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Watching Xiaomi roll out its line-up of phones is like watching the Harry Potter series of films unleashed on Potter-crazed, giddy schoolchildren desperate for their fix. Xiaomi will hope that its coffers fill up with billions of dollars as speedily as it did for Warner Brothers, producer of the Potter series, but, so far, the Chinese brand hasn't done too shabbily in India.
In fact, it has done sensationally. Xiaomi has sold more phones through the internet in India -- specifically, the Redmi 1S, the Redmi Note, and the Mi3 -- faster than any brand to date in the last six months through exclusive sales via Flipkart. And from all accounts, Xiaomi is just warming up, since it's been holding back volumes by dribbling out phones in the tens of thousands.All of Xiaomi's phones have been ultra-coveted and ultra-successful because they offer a combination of specs and price that is virtually unbeatable. And this is what also makes the Mi4 such a potential sensation. (Incidentally, it was launched mid last year, but is only being released in India tomorrow.) Its specifications are either on par or very close to the top-of-the-line Android phones available on the market, like the Samsung S5.
However, it costs about a third of the S5. Yes. A third. It's hard to fathom how this is the case. And in a market like India, where, by and large, plans do not subsidise phones, people buy their phones outright. Therefore, Xiaomi's proposition is taken very seriously.
For anywhere between Rs 18,000 ($290) and Rs 20,000 ($320), you get a 5-inch (1,920x1,080 pixels) IPS display with 441ppi resolution, Corning Gorilla Glass 3, and a 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, along with 3GB of RAM -- which means nirvana to even the most ardent of gamers.
Its rear shooter is a 13MP camera with LED Flash and 4K video recording, which is unheard of, especially at this price. Selfie addicts will be thrilled with its 8MP front-facing camera with Sony Exmor R sensor. Vanity has never been so coddled as it has been here. It comes with Android 4.4.3 KitKat preinstalled, and its MIUI OS skin has apparently appropriated the best ingredients from both Android and Apple.
Even if the phone launches at the upper end of the range (Rs 20,000), it will be interesting to see how any of the brands offering either premium phones (like the Samsung Galaxy S5) or mid-range ones will fend off the onslaught of this Chinese brand. For instance, the mid-range Motorola Moto X, which will be at least Rs 7,000 ($110) more expensive than the Mi4, looks like it will be consistently outgunned in almost every department.
With the launch of the Lenovo 4G A6000 a few days ago, which I wrote about here, and now the Mi4, January is proving to be the month of the dragon in India.


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This is today's reality: Artificial intelligence has already made a lot of buzz in the mobile app development industry. More cheap and available screens, easy real-time access to the data robust analysis tools have become even more powerful - all of this is already a normal part of our daily routine in society.
The implementation of Artificial Intelligence is highly varied, depending on specific industries. Chatbots, spam filters, cloud APIs, natural language processing, face recognition robotics and more are expected to be used for many goals. For example, installing chatbots into retail screens and POSs, inserting built-in intelligence to popular business applications, and integrating with an environment-aware smart detector. And, what is most important, AI will become such a normal thing in everyday life that it's already used in small shops and many industrial factories.
Apple is taking a shot at a processor planned exclusively to perform AI-related errands, and it will, in the long run, be remembered for huge numbers of its smart gadgets, including iPhones and iPads. Curiously, this is one case where Apple isn't driving the way - partly because it's playing catch up for the lost time.
Qualcomm, as of late, discharged the Snapdragon 835 portable processor, which has a module for AI and taking care of man-made brainpower assignments. Snapdragon processors are utilized in numerous Android telephones. Google revealed an AI-related processor back to the Tensor Processor Unit in 2016, in spite of the fact that, until further notice, the chip is utilized in Google server farms for picture acknowledgment and to convey quicker, better query items. Don't be astounded if Google builds up an AI-centered portable processor too.
Simultaneously, the cost of sensors has come down, making them affordable for the cheapest vehicles and devices, yet it can be used for anything – from modern machines to shoes, to drink bottles. Increasingly reasonable sensors, implanted in everything from apparel to hardware, will add data to a regularly developing system of associated gadgets. For instance, Wearable X reported $299 yoga pants that will use implanted sensors and a versatile application to help yogis of all capacities to improve their flexibility, etc..
Indeed, even the most costly classes of sensors are seeing costs fall. In April, Velodyne reported another, minimal effort strong state LiDAR framework called Velarray, which could make self-driving autos a modern reality. The sensor is equipped for perceiving objects with low reflectivity up to 200 meters away, flaunts improved vertical and flat fields of view than forerunners, and expects to sell for only two or three hundred bucks when delivered in mass volumes.
We'll likely see sensors transmitting information on everything from street conditions, to office use and modern hardware. Undertakings, which are utilizing more mobile phones and wearables than any time in recent history, should transmit, gather and investigate this information to settle on always making smart choices – and they'll be needing to do it progressively. Keen hardware representatives with smartphones on the shop should be fixed, sensors cautioning field administration workers with smartphones that they have to make a quick help call. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
This new equipment is clear proof that AI is genuinely turning into an ordinary reality. Be that as it may, while the equipment improvements are basic, the other piece of the story is the product – or the applications. When we gather the information from every one of these sensors, AI will help examine and instruct representatives on the next steps, yet the venture work environment has changed. Representatives have moved away from work area PCs and paper-and-clipboards and are accomplishing increasingly more business on their smartphones. Conventional business application designers must think of AI as far as versatile applications.
What separates mobile apps out from web applications on PCs is their capacity to know about their location and the external world utilizing these sensors. Combining AI with these abilities makes applications significantly more valuable. Here are several cases of AI and machine learning contributions from the sensors that make proposals on what you ought to do alongside with the intensity of a portable application:
Enlitic creates deep learning medical applications to modernize radiology examinations. The AI platform interprets disorganized therapeutic info (radiology pictures, blood analyses, EKGs, patient therapeutic records) to provide doctors with more useful penetration into a patient’s interactive requirements.
Here is another example of using AI in financial applications: Simudyne is a tech vendor that applies AI and machine learning to reach thousands of business situations. Simudyne's program enables financial companies to manage resistance testing examinations and manage the risks for market contamination on huge ranges. The CEO of the corporation announced that the simulation supports investment managers to avoid risks and improve critical debt provisioning for the purpose of making better-informed judgments.
How to apply AI in current mobile applications
Even a few years ago, many revolutionary and innovative technologies needed years to be implemented to business, however, today you can begin easily and reach your goals much more quickly. Business developers all across the globe are already supporting businesses to enhance independence and modernize enterprise processes with restricted resources, by using AI with modern UI design in current applications.
How can developers begin to use artificial intelligence for their applications to enhance UX and reduce the chances of failure:
As reported by Gartner in the 2019 CIO Survey, the amount of organizations realizing AI technologies has increased 2.7 times from 2015.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most discussed technology and one-ups the data and analytics as a ground-breaking technology. In terms of realization, when told about the company’s projections about coming digital technologies and tendencies, 37% answered that they already extended AI. Actually, AI appears in second, behind cybersecurity (88 %).
Based on the Statista report, by the year 2025, the growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) software market worldwide will reach $89 billion. However, the embedding of AI in the mobile application is in the initial phases. There is a lot that can still be changed and modified. Your complete UX can be formed by applying AI and then handled in various mobile apps.
We can see a remarkable increase in AI use in 2020 already. AI has already started to integrate into 5G smartphones which means that the customers can get more privileges of ML and AI to gather, maintain, and handle real-time information. With the purpose of getting the new impressive functions in a mobile app, you should think about choosing mobile developers for your company. Here at KitRUM, we're always happy to hear from you and help you to get access to the top 5% of most talented application developers.
Previously published at https://kitrum.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-in-mobile-app-development-upcoming-trends-for-2020/
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March 17, 2017
Amazon and Breitbart, sittin’ in a tree
by Ian Dreiblatt
We’ve had a lot of bad things to say about Amazon over the years—consummately, they’re fuckers—but we have not, until now, had much cause to bemoan their connection to white supremacy.
Welcome to 2017. Please make yourself comfortable.
Amazon entered the year in a haze of opprobrium (and some legal issues) over their refusal to stop selling Holocaust denial books that pander to antisemites. (A word to the wise: if you ever find yourself in a conversation defending uncertainty over the proposition that “the Holocaust both occurred and was regrettable,” you’ve made some poor choices.)
Now they’re under fire again, this time from Sleeping Giants, an anonymous group whose mission is to deprive Breitbart.com of much-needed revenue by using facts, encouragements, and pressure to nudge their advertisers into leaving. (If you’re lucky enough not to know, Breitbart is a heinous website, a gurgling protein stew that in recent years has coughed up the DNA of white nationalism’s most prevalent current iteration — a fun, low-cal variety that brands itself “the alt-right,” since, pace Amazon, “actual Nazism” has taken on a bad connotation.)
In what a spokesperson, with admirable directness, last week called Sleeping Giants’ “anti-bigotry campaign,” it has shone a particularly bright light on Amazon, whose ads run on Breitbart all the damn time. (Seriously, take a look.) The group is circulating a petition directed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, which is nearing its 300,000th signature. They’re also leading protests on social media, which go a little like this: Get a screenshot of something odious on Breitbart aligned with an Amazon ad — this is disconcertingly easy (which is sort of the whole point). Then tweet the image at Amazon, tagging any other relevant person (say, the decidedly awesome Jill Soloway, who created the series Transparent for Amazon Studios, is currently adapting Chris Kraus’s epochal I Love Dick for the studio, and cannot possibly be cool with the stuff Breitbart publishes). A sampling (if you’re upset by misogyny, transphobia, or bad fashion, maybe skip past the jump, because trust me this is vile):
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Amazon does not seem to have addressed the questions about its connections to white supremacists. Some Sleeping Giants organizers claim the company has gone so far as to summarily disconnect customers who ask about Breitbart over live chat.
Steve Bannon, a former executive chair at Breitbart, currently serves as the US’s first-ever White House Chief Strategist, having hopped aboard the SS Trump for the thrill of skirting icebergs, and stayed for the joy of watching humanity drown. Recently, Amazon has been working to turn a heretofore troubled relationship with Trump into a more productive one with his administration. When the impossible happened last November, Bezos was among the first of America’s corporate leaders to congratulate the president-elect, and he received his reward when, a couple weeks later, he was briefly invited within puckering range of the Executive Cheeks. As the excellent April Glaser has pointed out, the company’s plans moving forward involve a lot of deliveries by drone aircraft, which means that their future success may to some degree depend on successful cooperation with Trump’s Federal Aviation Administration. It all adds up to a funky situation.
How this ends is anybody’s guess, but Sleeping Giants reports it has already convinced more than 1,500 companies to stop advertising with Breitbart, which, as the mathematicians say, ain’t half bad. In the meantime, here’s something to rinse your eyes with:
Ian Dreiblatt is the former Director of Digital Media at Melville House.


