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WhatTheyThink's Adam Dewitz speaks with Scott Schinlever, COO of Global Inkjet Business at EFI, about emerging trends in the textile space, particularly the importance of sustainability, EFI's focus on this area, and the launch of their ecoTERRA Solution.
From digital storefronts, to workflow, to hardware, modern print production systems now support the ability to monitor the state of system. We now have a tremendous amount of data at our fingertips. Using modern observability techniques, we can use data from software and hardware to make business and operation decisions that create better buying experiences for our customers and make production efficient and more profitable.
From the halls of MIT to the command lines of Silicon Valley, observability has morphed to include tools and techniques that take system monitoring, such as how long a process takes to complete, exceptions, errors and failures, to a new level that creates a single source of truth and instrumentation to provide actionable insights and business intelligence.
Jon Bailey, CEO of UK-based Proco and Dscoop board member, talks about the evolution of Dscoop from a US event to a series of worldwide events and now an online community via the new Dscoop.com platform.
Chris Reine, Indigo operator/engineer at Franklin Press, talks about a Dscoop-organized peer group for HP Indigo operators called "Operator Saturday." The program brings together operators of HP Indigo presses for a long weekend of knowledge sharing, education, and networking.
Charles Ohiaeri, Chief Fulfillment Officer with Zazzle and Dscoop board member, talks about the new Dscoop Academia Program. The program's goal is to bring college students, professors, and printing companies together to develop skills, foster new talent, and provide opportunities for collaboration between industry and academia.
Laura DiSciullo, SVP of Marketing and Product Management at GS1 US talks about the history of GS1, they created the UPC barcode, and barcode and digital watermarks technology that is enabling active and intelligent packaging.
Idealliance and Konica Minolta recently teamed up with Spectrum Printing in Tucson, AZ to bring the G7 Master Facility Qualification to the printing company's offset and digital pressroom. Ken Huizenga, Production Manager at Spectrum Printing, discusses the impact G7 has had on their ability to secure clients who were frustrated with other printer's inability to match color across jobs and production equipment.
Larry Logan, Chief Evangelist at Digimarc Corporation, provides an update on the state of the art in digital watermarking, active and intelligent packaging, and new opportunities for customer engagement with packaging.
Jean-Charles Morisseau, Chairman of global design and pre-media agency Diadeis talks about packaging trends affecting brand owners and packaging artwork teams including consolidation of processes and suppliers, and packaging driving e-commerce content creation.
Jim Raffel, CEO of ColorMetrix, shares insight into what he's seeing in the industry with the continued adoption of Idealliance's G7 as a method to provide common visual appearance across various print processes including industrial print applications.
Steve Portrude, President and CEO at Harwill Express Press, promotes the benefits of being an Idealliance member and the value printing company executives receive by attending its annual Experience Conference.
Patrick Foley, Senior Vice President Operations at Merrill Corporation talks to WhatTheyThink about being an early adopter of the Océ VarioPrint i300 sheetfed production inkjet platform. Patrick shares how the platform fits Merrill's business.
A company called High Quality Printing Inventions, LLC, is using a patent initially granted to Moore (now R.R. Donnelley) to file patent infringement lawsuits in the U.S. District Courts in a litigation campaign against several printing companies using common web-to-print functionality.
A few weeks ago at the RIT CMIC Summit we had a chance to catch up with Jon Budington, CEO of Global Printing and Global Thinking. Jon told us about launching Global Thinking to provide web and marketing services to its clients and introduces the next phase in its business as looks it to focus on cross-media information delivery.
The week before Graph Expo, I was invited to Océ's Global Commercial Printing Business Days at its Customer Experience Center in Poing, Germany. This event include in printing company executives, press, and analysts from all over the world for a preview of Océ's new and upcoming products as well as insight into its market strategy. It also served as the launch for the ImageStream 3500 production inkjet system that Océ unveiled in May.
Canon has made a breakthrough in production inkjet printing with the announcement of the Oce ImageStream platform. This new production inkjet system can print on any paper including coated papers without requiring separate paper treatment with a primer or bonding agent. This development provides Canon with a production inkjet platform to handle commercial print applications including books, magazines, and high-quality direct mail.
Circulation revenue for U.S. newspapers recorded a second consecutive year of growth, rising 3.7% to $10.87 billion in 2013 according to figures released by the Newspaper Association of America. Total revenue was $37.59 billion in 2013, a loss of 2.6 percent over 2012.
Last year Unisource approached WhatTheyThink to collaborate on a survey of digital printers to identify quality concerns and production challenges in day-to-day operation faced by owners of toner-based digital printing equipment.
“HP has decided not to participate in Ipex 2014, as we are shifting our marketing and sales focus to more local and application-specific events, as well as to customer business-development programs such as Dscoop-sponsored events that help our customers profitably grow their businesses.”
How are women faring professionally in the printing, publishing and graphic communication industry today? That is a question Dr. Twyla Cummings, Associate Dean and Professor in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at RIT has studied over the past 11 years.
An article published in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle is getting a lot of buzz at drupa this morning. The paper published comments from an internal memo Kodak co-President Philip Faraci sent company-wide on the company’s success at drupa.
Last week fourteen companies gave a preview of what they will bring to drupa 2012 during a series of media briefings at a conference center on the trade fair grounds of Messe Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany.
A new study released by Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project takes a look at “Americans and their gadgets.” The 15 page report (PDF here) identifies key appliances of the information age: laptops, cell phones, tablet computers (like the iPad) and e-book readers (such as the Kindle) , game consoles, and MP3 players and who is using them.
The Internal Revenue Service plans to stop mailing paper income tax forms. The IRS cites (PDF) continued growth in electronic filing and cost cutting for the change. According to the IRS nearly 100 Million people prepared and filed their taxes electronically in 2009.
The Washington Post reports the change will save the agency $10 million a year in printing and postage costs.
J.C. Penney continues its shift to electronic media with plans to quit is traditional catalog business in favor of e-commerce and retail store sales. This announcement comes the company discontinued its “Big Book” catalogs last Fall.
The U.S. Postal Service has proposed increasing the prices to help close a projected $7 billion budget shortfall in 2011 Fiscal Year. Under the proposal the cost of a First-Class stamp 2 cents to 46 cents. Periodicals will see an 8 percent increase, catalogs rates will increase 5.1 percent and Standard Mail will see a 23 percent increase.
Reed Business Information is retaining ownership of Graphics Arts Monthly, Graphic Arts Blue Book, and Converting. RBI plans to use the subscription list from these titles to generate leads through the company's business-to-business marketing unit Mardev-DM2.
Pazazz Printing has filed a Notice of Intention to restructure the company under Canada’s Companies Creditors Arrangement Act. President Warren Werbitt says, “Pazazz file a Notice of Intention to preserve and maximize the value of the business.”
MLP USA has announced that the company will not be exhibiting at Graph Expo 2010. MLP USA will instead pursue an alternative program this year for marketing to printers who either attend or don’t attend the show.
GASC informed WhatTheyThink that Heidelberg will not be at Graph Expo 2010. Komori has also indicated they are passing on the show. The trade show floor is an indicator of where the market is going. Innovation and advancement in offset technology is leveling off, while digital printing is rapidly evolving.
Penton Media announced today that it will restructure through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. The trade publisher has reached an agreement with its lenders that is expected to eliminate $270 million in debt.
WhatTheyThink is the global printing industry's go-to information source with both print and digital offerings, including WhatTheyThink.com, WhatTheyThink Email Newsletters, and the WhatTheyThink magazine. Our mission is to inform, educate, and inspire the industry. We provide cogent news and analysis about trends, technologies, operations, and events in all the markets that comprise today's printing and sign industries including commercial, in-plant, mailing, finishing, sign, display, textile, industrial, finishing, labels, packaging, marketing technology, software and workflow.


