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He had a strong urge to acquire a palm-sized video camera. Damon was used to following his urges and was not picky about donors in an emergency. Blood was blood, whatever vessel it came in. A few minutes after he'd been shown how to work the little toy, he was walking down the sidewalk with it in his pocket. He was enjoying just walking, although his fangs were aching again. Strange, he should be sated – but then, he'd had almost nothing yesterday. That must be why he still felt hungry; that and the Power he'd used on the damnable parasite in Caroline's room. But meanwhile he took pleasure in the way his muscles were working together smoothly and without effort, like a well-oiled machine, making every movement a delight. He stretched once, for the pure animal enjoyment of it, and then stopped again to examine himself in the window of the antiques store. Slightly more disheveled, but otherwise as beautiful as ever. And he'd been right; the Ray-Bans looked wicked on him. The antiques store was owned, he knew, by a widow with a very pretty, very young niece. It was dim and air-conditioned inside. â€Å"Do you know,† he asked the niece when she came to wait on him, â€Å"that you strike me as someone who would like to see a lot of foreign countries?† Some time after Stefan explained to Elena that Visitors were her friends, hergood friends, he wanted her to get dressed. Elena didn't understand why. It was hot. She had given in to wearing a Night Gown (for at least most of the night), but the daytime was even warmer, and she didn't have a Day Gown. Besides, the clothes he was offering her – a pair of his jeans rolled up at the hems and a polo shirt that would be much too big – were†¦wrong somehow. When she touched the shirt she got pictures of hundreds of women in small rooms, all using sewing machines in bad light, all working frantically. â€Å"From a sweat shop?† Stefan said, startled, when she showed him the picture in her mind.†These?† He dropped the clothes on the floor of the closet hastily. â€Å"What about this one?† Stefan handed her a different shirt. Elena studied it soberly, held it to her cheek. No sweating, frantically sewing women. â€Å"Okay?† Stefan said. But Elena had frozen. She went to the window and peered out. â€Å"What's wrong?† This time, she sent him only one picture. He recognized it immediately. Damon. Stefan felt a tightening in his chest. His older brother had been making Stefan's existence as miserable as possible for nearly half a millennium. Every time that Stefan had managed to get away from him, Damon had tracked him down, looking for†¦what? Revenge? Some final satisfaction? They had killed each other at the same instant, back in Renaissance Italy. Their fencing swords had pierced each other's hearts almost simultaneously, in a duel over a vampire girl. Things had only gone downhill from there. But he's saved your life a few times, too, Stefan thought, suddenly discomfited. And you promised you'd watch out for each other, take care of each other†¦. Stefan looked sharply at Elena.She was the one who'd made both of them take the same oath – when she was dying. Elena looked back with eyes that were limpid, deep blue pools of innocence. In any case, he had to deal with Damon, who was now parking his Ferrari beside Stefan's Porsche in front of the boardinghouse. â€Å"Stay in here and – and keep away from the window.Please ,† Stefan hastily told Elena. He dashed out of the room, shut the door, and almost ran down the steps. He found Damon standing by the Ferrari, examining the dilapidated boardinghouse's exterior – first with sunglasses on, then with them off. Damon's expression said that it didn't make a great deal of difference whichever way you looked at it. But that wasn't Stefan's first concern. It was Damon's aura and the variety of different scents lingering on him – which no human nose would ever be able to detect, much less untangle. â€Å"What have you beendoing ?† Stefan said, too shocked for even a perfunctory greeting. Damon gave him a 250-watt smile. â€Å"Antiquing,† he said, and sighed. â€Å"Oh, and I did some shopping.† He fingered a new leather belt, touched the pocket with the video camera, and pushed back his Ray-Bans. â€Å"Would you believe it, this little dust speck of a town has some pretty decent shopping. I like shopping.† â€Å"You like stealing, you mean. And that doesn't account for half of what I can smell on you. Are you dying or have you just gone crazy?† Sometimes, when a vampire had been poisoned or had succumbed to one of the few mysterious curses or illnesses that afflict their kind, they would feed feverishly, uncontrollably, on whatever – whomever – was at hand. â€Å"Just hungry,† Damon replied urbanely, still surveying the boardinghouse. â€Å"And what happened to basic civility, by the way? I drive all the way out here and do I get a  ¡Ã‚ ®Hello, Damon,' or  ¡Ã‚ ®Nice to see you, Damon'? No. Instead I hear  ¡Ã‚ ®What have you been doing, Damon?'† He gave the imitation a whining, mocking twist. â€Å"I wonder what Signore Marino would think of that, little brother?† â€Å"Signore Marino,† Stefan said through his teeth, wondering how Damon was able to get under his skin every time – today with a reference to their old tutor of etiquette and dancing – â€Å"has been dust for hundreds of years by now – as we should be, too. Which has nothing to do with this conversation, brother . I asked you what you were doing, and you know what I meant by it – you must have bled half the girls in town.