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ChemFORWARD, a science-based, nonprofit organization, announces "Know Better, Do Better," the first-of-its kind collaboration of industry-leading beauty companies Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Credo, Beautycounter, and The Honest Company, as well as ingredient designer lnolex and the global nonprofit organization Environmental Defense Fund. These stakeholders are banding together to promote the use of safer chemistry and improve chemical hazard data to enable informed decision making.
In the US, cosmetic chemicals are not required to have hazard (or safety) data in order to come onto the consumer market. The $91 billion U.S. cosmetics industry uses thousands of unique chemicals to create formulations and packaging for skin care, hair care and makeup products. While the cosmetics industry is ahead of several other sectors on ingredient safety testing and disclosure, data gaps still exist.
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The Chevy Camaro has been a key player in the Transformers series starring Shia Labeouf and his car companion “Bumblebee” for almost seven years. Multiple models have been used throughout the film including the 1967 Camaro SS, 2010 Transformers Edition Camaro, and most recently a 2014 Camaro Concept.
Last February, Director Michael Bay announced that there would be a Transformers 4. Almost a year later, Chevrolet revealed their refreshed 2014 Camaro. With more than 500 horses and a chiseled style, the new Camaro was yet again a perfect fit for the notorious character of Bumblebee.
However, Bays decided to tweak the new Camaro for its Transformers 4 debut. The 2014 Camaro Concept used in Transformers 4 has a thinner grille and slimmer LED headlights that look like half open eyes. Bumblebee will squat lower than before and will show aggressiveness from the inside out. Check out Bays’ website for pictures of the Camaro Concept.
Look for the 2014 Camaro Concept in the upcoming Transformers 4 film slated for next summer. Until then, stop by Fred Caldwell Chevy to check out some of our Special Edition Camaros!

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Foodwatch: Many chocolate Easter bunnies contain mineral oils suspected of being cancerous
In tests by the consumer organization foodwatch, traces of mineral oils were found in eight out of 20 chocolate Easter bunnies examined. The detected substances are suspected of being carcinogenic. The experts demand strict legal regulations.
Carcinogenic and genotoxic substances in chocolate bunnies
The consumer organization foodwatch had chocolate Easter bunnies examined for mineral oil in the laboratory. It was found that 8 out of 20 products contained aromatic mineral oils (MOAH), which are suspected of being carcinogenic and genotoxic. Both inexpensive products from Lidl, Penny and Aldi Nord were affected, as well as expensive branded products from Lindt, Feodora and Niederegger. In addition, all chocolate bunnies were more or less heavily loaded with saturated mineral oils (MOSH), which accumulate in the body and can damage the organs. The laboratory measured extremely high values of saturated mineral oils in rabbits of the own brands "Favorina" from Lidl and "Douceur" from Penny, according to the foodwatch website. This is particularly critical for products for children, since they already absorb a lot of saturated mineral oils.
Zero tolerance for the particularly critical MOAH
Luise Molling from foodwatch said in a press release: “The test shows that the food industry still has no control over the problem of mineral oils in food. In almost every second rabbit we found suspicious aromatic mineral oils (MOAH). This is completely unacceptable, precisely because children are already most exposed to mineral oils, according to the European Food Safety Authority. The federal government is failing across the board: it must finally set strict legal limits for mineral oils in food. Zero tolerance must apply particularly to aromatic mineral oils suspected of being cancerous. They must not be detectable in food at all. ”Basically, mineral oils can get into chocolate in various ways. For example, about jute bags used for the transportation of cocoa beans, which are treated with oils, about machine oils used in production or about exhaust fumes from industry and traffic. Printing inks from waste paper packaging can also be an entry route if such cartons are used for transporting or storing the raw materials.
Mineral oils in food and cosmetics
It is not the first time that the potential cancer risk from mineral oil in foods has been highlighted. Only a few months ago mineral oil discoveries were known in Advent calendars in Bavaria. A few weeks earlier, foodwatch found aromatic mineral oils in staple foods such as rice, semolina and cornflakes. And recently, carcinogenic mineral oils have been found in lip care that could be ingested orally. Both the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the responsible German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) refer to the carcinogenic potential of aromatic mineral oils. "Therefore, there should be no demonstrable transition from MOAH to food", the BfR concluded in 2012. After finding mineral oil components in Advent calendars last year, the BfR wrote: "The contamination of food with mineral oil components from packaging is undesirable." (Ad)


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The government of India has launched the International Tracked Packet service, which will provide cross-border shipping for the e-commerce sector in the Asia-Pacific region. This service will be provided by the Department of Post, and will offer features like track & trace, volume discounts, pick up facility, and compensation for loss or damage. Individuals can also use this service.
It can be booked at any post office around the country, and currently, it delivers to – Australia, Cambodia, HongKong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. Charges for the first 100 grams is Rs 310 for all the countries, except Australia and New Zealand where the charges for the first 100 grams will be Rs 330. For every additional 100 grams or part, charges vary from Rs 25 to Rs 40.
It’s worth noting that in 2014, the Indian government had set up a task force to explore ways of using the post office network in the country to provide last mile services. The task force report (pdf) had suggested that three separate subsidiaries be formed as part of a holding company under the Postal Department, that would focus on services in e-commerce, banking and insurance segments. Each of these subsidiaries would be operated as Strategic Business Units (SBUs).
A few months later, in May 2015, India Post launched an e-commerce centre in New Delhi to handle all the e-commerce delivery business. It handles deliveries via India Post every day, from booking to dispatch, with the capacity to process up to 30,000 parcels every day. At the time, it was already working with major e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Snapdeal, Paytm and Yepme among others.
The government has also launched e-IPO (Indian Postal Order) in the following denominations: Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 50 and Rs 100. At present, it is being piloted in Bihar, Delhi and Karnataka, and is expected to be extended to the entire country within the next two months. Users can purchase e-IPOs here, and pay for it via debit cards, credit cards, and net banking.
Note that in April 2015, India Post had shut down its traditional money order service which facilitated pan-India door-delivery of funds to a payee. Shikha Mathur Kumar, the deputy director general for finance, had said at that time that India Post will be pushing the electronic money orders (eMO) and instant money orders (iMO).
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During the launch of the services mentioned above, the Minister of Communication, Manoj Sinha also mentioned that the government will be setting up 650 India Post Payments Bank, and that it is also working towards providing its financial services via all 1.55 lakh post offices in the country.
Earlier this year, in March, Sinha had told the Parliament that as of the end of January 2017, the India Post Payments Bank was operational only with 8 access points in total, in Raipur (Chhatisgarh) and Ranchi (Jharkhand). At the time, he had also mentioned that access points in post offices in up to 650 districts with linkages to all post offices across India will be set up by September 2017, “subject to feasibility and fulfillment of regulatory requirements.” That hasn’t materialized yet, and this time around Sinha didn’t mention any specific deadline.


