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Gloucester Goes Retro returns
By David Wood
Gloucester Goes Retro is back for 2022 and is taking place this year on Saturday 27 August, once again transporting Gloucester back in time.
One of the highlights of the city's vibrant festival calendar, the annual event is organised and funded by Gloucester City Council in partnership with the Gloucester Business Improvement District and features over 400 classic vehicles filling the historic Gate Streets and Gloucester Docks.
The four gate streets will once again be a buzz with vehicles, retro music and fashion dating from the 1900s all the way through to present day.
Visitors should expect to see Star Wars characters, Army personnel, tank and military vehicles, Superhero Cosplayers and vintage fashion from all eras, from Hippies to rock and rollers.
There'll be vehicles from the turn of the last century through to the Roaring Twenties, from the war years to the gleaming chrome of the Fifties, the iconic designs of the swinging Sixties to the classic sports cars of the Eighties.
And new for 2022 look out for the 90s era section featuring cars from the 1990s.
For music and dance enthusiasts, the Gloucester Goes Retro stage sees vintage acts, and you can even join in with swing dancing.
Businesses, shops, attractions, restaurants, banks and pubs will all join in the fun by creating their own retro feel with shopfront displays and staff dressed in costume.
Cllr Andrew Lewis, cabinet member for culture and leisure at Gloucester City Council, said: "We are delighted that Gloucester Goes Retro will once again be celebrated in our vibrant city. In previous years, we have seen more than 80,000 visitors join us to celebrate bygone eras, with a huge and positive economic impact for our businesses and attractions.
"So, choose your favourite era, don your costume of choice, and we very much look forward to seeing you there."
This year's event is kindly supported by BigDug.
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U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., introduced the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act on Wednesday – bipartisan legislation that would require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clearly label genetically engineered (GE) foods so that consumers can make informed choices about what they eat.
“Americans have the right to know what is in the food they eat so they can make the best choices for their families,” Senator Boxer said. “This legislation is supported by a broad coalition of consumer groups, businesses, farmers, fishermen and parents who all agree that consumers deserve more – not less – information about the food they buy.”
“When American families purchase food, they deserve to know if that food was genetically engineered in a laboratory,” Representative DeFazio said. “This legislation is supported by consumer’s rights advocates, family farms, environmental organizations, and businesses, and it allows consumers to make an informed choice.”
“American consumers have made it clear that they want to be empowered to make choices about the food they eat. This legislation will deliver the transparency every American deserves by providing clear labeling standards for food containing genetically engineered ingredients,” said Senator Gillibrand.
“This is a common sense approach to ensuring that American consumers know more and make more informed decisions about the foods they eat,” Senator Blumenthal said. “As an advocate for consumers’ rights and ally of many groups supporting this measure, I want to make sure the food industry gives consumers the full story about what they put on their dinner tables. Consumers deserve to have clear, consistent, and accurate facts about the food products they purchase. More information is always better than less.”
“Alaskans deserve to know what’s on their dinner plate, especially if it might come from a science lab. Labeling Genetically Engineered food should be a no-brainer which is why I’m pleased to join my colleagues on this bill to make sure consumers are fully informed when they make choices at the grocery store,” said Senator Begich.
“American families shouldn’t have to play a guessing game when it comes to the food they put on their kitchen tables,” Senator Tester said. “Consumers have a right to know what’s in their food, and this bill gives them the tools they need to make informed decisions about the foods they choose.”
“All over this country people are becoming more conscious about the foods they are eating and the foods they are serving to their kids. This is certainly true for genetically engineered foods,” Senator Sanders said. “I believe that when a mother goes to the store and buys food for her child she has the right to know what she is feeding her child.”
“Oregonians want to know what is in their food, and they should have the right to find out,” said Senator Merkley. “Labeling is the common sense way to bring more transparency to consumers.”
According to surveys, more than 90 percent of Americans support the labeling of genetically engineered foods. In fact, many consumers are surprised to learn that GE foods are not already labeled.
Currently, the FDA requires the labeling of over 3,000 ingredients, additives and processes, but the agency has resisted labels for genetically modified foods. In a 1992 policy statement, the FDA allowed GE foods to be marketed without labeling, claiming that these foods were not “materially” different from other foods because the genetic differences could not be recognized by taste, smell or other senses.
Unfortunately, the FDA’s antiquated labeling policy has not kept pace with 21st century food technologies that allow for a wide array of genetic and molecular changes to food that can’t be detected by human senses. Common sense would indicate that GE corn that produces its own insecticide – or is engineered to survive being doused by herbicides – is materially different from traditional corn that does not. Even the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has recognized that these foods are materially different and novel for patent purposes.
Consumers – who are used to reading labels to see if foods contain MSG, trans fats, high fructose corn syrup or aspartame – clearly want more information. More than one and a half million Americans have filed comments with the FDA urging the agency to label GE foods.
The bipartisan legislation introduced today would require clear labels for genetically engineered whole foods and processed foods, including fish and seafood. The measure would direct the FDA to write new labeling standards that are consistent with U.S. labeling standards and international standards.
Sixty-four countries around the world already require the labeling of GE foods, including all the member nations of the European Union, Russia, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand.
This legislation follows last year’s letter from Senator Boxer, Representative DeFazio and 54 Senate and House lawmakers urging the FDA to require the labeling of GE foods.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mark Begich (D-AK), Jon Tester (D-MT), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) are cosponsors of the Senate bill. Representatives Jared Polis (D-CO), Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Donna Christensen (D-Virgin Islands), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), James Moran (D-VA), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Don Young (R-AK), Jim McDermott (D-WA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), George Miller (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Ann Kuster (D-NH) are cosponsors of the House bill.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion authored by Supervisor Janice Hahn and co-authored by Supervisor Sheila Kuehl Tuesday to address the Board and Care crisis throughout the county.
With the holiday season just around the corner, the College of the Canyons School of Visual and Performing Arts, or VAPA, has an exciting lineup of shows that are sure to delight family and friends of all ages well into the next year.
The Women’s Council of Realtors of Santa Clarita Valley invites local residents to help celebrate the installation of its 2020 Board members at the Sand Canyon Country club on Friday, November 22, at 6 p.m.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Hilda Solis that adopts a framework and associated funding to help the county's cities address their individual homelessness challenges.
The Santa Clarita Valley’s top cop, Capt. Robert Lewis, took a moment Tuesday to reflect on a county report showing the SCV Sheriff’s Station received the second-highest number of commendations from the public and tied for third place for receiving the most complaints among Los Angeles County sheriff’s stations, bureaus and divisions.
Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom joined the California Museum, the state's official history museum, in announcing the 13th class of inductees into the California Hall of Fame.
A man identified by deputies as a transient was arrested in Newhall on the weekend on suspicion of attempted arson after allegedly setting magazines and papers on fire and then throwing them in planters.
SAN DIMAS, Calif. — College of the Canyons has won a second consecutive California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Southern California Regional Championship after a 29-stroke victory at Via Verde Country Club on Monday.
California State University, Northridge physicist Henk Postma and his students were pondering the “what ifs” of their field when they came up with an idea that may make DNA sequencing research much easier. Their concept has landed on the cover of a respected scientific journal.
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Deposit Money Banks have begun suspending their Automated Teller Machine cards (debit and credit) from working overseas as dollar scarcity continues to hit the economy badly. Stanbic IBTC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria and Guaranty Trust Bank on Friday announced the suspension of their overseas ATM card services.
Also suspended by the banks are online transactions priced in foreign currencies. This means that customers of the banks will no longer be able to use their debit or credit cards to make online transactions that are denominated in dollars, euros, pounds sterling and other foreign currencies.
In a note to its customers on Friday entitled: ‘Suspension of international transactions on naira debit cards’, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria said, “Please be informed that effective immediately, your naira denominated debit cards will no longer be functional for international transactions.
Both Stanbic IBTC Bank and Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria advised customers seeking to carry out transactions denominated in foreign exchange to apply for dollar or pounds sterling debit credit cards.
GTBank also announced the suspension of the ATM cash withdrawal service abroad. The lender also slashed its monthly ATM forex transactions to $100.
The development will make students studying in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Ukraine and other parts of the world to face more challenges getting their monthly stipends from their parents.Most of the students had relied on the ATM card withdrawal to get their monthly stipends from their parents before now.
This means customers seeking to do foreign transactions will have to open domiciliary accounts and fund same with dollars, pounds or euros purchased from the parallel market at the prevailing exchange rates.
The decision by some banks to suspend overseas ATM card services and online forex transactions came barely one week after the CBN, raised concerns about what it called the indiscriminate and suspicious manner in which some bank customers were spending dollars and other foreign currencies abroad through their naira card.


