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With so much energy wasted in our homes, we have all become experts at minimizing our carbon footprint.
But as our energy bills soar, we’re also becoming experts at cutting back on the things we love most in life: food and fresh produce.
That’s the goal of the new greenhouse bar that was unveiled at the 2013 National Home Builders Association Build-A-Bear conference in Las Vegas.
The bar’s patented design, which can hold up to 20 pounds of produce, will serve as a sustainable way to bring more fresh produce to your backyard.
“We think people will find it really fun,” says Chris Leblanc, executive director of the National Home Builder Association.
“It’s a very elegant solution to a problem that we’ve had for a long time.”
The greenhouse bar is the result of Leblac’s years of research, which involved studying a wide range of food storage systems.
The greenhouse is made up of three pieces: a lid, a top and a bottom, each of which is connected to a metal plate that holds the produce.
The bottom plate is connected by two rings that run parallel to the top plate.
The lid sits atop the produce and can be covered by the top lid or by the lid itself.
The produce can then be placed on the bottom plate, which is then sealed with a mesh to prevent the top from drying out.
“If it gets really cold out, the lid gets completely covered in ice and we have to start again from scratch,” says Leblanç.
“With a greenhouse, we can just get it up and running in no time.
This is what makes it so easy.
You can just lift up and down the lid and put the lid on.”
While the concept is simple, it can be a challenge to make it work.
There’s no guarantee that the lid won’t melt and crumble, and it’s also not always clear how much fresh produce can be stored inside.
So Leblanch has enlisted the help of the team at New Zealand’s University of Otago to devise a system that works for the most part.
“The problem with greenhouse bars is they’re really expensive,” says Paul Pert, the associate director of engineering at the University of Auckland.
“This is a new kind of system where you can use the cheapest kind of metal in the world and still produce a lot of produce.”
Leblans team took their research from the University’s design lab, which was able to come up with a design that was both light and inexpensive.
“That’s what gave us the confidence to go forward with the prototype,” he says.
The team then took the idea to the University and asked if they could borrow it for their own greenhouse.
“They were like, ‘Sure, we’ll use it,'” Leblany says.
Pert says they spent a month designing the prototype, and the results were promising.
The design, he says, was “quite simple but elegant.”
“It just works,” he adds.
“When you think about it, we’ve built a whole system around the concept of the greenhouse.”
Pert notes that the idea of a greenhouse has been around for a while, but that most people still thought of it as a simple solution to the problem of energy consumption in homes.
But Leblanches team took the concept to a new level.
The greenhouses design features two doors.
“There are actually two doors that open into different sections of the space, so that it can expand,” Leblais says.
“So the product is much more compact and much easier to store and more energy efficient.”
The team used the new system to produce a greenhouse bar that can hold between 20 pounds and 100 pounds of fresh produce and produce that can be frozen and then opened.
The two doors can be closed with a small magnet or a large magnet that can swing open and close automatically, depending on the amount of produce.
“You can see the product from outside,” says Pert.
“But inside, it’s the product you need to keep.
The product you don’t want to waste.”
The entire system is designed to be as energy efficient as possible, with the goal to reduce energy usage by as much as 80 percent by 2020.
And with the help from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the team was able take the product to the test in the field, where they found that the system was able save about 100 kilowatt hours per year.
The prototype can also be used for a variety of other purposes, including making insulated packaging for insulation and insulation products for homes and businesses.
The project is expected to be tested in the lab and will be finished by March 2019.
Leblaunas team is also hoping that the greenhouse bar will be a success with the builders market.
The National Home Building Association estimates that over 1.3 million homes worldwide are built with greenhouse bar solutions.
LeBlanc says he hopes that other companies will join the party, offering products


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Exclusive Ropeye distributor deal for Harken
Harken is to become the exclusive distributor of Ropeye products worldwide.
In the four years since its founding, Ropeye has developed a reputation for innovation and has been the recipient of a DAME award conferred at the annual METSTRADE show.
"We've been impressed with Ropeye since it started," said Matt Malec, Harken's director of worldwide sales.
"The Ropeye team attacks many of the same engineering challenges we face every day, improving rigging and enabling performance gains.”
The agreement will include collaboration in marketing communications and potentially new product development as well.
Ropeye is an Estonian based manufacturer and R&D company that focuses on textile/carbon high-load and low-weight solutions for racing boats.
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LCC Powersports in Liberty, Missouri, is celebrating its 55th year in business this year, the company announced. The dealership was founded in 1968 by Bill and Janey Heishman, and it has been family-owned and operated ever since.
“We are so proud to be celebrating our 55th year in business,” said LCC Powersports owner, Jeff Heishman. “We are grateful to all of our loyal customers who have supported us over the years, and we could not have achieved this milestone without them.”
To celebrate its 55th anniversary, LCC Powersports is offering a variety of special promotions and discounts. The dealership is also hosting a customer appreciation party on Saturday, May 27 from 10 am to 3 pm. The event will feature food, drinks, games, and prizes.
“We invite all of our customers to join us in celebrating our 55th anniversary,” said Heishman. “We hope to see you there!”
LCC Powersports is a multiline dealership with wide variety of motorcycles, ATVs, and side-by-sides from top brands like Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, KTM and SSR. The dealership also offers a full range of service for powersports vehicles.


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It only gets better (unless you own its stock): A Volkswagen "technology executive" back in 2006 created a PowerPoint presentation detailing how to cheat the diesel-engine emissions tests in the US that are tougher than those in Europe where diesels account for half of vehicle registrations. Volkswagen executives reportedly turned down opportunities to add more effective, full-time pollution controls because of the cost.News of the the PowerPoint backgrounder was reported by Süddeutsche Zeitung(Opens in a new window) and then The New York Times(Opens in a new window). The reports suggest VW was concerned that meeting US emissions standards would wear out the emissions gear VW used, and that more sophisticated emissions controls would make VW diesel cars even costlier than competing Hondas and Toyotas. It also says VW over time added more intelligence to the software to determined when a car was being tested, at which point VW's emissions controls were enabled.
What the PowerPoint said
News reports say the concise presentation was prepared and delivered in 2006, making Dieselgate a decade old now. It noted that US pollution laws were tougher than in Europe and it affected diesel-engine cars most heavily, particularly the limit of 0.04 grams of nitrogen oxides per kilometer. The presentation allegedly said the repetitive nature of the tests could be recognized by the car, making it possible to disable the pollution controls when the car wasn't being tested. Over time, VW recognized more telltale signs, such as that the steering wasn't constantly being moved (which it would when driven), and upgraded the onboard software to reflect that as one more sign of an emissions test.
If there's one good development, it's that the "technology executive" who made the presentation knew to to keep the PowerPoint short. The PowerPoint presentation was described as being "just a few pages." It's not clear if that piece of meeting etiquette will mitigate any of the likely damages. It should in any proceeding where jurors with business backgrounds have been subjected to long PowerPoints with small fonts and clip art that flies in, spins, and then settles into the background, making the type even harder to read.
The name of the executive who made the presentation is apparently known but hasn't been published because of European privacy laws.
More money set aside
VW must make repairs, or buy back, about 500,000 diesel engine vehicles sold in the US beginning with the 2009 model year. It also includes VW's subsidiary companies Audi and Porsche.
Volkswagen has now set aside $18 billion to pay for repairs, buybacks, and goodwill payments. VW's market cap, or the total value of the company (stock price times number of shares of stock in existence), is just under $70 billion. So the set-aside currently amounts to a quarter of VW's total value and the stock market quickly -- often in anticipation of mixed news -- already has that figured into the stock price.It's reported VW will make $5,000 goodwill payments on top of the necessary repairs. That's a decent chunk of change: a three-year Golf hatchback with a diesel engine is worth about $15,000 used, so the payout effectively increases that car's value by a third. It may be that buying a VW diesel turns out to be a good investment. It's unclear if an owner can take VW's cash payment and refuse to make the free repairs, which may reduce the car's mileage, although on the highway even the reduced-mpg VW should still get in the forties. It may depend on whether each owner's car passes the pollution levels set while the car is standing still at a motor vehicle garage or at a favored repair shop.


