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Perhaps because salmonella bacteria aren’t visible to the naked eye but can still make you sick, there isn’t much of an ick factor. Not so with cockroaches.
The mere thought of the little bugs – a well-known sign of uncleanliness – scurrying around food makes everyone sick. Five cockroaches were found in the Foster Farms Livingston processing plant, forcing the federal Food Safety and Inspection Service to close the plant Wednesday, idling some 3,500 workers.
The action sent out economic ripples that could turn into tidal waves – especially considering salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds across the country. Regardless of how long the plant remains closed, no matter how much cleanup is done, the Foster Farms brand has been damaged.
Once considered a paragon of cleanliness, and rightfully proud of its industry-leading federal inspection record, Foster Farms now faces an incredibly difficult task. Consumers who were quick to forgive a salmonella lapse last year may not be so quick to buy chicken processed in a factory once “infested” with bugs.
This is bad news for Modesto where the company began; for Livingston and Fresno where the chicken is processed; and for hundreds of farms throughout the region where Foster Farms’ chickens are raised.
Americans eat 83 pounds of chicken a year. Foster Farms is only the nation’s sixth-largest processor, meaning consumers have many chicken choices.
We’re not suggesting bugs ever touched any chicken. Inspectors saw exactly five cockroaches, none on meat. But it’s not a far leap to connect those five bugs to the salmonella outbreak that began in October. Cockroaches are known to carry the salmonella bacteria that is harmless to chickens.
In dealing with the salmonella outbreak, the company made what we believe to be heartfelt promises to improve food safety practices.
With this issue falling so closely on the heels of the earlier trouble, we have to wonder how much those statements were about commitment and how much were about public relations.
The FSIS detailed five steps Foster Farms must take – from identifying the cause of the infestation to corrective actions to future monitoring. Those demands are appropriate.
In our reporting on the shutdown, we found the comments of Foster Farms retiree Tom Lackey especially interesting. He noted that sanitation practices have changed in recent years as the company relied more on automated processes than old-fashioned elbow grease to scrub the plant.
Allowing machines to do certain jobs cuts costs; but sometimes a human sees things a machine can’t. A dedicated employee can take action immediately or alert supervisors to problems before they become crises.
To have any chance of rebuilding customer confidence, everyone at Foster Farms – top to bottom – must make food safety the first priority. They must be convinced – as they once were – that they are working in the cleanest, most sanitary processing plant in the world.
Once they believe, their confidence will spread to customers ... and help chase away those thoughts of scurrying cockroaches.


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Small fish farmers in China diversify
Harvest time may have arrived for fish farms in rural China but some are no longer relying on bulk fish sales. A series of pond-based fish farms in Ningxia province in China’s northwestern hinterlands revealed how a growing middle class is providing an alternative source of income to fish farmers.
Fifty kilometers from the provincial capital Yinchuan, Wang Shui and her husband cultivate carp and catfish in a hectare of pondland. The couple supply fish to Yinchuan wholesalers and sell to distributors as far away as Tibet. However, a steady flow of hobby fishermen coming from nearby cities are accounting for a growing share of the Wang’s customers.
“They pay RMB 50 for the day or if they want to come for just one fish we charge them RMB 10 per jin (500g),” explained Wang. “Many of them are government officials and business people who are stressed out and want to get away from it all.”
A half dozen fishermen in matching casual sweaters and RMB 500 fishing rods fished the Wang's ponds recently. They were all sales executives from the Shenhua Group, one of China's leading coal miners with extensive mines in Ningxia.
The couple last year doubled the size of their allotment and expect business to grow, both from hobbyists and market demand. The couple sells carp for RMB 6 per 500g, having paid approximately RMB1 for each fry. The growing period is up to six months, explained Wang. “The hobby fishers of course will fish some of the younger fish before they’re grown.”
The Wangs feed their fish with feed sourced locally, from the Ningxia subsidiary of the Da Bei Nong Group, an agribusiness conglomerate listed in Shanghai. They have also purchased feed produced by the Peru-based feed firm Exalmar, but find that local feed, while of a substandard quality, is more economical. The other big expense is water: Next year they’ll drain the ponds and refill them with water transported from the nearby Yellow River. “That costs a lot in piping and trucking,” said Wang.
September and October are peak production time in the northwest China fish-farming sector, before the onset of a long, cold winter (temperatures in Ningxia go as low as minus 30C). At the Xi Hu fish market in Wuzhong, a smaller Ningxia city, vendors explained that carp prices as low as RMB 4 per 500g (for silver carp) habitually increase by up to 30 percent come January and February. Catfish prices, however, can surge to RMB 40 (compared to RMB 15 for farmed) if harvested from the Yellow River.
Whereas saltwater species dominate Western seafood consumption, China has traditionally cultivated freshwater species such as carp. However, the long-term outlook for carp consumption is not so promising. Carp lacks the “prestige” element, claimed Gorjan Nikolik, aquaculture industry analyst at Rabobank in Singapore. While carp accounts for more than 60 percent of China’s aquaculture — the bulk of it eaten in poorer inland provinces — increasing prosperity in China means long-term demand will likely switch to “aspirational” high-end species such as bass and salmon, said Nikolik. Urbanization means the key low-income consumption bracket for carp will decrease rather than increase, explained the Singapore-based Rabobank analyst, speaking at a feed conference in Beijing. "Carp is not the business you want to be in to exploit the consumers of the future in China," added Nikolik.
At the Xi Hu market a stream of motorbike couriers collect canvas sacks of live fish, to be dropped into tanks at local restaurants. Wuzhong, like many smaller Chinese cities, has undergone a building boom in the past 10 years, with ring roads and shopping streets built from scratch. The resulting influx of cash through the city has created jobs and a wave of new restaurants. The long-term viability of such a growth model, fuelled with easy credit from state banks, remains questionable. Meanwhile, a wave of speculative house building has left the city with a glut of residential high rises apparently surplus to the local population.
However, the Wangs are optimistic, so much so that they’re doubling their income by working in city catering jobs in the day and hiring two local peasants to feed their fish on weekdays. Rumoured government subsidies to fish farmers would help them expand further, said Wang, who believes fish farmers should get the same support as local grain farmers, who get subsidies to cover 30 percent of farm machinery prices.


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KUALA LUMPUR (May 27): TSH Resources Bhd reported a 24% decline in its net profit to RM13.54 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019 (1QFY19) from RM17.83 million a year earlier, due to lower average crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernel (PK) selling prices.
Revenue for the quarter fell 8% to RM207.59 million from RM226.14 million in 1QFY18.
The group said its palm product segment reported lower operating profit due to lower average CPO price, although this was offset by higher fresh fruit bunch (FFB) production.
“Average CPO and PK prices for 1QFY19 declined to RM1,911 and RM1,214 per tonne respectively from RM2,316 and RM2,043 per tonne for 1QFY18. On the other hand, FFB production for 1QFY19 increased to 204,555 tonnes from 181,219 tonnes in 1QFY18,” it said.
The others segment reported lower revenue year-on-year amid lower sales volume of cocoa and wood products but operating profit increased due to higher profit contribution from the bio-integration and cocoa segments.
Going forward, the company expects better FFB crop production ahead as more of its planted areas are coming into maturity, translating to a better age profile.
“The Board remains optimistic on the long term prospect of the palm oil industry due to the higher per capita income, many health qualities of palm oil and population growth, which will drive greater demand.
“The palm products segment which accounts for more than 85% of the revenue and profit for the group will remain the core contributor to group profit. Management will continue its focus on productivity and efficiency improvement to reduce the unit cost of production,” said TSH.
TSH shares fell 3 sen or 3.23% to close at 90 sen, giving it a market capitalisation of RM1.24 billion.


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Google Wallet is a mobile app that would allow an NFC enabled phone to pay partner merchants. This article will tell you about Google Wallet.
Google has just launched two of its much talked-about services, Google Wallet and Google Offers. Google had been working on Near Field Communication technology for Android Phones for quite sometime and just moments back, it unveiled a path breaking service to everyone at their NY city HQ.
What is Google Wallet?
Google Wallet is a mobile app that would allow an NFC enabled phone to pay partner merchants via mobile phone. It’s like using a mobile phone as a wallet or a credit card for making payments.
How It Works?
Google Wallet stores virtual versions of your existing plastic cards on your phone, along with your coupons, loyalty and gift cards. Whenever you come across a merchant that accepts ‘Google Wallet’ (currently PayPass by Citi MasterCard only), you will simply need to tap your phone with the contactless reader and the payment will be completed. No swiping of cards required at all.
Why It matters?
Google Wallet is meant to avoid carrying number of credit cards with you or avoid carrying the leather wallet altogether(in the long run). Google Wallet also provides multi-layers of security that keeps sensitive things secure and shielded.
The best thing that Google Wallet brings to the table is that it auto-syncs Wallet with Google Offers, another service launched by Google today that will bring discount offers, local deals from partner merchants and plenty of other stuff that will help save money for consumers without having to bother about carrying discount coupons all the time.
In simple words, Google Wallet is aimed to make paying fast, easy and secure, without the hassle of carrying along plastic cards.
Google Wallet has currently partnered with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint to get Google Wallet up and running. Currently, Google Wallet service is enabled for Nexus 4G phones by Sprint.
Although Google has made the announcement, the service isn’t immediately available for actual consumer use as it will run under test phase for sometime now.
Whenever Google Wallet launches, it will support these cards:
- Citi MasterCard
- Google Prepaid Card
- Gift cards at participating merchants
As Google states in its vision statement, Google sees NFC technology going far beyond just payments. The idea of making payments through mobile wallets is just a tip of the iceberg. NFC is a huge technological innovation and Google sees it as a stepping stone to the future of unified digital carriage of things that are currently carried on paper.
Going by Google’s vision, boarding passes, tokens, tickets, bills, coupons, receipts etc, everything will become digital and will exist right within the mobile phone.
In future, Smartphones will become the All-what-you-need device and you will simply have to carry along your mobile phone and nothing else. But NFC technology is still in its nascent stages so there’s still a long way to go but the whole idea is very much believable, rather inevitable so full marks to Google for being the first to offer such service.
Apple is also rumored to be preparing its own payment service and it seems, even Microsoft will be coming up with its own mobile payment service for WP7 phones.
Google will be looking forward to positioning Google Wallet as an open commerce solution supported by all Smartphone ecosystems but will be succeed in its ambitious goal is something that remains to be seen.