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The OtterBox is a popular case for Apple’s iPhone. It’s waterproof, keeps out dirt and dust, and protects against scratches. However, it offers no protection against actual otters:
Visitors to the Red River Zoo in Fargo found themselves laughing at a bit of irony unfolding at the popular otter exhibit.
Someone taking a photo of the otters apparently dropped their iPhone in the exhibit. The phone, equipped with an OtterBox case, was picked up by the animal. Zoo-goers watch as the otter rips apart the OtterBox case, dropping the phone into the water. Witnesses say the otter would retrieve the phone, chew on it, and drop it back into the water several times.
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If you’re still using an iPhone or iPad that can’t update to iOS 16, Apple has released security updates for iOS 12 and iOS 15.
Phishing is one of the main ways that attackers breach corporate systems and compromise individual accounts. Follow along as Adam Engst walks you through six representative phishing messages and explains what aspects of them should trigger warning bells.
People who use their Macs to back up or sync their iPhones and iPads have discovered they must enter their device passcode for every connection. What’s up with that?!? Adam Engst explains: it’s Apple’s ham-handed response to a security vulnerability.
Password management service LastPass announced that attackers stole unencrypted customer account data and encrypted usernames and passwords. This is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing for LastPass, though LastPass users shouldn’t be at significant risk—as long as they heeded the company’s advice and have strong master passwords.
Update to these versions of iOS and iPadOS to protect your older iPhone or iPad from malicious Web content that takes advantage of a now-fixed WebKit vulnerability.
Apple has updated all of its operating systems, adding the Freeform digital whiteboard app, support for Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, Apple Music Sing, Stage Manager on external displays, and various smaller improvements. A fix for a serious security vulnerability encourages updating soon.
Apple has announced Advanced Data Protection, an optional switch that enables end-to-end encryption for more types of iCloud data, including iCloud Backups, iCloud Drive, Photos, Notes, Reminders, and more.
For Anker's Eufy brand, secure design apparently takes a back seat to empty privacy promises. The Verge confirmed the finding by security consultants that Eufy cameras can stream encryption-free video through the cloud, all in violation of the company's claims.
Passkey promises from password-manager 1Password, brought to you by the letter P.
iOS 16.1.1, iPadOS 16.1.1, and macOS 13.0.1 Ventura close a couple of concerning security vulnerabilities related to libxml2. Update soon to protect yourself.
A macOS 13.0 Ventura bug revolving around Full Disk Access permissions is preventing real-time protection features in security software from operating. Thomas Reed of Malwarebytes shares a workaround until Apple fixes the bug in macOS 13.1.
Apple has created a new Apple Security Research website to centralize all of the company’s security resources.
Apple has released iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1 to address numerous vulnerabilities on iPhones and iPads that either haven’t upgraded or can’t upgrade to iOS 16 and iPadOS 16. Update such devices as soon as possible.
Howard Oakley explains App Translocation, a macOS security mechanism that protects against malicious plug-ins within benign apps but can occasionally cause first-launch crashes.
A few months ago, Apple quietly updated Monterey, Big Sur, and Catalina with XProtect Remediator, a new malware scanner built into XProtect, so your Mac is now regularly checking for malware in the background. Howard Oakley uncovered it and offers some technical details.


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Amazon announced that it has made a deal with HIT Entertainment to make Amazon the exclusive home in the U.S. for the kids show Fireman Sam. It will feature TV episodes on Amazon Instant Video, Prime Instant Video, and FreeTime Unlimited.
Amazon will also offer eBooks, apparel, toys, lunch boxes, and other Fireman Sam merchandise.
“With the ever evolving experience that families have with digital media, our consumers expect more and our business demands it,” said Sid Mathur, VP for HIT Entertainment’s Americas division. “Working with Amazon, we have the perfect platform to create a new experience that gives fans one place to experience the franchise. This new agreement takes Fireman Sam fans through the entire consumer journey from first engaging with the brand through content on their Kindle Fire or Amazon Fire TV to fulfilling the demand for a deeper brand experience via books, toys and more.”
“We’re thrilled to exclusively bring the popular Fireman Sam merchandise and digital content to Amazon customers,” said Peter Larsen Vice President, Product Management at Amazon. “We’re always looking for ways to make parents’ lives easier and now there’s no more convenient place in the world for kids to experience their favorite Fireman Sam content. We’re excited to be working with such a forward-thinking partner in this space.”
Amazon’s Fireman Sam content hub debuts on June 3rd. Consumer products will be introduced later this year.
Currently, Netflix has one Fireman Sam title available for streaming. This will presumably no longer be the case in the future.
Last week, Amazon launched its first original kids show.
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The fight between Apple and Google is going to get nasty. Apple had its problems with Google Voice and Google Latitude. But now it’s targeting Google Maps as well. The Android platform has certainly raised eyebrows at Apple, so it’s no wonder the company is now targeting anything and everything Google is offering on iPhone. We all wished things were different. Google Maps Navigation is certainly one of the best maps/GPS apps around and is offered to Android phone owners for free. But don’t count on it making it to iPhone anytime soon. Not when Google intends to make Android the dominant player in the mobile OS market. Whether you consider Google to be aggressive or fair with its strategies, Apple has felt threatened and its drive to control everything has kicked up again.
Apple is already in the process of testing iPhone 4.0 in the San Francisco area. The phone is expected to come with a more innovative design, better camera, and many other features. It seems it will also come with Apple’s very own map software. Apple is already looking for an engineer to take its map software to the next level:
We want to take Maps to the next level, rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find things. We want to do this in a seamless, highly interactive and enjoyable way. We’ve only just started.
Apple investing in its own map platform means only one thing. Forget about trying Google map products on iPhone anytime soon. Google will always have the opportunity to offer those services through the web, but those apps won’t be making it to iTunes.
Google is certainly not being passive with its overall strategy to dominate yet another market. Google Android is a nice step forward for the company, but according to reliable sources, Google is already planning to introduce its very own phone to take its game to the next level. Gizmodo is running a very intriguing story on all this. Apparently, not only Google phone will be killer, the Android that some of us have come to like may not be the real thing. Sensationalist? Maybe. But very possible.
Google is a very smart company. It knows that it can’t compete with app store and the iPhone with its current offerings. So I wouldn’t put it past Google to be working on making Android a killer platform, capable of holding its own against iPhone OS. Could that be the reason Apple is so threatened by Google? Or maybe it’s Google’s drive to dominate the world. Either way, this cat and mouse game is worth watching.


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Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group joins ranks of Global Top 5 Automakers
- Rapid climb from 11th in 1999 global rankings to 5th place in 2007
With global sales of 3,961,629 units in 2007 the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group has emerged as the world's fifth largest automaker moving up from sixth place in 2006, according to Automotive News' 2008 Global Data Book published yesterday.
"We are extremely proud of having achieved this goal in such a short period of time," said Ik-Hwan Kim, Vice-Chairman and CEO of Kia Motors. "We have been stressing the value of our products over the last few years and our efforts have not gone unnoticed by the public or the industry, neither quantitatively or qualitatively. Kia will continue to focus on producing a new generation of quality vehicles with distinctive design for those who are young-at-heart to keep the momentum of our brand growing. As a top global automaker, we are set to move in new directions with continuous improvements in quality, design, eco-friendliness and brand innovation for years to come."
The Group has seen remarkable growth since its foundation. It ranked as the world's eleventh largest automaker in 1999, the year Hyundai-Kia Chairman Mong-Koo Chung took over the helm as CEO. Since then, it has moved steadily up the rankings ladder as under Chairman Chung's leadership the Group accelerated the push to globalize operations by building new manufacturing plants in the United States, China, India, Slovakia, Czech, Russia and Brazil.
Counting the export sales of 185,114 complete knock-down kits which are assembled by overseas partners, the Group's 2007 global sales reached 4,146,743 units. Automotive News' methodology excludes CKD sales.
2007 Global Sales Rankings
1. Toyota 9,366,000
2. GM 8,902,252
3. Volkswagen 6,191,618
4. Ford 5,964,000
5. Hyundai-Kia 3,961,629
6. Honda 3,831,000
7. Nissan 3,675,574
8. PSA/Peugeot 3,428,400
9. Chrysler 2,676,268
10. Fiat 2,620,864


