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There was a new Nintendo Direct today, the livestream from Nintendo which coincidentally takes place on the same day as that of PlayStation (following at 00:00 CET tonight). A very good one, because one of Nintendo’s most successful franchises is Zelda and a new game starring Link has been in the works for years now. Nintendo has announced The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Nintendo Switch for release on May 12, 2023.
Successor Breath of the Wild
It took six years to make a new Zelda. At least: a great Zelda game, because Nintendo has a knack for making some spin-offs that are just not quite there. Zelda: Breath of the Wild was a huge success for Nintendo’s console Switch. We can substantiate this with figures: 28 million units have been sold so far, making it one of the best-selling games of all time.
Also a small setback for gamers with this news, because the game was supposed to be released this year. Nintendo had even announced it, but at the beginning of this year the games company had already announced that it would be 2023. However, no name was known then, but it was called Breath of the Wild 2. Exactly what Tears of the Kingdom refers to is still unknown, but it is expected to be very similar to Breath of the Wild.
Tears of the Kingdom
It is not very common that a successor is announced in the Zelda franchise: usually it is again a standalone game. Anyway, we’re back in Hyrule, but this time Link doesn’t keep his feet on the ground.
He was also able to move very freely in Breath of the Wild, but as high as he gets in Tears of the Kingdom, he has never done that before. As a gamer with Link you therefore not only have to walk, jump and slide, but also fly and fall.
Tears of the Kingdom doesn’t sound very positive in any case, it sounds like Link has to go through a lot of grief. That would be interesting: to date Zelda is not a very tear-jerking franchise, although the game does bring with it the necessary nostalgic feelings. That’s exactly why this is such big news in the gaming world. Gamers are very excited about this. And to fall and fly, apparently.


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Big Lots held its grand opening Friday at its new Frederick location at 1308 W. Patrick St.
From June 7 to July 20, the store will donate $5 to Mission of Mercy each time a Big Rewards loyalty member redeems a reward at the Frederick store. Mission of Mercy is a local charity that provides free health care, dental care and medications to the uninsured and underinsured, according to a news release.
The 32,046-square-foot store will showcase a new store layout and design in all Big Lots stores.
“We are excited to introduce our new store format to Frederick,” said Steve Haffer, senior vice president and chief customer officer at Big Lots, in a news release. “It brings to life our new brand traits and showcases our product assortments of affordable solutions in furniture, seasonal, home, food and consumables. We are also very proud to serve alongside the Frederick community with our support of Mission of Mercy.”

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Chinese online fashion store Shein has recently strengthened its portfolio by acquiring the British fashion brand Missguided. The exact financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. The label will be added to Shein’s own online platform.
Shein’s interest in Missguided has been a topic of discussion for some time. Several months ago, it was revealed that the platform was in negotiations with Frasers Group, the parent company of Missguided. In the now confirmed acquisition, Shein secures the intellectual property and trademarks of Missguided. The real estate holdings and employees will remain under Frasers Group.
Missguided acquired by Frasers Group 1 year ago
Frasers Group itself acquired Missguided just a year ago after it fell into administration. That acquisition was worth 23.5 million euros at the time. According to the Group, it now wants to focus on fewer brands in the future. This is why it decided to sell the brand.
About the reasons behind the acquisition, Donald Tang, chairman of Shein, stated: “Shein aims to breathe new life into the Missguided brand, capitalize on its unique brand personality, and drive global growth through Shein’s on-demand production model, ecommerce expertise and global reach.”
‘Shein wants to capitalize on Missguided’s brand identity.’
Missguided targets a young shopping audience. Shein can now tap into that target market. Additionally, the Chinese fashion platform can increase its market presence in Europe and the United Kingdom as a result of the acquisition.
The decision to only acquire the intellectual property and trademarks while leaving the physical assets and staff under Frasers Group is a notable aspect of this deal. It seems Shein is focusing on the brand’s essence and the leveraging of their own operational strengths, rather than extensive restructuring or merging of physical assets.
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Shein’s acquisition of Missguided seems like a step towards global expansion, as it is the first time that the Chinese platform acquires a British brand. The label will be added to Shein’s online platform, which currently serves around 150 million users.


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Gucci joined Parks, a nonprofit association helping companies to promote diversity and inclusion.
After nearly two years of falling retail sales, outlets are springing up — including the city's first luxury discount shopping complex.
MW’s biggest shareholder sues to prevent Bank from making an acquisition.
An outspoken critic of the apparel industry record on worker safety in foreign factories, the congressman said Monday he will not seek reelection this fall.
The televised documentary, which will debut on Ovation TV beginning Jan. 22, lifts the curtain on the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition.
Timo Weiland, Degen and Novis will each receive a $25,000 grant toward their fashion week presentations in February.


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A government purchase of ground bison for federal aid is expected to open up new markets for Canadian producers
Canadian bison producers will eventually benefit from a $17-million purchase of American ground bison under a U.S. federal aid program, says the executive director of the National Bison Association.
Dave Carter told the Canadian Bison Association annual conference that while the meat bought through the program must be from the United States, there will be a ripple effect.
“That is, we move those animals out of the backlog from the U.S. and into that process and then that’s going to open up the U.S. market to start bringing those Canadian animals back down here,” he said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Dec. 4 that it would grant the NBA’s Section 32 request for a surplus purchase of up to $17 million worth of ground bison.
The Canadian government also bought surplus bison through a COVID-19 relief program, but only $560,000 worth.
Canadian Bison Association executive director Terry Kremeniuk said there is a backlog in Canada too, primarily due to the slowdown in the restaurant and foodservice sectors that has pushed both prices and slaughter down.
“At the end of this year, we’ll probably slaughter 6,000 animals, the lowest slaughter number since 1999,” he said.
The backlogs were already building in 2019. Carter said the NBA had developed a strategy to rebalance the industry and then COVID hit.
The immediate impact was to higher value cuts such as tenderloin, ribeye and strip steaks, which are about nine percent of a carcass but 25 percent of its value, he said.
Most of those cuts are also sold in restaurants, which were closing. So while retailers wanted more bison, they wanted the lower-priced trim.
“You simply cannot take a $24 tenderloin and turn it into a $9 brick of ground bison and make money,” he said.
The NBA board got busy collecting information to apply for COVID-19 relief packages, but they were not included in the first round in May, nor the second round in July.
They were finally accepted in September. But Carter said they knew that wouldn’t help alleviate the inventory backlog so that’s why they submitted the Section 32 request.
“For me, that’s a good way to say so long 2020,” he said of the news it had been accepted.
How much of the inventory is used depends on U.S. bison marketers and their bids, he added.
Carter expected more details this week.
“I just think psychologically it’s going to have a good effect,” he said. “I think the short-term effect is going to be at the auction markets. Calf prices have been fairly strong but the cull cow price has really been what’s taking the hit.”
It won’t mean the bison industry is out of the woods. Carter said even as restaurants open they focus on core menu items, not add-ons such as bison.
But some whole muscle cuts are starting to show up in retail cases. Costco has been carrying strip steaks and rib-eyes, he said.
“The challenge now is to get the public comfortable with buying those whole muscle cuts. People are still a little scared of bison,” he said, referring to not knowing how to cook it.
Other avenues the NBA is working on for its producers include trying to get bison into the USDA food box program for unemployed people and food banks.
Bison producers are encouraged by data that shows people are focusing more on personal health, eating healthy fats and environmental health. Consumers want ethical and sustainable meat options, he said.
Carter said the NBA has trademarked the phrases “Nature’s original plant-based protein” and “Regenerative by nature” and both are available for Canadian bison producers to use in their marketing.
American bison producers have their marketing sights set on Japan, Taiwan and South Korea after gaining access to Mexico last year. Carter said unfortunately that agreement doesn’t include human-grade offal, which is a huge opportunity there.