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Online dating has already become a common occurrence in modern romance. According to Statista, there will be nearly 280 million online dating users by 2024.
According to data from a recent survey conducted by Dating.com, an online matchmaking platform, many singles are ready to take their love search into the metaverse. According to the survey, those looking for love are increasingly turning to technology, with 33% planning to date in the metaverse.
According to the survey, using metaverse avatars can help to prioritize “communication and digital intimacy before in-person discovery.” Furthermore, the metaverse is a borderless world where singles can meet from anywhere.
Singles Widening their Dating Pools
The survey indicated that with advancements in dating app technology and the metaverse, more daters are willing to connect across cities, countries, and even continents. Over the last year, digital identity, and more specifically, identity in the metaverse, has been a major topic of discussion for both users and developers.
As more industries in the real world transition into digital reality, the tools available to users to piece together a digital identity expand. Whether it’s through legacy brand wearables or virtual reality land ownership, our digital selves have the potential to represent a lot about who we are and our status.
However, as more personal data is made available to digital reality in order to create the most realistic version of users, the risk of identity theft and other exploits grows. According to a recent Kaspersky survey, metaverse exploitation and abuse are expected to rise in the coming year.
Metaverse Utility Expanding
An earlier report this week showed that the metaverse was going to be useful in helping users choose their travel destinations.
Booking.com, a popular online travel service, conducted a survey of 24,179 respondents from 32 countries, and the findings revealed that tourists are very interested in digitally experiencing destinations before making vacation plans. Out of the group, Gen Z (45%) and Millennials (43%), were the most likely to seek out metaverse travel experiences.
43% of respondents, or just under half of all those polled, said virtual reality would influence their decisions. 4574 people in this category believe that traveling to new places should be done virtually first.
Furthermore, more than 35% of respondents are willing to spend several days in the Metaverse getting acquainted with the settings provided by well-known locations.
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Cities brace for shutdown of dealerships
With struggling automakers expected to announce the shutdown of thousands of dealerships starting today, cities are bracing for a wave of blight.
The closings will dump thousands of large, oddly configured parcels into an already reeling commercial real estate market. Many are likely to remain empty for a long time, monuments to the decline of the U.S. auto industry and the intensity of this recession.
Chrysler is expected to tell a Bankruptcy Court today that it will break its contracts with as many as 800 dealerships nationwide.
General Motors Corp. will tell 1,000 to 1,200 dealers Friday that it will not renew their franchises. The automaker plans to eventually close a total of 2,600 operations.
In California, the moves will have far-reaching implications for dozens of cities, which depend on sales tax revenue from the dealerships to fund substantial portions of their budgets.
The dealerships join a growing list of retailers felled by the dour economy: Sites that once held Mervyn’s, Circuit City and Linens ‘n Things stores remain empty except for a few locations. And as difficult as it has been to sell or lease those properties, at least they can be easily adapted for other uses. Car dealerships, on the other hand, are special-purpose properties that are hard to adapt.
“There are not a lot of uses that can go right back into a dealership,” said Jodi Meade, director of the automotive properties group at real estate brokerage CB Richard Ellis. “Usually they have to scrape it” and start over to make way for another business.
San Bernardino, for example, had 12 dealerships when the economy was booming. Now there are just seven -- and it’s unclear whether more will be felled with the GM and Chrysler announcements.
At an abandoned Cadillac dealership, weeds poke through cracks in the asphalt. Vandals have painted graffiti over the Chevrolet logo at another site. Windows are broken and dead grass from a once-tended lawn covers the ground.
One of the car lots, now called Arrowhead Motors, is operating only because a credit union had so many repossessed vehicles that it decided to go into the auto business.
“The whole model of auto sales through dealership networks is open to question,” said Jim Morris, chief of staff to San Bernardino Mayor Patrick J. Morris.
Finding a car seller for the Arrowhead Motors site was a coup for the city, which is struggling to figure out what to do with its empty car lots, Jim Morris said.
Auto dealership sites have lost a third to half of their value compared with the peak about three years ago, Meade said.
Battered by the poor market for new cars, 145 California dealerships closed last year, Meade said, dropping the total to about 1,590. Closures included dealers for imports such as Toyota and Kia, as well as the U.S. Big Three of Ford, Chrysler and GM.
Many of the sites are zoned for retail uses, which subtracts from their appeal at a time when most the nation’s retailers are struggling to hold their ground or closing stores.
It’s not clear how many GM and Chrysler dealers will close in California, but experts say the empty storefronts will most certainly be difficult to sell or lease.
“It’s the worst time to sell,” said commercial real estate lender Jeff Friedman, co-chief executive of Mesa West Capital. “The challenges are enormous.”
Throughout the state, local governments are struggling to keep their auto dealerships alive, because most have become reliant on the big-ticket sellers to provide a steady stream of sales tax income.
Since Proposition 13 limited California property taxes in 1978, many cities have encouraged the construction of malls and other retail uses that bring in sales taxes to fund the municipal budget.
Car dealerships are now among the biggest generators of tax revenue.
Cerritos, which boasts that it is home to the world’s largest auto mall, with 24 franchises, relies on sales taxes to provide a third of its $98-million annual budget, City Manager Arthur Gallucci said. Although its dealerships still operate, sales tax revenue in Cerritos fell 21% in the fourth quarter compared with a year earlier.
In Glendale, car dealers kick in up to $4 million to the annual budget. Tustin receives about $5 million, a quarter of the Orange County city’s budget, and late last year Director of Finance Ronald Nault said there had been a “frightening” drop in collections.
Although Chrysler and GM won’t shut all their dealerships on the same day, the fact that so many are coming onto the market is going to make it even harder to resell and reuse them, said Andrew Sobel, co-founder of Los Angeles real estate investment firm Brentwood Capital Partners.
Sobel’s company owns a property that is an example of another problem with trying to sell or lease an auto dealership: It can be difficult to convert the site to another use.
Brentwood Capital bought a former Mazda dealership in Culver City in 2005 but has been unable to get approval from the city to build the housing and retail complex it hopes to erect.
Many cities are desperately trying to hold on to their dealerships, loath to allow them to be used for other purposes because that would mean a loss of important sales tax revenue.
In San Bernardino, mayor’s aide Morris said the city would try to keep its remaining auto stores alive, rather than push for them to be converted for other purposes.
“Until someone can tell us the era of the auto center is dead,” Morris said, the city will try to preserve its dealership cluster. San Bernardino has even helped dealers with advertising and promotion, a strategy other cities have also embraced.
Palmdale is trying an even more direct approach. Since February, people who buy a new car in the city’s auto mall can get a $300 gift certificate from the city, Mayor Jim Ledford said.
The cities of Victorville and Norco lent dealers hundreds of thousands of dollars to stay afloat. And with good reason.
Although car lots in desirable locations could be snatched up by competitors or real estate investors, dealerships in areas hard-hit by the economy -- particularly in Riverside and San Bernardino counties -- may have few suitors, industry experts said.
“It would take a very bold individual to want to purchase land in the Inland Empire at this point,” said Friedman, the commercial real estate lender. “It would actually be easier to sell ice to Eskimos than to sell land in Riverside.”


