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PepsiCo and Wal-Mart Team with Feed The Children to Provide for 2,000 Washington, D.C. Families in Need
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Feed The Children, PepsiCo and Wal-Mart today have partnered to deliver five semi tractor-trailers full of food and essentials to help 2,000 families in Washington, D.C. Longtime Feed The Children supporter PepsiCo this year joined forces with Wal-Mart to bring food and fresh fruit to families in need. Near…http://www.fritolay.com/news/pepsico-and-wal-mart-team-with-feed-the-children-to-provide-for-2-000-washington-d-c-families-in-need
Frito-Lay Applauds Associates Inducted Into PepsiCo's 'President's Ring of Honor'
PLANO, Texas, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division congratulates its 43 U.S.- and Canadian-based sales associates who recently were inducted into the PepsiCo President's Ring of Honor, which recognizes the corporation's top sales performers in the world. Only 224 associates from the more than 85,000-member global PepsiCo sales…http://www.fritolay.com/news/frito-lay-applauds-associates-inducted-into-pepsico-s-president-s-ring-of-honor-
Tostitos and Dollar General Kick Off Summer Promotion to Support the USO
PLANO, Texas, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tostitos tortilla chips, a leading brand from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, today kicked-off an in-store promotion at Dollar General® stores nationwide. The in-store promotion will support the USO in its mission to lift the spirits of American troops and their families. Beginning today and continuing thro…http://www.fritolay.com/news/tostitos-and-dollar-general-kick-off-summer-promotion-to-support-the-uso
PepsiCo Europe Gets Greener
AZOV, Russia, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) today announced that its Frito-Lay manufacturing facility in Azov, Russia, has been officially awarded LEED® Silver by U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The manufacturing facility is the first site in PepsiCo's European network to receive the prestigious LEED certification for New C…http://www.fritolay.com/news/pepsico-europe-gets-greener
PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Modesto Facility Celebrates Becoming California's First Existing Food Manufacturing Site to Achieve LEED® Gold
PLANO, Texas, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Modesto, Calif., facility has become the state's first food manufacturing site to be awarded LEED® Gold existing building from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), as verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). LEED is the nation's preeminent program for the desig…http://www.fritolay.com/news/pepsico-s-frito-lay-modesto-facility-celebrates-becoming-california-s-first-existing-food-manufacturing-site-to-achieve-leed-gold
Cheetos Makes Goofing Off Pay Off, Rewards Overly Stressed Americans for Taking Much-Needed Breaks
PLANO, Texas, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheetos, the most mischievous and playful snack brand in the world and a leading brand from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, is on a mission to reward the best of the best when it comes to goofing off. The brand today unveiled the Cheetos Billion Minute Break, a first-of-its-kind, internet-wide experience whe…http://www.fritolay.com/news/cheetos-makes-goofing-off-pay-off-rewards-overly-stressed-americans-for-taking-much-needed-breaks
Lay's Potato Chips and Dollar General Give Fans Chance to Win Exclusive Trip to CMA Music Festival in Nashville
PLANO, Texas, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lay's, America's favorite potato chip and a leading brand from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, is teaming up with Dollar General and the Country Music Association (CMA) for a sweepstakes that will give fans the chance to win a trip to the 2011 CMA Music Festival. The ultimate country music celebration will f…http://www.fritolay.com/news/lay-s-potato-chips-and-dollar-general-give-fans-chance-to-win-exclusive-trip-to-cma-music-festival-in-nashville
PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Killingly Facility Celebrates Becoming Connecticut's First Existing Manufacturing Site to Achieve LEED® Gold
PLANO, Texas, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Killingly, Conn., facility today became the state's first manufacturing site to be awarded LEED® Gold existing building from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), as verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). LEED is the nation's preeminent program for the design,…http://www.fritolay.com/news/pepsico-s-frito-lay-killingly-facility-celebrates-becoming-connecticut-s-first-existing-manufacturing-site-to-achieve-leed-gold
Frito-Lay Fans Set Guinness World Record for "Most Fans on Facebook In 24 Hours" With More Than 1.5 Million New "Likes"
PLANO, Texas, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division today announced that its rapidly growing Facebook community set the Guinness World Records® title for "Most Fans on Facebook in 24 Hours," garnering 1,571,161 new "likes" (i.e., fans) on April 11, 2011. As a thank you for setting this groundbreaking 24-hour record, Frito-Lay …http://www.fritolay.com/news/frito-lay-fans-set-guinness-world-record-for-most-fans-on-facebook-in-24-hours-with-more-than-1-5-million-new-likes-
Frito-Lay Turns Up the Heat With New Tapatio Hot Sauce-Inspired Flavors
PLANO, Texas, April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America division and the family behind the renown Tapatio hot sauce brand today announced a new partnership in which Frito-Lay will sell and distribute Tapatio hot sauce-flavored Doritos tortilla chips, Fritos corn chips and Ruffles potato chips. Aimed at consumers looking to add…http://www.fritolay.com/news/frito-lay-turns-up-the-heat-with-new-tapatio-hot-sauce-inspired-flavors


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In this feature with AsiaBizToday, our Founder and Group MD, Kelvin Lim shares how Pacific Logistics Group (PLG) manoeuvred through today’s industry challenges, transforming local and regional operations to meet the evolving needs of the industry both locally and abroad.
Within the past two years, the pandemic pushed the weaknesses of the supply chain to the brink, exposing and exacerbating existing vulnerabilities. From a shortage of containers to irregular shipments and port congestion, these disruptions across all nodes of the supply chain impeded the operations of businesses worldwide, forcing many to rethink their strategies and adapt to evolving trends.
Pacific Logistics Group was no exception, but our existing capabilities allowed us to pivot quickly, going into new services to leverage on existing trends while anticipating the pandemic’s long term effects on the industry. Our Founder, Kelvin Lim also shares four crucial elements that he feels are critical in building a resilient and robust supply chain and upcoming plans for PLG.
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TORONTO — Canadian Netflix users will see a new membership option starting Tuesday that costs less but comes with a catch: commercial breaks inserted into their favourite shows.
After years of uninterrupted binge-watches, the world’s largest streaming service is making way for a word from its sponsors. And as inflation continues to pinch consumers, the proposal of a cheaper Netflix plan may sound enticing to some.
Netflix isn’t alone in believing that commercial television is back in a big way.
Several free ad-supported streaming services will launch in Canada over the coming weeks, all of them built on a business model that taps into the country's multi-billion advertising industry to finance and acquire programming.
Analysts say together the platforms could reshape how we watch and pay for television. More viewers are complaining that streaming costs have soared near the level of their old cable bills, which has pressured each service to reconsider its business model.
“Consumers are faced with more choice, more platforms and are making more deliberate decisions as to which streaming services they keep and which ones to cancel," said Justin Krieger, senior technology and media analyst at consultancy firm RSM Canada.
Of the newcomers, Pluto TV debuts on Dec. 1 with more than 100 channels of free TV series, movies and sports that stream “live” online on a platform that mimics the experience of channel surfing, complete with the commercials.
Around the same time, CBC will introduce a revamped free streaming news channel that will be available on CBC Gem and multiple other streaming platforms. A flagship program hosted by Andrew Chang of "The National" will be the main attraction, with advertisements interspersed throughout the day.
South of the border, Disney Plus rolls out an ad-supported option later this year with some industry observers predicting it will apply the same model in Canada soon after. The ad tier will be introduced at the price of Disney's existing commercial-free service. Subscribers who want to eliminate the ads will have to pay a premium.
Each service has its own reasons for getting into the ad business.
For Netflix and Disney, one of the main drivers is growing revenues as programming costs soar and competitors lure away subscribers.
Meanwhile, the free streaming services use ad revenues to fund a slate of original and licensed programming, which puts incredible pressure on Netflix to maintain its leading position with attractive new films and shows.
Earlier this year, after repeatedly swearing off the possibility of ever getting into advertising, Netflix changed its tune by announcing it would launch an ad tier for subscribers in key international markets.
In Canada, the "basic with ads" plan costs $5.99 per month — less than the plans without ads, which start at $9.99 and peak at $20.99 a month.
As a trade-off for the savings, Netflix says subscribers will be presented with an average of four to five minutes of ads per hour played before and during their TV shows and films.
Video quality on the Netflix ad plan tops out at 720p, leaving full high-definition streaming at 1080p and 4K for premium subscribers. Viewers also won't be able to download titles on their devices and not everything in the service's library will be available.
Those restrictions will sour the appeal to many Netflix devotees, suggested Carmi Levy, a technology analyst based in London, Ont.
He said Canadians were sold the idea of a commercial-free Netflix a decade ago which led other entrants in the market to mimic their approach with similar models.
That's different than the United States where Peacock, Paramount Plus and HBO Max all offer less expensive ad tiers as a subscription option, while Crackle and Amazon's Freevee are among the major players in free, ad-supported platforms.
"Canadians don't have that legacy of experience and as a result may be more resistant to the way Netflix is introducing that service," he said.
"It'll take time for Netflix and others to educate Canadians on the advantages of paying less for a streaming service and getting ads served up in return."
