technologies are used in their companies.
At Friday’s Cloudforce conference in New York, Salesforce chairman and CEO Benioff talked up the services his company provides to the likes of Coca-Cola, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and Toyota. For example, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) helped Coca-Cola develop software that lets consumers create and purchase their own beverage blends at certain vending machines and share those recipes online with friends.
During his keynote speech, Benioff brought out Michael Lazerow, co-founder of New York–based social media marketing company Buddy Media, which Salesforce acquired in June for $690 million. Buddy Media is being combined with social media monitoring company Radian6, a previous Salesforce acquisition, to offer their services under one umbrella, Salesforce marketing cloud.
Lazerow echoed Benioff’s sentiments about changes underway as wireless devices and cloud computing offer businesses new options to interact in-house and with their customers. “The largest companies in the world have a desire to innovate,” Lazerow said. “They have legacy systems they have to deal with but they want to transform their companies.”
That transformation seems to already be happening thanks to widespread personal use of tablets and smartphones by professionals. Benioff spoke with reporters and analysts during the conference about how that trend, coupled with the momentum he sees in cloud computing, may affect the role of desktop PCs and the Windows operating system in business.
A prior conversation, Benioff said, with a chief information officer who oversees the technology infrastructure for some 300,000 employees proved quite telling. “She told me her primary goal was to get rid of every single PC. She said it’s the end of Windows,” Benioff said. “She has no interest in upgrading to Windows 8.”
Part of this decision, he said, stemmed from the demand for mobile devices in the workplace in relation to PCs. “This CIO wanted to move to a bring-your-own-device architecture,” he said, a strategy he sees being adopted by many companies. “People are bringing their iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. I think soon they’ll be bringing their [Amazon] Kindles.”
A lot of Benioff’s claims, of course, are tied up in the often-entertaining competition between his San Francisco-based company and Microsoft, the massive veteran of business software. But he’s correct that businesses of all kinds are seeing more employees bring their personal computing devices to work, and looking for policies that give them access to their work from virtually any screen.
In fact, Microsoft is positioning Windows 8 as a way to bridge these new realities—as Bill Gates says in this newly released promotional video interview, the newest version of Windows is intended to work with Microsoft’s smartphone software and its new Office software as a seamless, cloud-connected experience.
The growing use of mobile devices may also bring changes to the way companies connect their data networks, Benioff said. Many companies use local area networks to keep employees and data connected, but he sees the next generation of high-bandwidth networks through wireless providers reducing the reliance on in-house servers.
In fact, Benioff said that after Salesforce opened a new office in downtown San Francisco equipped with Wi-Fi, he questioned the necessity for such a network. “My LTE [reception] in San Francisco is fantastic,” Benioff said. “I don’t put on Wi-Fi. I don’t need it.”
As Microsoft prepares to release Window 8 this week, Benioff expects even more overseers of technology to weigh their options. Today’s choices, he said, were not largely available when Windows 7 was released in 2009. As more powerful mobile devices with access to the growing population of cloud-based software hit the market, he believes a wave of change is imminent.
“I think it’s the end of Windows,” he said. “I think Windows 8 is the gambit for every CIO to reconsider what their new device is.”


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May 2015 BusinessDaily; Kenya is seeking to use its top hospitals to woo medical tourists from East and Central Africa, to cushion the sector that has been hit by reduced travel from US and Europe over security fears.
The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) has partnered with A&K Global Health—a global medical tourism consultancy firm —with an aim of increasing the number of foreigners visiting Kenya for treatment.
Kenya receives patients from other African countries who seek treatment for ailments such as cancers, cardiovascular diseases, maternal complications and paediatric conditions at top hospitals like Nairobi Hospital, Aga Khan and Kenyatta National Hospital.
Muriithi Ndegwa, the KTB managing director said Kenya seeks to diversify its tourism products from beaches and safari parks.
“Medical tourism was always in our strategic plan. And now this partnership will allow us to pursue it aggressively,” he said.
Kenya’s tourism, once the highest foreign exchange earner, has borne the brunt of terror attacks that has prompted Western countries to issue travel alerts.
This has cut foreign tourist arrivals over the past year and led to the closure of more than 40 hotels at the Coast due to low bed occupancy. The number of international visitors dropped to 1.3 million from 1.5 million in 2013.
