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Nubia Red Magic 6s Pro launch is scheduled for September 6 which is next week and ahead of the launch, the company has been teasing the smartphone. The recent video teaser they made gives a glimpse look at the design.
Now a YouTuber has managed to get his hands on the Red Magic 6s Pro ahead of the launch and the design and specifications have been revealed. The YouTuber is Zollotech and in his latest video, he unboxed the Red Magic 6s Pro and shared the content of the box.
He revealed that the phone will come in three storage variants which are “Cyborg 12GB RAM + 128GB ROM,” “Cyborg 16GB RAM + 256GB ROM,” and a “Ghost 16GB RAM + 256GB ROM.”
These are exactly the storage configurations that were revealed through leaks but 8GB RAM with up to 512GB ROM variant is still missing though. The company teased the Red Magic 6s Pro with a transparent back but the one unboxed by Zollotech have a transparent back. Instead, it has an opaque and glossy back. So, the transparent version might be exclusive to a high-end storage model or a special edition.
The version the YouTuber unboxed featured a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ along with 128GB of storage. It sports a 6.8 inch AMOLED display that has an FHD+ resolution with a 165Hz refresh rate and a maximum brightness of 700 nits.
The front panel also houses an in-display fingerprint reader as well. On the rear, the 6S Pro features a triple camera setup with a 64-megapixel primary camera, paired with an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens and another 2-megapixel sensor. As per Zollotech, the phone is powered by a massive 5,050mAh battery pack that supports 120W air cooled fast charging.
Richard is a mobile phone/tech enthusiast since he was 12 years old. He has helped over 100 people to make the best decision in buying smartphones and gadgets. Richard is also a computer science student and when not writing about tech, he is found bing watching videos or reading books.


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In Kenya, avocados are known as the 'Green Gold Mine' due to their economic importance, contributing significantly to horticultural exports. This has placed Kenya among the top avocado-producing countries globally, giving competition to nations like the United States, Mexico, and Colombia. The recent Avocado Stakeholders' Forum in Nairobi brought together various players in the industry to discuss quality standards, compliance prerequisites, and the need to include small-scale farmers who are now significant contributors to avocado production and exports.
The rise of small-scale farmers in Kenya's avocado industry has led to increased production and export potential. Different regions in Kenya, such as North Rift, Nyanza, and Western Kenya, are now focusing more on avocado farming, with experts predicting a substantial growth in production volume by the end of the year. While there are great opportunities for farmers in the avocado sector, challenges such as quality assurance, standards compliance, and sustainable practices need to be addressed to ensure continued success and competitiveness.
To capitalize on the global avocado market boom, Kenya must adhere to quality standards, inclusive policies, and collaborate with various partners to connect farmers with markets and introduce best practices and technologies for production, storage, and transportation. The growth of the avocado industry not only contributes to economic revitalization but also provides health benefits to consumers and opportunities for by-products in industries like cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Despite facing challenges such as export restrictions due to immature fruits, maintaining quality assurance and inclusive policies are essential for the industry's success and competitiveness in international markets.

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Controlling your personal debt - Money 101, Lesson 9 - Money
Americans are loaded with credit-card debt. The average American household with at least one credit card has nearly $10700 in credit-card debt, according to .
Credit Card Debt Soars as Americans Borrow Like It's 2006 ...
Sep 12, 2011 . Habits are hard to break: Just when you think you're firmly in control, you backslide again. According to CardHub.com, U.S. consumers .
Debt in America: Consumers Paying off Credit Cards - CBS News
Jul 21, 2011 . Consumers are keeping their plastic on ice, rapidly paying off their credit card debts. Credit card obligations have fallen 10% since January, .
Americans struggling with credit card debt still slow to forgive lenders
6 days ago . Debtmerica - Millions of Americans are still working to find debt relief and get out from under the burdens of the credit missteps they may have .
Credit card debt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The average U.S. college graduate begins his or her post-college days with more than $2000 in credit card debt. The median credit card debt in America is .


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Apple TV+ to debut November 1, fetch $4.99 per month
Apple's new subscription VoD service, called Apple TV+, will debut in more than 100 countries on November 1 and start at $4.99 per month.
To help prime the pump, a free year of Apple TV+ will be included with the purchase of any new iPhone, Mac or Apple TV box, company CEO Tim Cook announced Tuesday at the company's new products event.
Cook said an initial slate of original shows will debut on Apple TV+ on November 1, with more added to the mix every month. Those on tap early on include The Morning Show, Dickinson, See, For All Mankind and The Elephant Queen, among others.
Apple is going inside and outside its own ecosystem to distribute the ad-free Apple TV+. The service will be offered on the Apple TV app for iPhones, iPads, Apple TV boxes, the iPod Touch, Macs and on web browsers at tv.apple.com, as well as via "select" Samsung smart TVs. Plans are also underway to offer the Apple TV App on Amazon Fire TV devices, LG smart TVs, Sony and Vizio platforms and on Roku players and Roku TVs.
Under a "family" subscription model, up to six family members can share one Apple TV+ subscription.
The pricing and launch date for Apple TV+ arrive almost six months after Apple announced plans for the SVoD offering.
Initial pricing on Apple TV+ is about $5 less than some analysts were expecting. Apple was possibly forced into the initial price on Apple TV+ given that Disney will hawk Disney+, an SVoD service featuring content from Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars and other Disney-owned properties and franchises that will launch on November 12, for $6.99 per month.
WarnerMedia has not announced pricing on HBO Max, a new SVoD service that will feature content from HBO, Turner and other WarnerMedia properties. However, HBO Max will reportedly cost a little more than HBO Now, which currently sells for $14.99 per month.
Apple has not pinpointed how much it will spend on original programming for Apple TV+, but The Financial Times reported recently that Apple has set aside about $6 billion for original TV shows and movies over an undetermined amount of time. By comparison, Netflix is expected to spend $9.2 billion on programming for 2019 with Amazon spending $5.8 billion, according to recent estimates from MoffettNathanson.
Apple is reportedly to introduce a new generation of the Apple TV box. Light Reading will update the story as those details emerge.
Update: Nope, Apple did not announce a version of Apple TV to succeed the current-gen, 4K-capable box introduced in the fall of 2017.
- Apple Eyes $9.99 Price for Apple TV+ – Report
- Retooled Apple TV App Debuts in 100+ Countries
- Apple Flips On 'Channels,' Teases Subscription Streaming Service
- Deal Pushes ViacomCBS Past Netflix in Programming Spend
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TT Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications, today announced the latest series in its Green Thick-Film chip portfolio – the GBCN, a thick-film chip array that is completely free of Pb (lead) and its compounds.
As environmental regulations become increasingly stringent, the new GBCN series deliver peace of mind through exemption-free RoHS compliance. These resistors meet growing industry demand for pull-up, pull-down, level shift and termination functions in digital circuits and compact analogue circuits found in demanding equipment such as process controllers, body control modules and medical devices.
TT Electronics plc (LON:TTG) is a provider of engineered electronics applications for performance-critical applications. The Company works with customers in the industrial, medical, aerospace and defence, and transportation sectors.


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Home improvement platform
Houzz is in the early stages of raising a massive $500 million round that could value the company at more than $5 billion, per a Fortune report. The Palo Alto-based startup has raised about $213 million since it was founded in 2009, reaching unicorn status in 2014 with a $165 million funding that valued the company at $2.3 billion.
Houzz, which claims 40 million monthly active users, provides a platform that helps with home remodels and design. Users are able to browse a residential design database and receive project advice, product information and professional reviews; the site also provides a way for homeowners to connect with architects, designers and contractors. The company’s co-founders, Adi Tatarko (left) and Alon Cohen, are a married couple who moved to Silicon Valley and developed the idea for Houzz after struggling to renovate their new home.
Tatarko is a part of a small batch of women who have founded or co-founded billion-dollar-plus startups. The club also includes Julia Hartz, co-founder of
Eventbrite, and Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of
Cloudflare. All three women co-founded their companies with male partners, which is a common trend in the startup world. The majority of investments in companies with at least one female founder go to
mixed-gender founding teams, according to PitchBook data.
Houzz joins a growing list of unicorns that are
opting to raise fresh funds rather than go public.
Qualtrics are among the notable companies that have secured big rounds at high valuations in recent months, signaling their intent to remain private for the time being.