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The firm offers companies cloud-native databases. It said it adopted the cockroach moniker for its ability to scale up quickly and be difficult to kill. The startup is competing with giants such as Amazon and Oracle.
Crain’s spoke with co-founder and CEO Spencer Kimball, a former Google and Square engineer, about the startup’s plans for the near future.
The next web
Kimball sees a big opportunity for the company as enthusiasm grows around new, reimagined forms of the web, such as the virtual realm of the metaverse and the blockchain-driven, decentralized Web3.
“We are built for the cloud and distributed, and that allows us to make very, very large databases—which is what all of these trends are relying on,” he said.
The next step for the company, he said, is adding talent to meet the growing demand from clients such as Bose, Comcast and eBay.
In order to meet that demand, Cockroach is looking to scale its operations in research and development, engineering and sales. The company doubled its head count in the past year, to 300, but is now facing a tight labor market.
“We've been doing this for seven years now in New York, with Cockroach, and before that 17 years with Google and Square, so we’ve seen the evolution. I have never seen anything like the past six months,” Kimball said. “It is a good time to be someone in technical resources—an engineer, all of the associated roles.”
Cockroach is not the only startup out there with money to spend on talent. In New York City alone, startups raised $13 billion in venture capital from July through September, smashing previous local records for the third quarter.
“Everyone needs to translate that money into results,” Kimball said, “and you need people to do it.”
Pay is going up, and companies such as Cockroach are broadening their search. The company also has offices in San Francisco and Toronto, along with employee “clusters” in Denver, Seattle and London.
This year Crain’s ranked Cockroach Labs as the top company with more than 100 employees to work for in the city.


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SimpliPhi’s CEO, Catherine Von Burg and Board member, Hunter Lovins Scheduled to Present at Verge 2022 in San Jose, California
VERGE 22 is the leading climate tech event accelerating solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time.
SimpliPhi Power CEO, President and Founder, Catherine Von Burg, will conduct a 3-hour panel + workshop with Hunter Lovins, President and Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions, on Scenario Planning, highlighting how the Planning process positioned SimpliPhi for success in 2019 on the eve of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the ensuing lock-downs, global supply chain constraints, labor shortages across “essential” workforces and industries, Scenario Planning enabled the SimpliPhi leadership team to stress-test its business model, operations, and market strategy across four different scenarios that ultimately established the company’s capacity not just to survive, but thrive with a 40% YoY growth rate, leading to a successful acquisition in 2021 by Briggs & Stratton. Interested in attending? Register Here!


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The latest phone to bag certification from the US authority, FCC, is the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4. The SM-F936U phone has Qualcomm’s smart Transit function for better uplink performance.
The Galaxy Z Fold4 will support a wide range of networks, including mmWave 5G and even the rudimentary 2G network. Ax support will be added to Wi-Fi. The FCC report also implies that, like its predecessor, the Fold4 will feature an S Pen.
According to the most recent rumors, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 and Galaxy Z Flip4 are scheduled to launch on August 10. It will have a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor and 12GB of RAM. Up to 1TB of storage space is predicted and a 4,400mAh battery is anticipated.
Other speculations include that the phone will have a less noticeable seam, a bigger and maybe shorter body and improved camera.
- Vivo Y22 makes a quick pit stop at Geekbench ahead of official launch
- Lenovo details the cooling capabilities of Legion Y70
- Apple iPhone 14 sales reportedly to be stable, brand orders partners to manufacture 90M units
- Dimensity 810 powered Vivo Y77e 5G officially unveiled
- Vivo V25 Pro to officially hit the Indian market on August 17


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Fannie Mae released its May 2018 Economic and Housing Outlook yesterday revealing that despite a lusterless first three months of 2018, it expects home sales to post decent gains both this year and next, as prices increase and affordability declines amid low inventory. On the economic front, Fannie Mae is forecasting that Gross Domestic Product will average 2.7% in 2018 due in part to strengthening consumer spending. One headwind to the economic outlook is the continued rise in oil prices as they may offset some of the increase in disposable income from the recent tax cuts while also putting upward pressure on headline inflation.
Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and Americans will kick off the season by traveling in near-record numbers. According to AAA, more than 41.5 million Americans will travel this Memorial Day weekend, nearly 5% more than last year and the most in more than a 12 years. About 36 million of those travelers will drive to their holiday weekend destination. “Gas prices are higher. People will be spending about $6 more for a full tank of gas, but that’s not going to stop people from traveling this Memorial Day,” Jenkins said. “This is the kick-off for the summer season, the economy is still good, and overall people are ready to roam.” The national price for a gallon of gas is $2.91, about $0.55 more than this time last year. AAA


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In 2021, entrepreneurs broke a record in the number of businesses started. As reported by the World Economic Forum, more than 5.4 million new businesses were created last year. Although women launched 49% of new companies, obstacles remain. Men still outnumber women 3-1 when it comes to business ownership. These statistics are prompting organizations and associations to develop opportunities to advance female entrepreneurs.
Rebecca Minkoff and Ali Koplar Wyatt, cofounders of the Female Founder Collective (FFC), partnered with Webex, spearheaded by Webex senior vice president Aruna Ravichandran, to launch The North. The program connects female entrepreneurs with influential female business leaders in one-on-one mentorship sessions. Additionally, it includes a pitch event where female entrepreneurs pitch top female executives to receive a $20,000 grant from the FFC Foundation.
“We are looking to provide a path forward for many women entrepreneurs across the board,” Ravichandran expresses. “If you look at some of the stats, more than ever, women are starting to start businesses, but only about 2.3% of only a small part of women actually get the 2.3% of the VC funding. I also read that women are half as likely to get a grant compared to men. So for us, this is about being able to help elevate these female entrepreneurs, support them as a part of their business and work through this FFC partnership. The work Rebecca is doing is truly phenomenal. It gives a platform and an opportunity for those female founders to come up and bootstrap their businesses; that was the primary goal for us actually to come up with this.”
Minkoff gained popularity in 2001 when actress Jenna Elfman wore one of her designs on the Jay Leno Show. Shortly after, she and her brother launched Rebecca Minkoff, a collection of handbags, jewelry and accessories. As a new designer building her brand, she focused heavily on the creative aspect versus the business. Her brother, CEO of the company, helped her shift her mindset.
“He told me that I couldn’t just focus on design; there’s a language of business and technology,” Minkoff shares. “That I’d be a better designer if I really began to understand this world. I resented him for it. I thought that would be making me not creative. Would I be as good of a designer if I was bogged down by these boring spreadsheets and quarterly meetings?… Looking back, why didn’t I pursue this as a new language before? I’m a much better entrepreneur because of it. The trajectory of my business would have been more successful faster.”
Minkoff teamed up with Wyatt, a media specialist whose resume boasts such brands as InStyle and Refinery29, to ideate how they could advance women in business. When Wyatt became a mother, she didn’t have the support she needed at work to adjust to becoming a new mom figuring out childcare and balancing her work responsibilities. That experience amplified the disparity in the overall workforce between men and women. So she knew she wanted to create a platform that supported women and their aspirations.
In 2018, the two friends launched the FFC. They established a network of businesses led by women who invest in female financial power across a socioeconomic spectrum. The organization has over 9,000 members and supports women-owned businesses by giving them access to education, networks and mentorship.
Now, enter Webex by Cisco, a web conferencing platform. Ravichandran and her team searched for an organizational partner that elevated women. As management looked at many different initiatives across the board, they discovered The North. The goals aligned with FFC and would create a more inclusive atmosphere where women entrepreneurs can connect with others worldwide and expand their businesses.
“My fundamental belief is you have to align when you think about a cause,” Ravichandran states. “Our purpose here at Cisco is to create power and an inclusive future for all. We actually do it by finding different opportunities to help the various folks around the world.”
Minkoff adds, “The crux of this is that we’ve been listening to our founders for the last four years. As much as we do group education and group events, this desire and endless thirst for one-to-one where they can be in private and ask women like Arian Simone or Jesse Draper or Kirsten Green advice and get the answers they need, we knew it was key. With all of us learning how to use video as we are remote, we thought that the platform and the suite of offerings that Webex has would be great.”
As Minkoff, Wyatt and Ravichandran continue to evolve their partnership and The North, they focus on the following essential steps:
- Adjust your time horizon for success. Everyone wants instant gratification, but it doesn’t happen that quickly. It takes time and persistence.
- Take the risk. The unconscious bias claims that women doubt themselves more than men because they want to be perfectionists. Perfection is not realistic. Just go for it.
- Unveil the root cause of why you think you can’t do it. Address the issue, build a support team and then move forward.
“There’s a critical time in the beginning or when you just start your business where capital is hard to come by,” Minkoff concludes. “You might be too small or not have the credit to qualify for a loan. Not every woman starts their business with an MBA from Wharton or Harvard. So the fact that out of this, you also get great advice from having gone through this process and the pitch, the feedback that these women get, whether they win or not, are going to be able to take that away and create better businesses.”
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What to Expect at MWC 2016
Once again another year has started and the Mobile industry will descend upon Barcelona to discuss the latest trends. There will be the obligatory talks about over-the-top applications. Tech personalities like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will discuss how all people on the planet need a fast mobile Internet. The Tier 1 Carriers will all discuss their plans for 5G. I do, however, expect to see some new themes this year that will add new dimensions to this yearly event.
Almost every vendor has received the message from Carriers that they no longer want proprietary hardware. They need to transform their networks to flexible, agile SW clouds. In a recent NY Times article, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson discussed plans their plans to cloudify. Expect a tsunami of virtual everything demos at MWC.
IoT (Internet of Things)
Here’s an area where Carriers see a potentially big revenue opportunity – become the wireless connection for every car, truck, smart meter, pipeline, and yes, even toaster, in the world. Carriers are working hard to pick the verticals they want to focus on (healthcare, transportation, energy, appliances) and developing their value bundles. Expect announcements here.
Starting where the Apple Watch left off, you should expect all the device manufacturers (Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Huawei) to impress with the latest in form-fitting wireless technology. Wearables that read your health vitals and can be used in the workplace as part of BYOD are sure to be announced.
The mobile industry is no different than any other on earth – security is a major issue. Add to that all of these wearables and IoT devices that store information about you on a handset or in the cloud. This makes data privacy even more important. Expect lots of discussion about where data is stored, who has access, and how to secure it.
If you want to hear how Radware is solving these issues, specifically in the areas of virtualization and security, visit our team at MWC in the Fira Grand via Hall 2, IMA Pavilion, Booth 2E46.