The medical tourists are expected to boost tourism with their stay local hotels.
“We may not be the best in the world, but we are way ahead of many African countries. So why should a patient in Rwanda travel to India for medical procedures that can comfortably be handled here?,” said Mr Ndegwa.


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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Where the money is coming from
Though student pressure has successfully forced the ASUC to stop considering providing money to Oren and co. from the Legal Defense Fund, it seems fairly likely that they'll still get the money. The plan is for the ASUC Auxiliary to pay the proceeds from some of its CD accounts (that weren't established by the Senate) to the Executives. Technically, the way it will work, according to Ned Permaul, will be that the money will be made available to the Executives, who will make it available to the Senate, which will vote to allocate it. Yes, essentially the Executives will be authorizing personal payments to themselves.
I guess it's better than using student funds directly, but it still hurts the ASUC Auxiliary, and thus the ASUC indirectly. And the fact that the ASUC apparently has control over these funds suggests that they could be put to a better, student benefit use.
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3 April 2013 | Anna Reynolds
Metalrax Group, which collapsed after falling sales following the loss of a major contract with supermarket Morrisons, has been sold by administrators.
The business and assets of the engineering group have been sold to a group of companies headed by manufacturer Bowman. The group will trade as Arc Specialist Engineering and is backed by private investors.
In a statement yesterday, Metalrax said it had struggled with performance in its consumer durables division since it lost a contract to supply bakeware to Morrisons in July 2012. The deal was worth approximately 3 per cent of its annual group revenue.
At the time, Metalrax chief executive Andrew Richardson said the company was disappointed to have lost such a significant customer, which it tried hard to retain.
The Birmingham-based group was placed into administration yesterday, with KPMG appointed to handle the insolvency.
Will Wright, joint administrator from KPMG, said: “The group has experienced difficult trading conditions for some time, primarily within its consumer durables division. While the group’s management team has divested in recent years to focus upon niche areas, trading in this division has led to a significant drain on the group’s financial situation.”
As part of the transaction, deals also were completed for two companies in the group that were unaffected by the insolvency process. Metalrax Housewares was sold to private equity group Cable Finance, and Metalrax Overseas Holdings was also sold to Arc Specialist Engineering. This saved 387 jobs.
Wright added: “Being able to sell the business and assets, together with shares in solvent businesses within the group, has been a great solution to securing a future for the business and, more importantly, just under 400 jobs.”
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The YFI creator Andre Cronje, says that there’s a lot of effort going into the crypto industry recently to alleviate the pressure some of the coins felt on the Ethereum network. Stablecoins make a huge chunk of the steep fees and they could all switch to Layer 2 for relief as we are about to read more in our Tether crypto news today.
The YFI creator Andre Cronje, suggested that USDT and USDC will soon be available on Layer 2 since the stablecoins make the transition away from Ethereum. The comment came in the wake of a huge month for ETH transactions which saw them surge to new levels in terms of costs and amount. Cronje added that he believes stablecoins should be seen as trade instruments and not currencies.
USDC and USDT will soon both be available on L2.
This will allows non-congested transfers of USDC and USDT.
This is great if you do payments in USDC and USDT.
From my experience USDT and USDC are trade instruments. Not currency. How much will really move to L2?
— Andre Cronje (@AndreCronjeTech) September 7, 2020
DeFi analyst Chris Blec replied that all L2 solutions could provide Centre and Tether with an easier way to force regulatory compliance via KYC if they require whitelisting. Layer 2 is actually a blockchain scaling solution that uses the technology as side chains and ZK-rollups to enable faster transactions by simply taking the data off the main chain. A zk-rollup is a zero-knowledge proof that secures some of the data off the chain and eases the load on it.
Tether integrated into the Layer 2 OMG network which is known as OmiseGo and operates on the Plasma. USDT holders will be able to transact over this network to save some fees and decrease the time take for it to get verified. Tether moved a chunk of its supply to other networks such as EOS, Algorand, and TRON but the ultimate solution could be the switch to layer 2. According to the Tether transparency report, more than 62% or $8.9 billion USDT is still on the ETH network.
