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Forthcoming hotels have also been announced in Palm Springs, New Orleans, Silicon Valley and Washington DC Union Market, including the newest acquisition, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas.
BOAO/BEIJING, China (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday promised to open the country's economy further and lower import tariffs on products including cars, in a speech seen as conciliatory amid rising trade tensions between China and the United States.
While most of the pledges were reiterations of previously announced measures, Xi's comments sent U.S. stock futures, the dollar and Asian shares higher.
Xi said that China will sharply widen market access for foreign investors, a chief complaint of the country's trading partners and a point of contention for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, which has threatened billions of dollars in tariffs on Chinese goods.
The speech at the Boao Forum for Asia in the southern province of Hainan had been widely anticipated as one of Xi's first major addresses in a year in which the ruling Communist Party marks the 40th anniversary of its landmark economic reforms and opening up under former leader Deng Xiaoping.
Foreign business groups welcomed Xi's commitment to reforms, including promises to strengthen legal deterrence on intellectual property violators, but said the speech fell short on specifics.
Jonas Short, head of Beijing office at Everbright Sun Hung Kai said the market reacted positively to Xi's speech because it saw it as an easing of trade tensions, but voiced caution about the likely extent of such reforms.
"China is opening sectors where they already have a distinct advantage, or a stranglehold over the sector," Short said, citing China's banking industry, which is dominated by domestic players.
Xi's renewed pledges to open up the auto sector come after Trump on Monday criticized China on Twitter for maintaining 25 percent auto import tariffs compared to the United States' 2.5 percent duties, calling such a relationship with China not free trade but "stupid trade".
Trump's move last week to threaten China with tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods was aimed at forcing Beijing to address what Washington says is deeply entrenched theft of U.S. intellectual property and forced technology transfers from U.S. companies.
Chinese officials deny such charges, and responded within hours of Trump's announcement of tariffs with their own proposed commensurate duties.
Beijing charges that Washington is the aggressor and spurring global protectionism, although China's trading partners have complained for years that it abuses World Trade Organization rules and practices unfair industrial policies that lock foreign companies out of crucial sectors with the intent of creating domestic champions.
When Frank Downey planted corn on 250 acres near Downsville this past spring, he figured he'd have enough to feed his 200 cows, and then some.
He didn't figure on the drought.
Now, Downey is looking at a crop so stunted, he's abandoned all hope of storing any as grain for later use, let alone having a surplus to sell. Instead, he's having to "greenchop" it - cutting off cornstalks every morning just to feed his herd that day.
For many dairy farmers in Washington County's hardest hit areas and throughout most of Frederick County, the problem is the same: they're running out of feed. And some, officials say, probably don't have the financial reserves to buy enough to survive.
Since 1982, the number of dairy farms in Washington County has dropped to about 180 from 250 - an average loss of 4 or 5 herds a year. The drought could accelerate that rate a lot between now and spring, one official said.
"Some of these guys just can't make it or are just tired of beating their heads against it," said Don Schwartz, local agricultural agent for the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Maryland.
"Milk prices are about the same as they were 15 years ago and, in the meantime, costs - equipment, feed, chemicals all go up," Schwartz said. "Gets them a little discouraged."
One morning last week, the telephone in Schwartz's office rang incessantly with calls from worried farmers. When not on the phone, he's out walking their fields, judging the devastation.
"I'm helping them to estimate yield, discussing what are we going to need for inventory, can we get an October harvest of alfalfa yet, will the insurance cover part of what is needed to buy more feed or should a loan be sought," he said.
"So it's a real complex decision-making process," Schwartz said.
It starts with some basics: cows, like people, need to eat a variety of food to get the nutrients they need to live and produce the most milk. Farmers plant as much as they can to grow the forage and grain that goes into each cow's diet.
This year, the drought has not only withered the grass cows would graze on in the pasture, it has savaged the corn and other grain crops farmers would store to sustain their herds through the winter.
On Gerald Cavanaugh's farm near Downsville, for instance, the ground is so dry that some of the soybeans he planted in late June "didn't even come up out of the ground," he said.
The prospects for the 185 acres he planted in corn aren't much better. "A lot of our corn isn't even putting an ear on," he said.
