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New York-based accessories brand, Mansur Gavriel is the latest to rely on design patent protection to ward off copycats. On the receiving end of two new design patents, the brand is clearly in line with a larger trend in the industry. Also trending: undisclosed advertising in violation of the Federal Trade Commission’s guidelines. A new brand/influencer deal may potentially shed light on brands’ widespread missteps in terms of truth in advertising laws. Still yet, with Delpozo revealing it will open a flagship in Dubai, the Middle Eastern city continues to emerge as a luxury shopping destination but is also home to widespread counterfeiting efforts.
After months of negotiations and regulatory procedures, the highly anticipated merger between the Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox has officially closed. Nearly a year and $72 billion later, Disney now owns 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, Fox Television Group, and Blue Sky Studios amongst other assets. Along with films and television studios, Disney — and its subsidiary Marvel Studios — have now regained the live-action rights to characters under the X-Men and Fantastic Four umbrellas, certainly welcome news to fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The acquisition comes at a time when the House of Mouse is going all-in with their own streaming service in Disney+. Set to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime, and the dozens of other streaming apps available today, the platform has a reported 18 movies and 16 television shows in development exclusive to the service. Though due out later this year, the Walt Disney Company will reportedly unveil a first look of the service next month.
Disney released a statement of about the acquisition earlier this evening with Disney boss Bob Iger calling it a "historic moment" for the House of Mouse.
Earlier this month at Disney's annual shareholder's meeting, chief executive Bob Iger detailed how the company's been getting ready for the new shakeup.
Among other assets purchased in the deal includes a 30% stake in Hulu, a streaming platform Disney already owns 30% of. Combine that with reports that Disney is looking to purchase WarnerMedia's 10% stake in the service and the Iger-led company is looking at an overwhelming 70% majority ownership stake. Fox News Channel, Fox Sports, the Big Ten Network, and small channels of the like were not part of the deal and will be spun off into a separate entity called Fox Corporation.
What are your thoughts on the entire Disney and Fox merger? Let us know in the comments below!
Smaller transistors means more cores.
It's well known that Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) typically applies its "tick-tock" development methodology to its processors. A "tick" will take a proven architecture, perhaps with some minor tweaks here and there, and move it to a brand new manufacturing technology. This usually brings cost, performance, and power consumption benefits typically associated with better chip manufacturing technology.
Then, about a year following the "tick," Intel's teams will use the same manufacturing technology that was used in the "tick" chip to deliver architectural enhancements to further improve performance, features, and power consumption.
Today, I'd like to tell you the core counts that you should expect from Intel's next generation 14nm Xeon E7 part -- the "tick" to the recently launched Haswell-based Xeon E7 v3 -- and the 14nm Skylake part aimed at micro-servers -- the "tock" to the recently released Xeon D chips.
As I was poking around LinkedIn, I came across a profile of a former Intel engineer who claims to have worked on two 14-nanometer server processors. The first part that the engineer claimed to work on was described as a "24-core" Xeon processor, and the second was described as a "10-core" part targeted at micro-servers.
How do these compare with historical trends?
From Nehalem-EX through Haswell-EX, the average per-generation core count increase has been 31.67%, so Broadwell-EX's 33% increase looks pretty good. Further, note that there was a very large time delta between Westmere-EX (a 32-nanometer "tick") and Ivy Bridge-EX (a 22-nanometer "tick").
We don't have enough historical data on Xeon D core counts to be able to reasonably guess a core count for the post-Skylake Xeon D product, but I think we have enough historical Xeon E7 core count data to be able to guess at what kind of core count we'll see with Skylake-EX. Intel appears to make more substantial core count increases when it moves to new manufacturing technologies. This makes sense given that new manufacturing technologies significantly shrinks the area that a core, in addition to other parts of the chip, requires.
I suspect that Intel won't get another 33% increase as it's likely to see from Haswell-EX to Broadwell-EX. It's more likely to be in-line with the 20% increase that Intel saw in going from Ivy Bridge-EX to Haswell-EX on the same 22-nanometer node.
A 20% increase from 24 cores would imply 28.8 cores. Because I don't think Intel will want to market chips with 29 cores, my guess is that Intel will find a way to cram 30 cores into Skylake-EX. This also just happens to be a 25% core count increase from what I believe Broadwell-EX will have.
