Akzo Nobel is conducting a strategic review of its portfolio in order to redeploy capital towards growing its core coatings businesses.

The initial focus will be on its decorative paints positions in South Asia. Akzo Nobel has a premium, highly profitable position in India in particular, with a strong track record of growth. Given this unique market position, the company is well-placed to participate in the further development of the highly dynamic South Asian decorative paints market, which is ripe for consolidation. The review will explore various strategic options ranging from partnerships or joint ventures through to mergers or divestments.

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Says Akzo Nobel CEO, Greg Poux-Guillaume: “Our focus on enhancing our coatings businesses globally is underpinned by a strong portfolio of high-performing brands and technologies. This strategic review represents a key step towards focusing our portfolio on positions of differentiating scale in key coatings markets, which will help to accelerate our profitable growth.”

This is a public announcement by Akzo Nobel pursuant to section 17 paragraph 1 of the European Market Abuse Regulation (596/2014). This public announcement does not constitute an offer, or any solicitation of any offer, to buy or subscribe for any securities.

 All of the celebrities who attended the 2021 American Music Awards — including Machine Gun Kelly, Billy Porter, and host Cardi B — on November 21 received their awards in style. But we're not just talking about their outfits for the night. In fact, many of their manicures were just as stylish as their sartorial selections for the awards show. Below, we've rounded up nine of the most beautiful manicures spotted at this year's awards that may well serve as inspiration for your next manicure. 

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Rapper Iann Dior put his own twist on the ever-popular marble nail-art trend. After Dior's digits were decorated with two coats of OPI's Maraschino Cheer-y for the base, OPI's Gel Color in Black Onyx was used for the marble pattern. To create the marble-like accents, the artist reached for a design brush. 

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Zoe Wees

Talk about never having to lose your sparkle. Singer-songwriter Zoe Wees had that covered by bedazzling both her nails and eyes with what appear to be press-on jewels. The gems on each of Wees's nails came in an array of warm colors such as red, orange, and yellow. To add to the fun and bold nature of these nail accessories, the jewels were assembled in a swirled pattern. 

Olivia Rodrigo

Singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo opted for "classic and timeless nails with a little bit more edge," says nail artist Brittney Boyce, the manicurist behind Rodrigo's nail art for the AMAs. Rodrigo's nails for the night also doubled as a sneak-peek into UN/DN LAQR, Machine Gun Kelly's soon-to-launch nail line. Boyce painted Rodrigo's nails with the brand's Sandstorm and Depressionist polishes, which are tan and black, respectively. 

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Actor Marsai Martin also tapped into fall's marble nail-art trend but with a neutral color palette. OPI's Gel Color in Coconut Over OPI was used for the base coat. Meanwhile, OPI's Gel Color in Snow Day in LA, a shade of white, and Chocolate Mousse, a shade of brown, were the colors behind the marble swirls. The pattern was created using a detailed brush by "dragging the polish in waves."

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Machine Gun Kelly

Brittney Boyce was also behind singer Machine Gun Kelly's edgy manicure. "For this look, we wanted something bold in color, but [we] also felt like adding hardware would be really cool," Boyce tells Allure. "I added dripping silver chains to finish his look." She also adorned each nail with nail polish colors from Machine Gun Kelly's up-and-coming nail line, UN/DN LAQR. The shades Blank Canvas, Depressionist, and 25 to Life (white, black, and orange, respectively) added some pops of color to accompany the chains on his nails. 

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Cardi B made quite the entrance at the AMAs with her golden mask and earrings, but the bold fashion statement also extended to her nails. The rapper's golden-toned talons were also serving inches — probably two or three at most. Some of the nails also came along with some opalescent jewels.

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Singer and founder of Tresluce Beauty, Becky G, took her award in stride along with an all-black nail look. The singer's chunky silver and gold rings added some elegant contrast to this monochromatic manicure. 

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The Pose star's navy blue nails painted with CND's Shellac in Sassy Sapphire worked their thing all right. Sparkles and sheen were not neglected at all with this look, courtesy of the crystals that manicurist Vanessa McCullough placed on each nail. 

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JoJo Siwa

JoJo Siwa's rainbow-striped nails are definitely not what comes to mind when wearing a black dress, but they work. All the colors of the rainbow brought a whimsical touch to this sophisticated outfit.  

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Akin to water flowing from a small pipe into a large pipe, gainers are essentially perceived increases in optical power that occur at splice points due to variations in fiber characteristics, including core diameter, numerical apertures, mode field diameters and backscatter coefficients.

Since gainers can be a significant source of confusion for new optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) users, let's take a look at why these occur, what impact they have and how to avoid them.

What are the Causes?

Gainers can show up when using an OTDR to measure loss from one end of a fiber link, and they occur due to the way in which an OTDR measures reflected light along the length of the fiber. An OTDR assumes that fiber characteristics such as core and cladding size are consistent along the length with no variations, and it calculates signal loss based on the amount of reflected light, or backscatter, that it detects.