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Easier to travel in the EU
Danish Shipping is looking forward to more predictable and transparent travel conditions after the Council has adopted guidelines for the coordination of travel restrictions.
It is difficult to travel around Europe during COVID-19.
Borders open and close as infection rates go up and down, and countries have different limits for when barriers are lowered.
The EU is now trying to put an end to that. Today, the foreign ministers of the member states adopted new guidelines for COVID-19-related travel restrictions, which will ensure uniform rules in all EU countries.
The recommendation specifically mentions seafarers as part of the group that has an 'essential function' and can therefore avoid quarantine. It is incredibly important, says Jens Valdemar Krenchel, head of Danish Shipping’s EU Representation in Brussels.
“The many different travel restrictions have made it extremely difficult to change the crews on the ships. Many seafarers have had to take an extra-long turn without being able to see their families for an unreasonably long time, so we hope that today's recommendation can make it easier to get the seafarers to the ships and home again, "says Jens Valdemar Krenchel.
Good news for the ferries
The new guidelines contain, among other things, common criteria for determining an area's status as green, orange, red or grey. This status must be determined in relation to all EU countries on a regional and not a national basis. Free movement is maintained when traveling between regions with green status.
Danish Shipping hopes that the coordinated travel restrictions will give a boost to the ferries sailing between Denmark and its neighboring countries.
"Our ferries between Denmark and neighboring countries have had a terrible season, and on several routes, they still have to look far for the passengers. Coordinating cross-border travel restrictions will hopefully make it easier to plan business trips, vacations or family visits across borders. This is good news for our ferries,” says Jens Valdemar Krenchel.
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The next Left 4 Dead game may run on the source engine 2 thanks to a leaked photo from a Valve Tour posted on Reddit. In fact, it is no secret Valve has been working on a new engine, when Gabe Newell said the following during a fan event a few months ago:
We’ve been working on new engine stuff for awhile. We’ll probably just roll it out in one of our games
What game could this be Mr. Newell? Well, according to the hard-to-see image above it could be left 4 dead 3. Furthermore, a user over at Neogaf resized the image to get a better view.
2013/8/5 14:55 Ted Carson [Source2] Restored L4D3′s devtest unit test. Ran locally 6 times without an assert. This may be so…
Of course there is no confirmation from Valve themselves. So, while this is good news, we will just have to play the waiting game on this one for now.


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Insiders have called for new salt production strategies with the increasing preference for Vietnamese handmade sea salt in foreign markets, reported the Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) newspaper.
Several scientific studies show that a large number of cancer patients are deficient in mineral elements like magnesium, calcium, iodine, zinc, and selenium which are found in handmade salt. (Photo: VNA)
Vietnam posted a salt output of 1.3 million tonnes in 2014, about 250,000 tonnes of which were unsellable.
Yet, it imported more than 350,000 tonnes of salt during the year and 400,000 tonnes in 2013, given the shortage of refined salt for chemical and medical purposes, according to relevant agencies.
Vietnam boasts vast potential for salt export, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Department of Processing and Trade for Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Products and Salt Production.
The country shipped abroad over 25,000 tonnes of salt last year, including 800 tonnes to the US and 2,000 tonnes to Japan, the department noted, adding that more and more businesses from the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan (China) are buying Vietnamese salt, especially handmade salt hailing from the northern region.
Some US traders said their country’s Food and Drug Administration recommended handmade sea salt for daily use over refined salt.
Several scientific studies show that a large number of cancer patients are deficient in mineral elements like magnesium, calcium, iodine, zinc, and selenium which are found in handmade salt.
The majority of countries in the world manufacture salt by using modern production lines which eliminate almost all the above-mentioned elements, making machine-made salt less healthy for consumers.
Le Quang Thang from the State-owned Vietnam Salt Co. Ltd said northern farmers still extract salt by drying seawater on sand, maintaining over 80 chemical elements in salt crystals that other production techniques are unable to do.
Consumers in Japan, the US and the European Union are increasingly favouring sea salt hailing from northern Vietnam, he added.
Thang urged further communication activities to raise public and business awareness of salt consumption, citing the fact that many companies import cheap industrial salt to produce sauces or seasoning, causing mineral shortage for consumers.
He said importing salt amid the excess of domestic products demonstrates policy gaps as there have yet to be any polices specifically designed for the salt industry.
Other insiders said State agencies should appropriately assess the value of handmade salt and design proper development strategies.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Vu Van Tam asked the salt production department to step up the building of salt brands and geographical indicators.
It also needs to liaise with relevant agencies to expand markets for Vietnamese sea salt and invest in the production chain to utilise the strength of handmade salt.


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Wal-Mart pumps cash into AV campaign group
APPLE VALLEY • Wal-Mart recently made a campaign contribution of more than half a million dollars to a group that supports the company's proposed Apple Valley Supercenter, documents show.
A financial disclosure report filed with the California Secretary of State’s office shows that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. made a contribution of $515,000 to Apple Valley Consumers for Choice last week.
Apple Valley Consumers for Choice endorses a “yes” vote on Measure D in a special stand-alone election on Nov. 19, which could bring a Wal-Mart Supercenter to Dale Evans Parkway and Thunderbird Road.
Wal-Mart released a statement Tuesday saying that the money will ensure a prompt reimbursement to the town for the cost of the special election.
Apple Valley Consumers for Choice began sending direct mailers to Apple Valley residents nearly three weeks ago. The mailers were signed by Mayor Curt Emick and Mayor Pro Tem Art Bishop, council members Scott Nassif, Larry Cusack and Barb Stanton, Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce President Janice Moore, small-business owner Pat Orr and Planning Commissioner Bob Tinsley stating that the store will bring jobs and give local consumers more shopping choices within the town limits.
Though her name was on the mailer, Stanton told the Daily Press on Tuesday that she is not affiliated with any group. She said she does endorse the new Wal-Mart coming to town “as a private citizen.”
“I don’t know about any contribution,” Stanton said when asked about Wal-Mart’s payment to Apple Valley Consumers for Choice. “Also, I want to make it clear that I have not, nor will I, accept any funds from Wal-Mart.”
Attempts to obtain comments from other officials who signed the mailer were not immediately successful on Tuesday.
The financial disclosure report shows that Wal-Mart routed the funds to the group via a 501(c) 4 nonprofit corporation called Citizens for Jobs and Economic Growth, which is based in Encinitas. The contribution was first reported by the San Diego Reader.
“We have been transparent about our role and followed all applicable laws, and we also made a commitment to the people of Apple Valley that the town would incur no expense for the special election,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Rachel Wall wrote in an email to the Daily Press on Tuesday. “Earlier, we provided the Town of Apple Valley with a ‘good faith’ deposit of $50,000 toward the cost of the election. With the total cost of the special election being unknown, Wal-Mart transferred $515,000 to the Apple Valley Consumers for Choice campaign to ensure that the full cost of the election is in place and that the town may be reimbursed promptly without delay or hardship.”
Bob Sagona said his group, Citizens for Smart Growth, which filed an argument against the Wal-Mart initiative on Aug. 27, is trying to get its message out despite a lack of funding.
“We’re working on our own mailout, but it’s financially tough,” Sagona said. “We’re just a spit in the ocean, and the ocean is Wal-Mart.”
Voter information guides for the election are scheduled to be mailed out by Thursday, with mail-in ballots expected to be sent out by Saturday, according to the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters.
Rene “Ray” De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227 or at RDeLaCruz@VVDailyPress.com.
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You’re Hired - Lord Alan Sugar heads to Business Week 2019
Lord Alan Sugar – founder of the hugely successful electronics company Amstrad and famous for his role on BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’ – is heading to Humber Business Week 2019 as headline speaker at The Business Day.
He will also host a question and answer session with the audience at Bridlington Spa on Friday, June 7, rounding off this year’s programme of events across the region.
Andrew Aldis, general manager of Bridlington Spa, said: “I’m still pinching myself that Lord Sugar is to be the headline speaker of this year’s event. I had to check the confirmation twice to make sure I was reading it correctly.
“Since 2017, in producing and delivering The Business Day, we have strived for quality in our speaker line-up and the delivery of the event. This announcement serves to only reinforce the great reputation we continue to earn and demonstrates to the business community that Bridlington Spa is a force to be reckoned with in the business event arena.”
Stephen Parnaby, deputy chairman of Humber LEP, added: “It’s hard to imagine finding a more prestigious and appropriate speaker to headline this high quality event.
“The name Lord Sugar is synonymous with business and The Business Day is the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull celebrating business at its best.”
The Business Day is a networking event billed as a tailored day of discovery and insight and is aimed at a business audience.
It has established itself as the traditional end to the Humber Business Week. It is produced by Bridlington Spa on behalf of Humber LEP.
Previous speakers have been Karren Brady (Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge), John Simpson CBE, Alexander Armstrong, Naga Munchetty, Josh Littlejohn and Sir Bob Geldof.


