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I’m walking through a frenzied beehive of activity on a dry March afternoon. Around me is a blur of motion as people rush past, barely noticing me. I am clearly the outsider. Everyone’s carrying something on their backs. In front of me, a narrow, stinking nullah runs through piles of discarded metal.
This isn’t any metal. These are the guts of discarded mobile phones and computers. They lie on the ground, strewn carelessly along at least a dozen lanes that connect the main road on the left to maze of lanes that surround me. Along the dirty rivulet, trucks, both small and large, are parked with their backs wide open. Men and teenage boys dart about, hauling cartons full of electronic junk from the trucks and taking them to houses that dot the lanes.
“Please be careful,” Vinod Kumar, a volunteer with Toxics Link, a NGO specialising in research and policy advocacy on electronic waste or e-waste, has cautioned me. “These people might get offended if they realise you’re taking pictures or making notes.”
I am in Seelampur, a semi-urban pocket located approximately 10 kilometres northeast of New Delhi. It’s a relatively young town, created in 1993 to relocate people living in north and central Delhi who were displaced after their homes were knocked down in the Emergency in the seventies.
Today, its claim to fame is being India’s digital underbelly.
Nearly a quarter of India’s three million tonnes of e-waste generated every year is dumped in Seelampur. If you live in north India, chances are high that the smartphone you bought last year and trashed because something better came along, went to die here.
India’s technology revolution and its hunger for cheap smartphones has had a nasty fall out: we are now the fifth largest generator of e-waste in the world. Last month, the country rejected a proposal from Apple seeking to sell refurbished iPhones citing fears of an American company treating India as a “dumping ground” for secondhand phones. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his multi-day India tour last week, presumably made one more push to let the government sell refurbished iPhones. Cook could have helped set the tone by talking about Liam, an iPhone recycling robot that Apple showed off just two months back.
Harvesting metal, a milligram a time
Ashfaq Ahmed, 40, is no Liam. He looked up at me with eyes that looked tired and hurt. He was breaking down an old IBM personal computer, trying to dismantle the motherboard before it could be put through an acid wash.
“Are you from an NGO?” he asked me.
No, I said. I was there to write about e-waste and its impact. Ahmed looked unperturbed.
“What’s there to write about?” he said. “We’ve been recycling waste over four generations. E-waste is just the new waste.” As I stood there talking to Ahmed, I realised that workers nearby had started getting suspicious of my conversation with him. And before one of them could come up and ask any questions, I pretended to take a call on my phone and walked away quickly. “It can be dangerous if they find out that you’re a journalist writing about e-waste issues,” another worker told me later.
The media and NGOs, Seelampur’s e-waste workers think, bring unwanted attention to India’s e-waste problem. “Some NGO people came last time with foreigners and there were police raids weeks after that,” according to another worker. To be sure, there is other economic activity like forging, jeans stitching units, incense stick rolling and other small industries, but none of those bear the brunt of the police as much as the e-waste businesses.
Seelampur is not the only place in the country where generations of workers like Ahmed have been taking electronics apart. Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh; Loni, Mundka and Mandoli on the outskirts of Delhi; Kolkata and its suburbs in West Bengal; and Perungudi, Ambattur and Guindy in Chennai district are among hundreds of poorly regulated hubs that deal with nearly three million tonnes of e-waste annually.
The story in all these hubs is the same. Hundreds of thousands of men, teenaged boys and even women are employed in India’s unorganised e-waste recycling sector, hunting for precious metals such as lead, copper, aluminium, brass, silver and even gold from piles of motherboards, circuit boards, computer server cards, and what have you.
Motherboards are dipped in sulphuric acid for extracting silver and gold. Circuit boards are cooked in high flames to extract copper. Other discarded computer and phone components are treated to get the tiniest extracts of precious metals, including hazardous ones like lead, which finds hungry buyers in the informal — and formal — battery industry. Other precious metals that can be extracted from e-waste include platinum, gallium, palladium, tantalum, tellurium, germanium and selenium — finding their way into myriad products like jewellery and batteries.
It all starts when you exchange your old phone with a new smartphone. After giving you the discount in lieu for the phone, the shopkeeper trades it with a recycler in Seelampur or elsewhere. Shastri Park in Delhi for instance, is the hub for dismantling e-waste, mostly phones, and it’s not too far from Seelampur.
If it’s a working phone, it gets buffed and sold as a second-hand product. “We still get old Nokia phones in working condition. Workers in our own colony buy it for Rs 500 or more,” says Ahmed. He and his coworkers are not always the best to judge whether an electronic product has any life left in it. Often, there are smaller scrap traders who frequent Seelampur and other such clusters looking for products that can be refurbished or resold.
Dismantle, segregate, extract: For Rs 200 a day
Much before the recyclers get to extracting precious metals, dismantling happens in a hub like Seelampur where chips from phones, and other components are taken apart. Some of these components are also used by repair shops to fix broken parts of everything from television to a mobile phone.
Plastics, metallic parts and circuit boards are segregated first. Plastic goes to Mundka or Tikri Kalan in Delhi, from there it goes to Bawana, Nangloi among other clusters where plastic can be processed. Circuit boards with precious metals like copper, lead and gold go to Moradabad, which specialises in gold extraction. Other parts go to Mandoli and Loni where lead and copper are extracted after acid wash. In Seelampur, hot blue torches are used to melt the boards, too.
Who buys the extracted metals? There are formal copper smelting plants that mostly buy the extracts, purify and then use further. Lead has many takers among the battery industry, which too is informal for the large part. In Mandoli, for instance, there are battery manufacturers who engage in quick cash transactions.
There are around 170 authorised recyclers in India currently. Attero Recycling for instance, have network to collect e-waste from across the country and it’s all processed at the company’s Roorkee plant. Of these, only four or five are real recyclers, the rest are dismantlers.
Priti Mahesh, a senior programme coordinator at Toxics Link, who has spent over a decade researching e-waste, says the informal recycling network is “really big” but it is difficult to put a number to the number of people involved in it or the number of dismantlers or recyclers. She reckons at least 90% of the e-waste in the country is dismantled and recycled in unorganised hubs like Seelampur but the efficiency of extracting metals is abysmally poor — as low as 20%-30% — because the extractors do not have sophisticated equipments and the labour does not have any expertise in dealing with the complex requirements.
Most workers in Seelampur earn less than Rs 200 a day. Their income is linked to how much they can dismantle and extract every day. It also depends on what they extract. As Naved, another worker in Seelampur told me, metals like copper can fetch Rs 400 or more a kilo. Gold and silver can fetch much more but gold extraction is fraught with danger.
As Rohan Gupta, COO of Attero Recycling, a Noida-based e-waste management company, pointed out, these workers use cyanide while extracting gold in a process called gold cyanidation — normally used by some of the world’s biggest miners as a metallurgical technique to extract gold from low-grade ore.
The economics justifies the means for the poor in Seelampur. Extracting Gold from useless smartphones is indeed lucrative. For instance, 41 smartphones contain a gram of gold — worth about Rs3,000. For every one million smartphones recycled, 16,000 kg, 350 kg of silver, 34 kg of gold, and 14 kg of palladium can be recovered, according to Attero.
Dying slowly every day
Metals extraction and toxic fumes have played havoc with the health of workers in Seelampur. As I walk around the narrow stream, the water starts getting darker as residual waste from acid-washing computer chips is dumped into it.
“It’s like a curse that we must live with — the money is better than what the government job schemes offer. But the price we are paying terms of health hazards is huge,” says Abid, who uses only his first name and cautions me about not looking conspicuous or talking to too many people.
According to a study by Assocham, a Delhi based industry body, last year, 76% of India’s e-waste workers are prone to cancer and suffer from weakened immune systems. For each metal they extract, workers such as Abid run the risk of damaging their health in several ways as the Research Journal of Chemical and Environmental Sciences points out. For instance, lead can damage central nervous system, kidney, and even affect brain development of children exposed to it.
Much of the demand for recycling can be traced to the avarice of Indians — and, indeed, people all over the world — for the latest electronic gadget. The race to flood the India market with mobile phones has never been bigger. According to a study from 91Mobiles.com, 90 brands launched 256 mobile phone models in India in the last three months alone. “Most of the technology products today, especially phones, are built to become obsolete faster,” says Mahesh of Toxics Link.
The phenomenon even has a name — “planned obsolescence”. In December last year, a lawsuit filed in a New York court accused Apple of engaging in planned obsolescence, and claimed $5 million in damages.
India’s burgeoning middle class is a happy consumer of such planned obsolescence — buying phones by the container loads.Phone makers sold 97 million phones in India in 2015, estimates Cyber Media Research, making it the world’s fastest growing market for such devices. One such buyer is Kumar Kaushal, a student, who lives in Patparganj, a middle class neighbourhood in East Delhi. Kaushal, 24, has changed his mobile phone nearly a dozen times in five years — more than two a year. He is unaware that his older phones may have gone to Seelampur to die.
If the environmental and human costs of e-waste processing are so high, why hasn’t more of such work moved to organised processors? (E-waste quantities are estimated to be growing at 25-26% year on year.) One, governments are quite oblivious to the scale of the problem. Local and state governments, which are responsible for pollution control certificates since 2011, often turn a blind eye to the situation. Some NGOs have been battling the problem but it is too little to make a big impact.
Two, for a country producing nearly three million tonnes of e-waste, there are only about 100 recyclers authorised by the government in India, according to Toxics Link. And, not all of them are equipped with end-end-end capabilities to recycle e-waste in an eco-friendly manner. Globally, companies such as Umicore in Belgium, have more sophisticated recycling infrastructure than most counterparts in India. Companies such as Attero in India are taking steps in that direction, too, but again it is a tiny effort.
The informal recycling sector in India needs a reboot, a massive overhaul. For its part, Attero has been trying to work with the e-waste recyclers in Seelampur doing small pilots asking informal recyclers to come and sell their e-waste to the company. But according to Gupta, until all the stakeholders, including technology manufacturers, actively participate, it cannot be scaled beyond a pilot. Attero also launched Gobol.in earlier this year, selling refurbished phones and other electronic devices online.
I’ve been walking around the cramped lanes of Seelampur for six hours and it is beginning the get dark. In the distance, bang in the middle of the metallic mess, is a small shack selling tea. The owner, Asgar, is 39 but looks about 50. As I sip a steaming cup of sickly-sweet tea, I see doors, half-open, in the street I am in. Young children are prying apart motherboards inside.
As I get up to leave, a beautiful nine-year-old girl walks in to fetch tea for her father and her uncle. She’s coughing constantly. I ask Asgar if it’s the weather.
“They cough all the time,” he says. “The air is so heavy here that it becomes difficult to breathe every time there’s even a slight change in the weather.” said Asgar. I ask him if he suffers from any respiratory problems. He doesn’t, thankfully, he says.
While researching for the Seelampur story, I thought we would chronicle a series of articles traveling across other e-waste recycling clusters of Moradabad and other places. But then I realised that while the frames will be different in terms of location and the setting, there wouldn’t be much to tell in terms of fresh narratives. I have dropped the idea.
It’s twilight as I make my way back along the blackened stream that cuts through Seelampur. The sky is dark but the water in the stream is darker. I stand at the junction that overlooked the Seelampur metro station on one side and the urban mess that is the e-waste capital of India, on the other. It was almost like they were two isolated and contradicting worlds — one, reflecting modern, urban progress and the other, the dark, digital underbelly of among the world’s hungriest technology consumers.
Dusk falls but the deafening chorus created by dozens of hammers breaking down old computers and phones around me shows no sign of stopping — a background score to a tragic movie.
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2020 has been a year of many challenges. Yet it is in difficult times that we often see people pull together – ingenuity and resilience at their best. This has been exemplified by the way our team and our community at Ram Quarter, Greenland’s redevelopment of the former Young’s brewery in Wandsworth, have responded to the global pandemic.
Residential sales have remained strong, and buyers continue to be attracted by Ram Quarter’s unique history and architectural excellence – something we celebrated this year with the site’s participation in the Open House London design festival.
Leasing activity has also continued on the excellent trajectory we set in 2019, with retail and leisure space for the first phase of the development now almost 85 per cent let. One deal is still in solicitors’ hands, and there are several more under discussion. Amid a challenging climate for retail and hospitality, Greenland’s focus on independent businesses that can establish a dedicated following has been rewarded – with demand to be part of Ram Quarter’s retail and leisure hub greater than ever.
We’ll be building on this in 2021, not least with the exciting launch of Sambrook’s brewery which is returning commercial brewing to the site. Sambrook’s will take over from our nanobrewery which maintained Ram Quarter’s important brewing legacy during construction. The safeguarding of this unbroken brewing tradition and the creation of a distinctive sense of place connected to Wandsworth’s heritage has been a driving objective of Greenland’s work since we took ownership of the site. That ambition is now becoming reality. The brewery, along with five further occupiers we’re due to welcome in early 2021, will become part of a thriving hub alongside those businesses already established at Ram Quarter.
Community has been a consistent theme of 2020 as people came together over the pandemic, and it is that sense of belonging that really makes a place special – something that has been very much in evidence at Ram Quarter this year. There are now hundreds of residents living on site, from young professionals to families and retired people. It has been fantastic to see Ram Quarter become such a strong neighbourhood and the sense of pride and ownership that people have for it.
Businesses on site quickly and successfully adapted to new circumstances: London Stock launched its delivery service during lockdown; Story Coffee, with its outdoor seating, became a lively hub for socially-distanced catch-ups; and we did our own bit to raise spirits, working with our resident brewer John Hatch to provide free beer each Friday for Ram Quarter residents.
Next year, despite COVID-19 and Brexit, the outlook for the London property market is positive, especially as the arrival of a vaccine gives greater confidence that market stability will return. Annual UK house price growth is at its highest level since 2015, and London will continue to draw people from all over the world attracted by its exciting cultural, lifestyle and employment opportunities.
Ram Quarter and our other UK project Spire London are very much a part of this, and Greenland’s global reputation for excellence sees us well placed to make the most of these opportunities in the coming months and years. We have assembled a strong team in the UK, with longstanding expertise in development here and abroad. This is further supported by our partners across the design, legal and technical sectors.
As 2020 draws to a close, we look forward to better times ahead, and would like to wish all our friends, colleagues and partners a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year.
Taotao Song, CEO, Greenland UK