At Charles Wiles' dairy farm near Williamsport, the situation is similar. "We normally get 16 to 20 tons of (corn) silage per acre. But this year, I'd estimate we'll get just 6 to 8 tons off two-thirds of my acreage. The other one-third, we're predicting nothing. Zero. It's that bad."
The situation demands action fast, Schwartz said.
"The next two months, folks are going to be scrambling real, real hard to try to line up feed for the 50,000 cows we have in this county," he said.
The 2014 State Fair of Texas starts its 24-day run at Fair Park on Friday, September 26. Smart fairgoers are on the hunt for any discounts or deals they can find to save a little cash.
Luckily there is no shortage of bargains to be had. Below are the myriad ways in which you can save money on State Fair of Texas tickets, which normally run $17 for general admission and $13 for seniors and kids under 48 inches tall.
The easiest way to get discounts is at BigTex.com, as buying in advance saves you $2 for general admission and $1 for seniors and kids. But because you can't print tickets at home or have them reserved at will call, the $8.95 you have to pay for shipping throws the discount part of it out the window unless you're buying five or more tickets.
You can also save a little by buying advance tickets at your local Kroger. General admission tickets there cost $15.50, but no senior or children discounts are available. Keep in mind that kids 2 and under do not require a ticket.
If you're planning on going to the State Fair three times or more, you owe it to yourself to buy a season pass. For only $39.95, you can romp around Fair Park as much as you like. The pass comes with a one-day-only guest ticket and a free ride on the Texas SkyWay and the Top o’ Texas Tower during special season pass holder events. Buying at Kroger saves you $5, as the pass is only $34.95 there.
Once again, there are multiple opportunities for you to get a discount while doing some good. Anyone who brings in a full 20-ounce Dasani water or Coca-Cola product on opening day gets in for $6. No cheating: Every person in your group must have a bottle to get the discount.
For an even better deal, every person who brings in at least three cans of food on Wednesdays gets in for $3. All food and drinks will be donated to the North Texas Food Bank.
Seniors 60 and over have it made in the shade — or the sun, more likely — as they can get into the fair for $4 off every single day. Even better, every Thursday — October 2, 9 and 16 — is Senior Day, meaning those lucky ducks get in for free.
This isn't an option for everyone, but if you're bringing a big group, you can rack up the savings. Groups of 20 or more get adult tickets for $13.50 each; $11 for seniors and kids. If your group is between 100-249 people, that price drops to $12 and $10. And if you're bringing a whopping 250 or more, it's only $11 and $9, respectively.
The next time you eat at Mickey D's, make sure to check your tray liner or bag for State Fair coupons. You'll find ones for $3 off general admission any day, and ones that offer a $7 discount for kids when an adult pays full price.
Don't recycle those empty Dr Pepper cans. Save 'em up, as every person with one gets $5 admission on Tuesdays or $8 after 5 pm any day of the week.
Coca-Cola repeats its opening-day deal every Thursday, except this one gives you a $6 admission price for any empty 20-ounce bottle.
You can get $5 off general admission on Fridays simply by going to the KISS-FM website and printing a coupon for every member of your group. Discount does not apply to senior or children's tickets.
Tuesdays seem to be the day to go, as you can get your $5 Dr Pepper ticket and then save more inside, where all rides except for thrill rides and the Texas Star are only six coupons. Because that gives you a savings of anywhere from $1-$3 per ride, that may be the best deal of all.
It’s only December, but this is guaranteed to be one of the best shots you’ll see all season. Navy guard Chris Harris nailed a 3-pointer from half court to give the Academy a 65-62 win over Quinnipiac on Monday night at Alumni Hall.
Harris told the Baltimore Sun that the Mids practice for situations like that “every day,” and it showed.
Interestingly, the Mid throwing the inbounds pass, senior forward T.J. Topercer, hadn’t played all game due to injury. He was brought in specifically for the final play, according to a game story in the Annapolis Capital.
Harris, a senior, had already been named the Patriot League Player of the Week prior to the game on Monday, and on Tuesday he was named the ECAC Player of the Week. He’s leading the Patriot League in scoring with 21.6 points per game, and dropped a career-high 37 in a drubbing of Towson last week.
Critics suggest authorities were too slow in evacuating key areas in the eye of the storm.