text: Latest News Safilo Group Confirms Agreements With LVMH's Thélios Eyewear and Innovatek for the Purchase of Its Longarone Factory By Staff Wednesday, September 6, 2023 12:24 AM PADUA, Italy —Following Safilo Group's (SFLG.MI) previous communications about the potential sale and future of its Longarone, Italy factory, the company stated yesterday that "the minutes of the agreements were signed by Safilo, Regione Veneto and trade union representatives. Thanks to the involvement of the social parties, Regione Veneto and all institutions, the agreement calls for the relocation of all Longarone employees to Thélios Eyewear, a division of LVMH, and Innovatek, owned by Carlos Fulchir." Safilo Group said it "will now proceed, together with all the involved parties, with the management of the final stages for the completion of the deal."Safilo declined further comment but local Italian news reports stated that the Longarone facility in the Belluno region, would involve the transfer of 450 employees, some of whom will go to Thélios and another group of workers to Innovatek, a new company founded by the Friulian entrepreneur Fulchir. The transition would happen over a period of time, as yet not officially confirmed. Fulchir is an Italian entrepreneur linked to multiple companies, including Italian eyewear producer iVision Eyewear. On Oct. 1, 2020, iVision Tech took over the Safilo factory in Martignacco, along with over 150 workers with 20 years of experience in the eyewear industry, as VMAIL reported in July.Safilo Group referenced its intentions to explore options for its Longarone facility back in March 2023, when the company reported that its board confirmed the company's 2022 fiscal results, as VMAIL reported.


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Export sales last week of new-crop U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat topped expectations as lower prices and an improving Chinese economy likely attracted buyers.
USDA’s weekly export report on Thursday showed 46.6 million bushels of new-crop soybeans were sold, mainly to China, 43 million bushels of corn, and 29.4 million of wheat. Chicago corn, soybean and wheat futures showed little reaction to the report in early electronic trading.
“A good week of export sales all around doesn’t appear to be giving much of a lift to futures as the market focuses on supply, not demand,” said Bryce Knorr, Farm Futures senior grain analyst. “Wheat business finally showed some traction as harvest picked up steam, after a slow start. No real surprises in the destinations, with Brazil and Nigeria highlighting the buyers again.”
Nigeria bought more wheat this week, with USDA reporting two purchases in its daily reporting system
While the new-crop corn and soybean sales were down from a week earlier, the numbers still reflected an active export pace. A drop in prices this summer likely contributed as corn futures are near a four-year low and soybeans at a 2-1/2-year low.
“Easing credit restrictions and improving Chinese economic data and government stimulus efforts also were factors stimulating buying,” Knorr said.
In Thursday’s report, corn sales included 6.8 million bushels of old-crop and 43.04 million of new crop. South Korea led old-crop buyers while Mexico led the new-crop business.
Soybean sales included nearly 6.9 million bushels of old-crop and 46.6 million of new-crop. China was the leading buyer of both old-crop and new-crop soybeans.
Wheat sales at 29.4 million bushels were up considerably from the previous week and surpassed trade forecasts, with Nigeria, Panama and Brazil the leading buyers.
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Two years ago competitors saw Kaspersky as "noise," Reynolds said. Now Kaspersky is not only a contender, it is a contender that believes the SaaS security market is "ripe for a leader and we intend to take control."
Is bad news for Apple users good news for anti-virus vendors willing to slam Apple while securing Macs?
Even if a big Apple security scandal is an irresistible opportunity to gain a little visibility at Apple's expanse, having two top executives from the same company slam Apple publicly, in harsh terms, for poor security is overkill.
Given the one-two from Kaspersky and Grebennikov, it's not surprising some in the press were confused about why Kaspersky was being quite this energetically vocal about Apple's malware problem.
Kaspersky does get credit for identifying the SabPub Trojan, so it's not exactly struggling to find something to accomplish on the Mac to gain some notoriety.
More likely they're both just excited about the masses of potential customers the Mac OS X installed base represents.
Half of all the Macs whose owners checked in to Kaspersky's online Flashback-vulnerability checker turned out to be running older versions of Java that were still vulnerable to the Trojan.
That's a huge percentage for a plugin that should get updates routinely and automatically, without the user even having to know about them.
Kaspersky execs may see gold in the lax attitude most Mac users seem to take to security, an attitude for which Apple has to take much of the blame, after reassuring customers for years that the Mac was far less vulnerable than Windows machines.
Apple didn't mention the ego-deflating reality that Macs were less vulnerable because there were so few of them malware writers didn't bother with Macs.
Now that iPhones and iPads rule the cool-computing universe and even Mac OS X machines are gaining market share, malware writers are interested, Mac users are unprepared, and Kaspersky execs are ready to slam Apple publicly as often and as hard as necessary to let Mac users know there's a security company out there willing to deal not only with their insecurities, but their irritating smugness as well.
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The Lexus GX is one of the few SUVs on the market that still combines top-drawer luxury, with genuine off-road capability. Kelley Blue Book says that should help the SUV maintain its value in the marketplace.
Some CEOs and founders agree to salaries of just $1 a year. But once goodies like bonuses and stock options are added in, some of those executives end up taking home many millions of dollars a year. More