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Animal Experts Have Tips for Dealing With Fleas This Winter
Danville, VA - Fleas are out there in massive numbers this year. In fact, experts say this season has been the worst for fleas in more than a decade.
Fleas are everywhere and experts say it's because of the very productive mating season they had for the last several months.
If you have a dog or cat, it's important to get a handle on the fleas early before you have to deal with an infestation.
"This has been one of the worst seasons for fleas I have ever seen," said Derek Holley.
Holley owns grooming salon Hollywood Pets in Danville where lately it seems like they've seen more fleas than dogs.
"We've been here going on 5 years now. I don't remember ever going through as much flea product and doing as many flea baths as we have this year," he said.
"My dog comes to work with me every day, so he picks up everything we have in the shelter," said Paulette Dean, executive director of the Danville Humane Society.
Dean says she's witnessed firsthand with her own dog Wally that some of the top flea medicines are not getting the job done.
"It seems to me that may have been losing some of its effectiveness, for me anyway. So I needed to try something else," she said.
To kill the fleas, it is important to find the right product for the right case. For a quick fix, vets suggest a pill called Capstar. It can get rid of fleas on your dog or cat in less than two hours.
"It's great, it's magic. The fleas just drop off and it paralyzes the fleas and doesn't affect the dog at all," said Dr. Jeff Smith from Mount Hermon Animal Clinic.
But according to Smith, studies show that products like Frontline and Advantix are still the best for keeping the fleas away. The key to getting results is giving your pet the medicine both properly and consistently.
"Use them as directed. If you don't treat them every 30 days and you start trying to save money and stretch it out and do it every 45 days, you're not going to get the effectiveness," said Smith.
Experts also say not administering the right amount of medicine to your pet will help the fleas build up a resistance to some products, so be watchful of that. If you find out one of your pets has fleas, don't forget to treat all household pets and your home so the problem doesn't return.