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Resource4thePeople announced today that its national network of attorneys is now reviewing cases in which consumers are alleging that they suffered serious side effects as a result of having Stryker metal-on-metal hip implants.
The announcement comes after a decision by federal court officials to consolidate federal lawsuits alleging that victims suffered infections and other serious side effects as a result of Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implants that failed, according to the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, which created the consolidation.*
The panel summarized the plaintiffs’ claims as focusing upon the performance of these products, particularly the hip replacement devices’ propensity to cause fretting and corrosion at the modular-neck junction and fail early.
“These are serious health problems that are being alleged and our national network of attorneys are accepting these cases from consumers who may have suffered similar problems to those claimed in the Stryker metal hip implant lawsuits that have been filed so far,” said Resource4thePeople.
“The fact that a multidistrict litigation has been created and federal lawsuits assigned to it does not affect the legal rights of other consumers who may have suffered similar alleged side effects and are considering taking their own legal action.”
Resource4thePeople said that free consultations are being offered to consumers to determine their eligibility to seek compensation for alleged side effects.
“The announcement of the creation of this consolidated litigation has generated an increase in the number of inquiries we have been receiving from consumers and we will be adding additional personnel to address this increased volume,” said Resource4thePeople.
The multidistrict litigation has been designated In Re: Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL # 2441 and assigned to U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank.
“On the basis of the papers filed and the hearing session held, we find that these actions involve common questions of fact, and that centralization will serve the convenience of the parties and witnesses and promote the just and efficient conduct of the litigation,” the panel wrote in assigning the case to Judge Frank.
“The actions share factual questions concerning design, manufacture, marketing and performance of Stryker’s recalled Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II modular-neck stems. Centralization will eliminate duplicative discovery, prevent inconsistent pretrial rulings on discovery and other issues, and conserve the resources of the parties, their counsel and the judiciary.”
Stryker recalled the two systems in July, 2012, posting on the company website** that they systems were being recalled because of severe side effects, some of which, according to allegations made in Stryker metal hip implant lawsuits can cause metallosis, in which the body can be poisoned by metal particles flaking off the systems.
Here is part of the posting:
"In June 2012, Stryker initiated a voluntary recall of its Rejuvenate and ABG II modular-neck hip stems. While modular-neck hip stems provide surgeons with an option to correct certain aspects of a patient’s anatomy and hip biomechanics, we decided to voluntarily recall these modular-neck hip systems due to the potential for fretting and corrosion at the modular-neck junction which may result in ALTR (adverse local tissue reactions), as well as possible pain and/or swelling at or around the hip."
Resource4thePeople also is offering free consultations to consumers who allegedly suffered similar side effects from DePuy Orthopaedics metal-on-metal hip implants. Those systems also have been recalled after two trials involving allegations that DePuy metal-on-metal hip implants can cause serious side effects the company has decided it will no longer sell metal-on-metal hip implants.
DePuy's parent company, Johnson & Johnson, made the announcement May 17, 2013*** after two trials in which one jury**** awarded a plaintiff $8.3 million in damages and a second trial***** in which a jury found in favor of DePuy.
Bloomberg News reported*** May 17, 2013 that company officials said the decision to halt sales was not caused by a massive 2010 recall of the company's ASR metal-on-metal hip systems or more than 10,000 lawsuits that have been filed over allegations that the systems were defectively designed.
Resource4thePeople said that the Johnson & Johnson decision to halt sales its national team of attorneys will continue to accept new cases over allegations that DePuy metal-on-metal hip implants caused serious side effects.
"The company's decision does not affect the legal rights of consumers to seek compensation for side effects that they allege were caused by metal-on-metal hip implant systems that are the subject of a huge multi-district litigation****** that is still underway," said Resource4thePeople.
In its posting, Bloomberg reported that "metal-on-metal hip sales in the U.S. and Europe plunged from 20 percent of the market in 2007 to less than 2 percent last year as doctors questioned their safety and patients filed lawsuits citing flawed products. The global hip-implant market may be $5.7 billion in 2013, according to Lawrence Biegelsen, an analyst at Wells Fargo in New York. U.S. regulators earlier this year requested extensive study of all metal-on-metal hips."
In the first U.S. trial**** involving the DePuy metal systems allegations, a Los Angeles jury found on March 8, 2013 that DePuy and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson must pay a Montana man $8.3 in damages on a finding that the DePuy ASR system was defectively designed.
****Kransky v. DePuy, BC456086, California Superior Court, Los Angeles County (Los Angeles).
*****Strum v. DePuy, 2011-L-9352, Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.
******In re: DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL-2197, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio