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In the fall of 2003, during an introductory psychology class at Brown University, a group of students learned that when an alarm clocks wakes you up during the wrong sleep stage, you wake up feeling groggy. If the alarm clock happens to wake you during the right sleep stage, however, you awake feeling refreshed.
"It is a very powerful idea," Zeo co-founder and chief technology officer Ben Rubin told MobiHealthNews during a recent interview. "College students wake up feeling horrible everyday and the opportunity of waking up feeling refreshed everyday is one that has a lot of appeal to it from a consumer perspective. So, after that class a group of us got together around a kitchen table wondering how we could make this work."
Zeo co-founders Jason Donahue, Ben Rubin and Eric Shashoua and half a dozen others brainstormed ways to find a way to wake someone up feeling refreshed. The group first wondered whether they could predict which sleep stage the sleeper was in based on a timer -- based on what time they fell asleep. After consulting the research, however, they quickly realized that the alarm clock would have to know which sleep phase the person's brain was in and they set about interviewing sleep scientists at Brown and Harvard to see if it was possible.
"When we asked how do we phase sleep in the home the answer was always: 'Here's how you do it in the lab,' which is always expensive and uncomfortable. It also required wet paste electrodes," Rubin explained. "If you took five guys from the medical world of sleep science and told them to try to build something that could phase sleep at home, they probably wouldn't get past the wet paste electrodes. We were lucky that we didn't have their experience. We decided we would try to do it anyway."
The Zeo team began looking at materials they could use for the sensors, including conductive rubbers and carbon fiber. Eventually they came across a wound dressing fabric that includes silver because of its antimicrobrial properties. Silver is also conductive and, what's more, this wound dressing material was comfortable against the skin. That's where the fabric Zeo uses in its headband sensor originated.
Before the Zeo team had graduated from Brown ('05), it had secured grants from the Brown Entrepreneurship program ($5,000) and a grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, or NCIIA ($35,000) that enabled them have stipends to live off of while they slept in friends' attics at night getting -- presumably -- a good night's rest while they worked to bring their product into commercial development by day. Rubin and the team used the NCIAA grant to build the first Zeo prototype.
"It was ugly," Rubin said. "It was an Adidas sports headband that one of our engineers sewed the silver pads onto. It was full of wires."
As school drew to a close, Zeo began its search for an advisory board.
"Sometimes it's advantageous to be a young entrepreneur. People are happy to help," Rubin said. "It's even better to be a young, student entrepreneur."
So Rubin began "cold-calling" the founder, chairman and CEO of iRobot, Colin Angle. iRobot, of course, is the $300 million "practical robots" like its robot vaccuum, Roomba. Zeo was interested in Angle for an advisory role because his Boston-based company was close to Zeo's (original) HQ in Providence and because Angle was one of the few entrepreneurs to start a consumer electronics company in the area and find success.
After seven cold calls to Angle's office, Rubin managed to win a meeting with Angle who quickly became a believer in Zeo. Angle joined Zeo's board of directors and helped the startup secure venture funding. Indeed, three of Zeo's board members are also board members for iRobot thanks to Angle, Rubin said.
With its new connections and developing product, Zeo next secured two rounds of venture capital funding, which included some of the same major backers that financed iRobot. With the new venture capital money the startup hired an experienced CEO, Dave Dickinson, who counts 25 years of experience at various startups and established firms, including Johnson & Johnson. Rubin credits Dickinson with helping the company better understand its customers, forging relationships with key scientific resources building out its sales and marketing teams.
As Zeo began testing its prototypes with consumers the startup's plans to make its central offering a "smart alarm clock" that helped users wake up at optimal times began to change. The smart alarm was no longer the thrust of the company. Consumers were more interested in how well they slept and how they might be able to sleep better, so the smart alarm feature became a welcome bonus.
"We went through a major shift," Rubin said. "We went from a company that was all about waking up to a company that was all about sleep. Consumers told us that they loved the smart wakeup, but they wanted to know more about how they could get more REM and deep sleep. They wanted explanations for why they woke up seven times last night and how they can improve that. So we set about creating not just a smart alarm clock, but a personal sleep coach that would show you what was affecting your sleep and suggest improvements that could be made."
Rubin said that somewhere between 30 percent and 50 percent of adult americans are not sleeping well. The reasons are varied but include being overworked, over anxious, over caffeinated or sleeping in a bedroom not conducive to sleep.
Sleep is not prioritized in our society, according to Rubin. By detecting sleep phases throughout the night, Zeo helps users measure how well they sleep in an effort to help them become accountable to themselves. On the bedside display, Zeo shows the user their composite ZQ score based on how much REM sleep, deep sleep, light sleep, total sleep and the number of times the user wakes up throughout the night.
Zeo offers these tracking capabilities but also a coaching program, which it developed with "the top sleep scientists in the world." Zeo's email based coaching program asks for various bits of relevant personal information -- everything from the number of kids a user has to their personal anxiety factors. The program sets up a baseline, tracks results and looks for consistency and improvement. Along the way users are given pointers and explanations for their results.
Zeo is a consumer product and not meant for people who have sleep disorders but rather for everyday people who have sleep problems, according to Rubin. It's not a medical device, but Rubin admits that the device could have legs in the medical field, especially research because the device's consumer price point.
Zeo became commercially available through the company's website in October.


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Here are ten books to help you through the craziest and most fun decade of your life.
Because books are best read while under the sun, here are 10 titles you might want to check out for summer.
Looks like the rapper’s song “I am God” has been taken to a whole new level!
There is a book out there for every bookworm mom out there.
Here are five books you need in your shelves and to-read-list this Spring.
Amazon introduced its first smartphone titled "Fire" and is said to be the only phone with features like Dynamic Perspective and Firefly.
Samsung Electronics America and NOOK Media, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble announced a partnership to develop co-branded Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 NOOK tablets that feature the Barnes & Noble digital reading experience.
Barnes & Noble announced its June lineup of free Storytime events for children and families, all designed to celebrate the joy of reading, creativity and fun.
Lancaster native Jonathan Groff is sharing a bit of the limelight with his BFF Lea Michele lately.
Amazon announced today the launch of the Collectible Coins store, a marketplace that gives customers direct access to more than 10,000 unique U.S. coins from over 75 industry-leading dealers showcasing a wide variety of professionally graded and authenticated coins.
To kick-start the summer reading season, Amazon announced Alexandria as the most well-read city in America, according to a report released by the retail giant.
Barnes & Noble announced its June Spanish-language Storytime at select stores across the country featuring a reading of "El miedo de Iván (Ivan's Fear)", written by Ariel Andres Almada and illustrated by Cha Coco and other stories for toddlers.
Barnes & Noble announced May 20 as the launch of its 2014 Summer Reading Program: "Imagination's Destination", for children in grades 1-6.
A recently released book claiming that the missing Malaysia flight MH370 may have been accidently shot down has already met with a lot of criticism and controversies.
Amazon and leading Italian bookstore chain Giunti announced an exclusive agreement to launch an innovative bookstore model, blending digital and physical reading together, and offering Giunti customers access to a wide selection of Amazon products. Italian customers will be able to discover and buy Kindle e-readers in 170 Giunti al Punto bookstores by the end of the summer.


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Global Times, a Chinese state-owned media company, cites sources “close to the Chinese government” who say that China may want to redo the Phase One Trade Deal with the U.S.
Politico says government advisers reportedly have said China should void the deal and renegotiate the four-month-old agreement with the U.S. so it’s more favorable for Beijing.
“In fact, it’s in China’s interests to terminate the current phase one deal,” says an unnamed trade adviser quoted in the Times. “The U.S. now cannot afford to restart the trade war with China if everything goes back to square one.”
However, U.S. President Donald Trump was asked about the report on Monday, saying that he wasn’t interested in renegotiating the trade deal, “not even a little.”
The president said he’d heard those same reports that China would like to reopen trade talks with the U.S. and make it a better deal for them.
“I’m not interested in that,” Trump says. “Let’s see if they live up to the deal they’ve signed.”
Trade tensions have been climbing between the two nations as the Trump Administration accused Beijing of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and failing to contain the virus.


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The French skincare products retailer said the share sale allowed its controlling shareholder, the L’Occitane Groupe (LOG), to monetise a small portion of its investment in the business.
LOG’s stake in L’Occitane decreased to 69.2 per cent from 72.6 per cent after selling 50m shares in L’Occitane.
Half of the 364m shares offered in a $708m IPO in April were sold by LOG, at HK$15.08 each. CLSA, HSBC and UBS were the placing agents.
L’Occitane, which manufactures products including almond and olive-based creams, was the first French company to list in Hong Kong and the second, non-Asian business to list there, behind Russia’s Rusal.
The firm recently announced a tie-in deal with Royal Mail to trial evening deliveries of its products. London homes within the M25 motorway will be eligible for the new same-day service.