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Mimi’s Cafe Goes Red. Starting in February, American Heart Month, Mimi’s Cafe is giving a piece of its heart to the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement. The neighborhood bistro inspired by France is the first-ever restaurant to nationally support the effort. Go Red For Women is dedicated to fighting heart disease, the number one killer of women, and harnessing the energy, passion and power women have to band together and collectively wipe out the disease.
Mimi’s is activating its heartfelt campaign on National Wear Red Day, Friday, Feb. 3. Guests who show their support by wearing red will receive a FREE cup of soup with any purchase to warm their heart. And throughout the month, guests will be invited to join in the fight against heart disease in women. For every $1 donation, guests can post a red heart-shaped tribute card on the giant in-restaurant red dress display. With a $5 donation, guests will also receive a commemorative red dress lapel pin. As a thank you for these donations, Mimi’s will provide each guest with up to $35 in savings.
Heart disease is often silent, hidden and misunderstood. That is why in addition to fundraising, Mimi’s is taking the lead to empower guests to make healthy decisions while dining out and share a lifesaving message about a disease that can be preventable.
In addition, Mimi’s will be going red on Facebook. Mimi’s “Reasons to Go Red” app allows fans to share an inspirational message, alongside the fashionable Red Dress icon, to let their friends know why they are going red and encourage others to join the cause. Guests can also come into Mimi’s to take a photo with a giant red dress display and upload it to a special “Mimi’s Goes Red” Facebook gallery via QR Code. Which fan wears it best? Visit Mimi’s Facebook page, facebook.com/mimiscafe, in February and show support of the Go Red For Women movement.
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4Site Technology, designer and manufacturer of the ProPick block-mounted wireless camera system for cranes, is proud to announce the addition of Blokcam Limited, as a new international distributor of its wireless cameras for Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Blokcam Limited is a division of Compact Lifting Group, a former distributor of the HookCam product line and leading supplier of lifting safety systems worldwide. Blokcam Ltd. will distribute the ProPick camera system, rebranded as “BlokCam” throughout the UK as well as in multiple countries across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The BlokCam system will be manufactured exclusively for Blokcam Limited, and is built with all the same features and benefits as its counterpart, ProPick.
With a highly experienced leadership team, Compact Lifting Group has been extremely successful in delivering value to the lifting industry, recently taking home the Health and Safety Award, at the London Construction Awards, organized by the London Build Expo.
Peter Hird Jr., CEO of Compact Lifting Group, said, “We have learnt a tremendous amount from supplying camera systems into the market and as the distribution vehicle for 4Site Technology’s innovative product, we can take crane camera systems to the next level.”
Sales and Marketing Manager for 4Site Technology, Mike Dwyer said, “The number of contractors embracing crane camera systems to optimize productivity and safety on their job-sites has skyrocketed. The agreement with Blokcam Ltd. represents a perfect opportunity to provide international customers with access to this innovative technology and we are very pleased to be working with a team of professionals at Blokcam with a proven track record of delivering value to customers”
4Site Technology is a North American-based manufacturer and supplier of hook-block mounted camera systems for tower and mobile cranes. For more information on 4Site Technology, please visit: www.4sitetechnology.com.


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A four-story, 122-room, hotel that will give SilverLakes regional park visitors a new lodging option is rising on Norco’s Hamner Avenue.
Choice Hotels International launched construction last year and framing is complete, Alannah Don, the company’s project manager for public relations, wrote in an email. The hotel is on track to open in September.
The hotel will become Norco’s fifth lodging venue, City Manager Andy Okoro said. The hotel will be a boon for the equestrian community’s economy and the city budget, which gets 3 percent of its $20 million in annual revenue from a local bed tax that adds 11 percent to the bill for a night’s stay, Okoro said.
A final decision on the hotel’s name has yet to be made, Don said, but it likely will be called WoodSpring Suites Norco.
One of the world’s largest lodging companies, Choice Hotels International has franchised more than 6,500 hotels in more than 40 countries and territories.
“We’re very excited about the hotel,” said Councilman Kevin Bash, who added it will be a “huge money generator.”
Former Councilwoman Kathy Azevedo, who helped lure the project to Norco through a conversation she had at a shopping center conference a few years ago, said the hotel will persuade more people who attend concerts, soccer tournaments and other events at the SilverLakes Equestrian and Sports Complex to stay overnight in Norco instead of a neighboring city.
“SilverLakes fills hotels from Corona to Rancho Cucamonga,” said Azevedo, who is SilverLakes’ public relations director and equestrian manager. “Why would you drive to Rancho if you could stay right here in Norco?”
Don said the hotel also will target the business traveler who stays several days while attending a convention or workshop.
Bash said he believes the hotel will be successful.
“SilverLakes tends to fill our hotels on the weekends and the Navy base tends to fill our hotels during the week,” Bash said, referring to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona.
The planned September opening should enable the hotel to hit the ground running.
Azevedo said it’s too bad the hotel isn’t opening a month earlier because a two-day country music concert is planned for August.
“But we have more concerts coming in the fall,” Azevedo said, adding that sport tournaments also are set.