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KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Restaurants are expanding or adding takeout and delivery service to try and counter losses from state coronavirus restrictions.
Kazoopy’s Pizza and Grinders on West Main Street in Kalamazoo is making more delivery drivers available for an anticipated increase in demand.
According to General Manager Scott Strawhun, the business is already well equipped to handle takeout service since a state order is restricting people from eating at the restaurant. His delivery business has increased since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer put the order in place.
“We think about our friends that own the dine-in restaurants and surely we want to grow our business and do the best we can but not at the expense of someone else, so it’s mixed emotions,” Strawhun said.
Kalamazoo Downtown Partnership has also set up 16 spots in the central business district for curbside pickup in an attempt to help local restaurants.
Bobby Donelson, a sales consultant with Van Eerden Foodservice, says there is no shortage of food. The company based in Grand Rapids supplies food to Kazoopy’s, along with many other restaurants and stores.
“The restaurants are going to be throwing food away and donating it out to the schools and to the missions,” Donelson said. “We planned for all this sit-down business that is gonna take a hit this week until we adjust.”
He is encouraging people to get carryout food or delivery from their favorite restaurants and says dine-in restaurants will have to adapt during this time.
“If they don’t have takeout already, they need to find a takeout meal replacement type menu that they can continue to provide,” Donelson said. “That’s going to be the saving grace because people will still be looking for and need food.”
Grubhub driver Dan Wilkinson expects to be busier because of the need for more deliveries during the coronavirus pandemic.
“They have something called ‘no contact delivery’ where I can leave the food at the door and then just let the person know that it’s there, so they can come out and get it,” Wilkinson said.
He is hoping deliveries and takeout can reduce layoffs at restaurants that primarily focus on dine-in service.
“If you can still order, it’s still keeping business coming from the restaurants,” Wilkinson said.


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Box Office collections of the film likely to be affected as full HD print can be downloaded free
The Hush Post: Irrfan Khan’s latest movie Blackmail has got leaked online and its full HD print can be downloaded free. The film trade pundits fear that it may affect the box office collection of the new movie.
A full HD print of the Hindi movie Blackmail has been leaked online by some pirated sites for users to watch it on internet or download for free, International Business Times reported on Sunday.
Within just a couple of days of its release, Blackmail film has already become a victim of piracy. Pirated prints of the full movie have been made available online with even HD quality, the report said.
It is reported that some of the illegal sites are providing options of watching the full movie online, and some others sites are giving free download option also. The Irrfan Khan starrer has got positive reviews from the film critics, but the movie had a slow start at the box office with just Rs 2.81 crore on Friday.
But the movie recorded a good growth in its business on its second day, earning Rs 3.85 crore at the domestic market. The dark comedy enjoyed a growth of 37 per cent on Saturday in the collection, report said.
Now, the news about the full movie getting leaked online is likely to affect its box office collection. Piracy has been a major problem for Bollywood, but the menace has apparently grown more in recent past. Almost all the Bollywood films get leaked online just a few days after the release. In some rare cases, films are hit by piracy even before the official release.
Blackmail has a storyline about a husband, who finds his wife having an affair with another man. He decides to blackmail his wife and the other man, without revealing his identity. It has been directed by Abhinay Deo.


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Yet, Meyer wasn’t the only restaurateur making news on this front. The foodie news outlet, Eater, reported two Bay Area restaurants would be returning to a traditional tip-based model - citing stiff competition for quality servers – after experimenting with a tipless system.
So is tip-free dining on the way out of vogue in the Bay Area? A new article argues the tipless model is actually beginning to trickle down from fine dining establishments to more casual restaurants, and a number of newly opened restaurants in San Francisco have launched without tips.
At Zazie in Cole Valley, owner Jennifer Piallat eliminated tipping in favor of 25 percent increase to menu prices and giving a portion of sales to her staff in the form of a salary. While Piallat reports her servers weren’t initially thrilled at the idea of paying more in taxes, her transparent system has led to a growing acceptance.
Everyone sees what everyone else makes. There’s no shadiness about it.
In Bernal Heights the owners of the Old Bus Tavern launched with a menu that already includes service and tax in the prices with the hope of creating a more equitable distribution of wages at their restaurant.
The back of the house is traditionally underpaid. This is an opportunity to balances things and ensure they’re being fairly compensated.
Finally, Sessions at the Presidio recently opened using a tip-free model. For partners Evin Gelleri and Michael Bilger, the decision was based on a goal of addressing what they see as the restaurant industry’s “two-class system.”
This is something we really believe in as a matter of principle. And not just in terms of protecting our employees; we also really feel it’s the most fair thing for our guests.
While all three restaurants reported some required finessing with staff and customers, it seems likely more and more restaurant owners will continue to experiment with finding an alternative way to fairly compensate both the front and back of the house employees.


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Quality Mill Supply Co., which was started in 1944 and operates five locations in Indiana, is the fourth Indiana business to be acquired by Martin Supply or its parent company in the past three years.
Chicken tenders chain Slim Chickens planning at least 5 restaurants in central Indiana
Slim Chickens, which offers a menu that includes chicken tenders, wings, sandwiches, wraps, chicken and waffles, and salads, has about 150 restaurants in at least 29 states, plus the United Kingdom and Kuwait.Read More
Field to Fork will be Indiana-focused market in downtown Franklin
Husband-and-wife air traffic controllers plan to sell meat, dairy and eggs in a building previously occupied by an antique store.Read More
The offices of Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard, Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness, Noblesville Mayor Chris Jensen and Westfield Mayor Andy Cook either declined to say whether they were running again in 2023 or didn’t respond to inquiries.
With the increasing resurgence of vinyl sales, Electric Key Records has grown into a full-fledged business of its own in a downtown Franklin storefront at 65 E. Jefferson St.
Amazon plans to add hundreds of jobs at the facility, including receiving, sorting and shipping, and network logistics support.
Daechang, which makes seating components for Kia, Hyundai and Subaru, established its North American headquarters in Indianapolis in 2017. The Franklin facility would be its second local site.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Climate Control Inc., which has operated in Franklin since the 1990s, will cease production next month. Mitsubishi has a turbocharger business in the same facility that will continue to operate.
Magnolia Boutique—known for its bohemian style built around casual, trendy clothing, shoes and accessories—is an online-only business on track to hit $10.5 million in sales this year, up from $7.9 million in 2019.
The interruption in downtown convention business caused the closure. Also this week: Studio C, Tandoor & Tikka, Peppy Grill, The Fudge Kettle, 21st Amendment Wine & Spirits.
Officials at Otterbein Franklin SeniorLife Community say a nurse and therapist also tested positive and are recovering at home.
Franklin College on Monday named Kerry Prather as president. Prather was appointed acting president effective Jan. 14 after the school fired President Thomas Minar, who faces three criminal charges related to child solicitation.
Energizer Manufacturing Inc. is seeking tax breaks from the city of Franklin in return for opening a $62.7 million packaging and distribution center in Franklin Tech Park, just east of Interstate 65 and south of State Road 44.
The utility, with more than 300,000 customers in central Indiana, announced a settlement agreement Tuesday with consumer groups.
The investor group behind Tap & Axe, which includes the founder of craft-focused Hoosier Brewing Co., expects to spend more than $500,000 in the end to buy and renovate its 109-year-old downtown location.
Franklin's redevelopment commission reached an agreement last week to spend $850,000 to buy a key piece of land and relocate two businesses for the project.
The groups say the EPA’s handling of the site formerly used by electronics manufacturer Amphenol involved “serious mismanagement.”
Here’s a rundown of some of the independents still pushing paperbacks, offering honest staff recommendations and otherwise keeping local lit alive.
Its $1.5 million investment is expected to help B2S Life Sciences more than double its staff and grow its client base, which includes contract research groups, pharmaceutical firms and biotech startups.


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The Dutch Caribbean island of Statia has officially discontinued its entry travel rules, Caribbean Journal has learned.
That means the island no longer requires pre-testing for travelers, effective May 11.
Statia, which is a short ferry or plane ride from nearby St Maarten, has also removed the requirement for travelers to fill out its EHAS health form prior to arrival.
The island is now open to both vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers, neither of whom need to test to enter Statia.
Statia has also removed local health restrictions on businesses and hospitality enterprises.
Statia is the most recent Dutch Caribbean destination to remove its travel rules, following similar moves by Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and Saba.
St Maarten still requires testing for unvaccinated travelers.
“The burden on the economy and the local health care system is the main reason that the local government drops the COVID-19 measures, combined with a low number of COVID-19 cases ,” the island’s government said in a statement.
The island has been experiencing new energy in recent years, buoyed by the recent launch of its first-ever luxury resort, the Golden Rock.
And St Maarten-based Winair also announced it would be expanding its flight service to the island, with increased demand. s
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"We recognize the contribution and support of our employees, the wider Gunsan and Jeonbuk communities and government leaders, particularly through the most recent hard period", said Kaher Kazem, president and CEO of GM Korea.
Given Barra's bold moves to streamline GM operations globally, including selling Opel in 2017 and withdrawing from the Russian market, it initially looked as though the company was preparing to call it a day in Korea.
"Time is short and everyone must move with urgency", GM President Dan Ammann told Reuters.
GM Korea operates two more auto plants in Korea, in Bupyeong west of Seoul and Changwon in South Gyeongsang Province, and employs 14,200 workers, swelling to 300,000 if subcontractors are included. Cumulative losses over the last four years stand at W3 trillion (US$1=W1,086).
Besides truncating a large portion of the factory space, GM is also taking charge of $850 million, which also includes $475 million of non-cash asset impairments and up to $375 million of primarily employee-related cash expenses. It has shut down its manufacturing operations in Australia, abandoned its retail network in India, walked out of the Russian and South African markets, and sold off its European Opel/Vauxhall subsidiary to France's PSA.
GM says the plant will close by May 2018, but is working with "key stakeholders" - including the labor union and the South Korean government - to develop a plan to turn the South Korean business around.
The Korean government, meanwhile, expressed deep regret over GM's "unilateral" decision, but said will have Korea Development Bank to work with GM to study the situation at the business. Most of the financial writedowns would be recorded by the end of the second quarter.
The firm's key officials state that the shutdown of the unit is a part of its business restructuring plan in Asia.
"The Gunsan area will take a significant blow but considering GM's management problems which lack transparency, the government has no duty to help the company", Kim Pilsu, a Professor of Daelim University College said. However, the rise in the labor costs, low demand for sedans, and high investments across automobile sector in China have hindered GM's growth prospects in the country, apparently.
According to data from the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAICA), the number of cars sold in South Korea past year was estimated at around 1.56 million units, down 2.5 percent from 2016.
The plant is located in Gunsan, 270 kilometers south of Seoul, which employs some 2,000 workers. GM Korea sold 132,377 vehicles in its home market past year while exporting roughly 390,000 vehicles to 120 global markets, according to Automotive News.
GM isn't ready to give up on Korea, however. GM owns 77 percent of the operations while GM's main Chinese partner, SAIC Motor Corp., controls 6 percent.