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Shane Robilliard says he’s a lucky man. “Most chefs start their day picking up a coffee. I get to go fishing,” says the director of Food and Beverage at Fox Harb’r Resort in Wallace, N.S. “Seafood doesn’t get more sustainable than that.”
Robilliard is the purveyor of the five-star resort’s Cape Cliff Dining Room, which has the distinction of being Atlantic Canada’s first seafood restaurant to be Ocean Wise-certified. It’s all part of an overall sustainability play on the expansive property overlooking the Northumberland Strait.
Long passionate about sustainable food practices, Robilliard came to Fox Harb’r for the 2015 season from B.C. following a successful career with Fairmont properties in Vancouver, San Francisco and Whistler. He also served as chair of the BC Restaurant and Foodservice Association until 2010, when he moved to Halifax.
“My drive, my philosophy, is 100 per cent using locally sourced, fresh, seasonal ingredients,” he says. “Growing up on the west coast it was all about protecting seafood stocks and the oceans. So it’s something I’ve always been excited about and wanted to be a part of.”
When time allows, Robilliard’s first order of the day is to visit one of the property’s well-stocked trout pounds for a few relaxing minutes of fly fishing. Each pond is home to upwards of 3,000 female fish, of which he only captures about 300 per season. “Since they are not a native species, we don’t want them to propagate,” he says.
This year the resort added 1,100 trout to the pond, which are purchased from North River Fish Farm in nearby Truro. Robilliard likes to keep his food preparations relatively simple, letting the beauty and freshness of the seafood shine through in dishes such as pan-seared trout served with couscous and beurre blanc vegetables.
The Cape Cliff Dining Room, which operates from May 1 to Oct. 31, is a 90-seat restaurant serving breakfast and dinner. It features an ocean-themed blue-toned decor, with floor-to-ceiling windows offering panoramic views of the golf course and sea coast. “I would challenge anyone to find a nicer view in Atlantic Canada,” he says. Robilliard also oversees The Willard, a small home-style kitchen and 40-seat dining setting in the Sporting Lodge, as well as in-room catering.
Cape Cliff opened 15 years ago during the original construction of the site, but only received its sustainability certification this year following Robilliard’s arrival. While initially the clientele tended to be resort guests, the restaurant is slowly building a larger base of customers. “We now have a 10-year plan in place to grow the resort and the restaurant operation,” he says. “This year, business is up 20 per cent over last year, and we’re super happy about that.”
Depending on availability, the expansive menu includes pan-seared fresh Digby scallops, bay oysters on the half shell, Atlantic salmon Carpaccio, lobster timbale or ravioli, sesame-seared loin of albacore tuna, line-caught halibut, maple-smoked trout or Robilliard’s signature seafood chowder and lobster bisque. During lobster season, Robilliard is happy to cater a traditional boiled-lobster dinner — complete with favourite down-East desserts such as blueberry grunt or strawberry shortcake made with wild berries picked locally. Robilliard even makes his own preserves. Prices range from $35 to $55 for mains; $15 to $21 for appetizers; and $12 for desserts.
Not only does the menu feature spectacular seafood, but also vegetables grown in the property’s own greenhouses. “Our menu is varied,” Robilliard explains. “We raise our own pheasants and we offer beef, chicken and other proteins.” The restaurant also boasts one of the best wine lists in the province and has been a recipient of a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
Since coming to the East Coast, Robilliard has worked to build the Ocean Wise brand and overall awareness of sustainable fishing practices. “The East Coast has certainly seen examples of what can happen when you don’t take care of fisheries — the collapse of the cod and wild Atlantic salmon populations.”
The Maritimes’ lobster fisheries are an interesting dichotomy, he says. “This region operates one of the world’s most well-managed, sustainable fisheries on the planet. That’s a totally opposite side of the picture.”
Although Ocean Wise only requires one sustainable seafood item on the menu, Robilliard is determined to find suppliers across the board — from lobster to caviar. “I don’t serve any seafood that isn’t Ocean Wise. The good news is, it’s becoming easier to get suppliers as word gets around and I keep adding items as I find them,” he says.
His lobster is delivered by Chase’s Lobster Limited in Pugwash, N.S., while he sources caviar from Acadian Caviar Limited in New Brunswick. He has also managed to find a local supplier of farm-raised scallops (Indian Point Mussels) and another for Atlantic salmon, Sustainable Blue. “What makes Sustainable Blue unique is the fish are raised on land in salt water tanks,” he explains. “There’s no way these fish can escape and mingle with wild salmon. That prevents potential parasites and diseases from affecting other fish. The other benefit is that in ocean pens, only seven per cent of feed is consumed and the rest falls to the sea floor. In a contained unit, water is recycled so there’s no waste going into the oceans.” For lobster, Ocean Wise stipulates one trap per line compared to the typical three. “That helps to prevent by-catch or traps breaking free,” Robilliard explains.
He only buys farmed scallops because the harvesting process prevents by-catch and destruction of the ocean floor caused by dredging.
Given the bounty of seafood in the region, one would think tapping into sustainable suppliers would be simple. Yet Robilliard says he has faced significant challenges. “Everything is hard to get here — we’re two hours from anywhere. So our weekend order has to serve as our week’s supply.”
Orders are placed on Sunday — allowing two days for harvesting — and delivered on Wednesday. “Fish is never out [of the water] more than 24 hours before it gets to me,” he says.
Competition for sustainable products can also be fierce. For example, according to Ocean Wise guidelines, swordfish must be harpooned. But the local fishery only lands around 600 a year, and people pay more than what they’re worth, Robilliard says. “As soon as they land, they’re off to Maine. So even a product caught right here has more attractive markets outside the province.”
Robilliard often turns to company reps, such as Halifax-based Afishionado, which runs a seafood retail and wholesale program. Owner Hana Nelson says Ocean Wise is starting to gain recognition in the area. But that doesn’t mean suppliers are not following Ocean Wise practices.
“Some products we carry are Ocean Wise farmed but haven’t had an official assessment done. There’s not as much brand recognition here, but we’re working on developing that awareness and working with restaurateurs and suppliers to help them understand what [the brand] can do for their business.”
She confirms that getting local product before it moves outside the region can be difficult. “It’s a challenge in the Maritimes to grow premium markets. Most products get exported to areas willing to pay for that quality.”
However, chefs and consumers alike are becoming more aware of what they have in their own backyard and how to celebrate it, she says. “There’s a big push for products that are fished in a way that they want them fished and farmed. People want to know where their products are coming from and how they are treated.”
Suppliers themselves are gaining stellar reputations and helping the cause. “For example, there’s no other product like Sustainable Blue salmon on the market in North America,” Nelson says. “It’s completely contained and 98 per cent of the water is recirculated — that’s far different from what is happening in open-cage pens. The only other land-based salmon farm that I know of is Kuterra on the West Coast.”
Robilliard says he’s still in the early stages of spreading the word about Ocean Wise. “We’re really starting to build a reputation locally. It’s important that chefs, and the people who supply the food, take the steps needed to help protect our ocean stocks.” Next year, he is looking forward to hosting one of his food heroes, Ned Bell, now the corporate chef for Ocean Wise, who spends a great deal of time travelling across Canada raising awareness for sustainability and fish stocks.
Bell, who is also the founder of Chefs for Oceans, says chefs hold a great deal of power in this quest. “Chefs are like doctors — people believe what they say because they are directly connected to the food we love. Guys like Shane are doing a fantastic job of getting people to listen and is certainly a leader in Eastern Canada from a culinary perspective.”
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As per CNBC reports on Feb 24, 2020, billionaire Buffett said that he does not own crypto and derided its supposed lack of purpose.
Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun begs said that he had gifted cryptocurrency to Buffett, but he would not define Buffett as a crypto investor. Sun added that the value of the Bitcoin and Tron he gave Buffet has already increased by 20%.
Buffett ostensibly received the gift at his famous charity luncheon, which Sun won at auction last year. The two met at a private country club in Nebraska along with other crypto luminaries including Charlie Lee, founder of the Litecoin Foundation, and Chris Lee, the CFO of major cryptocurrency exchange Huobi.
Warren justified his lack of interest in cryptocurrencies by saying that they have no value and that “Bitcoin has been used to move around a fair amount of money illegally.” He is not the first member of the world’s financial elite to express distaste towards cryptocurrencies because of their purported prevalence in illicit activities.


