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June is Pride Month and among the myriad of places to tap into the celebration are breweries, which are hosting events, releasing specialty beers and pouring donations into Colorado’s LGBTQ community throughout the month.
At Denver’s second annual Big Queer Beerfest on June 18, for example, drinkers will find 35 breweries serving unique recipes for a variety of causes. The event, founded in 2021 by the female- and queer-owned businesses Goldspot Brewing and Lady Justice Brewing, raised more than $6,000 for organizations such as Queer Asterisk and Transformative Freedom Fund in its inaugural year, and is aiming higher in 2022, said Goldspot owner Kelissa Hieber.
More than 1,500 people attended the festival last year, Hieber said, and moving to a new venue, the Town Hall Collaborative in the Santa Fe Arts District, allows for double the number of guests. Instead of charging an entry fee, however, attendees purchase tokens that can be exchanged for beers, most of which will be unique to the event, and 20% of the proceeds from those purchases will be donated to nonprofits that support the LGBTQ community.
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Big Gay IPA will be on tap at the Big Queer Beerfest on June 18.
Each brewery serving at the event will choose a nonprofit to support, so drinkers can also decide where to spend their tokens based on the charitable organization, Hieber said.
“I’ve been in the industry a long time and it’s been really difficult to connect with queer folks and advocate for queer folks in taprooms, in front of house and in back of house,” Hieber said. The idea behind Big Queer Beerfest was to “take back some of that space in the beer community.”
Goldspot and Lady Justice are collaborating on at least two beers — Big Gay IPA and I Can See Clearly Now Hazy IPA — to be served at the Big Queer Beerfest. Participating businesses include many owned by women and people of color, including Wah Gwaan Brewing, Dos Luces Brewery, Atrevida Beer and Bierstadt Lagerhaus. (See full lineup here.) And in the spirit of inclusivity, there will be several seltzers and nonalcoholic beers at the festival, too.
Big Queer Beerfest, June 18 from noon to 5 p.m. at Town Hall Collaborative, 525 Santa Fe Dr., Denver. Free to attend. Drink tokens cost $3 each or $25 for ten. VIP tickets are also on sale for $80, and include unlimited drink tokens plus a commemorative T-shirt.
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Kickoff to Pride at Fiction Beer Co.
Celebrate queer literature and culture with a side of flip cup and beer pong. Fiction Beer will release Brightening Glance Witbier, a reference to a line from the novel “Dancer From The Dance,” by Andrew Holleran, for the occasion. The beer is made with orange peel and vanilla giving it a “velvety, creamsicle, dreamy, gay type of vibe,” said head brewer Daniel Blei. Other attractions include live music and custom T-shirts tie-dyed to order. A portion of proceeds benefits HeyDenver, which provides free STI & HIV testing for uninsured and underinsured individuals. June 4 at Fiction Beer Co., 7101 E. Colfax Ave. Denver.
PrideFest at Call to Arms Brewing Co.
Expect small-batch tappings, live music and a Pride Parade down Tennyson Street starting at 2 p.m. Special releases include a dry-hopped West Coast IPA called You’re Not Gay, I Am, and 10% of sales from the day will benefit the Transgender Center of the Rockies, which provides counseling, support groups and medicine-assisted treatment to transgender locals. June 25 at Call to Arms Brewing, 4526 Tennyson St., Denver.
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Continued investment in workforce includes recognition of exemplary plant and distribution center employees
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., August 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Instant Brands, creator of consumer favorites like the Instant Pot®Pyrex® and further, continues to expand its employee rewards program to recognize the commitment of its plant and distribution center employees. As part of Instant Brands’ continued investment in its workforce, the company is giving 10 employees an all-expense paid vacation for two.
Instant Brands will hold two holiday prize drawings at each of its five U.S. field locations over the next six months. The 10 winning employees can each select a default “warm weather” (Hawaii, las vegas, Orlando, San Diego) or “cold weather” (Alaska, Boston, New York, Seattle) location in the US for your well-deserved getaway.
“Our employees’ commitment to helping us deliver our products is something we prioritize and reward within our culture,” he said. Ben Gadbois, President and CEO of Instant Brands. “We value our employees, and our expanded rewards program is designed to evolve so we can better celebrate their contributions in tangible ways.”
The first holiday prize drawings are for the best attendance records From March 7 to June 30, 2022. More than 15 percent of Instant Brands’ plant and distribution center workforce in the United States qualify for the first drawings.
The first Holiday Rewards Draw was held yesterday at Instant Brands’ Byhalia, miss.distribution center, where 25 of the 156 employees qualified for the drawing.
they ran awaybased employee, Angela Savage, won the local raffle. Savage is a quality control inspector with two years of service with Instant Brands. He is a resident of Memphis, Tenn.
Beyond they ran away, Instant Brands will hold holiday drawings in the coming weeks at each of the company’s additional manufacturing and distribution centers in the United States. The second round of holiday prize draws are for the best attendance records July 1 – December 31, 2022and winners will be announced in early 2023. As part of the company’s 2021 recognition program, Instant Brands presented five employees with a new 2022 Jeep Compass.
Instant Brands continues to grow its workforce to keep pace with consumer demand. For more information on employment opportunities, visit Careers – Instant Brands.
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Instant Brands designs, manufactures and markets a global portfolio of innovative and iconic consumer lifestyle brands: Instant®Pyrex®Corelle®Corningware®Snapware®Chicago Cutlery®ZOID® and Visions.® With people-centered and purpose-driven solutions in mind, Instant Brands is reimagining how people live, eat, connect and play inside the home and in the spaces where people gather. The Cornell Capital-backed company is based in Downers Grove, Ill., and employs more than 2,000 people on four continents. Today, Instant Brands products are in millions of homes around the world. To learn more, visit Instant Brands or join the community on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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Tesla Model X and Porsche Taycan score 5-star rating in EU safety test
Electric vehicles are fast becoming the safest on the road.
Tesla Autopilot now recognizes traffic cones
Your car shouldn't plow into pylons -- if the feature works as promised.
Tesla update gives EVs more power and 'automatic' navigation
You may not need to set your route every time you drive.
Consumer Reports finds Tesla's Smart Summon 'glitchy'
Its love-hate relationship with Tesla isn't about to end any time soon.
NHTSA reviews claims Tesla should have recalled 2,000 cars
Model S and X owners claim the batteries are defective.
Tesla's Q3 electric car deliveries set another record
Whether or not it's turning a profit is another story.
Tesla update with Netflix, 'Cuphead' and Smart Summon is rolling out now
Spotify, YouTube, Hulu and 'Caraoke' are also on the way in version 10.0.
Tesla owners start seeing a data usage counter with a 50GB cap
It's not clear if Tesla will charge more for heavy internet use.
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On December 26, 2004, the Government of India issued an ordinance relating to Patents (Third) Amendment Act. With this, India has kept its promise to become TRIPS (Trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) compliant by end of this year.
Let's look at the most important features of the ordinance that will have lasting effect on the industry, both domestic and exports:
The new patent ordinance expands the patentability criteria from drugs and agro chemicals to other field of technology, such as embedded software companies.
In 1999 Patent Amendment Act, a provision regarding exclusive marketing rights (EMRs) was introduced. This will now become redundant. However, the provision for transition has been made for companies, which are already given the EMRs. Both Novartis and Wockhardt will be affected by this, but to what extent is still unclear.
One of the major provisions introduced was regarding grant of compulsory license, which means that Indian manufacturers will be able to manufacture and export patented medicines to countries, which have insufficient or no manufacturing capacity. This means that Indian companies like Cipla and Ranbaxy will be able to continue producing and exporting AIDS drugs to African and South East Asian countries.
Modification in the provisions relating to opposition procedures with a view to streamlining the system by having both Pre-grant and Post-grant opposition in the Patent Office.
Another important provision made in the act is that the patent will be available from the day of patent is granted and not when it is published. This means that many Indian companies will be saved from infringement cases by the multinational majors, who might get patent for drugs which Indian companies are selling.
What is likely to happen is that the companies that have the patent for a particular drug may force the company producing a generic version of the same to stop production, but they cannot bring a libel suit on the generic producer with retrospectively.
Another important provision is relating to the extension of patents in case of incremental innovations. It means that the companies, which come up with new usage of the same product may not get patent for the new usage.
Rationalisation of provisions relating to time-lines with a view to introducing flexibility and reducing the processing time for patent applications, and simplifying and rationalising procedures.
While the government has just passed an ordinance in order to comply with the WTO agreement, the patent law in the country will come into affect when Parliament passes this ordinance.
The government is likely to face certain hurdles from its own allies as well as the Opposition. Since the pricing mechanism for patented drugs in the ordinance is not clear we might see some improvement on that front in the actual law and that may define new products being launched by the MNC pharma companies in the country.
Till then, MNC majors will continue to keep their fingers crossed. But so will the Indian consumers, who would want to keep their healthcare expenses under check.
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Cancer Center Lobbyist Tells 2nd Circ. Bonuses Were Earned
Jeffrey Gleit was mentioned in the article, "Cancer Center Lobbyist Tells 2nd Circ. Bonuses Were Earned," which was published in Law360 on March 25, 2020.
The article discusses a case involving a lobbyist who worked for cancer center 21st Century Oncology Holdings Inc. who told a Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel that he earned at least $5 million in bonus payments before he left the company and that Chapter 11 rules don’t bar payment of that money. The reorganized debtor in this case is represented by Jeffrey Gleit and Allison Weiss.
In the article, Jeff said the company is merely trying to enforce Section 502(b)(7) by capping his bonus payments at $3.5 million, and that Woods had failed to meet other requirements necessary to actually earn the rest of the bonuses, including staying employed with the company for a period of five years.