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If you own a certain type of Vitamix blender, you may be eligible for either a $70 gift card or a new-blade assembly as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement by Vita-Mix Corporation.
A website dedicated to the settlement notes that some owners of certain Vitamix blenders claimed that the top seals of the blade assembly were defective because they resulted in tiny, black polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) flecks getting into blended food and drink.
Vita-Mix agreed to a preliminary settlement affecting blenders made between Jan. 1, 2007, and Oct. 1, 2016, while maintaining that the company denies any of its products were defective and claims the plaintiffs did not suffer any losses or injuries.
The Venturist, Ascent and Explorian series of Vitamix blenders are not part of the settlement, a company spokesperson told Consumer Reports.
Commercial blenders purchased between Sept. 15, 2015 and Aug. 9, 2016 are also eligible for the settlement.
Any owners of Vitamix blenders manufactured between those dates, which are stamped on the blades, are eligible for either a $70 gift card for Vita-Mix products or replacement blades that do not fleck.
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The legal claim states that there were no health risks from the consumption of any flecks of PTFE, just that the blenders are worth less than what consumers paid for them, which is typically between $300 and $700. Consumer Reports rates three models of the Vitamix, ranging from $530 to $650, as the best-tested blenders.
Those who are eligible will be notified via mail or email starting on Jan. 2 through information obtained by registering the blenders or from retailers that sold them.
The deadline is Sept. 28 to either fill out the online claim form or mail in a printed claim. Anyone with further questions can call the claims administrator at 855-233-4747.
Vitamix isn't the only blender maker to find itself as a legal target for angry consumers recently. A lawsuit filed in November claims at least 22 people are alleging that blenders made by Nutribullet are exploding and causing burns.
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Cybercriminals target the retail sector
Organisations in the retail sector experienced almost three times as many attacks as those in the financial sector
New research published in the NTT 2016 Global Threat Intelligence Report reveals that cybercriminals have shifted their focus from traditional financial markets, to targeting the retail sector. Retail organisations experienced nearly three times as many cyberattacks as those in the finance sector which was top of the list of cyberattacks on organisations in the 2015 report. Cyberattacks on financial industry dropped significantly to fourteenth position.
NTT’s annual Global Threat Intelligence Report contains security threats gathered during 2015 from 8,000 clients of NTT Group security companies including Dimension Data, Solutionary, NTT Com Security, NTT R&D, and NTT Innovation Institute (NTTi3). This year’s data is based on 3.5 trillion security logs and 6.2 billion attacks. Data is also gathered from 24 Security Operations Centres and seven research and development centres of the NTT Group.
The retail sector topped the list of all cybersecurity attacks on all sectors at just under 11% in this year’s report, knocking the finance sector out of first place.
Matthew Gyde, Dimension Data’s Group Executive – Security, explains: “The retail and financial sectors process large volumes of personal information and credit card data. Gaining access to these organisations enables cybercriminals to monetise sensitive data such as credit card details in the black market, which validates that cybercriminals are motivated by the rewards of financial crime.”
Rory Duncan, Head of Security Business Unit at Dimension Data UK, said “Retail companies are becoming increasingly popular targets as most process large volumes of personal information, including credit card data, in highly distributed environments with many endpoints and point-of-service devices. Such diverse environments can be difficult to protect.”
Visit www.dimensiondata.com/globalthreatreport to download the Executive Guide to the 2016 NTT Global Threat Intelligence Report.


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Still being charged for a ‘free trial’? Here's how to cancel a recurring payment
Is your credit or debit card still being charged for a ‘free trial’? Try a chargeback.
The Banking Ombudsman, Nicola Sladden, has received “numerous complaints” from people frustrated their bank can’t cancel recurring payments from their credit or debit card.
Customers may have recurring card payments set up for a subscription to a streaming service, antivirus programme or free trial.
While a bank can cancel a direct debit from a bank account, it cannot cancel a recurring payment that comes off a credit or debit card.
The authority for recurring payments is handled through the card provider (usually Visa or Mastercard). It’s “notoriously difficult” to cancel the payment without the co-operation of the business being paid, Sladden said.
“The only way to cancel these payments is with the business providing the service. If it ignores the cancellation request, the bank can’t stop the payment – but it can recover it through a chargeback,” Sladden said.
A chargeback means a bank can reverse a payment if a seller has debited an account after the customer has cancelled the service.
Your bank may need evidence of the cancellation, so keep any correspondence you’ve had with the service provider. For more information, check out Credit card chargebacks.


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Fircroft is proud to have once again made it onto the list of the UK's 50 fastest growing recruitment businesses.
Placed 16th in this year’s Recruiter Fast Top 50, Fircroft is delighted with this result. Rankings are prepared by Boxington Corporate Finance and list the fastest growing private recruitment businesses in the UK. This is calculated from the rate of the annual sales growth and measured over each entrant’s most recent three year financial reporting period.
Fircroft has shown that we have what it takes to grow and prosper in these tough and trying economic conditions and have done it at a faster rate than last year. Being a large international business, we have grown at a rate of 40.14% between 2012 to 2013. This is a testament to Fircroft’s ambition, drive and long-term thinking.
Looking ahead, Johnathan Johnson, CEO says, “We predict a similar level of growth will be confirmed for next year. Fircroft will continue to sustain not just our development but also our level of service to our clients and contractors”.


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China Is Spending Nearly $1 Trillion To Rebuild The Silk Road
The initiative is gigantic, with future investments of almost $1 trillion already announced. In comparison, America spent an inflation-adjusted $130 billion on the Marshall Plan following the World War II. China’s web of trade would span over 60 countries that are home to 4.4 billion people — more than half of the world’s population. Further, the initiative would interact with economies representing more than 40 percent of the world’s GDP. It’s a massive program that has the potential to affect global trade patterns.


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Euro Manganese plans to restart the plant for the fourth quarter of 2021 and use it to produce small samples of high-purity product samples for prospective customers to accelerate ongoing supply chain qualification work..
That qualification effort involves thorough testing and evaluation of battery raw materials prior to approval for use by cathode, battery and electric vehicle manufacturers, said the company.
The pilot plant was used in 2018 to produce manganese samples as part of the Chvaletice project's metallurgical test work programme. China's Changsha Research Institute for Mining and Metallurgy (CRIMM) has been engaged for the restart.
"Demand for sustainably-produced, battery-grade manganese is increasing rapidly and there simply isn't enough production capacity in the world to meet it today," says Euro Manganese CEO, Marco Romero. "New producers need to come on stream soon and undergo rigorous supply chain qualification of their products. The restart of our pilot plant will help us better service several prospective customers' near-term objectives to pre-qualify new producers like us."
The company has ordered a larger, demonstration plant at the Chvaletice manganese project, also from CRIMM, which is currently being fabricated in China for delivery.
That plant will recycle tailings material to produce battery-grade manganese products using the same process proposed for a further full-scale commercial plant, targeted for production in late 2024/early 2025.
Euro Manganese said in May it wants to arrive at a final investment decision for its proposed Chvaletice manganese project by 2022. The site, located approximately 90km east of Prague, features three adjacent flotation tailings piles of greyish material containing approximately 7.3% manganese.
The project's combined Measured and Indicated Resources now amount to 26,960,000 tonnes, grading 7.33% total manganese and 5.86% soluble manganese
A detailed design of the demonstration plant is reportedly progressing well, with 97% of equipment ordered and fabrication about to begin.
It consists of six interconnected modules that will replicate the entire high purity manganese (HPM) production process to be used in the commercial operation of the project. Operation of the demonstration plant is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2022.
The company's goal is to arrive at a final investment decision in 2022.


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J D Wetherspoon boycotts social media
The UK’s much loved pub chain, Wetherspoon (or ‘spoons’ as it is commonly known) has taken the step this week to withdraw from social media.
The chain has close to 1,000 bars across the UK and Ireland, and employs over 37,000 people, making it one of the largest pub businesses in Britain. So, naturally the choice for the company to boycott social media comes as somewhat of a shock.
Wetherspoon wrote, "In a world of social media, J D Wetherspoon has decided to close down all Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media accounts for individual pubs and head office. Rather than using social media, we will continue to release news stories and information about forthcoming events on our website and in our printed magazine – Wetherspoon News.”
The digital closure has seen the deletion of the chains main accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Founder and Chairman Tim Martin commented: "We are going against conventional wisdom that these platforms are a vital component of a successful business. I don't believe that closing these accounts will affect our business whatsoever, and this is the overwhelming view of our pub managers.”
He added, "It's becoming increasingly obvious that people spend too much time on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and struggle to control the compulsion.”
The businessman also referred to "current bad publicity surrounding social media, including the trolling of MPs and others” as one of the reasons for the announcement. With the recent Facebook data scandal still very much at the forefront of global news, it is perhaps understandable that some business owners are becoming wary of the ever increasing power of social media, and the danger it could bring if not managed effectively.
The closure is an interesting strategic move for such a large company, with social media one of the key ways that businesses interact with customers and market new products. Questions around whether or not the closure will negatively impact the chain are expected.
However Wetherspoon pub managers voted overwhelming against the use of social media, with Martin asserting that "90-to-95% felt using social media was not helping the business" and that using social media was ‘side-tracking’ members of staff from the actual job at hand: serving customers.
As well as this, it is argued that Wetherspoon may be lashing out against a modern day movement that threatens the ethos of the pub – to interact with one another face-to-face. It is not uncommon today to walk into a pub or restaurant to see faces pointed toward screens, rather than speaking to each other.
It is unclear whether or not Wetherspoon will be the first to spark a new trend of rejecting social media, but the move spells bad news for popular media applications like Facebook which is struggling against a tirade of negative press in recent weeks.
Is this the beginning of the end for social media? Probably not… but it is a statement that will be heard across the UK.