† â€Å"Girls and women,† Damon reproved, holding up a finger facetiously. â€Å"We must be politically correct, after all. And maybe you should be taking a closer look at your own diet. If you drank more, you might begin to fill out. Who knows?† â€Å"If I drank more – ?† There were a number of ways to finish this sentence, but no good ones. â€Å"What a pity,† he said instead to the short, slim, and compact Damon, â€Å"thatyou'll never grow another millimeter taller however long you live. And now, why don't you tell me what you're doing here, after leaving so many messes in town for me to clean up – if I know you.† â€Å"I'm here because I want my leather jacket back,† Damon said flatly. â€Å"Why not just steal anoth – ?† Stefan broke off as he suddenly found himself flying briefly backward and then pinned against the groaning boards of the boardinghouse wall, with Damon right in his face. â€Å"I didn't steal these things,boy . I paid for them – in my own coin. Dreams, fantasies, and pleasure from beyond this world.† Damon said the last words with emphasis, since he knew they would infuriate Stefan the most. Stefanwas infuriated – and in a dilemma. He knew Damon was curious about Elena. That was bad enough. But right now he could also see a strange gleam in Damon's eyes. As if the pupils had, for a moment, reflected a flame. And whatever Damon had been doing today was abnormal. Stefan didn't know what was going on, but he knew just how Damon was going to finish this off. â€Å"But a real vampire shouldn't pay,† Damon was saying in his most taunting tones. â€Å"After all, we're so wicked that we ought to be dust. Isn't that right, little brother?† He held up the hand with the finger on which he wore the lapis lazuli ring that kept him from crumbling to dust in the golden afternoon sunlight. And then, as Stefan made a movement, Damon used that hand to pin Stefan's wrist to the wall. Stefan feinted to the left and then lunged right to break Damon's hold on him. But Damon was fast as a snake – no, faster. Much faster than usual. Fast and strong with all the energy of the life force he'd absorbed. â€Å"Damon, you†¦Ã¢â‚¬  Stefan was so angry that he briefly lost his hold on rational thought and tried to swipe Damon's legs out from under him. â€Å"Yes, it's me, Damon,† Damon said with jubilant venom. â€Å"And I don't pay if I don't feel like it; I just take. Itake what I want, and I give nothing in return.† Stefan stared into those heated black-on-black eyes and again saw the tiny flicker of flame. He tried to think. Damon was always quick to attack, to take offense. Butnot like this . Stefan had known him long enough to know something was off; something was wrong. Damon seemed almost feverish. Stefan sent a small surge of Power toward his brother, like a radar sweep, trying to put his finger on what was different. â€Å"Yes, I see you've got the idea, but you'll never get anywhere that way,† Damon said wryly, and then suddenly Stefan's insides, his entire body was on fire, was in agony, as Damon lashed out with a violent whip of his own Power. And now, however bad the pain was, Stefan had to be coldly rational; he had to keepthinking , not just reacting. He made a small movement, twisting his neck to the side, looking toward the door of the boardinghouse. If only Elena would stay inside†¦ But it was hard to think with Damon still whiplashing him. He was breathing fast and hard. â€Å"That's right,† Damon said. â€Å"We vampirestake – a lesson you need to learn.† â€Å"Damon, we're supposed to take care of each other – we promised – â€Å" â€Å"Yes, and I'm going to take care ofyou right now.† And Damon bled him. It was even more painful than the lashings of Power, and Stefan held himself carefully still for it, refusing to put up a struggle. The razor-sharp teeth shouldn't have hurt as they plunged into his carotid, but Damon was holding him at an angle – now by his hair – deliberately so that they did. Then came the real pain. The agony of having blood drawn out against your will, against your resistance. That was a torture that humans compared with having their souls ripped out from their living bodies. They would do anything to avoid it. All Stefan knew was that it was one of the greatestphysical anguishes that he had ever had to endure, and that at last tears formed in his eyes and rolled down his temples and down into his wavy dark hair. Worse, for a vampire, was the humiliation of having another vampire treat you like a human, treat you likemeat . Stefan's heart was pounding in his ears as he writhed under the double carving knives of Damon's canines, trying to bear the mortification of being used this way. At least – thank God – Elena had listened to him and stayed in his room. He was beginning to wonder if Damon had truly gone insane and meant to kill him when – at last – with a shove that sent him off balance, Damon released him. Stefan tripped and fell, rolled, and looked up, only to find Damon standing over him again. He pressed his fingers to the torn flesh on his neck. â€Å"And now,† Damon said coldly, â€Å"you will go up and get me my jacket.