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Bolivia's Minister of Labour, Juan López, has once again confirmed that the upcoming Corpus Christi annual non-working public holiday would be observed tomorrow, on Thursday, May 30, 2013, in all sectors of the Bolivian economy.
As per the aforementioned announcement, this public holiday will be a non-working public holiday for both the public and private sectors ("El feriado deCorpus Christiel 30 de mayo, es un feriado nacional con suspensión de actividades, tanto públicas y privadas").
The Bolivian Corpus Christi annual public holiday has been rumored to be on the way out in the past (2009-04-08 and 2007-06-06), but keeps on being reaffirmed every year (2012-06-05, 2011-06-06, 2010-01-29 and 2009-06-09).
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The idea isn’t new: offering small and medium-size businesses an affordable, all-in-one box that meets nearly all their needs for managed network services. But a Portuguese startup believes its technology provides all that and more — and for less money.
Critical Software SA plans next month to offer a new version of its edgeBox multifunctional gateway technology that will offer several new features aimed at making communications easier and less costly for customers, said Joao Carreira, vice president of business development at the Lisbon-based vendor.
The gateway system, launched this year at the Cebit IT trade show in Hanover, Germany, offers a range of out-of-the box services, including voice, data, security and collaboration. It effectively replaces several pieces of equipment currently required to deliver services at the edge of the network, such as router, security and VPN (virtual private network) systems, according to Carreira.
“This plug-and-play product is designed for small companies that lack the IT expertise and money of large enterprise,” he said. “We see substantial demand for the products in emerging markets, in particular, where both know-how and money are an issue, but we also see demand in developed markets as well. SMEs are very cost conscious.”
The new 4.0 version of the product has several new features, including an IP-PBX (Internet Protocol-private branch exchange) and PSTN (public switched telephone network) gateway with interactive voice response and least-cost routing capabilities, the ability to work as a Windows primary domain control and remote authentication through LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
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Rogers Communications Inc. is making a continued push to sell telecom services to small and medium-sized businesses with a new promise to eliminate the dusty desk phone.
The company is launching the first phase of a set of solutions that will let business customers use wireless devices integrated with the same features as traditional enterprise telephone systems, such as sophisticated answering systems and routing calls between employees until someone answers.
Canada's incumbent telephone companies – primarily BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. – have long dominated the market for business telephone and Internet services. But as legacy land-line services steadily decline, cable and wireless operator Rogers is hoping that products like this can help it win a bigger piece of what it believes is a $2-billion market, says Nitin Kawale, president of the company's enterprise business unit.
"We don't have any legacy profit pools to protect, so we can be the disruptor," Mr. Kawale said in an interview, adding that similar "fixed mobile convergence" products have been available in European markets for several years and can lead to productivity improvements and cost savings.
Mr. Kawale joined Rogers in late 2014 and was charged with overhauling the company's approach to all of its enterprise customers.
It's difficult to get an exact sense of how that is going. Rogers breaks out the numbers for its data-centre and wire-line business services through its business solutions division, but includes wireless and cable revenues from enterprise customers in its much larger wireless and cable units.
For several quarters, Rogers has reported a decline in legacy and voice services at its business solutions division, but enjoyed some growth in what it calls "next generation" Internet-protocol-based services, leading to a 2-per-cent increase in revenue at the unit in the first quarter, when it saw sales of $95-million. The company will report its second-quarter earnings on Thursday.
Mr. Kawale declined to provide specific numbers, but he said customers have responded well to some of the other products he has launched over the past year, most of which have focused on making life easier for small or medium-sized businesses .
Rogers is not alone in fighting for enterprise business – telecom companies across Canada have made a push into selling connectivity services as well as data-centre and cloud-computing products to business customers. And it isn't necessarily an easy market to play in as competition abounds from major U.S. and international tech and cloud-computing players, such as Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.
Earlier this month, Cogeco Communications Inc. said it was recording a $450-million writedown in the value of its business and information and communications technology division. Management said the division was "seeing increased competition … from large cloud-based offerings competing with traditional managed hosting providers."


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(Morgan Hill, California--January 18, 2011) Cache-A Corporation, a leading supplier of network-attached archive appliances for the digital film, broadcast and professional video industries, announced today that it has acquired the intellectual property and assets of JDV Solutions, LLC, which specializes in high-performance data storage systems.
This agreement will enable Cache-A to develop new tiers of managed storage and provide even broader archive solutions for the professional media & entertainment industry. The first of these innovations is scheduled to make its debut at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention in Las Vegas, NV, in April.
Cache-A also announced that Ken Fuhrman has joined the company as Vice President of Engineering and Operations. Fuhrman was formerly President and CEO of JDV Solutions, which had assisted Cache-A in the development of its archive appliances. A software engineer, business executive and entrepreneur, Fuhrman has a deep background in the professional media & entertainment, data storage and consumer electronics industries.
“The acquisition of JDV’s assets adds strategic depth to the company’s technical portfolio and will allow for greater breadth in our products and services over time,” said Phil Ritti, President and CEO of Cache-A Corporation. “We are also very excited that Ken Fuhrman has joined Cache-A as our Vice President of Engineering and Operations. We have enjoyed an extensive relationship with Ken and JDV Solutions as we developed our archive products, and we now look forward to Ken’s direct technical leadership.”
Prior to JDV Solutions, Fuhrman founded Evolving Video Technologies, Inc. (EVT, Inc.), which he later sold to VizRT, and has held senior engineering positions with Hughes Aircraft Corporation and Ampex Corporation. Furman also founded Interact-TV Inc., which developed Home Entertainment Servers, one of the first large-capacity/low-cost storage solutions for the consumer electronics industry.
Fuhrman graduated from the University of Denver, summa cum laude, with a B. S. in Computer Science and Mathematics.
About Cache-A Corporation
Cache-A is a leading supplier of network-attached archive appliances for the digital film, broadcast and professional video industries. Cache-A’s archive appliances provide both source masters for digital acquisition and project archives, using low cost and easy to deploy configurations based on industry standard LTO tape. http://www.Cache-A.com


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MindChild Medical Inc., a North Andover startup making a fetal heart monitor, has raised $373,594 of a planned $500,000 funding, per federal documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company’s fetal heart monitors are designed to measure the health of unborn babies and ensure safe deliveries.
MindChild Medical was co-founded in 2008 by Tufts Medical Center’s Adam Wolfberg; MIT and Harvard University researcher Gari Clifford; and E-trolZ co-founders Jay Ward and Jim Robertson. In their current positions with MindChild, Wolfberg serves as chief medical officer, Clifford is chief technology officer, Ward serves as executive vice president, and Robertson works as chief operating officer.
The company said it is seeking FDA approval for its fetal heart monitor.
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KENYA – Kenyan agri-tech startup, Farmshine, has raised US$250,000 investment from US-based impact investor Gray Matters Capital’s gender lens sector-agnostic portfolio coLABS (GMC coLABS) to expand its operations.
Farmshine operates a global agriculture platform where farmers, buyers and service providers can trade on mutually beneficial terms.
Its agriculture operating system enables smallholder farmers to aggregate and sell their harvests directly to large commodity companies.
Combined with on-the-ground support from Farmshine’s field officers, the mobile app ensures that farmers are offered clear, fair and reliable contracts from legitimate buyers.
Every activity takes place through the app – including contract agreement, production management, crop aggregation, and delivery and payment – ensuring full transparency among each party.
The app also records quantity, quality and timeliness of each harvest sold, as well as loan repayments, training received, and other indications of a successful, reliable farmer.
According to Luca Alinovi, Farmshine’s Founder & CEO, “Farmshine’s platform was designed with a farmer-first approach. It can be easily replicated for any value chain in any country, and can scale from thousands to hundreds of thousands of farmers.”
The funds raised will be used to hire and train personnel, including field agents, and to further develop the platform to connect the agriculture ecosystem.
Farmshine is rolling out its operating system to non-profit partners, expanding into higher value commodities, and providing supermarkets with traceable products for its customers.
This marks the second investment by the impact investor in the agri-tech space in Kenya after funding B2B startup Taimba in July this year.
In addition to that it’s the fifth African startup added to its portfolio which includes Rwanda’s ARED, Ghana’s Redbird Health Tech and Nigeria’s Sonocare in the last two years.
Outlining the investment rationale, Jennifer Soltis, Portfolio Manager – coLABS, Gray Matters Capital said, “Women are often excluded from the formal economy in Kenya, and it is difficult for them to find better opportunities or higher-paying work.”
“Farmshine’s platform enables women, who constitute 70% of its farmers, to receive significantly higher incomes by providing access to completely transparent pricing information before they plant, as well as the freedom to select the buyer they would like to supply to.”