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JACKSONVILLE -- Cruise ships have begun sailing out of Jacksonville, marking a shift by the cruise lines to operate out of smaller, nontraditional markets.
Celebrity Cruises, a high-end division of Royal Caribbean, operated its first cruise from Jacksonville on Monday. It will be followed in February by Carnival Cruise Lines.
David Kaufman, the Jacksonville Port Authority's senior director of government relations, real estate and planning, said initial bookings are showing cruise passengers are coming to Jacksonville from greater distances than initially expected.
Based on early responses, Celebrity is expecting many of its passengers to drive to Jacksonville from as far away as Charleston and Columbia, S.C., Savannah, Brunswick, Macon and Valdosta, Ga., said Elizabeth Jakeway, a Celebrity spokeswoman.
Ralph Grizzle, editor of Porthole Cruise Magazine, said the industry's shift to nontraditional ports such as Jacksonville is often called "homeland cruising." He said the 2001 terrorist attacks have made many people want to drive to their cruise port instead of flying.
Both cruise lines will operate out of a temporary $5.5 million terminal at Dames Point, east of downtown Jacksonville.
Cruises are expected to bring about 150,000 people to Jacksonville annually.
If projections prove true, the cruise lines will bring about 715 new jobs and $36 million a year to the local economy by 2005, according to a study by the Northeast Florida Regional Council.
The figures is about equivalent to the economic impact of the last two Gator Bowl games together, which combined for $39 million, according to the Jacksonville and the Beaches Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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PBN’s Healthiest Employers awards to recognize 31 Hawaii businesses
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It’s that time of year again, where Pacific Business News recognizes strides made by Hawaii employers in promoting healthy workplaces with the third annual Healthiest Employers awards.
PBN will recognize 10 small businesses, nine medium-size companies and 12 large companies named as 2013 Healthiest Employers finalists at an event Thursday morning at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. Three winners among those categories will be recognized for implementing successful health and wellness initiatives.
The event will be hosted by Kim Gennaula, president & CEO of Aloha United Way.
“They can do a better job,” he said, noting there is room for improvement. “A few companies are doing exemplary work, but we have to continue to motivate more companies to apply these initiatives.”
Why? There is value in running a business backed by a healthy staff.
“Lower absenteeism and health care costs,” he said as examples.
If you didn’t register for Thursday’s event, join us live on Twitter at #PBNHealthiest.
Click on the photo for a slideshow of the finalists.
Jenna Blakely covers health care and nonprofits for Pacific Business News.
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News circulated that Salesforce wants to buy Slack, which is famous for being a conversational company used in the labor market, which led to the company’s shares rising significantly today, by nearly 25% so far, as the value of one share reached $36.95, giving the company a market value of 20.8 billion. dollar.
Conversely, Salesforce shares fell 3.5%, as investors in the leading investment firm SaaS were not impressed with the takeover idea or perhaps worried about the asking price to include Slack, which was launched in the stock market last year.
When Salesforce purchased Quip for $750 million in 2016, which added the company’s document-sharing features, Salesforce Chatter was the only social sharing tool in the company’s arsenal, and the Slack purchase would provide the company with a strong conversational base in the job market and between businesses and increase customer compatibility and their use of the tools. Slack will add a steady revenue stream to the company, which they’ve been searching for to ensure their revenue continues to flow.
Slack saw this deal as a way to tease its former ally-turned-competitor, Microsoft, because Microsoft had suffered so much when it bolstered its rival in the highly-growth Teams market in the past quarters.
With Slack joining the top tier of tech giants, Microsoft’s strong ability and massive sales of enterprise software and enterprise services will have a hard time influencing Slack, and Salesforce, at times an ally of Microsoft, didn’t mind the idea of including the fast-growing Slack in the company.


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Exclusive Networks’ 2020 financial results showed strong growth achieved amid unprecedented worldwide trading conditions.
The company continued its growth momentum with a notable 8% organic uplift in sales, together with the expansion of its global footprint and skills base through three strategic acquisitions. The year also saw Exclusive Networks’ further digitalisation of back-office operations and the launch of X-OD, its on-demand, subscription-based delivery platform for vendor solutions and professional services – both of which have contributed to a record year in revenues and operating income.
CEO Jesper Trolle, said: “Through all the uncertainty and constraints of 2020, the year was a story of strong resilience, resolve and results for Exclusive Networks. This fantastic performance is a huge testament to our amazing and deeply committed people based around the world, as well as our partners and customers who have all risen to the challenge of ‘business-as-unusual’.”


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Clor, who joined Contegix on May 22, brings two decades of experience in growing B2B technology companies to the Contegix leadership team. Her expertise in generating awareness and demand for businesses of all sizes will drive significant growth for the application services provider. Most recently, she was the vice president of demand generation at enterprise analytics software company MicroStrategy where she was responsible for generating sales pipeline. She has also held leadership positions at SaaS companies Opower and Clarabridge.
“As we continue to grow and evolve our business, we are excited to have Elizabeth join our team,” said Contegix CEO, Brad Hokamp. “Elizabeth’s proven track record will help us scale our business, enter new markets, and evolve the customer experience. Her data-driven approach and passionate leadership style will make a huge contribution to our continued success.”
“Contegix has an enormous opportunity for growth in the coming years,” said Clor. “Digital applications are driving key results for businesses of all sizes and are now a competitive differentiator. I’m excited to help grow Contegix and help more companies advance their customer experience initiatives.”
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"Yoga is the journey of the self, to the self, through the self. Happy #InternationalYogaDay to all," Shilpa Shetty wrote on Twitter
"I don't think it would have been declared as an international event if it had anything to do with religion. Yoga is a pure science," said the actress
While some of the actors are trying to get their yoga postures right, others are busy creating awareness about the benefits of Yoga.
Shilpa Shetty participated in the International Yoga day celebration at Kaneerava stadium, Bengaluru
International Yoga Day was celebrated across the globe on June 21 and among the many rolling out their mats were Bollywood celebrities like Shilpa Shetty, a famous fitness devotee, who joined a mass session in Bengaluru.