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CFPB's New Financial Products Complaint Site Goes Live Today
Starting today consumers will bernable to track complaints about products and services levied by other consumersrnagainst some 450 financial services companies. rnThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will go live with whatrnthey are calling the nation’s largest public database of federal consumerrnfinancial complaints, covering some 90,000 individual complaints regarding mortgages,rnstudent loans, bank accounts and services, </p
The searchable data base, anrnexpansion of an earlier complaint site which covered only about 19,000 creditrncard complaints, includes information on what customers complained about, when,rnand why as well as how the company responded to the complaint, whether thernresponse was timely and if the consumer disputed it. There is no identifyingrnconsumer data included in the data base.</p
“By sharing these complaints withrnthe public, we are creating greater transparency in consumer financial productsrnand services,” said CFPB Director Richard Cordray at a field hearing in DesrnMoines, Iowa, where he announced the expansion of the CFPB Consumer ComplaintrnDatabase. “The database is good for consumers and it is also good for honestrnbusinesses. We believe the marketplace of ideas can do great things with thisrndata.”</p
The database includes more than onernmillion data points and in many cases, it includes a sub-category of products.rnFor example, for mortgages it includes reverse mortgages, conventional fixedrnmortgages, conventional adjustable mortgages, and home equity loans or lines ofrncredit. </p
Consumers will be able to easilyrntrack, sort, search, and download information and consumers can build their ownrnvisualizations, charts, and graphs. Therndata can also be embedded on other websites and shared through socialrnmedia. The data is available via applicationrnprogramming interface so consumers can expect smart phone apps to be availablernsoon that will allow new uses of the data on the fly. </p
Complaints will be added to the liverndatabase, which updates daily, only after 15 days or after the company respondsrnto the complaint. CFPB also first verifies that there is a commercial relationshiprnbetween the complaining customer and the company. Thernlive database updates daily; so as the CFPB handles more complaints, more willrnbe added. When the CFPB accepts consumer complaints about other financialrnproducts and services, they will be put on the database after a period of time.rnFor example, credit reporting complaints, which the CFPB recently began tornaccept, will be included in the database in the near future. </p
Consumers can view and interact withrnthe new database at http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaintdatabase/.
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Tourists watch a camel show in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Sunday. China has seen an increase in people traveling during this year’s Qingming Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, which was from Saturday to Monday. （Photo by Adiljan/China News Service）
Chinese people let loose their desire to travel over the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday this past weekend, turning the three-day break into a boost for recovery of the domestic tourism market.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said on Monday that the latest figures show that the tourism industry is in a strong and stable recovery.
During the Saturday-to-Monday holiday, Chinese travelers made about 102 million trips to domestic destinations, a year-on-year rise of 144.6 percent and about 94.5 percent of the level in 2019, before the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Revenue generated over the holiday was about 27.2 billion yuan ($4.1 billion), up 228.9 percent year-on-year, about 56.7 percent of the revenue created during the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, according to the ministry.
Travel agencies said that several of their business sections have even outperformed 2019, when the market was not depressed by the pandemic.
Beijing was the most popular attraction for travelers, while also the single greatest source of travelers visiting other parts of the country. Many of those Beijingers had remained in the city during the Spring Festival holiday and appeared primed for a trip.
Figures from Qunar, an online travel agency, said that airline tickets it sold for flights departing from Beijing rose by 60 percent over the holiday compared with the same period of 2019, marking the greatest growth nationwide.
Lan Xiang, Qunar’s data research director, said that people’s suppressed wanderlust, due to control measures against the coronavirus, was satisfied over the recent break, and the holiday may just be a preview of travel booms during the upcoming May Day and summer holidays.
According to Trip.com Group, another online agency, reservations made on its platform for tour packages for the Tomb Sweeping Day break saw a surge of 300 percent year-on-year. Reservations for hotel rooms and attraction tickets also reflected a strong recovery.
Many travelers showed a preference for hotels with high-quality services and attractive views. Hotel reservations on the platform rose by 20 percent over the same period in 2019.
Attractions like the Shanghai Disney Resort and the Palace Museum in Beijing also registered strong attendance figures. Trip.com Group said it saw reservations for attraction tickets increase by 232 percent during the break, compared with 2019.
Given the length of the break, most travelers chose shorter trips, enjoying the blossoming of spring flowers and cultural experiences at attractions near their homes, said Zou Qingling, CEO of Lvmama, an online travel provider.


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Nubank plans to use this raised capital towards its global expansion as well as adding new services to its portfolio like personal and business loans.
In its largest investment round till date, Brazilian FinTech startup Nubank has raised a massive $400 million in Series F funding round. This has pushed the valuation of this six-year-old startup to a whopping $10 billion. Nubank aims to disrupt the country’s traditional banking which has been accused of strong-arming its customers.
With over 8.5 million customers, Nubank is one of the largest online banks outside Asia. The latest funding round was led by the US-based TCV. The other global investing giants included Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Thrive Capital, DST Global, Ribbit Capital, and Dragoneer.
Moreover, this massive funding comes on the stellar growth results and growing customer-base for the startup. Since its last funding round last year, Nubank’s customer base has surged to 12 million in Brazil. This makes Nubank Brazil’s sixth-largest financial institution by the number of clients.
Global Expansion and Additional Services
Over the last six years since its inception, Nubank has made significant progress in introducing new services to its portfolio. The company started its business by providing app-controlled credit cards and reward points. Now, the fintech startup also offers digital savings account and personal loan services to its customers.
Besides, the bank is also working on loan options for microentrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses. Earlier in May 2019, the company also started its overseas expansion by opening offices in Argentina and Mexico. The company plans to resume its operation by the end of this year in these two countries.
The fintech startup has over 1400 employees in its offices across Sao Paolo, Berlin, Argentina, and Mexico. It soon plans to hire more staff to meet its expansion plans. David Vélez, founder and CEO of Nubank, told Reuters that the latest funding received shall be directed towards its expansion.
In the company blog post, Vélez added that they are firm on their mission to eliminate complexity and “give people back control of their finances”. Velez added:
“While technological change has been transformative for most industries around the world, most bank customers continue to pay absurd interest rates and fees to receive poor financial services in return. In addition, more than 2bn people still do not have access to basic financial services. With this new investment from TCV and other investors, we hope to contribute to significantly change this situation.“
Speaking about this investment, TCV’s Marshall said:
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With broadband now accelerating one-third of the world's consumer Internet accounts, service providers need to reassess their offerings and diversify services to take advantage of the technology growth, a new study says.
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- Compliance relief on anvil for startups
The commerce and industry ministry has proposed cutting down compliance time significantly to just one hour per month for start-ups as part of measures to ease regulatory requirements for budding entrepreneurs, an official said. The proposal is a part of 'Start-up India Vision 2024', prepared by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) for the new government to promote the growth of budding entrepreneurs.
- Startups mop up $7 billion from PEs, VCs in 2018
E-commerce and consumer Internet companies have raised over $7 billion in private equity and venture capital funds in 2018, says a report.Of the total investment, startups such as Oyo, Swiggy, Byjus, Paytm Mall, Pine Labs, Zomato, Udaan, Policybazaar and Curefit collectively raised the lions share of $4.6 billion in 2018, says an EY report.
- Government plans fresh set of tax sops for startups in budget
The department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) and the revenue department have discussed a package of tax sops in the forthcoming budget, including simplified norms for levying a tax on employee stock option schemes (ESOPs) at the time of sale of shares, sources told TOI.
- Norms for a startup revised: Key things to know
The ministry of commerce and industry on Tuesday said it has revised the definition of a startup that it would consider for taxation purpose. Now, a start-up is as less than 10 years old (previous limit was 7 years); a corporate entity that has not registered an annual revenue of more than Rs 100 crore during its time (old limit was Rs 25 crore) which work towards innovation.


