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SPICKARD, Mo. – Farmers gathered at a University of Missouri field day to hear about better breeding of cow herds listened to positive news on beef prices for 2014 and beyond.
Scott Brown, MU livestock economist, told producers he had a “glass half full” outlook. “There are lots of positive signs for fed cattle prices to top $1.30 a pound in 2014,” he said.
“The fundamentals are there. Corn prices are headed down to 2010 levels. And fed cattle prices will range much higher than in 2010.”
His crop slide showed current futures prices for corn near $4.50 per bushel in 2014.
He showed fed cattle dipped below 80 cents in 2010, and that current future feeder calf prices for 2014 run $50 higher per hundred than in 2010.
A big difference has been continued drop in cow herd numbers. “Beef inventory is low. Short supply leads to higher prices,” Brown said.
Domestic consumer demand remains critical for continued higher beef prices. However, demand is not clear, Brown said. It has been in steady decline since the start of the Great Recession and recovery remains slow.
“The economy affects how much beef people eat,” he added.
However, international demand continues strong. South Korea, Japan and China are growing influences.
“It’s difficult to get good numbers out of China,” Brown said. “But think of the potential. They have 1.3 billion people and their income grows at 7 percent per year. They want more beef. International demand remains important to beef producers.”
Brown spoke at Thompson Farm, the MU beef research center in Grundy County. Research in the cow herd there led to improved breeding protocols that boost beef quality. The herd research is part of the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Columbia.
For the last of his talk, Brown told of the economic importance of growing quality beef.
“Food service companies tell us they want more prime beef – and are willing to pay for it,” Brown said.
Demand charts show USDA prime, the top grade, gaining value while USDA select, the lowest grade found in meat cases, continues to slip in value.
If you are producing beef, produce for prime markets, Brown said.
“If weather improves, 2014 will be the time to rebuild the cow herd,” he said. “If you rebuild, replace with quality genetics. Use genetics that convert feed more efficiently and produce high-quality beef that consumers want.”
Brown cited the work of Dave Patterson, MU beef reproduction specialist. Calves from the Thompson Farm herd consistently produce steers that grade 30 percent prime. The rate of prime-grade cattle at U.S. processing plants runs near 3 percent.
“Quality breeding gives a tenfold increase in prime grade,” Brown said. “The technology is here to rebuild with quality.”
An MU educational program, “Quality Beef by the Numbers,” helps producers capture dollars from proven genetics.
Feeding cattle can be risky. Brown said raising the highest-quality cattle increases prices, smooths volatility and reduces risks.
The economist had to show his other hand. Good prices in 2014 depend on no droughts, growing demand, no severe disease outbreaks and lower trade barriers.
Technology for quality beef is on the shelf, awaiting use, he said.
“The outlook for 2014 is a lot different than anything we’ve seen in a long time,” Brown said. “It’s an exciting time to be in the cattle business.”


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Happy families! Selena Gomez spends time with her stepdad as they jet home from work trip to Germany
He's the father of her new baby sister.
And it is clear that Selena Gomez has a very happy relationship with her stepfather Brian.
The two giggled as they walked past photographers on their arrival in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old wrapped an arm around that of her stepdad, who guided her past the paparazzi.
Happy family: Selena Gomez gets a helping hand from her stepdad Brian as she arrives in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday afternoon
The Disney pop star has plenty to smile about following the arrival of her new sibling.
Brian and her mother Mandy welcomed little Gracie Elliot Teefey on June 12, and Selena has already being spotted playing the doting big sister with the tiny tot.
And it looks as if Brian is helping out with parenting duties while Mandy tends to their newborn - accompanying his stepdaughter on her trip to Europe.
Selena was back in Los Angeles after spending a few days in Germany promoting her fashion line with Adidas.
Close: Selena and Brian obviously get along brilliantly
Selena, 20, donned an eye catching oversized hooded sweater from Adidas' Neo line which, in neon green, demanded attention.
The star also added a pair of skin tight black jeans showing off her slender legs, a pair of motorcycle boots and carried a dark green handbag.
Selena's make up
choice also turned heads.
Wearing her brown flowing hair out in waves, the singer made her lips the centre of attention donning a bright red shade.
Look at me: The singer made her lips the centre of attention donning a bright red shade
Neon love: The 20-year-old donned an eye catching oversized hooded sweater from Adidas' Neo line
The more than 50 piece collection dubbed Neo, is a the street wear range that includes shoes and clothing and is aimed at teenage girls.
Selena says the clothing is about having confidence and fun with you look.
Launching the line she said: 'My collection has a rock chic theme and it's confident, rebellious and fun.
'It's also a little bit darker and I think it encourages girls to put their own stamp on their individuality and show confidence in what they are wearing.'
Designing diva: Selena was back in Los Angeles after spending a few days in Germany promoting her fashion line, Neo, with Adidas
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Tuesday talk: Can Michelle Obama make kids slimmer
Posted February 15, 2010 11:24 p.m. EST
It's the second Tuesday for our Tuesday Talk series and this week, hopefully, we'll get some discussion on a topic a little more serious than last week's (which was do you make or buy Valentine's): First Lady Michelle Obama's new campaign to thin down our kids.
Last week, Mrs. Obama launched the campaign and a website at letsmove.gov, with tips for parents, healthy recipes and more details about her plans.
Mrs. Obama already has put a spotlight on food and what we eat in the last year. Thanks to her, the White House has its first vegetable garden in decades. And she has spoken frequently about her own family's reliance on fast and processed foods until her daughters' pediatrician raised some warning flags.
In her announcement last week, the First Lady said it was crucial to get a handle on childhood obesity. About a third of children are obese, according to the Let's Move website. Overall, obesity rates in the United States have tripled in the last 30 years. And American children may face a shorter than expected lifespan than their parents.
The campaign will aim to give parents support they need, work to provide healthier food in schools, help kids be more physically active and make healthy, affordable food available in all parts of the country.
So what do you think? Is childhood obesity a problem? Will this work?


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China.com Inc., an 81%-owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (CHINA) announced that the company's 48%-owned online gaming subsidiary, Beijing 17game Network Technology Company, has achieved over 9 million registered accounts to its game, Yulgang.
The game's commercial launch came on July 15, 2005. Yulgang is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with 2.5D graphics and cartoon-style characters developed by MGame in Korea.
The remaining 52% of 17game is owned by 17game's founders and employees and the cCompany has a right to buy these remaining shares of 17game that it does not otherwise own.
Since the game was launched commercially in mid July, it has reached its highest level of concurrent users during peak usage periods of over 215,000.


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Regent Seven Seas 2025 World Cruise sold out in record time
For the fourth year running, Regent Seven Seas Cruises has sold out its world cruise quicker than ever before.
The sailing was completely reserved prior to officially opening for bookings on June 15, 2022.
The sailing at 150 nights is the longest in the cruise line’s history.
Regent previously broke its world cruise opening day record in July 2021 when the cruise line’s 2024 World Cruise went on sale.
“We have received unprecedented interest in this sailing and this phenomenal booking record shows once again that peopleare now open to travel and are not going to wait around and let opportunities pass them by,” Jason Montague, President and Chief Executive Officer Regent Seven Seas Cruises.
Regent’s 2025 World Cruise – Away in Wonder – sets sail on January 7, 2025, from Miami.
Guests will visit 97 ports of call in 25 countries on five continents.
In-port overnights include Rio de Janeiro, Bora Bora, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
The itinerary provides access to 48 UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as Rapa Nui National Park from Hanga Roa on Easter Island and the Sydney Opera House .
Guests can also add an additional 18-night sailing to the 2025 World Cruise.
The additional voyage sails the Mexican Riviera from San Francisco to Miami, visiting Costa Rica, Colombia and a full transit of the Panama Canal.