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Vinyl albums have out-sold digital downloads for the first time ever
More money was spent on vinyl than album downloads last week for the first time ever, new figures have revealed.
The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) said vinyl sales earned the record industry £2.4m in week 48 of 2016, while downloads took in £2.1m.
It is a significant shift in how people are consuming music. In November last year it was reported that vinyl albums made £1.2m in sales while digital records made £4.4m.
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Shares of Canadian software company BlackBerry Ltd. (TSX:BB)(NASDAQ:BBRY) ended the week up nearly 24% following impressive earnings results. BlackBerry’s switch to becoming a pure-play software company has taken shape, and the ability of the company to continue to churn out profitable quarters has some investors thinking the most recent climb in BlackBerry’s stock price may be indicative of its future movement.
Looking at the entirety of BlackBerry’s current situation, as displayed in the company’s recently released earnings report, we can see a mixed bag of fundamental factors investors must consider. The company’s year-over-year revenue decline has continued, with BlackBerry posting US$238 million in revenue compared to US$334 million last year. The switch to becoming a software-focused firm has resulted in a marked loss of revenue at a time when many investors in the tech space spend their time focusing on key fundamental ratios, such as price to sales or price to revenue; with the company’s once sought after (and pricey) handsets now out of the equation, it appears this may be the new normal moving forward.
That said, BlackBerry reported a slight revenue gain over its fiscal first quarter, indicating the company may have hit the bottom of its revenue decline curve, with anticipated growth indeed on the horizon.
The key driver here for potential BlackBerry investors is profitability. The ability of BlackBerry’s management team to trim a significant amount of fat in the organization and completely reshape the company’s operations in a bid to become profitable have resulted in a lot of short-term pain in recent years; the long-term gains CEO John Chen and others have expected have largely been anticipated to come much further down the road, and with the company now posting what appears to be consistently profitable quarters, BlackBerry is making the case that it may indeed be once again approaching its previous status as a “technology cash cow,” churning out profitability and reinvesting said profits into a booming and growing business.
While it may indeed be too early to declare victory for BlackBerry, one thing is for certain: this is not the same BlackBerry we have seen since the Financial Crisis. The sharp decline in the company’s stature as a world-class tech company has left many investors by the side of the road. The question is, if BlackBerry is able to ascend to its previous greatness, how many investors will jump on board for yet another upward climb?
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Meltdown: patches are coming and problems are coming
The Meltdown security breach has been on the news for over a week now. Most users have started receiving or are waiting for the correction patches. But unfortunately, not everything is going as planned....
The antiviruses are counter-attacking!
The first problem with Meltdown's security update comes from antivirus software. As we told you last week, not all security suites are compatible with them, which can result in a blue screen in the case of an installation.
The document made available by a security engineer with the list of available antivirus software has grown considerably, even if some products still pose a problem. Again, we advise you to check on the file that your antivirus is compatible before installing the Meltdown patch.
But why are some antivirus software incompatible? Microsoft explains that some of them use kernel, which is blocked after the patch update. To avoid conflicts, the Redmond firm preferred to stop the deployment of the patch with the publishers concerned.
AMD processors don't like the patch
And since a problem never happens alone, some users report having problems since the installation of the Microsoft patch. They concern owners of devices equipped with an AMD processor from the Athlon line. Many testimonials have been posted on the Microsoft forum and they report problems with system startup. The Redmond firm has not yet provided an answer.
In any case, make arrangements before installing the Meltdown patches. Take the opportunity to backup your files or create a recovery point.
[UPDATE 12:00]Following user feedback, Microsoft stopped the deployment of patches for machines equipped with AMD processors.
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Lanxess yesterday announced a series of investments, totalling €90m.
This covers new polyamide compounding facilities in the US and India, as well as the expansion of upstream production facilities caprolactam (€35m) and glass fibres (€15m), both used in its semi-crystalline products (SCP) business unit, in Antwerp.
Since breaking away from Bayer in 2004, Lanxess has increased caprolactam (CPL) capacity to 220,000 tonnes per year from 50,000 tonnes per year. The company repaired its glass furnaces in 2010 – and will do again in 2013 – to increase annual capacity by 10% to 66,000 tonnes.
One third of the caprolactam and glass fibre products are sold to external customers and the other two-thirds are used by Lanxess itself in its PA and PBT SCP compounds.
SCP business unit head Dr Michael Zobl said this gives customers security of supply - important in a “world of volatility”.
Outside Europe, Lanxess is investing €10m each in new plants in North Carolina, the US, and Gujarat, India. Each of these new two plants will have 20,000 tonnes per year compounding capacity when they come on stream in 2012 and will draw upon polyamide 6 polymerised at the Hamm-Uentrop plant in Germany from caprolactam made by Lanxess in Antwerp.
The company is considering investing in a compounding site in an unspecified South American country but COO Dr Werner Breuers said that the company has yet to make a final decision.
In terms of existing plants, Lanxess is investing €10m each in plants in Hamm-Uentrop, Germany and Wuxi, China to increase capacity. In Wuxi, Lanxess has added a third line to increase compounding capacity to 60,000 tonnes per year, up from 20,000 tonnes per year in 2005.
Breuers said the market for high-tech plastics was worth €7bn in 2010 and that the market for high-tech plastics in cars is expected to grow 7% to 2020. Automotive applications is an important market area for Lanxess, accounting for around 50% of sales of SCP compounds (20% go to electrical and electronics applications).
One recent automotive innovation was frontends, made from a glass fibre reinforced PA6 and metal hybrid, which are 40% lighter than conventional all-steel frontends.
Hartwig Meier, head of SCP product and application development, said there are now 60 million hybrid frontends on more than 70 car models, including the new 2011 Mercedes Benz A- and B-Class cars.
The company has also developed an all-plastic frontend for the new Audi A8 car, comprising formed polyamide composite inserts made from continuous fibre reinforced "organic sheet".
Responding to an enquiry about whether the present euro crisis will have a negative effect on Lanxess business, Breuers said that Lanxess overall sales had increased by 40.8% to €7.1bn in 2010 and by 23% in Q2 2011, thanks to both "strong" pricing and volume growth. This "strong operational performance" is still ongoing and "there are still no reasons to revise expected growth downwards", Breuers stated.
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PUMP COVID-19 story: Think positive and adapt fast
PUMP is a haircare company with over 40 Australian made, plant and botanical based, organic hair care products. The products have been sold to customers in over 100 countries around the world and are stocked in over 200 salons.
PUMP Haircare is our fortnightly Featured member. Read on as Natasha Jay, founder of PUMP shares her story on how they’ve been navigating through #COVID19 crisis:
Managing a company through a global crisis has had a fair share of ups and downs. Surprisingly, my business has experienced both negative and positive effects during COVID-19. In the weeks following our nation’s lockdown, our sales increased five-fold. However, while our orders increased, our access to supply and shipping options decreased, which created major complications in our supply chain and logistics.