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Canopy Growth enters into supply and production agreement with Newfoundland & Labrador
Dec. 8, 2017, St. John's - Canopy Growth Corporation along with representatives from the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador have announced that the Company has entered into a supply and production agreement, the largest provincial cannabis supply agreement announced to date, securing a regulated supply of cannabis for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians heading into the legal adult access market.
December 8, 2017 By Canopy Growth
Canopy Growth will supply 8,000 kg of high quality cannabis products annually for the first two years of the deal. Under the terms of the agreement, Canopy Growth will establish a new production facility in Newfoundland and Labrador capable of producing 12,000 kg per year, bringing 145 jobs in an emerging sector and major capital investment to the region. Site locations are being evaluated to house what could be the first licensed production facility in the province.
“This agreement today with an internationally recognized producer not only guarantees a safe supply of cannabis for Newfoundland and Labrador before the federally imposed July 2018 implementation date, but also results in the creation of 145 new jobs in our province,” said the Honourable Christopher Mitchelmore, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation, Newfoundland and Labrador. “We will also use this as a framework for other agreements related to cannabis supply and production. Our vision is for an industry which leads to production, job creation, supply chain development and research and development in this province.”
“Canopy’s operations will soon stretch from Coast to Coast, with locations now planned in seven provinces including Newfoundland and Labrador,” said Bruce Linton, Chairman & CEO, Canopy Growth. “Wherever we operate we look for ways to integrate ourselves into the local community to make sure we are giving back to the communities we call home.”
Canopy’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Tweed Inc. will also be eligible to apply to operate four new retail locations in the province. This would be a major milestone for Tweed, a leading brand in today’s cannabis industry. These four licences would represent the first announced privately owned and operated legal cannabis retail locations in the country. Site scouting is underway, with two locations possible on the Avalon Peninsula, one west of the Avalon Peninsula, and another at the future production site. Canopy Growth and Tweed are also seeking retail locations at their production facilities in other provinces, a common practice for breweries and wineries across Canada.
Mr. Linton continued, “The Newfoundland and Labrador retail framework will allow us to take our existing e-commerce business and well-recognized house of brands including Tweed, DNA Genetics, Leafs By Snoop, and our CraftGrow program, and present that pride and dedication in a “brick and mortar” retail environment. I want to congratulate the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador for choosing a retail model that encourages local growth and a made-at-home experience, while balancing private and public involvement.”
Tweed has a long track record of responsible cannabis sales as a medical producer and has partnered with organizations like MADD Canada and Parent Action on Drugs to ensure Canada exits prohibition in a responsible way. The Company looks forward to establishing welcoming and warm retail spaces that prioritize top-notch customer service and product education, supported by Canada’s largest cannabis production platform and a wide number of CraftGrow partnerships to bring cannabis of all forms and sizes to the people of Newfoundland & Labrador.
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Laxman Narasimhan formally took on the role of Starbucks CEO Monday, two weeks earlier than expected. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
March 20 (UPI) -- Laxman Narasimhan officially took over as CEO of Starbucks on Monday, two weeks earlier than expected and will make his first public address at the company's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday.
Narasimhan was named the new CEO last September and was originally expected to formally take over for former CEO Howard Schultz on April 1.
"I am humbled to officially step into my role as Starbucks chief executive officer, leading our incredible team of more than 450,000 green apron partners around the world," Narasimhan said in a statement Monday.
"The foundation Howard has laid -- building from scratch an iconic global brand fueled by a lasting passion to uplift humanity -- is truly remarkable, and I am honored to have the opportunity to build on this deep heritage."
Narasimhan, who worked at the health and hygiene company Reckitt, joined Starbucks in October and spent time working front-end jobs throughout the company and even earning his barista certification, the company said.
"As a human connection business, we have limitless possibilities to deliver for our partners, our customers, our investors and our communities through every cup and every connection," Narasimhan said. "I am excited to work alongside our partners worldwide to unlock the limitless future of Starbucks."
In a letter to employees released Monday, Schultz encouraged workers to "lean into one another" for support, particularly in hard times.
"I want to acknowledge that there are times when the responsibility for our partners, customers and communities around the world will feel heavy," Schultz said. "But as partners, know that you are not shouldering the responsibility alone.
"Lean into one another -- you will find support everywhere, from the boardroom to partners in plants to store managers to the newest baristas. Our partners have been teaching me for more than 40 years. They will help you all continue to earn your green apron every day."
Narasimhan takes over shortly after the company suspended a stock buyback plan and an ongoing effort to unionize individual stores.
Starbucks stores in the hometown of Seattle, along with five stores in the Buffalo, N.Y. area and Mesa, Ariz. have all voted to unionize.


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While much of the smartphone world is focused on the release of the BlackBerry Passport, Microsoft is keeping busy with the next Windows Phone preview build.
The Redmond-based company today announced availability of build 8.10.14176 of Windows Phone Preview for developers. It starts rolling out to developer preview participants today and offers various bug fixes as well as some performance improvements. The only issues rectified by 8.10.14176 that Microsoft goes into any detail on are storage bugs that cause the device to give low or no storage errors.
Users running the Developer Preview on Lumia devices will be getting the Cyan update any day now, too. Microsoft has already started the rollout and expects the entire deployment process to take a few weeks.


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The number of gyms and fitness studios in Australia has declined slightly, according to the latest report. However, Scott Johnson, senior analyst, GapMaps, pointed to a more positive longer term result.
“Despite this net decline, the sector has maintained strong growth over 12 months, with an overall net increase of 48 centres,” he said.
GapMaps’ quarterly Health & Fitness Retail Network Report tracked centre openings and closures in Australia for the three months ending 31 March, 2023.
Latest report reveals which brands are expanding
The cloud-based data intelligence platform monitored 21 brands in 3,218 locations for its Q1 report; it reveals 51 new centres opened and 57 closed.
Leading the expansion, Fitstop Australia opened nine sites while F45 opened eight centres during the three months.
However the troubled F45 business also saw the greatest number of closures – 10. Plus Fitness and EFM Health Clubs each closed seven centres.
At a state level, 18 sites opened in New South Wales while 20 were closed in Queensland.
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New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has revealed new data that shows common food packaging materials such as plastic and paper pose no threat to food safety.
The study included 74 different packaged and takeaway foods, analysing the transfer of chemicals from various food packaging types onto foods and the associated risks towards public health.
MPI Food Risk Assessment acting manager Dr Andrew Pearson said: “We then looked at the data and carried out a thorough risk assessment.
“As a result, we have found that while there were occasional cases where chemicals from food packaging materials transferred onto food, this occurred at low levels and there are no food safety risks for consumers.
“Consumers are increasingly wanting to know more about what’s in their food, so studies like this help provide consumers with assurance that what they’re eating is safe.”
He also stated that as a regulator of food safety, the ministry will continue to monitor all possible risks that may arise from food packaging and test for potential hazards in food.
MPI’s initiative is a part of the wider programme undertaken by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) agency to assess health and safety concerns regarding the use of chemicals in food packaging and the effectiveness of current regulations.
The programme concluded that no regulatory changes are required in New Zealand or Australia.


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Spotify’s Latest Marketing Campaign is Genius and Hilarious!
Spotify has kicked off a new marketing campaign that calls out users with questionable listening habits. It does so anonymously, of course.
If You Have Odd Listening Habits, You Might Turn Up in Spotify's New Marketing Campaign
Spotify has just kicked off a brand new marketing campaign that is pure genius in a lot of ways. The way it works is absolutely simple as the company is utilizing big data collected over a period of time to build things up.
Using massive billboards, Spotify is calling out users who have very, very questionable listening habits. The billboard reads out hilarious one-liners while stating the listening oddity. For example, one billboard reads: "Dear 3,749 people who streamed ‘It’s the End of the World As We Know It’ the day after the Brexit vote, Hang in there." Another one reads: "Dear person who played ‘Sorry’ 42 times on Valentine’s Day, What did you do?"
There are a ton of other one-liner like these that are worth checking out.
Spotify CMO Seth Farbman told Creativity that the idea for the data-driven campaign originated with 2015's end-of-year "Year in Music" campaign, as it transpired that data from listeners in different geographical areas provided some interesting insights. "That led to the idea of reflecting culture via listener behavior."
"There has been some debate about whether big data is muting creativity in marketing, but we have turned that on its head," he added. "For us, data inspires and gives an insight into the emotion that people are expressing."
This is the biggest marketing campaign Spotify is pulling off. But given Spotify's position in the music streaming space, 40 million strong compared to Apple's 17 million, it makes us wonder why the company even needs such a campaign. Maybe because Apple Music is a genuine threat to the Spotify? Maybe not? Who knows.
Regardless, the campaign by Spotify is quite spot on in a lot of ways. Apart from highlighting the service itself, the way how playlists and songs are highlighted in the ad are genius. Here are the countries where Spotify is currently advertising.
The campaign begins rolling out in the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany today (Nov. 28) and then to a further 10 markets (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines and Sweden). It was developed in-house by Spotify's internal creative team in New York, supported by insight from its regional teams around the world.
Let us know in the comments section what you think about this campaign.