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This video is a segment from the CNN Style show.
David Gandy is best known for his ubiquitous Dolce & Gabbana
campaigns, endless magazine covers and sophisticated personal style.
But the supermodel -- who was the second highest paid male model of 2016 -- is also a proud petrolhead, with an enviable collection that includes stand-outs from Mercedes, Porsche and the British brand Jaguar
The latter should come as no surprise. An ambassador for London's menswear fashion week
(which opens today) and household name across the United Kingdom, Gandy has positioned himself as an authority and advocate for a certain type of British cool.
"I love everything British classic," Gandy told CNN Style show host Derek Blasberg. "It's why I've always supported heritage brands (and) supported Savile Row, where, basically, a three-piece suit was invented. And Jaguar virtually invented the two-seated sportscar."
Jaguar started building 25 XKSSs in 1957, but fire stopped progress. Now the British brand is going to make the remaining cars. Credit: courtesy jaguar
Like most car enthusiasts, Gandy was intrigued when the marque revealed last spring that it would be resurrecting its XKSS supercar
-- the three-time Le Mans-winning two-seater beloved by Steve McQueen.
Jaguar had meant to build 25 of the XKSS in the 1950s, but nine of the original run were destroyed in a 1957 fire.
The new cars -- called "continuation" models -- have been built to the same specifications of the originals. All nine have already sold (reportedly for more than $1 million each), but Gandy was given the once-in-a-lifetime to opportunity to drive one himself ahead of the Los Angeles Auto Show
Watch the video above to find out more about the rebirth of the Jaguar XKSS and Gandy's life-long love of cars.


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On Microsoft's Windows 8 launch date this Friday, Hulu will roll out Hulu Plus for Windows 8, a TV viewing app optimized for the new touch-enabled, tile-based OS.
Apple unveiled the 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display at today's Apple Press event. The notebook will look to offer the same visual experience as its 15-inch counterpart, and will be available for purchase starting now for $1,700.
With the release of Windows 8 quickly approaching, Dell is taking the opportunity to reveal its full line-up of PCs and tablets designed to take full advantage of the features present in the upcoming OS. In addition to revealing its extensive PC portfolio, Dell has also made a number of these products available for purchase today.
Despite some confusion surrounding the term, the demand for Ultrabooks is expected to grow significantly over the next few years and will generate revenues of close to $76B in 2016, as compared with $1.3B last year.
Seagate Technology has introduced SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to its Backup Plus storage for Mac, which means faster backups and data transfers.
WD has announced My Passport Enterprise, a portable hard drive aimed specifically at Microsoft's Windows To Go. Windows To Go allows users to put a copy of Windows 8 on bootable USB drives, which can be loaded onto a computer and used as a desktop environment.
With a new Win8-only product now on the way, WinZip's just shipped version 17 adds features for secure file and photo sharing across Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP.
In case you missed it, Google and Samsung have teamed up to release the latest version of the Chrome OS-based Chromebook; powered by a fanless dual-core A15 ARM processor and featuring an 11.6-inch display, this "browser in a box" might be all the laptop some people need.
Looking at Intel's Ultrabook requirements is perhaps the best way to define the new notebook sub-genre, but it doesn't necessarily tell the whole story.
What are they and what will they become? We take a closer look at the changing face of the Ultrabook category in our special report.
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There are now computers in everything, or put another way, everything is now a computer. That’s how cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier described the internet of things (IoT) at a House hearing last year following a major cyberattack on DNS provider Dyn.
As Schneier further explained in the same hearing, a phone is a computer that makes phone calls; a refrigerator is a computer that keeps things cold; an ATM machine is a computer with money inside; a car is not a mechanical device with computers, but a computer with four wheels and an engine.
And all of those computers are connected to the internet, thus the name internet of things. In a nutshell, the internet of things is the world wide web reaching beyond the virtual world of desktop and laptop computers and becoming integrated into the physical world. Continue reading
Juicero smart-juicer device. Source: Juicero
Early this month, the widely ridiculed juice-squeezing company Juicer, which managed to raise the absurd amount of $120 million in funding from Silicon Valley investors, declared its shutdown. The startup’s demise, which is another manifestation of solutions to non-problems, also points out another endemic problem with our increasingly connected world: the fate of connected devices after the end of their companies.
20 years ago, when you bought a fridge or dishwasher or washing machine for your home, it wouldn’t make much of a difference to you if the company that created the appliance would go bankrupt or remained in business. You would install it in a corner in your home and let it work for years, until it was time to replace it.
Soon enough, that may no longer be the case, thanks to the increasing number of “smart” appliances that are entering consumers’ homes. Continue reading
By Alyssa Winters, TopReveal
There are so many advantages of new smart home technology trends. In this short article, we are going to talk about how these smart home technology trends can help you save some money. Living in a smart home can really be fun.
Today, many American homeowners drive pleasure in automating daily functions of their homes such as climate control, entertainment, security, lighting etc. According to a recent study, about 45% of people choosing to remodel their homes in developed countries especially Europe and America are interested in adding at least one smart device to it. Continue reading
It’s fair to say that artificial intelligence has helped online shopping take huge leaps and leave brick-and-mortar retail behind in terms of innovation and efficiency. There are no in-store equivalents for the personalized features that you find in e-commerce platforms.
The main hurdle to putting AI to use in retail is data, the new gold, and the reason companies such as Google and Facebook are offering you their services for free. Online shopping platforms provide a direct interface to the customer. This is useful to gather tons of information about every user, including the products they view, their search queries, items they add to or remove from their shopping carts, points where they abandon a purchase, and even the items they pause or hovered on. Continue reading
Unfortunately, it is fair to say that the vulnerabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) are preceding its innovations and utilities. From the hacking of the Ukraine power grid, to last year’s DDoS attack against the Dyn DNS provider, IoT devices are behind security incidents of all sizes.
The IoT industry is exposing how putting connectivity into anything and everything opens up a Pandora’s box of vulnerabilities, and give cybercriminals limitless ways to hurt their victims. One area of concern are smart homes, where a slew of not-so-secure devices are finding their way and exposing their owners to unprecedented threats.
In this month’s interview, Leon Kuperman, CTO of smart firewall manufacturer CUJO, discussed IoT security threats and new approaches to securing the homes of the future. Continue reading
Yes, this is going to be another rant about the state of insecurity in the Internet of Things industry. But a good one.
Every once in awhile, I hear someone explain this most critical issue, which has been at the heart of so many security incidents in the past year, in a new, inspiring way. And I feel compelled to unpack and explain it for those who might have missed the important parts.
I had one of those moments of epiphany in this year’s TNW Conference, when Mikko Hypponen, the acclaimed cybersecurity expert from Finnish vendor F-Secure, delivered a speech titled “The Internet of Insecure Things.”
In the speech, Hypponen brushed upon some very interesting topics, including ransomware and IoT security. But there’s only so much you can pack into a 20-minute speech. Here are the key takeaways about IoT security. Continue reading
As artificial intelligence takes leaps at an increasing pace, there’s fear that robots will conquer the future and put humans out of jobs. While technological unemployment is a worry that has its own merits, there are some fields where there is already a shortage of human experts.
One of those fields is healthcare. It takes years of education and hands-on experience to train a decent doctor. And as the figures show, there’s a shortage of physicians everywhere.
Fortunately, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can help alleviate this problem. AI-powered tools can help healthcare workers and doctors improve precision and efficiency while lowering skill and energy requirements. This can effectively put more people into healthcare jobs while also bringing services to a larger number of people, especially in underserved areas. Continue reading