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Plant-Based Oat Milk
Earlier this week, Oatly, makers of a dairy alternative made from oats, went public at a $10 billion valuation.
Upright could be following in its footsteps.
Upright makes nutritious oat milk. Its milk, a plant-based alternative made from oats, has the same key nutrients as cow's milk, without unwanted allergens and additives.
Upright is led by a former supply chain director with food & beverage companies Quaker Oats and Pepsi, as well as a former consultant to global consumer goods companies.
With funding from the Yale Center for Business and Environment, the company spent the past few years developing its product. It worked with food scientists and pediatricians from Harvard Medical, Yale School of Medicine, and Cornell University. Now, after extensive research and customer testing, Upright is ready to bring its oat milk to market.
Both Upright and Oatly are targeting the rapidly-growing demand for dairy alternatives. According to Grand View Research, this market is projected to surpass $50 billion by 2028.
In 2020, sales of oat milk soared 200%, reaching nearly $250 million. This enabled companies like Oatly, for example, to become a multi-billion-dollar business.
But no company — not Oatly, or any other competitor — has created an oat milk as nutritious and environmentally-friendly as Upright.
Each cup of Upright oat milk has 8 grams of protein, 2 grams of oat fiber, as well as 25% of a person’s daily requirement of calcium.
In addition to being healthy, this oat milk is less harmful to the environment than traditional milk. As compared to dairy milk, producing one cup of Upright milk saves 39 gallons of water, 1.2 pounds of greenhouse gases, and 19 square feet of land.
Made from just oats and a blend of vitamins and minerals, Upright’s oat milk is gluten-free and hypoallergenic. It’s made using natural processes and avoids allergens and additives including lactose, nuts, seeds, soy, oil, gums, and anything artificial.
Upright will offer its oat milk in three flavors: original, vanilla, and chocolate. It will be available in conventional fluid and instant powder forms.
The plan is to retail its powdered oat milk at $12 (makes 16 servings) and sell its liquid oat milk at $4. At those prices, the company aims to achieve 60% gross margins.
To start, Upright will sell its products direct-to-consumers, and then expand to retail stores and business-to-business opportunities (hospitality companies or schools, for example).
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She began her career as an accountant with Ernst & Young, a professional services company. From there, she joined McKinsey & Company, a prominent management consulting firm. While there, she focused on strategy and operations for consumer packaged goods companies.
She left McKinsey in 2019 to start Upright. In addition to her role with the company, she is a part-time teaching assistant at Yale University.
Betty earned a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from Yale. She also earned a certificate from the Center for Nutrition Studies at Cornell University.
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Prior to starting the company, he led manufacturing facilities at leading consumer packaged goods companies. These included Quaker Oats, PepsiCo, and L’Oreal.
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Tim Rankins has made an announcement that has shocked some in the upstate amateur MMA community. Tim recently posted on Facebook that this might be the last Cage Wars for him and Ryan Clark. With that said it looks like this is going to be a monster card that will go down in the history books as the biggest and baddest card yet to date.
With Cage Wars possibly leaving their gloves in the middle of the cage on the 26th of September at the Schenectady Armory it makes us wonder will there be any shows making their way into the capital district and if so who. Whatever the case may be we wish Tim and Ryan all the best, we thank them for all the opportunities afforded to us as well as the amateur MMA fighters in and around our area. I know our team will be purchasing tickets for this huge card and we hope to see you there!
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ATTENTION FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT!!
After 6 years and 31 shows some opportunities are on the horizon for my brother Ryan Clark and I so it’s looks like this might be the last CAGE WARS for us .We love all the fans for the support over the years and all praise goes to the hundreds of warriors that have graced our cage .
WITH THAT SAID WE ARE THROWING ONE LAST MONSTER SHOW SEPT 26 AT THE SCHENECTADY ARMORY.THE BOOK IS NOW OPEN .INBOX US TO GET ON THIS HISTORIC CARD


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Since 2014, the rate of laying fruit orchards in the Crimea has increased by 4 times
Andrey Savchuk, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Crimea, announced that since 2014 the rate of planting orchards in the republic has increased 4 times. For 9 years, 7.5 thousand hectares of young gardens were planted.
Thanks to the state support that our agricultural producers receive, the area for planting perennial fruit trees is increasing every year. If in the 2014 year enterprises planted trees on 200 hectares, then last year, for example, more 800 hectares, and in the 2023 year it is planned to plant on an even larger area — about hectares , — quotes the press service of Andrey Savchuk.
The head of the Crimean Ministry of Agriculture also noted that due to the increase in the volume of planting orchards, the demand for high-quality planting material, which has always been in short supply, is also growing.
The situation is gradually changing. The state subsidizes the laying of domestic varieties, thereby stimulating the development of Russian nursery. In Crimea, for example, planting material for fruit crops, which our farmers buy with pleasure, is grown by 24 enterprises. The volume of grown seedlings is 2.7 million pieces , — says the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Crimea.
Andriy Savchuk also focused on the fact that now agricultural producers are mainly planting intensive orchards using modern “smart” drip irrigation systems, when water and mineral fertilizers are supplied to each tree at a certain time and in the required amount. “This allows the trees to start bearing fruit in just a few years, which significantly saves time, allows the garden to pay off in a short time and get more profitability than from old-style gardens,” added the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Crimea.


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A number of Windows 8 apps will be accessing online databases for some of their features. Today, Microsoft has revealed that it will provide Windows 8 app developers a way to give their software better access to the company's Windows Azure cloud-based online services.
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written by Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President Program Management for Server and Tools, he has officially announced the company's new Windows Azure Mobile Services division. He states:
Windows Azure Mobile Services makes it incredibly easy to connect a scalable cloud backend to your client and mobile applications. It allows you to easily store structured data in the cloud that can span both devices and users, integrate it with user authentication, as well as send out updates to clients via push notifications. Today’s release enables you to add these capabilities to any Windows 8 app in literally minutes, and provides a super productive way for you to quickly build out your app ideas.


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Design-wise, it’s difficult to guess exactly what the Pixel Watch will look like. There have been no leaked images or specs of the device just yet, although we do anticipate the Pixel Watch will have a smaller form factor than many other smartwatches currently on the market considering the fact that it will likely use a smaller processor, soon to be released.
The Pixel Watch is slated for late in the year, according to many analysts, so spec details on the smartwatch are scarce. We do, however, expect the Pixel Watch to ship with flagship-quality hardware, including Qualcomm’s newest wearables chipset that’s shipping later in the year. The new processor will be smaller, more efficient and perform better than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 2100. We’d also think that both a Wi-Fi and LTE version of the Google Pixel Watch will be offered.
Likely the biggest selling point of the rumored Pixel Watch is its operating system. The Pixel Watch will run a stock version of Wear OS. Since the smartwatch will be Google’s own hardware, it should receive frequent software updates and support for at least a few years.
Google hasn’t confirmed it is even making a smartwatch, so no official confirmation on the name, however, several tipsters have referred to the upcoming device as the Pixel Watch. As mentioned, we might not see the Google Pixel Watch until late in the year since Google will almost certainly wait on Qualcomm to release its newest chipset for wearables.
Currently, it’s believed the Google Pixel Watch will be announced alongside this year’s line of new Pixel smartphones. Last year, Google announced the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL in late October, so we’re looking for a similar announcement date for this year.
In terms of availability, it’s likely Google will sell the Pixel Watch both on its own website as well as in major retail outlets. If Google does make an LTE version of the Pixel Watch, AT&T or Verizon will most likely carry and exclusive on that version throughout the holiday season.