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At the risk of coming across like your granddad getting misty-eyed over the memory of seeing moving pictures for the first time, it's difficult to describe just how exciting WipEout was when it debuted on the original PlayStation back in 1995. A mind-blowing blend of furiously fast 3D racing, the super slick art stylings of hip Sheffield studio The Designers Republic, and a fully-licensed soundtrack of certified club bangers from the likes of Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers and Orbital, it felt like the future was being beamed directly into your living room.
WipEout's popularity has waxed and waned over the years thanks to inconsistent sequels and the vagaries of fashion but the series' iconic status remains undiminished. For gamers of a certain age, the opening clarion call of the Prodigy's 'Firestarter' will always conjure up mental images of the starting grid on the original game's Altima VII track. And it spoke volumes that Sony bigwig Shawn Layden wore a WipEout T-shirt while addressing the PlayStation Nation during the PSX keynote.
That sartorial decision was taken in honour of WipEout Omega Collection, a remaster of sorts that incorporates all of the tracks from 2008's PS3 outing WipEout HD, its subsequent expansion pack, Fury, and the 2012 Vita release WipEout 2048. The devs estimate there will be over 60 courses to choose from when the game touches down on PS4 in the summer, and PS4 Pro owners will get the added benefit of 4K textures, full HDR support and a "targeted" performance of 60fps.
We got to play two of them behind closed doors at PSX. WipEout Fury's Amphesium, soundtracked by the Prodigy's thumping 'Invaders Must Die', was a pure shot of nostalgia to the heart, albeit one whose sweeping corners and vertiginous closing drop had been buffed to a beautiful modern sheen. WipEout HD's Sol 2 proved much more challenging, its vicious hairpins and barrier-free straights proving a nightmare to navigate at the insane speeds of the higher race classes.
There's still a few months' worth of polish to be applied – the collision detection needs some particularly close attention – but there's no denying it's a rush to climb into the cockpits of WipEout's anti-grav racers again. And boy does it look – and, just as importantly, feel – great.
"A lot of water has gone under the bridge," says the Omega Collection's producer Mark O'Connor when we ask why they're remastering these games now. "The original goes way back to '95 and the last releases were 2008, 2009 and 2012 – and obviously there's lots more PlayStation owners now."
Coincidentally we played the WipEout Omega Collection immediately after sampling the latest round of Sparrow racing content in Destiny's upcoming The Dawning event. As moreish as Bungie's side serving is, it only serves to emphasise both the quality of Sony's gourmet meal and also its lasting influence on gaming. Will WipEout find a new audience on PS4?
"I think so," says O'Connor. "There's a lot of people who won't have played WipEout before and there might not have been that many people who played the Vita [version], so it's a bit of old and a bit of new."
Naturally the next question is why not do a completely new WipEout game. O'Connor won't confirm rumours a VR version was tested but ultimately canned on grounds of user discomfort – although he does wryly remark if one was to exist you would need 'a sick bag'. Instead we ask if the WipEout Omega Collection could also act as a sampler to see whether gamers have an appetite for a new title?
"I think we'd be foolish not to do a new WipEout, personally," he replies. "It's synonymous with PlayStation, it's fast-paced combat racing, the Anti Gravity League is very on trend with eSports… I would hope we could do something with it because it would be cool to do a new WipEout from scratch. I would hope this will be a stepping stone to that but as it stands right now we're just getting this out for PlayStation 4 and seeing where we go."
And wherever WipEout does end up going, you can rest assured it's going to be one hell of a ride.
WipEout Omega release date: TBC
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It is almost impossible for anyone who inquires about the automotive world not to have noticed that the prices of new cars are rising more and more. And, according to some, this is just the beginning. One of these people is the CEO of the Renault Group, Luca de Meo, who interviewed by Spanish colleagues from Expansion in fact, he indicated what, according to him, the two major problems of the automotive world will be in the coming years: the ever higher prices for the public and the Chinese offensive on the European market.
The chip crisis and not only at the base of ever higher car prices and eternal waiting times
Interviewed by the Spanish economic newspaper Expansion (similar to ours Il Sole 24 Ore, ed), the CEO of the Renault Group Luca De Meo spoke about the hottest topics of recent months in the automotive world: the crisis of semiconductors, the problems concerning the production and last but not least the advance of the Chinese electric car even in the West.
The Italian manager, who has been with Renault since 1 July 2020 after his experience driving SEAT, talked about how the pandemic and its long wave of effects are still making themselves felt in the automotive world. They are not in fact only the semiconductors, or the famous chip crisis, which are slowing down the entire automotive supply chain, but the scarcity of other fundamental materials. “Even steel, gas, energy, copper, aluminum and many other materials are available on the market in small quantities. ” explains. The pandemic and the forced restrictions on the production of raw materials in fact, it led to a significant reduction in production, the effect of which is still present today. The real problem, at the moment, however, are the semi-conductors. “Given the scarcity of chips, the few that are available are placed in the most profitable models, and in the regions that give more margin. ” continues De Meo.
This means, in a nutshell, that to benefit from the higher prices are the houses and high-end models, which can thus raise prices without a decrease in demand. For example, BMW recently revised its profit forecast upwards in 2021, precisely because it was able to raise prices following this crisis. “The prices of all cars will go up even more in the next 12 months“De Meo prophesies. “Because when I go to negotiate with semiconductor suppliers, they tell me: ‘I have more customers and few chips, either you pay me more or I sell them to them. [altri competitor]’. ” We are facing the classic problem of consumerism: supply and demand. If the supply is low but the demand is always the same, or even increases, the products cost more for the producer, and therefore the price also goes up for the final customer.
The European countermeasures do not convince De Meo
The Milanese manager then expresses his perplexity at the measures taken by Europe regarding mobility. First of all, De Meo is doubtful aboutshortening of the call for sales of thermal vehicles from 2040 to 2035. “The ban only creates confusion in the customer. It is as if I were going to buy an apartment and I already knew that in 20 years they will put a subway overpass in its place: I simply would not buy it. This ban does not give us time to invest in technology in the right way, nor to make the future clearer for the consumer. If you say that combustion engines cannot be sold from 2035, all buyers will want to bring this date forward. To date, however, this is very dangerous because the infrastructures are not ready. “
“Now it’s still there uncertainty when it comes to buying a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric. We should not think in terms of bans, but go step by step to organize ourselves in the best possible way and then replace combustion cars in 2040 ”. De Meo then expresses further concerns about the European Union’s projects for the creation of semiconductor factories and make European companies independent from Asian giants. For De Meo, it is a belated move. “I recognize that we did not know how to see this problem in time,” said the CEO of Renault. “Today, however, we must have control, but I don’t know if we are capable of it, because the Asian supremacy in this sector took place in 3 decades and we will not recover it in three years.”
“Toevery bet in European societies and make up for time. For this reason we have signed an agreement with ST Microelectronics to make the electric motors of our cars by ourselves, in Europe, and not rely exclusively on external suppliers. We need to check the electronics of our next electric vehicles. ” The European project, according to De Meo, came too late. “It takes 4 or 5 years to build the factory, another 10 to reach the level of competition and between 10 and 15 billion euros in investments.”
Beware of Chinese competition: competitive car prices, technology and fast production …
The real rival to the electrification race is the China, which for decades has staked everything on precision electronics, and is now on a much higher level than the rest of the world. “If Europe becomes the continent with the largest number of electric cars”, explains de Meo. “Sara land of conquest for the Chinese. They are more competitive in electric than in thermal models. So, if we have more restrictive standards in terms of emissions and we focus more on the electric car, the Chinese will look to Europe instead of the US ”.
In fact, China includes dozens and dozens of electric models in its internal offer. These are very different cars from the preconceptions we have of Chinese cars today. Automobiles technological, avant-garde, with excellent performances and assemblies, and with really competitive selling prices. But how do they offer electric cars for so cheap? For the ability to produce best batteries on the market, and thepreferential access to raw materials that compose them: nickel, cobalt, lithium and manganese, among others.
“We need to understand if it was profitable to open a mine in Europe”, explains De Meo. “The Cobalt deposits, for example, are concentrated for 90% in Congo, and so on for other materials. In fact, in unsuspecting times, China bought the public debt from Central African countries, reaching today to have unique relations and an almost exclusive regime on certain materials. These elements are in fact refined for 90% in China, which becomes the largest producer of refined materials. From these materials, then, the batteries must be produced, on which the Chinese workforce has an extreme competence. “To produce cells in Spain at the same level as the Chinese factories” explains De Meo “it would take at least 10 years.“
The ban on thermal cars by 2035: in China they are ready, in Europe …
Luca De Meo then plays the charge and hopes to wake up the European car world, sitting too much on its laurels. “If the thermal car ban for 2035 really comes, they are ready in China. They have models, infrastructure, knowledge, manufacturing capability. In Europe, however, there is still a lot to do… “. The Group of which De Meo is CEO, the Renault Group, is one of the most virtuous in Europe. His project of democratization and diffusion of the electric car, the Renaulution, began upon his arrival just over a year ago. For more details on this topic, at the bottom of the page you will find the articles dedicated to the Nouvelle Vague Renault.
For over 10 years, Renault and Nissan have been among the largest producers of electric cars in the Old Continent. However, it is not enough. To be able to complete the transition and ensure a future for the European houses, according to De Meo there is a need for much more commitment. The risk? To see a ‘invasion of Chinese cars in Europe. Will this be the future? Will European cars become too expensive to compete? We will find out only by waiting a few years. In the meantime, however, the first models made in China are coming, and they’re not bad at all …


