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Canadian media company Bell Globemedia to acquire rival CHUM

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Canadian media company Bell Globemedia to acquire rival CHUM

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Canadian media company CHUM Limited has announced that it has agreed to be acquired by larger rival Bell Globemedia Inc. for $1.7 billion CAD cash, bringing the CTV and Citytv broadcast-television networks and such specialty channels as MuchMusic, TSN and Bravo! under the same corporate umbrella.

Shareholders will receive $52.50 per common share of CHUM and $47.25 per Class B (non-voting) share. The estate of the late Allan Waters, who died late last year, has agreed to tender all its shares to the bid, netting the Waters family nearly $450 million.

In a joint statement, CHUM’s chairman, Jim Waters, said, “In Bell Globemedia’s offer, we not only found value for shareholders, but confidence that we would be placing CHUM in the hands of an owner with the financial resources and track record to continue to grow and build on our collective legacy.”

Globemedia CEO Ivan Fecan added, “We are able to make this premium offer because Bell Globemedia is clearly the most logical buyer of CHUM. There is a unique strategic fit to our operations that can make the united company a stronger national champion in broadcasting. We intend to maintain and build the valuable CHUM brands and develop more opportunities for Canadian programming.” He added that CTV and Citytv will remain separate networks and “will maintain separate and independent news divisions in order to ensure a continued diversity and competition in news coverage.”

In a separate release, CHUM announced it would be cutting 281 jobs at its stations across the country, particularly at its Citytv stations in western Canada. Effectively immediately, evening newscasts at CKVU-TV Vancouver, CKEM-TV Edmonton, CKAL-TV Calgary and CHMI-TV in the Winnipeg market are being eliminated, with plans for a new newsmagazine tentatively titled In Your City at the three Prairie stations, and more resources being put into each station’s local version of Breakfast Television. Less drastic changes are planned for its A-Channel stations in smaller markets. The company said these changes will result “in a significant reduction in staffing and operating costs.”

The companies said that they expect to sell CHUM’s A-Channel stations, as well as Alberta educational broadcaster Access, to third parties, despite CTV’s historical ties to several of them. Many of the A-Channel stations were originally acquired by CHUM from Baton Broadcasting, the predecessor of Bell Globemedia, in 1997, as part of a trade that sent CHUM’s ATV and ASN assets in Atlantic Canada to Baton and allowed Baton to acquire the CTV network itself.

Despite CHUM’s ownership of MuchMusic and CTV’s recent launch of MTV Canada, the companies claim their specialty channels are “complementary” and did not indicate any sale plans.

Bell Globemedia is currently majority-owned by BCE Inc. but is awaiting regulatory approval for a restructuring involving the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Torstar Corp., and the Thomson family. In the interim, the takeover offer will be made by a new company owned by the proposed new shareholder structure.

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Food Diagnostics Market Worth $19.2 Billion By 2025

According to the new market research report”Food Diagnostics Marketby Type (Systems, Test Kits, Consumables), Test Type (Safety & Quality), Site, Food Tested (Meat, Bakery, Dairy, Processed Foods, Cereals & Grains, and Fruits & Vegetables), and Region – Global Forecast to 2025″, published by MarketsandMarkets™, the Food Diagnostics Marketis projected to grow fromUSD 13.5 billionin 2020 toUSD 19.2 billionby 2025, recording a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.2% during the forecast period. The major factors driving the growth of the food diagnostics market include the growing concerns associated with food safety and hygiene due to increasing number of COVID-19 cases and increasing globalization of food trade. The increasing cases of food recalls are also projected to drive the market growth.

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The hybridization-based sub-segment in the systems segment on the basis of type is projected to be the largest segment in the food diagnostics market during the forecast period.

Hybridization-based systems are further bifurcated into PCR systems, microarray systems, sequencers, and gene amplifiers. The growth of this segment is attributed to high analytical precision offered by hybridization-based systems. Growing demand of automated PCRs is also projected to drive the growth of this segment. PCR is projected to dominate the market followed by gene amplifiers.

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The safety segment on the basis of testing type is projected to be the largest and fastest growing segment in the food diagnostics market during the forecast period.