DO CANADIANS WANT ADS?
Kaan Yigit, a technology analyst at Solutions Research Group, said a survey conducted by his firm earlier this year found U.S. viewers have already adopted ad-supported subscription options.
About 40 per cent of HBO Max subscribers signed up for its lower-priced ad tier, he said, while an average of 58 per cent of subscribers used the cheaper versions of Paramount Plus and Peacock.
He estimates a modest 20 per cent of Canadian Netflix subscribers will join the ad tier over the next 12 to 18 months.
However, Netflix's initial sign-up numbers won't be the best indicator of long-term success for the ad model, suggested Levy.
Subscribers who joined for a deal could be turned off if the ad breaks become as long as they are on network TV stations, which typically air 20 minutes of commercials per hour.
"The devil is always in the details whenever a streaming provider introduces an ad-based tier," Levy said.
"What matters most is how intrusive that presentation of ads is to the overall viewing experience. And if it is intrusive in the way that consumers have long complained about traditional broadcast television ads, then this could very well be a non-starter for Netflix."
THE AD AGENCIES
Until those intricacies play out, advertising agencies say their clients are salivating over the prospects of new placement options in the Canadian market.
“What we're seeing is a lot of initial excitement and questions around Netflix, in particular,” said Marissa Cristiano, an account director at Cossette who says she's "exploring" ad buys on the service with some clients.
“They've done a really good job of creating ... the type of content that brands really do want to ally with.”
Cherie Hill, senior vice president of media at marketing firm Society, Etc., said she anticipates Netflix ads will be angled toward "budget-conscious" shoppers, with a strong focus on consumer staples, household items and car companies.
She doesn't anticipate much blowback from viewers, mainly because Netflix is making it an opt-in proposition.
"If you're choosing to have the commercials, it's not going to leave a negative experience," she said.
"They're providing an option and they're managing expectations."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 30, 2022.
David Friend, The Canadian Press


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Virtual beauty app Perfect365 has entered a partnership with Kylisstof to launch virtual try on for hair extensions.
US-based hair colour brand Madison Reed has appointed David Stanko as vice-president of its technical design and education team.
US-based Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company has unveiled new ER-GK60-S Cordless Electric Body Trimmer and ER-SB40-K Precision Power Beard, Moustache, and Hair Trimmer.
KISS Products has launched a four-product line of metallic, matte gold, and rose gold hair tools at Walmart.
US-based startup Lubricity Labs has introduced a new smoothing treatment to address frizzy hair.
Bath & Body Works launched expanded version of its Aromatherapy Collection, and EMK Beverly Hills launched 24K Gold Peeling Gel. Cosmetics-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from September 2017.


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News Article | May 15, 2017
The extent of food waste in America is a cause for serious concern. It is estimated that around 1,217 calories per person per day are squandered. A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics looks beyond the caloric value of food waste and focuses on the nutritional value of the food we throw away. Investigators found that discarded food contains large amounts of key nutrients like vitamin D, fiber, and potassium that could help people get the food they need to meet their daily recommended intake. In 2014, 14% of American households suffered from food insecurity and an additional 5% experienced a shortage of resources that forced them to skip meals or reduce their food consumption. Across the population, Americans are not getting the recommended intakes of certain nutrients including dietary fiber; calcium; potassium; and vitamins A, C, D, and E. At the same time, Americans continue to waste food at an alarming rate throughout the food supply chain. It's estimated that 31-40% of the post-harvest food supply is discarded. This study was the first to demonstrate the substantial amount of nutrients, including many under-consumed nutrients, wasted due to food discarded at the retail and consumer levels of the U.S. food supply. Quantifying the loss can motivate related investments and support the case for registered dietitian nutritionist engagement with these efforts. The estimates can additionally serve as a baseline for tracking intervention impacts. Data from the National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference were used to calculate the nutritional value of retail and consumer level waste of 213 commodities in the USDA Loss-Adjusted Food Availability data series for 27 nutrients in 2012. The study, led by Roni A. Neff, PhD, Program Director at the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future (CLF), and Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, and Marie L. Spiker, MSPH, RD, CLF-Lerner Fellow and Doctoral Candidate, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that losses of under-consumed nutrients were significant. Food wasted at the retail and consumer levels of the U.S. food supply in 2012 contained 1,217 kcal, 33 g protein, 5.9 g dietary fiber, 1.7 mcg vitamin D, 286 mg calcium, and 880 mg potassium per capita per day. Using dietary fiber as an example, 5.9 g dietary fiber is 23% of the RDA for women. This is equivalent to the fiber RDA for 74 million adult women. Adult women in 2012 under-consumed dietary fiber by 8.9 g per day, and the amount of wasted fiber is equivalent to this gap for 206.6 million adult women. Data points like this highlight the need for diverse interventions including standardized date labeling (use by, sell by) and consumer education, so that people can utilize the nutrients instead of throwing them in the trash can. According to the authors, perishable foods such as fruits and vegetables are lost at particularly high rates, leading to exceptional losses of under-consumed nutrients. Changes to our food system can reduce agricultural and pre-consumer waste, and play an important role in shaping the amount of food consumers discard. Cultural shifts are also needed to change consumer and industry attitudes. Even if only the top seven most cost-effective food recovery activities were scaled up and only an additional 1.75% of food waste was recovered, this would translate into 2,000 calories per day for 3.3 million adults. "Although only a portion of discarded food can realistically be made available for human consumption, efforts to redistribute surplus foods where appropriate and prevent food waste in the first place could increase the availability of nutrients for Americans, while saving money and natural resources," concluded the authors. "The U.S. has established a target of halving food loss and waste by 2030. This research supports the case for action and for registered dietitian nutritionists to bring their expertise to the effort."
News Article | April 20, 2017
The findings are based on data collected during 1991-2001 as part of the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort study, which examined various health outcomes including incidence of stroke and dementia during a 10 year follow-up period. The current study suffers from several major limitations, including: All no- and low-calorie sweeteners used in diet beverages have routinely been reviewed and deemed safe by numerous regulatory agencies, including the US Food and Drug Administration. Furthermore, healthcare experts, including the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, acknowledge the role that no- and low-calorie sweeteners can have in managing health concerns, such as diabetes and obesity. The American Heart Association states, "Replacing sugary foods and drinks with sugar-free options containing NNSs [no- and low-calorie sweeteners] is one way to limit calories and achieve or maintain a healthy weight. Also, when used to replace food and drinks with added sugars, it can help people with diabetes manage blood glucose levels.2" "Individuals can choose to modify their lifestyle to reduce their risk of stroke by participating in more physical activity, achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight, and smoking cessation. Beverages are an important consideration and diet beverages provide safe, reduced calorie options that people can enjoy while working towards achieving their healthy lifestyle goals," says Robert Rankin, President of the Calorie Control Council, "Rather than focusing on results from observational studies, which cannot establish cause and effect, individuals should talk to their healthcare team to address known risks for stroke and dementia." Keri Peterson, MD and medical advisor to the Calorie Control Council added, "This study design has significant limitations and is unable to prove a causal relationship between artificial sweeteners and stroke or dementia. Known risk factors for stroke and dementia such as high cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure can be prevented by maintaining a healthy weight. Swapping out sugary drinks and foods for those containing no- and low-calorie sweeteners remains a valuable tool for people looking to cut calories in order to reach their weight loss goals." 1. Rogers, P.J, Hogenkamp, P.S., de Graaf, C., Higgs, S., Lulch, A., Ness, A.R., Penfold, C., Perry, R., Putz, P., Yeomans, M.R., Mela, D.J. (2016). Does low-energy sweetener consumption affect energy intake and body weight? A systematic review, including meta-analyses, of the evidence from human and animal studies. International Journal of Obesity, 40, 381–394. doi:10.1038/ijo.2015.177. To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/observational-study-linking-no--and-low-calorie-sweetened-beverages-with-stroke-and-dementia-not-based-on-cause-and-effect-does-not-represent-risk-to-americans-300442908.html
News Article | May 17, 2017