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The Tribes have come a long way since the days of Halo.
With the release of Halo 5, a series that has already had a big impact on the culture of the franchise, and a slew of other upcoming titles, it’s no surprise that a lot of gamers are talking about what the Tribes would look like.
It’s clear that a great deal of thought and effort went into crafting these maps, which feature multiple levels, several environments, and dozens of NPCs.
It may sound like a daunting task, but the designers at 343 Industries were certainly working on a team that could pull it off.
It’s not uncommon for an ambitious project to require an enormous amount of time and resources to bring it to fruition.
This is particularly true for a new IP like Halo 5.
While the franchise was already well on its way to becoming a billion-dollar franchise, it was the development of Halo Wars 2 that saw the franchise’s production ramp up. 343 Industries was able to get these maps in place and put them into production quickly, and they’ve delivered on a huge amount of potential.
The developers behind the game have created a series of iconic locations that are easy to find and hard to miss.
The game’s maps have evolved over time and have become the basis for many of its features.
For instance, the Flood, the main antagonists in the series, are now a more varied and nuanced group, and have more weapons, armor, and unique abilities than ever before.
In addition, there are new and interesting areas that are more like pre-war San Francisco than the present-day city.
Even the developers of the upcoming Halo Wars 4 were surprised by how well the maps came together.
In Halo Wars 3, the game’s story was completely wrapped up in the first four Halo Wars maps.
This was a huge departure from the formula that had been used in Halo Wars and Halo Wars: The Master Chief Collection, and the result was a much more cohesive experience.
This time around, the story has been integrated into the first two maps, with the latter of which will be released later this year.
When I spoke to the developers about the work that went into the creation of these maps at E3 2017, I was told that they were still figuring out exactly how to structure the game.
While there are many ways that 343 Industries can make its map designs work, the team was focused on creating a game that felt fresh and unique.
While it might sound simple, these maps are actually designed to give the player more of a sense of presence.
The team was hoping that players would feel like they were on a real-world map when they played the game, and that the game would give them a sense that they weren’t just playing a game.
This new sense of immersion has been achieved through numerous changes in the way that the maps were built, including the addition of a variety of new lighting effects and textures that make the environments appear more realistic.
Some of the textures that are included in Halo 5 have been modified to take advantage of the game engine.
The new lighting techniques are also used to improve the game world, with each new map being given a new look.
A lot of attention has been put into the way the Halo universe is represented, with some of the characters being made entirely out of clay.
This method is also used in the Halo Wars games, with players having to make a living by creating a replica of their character.
The creators of the new Halo Wars series are also known for using this clay to add a sense to their worlds, which are often filled with vibrant colors.
In addition, the new maps also feature new, detailed water systems that allow players to navigate the environments without having to walk across them.
These water features have also been used to enhance the atmosphere of the map, and to provide a sense and a senseability to certain environments.
I was impressed by the fact that the new map designs for Halo 5 are not only visually impressive, but also incredibly ambitious.
The environments are detailed, the environments are vibrant, and even the characters are detailed.
This has made the maps an incredibly powerful tool for Halo players to explore, and it’s clear from the game that 343 is doing everything it can to create a memorable experience.
What are your thoughts on the Tribis?
Are you looking forward to playing Halo 5?
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Employees at the Dothan holiday inn south came together Saturday to help a co- worker they consider to be family.
84-year-old Lorene Wright, also known as Granny, has worked at the Holiday Inn since 1991.
Several months ago she was diagnosed with multiple terminal cancers.
Saturday, a benefit garage sale and carwash was held right outside the Holiday Inn. Residents stopped by to purchase items and make donations.
Employees say granny kept serving until she could no longer work.
All of the money that was raised Saturday will go toward hospice expenses.


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Broadband Means More Online News Readers
CNET has details of a new Pew study which suggests more and more people are turning to the internet to get their daily news, thanks in part to the rise in broadband availability.
…more than 50 million Americans per day used the Internet as their primary news source in 2005. That’s up from 27 million in 2002. In fact, checking the daily news is the third most popular activity on the Internet, the study found.
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The additive manufacturing market might be small today, but it's scaling up incredibly quickly.
The consolidated 3-D printing industry did $2.2 billion of revenue in 2012. That figure is estimated to grow to $3.7 billion by 2015 and $6.5 billion by 2019. With an overall industry annual growth rate of nearly 17%, there will certainly be some winners that emerge from this hurricane-force tailwind at their backs.
As the majority of this industry's growth will come in later years, strategic decisions being made by the major players today could have a huge influence on their future profitability. This introduces an interesting question: What type of customers are the 3-D printing companies targeting?
In the following video, Rule Breakers analyst Simon Erickson digs into the 3-D printing market and reviews the competitive positioning of three Motley Fool recommendations: Stratasys (NASDAQ:SSYS), 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD), and ExOne (NASDAQ:XONE).


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- HyperX has signed a multiyear naming rights deal for Allied’s mobile esports arena.
- The HyperX Esports Truck will make its debut appearance at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month.
- The deal with Allied represents an expansion the HyperX’s naming rights deal with Esports Arena Las Vegas.
HyperX is expanding its naming rights for Allied Esports entities with a multiyear deal for the newly named HyperX Esports Truck—Allied’s mobile esports arena.
In November, HyperX signed a multiyear naming rights deal for Allied’s Esports Arena Las Vegas, which included co-branded events, content, and product activations. The headphone brand has been involved with Allied since March when it became the official peripheral and arena partner of the Las Vegas venue. The brand had also already served as a sponsor for the truck before obtaining naming rights.
The newly branded HyperX Esports Truck is an 80-foot long 18-wheeler, and when parked, it can unfold into an arena that includes a stage made for gaming with production facilities, as well as a studio for casters, and a VIP lounge.
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Allied’s mobile gaming center will make its first appearance since being re-branded at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, and during the event, HyperX plans to show off numerous new products. The brand will also use the event to unveil a new headset designed in collaboration with a yet-to-be-announced Southern California headphone manufacturer.
Additionally, HyperX will also be debuting a new ad campaign in 2019 based on its “We’re All Gamers” slogan. The campaign will incorporate its growing list of ambassadors that span a range of industries. Among the brand’s endorsers to be added this year are rapper Post Malone, soccer star Dele Alli, NFL player JuJu Smith-Schuster, NBA center Joel Embiid, and Twitch streamer Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek.
Outside of its dealings with HyperX, Allied also recently announced its Allied Esports Property Network, which is a program devised to help support facility operators that are looking to create esports-specific venues.


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To help beef up Arm’s potential earnings ahead of anIPO, Softbank appears to be tinkering with Arm’s unique selling point.
After posting a cumulative net loss of about $22 billion over the past four quarters, SoftBank is now looking to Arm to solve some of its financial woes.
Ever since the Tokyo-based firm acquired Arm for $32 billion in 2016, the British chip designer remains one of SoftBank’s largest investments, after Uber. But following the failed $40 billion deal to sell Arm to rival Nvidia last year, SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son signed an agreement with Nasdaq to list Arm in the US. The move sets in motion a blockbuster initial public offering (IPO) as early as this autumn.
One problem for Softbank is that investors have pitched the chip firm’s valuation from as low as $30 billion or as high as $70 billion.
To help beef up Arm’s potential earnings ahead of the IPO, Softbank appears to be tinkering with Arm’s USP, or unique selling point. It is the ‘Switzerland’ of the chip world. Arm sells its processor IP cores to chip designers, charging a licensing fee and collecting additional royalties when those chips are sold to customers.
Arm’s neutrality means its products can be found in more than 95% of smartphones, while boasting Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Apple as its customers.
It is rumored that Arm is building a self-developed prototype chip, which may compete head-on with Qualcomm and MediaTek.
While Arm has built some test chips in the past with partners, this is a major departure from its business model.
Arm is also looking to change its licensing model to charge original equipment manufacturers, especially smartphone manufacturers a fee based on the overall price of the final product.
Meanwhile, the recent publication of Arm’s accounts reveals that if an IPO does not occur within 18 months of March 31, 2022, or by the end of September, it may become liable for $8.5 billion of Softbank debt for which it was made a guarantor.
By hook or by crook it seems SoftBank wants to squeeze as much out of Arm as it can.


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If you tweet at RadioShack, just be prepared for what might be coming back.
A dirty joke or two just might come at your expense. Because RadioShack on Twitter is not the RadioShack that your dad went to years ago to talk about a new stereo system or satellite dish. Sure, you can still buy batteries or headphones or a number of electronic items — which is a really sort of weird deal considering what is going on here — at this RadioShack, but that’s about where the similarities end.
This new RadioShack has edge. Oh, it is also deals in crypto. And tells jokes about drugs, sex toys … everything appears to be fair game with this new entity. Twitter users have been taken aback as they try to figure out just what exactly is happening. RadioShack has trended because of it.
“It’s our voice, a new voice, one for the people,” Abel Czupor, the chief marketing officer for this wild new RadioShack, told The Washington Post. “RadioShack’s audience used to be only an older demographic, but as times have changed and e-commerce has taken over, the old voice of RadioShack is no longer relevant.”
How did the old RadioShack become the RadioShack which brags openly about taking “an upper decker” in an Applebees?
Well, per the Post, after being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange in 2015 and struggling to find a brand identity through a pair of bankruptcy filings, the company was bought by Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) in 2020. It was, the Post reported, part of a plan by the company, which also bought several other “distressed retailers intent on reviving them into online-focused stores.”
Then came RadioShack Swap, which the Post described as a “decentralized crypto exchange platform that allows users to swap coins of tokens.” The group came up with a token — $RADIO — which the Post said is “worth about a penny.”
The Post said the company reported $40 million in trading volume in May.
But the tweets.
They are about edibles and Jake Paul’s girlfriend and people. They tag companies and celebrities. Lizo tweeted back. Nothing seems to be out-of-bounds. And it has been by design — and it has worked — to get the company’s engagements up. The Post reported there are critics however, who don’t believe that the engagements necessarily translate to sales.
But the company told the paper via email that, “sales have actually grown since we started upping our Twitter game over the past several weeks.”
Will it be enough to survive the recent crypto crash? That remains to be seen.
What is certain though is that this is a campaign unlike, well … who really thought in 2022 RadioShack would be in the headlines?
Just beware. This is not your dad’s RadioShack. If you tweet at them about your batteries, there really is no telling what they might tweet back. And it looks like it’s going to be this way for some time to come. At least according to the company’s June 29 tweet about what has been going down on its social platforms.
“No we didn’t get hacked, and no I didn’t get fired,” ‘Shack intern’ posted. “Buckle up (expletive).”