They’re now leaving homemade signs in the area reminding dog owners to responsibility for their dogs.
“Bag it up, Throw it out!” and “They don’t like to smell it either!” along with other passive aggressive messages line East Franklin Street between North 20th and North 21st streets.
Locals say the signs first appeared this past November, but they’ve already grown accustomed to playing what one woman playfully called “dodge the poop”.
“If you’ve stepped in it before you’re more hyper aware," Shockoe Bottom resident Terrell Hicks said.
Residents said that the signs have only curbed the bad behavior temporarily, however.
“It’s been about the same since the signs came up”, Monet Chapman said.
She walks her dog every morning and said that some areas are so bad, she has to resort to crossing the street.
The signs come in addition to other official signs reminding owners to pick up after their dogs, along with stations that provide free plastic bags and bins for owners to pick up their pet’s waste.
Despite the lack of effectiveness of the signs, some said they were glad that someone took the initiative to create the bright, orange reminders.
Social media indicates that the signs may have been created by local property managers, but nearby ones denied making the signs.
Spectra gas pipeline explosion cuts flows to Eastern U.S.
An explosion and fire on a major Spectra Energy Corp. pipeline that crosses half the U.S. is disrupting natural gas shipments from western Pennsylvania to the Northeast.
Crews shut off the gas feeding the flames, which burst out of Spectra’s 36-inch Texas Eastern pipeline in Salem Township about 8:30 a.m., John Poister, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, said in an e-mail Friday.
While repairs will start as soon as possible, it’s unclear when service will be restored, Spectra said in a notice. The Houston-based company declared force majeure at midday, sending natural gas futures surging as much as 5.6 percent on the New York Mercantile Exchange on speculation that the outage will limit supplies to the Northeast.
One of the country’s largest pipelines, Texas Eastern runs from the Gulf Coast up through the booming Marcellus and Utica shale regions all the way to New Jersey, where it hooks up with other lines into New York and New England. The Penn-Jersey section had been transporting 1.3 billion cubic feet of gas a day through the Delmont compressor in Westmoreland County, according to Het Shah, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Gas may still be able to move out of the region through an underutilized system known as the Capacity Restoration Project, which runs parallel to the Penn-Jersey system, according to BNEF analyst Joanna Wu.
“That whole area is a big web of pipelines, so it will find its way to market, but in the short-term, it’s going to cut some flows,” Shah said.
The explosion created a conflagration that damaged “several” homes near the pipeline, engulfing one of them and injuring a man inside who was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital, Poister said. Residents of the area media outlets they could feel rumbling as far as 6 miles away. Passing motorists of the fiery scene and emergency crews set up a quarter-mile evacuation zone.
The DEP is investigating any effect on nearby gas wells and any environmental damage, Poister said.
Force majeure is declared to remove a company from contractual obligation because of events beyond its control.
Depending on whom you believe, Anthony Kennedy’s retirement either means that Roe v. Wade will definitely be overturned — or else that it will probably be overturned (but definitely chipped away at).
Regardless, one thing is certain: If the Supreme Court’s new conservative majority takes the right to reproductive autonomy away from the American (female) people, the vast majority of the U.S. electorate will be displeased. A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 67 percent of voters do not want Roe v. Wade overturned. Opposition is overwhelming among Democrats and independents. But, in another sign that the congressional Republicans do not actually represent the consensus views of their constituents, some 43 percent of GOP voters want Roe upheld (the percentage of Republican Congress members who’d be willing to espouse that position in public is in the single digits).
What’s more, an analysis of Cooperative Congressional Elections Study data by the progressive think tank Data For Progress recently found that there is no state in the country where banning abortion in all circumstances has the support of even one-quarter of voters.
Conventional wisdom holds that this Supreme Court opening will help Republicans in November midterms by energizing religious voters. And there’s likely some amount of truth to that. But it’s worth remembering that these religious voters want things that the vast majority of Americans — and a significant number of Republicans — do not.
A team of experts on rhino poaching has called on Parliament to consider legalising the trade of rhino horns, saying that the move holds great benefits for communities.