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There are many aspects for making the Japanese cuisine well that are less familiar. For instance, line-caught fish, are preferable to netted hauls for a proper sushi topping. The sharpness of the knife and how deftly it is used greatly affect the flavour of the Japanese cuisine as well. There are 90,000 Japanese restaurants worldwide. Japanese cuisine, known as Washoku in its homeland, intrigues chefs and other food lovers with its breadth and depth.
Washoku World Challenge, a Japanese cooking contest for international chefs hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will be held in Tokyo.
Washoku World Challenge is an event where chefs from different countries learn the essence of Washoku to become first rate Japanese cuisine chefs.
All foreign chefs who want to be expert in Japanese cuisine are eligible to participate in the event.
Participants will be invited for the final competition in Tokyo in 2018.
They will be evaluated by a panel of strict judges, who will not only be evaluating them on the method of cooking ingredients and seasonings, but also about the understanding of the concepts behind Japanese food and hospitality.
In last year's competition, Malaysian chef, Cheong Chemg Long won the Gold Prize.
He skillfully combined seasonal ingredients of the four seasons of Japan with a winter fish and delicately mixed in vegetables.
His use of technology and ideas were highly appreciated.
Cheong Chemg Long said, "I use my sign, and ideas to present more Japanese cuisine to my customers."
Past finalist Miso, Kombu, Katsuodashi said, "Indian, Pakistani food is amazing, I love it. But it always nice to try something different which is like Washoku, which is simple food. Taste is very natural.
Masahiro Nakata, one of the judges in the panel, said, "There are five flavours of taste in Japanese cooking. First, there is pungency, sweetness, bitterness (harsh taste), acidity, and Umami (delicious taste). Umami is the basis of the cooking."
The final competition will become a learning opportunity, not for cooking skills, but for the knowledge and feelings used in cooking within the hospitality culture of Japanese cuisine.
They are also seeking participants to join the Sushi Cup, an event being held at the same time. There is a possibility for participants to receive certification from Japan's Washoku Authority.
Chief judge Yoshihiro Murata said, "There are 90,000 Japanese restaurants worldwide. However, only a few chefs studied Japanese cuisine in Japan. You must understand your own ability to cook Japanese food. I would like many chefs to test themselves."
Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and various new technologies are increasingly becoming more a reality day by day. In Japan, technology exhibitions introducing new technologies are popular and have attracted many enthusiastic visitors.
The internet era has brought these events together in one place for every one to both communicate and exchange information.
In the exhibition showcasing AI technologies, the unique product of an Osaka start-up company has attracted the attention of many visitors to the exhibition.
This palm-sized, box-shaped robot with AI capabilities is a personal assistant robot. It has a face recognition camera and Internet of Things (IoT) consumer electronics remote installed. Ideal for home use, it can be taken with you when you travel too.
From the beginning, the company has successfully used interns from overseas and has taken a global approach from the start.
This robot project won the global design Award.
The company plans a technology partnership of its language-processing engine with the natural language technology of a large Japan major mobile carrier in the future. This will incorporate an interactive system, enabling a conversation between a person and robot.
It can be used not only for personal use, but will enable the development of applications for businesses, including employees that work at the front desk of hotels, business schedules and location guides.
Yasutomo Shirahama of Sales and Marketing, PLENGoer Robotics Inc, said, "We have been developing humanoid robots for ten years. I want to develop a "help" robot that can cultivate the practical daily activities of human actions. For example, if you are taking a picture, the robot will be able to turn around and take the picture. Taking a video shooting, it will be able to move its neck while following the object when I say shoot the video. It has developed as a useful robot to have by your side."
The project has been successful in raising more than ten million yen from crowd-funding program and hopes to create new potential business opportunities.
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Bitcoin’s birth marked a radical departure from the strictures of centralized finance. Is the advent of asset tokenization undermining the original crypto’s founding ideals?
As the US grapples with crypto regulation, Hong Kong and Dubai are emerging as leaders in the global digital economy, writes Ben Caselin of MaskEX.
Nothing in life is free. Be wary of crypto exchanges that offer ‘free trading,’ and ask hard questions about how they make money, writes Ben Caselin of MaskEX.
An open and interoperable metaverse economy will drive consumer activity — and it’s on a similar track for growth as e-commerce, writes Ben Caselin of AAX.
Bitcoin is growing up in ways not imagined in Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2008 writings that gave birth to it. How will Bitcoin’s future unfold?
China assaulted crypto with a new ferocity just as Bitcoin options expired and Evergrande escaped death. Coincidence? Ben Caselin of AAX lays out the clues.
What is bitcoin’s true value, and what are its longer-term price projections? New AAX analysis ‘Bitcoin in 2021’ offers investors a look beyond the horizon.


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Tourism jobs in the UK have grown more than twice as much as other sectors of the economy in the five years to 2014.
From 2009 to 2014, employment in tourism industries has grown by almost 12%, from 2.66 million to 2.97million, compared to non-tourism sectors which in comparison grew by 5%.
Tourism Minister David Evennett said: “Our tourism industry makes a huge contribution to the UK economy and this impressive jobs growth is great news for the sector and the country on the whole.
“Attracting and keeping the best talent is key to the Prime Minister’s vision for tourism, which is why one of our priorities is to increase the number of apprenticeships in the industry and to champion careers in tourism.”
VisitBritain Director Patricia Yates said: “This growth in jobs is really fantastic news for the UK economy and echoes the record-breaking figures we are seeing in the growth of international visitors to Britain, especially given the fiercely competitive global environment we’re operating in.”
The highest rate of growth was in accommodation, and food and beverage serving activities, which both increased by 15% – together the equivalent of more than 220,000 jobs.
The figures also show that 90% of tourism workers are permanent, almost 50% of workers in culture, sports, recreation or conference activities work either a Saturday, Sunday or both and that 26% of tourism workers are aged 16 to 24, compared with 11% in non-tourism industries.


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Johannesburg-based startup Picadoo is bidding to formalise Africa's haircare industry via its online marketplace that helps users find local salons and book appointments.
Founded last year and launched to the public in May, Picadoo aims to simplify the process of finding and booking hairdressers, and allows users to review hairdressers and salons.
“Picadoo is unlike any other African hair website, we focus on helping African women get the best hairstylists in their location. Our aim is to help formalise the African hair industry, which has remained dominated by international brands and underserved women who get their hair done on city streets,” chief operating officer (COO) Sihlesenkosi Lwazi Majola told Disrupt Africa.
“Picadoo’s mission is to change the way we think about African hair and help formalise the messy African hair industry into the professional industry it deserves to be.”
Describing itself as “Airbnb for salons”, Picadoo claims to offer South Africans a more transparent and affordable salon-booking platform. It piloted with six hairdressers in Johannesburg in January, and is now also active in Durban.
“We have had tremendous uptake from customers. Picadoo had 2,000 users on its website in its first week and has 200 product inquiries and 300 bookings since it began operation in May,” said Majola.
“Picadoo plans to expand to Cape Town in November 2017 and then to Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Botswana.”
The startup charges a commission on each booking made through its platform, and also adds commission on products sold via its site. In October it will introduce an affiliate programme for all hair bloggers and vloggers.
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Harvey has strengthened to a Category 2 storm, according to the the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The storm is expected to make landfall near Corpus Christi late Friday or early Saturday.
Harvey could be the fiercest such storm to hit the United States in almost a dozen years. Forecasters have labeled Harvey a "life-threatening storm."
3 . -- Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics (SSNLF) , was convicted of bribery on Friday in South Korea and given a five-year prison sentence.
Lee was found guilty of bribery, perjury and embezzlement by a three-judge panel of Seoul Central District Court. The court said Lee gave bribes to get support from ousted President Park Geun-hye.
Lee has been the de facto head of Samsung, South Korea's largest family run conglomerate, since 2014 when his father Kun-hee Lee became incapacitated by a heart attack.
5. -- Shares of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCAU - Get Report) gained 0.2% in premarket trading on Friday after the company issued a statement saying it has no further response to market rumors beyond a previous statement denying it had been contacted by China's Great Wall Motor Co. (GWLLF) .
Fiat Chrysler, the Italian-American automaker, said "from time to time" it "may receive inquiries about potential strategic transactions and will evaluate such inquiries consistent with its duties to stakeholders." The company said it issued the statement following requests from Italian market regulator Consob after the stock gained 16% since rumors of takeover talks first surfaced on Monday, Aug. 14.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that German's Volkswagen AG (VLKAY) and Fiat Chrysler have engaged in talks regarding a joint venture to produce light-utility vehicles. The talks are still in their early stages but an agreement could include joint manufacturing of upcoming models of Volkswagen's Caddy panel van and its Amarok midsize pickup truck, according to the Journal.
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There has been a "euphoric reaction" to Kinect for Xbox 360, Microsoft's European VP of Xbox 360 Chris Lewis has told MCV.
Asked what he made of the response to Kinect, Lewis said: "I think we have seen a euphoric reaction to it. The key is getting people in front of the technology and experiencing it. It's only when you start to play that it really comes to life. That's why we're doing so much trial around the UK and other parts of Europe."