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Last week, Cosmetics Alliance was contacted by Global News to provide advice and recommendations to the public on the growing risks associated with using counterfeit cosmetic products.
Darren Praznik, President & CEO of Cosmetics Alliance Canada, spoke to Global last Thursday at our offices in Mississauga. “Counterfeit products by definition are not regulated. They don’t register with Health Canada. They don’t notify. They don’t follow the rules. So whatever goes into them can be anything. The ingredients aren’t controlled. They can be dangerous. They can harm your skin.” Praznik warned viewers.
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Fast-casual salad chain Sweetgreen is looking to open a location in the Emory Village.
Sweetgreen is planning a restaurant at 1556 North Decatur Road, according to plans filed in DeKalb County. It would take over the Dragon Bowl restaurant space, which is roughly 1,800 square feet.
The company declined to provide any information about the new location. “Sweetgreen does not have a comment or more information to share at this time,” a spokesperson said in an email to What Now Atlanta.
But, Sweetgreen is currently looking for team members for the Emory Village location, according to a job posting online.
According to the plans submitted in DeKalb County, Sweetgreen intends to “enhance and refresh” the exterior of the building on North Decatur Road. One side will include a mural. The patio will also be updated.
Sweetgreen currently has five locations open in metro Atlanta, according to its website. Another location is in the works for the Lee + White project, as What Now Atlanta reported in May.
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Additive Manufacturing programmes are increasingly launched in a variety of sectors apart from maritime. Until today, few companies have succeeded in determining the contribution of the technology in this sector of activity. DNV GL has been working on opportunities of AM in this area of activity since 2014. In 2017, it published a guideline for the use of AM in the maritime, oil & gas industries.
“AM is a technology that holds a great deal of promise for the maritime industry,” says Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV GL – Maritime. “Our responsibility […] is to give manufacturers a clear path they can take to offer their innovative products, while ensuring that our customers can have the same confidence in an AM product as they do in any other that has undergone approval by class.”
The AoM therefore, is in line with this ideology and is launched a few months after the company opened its additive manufacturing centre in Singapore.
The AoM programme
The AoM programme aims to verify a manufacturers’ ability to consistently manufacture materials and products to given specifications and in accordance with the DNV GL rule requirements. As part of applying for AoM, manufacturers must firstly undertake a proof of concept to demonstrate that they have feasible technology and products.
“The release of the AoM programme opens up new opportunities for both producers and users of these products, creating potential efficiencies in logistics and supplies chains, as well as in on-board maintenance and repair,” says Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen. “Above all, however, we must ensure that safety and quality standards are upheld, and this new programme allows producers to demonstrate their fitness to the shipping industry.”
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2014 was the year of 4K, and 2015 will see the two extremes of the digital signage market driving new growth, industry CEO says.
Dutch telecom KPN took animated versions of famous Dutch paintings to interactive displays around the Netherlands to celebrate a record first year for the newly renovated Rijksmuseum.
Global tech distributor picks up U.S.-based computer manufacturer, strengthening its digital signage footprint.
Here are five key lessons gleaned from the five digital signage stories readers found most interesting in September.
Another digital signage display provider is removing the media player from the equation for basic deployments.
An industry CTO looks at picking the right digital signage media player for the right deployment and marketing needs.
In the digital signage industry, we are masters at creating jaw-dropping visuals. Video walls, custom-shaped screens and video columns show how we continue to push the bounds of what is possible with modern digital signage.
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Digital signage solution provider Videotel announced it will be taking advantage of the opportunity to exhibit its product line, including its digital signage players, at this year's event in March in Las Vegas.
Updated XD and HD players, 4K players and featured LS line of low-cost players to be exhibited for first time.
Assurance Media picks up Videotel's industrial digital signage media player to enhance the performance of its audio/visual systems.
1Malaysia Development Berhad, a strategic development company wholly owned by the Malaysian government, recently deployed a digital signage video wall to help promote development projects in energy, real estate, tourism and agribusiness, according to an announcement from digital signage provider DT Research.
Multihead player supports up to six 1080p channels, providing a total resolution of 11,520 x 6,480 pixels, giving it the ability to create video walls using thin-bezel LCD screens.
Component simplifies deployment and cabling configuration on applications that have physical location limitations, company says.
Digital signage media player provider updates existing HD and XD lines, ships new 4K players, unveils new LS line of low-cost players.
Intel-powered media player can drive three 1080p displays, 4K ads and video content.
Horton TV has chosen Videotel's HD2600 UL-approved, medical-grade DVD player for its nationwide health care clients in need of looping video content in hospitals, maternity wards, pediatric offices and cancer treatment centers.
Scala digital-signage network includes more than 500 players and screens.
Videotel Inc. a manufacturer of industrial media players, industrial looping DVD players, interactive solutions and custom kiosks for digital signage, is celebrating its 34th anniversary, according to a company announcement.
Taipei, Taiwan-based CAYIN Technology Co. Ltd. will be showcasing its latest digital signage media players and digital signage best practices at this year's InfocommMEA in Dubai, according to a company announcement.
Industrial and embedded computer hardware provider Logic Supply has unveiled a new series of rugged PCs that "breaks free of the 'black box' paradigm in the industrial hardware market," the company announced.
Broadcom Corp., a global provider of semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, recently announced that digital signage media player provider BrightSign LLC has chosen Broadcom's ultra HD system-on-chip technology for its new line of 4K media players.
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Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system is one of the biggest names in desktop GNU/Linux. But if you plan to play PC games on Linux, you might want to start looking around for a different Linux distro.
Ubuntu developer Steve Langasek announced last week that starting with Ubuntu 19:10, which comes out in October, Canonical would no longer provide 32-bit builds of applications and libraries. This being Linux, there will be workarounds — but many existing apps may not work out of the box anymore.
Case in point: a number of games from GOG cannot be installed on a pre-release version of Ubuntu 19:10. So it’s not all that surprising that a developer for Valve says that now that Canonical is dropping support for 32-bit software, Valve’s Steam game client is dropping support for Ubuntu.
That doesn’t necessarily mean Linux gamers need to switch right away: Valve will continue to support Ubuntu 18:04 LTS, for example, which is a year-old operating system that still has another four years of official “long term” support. And Valve plans to “evaluate ways to minimize breakage for exiting users” moving forward.
But the company also plans to shift its focus from Ubuntu to a different GNU/Linux distribution at some point.
Update: Canonical has responded to the backlash by announcing that it will continue to support select 32-bit packages in Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Valve, in turn, says Steam will continue to support Ubuntu. This still appears to be a temporary solution though.
For now Canonical will work with members of the community to determine which packages to support.
In the long run, the company still plans to stop including 32-bit binaries, and will instead encourage developers who need them to package their software as Snaps or use LXD containers to include all the binaries necessary to run an application.


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BMW 8-Series Launched in New Renderings - The BMW 8-Series is turning up in our news once again, after the high-end design was likewise reported online to generate a lot more powerful M8 variation, making it hence the most effective in its class.
BMW 8-Series Launched in New Renderings
A fresh batch of renderings signed by L`Autombile, that is showcasing the 8-Series using a convertible body and a two-door coupe styling and the very same aggressive style we have actually been accustomed with since the very first renderings were launched about 6 months back.
The future 8-Series is likewise imagined here with a much sportier mindset, highlighted by the long hood, brief overhangs, sloping roofline, Hoffmeister Kink and other new styling bits that can likewise be discovered on today 7-Series.
As we currently understand, BMW is preparing the arrival of the 8-Series in the shape of a coupe. Once it will emerge on the marketplace in a few years, the brand new design will base on the very same UKL platform, likewise underpinning the likes from 5- and the 7-Series, implying light-weight products for high-performance and increase owning characteristics. The 8-Series will likewise obtain the majority of the engines discovered on the 7-Series, including some outstanding power increase.
On the other hand, the future M8 would include more than 600 horse power onboard, all squeezed from a new 4.0-liter V8 engine. With the new power, the M8 would be capable to run from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 4.0 seconds.
Related: 2020 BMW 8 Series Redesign
Once it would emerge on the marketplace someplace in 2019 or 2020, the new BMW M8 will equal versus the Mercedes-AMG S63 and S65 Coupe, or the brand new Bentley Continental GT Speed. Stay tuned for more information, on the other hand, take pleasure in the renderings with the upcoming 8-Series!


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Jaguar Land Rover has announced the launch of Jaguar XE and XF with support for all-aluminum Ingenium petrol engine which is not only lightweight but also efficient as per latest technologies. The Jaguar XE and XF have been integrated with a 2-litre turbo-petrol motor, which was first introduced in the Velar vehicle in 2017.
The Jaguar XE and XF are capable of returning 147 kW and 184 kW outputs synced to an 8-Speed Electronic Automatic Transmission with sequential shifts via Ingenium petrol engine. Moreover, the Ingenium petrol engine also provides support for all surface progress control. The engine makes use of the Continuously Variable Valve Lift technology to not only improve efficiency but also to enhance air delivery to both engines.
Commenting on the launch, Rohit Suri, President & Managing Director, Jaguar Land Rover India disclosed that the Jaguar XE and XF have done exceptionally well in India. With the launch of the power-efficient Ingenium petrol powertrain enabled Jaguar XE and XF, the company is expecting more customers to enjoy the thrilling drive experience. Suri added that testers have noticed 15 percent improvement in fuel efficiency and the twin scroll turbos is capable of reducing lag and optimizing power output.
While the 147kW powertrain will be equipped with XE Pure and XF Prestige, the 184 kW powertrain is offered on XE and XF Portfolio. The overall power output remains unchanged at 200hp or the pure and prestige models, while the output will be pegged at 250hp for the Portfolio variants.
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Now Amazon customers can look up cars alongside their home goods and electronics. This morning the e-commerce giant announced Amazon Vehicles, an automotive research destination where users can view specifications, images, and videos for thousands of new and classic cars—and query other vehicle owners about their opinions and experiences.
“Our goal is to support customers during one of the most important, research-intensive purchases in their lives by helping them make informed decisions every step of the way,” said Adam Goetsch, Director of Automotive at Amazon.com, in a statement. Consumers are increasingly using the internet to help with their car purchases: According to McKinsey, roughly 500,000 cars are traded every year on eBay’s Motors site, and nearly 90% of customers use dealer or manufacturer sites before buying.
While Amazon Vehicles stops just short of actually stocking and selling vehicles, companies like Tesla Motors—whose cars are featured on Amazon’s new auto destination—are circumventing dealerships to sell directly to consumers via the web.