Food To Cure What Ails You: When Cookbooks Treated Meals As Medicine Browse through some turn-of-the-century American cookbooks, and it's obvious that popular tastes have changed (such as the presence of fried cornmeal mush and the absence of cilantro). But more striking than the shift in flavors and ingredients is the focus on feeding those who are sick — or, to use the parlance of the time, "cooking for invalids." Whether you're looking at The Settlement Cook Book (1901), Jennie June's American Cookery Book (1870) or The Woman Suffrage Cook Book (1890), sections on nourishing the sick are all somewhat similar in approach. First, there are a lot of fluids. Teas and lemonades, but also barley water, and something unappetizingly called "beef tea." (Think of it as a barely seasoned bouillon.) And there are a surprising number of recipes for "toast water" — basically consisting of the former infused with the latter (a drink evidently so commonplace that a recipe for toast-water lemonade in The Woman Suffrage Cook Book begins by instructing the reader to "make toast water in the usual way.") The books also spell out simple puddings and porridges using thickeners that have fallen out of favor in today's home kitchen (arrowroot, Irish moss). And there are a fair number of jellies, which were popular at the time. Finally, a widespread belief in the healing power of a wee bit of wine or brandy. (Some books, like Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book (1884), warn against wine or liquor without the advice of a physician.) Almost without fail, these cookbooks outline how to create an environment for optimal healing. It's not just what you serve, but how you serve it. Providing ample dining options (presented in small servings and whisked away when finished), speaking in hushed tones, ensuring proper ventilation and choosing pleasant conversation topics are all recommended, with the attractiveness of the serving bowl given equal weight as the broth it contains. According to culinary historian Anne Mendelson, who has written about the Joy of Cooking (which featured its own recommendations for sickroom care and cooking through the 1943 edition), the presence of these meals amidst the roasts and desserts makes a great deal of sense, given the landscape of the time. "You have to realize that until the early 20th century — World War I — the professionalization of medicine and nursing was just much less advanced," Mendelson explains, "and most people's access to professional care was spotty." Which means a lot of recuperation took place in the home. And, Mendelson notes, in an era when people died in their own beds rather than in the hospital, average Americans had a lot more contact with the sick. "There were extended families living in one home — this was a very common thing 100 years ago ... much more common than it is now. Women had to spend much more time in the home nursing sick children and frail old people. And at that point, childhood illness and childhood mortality were a bigger part of life." Journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro has written about American women and cooking during the turn of the century in her book Perfection Salad (including a section on Fannie Farmer, who wrote an entire tome on Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent). Shapiro notes that while published cookbooks of the time formalized the process, guidelines on cooking for invalids appeared in cookbooks long before. "It goes back to Britain, and then back to the Middle Ages. And why not?" Shapiro asks. "Women were not just the cooks, they were also the caretakers of the sick at home." But while the general guidelines on cooking for the sick has long roots, Shapiro says that their manifestation in early American cookbooks reflects the rise of "scientific cookery" rooted in the Industrial Revolution and Progressive Era — when science was overhauling everything from charity to motherhood to food. "The home itself was a site for the reform movement, and the role of a woman was to raise up a new American family," Shapiro explains. "And you do it in great part through sanitation, hygiene and proper nutrition." But as for the actual science of this scientific approach? Well, they were working off a somewhat limited playbook. "Fats, carbohydrates and proteins were known by the mid 1800s," explains Patty Keane, president of the New Mexico Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, "but vitamins and minerals really weren't discovered until the early 1900s." As New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle notes, these bland, liquid-like diets were considered easier to digest by people who were too sick to eat — an idea that is still popular. And, Nestle argues, one that should be abandoned. "If people feel like eating and have a functioning intestinal tract, they are better off with real food." But, as dietitian and nutritionist Patty Keane says, while getting foods with the proper nutrient profile can help with everything from healing wounds to bolstering immunity, that's not the whole picture. We can now tailor meals to specific medical conditions, but having them prepared and delivered with care, as outlined in these early manuals, is an equally important part of healing — even in modern practice. "While the nutrition science may have changed a tremendous amount," acknowledges Keane, "we know that there is much more to the provision of meals to promote wellness and healing than the food itself." And while formulating recipes for optimal healing has become the provenance of health professionals rather than home cookbooks, caring and concern is still very much on the menu. Deena Prichep is a freelance print and radio journalist based in Portland, Ore.
News Article | April 18, 2017
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- People who closely eyeball nutrition labels tend to eat differently than less-discerning diners in one key regard, according to research from a University of Illinois expert in food and nutrition policy and consumer food preferences and behaviors. Although nutrition-label users and non-nutrition-label users eat roughly the same amount of food, the two groups diverge when it comes to the quality of the food they eat, says a new paper co-written by Brenna Ellison, a professor of agriculture and consumer economics at Illinois. "Research has often concluded that people who use nutrition labels eat better. But we don't necessarily talk about what better means," Ellison said. "Is it eating less food, or is it eating better food? This study looks at people's plates and considers both what they selected to eat and what they actually ate in an effort to determine which difference" - volume or quality - "is occurring." To examine the relationship between label use and food selection, servings and consumption, Ellison and co-author Mary J. Christoph of the University of Minnesota combined survey and photographic data of the lunch plates of college students at two different university dining halls. Food selection, servings and consumption were assessed using digital photography, a method with strong reliability for validating portion sizes compared with weighing food and visual estimation. "In terms of measuring and evaluating the plates, we had students who built their own plates because it was a self-serve dining environment," Ellison said. "Diners were only eligible if they were just sitting down to eat. It couldn't be someone who was halfway through their meal, which would misrepresent what they were eating and skew the results." Based on the meals assessed, the quantity of foods served and consumed were roughly similar between the two groups. There were, however, distinct differences in the types of foods plated and consumed within MyPlate food categories between those who tended to read nutrition labels and those who didn't, the researchers found. The results indicate that a greater proportion of nutrition-label users selected more fruits, vegetables and beans, and fewer potatoes and refined grains, compared with non-label users. In addition, fewer label users selected fried foods and foods with added sugars, Ellison said. "We find that it's more about the types of food rather than the quantity of the food," Ellison said. "The amount of food between label users and non-label users was roughly the same amount. It's the differences in quality that are more prevalent than the sheer amount of food selected." Using digital photography also provided a more objective assessment of food selection, servings and consumption compared with self-reporting because "you don't have to rely on students remembering how much of each food they ate," Ellison said. "That's one big advantage to this study. Another one is that diners did not interact with our data collectors until after their plate was built. So our data collection methods shouldn't have affected what they chose. For example, people weren't picking more salad because they knew there was going to be a picture taken of their plate." Participants were further surveyed on socio-demographic and behavioral variables such as gender, body mass index, exercise frequency and nutrition education to better assess the possible link between label use and food selection, servings and consumption, according to the paper. Examining nutrition labels is often recommended by doctors and dietitians to improve food choices, but choice does not always translate to consumption. Furthermore, evidence on the effectiveness of labels is mixed, and few studies can identify how labels actually influence behavior, Ellison said. "Previous research has focused on portion control for weight loss or weight management, generally eating less. But, more-recent research indicates this may not be the most effective message. By eating less, consumers may feel deprived, or even 'hangry,' which can make it difficult to sustain long-term dietary behaviors," she said. "Newer research indicates that eating less of certain types of foods, rather than all foods, may matter more." Although the results show label users eat differently than non-users, the implications of the research suggest there may be a need for greater consumption of fruit, vegetables, beans, whole grains and low-fat dairy among both groups. In addition to posting labels, Ellison said dining facilities may want to increase offerings of nutrient-dense foods (whole grains and vegetables, for example) or consider product reformulations that creatively incorporate these foods to encourage healthy eating behaviors. But Ellison warned that the study's findings should still be cautiously interpreted, as the conclusions are based on only one meal. The paper will appear in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The paper "A Cross-Sectional Study of the Relationship between Nutrition Label Use and Food Selection, Servings, and Consumption in a University Dining Setting" is available online.