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Nearly all of us, every day, text or use one mobile-based instant messaging app or another — it’s simply a natural, habitual part of daily life in this digital age.
And, increasingly, this makes mobile devices a prime target for cybercriminal activities. Malware and scams sent via instant messaging apps and SMS text messages are increasing threats to mobile users.
To help protect both consumers and businesses against such attacks, Bitdefender today launched Bitdefender Chat Protection, what it is calling the industry’s first chat protection feature for mobile-based instant messaging apps.
“Cybercriminals have expanded the attack surface to now include popular chat applications — in addition to SMS, email and notifications,” said Adriana Sandu, product manager at the cybersecurity software company. Due to the high prevalence of these attacks, we felt it was necessary to add an additional layer of protection for users.”
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And, according to the 2021 Bitdefender Consumer Threat Landscape Report, spam and untrusted domains account for a combined 85% of detected malicious URLs.
“Mobile threats continue to increase, and cybercriminals have evolved beyond email-based phishing attacks to include SMS text messages (smishing) and popular instant messaging applications,” said Ciprian Istrate, senior vice president of operations for the Bitdefender consumer solutions group.
This can easily extend to organizations. In fact, 30% of cybersecurity professionals cited mobile apps as presenting the highest security risk to business. Another 42% identified customer-facing web apps of great concern. “In a post-pandemic world, when many are still working from home or in a hybrid workplace, malicious link-based attacks are a threat not only for consumers, but for enterprise infrastructure as well,” said Sandu.
Beyond the browser level
Bitdefender Chat Protection continuously monitors chat sessions during live sessions in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord. It immediately alerts users of suspicious links that might attempt to steal financial data, credentials and other sensitive information, according to Sandu. Also, phishing attempts that rely on human curiosity, urgency and impersonation are recognized and flagged.
Users receive a warning along with information about associated risks and a suggested course of action, she said. If these warnings are ignored, built-in web protection technologies prevent users from navigating to the malicious webpage. If links are inadvertently shared, users have an option to recall or delete the message, thus stopping “attack propagation.”
“Until now, consumer security products detected and blocked malicious links at the browser level — only when the user tried to open them,” said Sandu.
Prevention, privacy, identity protection
Bitdefender’s endpoint protection tools were awarded this year with Best Protection for Windows and Best Android Security from AV-TEST, an independent IT security-testing firm. Other AV-certified companies competing in its market include CrowdStrike, SentinelOne and Sophos (on the business side); and McAfee, NortonLifeLock and Trend Micro (on the consumer side).
According to Sandu, Bitdefender continues to develop new technologies to help protect consumers from the most advanced cyberthreats, “and keep pace as the threat landscape continues to evolve.”
She added that, “strong security for consumers needs to incorporate all three areas — prevention, privacy and identity protection.”
Bitdefender Chat Protection is incorporated into Bitdefender Mobile Security for Android and is part of the Bitdefender Scam Alert technology. The app is available via the Bitdefender website or the Google Play Store.
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With Covid restrictions finally lifted, the country’s attention is turning from public health back to the economy. Cost of living pressures, the balance between tax, spending and debt, and the pressing need to raise Britain’s mediocre long-term growth rates are once more at the forefront of the policy debate – and rightly so.
Britain faces almighty economic and fiscal challenges. So it is worth setting out the full grim detail of the pandemic’s impact on the economy, and what it should mean for the Government’s priorities.
The economy has not quite recovered to its pre-pandemic size, the public sector finances have taken a hammering unprecedented in peacetime.
Tax rises are set to squeeze businesses and households, disincentivising investment, worsening the outlook for growth and hitting taxpayers and consumers in their wallets at the worst possible time. Meanwhile, Britain is entering into a cost of living crisis.
There is therefore a pressing need for radical policy action to boost growth, ease cost of living pressures and shore up the public finances via supply-side reforms, tax cuts and fiscal restraint.
So where are we after two years of Covid-19?
The UK economy has not quite recovered to its pre-pandemic size, and there is still a lot of lost ground to make up
According to estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK GDP in Q4 2021 was still 0.4% below its Q4 2019 level. However it remains an uncertain picture.
The emergence of the omicron variant led to renewed restrictions at the end of November, following which hospitality, travel and high street retail took another battering over the festive period (especially outside England). Overall retail sales fell by 3.1% month-on-month in December.
On the other hand, with the ‘Plan B’ restrictions lifted, the economic outlook for the immediate future seems a little more positive – even if consumer sentiment remains depressed. And it’s worth remembering the ever-present risk of a new variant emerging.
That being said, it looks likely that the economy will return to its pre-pandemic size in Q1 2022. Nevertheless, celebrations should be muted. Even getting back to the economy’s previous size represents the annihilation of over two years of economic growth, which should have added 3.6% to the size of the British economy by now, according to Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) forecasts published in early March 2020.
Structural changes to the UK economy are likely to have far-reaching implications for employment, productivity and GDP growth
The pandemic has brought about a radical shift in attitudes towards working from home and accelerated the shift away from the high street towards delivery services and online retail. Homeworking saw household consumption patterns shift, with spending on restaurants and hotels 38% lower in the first three quarters of 2021 than the same period in 2019, while spending on household goods and services was up by 14%.
In this environment, some sectors could end up permanently smaller. A large part of business travel is probably gone forever. And sectors such as hospitality, transport and tourism are struggling in other ways, with the record 1.25m job vacancies recorded in the October-December period partly reflecting people’s reluctance to pursue uncertain careers in at-risk sectors.
One silver lining from the pandemic is that there has not been the predicted spike in unemployment. Employment data shows unemployment spiking following the ending of furlough, as many businesses and jobs proved unviable. But subsequently it has trended downwards to 4.1% – just 0.1pps above pre-pandemic levels, and so near record lows.
One big risk, however, is a lost generation of workers – elevated structural unemployment among under-25s whose educations, career prospects and life outcomes have been blighted by school and university closures, bodged exam results and lost work experience opportunities.
In addition, while working from home might provide a long-term boost to productivity (though this is far from guaranteed). Trends in productivity need to be closely monitored. The Government’s tax and spending plans rest upon some pretty firm GDP forecasts, which in turn are linked to some extremely bullish productivity projections. If that predicted boost to productivity does not materialise, it will tank growth forecasts – and the Chancellor’s chances of cutting taxes to ease cost of living pressures.
The public sector finances have taken a hammering unprecedented in peacetime
The good news is that government borrowing (PSNB ex) in the first eight months of the 2021/22 financial year, at £147bn, was down by 47% on the same period in 2020/21.
The bad news is that that comes after the highest level of borrowing since the end of the Second World War – £322bn or 15% of GDP.
Around a quarter of public sector debt is index-linked to inflation. This is already adding to the costs of servicing the debt, spending on which was up by 200% year-on-year in December 2021, at £8.1bn. In order to quash inflation, the Bank of England (BoE) is now moving definitively in the direction of raising interest rates. But this is going to feed through into debt costs in another way. Whatever happens, the cost of servicing the national debt will only grow in 2022, to the detriment of other priorities. Rebalancing the books, meanwhile, is going to be a long, uncertain and exacting process.
Tax rises are set to squeeze businesses and households at the worst possible time
Two years of Covid spending has seen the size of the British state balloon. In an attempt to pay for all this the Government has resorted to a series of planned tax rises. First is the Health and Social Care Levy, which from April this year will add 1.25% to employers’ and employees’ National Insurance (NI). This levy is a tax on jobs and job creation coming at a time when employment patterns are in flux.
This is set to coincide with a 6.6% increase in the National Living Wage (from £8.91/hour to £9.50/hour), further increasing the burden on employers and distorting the labour market. Official forecasters expect higher unemployment as a result. The workers most likely to be impacted by this are young people working in sectors such as hospitality – i.e. those facing the greatest uncertainty in the post-Covid economy.
Businesses are also looking ahead to a corporation tax cliff edge in April 2023. The headline tax rate is due to rise from 19% to 25%, the super-deduction is scheduled to expire, and the Annual Investment Allowance is set to fall from £1 million to £200,000.
Indeed, due to the impact of Covid, the tax-to-GDP ratio is also on course to reach 36.2% within five years. The tax burden will then be at its weightiest since the heyday of state socialism in 1951, when Clement Attlee was Prime Minister and George VI sat the throne.
Britain is facing a cost of living crisis, with inflation on track to hit a 30-year high even as taxes are going up.
Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 5.4% in the 12 months to December 2021, with prices having risen across a range of goods and services.
Debate continues over how transitory or persistent (or even structural) UK inflation will prove in this context. There is a pretty strong consensus that prices will continue to increase well into 2022.
So far British consumers have been protected from the worst of record natural gas wholesale prices due to the energy price cap, with a swathe of energy companies going bust instead. But when the cap is raised in April, annual energy bills for the average household will go up by £693. The IMF forecasts inflation will hit 5.5% in April, while the Bank of England and some independent forecasters project it to reach around 7%. April 2022 could thus see the highest level of inflation in the UK since March 1992, when it was at 7.1%.
Despite the talk of building a high-wage economy, relying on pay rises to offset rising prices and tax increases is unrealistic. Outside of a few specific sub-sectors such as HGV drivers, robust wage growth in 2021 mainly reflected statistical artefacts.
In fact, the latest ONS data points towards a firm decline in real wages in November 2021 – inflation stood at 5.1% whereas wage growth stood at 4.2%. The April ‘jobs tax’ is only going to put more pressure on worker’s pockets. Give that the clamour to mitigate cost of living pressures is only going to grow as 2022 progresses, the Government would do well to get ahead of the game.
So what is to be done?
Faced with the scale of these economic challenges, the worst thing would be a policy of drift: drift towards tax-and-spend, drift towards a big state, drift towards demand-side interventions to address supply-side problems.
The Government needs to prioritise economic growth – which helps with so many other problems – via supply-side reforms, lower taxes and business-friendly policies. It needs to ease the cost of living crisis by reducing the tax burden and preparing now for the deprivations of winter 2022/23. And it needs to square this with sound public finances via spending restraint and enhancing public sector productivity.
Against a dispiriting economic backdrop, it is more important than ever to make the case for markets, freedom, enterprise, opportunity and ownership as the pathways to prosperity. To quote F.A. Hayek: ‘If old truths are to retain their hold on men’s minds, they must be restated in the language and concepts of successive generations’.