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TAICHUNG, Taiwan (BRAIN)—When Shimano announced its distribution shakeup in July, a number of Taiwanese component suppliers began calculating the odds of picking up additional aftermarket sales in the U.S. market.
After all, Shimano is trimming its U.S. distribution network from 18 to six and as of Jan. 1, 2014, dealers must order Shimano pedals direct from the company.
VP Components is one of those companies that wants to take advantage of Shimano’s shakeup in distribution and is fast refining its line of SPD-compatible pedals. Erik Saunders, VP’s brand manager in the U.S., said dealers should take a look at its 2014 seven-model line of VX mountain bike pedals.
Saunders said the company plans to aggressively police gray market sales, adhere to stringent MAP policies and offer dealers a 50 percent margin on its pedals. “This is purely an IBD alternative. We want to protect the shops and show them that these are purpose-built products,” he said.
As visitors moved in and out of VP’s private booth in the Tempus Hotel, Saunders said Shimano’s decision allows the Taiwanese manufacturer to offer a wide range of retail pricing for its line ranging from approximately $50 for its entry level VP-C01 through its high-end VX-5000 models retailing for about $130.
Saunders described the VX-5000 as a pedal that can compete with Shimano’s XTR twin pedal line—Trail and Race. “We want to take on the XTR line,” he said. But, he added, competing with Shimano in the pedal category is a challenge. Shimano’s market share for pedals could be as high as 80 percent, Saunders estimated.
VP sells its pedals through a variety of distributors and dealers can also order them dealer direct from VP’s office in Goleta, Calif., where Saunders said the company plans to beef up its staff.


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It goes without saying that Property Brothers’ Drew and Jonathan Scott are truly men of many talents, but now they are pushing those talents even further with their new children’s picture book!
The book, which will be titled “Builder Brothers: Big Plans,” is set for release this fall according to PEOPLE Magazine, and will tell the tale of two brothers (how cute is that?) working on building a new doghouse for their pups, Gracie and Stewie.
“Knowing how much kids love to make and build things, we decided to write a picture book that would help inspire them to dream big and to dare to try,” Drew said in a release from HarperCollins about the book, which will also include actual DIY plans that a family can work on together. “This venture into the children’s book space is one of the most exciting things we’ve ever taken on.”
“It’s exactly the kind of story we would have loved to read growing up,” added Jonathan. “It’s all about trying to do what seems impossible and succeeding in all sorts of unexpected ways.”
The children’s book release is just one piece of what has been quite a successful publishing run for the brothers, as both their earlier books “Dream Home” and “It Takes Two” quickly became favorites with their fans all across the country.


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Plus-size fashion is going from strength to strength lately what with high street brands like River Island and H&M taking their fuller figured customers to stylish new heights and “fatshion” becoming ever prevalent on Instagram. While such a dramatic shift towards inclusive fashion often starts lower down the “trickle down” chain, the higher end of the fashion spectrum has surprised us once again. Christian Siriano wowed audiences at New York Fashion Week with his collection of bold classically sexy ensembles, but there was an unexpected addition to the catwalk– curves on curves on curves!
Siriano sent 5 plus-size models down the runway alongside the sample size ones claiming that he didn’t really think it was a big deal and so didn’t mention it to the press. Many have applauded this attitude of normalcy around size inclusion meanwhile others were horrified. While he certainly isn’t the first designer to spring fuller figures onto the runway (hello Mark Fast and Chromat!) he’s one of the first designers to step up for ALL women publicly time and time again to merge both standard smaller sizes with plus size. The Project Runway star stated “I just wanted to have different sizes, that’s all it was. But it’s great that it made such an impact; that’s awesome. I’m glad people were excited. I really didn’t think people would even think about it!”
With a clear talent for flattering bodies of all shapes and sizes the young designer is quickly making a name for himself as a rulebreaker both on the runway and in couture; jumping at the opportunity to dress female celebrities like Leslie Jones, Oprah, Zendaya and Kelly Osborne. In fact Siriano steps up to the plate where other highly esteemed designers shy away, like when nobody would dress Leslie Jones’ broad shoulders and towering 6ft frame for the Ghostbusters premiere and yet Christian crafted this stunning red gown for her which no doubt left them all kicking themselves.
If the rest of the designers can learn anything from Siriano, it’s that hiding a fear of failure behind tradition is not going to cut it anymore. In an interview with Elle, Siriano states that most designers could do what he does, “it’s a lot of time and a lot of work”. The fashion industry needs to get over its obsession with white size zero teenagers and open itself up a little bit because, evidently, he who dares reaps all the rewards. I’ve felt for a while now that the “you can’t sit with us” era is finally passing because, actually, nobody wants to sit with judgmental assholes these days anyway.
Psst! You can find affordable plus-size Christian Siriano creations at Lane Bryant who now ship to the UK.


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Dairy demand across several countries in Southeast Asia is on track to outpace local supplies, opening an opportunity for international dairy producers, including the United States.
According to International Business Times, demand for dairy in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam -- member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-6) – will require annual milk imports to top 14 billion liters, 3 billion liters more than the region imported in 2012.
“We expect dairy consumption across ASEAN-6 to grow by 2.4 per cent per year through to 2020. This creates a requirement for an extra 3 billion liters of milk which local players are ill-equipped to deliver,” said Michael Harvey, an analyst from Rabobank.
The Phnom Penh Post, a Cambodian newspaper, suggests that several factors play a role in this demand, including high birth rates, rising incomes, improving diets, growth in modern retailing, urbanization and countrywide school milk.
Recently, Thailand officials announced a new campaign in the country to spur milk consumption. The promotion encourages Thais to drink at least one glass of cow’s milk daily to increase the average height of young adults by 3 inches. Read more here.