The increasing number of food recalls and necessity to maintain trust and consumer confidence in safety and availability of food is projected to drive the demand of safety testing. Also, with the advent of the coronavirus, food safety is given greater importance by all the affected countries to prevent contamination of any food items.

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The European regionis projected to be the largest market for food diagnostics during the forecast period.

The European region is projected to be the largest market for food diagnostics during the forecast period. The region is witnessing growth owing to factors such as changing conditions under which food is processed, traded and distributed, accelerating globalization of the food chain and international trade of food and agricultural products. The region is also backed by the presence of key players such as Biorex Food Diagnostics (UK) and Randox Food Diagnostics (UK) in the food diagnostics market. The growing adulteration across meat products in the UK has also pushed the growth of the European food safety industry further driving the food diagnostics market.Germanyis projected to be the largest market inEuropefor food diagnostics followed by the UK.

Key food diagnostics market players include3M(US), Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (US), PerkinElmer Inc. (US), Danaher Corporation (US), Shimadzu Corporation (Japan), Agilent Technologies Inc. (US), bioMerieux SA (France), Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (US), Neogen Corporation (US),Foss (Denmark), Biorex Food Diagnostics (UK), and Randox Food Diagnostics (Ireland). These players have adopted various growth strategies such as collaboration and new product launches to expand their presence in the global food diagnostics market further. New product launches have been the most dominating strategy adopted by major players. This strategy has helped them to increase their presence in different regions.

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Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101

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Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery died yesterday. He was 101.

Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, United States.

Schreckengost’s peers included the far more famous designers Raymond Loewy and Norman Bel Geddes.

In 2000, the Cleveland Museum of Art curated the first ever retrospective of Schreckengost’s work. Stunning in scope, the exhibition included sculpture, pottery, dinnerware, drawings, and paintings.

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Police report drug haul seizure worth up to £30 million in Brownhills, England

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Police report drug haul seizure worth up to £30 million in Brownhills, England

Monday, December 2, 2013

Police in the West Midlands in England today said nearly 200 kilograms worth of drugs with value possibly as great as £30 million (about US$49 million or €36 million) has been seized from a unit in the town of Brownhills. In what an officer described as “one of the largest [seizures] in the force’s 39 year history”, West Midlands Police reported recovering six big cellophane-wrapped cardboard boxes containing cannabis, cocaine, and MDMA (“ecstasy”) in a police raid operation on the Maybrook Industrial Estate in the town on Wednesday.

The impact this seizure will have on drug dealing in the region and the UK as a whole cannot be underestimated

The seized boxes, which had been loaded onto five freight pallets, contained 120 one-kilogram bags of cannabis, 50 one-kilogram bags of MDMA, and five one-kilogram bricks of cocaine. In a press release, West Midlands Police described what happened after officers found the drugs as they were being unloaded in the operation. “When officers opened the boxes they discovered a deep layer of protective foam chips beneath which the drugs were carefully layered”, the force said. “All the drugs were wrapped in thick plastic bags taped closed with the cannabis vacuum packed to prevent its distinctive pungent aroma from drawing unwanted attention.” Police moved the drugs via forklift truck to a flatbed lorry to remove them.

Detective Sergeant Carl Russell of West Midlands Police’s Force CID said the seizure was the largest he had ever made in the 24 years he has been in West Midlands Police and one of the biggest seizures the force has made since its formation in 1974. “The impact this seizure will have on drug dealing in the region and the UK as a whole cannot be underestimated”, he said. “The drugs had almost certainly been packed to order ready for shipping within Britain but possibly even further afield. Our operation will have a national effect and we are working closely with a range of law enforcement agencies to identify those involved in this crime at whatever level.”

Expert testing on the drugs is ongoing. Estimates described as “conservative” suggest the value of the drugs amounts to £10 million (about US$16.4 million or €12 million), although they could be worth as much as £30 million, subject to purity tests, police said.

Police arrested three men at the unit on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug. The men, a 50-year-old from Brownhills, a 51-year-old from the Norton area of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, and one aged 53 from Brownhills, have been released on bail as police investigations to “hunt those responsible” continue. West Midlands Police told Wikinews no person has yet been charged in connection with the seizure. Supplying a controlled drug is an imprisonable offence in England, although length of jail sentences vary according to the class and quantity of drugs and the significance of offenders’ roles in committing the crime.