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Going outside never seems very tempting at this time of year, what with the constant fear of being caught in an unexpected downpour.
You’d be mad to leave the house without protection, but when you’re out running errands, grappling with an umbrella can seem like more trouble than its worth.
Enter the umbrella drone – an eccentric solution from online drone retailer DronesDirect.co.uk.
This limited edition DJI Phantom 4 drone boasts advanced tracking technology, which links to the GPS signal of a mobile phone, allowing it to track its owner’s steps.
This means the user can to walk freely, knowing they are shielded from overhead by the drone-operated umbrella.
“For those who don’t want to juggle managing an umbrella whilst carrying out their everyday tasks, then the innovative Umbrella Drone is a gadget not to be without,” said Tim Morley, business unit manager at DronesDirect.co.uk.
“Not only does it offer intelligent protection throughout the worst of Britain’s weather, but it’s a fun and advanced piece of tech too.”
The Umbrella Drone is equipped with intelligent collision avoidance technology, which will help ensure a safe flight, even in the most adverse weather conditions.
It also features a high-performance 4K rain camera, so adventurous Brits who want to embark on outdoor activities can capture the action as they go.
Predictably, this revolutionary gadget doesn’t come cheap – it will cost you a whopping £1,299 to buy from DronesDirect.co.uk.
It also only has up to 30 minutes of battery life, so you’d better hope the rain doesn’t set in.


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- The warehouse is slated to open in the Bronx neighborhood this fall.
- The center will only handle Jet deliveries, not Walmart orders, to start.
- Walmart acquired Jet.com roughly two years ago to target more urban markets and millennial shoppers.
Walmart's Jet.com is testing same-day grocery delivery in New York, as it dials up its efforts in the battle for online customers.
The retailer announced Tuesday that it will open up a fulfillment center in the Bronx for Jet.com, the e-commerce start-up it acquired roughly two years ago. The fulfillment center will serve as the base for the delivery of goods like groceries and Apple electronics.
The move comes as Walmart has been investing heavily in its online grocery business. It previously announced plans to expand its online grocery delivery service to a fleet of roughly 800 stores by the end of the year. It has also been re-outfitting its stores to support mobile and online delivery, as well as converting some of its Sam's Clubs into distribution centers for Walmart's online grocery business.
As of now, though, the Bronx warehouse will only store Jet inventory and the service will only deliver Jet goods.
For Jet and other players in the online grocery market, New York offers a relatively easy location to build out the service. The delivery of fresh food is infamously difficult, because meat, fruits and vegetables can easily spoil or get damaged en route to consumers. In dense cities like New York, though, cars can reach many people within short distances. Other services like FreshDirect have also used New York as a test market for the business, building it out from there.
To support its efforts, Jet is partnering with a delivery service Walmart acquired last year called Parcel. The company uses technology that provides customers with live updates about delivery status. It says it uses routing algorithms and a workforce to sort and load packages.
At the time of the deal, Walmart said it was testing same-day delivery of certain products in New York.
The efforts in New York will also help Jet's push to appeal to "urban millennials," a subset separate from Walmart's traditional rural or suburban shoppers. Those efforts include Walmart's private-label brand Uniquely J.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the news.


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Champion Brewing Company and Good Beer Hunting have collaborated to create Intelligence and Diligence, a beer to celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved brewer, Peter Hemings.
“Missing Ingredients — The (Incomplete) Story of Thomas Jefferson’s Unsung Brewer,” by scholar and homebrewer J. Nikol Jackson-Beckham, Ph.D., tells the story of Jefferson’s brew master Peter Hemings. Good Beer Hunting and Jackson-Beckham collaborated with Champion Brewing in Charlottesville the site of Heming’s enslavement, and Jefferson’s home at Monticello, to approximate a beer that just might evoke Hemings’ own.
“Jefferson’s records reveal that barley was not grown on either of his properties, and what recipes for beer have been recorded feature wheat-dominant grists. I imagined the cloudy, aggressively hopped beer that Hemings may have ‘spoiled,’ and wondered if perhaps he was a visionary, brewing 200 years ahead of his time,” wrote Jackson-Beckham.
“The Intelligence and Diligence brew represents another way Monticello and Charlottesville are making efforts to better understand the past and reconcile that with present realities,” said Hunter Smith, president of Champion. “We’re excited for our community to try this historic brew.”
Champion Brewing will celebrate the release of Intelligence and Diligence at a special event at 5 p.m. on February 22 at the Charlottesville Tap Room (324 Sixth Street SE).
“This event is a chance for us to celebrate an unsung brewer, raise a glass in his honor, and consider his role in Colonial brewing history as a noteworthy and exploited person possessing both intelligence and diligence,” said Good Beer Hunting’s Founder and Creative Director Michael Kiser. Printed copies of Jackson-Beckham’s article, a special release glass for the first 50 guests, and other mementos will be available at the release. The event is free to attend and open to the public.


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K-Pop idols are known for starting new fashion trends all the time, especially those that are highly influential and popular in the industry. From mullets to tech-wear to cowboy boots, there have been countless times that they’ve been able to make even questionable trends look chic and stylish!
For 2022, there has been one accessory that has been appearing on many K-Pop idols for promotions and other events, especially in the last couple of months. And that accessory is a big fluffy hat.
While there were a few idols that were ahead of their time and rocked the trend in 2021 or even earlier, super fluffy hats are definitely all the rage now, especially on young rookie idols and female idols in general!
Some of the earliest to rock the trend in 2022 were WJSN Chocome during their promotions for “Super Yuppers!”, as well as fromis_9‘s Jiwon for their “DM” era, both of which happened in January.
A couple of months later, Stray Kids‘s Han wore an ultra-fluffy hat for the group’s “MANIAC” promotions in March!
The trend went quiet for a few months after that, until IVE‘s Wonyoung reignited people’s interest with the group’s “After LIKE” era in August.
And the fluffy hat obsession really took off from there. In September, both NCT‘s Taeyong and BLACKPINK‘s Jennie brought the accessory to greater attention for their “2 Baddies” and “Shut Down” promotions respectively…
Multiple members of LE SSERAFIM — Chaewon and Yunjin — were seen wearing the fuzzy attire for the group’s “Antifragile” promotion pictures in October, as was MAMAMOO‘s Solar for “Illella”.
Finally, most recently, ITZY‘s Yeji as well as Red Velvet‘s Seulgi and Yeri are embracing the trend with the teaser images for their upcoming comebacks, CHESHIRE and The ReVe Festival 2022 – Birthday.
Since the warm accessory is perfect for the chilly autumn and winter seasons, we expect to keep seeing plenty of them in the months to come!


