Canadians are the second most happy in the world: survey

Canadians share second place among the most satisfied of the planet, a world poll that asked respondents to assess their own lives.

Overall well-being of Gallup survey found that 69% of Canadians surveyed, falls into a category called Gallup "prosperous."

Canada on par with the Sweden, three percentage points below Denmark, whose citizens are apparently the more satisfied with their current situation and prospects for the future.

People in the category "prosperous" rate of their current life at seven or more high on a 10 point scale and assessed their future lives eight or more, Gallup said.

Only two per cent of Canadians was considered to be "suffering." People in this category rated their current lives and future four or below.

Another 30 per cent of Canadians have been regarded as "evil" - somewhere between these two extremes, the survey said.

Gallup has found the majority of respondents "prosperous" only 19 countries - most in Europe and America.

The story has been much less pink 67 other countries where less than one quarter of the inhabitants were booming. In sub-Saharan Africa, the median percentage of flourishing was only eight per cent, with Chad coming down with only one per cent of its respondents deemed be booming.

Gallup said its investigation of welfare suggests that little progress was made at the previous year.

"Overall well-being of Gallup data highlight the diversity of development challenges around the world," the survey company said on its Web site.

"As the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt has shown earlier this year, leaders should not rely on only GDP as an indicator of how well their countries and their citizens."

The welfare survey results are based on interviews with about 1,000 adults conducted between February and December 2010 in each of the 124 countries.

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Intel forecast sales in the second quarter that can top estimates

April 19, 2011, 8: 41 pm EDT by Olga Kharif and Ian King

(Updates with comment by the Chief Executive in paragraph 10).

April 19 (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., largest maker of the world, sales forecast in the second quarter that can top estimates by analysts, evidence of demand growing for calculation on the Internet.Revenue to provide machinery will be $ 12.8 billionmore or less 500 million dollars, Intel said today in a statement. That compares with $ 11.9 billion, or the average of forecasts of analysts compiled by Bloomberg. Shares rose 6.7% in late trading.The company benefits such as mobile devices, including iPad stimulates demand Apple Inc. online services provided by the Intel-powered servers. Even though PC sales came under pressure from the last quarter, Intel 80% share of the microprocessor market stimulates sales when companies upgrade their server and PC fleets. "It is the force of a new product cycle,"Hans Mosesmann, an analyst at Raymond James & Associates Inc., said in an interview. "There is a cycle of cooling occurring in the space of servers, and that they probably earn part" Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, has increased by high $21.19 in commerce extended after the report. The shares had gained 24 cents to $19.86 to 4 p.m. time in New York on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock lost 5.6% this year.Net profit for the first quarter past 29 per cent to 3.16 billion, or 56 cents per share, of 2.44 billion dollars, or 43 cents, a year earlier. Analysts on average had estimated profits of 46 cents. Sales increased 25% to $ 12.8 billion, compared to an average forecast of $ 11.6 billion.DemandCustomers of clouds are snapping the machines necessary for the performance of computers, software and storage on the Internet - via the so - called cloud. Sales of servers used to deliver computer clouds may rise to 6.4 billion in 2014, which represents 1.3 million units, of 3.8 billion dollars, or 600 000 units, the last year, according to researcher IDC. "The server company has exceeded our expectations in high demand since the data center segment continued,"Intel Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith said in a release posted on the Intel Web site.The gross margin, the only indicator of profitability that Intel forecast, will be 61%, to a few percentage points, this quarter, the company said. Gross margin - the percentage of sales after deduction of the expenses of production - a 61 per cent in the first quarter.Sales of the company of SalesThe of server chips for servers, storage and networking devices should reach $ 10 billion this year, Director General Paul Otellini said on a conference call to discuss earnings.What we are witnessing an explosion of computing devices that connect to the Internet, and Intel is a large part of this trend, "Otellini said."The chip manufacturer also more companies expected to buy its microprocessor-based computers, they continue to refresh their PCs. Intel estimates that 75 percent of corporate computers always run software for Windows XP from Microsoft Corp... PC sales should grow to a percentage to the low two digits in 2011, said Otellini.Intel also faced challenges in the first quarter. The company said in January that one of the support chip that makes for its microprocessors had a fault that would cost 300 million dollars in sales in the first quarter. He predicted to spend $ 700 million to replace systems and chips defective.On 13 April, IDC said shipments of global personal computer unexpectedly fell 3.2% in the first quarter as businesses and consumers held offshore on the purchase of new PCs. The firm market said also on 11 March earthquake and tsunami in the Japan and disorders in the Middle East can disrupted sales of PC.Mobile, Tablet LaggardThe results can help to allay the fears of investors that the company has yet to parlay dominance on PC market for mobile and Tablet phone chips.Apple iPad Tablet is working on a processor of mobile phone based on the technology of ARM Holdings Plc. Some manufacturers of rival tablets have opted for less power hungry design smart now offered by Intel. The popularity of tablets is cutting into sales of portable computers, said Christopher Danely, analyst from JPMorgan Chase & Co.On April 11, Intel announced a new product, called Oak Trail, and sold under the brand of the atom, which is 60% smaller than its predecessor and will provide a "day" battery life in the touch-screen computers. And the company has designed a handset which may be manufactured by ZTE Corp. China, according to two people with knowledge of the plan.In the call today, the company has touched on how it intends to gain ground in mobile devices, especially chips for phones, a market dominated by rivals such as Qualcomm Inc.Some 35 tablets based on Intel chipsets should get out of this yearmost of them based on the operating system Android for Google Inc.Otellini said. He said he would be "very disappointed" If there is not a phone based on the Intel chips available for sale to 12 months.(Intel held a conference call with analysts to discuss the results at 5: 30). New York Times. To listen go to {LIVE } or www.intc.com).