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BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — Flavia Romero, a cook at a soup kitchen in Villa 21 24, a “barrio popular” whose narrow streets are home to many low-income residents, says she and her co-workers have been performing magic since the coronavirus pandemic started.
The city government supplies enough food to feed 160 people per day, but demand has skyrocketed, particularly among families. This forces Romero and other cooks to think creatively. If the menu calls for baked chicken, for example, they swap sheet pans for stock pots and make stew instead, adding rice, pasta and potatoes to bulk up the meals. It’s a daily illusion that allows the rations to go further, feeding 200 people for lunch and 280 for dinner.
“When the pandemic started, we began to use the pots at night because a lot of neighbors came who were working [in informal freelance jobs], and they didn’t have anything to eat,” Romero says. “We’re still doing it to this day.”
But it’s not enough.
One of President Alberto Fernández’s main campaign promises was to combat hunger, and his government has worked to improve access to food since he came into office at the end of 2019. But throughout Latin America, particularly in countries like Brazil that have been hit hard by the coronavirus, the pandemic has placed financial pressure on many families and contributed to increasing food prices. Many can no longer afford what they once could.
Half of children in Latin America and the Caribbean had difficulty accessing healthy food because of the pandemic, according to a UNICEF survey conducted last year.
The situation in Argentina is no less serious. Fifty-one percent of households in low-income neighborhoods saw reductions in their income since Argentina’s national lockdown began in March 2020. Eighty-five percent of low-income households have been forced to cut their consumption of meat, and the majority have also had to cut back on fruit, vegetables and dairy products, according to a report from the Institute for Social, Economic and Citizen Policy Research, a nonprofit that partners with social organizations to conduct research.
Lucila Pellettieri, GPJ Argentina
The rising food insecurity has been especially hard for children, who were the worst affected by poverty even before the pandemic. In the second half of 2020, 58% of children 14 years old or younger were living in poverty, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, an increase of more than 5% since the second half of 2019.
Child malnutrition has similarly increased. The Institute for Social, Economic and Citizen Policy Research conducted a survey of more than 50,000 children who visited soup kitchens between December 2020 and February 2021, and found that 42% of children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 18 suffered from malnutrition, an increase of more than 5% compared to 2019.
“These days, the concern in the [low-income] neighborhoods is not eating well – it’s eating,” says Dina Sánchez, spokesperson for the Popular Front Darío Santillán, a social and political movement that organizes community kitchens and advocates for food security.
The national government launched an initiative in 2020 to improve the nutrition of Argentines with low incomes: the Alimentar card. The food benefit card was intended for parents who receive the Asignación Universal por Hijo, a subsidy launched in 2009 for parents who are unemployed, work in the informal sector, or earn less than 282,444 Argentine pesos ($2,955) per year.
The government recently expanded support to families. As of May, the card provides parents of children up to 14 years old with a monthly food subsidy of 6,000 pesos (about $63) for one child, 9,000 pesos ($94) for two children, and 12,000 pesos ($126) for three or more children.
But Sánchez says this support doesn’t go far enough.
“Putting more money on the Alimentar card does not mean that people will stop going to soup kitchens,” Sánchez says. “Because you go to the supermarket, you buy two items and [the money] runs out.”
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, an average family of three in Greater Buenos Aires must spend 21,832 pesos (about $229) per month to satisfy their basic nutritional needs. That represents a 53% increase from May 2020 to May 2021.
Daniel Arroyo, minister of Social Development at the time of the interview, says 10 million people receive food assistance through various government programs and initiatives, but nutritional quality has become a problem as prices have increased.
“Basically, large quantities of pasta, flour and rice are being eaten, and small quantities of milk, meat, fruit and vegetables,” Arroyo says. “The key issue here is the price of those foods.”
That’s in large part what’s driving the increase in child malnutrition, says Laura Lonatti, coordinator of the Collective Health Area at the Institute for Social, Economic and Citizen Policy Research.
“If the food programs give you mostly dry goods, what you will have to put in the pot is mainly pasta, rice, lentils,” Lonatti says.
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Fernando Zingman, a pediatrician and UNICEF health specialist, says children have already been suffering from health problems related to malnutrition. Obesity has been the biggest nutritional problem in the country for more than a decade, he says, the result of families increasingly relying on highly processed foods and sugary drinks. Now, with healthy food even further out of reach, the problems will only continue, he says.
“It is a chain of vulnerabilities,” Zingman says. “The first has to do with access to food, because it is cheaper to consume an unhealthy diet than a healthy one.”
Doctors, government officials and advocates for low-income families have proposed various solutions. Zingman says more education about what constitutes a healthy diet, as well as mandatory nutritional labels on food, would help combat obesity. Arroyo says the government is working to curtail rising food prices by facilitating ways for producers to sell directly to consumers at food markets. It’s also developing a virtual wallet that will allow merchants in the informal sector to accept payments from Alimentar cardholders.
Romero hopes the government also will provide more rations to soup kitchens.
“We are turning people away because one can only stretch the food to a certain point,” Romero says. “It’s difficult to tell them no.”
Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified Daniel Arroyo’s title. He was minister of Social Development at the time of the interview, but stepped down shortly before the article ran. Global Press Journal regrets the error.


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Indian researchers recently published an article in International Journal of Science and Research that recommended these 5 natural ways for dealing with sleep disorders.
1. Avoid drugs and medicine
Specifically, the researchers recommended avoiding nicotine and caffeine, as well as tranquilizers.These can interfere with our body’s natural sleep patterns.
2. Consume vitamin-rich foods
In particular, the researchers indicated that foods rich in vitamins A, B, C, and D were ideal for addressing sleep issues. Such foods include:
- Vitamin A: liver; sweet potato; carrots; green, leafy vegetables
- B vitamins: lean meat; beans; peas; whole grains
- Vitamin C: berries, peppers, kiwi, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, papaya, citrus fruits, pineapple
- Vitamin D: fatty fish, mushrooms
3. Consume mineral-rich foods
In addition to the vitamins mentioned above, the researchers suggested including in our diet foods rich in zinc, magnesium, calcium, and phosphorous:
- Zinc: lean meat, seafood, poultry, wheat, nuts, seeds
- Magnesium: spices, nuts, cereals, cocoa, vegetables
- Calcium: dairy, seaweed; nuts; seeds; green, leafy vegetables; beans
- Phosphorous: lean meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, nuts, seeds, beans
4. Avoid junk food
The researchers pointed out that processed food with little nutritional value and primarily simple carbohydrates (white flour, white sugar, etc). These foods destabilize blood sugar levels, throwing off energy levels and sleep patterns.
Increasing your activity levels (even if it’s just walking or running) can help our bodies relax and can reduce stress and anxiety levels, making it easier to sleep. Yoga can also help.
What are some tips you have used to overcome sleep disorders? Let us know in the comments below.


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Over the weekend, M&S sent text messages enticing consumers with flat 60% discounts and extra 15% off through coupons on womenswear. “End of the season sales just got bigger,” a text message to consumers from iconic retailer said, as the department store chain offered up to 60% rebate on various brands and products.
Yes Bank partners with Crownit for digital meal vouchers
PUNE: Yes Bank has partnered with Crownit, amerchant discovery and privileges platform, to launch digitised meal vouchers. The app based digital meal wallet can be linked with a Meal Debit MasterCard which enables employees to avail unlimited food, beverage & grocery redemption options, both online and offline.