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Empty Space: Office Building Prices Drop Across Major US Cities
Prices for office buildings across the United States remain low after eighteen months of the COVID-19 pandemic, including in its most expensive cities.
According to a new report from real estate data firm CommercialEdge, average sale prices dropped to $284 a square foot on office buildings in central business districts nationwide this year. This comes after prices hit a peak of $400 a square foot in 2019 and $379 in 2020.
Despite the dip in price, CommercialEdge, which produced its analysis after examining office building sales of 50,000 square feet and above, suggested that...


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Several media outlets shared a TikTok video of Aamir Khan’s Ghulam co-star Javed Hyder selling vegetables and claimed that he is doing so to survive during ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Here are some screenshots of the media outlets who reported the same.
Big Boss fame, Dolly Bindra also shared Javed Hyder’s video and tweeted, ‘He is an actor, and today he is selling vegetables…Javed Hyder’. In the viral TikTok video, Javed Hyder is selling vegetables while dancing. He is lip-syncing the famous song ‘Duniya Mein Rehna Hai Toh Kaam Kar Pyaare.’ You can see the video here.
The quint also published an article claiming the same. However; they updated their report later on with a disclaimer.
With the help of relevant keywords search on Google, we found several articles clearing the air on the viral claim. In his conversation with Mirror Online, Javed Hyder clarified that he is not a vegetable seller, and the video was just for TikTok.
No, I am not a vegetable vendor. I am an actor by profession even now. The entire selling vegetable video was just an act and I shot that TikTok video only to motivate my followersJaved Hyder To Mirror Online.
It is evident from our fact check that media reports claiming that Javed Hyder is selling vegetables to survive during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic are false. Javed Hyder clarified that he is not selling vegetables for a living, whereas the viral video is just a musical one that he made to keep himself busy during the lockdown.
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DEPUTY Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Deng suggested Asean soon finalise a travel corridor framework for the safe resumption of essential business travel.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Friday (June 18)V
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung suggested ASEAN soon finalise a travel corridor arrangement framework while addressing the ASEAN Joint Consultative Meeting (JCM) on Friday.
BANGKOK (Bloomberg): Thailand’s plan to reopen the tourist haven of Phuket could become a model for other vacation hotspots in Asia to prise open their borders and bring in visitors as strategies such as travel bubbles falter, according to the founder of Banyan Tree Holdings Ltd.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Friday (June 11)
A planned quarantine-free travel corridor between Australia and Singapore may take months to open because of delays to Australia’s Covid-19 vaccination programme.
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed opening a transatlantic travel corridor at their bilateral meeting on Thursday, but no announcement was imminent, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.
Quarantine-free travel bubbles were hailed as tourism's "godsend" earlier this year, but cancellations and suspensions have deflated hopes they will herald a return to pre-pandemic normality.
Singapore and Taiwan, success stories in containing Covid-19, are both rapidly imposing aggressive restrictions at home - and tightening travel between each other.
LONDON (Reuters): Britain will allow international travel to resume from May 17 after months of banning most trips abroad, but nearly all major destinations were left off its list of countries open for quarantine-free holidays.


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Rapid advancements in technologies such as AI, machine learning (ML), and datafication have the potential to unlock efficiency, optimise productivity, and increase accessibility in the global food system.
From boosting traceability through blockchain technology, to optimising crop management, to delivering personalised nutrition recommendations, a suite of new AI-driven innovations is revolutionising how food is produced, distributed, and consumed.
Applying AI across the food value chain
Indian foodtech startup BCD iLabs is harnessing the power of AI and data to improve the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of food production and distribution processes. The company offers a range of AI solutions across the food value chain, focussing primarily on AI-driven food formulation, sustainable food production, and smart factories.
Targeting multiple stakeholders across the food system, the startup’s services range from the autonomous management of food production assets, to informing new product development, to supporting farmers in crop management and optimising agricultural yields.
“The biggest challenge that we see is that consumer-driven choices are driving us towards the hyper personalisation of packaged food. The challenge is that we often cannot produce [personalised] food, or different products on the same production line,” said Vinay Indraganti, BCD iLabs founder.
Speeding up food formulation to increase time-to-market
Aiming to increase access to sustainably produced, healthy, and affordable food globally, BCD iLabs have developed various AI-enabled solutions to allow for the personalisation of food production processes. By creating smart factories where multiple iterations of products can be produced at once, the startup helps manufacturers to better address consumer demand, without the need for additional, costly resources.
The startup’s tools can assist in optimising the R&D workflow of food production facilities to produce formulations according to a set of highly specific characteristics, while also delivering improved taste, texture, and shelf life.
“If you want a particular product one way and 10,000 other people want it a different way, those cannot all be produced on the same production line. We’re trying to solve that problem by asking: how can we make the factory smart so that everything can be produced on one production line, without increasing the production cost?” Indraganti said.
Using their AI-based formulation approach to reformulate high protein vegetarian bars, the startup was recently able to rapidly prototype with over 250 ingredients, reducing the manual experiment count by 60% and time to market by 40%.
“The more you work on a specific category or subcategory, the less physical experiments food scientists must deal with, and that’s how we help,” Ingraganti said.
“We drastically reduce the time it takes to formulate new products and reformulate [existing] ones.”
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Rather than collecting and storing customer data, BCD iLabs differentiates itself from its competitors by incorporating AI models into the consumer landscape and working directly with clients to craft custom solutions to food processing challenges.
Only a small number of datasets - around 10 to 20 - are required to inform the models. This is significantly less than other foodtech companies using AI for reformulation and processing optimisation, Indraganti said.
“We can help take R&D formulation and scale it up from R&D scale to pilot scale to production scale very rapidly,” he said.
The startup sees its unique value in its ability to offer solutions across the value chain, rather than focussing solely on formulation or production.
“On the R&D end and the operational end, we see tremendous value by bringing both of them together in one 360 [solution],” Ingraganti said.
The company is currently on the lookout for partners and investors with whom it is strategically aligned to continue developing its software and solving food processing problems.
“An investor who's already invested in food companies that have problems that need to be solved would be a great partner for us,” Indraganti said.
AI enters the mainstream
Feeding the world in 2050 is a daunting task. According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the demand for agricultural products is becoming greater and by 2050, food production will need to increase by 60% to feed a world population of 9.3 billion. AI is one promising technology that offers a solution to this challenge.
Despite existing for decades, AI has recently hit the headlines and expanded into public consciousness via the popularity of tools such as Chat GPT and Amazon Alexa. Similarly in the food industry, AI technologies are becoming increasingly popular as investment into the sector grows.
In June this year, the European Commission (EC) along with its member states and over 120 research, industry, and NGO partners announced €220 million worth of investment in various Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) for AI across the agrifood, health, and manufacturing sectors. And globally in 2022, 12 new foodtech startups became unicorns, holding a value of over one billion dollars.


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The Jaguar automaker has sent the high-end XJ model, for some road tests in the United Kingdom, before releasing it onto the market.
With the first generation to be launched in 2009, the automaker is now preparing a second generation, the model coming with some minor changes at the body.
The prototype seen here caught on camera, is wearing a light camouflage that gives us the chance to see revised front and rear bumpers, as well as a changed radiator grille and Full-LED-beams.
Thus, we might say that most of the light modifications have been carried out at the front, slightly altering the design of the car.
As for the cabin and the power the Jaguar XJ will be sporting under the hood, there are now spied shots that might indicate some changes, compared to the previous generation.
But rumors state that powertrain will not be that significantly upgraded, even if a new addition is announced, meaning that a plug-in hybrid version might join the lineup soon.