News Article | May 17, 2017
You may have heard that Americans waste more than 38 million tons of food each year, or that the value all this discarded food adds up to about $165 billion annually. That’s bad enough, but consider this: If all that lost food were put on people’s plates, it would be enough to provide more than 190 million adults with 2,000 calories of energy every day, according to a new report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Keep in mind that these calories are being squandered in a country where 14% of households sometimes have trouble putting food on the table. “U.S. landfills represent vast repositories of lost nutrition,” the report’s authors wrote. According to their calculations, the food Americans threw away in 2012 would have provided 2,000 calories each day to more than 80% of the nation’s adults. To make matters even worse, nutritious food was more likely to be squandered than actual junk food. “Vegetables, fruits, seafood, and dairy products are wasted at disproportionately high rates,” wrote the researchers, a group led by registered dietitian and Ph.D. candidate Marie Spiker of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Here’s a look at some of their findings: The food wasted in 2012 contained enough vitamin A to meet the daily requirements of 138 million women and or 108 million men. (For the sake of comparison, there were about 119 million adult women and 116 million adult men in the United States that year.) If that wasted food had been distributed to Americans who needed it, it would have allowed 998 million women or 641 million men to make up the gap between their actual vitamin A consumption and the amount they should have consumed based on the Institute of Medicine’s Recommended Dietary Allowances, or RDAs. Our bodies use vitamin A to maintain vision, our immune systems and our reproductive systems. Organs including the heart, lungs and kidneys rely on it too. Americans’ 2012 food waste contained enough calcium to satisfy the entire daily requirements of 90 million women or 90 million men. It also would have been enough to erase the calcium deficiency for the equivalent of 680 million American women. (Women between the ages of 51 and 70 require more calcium than men.) Calcium is the mineral that makes bones and teeth strong. It also plays a role in moving blood throughout the circulatory system, transmitting electrical signals between the brain and the rest of the body, and allowing hormones and enzymes to facilitate all sorts of essential functions. The food wasted in 2012 had enough magnesium to give 86 million women or 67 million men their entire recommended amount. Based on the eating habits of actual Americans, that magnesium would have made it possible for 741 million American women or 606 million American men who were magnesium-deprived to meet the government’s standard. Magnesium allows muscles and nerves to function properly, and it helps the body keep blood pressure and blood sugar in check. The mineral is also an ingredient in our bones, in protein and in DNA. About 74 million women or 49 million men could have been kept in good digestive health with the fiber in food that Americans wasted in 2012. If that fiber had gone to women who needed some extra, an additional 207 million of them would have met the Institute of Medicine’s threshold; if it had gone to American men, 104 million of them would have closed the gap. Dietary fiber keeps your cholesterol, blood sugar and weight in check. It also keeps your bowel movements regular. Wasted food contained enough iron for 93 million women or 209 million men to satisfy their full daily requirement. Had that food gone to American women with iron deficiencies, it would have allowed 379 million of them to meet their RDAs. Without iron, our blood cells wouldn’t be able to ferry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of our bodies. The mineral is an essential component of hemoglobin and myoglobin, two proteins that do this job. The food wasted by Americans in 2012 contained enough vitamin E to allow 76 million women or 76 million men to get their full recommended daily dose of the nutrient. If that wasted food had been offered to those who needed it, 156 million women or 242 million men could have closed the gap between the amount of vitamin E they got and the amount the government recommended. Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps cells weather the damage inflicted by harmful molecules called free radicals. Vitamin E also fuels the immune system, among other useful functions. The report also tallied other nutrients, including potassium, vitamin C and vitamin D. You can read the full report here. Follow me on Twitter @LATkarenkaplan and "like" Los Angeles Times Science & Health on Facebook. The human nose has been underrated for 150 years, but science is setting the record straight Four things Americans should know about Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the new head of the FDA When it comes to life expectancy in America, not all counties are created equal
News Article | February 28, 2017
Bethesda, MD (Feb. 27, 2017) -- Patients with obesity need a multidisciplinary approach to achieve a healthy weight, and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) believes that gastroenterologists are in a unique position to lead the care team. To provide gastroenterologists with a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary process to guide and personalize innovative obesity care for safe and effective weight management, including a model for how to operationalize business issues, AGA has created an Obesity Practice Guide. The program includes an obesity program to help gastroenterologists manage their patients with obesity, as well as a framework focused on the business operational issues related to the management of obese patients, which are published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. "The epidemic of obesity continues at alarming rates with a high burden to our economy and society," said Sarah Streett, MD, an author of both papers, chair of the AGA Institute Practice Management and Economics Committee, and clinical associate professor and director of IBD Stanford University School of Medicine, CA. "The American Gastroenterological Association understands the importance of embracing obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease and supports a multidisciplinary approach to the management of obesity." POWER: Practice Guide on Obesity and Weight Management, Education and Resources1 Obesity is a major modifiable cause of diseases of the digestive tract that routinely goes unaddressed. Gastrointestinal disorders resulting from obesity are more frequent and often present sooner than type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease, which means gastroenterologists have an opportunity to address obesity and provide effective therapy for their patients. Patients who are overweight or obese are often seen by gastroenterologists due to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and its associated risks of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal cancer, gallstone disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and colon cancer. As internists, specialists in digestive disorders and endoscopists, gastroenterologists are in a unique position to play an important role in the multidisciplinary treatment of obesity. "We created the practice guide on obesity and weight management to help gastroenterologists develop a multidisciplinary team and obesity care model for their practice, including patient goal setting, readiness assessment, evaluation, and treatment with diet, medication, and bariatric endoscopy and surgery," said Andres Acosta, MD, PhD, lead author of the paper and assistant professor of medicine, Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research (C.E.N.T.E.R.), division of gastroenterology and hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. "It is our hope that by working in a team-based approach, gastroenterologists can guide and personalize obesity care for safe and effective weight management for our patients." The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), The Obesity Society (TOS), and North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) contributed content to the POWER program, which was endorsed with input by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). Episode-of-Care Framework for the Management of Obesity: Moving Towards High Value, High Quality Care2 The treatment of obesity needs a collaborative approach involving multiple stakeholders. AGA established an obesity episode of care model to develop a framework to support value-based management of patients with obesity, focusing on the provision of non-surgical and endoscopic services. The framework will help gastroenterology practices assess their ability to participate in and implement an episode of care for obesity, and understand the essentials of coding and billing for these services. The goal of episode framework is to provide gastroenterologists with strategies to obtain compensation for high value care, in a flexible format that can be adapted to the resources of both large and small practices. It is essential that data coordination take place between all members of the multi-disciplinary team who are providing therapeutic services to the patient to ensure high value continuity of care. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), American Psychological Association (APA), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) contributed to the obesity episode of care framework. 1 Acosta A, Streett S et al.. White Paper AGA: POWER -- Practice Guide on Obesity and Weight Management, Education and Resources. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2016.10.023. http://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(16)30988-0/fulltext 2 Brill JV et al. White Paper AGA: An Episode-of-Care Framework for the Management of Obesity: Moving Towards High Value, High Quality Care. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2017.02.002. http://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(17)30146-5/pdf The American Gastroenterological Association is the trusted voice of the GI community. Founded in 1897, the AGA has grown to more than 16,000 members from around the globe who are involved in all aspects of the science, practice and advancement of gastroenterology. The AGA Institute administers the practice, research and educational programs of the organization. http://www. . The mission of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology is to provide readers with a broad spectrum of themes in clinical gastroenterology and hepatology. This monthly peer-reviewed journal includes original articles as well as scholarly reviews, with the goal that all articles published will be immediately relevant to the practice of gastroenterology and hepatology. For more information, visit http://www. . Like AGA and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology on Facebook. Join AGA on LinkedIn. Follow us on Twitter @AmerGastroAssn. Check out our videos on YouTube.
News Article | May 15, 2017
Discarded food contains a significant amount of nutrients that could be used to help many Americans meet daily requirements, according to a new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Philadelphia, PA, May 15, 2017 -- The extent of food waste in America is a cause for serious concern. It is estimated that around 1,217 calories per person per day are squandered. A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics looks beyond the caloric value of food waste and focuses on the nutritional value of the food we throw away. Investigators found that discarded food contains large amounts of key nutrients like vitamin D, fiber, and potassium that could help people get the food they need to meet their daily recommended intake. In 2014, 14% of American households suffered from food insecurity and an additional 5% experienced a shortage of resources that forced them to skip meals or reduce their food consumption. Across the population, Americans are not getting the recommended intakes of certain nutrients including dietary fiber; calcium; potassium; and vitamins A, C, D, and E. At the same time, Americans continue to waste food at an alarming rate throughout the food supply chain. It's estimated that 31-40% of the post-harvest food supply is discarded. This study was the first to demonstrate the substantial amount of nutrients, including many under-consumed nutrients, wasted due to food discarded at the retail and consumer levels of the U.S. food supply. Quantifying the loss can motivate related investments and support the case for registered dietitian nutritionist engagement with these efforts. The estimates can additionally serve as a baseline for tracking intervention impacts. Data from the National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference were used to calculate the nutritional value of retail and consumer level waste of 213 commodities in the USDA Loss-Adjusted Food Availability data series for 27 nutrients in 2012. The study, led by Roni A. Neff, PhD, Program Director at the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future (CLF), and Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, and Marie L. Spiker, MSPH, RD, CLF-Lerner Fellow and Doctoral Candidate, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that losses of under-consumed nutrients were significant. Food wasted at the retail and consumer levels of the U.S. food supply in 2012 contained 1,217 kcal, 33 g protein, 5.9 g dietary fiber, 1.7 mcg vitamin D, 286 mg calcium, and 880 mg potassium per capita per day. Using dietary fiber as an example, 5.9 g dietary fiber is 23% of the RDA for women. This is equivalent to the fiber RDA for 74 million adult women. Adult women in 2012 under-consumed dietary fiber by 8.9 g per day, and the amount of wasted fiber is equivalent to this gap for 206.6 million adult women. Data points like this highlight the need for diverse interventions including standardized date labeling (use by, sell by) and consumer education, so that people can utilize the nutrients instead of throwing them in the trash can. According to the authors, perishable foods such as fruits and vegetables are lost at particularly high rates, leading to exceptional losses of under-consumed nutrients. Changes to our food system can reduce agricultural and pre-consumer waste, and play an important role in shaping the amount of food consumers discard. Cultural shifts are also needed to change consumer and industry attitudes. Even if only the top seven most cost-effective food recovery activities were scaled up and only an additional 1.75% of food waste was recovered, this would translate into 2,000 calories per day for 3.3 million adults. "Although only a portion of discarded food can realistically be made available for human consumption, efforts to redistribute surplus foods where appropriate and prevent food waste in the first place could increase the availability of nutrients for Americans, while saving money and natural resources," concluded the authors. "The U.S. has established a target of halving food loss and waste by 2030. This research supports the case for action and for registered dietitian nutritionists to bring their expertise to the effort."