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Nokia Multimedia to cut up to 350 R&D jobs
Overall development for games, music, media still on track.
Nokia's Multimedia Business Group revealed yesterday that it will "streamline" global research and development activities, which means it will cut up to 250 R&D jobs in Finland and another 100 or so worldwide, company officials told the Financial Times. Nokia's goal is to cut R&D expenses down to 9-10 percent of net sales by the end of 2006. Layoffs will take place slowly over 2005, and the N-Gage producer also plans to stop development of more-specialized products, such as phone-independent cameras, music units, and image-ware necklaces. Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president of multimedia for Nokia, said the announcement does not change the company's overall multimedia plans: "While games, music and media are still in a more early development phase, we continue to see great potential also in these areas."
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The man behind Microsoft
Updated: 2010-12-20 09:45
By Wang Xing (China Daily)
A Microsoft booth at a software exhibition held in Beijing. Microsoft, entering China in 1992, promised to help China to develop its own software industry and developed its own five-year plan to keep in line with Chinese government agencies. [Photo / China Daily]
The chief research and strategy officer of the world's biggest software company has been the decision-maker for the company's China strategy for 13 of the company's 18 years in the China market.
During that period, Mundie not only completely changed the way Microsoft did business in China but also, through years of preaching, helped China to realize the importance of protecting and respecting intellectual property rights.
Under his leadership, Microsoft is also one of few foreign technology firms that gets public support from the Chinese government.
Microsoft struggled for years after entering China in 1992. Its business was a disaster for a decade because of piracy. At that time, the company fought bitterly to protect its intellectual property and sued companies for using its software illegally, although its accusations seldom received support from the courts. Its relations were strained with the government. The company changed five China general managers over a five-year period, two of whom later wrote books criticizing the company.
"From 1992 to 1998, we had a very simple view of selling our traditional products as packaged software into the massive PC market in China," said Mundie. "When I arrived I recognized that the company had no program of trying to align the evolution of our business with the evolution of the Chinese market, and particularly the stimulus and planning of the Chinese government."
Microsoft then changed its China strategy. The company promised to help China to develop its own software industry, hoping this would make China more active in protecting intellectual property rights for its own sake. The company built a research center in China, demonstrating its long-term commitment to the country.
Microsoft also developed its own five-year plan to keep in line with Chinese government agencies such as the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Over time, Microsoft intensified its efforts to report piracy and the moves received a better response from the government. In the spring of 2008, when President Hu Jintao visited the United States, his first trip was to Microsoft in Seattle.
"That was a demonstration that while we had our challenges, they recognized that we were here making a long-term investment, diversifying that investment," Mundie said.
When talking about the next 10 years of Microsoft's development plan in China, Mundie said the piracy problem is still Microsoft's biggest challenge from an economic point of view. But the new challenges arising from the company's new products and services, such as Kinect and cloud computing services, don't fit comfortably in the regulatory environment found in China.
He hopes that as Chinese regulators here understand more of the rapidly evolving global Internet scenarios and technologies, some of the obstacles will disappear.
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The National Electric Highway Coalition, a newly formed body made up of 51 investor-owned electric companies, one electric cooperative, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, announced yesterday that it will provide electric vehicle fast-charging ports along major US travel corridors by the end of 2023.
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), an association that represents all US investor-owned electric companies, yesterday announced the formation of The National Electric Highway Coalition. It’s made up of a merged Electric Highway Coalition and the Midwest Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Collaboration, and also now includes additional electric companies.
Current coalition member companies collectively serve nearly 120 million US electric customers across 47 states and the District of Columbia.
EEI estimates that the US will need more than 100,000 EV fast-charging ports, a more than tenfold increase over today, to support the nearly 22 million EVs projected to be on US roads in 2030.
EEI president Tom Kuhn said:
With the formation of the National Electric Highway Coalition, we are committed to investing in and providing the charging infrastructure necessary to facilitate electric vehicle growth and to helping alleviate any remaining customer range anxiety.
The coalition has not yet stated how many fast-charging stations they will install, or specifically where they will install them, and its role in expanding the charging networks could take many forms, as E&E News points out:
Power companies may concentrate on extending high-voltage connections to existing or new charging locations along highway routes, such as convenience stores, gas stations, or auto dealers. The charging units could be provided by private charging companies.
In other cases, utilities may invest in complete charging station locations where there isn’t a customer available for hosting…
President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill has earmarked $7.5 billion for charging networks. E&E News continues:
Biden’s plan includes a goal of 500,000 EV charging stations by 2030, when the administration hopes that half of annual vehicle sales will be electric. According to the administration’s plan, $5 billion will go to states for EV chargers. The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Program will get $2.5 billion to support EV stations and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas infrastructure.
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“That’s the big push–having people understand that [Virtual Reality] is something that can help with wellness,” ASLMU’s Vice President of Student Wellness Bailey Woinarowicz said, as she enthusiastically explains her fascination with both health and technology. Her passion has inspired the launch of a new Virtual Reality (VR) headset in the FitWell Center this past April, but the headset begins to gain traction this year.
Located on the first floor of the Burns Recreation Center, this Meta VR Headset includes a painting application in which students can simulate painting in a virtual environment. The application includes various forms of paint, such as spray paint, paint balloons, and more. Students may sign up online for a 15 minute session.
After the VR Headset launched in April, little marketing was done for the new resource, and fewer and fewer students signed up to utilize it. As ASLMU has now pushed for increased use, six students have signed up to utilize the headset this week alone.
“Most people know what VR is, but they don’t know VR in the sense of this particular benefit,” Woinarowicz said.
Woinarowicz was first inspired to bring VR to LMU through her summer 2022 internship. She interned for the Children’s Hospital of Orange County through the Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute. During an extended reality (XR) event, the tech company MaestroSPC Games brought their version of VR to the hospital, introducing her to the idea of VR for wellness.
“At the XR event, [the company] said they did this study where they brought in different VR headsets for NICU nurses, and the study found that even for five minutes during their shift 85% of the nurses felt they were less stressed and less anxious during their shift,” Woinarowicz said.
Woinarowicz then pitched the idea of implementing VR into the LMU campus for wellness and alleviating stress. She first thought to partner with MaestroSPC Games itself, bringing the CEO into her pitch meeting with LMU Administration.
“All of the administrators in that room got to try the VR headset and thought it was really cool,” Woinarowicz said. “Ultimately everyone thought it was a great idea, but the money was a big issue.”
As a solution, Woinarowicz instead decided to implement a Meta VR Headset. Meta ultimately cost less than MaestroSPC Games and provided more application options for students.
“We thought let’s just try buying a Meta headset, research the apps that we can purchase, and see how that goes,” Woinarowicz said. “Honestly that’s the route we took, and I think it works better because we have more options for students to do more engaging games. There’s a student who works in FitWell who is now in charge of researching new games we can add to the headset.”
Senior Johnnes Kromminga was introduced to the VR headset through a friend in ASLMU and was immediately intrigued. Kromminga was unfamiliar with VR technology, but decided to sign up regardless.
“It was a lot more like a game than I realized,” Kromminga said. “Getting the hang of the controls in the alternate reality was kind of a game in itself, which made it more fun than I expected.”
Despite Kromminga’s initial apprehension, he found that the simulation not only improved his wellness, but provided a sort of escape from the stressful environment of college.
“What stood out to me was that after I took it off and was back in the real world, that was when I really noticed the wellness aspect of it,” Kromminga said. “I didn’t really realize how immersive it was until it was done.”
After students utilize the headset, they are then asked to complete a survey detailing their experience, which is sent directly to Woinarowicz. “They all say they kind of forget what they are doing or forget where they are–that’s the whole point of it,” Woinarowicz said. “It removes you from the stressful environment of college.”
Sign up to use the VR headset at https://calendly.com/d/2t5-x6s-7xf/vr-wellness-initiative-sign-ups?month=2023-08


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The latest Shadow Fall trailer showcases Vektan City in glorious detail.
Unpaid intern realises he deserved a real wage
Guerilla Games will be at home on the PS4 with an exclusive launch title
The Helghast head to PS Vita
Guerilla Games lining up a triple-threat of Killzone games
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Wow air just announced a massive 50 percent off Christmas seat sale
Got any plans between now and March?
Of course you don't - there's very little happening this month, what else would you be doing other than popping off to Iceland or North America for a bit for a fare that's honesty dirt cheap you may as well, like.
Be a shame not to.
Wow air announced their class 50 percent off Christmas sale today so you can either get yourself a sneaky return flight between now and March, or get someone you love an unbelievable Christmas present.
The 50 percent off deal includes a number of unreal destinations including North America and Iceland at a range of different times over the next few months.
However, it is only available from today, Wednesday, 12 December until midnight on Sunday, 16 December using the promo code WOWXMAS, so you'd want to sort yourself out if you'r planning on heading off anywhere.
Svanhvít Fridriksdóttir, Director of Communications at WOW air, said:
“We want to give our Irish customers some festive cheer this Christmas by offering them discounted fares for travel to Iceland and North America.
"Christmas can be a hectic time, so what better way to unwind from the madness than by treating yourself or someone else to a 2019 getaway?”
You can check if your specific destination of choice is included in the deal here.


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Santana is outselling the Backstreet Boys on the Internet
When it comes to pushing CDs on the Web, the new kids on the block can't compete
In what bizarre alternate universe would the Moody Blues, Eric Clapton, and Santana outsell both Ricky Martin AND Britney Spears? Try the Web. This spring, Billboard magazine began publishing an Internet sales chart that tracks what’s hot and what’s not at sites like virginmega.com, checkout.com, and CDnow.com. The most recent standings: Eric Clapton’s ”Blues” album, which is a lowly No. 132 on the traditional Billboard 200, is sitting pretty at No. 10, while Britney Spears’ ”…Baby One More Time” (No. 6 on the Top 200) is barely clinging to No. 20. ”An older-age profile is shopping with us, and what we’re selling is quite distinct from what our stores are selling,” says Virgin Megastore Online president Glen Ward, who explains that everything from big artists’ back catalogs to ”obscure blues albums” are flying off the virtual shelves.
What gives? Baby boomers who may be intimidated by that snotty high school sales clerk and the blaring rap music at the mall seem to like the peace and quiet of shopping over the Net. And while teens want the new Christina Aguilera album the day it hits stores, grown-ups can wait the week or so a disc may take to reach their mailboxes. Or course, it doesn’t hurt that most old fogies have plenty of credit cards, the key to online-shopping bliss.
So does this mean that the online whims of yuppies may soon erase the teenybopper bands’ status as the Mighty Rulers of the Charts? Not exactly. ”Internet sales still make up a really small portion of overall sales,” says Billboard’s Director of Charts Geoff Mayfield, who points out that an album’s Net take rarely accounts for more than ”a fraction of one percent” of its national sales. For a No. 1 Internet hit, for example, this often means just 1,000 to 2,000 records sold online per week. Still, these measly stats should grow dramatically: Internet research company Jupiter Communications estimates that by 2003, online purchases will make up 14 percent of total music sales.
Until then, the good news is that bands whose albums can’t crack the Billboard 200 still have a shot at No. 1 on the Web listing. Mayfield says an up-and-coming band willing to do online promotions such as contests and interviews could actually boost sales enough to chart their album. Fan sites that spread the word don’t hurt, either. One example: Liquid Tension Experiment (a progressive metal band) never appeared in the Billboard 200 but made it to No. 8 on the Internet list. ”Not to take anything away from the accomplishment, but getting onto the Internet chart is a lot easier to do,” says Mayfield. Who knows, now maybe even Motley Crue can have another hit record.