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Africa’s leading e-commerce ecosystem has announced the launch of its biggest online sales campaign titled “Jumia Black Friday”.
This campaign is geared towards supporting consumers in Ghana amidst the current economic climate, while enabling businesses and SMEs to grow by reaching millions of consumers online.
This year’s #JumiaBlackFriday theme is “Price given naa,” which literally translates to “same old prices.” This is to reiterate Jumia’s commitment to making life easier and better for Ghanaians in such difficult times when prices of goods and services are rising globally.
This year’s Jumia Black Friday campaign starts on Friday, November 4, 2022 and lasts until Sunday, November 27, 2022. For the past 7 years, Jumia has been benefiting Ghanaians with amazing deals and discounts from a large number of categories. such as electronics, phones, and tablets. , groceries, large appliances, fashion, health and beauty products among others. This year promises to be even bigger with discounts of up to 50% on all items and many other exciting activities during this period.
JumiaBlackFriday is a distinctive campaign that offers consumers the exclusive opportunity to shop at the official stores of the best local and international brands and sellers. This year’s campaign gold partners include Samsung, Tecno and Oraimo. Other partners include Xiaomi, TCL, Unilever, Nivea, Diageo, Nespresso, Weyon, Roche, Itel, Absolut and many more.
Speaking about this campaign, Jumia Ghana CEO Tolulope Thomas said: “The world is going through tough times economically and Ghana is no exception. Yield of the year people have experienced challenges and we believe this is the best opportunity we have to support them by helping them save an extra shilling. . We have worked tirelessly with our partners to ensure that consumers can enjoy the same old prices on Jumia. For our sellers and brand partners, we also continue to deliver on our commitment to bring them closer to millions of consumers to grow their businesses, scale and become more profitable.”
Consumers will enjoy other Black Friday benefits like daily flash sales at 10am, 12pm and 3pm, and mind-blowing discounts on specific brands at these times only on the Jumia app. There will also be brand days where specific brands will have products available at exclusively low prices during the campaign. Consumers placing orders can pay cash on delivery for selected items, pay through JumiaPay or via mobile money to the delivery agent. Orders can also be picked up at the nearest pickup stations at reduced shipping rates.
Jumia Services Country Manager, Ghana, Mr. Richmond Carlos Otu, also said: “Sustainability remains high on Jumia’s agenda this year and we are using Black Friday as a catalyst to promote this. With our extra slim packaging and rollout of electric/solar motorcycles and bikes, we are reducing the carbon footprint in Ghana while promoting a healthier supply chain process. With warehouse operations optimized to pick, pack and ship effectively at Price Dada Na, more cash on delivery stations launched, electric mobility vehicles deployed, we are poised and ready to deliver safely and on time.”
To discover the different products available for the Jumia Brand Festival, simply download the Jumia app or visit www.jumia.com.gh. You can also call customer service lines or chat with Jumia via live chat on the website or social media @JumiaGhana
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If you're a Canadian and you care about the future of culture, art, free speech and the Internet, you need to do something about the Canadian version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced yesterday. This bill was prepared without any consultation with Canadian stakeholders: there was no input from industry, libraries, education, artists' groups, Canadian record labels, technology developers or citizens' groups. Instead, the bill was written to specs handed down by the US trade rep and ambassador (who kept on telling the press about the "assurances" they'd had from the Minister on the bill's features).
The bill makes it flatly illegal to break any kind of digital lock, or to violate terms in one of those absurd end-user license agreements that make you promise to agree to let the record industry kick your teeth in and drink all your beer, just for the dubious privilege of paying for a song at iTunes or watching a video on Viacom's website. This amounts to private law: under Prentice's plan, Parliament would get out of the business of making copyright law, simply enforcing whatever copyright law the entertainment industry itself dreamed up.
This is even worse than the approach the US DMCA took ten years ago, and look where that's got them. Tens of thousands of Americans have been sued, key innovative technology companies have been destroyed, computer scientists have been jailed, and what did it get them? Certainly not an end to infringement -- file-sharing is up in every country in the world. And for all the money the record industry has harvested from tech startups and music fans, not one dime has been paid to an artist.
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brought more than $7.7 billion to Canada in 2010, according to a study by the Canadian Bureau for International Education. This includes students' tuition, accommodation and discretionary spending. That value is greater than the country's coniferous lumber exports, or its Nike Air Max Ltd Eminem revenue from coals. It generated more than $445 million in government revenue, and it created 81,000 jobs.
When the board's international education manager, Michael Polan, took his position some 20 years ago, there were only five school districts in the province actively promoting themselves as destinations for students studying abroad.
"The report does not rely on a multiplier effect, but on the approximate amount of money that foreign students collectively bring into Canada to pay for their education and support themselves while they study here for one academic year," noted the report's summary.
Foreign students have little solid data on which to base their decision where to attend school abroad. He said overseas families will use the much maligned Fraser Institute ranking of schools to decide where to attend.
"And, unfortunately, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows are not one of them," said Polan.
By comparison, Canada has about 265,000 international students more than half of them are studying at the post secondary level. enjoys better "brand recognition" than Canada when it comes to attracting these customers. cities, whereas they can only recall about two from Canada.
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Polan's department estimates that international students and their visiting families contributed approximately $13.3 million to the local economy last year. That includes $6 million in student fees, $4 million in home stay fees ($800 per month), $900,000 for parent visits, $800,000 in spending money, $300,000 for field trip activities and almost $400,000 for medical costs.
"Now every single school board is doing this," he said.
American schools are working harder to attract international students. During the George W. But that has changed.
The global demand for international education in Canada is growing, and it is the seventh most popular host country in the world. More than half of Canada's international students come from these countries.
The Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows school district works hard to be one of those places which these students consider.
Polan's team helps to give them a preview of the community through summer programs. Each year between 1,200 and 1,500 students are taken canoeing on Alouette Lake, zip lining at Wildplay, given English programs, and soon about 30 per cent of them are signing up for a stay in the district.
The job of attracting international students to the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows school district is getting tougher as North American school boards compete for this lucrative funding source.
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If they enjoy their stays in Canada, so too do host families like having them, as attested to by the tearful partings of students and their host families, noted Polan.
What's more, the Canadian government has recently adopted more stringent requirements for foreign students, putting more red tape before a home stay here. For example, Polan is no longer allowed to assist foreign students with their Visa applications.
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Inflammation occurs when white blood cells protect the body from ailments. Occasional inflammation is healthy; however, chronic inflammation can contribute to chronic diseases, according to a 2021 study. And everyday habits–such as sitting for hours or venting about your schedule–can increase inflammation. Although you might not expect it, these everyday habits are bad for your health.
Not Paying Attention To Trans Fats
Trans fats are the most dangerous type of fat. In 2002, researchers concluded that trans fats create inflammation markers. According to research in PLoS ONE, trans fats lower nitric oxide production in cells.
When your cells are harmed, your body prompts inflammation to get rid of them. Over time, this might result in chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes. Check a product’s ingredients for trans fats.
Venting About Your Busy Schedule
Did you know that complaining about a busy schedule can be as stressful as doing it? Health and fitness coach Sarah Honey-Lawson says that recounting your schedule can trigger your body’s stress response. “By…telling everyone about your long to-do list, you are triggering a stress response from the body that will increase levels of cortisol, adrenaline, and cause inflammation,” she told Bustle.
Lighting Certain Scented Candles
Some scented products, including candles and air fresheners, release volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These negatively interact with other chemicals in the air, and some are carcinogens, according to the American Lung Association. A study in Environmental Health confirmed that some VOCs can cause inflammation in the airways.
Look for non-toxic candles with organic ingredients.
Not Wearing Sunscreen Daily
The American Academy of Dermatology advises people to put on sunscreen every day. If you don’t, you won’t just get burned; you will get more inflammation. “Exposure to UV light causes inflammation,” dermatologist Ellen Marmur told Vogue.
In the morning, apply sunscreen or a moisturizer with SPF. While outside, replenish sunscreen every few hours.
Sitting For Hours On End
Many people sit for long periods during work. However, this isn’t healthy. In 2014, researchers found that a sedentary lifestyle creates inflammation markers that might lead to type 2 diabetes.
According to CNN, researchers recommend standing every 20 to 30 minutes. Get some water, stretch, or walk a lap around the office to reduce inflammation.
“Catching Up” On Sleep Every Weekend
Many people sleep sparingly during the week and then catch up on rest over the weekend. Family physician Jaclyn Tolentino says that this can cause “low-grade inflammation.” In 2008, researchers discovered that losing sleep–even for one night–can cause inflammation. You are better off establishing a consistent sleep schedule than mixing it up every day.
Drinking Soda (Even Diet Soda) Regularly
Every can of soda can increase inflammation. During a 2011 study, researchers noticed that soda spikes CRP (c-reactive protein) levels, which is a marker of inflammation. Even diet sodas can increase inflammation, according to Consumer Reports.
Sodas raise cholesterol, which is an inflammatory response. An occasional soda is fine, but do not drink them regularly.
Browsing On Your Phone In Bed
Quality sleep is key to managing inflammation. Phones and laptops emit blue light, which messes with the body’s natural sleep cycle. According to the National Sleep Foundation, blue light causes people to lose sleep.
As you get less sleep, you’ll receive more inflammation forms in your body. Even long sleep can prompt inflammation if it is restless.
Eating A Lot Of Condiments
Many condiments, such as ketchup, sriracha, barbecue sauce, and teriyaki sauce, contain a high amount of sugar. Sugar increases inflammation markers, says a 2018 study in Nutrients. If you want more flavor, use spices instead.
In 2020, research from Penn State concluded that adding spices to any meal can lower inflammation.
Not Managing Stress
Occasional stress is normal; it is your body’s way of getting stuff done. But unmanaged chronic stress spawns consistent, unhealthy inflammation. In 2019, a study in Frontiers in Neuroscience found that stress, inflammation, and depression are all closely related.
If you work on quelling stress, you might spare your body from inflammatory diseases in the future.