News Article | May 15, 2017
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for a Livable Future calculated the nutritional value of food wasted in the U.S. at the retail and consumer levels, shining a light on just how much protein, fiber and other important nutrients end up in the landfill in a single year. These lost nutrients are important for healthy diets, and some -- including, dietary fiber, calcium, potassium and vitamin D -- are currently consumed below recommended levels. Nutrient-dense foods like fruits, vegetables, seafood and dairy products are wasted at disproportionately high rates. Previous research estimated that as much as 40 percent of food is wasted nationally, but it wasn't clear before this study how nutritious that food was. While not all wasted food is consumable, a sizeable amount is, leaving researchers and policymakers looking for ways to minimize the amount of good food that gets tossed as millions of Americans go hungry, do not get enough nutrients or do not have access to healthy food options. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Environmental Protection Agency have set a goal of reducing food waste by 50 percent by 2030. The findings will appear online May 15 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. "Huge quantities of nutritious foods end up in landfills instead of meeting Americans' dietary needs," says study lead author Marie Spiker, MSPH, RD, a CLF-Lerner Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and a doctoral candidate in the Bloomberg School's Department of International Health. "Our findings illustrate how food waste exists alongside inadequate intake of many nutrients." For their study, the researchers calculated the nutritional value of the retail- and consumer-level food waste of 213 commodities in 2012, using data from the USDA's Loss-Adjusted Food Availability data series. The research team, looking at 27 nutrients in all, found that food wasted in the U.S. food supply that year contained 1,217 calories, 33 grams of protein, 5.9 grams of dietary fiber, 1.7 micrograms of vitamin D, 286 milligrams calcium and 880 milligrams potassium per person, per day. Nutrient loss estimates provided by this study could contribute to a baseline for measuring future progress, the authors say. The study also highlights how the amount of nutrients lost to waste compares to nutritional deficits in the typical American diet. For example, dietary fiber is important for maintaining digestive health and is found in grains, vegetables and fruits. Researchers estimate that, in 2012, food wasted each day contained upwards of 1.8 billion grams of dietary fiber, which is comparable to the full recommended intake for dietary fiber for 73.6 million adult women. American women under-consumed dietary fiber by 8.9 grams per day in 2012. The study found that the daily amount of wasted dietary fiber is equivalent to the amount needed to fill this nutritional gap for as many as 206.6 million adult women. Many factors contribute to food waste at both the retail and consumer levels, including the disposal of food due to aesthetic standards, large portion sizes, and management of perishables in fridges and pantries. There is currently great energy around efforts to address waste of food. Preventing waste at the source is considered to be the optimal approach. Strengthening food recovery efforts that bring surplus food to food banks and pantries is also an important area of effort, innovation and impact. "This study offers us new ways of appreciating the value of wasted food. While not all food that is wasted could or should be recovered, it reminds us that we are dumping a great deal of high quality, nutritious food that people could be enjoying," says Roni Neff, PhD, an assistant professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Environmental Health and Engineering who oversaw the study and directs the CLF's Food System Sustainability & Public Health Program. "We should keep in mind that while food recovery efforts are valuable, food recovery doesn't get to the heart of either the food insecurity problem or the waste problem. We need strategies addressing these challenges at multiple levels." "Wasted Food, Wasted Nutrients: Nutrient loss from wasted food in the US and comparison to gaps in dietary intake" was written by Marie L. Spiker, Hazel A. B. Hiza, Sameer M. Siddiqi and Roni A. Neff. This research was funded by the GRACE Communications Foundation. M. L. Spiker and S. M. Siddiqi were also supported by the CLF-Lerner Fellowship.
News Article | February 23, 2017
CHICAGO, Feb. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eating healthier doesn't mean changing your entire eating pattern overnight. Small changes, made over time, can add up. For National Nutrition Month® 2017, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics urges everyone to start small – one forkful...
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Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | Year: 2012
If upheld as constitutional, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that passed in 2010 promises to change health care delivery systems in the United States, partly by shifting focus from disease treatment to disease prevention. Registered dietitians (RDs) have already taken an active role in health care areas that stand to be directly affected by provisions in the health care reform bill. However, nutrition's vital role in preventing diseases and conditions potentially could translate to additional opportunities for RDs as a result of this reform. Specific dietetics-related areas targeted by health care reform include medical nutrition therapy for chronic conditions and employee wellness incentive programs. However, dietetics practitioners are not necessarily established in the language of the bill as the essential providers of specific services or as reimbursable practitioners. Thus, although it is possible health care reform could affect demand-and, in turn, supply-of RDs, the actual effect of this legislation is difficult to predict. © 2012 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.


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Can Essential Tenancy Shape Regency's (REG) Q2 Earnings?
Regency Centers Corp. REG is slated to report second-quarter 2020 earnings on Aug 3, after market close. The company’s funds from operations (FFO) per share and revenues are anticipated to have declined year over year.
In the last reported quarter, this Jacksonville, FL-based retail real estate investment trust (REIT) posted in-line results in terms of FFO per share. Decent leasing activity and rent spreads aided performance.
Further, the company has a decent surprise history. It beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in two of the trailing four quarters, missed in one and met in the other, the average surprise being 1.03%. This is depicted in the graph below:
Regency Centers Corporation Price and EPS Surprise
Let’s see how things have shaped up for this announcement.
Factors at Play
As the pandemic eased its grip in the second quarter, stay-at-home orders were lifted in several states, leading to a rebound in economic activity and reopening across the retail real estate.
Regency Centers too witnessed the reopening of stores at its properties. Specifically, as of May end, around 75% of its tenants (based on pro-rate annual base rent or ABR) were open, increasing from around 60% in April.
Undoubtedly, significant essential retail tenancies at the company’s centers have enabled its properties to remain open, operating for the entirety of the pandemic. This has also supported rent collections for the second quarter.
In fact, essential retail and services tenants — constituting 43% of Regency’s portfolio — paid 95% and 92% of April and May base rents, respectively, as of May 31, 2020.
However, leasing velocity is expected to have slowed in the second quarter, owing to the pandemic-led decline in demand. Further, the pandemic has been most impactful for many non-essential businesses that are experiencing significant declines in customer traffic and temporarily store closures. This has adversely impacted the tenants’ ability to pay rent obligations. As a result, the company is likely to have witnessed a rise in the number of tenants making late or partial rent payments, requesting rent deferrals, or defaulted on rent payments.
As of May 31, 2020, pro-rata base rent collections for April were 68%, while May rent collections stood at only 58%. High amounts of overdue rents are expected to have hindered the company’s top-line growth in the June-end quarter. In fact, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for second-quarter revenues is pegged at $249.3 million, indicating a year-over-year decline of 7.1%.
Moreover, store closures and bankruptcies have been affecting the retail real estate market, driven by lower mall traffic and faster adoption of online shopping. The pandemic amplified these challenges faced by the retail real sector, making any turnaround difficult in the June-end quarter.
Regency, too, is not protected from move-outs, store closures and retailer bankruptcies. This is anticipated to have curbed its growth momentum in the to-be-reported quarter.
Additionally, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for FFO per share witnessed a 4.9% downward revision to 78 cents over the past week, indicating bearish sentiments of analysts. It also indicates a 17.9% year-over-year decline.
Here is what our quantitative model predicts:
Our proven model does not conclusively predict a beat in terms of FFO per share for Regency this season. The combination of a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) increases the odds of a FFO beat. But that’s not the case here. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they’re reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.
Regency currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 and has an Earnings ESP of -3.22%.
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Annual pre-tax profits rose from £3.5m to £9.9m, while turnover increased to £178m, up from £174m.
The 200-strong chain is part of Chelsea Stores Holdings, in which chairman Tim Waterstone has a stake of around 10 per cent.
Waterstone is best known for the chain of bookshops that he founded in 1982. He eventually sold the business, now part of HMV, and recently failed in a bid to buy it back. He and Nigel Robertson, a former joint managing director of online retailer Ocado, acquired Early Learning Centre two years ago for £62m from its management and 3i.
The venture capital company had bought it from John Menzies in 2001 after paying £21m and taking on £9m of debt. Chelsea Stores Holdings also owns Daisy and Tom, a children's retailer that was started by Mr Waterstone in 1997.


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Today I am quoted in a Business of Fashion piece on making clothes in prisons. I talk about LCF’s Made for Change social enterprise, which trains inmates in garment manufacturing and gives them skills to find work once they have been released.
The project was set up not only to help female offenders reintegrate into society once released, but also to fill a skills gap in UK fashion manufacturing.
The piece is well-balanced and addresses an important issue in how we can bring manufacturing back to the UK.
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West Country farmers can now access free advice to help improve their businesses with the launch of a new Duchy College initiative.
Business Forward has been designed to offer professional guidance for land-based businesses seeking to make changes and boost profitability.
“We’re prepared to be very flexible, depending on what people wish to do,” said Richard Soffe, head of the Rural Business School at Duchy College.
Working with Lantra and Agri-BIP, the Rural Business School could help farmers develop a business plan for the bank, plan a new diversification project, apply for grant funding or even develop a herd health plan or strategy to boost milk production.
“It could be a project that people have been meaning to do for some time,” said Mr Soffe. “We will work with the business to come up with something that’s really useful and practical.”
Initially being launched across Cornwall, Mr Soffe hoped to roll the scheme out across the south west in 2009.
For more information contact The Rural Business School on 0845 4587485 or click here.