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As Janelle Smith walked past the chilly dairy section at a local grocery store, colorful branded yogurt cups stared back at her. She picked up two brands of vanilla yogurt.
Both nutrition facts were almost exactly the same, except right above the bar code of one of the yogurts, Smith noticed the label “GLUTEN-FREE” in large letters.
“Why does one say gluten-free and one doesn’t have a gluten-free label on it, does that mean it actually contains gluten? If you’re an uneducated consumer and you associate gluten-free with healthy, then of course you’re going to choose the gluten-free labeled item,” said Smith, dietitian and nutritionist.
Both yogurts are in fact gluten-free. While the ‘gluten-free’ label on an all-natural product may confuse the average person, the label may still be a major factor in the consumer’s decision to purchase that product.
Smith, a member of the medical advisory board for the Celiac Disease Foundation(CDF), said that gluten is a general name for the proteins found in wheat and helps food maintain its shape.
Today, the term gluten-free has become extremely recognizable to the average person. The gluten-free industry has grown 44 percent from 2011 to 2013, according to Mintel, a multinational food marketing research firm.
According to Smith, the trend began after the release of a 2001 study that showed a rise in the prevalence of celiac disease in the United States. Since then, manufacturers have hyped gluten-free products convincing non-celiac consumers, restaurants, and even cosmetic producers that they must get rid of gluten.
For celiac patients like Smith, that label can be a matter of life-or-death. But, the mass majority of shoppers that choose to purchase gluten-free alternatives know little about the health risks.
Celiac disease affects 1 percent of the population, according to the CDF. Sufferers, who are genetically predisposed, experience damage in the small intestine after gluten ingestion.
“We have to eat gluten-free, it’s like our medicine. We just don’t have a choice,” said Marc Riches, celiac and chairman of the Celiac Disease Foundation.
While those with celiac disease have no choice but to eat gluten-free, the gluten-free market caters to a much larger population than just the 1 percent of affected celiacs. Twenty-four percent of consumers currently eat, or have someone in their household who eats gluten-free foods, according Mintel research group.
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Riches, the CDF chairman, thinks that celebrities and Hollywood has always had an impact on diet trends. He explained that diet trends have existed for years, “the Atkins diet, Beverly Hills diets, everybody went low-carb for a while, everybody went low sugar.”
“I think they’re always looking for food trends and I don’t know why exactly gluten-free became this huge hit, but it certainly seems like it is,” Riches said.
Smith believes that gluten-free manufacturers are driving the trend, and “that they’ve marketed the gluten-free products as something that is beneficial to everyone.”
While the trend certainly has given off a reputation for making gluten-free consumers healthier, research has not supported the benefits of gluten-free alternative diets.
“It’s not some magical diet thing, and that’s probably the biggest misconception about all of it,” Riches said.
Many consumers have jumped the bandwagon of choosing gluten-free products due to an idea that they are healthier and potentially less fattening. Smith believes that this “boom and widespread application of the gluten-free diet is successful due to the marketing of it being healthy for everyone.”
While removing the gluten food group from your diet can have benefits, most consumers opt for gluten-free alternatives, which can actually be more harmful than the original gluten version. The component gluten is the protein portion of the grain and is the most nutritious part of the grain.
“By removing the protein portion, and substituting it with refined starches, carbohydrates, refined sugars, and increased fat, there’s nothing more nutritious about it. It’s actually more deficient in nutrients,” Smith said.
Most gluten-free products are highly processed in order to mimic the texture of the naturally gluten product. Gluten-free products also have a much shorter shelf life, so in order for items to last longer, food manufactures have to include a variety of unhealthy ingredients.
“The main reason why people have touted the gluten-free diet as a successful weight-loss diet, is because they have eliminated an entire food group from their diet, and they haven’t replaced it with anything. We know that it’s not effective unless you’re eliminating foods without replacing them,” Smith said.
For some the gluten-free diet has been effective, but only because they are not replacing items with processed gluten-free alternatives. Mara Simon-Meyer has been eating gluten-free by choice for a little over a year. She decided to give the diet a try after hearing positive feedback from a friend. She believes that the absence of gluten in her diet is responsible for her body’s healthy transformation.
“I’ve found that I have more energy and I feel less bloated. I also have fewer stomach issues, and I am less uncomfortable after eating a lot of food,” Simon-Meyer said.
Simon-Meyer said that she tries to avoid processed foods or gluten-free alternatives because she’s aware that they’re are unhealthy and hard for her to digest.
Simon-Meyer said that every so often she’ll make an exception and she’ll consume a gluten item, but that it makes her feel bloated and gives her an upset stomach. While she doesn’t have gluten intolerance, she chose this diet because she heard great things about it, but was aware of the deficient nutrients in gluten-free alternatives.
The Marketing Scheme
With the new labeling law passed by the Food and Drug Administration, gluten-free labels are not required to be on a food package, even if it is gluten-free. Some manufacturers include gluten-free labels on items that are naturally gluten-free, such as yogurt, rice cereals, and corn tortillas.
Smith believes that many food manufacturers put the label on their gluten-free products because they know consumers will buy them since they are thought of as healthier.
The food industry is making a large profit from the gluten-free diet population as prices are extremely spiked on alternative items. The gluten-free industry will surpass $15 billion dollars in annual sales by 2016, according to Mintel.
Riches, who eats a gluten-free diet after being diagnosed with celiac disease, also has a daughter who was diagnosed as a child. He explained that the price for gluten-free alternatives is sometimes “twice the price and that the quantity is always smaller.”
“You can buy four doughnuts in the freezer section for $6.99. It’s not even close to having a real doughnut because they can’t get the dough right, it’s just dense and thick… But, the cost is certainly a burden,” Riches said.
When Simon-Meyer is out grocery shopping, she stays away from gluten-free alternatives not only because of their lack of nutrients, but also because of their high prices.
“Gluten-free can be a very expensive lifestyle if you let it be, so it’s much easier to just eat real, unprocessed food instead of spending all the extra money on tasteless, dry, gluten-free versions of good food,” Simon-Meyer said.
Eating Like A Saint
While most gluten-free product prices are more expensive, a local Venice bakery believes that eating healthy shouldn’t be expensive. Sinners and Saints bakery is known for freshly baked desserts and for being able to successfully create gluten-free desserts that are just as delightful as gluten desserts.
“Our idea to start was that it shouldn’t cost you more to eat healthier. We have revised that a little over time on bigger cakes, because it is just more expensive,” said Elisa Testone, owner of Sinners and Saints Bakery.
The dessert shop has been open for three years and is well-known for their gluten-free or “saints” desserts. While most of the gluten-free options are sold for the same price as the gluten options, there are a few cases where a price increase may exist due to the price of gluten-free alternative ingredients.
“The regular cream puffs are made with regular flour that is 30 cents a pound, where as the gluten-free options are made with almond flour that is $11 a pound, so we have to have a little bit of a markup,” Testone said.
Inside the bakery, there are many baked goods available in both gluten-free and regular options. The red-velvet cupcakes for instance, are priced the same, even though the “saints” are being made with more expensive flour.
For Some It’s Not A Lifestyle Choice
While the gluten-free alternatives can have a large impact on a consumer’s wallet and to his or her health, the gluten-free diet trend also affects those with celiac disease.
As celiacs, both Smith and Riches believe the diet trend is what prompted food manufacturers to produce more gluten-free products.
“The fact that I can get gluten-free waffles at every grocery store is pretty significant. I don’t have to go to that one specialty grocery store that has gluten-free products, which was the case five years ago,” Smith said.
While many new products are being offered both in the store and at restaurants, those with celiac disease also believe that the products are improving and tasting better. However, when it comes to eating out at restaurants, Smith sees it as “a double-edged sword.”
“I definitely feel like I am taken less seriously. I have to take extra time to explain that I have a real disease and that I am not following it for a fad diet and that I will get really sick if I come into contact with gluten,” Smith said.
Restaurant staff gets confused when customers come in asking for gluten-free options, but have different restrictions to what is considered gluten-free.
While the normal gluten-free diet eater would be fine eating french fries from a restaurant, a celiac could get very sick if the fries were made in the same oil where chicken tenders were fried. The fact that some diet eaters are able to eat food that has been cross-contaminated, can be confusing for servers and cooks at restaurants.
“Unfortunately, I think that a lot of people who follow the gluten-free diet by choice, will say that it’s a serious thing, and then go ahead and eat something containing gluten, which confuses people,” Smith said.
While those who eat gluten-free as a lifestyle have the choice to cheat, Smith doesn’t have that privilege. She will always find herself at the grocery store reading the fine print to make sure that all the products she purchases are absolutely gluten-free and do not put her life at risk.


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Netease koala on sale in Canada goose down jacket.
The original title of 5,567 yuan to buy Canadian goose is a fake? NetEase koala caught in the true and false doubts! Sending Dongguan identification authenticity this morning
Qianjiang Evening News / Zhejiang 24 hours reporter Zhan Lihua
The same piece of clothing, identifying different results of true and false. This kind of thing has not only happened, but has been reversed. Recently, Netease Koala was caught in the true and false Canadian Goose.
Ms. Beijing Consumer Line, on January 3, released a complaint message on the Black Cat Complaint Platform, claiming that she bought a Canadian goose mid-length women's down jacket on the Netease koala in December 2018, “because After arriving at the store, I found that the work was rough, and there were many threads on the clothes. I sent the photos of the anti-counterfeiting logo, LOGO, and product trademarks of the clothes to the official website of the Canadian Goose for verification. I received the official reply and the koala was sold. This down jacket is a fake. ”
Ms. Line filed a complaint request, “in accordance with the description of the purchase, a holiday of ten lost”.
On January 8th, Netease Koala issued an official statement saying that the official double check of Netease koala and Canadian geese confirmed that the Canadian goose sold on the platform was genuine.
Ms. Line suspected that the Canadian goose down jacket purchased at Netease Koala was fake.
Identification of the same piece of clothing
NetEase Koala stated the details in the statement, indicating that it has checked the internal supply chain certificate again, confirming that the purchase link of the product is complete and reliable, and the sold goods are genuine for sale overseas.
At the same time, under the supervision and witness of the national notary office, in accordance with the official requirements of the Canadian Goose, the notary will take pictures of the dismantling of the goods and fully report the product information to its brand. And has received an official reply confirming that the Canadian Goose products sold by Netease Koala are genuine.
“At the same time, we will also complain to the State Administration of Markets and Administration, requesting an interview with the Canada Goose China Representative Office to apologize to consumers and sales platforms for their opacity and rigor in the brand identification process. ”
Netease Koala responded to the complaint.
Then why do the same clothes have two opposite results?
“There are two kinds of results that are also normal, because there may be more than one staff for email identification, and they are not sure whether the standard used is the same standard. We are not sure. ” Netease koala related person in charge of the interview with Qianjiang Evening News, said that the validity of the identification of mail identification, "mail identification is not a final result judgment." ”
Consumers questioned Koala’s misinformation that both identifications were “false”;
However, on the same day that Netease Koala issued an official statement, Ms. Line questioned the content of the NetEase koala statement, pointing to it: confusing and misleading consumers.
On the evening of January 8, Ms. Line updated her complaints on the Black Cat Complaint Platform. The effect was that she had already confirmed with the Canadian Goose why the same product would have different identification results. “Canada Goose official immediately apologized and replied again. Both results are ‘not genuine & rsquo;”. At the same time, she informed the Netease koala at the 9:00 am the day before the announcement of the Netease koala.
That is to say, on January 8th, NetEase Koala released the “Genuine” statement before it was informed by the line lady that “the two results were non-authentic”, but in the statement This result was not adopted. Then it appeared in the media reports that the same piece of clothing identified one true and one false, two opposite results. According to online ladies, NetEase koala is misleading consumers.
On the other hand, Ms. Line also questioned why Netease Koala did not state the past facts in the name of the company, but asked for an appraisal in the name of a consumer.
Consumers questioned the koala's misinformation, and both identifications were “false”.
True and false disputes are unclear
Although the Netease koala said that it has been on the line yet, there has not been an instance of “fake a lose ten” to prove that it has always sold only “authentic”, but this is “the difference between the true and false Canadian goose” With follow-up.
When the reporter asked the black cat complaint platform, he had already seen the latest complaint.
Consumers "not renzheng big V's small market" on January 13 issued a complaint, said: "Double 11 on the koala to buy Canadian goose down jacket, bought fakes. Yesterday, I sent an email to the Canadian Goose official to reply to the fake. Going to the Sanlitun store to find that the clothes are different. At present, Netease has made a phone call. He said that the clothes can not be returned, and the different clothes are different. Very strange, Zhang San went to buy cabbage is cabbage, changed Li Si is the egg? Because I believe Netease's promise, I didn't identify the authenticity at the beginning. Later I saw that the news worried that I also bought fakes before I sent the mail to be firm. The result turned out to be fake. & rdquo; At the same time released a screenshot of the official reply email of the Canada Goose for proof.
The second complaint of consumers buying a record of Canadian goose down jackets at Netease Koala
The second complaint was sent to the official identification picture of the Canadian Goose.
Canadian Goose official email reply to the second consumer's identification results: not genuine.
On the same day, NetEase Koala Customer Service Department replied: “At present, the Canadian Goose official has told us that we can conduct offline physical identification. We are actively contacting the appraisal office to prepare for offline physical identification. Please understand and wait for a while. When the results of the identification come out, we will promptly announce to the users and the public, and we will also know the reasons for the inconsistency in the results of the identification of the mail to the Canadian Goose. If you still have doubts about the final conclusion, you can keep the goods and wait for our first batch of field monitoring results to contact you and arrange for offline inspection. ”
The “first batch of on-site monitoring results” in the customer response refers to the down jacket in the dispute.
At 9 o'clock this morning, the controversial down jacket has been taken out from the original Dongfang Notary Office in Hangzhou, accompanied by a notary public, and sent to the Canadian Goose in the designated after-sales maintenance agency in mainland China for physical identification. Netease koala explained that the agency is located in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, and if the trip is smooth, the physical identification results will be available this afternoon.
& ldquo; Maybe there will be follow-up, but I don't know what it will be. ” Netease koala related person in charge said that this Canadian goose down jacket did cause a great uproar, but they determined that this is "genuine", "I can definitely tell you that the purchase link is completely OK." ”
The Qianjiang Evening News reporter will continue to follow up on this matter.