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Thousands of people have had the frustrating customer service experience of having to work through multiple robotic voices just to get to a human operator who can help them with their problem.
As more and more companies turn to chatbots and computerized customer service platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers have become increasingly fed up with the growing disappearance of a company’s human touches, according to a new survey from business applications and outsourcing company CGS.
Researchers with CGS spoke with more than 2,000 consumers in the US and UK to hone in on what they truly felt about the current state of customer service interactions. In both countries, that majority of respondents said they turn to phone or voice services channels for immediate help in a time of crisis. Texting, chats, direct messages, emails, and even social media, have also become avenues customers to turn to in times of need.
Nearly 40% of British survey respondents said one of the top three keys to a happy customer service interaction was the opportunity to speak with a human representative.
United States residents were not far behind at about 38%, but both countries were practically equal at 44% when it came to the percentage of respondents who said they wanted companies to be more open about easy ways to get in touch with a human.
“While good customer service is desired in any circumstance, during a disruption it becomes paramount,” said CGS president and CEO Phil Friedman. “Good service isn’t just good for the consumer, it’s beneficial to the brand in the long term. The survey findings also confirm the need for personalization while balancing consumers’ data privacy. As we close in on the one-year anniversary of GDPR, it’s no surprise that the UK market is hypersensitive to the benefits of privacy regulations.”
SEE: 10 ways to communicate more effectively with customers and co-workers (free PDF) (TechRepublic)
“It makes sense why, of the respondents who were disappointed by a brand over the past year—28.1% of US and 23.6% of UK consumers; chalk this up to not being able to reach a human agent. And, just over 17% of US and UK consumers were disappointed in the inability of chatbots to resolve their issues,” the report said.
“Beyond just reaching a human agent, 37.5% of US consumers and 30.3% of UK consumers say ‘working with a friendly agent’ is another major factor in leaving a customer service interaction happy,” the study noted.
According to the CGS report, 25% of all respondents said they purposefully fill out a survey when they’ve had a customer service experience that left them less than satisfied. Yet despite the effort it takes to fill one out, nearly 70% of UK respondents said they did not think their comments had any effect on how a company deals with their customer service platforms.
About 59% of US respondents had the same feeling. Less than a fourth of citizens of both countries told the survey that their feedback served no purpose because a company never responded or because they believe the company doesn’t spend any time looking at customer complaints.
More than half of all Americans reported feeling “disappointed” with an instance of customer service as opposed to about 44% of British respondents. Just under one fourth of survey participants from both countries wished their concerns had been dealt with quicker.
“1/5 of US and UK consumers don’t want to have to repeat information multiple times and more than 1/4 don’t want to speak with multiple agents,” the survey noted.
Even when people do finally get the opportunity to speak to a human about their concerns, many are unhappy. More than 15% of respondents from both countries said any company representatives using scripts or lacking in personality is not living up to their expectations.
When asked what they were generally contacting companies for about 28% of respondents said they wanted a problem fixed or some kind of timeline explaining when their issue might be resolved.
More UK survey participants were contacting a company for information on refunds and returns than their American counterparts but an equal amount of people on both continents were contacting customer support for information on what their data was being used for.
SEE: Coronavirus: Critical IT policies and tools every business needs (TechRepublic Premium)
The biggest difference between the two countries in the survey was with consumers “who think companies need more government oversight to protect data privacy.” A bit more than 60% of UK respondents said the government should step in to protect and oversee data privacy but just 30% of Americans felt the same way.
The survey said respondents in the US and UK are feeling unsure about the safety of their personal data and prefer to connect with human agents in customer service interactions, especially for those that occur during stressful times.
“Approximately 30% of respondents admitted they are unsure about the safety of their data. In looking back at their customer service interactions over the past year, only about 7% of US respondents felt very confident in the safety of their data,” the report said, adding that most respondents said they were either not confident, unsure or somewhat confident in their ability to feel confident about the safety of their data.
“Nearly 30% said they did not feel confident at all.”


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THOSE in the local business community are being encouraged to attend a meeting at Fermanagh House today to discuss this year’s revaluation on business rates, which could see their bill either going up or down depending on their property.
Enniskillen BID is helping the Department of Finance (DoF) and the Land and Property Service (LPS) with its local roll out of ‘Reval2023’, which will see a new draft valuation of almost 75,000 business properties across the North, including many here in the county.
This will result in a new rate bill, which is based on a property’s value, for many business from April this year.
Most non-domestic properties – from shops to offices, factories to warehouses, hotels to pubs – are charged business rates. The last time these properties were revalued was just three years ago, the shortest time ever between revaluations, which has been in response to calls from businesses for their property values to be reviewed more frequently.
While this exercise will see most businesses’ rates bills stay the same, many could see their bills reduced. However, the DoF warned others may also see theirs increase as a result.
“As with all revaluations the outcome can vary for an individual property, and not all ratepayers will see a reduced rateable valuation,” said a spokesman.
“Some sectors and locations have experienced above average growth.”
They added 64 percent of properties would see no change to their rateable value, compared to 60 percent under the previous Reval2020. The spokesman said for the 75 percent of businesses who receive some form of rate relief, “in all but a very small number of cases,” these reliefs would not be affected by the revaluation.
Hospitality businesses are most likely to see their bills going down, with a general decrease across the board of the value of pubs, for example.
The value of retail property has also fallen, which will likely result in a decrease for shops too.
On the other hand, offices, warehouses and factory properties have increased in value, which may see bills rise for some local businesses in those areas.
Angela McGrath, commissioner of valuation at LPS said the revaluation would mean business rate payers would be billed relative to their 2021 rental value, instead of 2018 values as at present.
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LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — A popular gastropub in Lancaster County recently announced its upcoming closure at the end of April.
The popular gastropub named Hunger-N-Thirst announced yesterday on Facebook that they plan to close their doors after ten years of being operational.
According to abc27’s media partner LNP, the long-time eatery opened its doors back in May 2013 as a gastropub that featured a small grocery store and bottle shop. Hunger-N-Thirst is owned and operated by two brothers, Andrew and David Neff.
Hunger-N-Thirst’s April 18 Facebook announcement reads:
It is with tremendous gratitude that we thank you all for a wonderful 10 years of business in Lancaster. Sadly, our final days have arrived for Hunger-N-Thirst and we will be closing our doors to the public at 10 PM on Saturday, April 29. Please stop in over the next 2 weeks to say your goodbyes and to use up any remaining gift card balances you may have. It has been an incredible journey and we are grateful to everyone that has supported us. A special thank you to our amazing staff that have worked tirelessly and tenaciously to support Hunger-N-Thirst. We hope to see you all soon!Hunger-N-Thirst
Currently, Hunger-N-Thirst’s hours of operation are:
- Wednesdays – Thursdays // 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Fridays – Saturdays // 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Hunger-N-Thirst is located at 920 Landis Avenue.
abc27 news reached out to Hunger-N-Thirst for comment but did not hear back at the time of publication.


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The yoga world is still feeling the repercussions of the NYT article, “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” and William J. Broad’s book, The Science of Yoga. More than eight months after the article and release of the book sparked a huge conversation about whether yoga harms or heals, the debate continues. Now, some yoga luminaries are attempting to set the record straight with a free online telesummit.
In an effort to shed some much-needed clarity on this debate, YogaUOnline, a leading website for online yoga education, is sponsoring an online telesummit on Yoga Injuries: Facts and Fiction with leading yoga teachers and medical experts, including Roger Cole, Tias Little, Judith Hanson Lasater, Dr. Loren Fishman, Dr. Timothy McCall, Julie Gudmestad, Ellen Saltonstall, and Peggy Cappy, founder of the PBS-Series Yoga for the Rest of Us. The telesummit is free to attend and will be hosted streaming live on Saturday, August 25, 2012, 12pm – 4pm EDT/ 9am – 1pm PDT on YogaUOnline.com.
“The article and book grabbed attention by making it sound like there is scientific proof that yoga routinely causes horrible injuries, even death,” says Roger Cole, Ph.D., a yoga teacher and Stanford educated scientist. “The evidence presented to support these claims was very flimsy, and in some cases completely false. For example, there is no convincing evidence that yoga elevates the risk of stroke at all.”
“There’s an important discussion to be had,” Cole continues, “which is why this telesummit is so important. But ultimately the debate doesn’t concern whether it is possible to get hurt practicing yoga. Of course it is, just as you can get hurt while dancing, biking, jogging, golfing, or weight-training. But that doesn’t mean yoga should be considered particularly ‘hazardous.'” [via Digital Journal]
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Amazon beat expectations in the fourth quarter of 2017, endured to develop its Amazon Web Services industry, and mentioned that it offered “tens of millions” of Echo gadgets remaining yr, with its least expensive merchandise taking over the bulk of the gross sales in 2017.
Of direction, we nonetheless don’t know precisely what number of Echos this is — the corporate is famously opaque about its unit gross sales in positive product classes — however even “tens of millions” proves there’s a marketplace for good audio system past what some analysts have estimated. Amazon did say that remaining yr’s Cyber Monday used to be the greatest buying groceries day ever, even surpassing Prime Day 2017.
The fourth quarter income had been introduced as of late after marketplace shut. Wall Street used to be anticipating top numbers from Amazon, because of the corporate’s massive growth of Echo merchandise remaining yr and its sturdy efficiency all through Black Friday and Cyber Monday, each on-line and offline. Amazon’s This fall income of $60.45 billion marked a 38.2 p.c bounce from the earlier quarter’s reported income of $43.7 billion. Amazon reported a web source of revenue of $1.86 billion (an income in keeping with percentage of $three.75).
Physical retail outlets, together with Amazon bookstores and Whole Foods, raked in $four.five billion in income. The corporate’s cloud services and products industry, Amazon Web Services (which has been described as the infrastructure that allows the present tech growth), endured to develop, hitting $five.11 billion in income and exceeding analyst estimates of $five billion.
Still, regardless of Amazon’s in large part wholesome financials, there stay indicators of heavy spending, which has been the corporate’s technique for endured growth. Free money float reduced from $10.five billion in 2016 to $eight.four billion in 2017.
Overall, the working source of revenue for Amazon in 2017 used to be down 2 p.c to $four.1 billion, in comparison to $four.2 billion yr over yr. However, Amazon Web Services' working source of revenue grew 46 p.c yr over yr, to $1.four billion, so AWS contributed to the majority of Amazon’s working source of revenue in the fourth quarter.
These financials are handiest a part of what the secretive corporate stocks. Amazon has divulged in the previous which merchandise have offered easiest (the Fire TV Stick and the Echo Dot) and even what number of pieces overall it shipped international via Prime remaining yr (five billion). It additionally says that extra Prime contributors joined in 2017 than ever sooner than.
But it nonetheless received’t percentage unit gross sales for each and every product class, and it received’t say what number of Prime contributors have joined the carrier each and every yr.