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ACCORDING to many, the growth path of Scotch whisky is assured but the austerity measures imposed in China have blunted the trajectory of high-end spirit sales recently.
Diageo and Pernod Ricard are among the sector giants to have bemoaned the short-term effects of the clampdown on conspicuous consumption by the Chinese, while still affirming the long-term potential of that market.
So Edrington Group appears to have been fortunate, or canny, in this regard as while it has seen a slowing of sales there it has more than managed to offset it with progress in other places.
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Rather than solely banking on China it is also targeting south-east Asia, where Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Phillippines have a combined population of around 500 million people, and is looking at growth opportunities in south and central America, Africa and the Middle East.
It also continues to do very nicely in a growing number of emerging economies, including Korea and Taiwan, while driving further sales in to the world's biggest premium spirits market in North America.
Underpinning that is an investment strategy which has included bringing its international distribution in key territories back in-house so the Glasgow company can have more control over where its brands are sold.
While some in the industry are questioning if the spate of new and extended distilleries may lead to over capacity Edrington is confident its own production additions are the correct way forward so it isn't caught short 10 years from now.


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The Turkish company Martur will stop the production in Ulyanovsk of car seats for Renault cars produced at AvtoVAZ. According to Interfax, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Alexei Russkikh, will discuss the issue of foreign companies leaving Russia with AvtoVAZ director Maxim Sokolov next week. In addition, a delegation from the regional authorities will take part in the AvtoVAZ conference with suppliers on June 23.
There are 19 enterprises in the Ulyanovsk region that supplied components for AvtoVAZ. Their future has not yet been determined. “We need now (think – MT), what will we do with these enterprises, what will happen with the personnel, what are the prospects,” Russkikh believes.
In April, the French automaker Renault decided to transfer his factories in Russia to the state for the ruble. The Moscow Renault Russia plant, which the company has owned since 2005, will go to the Moscow government, and 68% of AvtoVAZ shares will go to NAMI.
Russian automakers relied on Chinese suppliers as a fallback option. After the release of Renault, AvtoVAZ is partially reoriented to companies from China, and KamAZ has a partner in the person of the Chinese JAC. Partial components from China are supplied to GAZ and UAZ. However, imports of spare parts from China, which Russian companies hoped for after the departure of Western manufacturers, also declined. The largest drop in imports was in March: to Russia components for $76.3 million against $117.1 million a month earlier. By May, the volume of imports amounted to $81.3 million, which is still lower than the volumes at the beginning of the year.
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text: Roads made out of used coffee grounds There seems to be an ever growing amount of uses for used coffee grounds such as coffee cups, fuel, compost, but now they are being used to pave roads. Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have discovered it is possible to create the foundation for road-building with used coffee grounds as one of the raw materials. A researcher for the University commented that the nature of the coffee grounds being “insoluble” makes it a very useful material for road-building. Coffee grounds are dried out in an oven then mixed with another waste product called “slag”, a by-product from steel manufacturing, the two materials are then bound together with an alkaline solution and compressed into blocks. This study was taken to evaluate whether the combination of an organic waste product and an industrial waste product could create “subgrade” construction material. The researchers concluded that the findings show it is possible to “transform the construction industry” with the use of waste by-products in future road-building. This innovation would reduce the carbon footprint by a huge amount and it is very sustainable as well. It appears that used coffee grounds aren’t as wasteful as we once thought and it is great to see these new developments being made, may the road to good coffee continue!


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Fed Cattle Recap | Cash prices for fed cattle hold the lineFed Cattle Recap | Cash prices for fed cattle hold the line
In spite of pressure in the wholesale market, cash prices were steady to $1 higher on slightly larger volume.
With holiday beef buying about wrapped up for retailers, packers are working to fill those orders. That’s put an underpinning to cash prices for fed cattle, even though the wholesale trade has backed off a bit.
Nobody knows if retailers have their needs covered or if there will be any last-minute buys to keep meat cases full. But consumer demand remains in good shape and beef will no doubt make the holidays a little merrier for many people.
Looking at volumes, the Five Area formula sales volume for the week ending Nov. 23 totaled 239,700 head, compared with about 251,000 the previous week. The Five Area total cash steer and heifer volume was 87,321 head, compared with about 74,000 head the previous week.
The Five Area region is comprised of Texas-Oklahoma-New Mexico; Kansas; Nebraska; Colorado; and Iowa-Minnesota. These states market around 80% of the fed cattle in the nation.
Nationally reported forward contract cattle harvest was about 47,000 head for the week. The packers had 210,000 head for November but drop down to 163,000 head for December. National cash sales this week included 27,576 head of 15- to 30-day delivery and 28,000 head from the previous week.
Now looking at prices, the Five Area weekly weighted average cash steer price for the week ending Nov. 23 was $115.96 per cwt, 77 cents higher than the week prior.
The weighted average cash dressed steer price was $183.59 per cwt, which was $1.87 higher.
The Five Area weighted average formula price was $184.88 per cwt, which was $2.15 higher.
The estimated weekly total federally inspected cattle harvest was 662,000 head, which compares with 572,000 head the same week last year. However, last year included the Thanksgiving holiday shutdowns, so that is why it is so much higher this year.
The latest average national steer carcass weight for the week ending Nov. 11 was 908 pounds, 5 pounds higher than the previous week and 4 pounds heavier than the 904 pounds the same week last year. This week a year ago saw carcass weights 5 pounds higher than the week before, making it the top weight for last year.
The Choice-Select spread was $21.25 on Friday, Nov. 22, compared with $26.47 the previous week. The spread dropped on the heels of big drops in daily Choice rib and loin prices. However, the spread is still substantially higher than last year’s $15.34, which was exactly the same as the previous week last year.
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With the rapid development of Internet technology, increasing social attention to education, and continuous improvement in economic levels, the online education industry continues to grow. According to iiMedia Research, the number of online education users in China will reach 309 million in 2020, and the market size will reach 453.8 billion yuan. In the survey of online education, 34.5% of users said they had a certain understanding of K12 online education. 38.1% of users believed that the combination of teaching and explanation links was closely related to technology. 44.8% of users said that they continued to wait and see the prospects of online quality education development. Thinking and programming online quality education were most recognized by users, accounting for 37.2%. iiMedia Consulting analysts believe that due to the favorable policies, strengthened social education awareness and the pressure of primary and secondary school students to enter the higher education, the future demand for K12 online education market will continue to increase. With the strengthening of parents' education consciousness in 80s and 90s, the demand for quality education will become more urgent.
应对疫情停课不停学，推迟返校时间是避免疫情进一步扩大的有效措施，iiMedia Research（艾媒咨询）数据显示，51.1%的受访者赞成疫情期间线上教育，54.5%的受访者赞成疫情期间停课不停学。而在线教学中，如何有效达到教学质量以及监督学生完成教学任务，则成为了社会关注热点。iiMedia Research（艾媒咨询）数据显示，60.0%的受访者没有时间监督孩子进行线上教育，48.5%的受访者认为疫情期间线上教育学生注意力容易分散，39.6%的受访者认为线上教育教学质量不高，55.3%的受访者认为疫情期间，线上教育的预期效果比在学校学习效果差。如何解决这些线上教育的劣势，是在线教育进行持续发展需要解决的问题。
It is an effective measure to avoid further expansion of the epidemic to stop school and postpone the time of returning to school. According to the data of iiMedia Research, 51.1% of the respondents approve of online education during the epidemic, and 54.5% of the respondents approve of school suspension during the epidemic. In online teaching, how to effectively achieve teaching quality and supervise students to complete teaching tasks has become a hot topic of social concern. According to the data of iiMedia Research, 60.0% of the respondents did not have time to supervise their children's online education, 48.5% of the respondents thought that students' attention was easily distracted during the epidemic, 39.6% of the respondents thought that the quality of online education and teaching was not high, and 55.3% of the respondents thought that the expected effect of online education during the epidemic was worse than that of learning in school. How to solve the disadvantages of online education is a problem that needs to be solved in the sustainable development of online education.