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Here is a roundup of some recent health care items making headlines, with my comments:.
- Obamacare “scares the daylights out of” small businesses, who, through a crippling new tax, will be forced to pay the medical bills of others.
- Last fall one compounding pharmacy made headlines when steroid injections it sold caused a meningitis outbreak. Now the FDA wants to control all compounding pharmacies. Whatever happened to being treated as innocent until proven guilty?
- Grocery stores will have to spend $1 billion in the first year alone to meet Obamacare’s requirement of displaying calorie labels on all their foods. Says one executive at Kroger, “We might have thousands of SKUs for birthday cakes and thousands of types of prepared pizza. The problem is [Obamacare] forces us to label all of that, down to the olive bars and salad bars.” Much of the cost will go towards not signage but just figuring out how many calories are in each food item they sell.
- Last week Obama addressed concerns over the “train wreck” that is expected from implementing Obamacare, saying, “We still have a lot of work to do in the coming months to make sure more Americans can buy affordable health coverage.” One crucial task is convincing young people to sign up for insurance (in order to fleece them to pay for the medical bills of others). Look out this summer for a mass marketing effort in this vein.


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Business accelerators are proving to be extremely important as entrepreneurs get their start.
talk small, hear small, eat, sleep and breathe small. Because when you’re trying to connect with a small business, you must understand everything about those who run them.
People may not associate a teacher and marketing executive with the legal marijuana industry. Two retirees in Colorado, however, are starting to change that. Deb Baker and Barb Diner have been friends for 27 years, and decided to jump into the industry as the doldrums of retirement began to catch up with them.
MobileQubes started up in 2014 with the goal to make sure everyone could keep their phones charged away from home, and away from their chargers.
Many members and spouses in the military community look to entrepreneurship to advance their careers and income. But these new small business owners often receive conflicting information regarding best website practices, hindering their ability to get exposure for their sites on Google.
“Pain point” investing is the latest approach for the Nanyue Bank in China, where they identify points of the business cycle of entrepreneurs and where money is needed to get something to market, rather than focusing on the client’s credit history.


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Kellogg Makes $550 Million Share Buyback
Friday February 17, 9:44 am ET
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) -- Kellogg Co., the nation's largest cereal maker, said Friday it agreed to pay $550 million to buy back stock from its largest shareholder, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trust.
Kellogg said it agreed to buy back about 12.8 million of its shares for $43.02 a piece in the privately negotiated deal, which is expected to close on Feb. 21.
The trust, which invests on behalf of the nonprofit Kellogg Foundation, has been working to diversify its assets and said this latest stock sale completes that process.
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Just watch Pfizer's leash on Zoetis growing longer. The animal health unit proved popular on the bond market Wednesday, with $30 billion in orders pouring in for a $3.65 billion four-part deal. Within hours, the order book had been built, Reuters reports, allowing Zoetis to tighten up its initial pricing guidance.
On the equity side, the Pfizer unit is days away from the launch of its $2 billion initial public offering, underwritten by JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, Reuters says. For tax reasons, it starts with an equity-for-debt swap, in which Pfizer ($PFE) will hand over Zoetis shares to affiliates of the underwriters, in exchange for its own outstanding debt. And then the underwriters will sell those Zoetis shares, keeping the proceeds. (Previous reports put the size of the IPO closer to $4 billion.)
As soon as that exchange-and-sale happens, Zoetis will have a paw or two in the outside world. About 20% of the company, essentially. After that, Pfizer may distribute its remaining equity stake in Zoetis to shareholders, tax-free. And at that point, the leash comes off.
With Zoetis on its way to independence, Pfizer is a step closer to that whittled-down structure CEO Ian Read envisioned in 2011, when he announced plans to divest the company's animal health unit and its nutritionals business. The latter is in the process of being sold to Nestlé.
Up next, apparently, is some internal restructuring and line-drawing, to sequester the on-patent prescription drug operations from the "established products" business, which encompasses off-patent Pfizer drugs and other generic products.
A conversation about that internal consolidation, reported by Bloomberg earlier this week, set off a new round of Pfizer breakup chatter. Some analysts envision Pfizer hiving off everything but its prescription drug operations. But whether the company ends up shedding its generics unit--with or without its consumer health operations--remains to be seen. Perhaps for years.
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New Delhi: You must have heard your friends and family members say that they experience increased aches and pains in their joints and muscles during cold, wet weather. While many people, including some doctors, dismiss it as an old wives' tales, science is backing up the phenomenon. Moreover, various studies have found significant links between humidity, temperature and joint pain. Hence, as the mercury levels drop, you would certainly want to find some ways to manage arthritis pain if you are living with the condition as the cold weather can trigger a flare-up. Read: Arthritis - 10 early signs to watch out for
Arthritis is an inflammation of one or more joints, causing pain and stiffness that can worsen with age. Usually, arthritis is treated with anti-inflammatory medications and painkillers. But many people are turning to natural remedies to manage their condition as some medications can cause side effects. Here are five tips to help you get relief from joint pain and aches this winter:
Maintain a healthy, balanced diet consisting of fresh fruits and vegetables like spinach, tomatoes, oranges, and cabbage, which are all rich in antioxidants that can help reduce inflammation in the body. Include foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which has been shown to reduce joint pain and stiffness, in your diet to help your arthritis. However, avoid artificial sweeteners, refined carbs (processed foods) and too much red meat as they can aggravate inflammation and arthritis. Read: Best FOODS for combating rheumatoid arthritis
Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and active. Drinking adequate amount of water and keeping the body hydrated will help reduce friction between the joint surfaces. A 2015 study published in the journal Experimental Physiology suggested that even mild dehydration might make you more sensitive to pain. Read: Gel to combat rheumatoid arthritis developed
Regular movements will not only help you to stay in shape, it will also promote flexibility in your joints. It's just that exercise is crucial for people with arthritis to keep their pain at bay. It will also help maintain bone strength and combat fatigue.
If you are overweight, shedding a few pounds can help reduce the pain of arthritis. Losing weight will reduce stress on your joints, which in turn will help increase mobility, decrease pain and prevent further damage to the joints.
A lack of vitamin D can affect your bones, joints and overall health. As per a research published in the Clinical Journal of Pain, individuals low on vitamin D levels reported significantly higher pain in the joints, especially knee joint and loss in function. Since you are less likely to get enough sunshine, which is the natural source of vitamin D, consider taking some supplements or vitamin D-fortified foods, if need be. But, always talk to your doctor about your need for supplements.
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Vendors looking forward to big-screen iPhones
Carriers and other vendors in China are seeing relatively weak demand for the iPhone 5s, suggests Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White. White is currently touring the country and speaking with various parties. Instead demand is said to be rising for various local smartphone brands, like Xiaomi. Vendors are, however, said to be expressing "great enthusiasm around the potential for Apple to introduce a larger iPhone form factor in China this year with the iPhone 6."
Revamped HTC One M8 knocks Galaxy S4 from second at Verizon
The iPhone -- specifically, the iPhone 5s -- has been the top seller at all four major US carriers since its introduction, a trend that continued in March according to figures compiled by Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley. The year-old Samsung Galaxy S4 took second place among three of the four carriers, though it was knocked out of second at Verizon by the new HTC One M8. The S4 took third at Verizon, with the company's Note 3 phablet taking third at AT&T and Sprint, while the LG G2 took third at T-Mobile.
Touch ID more reliable, but S5 swipe reader able to be used with more merchants
A new video posted to YouTube offers a head-to-head demonstration of the iPhone 5s' "Touch ID" fingerprint-recognition technology and the "swipe-style" fingerprint reader found in Samsung's Galaxy S5, its just-released latest flagship smartphone. Over the course of five minutes, the poster of the video makes clear that Touch ID, first introduced late last year, continues to offer a better overall experience. The clip covers the technical aspects of both companies' approaches.
Units are still locked to Virgin Mobile, cannot be legally unlocked
Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile, which sells CDMA iPhone models without an obligation to a monthly contract, is running a sale on both the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s, with the 16GB 5c starting at $315, with the 32GB at $385. The iPhone 5s is available for $385 (16GB), $455 (32GB) or $525 (64GB). There is a catch to the offer: the iPhones are all locked to Virgin Mobile, and the carrier doesn't unlock the phones. Under current US law, it is illegal to unlock a carrier-locked smartphone without the company's blessing.
Available for all iOS 7-compatible devices
After a lengthy development and testing period, Apple has released the finished version of iOS 7.1 to the public. The code makes a number of improvements to iOS 7, for instance enabling CarPlay support in yet-to-be-launched vehicles. Siri will now let users hold down the Home button to decide how long a device should listen, instead of having to wait for the system to decide no one is talking. More naturalistic voices have been supplied for Japanese, British and Australian English, and Mandarin Chinese.
Report confirms speculation that 5s outselling 5c by 3:1
A new report from mobile ad analysis firm Mixpanel has reinforced some speculation about the iPhone 5s, even as it has dispelled other rumors about the iPhone 5c. In its latest report, the company says that the iPhone 5s is set to top the popular iPhone 4s in user share, with the newer model currently accounting for about 19 percent of all active iPhones.