Mexico City, Mexico - Political recriminations are underway in Mexico as the death toll, devastation and economic cost from two simultaneous storms escalated on Thursday.
At least 80 people have died in 10 states since Sunday amid widespread flooding and landslides caused by Hurricane Ingrid on the Gulf coast and Tropical Storm Manuel on the Pacific coast. It is the first time Mexico has been battered by two tropical storms within 24 hours since 1958.
Further misery and destruction seemed inevitable after tropical storm Manuel was upgraded to a category grade 1 hurricane as it approached Sinaloa with 120kph (75mph) winds. The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned of "life threatening flash floods and mud slides" in the northwestern states of Sinaloa, Nayarit and Baja California, with up to 38 centimetres (15 inches) of rain and gusts of 128kph (80mph) forecast for the next 24 hours.
The fact is the National System of Civil Protection failed; if the system had operated correctly, then Acapulco would not have been full with tourists.
The death toll is expected to rise Thursday with dozens of people still trapped within flooded areas as marooned communities and emergency services battle against the adverse weather and inaccessible roads.
In just one incident, 58 people were confirmed missing in the mountainous village of La Pintada, Gurrero after a landslide crushed 30 homes. The local mayor said 15 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, but rescue efforts were being hindered by a collapsed bridge that had left the coffee-growing community inaccessible by road.
"It doesn't look good, based on the photos we have in our possession," said Mexican Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong.
As communities in high-risk areas of Sinaloa were sensibly evacuated to safe shelters Wednesday night, there was growing criticism about the failure to evacuate coastal and riverside communities in Guerrero, before the floods and landslides left tens of thousands stranded.
Guerrero has suffered 48 deaths and some of the country's worst damage so far, prompting the Economic Minister Ildefonso Guajardo to pledge MXN100 million ($8.3m) in support for affected small and medium-sized businesses. The storms have undoubtedly added to the woes of the embattled state, which has become Mexico's most deadly with more than 1,400 murders since President Enrique Nieto Pena came to power in December 2012.
The coastal resort of Acapulco in Guerrero, once a favourite with Hollywood stars, has degenerated into Mexico's most murderous city. But significant resources have been invested to rebuild the tourist industry and clean-up the city's image by making the resorts no-go areas for the drug cartels and other criminal groups.
It was a big blow, therefore, when 40,000 angry tourists were left stranded as major floods closed the airport and many roads. The army - with the help of commercial airlines - began airlifting tourists to Mexico City on Tuesday, but more than half still await a route out. No foreign nationals are among the dead, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, however the looting and chaos over the past few days will have done nothing to bolster current re-branding efforts. Acapulco's roads are expected to re-open Friday.
On Wednesday, several national newspapers started to suggest that authorities had neglected evacuation plans in Guerrero because they were too caught up in public holiday festivities. The two storms initially struck land as the nation prepared to celebrate the War of Independence on Monday, with extra events - and resources - also planned to mark the 100th anniversary of the army.
The first official storm warnings were issued by the National Coordinator of Civil Protection via Twitter on Saturday, when it was still more concerned about Ingrid than Manuel. The risks posed by Manuel to Guerrero were clear by Sunday morning, but still no evacuations were carried out.
Military and civil protection experts interviewed by the respected Mexican newspaper La Jornada accused authorities of "underestimating tropical storm Manuel" and a "lack of coordination", which could at least partly be blamed on officials being distracted by the independence day celebrations.
Opposition politicians in the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico's lower legislative house) also accused the federal government of issuing warnings too late.
Congressman Manuel Huerta, from the Worker's Party (Partido de Trabajo), said: "The fact is the National System of Civil Protection failed; if the system had operated correctly, then Acapulco would not have been full with tourists. In Cuba there are more challenging meteorological phenomena, but people do not die because they have the correct measures in place."
Meanwhile, Congressman Victor Manuel Jorrín directed blame at the National Commission for Water (CONAGUA). "Conagua knew which areas should have been cleared when the Savannah River and lagoon [in Acapulco] had too much water, but it did not do this in time."
More than 1.2 million people have been affected by the storms so far this week as three-quarters of the country suffered heavy rainfall. This is already Mexico's most deadly tropical cyclone season since 2005, with a month-and-a-half still to go.