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Riyadh, March 15, 2021, SPA -- Saudi Food and Drug Authority’s (SFDA) Drug Track and Trace System for pharmaceutical products (RSD) has monitored and recorded more than one billion supply chain operations including manufacturing, importing, selling or consuming.
RSD, which was launched by SFDA about two years ago, aims to achieve Saudi Vision 2030 by using a new technology for tracking all human registered drugs manufactured in Saudi Arabia or imported from abroad.
The system contributes to strengthening the Authority’s role in protecting the society, enhancing control and ensuring the safety of medicines by identifying their sources and the stages they went through, starting from manufacturing, with the possibility of direct stopping of recalled medications or the ones with warnings. It also works on preventing counterfeit drugs through monitoring full supply chain operations in order to guarantee that all sold or consumed drugs are registered and safe.
RSD provides many advantages for establishments registered in it. It contributes to improving their inventory management, reduces waste, in addition to providing periodic reports on the market situation, sales, supply and demand.
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If life is a video game, Usher Raymond not only has the cheat codes, he’s dressed for the part.
Fresh off of the announcement that he would headline the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show, and seemingly on a break from tearing up happy homes during his Las Vegas residency, the 44-year-old sat in the front row at Marni’s spring 2024 show in Milan, wearing what can best be described as his finest Sunday morning cartoons cosplay.
It was all Marni from head-to-toe: a fire-engine red button-down shirt paired with red polka-dot pants and a matching red polka-dot overcoat, red motorcycle gloves, and the label’s inflated BigFoot 2.0 sneakers.
Seated next to Usher was singer Erykah Badu, also in Marni, wearing a yellow large-windowpane suit with a long-sleeved T-shirt with smaller windowpanes underneath. A giant graphic print black and white scarf was perched on her shoulder and a huge mohair polka-dot top hat on her head (a mohair sweater in the same print is currently on Marni’s website for $1,250).
And next to her, rounding out Marni’s version of The Incredibles, was The Migos’ Quavo wearing an oversized mohair polka-dot sweater with an exaggerated color and flared mohair polka-dot pants to match.
These were versions of pieces from Marni’s latest runway collection, and even though they’re not currently available for purchase, the looks speak to a bigger shift. Fashion currently is dominated by the aesthetics of video games — everything is oversized, brightly colored, and inflated. This could be fashion for the foreseeable future, so get used to it.
In February, Brooklyn art collective MSCHF introduced a now-viral pair of bulbous red boots fit for Japanese manga’s Astro Boy, calling them “cartoon boots for a cool 3D world,” and writing on the product description page: “Cartoonishness is an abstraction that frees us from the constraints of reality. If you kick someone with these boots they go boing!”
For seasons now, designers have been turning to virtual reality for inspiration, and while brands such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Balenciaga all bought into the metaverse, designer and Loewe’s creative director Jonathan Anderson brought the virtual to real life.
A year ago, Anderson showed “MineCraft” clothes on Loewe’s spring 2023 runway. There was a hoodie, dress and pants designed to look like “a pixelated glitch.” He also showed inflated high heels not unlike the “stilettos” Minnie Mouse wears. (The Jacquemus fall 2019 collection and Balenciaga’s resort 2023 collection each featured a Minnie Mouse shoe.)
He took the aesthetic to JW Anderson, Anderson’s namesake brand, where he showed his spring 2023 collection in an arcade, showing pieces such as inflated-looking leather shorts, one-shoulder dresses fashioned like a plastic bag full of goldfish, and a halter top made of computer keys.
Anderson built on his own virtual world the following season, during Loewe’s fall 2023 runway show with 3D Polly Pocket-esque clothing created with molds to recreate the seamless look of the doll’s clothing. That same collection introduced the inflated cat-eye balloon sunglasses fans couldn’t get enough of.
It’s not just sunglasses. Pumped-up accessories are trendy. Like, Coach’s inflated, pillowlike Tabby bag, Loewe’s inflated puffer coat, even Prada has its own version of puffy, inflated shoes and accessories.
“Are we falling into our screens, becoming our phones? I think it’s really like an alternate universe, and there are layers and layers and layers to it,” Anderson told Vogue backstage at JW Anderson’s spring 2023 collection.
The video gamification of fashion is a reflection of the real world’s need for escapism (and maybe a hint of nostalgia). Like Usher, designers are urging us to dress the part of the superheroes we need to be right now.


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Valentino Rossi once again participated in the Monza Rally Show during MotoGP's off season, claiming a record-breaking sixth victory at the Italian race.
But for 2018, America's PJ Jacobsen will be promoted to the premier WorldSBK class, competing on the #99 TripleM Honda WSBK Team CBR1000RR Fireblade SP2.
KTM highlights the true off-road worthiness of its 790 Adventure R prototype by running the bike side-by-side with the Dakar-winning KTM 450 Rally.
When the 2018 X-Trial season begins December 3 in Vendée, France, Repsol Honda's Toni Bou will begin chasing a 12th-straight indoor title.
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The Mercury News reports that Apple received unanimous approval to build the 21,468-square-foot restaurant. While the company already has several Caffe Macs and five full-service cafeterias for workers to grab lunch within the office perimeter, it's not unusual for outside visitors from Silicon Valley to meet up with friends. The concern for the company is that they don't want any local competitors (a-hem, Google) eavesdropping. Dan Whisenhunt, Apple's director of real estate facilities, told the Cupertino Planning Commission, "We like to provide a level of security so that people and employees can feel comfortable talking about their business, their research, and whatever project they're engineering without fear of competition sort of overhearing their conversations."
What will be on the menu? That's still unknown, and may be kept secret for a while since the restaurant is not open to the public. According to Grubstreet, Apple's biggest competitor, Google, has a foodie-focused cafeteria in New York City that serves everything from fresh pastas, tacos, and stir-fries to grilled steaks and fancy French beef Bourguignon and striped bass en papillote. The internet search engine's Mountain View, CA, cafeteria, as reported in the Washington Post, cooks up a menu with cuisine from seven continents. The menus from their 11 cafés are emailed to workers each morning and offerings include fresh orange juice at breakfast and foie gras egg rolls at dinner. The bonus: it's all free.