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The Vivo Y33s 5G has reportedly been spotted on the 3C certification site, which points to the smartphone’s imminent launch in China. According to a tipster, a handset with model number V2166A was spotted on a Chinese certification website, which is believed to be the upcoming Vivo Y33s 5G. The listing does not reveal any additional information about the smartphone. It could be a mid-range 5G smartphone to come with the 4G variant of the Vivo Y33s that was launched earlier this year. Vivo has not yet given any information about the Vivo Y33S 5G.
Tipster according to screenshots shared Vivo Y33s 5G of 3C certification listing on Weibo by WHYLAB, first by Nashville Chatter SpotDone, the upcoming smartphone could come with 18W fast charging. The listing also reveals that the smartphone will support 5G connectivity. However, the listing does not reveal any additional information about the handset such as battery capacity, or whether it will be powered by Snapdragon or MediaTek SoC. The smartphone is listed under model V2166A and is expected to be the 5G variant of the Vivo Y33s that was launched in India in August.
Vivo Y33s was spotted by tipster Whylab on the Chinese certification website. The 4G version of the Vivo Y33s is powered by the MediaTek Helio G80 chipset, paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The smartphone has a 50-megapixel primary camera, a 2-megapixel macro camera, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor.
Vivo Y33s also comes with a 16-megapixel front-facing selfie camera. The handset is equipped with a 6.58-inch full-HD+ (1,080×2,408 pixels) IPS LCD panel, along with a 5,000mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging. As per the 3C listing, the 5G variant of the Vivo Y33s also supports the same charging speed, but the battery capacity and other specifications may vary. When is the official announcement from the company regarding this upcoming new smartphone, it can only be waited for?


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"I'm kind of relying, my client is relying, on just the inner workings of that station," said [Brent Williams, account supervisor at Karsh/Hagan, the advertising agency that arranged the deal]. "Not that editorial would ever give a heads-up to sales or be expected to give a heads-up to sales, but these are professionals. They do realize that some businesses' brands, some businesses' reputations, could be at stake in terms of how commerce and news are interacting here."
Setting aside how the deal complicates reporting on certain topics, one also can't help but note how it highlights those parts of the news operation already considered journalistically weakest. For the Las Vegas station, the second part of the morning newscast can be sold for product placement, but not the first, since... the first contains the real, actual, trustworthy journalism? At other stations mentioned in the Times story, the entire morning newscast is marked off this way.
The stations are moving forward with the product placements despite the fact that the national news divisions ABC, NBC and CBS have ruled out such practices as misleading. It's almost enough to make one wonder if the local affiliates care more about ratings than presenting a balanced, helpful newscast.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll take a break from all this journalistic hand-wringing and enjoy a crisp, cool Miller High Life. It is truly the champagne of beers!


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|Intel Ditches RealSense|
|Written by Sue Gee|
|Monday, 23 August 2021|
Intel has taken the decision to "wind down" its RealSense vision division. As well as signalling the end of its range of the high-tech cameras and sensors, this also means the end of the road for Intel in-house projects involving LIDAR and facial authentication and tracking.
It is over seven years since we ran news of the Intel $1 Million RealSense App Challenge which challenged devs to design perceptual computing apps for Intel's fledgling RealSense platform. Back then it seemed that this new technology had a lot of promise, but somehow Intel failed to make it into a commercial success. It has, however, been adopted by other projects and the last time we mentioned Realsense was just last week in the context of the Xiaomi CyberDog which uses the RealSense D450 Depth module.
According to the CRN report that broke the news, Intel has promised to honor current customer commitments but quite what this means is unclear and we have to be pessimistic given Intel's track record. In his report on the launch of the D415 and D435 in January 2018, Harry Fairhead commented:
But there are problems - can we trust Intel to keep the hardware in production?
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The problem is that Intel has never had to market anything in its existence - the world has always beaten a path to its door to buy whatever the next x86 chip is. This lack of marketing resulted in the dropping of the Edison, Joule and other IoT devices. Intel simply doesn't get the idea of the "maker" community and supplying the information and devices that are necessary to make something a sucess.
News that his former division was closing came two weeks after Sagi Ben Moshe, the head of RealSense and general manager of Intel’s Emerging Growth and Incubation group, said on LinkedIn that he was leaving the company after 10 years of service.
Dropping RealSense is part of Intel's major restructuring announced by incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger in March, aimed at restoring its pole position as a chip manufacturer. In the 1980's Gelsinger designed the architecture for the Intel 80486 processor and was Intel's first CTO. He had left Intel in 2009 to join EMC as president and chief operating officer and in 2012 became CEO of VMware. He rejoined Intel in February 2020 replacing Bob Swan as CEO.
In an interview with CRN Gelsinger said he decided to wind down the RealSense computer vision division because it did not fit in with the company’s six core businesses, which include the new foundry, graphics and networking units that he formed this year.
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Tampa Bay REACT is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the 2014 Tampa Bay Hurricane Expo “Are you ready Tampa Bay?” on Saturday May 31st, 2014 at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), 4801 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa FL. The event runs from 9AM to 2PM on May 31st and admission is Free to the expo and discounted admission to the museum is available for purchase the day of the event. Parking is always free at MOSI!
The Expo is an educational event for the entire family. You will enjoy plenty of children activities, exhibits and much more! This year’s theme, Are You Ready Tampa Bay will focus on the importance of taking actions before a major disaster to ensure you can recover successfully and thrive after a storm. While our local emergency responders are ready for any disaster we face, they still look to you, our residents, to help.
In addition to our guest speakers, other planned activities include safety demonstrations, emergency vehicle displays, vendors of safety products, personal disaster preparedness and home retrofit products will be on hand to show you how to be ready.
For more information on the event, visit their website at http://www.tampabayhurricaneexpo.com.