ETH Gas station reported that in terms of fees, Tether generated more than $10.5 million over the past 30 days second to Uniswap which generated 20% more. USD coin which is a dollar-pegged crypto stablecoin by Circle is also gaining traction in the Defi sector as an alternative to Tether. With ETH 2.0 Phase 1 on the way, scaling solutions for the biggest smart chain network will not be here soon enough. It has come as some relief that the average transaction fee on ETH dropped by 80% this month to $2.84 from the previous $14.58. The spikes tend to be correlated with the new offerings in the DeFi craze as the fees are unlikely to remain low for long.
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Following the news of the addition of a new exhibition hall to Asia’s largest and most comprehensive woodworking and furniture production trade fair, the organizers of CIFM / interzum guangzhou
recently revealed the purpose of the added space. 8 Overseas pavilions to be expected
Slated to happen from March 28 – April 1, 2015
the 11-year old event will continue to be held alongside the China International Furniture Fair
. This will be the first time Hall 12.1 of the Pazhou Complex is activated for the event, boosting the total exhibition area to 140,000 square meters, which is expected to host over 1,200 exhibitors
and more than 62,000 visitors
The upholstered furniture market demand is closely tied to the real estate market, and with the accelerating urbanization, growth in urban population and the intensifying residential development in emerging markets in recent years, the region is increasingly becoming the world's new growth market for upholstered furniture.
The booming of the upholstered furniture industry in China has brought about the upholstery equipment manufacturers’ rising demand to participate in CIFM / interzum guangzhou. In 2015, show organizers will open up Hall 12.1, and will focus on product category revolving around Bedding Materials / Bedding Machinery / Cutting Machinery / Sewing Machinery and Woodworking Machinery
. The new hall is expected to offer an opportunity for more quality brands to participate in CIFM / interzum guangzhou 2015.
Among the overseas pavilions from the American Hardwood Export Council, Germany, Italy, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey
and the US/Canada
, the Canadian Wood
pavilions will see bigger representations than before in 2015. Canada and Chile, both renowned for their abundant forest resources are poised to provide more high-quality wood selections for buyers.
The clear product segmentation, series of fringe activities, and professional service of CIFM / interzum guangzhoug have always been major factors contributing to the positive atmosphere for all at the event. The 2015 edition will continue to offer the Piazza Lounge
providing complimentary internet services, refreshment and meeting venue, as well as hosting of industry forums and seminars. Details will be available and published on the event webpage in early November.
Online visitor pre-registration for the event has kicked-off
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Antivirus software only catches 45% of malware attacks and is “dead,” according to a senior manager at Symantec. Brian Dye, senior vice-president for information security at the company, which invented commercial antivirus software in the 1980s and now develops and sells Norton Antivirus, suggests that such software leaves users vulnerable.
Dye told the Wall Street Journal that hackers increasingly use novel methods and bugs in the software of computers to perform attacks, resulting in about 55% of cyberattacks going unnoticed by commercial antivirus software.
Malware has become increasingly complex in a post-Stuxnet world. Computer viruses range from relatively simple criminal attacks, where credit card information is targeted, to espionage programs that spy on users and data but can easily be upgraded into cyberweapons at the touch of a button, according to security expert Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Lab, which also sells antivirus software.
From protecting to ‘detect and respond.
That failure to detect issues is forcing Symantec, which has a turnover of about $1.6bn (£590m) and an 8% global antivirus marketshare – according to data from the enterprise software company Opswat – to diversify its products, moving into the “detect and respond” sector rather than the simple “protect” segment.
The switch to the detect and respond paradigm means tracking data leaks, hacks, and other intrusions and preventing further repercussions from stolen data. For users, that means changing passwords, but for businesses, that often means stopping access to accounts and services that have been subject to data loss or infiltration.
As well as tracking the source of the intrusion and shoring up cyber defenses – something governments have been doing with new cyber response teams. Antivirus still accounts for 40% of the company’s revenue, and while other security companies such as Kaspersky and Intel’s McAfee have already moved in that direction, Symantec lags the movement.


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The market has unsurprisingly welcomed the news that lockdown restrictions are to be slowly lifted over the next few weeks. Arguably the most important detail, as far as the economy is concerned, is the re-opening of all non-essential shops by 15 June. With this in mind, here are three potentially great ISA buys that might do better than most in the new retail environment.
Cheap ISA buy?