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UK jewellery manufacturer Hockley Mint has launched the Fairtrade Ambassador Scheme – a new initiative to encourage retailers to stock, promote and sell Fairtrade gold jewellery. As the first of its kind in the UK, the Fairtrade Ambassador Scheme has been created and launched by Hockley Mint as an effortless way for independent jewellers to stock and sell Fairtrade gold wedding and engagement rings.
Led by managing director Gary Wroe and created by marketing assistant Rose Dunne, the Fairtrade Ambassador Scheme has 30 leading independent retailers already on board, including Drakes Jewellers, Michael Wall, Marmalade Jewellers, Baroque Jewellery and Daniel Christopher.
The Scheme will provide retail stores with point-of-sale display and marketing materials to promote Fairtrade gold products. Designed by Dunne, who was part of Hockley Mint’s 2015 trip to artisanal Tanzanian gold mines working towards Fairtrade accreditation, the POS features imagery from the trip of artisanal miners, combined with an elegant cream leather and wood finish.
Speaking of the scheme, NAJ chairman Simon Johnson, who also runs Marmalade Jewellers in Chiswick, London, said: “I have been keeping a close eye on the Fairtrade market for a while, looking – and hoping – to find a viable, cost-effective way into a more socially aware source of metal. The Hockley Mint team has provided this with the Fairtrade Ambassador Scheme.
If we can, one ring at a time, provide more ethically sourced material in the British market it will not only benefit the communities from whence it came, it will give brides and grooms a ring they can be even more proud of. It also encourages, re-enforces and demonstrates to my team our high standards, beliefs and commitments to sourcing.”
Rolling out to stores this month, the Fairtrade Ambassadors Scheme is an on-going project, and Hockley Mint will welcome enquiries from retailers across the UK interested in getting on board. Hockley Mint will also be present at International Jewellery London (IJL), where it will introduce the scheme to visitors at the September show.
Also part of the scheme is award-winning Brighton retailer Baroque. Its co-founder Pippa Knowles hopes to double the amount of Fairtrade gold sold in store through the scheme: “It was important for us to work with Fairtrade gold back in 2012, when we signed up to become Fairtrade licensees. Rose at Hockley Mint approached us about being a Fairtrade Ambassador; she was very informative about why it so important to offer Fairtrade gold to our customers and it strengthened our feelings about it.
“With support from Hockley Mint’s Fairtrade Ambassador Scheme we hope to double the amount of Fairtrade gold we use. Hockley is designing a wedding ring stand and great POS material that we will be using in store to create a more prominent display,” Knowles adds.
Hockley Mint managing director Gary Wroe states: “We have been working to develop the Fairtrade Ambassador Scheme since we returned from a life-changing trip to Tanzanian gold mines in August 2015. We recognise that many retailers want to introduce traceability to their jewellery stock or offer a Fairtrade gold option, but many have been unsure about how to market the collection. We have listened and are providing a solution – an elegant POS unit, flexible buy-in and marketing support. Our colleague Rose Dunne has developed and researched the Fairtrade Ambassador Scheme, creating all of the assets and content for the scheme. She has also been responsible for contacting and visiting all of our Ambassador Scheme retailers. Rose visited Tanzania with us last year and was integral to helping capture our images and videos. Rose has a true belief and understanding in Fairtrade and what the benefits can mean to certified mines.”
The Fairtrade Ambassador Scheme has created a network of jewellers and retailers across the UK and Ireland who stock and sell Fairtrade gold jewellery. This network of retailers across the country ensures consumers can seek Fairtrade gold in their local area and be informed with knowledge and training from retail staff.
The scheme offers flexibility as investment depends upon the supportive material the customer desires. This can include brochures and display cards, or a full Ethical Gold package of 8 to 12 wedding bands for display, supporting brochures, display stands and display cards. Hockley Mint notes that as Fairtrade wedding bands are typically made to order, it is not necessary for customers to buy additional stock.
Rose Dunne, marketing assistant at Hockley Mint, who has developed the POS and marketing materials for the scheme was named one of Retail Jeweller’s 30 Under 30 2016.


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How Was Your Office Holiday Season Cheer?
Survey reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly
Workers have reason for holiday cheer this season as employers continue to give back to their employees with holiday perks (bonuses, parties, gifts). A national survey commissioned by CareerBuilder and conducted online by Harris Interactive asked hiring managers and HR professionals about their companies’ plans for rewarding employees during the holiday season.
Bonuses. Forty-five percent of employers planned to give their employees holiday bonuses this year, in line with 46% in 2012. Forty percent plan to provide the same size or larger bonus this year.
Parties. Three in five (59%) employers are throwing company holiday parties for their workers in December (the same as 2012) and more than half (54%) expect them to be the size of last year’s party or slightly bigger. Two in five workers say they plan to attend their company party this season.
Gifts. Thirty-five percent of employers plan on giving their employees holiday gifts this year, on par with last year (36%).
Coworker gifts. Twenty-two percent of workers plan on exchanging gifts with coworkers this holiday season, while 21% are buying a gift for their boss. The majority (78%) of workers who plan to buy gifts for their coworkers expect to spend $25 or less on each gift; 36% will spend $10 or less; and 10% will spend $5 or less.
While most gift exchanges between coworkers contain relatively standard holiday gifts, some gifts stand out as particularly extraordinary. When asked to share the most unusual gifts received from coworkers, workers reported receiving:
1. 50 pounds of fresh Louisiana shrimp
2. A toothpaste squeezer
3. A hand-painted porcelain clown with silk clothes on it
4. A unicorn calendar
5. A painted concrete chicken
6. A plaster cast of a coworker’s hand
7. Camouflage toilet paper
8. Homemade laundry detergent
10. A talking fly swatter
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Myanmar has started to modernise its air cargo infrastructure with the recent blessing of a new facility at Yangon International Airport (YIA) the country’s principal air gateway. The blessing ceremony also doubled as a ground-breaking for the start of Mingalardon Cargo building a new and modern cargo warehouse at YIA.
“Located close to the Southern end of the runway, the new facility, built on an one hectare site, will have integrated facilities for export and import of air cargo with increased storage and all other services required of a high quality cargo warehouse,” Mingalardon Cargo Services (MSC) said via its website
“Construction work is now underway and will take approximately 14 months and the facility is estimated to be ready by May 2020,” Mingalardon added.
The new building is a significant expansion for Mingalardon who till now have been training their staff by observing Qatar Airways. The company has also had Operational Safety & Process (Quality) Auditing by Singapore Airlines (SQ), its website added.
So far only MCS is providing services in Myanmar to export via air. However, MC-Jalux Airport Service is reportedly building a new cargo terminal at Mandalay International Airport to provide cargo services.
Based in the North of the country, Mandalay could send fruits and flowers from middle and upper areas of Myanmar and handiworks and industrial products from upper areas of Myanmar.
Yangon is Myanmar’s commercial capital but has yet to have any significant manufacturing capacity.
Infrastructure improvement is a big issue in Myanmar where increasing export and import volumes, albeit from a low base, hit an old and dilapidated infrastructure as the country edges into the world trading system.


