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Friday, 21 June 2013

Final Free 2014 Workshop Announced - Register Today - Scotland ...

All eyes are on Scotland in 2014 ? Following the success of Innovation Workshops in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, don?t miss the upcoming workshop in Dundee on 27th June.

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Thu, 20 Jun 2013

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2014 Food & Drink

All eyes are on Scotland in 2014 ? let?s show the world what we have to offer.

2014 will be an exceptional year for Scotland when it hosts the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Ryder Cup at Gleneagles and the second edition of Homecoming, a year long celebration of the country?s food & drink, culture, heritage and natural resources. This presents a fantastic opportunity for Scotland to show its superb larder to the world and for food and drink companies to take advantage of the business opportunities the year will bring.?

Up to 45,000 visitors are expected daily at the Ryder Cup event and 1 million tickets are up for grabs at the Games alone.?

It?s anticipated that visitors to Scotland in 2014 will spend almost ?33m on food & drink and Scottish Enterprise research shows that visitors want to taste traditional Scottish dishes, regional specialities and fresh, locally sourced produce during their time in the country.?

Could your business use this unique year to drive additional sales, engage new customers both at home and abroad, enhance your reputation and raise your profile?

Have you thought about developing new products or redesigning your packaging specifically with 2014 in mind? It could be as simple as changing the colour of your packaging or adding a Saltire. You may wish to develop an innovative new product that will appeal to visitors during 2014 but also in longer-term.?

If you?d like to grab the chance to develop new products or packaging that raise the profile of your business during 2014 and beyond, the 2014 Food & Drink Team would like to help you to achieve that goal.

How can we help?

Any food and drink business operating in Scotland is welcome to book a place at one of our free Innovation Workshops where leading industry experts will describe how to create and develop your ideas for new products or packaging aimed at the market opportunity in 2014 and beyond. These workshop sessions are an excellent way to explore how best to understand consumers? needs and desires for your product and how this translates into effective development of market-ready products or packaging. The workshops will also include topics on marketing and promotional activities to help you to maximise return on your investment. ?

Following the success of Innovation Workshops in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen,? don?t miss the upcoming workshop in Dundee on 27th June. ?Full details here including how to book. Places are limited so early booking is highly recommended.

The final workshop will be held in Inverness on 10th July ?full details and how to book here.?

Our experienced Innovation Specialists will also be on hand at the workshop events to discuss how Scottish Enterprise may be able to offer further advice or assistance to help your project achieve maximum success.?

Why Attend?

The workshop will focus on four key areas you need to be proficient in to develop your new products or packaging:

Customer Readiness? - Understanding more about consumers? trends and opportunities
Design Readiness - Using systematic tools to create and develop your ideas for new products or packaging. Developing and selecting the most viable ideas and matching customer needs with what is technically feasible (product, resources, timescales)..
Business Readiness ? Planning your business case to convert your idea into customer value and market opportunity to reach 2014 visitors both while they are in Scotland and when they return home.
Promotion Readiness ? Considering new promotion and packaging options to capture the opportunities offered by 2014. Looking at marketing via social media as a means of capitalising on events based opportunities.

You will leave the workshop with an individual action plan of practical steps needed to achieve and commercialise your new development idea.

Our experienced innovation specialists will also be on hand at the workshop events to help your project achieve maximum success.

However, if you have a project in mind but feel the workshop is not for you perhaps, or if you have a question about support for product innovation then please feel free to contact our innovation team directly using our Food and Drink 2014 innovation enquiry form. Both the Innovation Workshops and the Innovation Specialists service are free and open to food & drink companies of all shapes and sizes from anywhere in Scotland.

Routes to market:

Of course, creating a new product or packaging is just the first step. The 2014 Food & Drink Team we can help you tap into services which will assist you to market your new product or repackaged goods in 2014 and beyond.

An innovative marketing and PR programme will take place in the run up to and during 2014 to highlight the role of food & drink within the major events. In addition the 2014 Food & Drink team can help you access services to help you promote your products to key retail and foodservice markets.

Here are just 2 examples of a range of support available:

Scotland Food & Drink?s Access to Markets programme, for example, is designed to help food & drink companies grow their business across the UK, via activities such as Meet the Buyer events,?Scottish Development International are experts in supporting companies to reach international markets.?
Event Ready Producers is delivered by Scottish Enterprise to offer food and drink companies expert support to review their readiness to supply events and provides tailored advice on areas such as sales strategies, product and price propositions, marketing and service delivery. Up to 3.5 days business support is available to companies through this initiative. More information can be found here.

This programme forms part of a wider package of support by the 2014 Food & Drink team to help Scottish companies maximise the business opportunities arising from the 2014 events. ? ? ? ? ? ? ??

Source: http://www.scotlandfoodanddrink.org/news/article-info/4296/final-free-2014-workshop-announced---register-today.aspx

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Thursday, 20 June 2013

Obama to renew calls for nuclear reductions

BERLIN (AP) ? President Barack Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles during a speech in Berlin Wednesday.