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The sale is element of a broader change in technique for the Boise-based computer chip maker.
BOISE, Idaho — Micron Know-how on Tuesday announced that it is in conversations to sell its Lehi, Utah pc chip producing plant as part of a larger sized change by the firm to focus on memory and storage improvements for knowledge centers.
The Boise-based mostly corporation said it truly is aiming to get to a sale agreement for the manufacturing unit by the stop of the yr.
The $1.3 billion fab plant, which contains multiple properties and more than 2 million square feet of space east of I-15 in Lehi, was developed in the late 1990s.
The Lehi plant is the firm’s only factory that can make 3D XPoint, a memory storage technological know-how developed jointly by Micron and Intel to fill the gap in the storage marketplace among DRAM and NAND flash.
Micron acquired out Intel’s fascination in the partnership – named IM Flash Technologies – for $1.5 billion in January 2019. At the time, the enterprise experienced massive strategies for 3D XPoint and the Lehi facility.
“The Utah-primarily based facility offers us with the manufacturing overall flexibility and very expert expertise to drive 3D XPoint growth and innovation, and to deliver on our emerging technology roadmap,” Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in a January 2019 assertion.
A minimal over two a long time afterwards, these programs have adjusted drastically.
Micron has ceased the growth and production of 3D XPoint and is now shifting means to aim on expenditure in so-termed Compute Categorical Connection (CXL)-enabled goods.
According to the corporation, CXL is the a short while ago released market-regular interface that enables flexible link among compute, memory and storage.
“Memory and storage are important to the knowledge economic climate, and the will need for facts heart memory innovation has under no circumstances been larger,” Mehrotra explained in a information launch on Tuesday. “As a leader in memory and storage, Micron is committed to top innovation to unleash the upcoming technology of info facilities. Today’s announcement displays our aim to make investments in higher-value alternatives for buyers that also produce strong shareholder returns.”
Micron cited “wide proliferation” of artificial intelligence and developments in knowledge analytics that necessitate a modify from 3D XPoint to CXL.
The CXL interface will permit for additional platform innovation in info centers, Micron said.
The organization added that it “sees huge guarantee in new lessons of memory-centric methods that use CXL to scale the capacity, efficiency and content material essential by purposes to operate on infrastructure with greater architectural independence.”
While it is sunsetting the 3D XPoint initiative, Micron promised to apply the awareness it acquired from the initiative to new kinds of memory merchandise.


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The declining dollar has sparked such a buying binge of U.S. farm commodities, exporters are struggling to find room on steamships and enough containers to carry all the wheat, soybeans and cotton.
With the scarcity have come big upticks in price, including $300-per-container hikes expected both Dec. 1 and Jan. 1 for grain shipments.
"We knew there would be increases, but no one expected so many," said Neeley Mallory III at Mallory-Alexander International Logistics. "It's making U.S. goods more expensive."
In 18 months, the price of getting commodities from inland markets -- like Memphis -- to markets overseas has doubled and is forcing traditional local exports -- cotton, lumber and paper -- to compete for containers being gobbled up by grain.
"They're going to have to get in line; I don't know what else to say," said Ed Zaninelli, vice president, transpacific shipping at Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line.
The problem is forcing them to consider other options, including shipping to the East Coast, where containers are more available, and using the Panama Canal to go west.
"But if we have to truck or rail to Houston or Savannah, where the goods are unloaded and then reloaded, it's a minimum of two more touches," Mallory said, "and the price goes up."
For customers weighing the difference between Brazilian soybeans and cotton, he said, the decision is suddenly easier.
If you drive by Cargill's grain elevator on Presidents Island, you can see workers loading barges and containers.
Containers hold about 800 bushels of grain compared with barges, which have a capacity for 65,000 bushels, said Joe Sparks, Cargill's farm service leader.
"We can only fill six, nine or 10 containers in the same time it takes to load a barge," Sparks said. "It's a much higher labor cost, but the consumer is more than willing to pay for it."
Containers also offer more flexibility. They serve as a storage bin, which means smaller consumers don't have to build elevators, a plus in many developing countries.
"The container business is a much more consistent business because it's a year-round, which helps us," Sparks said.
The influx of grain headed to foreign markets first showed up in the bulk-hauling vessels, which sent charter -hip prices rocketing.
Grain shippers began experimenting with container shipping, using the empty containers created by the U.S. trade imbalance to get the loads overseas.
The proof now is the statistics. In August, USDA reported grain shipments by container were up 18 percent for the month and 123 percent year over year.
And while imports in containers are up 3 to 5 percent, containerized exports have grown by about 14 percent.
"For Memphis, a positive in all of this will be that the railroads will more quickly see the benefits from the recent investments made in their facilities here. Hopefully, this will inspire more of the same from others," said Barry Gibson, director of national accounts for OOCL.
Historically, Memphis has been a surplus area for ocean containers. However, the increased export volumes will play a significant role in balancing the equipment inventories and that will make Memphis a more attractive area for the carriers, he said.
The cause of U.S. shippers is being helped by the weak dollar.
"We can still be competitive if transportation costs go up, but only to a certain extent," said Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition in Washington, which works to keep transportation costs down so U.S. farmers can compete globally.
"Nothing we export cannot be sourced from somewhere else in the world," he said. "The mills in China don't care if it's U.S. cotton, Pakistani cotton or African cotton."
Analysts say exporting by container will become a permanent option because it gives shippers access to new niche markets, generally too small for bulk shipments.
But demand is challenging exporters' ability to ship goods dependably and affordably, Friedmann said.
"Now you have to book a month in advance in order to get empty containers. And if you can't get a container for a last-minute order, then that foreign customer goes somewhere else."
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SAN DIEGO—Red Hat officials gave more details about the companys new global desktop on May 9, revealing that it is based on a stripped-down version of the existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 and contains applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice and Evolution.
“Our enterprise desktop has some 1,500 applications, so we stripped this down to about 700 by getting rid of a lot of things like developer tools and compilers, which helped reduce the hardware requirements for the system,” Gerry Riveros, head of Red Hat client solutions marketing, said at a press conference here at the companys annual summit.
The product initially will be targeted at small businesses and governments in emerging countries, a market that partner Intel and its associates knows very well, Riveros said.
While the desktop is not another “Windows clone, it is also not a new desktop environment as it is based on RHEL Desktop 5. The key for us was getting the feature set these customers wanted, and then getting it into the channel for distribution,” he said.
“We have partnered with Intel on this front, as the target customer tends to buy from white-box vendors, and Intel understands that market and its market set extremely well,” Riveros said. “The idea is to enable Intels base of fast system builders with this desktop product.”
Red Hat is also working closely with Intel to support and certify the wide range of hardware these system builders use, as this huge distribution channel is key to the success of the product and its reach. “The Red Hat global desktop has the ability to change the accessibility of technology for this market,” he said.
Red Hat is training and enabling those system builders to do front-line support, which would escalate to Intel if not resolved, and finally to Red Hat.
“Intel is one of the largest certifiers of white boxes in the world, and so certifying to its products is crucial. Also, remember, it deploys systems that are much less expensive than traditional desktops,” Riveros said.
Jonathan Blanford, a desktop engineer at Red Hat, said that a lot of the same components are being used in the One Laptop Per Child initiative and the global desktop, which is a very channel-friendly distribution.
The current plan is to release a new version every year so it will progress very quickly. It will only be supported for two years, compared with the seven for RHEL Desktop 5, which is on a two-year development schedule, designed for enterprise customers, and made available under a subscription plan, he said.
With regard to Fedora and the new desktop, Blanford said the two will continue to be developed in tandem, and the features and technology developed for Fedora will find their way into the global desktop. “They will be developed hand-in-hand, and what you see in one will be available in the other,” he said.
Scott Crenshaw, vice president of Red Hats Enterprise Linux platform business, said that when Red Hat first talked to customers about the new desktop plan, they told the company that pricing was one of the top considerations for it to be successful, “so we have made this very attractive for the system builders.” Pricing will not be announced until July, when the product ships.
The new desktop is designed for system builders and will not, at least initially, conflict with Red Hats own channel. “But we may, going forward, make this available to our own channel, but there should be no inherent conflict,” Crenshaw said.
While there has been “extraordinary demand” for the product in Europe and the United States, Red Hat will first roll it out where it is most needed—with emerging countries, he said.
In an interview with eWEEK, Crenshaw bristled at the suggestion by some that the company is not serious about the desktop market.
“With this deal we have built a new and innovative support network that involves training qualified resellers, Intel and Red Hat. While there is no strong value proposition around Linux now for going after your grandfather and grandmother who might want to buy a computer, this initiative is a major expansion of our desktop into emerging markets,” he said.
It would be hard to find another company making as many investments in the Linux desktop space as Red Hat, he said, noting that the global desktop is all open-source and is about providing offerings that people actually need.
While Red Hat is not interested in providing a Windows clone, its investments and delivery in the space are “unparalleled.” It is also important to remember that the global desktop is a for-profit initiative, he said. “The numbers are staggering, and we think we are going to do quite well,” Crenshaw said.
Riveros said that the new desktop will help democratize technology, which is why the initial focus is on delivering it to emerging markets. “We want to see wide adoption of Linux desktops around the world, but providing a Windows clone has no value,” he said.
Until now, this customer segment had three product choices: Buy Windows Starter edition, which does not have the functionality or applications they need; purchase Windows Vista, which is too expensive and requires an upgrade of their existing hardware; or download Linux, which did not give them the support and certification they needed, or have a brand name behind it, he said.
“We want to reach as many people around the world as possible. We believe that with this new distribution model, which is wider than anything that has been done in the past, and available on as many hardware platforms as possible, big and small, through our partnership with Intel, that we will be able to deliver this solution across the globe,” Riveros said.