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Earlier this week, Turkish media reported the passing of the new economic program suggested by the Finmin. It believes this will help boost the economy by nearly four percent by the end of 2018.
New regulator created
The Finmin mentioned that a new state agency has been specially set up to help the local economy rise. This regulator along with the Ministry of Finance will strive to face and get over the challenges the economy is facing. The forecast is for the economy to get stable within the next two years as well as getting the economy to rise in 2019.
Before that, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the US political leader Donald Trump have had big falling out. This resulted in the Turkish Lira dropping heavily, bringing the country to wild inflation.
Finance Ministry turns its face to ICO hype
According to a Turkish-language website dedicated to crypto assets, in its new economic program Turkish Finmin underlines the necessity to take into account the new trend of initial coin offerings, which are now suppressed in many countries trying to protect investors from frauds, and make use of it.
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Last week it was announced that Mind Candy has recorded $250m (£160m) in total sales since the launch of its Moshi Monsters brand five years ago.
The online children’s franchise is one of the successes of London’s Tech City, and now has 80m users, almost double the level of two years ago. The figures suggest a period of massive revenue growth, since 2011 when sales came in at a more modest £29m. But what is the key to the brand’s success?
Moshi Monsters started out as an online world of adoptable pet monsters for boys and girls aged 6-12 back in 2008. It slowly crept to one million users before taking off in the summer of 2009 and growing by one new registered user per second. Moshi is biggest in the UK but has a global fan base. The top five territories - UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand - are English speaking.
Timing was undoubtedly instrumental in the rapid rise of Mind Candy’s flagship offering. Moshi has also done very well in licensing its characters for merchandise, generating half of its revenues from licensing and royalties alone – but that can’t last for long if the game itself don’t satisfy its young audience.
There is no doubt that the rapid growth of the Moshi Monsters phenomenon would not have been possible without the vision, passion and talent of the designers, marketers and brand managers that are responsible for the company’s popularity and profitability. Thanks to great people, the Silicon Roundabout start-up has matured to become an international success story – producing characters that are as recognisable as Micky Mouse to its young consumers.
And the company shows no sign of slowing down, CEO Michael Acton Smith recently unveiled the company’s new headquarters in Shoreditch - complete with slide, tree house and ping pong table - which suggests ongoing growth and expansion. There is no doubt that Moshi Monsters is a super-brand fit for the 21st Century – so here’s to the next five years and beyond.
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Beijing: The Controversial Chinese Tagore translation to be taken off the shelves by the publisher, after it stirred controversy world wide.
Chinese writer Feng Tang has kicked up a major controversy by publishing a distorted translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s poems. The translation misinterprets Tagore’s lines to give them pornographic meaning. The writer, Feng Tang, does not know Bengali and has apparently used available Chinese translations of Tagore’s works to give his own interpretation, literary sources said.
“Feng Tang is trying to attract attention to himself, and get some cheap publicity. He knows he won’t be arrested for this, and is taking advantage of the situation,” Tansen Sen, a Chinese scholar and director of the Center of Global Asia in Shanghai told TNN. “I won’t call this a translation. It is a reinterpretation done in a vulgar manner,” he added.
China’s State media published portions of Feng’s controversial translation of Tagore’s collection of poems, ‘Stray Birds’. In one place, Feng’s translation says that “”The world unzipped its pants in front of his lover.” The Chinese media said that the proper Chinese version of the poem said, “The world puts off its mask of vastness for its lover”.’
The writer has come under heavy criticism over the Chinese Internet and several local newspapers and websites have criticized his rabble rousing book of translation.


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Starting this weekend, lovers of fresh, locally grown food won’t have to wait until next spring for their farmers market fix.
Fort Wayne’s Farmers Market will open from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday inside Parkview Field’s Lincoln Financial Event Center. The indoor market will be open every Saturday through May in the event center on the ballpark’s right-field concourse.
Coordinator Leigh Rowan, a Fort Wayne bread vendor, wants to see this indoor market focus on the standards customers expect. Too many markets, she says, turn into flea market-type events.
It has been unfortunately allowed and misrepresented that the fact that some (vendors) go to these food auctions and then don’t say where they got (their food), so when people go home and they find stickers on the bottom of one of the apples or the tomatoes, they get very frustrated, Rowan says. The consumer assumed when they went to the farmers market that it would be a local market.
Rowan anticipates she will soon reach the maximum capacity of food vendors at 40.
I want a European-type feel, she says. I want people to be able to come to buy their bread and eggs and their meat and know when they walk in my door at Parkview Field, that this has all been verified.
Food truck rally
Foodstock 2012 just might mark Fort Wayne’s first-ever food truck rally, says Jeff Parrot, coordinator and owner of The Shiloh.
The event will feature seven to 10 food truck vendors with different cuisine, including these local trucks: Big John’s Ragin’ Cajun Food truck, which serves Cajun and Creole cuisine; JumBy’s JoiNt, whose menu includes grilled cheese, sausage and pulled pork; and The Getaway Grill, whose Facebook page lists 17 food styles, including breakfast, Latin American and seafood.
Each truck will have a sampler menu, or people can order their favorite menu items.
Foodstock will be from 6 to 11 p.m. Oct. 12 at The Shiloh (3127 Carroll Road).
The Black Pine Animal Sanctuary (1426 W. 300 North, Albion) is holding its sixth annual Lions, Tigers and Beer, Black Pine! event from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday. The money raised will help with the costs of animal care through the winter.
The event gives people the chance to tour the sanctuary, meet animal keepers, munch on barbecue and sample beer.
Tickets are $25 at the door, or $20 if you register before Saturday. Buy tickets at BlackPine.org or call 260-636-7383.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and each Monday this month, Quaker Steak & Lube (407 Coliseum Blvd. W.) is teaming up with the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer. Guests who wear pink to the restaurant will have a portion of their bill donated to the foundation.
Tran Restaurant (2310 S. Calhoun St.) has its grand opening Saturday. Based on the restaurant’s sign, it serves deli sandwiches.
Today marks DeBrand Fine Chocolates’ 25th anniversary, and as part of the celebration, the local company recently revamped its website, DeBrand.com.
The new link, Chocolate Guide, tells shoppers the details of each truffle and bite. Online browsers can now put together pick-your-piece collections, where they are able to choose each piece of candy, as though they were in the shop.