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On the back of recent reports, Nissan has confirmed that it will join the FIA Formula E Championship starting in the 2018-19 season.
In doing so, Nissan will become the first Japanese automaker to take part in the series and use the exposure to publicize its electric vehicles, including the all-new Leaf.
By entering the sport in its fifth season, Nissan will benefit from the adoption of new chassis and battery specifications through the series. While nothing has been announced, Nissan is expected to directly replace alliance partner Renault in the series. The French marque will then prioritize its Formula One outfit.
In a statement, executive vice president of global marketing and sales, zero-emission vehicles and battery business, and chairman of Nissan’s management committee for Japan, Asia and Oceania, Daniele Schillaci, said Nissan will be competing to win.
“As the ultimate expression of the thrill of instant acceleration and agile handling that's at the heart of Nissan zero-emission driving, Nissan is going to electrify the Formula E championship. Nissan will be the first Japanese brand to enter this growing championship, bringing our long history of motorsports success to the Formula E grid. It will give us a global platform for bringing our pioneering Nissan Intelligent Mobility strategy to a new generation of racing fans."


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As the use of digital currencies gathers traction, Visa, the world’s largest payment processor, launched a worldwide crypto advice service for customers such as banks and merchants on Wednesday.
Visa’s move comes amid record investor demand for cryptocurrency services, and the company’s latest offering is aimed at financial institutions looking to attract or retain customers with a crypto offering, retailers interested in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and central banks looking into digital currencies.
Visa’s services include teaching institutions about cryptocurrencies, allowing customers to utilise Visa’s network for digital offers, and assisting with backend operations.
“We came to Visa to learn more about crypto and stablecoins, as well as the use cases that are most important to our retail and commercial business lines,” Uma Wilson, executive vice president of UMB Bank, a
According to a new Visa worldwide research, over 40% of cryptocurrency owners polled are likely or very likely to transfer their primary bank to one that provides crypto-related goods in the next 12 months.
Visa’s network is now used to facilitate the purchase, sale, and custody of digital money. It also provides a credit card that allows users to earn Bitcoin on purchases, as well as the ability to settle transactions on its payment network using USD Coin, a stablecoin cryptocurrency whose value is fixed directly to the US dollar. As of 12:30 p.m. on December 8, the price of bitcoin in India was Rs. 40.68 lakh.
However, price stability is required for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to be utilised as a means of exchange, according to Visa’s Chief Financial Officer Vasant Prabhu.
“It’s a very tough thing for a retailer to accept (bitcoin) as a currency if the price fluctuates from $60,000 (approximately Rs. 45.27 lakh) to $50,000 (about Rs. 37.72 lakh) in a few hours,” Prabhu added.
“I’m not sure if cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin will ever be accepted as a form of payment. Stablecoins, on the other hand, will “He went on to say that Visa would help with such transactions when the time came.


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February 14, 2020
Whether you’re looking for a new drone or improved technology for the planter, New York Farm Show has you covered.
Among the 27 new products that visitors will be able to see are a wide-spraying drone by Empire Drone Co.; SmartDepth from Precision Planting, an electric motor that replaces the manual depth adjustment of row units; and a new 1,800-gallon capacity sprayer from Independent Ag Equipment.
Check out our slideshow to get a look at the new field tools that will be at NYFS 2020, and don’t forget to see them for yourself from Feb. 27-29 at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse.
NYFS is co-presented by American Agriculturist and the Northeast Equipment Dealers Association. Tickets are free from any Northeast equipment dealer. Find your local dealer online. Otherwise, the cost is only $5 at the door.
Show hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Parking is free, and a shuttle bus service runs daily to each exhibit building. More than 400 exhibitors will be housed in five buildings, including the Expo Building, which was new for the 2019 show.
Go online more information about this year’s New York Farm Show.
About the Author(s)
Editor, American Agriculturist
Chris Torres, editor of American Agriculturist, previously worked at Lancaster Farming, where he started in 2006 as a staff writer and later became regional editor. Torres is a seven-time winner of the Keystone Press Awards, handed out by the Pennsylvania Press Association, and he is a Pennsylvania State University graduate.
Torres says he wants American Agriculturist to be farmers' "go-to product, continuing the legacy and high standard (former American Agriculturist editor) John Vogel has set." Torres succeeds Vogel, who retired after 47 years with Farm Progress and its related publications.
"The news business is a challenging job," Torres says. "It makes you think outside your small box, and you have to formulate what the reader wants to see from the overall product. It's rewarding to see a nice product in the end."
Torres' family is based in Lebanon County, Pa. His wife grew up on a small farm in Berks County, Pa., where they raised corn, soybeans, feeder cattle and more. Torres and his wife are parents to three young boys.
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The main annual agricultural exhibition “Zolotaya Osen” (Golden Autumn) was held in the capital. The event was held from October 9 to 12 at the territory of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy. The initiative was promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Moscow region and took place for the 21st time.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attended the opening ceremony. He also spoke at the meeting of the first international agrarian forum, held as part of the event. Other guests of honor were Dmitry Patrushev (Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation), Qu Dongyu (CEO of FAO – food organization under the aegis of the UN), Branislav Nemidovich (Minister of Agriculture of Serbia) and other well-known people as well.
Dozens of regional farms in the Moscow Oblast and other regions of the country presented their achievements at the exhibition. Visitors could see (and, of course, try) all the most interesting and tasty things – the best brands and products, which are already rated for their quality by all kinds of awards, innovative agrotechnical developments, the latest achievements in animal livestock and agriculture. The main attention was drawn by “eco” and “organic” products, i.e. the most ecologically clean, safe, and useful ones.
ECO-Culture holding took an active part in the event, represented by two delegations at once – from Stavropol Krai and Leningrad Oblast. The visitors were offered an exclusive Bloody Mary cocktail made of tomatoes grown in greenhouse complexes of the holding.
Within the exhibition, the contest “For Achievement of High Indicators in Crop Production and Soil Fertility Improvement” was held, in which ECO-Culture also participated. The competition included 20 categories. The holding received the main prize in the category “Production of vegetable crops for indoor growing” – a gold medal for the Tatami variety of greenhouse tomatoes. This is a new exclusive crop, which has never been grown in Russian greenhouses.
Background information. The first Zolotaya Osen exhibition at VDNKh was held 20 years ago and has become an annual event ever since. In 2019, the main theme of the event was a sustainable and progressive development of rural areas in the country.