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TORONTO — The United States is far better equipped than Canada to withstand the use of tariffs as a “sledge hammer” in trade negotiations, even though Americans will also feel some of the pain, CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said Tuesday.
Some Americans will face higher costs on imported goods from Canada but U.S. producers will be at a smaller risk because their home market is so much bigger than ours, Shenfeld said during a panel discussion about NAFTA in Toronto.
He added that even the threat of 25 per cent tariffs on imported vehicles and auto parts — in addition to the tariffs on steel and aluminum that have already been imposed — puts a cloud over one of Canada’s biggest industries.
David Adams, president of a Canadian automotive manufacturing association, agreed that “the uncertainty effectively does the job of . . . driving more investment into the United States as the safe harbour.”
If tariffs add $6,000, $10,000 or more to the cost of a vehicle it’s going to make them uncompetitive in the U.S. market, he said.
The Trump administration has used Section 232 of the National Security Act to justify imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, including from Canada. Trump also ordered the Commerce Department to investigate whether imported cars, trucks and automotive parts were a threat to national security under the same act.
However, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross suggested to a U.S. Senate committee last week that the tariffs on Canada and Mexico had more to do with NAFTA negotiations than national security.
“Our objective is to have a revitalized NAFTA, a NAFTA that helps America and, as part of that, the 232s would logically go away, both as it relates to Canada and as to Mexico,” Ross testified on June 20.
Ross also announced that his department’s Bureau of Industry and Security had begun processing requests for exclusions to the steel tariffs, for products that aren’t available domestically and aren’t deemed a threat to national security.
At the time, requests from seven companies with a total of 42 products had been granted exemptions while the department had denied requests from 11 companies that submitted 56 products for review.
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Sling TV's Orange and Blue plans will now cost $35 per month individually, or $50 per month for the joint package, according to a release from the TV streaming service on Wednesday. That's $5 extra a month above the price increase in December 2019.
TV channel prices climbed too. If you're a new Orange or Blue customer, Sports Extra will increase to $11 per month. Those who've already subscribed to the bundle will continue to pay $15 per month. Sling's "Extra" packages like comedy, kids and news now cost $6 per month -- an increase of $1. The company's Total TV Deal now costs $21 for new customers ($1 extra), and subscribers who bundle will pay $27 per month ($2 extra).
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"Unfortunately, we are forced to raise prices because the television networks keep charging us more, but we fight hard to get the best deal for our customers," Michael Schwimmer, Sling TV Group President said in a release Wednesday.
Sling might smooth over the $5 extra per month with its offer of 50 hours of free DVR storage for all customers and 200 hours of DVR storage for DVR Plus subscribers. Sling's Orange and Blue customers also get a free preview of the "4 Extras Deal" until Feb. 15, which includes kids, news, lifestyle and comedy channels. Afterward, it's $12 per month.


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UK: Glenglassaugh Distillery joins Scotch Whisky Association
The Glenglassaugh Distillery Company has become a member of the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA).
The Glenglassaugh Distillery near Portsoy, Aberdeenshire was recently acquired by European investment house the Scaent Group and work is currently underway to re-open the facility for production later this year.
"At Glenglassaugh we believe that we have a unique opportunity to breathe life back into a hidden gem," said Glenglassaugh managing director Stuart Nickerson today (7 July). "The SWA is of vital importance to the whisky industry and we recognise the part they play in ensuring that brands like ours become part of Scotland's future whisky heritage."
Glenglassaugh, led by Nickerson, has recruited a new team including former manager Graham Eunson as distillery manager and whisky expert Ian Buxton as marketing consultant.
SWA spokesman David Williamson said: "That Scotch Whisky is to be distilled again at Glenglassaugh is good news for the industry. We are delighted Stuart and his team are going to play their part at industry level and welcome them as the SWA's 54th member company."
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Turmoil in China and worst-ever year-opening week for the stock market has prompted investment houses to advise clients to pare back risk.
The robust rebound in existing homes sales in December had everything to do with this.
Morgan Stanley chief James Gorman also tells CNBC he'd be surprised if the Fed didn't make more rate hikes this year.
After more than 100 years of selling cars, GM is giving car-sharing a spin with a new service targeting the growing mobility-on-demand market.
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BJ's, which has 189 warehouse clubs
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At the heart of the civil investigation, which began as part of a broad look at the toy industry, is whether Toys `R' Us violated antitrust laws by telling manufacturers like Mattel and Hasbro that it would not buy their products unless they refused to sell to warehouse clubs
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By the time the Tesla P100D becomes the world’s quickest, mass-produced sedan in September, the EV maker’s 8.0 software update will potentially allow semi-autonomous driving over even more miles of a long-distance road trip. According to insiders to Electrek, the upgrade includes improved Autopilot that can handle interstate interchanges without driver intervention. Tesla’s latest over-the-air update should go out to Model S and Model X owners soon.
According to these anonymous sources, the Autopilot upgrade in the 8.0 software suite means a driver just needs to flick the turn signal indicator when merging from one freeway to another. When approaching the exit, the system would automatically download more precise maps that tell the vehicle where to go. The front-facing camera and radar would observe for any safety issues, and Autosteer would keep the model on the road.
The Tesla 8.0 software will reportedly include some of the biggest updates yet for Autopilot, including the ability to autonomously exit the highway. The code will also likely improve the front sensors’ traffic awareness and make Autosteer smoother. Interface updates will also give drivers a better idea about the location of surrounding traffic.
Beyond Autopilot, version 8.0 will also allegedly include upgrades to the infotainment system’s voice recognition and navigation. After receiving a command, the tech will now reportedly display it on the screen. Drivers will also be able to select whether to avoid toll roads or pick other alternative routes.
Autopilot will get an even bigger update in the future with version 2.0. Rather than just new software, there will be new sensors that will reportedly include a total of three forward-facing cameras and more radar units at the corners. Elon Musk hints that laser detection isn’t part of the new suite because the combination of radar and special code can have the same effect. The upgrades should make Autopilot safely possible on even more roads by giving the tech an even perspective on the road ahead.
After the bad press from the fatal accident by a driver using Autopilot, Tesla needs to be ready for intense scrutiny of any upgrades to the tech. Although according to Musk, the people who own the company’s vehicles still love the semi-autonomous system.


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2015 promises to be an exciting year for digital marketing across APAC. In ever timely fashion, the comprehensive We Are Social Annual Report confirms this potential, highlighting robust growth for social, digital and mobile in the region over the coming 12 months.
As we saw in 2014, rising mobile adoption is increasingly THE dominant regional consumer trend. With more than 3.7 billion mobile phone connections, it comes almost as a surprise that only 22% of Asian consumers make use of mobile social services like WhatsApp or WeChat. Prepare for big increases – 2015, the year of mobile squared? Continue reading APAC Social and Mobile Usage to Surge in 2015


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Elon Musk put an end to the controversy
Opposition to in app tax system
Let us tell you that earlier Elon Musk had expressed his displeasure with Google and Apple. He had said that both these app stores have opposed the 30 percent tax on app purchases. Elon Musk had called such tax systems unnecessary. Google and Apple earn huge money from these app purchase systems. But app creators were opposing such policies for a long time.
The app earns one million dollars every year
At present, if a user pays through the app for Twitter Blue subscription, then he will have to pay 30 percent of $ 8 to Google and Apple. If Elon is to be believed, do you know that Apple charges 30 percent tax on everything you buy from the App Store! Due to which Apple earns $ 1 million annually.


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More than 700 jobs are reportedly at risk as poultry giant 2 Sisters Food Group is proposing to close a chicken factory. The business said its Llangefni poultry processing operation lacked space and was "not sustainable".
The Llangefni site which was bought in 2013 is one of its smallest and products could be made more efficiently elsewhere. Despite the firm - which is one of Britain's largest food producers and has offices around the country including in Willand - investing £5m at the site, the company said the old building would need significant investment to bring it up to the same standard as its other operations, WalesOnline reports.
The company is owned by Boparan Holdings, run by multi-millionaires Ranjit Singh Boparan - who known as the "Chicken King" - and Baljinder Kaur Boparan. The company statement said: "The cost to produce here is higher, and it would require significant investment to bring it up to the standards of our other factories.
"Our products can be made more efficiently elsewhere across our estate. Therefore our proposal is to cease operations at the factory, putting the site at risk of closure."
If closed, a total of 730 jobs would be lost. However, the company said that it would speak with employees to explore the options before making final decisions on closure.
"Clearly this will be extremely disappointing news for our Llangefni colleagues, and it is no reflection of their continuing hard work and commitment," it said. "However, we have a duty to remain competitive and protect our wider business on which many thousands of people depend."
Headquartered in Birmingham, 2 Sisters has operations across the West Midlands as well as its factory in north Wales, supplying poultry, biscuits and baked goods to a range of firms and supermarkets. The company said it had reviewed its UK poultry division to overcome "challenges facing the food manufacturing sector".
Latest accounts on Companies House showed that the group had made a £95.5m loss to July 31 2021. The group's gross profit margin had reduced from 8.8% to 6.4% due to soaring production costs in energy, feed and labour alongside the worst-ever avian flu outbreak.
In a recent interview with The Grocer, chief executive Ronald Kers said: "Whenever you lose tens of millions of pounds in revenue, that has an influence on any business, large or small. Many businesses (across the whole of the food sector) are now in a very precarious position and the worst is yet to come."
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Small Business Saturday is Nov. 25. The day is a counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday and was originally sponsored by American Express, which ran an extensive advertising campaign in advance of the first Small Business Saturday in 2010.
Locally owned businesses in the Truckee Meadows are promoting this year’s Small Business Saturday on social media. Events and sales are planned at retailers in midtown, inside the Basement and on Dickerson Road. See this week’s feature story on page 11 for a holiday gift guide featuring local businesses and artists.