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Yet another analyst has cut his targets on Disney stocks amid the shutdowns. Citi Research analyst Jason Bazinet has lowered his target price on Disney stocks from $161 to $135 and according to Market Watch, he also lowered his 2020 estimates for adjusted earnings. Taking his numbers from $5.57 per share down to $2.91 per share in 2020 and from $6.14 per share down to $5.18 per share in 2021.
Bazinet also mentioned that “the impact of COVID-19 appears to be largely priced into the firm’s equity.” Even when the parks re-open the recovery will be gradual, like we’ve been saying.
“After reopening, we expect Disney’s parks and hotels business to recover gradually.” He estimates that the attendance will be down about 25% in the 2021’s first-quarter. As 2021 progresses he expects each quarter to have attendance gains, but overall he estimates a revenue loss of 9%.
The analyst also mentioned that there could be some gains with “direct to consumer apps,” but ultimately, as many of us already know, it’s a “mixed bag.”
“On the other hand, the direct-to-consumer apps will likely see a tailwind from COVID-19. So, on the COVID-19 Impact dimension … Disney is a mixed bag. But, it tilts to the downside.”
None of us have a crystal ball. All we can do is look at the information in front of us and make the best possible guesses based on facts and trends. But overall I tend to agree that it will take awhile for Disney to come back to where it was. Even when the parks and theaters reopen the restrictions and fear will limit the number of people that will go. There’s no other way to assess the situation other than it’s going to be a long haul until places like amusement parks, festivals and movie theaters return to normal. Since Disney’s business model is based mostly on crowds, it stands to reason that it is going to take time for everything to come back to where it was and I fully expect it to be changed when it does. It looks like we aren’t the only ones that think so.
That being said, I do believe the stocks will eventually rebound somewhat, when it dips low we plan on buying some more.
What do you think? Comment and let us know.
Sources: Market Watch, The Street
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Associated British Ports (ABP) hosted members and guests from Ipswich Suffolk Business Club for a presentation about the significance of Port of Ipswich to the UK economy and an opportunity to see the Port from the river on sailing barge Victor.
Ipswich is the leading East Anglian regional port. It is the number one port for UK grain exports, connecting Suffolk with mainland Europe and has a major focus as the leading port for the Agribulk, Construction, and Forest Product sectors. It also positions itself as a port of entry for materials associated with national infrastructure development.
ABP’s ports in East Anglia contribute £360 million to the UK economy every year, including £245 million to the region. They also support more than 3,600 jobs, including over 1,800 in Ipswich, 1,200 in Lowestoft and nearly 600 in Kings Lynn.
Paul Ager, Divisional Port Manager, East Coast, ABP Ports, said: “We were delighted to host the members and guests of Ipswich Suffolk Business Club who together are driving local economic growth, job creation and inward investment. It was an opportunity to highlight the essential role played by ABP in the region and in particular in Ipswich where we provide a gateway for significant industry sectors including Agribulk, Construction and Forest Products.”
Luke Morris, Chair, Ipswich Suffolk Business Club, said: “Members enjoyed an insightful presentation about ABP and the leading role of Ipswich Port in the region, as well as having a delightful cruise on sailing barge Victor, which was an opportunity to see the Port at first hand from the river. Thanks go to Paul Ager and his team for a fabulous event.”
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Five of the top six reliable cars are Japanese… but the good news is that three of them are made in Britain.
Honda, which has a plant in Swindon, Wilts, is first in the list of smooth-runners.
Third is Derby-based Toyota and Nissan, with a factory in Sunderland, is sixth, says new research.
Honda-buyers can drive smugly knowing there is only a 10% chance of a breakdown when the car is between three and six years old.
Other Far Eastern companies Mazda, Subaru and Mitsubishi are also high in the Manufacturer Reliability Index top ten.
At the wrong end of the table is Land Rover, with a 47% chance of a breakdown, with Renault and Saab queuing up just behind on the hard shoulder. The index, compiled by insurers Warranty Direct, gauges the most dependable used cars among 250 popular models.
It also works out average annual repair costs, putting Czech-made Skoda as the cheapest with a bill of just over £200 and a German Porsche is most expensive at £800.
But at least you shouldn’t have to take your Porsche to the garage often as it is the tenth most reliable car on the road.
Honda spokesman Steve Kirk said: “We’re delighted to be top of the tree. It’s testament to our great workers at places like Swindon.
AA President Edmund King said: “It shows that workforces here are very important elements in the successes of these companies.”
But Duncan McClure Fisher of Warranty Direct, warned: “Owning a car can be a painful experience.”


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From September, SCT consolidated all its Grand Alliance Atlantic services, which resulted in six new weekly deep-sea services to the port. On the back of this, SCT earmarked £15m for two new quayside gantry cranes and eight new straddle carriers to increase its capacity to 2m teu. It has also put a fifth transhipment berth into operation, as part of a major expansion programme.
At ABP’s Port of Grimsby & Immingham, total cargo throughput for 2006 reached 57m tonnes, nearly 2m tonnes more than the port’s previous best in 2005. Highlights of the year included the launch of a new container service at ABP Exxtor Terminal, operated by UAB Containerships and calling at Rotterdam, Klaipeda and Liepaja.
At Hull and Goole, volumes were steady, with Hull handling 13.37m tonnes and Goole 2.57m tonnes. Throughput at Hull Container Terminal grew to 261,216 teu from 243,493 teu in 2005. In total, ABP handled 137.1m tonnes of cargo at its UK ports in 2006.


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Jimmy Johnson’s Quest For The Ring BillFish Championship is back and United Yacht Sales is proud to be a corporate sponsor of one of the most popular tournaments anywhere in the world. The kick-off party begins on Tuesday, March 7th, a pre-fish day on Wednesday, and then the main competition fishing days on Thursday and Friday. The closing awards party will be Saturday beginning with a gifting experience at 1pm and the party beginning at 7pm.
Teams will be fishing for a 7-figure prize that’s guaranteed and the largest in Florida tournament history. “In its 10 year history, this tournament has awarded almost $8,500,000 and 10 Championship Rings as the anglers join in the keys for this grueling competition,” a statement on the Quest For The Ring website said. There are a few new details for this year’s tournament including:
- There is an additional $100K going back into the various payouts as part of the guaranteed purse.
- The tournament has added the including of ONE Big Fish meat fish optional category with 3 payouts
- Fishing Zones include being able to fish from Palm Beach down to the Upper Keys
- The early entry bonus categories are back
Both the kick-off party and the awards ceremony will be held at the Seminole Hard Rock.
“United Yacht Sales is proud to sponsor Jimmy Johnson’s Quest For The Ring as it reinforces our commitment to the recreational fishing industry,” said Captain Jeff Palmer, President of UYS. “In 2022, we sold nearly 200 sportfishing boats and center-consoles ranging from a Boston Whaler 230 Outrage up to a Viking Yachts 92, and everything in between. We look forward to being a part of one of the best billfish tournaments around.”
United Yacht Sales broker Greg Graham will be fishing the Quest For The Ring tournament with his longtime client on PISCES V, a 45-foot F&S Yachts walk-around – one of only 2 made by the builder!
(Seen below: Greg Graham up on the tower controls as the team pulls in a sailfish. Photo Cred: Chris Rabil)
“I’ve always enjoyed fishing the Jimmy Johnson tournament and I was excited to hear that United Yacht Sales was going to be one of the sponsors this year,” said Greg. “There are a lot of great anglers and companies involved, all of who care a lot about the marine industry and conservation efforts. There are a lot of different ways to win in the money so the competition is fun.”
Greg is one of the most successful yacht brokers in the industry, and while he does sell motor yachts (like this 136′ Horizon MY), Greg specializes in selling both production boats and custom sportfish.
If you’re interested in fishing the tournament, there is still time to sign up. (Register Here). Below is a podcast with Bric Peebles, Tournament Director, where he goes through the changes in this year’s event in detail.
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B&Q opens new concept home improvement store in Bristol
On Thursday 16th June, B&Q officially opened the doors to its first new concept home improvement store at Cribbs Causeway in Bristol. The first of its kind in the UK, the store is radically improved to reflect the ongoing changes in the way we live, how we shop and the way we use our homes. The end-to-end customer shopping experience is dramatically enhanced making home improvement for B&Q Cribbs Causeway shoppers more accessible than ever before.
B&Q Cribbs Causeway remained open throughout its makeover, with many of its new features kept under wraps until its grand opening.
Now bigger, brighter and better, B&Q Cribbs Causeway offers customers over 40,000 products, including 2,500 new and exclusive products, at great prices - enabling Bristolians to be even more creative in their homes. Lighting, paint, home decor, tiling, bathrooms and kitchens are among the areas that have been heavily invested in. With larger ranges, there’s more for customers to choose from and, with the new highly visual, inspirational and informative displays, customers are better able to do-it-themselves.
The new concept is the first of four stores trialling a combination of the best elements of DIY from across the Kingfisher group and is the result of close cooperation between B&Q and Castorama, B&Q’s sister company in France. The Cribbs Causeway store has been chosen as the UK location for this unique project, which has taken six months to complete and has seen every department completely modernised. The other three stores in the project will open later this year in France, Poland and Russia.
Michael Loeve, CEO at B&Q, said: “This newly upgraded store will play a significant role in how we, and the rest of the Kingfisher, shape our stores of the future. The project has been a huge undertaking for B&Q and we’re delighted to see our plans achieved. We look forward to continuing to welcome home improvers from Bristol and further afield to our Cribbs Causeway store.”
Matt Cook, B&Q Cribbs Causeway Store Manager, said: “B&Q has never attempted a store upgrade on this scale before and the impact is clear: we have created an environment where customers can come to feel inspired. It’s taken us six months to complete these changes, and we’ve kept the store open throughout this time. We’ve already had amazing feedback from customers who have shopped the areas we’ve refreshed, and I’m incredibly proud of what our team has achieved at Cribbs Causeway.”