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There is a temptation for company owners and managers to cut corners, not react to quality risks and in some cases actually send out product that is known to be contaminated.
It appears that this temptation was too great for the Parnell Brothers in Georgia, USA. They owned and ran the Peanut Corporation of America. Some of their products were contaminated with salmonella which resulted in thousands being sick and contributed to the reported deaths of 9 people.
The result of their attitude to food safety has resulted in a life prison sentence for the CEO, 17.5 years for his brother, a peanut broker, and up to 10 years for the quality manager.
The full article in Food Safety News provides more detail.
Having well developed food safety plans, together with well rehearsed plans for recalls if pathogens are detected must be part of a food companies mode of operation.
Ignoring these procedures and plans risks not only the lives of the customers but the existence of the companies and the freedom of the managers and owners of food processing companies! While quality systems are costly, it has been shown time and time again that providing high quality products that are fit for purpose, meet industry regulations and customer expectations sell well, are profitable and do not meet with customer backlash due to disappointed consumers.


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Here’s Why Sony is Cutting Jobs
Staff at the company’s headquarters will be cut by a fifth. A factory in Japan devoted to the manufacturing of camera lenses and mobile phones will be closed. A further 2,000 workers will be let go in Europe and 1,800 workers will leave the company along with the chemical business Sony sold to a state-run bank in Japan.
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Sony, the maker of PlayStation and Bravia televisions, expects the cuts to save 30 billion yen a year, or $378.6 million.
Earlier in the year, Sony announced plans to cut approximately 10,000 jobs in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, as the company works to stem losses in televisions and other consumer electronics.
“Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai, who took the helm in April, has pledged to revive the once-stellar brand by bolstering gaming, digital imaging and mobile devices as well as by nurturing new business such as medical devices,” reported Reuters.
However, shares have fallen by 42 percent since Hirai took office.
According to Seeking Alpha, the S&P’s decision to downgrade the company’s long-term debt rating to BBB, two levels above junk, should come as no surprise. The company was once able to leverage its brand to get a premium pricing for its electronics, but Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), as the publication wrote in a recent article, is the only company able to sell computers for more than $1000 in the current market.
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After decades of discussing the merits and pitfalls of turning Queen Street into a pedestrian mall, council agreed, during a special meeting called last Friday morning, to a pilot project that prohibits vehicles on the main drag from King Street to Victoria Street.
But Monday, Lord Mayor Betty Disero and interim CAO Sheldon Randall, using the authority delegated to them to make decisions on behalf of council during the state of emergency, overturned some of the details approved by council.
The first day of the trial period was to be Canada Day, and then was to continue on weekends and holidays, until the end of October, as approved by council, voting on a motion put forward by Coun. Clare Cameron, which also called for the streets to be closed from 10 a.m. Saturday to Sunday at midnight.
But after hearing from business owners, and meeting with Niagara-on-the-Lake Chamber of Commerce representatives, the decision was made to shorten the hours for closing the street.
Instead the pilot project is now only for Canada Day and three weekends in July, and will extend a little further, past the Victoria Street intersection to the Post Office, stopping before the Hendriks valu-mart parking lot.
The timing was also changed, to close the streets Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Shortening the closure, Disero said, to cover just the time stores are open, will have less of an impact on residents, who are subjected to increased traffic in their Old Town neighbourhood.
The details now correspond to the request made Friday by chamber president Eduardo Lafforgue, and Kim Gauld of the Heritage Merchants Group, who were both surprised, as were some councillors, by Cameron’s motion to extend the pilot program until the end of October.
Gauld, who with her husband Scott owns The Sunset Grill, represents a group of about 40 downtown businesses, and also sits on the chamber board.
They stressed they want the street closed for safety and health reasons, allowing room for pedestrians to adhere to physical distancing guidelines, instead of crowding on the sidewalks during busy weekends.
“Safety and health are paramount for residents and visitors,” said Lafforgue. “It’s essential to promote that we are a safe playground.”
Lafforgue was asking for a trial period of three weekends, and regular evaluations with chamber and town representatives to see if the street closure is working, and to allow for adjustments if necessary.
The results of the evaluations, with input from residents and businesses, will allow for adjustments, and a decision as to whether to continue the closures during the summer and into the fall, said Disero Monday, after the announcement of the change in details. That allows for data to be collected in time for a decision to be made on how to proceed when council meets on July 20.
At Friday’s meeting, Lafforgue explained he is not planning on offering festival-like entertainment such as music or buskers, as during other street closures. His goal is to keep the centre of the street empty for pedestrians. He suggested following the protocol used for the chamber’s annual Peach Celebration, which closes off the street for a day in August, or the Icewine Festival that shuts it down for several days in January. The chamber already has the logistics worked out from previous years, and could handle the closure easily and quickly, he said, with just eight steps that are followed every year for those two events.
He told councillors the chamber will notify residents who will be affected by traffic and parking on nearby streets, as it has done before other street closures.
Gauld told councillors that after several zoom meetings with retailers and restaurant owners, and three surveys, 90 per cent indicated they are in favour of some form of Queen Street closure, with a “compelling” desire to try something new.
She suggested using surveys at the end of each week to ask business owners if the street closure helped them to feel safer, if their customers felt safer, and if it helped their businesses.
“Then we can decide how we improve and move forward. The big thing is how to make everyone feel safe.”
On busy weekends in town, she said, “residents and visitors are saying they don’t feel safe.”
Supporting the request for street closure at the virtual council meeting was Tim Jennings, executive director of the Shaw Festival, who is also a chamber board member and part of the Town’s rapid response task force.
With the festival closed and hotels empty, the downtown merchants need all the support they can get, Jennings said, encouraging the Town to try anything, even at the risk of failure, that might help Queen Street merchants.
Although the closure will be modelled on festival street closures, exactly how it will be managed “is to be determined as part of the test,” Jennings said, reminding councillors that “this situation is not normal.”
There was also a discussion about allowing retailers to move out onto the street, into parking spaces, as the restaurants are doing with their patios. It would encourage shoppers while also giving them space for physical distancing, said Gauld, adding there is a small number of retailers who have expressed interest in doing that.
Coun. Gary Burroughs said he could recall retailers moving their merchandise out on to the sidewalk during the Peach Celebration. If they want to expand their space on weekends when the road is closed, they can use the sidewalk in front of their shop and allow pedestrians to use the road. Otherwise, he said, “I think we’re opening up all sorts of things that we shouldn’t be.”
Although council agreed to the street closures, there was no decision made to allow merchants to move outside, said Disero.
Other issues that have come up repeatedly in recent years during debates about creating a pedestrian mall on Queen Street were also discussed Friday, including the loss of parking spaces and parking revenue, and cutting off delivery to stores.
Most stores and restaurants receive deliveries from trucks which stop in the middle of the street while they unload, but the majority of deliveries are Monday to Friday, said Gauld. She suggested trucks could make deliveries on weekends, if necessary, in the morning and evening.
While there were numbers given for revenue that would be lost from parking, Burroughs pointed out it would likely be more a matter of vehicles using other spaces further away, not necessarily reducing revenue.
Lafforgue, asked about encouraging visitors to wear masks by Coun. Norm Arsenault, said the chamber, through its website and answering outside blogs, will be reminding people planning to come to town about physical distancing. Wearing a mask “is absolutely essential. We’re encouraging everyone to do it.”
Coun. Erwin Wiens asked about merchants who lose revenue during street closures for other events, including Hendrik’s valu-mart.
Jennings said there could be adjustments made after the first weekend, if necessary. “It isn’t going to be a perfectly fair situation, and there is no way to make it a perfect situation,” he added. Instead of making “perfect the enemy of the good,” he said, “in terms of moving this forward, I would try, evaluate and adjust.”
“We would not be able to satisfy everybody,” Lafforgue agreed, “but we need to try.”
Coun. Erwin Wiens mentioned other details that had not been discussed, such as third-party insurance, and who would shoulder the costs of closing down the street.
“I would like to see what’s best for residents and businesses. I don’t want to be an impediment to them, I want to be an asset.” But before he could support the request, he would want to see an operational plan from the chamber that lays out more of the details on who takes responsibility for what, and where the money is coming from, he said.
Disero said she walked along Queen Street last week with her clipboard, accompanied by Coun. Allan Bisback, to ask merchants their opinions on street closure.
They received a very mixed response from retailers and restaurant owners, she said, with 28 saying yes to trial closure on weekends, and 19 saying no, a different result than Gauld’s surveys.
She asked business owners, not property owners, she explained, and not all of those she spoke to are familiar with Survey Monkey.
“A couple were impartial, anticipating COVID is going to kill their business anyway,” she said. They are anxious, they don’t know what to do, and some are saying, “just do what the Town thinks is best.”
Some of those she spoke to asked not to be identified, “begging not to say who they are.” They’re afraid of repercussions if they say no to street closure, she said.
Bisback agreed he heard a mixed response as well. “There is a real feeling of anxiety, from retailers and folks who have been here 25 to 30 years.” He got the impression a few shops will close, and also that visitors are day-trippers, not here to shop.
Council also discussed another proposal put forward by staff, to block off parking spaces to allow for pedestrians, but leave the street open for traffic. It included closing a small portion of Regent and Victoria Streets, but not Queen Street.
Coun. Wendy Cheropita, who represents the Town on the chamber board, asked why council would look at other options, “when the majority of businesses have asked us to look at street closure.”
After further dialogue between the chamber and merchants, “I think they understand the situation a little better. They came to council this morning because this is what the majority of merchants want,” she said. “Better we do something than do nothing. Closing parts of Regent and Victoria doesn’t help a lot of merchants.”
On the motion put forward by Cameron, councillors agreed to close the street from King to Victoria Streets Canada Day, every weekend from 10 a.m. Saturday to Sunday at midnight, until Oct. 31, and on statutory holidays until then.
Cameron said she felt it would be “simpler to go all in” for four months, and easier to communicate, but as a test pilot would allow for adjustments to be made, including the potential for cancelling it.
She also called for town staff to create an operational plan laying out responsibilities and costs.
Lafforgue and Gauld both said after the meeting that Cameron’s motion for the pilot project to extend through October took them by surprise.
Lafforgue says he is pleased that the message to visitors will be that NOTL is safe, and not so crowded that there is no room for physical distancing.
“We need to save Queen Street,” he says. “We’re losing who we are, and it won’t come back easily. Imagine this town without Queen Street, without the restaurants, without the Shaw — unfortunately, it might happen. Whatever we can do to help, we should be doing it.”
Gauld, who was happily busy Friday evening with a new Sunrise Grill patio created out of two parking spaces, said it was good to be open and back in business, hopefully on the way to a season of recovery.
She is also pleased with the pilot program for road closure. It allows for physical distancing, and adjustment to make it work for everyone, which is what they were hoping for.
“It’s got to be good for everybody,” she says. “But the number one issue is safety. If pedestrians have the space, they’ll try to spread out. And if we give them that ability, most people will be respectful.”