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June 10, 2010 – Disaster recovery is too expensive when it comes to recovering 100 percent of their data, according to more than half of survey respondents say in the U.K. and U.S. The poll questioned 200 IT decision-makers about the role of cost in the adoption of zero data loss disaster recovery. The study was carried out during May 2010 by market research agency Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Axxana, a manufacturer of enterprise data recording solutions.
Due to advances in automation, the loss of servers and internal systems such as email, Web access and desktop applications can result in the loss of employee productivity and bring the enterprise to a halt. Disaster recovery protocols and associated executions can recover lost computing system usage (applications), data and data transactions committed up to the moment of system loss.
"Only 7 percent of enterprises rate their data center's uptime as being either 100 percent or 99.999 percent (less than 1 hour of downtime a year),” said Dick Csaplar, senior research analyst for Aberdeen in a statement. “That means that the vast majority of enterprises worldwide continue to have costly business interruptions due to a negative IT event."
In the U.S., 76 percent of respondents from the financial services market said that cost is the main inhibitor preventing them from achieving zero data loss DR. In the manufacturing industry, cost is an issue for 56 percent of the U.S. respondents. Less affected but still sensitive to the cost issue are retail, distribution and transport markets. When looking at the answers from the size of the responding organizations, smaller companies were less affected by cost (46 percent) than their larger counterparts with more than 3,000 staff (56 percent).
According to new research from Aberdeen, disaster planning needs to be a formal process with backup procedures defined and formal training for all involved.
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New York City is, arguably, the most competitive club market in the U.S.—The Big Apple, The City That Never Sleeps. For 40 years, New York Health & Racquet Club (NYHRC), a family-owned, nine-facility chain, has thrived there. But when Kim Manocherian took over the reins, she discovered the business, like the city, had become a bit too cool, impersonal, and numbers-driven. She intends to change all of that. She’s refocusing NYHRC on people.
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The Lone Star State is known for its size and the larger-than-life nature of its personalities and their achievements. Brent Darden, the co-owner and general manager of the TELOS Fitness Center in Dallas, and the chairperson of IHRSA’s board of directors, fits the bill nicely. For more than 30 years, he’s participated in and prodded the health and fitness club industry in a variety of high-profile roles. He shares much of what he’s learned in “the Best of Brent.”
At 18, while attending Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Molly Kemmer became a certified group exercise instructor and taught classes at her sorority and at NIU’s recreation center. She subsequently earned her personal trainer certification and a master’s degree in exercise physiology and health promotion from Illinois State University in Normal. After embarking on a fitness career as the assistant manager of a small club, she assumed positions of increasing responsibility at three leading IHRSA facilities near Denver. Earlier this year, Kemmer joined MediFit Corporate Services, Inc., a leading fitness and wellness management company based in Florham Park, New Jersey. She serves as the general manager of its fitness center at the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center (AHWC), at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora. She joined IHRSA’s board of directors in 2012.
Have you ever wondered why you read industry publications such as CBI? What do you think our editors, writers, and designers are attempting to provide? What sort of ROI do you expect on the time you invest in reading this magazine?
Well, speaking for the editorial team, I’d like to explain that we have a wide range of objectives, which, insofar as they match your needs, can make for a rewarding relationship. Among the goals on our “to-do” list are reporting on major industry develop- ments; identifying new best practices; sharing the results of recent research (and IHRSA produces a great deal of that); promoting the industry’s causes; acknowledging its achieve- ments; crediting its heroes; championing its practitioners ....
David Kraai is the CEO of Fitness On Request, based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, which offers the Hybrid Group eXercise Platform (HGXP), a turnkey, virtual-programming system. Kraai and his partner, Nathan Jespersen, also own and operate a total of seven Anytime Fitness franchises.


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World Agrochemical Network Chinese website report:Recently, Ceradis Crop Protection BV announced that its innovative biosulfur fungicide CeraSulfur has been registered in Italy and is first used in grapes. De Sangosse Italia will be distributed under the Whisper brand.
CeraSulfur SC is a breakthrough product, it is the first agricultural source sulfur fungicide. Sulfur is produced by bacteria, which convert the by-product hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in biogas into elemental sulfur. The origin of the process is farm waste. This organic and cyclic sulfur has a different chemical structure and smaller particle size, making it more effective than conventional sulfur. In addition, contrary to conventional sulfur, which is hydrophobic, it is hydrophilic, making it easier to handle and combine with other products. Therefore, CeraSulfur provides growers with excellent performance such as dust-free, low sulfur demand, less residue, and excellent blendability. This unique patented product won the French Bronze Medal in the 2020 Sival Innovation Competition.
Ceradis CEO Willem-Jan Meulemeesters said that the crop protection industry is facing continuous pressure to shift from chemical pesticides to biological pesticides. They have already launched products under the brand names Whisper and Kashmir in France with their partner De Sangosse in 2020. Their goal is to provide farmers with alternatives to chemical pesticides and look forward to working with De Sangosse Italia to ensure the successful launch of CeraSulfur in Italy. Sangosse plans to expand its trademarks in France and Italy and obtain registration in Spain.


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- The cost of super petrol and diesel have increased by KSh 2.67 and KSh 2.13 respectively
- Kerosene users will pay less as the price of the commodity was reduced by KSh 0.26
- The prices will take effect from Saturday, February 15 to Saturday, March 14 as announced by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority
Petrol and diesel users will pay for the commodities after the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) announced new prices in its latest review.
The cost of super petrol and diesel have increased by KSh 2.67 and KSh 2.13 respectively but the price of kerosene has however, decreased by KSh 0.26.
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In its monthly review on Friday, February 14, the regulator said a liter of petrol will retail at KSh 110.40 in Mombasa, KSh 112.87 in Nairobi, KSh 112.61 in Nakuru and KSh 113.59 in Eldoret.
A liter of diesel on the other hand will cost KSh 101.98 in Mombasa, KSh 104.45 in Nairobi, KSh 105.37 in Kisumu, KSh 104.41 in Nakuru and KSh 105.38 in Eldoret.
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Kerosene will be sold at KSh 100.23 in Mombasa, KSh 102.69 in Nairobi and KSh 102.65 in Nakuru.
The prices will take effect from Saturday, February 15 to Saturday, March 14.
In January, EPRA increased the prices of super petrol by KSh 0.70, diesel by KSh 0.54 and kerosene by KSh 1.64.
The latest prices was attributed to a 3.91% and 2.68% surge on the landed cost of imported super petrol and diesel per cubic metre respectively as the cost of buying kerosene decreased by 2.6% for the same amount.
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The Czech Republic is moving forward on cannabis reform and calling for EU-wide coordination. Will this be the final tipping point in Europe to create a regional approach to full legalization?
The Czech Republic has been moving forward on the entire cannabis conversation in Europe if, not exactly in stealth, then certainly with less cross-European fanfare than others. However, this country, which implemented medical reform way ahead of anyone else (in 2013) and further now allows dispensation via digital prescription – albeit still by specialty physicians – is now moving forward on full cannabis legalization. The results domestically should be interesting, beyond their impact on other places, starting with this fact. Patients are allowed now to have up to 180 grams of dry flower in their possession.
The Czech Recreational Cannabis Legalization Initiative
This fall, however, the pace of reform seems to have picked up steam if not deadlines for implementation. Indeed Czech National Anti-drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil is working closely with other parts of the federal government to have a bill drafted to set out regulations and market conditions for the same domestically by the end of the year.
Beyond this, the Czechs are also calling for a pan-European approach to implementing recreational cannabis reform. It is, for this reason, that they will almost certainly join the working group established in July and consisting of Germany, Luxembourg, and Malta.
The timing is certainly interesting – namely at roughly the same time the German government has discussed releasing its own draft legislation to create a legal market aus Deutschland.
Could the Czech announcement impact the pace of reform in Germany if not across the EU?
The answer is almost certainly yes.
Here are a few places where the pro-reform countries can move the entire regulation issue ahead – and further on a regional level.
Homogenization of Standards and Rules
There is enough at stake, and this is a big enough area, that the so-far limited calls from the pharma side of the industry for cross-border homogenization on EU-GMP are likely to spread to anyone who cares about recreational cannabis reform too – and sooner than later.
Many of these issues will actually go away once cannabis and cannabis products are normalized. For example, Europe has regional standards on all consumables bound for both human and animal consumption. Many of the largest bugbears that have so far haunted the industry everywhere, will disappear across Europe at this juncture. Organic and craft cannabis, for this very reason, will have vast consumer appeal.
GACP vs GMP Regulation for Cross Border Trade in High THC Flower and Product
One of the largest questions any pro-recreational reform European government (or for that matter legalizing country anywhere on the planet right now) has to decide is how to properly control and regulate particularly high THC cannabis across international borders. Right now, the discussion is complicated enough for CBD. On a European level, CBD under .2% (soon to be 0.3% at the turn of the year) is not designated as a narcotic. However, for example, Spanish regulators do consider it to be so. This kind of patchwork, understandably, gets complicated for exporters and importers. Regional regs would absolutely help. That said, such reforms also then have to be implemented on a national standard too. CBD is still in the German Narcotics Act (for example).
Beyond this, however, there are many questions about how to regulate higher THC flower and products. The discussion about what actually constitutes GMP cultivation (i.e., indoor vs outdoor) is just one of those complicated topics – and is already part of the legalization discussion in Germany (for starters).
The European CBD market right now is in dire need of higher standards – particularly when it comes to products containing CBD oil extract. Setting regional standards – or even applying existing standards on food and consumable goods that already exist in the EU to this vertical is not only a critical step from a quality control perspective. It will also allow the entire vertical a much clearer, less complex path to market.
The bane of the CBD edibles conversation almost everywhere so far across Europe, this will not simply disappear when THC is added to the mix. What will be interesting to see is if legalizing countries like Germany and the Czech Republic waive such requirements in exchange for COAs – as has been suggested in the UK – or even waive them completely (as Switzerland has just done) and further rely on existing food and other product safety standards that apply to everything else?
This is going to be a topic likely to garner challenges if not loopholes galore, particularly on cross-border sales in a digital environment. Expect that tobacco and alcohol-like restrictions to be in the room, across the region, making this a difficult area for years to come.
This is even more true because medical cannabis reform has now been implemented across Europe. Advertising “narcotics” which high THC cannabis will almost certainly remain classified on the medical side, which becomes even more complicated in this environment.
Point of Sale Regulations
It is almost certain that although CBD online shops are flourishing in Europe, higher THC sales will be almost universally banned online – for obvious reasons – at least at first. That said, one of the best ways to move this possibility forward is cross-EU regulation for the entire industry. It cannot be kept at bay forever.
While this is something that governments will not really be able to regulate directly, they certainly can work together to set certain targets for both sales price and taxation. The combination of the two, of course, must be competitive with current black-market pricing. Beyond this, setting prices for EU GMP flower and extracts – even of the generic kind – is very good for setting other benchmarks for everything else.