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The divisive struggle in the U.S. Supreme Court between Christian business owners and the U.S. government over contraceptives has become known around the country as the Hobby Lobby case.
But that is shorthand for two combined cases that include three for-profit corporations: Hobby Lobby, the national chain of arts-and-crafts stores; Mardel, a Christian book store chain; and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., a furniture maker.
David Green started Hobby Lobby with a single arts-and-crafts store in Oklahoma City in 1970; the Oklahoma City-based company is now a nationwide chain of about 500 stores with more than 13,000 full-time employees. Mardel, also based in Oklahoma City, was founded by Mart Green, one of David Green’s sons, and now has 35 stores and about 400 full-time employees.
David and Barbara Green and their three children operate Hobby Lobby and Mardel through a management trust. Hobby Lobby is operated according to the family’s religious principles; the stores are closed on Sundays, employees are offered free access to chaplains and spiritual counseling, and the owners buy millions of dollars of advertising around Christmas and Easter inviting people to know Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Conestoga Wood is based in Lancaster County, Pa., and has 950 employees. The company was started in a garage by David Hahn in 1964.
The company is now run by Norman and Elizabeth Hahn and their three sons, Norman Lemar, Anthony and Kevin. They are devout Mennonite Christians who, according to case filings, integrate their faith into their daily lives and business.
The Greens and the Hahns oppose providing health insurance coverage for contraceptives that could prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. To the families, that is the destruction of life.
After the Affordable Care Act was approved, a federal agency designed a mandate for health insurance plans to cover — at no cost — 18 contraceptives for women. The companies say there are four that could prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg.
Under the law, Hobby Lobby could face fines of $1.3 million per day — or nearly $475 million per year — if it does not offer all of the contraceptives. If the company dropped its insurance coverage completely, it would have to pay about $26 million per year.
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Microsoft is developing a new cross-device app called Cache, which can save and organise clips from the web, including text, images, and webpages.
The app is the latest experiment from Microsoft Garage, the incubator responsible for apps like the iOS Word Flow keyboard, the Arrow Android launcher, and dozens of other apps for iOS and Android.
According to the Cache webpage, the app is a simple clipboard manager that you can use to "quickly bookmark text snippets, images, web pages, files, reference material, and your notes" and share them between devices. The page suggests Microsoft has developed a Windows 10 app and iOS app.
Should Microsoft release the app to the public, it may fit somewhere on the spectrum of popular note-taking apps such as Evernote, Google Keep, and even Microsoft's own OneNote.
For now though, Microsoft Garage is treating Cache as a "research project" to find out how people manage and curate content while foraging for goodies on the web. People interested in participating can sign up for a chance to try a pre-release version of Cache. To register, users need to provide a Microsoft email account and one sentence explaining how they'd use the app. Microsoft also wants to know whether you use an iPhone, Android, Windows PC, Mac OS, or "other" device.
Cache's clipboard history keeps clipped items in a timeline and it's also possible to group clips into collections, which can be divided up by project, clients, tasks, or ideas. Once a collection has been created, users can copy across text, images, web pages, reference materials, and add notes. The app also remembers where content was dragged from, offering a quick route back to the original content.
According to thurrot.com, Cache is reminiscent of OneClip, a clipboard app also from Microsoft Garage that leaked last year. That app has moved to the Office and Windows team and may be integrated with these products, according to Windows Central.
Read more on this story
- Plumbago: How Microsoft is building new app for notes, stylus doodling
- Microsoft, if you want to beat Evernote with OneNote, you're going to have to take the gloves off
- Microsoft's Garage is now an incubator launching cross-platform consumer apps
- Microsoft's new iOS keyboard might be a single-handed typist's dream (CNET)
- How to take quick Google Keep notes with the help of Nova Launcher (TechRepublic)


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Thursday, March 02 2006 @ 11:03 PM EST Contributed by: news
The European Commission said yesterday that the number of dangerous non-food products imported to the European Union from China last year more than doubled.
European Union member states reported 346 products of Chinese origin which presented a serious risk for the health and safety of consumers, the EU commission said. In 2004, the number was at 147. Thailand has not a safety mark as the European Union; in the EU all electric and electronic equipment has to apply to the European CE safety standard. Obtaining the CE mark proves to the authorities that the product fulfill essential requirements regarding safety and spectrum protection. The approval process consists of an assessment of the properties of the product
Imports from China account for half of the notified products, the commission said, adding, and “This trend is increasing." Thailand and China have a free trade agreement, and imports from China tripled in the first months after the signing of the free trade agreement.
National authorities in the EU catalogued a total of 701 risky non-food products in 2005, compared to 388 in 2004. In Europe Electronic appliances and toys amount to more than half of the reported risk products, with 25 per cent referring to dangerous toys.
One third of the notifications identified electric shock as the main danger for consumers, followed by risk of injury, burns and choking. Hungary (122 catalogued risk products) and Germany (106 notifications) topped the list of countries reporting dangerous products.
Responsibility for the protection of consumers lies with the producer, a commission spokesman underlined. "If EU companies produce in countries outside the bloc, they have to make sure that their products comply with EU safety standards," he added.