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LG Display says it is developing a new generation of color and flexible e-paper that may go into future products such as e-readers or tablets.
Canon decided on Tuesday to liquidate a subsidiary developing a flat-panel display technology called SED, effectively bringing to an end once high hopes that the screens would replace LCD panels and plasma displays in living room TVs.
A former executive from LCD maker Chi Mei has agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time in the U.S. for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, the U.S. Department of Justic...
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The highly anticipated low-power 3Qi laptop displays from Pixel Qi were sold out on Thursday, just a day after the screens were officially announced and went on sale.
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By Troy Stangarone
The United States and Korea recently released year-end merchandise trade data. With the global economy slowing as China’s economy cools, many emerging markets saw growth slow or stall, while significant drops in oil prices proved more of a drag on economic growth than expected. As a result, both the United States and South Korea saw declines in trade in 2015.
In 2015, U.S. exports were down by 4.8 percent while U.S. imports declined by 3.1 percent. In Korea, exports fell by 8 percent compared to 2014 levels and imports by an even more significant 16.9 percent.
However, in U.S.-Korea bilateral trade both the United States and Korea bucked broader trends. While U.S. exports to Korea fell by 2.2 percent from $44.471 billion in 2014 to $43.499 billion in 2015, the decline in exports was significantly less than the overall decline in Korean imports of 16.9 percent and less than half of the overall decline in U.S. exports globally.
Korea outperformed the United States relatively speaking as Korean exports to the United States rose from $69.52 billion in 2014 to $71.83 billion in 2015. An increase in Korean exports to the United States of 3.3 percent.
Relative to Korea’s other major trading partners the United States outperformed all but China whose exports to Korea were essentially flat at 0.2 percent. Korea’s other major trading partners saw steeper declines with Japan’s exports to Korea falling by 14.7 percent, the EU’s by 8.4 percent, and ASEAN’s by 15.7 percent.
By the same token Korea also outperformed in the U.S. market with exports to all of its major trading partners down. Korean exports to China fell 5.6 percent, by 20.5 percent to Japan, 6.9 percent to the EU, and 11.5 percent to ASEAN.
As a result of U.S. exports to Korea decreasing while Korean imports increased the United States’ bilateral trade deficit rose 13.1 percent from $25.05 billion in 2014 to $28.329 billion in 2015.
In comparison to other major trading partners of the United States, the deficit with Korea is still relatively small. The United States’ trade deficits with China is $365.7 billion, $74.2 billion for Germany, $68.6 billion for Japan, and $58.4 billion for Mexico.
Troy Stangarone is the Senior Director for Congressional Affairs and Trade at the Korea Economic Institute of America. The views expressed here are the author’s alone.
Photo from Kent Lins’ photostream on flickr Creative Commons.


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“What’s wrong with $329 as the entry price for an iPad mini? Absolutely nothing. It’s affordable, even for those attracted to the inferior tablets from Google and Amazon,” Kate MacKenzie writes for PixoBebo. “[Those tablets are] priced less because both the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD have fewer features.”
“Besides the tech media intelligentsia, who else hates the $329 iPad mini price tag? Google and Amazon,” MacKenzie writes. “Both Google and Amazon are on record as saying their 7-inch tablet-like devices are sold at cost, probably somewhere just over $200 for the entry level models.”
MacKenzie writes, “Is it any wonder that Amazon lost money this past quarter? Is it any wonder that Google’s financials are the worst in many years? … How much longer will beleaguered Google and Amazon stay in the tablet business? Ask yourself, ‘How much of a bargain is a $200 tablet if the company that makes it stops making it because they can’t make money selling it at that price?‘”
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Travel and tourism stocks may be set for an Indian summer, according to JP Morgan Cazenove, as its analysts found that tourists are getting ready to travel again.
A survey of travellers conducted by the US bank found that the next three to six months will still be challenging for the sector but suggests cause for optimism beyond that.
At the same time, research conducted by Perspectus Global claimed close to a quarter of Brits have gone against government advice and booked trips to ‘amber list’ countries. Some 40% of people polled said they need to get away for the sake of their mental health, and 27% said they were fully vaccinated and saw no reason not to travel.
In its own research, JPM Cazenove surveyed 1,071 individuals, 51% of which had received at least one vaccine dose, and some 20-26% of them plan to fly in the next three months (before the end of August).
Around 38% of those surveyed still have significant concerns about Covid whilst travelling, though JPM notes that this marks a reduction from 48% back in February. The requirement to quarantine was the number one concern (given by 52% of respondents).
Most people, however, said that their travel plans for 2022 will be similar to their behaviour back in 2019.
Moreover, the survey saw greater appetite for the resumption of business travel than the broker had anticipated and less enthusiasm for virtual meetings than in the February survey.
JPM gave its ‘top picks’ in the travel sector with IAG, WizzAir and Whitbread among the notable inclusions.
British Airways owner International Consolidated Airlines Group (LON:IAG) is marked with an ‘overweight’ rating as JP Morgan describes it as a “strong cost reduction story with a potential upside surprise”.
Wizz Air Holdings PLC (LON:WIZZ) is also seen as ‘overweight’ as JP Morgan says it has the strongest multi-year growth story, plus good liquidity in its shares.
Rival low-cost airlines easyJet Plc (LON:EZJ) and Ryanair are both rated ‘neutral’ as the former offers disappointing structural cost savings and it says the latter carries risk and onerous shareholder restrictions.
Airport and railway station food outlet firm SSP Plc (LON:SSP) is another stock tipped by JPM with an overweight rating, with the analysts saying that the company is well-positioned to face prolonged travel headwinds after its rights issue, despite its share price weakness, and the survey is the most supportive to SSP.
Premier Inn owner Whitbread PLC (LON:WTB) is meanwhile deemed to be more immune to travel uncertainty and a defensive business mix.


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Despite high hopes for bumper Easter sales on the UK high street, new figures show that retailers failed to cash in on the Bank holiday weekend.
According to accountancy firm BDO, high street sales increased by just 1.9 per cent year-on-year in April, growth that was built on a "dismal" baseline; in April last year, high street sales dropped 6.1 per cent.
Fashion and homeware sales were particularly stagnant, with clothing sales increasing by just 1.2 per cent and homeware sales falling by 3.1 per cent.
Consumers were still spending, however. Data from payments processor Worldpay shows that overall spending on cards grew by 1.5 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2017. This lift benefited pubs and restaurants, which had a spending increase of 6.4 per cent.
However, UK card spending on clothing and footwear fell 4.6 per cent, and spending in department stores and electronic retailers fell by one per cent and 4.2 per cent respectively.
Sophie Michael, head of retail and wholesale at BDO, said: "With Easter falling later, retailers would have been expecting a boost in sales in April, so these poor results will clearly be disappointing.
"Retailers need to hold their nerve; focusing on product and range as well as innovative promotional activity to ignite spending, whilst preserving their profit margins."
According to research by independent retail analyst Richard Hyman, 54 per cent of non-retailers were on promotion last week. Over the past three months, the proportion of retailers on promotion has been varying between 50 per cent and 60 per cent, underscoring how difficult it has become for food retailers to sell their wares at full price.
New Look, for example, was on sale every week this year until 5 March, Hyman's analysis showed. He has forecast the proportion of retailers on promotion to rise to 70 per cent in summer.


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Are outbreaks involving fresh produce, including romaine lettuce, on the rise?
The CDC and other public health institutions are investigating another Escherichia coli outbreak linked to leafy greens, this time Fresh Express Sunflower Crisp chopped salad kits.
As of Dec. 9, the outbreak included eight cases in three states, including three hospitalizations and no deaths.
According to the CDC, the Fresh Express salad kits implicated in the outbreak contain romaine lettuce, although it is unclear if the outbreak is related to another ongoing E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce from a growing region in California.
Why do there seem to be so many outbreaks linked to produce these days? Laura Whitlock, communications lead for foodborne outbreaks at the CDC, called the question “complicated.”
“Foodborne outbreaks from contaminated fresh produce have been increasingly recognized in many parts of the world in recent years,” Whitlock told Healio. “This reflects a convergence of increasing consumption of fresh produce, changes in production and distribution, and a growing ability to detect the problem on the part of public health officials.”
Kirk Smith, DVM, PhD , MS, manager of the Foodborne, Vectorborne, Waterborne, and Zoonotic Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, suggested that outbreaks are not necessarily on the rise, but that media coverage has increased awareness of them.
“Honestly, leafy greens and E. coli 0157 have been a problem going back at least to the mid-1990s,” he told Healio. “There are leafy green/E. coli 0157 outbreaks virtually every year, and usually a few to several. We really aren’t seeing more in the past 2 or 3 years than we used to. I think they are probably just getting more attention.”
There have been several notable foodborne outbreaks linked to produce in the past two years.
An outbreak in November and December 2017 that was linked to contaminated leafy greens sickened 25 people and hospitalized nine, including two individuals who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). One person died. Patients lived in both the United States and Canada.
A 2018 outbreak lasting about 4 months, from March to June, sickened 210 people from 36 states. The CDC reported 96 hospitalizations, including 27 individuals who developed HUS, and five deaths. There was no recall, but the infections were linked to romaine lettuce from the Yuma growing region in Arizona.