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The software giant hopes to reinvigorate its smartphone lineup by creating mobile devices it claims can be as powerful as PCs.
Job No. 1 for the new CEO: Revamp the stagnating microblogging service to make it more inviting for regular folks.
Technically Incorrect: In Russia, a so-called daredevil teen tries to take a picture while hanging from a rope off the side of a building. The rope snaps.
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Speaking at a conference in San Francisco, the social-networking giant's CEO says VR will eventually become a normal part of life, in the same way mobile devices have.
Google.com temporarily had a new owner on Tuesday. Former Googler Sanmay Ved says he successfully purchased the Internet's most visited website for as much as a fancy sandwich.
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Sears Canada plans to close all of its stores across the country. In a press release on Tuesday, Oct. 10, the iconic mid-priced department store, which filed for bankruptcy in June, announced that it plans to liquidate all of its remaining goods and assets, pending court approval.
“It is expected that liquidation sales at retail locations would commence no earlier than Oct. 19 and continue for 10 to 14 weeks,” reads the press release.
Affectionately remembered for its extensive mail-order catalogue, many middle-class Canadians will recall receiving Sears catalogue birthday gifts from far-away family members. First opened under the name Simpsons-Sears, the American company offered its mail-order catalogue in 1952, and, in the following year, opened its first store in Stratford Ont.
This latest news follows an announcement in June that said 59 Sears locations would be closing. In the intervening months, the lawyers of employees who were told they would not be receiving severance payments reached an agreement to create a $500,000 hardship fund.
In what appears to be another indicator of the death of the town centre, and traditional retail, 130 remaining Canadian locations will be closed. According to CTV News, this will leave 12,000 people without a job.
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Salman Khan Annouced Brand Ambassador Of Leading Bike Brand
By MovieTalkies.com, 19 April 2012 12:00 AM IST
Swanky cars are a thing of past now, at least for Salman Khan, as the actor will soon be seen promoting bikes. Salman has been signed as the brand ambassador of a leading two-wheeler manufacturer.
The 46-year-old actor is their first brand ambassador in India and the reason for this Dabangg choice is the actor's mass appeal. Also, Khan's iconic status and unique style goes well with company's recently adopted brand theme 'Apna Way of Life'.
The Vice President, sales and marketing, of the company, Atul Gupta was quoted saying, "We are delighted to have Salman Khan associating with one of the world's most iconic two-wheeler brands. We believe that Suzuki and Salman together will make an emotional connect with all sections of customers that Suzuki's range of two-wheelers reaches out to. The association with Salman was driven by the imperative of quickly building a strong connection between the Suzuki two-wheeler brand and the different segments that our expanding range of products is addressing."
"As we expand our portfolio, it was important to find a human face who can best portray and project our brand and product promise. Salman Khan is a passionate biker and a discerning brand endorser. His mass appeal, cutting across segments, complements the mass appeal of Suzuki. We also find broad synergy in his social initiatives such as Being Human and we will look for opportunities to expand the engagement to meaningful areas. The first Suzuki campaign featuring Salman will be based on the recently launched mass market motorcycle, Hayate and will be breaking shortly," Anu Anamika, National Marketing Head of the brand was quoted to have said.
With his platter full of endorsements it won’t be wrong to call Salman the new 'Campaign King'.


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The Forum has learned that A&P, the owner of Waldbaum’s supermarkets will not be closing either of their Howard Beach locations at this time.
After an article in last week’s issue outlining the rumors of possible store closings and deplorable conditions, a representative from the corporate offices of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company called the office to deny any rumors that they were closing and also to express the concern of the company in connection to the article.
Marcy Connor a spokesperson for A&P focused on three primary concerns. The first was a statement made in the article that corporate could not be reached for comment. The newspaper wishes to clarify the fact that our only attempts to contact corporate were abandoned after our call was picked up by an automated system with the offer to leave a message. It was late into the deadline period and we made the decision to include any statement by the corporate office in this week’s follow-up article.
Secondly, Connor maintained that the newspaper meant to represent that a photo of a Waldbaum’s sign used in the article was one of a Howard Beach store, but the photo’s caption made clear that the photo was definitely not taken at either Howard Beach location. The captions were also posted to the website on Monday afternoon.
Thirdly, there was expressed doubt that the photos were taken at the store location. Forum Publisher Patricia Adams offered Connor assurance by explaining that she had taken the photos at the Crossbay Boulevard location herself and also explained that there were other photos in which identifiers had been photographed such as the unit pricing stickers on the shelves and the surrounding area to that in the photos used.
“A&P does not have any current plans to close either of our Howard Beach Waldbaum’s stores. We are committed to providing our customers with an enhanced shopping experience where they can enjoy clean conditions, in-stock shelves and great customer service.”
The e-mail further stated , “We also plan to submit a Letter to the Editor to help correct the impression that the initial article left with your readers.”
Although the company continues with their concern about the article misrepresenting conditions in the store, there was no explanation as to how the company would solve the problems that are upsetting to customers.
Unsanitary conditions, outdated dairy products, molded produce items and mouse droppings found on a shelf have all been cited by residents who have been interviewed as a result of The Forum’s probe into the conditions at Waldbaum’s.
In the e-mail sent Monday the parent corporation announced their intention to make sure customers would have clean conditions.
On Wednesday, The Forum visited both locations in Howard Beach to see if there were any signs of notable change. At the Cross Bay store, 6 oz. clamshells of Driscoll’s raspberries were on sale for 2/$4.00. At current market prices the sale represents about a 35-45 % discount, however both boxes, chosen completely at random, contained molded berries.
A return trip to the store for further visual investigation provided the information that with the exception of four boxes out of eighteen more we looked at, all contained at least three molded berries.
Upon closer inspection of the packages that were purchased, it was discovered that the mold had completely taken over the center of the pile of berries inside the plastic.
For more coverage and our response to the Letter to the Editor from A&P.
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U.S. consumer confidence -- Today’s preliminary Dec U.S. consumer confidence index from the University of Michigan is expected to rise by +0.7 points to 89.5, adding to November’s rise of +1.9 points to a 7-1/3 year high 88.8. If today’s consumer confidence report shows an increase from November, then U.S. consumer confidence in early December will have pushed to a new 7-1/3 year high in the heat of the holiday shopping season. U.S. consumer confidence is currently at the highest level since July 2007, which was five months before the 2007/09 U.S. recession officially began in Dec 2007. Yesterday’s stronger-than-expected Nov retail sales report of +0.7% and +0.5% ex-autos was an encouraging signal for holiday shopping sales.
U.S. PPI -- The market is expecting today’s Nov final-demand PPI report to fall to +1.4% y/y from +1.5% y/y in October. However, excluding food and energy, the market is expecting today’s Nov final-demand core PPI to be unchanged at +1.8% y/y from October. The plunge in gasoline prices seen over the past five months is obviously going to have a big impact on the headline U.S. CPI, PPI and deflator figures, meaning the Fed will have to pay more attention to the core figures to gauge what is really going on with inflation from a monetary policy standpoint.