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BANGALORE: Post-graduation students of Bangalore University, who interacted with members of Taiwan’s Taipei Computer Association, were left quite impressed.
Central Placement Cell (DRISHTI) of Bangalore University had invited delegates from Taipei Computer Association for the interaction. Prithvi a student, told Express, “Through the interaction we got to know the opportunities in Taiwan and they explained the skills they needed.”
“We understood that it is important and helpful to learn an alternative language to understand the culture of that particular country if we are looking at getting a job there,” said another student.
Ihuan Lee, director, Taipei Computer Association, gave a presentation on the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry in Taiwan. “The job market in the ICT industry in Taiwan is vast. The industry looks at software, system design engineers, sales and marketing staff. Industries in Taiwan gives preference to Indian talents studying in Taiwan,” she said.
Lee also advised the students to do a self-study. “Students should do their self-study and it is important to asses employability on your own. Over 4,000 ICT-related industries are associated with the association and they offer jobs in India too,” said Lee.
The major criteria that Taiwanese companies give importance to are domain knowledge in ICT, sales and management skills, cross-cultural communication and language skills.


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PHILADELPHIA, PA (BRAIN)—Advanced Sports International (ASI) has hired James Peters as its new director of product development and global sourcing.
An established industry veteran specializing in supply chain management, Peters will direct ASI’s product development group for its five brands–Fuji, SE, Kestrel, Breezer and Oval Concepts–as well as manage ASI’s supply chain.
“I’ve known James for more than 30 years, and I’m looking forward to this opportunity to work with him,” said ASI president Pat Cunnane.
Peters began his career in the industry as a bike messenger in Washington, D.C. before working his way up to general manager at Metropolis Bicycles, a top-100 store in the greater Washington area.
It was there that he was recruited by Trek, joining the company as a buyer for their after-market components. He quickly moved into the product development world, designing and spec’ing the brand’s adult and kids’ bikes in Asia. And for the past eight years, Peters served as Trek’s bike sourcing manager–determining bike specifications, negotiating pricing, and being “the boots on the ground” for all product needs.
Peters is looking forward to taking on the new responsibilities of his position at ASI and has big hopes and plans for expanding business.
“I love challenges, and I love being at the top,” said Peters. “I want to take all of ASI’s brands to the next level, and most importantly, I want to make Fuji one of the top five bikes brands in the world.”
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To our Global CWIEME Community,
Unfortunately, CWIEME Berlin, currently scheduled for 22-24 June of this year, will have to be cancelled. Large scale events in Germany are still prohibited by the federal and local governments and these restrictions are unlikely to be removed in time for the event to take place, with the result that cancellation is now unavoidable.
We considered moving the event to later in the year. However, this was not considered realistic for a number of reasons, particularly given recent reports of COVID-19 cases rising in several countries with the result that travel restrictions are likely to remain in place for some months to come. Due to our next CWIEME Berlin event already planned for May 2022, we have decided, following consultation with you – our community – that a full year cancellation is the best decision for all concerned. Our number one goal is to ensure a successful event for our global community, with the expected volume and quality of exhibitors and visitors to promote business and enable innovations across the supply chain.
We invite you and all those involved in the coil winding, transformer, electric motor, generator and e-mobility supply chain throughout Europe and the world to join us in Berlin, 10-12 May 2022.
We would like to thank you for your patience and for your continued support. Work has already started on CWIEME Berlin 2022 to continue providing our community with the leading global platform to connect, learn, network and, most importantly, to do business.
In the meantime, we’re also expanding our digital offering. This year will see quarterly online events, each one with a different sector focus. Having already hosted our very successful E-Mobility Days in February, I would like to invite you to Transformer Days, 22-23 June 2021. Watch this space for more information, as well as our autumn and winter programme, will be published in the next few weeks.
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US Government approval of the unique, high quality of Irish beef is great news for Clare beef farmers, according to local Fine Gael TD Joe Carey
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the proposal to advertise the unique qualities of Irish beef in the United States. This decision will accelerate its activities with beef buyers and retailers and bring its message closer to the US consumer.
Deputy Carey said: “The Quality Assurance and animal movement systems we have in Ireland are among the finest in the world. This enables to collect a vast amount of information in our farm audits. This is key to backing up our claims and demonstrating the quality of our product.
“The claims we make to US customers are independently verifiable at farm and animal level and the Irish beef exporters who wish to use these marketing claims must comply with the requirements of the USDA Process Verified Program and be independently audited.
“Irish beef processors will now have the opportunity to market their produce as ‘Irish Grass Fed Beef’ subject to adherence to the verification process. Such a marketing tool will allow our beef exporters pursue the Premium US beef market and will boost Irish beef exports to the US which will be crucial in terms of Brexit mitigation,” he explained.
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The above graph represents the world’s best camera smartphones by DXOMARK rankings. With the recent launch of Huawei P40 Pro smartphone, Huawei has taken mobile photography to a whole new level. The list of best camera smartphones that offer top quality images and videos has got the new leader as Huawei P40 Pro tops the list with 128 DXOMark overall camera score.
The list is now dominated by Huawei as 5 out of top 10 smartphones with best cameras came from Huawei, beating Samsung. With 122 points, Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra has secured 6th position along with the Honor V30 Pro in DXOMARK Camera ranking list.
With 122 camera score, Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra is the best smartphone Samsung has ever made. Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy Note 10+ 5G are the other top camera smartphones Samsung has introduced.
Considering the fact that Honor brand also belongs to Huawei, it’s safe to say that Huawei leads the pack with 2 devices in the list of top 3 smartphones with best camera quality. Interestingly, Oppo Find X2 Pro is the world’s second best camera smartphone with overall ranking of 124.
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Cairo – Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities aims to attract 30 million tourists by 2028 and wants to increase the number of visitors by 25% to 30%. Hotel capacity is expected to increase.
“We must boost the country's hotel capacity to accommodate the planned growth of tourists and further increase the number of rooms in the future, renewing the potential of Egypt's hotel network and tourism, particularly in the cities of Sharm El-Sheikh, Luxor, Aswan, and others”, Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities minister Ahmed Issa said.
The Egyptian minister added that the tourism industry is primarily based on the private sector. Therefore, he has made sure to talk to the civil society in this regard, particularly tourism chambers and investor associations. Egypt has tourist attractions that range from historical monuments to natural wonders, with large leisure facilities like resorts around them.
Russian Central Bank
In another context, the Russian Central Bank added nine currencies to its list of exchange rates against the ruble, including the Egyptian pound, the UAE dirham, and the Qatari riyal. This is expected to reduce the reliance on the US dollar in trade and tourism transactions between these countries and the Russians.
Opinions of importers and tourism operators in Egypt differed on the relevance of the decision and its contribution to reducing the demand for US dollar, considering the lack of dollar resources for the Egyptian government and the high exchange rate of the US currency, which is close to EGP 30.
Egypt has a strong trade with Russia
Ahmed Shiha from the importers' division at the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce (FEDCOC), said that the US dollar exchange rate went up against the Egyptian pound due to several regions, with the main one being the lack of dollar reserves, as well as speculative transactions in the foreign exchange market.
He stressed that expanding and adopting new currencies, particularly from countries that are some of Egypt's major trade partners, and the gradual decoupling from the US dollar contribute to reducing the demand for dollar, thus eliminating the parallel market and contributing for the exchange rate stabilization.
He stressed that the announcement from the Russian Central Bank to add the Egyptian pound to its list of exchange rates against the ruble, is a first step towards price stabilization. He also drew attention to the need to get out of the dollar blanket and pave the way to negotiate with other currencies, particularly the Chinese yuan and the Russian ruble, as well as currencies from other Arab countries.
Matti Bishai, head of the Internal Trade Commission of the General Division of Importers of the FEDCOC, told ANBA the volume of Egypt-Russia trade is around USD 4.5 billion a year. He added that the trade balance is favorable for the Russian side, as Egypt imports wheat, oils and seeds, metals, railway wagons, machines, equipment, vehicles and some minerals from Russia.