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Update: The new Legendary boss, Regice, has started to appear in raids across the globe. Niantic has also sent out a follow-up announcement through Pokémon Go‘s notification system to trainers confirming Registeel and Regirock will make their way into the game. The other two Titans will begin appearing in the mobile game later this summer.
Original Story: Pokémon Go finally has a new Legendary headed to raid battles.
On June 21st, developer Niantic pushed out in-game notifications to players that revealed the Generation III Legendary Regice will soon be replacing Kyogre as the tier five raid boss. Reddit user Stevieee97 shared a screenshot of the announcement, which you can see below.
While trainers will have to wait for full details from Niantic, the notification stated the Ice-type Pokémon will be available to battle and capture until July 19th. It’s unclear when exactly Regice will land in raids, but with the Water Festival ending on June 21st at 1 p.m. PT, it’s likely players will see it arrive sometime after the event ends. Due to its typing, trainers should use Fighting-, Fire-, Rock-, and Steel-type Pokémon against it in battle, such as Machamp, Flareon, Tyranitar, or Aggron.
Regice is one of the three remaining Legendaries from the Hoenn region that hasn’t been featured in Pokémon Go. The mysterious Ice-type, alongside Regirock and Registeel, is part of the Legendary Titans trio originally found in the mainline games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. With Regice debuting first in the mobile game, it’s likely the other two Titans will make their way into raids in August and September.
Also launching soon in Pokémon Go will be the new Friendship system. Trainers will be able to add their fellow players to a personalized friends list to trade Pokémon, share new items called Gifts, and help one another out in battle.
Pokémon Go is available for iOS and Android.
Source: r/TheSilphRoad on Reddit


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CSR SELLS TO WILMAR
Two stop press items in one month! :
CSR has sold Sucrogen, its sugar division, to Wilmar International. Wilmar is the Malaysian group which recently announced its withdrawal from the Malaya sugar industry. It is understood that Bright Food, the Chinese group, offered the same amount : watch this space!
REJECTED FOSTER-CHILD ADOPTS MOTHER THAT THREW IT OUT
On the very first day of July we have to run a stop press item :
Tate & Lyle brought the Amstar Corporation some 25 years ago, built up the Domino Sugar brand only to sell the company again 15 years later to the Fanjuls who, at that stage, just owned the Yonkers refinery. The company today is ASR which has also absorbed C&H and Redpath [which it brought a few years back from T&L].
T&L has now announced that it is selling its remaining sugar business to ASR. The main elements of the business are the Thames and Plaistow refineries in London and the Alcantara refinery in Lisbon plus the associated trade names.
The news was full of contradictory stories last month about supply [mainly] and demand but the world price seems to have bounced off the bottom and looked to be going back through 17 ¢/lb as we went to press in early July :
CSR AND BRIGHT FOODS
As late as June 25 the news was that ‘a senior executive’ of bright Foods was meeting with CSR to close the deal to buy Sucrogen, the CSR sugar division. At the time the price appeared to have come off the peak of Aus$ 1.75 billion by 100 million. Both sides were reported to be optimistic about reaching a deal.
Just as we are waiting to hear that the Akras refinery near Homs is being commissioned, the country’s General Organization for Sugar has announced a doubling of the local beet crop : this year’s production is expected to reach 160 000 tons of sugar compared to only 72 000 last year.
It looks as though Cargill has approval to build a ‘sugar refinery’ in Egypt but close to Alexandria, not in Damietta as originally indicated. What is not clear [and as usual Cargill itself is saying nothing] is whether this really is a refinery or whether it is beet factory. The reported budget is $70 million.
Following last month’s news page when we told you that Illovo had decided to proceed with the on/off project in Mali, the company has now confirmed its intention to proceed, reporting that its pre-project activities are ‘at an advanced stage’. It is expecting to have the project locked down in the second half of this year so in production in calendar 2012.
Kenana has been shouting again about the success of its White Nile project but we hear that it hasn’t been able to pay FCB for the process house – despite having paid that company for all of the engineering – so it has now purchased a process house from India’s ISGEC. That company was already involved as the suppliers of the boilers.
It looks as if the heyday of the Mauritian industry are over : this year’s crop is predicted to be only 450 000 tons. It feels like only a few year’s ago that the EU was granting the island extra quota so that it could export 650 000 to the community.
Following on from the above, an EU official was quoted last month as saying that it saw no problem in finding enough raw sugar for the community’s refineries. What he didn’t say was the sugar had to be from a qualifying duty-free source to make economic sense, as anybody responsible for finding such raws will tell you, it isn’t easy. The situation should improve with the introduction of quotas for Peru and Columbia totalling 160 000 tons each year.
Brazil is reporting very high sucrose contents in the Central South region following a spell of cold, dry weather : at least 14%. The current prediction is that the crop will produce 34.1 million tons of sugar and 27.4 billion litres of ethanol.
EXPORT COGENERATION PLANTS FOR SALE
In our April news we told you that the New South Wales coop was in trouble with its export cogeneration projects. It has now formally put the two units, one at Broadwater and one at Condong, up for sale but freely admits that the problem will be the price it needs to pay off the loans used to build them. The ultimate cause of the economic failure of the projects seems to be a crash in the value of the carbon credits brought about by the federal government’s support for small scale domestic solar power.


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Toshiba's Satellite T235D notebook has received a healthy price cut at Newegg, dropping from $599.99 to $499.99. The system is based on AMD's new Nile ultra-thin platform, and we published our review of it just yesterday.
Cyril found a lot to like in his review, although he didn't think the display was overly impressive. Today's price cut is especially intriguing in light of the new HP Pavilion dm3 that was announced this morning. The Pavilion dm3 offers a similar form factor and a Nehalem-derived processor, crafted on Intel's 32-nm process, for $549.99. (Thanks to TR reader Spencer for the tip.)