A senior administration official says Obama will propose cutting the U.S. and Russian stockpiles by up to one-third. That would bring the total number of warheads in each country to about 1,000.

Obama is not expected to propose any timeline for achieving those cuts. He discussed nuclear non-proliferation with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting Monday on the sidelines of an international summit in Northern Ireland.

The official says Obama will also renew his call for Congress to ratify a stalled nuclear test ban treaty. The official insisted on anonymity in order to preview the issue before the president's speech.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-renew-calls-nuclear-reductions-052502414.html

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13-inch MacBook Air unboxing and first impression

I caved. Throughout WWDC 2013 I swore I wouldn't buy one of Apple's new, Haswell-based MacBook Airs. I was firmly committed to waiting for a Haswell-based 13-inch MacBook Pro instead -- which is pretty much the only realistic Retina MacBook Air for the near-future -- and I wasn't going to be tempted. But who're we kidding? Roughly the moment I got back to Montreal I went over to my local Apple Store and asked for the highest end 13-inch MacBook Air they had in inventory. And it turned out that was pretty much the highest end 13-inch MacBook Air configurable.

We're talking 1.7GHz dual core i7 proc with Intel HD 5000 graphics 8GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. The ports are the same as last year's -- 2x USB 3 and 1x Thunderbolt. Sadly, it's Thunderbolt 1 and not the new, fancy Thunderbolt 2, which kind of puts the damper on Retina Thunderbolt display support, and makes it standard size pixels all around. The only new addition is the second mic, which should hopefully help with sound input quality.

That's fine. The MacBook Air with it's claimed 12-hours of battery life isn't being aimed at the performance market. It's being aimed squarely at the heart of the persistence market. This is the MacBook for people who want to leave the house with nothing but a chuckling backward glance at their power supply, still plugged in next to their desk, as they leave the house for the day. This is for the airplane travelers and live bloggers, for coffee-shop hopping entrepreneurs and class-changing students.

It's not the MacBook for anyone even remotely needing a Pro. Hence the difference in names.

I've only had it for 24 hours, so aside from unboxing and setting up, I haven't had much of a chance to but the new 13-inch MacBook Air through its paces. I have remarked at how well the battery is doing so far, and how blazingly fast the SSD is. I'm also okay with the screen. The 11-inch has nowhere nearly enough pixels for Safari, Coda, Photoshop, or Final Cut Pro X -- the apps in which I live -- but 13 is fine. I feel about it much as I feel about the iPad mini. You can have screen density, lightness, or battery life, and you only get 2 out of the three. This is the compromise for people who want lightness and long battery life, and that'll be the perfect compromise for many, many people, at least for now.

I also picked up the new Airport Extreme Time Capsule, which is an 802.11ac router to go with Apple's first 802.11ac computer. I do expect that wireless technology to quickly propagate to other Macs, as well as the iPhone and iPad, so I'm eager to test it out. Look for that unboxing and first impressions post tomorrow.

Okay, that's it for now. Time to finish my set up and start my reviewing. Off to the coffee shop!

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/G532dlat0Xc/story01.htm

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Stocks move higher as Federal Reserve looms large

Stocks closed higher Tuesday as investors waited on word from Federal Reserve?Chairman Ben Bernanke. The central bank will discuss the fate of its economic stimulus program on Wednesday. Many say stocks are in a holding pattern until then.

By Christina Rexrode,?AP Business Writer / June 18, 2013

Trader Warren Meyers works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. The Federal Reserve has had an outsized effect on stocks in recent weeks.

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U.S.?stocks?moved higher Tuesday, helped by news of a pickup in home building and low inflation. But the Federal Reserve loomed large, with investors trying to guess what the central bank will say Wednesday about how long it plans to keep stimulus programs in place. For many, the market was in a holding pattern as investors waited for Wednesday's announcement.

The market's gains were steady and broad. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 12.77 points, or 0.8 percent, to 1,651.81. All 10 of its sectors rose, led by industrial and telecommunications companies. The Russell 2000, an index of smaller companies, closed at a record high but fell just shy of the 1,000-point milestone.

Tuesday's wait-and-see vibe came from a familiar template. The Fed has had an outsized effect on the?stock?market in recent weeks, with the major indexes getting yanked back and forth as investors try to guess how long the central bank will keep supporting the U.S. economy.

Some investors say it's troubling that the market is relying more on the central bank for direction than economic fundamentals. The latest turning point was May 22, when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke startled markets by announcing that the central bank could soon pull back on its bond-buying program if the economy improves.

"Here we are again," said Gregg Fisher, founder and chief investment officer of Gerstein Fisher in New York. "We don't know what the actions will be. We're all trying to figure that out."

The Fed's role in the market has swelled since the 2008 financial crisis. The central bank, which traditionally has been best-known for helping set interest rates, has taken an increasingly bigger role in trying to amp up the economy. Its bond-buying program is meant to keep interest rates low, which can encourage borrowing and drive investors into the?stockmarket. The Fed's purchases have swollen its portfolio to $3.4 trillion, a four-fold increase since before the crisis.