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“I chose to retire because I was clear that I wanted to do something different for the next 20 years. I am moving from one full-time role to fulltime many roles,” said Bali who was the first woman to head a major consumer goods company in India, back in 2005.
A company statement said Bali, 58, will retire at the end of this fiscal year to pursue a variety of roles in the corporate and development sectors. She will continue to serve on the boards of the other Wadia Group firms such as Go Airlines.
The announcement was made after market hours. Earlier in the day, Britannia share price dropped 0.47 per cent to close at Rs841.20 on the Bombay Stock Exchange while the benchmark Sensex index closed 0.27 per cent lower. ET was the first to report Bali’s plans to move on, in January. Britannia’s change at the helm comes at a time when the company prepares to chart a new growth strategy, with focus on high-margin products and innovations amid stiff competition from
The biscuit maker had kicked off the succession plan last year, when Berry was given the charge of domestic operations earlier headed by Bali. She was made the head of Britannia’s international operations, Britannia Nutrition Foundation and tasked with the responsibility of developing new business. But she retained the designation of managing director and was responsible for the company’s revenues and profit, while reporting to Wadia. During Bali's tenure, first as CEO and then as MD, the firm’s revenues have quadrupled from Rs1,510 crore in 2005 to Rs6,185 crore in 2013.
But net profit in these eight years has increased marginally from Rs149 crore to Rs259 crore, as the company has had to navigate high costs and ward off competition not just from established rivals such as Parle and ITC in its core biscuit business, but also from relatively new entrants like Cadbury Kraft’s Oreo and United Biscuits’ McVities.
While biscuits still contribute to over three-fourths of Britannia’s sales, the company has made an aggressive push in other categories such as milk, cheese, and ready-toeat food to grow its business and improve margins. In these segments, too, however, there is stiff competition from MTR, PepsiCo and Britannia’s erstwhile partner Danone, among others. Biscuit and dairy segment put together is the largest consumer segments in the country with a market size of of almost Rs9,500 crore.
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Rama krishna2571 days ago
Vinita Bali !She is a wonderful leader in her tenure and Its really a great journey for her with Britannia where Britannia was in tough times and She who has taken up challenges in front and led the company in steady motion all the way till this time to gear up.
Wish her goodluck in her future endeavours and with pink health through out her life.....Ramakrishna
Sujatha Shankar2574 days ago
She is a Great Lady and I really admire her. She is one of the few, who have taken her Company to great heights, in spite of Gender Barriers, that Women typically face in their careers. Good Luck to her in all her future endeavors. Suja
B Raghuram2574 days ago
Vinita Bali in consumer goods and Laila Poonawala in engineering are a rare success in Indian industry not to mention of the women in the financial sector
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Higher prices for fruit and veg dampen hopes of inflation fall
Sunday 15 July 2012
The recent easing of the inflation squeeze on British households will suffer a setback this week as June's record downpours drench seasonal crops and push up prices.
Analysts expect the Bank of England's official Consumer Prices Index benchmark to remain steady at 2.8 per cent in June after two months of steep falls.
The cost of living is currently rising at its slowest rate for two and a half years, but price hikes for seasonal fruit and vegetables due to the poor weather will partly offset the impact of a big 3.3 per cent fall in petrol costs over the month.
David Page, Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets' UK economist, said: "The climate across most of northern Europe is fairly similar and we've already seen price rises of between 7 and 8 per cent for German seasonal food, so it is likely to have an impact over here."
The opposite problem in the US raises the spectre of renewed food price inflation later this year as a scorching drought across the Midwest slashes corn yields by more than 12 per cent. Corn prices have jumped more than a third in the past four weeks, according to the Chicago Board of Trade. Higher cereal prices will have a more sustained effect as the cost of animal feed and meat rises.
Sharp price-slashing by retailers in June last year – not repeated last month – will also add to inflationary effects, Capital Economics said.
The Bank of England nonetheless predicts CPI will be back to 2 per cent by the end of the year. Worries over undershooting the target prompted it to pump an extra £50bn into the economy via quantitative easing two weeks ago.
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November 11: Fashion has come very far in the past century. Fashion is not just an indicator of wealth anymore, it has evolved to be a dynamic expression of self, and it has come to define decades of important political movements and brings art to ordinary people.
Many of us might not visit art galleries and museums frequently, but with fashion, we see so much self-expression and art every day.
And regarding fashion in India, Nakshrajsinh Sisodiya keeps grabbing headlines with his designs. The couturier and fashion designer recently launched his label, “Nakshrajsinh Sisodiya – The Label of Luxury”, where he is bringing the traditional to our times. At his label, Nakshrajsinh Sisodiya specialises in making distinctly Indian and practical apparel for today’s world.
Sisodiya’s designs have the signature vintage-fusion look; he says, “With technology and the internet, millennials and gen-z are becoming the residents of a global village. And in such an atmosphere, everyone is watching the same thing, eating the same things, and wearing the same things. And what will happen to our cultures if we discard them in favour of the new and non-unique?”
“India has such a rich culture, you can keep flipping pages of our history and heritage, and you won’t finish the book.” he continues, “It is so essential to preserving it. Have you ever seen a tree topples over if the roots aren’t strong? It would be heartbreaking to see our society leave behind our uniqueness in favour of fitting in.”
Stars like Siddharth Nigam and Abhishek Nigam sports Sisodiya’s designs, and we will see more of his gorgeous work on the silver screen very soon! Sisodiya has been onboarded as the costume designer in an upcoming period piece. With Sisodiya’s command of vintage designs, this endeavour falls right in his ballpark, and we will see a new benchmark being set for period piece costumes when Sisodiya’s work on the film comes out.
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Charles (Charlie) Hooley, a Stillwater entrepreneur who was part of a team that changed how the nation shopped for food, died Sunday.
He was 89.
Hooley co-founded the Cub Foods grocery store chain in 1968 along with his brother, Jack, brother-in-law Bob Thueson, and friend, Culver “Cub” Davis.
The chain has been around for 50 years and is said to have changed the way people shopped nationwide by creating a one-stop shopping experience for the first time.
The goal was to increase the volume of food, expanding purchasing power so they could buy from suppliers at lower prices they could pass down to customers, said Hooley’s son, Mark.
They essentially created the first warehouse-style grocer with high volume and low prices, essentially revolutionizing the industry. In addition, the store was one of the first to use the conveyor belt checkout system that is now commonplace.
“They were truly at the front edge of that whole movement,” Mark Hooley said.
A 2016 Pioneer Press article following Jack Hooley’s death said the brothers came from a long line of grocers in Stillwater. Their grandfather Dennis Hooley immigrated from Skibbereen, Ireland, to Stillwater and in 1876 began delivering meat to lumberjacks. Their father, Matt Hooley, opened Hooley’s Grocery Store in downtown Stillwater in the 1920s and then opened a second location on Stillwater’s South Hill in the 1930s.
In the late 1940s, the family expanded the grocery store business to include stores in Red Wing and Hudson, Wis.
Jack and Charlie Hooley later entered the wholesale meat business and in 1968 joined forces with Thueson and Davis to open a Food Bonanza discount supermarket in Fridley. It was a bare-bones operation featuring concrete floors, block walls and unpainted wood shelving that catered to price-conscious shoppers.
They dropped the name Food Bonanza “because they were paying a fee to use it” and renamed the store “Cub,” which stood for “Consumers United for Buying,” Jack’s son, John Hooley, said. The store’s original print advertising had a bear cub as its logo; membership was $6 a month.
The company soon opened stores in Brooklyn Park, Burnsville, Cottage Grove and Stillwater. The first few years were lean, said John Hooley, who served as Cub’s CEO and as an executive vice president of Supervalu. Hooley supermarkets initially kept Cub afloat until the mid-1970s.
It wasn’t until Cub added produce and meat and changed the decor that the business began to turn around, John Hooley said. A key turning point: In 1972, Cub held a Thanksgiving promotion selling fresh turkeys for 19 cents a pound. The promotion was a loss leader that introduced hundreds of shoppers to the discount store.
“Then it just exploded after that,” John Hooley said. “In the 1980s, we were the highest volume-per-square-foot supermarket in the country. Everybody was coming up to see what was going on.”
When Cub was acquired by Supervalu in 1980, Jack Hooley stayed on as CEO of Cub for two years. He retired in 1985.
Charlie Hooley retired in 1981.
Cub now has 80 stores, 79 in Minnesota and one in Illinois, and more than 6,000 employees.
Shortly before retirement, Charlie Hooley bought a farm south of Stillwater where he raised Belgian and Morgan horses. He later turned the farm into the Shores of Lake McDonald residential community. In 1993, he was appointed mayor of Stillwater and in that role helped secure federal funding to rebuild a levee in the hopes of preventing flooding in the city.
“He cared deeply about Stillwater his entire life,” Mark Hooley said.
Born in October 1928, Charlie Hooley grew up in the heart of Stillwater, “right up the hill” from his father’s grocery store.
He had an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age. When he was a young teen, he would buy broken bicycles, fix them and resell them, Mark Hooley said.
“Then, he slowly moved up the food chain and got into cars, buying used cars, fixing them and reselling them,” he said.
He also had a popcorn wagon as a youth and would sell popcorn.
“He truly saw opportunities at every corner,” Mark Hooley said. “He was a real entrepreneur.”
After high school, Charlie Hooley took classes at the University of Minnesota and St. Thomas, but when his father’s health began to fail, he came home to help with the family business and worked in the grocery stores.
He met his wife, Nancy, at a wedding. He was the best man for his brother. She was the maid of honor for her sister.
Although they had attended school together, that night they made a connection, Mark Hooley said, “and never looked back.”
He served in the Marines, and when he returned in 1953, the couple married. “It was two brothers married to two sisters,” Mark Hooley said. “He was absolutely dedicated to my mom, and the opposite is true as well.”
His daughter, Maureen Bausch, and Mark Hooley said their father was very much a family man, and both described him as kindhearted and generous.
“He was a man in motion all the time,” Mark Hooley said. “He was definitely a hard worker and worked very, very long hours and taught all of us an amazing work ethic, but he was very dedicated to his wife and us six kids. He was very much a family man. Once he was given a trip to the Indianapolis 500, and the first question he had was whether he could bring his family. He’d bring us everywhere. He was the quintessential family man. It was the most important thing to him.”
Charlie Hooley was also know for his small gestures of kindness. He was a living example of how to be a friend to those in need, Mark Hooley said.
As a big employer in Stillwater, his father employed many people and was very kind and generous to them, he said. He hired people and gave them a chance when other employers might have turned them down.
“He really saw the good in everybody,” Mark Hooley said. “He was interested in what people had to say, and so people shared things with him because of that. He would befriend people and they would share their life (details) with him. He was really trusted, very warm and caring.”
“He was such a risk taker and truly an adventurer,” Bausch said. “He had so many interests and so many hobbies, but also businesses over the years. He wasn’t afraid to try anything.”
After retiring, Hooley had a second career developing property in Stillwater and cultivated a love of sailing. He sailed boats up the Mississippi River, refurbished them and sold them. He sailed across the Atlantic with five other men, going from Spain to the Caribbean in a 33-foot sailboat. He also collected Model A cars. He was a pilot and world traveler who traveled to Africa in his 80s.
Along with being a creative thinker and problem solver, he was “most importantly a great friend to many in need,” Mark Hooley said.
Charlie Hooley also felt a big responsibility to the community.
“His business objective was to deliver groceries at as low a price as he could,” Mark Hooley said. “He did view himself as part of the community leadership and took that very seriously and gave back to the community when he could.”
Charlie Hooley served on several boards, including the St. Paul Food Bank (now Second Harvest), Courage Center St. Croix, Cosmopolitan Bank and KW McKee.
In 2011, he was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from Stillwater High School. He graduated from the school in 1947.
“He was truly a remarkable man,” Bausch said. “He was so kind and generous.”
Bausch, who served as CEO of the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee and is a former executive vice president of business development for Mall of America, said she frequently gets calls from people telling her about how her father helped them in business.
During the Super Bowl, she was approached by someone who said her father had helped change her life.
Bausch said the woman — who took on a lead volunteer role during the Super Bowl — said the reason she was doing it was because Charlie Hooley had helped her husband in the past by giving him a job when he really needed one.
“She came up to me at the Super Bowl and said I volunteered because your dad helped my family,” Bausch said. “At the time they were young with children and her husband needed a job. Dad gave it to him, and she was very grateful.”
In the melee of the event, someone pulled Bausch aside. She tried to find the woman again to hear the whole story but was unable to find her.
A visitation is scheduled for Thursday at the Simonet Funeral Home, and a memorial service is planned for Friday morning at St. Michael’s Catholic Church.
The family asks that memorial donations be sent to the Mayo Clinic Foundation, the Stillwater Community Fund or St. Michael’s Catholic Church.
Mary Divine contributed to this article.