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As a nation we're working harder and earning less, so it's no wonder households are gloomy.
NAB's head of global research Peter Jolly says a striking feature of the economy in recent times has been the divergence between consumer and business confidence.
"Business confidence is near four year highs, consumer confidence near four year lows, and the gap between the two has rarely been wider," Mr Jolly said.
There's more than one reason households are so downbeat, he said.
"Chief amongst these is that the unemployment rate near six per cent is at its highest point in a decade, meanwhile for those who do have work, wages are growing at their slowest pace in nearly two decades."
Mr Jolly looked at the broadest measure of Australia's income - real net national disposable income (RNNDI).
It's a "real" measure, adjusted to show the quantity of goods and services Australia's national income could buy.
So when the prices received for Australia's exports is falling relative to the price of imports, as it is now, growth in the "real" value of this income measure slows or even falls.
In per capita terms, real income has been falling for the past three years, and is now back to where it was in 2008, just ahead of the global financial crisis.
"Australians aren't used to falls in their real incomes, with household purchasing power more or less rising continuously from the last recession in 1991 until the GFC in last 2008," Mr Jolly said.
This measure is not a gauge of household purchasing power, but it's clear that growth in household income has stalled.
In real terms - adjusting for the growth in the prices of the things households buy - per capita household disposable income has slowed progressively over the past decade and finally hit the wall, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show.
In the three years to June 2014, real household income per capita has fallen by 0.4 per cent.
"As a nation, we're working harder for less income," Mr Jolly said.
And that's against a background of higher unemployment and talk of budget cuts still eating away at confidence, in spite of the distraction of the war on whichever form of terror is currently in vogue.
It's hardly a recipe for euphoria.


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Following the launch of the Holden Astra sports hatch earlier in the year, Holden have teamed up with VICE’s global arts and technology channel The Creators Project.Created by Virtue, VICE’s in-house creative agency, the content is spearheaded by a feature film and short edit TVCs of the video to be seen on Australian televisions from Tuesday 21 July.
Check the ad out here: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/video-car-vs-drones-full
Michael Slonim, VICE AU/NZ managing director, said: “This project is all about treating consumers like audiences. Millennials are smart and know when they’re being sold to, but they’re also aware of the world they live in and want to be entertained. Savvy brands such as Holden know it’s okay to market a product, as long as it’s adding value, and they’re telling a story that has a cultural relevance.”
At the heart of the content is a slick black Astra. Caged in a dark warehouse, the Astra is pitted against a swarm of drones which fly in formation to create a moving, free floating obstacle course.
Holden Executive Director of Marketing, Geraldine Davys, said: “The film perfectly exhibits the wild side of Holden’s latest sports hatch and a fresh direction for the brand. The concept of a car vs. drones forming a moving racetrack is one that has never been attempted before, and to demonstrate something as unique and progressive as this is really exciting. We are taking the Holden brand into new territory and challenging the status quo. Holden is going to continue to produce engaging and innovative content for our customers, content that traditionally may not be associated with the Holden brand. Astra vs. Drones is perfect example of this, it’s a short film that certainly makes you sit up and take notice.”
Set to the bespoke music of Australia’s Rohan Rebeiro (My Disco/Kangaroo Skull), ‘Astra vs Drones’ is directed by Bradley “GMUNK” Munkowitz, a US-based veteran of the global design community and The Creators Project alumni whose work ranges from otherworldly music videos to the creation of the post-apocalyptic sky world of the Hollywood blockbuster Oblivion.
With Melbourne’s AIRBAG, who boast their own technology pedigree, the post production of ‘Car vs Drones’ involves a combination of techniques historically only used in stills photography. The eye-popping sci-fi look was achieved by manipulating camera frames, allowing for smooth, mesmerising trails of light.
The Creators Project also go behind the scenes, providing an all-access view of the precision driver, drone pilots, technical experts and production team that brought ‘Astra vs Drones’ to life.
Verizon Media’s talent program has come to an end for the third year, closing with a hybrid pitch-off event for Musicians Making A Difference (MMAD). The Verizon Media Academy class of 2021, made up of 44 emerging leaders from across Australia and New Zealand media, advertising and marketing industry, were given just one hour to […]
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Stan has announced that the Stan Original Film Transfusion commenced filming in Sydney earlier this week and will premiere on Stan in 2022. Transfusion is a taut, muscular thriller starring Sam Worthington (Avatar) as Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, who is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife and is thrust […]
According to a decade of data collected by iStock, Australian brands turned to imagery depicting outdated gender stereotypes during the pandemic. Tracking the keyword ‘women’, iStock by Getty Images found that in 2020, ANZ brands and businesses reverted to gender stereotypes. Images of mothers home-schooling were used at almost twice the rate of images of […]
Schwartz Media is congratulating Maddison Connaughton on her three years as editor of The Saturday Paper. Connaughton has decided to finish up her editorship this month. “It’s been an honour to edit the paper,” Connaughton said. “The Saturday Paper is one of the brightest voices in Australian media and I have been happy to see […]
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A Practical Impact, Period.
7 November 2018 at 8:51 am
Tampons and pads make getting your period a whole lot easier. But a lot of them aren’t that great for the environment, or accessible to everyone. Rozalyn Campbell, founder of Tsuno, is trying to change that however, writes Maggie Coggan in this month’s Spotlight on Social Enterprise.
Campbell was first introduced to a more sustainable alternative to pads and tampons in 2012, when she got her period at a friend’s place in Finland.
“I called out to her, asking for a pad or a tampon, and she said she only used a reusable menstrual cup, which I had never heard of,” Campbell says.
While the cup didn’t quite work for her, when Campbell came back to Australia, where she was studying industrial design, things started to fall into place.
“I was learning about the environmental impact of everyday product design at university, and my teacher also brought in the founder of One Girl, when I really started to become inspired,” she says.
It was One Girl’s Launch Pad program, which supplies sanitary supplies to girls who miss at least a week of school every month due to having nothing to manage their periods, which particularly resonated with Campbell.
“The thought that people were having their periods, and then missing out on school because they had nothing to manage it struck a chord with me, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it,” she says.
“They were also using biodegradable materials for their pads, because of a waste problem in Sierra Leone, so that made me wonder if Australia had anything like that, and we didn’t, everything was plastic.”
While she didn’t have the means to make a completely re-usable product, she did believe she could create something that was already accepted by the mainstream market – but environmentally friendly.
Campbell had also become an ambassador for One Girl, and was learning about women’s empowerment, and how she could make a difference through business.
“It was on a road trip to Queensland, and I really wasn’t sure if I was happy with where I was heading career wise, so I thought that maybe I could start a social enterprise that helps raise money for charity, but also provides a product that women need,” she says.
And so, Tsuno was born.
“I found a manufacturer in China who were making sustainable bamboo sanitary pads, and pretended to be a real business, and wrote to them asking what the minimum order quantity was, which was $US40,000 ($A55,400).
Inspired by Who Gives a Crap’s successful crowdfunding campaign, Campbell thought she’d give it a go as well.
“I had no money, I couldn’t get a bank loan, and I didn’t want to ask my parents. I also felt like crowdfunding was the most sensible way to test if the idea had legs,” she says.
The campaign was a success, and by the end of 2014, the first batch of pads had arrived – made from sustainable bamboo fibres, and packaged in boxes covered in the work of local artists.
Due to Tsuno’s size and budget, changes and the business’s impact have had to be gradual, but Campbell is always working towards making improvements.
This includes expanding to tampons made out of organic cotton and changing the sticky lining of the pads to a biodegradable cornstarch plastic, a practice which has now been picked up by companies in India and Scotland.
While one of her main motivations for starting Tsuno, Campbell said a big challenge was the realisation that setting up a business, and turning a profit would take time, especially as it was only her running the show.
“I wanted so badly to help One Girl with their programs, but the business just sucked money up so fast, and for someone who wanted everything now, and a lot of it, it was hard to stay motivated,” she says.
After a couple of years, and immense support from the public, Campbell has no problem turning a profit, and is achieving her goal of funding One Girl programs.
“I think what I like about them is they are a small charity, and they work in a small area, so I know the money I’m giving them is going to be funding the programs they say they will,” she says.
Tsuno has also donated to, and continues to support the work of charities that work towards empowering women, such as the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Share the Dignity, The International Development Agency and Essentials For Women South Australia.
Since starting Tsuno, Campbell has witnessed change in the industry, but believes the future of menstrual products needs to be reusable.
“Regardless of it being a natural fibre, it’s still a disposable product that you use once. Compared to when I first found out about menstrual cups though, there are so many brands out there, stocked in heaps of mainstream paces, which is incredible,” she says.
“In my experience, with my customers, reusable is where people are looking towards.”
In the meantime however, Campbell says what she is pleased to have seen in the time she’s been involved in the industry, is there’s a more open minded attitude towards periods, and a change in what matters for the big tampon and pad companies.
“During my first crowdfunding campaign back in 2014, I really needed the media’s help to spread the word, as my networks only went so far,” she says.
“I got turned down by so many organisations because they said their readers would be uncomfortable with the content. Now we are seeing one of the largest global brands in the UK, Always, bringing out an ad for their products with blood in it. That hasn’t been done before because people complained too much.”
The same company also recently launched a campaign where for every box sold, one is donated to a person in the UK who can’t afford the products themselves, and Cottons in Australia jumped on with Share the Dignity, aimed at helping women experiencing homelessness with sanitary supplies.
“This isn’t a trend, it’s a movement,” she says.
“Big companies are recognising that customers are demanding more, because small businesses like mine do exist and they are an option, so if the big ones are going to stay relevant, they are going to have to start thinking about more than profit.”