Retailer ups smartphone trade-in credit by $50 for new iPhone buyers
Beginning on Sunday, the US branch of Target will run another trade-in promotion for iPad 2 owners. People who bring in a used iPad 2 will be awarded a gift card worth at least $150. Although that credit can only be used at Target, the company is also offering an extra $30 card if a person buys a new iPad. $150 is generally higher than most specialized third-party trade-in services offer. The promotion ends March 15th.
Will reportedly solve 'fade' glitch
Apple is at work on a software update that will fix a "fade" glitch with the iPhone 5s' Touch ID sensor, a source says. The company has reportedly been working with the original AuthenTec team -- which was absorbed into Apple in 2012 -- to smooth out iOS' recognition software. The problem is that while Touch ID appears to be extremely reliable for the first few months after setup, some users have subsequently encountered intermittent failures.
September event becomes ad-like promo for iPhone 5s camera
Apple has edited down footage shot with multiple pre-release iPhone 5s units during a Burberry fashion show last September into a 30-second TV ad-style video, currently seen on the iPhone's spotlight page. Like the recent "01.24.14" ad, the promo and fashion show were shot in HD entirely using the iPhone 5s as a showcase of how high-quality the camera is. The shortened spot may end up appearing on television as a genuine ad to promote the iPhone 5s.
Fixes problems with Chinese cellular networks
Apple is now seeding a rare iPhone-only iOS update, v7.0.5. The release is intended exclusively for the iPhone 5s and 5c, and deals with unspecified "network provisioning" problems on some Chinese models. For people who already have iOS 7.0.4 installed, the download is just 35.4MB when fetched via Software Update.
Ten customers win iPhones signed by Apple CEO, China Mobile Chair
Apple's iPhones have formally arrived on China Mobile, the world's largest carrier and China's largest provider. The iPhone went on sale Friday morning in Beijing and other locations, with stores fulfilling long-awaited pre-orders of the iPhone (the 5s in particular) that have been gathered since mid-December. Foxconn is said to have delivered approximately 1.4 million iPhone 5s units to China Mobile recently, possibly an indication of strong pre-orders.
Skype's iOS apps receive two-way HD calling, improved chat sync
Social messaging platform Skype has updated its iPhone and iPad apps with the release of Version 4.17 launched today. Users can message, voice or video call friends and family who are also on the service for free with Skype's service. Version 4.17 has added two-way HD video calls, supported on the iPhone 5s, iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display.
China Mobile adds 3,000 outlets for iPhone 5s, 5c sales in China
Apple CEO Tim Cook is said to be "incredibly optimistic" over the multi-year agreement the company made with China Mobile last month. Ahead of the impending launch of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on the mobile phone network on January 17th, Cook hinted that there could be more collaboration between the carrier and Apple in the future.
Second case still ongoing
VirnetX is seeking to add Apple's most recent slate of products to a lawsuit against FaceTime devices, according to an announcement. The patent holding firm says it has submitted a petition to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, one which would add the iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPad Air, Retina iPad mini, fifth-generation iPod touch, and the latest Mac notebooks and desktops to the list. VirnetX has accused Apple's FaceTime of violating a patent for peer-to-peer VPN technology.
Apple, China Mobile may be anticipating high demand
China Mobile has taken in a shipment of approximately 1.4 million iPhone 5s units from Foxconn, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. Mobile is set to launch its own iPhone sales on Friday, after years of losing sales to China Unicom and China Telecom. One Journal source comments that shipping over a million units to a single carrier in a month is "substantial," but at the same time notes that he/she has no information about demand beyond this month. Allegedly, Apple hasn't notified Foxconn about its goal for the next shipment.
New Year's promotion offers lowest price for entry-level 5s
Best Buy, which began offering the 16GB iPhone 5c for free with a contract at its stores and website on December 29, has now upped the ante on the promotion with a discount on the 16GB model of the more advanced iPhone 5s, which is down to $125 (originally $200) through all major carriers until Sunday, January 5. The offer is available now online, with the in-store price dropping on Friday. Also ending Saturday is a $100 off promotion on all non-Retina MacBook Pros.
FitBit update features MobileTrack activity tracking for iPhone 5s
FitBit has announced an update to its iOS fitness app, released today in the App Store. FitBit allows users to monitor their exercise activity with their iPhone, track their stats and set fitness goals. Version 2.1 of FitBit features MobileTrack, which utilizes the M7 coprocessor in the iPhone 5s to track basic activity as it occurs.
Munster sees China Mobile deal bumping AAPL by five percent
Apple's new deal with China Mobile could net the iPhone maker an additional 17 in unit sales over the course of 2014, according to a new analysis. This according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who believes that the finalization of the China Mobile deal will prove quite lucrative for the Cupertino tech giant. Despite the potential sales jump that is now possible due to the iPhone being available on the world's largest wireless carrier, Piper Jaffray is taking the conservative approach and not altering its price targets for the company until Apple reports new sales figures.
iPhone to launch on world's largest carrier on January 17
Apple and China Mobile on Sunday announced the completion of a multi-year agreement to bring the iPhone to that carrier, the largest in the world. The deal will see Apple's bestselling iPhones sold in China Mobile's retail stores, as well as China Mobile-compatible iPhones in Apple retail stores across mainland China. The announcement marks the completion of a months-long process that has been marked by continual rumors and apparent delays, even as the last month seemed to confirm the iPhone's arrival, with the carrier opening reservations for the devices in early December.
iPhone 5s bests all previous iPhones in running iOS 7
A new comparison video that hit the Internet last week shows off the degree to which the iPhone 5s is faster than its predecessors. TheUnlockr took each of the iPhones that is capable of running iOS 7 and put them against each other in a speed test. Apple's newest smartphone, the most powerful to date with a 64-bit processor of course bested all of the previous models. The video, though, demonstrates the progress Apple has made with its handhelds, as the difference in speed between the older devices and the newer models is more than apparent.
Target iOS sale runs Dec. 22 to Dec. 24
Target on Friday revealed a number of discounts on Apple products that will see the retailer offering the iPhone 5c for $30 and the iPhone 5s for $180. The new discounts come as Target is winding down a similar promotion that had the 5c available for $50. The sale will begin on Sunday, December 22, and it will run through Tuesday, December 24.
Completes holiday theming throughout site
Apple has posted its holiday-themed new commercial, "Misunderstood," to the front page of its website, replacing the tribute to Nelson Mandela that had graced its landing page. The site shows off both the TV ad and the original "Harris Family Holiday" video which the company has since verified was shot entirely on an iPhone 5s. Apple has received nearly universal acclaim for the touching holiday ad, and the change completes the company's site-wide redecoration for the holiday season.
iPhone 5s, 5c rank high in Google's Zeitgeist
Apple's iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c were among the most searched-for gadgets of 2013, according to Google Zeitgeist. The search giant's annual publication of the hottest search terms of the year saw Apple's new high end iPhone battling with Samsung's Galaxy S4 for supremacy in smartphone searches, but the iPhone 5c – essentially a repackaged iPhone 5 – also ranked high on Google's Zeitgeist list, indicating that consumers were interested to see just what Apple would come out with for what was initially thought to be a "low-cost iPhone."
Based on actual home video shot on iPhone 5s
Apple has debuted a 90-second holiday TV ad for its iPhone 5s, called "Misunderstood," that is based on a family holiday home video shot on an iPhone 5s. While the company didn't say if the original home video was actually created within the family, the commercial version introduces a backstory of a teenage member of the "Harris family" who makes a thoughtful Christmas present by creating a movie on his iPhone.
Shenzhen store given over to iPhone banners, phones, accessories
While again not a confirmation of a formal agreement between China Mobile and Apple, one of the carrier's resellers or retail outlets is already aggressively promoting the forthcoming LTE network and pushing the latest iPhone models as being compatible with it. An American blogger in China going by the name "PRC and Me" spotted and photographed the store in Shenzhen's Futian district, featuring advertising material, accessories and on-display iPhones.
Current and projected future sales paint rosy picture for Apple
Surging on the strength of its new models, Apple's premium iPhone 5s and mid-range iPhone 5c continued to dominate sales with all the major US wireless carriers, with only Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 positioned as a challenger. US sales data also showed an unsurprising dominance by the iPad in tablet sales, with a new study suggesting that 72 percent of future tablet buyers plan on getting an iPad.
Chance to pre-order new iPhones on China Mobile may be just hours away
An official China Mobile page which lets Beijing-based users make reservations for its new "4G" LTE service features a graphic of the iPhone 5s and (on a different page) a jewel-encrusted golden apple -- which both confirms that the world's largest cellular carrier will be including the iPhone at long last, and hints that pre-orders for it could begin as early as late Thursday. China Mobile is the last of China's major cellular providers to carry the iPhone, the result of nearly six years of negotiations.
Discount applies to 16GB models only, requires two-year contract
In a move likely designed to compete with T-Mobile's recent discounting of iPhone down payments, US retail giant Walmart will cut its up-front price for the 16GB models of the iPhone 5s and 5c by $72 when purchased with a two-year contract from either AT&T or Verizon. The promotion, which begins Friday December 13, coincides with the launch of Walmart's contract-free iPhone sales with service through Straight Talk or NET10 Wireless.