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Charm versus growth
Ogden Valley wants to keep both
Sun, Aug 26, 2003
By JEFF DEMOSS Standard-Examiner staff
Huntsville - On just about any given day, horse-drawn carts bearing passengers click and clack through the streets of this historic Ogden Valley town, reminiscent of the days when the Wood family hand delivered meat from a wagon throughout the valley, fur trappers gathered in the town square, and "cars" ran on water and hay.
Today, motorized vehicles are the preferred transportation method as the Ogden Valley experiences an era of unprecedented growth. But local business owners say while they welcome growth, they want it to happen without compromising the old western town charm that is their identity- and one of their strongest marketing tools.
The Hydes are putting their money where their mouths are. They have purchased and refurbished several of Huntsville's historic buildings as part of their downtown tourist stop vision, while doing as much as possible to retain the original look.
Their restaurant, The Yukon Grille, was once the town post office. The Rendevous Lodge, which hosts receptions, wedding, reunions, and other meetings, was previously the notoriously pink-colored Heritage Inn.
Their most recently finished project, The Wild Plum gift shop, was originally a Forest Service cabin brought down in the 1940s by the Jolly Boys, a small group of local businessmen made locally famous by their penchant for Friday night poker games at a time when gambling was illegal.
"There are lots of stories in these walls," Jeff Hyde said of all the buildings on the now more than one-acre property.
As exposure increases for the Hydes, so does business. Actor Robert Redford chose Trapper's Village as the site of the photo shoot for the holiday edition of the Sundance catalog this year, and the Hydes expect a positive response as awareness of their project spreads.
The Hydes do most of the refurbishing by themselves, and are working to continue expanding Trapper's Village. They recently purchased the historic Woods Market, which was opened in 1897 by the Wood family, descendants of some of Huntsville's original settlers. They also bought the tiny cabin that was the Woods' first home.
"There's a lot of sweat equity in this project," Bonnie Hyde said. They also have experience, having worked in buying, remodeling and reselling Ogden homes for years. Their involvement in the ski industry has provided the necessary capital to make their dream of Trapper's Village a reality, she said. They are the Utah representatives for national outdoor clothing company Clucky & Co.
Jeff Hyde said after watching towns like Telluride, Colo., and Park City grow into major tourist destinations, he saw a great location and opportunity in Huntsville, though he doesn't think it should be modeled after those towns.
"This area has its own identity, and a very strong one," he said. "We can learn from other places without copying them. We like the small town charm here."
The Ogden Valley has long been Weber County's primary tourist destination, offering three ski areas and a smorgasbord of outdoor activities. The Winter Olympics brought awareness to Snowbasin and Powder Mountain, which spent decades in the shadows of their neighbor resorts to the south.
In response to strong growth, the Ogden Valley Business Association was established by about 25 local business people in April 2001 to provide a networking resource for valley businesses. Since then, its membership has grown to 85, including a dozen auxiliary members who are based outside Ogden Valley but are interested in doing business there.
Lisa Karam, vice chair and founding member of the OVBA as well as vice chair of the Ogden/Weber Chamber of Commerce, said the OVBA decided from the outset it would not involve itself in political matters.
"The main objective is to give valley businesses a voice and opportunities to network," she said. "We're not fighting over property rights or anything like that."
"It's great," Bonnie Hyde said. "It's small enough that we all pull for each other and promote our businesses together."
Because of Ogden Valley's high tourist appeal, the Ogden/Weber Convention and Visitor's Bureau was also compelled to join the association, CVB executive director Shelleice Stokes said.
"Doing business collectively increases our marketing strength in the county's fastest growing tourist area," she said. "The scenery, the open spaces, the farms, the Huntsville square - those are all very tangible selling points for us."
She said retreats and reunions are gaining in popularity, and Ogden Valley is an ideal site for such events.
Karam said the OVBA's objective is to sell local business to local residents rather than focus on attracting tourists, but still acknowledges the importance of tourism to the valley's economy.
"There's an amazing number of businesses here." She said among a total valley population of about 6,500, there are approximately 200 businesses currently operating, many of which are home-based. "We want local people to realize that there's a lot here, and they don't have to go to Ogden for everything."
Bonnie Hyde said she is amazed at the expansion in business opportunities in the valley since Trapper's Village opened just two years ago, and expects the trend to continue.
"We had no idea it would evolve like this when we started," she said. "The opportunities just keep coming up."
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The economists and FinTech gurus still seem to be divided on Bitcoin. While this divided opinion was always present, it seems to be exacerbated by the recent revelation of Mike Hearn about Bitcoin and its flaws. His prophecy of Bitcoin heading towards failure has definitely gained some extra attention.
Recently, the same views were echoed by representatives of banking and FinTech industry at the World Economic Forum meet held at Davos, Switzerland. Some of the bankers express their support towards the Bitcoin technology while there were others who were pessimistic about the digital currency and its underlying technology. Overall, most of them seem to be more biased against bitcoin as a digital currency. Representatives from banks and FinTech companies that are already invested in Bitcoin technology as part of the consortium defended their move by saying that Blockchain technology, even though is still in its nascent stages holds a lot of potential that can drastically bring down costs while ensuring greater compliance towards regulations.
Some of the attendees at the World Economic Forum event included Andrea Orcel – President of UBS Investment Bank, Willem Buiter – Chief Economist at Citi, James Gorman – CEO and President of Morgan Stanley, John Cryan – Co-chief Executive of Deutsche Bank, Cathy Bessant – Chief Technology Officer at the Bank of America, Garry Lyons – Chief Innovation Officer at MasterCard etc. The discussion about Bitcoin and Blockchain technology stemmed from the recently published white paper on digital currencies by the International Monetary Fund. The white paper calls for the representatives from the banking and FinTech industry to familiarize themselves with emerging technologies in the sector which includes Bitcoin and Blockchain technology.
However, the global body in its report also goes on to mention that at present, digital currencies like bitcoin make only a small fraction of the whole world’s economy which is a insignificant number. But the rapid growth in cryptocurrency sector definitely makes it interesting and worth following, lest they miss the digital revolution bus. While representatives from UBS Investment Bank, Bank of America and MasterCard were vocal about the advantages of digital currency technology, others didn’t seem that excited about the changes it could potentially bring to FinTech and banking sector.
Apart from digital currencies, the World Economic Forum leaders also discussed about other major happenings in the world economy including the falling Chinese economy, refugee crisis plaguing the European Union, Britain’s role in EU and last but not the least, possible dissolution of the European Union itself.


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The fingerprint reader you're looking at is your only chance to purchase the device you've been waiting for.But if you're not sure which fingerprint reader is right for you, there are plenty of alternatives out there.For starters, if you already own a smartphone, there's no reason to buy one that doesn't come with one.If you already have a smartwatch, there is no reason not to invest in a new one....
Google has announced the release of a new fingerprint scanner for its Android phones, which can unlock devices from anywhere in the world.
The company said the system, called the ‘fingerprinting fingerprint’, is designed to help make phones safer by removing the need for a fingerprint reader or a PIN.
Google’s announcement comes just weeks after it unveiled the new fingerprint technology it hopes will make Android phones more secure, and it’s one of the first times the company has revealed the technology.
Google said the new system is available for “most devices”, and that it can unlock the phone by sending a short video message to the device.
The ‘fingerprints’ are designed to let a user access the phone with the touch of a finger and are “designed to work with Google+, Google Search, Google Docs, Google Photos, Google Maps, and other apps that require a fingerprint”, Google said.
This is one of a number of new fingerprint systems Google has launched in recent months.
Earlier this year, the company announced its own ‘Google Now’ feature, which allows a user to ask questions using a voice command, or by taking a photo with a camera and scanning it.


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18 Jun Mozilla wants to bring Firefox to the iPad. The company is showing off a prototype iPad browser dubbed "Junior." Firefox for the iPad won't be. 17 Jun - 22 min - Uploaded by HTeuMeuLeu Alex Limi and Trond Werner Lansen from the Product Design and Strategy Team at Mozilla. 18 Jun Mozilla recently showed off a new browser they're working on for the iPad called Junior. Since the browsing engine is already locked-in by.
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Download Firefox Focus: Privacy browser and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iPhone 5. Sep 28, Junior.M. Por favor libera para iPhone 5. 18 Jun Firefox maker Mozilla has been working on Junior, a prototype iPad app that aims to rethink the tablet web browsing experience 'from the. 5 Nov Dear all, 1Password support has been readded in the last two iOS Firefox beta builds. 18 Jun Junior promises to be a new way of thinking for Mozilla and for tablet browsers.


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A little more than 2 million Southern Californians traveled for Thanksgiving, 85% via the automobile, according to a study conducted for the Automobile Club of Southern California.
“The main reason is probably a plane trip is going to be more expensive,” said Automobile Club of Southern California spokeswoman Marie Montgomery. “A lot of costs can be associated with a plane trip, including car rentals and hotels.”
El Monte RV rented out 56 recreational vehicles to local families Wednesday, General Manager Edward Calderon told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
“This is our busiest holiday for rentals,” Calderon said. “All of our biggest RVs are rented.”
Paul Peterson of La Crescenta rented a smaller RV, about 25 feet, Wednesday to drive with his wife and two children to California City.
“We join a group of about 20 to 30 people at a campground,” Peterson said. “We did it last year for the first time, and decided to do it again this year.”
While Peterson is renting a motorhome for a Thanksgiving camping trip, others rented out RVs to park in their driveways and put up family members, Calderon said.
“Some people have more family members than rooms,” Calderon said. “Instead of sending them to hotels, they’re renting RVs.”
The top cost-saving measure taken by many travelers this holiday season is staying with friends and families instead of in hotel rooms, Montgomery said.


