BEIJING Cheap Nike Shox NZ , Sep. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Munich’s Oktoberfest, dubbed as the world’s largest, rowdiest and most famous beer festival, got underway on Saturday in the capital of Bavaria. The event attracts beer drinkers and visitors from around the globe.
This year’s Oktoberfest began with the traditional "grand entrance" of the beer tent landlords and representatives from different breweries, arriving on decorated horse-drawn carriages. At noon, Munich mayor Christian Ude tapped open the first beer keg with a traditional shout of "o zapft is!" Cheap Nike Shox , or it’s tapped.
Christian Ude, Munich Mayor, said, "I don’t need to hope that there will be a great atmosphere here, because it’s always great. I also don’t need to wish for good business because I know it will be! My most important wish is for a peaceful Oktoberfest, without any attacks or accidents."
This is the 180th annual celebration of all things beer in the Bavarian capital Cheap Air Max 97 Summit White , with beer tents spread over a sprawling area close to downtown Munich.
Inside the tents, visitors enjoy their drinks listening to live brass bands playing traditional Bavarian, as well as more up-to-date music, allowing people of all ages to "dance and sing the hours away."
Some six million visitors are expected to drink their way through Oktoberfest by the time it ends on October 6. Last year, around 7.5 million litres of beer were consumed during the two-week party.
(Source: CNTV)
Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Cheap Air Max 97 Undefeated , speaks to reporters after a meeting with Sharp Corp executives at the company’s headquarters in Osaka, western Japan, yesterday. — Reuters
FOXCONN is aiming to finalize a deal to acquire Japan’s Sharp Corp by the end of the month, after the two firms reached a consensus on most points, Foxconn’s Chief Executive Officer Terry Gou said yesterday.
The Taiwan-based company, known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Cheap Air Max 97 Womens , has been given preferred negotiating rights and most remaining issues to be resolved are legal and regulatory, Gou said after meeting executives of the struggling electronics maker.
The Apple Inc supplier has offered to invest about 659 billion yen (US$5.6 billion) in Sharp, sources familiar with the matter have said, which would make it Foxconn’s biggest deal to date and the largest acquisition by a foreign company in Japan’s insulated tech sector.
“We have a consensus,” Gou said. “The rest is a process ... I don’t see a problem completing this process.”
The meeting came a day after Sharp’s board decided to focus on Foxconn’s offer over a rival bid from a Japanese state-backed fund.
While many investors have faith in Gou’s business acumen, noting he has built up the world’s biggest contract maker of electronic gadgets from scratch Cheap Air Max 97 Mens , buying Sharp is seen as carrying as many risks as potential benefits.
A deal would give Foxconn access to the Japanese display maker’s cutting-edge technology at a time when clients such as Apple are likely looking ahead to more advanced flexible screens.
However, key concerns include slowing global sales for smartphones as well as fierce competition from South Korea and Chinese rivals that have hammered demand for Sharp’s liquid crystal displays and hindered it from making a recovery despite two major bank-led bailouts in the last four years.
“The macro environment is not so great,” said Vincent Chen, head of regional research with Yuanta Research in Taipei. “Terry is very calculating. He has guts, but I think there is still a big risk.”
Foxconn is also seen by some as overpaying for a loss-making company with the acquisition likely to weigh heavily on its balance sheet.
“Foxconn’s offer is expensive, which shows how desperately the company wants Sharp’s technology Cheap Air Max 97 ,” said Takatoshi Itoshima, chief portfolio manager at Commons Asset Management.
Japan-based sources familiar with the matter have also said there was still some wariness among Sharp and its creditors toward Gou after a 2012 deal to form a strategic alliance and capital ties broke down.
Sharp CEO Kozo Takahashi, however, stressed on Thursday that Sharp and Foxconn had since forged a good relationship through the joint management of a plant in Japan.
Shares in Sharp ended 10 percent up yesterday, giving the company a market value of US$2.6 billion.
FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang.
An American pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the charge of kidnapping resulting in death of a Chinese scholar.
This has been the first time Brendt Christensen appeared in court after a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment on Oct. 3 against the 28-year-old, accusing him of kidnapping resulting in the death of Zhang Yingying Cheap Nike VaporMax Mens , a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC).
U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric Long read the main part of the superseding indictment, and Christensen replied that he fully understood the three counts of charges, namely kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of making false statements to FBI agents.
When Christensen entered the courthouse, Zhang's mother tried to grab the defendant while shouting "give me back my daughter." She was escorted out of the court before the hearing began.
Christensen, in grass green prison clothes, sat between his two lawyers Cheap Nike VaporMax Womens , and never looked at the family of the victim despite the mother's cries.
Preliminary hearing will be held on Feb. 12, 2018, and the final ruling of the case will be on Feb. 27, 2018, Judge Long said.