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SIAL GLOBAL FOOD INDUSTRY SUMMIT HELPED CREATE CONNECTIONS APLENTY, SPEAKER SAYS
A speaker who participated in the recent SIAL Global Food Industry Summit has said the event has generated heavy interest from a wide variety of organisations in the food industry.
Zongjiu Dai, president of China Vegetable Marketing Association, said the three-day online summit “empowered the food industry with worldwide insights and prospective opinions”.
Running from May 18 to 20 in Chinese and English, the SIAL Global Food Industry Summit ran brought together, through webinars and livestreaming, speakers from multiple countries and numerous food industry sectors.
Mr Dai gave a keynote speech on the second day of the SIAL Global Food Industry Summit on how to overcome agricultural product shortages, a particularly relevant topic given current strains on global food supply chains.
“After the speech, within two weeks, our association received inquiries from different entities such as governments, institutions and enterprises across the country,” Mr Dai said.
These organisations were eager to learn about constructing cold chain logistics infrastructure for agricultural products, the digitisation of wholesale markets for agricultural products, and the construction of “a unified national market”.
“The SIAL Global Food Industry Summit has built an important platform for efficient communication between us and the various business entities of the food (agricultural products) industry,” Mr Dai added.
“We are grateful to SIAL for the efficient organisation and great effort.”
The SIAL Global Food Industry Summit featured, Mr Dai said, world-renowned economists and entrepreneurs, and representatives of international organisations, who took part “to share their insights into various themes”.
“[This showed] that SIAL Shanghai is playing an increasingly important role in the world food trade,” Mr Dai said.
During the same week as the SIAL Global Food Industry Summit was held, SIAL Think Tank and SIAL Just Order, both of which were livestreamed, also took place. The events together made up SIAL International Food Week, which ran from May 16 to 20.
Mr Dai said the events that formed SIAL Global Food Week attracted a total of 100,000 professionals, facilitated nearly 1,000 online B2B interactions and were reported by more than 600 media and information platforms.
As well as many millions of web hits to stories from the event, there was a total of 1,000,000 views of live streaming, he added.
“It has built a very important ecosystem for the global food industry to, ‘seek cooperation, promote trade, and develop opportunities,’” Mr Dai said.
During his talk at the SIAL Global Food Industry Summit, Mr Dai gave suggestions for developing the distribution of agricultural products in China, which he said was currently “fragmented”.
Among his proposals was a strengthening of the agricultural product cold chain infrastructure and the establishment of a unified system of standards and policy support for the industry.
He put forward many ideas to achieve these aims, including improving the laws and regulatory system of the agricultural wholesale market, and ensuring that consumers were assured that a system was in place to monitor the safety of agricultural products.
Regarding current upheavals in Europe, Mr Dai told SIAL Paris Newsroom that their main effect had been to tighten global food supply and increase prices of soybeans, wheat, corn and other bulk agricultural products. He said the Chinese authorities had long prioritised the supply and safety of grains.
“Overall, China grain reserves are generally sufficient, and there is no shortage concerns in short term,” he said.
“Specifically, although there are a lot of rice, wheat and corn in our inventory, there are not many oilseeds and sugars; and in terms of quality, the wheat inventory is mainly medium-gluten, and strong and weak gluten still have to be imported.
“Therefore, from a comprehensive perspective analysis, the sharp rise in global grain prices will inevitably have a certain degree of impact on the grain supply.”
The SIAL Global Food Industry Summit was originally scheduled to coincide with SIAL Shanghai, a three-day event that is one of the world’s top three food and beverage exhibitions.
However, as reported by SIAL Paris Newsroom, SIAL Shanghai has been postponed to December 7 to 9 because of coronavirus-related restrictions in place in Shanghai when the show was originally scheduled.
To be held at Shanghai New International Expo Centre, SIAL Shanghai will have more than 180,000 square metres of exhibition space featuring over 4,500 exhibitors, and is set to attract more than 150,000 industry professionals.