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Boon Of Plastic Bag Ban
How effective, really, are the “save the environment” campaigns that we hear everywhere from Ring Road to Facebook to the ads in movie theatres before previews? Do we really pay attention? Maybe it’s time for a big victory on the part of the environmental enthusiasts to get the rest of us to wake up and force us to take action. And in one way, that’s exactly what has happened.
With the arrival of the new year, Los Angeles has enacted a ban on giving out free plastic bags in grocery stores. Large grocery stores are prohibited by law from giving them out, which leaves shoppers with the options of either using reusable grocery bags or else paying a dime for each plastic bag they get from the grocery store.
This is remarkable, for if the grocery stores really discontinue carrying plastic grocery bags, this policy will have to be enforced and effective. Unless there is major resistance on the part of the people, this policy really could be effective in cutting down on Los Angeles’ unnecessary spending to produce plastic bags, and also the harmful environmental effects produced by stray plastic bags, particularly to the ocean and ocean life.
Will people actually protest this? Well, it is Los Angeles (California, at that), meaning a lot of people are used to convenience. On the other hand, paying a dime per paper bag isn’t that inconvenient to a large sector of LA residents. But really, what could be more convenient than keeping a few reusable shopping bags in your trunk? Most people in Los Angeles travel by car, anyway.
As for other uses of plastic bags, like using them as trash bags or for storage, people will simply have to find other methods and maybe shell out a few extra dollars for actual trash bags.
Of course, what about the non-rich and famous, who can’t easily dispose of all of their free resources? Students and those without cars and homes might have a harder time with the ban if they happen to need to pick up a few things and don’t have their reusable bags on them. For as much wealth and glamour there is in Los Angeles, there are plenty of tight budgets, too, to say the least.
How would such a policy play out in Orange County? Orange County is also a place where a car is the most common form of transportation. Also, there is less polarization of class status here than in LA because many Orange County residents are upper-middle class. In fact, many Orange County residents might endorse such a ban out of the belief that they are doing their charitable part to contribute to a good cause by using reusable grocery bags (and may be more able to afford the 10 cents per paper bag if they need to…).
Again, there is the question of students and those on the lower end of the scale who might not always have a reusable bag handy on the way back from class or at the next bus stop. But hey, it helps the environment, right?
Ultimately, we would give up convenience for a greater purpose, like our friends in LA. It’s a matter of adjustment, and it’s really not asking much, particularly if Orange County were to give out thousands of free reusable bags like Los Angeles did. Come on, let’s do our civic duty! I’m down.
Karam Johal is a fourth-year women’s studies major. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Glow Digital Media (Glow) was awarded the “Standout Success” award at Monday night’s prestigious “Tech City News Elevator Pitch Awards 2013” event which was hosted at Eight Club Moorgate, London.
The award was given in recognition of Glow’s impressive growth over the last two years, which now has offices in London, New York, Los Angeles and Berlin, and the award was presented in front of more than 100 of the UK tech industry’s most influential players.
Damian Routley, CEO of Glow said, “I’m delighted to receive this award on behalf of Glow. We’ve had an amazing year as we’ve grown from a team of 9 to now 45, working across 4 cities. It’s a great accolade of all the hard work the team has put in and a great boost as we focus on our continued global growth and working hard to build upon our success.”
Founded in 2009, Glow’s unique proprietary platform, Glow Machine, helps huge brand names such as King, Mercedes-Benz, Disney and M&C Saatchi to build, manage, optimise and evaluate their Facebook advertising campaigns on a large scale. Last year, the company became a Facebook strategic Preferred Marketing Developer (sPMD) which is the highest accreditation Facebook gives to marketing developers. This also means that Glow has improved access to Facebook, including its product and engineering teams for development and participation in pre-beta trials of new features.
The timing of this award coincides with Glow’s attendance at this week’s FBStart Show in Moscow, hosted by Facebook and designed to help rapidly growing start-ups and VC backed companies in Russia to accelerate user growth using the Facebook platform.


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If you’re not Darryn, chances are you have decent food tastes and are not a fan of KFC. Yes, while their original recipe chicken may be “finger-licking good”, they are also so incredibly fatty and oily. To many a food connoisseur, the thought of eating their processed chicken can lead to them filling the nearest toilet bowl with regret.
Well, prepare to possibly dunk on their chicken even more as the company has announced an attempt to create the world’s first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets, part of its “restaurant of the future” concept. The chicken restaurant chain will work with Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions to develop bioprinting technology that will “print” chicken meat, using chicken cells and plant material. Yeah, that just sounds gross.
3D bioprinting technologies, initially widely recognized in medicine, are nowadays gaining popularity in producing foods such as meat. In the future, the rapid development of such technologies will allow us to make 3D-printed meat products more accessible and we are hoping that the technology created as a result of our cooperation with KFC will help accelerate the launch of cell-based meat products on the market
Interestingly, bioprinted nuggets would be more environmentally friendly to produce than standard chicken meat according to a study by the American Environmental Science and Technology Journal, as it uses significantly fewer greenhouse emissions than traditional chicken farming. Though, I’d imagine for many people looking to actually eat “chicken”, that would be the least of their problems.
KFC plans to have its bio-printed nuggets ready for final testing in Moscow later this year, though it will be interesting to see if there is any uptake on the concept or not. Mind you, if KFC fans can stomach those dunked wings, they could probably stomach anything.
Oh, and for the record, these 3D bio-printed nuggets are made with animal cells and so therefore, are not vegetarian or vegan friendly.
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Newcomer Alisa Apps lays down challenge
Lady Gaga has been challenged to a singing contest by US newcomer Alisa Apps.
Apps, who is yet to release an album but has proved a hit online (scroll down and watch her in action below), questioned the singer’s abilities in the US media, laying down a sing-off which would see the winner would take home a $1 million (£630,000) prize.
She said that such a contest could take place at Madison Square Garden in New York or London‘s O2 Arena, reports Billboard.com.
“I feel sorry for Lady Gaga, she’s just a plastic doll generated by the music money marketing machine,” she said in a statement sent out by her marketing/publicity team. “This contest gives people a chance to choose which they prefer – plastic or real.”
Apps didn’t explain where the prize money would come from. Lady Gaga has yet to respond.


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Congratulations to Virtual Ingenuity, LLC for receiving the ByBlack Certification designation from the U.S. Black Chambers Inc.
Virtual Ingenuity, LLC is honored to have received the ByBlack Certification from the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. This designation grants companies that hold the ByBlack Certification access to participate in exclusive contracting and training opportunities funded by U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) corporate partners and sponsors. This initiative is the first of its kind focused solely on certification for Black-owned businesses.
By becoming ByBlack Certified, black-owned businesses can increase their opportunity pipelines; build relationships with procurement personnel at America’s leading corporations; and collectively team up on large contracting opportunities. As corporate America becomes more inclusive and further diversifies its supply chain, the ByBlack certification offers the opportunity for Black-owned businesses to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
Certified businesses are routinely sought after by USBC Corporate Partners who are looking to increase their spending with the Black business community through USBC’s internal, proprietary database. Once a business is granted the certification, they have access to numerous contacts with corporate representatives and supplier diversity professionals. ByBlack.us is a platform where business owners can begin making strategic relationships, scheduling meetings to uncover procurement opportunities, and begin building a healthy pipeline of new businesses to set their organizations up for short and long-term profitability targets. USBC helps to facilitate these relationships by hosting several events focused on matchmaking and networking.