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Asia Pacific air cargo figures suggest sustained regional recovery
November 01, 2010 - SCMR Editorial
U.S. retailers and manufacturers continue to increase their reliance on air cargo from Asia, said a leading supply chain authority.
According to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), the month of September showed a continued surge in cargo volume and traffic.
“Freight markets remained robust as the economic recovery maintained its momentum,” said AAPA spokesmen.
International air cargo demand increased by 18.5 percent compared to the same month last year, while freight capacity expanded by 19.3 percent, resulting in a 0.5 percentage point decline in the average international cargo load factor to 67.9 percent.
“Asian economies have been leading the way out of the global downturn, and this has resulted in a tremendous boost to the fortunes of carriers across the region,” said Andrew Herdman, AAPA Director General.
“Over the past nine months, we have seen a dramatic 30.2 percent growth in international air cargo traffic, compared to the same period last year.”
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) came to a similar conclusion late last month when it announced a modest global uptick in freight traffic led by Asia Pacific carriers. IATA recorded a 15.0 percent increase in freight demand over the previous year, a finding that came as scant surprise to U.S. shippers.
“We modest, but sustained growth in the region,” said Brandon Fried, executive director of the Air Forwarders Association. “On the outbound side, the nation’s entertainment and high-tech industries are reporting good numbers.”
Both Fried and Herdman noted that Asian consumers are already displaying confidence in the future—in marked contrast to the U.S.
“The overall outlook for Asian carriers remains very positive over the next 12 months,” said Herdman, “with prospects for further sustained growth in demand in line with established long term trends.”
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TOURISM recovery in Asia is projected to slow down in the second half of the year as arrivals from major markets are seen moderating.
According to the latest paper by Oxford Economics, this is one of the reasons the group is forecasting economic growth in the region to sputter in the second half of the year, although Chinese tourists “should continue to provide some impetus.”
“Growth in tourist numbers from elsewhere is likely to ease. First, the boost purely from pent-up demand may soon run its course. Second, consumers in advanced economies, particularly the US, will likely moderate their spending plans in the face of an uncertain economic environment. Others may follow as their home economies catch a cold,” the group said.
The independent economic advisory group has projected a “mild recession” in the US toward yearend as consumers use up their Covid-era savings and companies slow down their hirings.
Arrivals in Vietnam, SG up 80% of 2019 levels
The group also noted “capacity constraints of travel destinations,” despite the limited data it has gathered on this front. “But we suspect constraints are already biting well before tourist arrivals reach their pre-pandemic level and will continue to do so until supply readjusts to meet demand.”
It said growth in the Philippine economy in the first half of the year was still driven by the “large business process outsourcing sector, although tourism certainly helped.” The local economy, as expressed in the gross domestic product, grew by 5.3 percent in the first half of the year.
Recovery of the tourism sector in Asia remains spotty, with Vietnam and Singapore the “most advanced, with arrivals at over 80 percent of 2019 levels in [July]. Much of the rest of Southeast Asia is near 75 percent. Taiwan is least advanced at about 50 percent.” No data was available for China.
The group noted that as of June 2023, Macau and Hong Kong were still the main beneficiaries of China’s outbound travel market in the first half of the year, with arrivals from China recovering to 70 percent and 54 percent, respectively, of pre-pandemic 2019 levels. “Malaysia (47 percent), Vietnam (45 percent) and Singapore (43 percent) were the next best. For the rest, Chinese arrivals were about 15 percent-35 precent of 2019 levels.”
The problem with China
As per the group, “The China story is still one of a pick-up. Arrivals from China will likely increase more quickly in the [second half of 2023] than they did in [first half] in many countries, given easing outbound capacity constraints. There are risks to that view, though, given Chinese consumers appear to be rapidly losing their gusto,” due to expensive outbound airfare arising from the higher fuel prices.
It added that China’s high unemployment, “negative wealth effects from the troubled property sector, and weak wage growth do not make a strong backdrop for splashing out on foreign holidays.”
The Department of Tourism (DOT) hopes the launch of the electronic visa platform by the Department of Foreign Affairs, initially in Shanghai, will help boost the arrivals of Chinese tourists in the Philippines. Prior to the pandemic, there were 1.7 million Chinese visitors in the country, making China the second largest source market for tourists, following the South Koreans. From January to August 30 this year, China was in fourth place, contributing 173,319 visitors to the total 3.63-million foreign tourists that arrived. (See, “DOT lauds e-visa for Chinese tourists; but will they come?” in the BusinessMirror, July 31, 2023.)


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They suggested it could be used for truly one-size-fits-all clothing that stretches to fit the wearer, or bras “whose cup size and shape can be customized every day. ” Consumers could save as well if they don’t have to replace stretched-out clothes quite so often. “This two-step process of 3D printing the material and then setting its permanent shapes allows for the fabrication of really complex shapes with structural features down to the micron level,” Luca Cera, a SEAS postdoctoral fellow and first author of a paper on the material, said in a press release. “This makes the material suitable for a vast range of applications from textile to tissue engineering.
Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), created a 3D-printable material that can be “pre-programmed with reversible shape memory. ” The wool-like material can remember old forms and morph back into those, or transform into different shapes when a certain stimulus is applied.