† Stefan got up slowly. He knew Damon must be savoring this: Stefan's humiliation, Stefan's neat clothes wrinkled and covered with torn blades of grass and mud from Mrs. Flowers' scraggly flower bed. He did his best to brush them off with one hand, the other still pressed to his neck. â€Å"You're quiet,† Damon remarked, standing by his Ferrari, running his tongue over his lips and gums, his eyes narrow with pleasure. â€Å"No snappy back talk? Not even a word? I think this is a lesson I should teach you more often.† Stefan was having trouble making his legs move. Well, that went about as well as could be expected, he thought as he turned back toward the boardinghouse. Then he stopped. Elena was leaning out of the unshuttered window in his room, holding Damon's jacket. Her expression was very sober, suggesting she'd seen everything. It was a shock for Stefan, but he suspected it was an even greater shock for Damon. And then Elena whirled the jacket around once and threw it so that it made a direct landing at Damon's feet, wrapping around them. To Stefan's astonishment, Damon went pale. He picked up the jacket as if he didn't really want to touch it. His eyes were on Elena the whole time. He got in his car. â€Å"Good-bye, Damon. I can't say it's been a pleasure – â€Å" Without a word, looking for all the world like a naughty child who'd been whipped, Damon turned on the ignition. â€Å"Just leave me alone,† he said expressionlessly in a low voice. He drove off in a cloud of dust and gravel. Elena's eyes were not serene when Stefan shut the door to his room behind him. They were shining with a light that nearly stopped him in the doorway. Hehurtyou. â€Å"He hurts everyone. He doesn't seem to be able to help it. But there was something weird about him today. I don't know what. Right now, I don't care. But look at you, making sentences!† He's†¦Elena paused, and for the first time since she'd first opened her eyes back in the glade where she had been resurrected, there was a frown-wrinkle on her forehead. She couldn't make a picture. She didn't know the right words.Something inside him. Growing inside him. Like†¦cold fire, dark light, she said finally.But hidden. Fire that burns from the inside out. Stefan tried to match this up with anything he'd heard of and came up blank. He was still humiliated that Elena had seen what had happened. â€Å"AllI know that's inside him is my blood. Along with that of half the girls in town.† Elena shut her eyes and shook her head slowly. Then, as if deciding not to go any further down that path, she patted the bed beside her. Come,she ordered confidently, looking up. The gold in her eyes seemed especially lustrous.Let me†¦unhurt†¦the pain. When Stefan didn't come immediately, she held out her arms. Stefan knew he shouldn't go to them, but hewas hurt – especially in his pride. He went to her and bent down to kiss her hair.

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Acquisition of Canterbury Frozen Meat and consolidation of the New Zealand meat industry sustained during the 1990s with PPCS. This includes business competence by not getting trapped out by the competitors like AFFCO Holdings. However, in 2006, the company Hawkes Bay based Richmond Meats to determine issues regarding the undisclosed investment created in the late 1990s. This burdened the cooperative with debt. As a result the Silver Fern Farms in 2008 based on the long standing brands. The company was unable to complete the equity lifting required finance offered. They had to pay $42 million in compensation to Silver Fern and write off a total of $50 million for the compensation and due diligence expenses. They are important for managing tasks in an appropriate way. The brand revamped itself On 1 October 2014, by reorganizing the business into three species-based units. They created two new 100% subsidiaries, Silver Fern Farms Beef Ltd and Silver Fern Farms Venison Ltd. In October 2015, Silver Fern Farms underwent a partnership proposal for an investment of NZD $261M with a subsidiary of Bright Food Group. The company underwent a deal with a Chinese company that will help in global expansion. The deal was completed in June 2016(Hutching, 2016). The vision of Silver Fern Farms Beef Ltd is to create an inspirational Food by Passionate People. The company is thinking of ways to manage individual interest by developing an effective ways to enjoy a meal by the people. There strategy is to identify the needs of the consumers and developing the same accordingly. As a cooperative society, Silver Fern Farms has a target to manage the organization to gain market competency. They are highly focusing over the high quality, grass-fed, red meat that is made i n New Zealand. As a long term strategy, the brand wants to establish itself as the consumers brand to deliver reliable and sustainable chain of care for farmers. Their central plan is to deliver what is promised. For the reason, they are meeting consumers needs by working consequently with the team. Silver Fern Farms Co-operative Limited distributed a special dividend of $34.5 million on 14 February. The shareholders received 30 cents per share on all Ordinary Shares and Rebate Shares after the completion of Shanghai Maling Aquarius $267m investment in Silver Fern Farms Limited (Silver Fern Farms, 2017). Potential Risks and Benefits New Zealand is a stable and globally competitive business environment. They have a positive economic growth. For the reason Trade has been an essential element in order to gain economic affluence. The prospective investment opportunity in the coming years will gradually impact the business growth. This will gradually help in handling