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In May, Ford announced that it would boost its planned EV investment, including battery development, to $30 billion by 2030. Now Ford North America COO Lisa Drake says the company expects to be spending more on electrified vehicles than it does on fossil vehicles by 2023.
“In 2023…we’ll spend more on EVs than we will on ICE,” Drake told the Detroit News. “We’ve been over the moon about the success of Mach-E, and the F-150 Lightning, by bringing in over 70% new customers to the Ford brand. What that allows us to do is, now we have an opportunity not only to lead on our ICE business, but also in the EV space with F-150. So our aspirations are high.”
Ford’s strategy of electrifying its most popular nameplates seems to be working well.
“The demand for our first round of high-volume EVs clearly has exceeded our most optimistic projections,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told Wall Street analysts, adding that the company has received over 120,000 non-binding reservations for the F-150 Lightning, approximately 75% of those from customers of other auto brands.
Rival GM has not been idle—it said earlier this year that it is already investing more in the development of electric and autonomous vehicles than in legacy powertrains. In June, GM announced plans to have a zero-emissions lineup by 2035. The latest word from Ford is that it expects to electrify 40% of its global lineup by 2030.
Shortly after Ford’s announcement about 2023 EV investment, Ford joined its fellow Detroit automakers and the United Auto Workers union in an event at the White House to announce the Biden administration’s revised emissions standards. The Big Three announced a goal of 40% to 50% electrified vehicle sales by 2030—but made it clear that even this timid target would be conditional on receiving substantial subsidies from the government.
“We’re going to rely a lot on some of the infrastructure policies and the administration’s aspiration to make this a bit more ubiquitous. We can’t do it alone,” Lisa Drake recently told a Barclays analyst. “We’re very excited to see some of the bipartisan work that’s happening in Washington right now, because it’s going to be necessary to help us.”
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Fee (SFC), alongside the native Police pressure, has issued a warning relating to a fraudulent entity posing as cryptocurrency change MEXC. The imposter is allegedly deceiving potential traders and siphoning funds.
In a latest assertion, the SFC highlighted it’s collaborating with the police in a joint operation as a part of its broader efforts to observe and examine digital asset buying and selling suppliers (VATPs) participating in illicit actions.
The regulator alleged that the fraudulent entity working below MEXC is tricking traders into depositing funds into its checking account for supposed investments, solely to search out difficulties when trying to withdraw the funds later.
“On these discussion groups, victims inquisitive about shopping for cryptocurrencies had been referred to web sites operated by MEXC. Victims had been then requested to deposit funds into designated financial institution accounts for funding functions however after that they reported difficulties with fund withdrawal.”
Moreover, the SFC recognized eight web sites suspected to be related to the fraudulent entity. All of those web sites comprise MEXC of their domains, corresponding to “mexczx.icu” and “mexczx.co.”
“The general public ought to beware of internet sites with comparable domains which can be constantly created by MEXC,” the assertion notes.
In September 2023, the SFC mentioned it could publish a listing of licensed, deemed licensed, closed down and application-pending VATPs to assist the general public determine probably unregulated VATPs in Hong Kong.
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This comes amid rising scrutiny over the enforcement selections made by the precise MEXC change in latest instances.
In December 2023, Cointelegraph reported that MEXC allegedly froze a number of merchants’ accounts and seized their funds. The change claims the actions had been motivated by “irregular buying and selling actions.”
On X, the pseudonymous dealer Vida even alleged that he misplaced $92,000 in Tether (USDT) tokens, following income from a number of latest trades over 15 days in MEXC’s futures market.
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One of the best known brands in the international meetings and events industry could be up for sale.
Starwood Hotels, owner of the St. Regis and Sheraton hotel brands,
has hired Lazard to “explore a full range of strategic and financial
alternatives” to increase shareholder value.
The group has revealed a sharp drop in first-quarter
profits. For the three months to end of March, revenue fell 2.9 per cent to US$1.4bn
from the same period a year before. However net income tumbled by nearly 28 per
cent to US$99m, or 58 cents per diluted shares as the stronger dollar ate into
its overseas earnings.
Starwood warned that it could take a US$45m hit on its full
year earnings for this year if exchange rates stay at current levels. It
expects the challenging currency situation to reduce second-quarter earnings by
Earlier this year, Starwood announced plans to spin-off its
timeshare business into a separate publicly traded company as part of its
so-called “asset-light strategy”.
Some analysts saw the move as a bid to make the business a
cleaner takeover target.
Starwood said that it has just started the strategic review
and will not be making further comments until the review has been completed.
The company said: “No option is off the table, and we will
take the time we need to thoroughly evaluate our opportunities and achieve the
best result for our shareholders, business partners, and associates.”
Shares in hotel group jumped nearly 8 per cent in pre-market
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A woman unleashed a racist rant at a business owner in a Kroger parking lot in Houston, Texas, and the incident was captured on video.
The owner of a Vietnamese restaurant identified as "Sammi" told ABC13 that when she went outside her business to investigate a commotion, she encountered the woman.
In the video, the woman, who is pushing a shopping cart, yells, "Get out of our country!" in addition to other profanities.
"You!" the woman yells. "Get out of the United States, you ugly [expletive]."
Speaking to ABC 13, Sammi said business is down 80 percent, making the insults extra hurtful.
"It's already a tough time for us small business owners," she said. "We're suffering. I think they need to be more educated. There's all kinds of people. You can't be doing that, if you have any common sense, you can't treat people that way. It's just mean."
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Memfault Wins IoT Tech Trailblazer Award
San Francisco, CA, December 6, 2022
Memfault, the provider of the first IoT reliability platform, has won the IoT Trailblazer category in the 2022 Tech Trailblazers Awards.
The Tech Trailblazers Awards are the first independent global awards program dedicated to the enterprise technology startup ecosystem. Shortlists for each of the 15 tech categories are chosen by a panel of leading IT industry experts, and winners are identified by a combination of judging panel opinions and a public vote. Memfault’s win was revealed during the Tech Trailblazer virtual award ceremony on December 1, 2022.
Rose Ross, Chief Trailblazer and Founder of The Tech Trailblazers Awards, said, “Congratulations to our 2022 Tech Trailblazers! This is our 11th edition which gives us 10 years to look back and see how our winners have benefitted from the exposure and credibility that an award from industry judges can bring. There have been some truly amazing entries this year and they have well and truly earned their place in the Tech Trailblazers Hall of Fame. We’ll be keeping an eye on how these innovations continue to blaze a trail in 2023.”
Memfault is the first IoT reliability platform that empowers developers to build robust IoT devices with software at scale. Memfault applies device reliability engineering (DRE) techniques to transform how developers build and operate IoT and edge devices. Customers across healthcare, consumer wearables, smart home, smart industry, and other industries rely on Memfault for a scalable and sustainable process to accelerate go-to-market, de-risk product launches, cut product costs, and deliver superior products.
“We are honored to have won the IoT category of the Tech Trailblazer awards,” said François Baldassari, Co-founder & CEO, Memfault. ”Winning in a competitive category after evaluation by industry experts and practitioners validates our commitment to improving IoT device development.”
Memfault is the first IoT reliability platform that empowers teams to build robust devices with software at scale. Memfault applies device reliability engineering (DRE) techniques to transform the way developers build and operate IoT and edge devices. As IoT applications continue to grow in complexity, it is more important than ever for developers to integrate Memfault’s performance monitoring, debugging, and OTA update capabilities into their devices. Memfault was built to enable developers with a more scalable and sustainable process to accelerate go-to-market, de-risk product launches, cut product costs, and deliver overall superior products. The company was founded by engineers with decades of experience from Fitbit, Oculus, and Pebble. Memfault is backed by Uncork Capital, Partech, S28 Capital, and Y Combinator.
About the Tech Trailblazers Awards
Founded in 2012, the Tech Trailblazers Awards was the first independent awards program dedicated to enterprise information technology startups, helping identify the most innovative companies and concepts in a range of categories. Entrants from anywhere in the world are invited to nominate themselves, with shortlists for each category chosen by the Tech Trailblazers’ panel of leading IT industry experts. Winners are identified by a combination of judging panel opinions and public vote.