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The cold storage segment is expected to witness significant growth over the next few years on the back of a strong consumer and industrial base, according to the findings of CBRE South Asia.
The findings were released by the leading real estate consulting firm on October 12.
Following the COVID-19 outbreak, the demand for CS is also being further fueled by a wider omni-channel distribution of F&G across Tier-I and Tier-II cities in the country, according to the report. Further, the cold chain network would also play a vital role in reducing the loss of the produce and improving CS efficiencies, it said.
States including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, Punjab Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Haryana and Karnataka accounted for 91 per cent of the total CS capacity in India in 2019. The overall CS RE stock of in the country is estimated to reach 1,400 – 1,500 million sq. ft. by 2023.
Anshuman Magazine, Chairman, India & South East Asia, Middle East & Africa, CBRE, said, “CS facilities play an integral role in improving the shelf life of products and are an important enabler for several industries working across fresh food production and delivery; along with healthcare and other products such as flowers and chemicals. Considering the potential of the CS segment in the country, we expect that consumer/industry-led factors in India would continue to attract the interest of leading players in the coming years.”
Ram Chandnani, Managing Director, Advisory and Transaction Services India, CBRE South Asia, said, “The CS segment has the potential to positively impact the ecosystem around the F&B industry. In this age of digitisation and improved internet access, we expect the demand for OFD services in both rural and urban areas to grow and further propel the demand for CS facilities in India.”
Abhinav Joshi, Head of Research, CBRE India, added, “Increasing urbanisation and a rise in retail food processing have been accelerating the demand for products that need efficient CS facilities. Local grocery and departmental stores are also becoming smarter and developing innovative ways to deliver food, thus expanding the market for OFD services and consequently CS facilities.”


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The province should develop a licensing regime to allow for designated cannabis-consumption lounges when marijuana becomes legal next year, say Victoria councillors.
Olivia Newton-John will champion the use of medicinal cannabis when she is in Australia this week, to raise money for her wellness and research centre.
Farmacy Dispensary is the first storefront cannabis retailer to receive a business licence from the City of Victoria.
As little Gemma was settled for bedtime, she was given a dose of cannabis oil the Victorian government bought from Canada last week.
What’s touted as a one-stop shopping centre for all your weed needs is getting up and running at 1627 Quadra St.
Nearly 60 Hawaii residents applied to open the U.S. state’s first medical marijuana dispensaries.
Medicinal cannabis could be legally grown and prescribed to patients as early as next year under a cross party bill that has attracted initial support from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Approved growers would be able to cultivate medicinal cannabis and pharmacists to dispense marijuana products to treat people with chronic illness under landmark changes to Victorian law aimed at helping children and adults with otherwise untreatable conditions.
Victoria GP aims to challenge some of the stigma around medical marijuana
CANNABIS CULTURE - A public hearing regarding the City of Vancouver's proposed regulations for medical marijuana dispensaries will be held at City Hall on Wednesday, June 10, 2015, at 6 PM.


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Considering the crazy, continued success, 2015-2016 could be viewed as the year of 'Rocket League.' And the one year anniversary approaches, 505 Games and Psyonix have announced a 'Rocket League: Collector's Edition.'
This version takes the original hit game, two DLC packs, 'Supersonic Fury, Revenge of the Battle-Cars' and 'Chaos Run,' and four brand-new vehicles.
The CE is coming to the PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and is due out in North America on July 5th, which will be after the June 24th EMEA release date.
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The proposal, written by Sen. Dale Schultz and first floated in the Republican caucus early last week, calls for most collective bargaining rights of public-employee unions to be eliminated—per Mr. Walker's bill—but then reinstated in 2013, said Mr. Schultz's chief of staff Todd Allbaugh.
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DealReporter, a Financial Times web publication that tracks mergers and acquisitions, said Wednesday that Kroger might be a likely buyer of the chain.
Harris Teeter hired J.P. Morgan to help it decide whether to sell the company and to consider other options, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
DealReporter had reported Jan. 18 that Harris Teeter was looking at a possible sale.
Kroger (NYSE: KR), of course, isn’t saying whether or not it’s interested in buying Harris Teeter, a chain of about 200 stores along the East Coast from Florida to Delaware. Kroger has more than 2,400 stores in 31 states. But it doesn’t have any in Florida, Maryland or Delaware, and it has just 16 stores in North Carolina, according to its most recent Fact Book.
Kroger CEO David Dillon told investors in October that Kroger will invest $200 million a year to boost square footage, add stores in existing markets and target new markets. That could include acquisitions, he told the Wall Street Journal.
And DealReporter pointed out that Kroger just increased its shelf registration to issue stocks and bonds by $1.8 billion. That now means it’s registered to sell up to $2.5 billion in securities. That could pave the way for a sizable acquisition.
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A research paper from Trinity College Dublin has shed light on how Google collects data through the use of its phone dialer and messaging apps. It’s a very annoying way of telling you the same thing you might have read about how evil Google was harvesting information about who you call and what you send to your friends. It’s also a good transition to talk about the biggest issue of user privacy in the digital age.
What Google did was wrong. Let’s be clear on this. But what Google did was also something it told you about in advance that technically gave you the option to opt out. “Technically.”
Google later explained what was going on, which forced most of the early articles about the situation to be edited and the inflammatory language to be canceled. I would like to call out Android Police for the great way it handled this in particular. Well done, AP. Unfortunately, posts like this are forced to report when news arrives and would be financially punished for waiting. all the details.
I hate what Google did here, but it doesn’t surprise me at all. In fact, we knew in advance that more data was going to be collected through the dialer and messaging app when Google told us it was rolling out new features like better call filtering and verified text messages. There were even blog posts. That doesn’t make things right, though.
The original author of the article did not write it, so we would have sensational headlines to read. There were things that could be done better, and that information was made available to Google and then later to the public. Fortunately, Google took some of the advice and changed things up in a minor way.
Faulty “opt-out” option
My biggest complaint is about the whole opt-out issue. Technically (there’s that pesky word again) we can opt out of data collection through the dialer or any app by reading all the policies and not agreeing when we first log into our android phone . That means you can’t use any of the smart features and you should probably put it back in the box for a full refund and get a flip phone. This problem goes beyond Google; all technology companies from Amazon to Zillow require you to provide personal information to receive services, whether free or not.
Data powers the modern digital economy and your data is invaluable. It’s invaluable if you don’t care about any of this and it’s invaluable if you live off the grid and wear a tinfoil hat. User data is how a business can become worth billions of dollars.
Companies are enriched by your data
It’s time for all of us to figure this out, whether we like it or not. Google hasn’t become the giant it is by selling Pixel phones. Apple was guessing what features to include in the next version of its products. Amazon hasn’t become the biggest online retailer by offering the best products at the best prices. They all became “too big to fail” using our data.
Every day, billions and billions of gigabytes of data are created. Some of them are harmless, like the web page telling us what’s on sale at Target next week. Some of them are personal and less harmless, like your phone telling Google or your cell service provider where you were every minute of every day for the past week by tracking your location. We give some of our data freely, some reluctantly, and often we give it away without even knowing it. The problem is that we have to do it.
I can’t tell you what you should feel comfortable sharing when it comes to your personal data. It’s a decision that will be different for all of us. I can say I don’t like why we give it away though. Do you want to use the best Android phone? Well, you have to agree to give data that you might not want to share with Google, with the company that made your phone, companies that made apps included as extra features, and even third parties that are needed to accumulate and categorize the mountain of data collected about us.
Companies like Google are quick to tell us how transparent they are because they’re required to do the bare minimum when complying with data protection and privacy laws, but it’s very rare to see a tech company do the right thing and not follow us. unless he absolutely has to. There’s just too much money in there.
Can things change?
I’m not saying we’ve reached the dystopian future we see in movies or TV shows, at least not yet. I say we have been tricked into thinking we control how our data is collected and used when the truth is we have no real choices and are forced to comply or opt out of the digital renaissance. I hope things can get better, but I don’t see how it can happen.