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The head of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has branded the punishment of a gangmaster who illegally supplied up to 70 Filipino workers to dairy farmers “bitterly disappointing”.
First Milk has appointed former food and farming minister Sir Jim Paice as its new chairman.
Sales of milk and cream are defying the recession at BV Dairy, reports Gary Scattergood
Kavli UK “will continue to look for opportunities” to build its strength in added value dairy products, following the acquisition of goats’ milk product processor St Helen’s Farm.
Belton Cheese is targeting growth in Russia and other export markets, according to general manager Ian Luxton.
The head of food business at charity Compassion in World Farming has picked out Unilever and Noble Foods as two firms which have made great strides in improving animal welfare...
Arla plans to close its Ashby-de-la-Zouch dairy and distribution centre in April 2014, threatening up to 370 jobs, and shift volume to its new Buckinghamshire facility at Aylesbury.
Dairy UK has appointed Dr Judith Bryans as its new chief executive.
Chr Hansen says switching to its coagulant Chy-Max M means cheese producers can significantly cut carbon dioxide emissions.
British Retail Consortium (BRC) guidance on allergen labelling contains an endorsement from the Food Standards Agency (FSA), applauding the BRC for its "efforts to achieve greater consistency in allergen labelling...
Dairy and beverages giant Danone is targeting €200M (£172.7M) in savings in Europe by 2015 by “adapting its structures and costs” as the tough economic climate continues to bite.
Food packaging firm Discovery Foils has already attracted interest from potential buyers, despite 69 redundancies at the firm after it entered administration earlier this month.
Müller Wiseman Dairies has appointed Sean Whitfield as its new business unit director – cream, ahead of the autumn opening of Britain’s largest butter plant in Market Drayton, Shropshire.
The cold spring and problems in emerging markets are likely to put a chill on Unilever’s second-quarter and half-year results, predicts City analyst Investec.
Europe’s biggest own-label ice cream manufacturer R&R Ice Cream is to close its Leeds factory before the end of the year.
De-listed Morrisons supplier Richard Clothier, boss of Wyke Farms, is in a head-to-head battle with five other food and drink industry leaders to win Food Manufacture’s Personality of the Year...
Dairy Crest will make demineralised whey powder at its Davidstow creamery – a key component of baby food, which had significant market potential – it claimed in an interim management statement.
More than 80% of shoppers want food labels that tell them how meat and dairy products were produced, according to new research commissioned by an alliance of pressure groups.
Tetra Pak may be downplaying UK dairy processors’ potential for growth in the flavoured milk market, Andy Smith, UK and Ireland marketing manager at the firm, has claimed.
Cheesemaker Wyke Farms is aiming to be 100% self sufficient in green energy after ploughing £3M into a biogas and solar project.
Many of the luxury ice cream products on supermarket shelves are overpriced despite their soaring retail popularity, claims the boss of a family-owned ice cream firm that serves the foodservice...
Tesco has recruited Tom Hind, currently National Farmers Union (NFU) corporate affairs director, to the new role of group director of agriculture.
The government has at last published its hybrid front-of-pack (FoP) nutritional labelling scheme, to widespread applause from health campaigners, major retailers and some manufacturers - although not all - that...
Do new ways of assessing and scoring protein quality reflect the complexity of the debate? Paul Gander asks some of the experts
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But of course. This is absolutely, positively the most important and productive thing one can do with a police force: keep Algiers safe from Israeli clothing. “Algerian police confiscate Israel-made clothes,” by Roi Kais for YNet News, January 4:
Over the past few days Algerian police forces have confiscated Israeli-made women’s clothing items from a number of stores in a shopping center in the Al-Wadi district, the El-Khabar daily reported Wednesday.
According to the Algerian newspaper, the vendors told police officers that the man who had sold them the clothes was a resident of the capital Algiers.
Officers arrived at the shopping center the day after New Year’s after receiving information according to which vendors were selling clothing items with “Made in Israel” labels on them.
El-Khabar said they were instructed by the attorney general to confiscate the clothing items and interrogate the vendors, who denied knowledge of the products’ origins.
The alleged salesman from Algiers has been arrested, the report said.
A source told the newspaper “we cannot rule out the possibility that an international ring smuggled the Israeli clothes into the country and that its operatives are being assisted by Algerian vendors based in several districts.”


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The empty space on the first floor of the old Puget Sound Energy building will no longer loom over the corner of Magnolia and North State Street: Seattle’s well-known Jack’s BBQ is coming to Bellingham.
In a town where tofu and other meat substitutes are favored, restaurants close early most days of the week, and breweries outnumber classic cocktail bars, Jack’s BBQ is here to smoke out the whole downtown.
Not really, but they do plan on covering the “eyesore” — their huge smokers, ready to nourish us with real meat — in the parking lot with murals by local artists.
“What’s funny is that those are the smallest [smokers] in the company. All the other ones are a chamber longer,” said Travis Zale, General Manager.
Starting April 5, Jack’s BBQ will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner from about 8 in the morning until 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays, and until 10 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays.
Before 11 a.m., breakfast tacos — egg and potato, brisket, sausage or bacon — will be available to-go (perhaps upstairs to the Cascadia Daily newsroom) with a side of green salsa, made in-house.
“We pickle everything ourselves,” said Colby Fowler, Kitchen Manager. “Jalapeños, onions, eggs, okra — we do it all, everything’s from scratch.”
The menu, which is still being finalized by Fowler, will include most of the following: ground brisket burgers every day (unlike their Seattle locations, which offer them weekly); smoked beef ribs (Zale calls them “caveman ribs”); tacos with the smoked beef leftovers; prime rib on Fridays; sides like potato salad and braised cabbage (Fowler wants to incorporate German-style food because central Texas has a large German immigrant population); soup and sandwiches (French dip and BLT are in the works); holiday pre-ordering of turkeys and other meats; and eventually, catering options.
All the meat is regionally sourced, and a majority comes from Double R Ranch in Okanogan County. It will be smoked with fruitwood from Eastern Washington and mesquite wood imported from Texas.
And, as enticing as the meat, meat and more meat seems, Fowler’s time cooking in Bellingham has taught him that he needs vegan, vegetarian and dairy- and gluten-free options. Jack’s will offer plenty of salads, such as caesar and a Cobb, as well as smoked meat substitutes (ideas being thrown around are mushrooms and onions).
“This will be a great place to get the evening started, get a snack before you go out,” Zale said. “During the day, it’s just a really laid-back atmosphere. We’re big on the southern hospitality.”
The manager duo
Fowler, who has been in Bellingham for over 20 years and most recently worked at Fat Pie Pizza, manages the back of house. In his “younger years” he worked for a family butcher shop, and upon returning to Washington started cooking.
His partner-in-crime, Zale, manages the front. Zale, whose degree is in Hotel and Restaurant Management, grew up raising cattle and pigs in Central Arizona.
Point is, these guys know meat.
They’re also pretty handy — they’ve spent the last few months scavenging the basement of the nearly century-old building for scrap metal and wood, building a lot of what customers will see at first glance in the dining room. Zale is especially proud of his wooden chandelier, while Fowler, also an artist, hand-painted the logo’s steer horns on the walls.
Fowler, who started working in kitchens as a dishwasher, is fully aware of the downfalls of the restaurant industry.
“I understand that people are super tired of poor management and poor pay, and everything that falls into that,” he said. “As someone who has come from that, my goal is to not do that.”
The duo calls the Bellingham location the “fanciest” Jack’s. At its core is a beautiful mahogany bar that will be the home to not only a dozen $5 beers on tap, but also classic cocktails made from in-house ingredients.
Like the food, Jack’s makes a lot of cocktail ingredients from scratch: they juice their own citrus and smoke brown sugar for simple syrups. Their signature cocktail is a Smoked Old Fashioned, highlighting their smoked oranges, smoked orange juice and smoked brown sugar simple syrup, which is also in their sweet tea.
The focus on classic cocktails came straight from the top: owner Jack Timmons, who doesn’t want his “grown-up” barbeque with a big red soda or a sweet tea.
He wants it with “a friggin’ drink.”
Timmons grew up in Dallas, Texas, but moved to Seattle three decades ago for a job with Boeing. Eventually, he worked at Microsoft — but he always had a barbecue pit in his backyard.
“Because I’m from Texas,” Timmons said, with a Matthew McConaughey-like drawl.
In 2012, he attended every barbecue lovers’ dream: BBQ Summer Camp at Texas A&M’s Meat Sciences department, to learn everything he could about smoking meat.
“They have guys with PhDs in meat,” Timmons said. “They even have a barbecue 101 class for their students.”
Following summer camp, he went to central Texas where he learned that the area was settled by Germans and Czechs, who only seasoned meat with salt and pepper. Timmons returned to Seattle ready to smoke meat for the whole city.
Which he sort of ended up doing.
He started throwing barbecue parties, which turned into larger, sold-out ticketed events, including one for Amazon. Timmons knew he needed a real restaurant — he quit Microsoft in 2014, his “perfect midlife crisis” — so he and his buddies bought a little place in SoDo, his first of four locations in the south Seattle region.
He soon had a line out the door.
“I knew that good barbecue was not an overserved market in the northwest,” Timmons said.
Following SoDo, Jack’s BBQ popped up in South Lake Union, the Columbian Tower food court and Algona. With the newest location in Bellingham, Timmons plans to wait for additional expansion.
“Bellingham is one of those places — everyone dreams about hanging out there,” Timmons said. “It’s a charming place.”
Though he still lives in Seattle, expect to see Timmons at the State Street location every once in a while. He is the epitome of Southern hospitality, and he isn’t afraid to make you know it. Also, you’ll know his voice when you hear it.
“My family is one of those houses where you couldn’t walk in the door without them offering you a drink,” Timmons said. “The restaurant part is super easy. I walk around and talk to customers, give them pit tours, tell them about the history of Texas barbecue. I’ve done it a thousand times and I’ll do it a thousand more.”
After working so long in the tech industry, where projects take years to develop, Timmons believes he found his calling in barbecue.
“Barbecue is my attention span, right? It’s low and slow. It takes you 14 hours to make a brisket,” he said, “but you sell ’em every day.”
Jack’s BBQ is located at 1327 N State St., Bellingham. For more details, go to jacksbbq.com.
This story was updated on April 1 at 11:30 a.m. to reflect the restaurant’s new plans to open early.