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Electric three wheeler retail sales increased 343 percent YoY and 15 percent MoM in June 2022
Electric vehicles, be it two wheeler or three wheeler, are the future of mobility in India. There are also a number of electric passenger vehicles that are noting increased demand with more automakers jumping into the fray. Electric vehicle registrations in June 2022, driven by 2W, 3W and PVs accounted for 90.40 percent of total registrations in the month.
The pandemic situation in the country saw an increase in on-line shopping that led to a phenomenal growth in demand for last mile delivery solutions that has in turn led to growth in demand in electric three wheelers in India.
EV registrations in June 2022 were driven by electric two-wheelers and passenger-type electric three-wheelers, which together accounted for 90.40 per cent of total registrations in the month. Three wheeler electric passenger and cargo vehicle segment accounted for total retail sales of 26,910 units in June 2022, up 343 percent YoY over 6,072 units sold in June 2021. It was also a 15 percent MoM growth from 23,316 units sold in May 2022.
Electric Three Wheeler Retail Sales June 2022
YC Electric Vehicle led the segment with 2,385 units sold in the past month, up 342 percent YoY over 539 units sold in June 2021. It was also a 17 percent MoM growth from 2,045 units sold in May 2022. YC Electric currently has Yatri, Deluxe, eLoader and YC in its lineup.
At No. 2 was Mahindra Electric Mobility with 2,227 unit retail sales in June 2022, up 458 percent over 399 units sold in June 2021. The company also experienced a 17 percent MoM growth from 1,900 units sold in May 2022. In the electric three-wheeler segment, Mahindra offers cargo models such as Treo Zor and e-Alfa Cargo, and passenger models that include the likes of Treo, Yaari and e-Alfa Mini. Saera Electric Auto followed with retail sales of 1,435 units in June 2022. This was a 386 percent YoY growth over 295 units sold in June 2021 and a 5 percent MoM growth from 1,367 units sold in May 2022.
|No||Electric Three Wheeler Sales||June 2022||June 2021||May 2022|
|1||YC Electric Vehicle||2,385||539||2,045|
|3||Saera Electric Auto PVT LTD||1,435||295||1,367|
|4||Champion Poly Plast||1,088||269||940|
|6||Dilli Elecric Auto PVT LTD||1,018||192||1,019|
|7||Mini Metro EV L.L.P||936||121||752|
|8||SKS Trade India PVT LTD||545||78||421|
|9||Terra Motors India PVT LTD||532||77||546|
|10||E Royce Motors India PVT LTD||505||–||2|
|11||J.S. Auto (P) LTD||487||133||496|
|12||Lectrix EV PVT LTD||482||22||326|
|13||Energy Electric Vehicles||454||131||423|
|14||Thukral Electric Bikes PVT LTD||451||113||408|
|15||Best Way Agencies PVT LTD||443||170||542|
|16||Vani Electric Vehicles PVT LTD||408||130||476|
|17||Allfine Industries PVT LTD||388||103||442|
|18||Speego Vehicles Co PVT LTD||371||84||268|
|21||Bright Autozone PVT LTD||316||103||306|
|22||Piaggio Vehicles PVT LTD||307||71||396|
|23||Hotage Corporation India||291||37||241|
|25||Star Bull E Motors||251||16||170|
|26||Maa Shakti Exim PVT LTD||246||53||180|
|28||Om Balajee Automobile||221||53||160|
|29||Kinetic Green Energy||215||40||123|
|30||Hooghly Motors PVT LTD||211||40||121|
|31||Others (Below 200)||8,513||2,419||7,471|
At No. 4 was Champion PolyPlast with 1,088 unit retail sales in the past month, up 304 percent YoY from 269 units sold in June 2021. The company also reported a 16 percent MoM growth from 940 units sold in May 2022. YoY and MoM retail sales growth in terms of three wheeler retails was also experienced by Unique International. Sales stood at 1,034 units in June 2022 as against 155 units sold in June 2021 relating to a 567 percent growth. MoM sales improved 34 percent over 770 units sold in May 2022.
Dilli Electric, Mini Metro, SKS Trade India
Dilli Electric retail sales improved 430 percent on a YoY basis to 1,018 units up from 192 units sold in June 2021. MoM sales growth remained flat with 1,019 units sold in May 2022. Mini Metro saw a 674 percent YoY growth to 936 units, up from 121 electric three wheeler sold in June 2022 while MoM sales growth was at 24 percent from 752 units sold in May 2022.
The list also included SKS Trade (545 units), Terra Motors (532 units), E Royce (505 units), JS Auto (487 units) and Lectrix EV (482 units) retail sales in June 2022. Of these electric three wheeler makers, it was Lectrix EV that posted the highest YoY growth of 2091 percent.
Energy Electric retail sales were at 454 units while Thukral sold 451 units in the past month. Bestway (443 units), Vani (408 units), Allfine (388 units) and Speego (371 units) were also lower down on the list along with Daksh (326 units), Khalsa (325 units) and Bright Autozone (316 units). Other electric three wheeler makers such as Bright, Piaggio, Hotage and GK Rickshaw also posted significant YoY growth though some experienced a dip in MoM retail sales.


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Justice for the fans! The House of Lords have put forward rules to tighten the law on ticket touts. It’s time to make a stand.
Liverpool’s Echo Arena glows like a shiny blue beacon over the Albert Dock. It’s Kings Of Leon playing. The fans pile into the foyer in their masses, escaping the drizzle of a miserable Saturday night. Merchandise and pints are snatched up by waves of eager buyers. But a pint of Carlsberg is £5.50. The spilt beer makes the floor sticky under-foot. Upon wandering into the auditorium, there arrives the smell of sweat and the growing hum of the crowd.
Soon enough, the 11,000 capacity building reaches bursting point with impatient people; the heat rises, people occupy their uncomfortable standing spaces, and the lights dim. Nobody normally minds the expensive pints or marching through the rain when a ticket costs £40 or so. But when people have paid up to £523 for a touted ticket, it makes for a very bitter-sweet occasion.
Karen Knight is someone who was ripped off for her tickets to a Kings of Leon gig at Hyde Park this June. But what was it that happened to Karen? Karen explained that Kings of Leon “are my son’s favourite band so I was desperate to get him tickets for his birthday… I had never heard of Viagogo but I thought it was a legitimate site. It said that tickets were selling out fast, and desperate to get the tickets I proceeded to checkout. I was fuming that two tickets cost me £235.”
With the rise in secondary ticket sites, selling tickets at inflated prices has become a commonplace in the online world. The half a billion pound industry that is ticket touting caused the resale of £5000 tickets to an Ed Sheeran charity gig in February, as well as £25,000 Adele tickets last year
– more than 100 times the face value!
“It was only once I had entered all my card details and proceeded that I realised I had been charged a £50 booking fee and VAT on top! I really wasn’t expecting to pay that much!” Admitted Karen with much frustration.
The December 2015 issue of ‘Which?’ Magazine exposed the online scandal by pointing the finger of blame at secondary ticketing websites such as Viagogo and Seatwave. These sites had been found to have suspicious ticket release patterns and to have been ignoring ticket release restrictions. However, the ‘Which?’ investigation was simply brushed under the carpet, and the scandal persists.
One person who knows all too well about ticket touters is Adam Scholey, ticketing software administrator for BH Live. “[I’m] often contacted by customers of secondary market sites whose concerns include misplaced outrage that we as the venue feel happy to charge upwards of £400 per ticket” said Adam from BH Live. “Touting is a very frustrating scenario” stated Adam, “it is nigh-on impossible for us to enforce prohibitive measures.”
So it is that real action needs to take place. Adam Scholey believes that an extension of the Ticket Touting Order, 2007 needs to be extended to cover live entertainment. Whilst that hasn’t happened yet, 2017 was kicked off by the House of Lords putting forward amendments to the Digital Economy Bill – aimed to stop the touts! The changes to the bill included jail sentences of up to a year. More recently, fines have been changed from £5000 to being unlimited for using ‘Bots’ to obtain large numbers of tickets. Ministers are expected to accept the suggestions made by Professor Michael Waterson in his report, which includes strengthening consumer rights laws. Now we have progress!
There’s also further progress being made, and that’s Twickets; a platform where fans can obtain tickets for only the face value price. “The event organiser has set the price for a specific reason…there should not be the opportunity for anyone to price others out of seeing a show” said Charlotte Peart, a Twickets spokesperson. But Charlotte thinks that even more needs to be done. Charlotte said, “There should be greater enforcement of existing legislation which forces sellers to state who they are.”
I have a strict rule…Never by a ticket off a tout”
Music fans share the same opinions of those in the ticketing industry. Kelly Gaffney, is a music fan in the true sense. Why? She’s the founder of ‘Foo Fighters UK’, one of the largest online Foo fan communities. “I have a strict rule…Never by a ticket off a tout” said Kelly passionately. Kelly reckons that “This worldwide issue will only be resolved by all parts of the entertainment industry coming together.” Kelly has a point, and whilst steps are being made by politicians and websites, zero-touting is still a long shot.
It’s hard to think of Karen, sat at home waiting for her E-ticket to arrive, whilst she remains angry and confused that she had been conned. But overshadowing Karen and her son’s excitement of their upcoming concert is the money they gave up to go. For now, it seems that the corrupt ticket touting machine will go on – and fans will pay the price.