While most eyes are now on hurricane Manuel, further dangerous floods are also forecast for parts of eastern and southern Mexico. Low pressure just west of the Yucatan Peninsula has a 70 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone within the next 48 hours, the NHC said.
The two-pronged sustained weather assault is threatening to overwhelm emergency services. The Red Cross has so far delivered 80,500 kilos of aid to Guerrero, Veracruz and Tamaulipas on military planes, but it renewed an appeal for donations and volunteers on Wednesday.
The government has refused to put a figure on the economic costs of the storms, but more than 30,000 homes, hundreds of roads and bridges have suffered significant damage during the past few days. Farmers in Tamaulipas and Veracruz have reported catastrophic damage to seeds and crops.
Finance Minister Luis Videgaray confirmed MXN12bn ($1bn) in federal disaster funds would be released, of which half could be made available almost immediately, he said. However, Videgaray admitted the final reconstruction costs would be "very substantial" and it was "too early" to say whether the disaster fund would prove adequate.
Irrespective of the money, only time will tell how the embittered power struggles between state and federal governments, endemic corruption and cartel violence, affects the reconstruction efforts.
Nieto, the first Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) president in 12 years, said on Wednesday he would cancel his attendance at this weekend's United Nations General Assembly, if the country needed him. This came hours after he insisted the storms would not slow down Mexico's development, and called on citizens to be strong in the face of climate adversity.
Thursday marked the 28th anniversary of another natural disaster, which had manifold political and social ramifications. In 1985 the autocratic PRI government was significantly weakened and civil society hugely strengthened after an 8.1 magnitude earthquake devastated Mexico City, killing more than 10,000 people.
The government and presidential response was widely considered incompetent and authoritarian, and corrupt officials were blamed for allowing the construction of thousands of unsafe buildings that duly collapsed. It was considered by some as the beginning of the end of PRI's one-party rule in Mexico.
It's too early to know what the political fallout form these storms will be, but the president knows his response will be closely scrutinised as this disaster continues to unfold.
Mr Ferguson was first elected as a Labour representative for the Lochee Ward in 2007.
The passionate councillor has become a popular figure within his ward during his 10 years in office.
However, late last year Mr Ferguson was deselected, along with Coldside councillor Mohammed Asif, by the Dundee Labour Party.
Despite both men making a successful appeal to Scottish Labour’s executive committee, the Lochee Labour group opted to elect new candidates.
Charlie Malone, a lecturer at Abertay University, and Michael Marra, a research strategist at Dundee University, were instead chosen to stand in Lochee.
Mr Ferguson said he would liked to have continued as a Labour councillor, but vowed to continue his political career.
He added he still has a number of “loyal and genuine friends” in the party. Mr Ferguson revealed he is certain he still has a lot of support within Lochee.
ADOTAS – How do good-looking Olympians, CTRs and Manhattan real estate come together? Well, let’s take a step back first, review the basics and get to the real issues faced by web publishers, which is what the connection is really all about. So where to start? It all begins with the layout of a website’s article page.
For web publishers, an article page is a carefully measured and controlled piece of real estate. It’s all about placement, flow and accessibility. When broken down into its individual parts, the article page is composed of a finite amount of rentable real estate (e.g., areas rented by brands /ad agencies and used by the publisher to produce revenue). Also, the page will offer navigational hooks to funnel a reader deeper into the site’s maze of content, with revenue being generated with each click to an additional page view on the site. Shrinking real estate, meaning readers on smaller screens consuming content, and suppressed revenues are leaving publishers scrambling to squeeze the money-juice out of the website-lemon. Shoehorning in yet another revenue-generating object on the page is akin to trying to wedge-in a new building in an already-overcrowded Manhattan city block. It’s just plain hard, and more is not always better.
As such, the publisher beat-down has really come to light in the past four years. Monetizing through display advertising has become increasingly difficult for publishers, with many brands/agencies moving to programmatic distribution of their creative between DSP (demand-side platform) and SSP (sell-side platform) entities. Virtually everyone in that ad-serving chain takes a cut of those brand dollars along the way before the publisher gets theirs. The ad units on an article page that were once tried-and-true and sold directly by the publisher — the traditional IAB leaderboard and a couple of 300 x 250s in the rails of the page — have exploded into an array of takeovers, widgets, interstitials and virtually anything that diverts the attention away from why the reader came to the site in the first place: the content. If the CPCs aren’t cutting it for the publisher through their display ad units, other revenue-producing items on the page have to take over or provide alternate shots on goal.