He explained that the inclusion of the Egyptian currency to the Russian Central Bank's list contributes to alleviated the pressure on dollar, at least for goods imported from Russia. Moscow also benefits by paying its imports from Egypt in rubles. Furthermore, Russian tourists can negotiate in Egypt using rubles, which reduces the demand for dollars in Russia, too.
Tourism and trade
Tourism operators in Egypt believe the prime beneficiary from the decision will be the trade sector, if the exchange decision is implemented and comes into force. On the other hand, tourism requires that the principle of reciprocity is applied, with the Russian ruble being adopted in Egyptian banks by the Egyptian Central Bank, particularly since Russian tourists account for the largest share of visitors in Egyptian destinations.
Tourists prepare to dive in the Red Sea in resort in Sharm El-Sheikh
Rami Fayez, a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Hotel Enterprises of the Red Sea, said this decision will benefit the trade and balance of payments between the two countries in particular, instead of tourism. Tourism operators are waiting for the Russian payment system Mir to be activated, but its implementation has not been officially approved yet. This payment system is expected to serve as a lifeline for Egypt's tourism sector and contribute to double the number of tourists from Russia to the country.
Fayez expects the introduction of the Mir system and the negotiation of Russian rubles in Egyptian banks and tourism resorts in the country comes into force during the next period, based on the principle of reciprocity between Russia and Egypt.
Fayez said that if the Central Bank decides to accept the Russian ruble as a circulating currency, the number of Russian tourists bound to the Red Sea and South Sinai provinces, especially in Hurghada, Marsa Alam and Sharm El-Sheikh, will increase a large percentage over the next couple of months. He stressed that if Russia's tourism companies increase the number of travels to Egypt during the current winter, tourism will see a very good winter season.
Russian tourists account for more than half of tourism in the beaches of Egypt. According to estimates, the number of Russian tourists bound to Egypt in 2022 surpassed 11.5 million people.
Translated by Georgette Merkhan & Guilherme Miranda
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MEDICAL devices company Biosensors International continued to struggle with weak market sentiment in China as it reported a net profit of US$4.9 million for the three months ended Sept 30, 2014, 56 per cent lower than the US$11.3 million a year ago.
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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."
However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …
Life during the Covid-19 pandemic would be even more difficult without the Internet and automation, making this year timely for the upcoming "Dune" film to portray a distant future where humanity is devastated by our dependence on machines. Director Dennis Villeneuve is set to release his adaptation of the science fiction epic on October 22, both on HBO Max and in movie theaters. The release was delayed from last December to make it safer for people to view and hear the space fantasy in theaters. WarnerMedia aims to distribute Villeneuve's vision of the first "Dune" novel in two films, but has not yet scheduled a release date for the second film after the first half is released. Frank Herbert's "Dune" novel begins in the far distant future, thousands of years after humans were enslaved by robots, fought a revolutionary crusade and banned artificial intelligence with a new anti-tech religion.
A leading autonomous pizza machine developer is teaming up with an international pizza brand run by world-renowned chef Anthony Carron. The pandemic has been a boon for autonomous dining as takeout culture and convenience remain priorities. Restaurants have struggled to adapt to the labor demands and unpredictability of the new paradigm. Delivery options open up new opportunities to meet customers where they are, but maintaining quality is paramount. At 800 Degrees the team believed they needed to do more to future-proof the brand, and Chef Carron saw the promise of automation when a trusted industry colleague, Massimo Noja De Marco, reached out to discuss Piestro, his automated pizza venture.
Machine learning has been around for decades, but for much of that time, businesses were only deploying a few models and those required tedious, painstaking work done by PhDs and machine learning experts. Over the past couple of years, machine learning has grown significantly thanks to the advent of widely available, standardized, cloud-based machine learning platforms. Today, companies across every industry are deploying millions of machine learning models across multiple lines of business. Tax and financial software giant Intuit started with a machine learning model to help customers maximize tax deductions; today, machine learning touches nearly every part of their business. In the last year alone, Intuit has increased the number of models deployed across their platform by over 50 percent.
The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term, targeted awards to further the institute's research priorities for societal benefit, catalyze early results that can lead to significant funding and strengthen connections across UC campuses. Proposals are invited from principal investigators at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz. Awardees embody the university's public mission and the innovative spirit of California. This year, up to 12 CITRIS Seed Awards will be chosen to address "grand challenges" in information technology. Each winning proposal receives $40,000–$60,000 and engagement with the CITRIS research community during the Jan. 1–Dec.
In 1955, the term "artificial intelligence" was developed to describe a new branch of computer science. As the market for AI technology grows in demand and flourishes, it swiftly and drastically alters numerous aspects of our everyday lives. Several start-ups and internet behemoths are vying for their purchase. We will cover the top 8 Artificial Intelligence Technologies that everyone should be aware of in this post. Let's understand what Artificial Intelligence is? Artificial intelligence allows a computer system to be taught and then apply what it has learned to new data.
A leading autonomous pizza machine developer is teaming up with an international pizza brand run by world-renowned chef Anthony Carron. In the near future, 800 Degrees Pizza will be offering consumers a fully automated experience and an authentic, custom pizza recipe designed for a robotic cooking technology that's eager to move on the market. The pandemic has been a boon for autonomous dining as takeout culture and convenience remain priorities. Restaurants have struggled to adapt to the labor demands and unpredictability of the new paradigm. Delivery options open up new opportunities to meet customers where they are, but maintaining quality is paramount.
Machine Learning uses AI academy for marketers to make statistical analyses more efficient and successful. It can be defined as a branch of computer science that deals with the study of algorithms and deep learning. Machine Learning deals with tasks that people cannot currently accomplish. Some examples include task switching, image processing, and language understanding. Machine Learning is often applied to domains that are too wide for humans to manage.
But just what does that mean? Many of the articles are awfully vague in that regard, usually touting fancy new gear and technologies like industrial robots, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices, digital twins, augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing, as a sort-of grab-bag of digital magic. And hey, those kinds of things can certainly be great. Heck, I've done articles about every one of them and their individual potential benefits. But I've never threatened that if you're not adopting them, you're doomed.
Concerns that emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and automation could wipe out wide swaths of American jobs aren't backed up by data, according to a Sept. 13 report released by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The report examines decades' worth of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics across 10 industries--construction, leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, wholesale trade, financial activities, information, education and health services, and manufacturing. The report found rates of job loss in each industry were lower in the third quarter of 2020 than in 1995. The third quarter of 2020 represented a stabilization of the American job market following a significant spike in job losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic that reached as high as 45% in the leisure and hospital industries. According to the report, U.S. workers have about a 5.8% chance of losing their jobs across those industries in any given quarter, down from 7.3% in 1995. "The prevailing narrative of accelerating job loss due to new technology is just a myth," ITIF President Robert Atkinson, who co-authored the report, said in a statement.
The International Longshoremen's Association warns against the use of crewless automated ships at its ports. In its ongoing efforts to resist all forms of automation in the maritime world, the powerful U.S. International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) has announced that its members would not service automated vessels operating without crews. Citing issues of safety and security, ILA, the largest union of maritime workers in North America, has long fought automation and even before that, resisted the move to containerization. Responding to various recent media reports about advancements in shipping automation and, specifically, efforts by Yara, NYK, and others developing automated container ships, ILA president Harold Daggett said, "Don't sail them into ILA ports from Maine to Texas, Puerto Rico, and Eastern Canada – they won't be unloaded or loaded by ILA members." The ILA staged fierce opposition to all forms of automation.