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Chinese police arrest escaped North Korean convict

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Chinese police arrest escaped North Korean convict

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

As reported by state-run Chinese newspaper The Beijing News on Sunday, a North Korean defector has been captured by law enforcement after a 42-day-long chase following his escape from prison. Going by the Chinese name Zhu Xianjian, the 39 year-old man had been arrested for illegal entry into China, theft, and larceny. His deportation back to North Korea from Jilin Province was scheduled to take place in 2023, after his sentence ended.

Images and video of the capture were released alongside the report, showing Zhu being carried into a police car by law enforcement, near the lakeside house where he was apprehended. According to a video released by the South China Morning Post, reports say that Zhu was shot in the leg while trying to flee. A 200,000 yuan (31,284 USD) bounty had been instituted for any tips or information that could lead to the defector’s capture, Business Insider reported. Zhu had escaped from Jilin prison on October 18, after climbing on a storage shed and leaping off a wall.

Zhu had escaped from North Korea in July 2013, after swimming across the Tumen river, which acts as a natural border between North Korea and China. Prior to his escape, Zhu had been living as a coal miner in North Korea.

North Korean defectors face imprisonment and possible torture if caught in China. A bilateral border agreement signed in 1986 between China and North Korea warrants the deportation of all Korean defectors caught by Chinese authorities back to North Korea.

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Guam Arrest Records Online

The reason why arrest records likeGuam Arrest Records are some of the most requested for records from the government is because these are the official records of the government when it comes to the criminal background of the person named in the record and such information is always something that the people of the community are interested in. this is because the people of the community would often take the information included in the records in question so that they could decide if the person named in the record is someone whom they could trust. It must be remembered that the people of today would often judge a person on the basis of the things that such a person had done in the past.These records are the best way that a person could glimpse into the criminal past of the person as it is more likely than not that such a person would do everything in his power to gloss over or even to cover up the fact of his or her criminal background, yet at the same time, it must be noted that these records are rather limited in the sense that they would only show the criminal background of the person named in the record and nothing else. Simply put, if the information that is being sought has nothing to do with the criminal background of the person, then chances are, these records would be silent about them.As the official records of the government, these records are the best evidence that one could present to prove the fact of the criminal background of the person named in the record because they are afforded the presumption of regularity, and because they are public records that are supposed to be available to the public at all times. a person may make the request for copies of these records even if such person does not actually have a reason for making the request, though because these records are still not free, most of the people who would make the request would be those who would have a reason for making the request.Records are requested from a number of places, but perhaps the best place to make the request for copies of the records would be at the office of the sheriff where the procedure for making the request would require the person interested in the record to actually go to the office where the records are located and make the request in person. This method would require the person to travel, but it must also be noted that requests made in person are often completed within the same day of the request.Copies of Guam Criminal Records may also be obtained online through the use of online databases. it is true that most of these databases would present information that would be roughly the same as that which may be found from the official archives, yet one must also take into consideration the fact that because these databases are not official sources, they could not enjoy the presumption of regularity for any and all information that may be obtained from them.

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Romanian tourism to be rebranded

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Romanian tourism to be rebranded

Friday, May 6, 2005

Romania’s National Authority for Tourism (ANT) announced that they would promote tourism in Romania through a new branding strategy, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development. The director of ANT, Marius Critonescu, said that the branding exercise will be “a significant component of the Romania’s development as a new tourist destination of international level.” He also added that the development of an integrated brand for Romanian tourism will promote a more positive image for the country, thereby increasing the number of tourists and investors. In recent times, there has been quite a lot of investment in “national branding”, especially in the field of tourism, as most marketing experts believe that branding for a product or a country is theoretically the same thing, and that the same strategies and approach should be used for both.

Concerning the Romanian tourism rebranding, international tourism and marketing expert James MacGregor stated that, “We have to touch the hearts and souls of the contemporary tourists who no longer travel for a simple beach or ski track. They want to live a self-knowledge experience that is truly uplifting and will leave unforgettable memories. The brand must show them not what they will see or do as tourists but what they will feel when visiting Romania.”