A total of 1028 rhinos were poached in South Africa from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017. In 2016, 1054 rhinos were poached with a slight decrease of 26 animals.
Rhino conservationist Alan Sara told Parliament’s portfolio committee on environmental affairs that allowing individuals to trade their rhino horn stockpiles would benefit communities and the wildlife industry.
“There are two huge opportunities in the rhino industry for government that they have to take with both hands. The wildlife industry last year made R80 billion. That is a fact and not an opinion. It produced more than the beef industry in South Africa. There is only a tiny minority of South African population that benefit from this R80 billion,” said Sara.
Between 1 April 2017 and 31 December 2017‚ the Hawks arrested 16 level three to four local buyers and exporters of wildlife traffickers of South-East Asian‚ South African‚ Mozambican‚ Zimbabwean and Kenyan origin.
They also managed to confiscate confiscated 168‚46kg of rhino horn.
Sara said government should use the expropriation of land debate to include the wild life sector, to ensure that everyone benefits from the proceeds of land.
“The government must give the masses of South Africa the opportunity to benefit from the proceeds of the land. Whether those proceeds come from farming, mining, or real estate doesn’t matter.
“They need to benefit, and when you have an industry that generates R80 billion in one year, it is a golden opportunity for all communities to benefit from that. You however have to have sustainable use of wildlife which is one of our most profitable industry to benefit the people. There hundred ways in which these communities can benefit,” said Sara.
Currently, Members of the Private Rhino Owners Association facilitates rhino horn trading in the country. The organisation assists both buyers and sellers of legal horns with compliance, Financial Intelligence Center Act and verification of permits.
Sara said the only sustainable use of the rhino horn would be to allow its trade into the international market.
“We have enough stockpiles in South Africa to filter into the international market to control the price of rhino horns for 10 years without dehorning one rhino. Natural deaths of rhinos is high, they kill each other or fall over the cliffs and die. You can harvest that horn, if we are allowed to sell that horn , get the wealth. That wealth can go to conservation and also be distributed to the community,” said Sara.
According to the New Zealand Herald Elon Musk's Tesla cars are about to get a "dog mode" to protect pets from overheating.
Musk said the technology would be rolled out to his fleet of Model 3 electric vehicles next week.
The tech will be able to detect when a pet is locked inside the car.
If the pet is locked in the car will be able to keep the temperature at a safe level.
Business Insider reports that Tesla unveiled a new car feature last week. It is called "dog mode," and it keeps the electric car air-conditioned to prevent dogs from overheating when their owner is..
CLEARFIELD – A courtroom full of people applauded as Judge Paul E. Cherry was sworn in for his second term as a Clearfield County Judge.
Those that came to honor Cherry included family, friends and colleagues. Cherry was sworn in by his brother, Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry.
President Judge Fredric J. Ammerman commented that it was both a pleasure and privilege to work with Cherry and he is looking forward to the next 10 years.
Attorney Toni Cherry, who spoke at the ceremony, recalled attending the same ceremony for her uncle, Judge John Cherry 50 years ago. She stated that this past election was different than the one 10 years ago when Paul Cherry was first elected judge. She said this time people didn’t come out to vote for him because of his father, or because he did a great job as a district attorney, but because of how he executed his duties as a judge in the last 10 years.
“He has been the type of judge he said he would be,” she said.
She explained how when they were children their families would visit each other’s homes on Christmas but that tradition faded away. This Christmas Paul paid his respects to her mother with a Christmas Day visit. Choking up at this, she went on to say that this past Christmas would be her mother’s last as she has lung cancer.
“She was thrilled he came to be with us that day,” she said, adding that she marveled at how humble he was and how lucky we are to have a man like this, so gentle and kind, as a judge in Clearfield County.
Toni Cherry also commented that Clearfield County has two good men serving as judges who are dedicated to doing the right thing.
Judge John Cherry said he also remembered his father being sworn in as a judge 50 years ago. He stated while he was peddling newspapers, he had photos of his father on the front and back of his bike as he did his part in the campaigning for his father.
He lived the principles he preached and taught us the same values, he said.
Judge Paul Cherry stated that 10 years ago, he told those attending his swearing in ceremony that his lifelong dream had come true. He noted that many of the same people were present again. He thanked his brother, Judge John Cherry for coming to Clearfield to administer the oath to him.