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From festive wreaths outside the headquarters of First Hawaiian Bank in downtown Honolulu, to the big Santa statue greeting shoppers at Ala Moana Center to a sculpture of Santa and his elves carved from sand greeting visitors in the lobby of the Sheraton Waikiki, Hawaii businesses have been busy decking the halls for the start of what is expected to be a robust holiday shopping season.
Thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours go into transforming buildings, malls, stores and hotels around Hawaii each year for the holidays. At the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, Chef Ralf Bauer and Amie Tungpalan spent more than 800 hours this year on the Waikiki hotel’s annual gingerbread display featuring Hawaii landmarks and some famous landmarks from around the world.
Even the City and County of Honolulu gets into the holiday spirit, festooning city hall, Honolulu Hale, and its grounds with trees, decorations and giant toys and a Santa dipping his bare foot into a fountain, all in time for the city’s annual Honolulu City Lights parade and tree-lighting event, which is scheduled for Dec. 1 this year.
PBN photographer Tina Yuen got some behind-the-scenes looks at the work that goes into transforming Honolulu and Waikiki for a Mele Kalikimaka.
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FrontGate Media has a tremendous reputation in the faith-based evangelical market, and we are pleased to have them design and place media campaigns that engage our highly responsive audience.
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June 26, 2017
Influential news and opinion mega-site Newsmax has entered into a multi-year agreement with FrontGate Media, the leading faith and family marketing agency and media group, for representation to the faith-based marketplace via the firm’s exclusive Web & Event Network.
Newsmax maintains one of the highest concentrations of Baby Boomer consumers on the web, which is the largest demographic group in the nation with the greatest spending power. Newsmax has been called a “news powerhouse” by Forbes and a “potent force” by The New York Times.
The Newsmax audience includes the fast-rising Newsmax TV set to be in 35 million cable homes this summer. Online Newsmax has a “total reach” of over 50 million Americans monthly, including 10+ million monthly unique visitors to Newsmax.com which generates 60 million page views, 6 million email subscribers, 600,000 paid subscribers, and is comprised of readership that is over 90 percent Christian. The breadth of their political affiliations is equally impressive: 38% Independent, 34% Democrat, and 28% Republican.(Comscore)
“With the consolidation of the faith sub-culture marketplace as evidenced most recently by the closure of Family Christian Stores, for-profit and non-profit organizations are seeking new pathways to reach people of faith,” states Scott A. Shuford, Founder & Chief Engagement Officer of FrontGate Media. ”Newsmax is one of the nation’s premiere news brands with an influential brand for heartland Americans. It will be a terrific online channel for us as we pioneer new…


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Lululemon says recall will pinch profit
Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX:LLL), the iconic Vancouver-based retailer of stretchy workout gear, admits the recent recall of its black Luon pants will put the pinch on earnings but says keeping customer loyalty is paramount.
"Delivering the top quality our guests expect is a critical factor in our differentiation in the market place," CEO Christine Day said in delivering an upbeat fourth-quarter earnings report Thursday that slightly exceeded the expectations of analysts.
"The fundamentals of our business are strong, we delivered excellent results in 2012, and we plan to continue to earn the loyalty of our customers and shareholders every day going forward."
The company, which operates 211 stores in North America and Australia, said earlier this week it was pulling a batch of defective pants from its shelves because of manufacturing failures that made them too sheer.
It said Thursday that the recall will reduce revenue, reported in U.S. dollars, by $12 million and $17 million in the first quarter. It also estimated earnings will be reduced by 11 to 12 cents per share.
But overall, Lululemon is expecting to be profitable in the first quarter with diluted earnings of between 28 and 30 cents per share of earnings and between US$333 million and US$343 million of revenue.
However, that's below a pre-announcement consensus estimate of 44 cents per share of earnings and US$352 million of revenue, according to figures compiled by Thomson Reuters.
In the fourth quarter, which ended before the recall, Lululemon did slightly better than the consensus estimate.
On a per-share basis, Lululemon had 75 cents of net income in the fourth quarter — a penny above the consensus estimate of 74 cents per share.
The clothing company's revenue during the key holiday shopping period was also up, rising by 31 per cent year-to-year to US$485.5 million — in line with expectations.
During the comparable period last year, Lululemon — which reports in U.S. currency — had $371.5 million of revenue and $73.9 million or 51 cents per share of net income.
Day said that black Luon, the company's proprietary fabric, was a very technical and sensitive product to manufacture.
"We have a long history with our manufacturers and as we have in the past, we are working closely with them to resolve the current issues," she said.
For all of fiscal 2013, Lululemon expects net revenue to be in the range of US$1.61 billion to US$1.64 billion and diluted earnings per share to be in the range of $1.95 to $1.99.
The company ended fiscal 2012 with US$590.2 million in cash and cash equivalents compared with $409.4 million at the end of fiscal 2011, while year-end inventory at the end of fiscal 2012 was $155.2 million, up from $104.1 million at the end of fiscal 2011.


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Black Friday Deals Make Gadget Lovers Smiling!November 6th, 2010 - 6:29 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Nov 6, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The excitement surrounding the Black Friday sales is reaching a crescendo in the USA. As a matter of fact millions of people wait for this deal all over the year. This year the black Friday falls on Nov 26th. The various retail giants including Best Buy and Wal-Mart have started splashing their lucrative ads for Black Friday Deals. Wal-Mart has said that it will offer a pre Black Friday sales in the first week of November. This is a boon for the gadget freaks. There are some steal deals on gadgets like laptops and LCD TVs. Last year the Black Friday deals of the retailer also drew millions of buyers and they made long serpentine queues outside the stores to take home the favorite appliances at throwaway rates.
Along with Wal-Mart other noted retailers like Target and Best Buy also offer attractive deals on Black Friday. The customers who prefer to buy online rather than hitting the stores will also get great discounts on selected products. Discount vouchers and coupons will also be made available a few days prior to Black Friday as it has been reported. Wal-Mart is offering some good deals on PS3 and Vizio LCD TVs during the pre Black Friday sales. It is quite likely that Apple iPad and the newly released Samsung Galaxy Tab will be offered at discounted rates. The gadget lovers are waiting for the deals.
Hewlett-Packard is another Technology giant that will offer some of its most popular products at special rates on or before Black Friday. The rumor doing the round in the market is that there will be a heavy discount on the newly released HP Slate tablet.
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Nokia to Establish Subsidiary Co.
Published 8:00 pm, Thursday, January 10, 2002
Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, said Friday it will form a subsidiary company called Vertu later this month but declined to confirm published reports that it would sell luxury handsets.
Nokia spokesman Tapio Hedman said the announcement and details about the company will be given in Paris on Jan. 21. "We have no further comment on the matter," Hedman said, offering no other details.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that luxury Nokia handsets, with casings of precious metals and other special features, will be sold under the Vertu brand name. It said the project had been developed in secret since 1997.
Nokia, considered on the forefront of mobile telephony, has its headquarters in Espoo, outside Helsinki. It has more than 56,000 employees and sales in 130 countries.
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While Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia's smartphone division is potentially good news for Microsoft, the company needs to work on its branding issues if it's to start seeing greater success in the mobile hardware industry, a Gartner analyst has told Computing.
Shortly after a weeping Steve Ballmer left the career stage to (I've Had) The Time of My Life, Gartner analyst Roberta Cozza maintains that a new CEO could begin to turn the corner for a company plagued by an embarrassing history of screaming ebullience, breakdancing school children and even - a few years earlier - A Night at the Roxbury-inspired in-car bopping.
"It could help if it's a person who understands the importance of, and the execution of mobile," suggested Cozza, "and it should be a person who also understands devices now that Microsoft wants to compete - and rightly so - by being more of a hardware company."
But the real potential transformation for Microsoft's uncool image lies, said Cozza, in tying together the splayed ends of the company's product portfolio. The Nokia brand - even if Microsoft doesn't know it - could come to some amount of assistance here.
"I want to stress the fact that the branding challenges remain the same," said Cozza.
"One of the biggest challenges we pointed out in our research is the perception of the brand, but I think that today there is more of an emotional link from consumers to the Windows phone brand."
Cozza believes that features such as Nokia's PureView, if spun correctly, could fuse with Microsoft's already technically respectable Windows Phone platform to create something the consumer doesn't have already, while providing the enterprise with an "Apple equivalent" simply because businesses are "still wary" about Android's shaky reputation from a security standpoint.
Cozza believes that Microsoft can save its whole reputation across the board by more closely identifying its ecosystem with its more popular facets.
"There is a lot of confusion within Microsoft because they have the Xbox, Skype and other services and products that feel like they're separate one from the other," said Cozza.
"They need to tie together all those services as more of a single entity, instead of many different planets of services."
Cozza believes the next year in particular - as Android continues to grow in strength, Apple shows little sign of releasing its steady grip on its share of the market, and other phone makers such as Huwaei, ZTE and even Canonical's Ubuntu Phone enter the fray anew - is a particularly important time for Microsoft to stake a claim.
"They need to bring together more what they have," she said.
"This next year is so fundamental for them to change this perception around. They have a strong gaming brand, and Skype, and I think we need to see more of a branding. Tablet users use them mainly for entertainment - and Microsoft needs to work on the brand to take that into account."
While Cozza states that, on a hardware level, Microsoft will continue to look at "partners they want to keep happy," she believes there is now "a certain understanding that the integration of hardware and software, and a better user experience, has become one of the key advantages."
Cozza says that Gartner did not change its immediate forecast for Windows after the announcement, but that a "more positive" outlook is potentially on the cards for Windows Phone "over the next three to four years".
The proviso, though, is that Microsoft "will let the Nokia people they keep give feedback on the device," leading to "better opportunities to better integrate the OS and the hardware".