of free trade agreements, pro-competitive regulation, an efficient tax regime in gaining innovation and an efficient and competitive economy. In some way the country is using the foreign funds preferable to manage the export and import. FDI provides with different risk sharing options to the business organization by supporting capital investment. FDI is an important parameter that offers greater stability of funding in the business organizations in New Zealand. It is a a smaller amount liquid form of investment which reduces the risk of the firms due to rollover risk. The Debt to direct investors does have favourable terms. These features help in reducing the economy from risk. They however help in reducing risks to macroeconomic steadiness. It is evident for an economy that FDI can amplify the chances of supplementary investment into New Zealand. Multiple investments in the country will eventually. Silver Fern Farms and Chinese company Shanghai Maling have signed their partnership In June 2016 appointing present SFF chairman Rob Hewett as a co-chairman along with Xia Xu Shen. The deal amounts to $267m investment into Silver Fern Farms acted as a game-changer for Silver Fern Farms. The International deals act as an appropriate platform to manage the strong and sustainable capital structure. This will eventually help in managing the resources to speed up strategy in ongoing and upcoming market. It will allow the business organization in optimising production facilities and capability. Outstandingly, this will help in managing the fastest growing red meat market in the world. Potential risks Foreign Direct Investment has a direct focus on resources other than the investors home country. The foreign direct investment at times hinders domestic investment. At times, the FDI causes problem in managing the local resources. There can be problems in term of political issues. There is a difference in the political environment of China. This might cause a direct risk in managing business opportunity. The investment is very risky in that case creating problems. Certain risk factors in FDI are very risky and the chance of loss is extremely high (Kumar, Jones, Venkatesan Leone, 2013). Foreign Direct Investment has a Negative Influence on Exchange Rates. This can occasionally affect exchange rates in the favor Silver Fern (Pearce, 2015). At times one can notice that it is more expensive to export goods. This is imperative to prepare sufficient money to set up your operations. There can be issues in relation to the economic viability while managing the resources derived from outside (Hinton Hamilton, 2013). This is eventually important to consider foreign direct investments may be capital-intensive for investors. They are at times considered to be very risky for the investors. This is to manage the political changes to expropriation, where the government will control property and assets. In such a situation, FDI has negative implications on the country. It is possible to manage the changes taking place in the global environment. This is important for taking care of the global factors while considering the expansion. It is evident for the business organization in matching up with the international competition. This is applicable in matching up with the expectations of the consumers (Massa Testa, 2009). Competitive advantage Global competition is creating multi-fold business opportunity. This helps in generating sales with a superior margin. Competitive advantage with the different factors helps in managing the competition in an effective way. It provides with a cutting edge while generating ability against the competitors. Porters generic strategies are "Cost Leadership", "Differentiation" and "Focus Strategy. The focus strategy is divided into two parts: "Cost Focus" and "Differentiation Focus." It creates sustainable cost leadership in between the organizations while developing better goals (Wagner Hollenbeck, 2014). This strategy helps in deriving economies of scale in order to manage the organization in a best possible way. Silver Fern Farms and Chinese company Shanghai Maling have signed their partnership In June 2016 appointing present SFF chairman Rob Hewett as a co-chairman alongside Xia Xu Shen. The deal amounts to $267m investment into Silver Fern Farms acted as a game-changer for Silver Fern Farms (Completion of investment by Shanghai Maling, 2016). The International deals act as a support in managing the strong and sustainable capital structure. This will eventually help in managing the resources while focusing upon strategy in the upcoming global markets. It will allow the business organization in optimising production facilities and capability (Spencer, 2017). Prominently, it helps in shared and associated partnership in the fastest growing red meat market in the world. The deal will help in gaining competitive advantage in order to manage growth in an effective way. The deal is important from the point of view of gaining effective business opportunity globally. It is important to manage the organization in a better way by generating global competition. It is important for managing long term sustainable market. It is evident for the business in managing the issues in the best probable way. A Business entity can gain market effectiveness in an effective way (Madsen Walker, 2015). The primary focus is to create quality meat by forming alliance with the international