But even if two connected fibers are the same type of fiber, they may not necessarily be cut from the same length of fiber so variations can still occur, including different backscatter coefficients (a fancy term for information about the relative backscatter level of the fiber). And that means that the fiber used for the launch and receive cords of the OTDR may also have a different backscatter coefficient than the fiber under test.

Different backscatter coefficients can cause more light to be backscattered after a connection than before the connection, causing the OTDR to show a loss value that is less than it actually is–a gainer.

Why Is It a Problem?

The term "gainer" makes it seem like you are actually gaining something, and you might think that ending up with a lower than actual loss value is a good thing. Think again. Gainers ultimately don't gain you anything but headaches and increased cost.

When loss results are lower than they actually are, you might be under the misconception that there is plenty of headroom to add another connection point, extend the distance or simply guarantee performance. But gainers are false positives that when taken as true, can result in the fiber link ultimately not supporting the application.

For example, an OM4 150-meter channel has a maximum channel loss of 1.5dB to support 40 gigabit per second speeds (40GBASE-SR4). If you're measured loss comes in at 1.3dB, you might think it's okay to add another 0.2dB connector. But what if your measured loss includes a gainer, and the actual loss of the channel is really closer to 1.4dB? Now you end up with a customer asking you to come back and troubleshoot the installation to determine why they're not getting the data rate they should.

How Do You Prevent It?

Preventing gainers from impacting the quality of your installation is actually quite simple. That's because wherever there's a gainer, there's a loser. That's right. While transmitting in one direction may cause the gainer, when the measurement is taken in the other direction where less light is backscattered after the connection, the measured loss is greater than the actual loss.

The simple solution, and the one required by industry standards, is to measure in both directions–otherwise known as bidirectional testing. As shown here, when the OTDR trace with the gainer is averaged with the trace of the loser, the result is the actual loss.

Fluke Networks makes this even easier. To reduce the cost and time involved in measuring from both ends, our OptiFiber® Pro or DSX-5000 CableAnalyzer™ Pro feature a built-in “SmartLoop” Assistant that uses a loop at the remote end of a duplex fiber link, allowing you to test in both directions from one end. It also features on-board averaging of the two measurements to provide an accurate final loss measurement.

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What is the Latest TCCA (Trichloroisocyanuric Acid, Trichlor) Prices?

What is the TCCA prices? What is the latest TCCA and SDIC prices? Will the TCCA and SDIC be reduced again soon?   We were frequently been asked by customers these days.

As we all know that several factors causing the chlorine shortage plaguing the pool and spa industry, the most notable is the loss of a BioLab chemical plant in Lake Charles, La., as a result of Hurricane Laura in August 2020.

Now, after nearly nine months of construction, BioLab has announced the new facility should open its doors by August, 2022. And in the mean time they will increase their output by 30% compare to their old facilities.

Based on this condition, Chlorine (TCCA, SDIC, Calcium Hypochlorite) supply will end a 3 year long worldwide shortage since US buyers has bought most of Chinese Chlorine products in the past 3 years, while a lot of other markets faced supply shortage and prices increase. Here in China, the chlorine prices has been reducing gradually since March 2022, currently the major chlorine products (TCCA, SDIC and Calcium Hypochlorite) prices are around the bottom area now, we can not predict more reduction will take place as in Summer most plants will stop their facilities to machinery repairements and adjustments, the output in summer has declined, the prices will keep a comparatively stable stage for the next few months.

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Lyon have confirmed the loan departure of attacker Gaëtan Perrin to Ligue 2 side US Orleans for the remainder of the campaign.

The 20 year old has not played a single minute of professional football so far this campaign and will join Orleans’ fight to remain in the second division of French football.

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33 year old full-back Julien Faubert has been unveiled as a brand new signing for Finnish side FC Inter Turku.

The right-sided player is joining a club that is currently 11th in the Veikkausliiga.

The former Real Madrid, Bordeaux and Kilmarnock man’s journeyed career continues.

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Ligue 2 side ESTAC Troyes are pursuing 19 year old attacking midfielder Axel Prohouly in a possible loan deal, according to France Football.

The QPR man is also the subject of interest from Panathinaikos and Marseille, according the the report. Troyes already tried to sign the player last summer.

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Speaking to Sky Italia, PSG central midfielder Marco Verratti’s agent Donato Di Campli played down transfer speculation.

“Many are thinking of him, but it’s hard to get him to leave Paris. He has a contract until 2021, he wants to respect it. Marco wants to win, if possible in Paris. I have yet to get a call from Bayern, had they done so I would have told them to speak to PSG.”

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Ligue 1 side Lyon have this afternoon concluded a sensational deal for Premier League side Manchester United’s winger Memphis Depay.

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In an overall agreement worth €18.5m plus a possible €6.5m in bonuses, Lyon will be hoping to bring Depay to complete a medical in the coming days so that he can be available for selection this weekend.

The player will sign a 4.5 year contract with the French side, but it is important to note that Manchester United have succeeded in negotiating a sell-on percentage fee, but not a buy-back clause, according to our colleagues at RMC.

Depay arrived last night in Lyon and will attempt to finalise personal terms and undergo a medical as quickly as possible so that he is available for selection for this weekend.