In the new media world, the (literal) bright and shiny object on the page for publishers is the related content widget. These widgets produce results as they rely upon impulsivity and distractibility. Sensational titles accompanied by risqué thumbnails advertise articles that have zero contextual relevance to the article on the page the reader is on. It’s very basic advertising and provides some alternate paths of revenue for publishers. I’m not one to overgeneralize, but after finishing that article on the debt ceiling on your favorite financial pub’s website, it’s easy to indulge in “a little downtime” and click on the 10 Sexiest Olympians thumbnail. The capitalization on the distracted and impulsive human is upon us. Squirrel!!
But how can content remain king if the overbearing queen of distraction and impulsivity is really ruling a publisher’s destiny?
Technology and data are helping publishers take advantage of infinite opportunities to navigate readers to contextually relevant and quality content. Moreover, leveraging this knowledge to create new monetization opportunities puts readers on paths to consume content. The path to content’s revenue potential lies with the publisher being able to sift through very large data sets (e.g. analyzing the content’s text, keywords, category and sentiment) and leveraging tools that enable them to do so. Being able to analyze and map those attributes in ginormous Hadoop clusters let publishers match articles across all criteria in order to create connections between content. This type of technology is a panacea for publishers, one capturing a lot of attention in the digital media and ad-tech industries.
Witness the recent acquisition of Gravity by AOL. Gravity, and a few similar start-ups, are bucking the ‘traditional’ paths taken by VC-fueled capital to build carbon-copy ad-tech solutions. These new companies have demonstrated the value in the analysis of large data sets to produce truly actionable results for publishers. Establishing connections between content allows publishers to greet a reader with personalized options of alternate, yet related, content to enjoy based upon the highest probability that individual reader will click. Yes, bespoke content offerings. Similarly, other companies are pointing their large data centers at this content-to-content problem. By deeply understanding the content of a page, new technology is able to place links upon keywords in articles that point to other contextually similar articles the reader will enjoy. An entire economy through open-market bidding has opened up, with marketplace models that supply publishers with readers through specific pieces of content. The demand side gets what they need, new visitors, and the supply side what they need, revenue and satisfied readers.
Supply and demand. Relevant content-to-content connections. Readers transported to other great articles that satisfy their interests. That is the way forward to create new economies for the publishing industry while ensuring readers remain loyal and satisfied with every click. Every now and again, we’ll allow ourselves a click-through to the next irresistible thumbnail of the 20 Hottest Mayors in the US. Go ahead and click. You deserve a break.
TORONTO — LW Ryan Malone is on injured reserve, and the Lightning is studying whether he needs surgery for a left shoulder injury sustained Monday against the Flyers.
"That's a blow," coach Guy Boucher said Wednesday.
The blow that injured Malone — a heavy third-period check by Philadelphia's Zac Rinaldo — was not penalized, and video scrutiny by the Lightning determined the hit was clean, with Malone's head being whiplashed by the force.
There has been no league discipline, either.
The hit still left a bad taste with Tampa Bay players. A Rinaldo hit in the second period knocked D Victor Hedman out of the game (as a precaution, Hedman said) with an upper-body injury. Rinaldo on Feb. 5 also punched B.J. Crombeen when Crombeen was on his knees and in a vulnerable position during their fight.
Crombeen said he asked Rinaldo to fight at the start of Monday's third period but Rinaldo declined.
"Obviously, when he's hurting guys, you want him to be accountable for his actions," Crombeen said. "There's always a time and place, and it will come. You just have to wait for it."
D Matt Carle, Rinaldo's teammate last season with the Flyers, understands the emotions the forward can stir.
"He's a physical player, and he's always going to be playing on the edge," Carle said of Rinaldo, who in 26 games this season has three goals, four points and 78 penalty minutes.
Still, Carle said, "He's one of those guys you hate to play against but love to have on your team. He makes the other team think. You know when he's out there. You have to be aware of him. He's effective like that."