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The state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works has ordered the Trading House Eco-Service LLC the delivery of lime valued at 34.34 million UAH.
This year the company will deliver 15467 tons of construction lime of the second quality with 80-89% of active CaO+MgO at 2220 UAH per ton.
In December 2017 the same company sold lime to VostGOK 26% more expensive – at 2800 UAH per ton, while in August 2017 – 20% more expensive – at 2658 UAH.
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Export Growth and Competitive Pressures
In the first four months of 2019, Vietnam’s seafood industry experienced positive export growth despite facing significant competitive pressures, particularly in the shrimp and tra fish segments.
According to the report from the Department of Agricultural Product Processing and Development under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the estimated value of seafood exports in April 2019 reached US$694 million, bringing the total seafood export value for the first four months of the year to US$2.5 billion, a 2.4% increase compared to the same period in 2018.
Notably, Japan, the United States, China, and South Korea emerged as the top four import markets, accounting for 53.5% of the total seafood export value.
Diverging Trends: Tra Fish vs. Shrimp
Within the seafood industry, different product categories exhibited contrasting growth patterns. Tra fish exports, for instance, reached an estimated value of US$161 million in April 2019, resulting in a total export value of US$635 million for the first four months, reflecting a 4.3% increase compared to the same period in 2018.
In contrast, shrimp exports witnessed a downward trend. The estimated value of shrimp exports in April 2019 was US$295 million, leading to a total export value of US$913 million for the first four months, indicating a 10.5% decline compared to the same period last year. The decrease in shrimp export value was primarily attributed to lower prices in the global market due to abundant worldwide supply.
Market Dynamics with the United States
Furthermore, during the initial two months of 2019, the United States, a major seafood export market for Vietnam, reduced its imports of shrimp, tuna, tilapia, cod, and squid compared to the same period in 2018.
However, imports of tra fish and crab increased, resulting in Vietnam becoming the second-largest seafood supplier to the United States during that time frame. According to the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS), Vietnam’s seafood imports to the United States reached 41,400 tons, valued at US$263.27 million, representing a volume increase of 32.9% and a value increase of 29.3% compared to the same period in 2018.
Vietnam’s seafood market share in total US imports rose from 6.43% in the first two months of 2018 to 9.28% in the first two months of 2019.
Competitive Landscape and Bright Prospects
The competitive pressure within the seafood export industry remains evident, with countries like Ecuador showcasing robust performance. In March 2019, Ecuador exported approximately 53,405 tons of frozen shrimp, surpassing the previous record and demonstrating a 40% increase in export volume compared to March 2018. In terms of value, Ecuadorian shrimp exports grew by 23% year-on-year, reaching US$309 million.
Nonetheless, promising opportunities lie ahead for Vietnam’s seafood processing and export industry. The Vietnam-European Union Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), expected to be approved in June or July 2019, brings positive prospects.
Once in effect, 90% of tariffs on seafood exports to the EU will be gradually reduced to 0% over the course of 3-4 years, significantly benefiting Vietnamese seafood enterprises. To capitalize on this opportunity, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Phung Duc Tien, emphasizes the need to focus on technological advancements, quality improvement, product diversification, and adherence to international standards, particularly for key seafood products such as tra fish and shrimp.
Sustainable Practices and Market Development
Vietnamese enterprises have made significant efforts to comply with sustainable farming standards, ensuring control over breeding, production, and processing. In terms of captured products, Vietnam has met the legal requirements of European markets.
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) is actively researching the establishment of a market development fund to support branding and overseas sales networks, similar to Norway’s salmon industry.
Additionally, tra fish has been identified as a national key product, leading to the development of specific policies by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Collaborative efforts between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Industry and Trade are underway to build the brand reputation of Vietnamese tra fish products in the global market.
Meeting European Consumer Expectations
Javier Cordova, Deputy General Director of Mitsui & Co Europe, highlights the importance of meeting European consumers’ health concerns. To increase sales to this market, Vietnam should enhance traceability, ensuring buyers have information about product origins and the types of feed used in aquaculture, while also minimizing antibiotic residues.
Furthermore, the utilization of organic feed in aquaculture can contribute to sustainable long-term development.


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The place to be on 24 May will be Brussels Expo, where amazing speakers from all corners of the world will join us on stage to assess the strengths and opportunities of the European tech ecosystems, and offer ways to meet their challenges collectively.
While we are working out the program for the event in more detail, you'd be wise to secure your early-bird ticket in the next two weeks or so before the offer runs out!
Meanwhile, here are the 10 latest additions to our already amazing speaker line-up:
We're delighted to welcome to the line Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, co-founder and CEO of French health tech scale-up Alan, the recently appointed chief executive of the powerful European Investment Fund, Marjut Falkstedt, AI scale-up Mind Foundry CEO Brian Mullins, space tech scale-up Skyrora CEO Volodymyr Levykin, Finnish startup campus Maria 01's CEO, Ville Simola, European tech policy expert Victoria de Posson, Talent Garden co-founder and VP of Business Development Rasa Strumskyte, the Deputy Executive Director for Cleantech for Europe Suzana Carp, and last but not least Rosa co-founder and CEO Sébastien Deletaille and ARC CEO Stuart Grant.
Joining Coinbase's highest-ranking exec in Europe, travel tech unicorn Omio's CFO, deep tech phenomenon Marvel Fusion's COO, the Deputy CEO of Austria's Bitpanda and Target Global partner Bao-Y Van Cong, these leaders are bound to inspire and educate our audience.
They will also be joining the likes of Miki Kuusi, co-founder and CEO of Wolt; Ann Mettler, Vice President of Europe at Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy; David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-founder of Basecamp and HEY, and creator of Ruby on Rails: Johannes Schildt, Co-founder and CEO of Kry / Livi; Jean-David Malo, Director of European Innovation Council, and more.
For the full line-up (so far), check here.
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Global B2C marketing automation company, Selligent Marketing Cloud, today announced the appointment of Tim Stone as its new Global Head of Revenue Marketing. In this position, Stone will report to CMO Niki Hall and focus on delivering high revenue growth.
Stone brings over 20 years of extensive experience to the role, with a strong background in demand generation, ABM, product marketing, channel marketing, field marketing, brand and marketing communications. He joins Selligent after successful tenures at Cisco and Polycom where he drove substantial growth in marketing generated pipeline and revenue.
Niki Hall, CMO at Selligent Marketing Cloud, comments: “Tim is a passionate evangelist and recognised industry leader with a talent for developing and executing innovative marketing strategies and campaigns. Having worked extensively on SaaS business models, and with leading marketing and customer experience platforms, Tim’s wealth of knowledge and experience will be instrumental to accelerating Selligent’s growth.”
Tim Stone, Global Head of Revenue Marketing at Selligent Marketing Cloud comments: “Selligent is at the forefront of technological innovation, so it’s a very exciting time to join the company. I am a big advocate of helping brands put the customer at the heart of its marketing strategies – a great alignment with Selligent’s value proposition. I look forward to driving continued growth for the company and working alongside a talented team of marketers globally.”
The appointment marks Selligent Marketing Cloud’s continuing growth, with 400 employees across its 10 global offices. The company has seen tremendous market traction, including recent new clients such as PUMA, TI Media, and Lindblad Expeditions, among others. Last week, Selligent also announced a global partnership with Genesys, the global leader in omnichannel customer experience and contact centre solutions, helping brands break down silos across marketing, sales and service to deliver highly-responsive and fully-connected customer experiences.
About Selligent Marketing Cloud
Selligent Marketing Cloud is a sophisticated B2C marketing platform that empowers ambitious relationship marketers to maximise every moment they engage with consumers. With native AI capabilities, a robust data layer, and a powerful omnichannel execution engine, Selligent Marketing Cloud enables marketers to easily target, trigger, and deliver highly personalised messaging across all critical channels.
More than 700 global brands in retail, travel, automotive, publishing, and financial services trust Selligent Marketing Cloud to help deliver their marketing programs. With 10 offices across the United States and Europe and more than 50 partners, Selligent serves over 30 countries with local, personalised service.
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According to the latest rumors from reliable insiders, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Apple are already working on a brand new 10-nanometer A11 chip for the iPhone model planned for 2017. Earlier this year, rumors surfaced on the Internet suggesting that TSMC has become an exclusive supplier of the A10 and A11 chip for the iPhone 7 and a 2017 model of the device. Previously, Samsung has been working alongside the Taiwanese tech giant.
New images showing the ‘Space Black’ iPhone 7 back panel and the SIM card tray have recently appeared on the Internet. Shared by a user nicknamed The Malignant, the leaked photos look genuine.
According to the latest rumor, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will both feature a new Home button. The sources claim that it will be integrated into the display. So far, all iPhones have been equipped with physical buttons, but looks like Apple’s desire to reduce thickness, weight and the design of the smartphone will result in a switch to the new button. The report shared by Bloomberg reporters is based on data from reliable supply chain sources, so it is worth taking into account. The Home button will also provide haptic feedback similar to the one the trackpad on the latest MacBook provides.
According to the latest report from a reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple will launch the second-generation Apple Watch later this year. The updated device will be powered by a new processor manufactured by TSMC, GPS, better battery, barometer and improved water resistance. The expert does not think Apple will include the LTE support in the 2016 device. As to the size and thickness of the smartwatch, they will likely be similar or the same as those of the existing model.
It is Sunday today, which means it is high time I told you about the most interesting posts of the last couple of days. Let’s start right now.
If you still have some doubts or questions about the design of the next-generation iPhone, you should definitely check out the short video below. Shared by a YouTuber nicknamed Bshop Kuwa, it reveals the look of three iPhone 7 models, namely, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and iPhone 7 Pro.
Good news for all jailbreakers! iOS 9.3.4 released by Apple a couple of days ago to patch the Pangu jailbreak, has been successfully jailbroken. A well-known hacker Luca Todesco. Still, there is no tool for jailbreak and it is quite unlikely that the developer will release it anytime soon, so I would recommend to stay away from iOS 9.3.4 if you value your jailbreak.
A new report has recently appeared on the Internet that corroborates previous rumors about the amount of RAM the next-generation iPhone may get. According to this report, Apple is planning to add 3GB of RAM to the iPhone 7. Currently, it’s unclear whether both 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch model will get an increase in RAM capacity or only the larger one. The report comes from a DigiTimes reporters who cite supply chain sources.
A photo showing the black mute button allegedly from the next-generation iPhone has recently appeared on the Internet. If genuine, the leaked part proves rumors about a new Space Black iPhone color option that surfaced on the Internet earlier this summer.
It is Sunday today, so let’s take a look at the most interesting posts of the last couple of days.
Most of the articles this week deal with the new tool for semi-tethered Pangu jailbreak of devices running iOS 9.2-iOS 9.3.3, rumors about the next-generation iPhone and its specs as well as with the long-anticipated new MacBook Air and Apple Watch 2.
A new rumor about the Apple Watch 2 has recently appeared on the Internet. According to this rumor, the wearable device will get a thinner glass that will reduce the overall thickness of the smartwatch. Currently, Apple uses a Glass on Glass (G/G) technology, but a new generation is said to feature a more advanced One Glass Solution (OGS) screen. The rumor comes from an Apple supplier called TPK Holding, so I guess we can believe it.
According to the latest report from a research firm iDC, in the third fiscal quarter of 2016, Samsung sold about 77 smartphones compared to only 40.4 million iPhones Apple managed to ship to its customers. As Apple fans wait for the new model to come this September, the South Korean giant sees increase in sales of its Galaxy S7. Samsung’s market share is now equal to 22.4%, while that of Apple is 11.8%. The average iPhone selling price has also decreased from $662 to $595 in 2016.
Even though first rumors about possible MacBook Air refresh in 2016 appeared on the Internet in June, there haven’t been any updates on the issue since that time. Today, however, a new report has been shared by usually-reliable Taiwanese website DigiTimes suggesting that Apple is still planning to update the MacBook Air lineup and will add a USB Type-C port to the machine. The new standard is becoming more and more popular, so releasing a new MacBook means adding the support for this standard as well.
According to the latest report from a Japanese website Macotakara, the next-generation iPhone called either the iPhone 7 or the iPhone 6SE will get a brand new flush Home button with integrated Touch ID fingerprint sensor. Today’s report goes in line with previous rumors suggesting that Apple may be planning to get rid of the physical button to improve the reliability of the iPhone.
According to the latest rumor shared by a well-known insider Evan Blass who has been correct in the past, the release of the rumored iPhone 7 and its larger sibling called the iPhone 7 Plus or Pro will take place during the week of September 12th. It is currently unclear whether Blass refers to the date of Apple’s media event devoted to new handsets or the date of their availability for customers in the USA and other countries of launch. Anyway, the information goes in line with previous rumors and reports from reliable insiders.