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Hirofumi Kurino from United Arrows and Simone Cipriani from the Ethical Fashion Initiative discuss the creative partnership that led them to hitch a ride to Ethiopia. Then the CEO of Oliver Peoples explains why the US eyewear brand is making moves in Europe. And Palida Boonyarungsrit reveals how she’s leveraging her family’s multigenerational history of craft in Thailand to create her very own business.
28 September 2016
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Hirofumi Kurino is creative director of Japanese brand United Arrows, Simone Cipriani is director of the Ethical Fashion Initiative that connects developing-world artisans with the global fashion industry, and Miguel Fluxá is CEO of Spanish shoe brand Camper. Together they’re developing a collection of leather shoes in Ethiopia. Cipriani and Kurino explain their partnership and the project’s origins and vision.
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US eyewear brand Oliver Peoples was founded in 1987 in West Hollywood. Its growth has been steady ever since and this month it opened its first European shop on London’s Sloane Street. The company’s CEO David Schulte speaks to Monocle’s Henry Rees-Sheridan to explain how the brand maintains quality as it grows.
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Family companies are tricky things. For the next generation, the ever-present decision is whether to take on the burden of the business or venture out on one’s own. For Palida Boonyarungsrit the answer lies somewhere in between. Her family company has decades of experience in craft and interior design in Thailand. While she might one day take on the business, first she’s starting small, working with artistans in the family workshop to produce gorgeous boxes using super high-end materials.
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In a stinging attack directed at Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, the son of HP co-founder David Packard has accused Carly Fiorina of exploiting his father's words and image to sell the company's bid to buy Compaq.
David W. Packard addressed Fiorina in a full-page newspaper ad blasting HP's repeated use of his father's quote -- "To remain static is to lose ground" -- to portray the $24 billion merger as the way for HP to become a more competitive company.
"As a professional marketer, you know how to enhance your message by invoking the image of an admired person," Packard said in the ad published in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. "But my father's quote has no relevance to your argument."
The main text began, "Ms. Fiorina, your recent advertisement misappropriates Dave Packard's words."
Packard's offensive came as Walter Hewlett, the son of HP co-founder William Hewlett, released another report disputing some of HP's claims about the merits of the deal.
In his ad, Packard defended Hewlett's position, "preferring organic growth" that focuses on "product innovation" and "manageable acquisitions."
He said HP "thrived for 60 years without a single colossal merger remotely approaching the scale of Compaq."
"Was HP 'losing ground' all those years?" Packard asked.
He said hundreds of HP employees have sent him "eloquent, passionate letters" opposing the merger.
"I received 200 letters against the merger before I got a single letter in favor," Packard said, noting the importance of employee "trust and loyalty."
Packard has argued that the merger would undermine HP's culture, known affectionately in the firm as "the HP Way," and criticized the plan to cut 15, 000 jobs as part of the deal.
Packard invoked another quote from his father: "More companies die of indigestion than starvation."
"There is now a real danger that HP will die of a broken heart," he said.
The ad said it was written and paid for by Packard "acting as an individual. " It also cited his service on the HP board from 1987 to 1999 and mentioned that he worked as a "loyal HP (summer) employee" in the late 1950s.
This was apparently in response to HP's recent letter to shareholders, which implicitly belittled Hewlett's credentials by referring to him as a "musician and academic" who had never worked at the company.
HP spokeswoman Rebeca Robboy declined comment on the ad, but said: "The upcoming vote is about one thing: the best way to strengthen HP and deliver substantial shareowner value."
In yesterday's filing, Hewlett disputed HP's financial analysis of the planned merger, particularly the claim that the deal would create additional value of $5 to $9 per share.
"HP's analysis creates a false impression of value," he said in a statement.
In a statement issued in reply, HP said its analysis "reflects detailed, business-by-business analysis involving highly experienced management teams and their business, legal and financial advisers."
"Mr. Hewlett's press release merely recycles prior assertions in an attempt to breathe life into arguments that have been previously discredited," it said.
Analyst Andrew Neff of Bear Stearns said "projections are always a judgment call."
Martin Reynolds of Gartner Dataquest said that "with the information we have today, it's not possible to say either side is right."
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Standout winners of Startup Challenge share insights, latest news
By Sophia Huang McKenzie | February 6, 2019
Central Coast entrepreneurs face off again this spring for a share of $50,000 in prize money at the annual Startup Challenge Monterey Bay sponsored by the College of Business’s Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (iiED). The Challenge offers four divisions of competition: Venture for businesses that intend to scale into large enterprises and can provide venture-capital level returns to investors; Main Street for small businesses, sole proprietorships, and non-profits; Student for middle through graduate school students; and Social Venture, a new division added this year for businesses with a social mission.
Past winners Cruz Foam, Katie’s Coldpress and HeavyConnect are standouts flourishing in the region. Monterey Bay magazine recently checked in with the businesses to find out their latest news and to ask them how the Startup Challenge impacted their entrepreneurial journeys.
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He also made it known to press officers that as from Monday 5000 decoders would be given freely to customers in selected states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja; this is to enable the company test the signal and services of its new Cable TV.
Speaking to pressmen, he said, “We have not commenced commercial sales of our decoders because we are aware of the fact that we are running a business easily frustrated by competition.
“We had applications from over 3,000 individuals who want to be our dealers, so far we have cleared about 750 of the dealers.
We are currently conducting due diligence checks. We do not want a situation where individuals posing as dealers buy up our decoders and go dump them somewhere.”
Echefur further debunked the fake news being circulated around that TSTV has no rights to broadcast EPL and other European football matches, “It would assist ABS take Nollywood and Sport to great heights. Their sport channels is the bomb! EPL, La liga, and Champion League are amazing!
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- Jimmy John’s new loyalty rewards program ‘Freaky Fast Rewards’ sees over 2 million sign-ups since its pilot launch in March.
- The program allows customers to order, collect, redeem and pay all through a specialized mobile experience.
- The fast-food restaurant has nearly 2,800 locations across 43 states many of which are franchised.
In the hyper-competitive restaurant industry visit frequency and customer loyalty are keys to success. US sandwich company Jimmy John’s is hoping to capture both with the rollout of their new digital customer loyalty program, ‘Freaky Fast Rewards’.
The fast-food chain tested out the new loyalty program for eight-months in select locations. CMO John Shea found the results “encouraging” with nearly 2 million signups since March and more than 1.7 million total rewards redeemed to date.
Jimmy John’s says the loyalty program will continue to deliver on the brand’s signature speed. ‘Freaky Fast Rewards’ digital experience has been designed to ensure a frictionless customer experience from sign-up through to earning, redemption, and payment.
The program features one-tap technology, allowing members to use Apple Pay or Google Pay to earn and pay by tapping their phones. It is also integrated into jimmyjohns.com and the mobile app encouraging customers to order ahead.
“At Jimmy John’s, we have amazing customers, and we’re committed to rewarding them for their loyalty,” CMO John Shea said in a release. “Freaky Fast Rewards is a best-in-class program that makes earning rewards fast and easy.”
Personalized messaging and increased redemption options help brands stand out in the crowded restaurant space. ‘Freaky Fast Rewards’ joins a growing list of programs currently available to restaurant-goers. Starbucks’ loyalty rewards program has over 16 million US members, and the coffee chain reported that those Rewards transactions accounted for 40% of tender in US company-operated stores in the past two years as of December 2018.
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When you buy something at a store, if you can't carry the item yourself, you usually put it in either a paper bag, a re-usable cloth bags or go the easy route and fill up a plastic bag or two. But what if each flimsy little bag cost you an extra five cents?
Statewide, we use about 23 billion a year. If that upsets you, you typically bring your own reusable bags like Sue Gyore.
"Because if you look around at the sides of the roads," says Gyore, "you see all the plastic that's floating around that doesn't get cleaned up."
Some shoppers bring the plastic bags back to the store to be recycled into new bags, but you'll get differing opinions about actually paying a bag tax.
"I know there is an environmental cost to the bags I use, I'd be willing to do that," Kathie Hetterich told us.
"We've got enough taxes here and it just adds to it and to me -- it's just kind of ridiculous," Jeannette Taylor said.
Still, it's hard to ignore the problems created by bags. "This is a litter problem and it’s an environmental problem -- it's a modern problem," says Steve Acquario, executive director of the state Association of Counties.
Acquario was just named to the governor's task force on plastic bags. They'll decide on how to fix problem.
"This is a very consumer-friendly bag right now," he says. "They have multi-functional uses beyond just a grocery store, but what's ending up happening here is they are blowing around littering the environment, clogging up the recycling mechanisms (because they cannot be recycled within cardboard, cans, bottles). They gunk up the machines there and they get stuck in the environment and take a long time to degrade."
Estimates vary on plastic decomposition, from 20 years to thousands of years, but the litter issue prompted California and Hawaii to enact bans.
Some 200 municipalities around the country have also enacted laws and fees for bags. Like Washington D.C. where they've seen a 50 percent reduction in single-use bags.
Earlier this month, Governor Cuomo imposed a moratorium on a five cent fee which New York City was trying to enact. Cuomo didn't like that the money would go: to the retailers, an estimated $100 million dollars a year, not to environmental causes.
Remember the bottle bill 30 years ago? At first the money went to retailers then the state changed things.
Acquario: "80 to 90 percent of the bottle bill now goes back to state Department of Environmental Conservation."
Rebecca Leclair: "People are going to feel this is a tax, particularly a tax on food and groceries that are basic commodities that people need."
Acquario: "I think we have to look at the fee. I think we have to look at if that is burdensome if it has a pro-consumer, pro-environment effect. We don't know, but I think everything's on the table in this regard. Whether there should be a fee, I'd rather not see a fee myself."
There is legislation in both the Senate and Assembly to tax plastic bags, but it's gone nowhere. Joe Errigo represents part of the Rochester region in the Assembly and was one of the first to say the state should not be regulating grocery bags. He even said, "Bag the task force." The first meeting of that state task force is Tuesday.
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Unlike past years, this year we dealing with not only the pandemic but also supply chain issues and inflation.
Video showed the moment Macy’s opened the doors to its flagship store in Midtown Manhattan at 6 a.m. after being closed on Thanksgiving Day.
A large crowd rushed in.
And across the Hudson River, the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey opened an hour later at 7 a.m.
It was the mall’s first year opening early for Black Friday, with more than 150 high-end and regular retail stores.
Alex Ferreira was the first man in line at the Foot Locker.
“Looking for anything I can make money on,” he said. “This is what I do.”
Many came with stacks of cash, ready to hunt down bargains.
To cope with supply chain shortages, many retailers did whatever they could to get stock in as early as possible, especially high-demand items like sneakers.
“Our retail partners have prepared,” said the American Dream Mall’s Melissa Howard. “We’re here. We are ready for everyone.”
Shoppers are expected to pay on average of between 5% to 17% more for toys, clothing, appliances, TVs and others purchases on Black Friday this year compared with last year, according to Aurelien Duthoit, senior sector advisor at Allianz Research.
TVs will see the highest price hike on average, up 17% from a year ago, according to the research firm. That’s because whatever discounts available will be applied to goods that are already expensive.
“I think it is going to be a messy holiday season,” said Neil Saunders, managing director at GlobalData Retail. “It will be a bit frustrating for retailers, consumers and the workers. We are going to see long lines. We are going to see messier stores. We are going to see delays as you collect online orders.”
For years, Black Friday has been losing importance. Since 2011, stores jumpstarted the holiday shopping season by opening their doors on Thanksgiving to compete with Amazon and other rising online threats. But the shift merely cannibalized Black Friday sales. The shopping bonanza was further diluted when stores started marketing Black Friday sales for the full week and then later for the month.
The pandemic further diminished the importance of the Black Friday event, though some experts still believe it will again be the busiest day of the year. Last year, retailers started to offer the big holiday sales earlier in October in an effort to spread out shopping for safety reasons and to smooth out online shipping peaks.
They also got rid of the Thanksgiving Day in-store shopping event and pushed all their discounts online. This year, retailers are embracing a similar strategy, though they are now pushing holiday discounts in stores as well.
Despite all the challenges, experts believe that sales for the Thanksgiving week and overall season will be strong.
U.S. retail sales, excluding auto and gas, from this past Monday through Sunday are expected to increase 10% from last year and 12.2% from the 2019 holiday season, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which measures overall retail sales across all payment types including cash and check.
Online sales are forecast to increase 7.1% for that week, a slowdown from the massive 46.4% gain in the same period a year ago when shoppers collectively pivoted to the internet instead of shopping in person, according to Mastercard. For the overall holiday season, online sales should increase 10% from a year ago, compared with a 33% increase last year, according to Adobe Digital Economy Index.
Sales on Black Friday are expected to surge 20% from a year ago as store traffic comes back.
For the November and December period, the National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, predicts that sales will increase between 8.5% and 10.5%. Holiday sales increased 8.2% in 2020 when shoppers, locked down during the early part of the pandemic, spent their money on pajamas and home goods.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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We’ve been working with the UKs leading confectionery wholesaler Hancocks for two years supporting their online offering for trade customers and its 14 depots dotted across the UK. The Loughborough based business has been around for over 60 years with more than 25,000 customers and 300 suppliers from around the globe.
Prior to our trade PR campaign and post Covid, the company had seen a fall in footfall in store but had seen considerable growth in the e-commerce platform both for direct deliveries and click and collect.
Over the last two years, we’ve worked with Hancocks to raise brand awareness, increase brand loyalty and encourage lapsed and new customers back to store and to the website.
We achieve regular coverage in their key trade titles including Retail News, Convenience Store and Asian Trader, championing new product development, partner brands, seasonal campaigns and offering commentary from key players within the business.
We also work closely with the stores to identify good stories to help them raise their profile locally.
During their 60th anniversary year (2022) we ran a 12 month campaign starting with the first of fourteen 60th anniversary events at their Loughborough store in February.
The result? Fourteen competitive stores hungry for media coverage, engaged with PR activity and enjoying celebrating the big birthday with their teams and customers new and old.
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The Google Nexus One launch has become the most controversial and confusing Android handset launch to date. With publicity “leaks” over the holiday season, the Nexus One handset received unprecedented buzz. This same hype helped create the expectation of a revolutionary Android handset and its potential to be aniPhone killer. To gauge the success of Google’s first handset launch, Flurry leveraged its analytics reach to estimate launch week sales of the Nexus One.
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It was just in October last year when the iPhone 12 rolled out, and it seems the next version of the Apple flagship smartphone may not unveil in the same month this year--earlier, in fact.
iPhone 13 Rumor: Out Third Week of September
According to a Macworld report, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives noted that Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 13 in the third week of September. Another reliable leaker, Sonny Dickson, revealed on Twitter that the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro would look like the iPhone 12, with maintaining the 512 GB maximum storage in current models, Forbes said.
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors, meanwhile, will be exclusive to the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max.
However, Apple actually has not announced what the official model name of the 2021 model of the iPhone would be. As such, a majority of respondents in a survey would like the Apple smartphone to be called anything but the iPhone 13.
According to a ZDNet report, the phone marketplace SellCell asked users what they want the next iPhone's name would be, with a whopping 74 percent wishing Apple won't choose the iPhone 13 as its model name. The survey further said that 38 percent of respondents want the next Apple smartphone to just be simply called the iPhone (2021), while 16 percent chose "iPhone 21," 13 percent selected iPhone 12S, and seven percent opted for 'iPhone 14."
iPhone 13 Rumor Will Retain Size, Shape of iPhone 12
Whatever the name the next iPhone would be, the 2021 iPhone models are expected to retain the overall size and shape of the iPhone 12, and this includes its flat edges, MacWorld further noted.
The mere alteration, rumors suggest, is the large camera bump and a change in the camera layout, as revealed in Dickson's tweet showing dummy models of the phone. This would corroborate previous rumors claiming that the cameras in the upcoming iPhone would be arranged diagonally instead of the current vertical layout. This larger camera bump would naturally make the 2021 iPhone slightly thicker than the iPhone 12.
Furthermore, the cameras on the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, and 13 Pro will have a similar f./1.6, seven-element wide-angle lens as the current models, with the 13 Pro Max having a seven-element lens with an enhanced f/1.5 aperture. The 13 Pro Max likewise will have the 120 Hz OLED ProMotion display.
It will also have smaller display cutout or notch for its TrueDepth and other sensors, with the speaker positioned on the top edge of the display that will make room for the camera and sensors to be placed in closer proximity. This smaller notch will clear room for the status bar, with a possible additional indicator icon on each side of the notch.
Other iPhone 13 Rumored Specs
While color options are still unknown, top leaker Max Weinberg bared that the next iPhone will get a new black matte option, which is darker than the graphite color in current models. It will also carry the same model lineup of a standard 5.4-inch iPhone 13 Mini, 6.1-inch iPhone 13, 6.1-inch iPhone 13 Pro, and 6.7-inch iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Moreover, it is said to carry the five nanometer A15 processor, higher capacity batteries with significant improvements to CPU and GPU performance and faster neural engine and image processor.
With its expected announcement in the third week of September, pre-orders for some models would start a few days after the announcement. The standard model is rumored to be priced at $799.