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By mid-March, Bricktown Brewery will be settled into its third location, previously a Garfields eatery, on Kickapoo Street in Shawnee, just off I-40.
The new locale will be exteriorly similar to the downtown Oklahoma City restaurant, said Marilyn Ruggles, vice president of marketing for the Edmond-based Enduring Brands.
You will see brick, and when you walk in, youll know that its a Bricktown Brewery, she said.
Enduring Brands has been looking to expand Bricktown Brewery, Ruggles said, and Shawnee seemed like the perfect mesh for the companys concept of catering to young professionals and local families.
Enduring Brands hopes this new restaurant and brewery becomes an integral part of the community. It will add roughly 50 jobs to the Shawnee area, Ruggles said.
The new location will feature even more beer than the Bricktown original, featuring at least 15 taps and 35 different bottles, according to Ruggles.
She said she is confident that the restaurant will be well-received in the Pottawatomie County town.
Anywhere you put a restaurant with good food, friendly service and a wide variety of beer, that is just a successful formula, Ruggles said.


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In the cost-conscious 1990s, small businesses are finding innovative ways to cut back on expenses, and many are turning to switchless resellers for their phone service.
Because these resellers do not own switching hardware or networks that they have to spend money to maintain and because they don't have hefty advertising costs, they can buy huge amounts of time from the "Big Three"-AT&T, Sprint and MCI-and resell it at a discount.
William Rodi, president of Telecom One, which has offices in Oak Brook, Milwaukee and the Washington, D.C., area, says resellers can help customers cut their current phone bills by 15 to 20 percent, with no sacrifice in quality (your calls are routed over the same phone lines that the Big Three use) and often with free additional services, such as more detailed billing.
Understandably, the Big Three and the resellers have a sort of love-hate relationship with each other. "We're their biggest customers, but their salespeople don't like us very much," Rodi explains.
"The big companies don't abuse their small-business customers, but they are more likely to concentrate on servicing large corporations such as Sears and General Motors," he adds.
The Roy Houff Co., a wholesale floral business, has been using Telecom One's services for about six years.
"At first we kept our service with AT&T at a couple of our offices, but then we saw the savings and eventually changed over completely," owner Roy Houff says.
"We have four offices in Illinois, three in Virginia and one in Georgia. We have several fax machines and do a lot of international calling. Our monthly phone bills are about $20,000, which is about 13 or 14 cents per minute. (Some Big Three plans charge about 20 cents a minute during business hours, though rates and plan terms can vary widely.)
"Our bills are broken down telling us how much time is spent on each phone. We have 60 salespeople, so that's very helpful. Also, we now pay per six-second intervals, so I can call California for a few seconds and it's actually cheaper than calling Chicago."
Although most resellers focus on marketing their services to small and medium-size businesses, some are branching out into the residential market.
Jonathan Rubin, senior vice president of Trans National Communications in Boston, says his company is one of the few in the country that started reselling phone service with the goal of targeting the residential market.
"We don't advertise, so we can pass the savings on to the customer. We market directly to members of not-for-profit organizations, but we also sell to any residential customer across the country," Rubin says.
"We can save our customers from 5 percent to 40 percent on their bills, depending on where and when they call."
Rubin says there are only a handful of switchless resellers doing business with residential customers.
"The profit is based on the size of the bill, and since the average household spends only about $20 to $30 per month on long distance, the reseller has to operate very efficiently. It's a much more difficult business."
Matrix Telecom, a Ft. Worth-based company, is another reseller specializing in the residential market. According to company president Dennis Miga, Matrix discounts AT&T's rates by a minimum of 10 percent.
"We can give discounts to even the smallest long-distance customer," he says. "We started up about four years ago and now have 230,000 billing customers (and have customers) in every state except Alaska."
The history of switchless resellers dates to the breakup of AT&T in 1984. When resellers first entered the market, many were accused of shady business practices.
Initially, entrepreneurs were drawn to the idea of reselling because it did not require a major capital expenditure.
"It attracted people without telecommunications backgrounds, and this is a much more complex business than the fly-by-nighters realized," says Bill Capraro, Jr., chief executive officer of CIMCO, a switchless reseller based in Oakbrook Terrace.
"After a while, the industry started policing itself, helped by the Telecommunications Resellers Association (established in 1992). Now people entering this field aren't expecting to make a fast buck overnight," he adds.
Capraro says his firm handles telemanagement for midsize businesses. He sees the services provided by a reseller as analogous to those provided by a travel agent.
"When the airline industry was deregulated in the 1970s, fares became more complicated. Travel agents could get to know their customers and provide a variety of services. That's what has happened in the telecommunications industry, too," he says.
This summer, the Telecommunications Research and Action Center (P.O. Box 12038, Washington, D.C. 20005; 202-462-2520) expects to publish a survey comparing various resellers' rates with the discount calling plans available from the Big Three.
According to industry experts, when considering the purchase of service from a switchless reseller, look for:


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The fintech companies appear to be worried, courtesy the reports of the impending entry of Jio Financials in the market. An anxious lot of digital lending startups and their investors are said to be watching from the sidelines as Jio Financial Services gets demerged from Reliance Industries. What is worrying fintech players is Reliance Group’s wide reach and its deep pocket.
The company’s entry both in retail and telecom segments led to a disruption in these spaces. If the Jio Financials follows the same playbook, it means it will try to take the services to the masses, multiple industry insiders told Economic Times (ET). Reliance Jio changed India’s telecom industry forever with its entry in September 2016. The company announced unlimited 4G data for its customers under its ‘Welcome Offer’, Since then there has been no looking back, and India continues to have one of the lowest internet data rates globally.
It seems to be a wait and watch for most fintech startups as of now. For, none of the fintech founders and investors that ET spoke to went on record, given that Jio itself has not made its business plans public. They are in a wait-and-watch mode, but nervousness is reported to be quite palpable in the sector.
RIL-Jio Financial demerger
Reliance has announced the demerger of its financial services business into Reliance Strategic Investments as part of its group restructuring. The spun-off entity has been renamed Jio Financial Services, which will be listed soon. The demerger of the financial services business involves a spin-off of Reliance Industries’ 6.1% treasury shares.


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Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s petrochemical company Sabik has seen a 33% increase in profits. The company also won the Best Environmental, Social and Governance Award at the Saudi Capital Market Awards in 2021.
According to the Saudi website, Saudi petrochemical company Sabik reported a 33% increase in first quarter profits, with sales increasing by 40% to 53 billion riyals.
According to the Saudi Stock Exchange filing, profits rose to 6.47 billion riyals in the last quarter from 4.9 billion riyals in the same quarter a year ago.
The company attributed the strong results to higher average sales prices, a 3% increase on a quarterly basis, as well as an increase in sales volume.
Youssef Al-Banyan, CEO of SABIC, said that the results of SABIC’s first quarter have been strong due to continued demand for our products, high oil prices and our diversified global portfolio.
He said that in 2022, SABIC will always focus on maintaining its strong balance sheet, achieving its growth strategy, operational flexibility and fulfilling its environmental, social and governance commitments.
In significant developments this quarter, SABIC announced the successful launch of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, a global manufacturing facility in San Patricio County Texas.
SABIC has also completed the purchase of a 50% stake in Clarinet in Scientific Design, a leading catalyst producer and licensor of high-performance process technologies.
Sabik also won the Best Environmental, Social and Governance Award at the 2021 Saudi Capital Market Awards.


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- Toyota showed Glimpse of the new generation of Toyota Land Cruiser before its global introduction.
- The new generation will be completely renewed inside and out.
- You will likely get two V6 engines: 3.3 litre diesel 306 PS, 414 PS 3.5 litre turbo petrol.
- It is expected to be launched in India in 2022, possibly as an all-imported model as before.
New Generation Toyota Land Cruiser Global unveil on June 9
Jun 2, 2021
The new generation Toyota Land Cruiser will be offered with V6 petrol and diesel engines.