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Ericsson will demo its new high performance compression platform the AVP 4000 at ANGA COM.
Initially launched at NAB earlier this year, the AVP 4000 is designed to offer efficiency and flexibility in the delivery of TV services by addressing multiple applications, regardless of codec, resolution or network.
It is powered by Ericsson’s first professional video chip, which combines 20 years of compression algorithms development and a software programmable platform to respond to the needs of the cable market, Ericsson said.
The AVP 4000 offers the highest performance MPEG-2 SD and HD encoding and can be upgraded to support MPEG-4 SD/HD, up to 4:2:2 10-bit, and JPEG 2000.
“In a multi-screen TV world, MSOs need to respond to the changes in consumer demand by providing new and better services, faster than ever before,” said Ericsson.
“Competition has increased from both traditional TV service providers and new entrants, often utilising their high-speed data networks. The main challenge for cable operators is to differentiate their services and increase multi-screen reach within the bandwidth constraints of their existing infrastructure.”
Ericsson will also use ANGA to present its single-platform Media Delivery Network, multi-screen user interfaces for TV Anywhere experiences and will offer live demos of MPEG-DASH adaptive streaming and Ultra High Definition TV.
Ericsson will exhibit at ANGA COM at stand V.11, Hall 10.1.
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The Myhre Group presented early plans for a North Williams Avenue development it's working on with Security Properties.
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Orchard Supply is not coming to North Williams Avenue, representatives from
last night. The hardware store pulled out of negotiations Friday night at 5:30, said Michael Nanney, Security's director of Multifamily Development. Security had planned to submit its proposal for design review in October, but that timetable is now pushed back.
California-based Orchard opened its first Oregon locations in Beaverton and Tigard this year before filing for bankruptcy in June.
last month, including one in Beaverton and one in Tigard.
“They said it was too hard (to build in an urban area),” Nanney said. “They didn’t see that anything less than 120,000 square feet on a sea of pavement could work.”
Representatives from Lowe's, which handles media requests for Orchard Supply, did not immediately return calls.
Boise neighbors said this summer they had mixed feelings about Orchard coming to North Williams Avenue. In a letter to the developers, they wrote: “Our primary concern is about the impact that Orchard or any other box-format retailer is likely to have to the street experience on Williams — creating a long deactivated stretch potentially with windows filled with stacked merchandise and/or corporate window signage. Additionally we are very concerned about the impact of substantial truck deliveries to a large retailer of this sort along North Williams.”
Security Properties is working with Portland-based
to recruit businesses for the development. The site at 4134 N. Vancouver Ave. -- a full block bounded on other sides by Skidmore, Williams and Mason -- is currently occupied by a one-story commercial building that operates as an incubator for the
. Dalo's, a popular Ethiopian restaurant currently on the site, could rent space in the new complex, Nanney said, but the rates will raise to compensate for the cost of construction.
"We'd love to have them," Nanney said. "But new construction is expensive, and they may not be able to afford the rent."
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a proposed rule amending the sterility test requirements for biological products, including vaccines and stem-cell treatments.
Aimed at providing manufacturers with “greater flexibility to encourage use of the most appropriate and state-of-the-art test methods,” the proposal is part of FDA’s efforts to review and update biologics regulations as necessary. FDA requests comments by September 19, 2011.
According to FDA, manufacturers of cell and gene therapy products “may benefit from sterility test methods with rapid and advanced detection capabilities.” To ensure that biological products are sterile, the proposed rule addresses testing of novel and currently approved products and urges manufacturers to adopt latest test methods tailored to specific products with appropriate sample sizes. Recognizing that final containers supply the most-appropriate material to test, the proposed rule would eliminate sterility testing for most bulk material. It also calls for repeat sterility tests to occur only once for each lot.
FDA plans to maintain current exceptions to sterility test requirements for whole blood, Cryoprecipitated AHF, platelets, red blood cells, plasma, source plasma, smallpox vaccine, reagent red blood cells, anti-human globulin, and blood grouping reagent. “However, we request comment on whether any of these current exceptions should be removed,” FDA said. “For example, we specifically request comment on whether to remove the exemption for platelets. Bacterial contamination of platelets is a recognized public health risk and the blood collection industry has already called for and implemented methods to detect and limit or inactivate bacteria in platelet components. Requiring testing for platelets would be consistent with these industry practices.” See Federal Register, June 21, 2011.


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What are some of your thoughts about the new line of Barbie dolls? Please share in the Comment box below.
Barbie introduces new line of dolls: raising awareness of inclusivity
Barbie has finally chosen to change with the times and would now be available in three shapes—curvy, petite and tall
For a number of years now, Barbie has always been associated as someone who has a figure to die for, one which always seemed too impossible to achieve.
The other thing, which bothered many, especially mothers of young daughters, was their obsession with being skinny and beautiful just like Barbie. Barbie dolls, in fact, became a nightmare for mothers with many young girls trying to imitate her dressing style and skinny body.
But the tables have turned, finally, even though it took 57 years for Mattel to do it. Barbie has finally chosen to change with the times and would now be available in three shapes—curvy, petite and tall.
The three new Barbies have been launched as part of the Barbie fashionistas line, which came out in June and had Barbies with 8 varied skin tones, 14 different facial features, 18 eye shades and 22 different hair styles.
Being a mother I can definitely say that this would a breath of relief for young mothers who are sick of seeing their daughters admire a doll that looked like anything but a role model for young girls, with the strikingly narrow waste, wavy blonde hair and legs like sticks, far from how any Asian child looks like.
In an exclusive Time magazine interview interview, Mattel’s Evelyn Mazzocco, head of the Barbie brand, speaks about Project Dawn that was behind the change of body image of the Barbie. She even confesses to having received death threats, besides just hate mail over the barbie body. This is when she decided to take up the haters head-on and thought of revamping the Barbie doll.
Let's hope that other companies would also take a cue from Mattel and make dolls that look real and more importantly ones that have a positive influence on young girls.


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Meet Mike Wallace, stock mover.
Shares in TiVo, maker of so-called personal video recorders, jumped 26% Monday after “60 Minutes” aired an upbeat Wallace-hosted segment on PVRs on Sunday evening.
Analysts, some of whom have cited concerns about TiVo’s financial strength, said investors’ renewed enthusiasm for the stock seems to key on heightened expectations about subscriber growth after the CBS program’s broadcast.
Wallace noted in the “60 Minutes” segment that CBS is among TV networks and media groups that have made multimillion-dollar investments in TiVo. But the venerable newsman’s gee-whiz piece on the technology left some observers suggesting the subsequent TiVo stock run-up was unwarranted.
“I wouldn’t want to make any sort of accusation against CBS,” Deutsche Banc Alex Brown analyst Peter Ausnit said as to the net’s possible conflict-of-interest problem in touting TiVo and other PVRs. “But it does strike me that there is a CBS ’60 Minutes’ effect that clearly has incited a lot of small retail investors to put their money into this without necessarily understanding the company’s true business prospects.”
Ausnit has an “underperform” rating on TiVo shares.
Leap of faith
“I really believe in the PVR as a product, but I think it’s a great leap that because PVRs are going to be big that TiVo is going to be a good stock to invest in,” Ausnit said. “TiVo has a corner on this space but hasn’t demonstrated its ability to meet projections or presented a path toward profitability. In fact, it continues to burn cash at an incredible rate.”
San Jose-based TiVo is considered the leading maker of PVRs, with ReplayTV and UltimateTV also active in the sector. PVRs let TV viewers record large amounts of programming each week without the use of videotape, allow them to fast-forward over advertisements while watching shows and in some cases do instant replays while still recording.
Notably, the TiVo box — unlike some others — doesn’t feature a 30-second “skip” button to easily speed through commercials. That’s considered a nod to its network backers, who fear the loss of advertising support through the spread of PVR technology.
TiVo stock, which has shed 86% of its value over the past year, rose $1.05 on Monday to close at $5.09 after trading more than triple the normal volume in the Nasdaq-listed shares.
In the “60 Minutes” segment, Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff was among those offering bullish assessments of growth prospects for PVRs. Though only about 100,000 such devices have been sold to date, Bernoff estimated that more than 1 million such units will be in use within another year, and that half of all U.S. households will own a TiVo or some other PVR within five years.
“People may have looked at that and said, ‘Hey, maybe this is a stock I want to own after all,’ ” Sutro analyst David Miller said.
Sutro reiterated Friday’s “buy” recommendation on TiVo. “There’s something of a war going on right now,” Miller mused of the lack of analyst consensus on TiVo.
Diminished hopes for the quick spread of PVRs caused ReplayTV to cancel its initial public offering in November and agree two months later to a takeover by audio device company Sonicblue. The Mountain View-based company also has refocused from selling PVRs to developing related software.
UltimateTV, a unit of Redmond, Wash.-based software giant Microsoft, is gearing up for the rollout of its PVR product. It hopes to catch consumer notice by offering the ability to record two programs airing at the same time, something not possible on TiVo or ReplayTV machines.
(Marc Graser and Scott Hettrick contributed to this report.)