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Binance will roll out support for Alipay and WeChat, potentially providing a fiat on-ramp for over a billion people.
The feature will help Binance make strides in China after it launched a peer-to-peer trading platform in the country.
The feature, which rolled out on Oct. 9, will enable users to trade BTC, ETH, and USDT against the Chinese yuan.
Tencent's WeChat, which enables users to send and receive payments, had more than 1.1 billion active monthly users as of June 2019.
According to Chinese research company Trustdata, Alipay had 608 million monthly active users earlier this year.
All of these users could now, in theory, use their Alipay and WeChat accounts to purchase cryptocurrencies.
Binance is not directly affiliated with either one of the companies.
Binance's CEO Changpeng Zhao said that, instead, users on the Binance P2P platform will be able to accept WeChat and Alipay transactions from other users looking to buy or sell cryptocurrency.
Despite the overwhelming support the announcement received on Twitter, many users pointed out that Binance hasn't been unblocked in China.
The exchange's native cryptocurrency, Binance Coin, surged after the news broke, rising 9.7 percent in a matter of hours.
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- Sentiment about Chinese sugar prices is mixed.
- Sugar production in 2023/24 will be close to 10 million tonnes.
- Import policy will be a key factor in Chinese sugar demand next year.
The National Sugar Conference is probably the most important Chinese sugar industry event of the year. The main topics of discussion are usually around what’s going to happen in the upcoming season. In 2023 it was held on 31st October to 2nd November at Haikou city, Hainan province. At the other end of the island is the famous resort city of Sanya, which is perfect for relaxing from the stressed sugar market.
Voices at the meeting were divided this time.
The bears believe world sugar prices have stayed high for too long and may have run out of steam. With plenty of raw sugar arriving in China under quota, liquid sugar and premix powder imports, and a larger crop, they think the domestic market is well supplied. Traders with close ties to end-users are pessimistic, because they see consumers switching to cheaper sweeteners.
Those who hold the opposite view believe that the current commercial sugar stock level is low in China. Once consumer buying starts, they will push prices up again. And the supply of new-crop sugar may be delayed because sugar mills need to wait for the sucrose to accumulate in cane before harvesting.
Optimistic Production Forecast for 2023/24 Season
Let’s move on to something a little more certain.
Following good September and October rains, sugar production for the coming season looks more promising at 9.8m tonnes or higher, 800k tonnes higher year-on-year. This is good news for farmers. The same is true of sugar mills, where more cane means more money.
But mills also expressed concern about low sucrose content.
They think sucrose yields for 2023/24 could fall by at least 0.3% year on year, which points to higher sugar production costs (as more cane will be needed to produce a tonne of sugar). Low sucrose yields, however, are no cause for concern for farmers. That’s because farmers’ income from selling sugar cane is only measured by weight, not by sucrose content.
In the 2023/24 season, the cost range of domestic sugar is expected to be 6,000 to 6,500 yuan/tonne ($833~$903) based on the raised cane and beet prices. This means that there is a good chance that 2023/24 will still be a good year for mill profits.
Despite these positive signals, expectations for future cane acreage expansion remain conservative. This is in line with what we expected. It means that China won’t be self-sufficient in sugar for a long time.
Unchanged Gap, Changed Ways?
Then there is the big question mark but the crucial influence – import policy.
This year has proved that the deficit in the Chinese market can be solved in a variety of ways. Although the AIL (out of quota) raw sugar imports were not feasible the whole year, the shortfall was met by extra quota imports (destocking) and cheap sugar imports (liquid sugar and premix).
We are still seeing a deficit more than 5 million tonnes in 2023/24 season. If policy still allows the import of liquids and premix powder, and additional quotas are issued for imports when the market is tight, the local market may not need to trade as high as AIL import parity. Policy factors will be key next year, influencing the volume and pace of Chinese sugar demand.
As I said at the roundtable session at the conference, next year will continue to be a very challenging year for refineries. Good luck to them.
Big Complaints on Liquid Sugar and Premix Powder
The conference renewed calls for liquids and premix to be included in sugar regulations. They are considered unfair competition and seriously damaging to the interests of the domestic sugar industry. The meeting also referred to the new customs regulations for the comprehensive bonded zone that we discussed before. Factories are set up there and use imported sugar to produce premix powder, which eventually enters the domestic market. The rules set a deadline of the end of October, but we haven’t heard of any substantive changes or impacts.
Source: China Customs, Czapp