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Comic-Con came again, and with it the total transformation of San Diego, Calif., into a pop culture wonderland.
After more than five years leading the company, Mikael Hed will step down as chief executive officer of Rovio Jan. 1.
"Toyze," an app for creating 3D-printed customizable character toys, has signed a licensing agreement with the developers of the popular app pet Pou.
Digital games company Miniclip and American Greetings Properties have co-created a mobile game based on Strawberry Shortcake titled “Berry Rush.”
DC Thomson has launched a new monthly children’s magazine that focuses on multi-platform gaming and entertainment.
Magic Light Pictures has launched the first game app for the classic picture book The Gruffalo.
StoryToys has released 3D pop-up activity app based on the Poppy Cat franchise and developed in collaboration with Coolabi and The Kindly Ones Productions.
Scholastic Parent & Child magazine has launched "KidQ," a free mobile app that facilitates conversation about the things that kids are curious about.
Rovio will preview its upcoming “Angry Birds Stella” mobile game exclusively at Barnes & Noble stores from Aug. 29 to Sept. 3.
Speakaboos has launched a range of new titles from The Jim Henson Company, HIT Entertainment and Scholastic Media/WestonWoods.
A localized version of King Digital Entertainment's hit mobile game "Candy Crush Saga," is now available for players in China.
Ink has appointed Rizon Studios Licensing as Subway Surfers' newest sub-agent in the U.K. and Ireland.
Outfit7, creators of the Talking Friends franchise, has appointed Baker & McKenzie as its IP rights enforcement firm.
Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump property is making the leap from mobile to console with a new handheld version set to publish on Nintendo’s 3DS and DS systems.
New developments in the licensing of digital IP into the European toy market are providing a welcome boost to the toy industry.
PopCap Games, a division of Electronic Arts, has appointed Tycoon Enterprises to handle licensing for the app property “Plants vs. Zombies.”
GalaBingo.com has teamed up with ITV to feature the British soap opera “Coronation Street” in a series of bingo and slots games.
HarperCollins has released a new app designed to accompany the recently released film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Digital Giving’s charity app “T-Shirt Booth” has added its 20th licensed character–DC Thomson’s Oor Wullie.
Mind Candy has released the “Moshi Monsters Village?” app globally, following the game’s debut in the U.K. late last year.
Bandai and Sync Beatz Entertainment are planning a new app, “Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. Angel.”
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Lady Gaga is releasing a makeup range!
It's been rumoured for a while that Lady Gaga was all set to release a range of makeup, however, nothing was confirmed until now! Lady Gaga's Haus Laboratories is set to launch this September, exclusively on Amazon.
Haus Laboratories will be the first major cosmetics brand ever to be launched on Amazon and will be released in nine countries including the UK, US, Japan, France and Germany.
Want to be the first to get your hands on a piece of makeup from the brand?
Pre-order will be on July 15 at 12 AM PT
Quote: "The last thing the world needs is another beauty brand... but that's too bad." Lady Gaga


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Consumer sentiment has surged since the November election, as Americans become increasingly optimistic about the future of the economy and their own personal finances.
But most consumers seem to understand that better economic growth comes at the cost of higher interest rates. According to data out Friday, that may be nudging them into the housing market.
In the University of Michigan’s closely-watched consumer sentiment survey, the number of people who said that now is a good time to buy a home because of rising mortgage rates surged to the highest level in more than 20 years – one in five.
It makes sense that Americans are responding to the possibility of higher rates. Borrowing costs jumped nearly a full percentage point in the weeks after the November election. But they’re still low. Even with that late-year surge, the 2016 average for rates was the lowest on record, Freddie Mac noted last month.
And rates have fallen since then. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.19% in the most recent week, compared to 4.32% at the end of 2016.
There’s some uncertainty about the direction of rates over the next year or so. Housing economists surveyed by MarketWatch in early December forecast an average of about 4.5% over the course of 2017. But many economists who watch the bond market think the furious selling of Treasurys in the weeks after the election may have been overdone.
Mortgage rates generally track the direction of the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield /zigman2/quotes/211347051/realtime BX:TMUBMUSD10Y -2.56% .
Whatever the precise course of rates over the next year, it’s a good sign that consumers are aware that they could be rising, and that their response is to try to get ahead of it in order to buy a home. There have been recent signs that demand may be cooling.
Within the same Michigan survey, in January fewer people said that, overall, now is a good time to buy a home. (The 20% of respondents who are trying to get ahead of higher borrowing costs were those who initially responded yes, now is a good time to buy a home, and then were asked why.)
That finding tracks with a survey from Fannie Mae, whose home purchase sentiment index was 2.5 percentage points lower in December than a year ago.
It’s quite possible that demand is only faltering because supply isn’t keeping up with it. Inventory of previously-owned homes fell to a 17-year low in December, the National Association of Realtors said last week. But home buyer traffic has remained high, according to several measures.


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Ridge Racer Vita
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Handheld version of the classic driving game franchise, Ridger Racer Vita will feature wi-fi and 3G support as well as single-player.
Ridge Racer stripped bare for Vita: just how much would you pay for five cars and three tracks?
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After introducing video functionality to their app last month, it was only a matter of time before Instagram ramped up their work with advertisers. Now, the first ever movie trailer has been released on the service for the upcoming biopic of Steve Jobs.
With Ashton Kutcher in the starring role Jobs will be released in cinemas on August 16. The film follows the its eponymous hero from 1971 to 2000 from when he drops out of college and founds Apple, up to the release of the iPod. Jobs died in 2011 due to complications resulting from pancreatic cancer.
The trailer below is fairly evenly paced, despite the 15 second time limit on Instagram videos. It also compares well with the first trailer to be released on Instagram's main competitor, Vine. Advertising the upcoming X-Men film The Wolverine, the trailer was forced into Vine's 6-second time limit using editing speedy enough to make Aronofsky blink.
Industry analysts predict that advertising of this sort will be integral for the Facebook-owned Instagram, as specially as both social media networks attempt to monetize their user-base. Combined with targeted advertising that places brands in front of users that would be most interested in their product, video for Instagram should prove to be a lucrative feature.Reuse content