-Editors: Jillian Ward, Tom Giles.

To contact the reporters on this story: Olga Kharif in Portland, Oregon, at okharif@bloomberg.net.

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Disney Gets a Second Chance in China

By Ronald Grover, Stephanie Wong and Wendy Leung

There are signs fail that the inauguration April 8 to the Shanghai Disney Resort from $ 4.4 billion was not aimed at the typical Orlando holidaymaker. Shanghai schoolchildren sang When You Wish Upon a Star - in Mandarin. Mickey Mouse was plated not in his misfiring signature, but in traditional costume of Chinese Red to symbolize good fortune. Everything which has been adapted to the tastes of the nation the most populated of the world.

Walt Disney (DIS) has good reason to sweat the details to his first on the continent theme park. Opening Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005, he underestimated will appear how many visitors and how long they would dwell. The result: too little rides, inadequate seating and food provides restaurants and angry crowds who were to be repressed. Although Park Disney belonging to Hong Kong by 47% is expanding, it loses yet 92.3 million for the year ended last October, while attendance has increased by 13%. "We learned a lot from Hong Kong," says Disney Director General Robert a. Iger. "In Shanghai, we are in route a three hour of 300 million people." This is a huge opportunity, and we must pay attention to how come and their attendance patterns. ?

For Disney studios, who will hold a 43 per cent in the station of 963-acre (three companies belonging to the State own the rest), Shanghai is a bet of $ 1.9 billion on a growing Chinese middle class who will pass the projects of the company 200 billion per year recreation of travel by 2015. It is also a bet that Disney characters and 55 year history of the race theme parks can be adapted to a culture may not fully understand. Disney "has too much riding on China to leave Hong Kong or Shanghai fail", explains John Gerner, Director General of recreation business advisors, which evaluated the possibility for theme parks in China for Village Roadshow, a theater operator and Australian Park. "Hong Kong was an experiment to see if a smaller Park would work, and he is not." Now they are fixing it. ?

Disneyland in Shanghai will almost 85 acres, approximately 50% larger than Hong Kong Park opening, said an Executive. There will be traditional Disney rides and others based on Chinese culture, said Iger. The company is adding Chinese nationals in his "imagineering" team to help develop the Park. A staple that will change: Main Street USA, the turn-of-the-century collection of shop Windows and streets cars pulled by horses that greet visitors to most of the Disney parks. Iger, explains: "we believe simply that Main Street USA is perhaps not that interesting to the people here."

Disney is not likely to repeat the cultural missteps, had its opening of Disneyland Resort Paris in 1992, where sales of food products suffered because the Park did not initially use wine with meals. In Hong Kong, Disney has reduced the number of dogs in its restaurants serving more dim sum and noodle dishes, says Executive of Disney, and it is likely to be full of terroir in Shanghai. "Disney attention much more now to cultural differences," said analyst Evercore Partners (EVR) Alan Gould. A single motivation: The Shanghai Park will generate $ 70 million in management fees for Disney in its first year and $ 200 million in a decade, estimates of Gould.

The bottom line: Disney, which already provides its television programs, to 260 million viewers in China each week betting on continental theme parks.

Grover covers industry media and entertainment for Bloomberg Businessweek in Los Angeles. Wong is a reporter for Bloomberg News. Leung is a journalist for Bloomberg News.

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