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The 15 W. Main St. restaurant is in the process of renovating its intertior, even taking down walls to create a more open atmosphere — something that will produce a two-fold benefit. Besides allowing more air space and better general asthetics, the renovations will allow Berry’s to host various shows and activities right in its main dining room, including murder mystery dinner theater events.
“We are currently reinventing ourselves here at Berry’s Restaurant to open the door to different things,” co-owner Lynn Berry said. “And our first project was being able to do (shows, such as murder mysteries) not in our banquet rooms, but to leave that banquet room for parties and gatherings. We want to use our gorgeous main dining room for it.”
Removing the wall, though, was just the beginning “in a whole series of changes,” she said, adding she hopes to have the facelift completed by Thanksgiving.
“The whole first room is going to be remodeled,” she said. “We’re going to be featuring retail products that we’ll sell to people when they first come in, like our dressings and some of the Berry’s favorites: our coffee, cups, historic items (and) wines, of course. Then our back room will be completely updated to feature our Dinky, but with more of a dinner feel.”
Berry said the updated backroom still will have historic elements, but that the restaurant hopes to “liven it up a bit.”
One thing that will remain the same is the nostalgic, original diner counter. However, the type of food that will be eaten at the counter might change.
“Of course we’ll keep the original dinner counter; that’s not going anywhere,” she said. “We will absolutely keep that and continue to serve our old-fashioned milkshakes. We are updating our menu, though, with some fantastic surprises coming.”
While Berry isn’t revealing the menu changes just yet, she said she thinks “families will be excited.”
Customers also will be able to order online and even have their food delivered if they so choose once the updates are complete.
“Generations change and families have less time and the economy is tough,” she said. “(This will put) us on a whole new spectrum. Mom and dad don’t have time anymore but you still want the traditional, healthy dinner. Now you’ll be able to order it, pay for it, quick pick up or we’ll deliver it.”
Berry said the restaurant hopes the changes will be well received, not only with the local community, but throughout the surrounding areas as well — perhaps drawing more people to the Maple City.
“Let’s keep Norwalk here and let’s bring Sandusky here, showing them we have something to offer too,” she said.


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Oakland, California – Jul 2, 2021 – Today, Tell-Shop announced the launch of its website and smartphone app designed to help shoppers search for minority-owned businesses across the nation. Designed to encourage diverse shopping and boost support for various organizations, users can utilize TellShop’s minority-owned business map to discover new places to purchase their favorite items while serving underrepresented communities, including LGBTQ-, Black- and Native-American-owned businesses.
Of TellShop’s recent launch, CEO and founder Frank Smith commented, “What I want to do with Tell-Shop is give minority-owned businesses a platform to be nationally spotlighted, to help them grow. We want to help them realize the successes they are capable of if they had access to the resources they are systematically denied.”
To have their stores featured on the platform, Tell-Shop users can pick from two different pricing packages — both of which are designed to be as affordable as possible, even for small businesses.
- Starter Package: For $2 every 30 days, users can list one business onTellShop’s minority-owned business map, which includes ten photos, five tags and more.
- Multi-Store Package: For $5 every 30 days, users can list ten businesses on TellShop’s minority-owned business map, which includes 50 photos per listing, 15 tags and more.
Early users of the platform are already enjoying Tell-Shop’s features, with Ondrea Spearman of Train With Ondrea finding success thanks to the resource.
“I am super excited for the future of Tell-Shop!” said Spearman. “I love the idea and the functionality of the site, and as a business owner, it may be the cheapest monthly marketing platform out there.”
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In a new court filing, the tech giant is accused of slowing down phones in an attempt to throttle tech companies out of business.
Apple and chip manufacturer Qualcomm have been locked in an intense legal battle over unpaid royalties, which has resulted in Qualcomm accusing Apple of slowing down phones in an attempt to bully the chipmaker.
Qualcomm filed a lawsuit which alleges Apple, “threatened the chipmaker to prevent it [from] revealing [Apple] throttled Qualcomm-powered iPhones,” and is “seeking $1 billion in damages over alleged unpaid royalties and anticompetitive licensing.”
Bloomberg published a study last year which made similar allegations:
“The latest Apple Inc. smartphones that run on Verizon Communications Inc.’s network are technically capable of downloading data faster than those from AT&T Inc. Yet in testing, the two phones perform about the same, according to researchers at Twin Prime Inc. and Cellular Insights.”
The Verizon iPhones use Qualcomm’s X12 modem, which has a maximum speed of 600Mbps, much faster than Intel’s 450Mbps modem that AT&T iPhones use.
“Apple chose not to utilize certain high-performance features of the Qualcomm chipsets for the iPhone 7,” Qualcomm alleged. When Apple was confronted with these allegations, however, they claimed there is “no discernible difference” between the two chips.
Is Apple purposefully slowing down Verizon iPhones? If true, this would no doubt upset iPhone users on Verizon.
9.18.17 10:59 amFox News Highlights Media Bias In A CBS Report About Richard Cordray
“CBS Sunday Morning” didn’t disclose that four of the lawyers that it interviewed had ties to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
9.18.17 10:41 amAmericans Overwhelmingly Reject Internet Sales Tax Proposal
Two of three Americans said they oppose a sales tax in their state on items purchased online.
9.14.17 2:07 pmNew NRSC Ad Hits Claire McCaskill for Saying ‘Normal People’ Can Afford a Private Plane
It’s the latest gaffe for the vulnerable senator from Missouri.
8.24.17 3:00 pmIs Tim Cook Running For President?
The Apple CEO held presidential campaign style events in the pivotal states of Iowa and Ohio on Thursday.


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As Apple rumbles toward yet another App Store milestone, there's hard cash (well iTunes gift cards) in it for the lucky few who download an app at just the right time.
One App Store to Rule Them All
With the rampant piracy troubling the developers of Android's 700,000 apps, the feeble app and download numbers announced by the likes of BlackBerry (100,000 apps, mostly Android ones) and Microsoft (150,000 apps), Apple really is the 500lb gorilla in the room of app stores with over 800,000 titles. And to rub a little more salt into its rivals wounds, its about to hit 50,000,000,000 downloads.
Even so, Google's Play store isn't that far behind at only 40 billion downloads, but with 70% to 90% piracy rates, it could be doing so much better. Hopefully the recent encryption feature in Jelly Bean 4.1 will bring that rate down and sales up.
For reference, the top downloaded free apps are Facebook, Pandora, Instagram, YouTube and Skype. The top paid-for apps are Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Doodle Jump, Cut the Rope and Angry Birds Seasons. Just behind those games the top two most popular proper apps are WhatsApp Messenger and Camera+.
UPDATE: The store passed the 50 million mark overnight on 16 May, contest winners will be announced soon.
Just Win Baby
Back in the world of Apple, one lucky winner will get a US$ 10,000 gift card for the app store and 50 others will get $500 cards in a new contest to celebrate this latest milestone. This news comes hot on the heels of Apple's tiny iOS update for iPhone 5 users which is the latest awkward shuffle in the company's recent downturn in fortunes.
April saw much debate about what Apple will do to iOS 7 and how it can reinvigorate both iOS and the iPhone line, which while still hugely popular are starting to look old and rigid compared to the competition. We'll see at WWDC the company has to offer but for now, figure out what the download number really is, work out how fast it is counting down, factor in drift for store use across time zones, and if you're very lucky you could bag a whole boat load of free apps.


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NATDA Accepting 2019 New Product Display Entries
St. Petersburg, FL (June 20, 2019) - NATDA is accepting entries for its New Product Display, a staple of the NATDA Trade Show.
The New Product Display, located in the Dealer Lounge sponsored by TRAIL-A-WAY (developed by Waymire Distribution) and Dexter, is the trade show’s hub for all trailer industry products that released within the past year. At the show, dealers vote on their favorite products, awarding companies the coveted NATDA New Product Awards. Past winners include Link Lock, Eagle Hydraulic, Gen-Y Hitch, The Raynor Company and Ready Jack for Trailers.
“Our event has become the showcase event for the trailer industry,” says Jesse Battle, NATDA Executive Director. “We want to make sure dealers are aware of the latest innovations the industry has to offer.”
New this year, businesses participating in the New Product Display, new exhibitors and companies debuting new trailers at the NATDA Trade Show for the first time on a dedicated page of the NATDA Trade Show website. CLICK HERE to learn more.
For vendors looking to submit their new products or manufacturers debuting trailers at the 2019 NATDA Trade Show, please contact Corey Langley at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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The highest jump was witnessed in transactions through UPI, from one million per day in November 2016 to 30 million in May 2017.
UPI or Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a system that powers multiple bank accounts into a single mobile application for seamless fund routing and merchant payments into one hood.
Transactions through IMPS or Immediate Payment Service, which is an electronic fund transfer service, almost doubled to 2.2 million from 1.2 million during the period under purview, according to the data shared by government officials.
The least rise in digital transactions was witnessed in the case of plastic cards, as the rise was only seven per cent - from 6.8 million in November 2016 to 7.3 million in May this year.
The government had on November 8, 2016 announced the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 bank notes in a bid to curtail black money.
Following the move, the government pushed for digital transactions.