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Do you prefer red or white with your window shopping?
Beginning this month, shoppers at the King of Prussia Mall will be able to purchase a glass of wine or craft beer at a newly launched pop-up “rustic, outdoor Wine Garden” from Chaddsford Winery, according to a story written by Alison Burdo in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
The pop-up concept is obviously not new to the suburbs with some craft breweries – like Conshohocken Brewery Company – offering the outdoor locales, and Chaddsford previously had a pop-up Wine Garden at Philadelphia’s Collins Park in Center City, Burdo wrote.
This will be the first time a pop-up serving libations will be coming to the mall.
Construction of the garden begins this week at the site, which is located between the Neiman Marcus and Macy’s department stores, according to a spokeswoman for the 25-year-old wine maker, the story continued.
There is no set opening date, but the aim is to be open to customers as soon as possible. Ed Harris, of the Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board, estimated the garden is about two weeks away from opening.
The Wine Garden, which includes fire pits, will serve Chaddsford’s seasonal speciality and warm, mulled wines, as well as craft beers from various Pennsylvania breweries.
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Everybody is talking about inflation these days. According to Statistics Canada, this April, consumer prices were up on average 6.8 percent over the same time last year.
You’re probably feeling that at the grocery store. We certainly are.
For example, the cost of an orange is up 10 percent, pasta nearly 20 percent, and a loaf of bread more than 12 percent.
Do you think wages have gone up an equal amount? Not likely. Nearly two-thirds of Canadians have experienced a drop in real wages over the past two years.
Typically prices go up when demand for products and services increases.
Think of it this way: tickets to an NHL playoff game are more expensive than regular-season games.
Why? Because more people want to see that playoff game. Demand goes up, so the prices do, too.
Sometimes prices go up because the government is printing more money to stimulate the economy. Governments use that strategy to offset things like recessions. But all that extra money can put upward pressure on prices.
So can supply chain and labour shortages. And we’ve had a lot of those since the pandemic hit. Cargo ships were backed up after last year’s flooding shut down rail shipments heading in and out of Vancouver’s port for a while.
That means today’s inflation is a simple case of supply and demand, right?
Well, no—it’s not that simple.
A dollar doesn’t go nearly as far as it did a year ago. And that hurts everybody—everybody except corporations, that is.
That’s why some are calling this “greedflation.”
Many corporations are making record profits right now, while the rest of us are getting hosed at the grocery store and gas pumps.
David MacDonald is a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His recent study shows that more than a quarter of price inflation is due to corporate profits, not wage and supply issues.
Don’t think it’s true? Then think about what the CFO of Loblaws, Canada’s biggest grocery retailer, recently told investors about pricing.
He said the company bases its prices on what competitors are charging. So, in other words, Loblaws is gouging us because other companies are gouging us.
Everyone else is doing it. Why can’t we?
During World War II, there was a name for that: profiteering. And our government passed aggressive laws to ban it and hold bad actors accountable.
But now, profiteering seems to be the norm for many of Canada’s biggest companies.
Canada’s third-richest family owns Loblaws. The Westons are reportedly worth $8.7 billion. They also own Real Canadian Superstore, Extra Foods, and 20 other drugstore and grocery brands. The company posted a $437 million profit in the first three months of 2022. That’s up from 2021’s profits of $313 million.
Oil companies are also posting record profits. Canada’s Cenovus posted its best first quarter ever this year by raking in $1.6 billion in profit.
All while we struggle to fill the tank.
So the next time someone tells you that inflation is because of Justin Trudeau or supply and demand, think again.
Corporations are the big winners in Canada, and their record profits show it.
In the UK, almost two-in-three people support a 25 percent tax on windfall profits from greedy corporations.
More and more Canadians are asking, when will our provincial and federal governments step in and stop the corporate profiteering and greedflation?


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The main purpose of the crash test was to practice the skills of emergency rescuers, who had to detect damaged vehicles with tools and quickly evacuate possible victims.
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It is in final stages to enter into a joint venture by acquiring about 49% stake in Groom India Salons & Spa, the company which runs Naturals Salon & Spa, said executives aware of the development.
“They have around 700 outlets across India and Reliance wants to grow it four-five times,” said one of the executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “However, the existing promoters could continue running its operations and Reliance’s funding will help network expansion.”
The ₹20,000 crore salon industry in India has about 6.5 million players comprising beauty parlours and barber shops. It was among the worst hit segments during the Covid-19 pandemic, during which Grooms India Salon & Spa CEO had requested the government for financial aid on social media to keep the two-decades-old business afloat.
“The talks are at a nascent stage. Covid impacted every business and salon was probably the worst impacted. But in the last seven months, business has been robust and Covid is not the reason why we are diluting stake,” said CK Kumaravel, CEO, Naturals Salon & Spa.
A Reliance Retail spokesperson said, “As a policy, we do not comment on media speculation and rumours. Our company evaluates various opportunities on an ongoing basis. We have made and will continue to make necessary disclosures in compliance with our obligations under Securities Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015 and our agreements with the stock exchanges.”
Over the past two years, salon chains such as Enrich Salon, Kapils Salon, YLG, Juice Salons, Bodycraft Salon & Spa, Truefitt & Hill and Jean-Claude Biguine have transitioned into beauty products retailers to offset the impact on their service business during the pandemic. Reliance Retail will also leverage the chain to offer experiential sales and distribution points for its beauty products as it plans a new standalone beauty business, said executives.
Reliance Retail also plans to open standalone stores for beauty products. Last quarter, it acquired a majority stake in Mayuri Kumkum, the company that owns and operates Insight Cosmetics.
“Salon segment has a lot of potential and Reliance is entering the segment at a right time. Most salons run on a franchise model and this space could see more such strategic acquisitions by bigger organised companies, apart from attracting financial investors,” said Gaurav Marya, chairman, Franchise India.