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A new Fossil smartwatch will be introduced soon. It will run on WearOS by Google as expected. There is no official announcement yet but a teaser was shared over at Reddit. Well, the Fossil Gen 6 is actually an upcoming wearable device with the new Wear OS version and it will get a new user interface. Samsung and Google joined forces and worked on a new Wear OS with some hint of Tizen OS. Wear OS 3 may only be available on newer smartwatches though and may not be ready as a major software update.
A couple of months ago, we said Fossil’s existing smartwatches would not upgrade to new Wear OS. A new one is being prepped for release later this year and will compete with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 series.
As for the Fossil Gen 6, it may be released soon. Fossil is teasing the device will be “worth the hype” and will be “Way More, Way Faster”. Definitely, it will be more advanced and will perform faster in several ways.
The smartwatch would probably use Snapdragon Wear 4100. Not much details have been provided but the watch is said to come with a “fashion-forward design” and will offer “new capabilities”. The smartwatch is also expected to come with activity tracking and Google Pay. It may feature swappable bands for customization. Let’s wait and see for more teasers before the official reveal.


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Paying medical bills has gotten easier for more Americans, a new federal study reported.
Swatch will be releasing a full-on smartwatch with internet connectivity and payment functions by this summer, company CEO said.
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Google is reportedly working with payment company Square on its own high-tech, credit-card-free system to rival Apple Pay. The system as a result of collaboration is in testing since fall.
Apple is "working hard" to launch Apple Pay in Europe during the first half of 2015. Top banks across the UK are currently negotiating with the Apple to launch the service.
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Siri remains the most widely used virtual assistant but is losing popularity, according to a new report.
What does this mean for HomePod, Apple’s upcoming smart speaker? And what type of person is an AI assistant “superuser”? The study offers some surprising insights.
The Verto Analytics report analyzed mobile app usage in the U.S. between May 2016 and May 2017. It concluded that, despite the publicity they’ve received, usage of AI assistants remains spotty — and may even be declining. That’s certainly true for Siri.
Verto claims Siri’s active base declined by around 15 percent between May 2016 and May 2017, to around 7.3 million monthly users. User engagement with Siri also dropped during the same time period, with the number of people who use Siri on a daily basis falling from 21 percent to 11 percent.
The most popular uses for smart mobile assistants? Navigation and maps, which significantly outrank other applications.
And the AI assistant superuser is …
Most interestingly, Verto’s report suggests that the typical superuser of AI assistants is a 50-something female who uses these tools approximately 1.5 hours per month. (The average user spends just 12 minutes with them.) This is very different from the early adopter demographic breakdowns you typically find for new technologies.
“Despite all the hype, AI-driven personal assistant apps have yet to gain a sturdy foothold among consumers,” said Hannu Verkasalo, CEO of Verto Analytics. “AI-driven apps and services are still very much in their early days. As this market grows and we examine consumer adoption of these apps, it will be important for brands and publishers to understand how and when consumers are using them, and with what other apps and services.”
Amazon Echo versus HomePod
Provided it’s accurate, this info makes interesting reading as standalone smart assistants like the Amazon Echo gain popularity.
Apple is set to launch its debut Siri smart speaker, HomePod, later this year. Apple talks up HomePod’s audio quality far more than its Siri implementation.
Are you a regular user of Siri? Leave your comments below.
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The Hewlett-Packard Company said today that it would soon offer a new generation of color laser printers that can print a color page for the same cost as a similiar page on a black-and-white laser printer. The company said that the new printers were capable of producing near-photographic images.
Hewlett-Packard said its new HP Color Laserjet 5 and 5MP printers were intended for corporate work groups, where color printing is on the rise.
The Color Laserjet 5 and 5M printers are expected to sell for about $5,995 and $7,395, respectively. They will be available next Monday.Continue reading the main story