The fact that shops are being allowed to reopen does not mean that consumers will be in the mood to spend like there’s no tomorrow, of course. They may, however, feel the need to replace some of their more comfortable ‘lockdown clothing’.
For me, this could be good news for Primark-owner Associated British Foods (LSE: ABF). Say what you like about the wares sold by this company — the fact that you can fill a wardrobe on the cheap could mean it does better than most during a recession.
Another attraction to ABF is that it isn’t solely dependent on the success of its stores — it has its fingers in the grocery, agriculture, sugar, and ingredients markets. This makes it a good ISA option for defensive-minded investors, in my opinion.
True, the shares haven’t done particularly well over the last few years, but consumers’ desire to find value for money in tough times could mark a change in direction.
If we assume that analyst predictions on earnings in FY21 are still roughly correct, the stock also changes hands at a really-rather-decent valuation of 14 times earnings.
My second pick of retailers would be FTSE 100 sports and casualwear firm JD Sports (LSE: JD).
Boasting excellent free cash flow and experienced management, this business looks set to go from strength to strength. Having established itself as a go-to destination for trainer lovers in the UK, it’s now targeting large overseas markets such as the US.
Is a lot of this already priced-in to the shares? Quite probably. Like many stocks, the optimum time to buy was a couple of months ago. From mid-February to mid-March, JD lost two-thirds of its value. The share price has more than doubled since.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, of course. Nevertheless, JD is one of only a handful of FTSE 100 stocks I’d feel comfortable holding within an ISA for the very long term. And companies like this rarely stay cheap for long.
My third and final selection is something of a wildcard: bicycle-seller and auto parts retailer Halfords (LSE: HFD).
I’ve actually been very bearish on this company in the past, partly due to its lack of an economic moat. But the coronavirus pandemic has altered my stance somewhat. In case you haven’t noticed, cycling has been hugely popular over recent months as long-distance travel has been prohibited.
To be clear, I don’t think Halfords is a ‘buy-and-forget’ stock. There’s no guarantee that those who say they now plan to ride to work rather than catch public transport will actually do so. There’s also quite a bit of debt on the balance sheet.
Even so, the next set of numbers released by the company is likely to be very good indeed. Those buying a small amount now for their tax-efficient ISA could still do well.


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Wal-Mart Stores Inc will be known as Walmart Inc, effective Feb. 1, the world’s largest retailer said on Wednesday, as part of its efforts to rebrand itself as more than a brick and mortar store.
The name change highlights the company’s online, pickup and delivery and mobile shopping capabilities.
Chief Executive Doug McMillon felt the name change was needed to be “consistent with the idea that you can shop us however you like as a customer.” He added: “Our customers know us as Walmart and today they shop with us not only in our stores but online and with our app as well.”
The name change is not the only move by McMillon of late to update the company. In September, he announced the company would build new headquarters in its hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.
The company, which has more than 11,600 stores around the world, will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘WMT,’ and it shares lately have been trading near all-time highs.
A customer pushes a shopping cart at a Walmart store in Chicago, Illinois, US, November 23, 2016.
Surging online orders
An apparent shift to online sales has overwhelmed the retail giant, as it confessed Wednesday that soaring digital purchases have caused delays in its distribution network, reflecting the challenge retailers and delivery services face in handling strong peak-season e-commerce demand.
“The week of Thanksgiving is an incredibly busy time for all of retail,” “With massive volume going through our system, there were some orders that took extra time, much like other major e-commerce sites,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Danit Marquardt said of the week of Thanksgiving.
“A vast majority of orders are shipping on time now,” she added.
The backlog reflects the degree to which Wal-Mart, United Parcel Service and other companies struggled to handle peak e-commerce volumes despite months of preparation and major investments to expand and upgrade distribution facilities.
Wal-Mart declined to comment on the number of customer orders impacted.
One senior FedEx employee said Wal-Mart’s national distribution network had fallen behind in processing some 4 million customer orders, though he declined to elaborate on how this impacted FedEx deliveries.
Adobe Analytics forecasts a record 107.4-billion-US-dollar holiday season for online orders, the first ever to cross the 100-billion-US-dollar mark, it said on Wednesday.
FedEx said it expected to deliver 380-400 million packages globally during the peak shipping season.
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, offers free two-day shipping on millions of items when the order size is over 35 US dollars. The retailer said online sales surged 50 percent in the last quarter.