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FRANCE: Carrefour "considers asset disposals"
Carrefour is reportedly under pressure from its two activist shareholders to realise value from its hard-discount and property businesses, and is on track to make a decision before the summer.
The Financial Times reported that Carrefour is being pushed by 14% stakeholders Groupe Arnault, the private investment vehicle of French billionaire Bernard Arnault, and US private-equity firm Colony Capital to dispose of assets to boost its share price.
The FT reported that shares in the retailer have fallen by 12% in the past three months, driven down by two profit warnings in October and November and accounting irregularities in Brazil that will cost an exceptional one-off charge of EUR550m.
According to the report, Carrefour contracted BNP Paribas to asses whether it should keep its Ed and Dia hard discount stores and is now studying the options presented by the bank.
"Structurally Dia and Ed have been businesses within a business, which would make them easier to sell than property if there had to be a choice between the two," the FT quoted a source who knows the company.
Regarding the retailer's property division, which is also listed separately, the retailer may struggle to unlock value from property, while maintaining control over the rent it pays. CEO Lars Olofsson suggested that only a minority listing would be acceptable, when he said in September that: "I'm not ready to cede control because rent is important."
Last week, the retailer recorded a 5.8% rise in sales for 2010, with growth driven by Latin America and Asia.
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Abilio Diniz, the Brazilian tycoon and chairman of CBD, the country's largest retailer, has put plans to merge the business with Carrefour's local operations on hold....
Carrefour has warned that its first-half operating profit is expected to have slumped by 23% due to problems in the French retailer's domestic market....
The tussle over Brazil's largest retailer rumbled on this week, while Nestle's interest in Chinese confectioner Hsu Fu Chi gave industry watchers something to chew over. Meanwhile, away from the emerg...
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Fingerprint authentication for a financial transaction is quite secure but when there is a flaw, its most vulnerable. Recently, users of the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 series understood the dangers of a fingerprint sensor flaw. Since the problem was detected, Samsung has released a couple of updates. Yesterday, there were reports that Alipay fingerprint payment is now active for the Galaxy S10 series. Now, it is functioning normally for WeChat.
What happened t0 Samsung Galaxy S10/Note 10?
If you remember, some weeks ago, users said their Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 handsets have a fingerprint identification issue. Particularly, the ‘Sun’ reported that after a British couple installed a third-party silicone shell on their devices, anyone’s fingerprint could unlock their phones. This is a huge security breach, especially for financial transactions. That time, Samsung immediately responded to this and advised users to desist from non-Samsung glass screen protectors while it works on an update to solve the issue.
Gizchina News of the week
A week ago, Samsung launched an urgent update to fix the bug. The update was pushed to the Galaxy S10 series and Note10 series phones. Yesterday, some users sent out screenshots showing the Galaxy S10/Note10 series has resumed Alipay fingerprint payment function. Now, we also have screenshots that WeChat fingerprint payment is active.
Financial institution actions with regards to the Samsung Galaxy S10 vulnerability
However, banks across the globe are not taking any chances. Some financial institutions in China, Israel, and the UK have taken significant measures. The British bank, NatWest, and the Chinese bank (Bank of China), completely disabled their apps from Samsung Galaxy S10 users until Samsung solves the security problem. At the moment, there is still no information on whether the access has been resumed. In addition, another British financial institution, Nationwide Building Society, has a more gentle approach, and they decided to remove the option to fingerprint login from the app. Furthermore, Israeli netizens said that their bank also removed the option to fingerprint login from the app.


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TV technology provider thePlatform has launched an enhanced video player centred on HTML5.
The company’s Player Service will now default to HTML5 players to render video quickly, but switch to Flash if needed, allowing consistent playback on websites and iOS, Android and Windows 8 devices, according to thePlatform.
“We’ve always supported HTML5, but the technology has matured over the past 18 months, and it’s now ready for primetime,” said Marty Roberts, senior vice-president, sales and marketing, thePlatform. “Companies are being swamped by the combination of devices and browsers needed to ensure their videos render well on their customers’ device of choice. Our new Player Service alleviates that challenge in an incredibly simple and cost-efficient way. HTML5 has become the lead technology that we recommend to our customers for publishing video across devices, and it has replaced Flash as the default setting in our mpx Player Service.”
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As promised, the Xolo One smartphone which was launched to counter Google’s Android One initiative has been treated to the latest Lollipop OS. What’s more, the budget-minded handsets backed by the search giant are yet to see the new platform roll out.
This certainly is a huge blow to Google who promised quick updates for the Android One program. The Xolo One has started receiving the new firmware over the air and this makes it the first handset from an Indian OEM to get a taste of Lollipop. Customers are most likely going to receive a pure Android experience except for a few preloaded applications from the OEM.
What’s disappointing (for some) is that the company hasn’t included its proprietary Hive UI and we’re yet to see a phone get updated with it. Back to the Android 5.0 update for the One handset, the firmware is 557.72MB in size, so downloading it via cellular data is going to cost you a lot. Additionally, you can also acquire the OS via a PC by visiting the Xolo Care website through this link.
Download and installation instructions are also provided, but there’s no changelog. You can expect to find the usual Lollipop features such as a fresh UI with the Material Design makeover, lockscreen notifications, a better power saver mode and a lot more.
Xolo One specifications recap:
– 4.5-inch FWVGA UPS touchscreen
– 1GB RAM
– 1.3GHz quad core CPU
– 8GB internal storage, 32GB microSD expandable
– 5MP rear camera, VGA front shooter
– 1700mAh battery
– Dual SIM w/ HSPA+
If you’re yet to see the update notification to Android Lollipop on your Xolo One handset, you could try restarting the phone or manually searching for the OS through the ‘About phone’ menu in ‘Settings.’


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While 59% of Americans considered green alternatives for their home improvement projects, only 19% were motivated by tax credits for energy-efficiency products, according to data collected by ServiceMagic, a matching service for finding contractors.
The company, which compiled the data from 1.6 million service requests and a survey of 1,200 homeowners and 500 service professionals, said when homeowners did go green, they focused largely on window upgrades for the home.
Eighty three percent of survey respondents invested in windows for energy reasons with cost saving from increased energy efficiency being the top motivation. Top reasons homeowners didn’t request energy-efficient window systems were that green products were too expensive, the tax credit did not justify the additional expense, or they weren’t aware of the tax credit.
Beyond window projects, going green isn’t in demand
For homeowners who didn’t consider green alternatives:
50% weren’t aware of the green options.
27% didn’t like the green product choices.
16% found the cost of green products outweighed the benefits.
Fewer than 10% requested green or energy-efficient alternatives for their home improvement projects, as reported by 62% of service professionals.
Houselogic.com August 12, 2010Source: ServiceMagic
Read more: http://www.houselogic.com/news/articles/homeowners-aware-but-not-taking-action-green-alternatives/#ixzz0x3mpa6EE


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SOUTH STREET SEAPORT — Flowers, food trucks, entertainment and more are headed to the Seaport.
The Howard Hughes Corporation, which owns the under-construction Pier 17 and surrounding properties, will bring new attractions to the Seaport this summer as part of its SEE/CHANGE program, the company announced at a recent Community Board 1 meeting.
On tap for April is a flower show that will line part of Front Street. Passersby can simply enjoy the blossoms, or purchase the flowers, officials said.
The flowers, which will pop up on April 25, will be gone by Memorial Day weekend and replaced with a series of food trucks, said Howard Hughes general manager Philip St. Pierre.
The food trucks will replace SmorgasBar, an outdoor food market curated by the Brooklyn Flea that popped up on Front Street last summer. There is less space this year because of new construction, so SmorgasBar could not return, St. Pierre said.
“We’re going for something like the food truck experience on Rainey Street in Austin,” said St. Pierre. “We loved working with the Brooklyn Flea, but we won’t have the right space for all the food stalls this year.”
St. Pierre said Howard Hughes is in talks with several food trucks, including the Milk Truck, which specializes in gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, as well as the Red Hook Lobster Pound Truck, but nothing has been finalized. The total number of trucks also hasn't been set.
This summer Howard Hughes will also host a series of outdoor movies and concerts on Fulton Street, though the lineup has not yet been announced.
The elevated shipping containers that have lined Fulton Street since last year will get some new tenants as well, but the details are not yet final, St. Pierre said. The bar in the shipping containers will remain in place, he said.


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And a certain presidential candidate stands to directly benefit:
If you are hearing about a company names Sensata, here is the story. Right now this company is moving equipment out of a factory in Freeport, Il. and shipping it to China. They are making the workers there train their Chinese replacements. And the end of the year they are laying off the American workers.But it gets worse -- the workers who are losing their jobs in a couple of months are being forced to train their 99-cents-per-hour replacements:
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Bain Capital purchased a sensor manufacturer that makes key components for our automobile supply chain, and named it Sensata. They immediately announced they closing a factory in Freeport, Ill., and sending the manufacturing and jobs to China to save money.
Bain/Sensata brought in Chinese workers and made the Freeport workers train them. Bain/Sensata is moving the equipment out of the Freeport factory and shipping it to China right now. The Freeport employees have set up a camp outside the factory that they call Bainport and are trying to stop the Bain trucks that are moving the equipment out for shipment to China. Supporters were arrested this week, trying to stop those trucks.But, hey. All Romney is doing is cutting out the deadwood, weeding out the weaklings, removing the chaff from the grain, right? Nope. Sensata makes some of the best automotive sensors in the world, and made record profits last year.
The only reason to dismantle this company is to make Mitt Romney and his pals even more money. Watch the video above. This is Mitt Romney's America. Simply disgusting.


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Popeyes begins 50th anniversary promotion
By Adnews Staff
Fast food chain Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen has begun a promotion to coincide with its 50th anniversary. The promotion includes a discount on five pieces of chicken, as well as an online video and a content component. Consumers can enter the contest by purchasing eligible menu items, then submitting their reciept online at <http://www.popeyes5050.ca>. Five winners will receive cash prizes of $5,000, accompanied by a $5,000 donation to a charity of the winner’s choice. The video features five couples who met in 1972, the year of the company’s founding.
“At Popeyes, we believe when guests bite into our crunchy signature fried chicken, they are automatically transported back to the original kitchen in the New Orleans suburb of Arabi,” said Amy Alarcon, vice-president of culinary innovation at the company. “Year after year, Popeyes dedicated itself to ensuring the love, time, and traditions that went into making its fried chicken in 1972 remain the same today. We have stayed constant in our craft of making great chicken by marinating for 12 hours and hand battering and hand breading our signature fried chicken in our kitchens around the world. This love of the food is what has given Popeyes fried chicken its signature crunch for 50 years.”