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Minister of the State of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry, H.E. Kumar Ashwani, visited the Israeli Diamond Industry this week, and was hosted by Israel Diamond Institute chairman Moti Ganz at a luncheon held in his honor.
The luncheon was attended by the Joint Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry Gopal Krishna, India’s ambassador in Israel Arun K. Singh, and other Indian diplomatic representatives in Israel. The luncheon also included Israel Diamond Exchange president Avi Paz, Israel Diamond Manufacturers Association deputy president David De-Toledo, and Israel diamond controller Shmuel Mordechai.
During the event, Israeli diamond leaders raised the need to equate the conditions of activities offered to Indian companies in Israel to those of Israeli companies aspiring to do business in India. The goal, they said, is to promote the possibility of Israeli companies selling diamonds to the local consumer market in India. The parties agreed that joint secretary Krishna, would head an examination of the issues, with the aim of clarifying regulations and guiding Israeli companies in the course of their activities in India.
The industry leaders lauded the activities of ambassador Singh, noting his contribution to greater cooperation between the Israeli and Indian diamond industries. During the first half of 2007 reciprocal trade between Israel and India totaled $1.6 billion, while in all of 2006 it came to $2.7 billion. Israel’s exports to India totaled $1,246 million dollars, with diamonds and precious stones constituting 61 percent of the total export. Israel’s imports from India stood at $1,481 million, with diamonds and precious gems constituting 66% of the total.
IDI has declared India as a strategic target market for the Israeli Diamond Industry in 2008. IDI said it is engaged in preparations for expanded activities in India. This includes consultations with diamond industry members in order to map out the needs of the Israeli industry in India, as well as an examination of the full range of possibilities for cooperation between the Israeli Diamond Industry and its Indian counterpart.


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The French agriculture ministry has sentenced Emmanuel Giboulot to six months in jail and a €30,000 fine for failing to take preventative measures against a bacterial vine disease. Giboulot, an organic and biodynamic winemaker, is in violation of a directive to use pesticides to fight Flavenscence dorée, an infectious disease that threatens the Côte-d'Or region of Burgundy.
The Guardian reports that an estimated 30 acres of vines were destroyed by the disease in 2012. The pesticides aim to reduced the cicadelle population, a leafhopper believed to spread the Flavenscence dorée bacteria. According to The New York Times, France is the third highest user of pesticides in the world, following the U.S. and Japan.
"My father began converting to organic farming in the 1970s, and we are now fully organic and biodynamic," Giboulot told Decanter.com in November. "I don’t want to undo decades of work applying a treatment where the effects on the health of the vines, and the public, are as yet unproved."
The wine maker cultivates about 25 acres of vines, to produce Côte de Beaune and Hautes Côtes de Nuits wines. Giboulot's supporters started an online petition to get the charges dropped, and collected nearly 54,000 signatures at the time of publication.
Giboulot believes there are more natural means of preventing the vine disease. "I am not trying to be radical," he said. "I want to show people that there are options, and that we need to think about our own health and that of our customers."


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Dubai Design District (d3) will host the men’s ready-to-wear Arab Fashion Week - Spring-Summer 2023 edition next week (June 28 to 30).
The fourth edition of this burgeoning event (claimed to be the only men’s fashion week held throughout Asia and the Middle East) will incorporate both in-person catwalk shows and a host of events, said the Arab Fashion Council (AFC) and Dubai Design District (d3).
Among the designers to showcase collections later this month are Valette Studio, Lazoschmidl and Arturo Obegero, who are presented by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the French body responsible for coordinating Paris Fashion Week.
The upcoming Men’s Arab Fashion Week also marks the Arab Fashion Council’s 20th edition of Arab Fashion Week. Arab Fashion Week first launched in 2015 and over the last seven years the event has showcased hundreds of renowned creative designers from over 50 countries including a vast number from across the Arab World, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Palestine.
The event is hosted in collaboration with international stakeholders such as Meta, Microsoft and GoDaddy, to name just a few. Arab Fashion Week takes place four times a year – the menswear edition is held in January and June and womenswear in March and October.
The Arab Fashion Council is committed to nurturing and growing the region’s fashion industry and, in this upcoming Men’s edition, is keen to spotlight three of its most important initiatives: creativity; sustainability; and technology. This season’s fashion audience can expect an inspiring celebration of each of these initiatives in three separate collaborations - the details of which will be unveiled during the three-day event.
Khadija Al Bastaki, Executive Director, Dubai Design District (d3), stated: "Our strategic partnership with the Arab Fashion Council on Arab Fashion Week is one we are very proud of. The region’s fashion industry is on an upward and exciting trajectory with many of the Arab world’s designers carving out a distinct space on the global stage and with prestigious international brands also wanting to engage more with Dubai and the wider region.
“At d3 we are deeply committed to providing this wealth of creative talent an environment in which they can collaborate, inspire, rethink the regular and thrive, and we work with players at varying stages of their journey to access the region’s diverse opportunities and markets. From aspiring designers to global fashion houses, our growing ecosystem houses a dynamic community which is pushing the envelope on design. Arab Fashion Week, both men’s and women’s editions, is fundamental to providing our customers with a stronger platform to showcase their ingenuity, to network and engage and help strengthen Dubai’s creative economy even further.”
The AFC’s partnership with d3 for Arab Fashion Week provides a platform for both emerging and established designers from the UAE, wider region and internationally. The event welcomes foreign brands to invest in the region and local fashion businesses to export globally, ensuring the industry's success from all sides. In addition to showcasing a diverse mix of local and regional names and talents, Arab Fashion Week's calendar has – over the last seven years - featured some of the most renowned global brands such as Jean Paul Gautier, Iris Van Herpen, Antonio Marras, Marchesa, Blumarine, Moschino, and many more.
Mohammed Aqra, Chief Strategy Officer, AFC, said: “The Arab Fashion Council and Dubai Design District (d3) share the vision of positioning Dubai as one of the world’s most creative capitals and we celebrate this through leveraging the Arab Fashion Week’s power in showcasing local, regional and international designers, unveiling new innovative technologies, championing sustainability and being committed to continually providing our creative industry with a globally recognized B2B event to gain exposure and execute business transactions.
“Furthermore, with collaborations with international counterparts such as Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the French body that coordinates Paris Fashion Week, AFC hosts an exclusive showroom & presentation on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar where the Arab designers’ talent are able to connect with international buyers and Media.”
Dubai Design District (d3) is part of a portfolio of strategically located and sustainable business ecosystems by Tecom Group, which for over 20 years has been cementing Dubai’s status as a global business and talent hub.
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Samsung’s dominance of the smartphone industry transcends selling the most smartphones to other aspects, such as being the world’s top chipmaker by way of revenue. The tech giant may be eyeing Sony’s spot atop the ranks of world’s largest image sensors producers. According to South Korean tabloid Etnews, Samsung plans to double its present production capacity in its image sensor business before the end of 2018.
The article also reveals that Samsung plans to convert line 13 at its Hwasung factory from the production of DRAM into one capable of producing image sensors in the second half of the year. Samsung is said to have begun converting line 11 for the same reason last year and upon completion, conversion of line 13 will commence.
The conversion will result in a reduction of production capacity. Line 13 is said to be able to produce around 100,000 DRAMs per month but it will only be able to produce around half the amount of image sensors. An industry source disclosed that upon completion of the conversion process, line 11 and line 13 will have a combined production capacity of around 70,000 a month. Presently, Samsung’s monthly production capacity stands at 45,000 so with these purported new lines, Samsung will be able to produce around 120,000 Isocell sensors a month.
It is no surprise Samsung is trying to increase production of its Isocell range of image sensors for use in smartphones. Analysts have predicted that the price of NAND and DRAM memory is going to drop in the near future as a result of increased production by Chinese manufacturers. The focus seems to be shifting to camera capabilities among OEMs. So increasing its production of image sensors could, therefore, be a good way for the company to avoid being hit too hard by any potential losses of revenue that this would bring.