“I’ve learned many things from him, some I can’t tell you,” Cherry joked.
As he thanked Ammerman for giving him guidance, he stated they have a “fantastic working relationship.” He also thanked several family members for traveling back to Clearfield County for this occasion and his wife, Laurie, “who means the world to me.” His daughters, Gina, Melissa and Carla and son, Nick were all in attendance.
As soon as Nick could walk he passed out nail files and said “vote for my Dad, Cherry stated.
He told his cousin, Toni Cherry he was “humbled by her words” and hoped that he could live up to them.
Although he is too young to remember his father being sworn in as judge 50 years ago, he did remember wanting to be a judge since he was in first grade.
Cherry is a lifelong resident of DuBois. He graduated from DuBois Central Christian High School, Gannon University in Erie and the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle.
Prior to being elected judge in 2003, he served as Clearfield County’s district attorney for more than nine years and as a public defender for more than six years.
RIDGEFIELD - No one wants to go swimming and end up scratching.
Great Pond at Martins Park has had a reputation for outbreaks of swimmer's itch during summers passed and has been closed when many cases were reported.
But a study done from May through September 2005, which was released in February, says the pond was "pristine" and in "excellent condition," according to Parks and Recreation director Paul Roche and assistant director Robin Matthews .
"It's a beautiful asset to the community," Roche said Monday. "Hopefully everyone will come out and enjoy nature at its best."
Passes for the 2006 spring/summer season at the park went on sale Monday at the Parks and Recreation Center . Roche is hoping word of the ecological study's findings will make those sales brisk.
He is also hoping that on May 9 town voters will OK a budget referendum that includes $12,000 to place a valve in the pond to allow drawdown in the fall, which means native water weeds in the pond will die when winter weather comes.
The water on the pond has not been lowered for the last five years because the valve in the dam is broken and there was no money to repair it. Aquatic plants have been removed by rake during those years, but that method is not as effective as pond drawdowns, Roche noted.
The weeds are more than just an uncomfortable nuisance to swim through - they nurture the parasites that cause the itch.
Marine and Freshwater Research Service , who prepared the study on Great Pond.
"The aquatic plants in the pond attract the snails, which cling to them, and the geese, which eat the snails. . . . Reducing the plant life may reduce incidences of swimmer's itch."
Billie said she can't guarantee that. Swimmer's itch occurs naturally in some lakes and ponds, and if it's there - it's just there, she said.
"Great Pond is in excellent condition," she said. "It's a beautiful little pond. It's really worth trying to keep it that way."
Ridgefield resident Chris Moomaw and his wife, Ghislaine, buy a season's pass for Martins Park every year. When their son was little, they took him swimming there.
"It's a very nice pond with excellent water quality," said Moomaw. "People have to remember that swimmer's itch is very seasonal, occurring only for a brief time. If people think they're swimming in pure water when they swim in a pond or lake, they're wrong.
"They have to accept that they're interacting with nature and nature has creatures and plants."
Moomaw sat on the Lake Mamanasco board of directors in Ridgefield in the late 1980s and took part in an ecological study of that lake, "so I've been exposed to water quality issues," he noted.
Moomaw, like Baillie, noted there is no residential development along the Great Pond shoreline, a fact that keeps the phosphates and nitrates used in septic systems and lawn fertilizers out of the pond - leading to its pristine nature.
Baillie said swimmer's itch can be easily avoided by not letting water dry on your skin after swimming.
"Towel dry when you come out of the water. Don't let the kids run around and dry off in the sun. Shower religiously after swimming," she said.
"The swimmer's itch is a parasite and when people are swimming around these minute organisms attach to them, then die and cause irritation, causing a rash."
Swimmer's itch can last from two days to two weeks and is uncomfortable but not toxic, Baillie's study says.
The Government's operating deficit for the three months to the end of September is slightly higher than forecast.
The latest financial statements out today showed the deficit, excluding investment gains and losses, was $725 million - $79 million higher than the Treasury predicted in May.
Crown expenses of $18.1 billion were 0.7 percent more than forecast and core Crown tax revenue of $15.5 billion was 0.5 percent more than forecast.

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