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Facebook is shutting down the podcast platform you probably didn’t know it had. According to a report from Bloomberg, Facebook plans to get rid of its podcasts offering starting June 3, and content creators will be unable to add their podcasts to the service starting this week.
Facebook introduced podcasts alongside Live Audio Rooms last year as part of a new strategy to bring social audio experiences on the platform. Podcasts were integrated with the Facebook Pages of content creators, and users could listen to them while browsing Facebook or in the background.
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“We’re constantly evaluating the features we offer so we can focus on the most meaningful experiences,” a Meta spokesperson said to Bloomberg in an email. In a note to partners obtained by Bloomberg, Facebook also explained that it has no plans to notify users about the upcoming removal of podcasts, and it will be up to publishers to decide if and how they want to announce the news.
Facebook’s spring cleaning will also affect the company’s short-form audio product Soundbites as well as the platform’s central audio hub, which will both disappear “in the coming weeks.” However, Facebook’s Live Audio Rooms, the company’s alternative to Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces will be integrated into the existing Facebook Live feature.
The podcasting market has become incredibly competitive now that Apple, Spotify, and YouTube have all increased their investments in this new medium. Spotify is now bringing video podcasts to its platform, while YouTube is reportedly working on podcast pages and new analytics tools for content creators.


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The YouView internet TV service is enhancing its position as the fastest-growing platform in the market by signing an unprecedented deal with Netflix and cutting the price of its set top boxes.
The service, which has had a chequered history and numerous false starts since its inception in 2007, took a major step forward by offering its users direct access to Netflix content including original dramas such as Marco Polo, which launches next month, and films such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
YouView is set to announce early next year that its customer base has grown to more than 2m, partly as a result of the increasingly competitive pricing of the set top boxes, which launched in 2012 at £299. It is expected that new deals in the autumn will bring the price well below £149.
The internet TV service is offered in broadband subscription bundles from TalkTalk and BT. The latter announced 38,000 sign ups to its TV service in the last quarter and now works only with YouView, having stopped selling its own BT Vision boxes.
Talking at the launch of the Netflix deal, the YouView CEO Richard Halton claimed a major breakthrough in getting the California-based on-demand Internet streaming service to integrated with the TV platform so that users can access it using their remote controls. “Netflix just don’t do these deals. They don’t allow platforms to integrate their content into a unified search.”
Existing Netflix customers will be able to sign in via YouView. Both BT and TalkTalk are expected to announce competitive deals for YouView access to Netflix, which normally costs £5.99 a month and has more than 3m UK subscribers. BT has said a Netflix account can be paid via a BT bill.
Halton denied that introducing pay TV elements to YouView would undermine the free-to-air ethos of the service. “What we were always concerned about was that people who did not want to pay a lot still got a great TV proposition,” he said. “The fact that you can opt in to upgrade into paid services is a brilliant choice. It feels like with Netflix we have the full set.”
He said YouView aimed to build its customer base to over 10m, by persuading remaining FreeView users to upgrade to the internet-based service. “Our ambition is no less than the 10-11m Freeview homes. BT and TalkTalk between them have between them about 10m customers and over 7m of those are FreeView homes,” he said. “That is the opportunity.”
He claimed that the free and pay TV markets in the UK were quite distinct. “The free and pay markets have always been pretty stable – they have always been about 10m free and about 13-14m pay, once you add in Virgin Media.”
YouView has had a troubled history. In its early years it was known as Project Kangaroo and then Project Canvas, running into regulatory problems and incurring criticism from Virgin Media that it was an anti-competitive cartel for the big public service broadcasters.
Sir Alan Sugar, the profile-raising YouView chairman, quit in 2013 after a feud with then-Channel 5 boss Richard Desmond. For the past year new chairman Simon Duffy, once the CEO of former cable TV company NTL, has been quietly building the business. Halton claimed to have made peace with Virgin Media and its current CEO Tom Mockridge.
YouView offers 70 TV and radio channels, as well as the catch-up services of the main terrestrial broadcasters and on-demand content from Sky and UKTV. Halton said he anticipated that a range of “smaller content providers”, from arts institutions and NGOs to music streaming services, would come onto the platform via app-based services.Reuse content


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Panasonic Full Frame Camera Review Rumors
I owned the rather cool Panasonic GH5, but found the autofocus to be annoying and eventually settled on a Sony A7iii. While there are certainly aspects of the GH5 that I loved, like it’s internal stabilization and video quality, the autofocus was a deal breaker.
It seems everyone is jumping in on the mirrorless bandwagon, heck even Nikon and Canon had to design a camera line called the Nikon Z series of cameras and for Canon it’s the Canon EOS R.
One of the issues with Panasonic’s current line of mirrorless cameras is they use a micro 4:3 format instead of a full frame sensor. Meaning they aren’t Full Frame, so they end up cropping down the image because of the smaller sensor size.
On September 25th, Panasonic is rumored to announce their Full frame mirrorless camera to compete the big guns including Sony, Nikon, Fuji and Canon. If Panasonic can nail down their autofocus issues, it should be a spectacular release. If they include advices from Vloggers, it could be a huge hit.
The one thing Panasonic has going for them is they do know mirrorless cameras, being in the mirrorless business for over 10 years.
If rumors are true and Panasonic does jump into the full frame arena, look for the camera release in the first half of 2019.


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This new generation of maintenance-free LED signal lights feature a triple-reflection system that provideboth enhanced visibility and much lower power consumption compared to comparably-rated incandescents, says the company.
The new InSync RFID keys offer a single electronic key...
The DuraLabel Catalyst was designed to create full-color industrial labels including GHS/HazCom...
About 40 percent of eye injuries in the workplace happen in construction, mining, and manufacturing, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. All workplace eye injuries cost an estimated $300 million a year in lost productivity, medical treatment, and worker compensation.
Public safety is one of the fastest growing fields of study at community colleges. According to a 2013 report by the National Center for Education Statistics, the number of students choosing homeland security, law enforcement, or fire safety programs increased 174 percent between 2000 and 2011.
Kimtech Pure G3 EvT Nitrile Gloves offer high performance, durability, and value. Free of natural rubber latex, these Extra-Value Technology gloves are preferred by cleanroom operators for overall tactile performance, says the company.
Effective March 1, 2014, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of pre-negotiated terms on Tennant floor care products and services including commercial and industrial cleaning equipment, parts, and service.
The addition of Stoko will allow Deb to accelerate a key element of its commercial strategy, to become a global leader in the prevention of occupational skin disease.
Designed to work with all Master Lock and American Lock® safety padlocks and lockout hasps, the tool-free design makes it simple to apply and lockout nearly any type of miniature-circuit breaker.
Hersman, who is currently the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), will be joining NSC at its headquarters in Itasca, IL, in suburban Chicago.
The FASTDRAW chemical management systems are essential for any facility looking to reduce their chemical costs and improve safety, says the company.
Catalyst provides a user-friendly solution for the 43 million workers required by OSHA to comply with the new GHS/HazCom labeling standards by 2015.
Industrial workers have a common refrain when asked what they want: lighter weight gloves that are comfortable and offer superior dexterity. The need for tactility and comfort can prompt workers to remove their gloves or to cut off glove finger tips.
The LM-16 is a fold over light mast that provides a safe and effective way for operators to quickly deploy lights, security cameras, and other equipment to elevations of sixteen feet, says the company.
GripStrong Nitrile gloves have been redesigned to provide additional durability and even more protection in an array of environments, says the company.
The green certified GOJO pumice hand cleaner quickly and effectively cleans medium to heavy soils and conditions hardworking hands.
New DIGIFORCE digital Rx lenses have been designed specifically for Wiley X's 8-base wrap frames. These lenses increase and optimize the field of vision in all directions.
Cool operation enables the Mini WorkStar to be used in confined spaces, making it ideal for the contractor, utility worker, MRO, portable site lighting and fire & crime scene investigations.
The Halo Light is portable and personal, illuminating the task area without shadows regardless of where the worker moves.
OSHA recently revised its Hazard Communication standard to adopt the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). To help organizations navigate HazCom requirements, Cintas Corporation debunks six popular HazCom/GHS myths.
Duracell’s emergency reparedness training kit includes essential tips to help managers prepare for natural disasters, winter storms, and other emergencies.
Under OSHA’s revised signage standards for general industry and construction, published November 6, 2013, organizations can now use either the American National Standard Institute standard from 1967-1968 or from 2011 for safety signage.
The acquisition of PeakWorks broadens JET's safety product offering by adding a portfolio of professional Personal Protective Equipment to complement its existing Pioneer-branded safety apparel product line.
The increased flexibility and dexterity of Marigold gloves allow for comfortable, prolonged wear for all electrical applications, says Ansell.
The Halo Light is a 360° personal active safety system that attaches to any hard hat, producing a halo of light around the wearer, enabling him or her to see and be seen in all directions at all times.
In addition to the steel toe protection, this style features the J-Flex Flexible Comfort System and ultrathotic inserts made from pure polyurethane, sculpted to create shock reduction pockets.
While fasteners can be inexpensive, an improperly tightened fastener can cause a host of operational problems, ranging from the minor, up to catastrophic failure. Attaching fasteners with appropriate amounts of torque prevents them from vibrating loose or, alternatively, from stripping threaded fasteners.
Incorporating industry-leading technology, J-MAX is high-tech footwear for the worker who relies on boots for the performance and comfort that is necessary for an active lifestyle, says the company.
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