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The Sheaf speaks to the U of S vice-provost of teaching, learning and student experience about the updated policy.
Cierra Sieben-Chuback was awarded a cannabis retail permit shortly after convoking this spring.
The Sheaf looks at past voting trends and the importance of voting in the upcoming USSU by-election.
The Sheaf speaks to the USSU and the Office of Sustainability about clothes, food and sustainability.
The Sheaf speaks to an organizer of the Fall Neuroscience Research Symposium.
Neil Richards’ The Thing I’m Most Proud Of… is now on display at Murray Library.
The Sheaf speaks with the co-ordinator of the Pride Centre about Dragpocalypse, Queerapalooza and more.
In addition to the youth representatives, two chiefs have expressed concern over a disagreement in the FSIN office.
One Riversdale grocer aims to increase food accessibility by implementing a pay-what-you-can shelf.
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E-commerce is certainly driving air cargo and presents both opportunities and challenges and is causing disruption across the industry, delegates at the Farnborough International Airshow heard yesterday.
The boom in the sector has led to a strain on capacity while the likes of Alibaba and Amazon are creating their own end-to-end chains and operators across the supply chain are busy adjusting or creating new strategies to deal with the sector.
Panellists discussed the impact of express and e-commerce freight in the Cargo Village’s conference, the first to be held at the airshow, which was moderated by IATA’s head of cargo, Glyn Hughes.
Seabury Consulting managing director, Marco Bloeman first gave delegates the lowdown of the impact that e-commerce and small parcels are having on the industry and he said in the fourth quarter of last there was strong growth in the number of shipments.
He added ambitious delivery targets of key e-commerce players may change global supply chains and will likely cause increasing disruption across the air cargo industry.
Turkish Cargo chief cargo officer, Turhan Ozen was upbeat about the prospects for the industry and said it is the perfect position to meet the demands that e-commerce brings.
He said shippers’ and their customers are looking for speed, reliability, versatility, predictability, visibility and transparency. Ozen added: “I believe we should be looking at it from an integrated perspective for the whole process.”
DHL Global Forwarding head of network carrier management, Henk Venema said the e-commerce boom is providing the integrator with widespread challenges.
“From a freight forwarding view we are doubting if it (e-commerce) is an opportunity or a competitor for space,” he said.
Venema said individual players are working on their own within the e-commerce marketplace and using their own systems and ways of operating.
“As an industry we are simply too slow and there is know willingness for people to market an investment for someone else,” he said.
Venema also said another challenge when it comes to the sector is Customs as these vary from country to country and explained that many operators are focusing solely on one e-commerce trade lane.
“E-commerce players are always looking for Customs clearance and want it to be quick. Freight forwarders are not able to cope with that which express operators can do,” he added.
Fellow panellist Etihad Airways managing director of cargo and logistics services, Abdulla Shadid agreed and said Customs varies from China to the EU and the Middle East which can prove difficult as different ways of working are needed and there is no certainty of flow.
He said another challenge was the fragmentation of the market: “The big obstacle we find is there are people to only want to play in this market. Key players can play there but hold hands with other critical parts of the industry.
“The key challenge is to form the right players and the right partners in each area and they hold hands to create a seamless flow,” he said.
The lack of investment in air cargo infrastructure is often talked about and panellists felt there is a lack of facilities in the air cargo industry to meet strong e-commerce demand now and in the future.
“The infrastructure has not caught up,” Venema said and he added neither has the people side of the business to deal with the increasing number of shipments e-commerce is bringing and put the blame at procurements strategies.
The industry has had trouble in recruiting talent and he used an example in the US, where he said it is better for a person to flip burgers than work in cargo handling as they are paid more in a fast food chain.
Shadid believed it is not just about bricks and mortar but also about developing IT systems to make operations seamless and investments are needed in facilities.
“The amount of facilities that are new is a minority and the majority of the industry is sweating on existing facilities,” he said.
Hughes asked the panellists to sum up views and Ozen said the challenge to operators is determining where they want to play and whether a business wants to act as an integrator or as a point to point operator.
Venema said the challenge for DHL is how does it maximise the benefits that the e-commerce boom can bring and also how does it protect the existing freight forwarding business which-commerce is impacting.
For Etihad, Shadid said it was all about developing key product verticals with high yield and with the capacity it has it needs to choose commodities and play to its strengths.
Air cargo is certainly in pole position in the modal fight for e-commerce business as can provide customers with the speed shippers and customers crave, but how it will pan out is certainly unknown.


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Customers at Bank of America are more likely to leave the bank than customers of other big banks and credit unions, according to a recent poll.
Nine percent of Bank of America customers say they're "not at all likely" to continue with the bank, a Harris Interactive poll found. That's compared to 3 percent of JPMorgan Chase customers, 6 percent of Wells Fargo/Wachovia customers and 2 percent of credit union customers.
The results of the poll come just days after Bank of America announced it was scrapping plans to implement a much derided debit card fee. One-third of consumers said they would leave their banks if they put debit card fees in place, according to a Research Intelligence Group survey released last month. After Bank of America announced that it would charge customers $5 per month starting in 2012 to use their debit card for purchases, criticism poured in from customers and lawmakers.
But Bank of America wasn't the only bank to backtrack on proposed fees for once-free services. Suntrust Banks and Regions Financial called off their debit card fees hours before Bank of America made its announcement, according to the Wall Street Journal. JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo also cancelled programs testing debit card fees.
Still, some big banks haven't walked away from charging other fees. Citibank announced last month that it would charge some customers $20 for low account balances, the bank also announced in September that it would charge customers with basic checking accounts $10 per month if their balance ran below $1,500.
When the banks first started rolling out the fees, industry officials defended the charges saying that they needed to charge the fees in order to recoup losses that would result as lawmakers implemented the financial reforms in the Dodd-Frank Act.
But President Barack Obama wasn't buying it. In an interview with ABC News last month, Obama said that the banks "don't have some inherent right just to, you know, get a certain amount of profit if your customers are being mistreated."
And the customers say they're feeling like they're mistreated. Fifteen percent of Bank of America customers say the bank doesn't value them compared to 10 percent of Wells Fargo/Wachovia customers and less than 0.5 percent of credit union customers, according to the Harris poll.
The feelings of poor treatment have prompted consumers to switch over to credit unions. The nation's largest credit union said new account volumes were up 23 percent the weekend after Bank of America announced the debit card fee.
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Two new micro-breweries are all set to spread the good cheer as the tropical north finally starts to catch on to the craft beer revolution.
It's time to raise a glass and celebrate the long-awaited return of locally brewed beer to the tropical north.
Hemingway's Brewery at Port Douglas has just celebrated the first batch of its new brew to be carbonated and kegged, while Barrier Reef Brewing Co. at Stratford has opened its doors to weekly tastings and cellar sales.
The two new micro-breweries mark the return of locally made craft beer to the region, following the closure of much-loved and missed Blue Sky Brewery in 2014.
Hemingway's is busy recruiting staff and completing its fit-out ahead of its planned opening at the Reef Marina later this month.
The brewery is today celebrating the first kegging of its signature beers, with a range of six varieties including IPA, pilsner, pale ale and dark lager to be available when its open the doors to its 850sq/m venue.
Hemingway's head brewer Jared Stewart said he wants to create "bespoke craft brews that Port Douglas can be proud to call their own".
"The microbrewery was developed from the ethos of taking the community with us on a journey through the brewing process," Stewart said.
"To that end, customers are able to interact with the brewer through large windows and visible working tanks.
"Customers can watch the magic happening and ask questions, while we will also be conducting regular tasting sessions where locals will have the chance to give their feedback on the beers."
Barrier Reef Brewing Co. recently opened its doors from 5-7pm on Thursdays and 4-6pm on Fridays for tastings and cellar door sales.
The Aeroglen brewery is starting to gain traction in local restaurants and bars, with a selection of the craft beers available at NOA in Edge Hill and Pullman Cairns International.


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Nerd Street has secured four new strategic partnerships for its esports tournament circuits. The North American esports infrastructure company announced its partnership with four technology-based companies namely, BenQ, Metafy, CS.MONEY and DigitalOcean.
These four partners will sponsor various Nerd Street tournaments, thereby adding more value to the circuits in general.
Metafy, DigitalOcean, and BenQ will sponsor Nerd Street Champs circuits, with Metafy and DigitalOcean directing their support to Nerd Street Champs Valorant tournaments. BenQ’s sponsorship will be directed towards all Nerd Street Champs Apex Legends tournaments.
BenQ will utilize its MOBIUZ product in its support for all upcoming Apex Legends tournaments organized by Nerd Street. The gaming monitor built on BenQ’s proprietary technology will be the official gaming monitor for the Apex Legends tournaments.
CS.MONEY, on the other hand, will join FTX – Nerd Street CS:GO tournament circuit’s presenting partner. CS.MONEY will be the second sponsor of the Fragdelphia tournament circuit.
Head of Programming for Nerd Street, Stephen Csikos commented on the partnerships, highlighting the symbiotic relationship it offers. He was confident that the partnership offers Nerd Street Champs circuits an avenue to grow and expand its reach to new gamers who wish to compete on the highest level.
“Through these new partnerships, we will be able to grow our Nerd Street Champs and Fragadelphia circuits while expanding our reach to new gamers who want to compete at the highest level,” Csikos said.
He also stated that the partnership offers the various brands involved brand awareness as gamers will be familiar with their products and services through its tournament events and broadcasts.
“Additionally, gamers will know the spectacular services and products of BenQ Mobiuz, DigitalOcean, Metafy, and CS.MONEY through inclusion in our tournament events and broadcasts,” he continued.
Nerd Street Champs, which was launched in March 2022 features tournaments on esports titles such as Valorant, Apex Legends, Halo Infinite, and Madden 22. The partners will be joining gaming chair manufacturing company Mavix and fruit-flavored sweet brand Mike and Ike on Nerd Street’s partnership sheet.
Nerd Street Champs Apex Legends circuit is scheduled to commence on August 25th in Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania. The event will feature four LAN tournaments with a prize pool of $10,000.
Nerd Street had earlier announced a nationwide expansion of its esports camps in addition to hosting its event circuits. The company had stated that expansion will help build ‘healthier gaming habits’ for all participants of its programs across the country.
About the four strategic partners
Metafy is an esports coaching platform that helps gaming enthusiasts learn how to play. The online platform allows video gamers to monetize their talents by coaching and creating online courses. The Pittsburgh-based company was formed in 2020 and has since raised over $33 million in funding.
DigitalOcean is a technology company that prides itself on being one of the best cloud infrastructure providers. The New York-based company provides cloud infrastructure as a service to developers, startups, and SMBs.
BenQ, the Taiwanese multinational company deals in the selling and marketing of technology products, communication, and computing devices alongside consumer electronics. The company boasts of one of the best gaming monitors in the gaming space.
CS.MONEY is a CS:GO trading platform that helps gamers buy, sell and exchange skins faster and safely.