brand. In this way the company can expand its business while considering the future advancement. The demand will be increasing in coming future creating a better opportunity for the global expansion. In this way, the company can expand its business operations. The cooperative will be receiving 50 percent of its future dividend after receiving board approval (Goetsch Davis, 2014). The global advancement will help in managing the business opportunities in an effective way. This is important for gaining effective business results. This is evident for a business in managing business overseas. This has a potential to establish a unique position in the fastest growing red meat market in the world (Hutching, 2016). Shanghai Malings has an integrated supply chain model that will permit them in developing product and consumer marketing skills in order to gain competitiveness. The business culture in New Zealand is moderate as compared to the other countries. This is an effective way through which the culture can easily be managed by the control of the employees at each and every level. The organizational culture motivates employee in an effective way. This is one of the effective way through which the company is organizing its resources. This is important for gaining effectiveness in order to manage the organizational goals. While expanding business internationally, it is evident for the business to manage the business operations by adopting the local culture. The business culture in China is different from that in New Zealand. There can be challenges in terms of performing business in China due to difference in culture. It is highly importance to adopt the culture and develop certain level of functions that help the company in mitigating the cultural gaps. For long term sustainability, it is important for a business to develop effective business policies . This will be helping in gaining better cultural understanding and managing the culture in the most appropriate way (Baker Saren, 2016). The trade and cultural barriers in the country can be mitigated with the help of organizing an effective business opportunities. In such a competitive atmosphere, it is evident for business to manage the culture in an appropriate way to fill the gap. It is evident in the current context while managing the business opportunities to gain competencies. This is important for managing better results by organizing better organizational goals. While managing the organization, it is important to manage the circumstances in the best and effective way. This is important for the business in deploying the resources in an effective way. This is important from the point of view of gaining organizational growth (West, Ford Ibrahim, 2015). Policy prescription For gaining effective results, it is important for the country to develop policies supporting business culture, this is important for a business organization in managing the results in the best and appropriate way. For an organization, it is important to manage the results in an effective way. It is important for gaining important business results and managing organizational goals. It is important for a country to develop a sound business law and regulations. These regulations are important for carrying out the business in the appropriate way (Vitalis Scott, 2015). This is important for a business in gaining market competencies for expanding business. It is important for the business organization in mastering the effective growth opportunities. These market opportunities can only be realised if the country has ample of business growth. It is necessary for a business in gaining effective measures in arranging results (Kelsey, 2015). The policies need to be framed that support business organization evidently. It should help business in gaining a competitive advantage and developing an effective market place. This is important from the point of view of managing the business operations across the border. It is important in dealing with the cross-border transactions. With the expansion in the business, it has become evident to use a progressive business technique helping in gaining competitive advantage. The FDI policies should allow business enterprises to make advancement while expanding business. Business Opportunities are important to gain an appropriate advancement in the right direction. These business policies are important for business in making appropriate result (Buckley, Burton Mirza, 2016). References Baker, M. J., Saren, M. (Eds.). (2016).Marketing theory: a student text. Sage. Buckley, P. J., Burton, F., Mirza, H. (Eds.). (2016).The strategy and organization of international business. Springer. Completion of investment by Shanghai Maling,(2016) (Online).Retrieved from: Council, T. R. (2016). Silver Fern Farms Ltd Waitotara Monitoring Programme Annual Report 2014-2015. Goetsch, D. L., Davis, S. B. (2014). Quality management for organizational excellence. Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson. Hinton, M., Hamilton, R. T. (2013). Characterizing high-growth firms in New Zealand.The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation,14(1), 39-48. https://www.silverfernfarms.com/our-company/latest-news/completion-of-investment-by-shanghai-maling/ Accessed on: 26 October 2017 Hutching, G.(2016). Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling tie knot. 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