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Euclid police: man uses stolen credit card for shopping spree
Published: Mar. 21, 2023 at 1:10 PM EDT
EUCLID, Ohio (WOIO) - Euclid police are looking for man they say used a stolen credit card to buy gas, food and other items.
The credit card was reported lost at a Euclid convenience store on Lake Shore Boulevard, according to police.
Officials say the stolen card was used by the man pictured, who used it in Euclid.
Gas, food and other items from a Drug Mart were all bought with the card, police say.
If you can identify this suspect, you can anonymously report him through Crime Stoppers or call the Euclid Detective Bureau at 216-289-8505 and reference report #23-01203.
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As the worst behaviors of startups and tech companies continue making news, it becomes more important than ever to think about how we build products and companies that are humane and ethical. Anil Dash will discuss how the stakes are even higher than we think, and what it takes to build companies that are worthy of the trust that our customers and communities invest in us.
Anil Dash is an entrepreneur and activist known as one of the most prominent advocates for a more inclusive and ethical technology industry. He is CEO of Fog Creek Software, the creators of Glitch, the friendly community that helps anyone make the app of their dreams.
Dash was an advisor to the Obama White House’s Office of Digital Strategy, and serves as a board member for Stack Overflow, the Data & Society Research Institute, the NY Tech Alliance, and the Lower East Side Girls Club. The New Yorker described Dash as a “”blogging pioneer”” for his Webby-recognized personal website which began in 1999, and for his early work in helping create some of the first blogging and social media publishing tools. Time named @anildash one of the best accounts on Twitter, and it is the only account ever retweeted by both Bill Gates and Prince, a succinct encapsulation of Dash’s interests.
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On Wednesday Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) announced that it was reducing production hours for higher-priced Model S and Model X cars, just days after saying it would cut jobs as the electric carmaker looks to make more affordable versions of the Model 3 sedan.
Direct competitor Nikola Motors CEO Trevo Milton took to social media and offered to aid any Tesla workers who have been laid off by connecting them to his companies human resource office.
Nikola Motor Company is a pioneer in electric heavy duty applications. Nikola offers both pure electric and also hydrogen electric powertrains to cover class 6-8 in transportation.
This move is quite ironic as it was Elon Musk who called fuel cells “fool cells”.
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Blog: Barry Callebaut eyes sweeter future after sealing Petra Foods deal
Dean Best | 2 July 2013
Barry Callebaut CEO Juergen Steinemann was bullish after the B2B chocolate giant closed its acquisition of Petra Foods' cocoa ingredients arm, a deal praised on a strategic basis but questioned over its price and the recent performance of the assets taken on.
The Swiss group moved for the Petra ingredients business in December, paying US$950m for operations in some of the world's fastest-growing cocoa and chocolate markets.
Shares in Barry Callebaut fell on the day the deal was announced, not because the market disagreed with the rationale for the acquisition but questioned the price the company had agreed to pay. Barry Callebaut also said at the time the acquisition of a lower-margin business meant it would have to change a medium-term earnings target.
Since then, Petra reported a slump in annual profits in part because of excess capacity in the cocoa ingredients sector in Asia, prompting analysts to ask about the outlook for the industry in the region.
Barry Callebaut has insisted it was aware of the excess capacity in Asia and had factored that in when it swooped to buy the Petra business.
It has defended the price it paid by pointing to Petra's assets being an "excellent strategic fit" and said cost savings from the deal meant its EBIT per tonne target would be reinstated by the 2015/16 financial year.
Yesterday, Barry Callebaut emphasised the extra volume it would get from the deal in "fast-growing emerging markets" and pointed to the second "strong base" of cocoa sourcing it would attain in Asia, adding to its operations in Africa.
"The cocoa business we acquired from Petra Foods is right at the core of Barry Callebaut," Steinemann said. "Being now the largest global supplier of high-quality cocoa products, we will be able to capture opportunities in the fast-growing markets for specialty cocoa powders even better. With the successful closing of the transaction, we can start to implement what we have prepared in the last six months and focus on the integration process."
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Hong Kong’s Celestial Picture launches an online game that is the first game application developed to promote for a Chinese-language movie.
My Kingdom Game, both in English and Chinese, can be played via the Celestial website or downloaded for free from Apple’s iTunes store. Available from today, it has been developed by Shanghai-based online game developer Art Coding and is a rhythm-based game which requires players to choose one of the two rival characters and tap on a drum to match with icons on the screen to gain points.
The film itself will open in September in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Set in the 1920s, starring Wu Chun, Han Geng and Barbie Hsu, it tells a tale of two orphans growing up in Shanghai Opera troupe and turning rivalry in their quest for fame, love and revenge. The film will open in
“The gaming business is a new frontier for Celestial and our upcoming movie release created a perfect opportunity for us to launch a promotional game and target young audiences who interact with entertainment across broad media including their mobile devices,” said Ross Pollack, CEO, Celestial Pictures.
Pollack said the main reason for Celestial to step into game industry is to provide entertainment for young audience or young game users. “Our goal is to provide trans-media content.” Pollack especially pointed out that Celestial has partnered with Sina.com for its Sina Weibo service, which owns 140 million users. For mainland China players, the game has a function tied to their Sina Weibo accounts allowing their scores to be displayed on their Sina Weibo micro-blogging updates.
The next step, according to Pollack is to develop paid online games with the content of Shaw Brothers movies. Celestial owns the 760-title Shaw Brothers library and intellectual property of the films. The next online game will likely be released in 2012, Pollack said.
Earlier this year Celestial announced to hold a screenplay contest in to select new Chinese filmmakers for Shaw Brothers movie remakes. So far, the top six stories have been selected and developed into full-length scripts.
Pollack said Celestial will be the original content provider and IP owners of the new Shaw Brothers games. And for the distribution of the games in the Chinese-speaking world, Celestial see major Chinese game developers such as Tencent, Shanda Interactive as potential partners in developing the games.


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When customers read your message on paper, their brain shifts into a deeper level of engagement, one more conducive to building lasting knowledge. A number of studies have found that communication through physical media, particularly paper, is more likely to lead to knowledge retention and longevity than communication via digital media.
The folks at the Eagleman Lab took these findings further, and discovered that even paper quality makes a difference. People are more likely to recall information printed on heavy, high-quality coated paper than when it’s on low-quality paper. A week after their first impression, people still preferred the companies they read about on the high-quality paper, with name recall for those brands highest by a factor of 3:1.


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Amfeltec Corporation announced the release of the smallest watchdog timer on the market to date: the first product of the new PacketShark Product Family(TM), the Industrial 1U x1 PCIe WatchDog Timer, is in full Production.
“Amfeltec is continuing to expand its product line with our latest PacketShark Product Family(TM), which is dedicated to system monitoring and crash recovery,” says Michael Feldman, President and CTO of Amfeltec Corp. “We are targeting both IoT consumer applications and embedded applications, where systems must operate in the field without human interaction. The PacketShark family will monitor system operation and facilitate recovery in case of operation-critical disruptions, such as a system crash or a power outage.”
The 1U PCIe WatchDog Timer board can operate at industrial temperatures (-40 °C to +85°C). The board can generate a system-reset signal to restart an embedded appliance in case of a system crash or overheating.
The WatchDog Timer (P/N: SKU-091-10) requires no driver and is transparent to the O.S.
The board dimensions are 2.6” x 1.18” (65 mm x 30 mm), which makes it the smallest timer on the market. It is held securely inside a PCIe connector via Amfeltec’s PCIe Retainer (U.S. Patent #7,850,475), eliminating the need for any bracket.
The upstream connection from the timer to the motherboard is done via a male x1 PCIe connector, allowing the timer to be installed in a motherboard PCIe slot of any size.


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48% of all the money spent on mobile chips during H1 2012 went to Qualcomm
Have you ever wondered why nearly every mobile phone on the market uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips? From a logistical perspective, Qualcomm is an awesome company to deal with. They sell nearly everything you need to make a phone. The newest S4 has a pair of fast CPUs, and incredibly quick GPU, WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth support, 4G LTE of course, and there are even power management components in there too. According to new research published by Strategy Analytics, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Qualcomm captured 48% of the revenues of the smartphone chip market during the first half of 2012. The next four popular chip companies are (in order): Samsung, MediaTek, Broadcom, and Texas Instruments.
Now Samsung is a tricky company to wrap your head around. We know that Samsung sells a majority of the Android smartphones out there, but not all of them use the company’s in-house developed Exynos chips. Take the budget Galaxy Chat for example, that has a Broadcom chip inside. And the Galaxy Nexus, that uses a Texas Instruments chip. The American Galaxy S III variants, they all use Qualcomm’s chips. In other words, Samsung likes to support damn near everyone.
Looking at MediaTek, we’re a little shocked to see them ranked so high. For those who don’t know, MediaTek makes chips that are usually found in budget smartphones meant for the Chinese, Indian, and Russian markets. It’s damn near impossible to find a phone in Europe or America using a MediaTek chip because of intellectual property issues. That’s not to say MediaTek’s chips are bad; without them there wouldn’t be $100 Android phones.
The key point that Strategy Analytics wants to highlight with their report is that Intel is finally in the phone game. Sure, they captured just 0.2% of the revenues in the chip market, but you’ve got to start somewhere, right?