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In spite of the saying that goes, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” there is likely nothing that can keep technology giant Apple away from innovation. Its suite is ever-changing and expanding to encompass next generation functions that no one even knew was previously possible. While the company has been relatively quiet as of late in regards to soon to be unveiled products, rumors are now swirling that three new iPhones will be making their debut in the New Year with one of them being coined “iPhone Math.”
In a recent article from PCMag that quotes a report from Brightwire.com, the current buzz circulating is that the iPhone Math would encompass a 4.8-inch screen and an eight-megapixel camera. What remains to be seen though is if the smartphone will actually boast innovative mathematical capabilities because if not, why not just name it the iPhone 6? I mean, that model has been used successfully since the iPhone 3G was unveiled and up until the latest release, the iPhone 5.
Whether or not you will able to become a math whiz with just your phone in tow, the bigger picture in regards to the product launch is that instead of just one extremely robust offering from Apple this year, 2013 will instead bring three with the goal of “appealing to a larger user base,” Brightwire.com said. In addition to the iPhone Math, a four-inch iPhone 5S and a still largely unwrapped, surprise iPhone boasting a 12-megapixel camera will be available before 2014.
Image via Blirk.net
Additionally, Digital Trends is reporting that the first two new phones, including the 5S and the iPhone Math, will make their way to market by June, while the other likely won’t be seen until around Halloween.
“If, in some bizarre twist, Apple does have a phone with a five-inch screen in the works, it makes sense to give it a striking name. But would anyone – let alone Apple, a company which takes an incredibly conservative approach with its nomenclature – call a phone the Math? Quite apart from the word sounding completely wrong to everyone outside of the U.S. and Canada, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Calling it out as either an odd, lost-in-translation error or a weirdly creative ruse seems almost redundant. At best, this is an internal name,” it reveals.
What additional capabilities are likely to be kept under wraps for quite some time, some information we do know has to do with the companies building integral parts of the three new iPhone models. While Foxconn and Coxon are highlighted as developing the chassis, Hon Hai Precision will take care of the manufacturing, Largan Precision is in charge of the camera modules (as it does with the iPhone 5) and the circuit boards will come from Flexium, Zhen Ding and Fujikura, Digital Trends stated. It is said that production is slated to kickoff in April.
Red Orbit commented, “Releasing new devices with such differences in hardware so close together could cause confusion in the market. Potential iPhone buyers are already accustomed to holding off on their upgrades until the newest release. It’s likely Apple would only stand to lose by releasing three phones within a span of six months, angering both customers and developers.”
It looks like for now we will just have to wait and see how big of a slice of steaming hot apple pie the technology trendsetter stands to take when its developing products finally are released. Chances are likely however that you will still need to brush up on your math skills as much as possible.
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Twin Spin Arrives on the Mobile Platform
Twin Spin is one of the most popular games by Net Entertainment. Net Entertainment already has a rich and varied mobile gaming selection that is dedicated for mobile smart phones that work by the touch function. Twin Spin is the latest addition to this wide range of games, according to an announcement by NET ENT.
Twin Spin is a very simple slot machine, yet, it is a very rewarding and an exciting one. It comes with plenty of bonus features and a unique game play. This is why the game has become a huge hit at online casinos such as Mr. Green and therefore, it was chosen to be added to the list of mobile slots.


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December 12, 2008
Pelt prices have continued to decrease in recent weeks, slumping 41 percent in a month in New Zealand and contributors lowering rates by as much AU$2 per skin in Australia. Pelts were just off their all-time low due in part to a swing away from leather in the fashion world as well as the weakening of world commodity prices.
John Lynch, a director of New Zealand Pelt and Skin Services, said meat companies that sold pelts were bearing the brunt, and there could be another six to eight months of pain ahead.
Lamb pelts, which were used mainly in the garment industry, have dropped significantly from about US$50 a dozen six months ago to US$35 (NZ$66) a dozen today.
"It's all dictated by fashion overseas," Lynch said.
Another reason was increased world supply. In particular, China, which takes about 25 percent of New Zealand's hide and skin exports, is fast developing its own pelt industry. Some Chinese tanneries have also discontinued ordering Australian skins, while some exporters have also ceased buying skins as it is hard to move the product.
Reprinted in part from Stuff.co.nz