text: As the 2018 South African pecan harvest gets underway, the pecan growers say this could be the biggest crop ever. South Africa is projected to produce around 18,000 metric tons (40 mil lbs) of pecan this year. To put that in comparison, that is about the same production as the state of Texas. South African pecan growers have been planting new orchards at breakneck pace and the growers are now beginning to see the (stone) fruits of their labor. As with all pecan trees, the time to production is around 8 years after planting, and the pecan growers of South African have continued to plant new pecan orchards. The predominate variety in South Africa is the Wichita. South African pecan growers prefer the Wichita to other varieties and most Wichita orchards are still young which means that they still produce extra-large nuts, this tends not be true of older Wichita trees which will, as they age produce more nuts and the size of the nuts will typically decrease. Barton, Ukalinga and Choctaw are also popular pecan varieties in South Africa, although not as highly favored as the Wichita pecan variety. The South African pecan harvest is expected to increase each year for the foreseeable future, and now with the newly increased tariffs on the US pecan crop going to China, the South African pecan producers see this as an advantage for their pecans entering the China market. China currently buys around 90% of the South African pecan harvest.


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Delivery Hero, the German on-demand delivery company, is taking its food delivery service out of Germany once more. At the same time, it has stated that it would quit the Japanese market in Q1 of next year by divesting Foodpanda Japan.
Niklas stberg, the company’s CEO and co-founder, stated in a statement accompanying the pre-Christmas exit news, “Scaling down our activities in Germany and intending to liquidate our Japanese business have not been simple decisions.” With a completely different reality now than when we first entered these areas, we must explore alternative growth possibilities with more promise with a sad heart.
“Despite having built up two outstanding foodpanda teams that are making amazing progress, creating meaningful value for our ecosystem in both nations has become tougher.” For the accomplishments, both teams have made in the previous several months, I have nothing but appreciation and admiration.
I’m really proud of the incredible service they developed from the ground up, and we’ll do everything we can to help our fellow Heroes on their path ahead.” Following a few weeks of testing, the European on-demand delivery behemoth only fully returned to its home market — under the Foodpanda name — in August.
In an interview with the Financial Times in May, when it was behind the Germany relaunch, Ostberg talked of being in it for the long haul, telling the newspaper: “We don’t think definitely that we are going to go in and win the market in the next year or two.” It’s a ten-year game.” And, as recently as last month, Delivery Hero was still growing Foodpanda’s footprint in Germany, announcing the service’s entry into six new cities, with the division’s CEO, Artur Schreiber, praising “excellent” demand and an expansion that he claimed would generate “a thousand” jobs.
Although that statement also signaled that it could be having difficulties keeping consumers – Delivery Hero said it would be renewing Foodpanda’s identity, creating a new app with an improved user experience, and extending a reward program, among other things. In the end, it is shutting down a commercial delivery service in Germany, leaving just a Berlin-based R&D center where it claims it will test new services and features, so it seems like it will keep doing some (trial) deliveries in Central Berlin for personnel working on new product development.
It is worth noting that it is not selling the Foodpanda Germany subsidiary to a competitor, as it did last year when it shut down the market. Either delivery Hero wants to keep the possibility of a quick return in the future; or— perhaps more likely— the local food delivery market is so competitively tapped out that, there was little to gain by selling the unit. unlike a few years ago when it was able to rake in a tidy sum of $1.1 billion when it sold its German operations to Dutch rival Takeaway.com; which, incidentally, has since merged with U.K.-based Just Eat and the combined entity is building out.


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Gas prices are on the rise, but whose fault is it? Better question, whose paying for it? The civil unrest that’s been plaguing Africa, mainly Libya, for the past month has seemed to ripple into American gas pumps. Gas prices have jumped seven cents overnight, and jumped a total of 20 cents in the past week.
There is no question that gas prices are on the rise — and dishing out cash offers very little relief to our wallets, but it seems that gas credit cards and loyalty programs are becoming more advantageous for consumers.
Gas cards can be used to earn discounts, and reward points that can lead to free gas. There is usually a high approval rate on these cards, and many include a 2-5% rebate on purchases. Now various membership-based stores like Sam’s Club and Cosco offer gas at cheaper prices. Other supermarkets and gas stations are following suit and are teaming up with credit card companies to offer consumers some relief at the pump.
In South Florida, Winn-Dixie, a popular supermarket chain, has agreed to a rewards program to in conjunction with Excentus Corporation, a fuel discount and consumer reward company. The deal is if customers use their Winn-Dixie Customer Reward Card, they can earn discounts at the 112 participating Shell gas stations in the area. Partnerships like this are jumping up across the nation.
“We believe cents-per-gallon fuel discounts are the ultimate consumer reward due to their broad consumer appeal and to the instant gratification consumers receive when they see the price at the pump roll down right before their eyes,” said Dickson Perry, founder and CEO of Excentus in a press release.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasted on Feb. 8 that the price of regular unleaded will average at $3.15 a gallon this year, which is a 37 cent increase from the previous year.Analysts say that prices are expected to rise to about $4.00 in the summer, and possibly hit $5.00 next year. According to AAA Midatlantic, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded was $3.15 on Friday, up from $3.08 on Thursday. A month ago the average price was $2.97, and a year ago it was $2.55.
In addition to the unrest in Africa, another reason gas prices are rising is due to American stock market uncertainty.The United States only gets approximately 1 percent of its oil from Libya, but the uncertainty as to whether we will get any oil has caused market analysts to raise the market price of fuel. “There is also significant uncertainty surrounding the forecast, with the current market prices of futures and options contracts for gasoline suggesting a 35 percent probability that the national monthly average retail price for regular gasoline could exceed $3.50 per gallon during summer 2011 and about a 10 percent probability that it could exceed $4 per gallon,” according to the EIA.
The rise in prices is due to many factors that are beyond our control, but we are the ones paying for it. In order to reduce the financial impact on our wallets, using a loyalty-based credit card can be the perfect solution.
Below are www.Credit-Land.com top rated gas and rebate cards.
1. American Express Blue Cash Card
2. Discover Open Road Card
3. American Express TrueEarnings Card
4. Chase PerfectCard MasterCard
5. Capital One No Hassle Points
6. Chase BP Visa Rewards
Tip: Always be mindful of the fine print!


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If you've been struggling to get a good night's sleep lately, you're not alone – a study conducted during the Coronavirus lockdown by the University of Southampton found that the number of people the UK experiencing sleeping problems had risen from one in six to one in four.
While anxiety-induced insomnia as a result of the pandemic is unlikely to go away on its own, there are some things you can try to help you drift off and sleep easy, like a weighted blanket or a new mattress.
But which one to go for? Well, the Simba hybrid mattress has over 39,000 five-star reviews online – that's a lot of happy customers. It also has a Which? Best Buy award (among the many others in its packed awards cabinet). The only slight problem? Simba mattresses are (usually) pretty expensive.
But today, as part of Amazon Prime Day, you can get a Simba mattress for £269.88, down from £525. That's a whopping £255 off *immediately adds to basket*.
The benefits of a Simba mattress
- Simba mattresses have an ultra-breathable top layer. For real – it keeps you cool like no other mattress on the market.
- Underneath, the brand's patented Aerocoil® spring layer feels like you're sleeping on a soft, supportive cloud.
- Oh, and if that weren't enough to sell you on the idea, they're made right here in the UK, too.
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