"The game is different from what it used to be," said Mark Spellman, portfolio manager for Value Line Funds in New York. "It's not just, 'Is the Fed going to raise (its benchmark interest rate) up or down?'" It's 'Is the Fed going to keep buying $85 billion worth of bonds each month?'"

Analysts predicted that Bernanke would use his Wednesday news conference to cast a reassuring tone and make it clear that the Fed won't pull back on any of its programs until it's sure the economy can handle it. He's also likely to drop more hints about when the Fed could start trimming its stimulus programs. Some said that recent market volatility hasn't been caused by fear that the Fed will pull back on its stimulus programs ? most everyone expects that to happen eventually. It's more because investors don't want to be surprised when it does.

Brian Doe, wealth adviser at Gratus Capital in Atlanta, described the Fed's policy announcements as "the big wind" that could push the market around.

"Right now the wind is not blowing," Doe said. "We have this little calm where everybody can be optimistic."

The Commerce Department reported that the pace of new home building increased in May, helped by more buyers coming to the market and a scarcity of houses for sale. Investors described the report as good enough to send the market up, but not good enough to force the Fed to start thinking that the economy is fine and abruptly slash its stimulus efforts.

The Labor Department reported that U.S. consumer prices rose last month, but only slightly. That's also likely to influence the Fed's decisions. The Fed knows that its stimulus programs can lead to inflation. If inflation is in check, however, that gives the Fed more leeway to continue the programs.

In other trading, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 138.38 points, or 0.9 percent, to 15,318.23. The Nasdaq composite index rose 30.05 points, or 0.9 percent, to 3,482.18.

The Russell 2000 rose 12.15 points, or 1.2 percent, to 999.99 ? the closest it has ever come to breaking 1,000.

Among?stocks?making big moves:

?Hormel Foods, the maker of Skippy peanut butter and Spam, slipped after the company said it expects lower profits for the year. The?stock?fell $1.46, or 3.6 percent, to $39.19.

?Signet Jewelers, which runs the Kay Jewelers and Jared brands, rose after announcing that it plans to buy back up to $350 million of its ownstock. Signet rose $1.94, or 2.9 percent, to $69.91.

?Newfield Exploration was up after a Stifel Nicolaus analyst boosted thestock?to "Buy" from "Hold." Shares of the oil and natural gas company rose 93 cents, or 4 percent, to $23.94.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/9eEg0cAI9NY/Stocks-move-higher-as-Federal-Reserve-looms-large

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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Shooting Challenge: Rust

Rust. It's the product of metal oxidation, which we interpret as everything from a ruined car to a highly sought antique patina. And for this week's Shooting Challenge, you'll capture the beauty (or horror) of rust.

G-8 agrees plan to promote Syrian peace talks

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G-8 agrees plan to promote Syrian peace talks
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G8 leaders from left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy attend a working session during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Jewel Samad, Pool)

G-8 leaders from left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy walk prior to a group photo opportunity during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria?s civil war. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

US President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, walk to a group photo opportunity during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria?s civil war. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

G-8 leaders from left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy pose during a group photo opportunity during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria?s civil war. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

G8 leaders from left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama attend a working session during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Herman, Pool)

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) ? The leaders of major industrial nations including the U.S. and Russia say they are united in wanting a negotiated and peaceful end to the Syrian civil war that will produce a government "under a top leadership that inspires public confidence."

The declaration at the end of the two-day Group of Eight summit Tuesday seeks to narrow the ground between Russia and Western leaders on starting peace talks in Geneva that could end with the ouster of Bashar Assad from power.

Russia refused to back a declaration that made such a goal explicit.

Tuesday's G-8 declaration says participants in any peace talks must agree to expel al-Qaida-linked fighters from Syria. It also commits a further $1.5 billion in aid for Syrian refugees. It condemns human rights abuses committed by government forces and rebels alike.

Associated Press

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Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Worker's Comp Seminar This Wednesday - KGKL 97.5 FM Country

The Angelo State University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will host an educational seminar on Workers? Compensation this Wednesday, June 12, at the Business Resource Center, 69 N. Chadbourne St.
The seminar, titled ?Basic Workers? Compensation for Medical Office Staff,? will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be presented by a Regina Schwartz of the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers? Compensation (TDI-DWC).? Issues to be addressed include:

How Workers? Compensation works
Identifying a Workers? Compensation patient
Roles and responsibilities of health care providers, including preauthorization, treatment guidelines and pharmacy formulary
Billing and reimbursement policies and fee guidelines
Medical documentation
TDI-DWC required forms
Dispute resolution

Cost of the seminar is $50 per person and includes a light breakfast and lunch.? Attendees can earn six general insurance continuing education credits by presenting their insurance-related license number at the seminar.

Advance registration is required.? To register and pay online, go to www.sbdc.angelo.edu.? To register and pay by phone, call the SBDC at 325-942-2098.
For more information, contact Jessica Lambert at 325-942-2098 or jessica.lambert@angelo.edu.

Source: http://975kgkl.com/workers-comp-seminar-this-wednesday/

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