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Wedding next year for Sweden’s crown princess

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Wedding next year for Sweden’s crown princess

Friday, February 27, 2009

On February 24th the Swedish Royal Court announced that the Crown Princess Victoria is to be married in 2010 to her boyfriend and former fitness trainer Daniel Westling. KP Victoria, 31, and Daniel, 35, have been in a relationship for seven years. As the wedding is to be held in the summer of 2010, it gives the court 18 months to prepare, contemplate the wedding dress of the Crown Princess, and complete the guest-list – which will include prominent guests from Europe and the world.

According to the Swedish constitution, KP Victoria must ask for the King’s approval for the marriage, who then has to call a cabinet council so that the government can give its approval. This was done on Tuesday morning, just before the court announced the engagement.

After the wedding, Daniel will be given the title of Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland. Their children will be next in line to the throne after Crown Princess Victoria.

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Crosswords/2005/February/1

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Crosswords/2005/February/1

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Feel free to use the Wikimedia sites to solve our Wikinews crossword (Please do not fill it out online as it would spoil it for other people, print it out and fill it in at you own leisure!)

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6 Amazing Healthy Skin Foods

Submitted by: Nicholas Jarder

You are what you eat and this can be so true when such foods clearly affect your skin. There are certain foods that greatly affect how your skin looks – many for the bad and many more, for the better. Here are some of them:

Green Tea

Green tea has a lot of benefits for our body down to the cellular level. It is rich in antioxidants that protect cell membranes and helps reduce inflammation. Studies shows that skin problems brought about by overexposure to ultraviolet light and by sunburns are greatly reduced by taking green tea thereby reducing the risk of skin cancer. Green tea is also found to be rich in polyphenols, which is responsible for elimination of cancer-causing free radicals in the body.

EGCG – a polyphenol that rejuvenates skin by revives and reactivates dying skin cells are found to be most abundant in green tea, in addition to high concentrations vitamin C, D, K, riboflavin, calcium, iron, zinc and magnesium which enhances its skin healing properties.

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Food rich in essential fatty acids

One of the keys of attaining healthy skin is eating food rich in essential fatty acids such as salmon, canola oil, flaxseed and walnuts. Omega-3 for example, is an essential fatty acid that helps keep out harmful substances from entering cell membranes while allowing easy absorption of nutrients and eliminate waste products. The body’s production of potentially skin-damaging inflammatory agents is also greatly reduced by regular intake of omega-3 fatty acid. Omega-3’s association with healthy and younger-looking skin is widely known with the emergence of numerous omega-3 supplements in the market today. However, increasing consumption of fatty fish and other foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids provides the necessary benefits for a healthier skin provided by those commercially-produced omega-3 supplements in addition to other essential nutrients such as protein, vitamin B12, potassium and selenium.

Blueberries

Fruits in general have high amounts of antioxidants that help eliminate cell-damaging free radicals in the body and photochemicals which are plant sources of nutrition. Research has found out that blueberries have the most concentration of antioxidants among the antioxidant-rich fruits making it one of the amazing healthy skin foods. These antioxidants and phytochemicals found in blueberries are found to be potent in neutralizing free radicals in the body that helps reduce cell and DNA damage. The skin is would be the most obvious beneficiary of antioxidant properties, exhibiting a younger-looking skin even at an advanced age. Other nutrients found in blueberries include vitamin C, riboflavin, vitamin E, manganese, soluble and insoluble fiber.

Carrots

An essential nutrient for a healthy skin is vitamin A, and carrots are widely known to be an great sources of vitamin A and antioxidants. Skin cells need vitamin A for proper maintenance and development as you would notice people with vitamin A deficiency having dry and scaly skin. Other essential nutrients found in carrots are vitamins C, K, and B6 as well as biotin, thiamine and potassium.

Water

Drinking plenty of pure, clean water can do wonders for your skin. Maintaining at least a daily minimum intake relative to your body weight will help you achieve a healthy and young-looking skin. Proper water intake hydrates body cells facilitating nutrient absorption and flushing out toxins. A properly hydrated skin sweats more efficiently eliminating waste products and helps the skin clean and clear.

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