Supply now caught up with demand in stores, online
Just in time for the holiday rush, Apple's online store has moved the popular iPhone 5s -- even in the coveted gold color option -- to a shipping estimate of 24 hours, the best time the sought-after premiere model has ever seen. Since its debut in September, the iPhone 5s has seen constraints on availability, causing a worldwide frenzy for the advanced smartphone in the first days of its debut. Retail partners, online resellers and Apple itself appear to have overcome supply issues for all configurations.
Buyers prefer iPhone 5s over 5c by 3-to-1 margin, but both doing well
Confirming widely-held beliefs that the iPhone 5s is outselling the iPhone 5c -- but upending the conventional wisdom that the iPhone 5c isn't doing as well as the iPhone 5 did a year ago -- the latest numbers from mobile analytics company MixPanel show a healthy and growing market for both models, though the iPhone 5s is the more popular -- and, roughly three months after introduction, now accounts for 10 percent of all iPhones.
Availability expected December 13
TracFone has announced that it will be offering prepaid iPhone 5s and 5c handsets, sold through the company's Net10 and Straight Talk brands. The iPhone 5c will sell for $549 with 16GB of storage and the standard range of color choices, while the 16GB iPhone 5s fetches $649 in gray, silver or gold.
Production finally catching up with demand in time for holidays
At one of the best possible times, Apple's production of the iPhone 5s appears to be catching up with demand, allowing worldwide online Apple Stores to offer the highly-prized smartphone -- even in the prized gold color -- with a shipping estimate of just 1-3 days for all carriers and capacities, the first time this has happened since its debut in September. The 64-bit smartphone, which has seen delays so severe that on occasion Apple's website offered no specific timetable for delivery, is now much more widely available.
First acknowledgement of deal between Apple and world's largest carrier
A website owned by a subsidiary of China Mobile has begun taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, the first time any site affiliated with China's (and the world's) largest carrier has done so. The move signals a formal deal between Apple and the carrier, which has taken some six years to put together -- and marks the opportunity of a lifetime for Apple to make more serious inroads in China's expanding smartphone market.
Apple's future phone takes on the Google phone
Two of the hottest smartphones on the market right now come from two companies that were once close allies, but have been divided by Google's decision to enter into the smartphone market with a very similar product. While Apple may or may not have legitimate grievances about what transpired depending on your view, there can be little question that consumers have benefited as a result of what transpired. While their current respective flagship smartphones offer similar functionality, the Apple iPhone 5s and the Google Nexus 5 are both symbolic of how the two companies differ fundamentally in their approach to winning customers. So which is best?
Appalachian Wireless deal valid today only
T-Mobile is planning to cut down payments for the iPhone 5s and 5c to zero on Black Friday, according to a leaked memo. Normally T-Mobile charges $149 for the 5s, and $49 for the 5c. The deal should officially run Friday through Sunday, although a "select number" of stores will reportedly begin discounts on Thursday evening. On Cyber Monday, T-Mobile will adjust down payments to $50 and $10, respectively, before scaling back up to full price.
Supplier adds more workers to assembly lines
The recent uptick in iPhone 5s supplies is connected to "around the clock" production at Foxconn, and more people being brought onto assembly lines, says the Wall Street Journal. At the supplier's Zhengzhou facilities, 100 lines are said to be operating at all hours for the 5s, with about 600 people per line. "We have been churning out about 500,000 iPhone 5ss everyday, the highest daily output ever," an anonymous Foxconn executive is quoted as saying.
Supplies finally catching up to demand
Roughly 90 percent of iPhone 5s models are back in stock at US Apple Stores, according to data collected by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Breaking figures down by carrier, the two biggest US providers -- AT&T and Verizon -- are showing 99 and 98 percent availability, respectively. The ratio shrinks to 72 percent for Sprint; unmentioned are figures for T-Mobile or SIM-free models.
Apple Stores now selling Mini to walk-in shoppers
Apple's US online storefront has begun selling SIM-free unlocked models of the iPhone 5s. Units are currently shipping in 1 to 2 weeks. T-Mobile models are also unlocked, and shipping in just 3 to 5 days, but going with the SIM-free option may save some hassle for people choosing AT&T or a pre-paid GSM carrier.
Document kept out of public eye until after 5s launch
The US Patent and Trademark Office has published an Apple patent application for the technology inside its Touch ID fingerprint sensor. The document is titled Capacitive Sensor Packaging, and was originally submitted on March 15th. Like a number of Apple filings, though, it appears to have been kept secret until after the product associated with the technology launched.
Availability at retail improving just as holiday season gets underway
The iPhone 5s, initially constrained by severe shortages on its debut, is now much more readily available at retail (though the "gold" option is still more scarce than the other colors), and Apple on Monday reduced the ship time to "3-5 business days" across all models and capacities. The move indicates that the company is feeling more confident about having the stock levels necessary to meet demand over the holidays - where Apple is expected to break its own and industry records for sales.
May be supported by recent claims of production scaling
Apple's main assembly partner, Foxconn, is halting production of the iPhone 5c at its Zhengzhou factory and shifting the labor towards the iPhone 5s, sources tell Digitimes. While Digitimes has a mixed track record, the claim is consistent with recent reports of cutbacks in 5c production. Foxconn in particular is said to be churning out just 8,000 to 9,000 units a day; the core 5c manufacturer, Pegatron, has allegedly scaled back from 320,000 phones per day in October to just 80,000.
Most buyers still existing iPhone owners
The number of new iPhone buyers switching from an Android device increased during the launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c, a new Consumer Intelligence Research Partners study claims. The firm interviewed 400 buyers of the new iPhones during the devices' first 30 days, and found that about 20 percent of them were coming over from Android. That compares with only 16 percent for the launch of the iPhone 5 in 2012.
Full discount limited to retail stores
As planned, Sprint-owned Boost Mobile has begun sales of the iPhone 5s and 5c. The prepaid carrier is offering roughly $100 off Apple's pricing if a phone is ordered online. A previously unannounced promotion, however, is that through November 24th, people buying any device in-store will be eligible for an additional $100 off, so long as they're switching from another carrier.
IFTTT introduces iOS Photos, Reminders compatibility
Productivity app IFTTT (pronounced like 'gift' without the 'g') has released its latest update, version 1.2. IFTTT allows users to enter formulaic commands (called 'Recipes') to complete tasks between apps and web services (called 'Channels'). Version 1.2 has introduced Actions for iOS Photos and Reminders, as well as a new Feedback button within Settings. The background syncing has been improved for iOS 7, and new swipe gestures have been added. IFTTT is available on iTunes for free download.
Plan should save time, money for Apple
Apple will soon start offering in-store repairs for the iPhone 5s and 5c, sources say. The people explain that clerks will soon be able to replace several individual parts of the phones, instead of having to simply hand someone a new unit. To deal with the complexity of replacing a touchscreen, Apple Stores will reportedly get special machines needed to calibrate displays. Clerks will also be able to replace parts like volume buttons, vibration motors, speakers, and even the rear camera; only the 5c's button is expected to be replaceable, however, since it's believed that the 5s' Touch ID sensor may be too complicated.
Currently limited to iPhone 5s, program tracks all motion
On Monday, Nike debuted its new Nike+ Move app (free) on the iOS App Store following its appearance at the iPhone unveiling in September. The app, which leverages the motion data found in the iPhone 5s' M7 co-processor, effectively turns the premium smartphone into a whole new level of fitness app, mimicking wearable but more primitive fitness monitors like Nike's own Fuelband, the Fitbit Flex or the Jawbone Up, among many other rivals.
Reliance now carrying iPhone 5s and 5c on contract
For the first time ever, iPhone fans in India will be able to buy Apple's phones in a subsidized manner. Reliance Communications, India's third-largest telecom, is now offering the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on contract, according to The Wall Street Journal. The carrier's decision to offer a contract option signals a willingness to try again in an arena that has proved difficult to maintain in India.
Contract-free 5s starts at $550
Prepaid carrier Boost Mobile has revealed prices for its November 8th launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c. 5s models will run $550 for 16GB, $650 for 32GB, and $750 for 64GB. A 16GB 5c will be $450, while 32GB will cost $650. People wanting a cheaper iPhone will be able to opt for a $300 iPhone 4S.
First fully-subsidized iPhone offered in India.
The iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c have gone on sale in 12 more countries, following its original launch on September 20th and later expansion to 28 more countries on October 25th. India, one of the new countries to receive the Apple smartphones, will now have its first fully-subsidized iPhone on sale as part of a new contract.
People with problems allowed to contact AppleCare on their own
Sources have revealed more details of Apple's iPhone 5s battery recall. The people explain that while Apple will be individually contacting customers with affected serial numbers, a 5s owner can also contact AppleCare on their own if they feel they're having battery trouble. At that point an AppleCare worker will check the phone's serial number against the list of eligible replacements, and issue one if it fits; otherwise, regular support procedures will take over.