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These finalists have all proved they can add a touch of magic to their products to complement baking excellence and business prowess.
This category, sponsored by Finsbury Food Group, sought excellent cake artistry along with an awareness of trends, customer service and marketing initiatives.
Here are the finalists for Celebration Cake Business of the Year:
The Berkshire Bakesmith
The Berkshire Bakesmith, based in Wokingham, Berkshire, is run by Kerry Smith with the help of a part-time assistant who manages enquiries. This year the business is gearing up to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Kerry is also celebrating being shortlisted for the Female Entrepreneur of the Year title in the Great British Business Awards.
She is currently looking to expand her business by appointing a baking assistant who will release time for her to hold more one-to-one tuition and teaching sessions as well create online tutorials and a recipe book. The judges praised Kerry’s creativity and passion as well as her future business plan.
As a total royalist Johanna Moloney loved the Jubilee theme given to all this year’s finalists to interpret and create a tiered cake for final assessment. She took as inspiration the trip she made to the exhibition at Buckingham Palace of iconic royal dresses.
Johanna’s shop at Middleton, Manchester, had only been open for seven months before the pandemic hit but she kept busy cake making during the shutdown and is today back to bursting with orders, having attended wedding fairs to promote the business. “Such attention to detail in all aspects of her business,” said the judges.
The past few years have been the toughest the team at Shuga Budz has ever known since the business opened in Tettenhall, West Midlands, back in 2007. Run by mother and daughter team Debbie and Amelia Nutting, the shop is now based at Compton, Wolverhampton, and has four other members of staff who work in the production of the celebration cakes as well as in the Shuga Budz café at the front of the shop.
The team prides itself on being able to create almost anything in cake – from the Burj Al Arab to the Taj Mahal. The judges praised the team’s passion, creativity, and robust approach to business.
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Michael Saylor, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of business intelligence software company MicroStrategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), recently stressed the importance of Bitcoin for Argentinians amidst a financial crisis.
In August 2020, MicroStrategy announced that it had invested in Bitcoin, purchasing 21,454 bitcoins for $250 million as a “primary treasury reserve asset.”
Saylor said at the time:
“Our decision to invest in Bitcoin at this time was driven in part by a confluence of macro factors affecting the economic and business landscape that we believe is creating long-term risks for our corporate treasury program ― risks that should be addressed proactively.“
By April 5, 2023, MicroStrategy had increased its Bitcoin holdings to 140,000 bitcoins, acquired for approximately $4.17 billion at an average price of $29,803 per bitcoin.
Saylor, now an ardent Bitcoin advocate, tweeted on April 22, 2023, “If you live in Argentina🇦🇷 right now, you need #bitcoin.”
Argentina’s economic situation has been deteriorating, with soaring inflation rates affecting the cost of living and increasing poverty. According to a Reuters report published on April 14, 2023, Argentina’s annual inflation rate reached 104.3% in March, marking the fastest monthly rise since 2002. This has led to an erosion of salaries and spending power, with nearly 40% of the population living in poverty.
The country is also struggling with one of the worst droughts in its history, significantly impacting soy, corn, and wheat crops. This has resulted in billions of dollars in economic losses due to reduced exports and increased domestic prices.
The Reuters report also mentioned that Presidential spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti had acknowledged the challenges faced by Argentinians on Twitter, stating, “We know, it hurts us, it occupies us, how this affects daily life and every family.” She expressed hope for a downward trend in inflation to be “reflected soon.”
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today finalized new energy efficiency standards for room air conditioners—commonly known as window air conditioners—and portable air cleaners that will reduce household energy costs and significantly cut pollution. DOE expects these standards to save American families and consumers approximately $1.5 billion per year on their electricity bills and decrease harmful carbon dioxide emissions by 106 million metric tons over 30 years—an amount roughly equivalent to the combined annual emissions of 13.4 million homes. After moving quickly to address a backlog of Congressionally-mandated energy efficiency updates, today’s new rules underscore the President’s continued efforts to promote innovation and lower costs for families for families while tackling the climate crisis.
“Today’s announcement builds on the historic actions President Biden took last year to strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards, which will help save on people’s energy bills and reduce our nation’s carbon footprint,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “DOE will continue to engage with our public and private sector partners to finalize additional proposals like today’s that lower household energy costs and deliver the safer, healthier communities that every American deserves.”
The new rules will come into effect in 2024 for air cleaners and 2026 for room air conditioners. DOE expects the new rules to save consumers more than $25 billion over the ensuing 30 years of shipments. With these standards in place, households using new room air conditioners and portable air cleaners will save an estimated $150 over the average life of the appliances.
Previous DOE rules have substantially increased the energy efficiency of room air conditioners while allowing manufacturers the flexibility to continuously innovate and offer more features to consumers. Today, the typical new room air conditioner uses 39% less energy than its 1990 counterpart. In that 33-year span, DOE raised the efficiency standard for room air conditioners three times. These new standards will continue this trajectory of innovation and consumer savings.
The direct final rule for portable air cleaners—which increases efficiency in two phases, beginning in 2024—reflects a consensus agreement among manufacturers, the manufacturing trade association, efficiency advocates, consumer advocacy groups, states, and utilities. This rule, the first federal standard for portable air cleaners, follows the lead of and builds on the efficiency standards already established by five states, extending the savings to consumers nationwide. As portable air cleaner sales increase, these standards will provide 27% in energy savings while ensuring efficient performance for improving indoor air quality.
Collectively, DOE’s past and planned actions under the Biden-Harris Administration to improve energy efficiency standards will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2.4 billion metric tons and save consumers $570 billion cumulatively over 30 years.
DOE’s Building Technologies Office implements minimum energy conservation standards for more than 60 categories of appliances and equipment. To learn more, visit the Appliance and Equipment Standards Program homepage.


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VersaCold Logistics Services, Canada’s largest cold storage and refrigerated transport company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Coastal Pacific Xpress (CPX), British Columbia’s leading refrigerated carrier specializing in the shipping of perishable and ambient products. While terms of the transaction were not made public, the purchase is expected to boost VersaCold’s revenues by about $150 million to approximately $500 million per annum.
Established in 1986, CPX boasts the biggest fleet of multi-temperature trailers in Western Canada, in addition to 700 units of single-temperature trailers. Operating cold storage terminals and warehouse facilities in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey, BC, as well as in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, it employs 150 administrative staff and has 400 independent contractors/owner operators.
The deal comes just one month after the announcement of VersaCold’s acquisition of Gary Heer Transport and the launch of its newest subsidiary, VersaCold North America Transportation Solutions Limited (VNATS). CPX will continue to operate as its own entity while enhancing VersaCold’s growth in the cross-border transportation market segment, including truckload and less-than-truckload capabilities. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of applicable regulatory approvals, is anticipated to close in the first half of 2016.
“We have always held CPX in high regard for its reliable service and deep commitment to customers,” said Douglas Harrison, president and chief executive officer of VersaCold. “This acquisition is a major step towards reaching our goal of being Canada’s premiere, fully integrated, total supply chain solutions provider.”
“We are proud and excited to join VersaCold and to be a key part of the company’s expansion into cross-border transportation services,” said Scott McIntosh, president of CPX. “VersaCold and CPX serve many of Canada’s leading companies and it was clear to us that, when partnered, we would only be stronger and more empowered to provide solutions and services that enable our clients to achieve great business results.”
VersaCold is jointly owned by Toronto-headquartered private equity firm KingSett Capital and Quebec-based investor Ivanhoé Cambridge. The company was previously a subsidiary of Icelandic shipping specialist Eimskip, which acquired it in 2007 and merged the operation with Atlas Cold Storage.


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Autor: Andy Blakely« am: Januar 17, 2020, 08:45:54 »
Reading this article a lot later, I see that their Atari OS is now based on Debian, not Ubuntu. Also, I don't believe they've ever said it would game in 4K. Rather the 800 model will stream (video) at 4K. Gaming will undoubtedly be at 1080p as the norm, and since it CAN do 4K resolution, I would guess some graphically less demanding games and retro games may be made to display at the higher resolution, if it's your screen's native resolution.