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Many treatments fall under the umbrella of Complementary and Alternative Medicine or CAM. Some of the most commonly used CAM therapies include: Acupuncture Chiropractic Food counseling Herbalism Massa...
A Cornell University researcher uncovered some data regarding the color of calorie labels tagged on food packaging. It seems like a lot of people believe that eating healthy depends on the color of a food item’s wrapper. For instance, people believe that by choosing food products with a green calorie label, they will be consuming healthier fare as compared to those with white or red calorie labels, even though the calorie count is identical. The journal Health Communication has just published this study currently.
Johnathon Schuldt, Assistant Professor of Communication and director of Cornell University’s Social Cognition and Communication Lab, stated that a lot of calorie labels are now included on the wrappers of food stuffs, even sweets like candy and chocolate bars. He also said that this effect was also significantly seen among folks who were advocates of healthy eating.
The study covers the implication that calorie label colors can influence people’s perceptions of what they think is healthy among the lot of food choices regardless of the definite nutritional data supplied by the label. The results have acknowledged the consequences for nutrition labeling even with the prevalence of calorie labels found in the front of a product’s wrapper or packaging in the U.S.
The findings recommend that color and design of the labels might be worthy of attention just like the nutritional data they give. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have thought about creating a consistent front-of-package labeling scheme and the study might come in handy for this plan.
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Black Friday will soon be upon us and now the Radio Shack Black Friday 2010 ads scan shows potential sales seekers some of the upcoming deals which can be seen by hitting up blackfriday.info.
Today we bring you a Radio Shack Black Friday deal on the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S variant, the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant , which you can grab for no cost, yep that’s right the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant is a free phone in this Black Friday deal.
Currently Radio Shack is offering the T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant for $99.99 based on a new 2 year Even More plan at $30 per month plus a data plan: however, if you hang on until Black Friday Radio Shack is going to slash that price right down to zero.
For those that don’t know the specs of the T-mobile Samsung Vibrant the device sports a 4 inch Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass touch screen, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and 720p video, Android operating system, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, 16GB storage, microSD expansion up to 32GB and a 3.5mm jack.


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SALT LAKE CITY — Expect boots to be the big story again next winter, retailers said at the Outdoor Retailer show, held Jan. 20-23 in Salt Lake City.
Lexi Wornson, owner of Des Moines, Iowa-based Back Country, said she was seeking to expand her SKU count of men’s cold-weather styles, as well as true performance boots for women. “A lot of the women’s styles we’ve seen are insulated but aren’t meant for wet, icy conditions,” she said.
While women’s knee-high boots have been big for New Orleans-based chain Massey’s Professional Outfitters, the retailer is staying cautious on the category for fall ’11, according to owner Mike Massey.
“We haven’t veered off course and picked up anything fashiony; we’ve been a little gun-shy,” he said. “But Keen and Patagonia and Merrell — those have done extremely well for us, with excellent sell-throughs.”
For fall ’11, Massey said the retailer would consider adding retro-athletic and skate styles, and possibly bring in new brands. “We’ll expand into fringe vendors we think are really cool,” he said, citing Tretorn, Saucony and Chrome Footwear as possibilities.
Newer labels also made a splash at the winter show.
Adidas brought its outdoor collection to the U.S. for the first time through longtime distribution partner Agron.
According to Greg Thomsen, managing director of Adidas Outdoor, the brand was encouraged by buyer reaction to the line, which has been available globally since 2009.
“We’re very, very happy with the response,” he said, noting that the company is on track to reach its goal of 500 doors in the U.S. for launch.
Backcountry.com buyer Chris Dunn said the site was looking with interest at Adidas’ launch collection, particularly its tech-focused Terrex line. And the site will stock the brand’s early-delivery boat shoes in June. “The colors were great. We thought it was really strong,” he said.
Minimal running brand Altra was another new player at OR. Founder Golden Harper said the show had been a good one for the label, which offers men’s and women’s trail, road and all-purpose styles at $90 to $100.
“We wrote an order in the first few hours of the show for twice as much as our expenses for our trip,” he said.
While they were shopping primarily for fall merchandise, many retailers said they were excited about the upcoming spring season, when they predict the barefoot or minimal category will really take off.
At Boston-based City Sports, Brian Trask, footwear category manager, said he anticipated the category would get a boost from new entrants, including Reebok’s new Reeflex product. Barefoot has a “nice little momentum,” he said. “It’s nice to see other players in the game.”
Brattleboro, Vt.-based Sam’s Outdoor Outfitter has not played in the minimal space, but that will change for spring, footwear buyer Frank Gibbons said. The store is bringing in Vibram FiveFingers and minimal styles from existing vendors New Balance, Merrell and Saucony.
Backcountry.com’s Dunn said the site would stock minimal styles from Merrell, New Balance, Saucony and Inov-8.
“It makes sense for our customer. It’s such a performance thing,” he said. And while Dunn said he hoped to add Vibram’s FiveFingers to the mix, it might not happen until next year, when the market could see some slippage. “[Barefoot] is peaking this year. It might diminish by next year,” he said.
Backcountry also is betting on the running category as a whole in 2011. The site began carrying road-running product last month, with a focus on niche vendors such as Karhu and Newton.


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IBM wants to speed up global payments with blockchain
Partnership with Stellar.org and KlickEx Group will enable real-time transactions to happen across Australasia and the UK
IBM is using blockchain technologies to help businesses receive payments faster, with lower overheads compared to traditional transfers.
Collaborating with Stellar.org and KlickEx Group, IBM's latest implementation of its Blockchain technology will, the company claimed, enable banks to complete business-to-business transactions on a single network in real time.
At present, such transactions (especially if they are being made in different currencies) can take days or sometimes even weeks to complete. They can also be more prone to error compared to domestic transactions, because there are more parties involved and more steps required in order for it to complete.
IBM Blockchain, working in tandem with Stellar.org and KlickEx Group's technologies will be able to complete payments in 12 currencies across the Pacific Islands and Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom using a distributed ledger.
The solution isn't just limited to the physical payments, either. The company suggested the same system could be used to manage an arrangement between a farmer in Samoa and a buyer in Indonesia by recording the terms of the contract, managing trade documentation, allow the farmer to put up collateral, obtain letters of credit and finalise transaction terms with immediate payment, making it simpler for businesses of all sizes to trade across borders.
"With the guidance of some of the world's leading financial institutions, IBM is working to explore new ways to make payment networks more efficient and transparent so that banking can happen in real-time, even in the most remote parts of the world," said Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president of IBM Industry Platforms. "Making distributed ledger technologies more interoperable is the latest example of IBM's leadership driving the rapid advancement of blockchain."
At present, IBM has partnered with some of world's biggest banking organisations including Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Bank Danamon Indonesia, Bank Mandiri, Bank Negara Indonesia, Bank Permata, Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Kasikornbank Thailand, Mizuho Financial Group, National Australia Bank, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) Philippines, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, TD Bank, and Wizdraw (HK) of WorldCom Finance.
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So One Plus has started to hype the launch of its next device, the OnePlus 7 however this time the company is rumored to launch a family of phones including the OnePlus 7, OnePlus 7 pro and OnePlus 7 5gphone. Now based on what we know so far, let’s discuss everything regarding the OnePlus 7.
The phone is coming out with a lot of changes in the battery and many software upgradations. The users tended to have issues with the software let’s hope they did their job and fix it. They kept the screen and the notch pattern similar in order to keep the phone in budget and not produce an expensive phone by just messing with the classical screen pattern followed by OnePlus. The price point being a major concern they can’t do much with the body obviously.
OnePlus has struggled a lot in providing good camera quality and stabilization in the video recording but they might do it better in this one. They have upgraded the sensors and that might make a huge difference and you can easily order this phone using Paytm Mall Offers at affordable prices.
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The phone manufacturers are increasing its smartphone prices every succeeding year and if you remember OnePlus recently announced the 60 McLaren edition at a price of $700 so if the company will not stop increasing their phones value, the pricing of the OnePlus 7 will not be under mid-range segment however according to a leaked screenshot captured from a retail website Gist Top, OnePlus 7 will not be that much expensive. The image clearly indicates the OnePlus 7 with a price tag of $569 which is still cheaper than the phones like iPhone XR and Galaxy S10.
However if this is going to be the starting price of OnePlus 7then there will be a massive increase of $40 increase over the starting pricing of OnePlus 6 which was around $529. When it comes to the OnePlus 7 pro there is no leak but for sure it will be more expensive than a standard OnePlus 7.
When it comes to specifications several details regarding the upcoming OnePlus 7 has been revealed already. According to the leaks the OnePlus 7 will stick to a water drop notch and a 6.4 inch full HD+ display to keep its price very similar to the OnePlus 6T.
On the hardware department, the phone will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 and will come in 6 or 8 gigs of RAM variants. According to the same leak the phone will have up to 256 gigs of internal storage and going to pack a massive 4000 mAh battery which will be the highest on any OnePlus phone. In addition the phone will also feature 44 watt fast charging which is just invincible.
In addition the phone will get latest version of Android paired with the improved oxygen OS.
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When it comes to the phone, it will have to pop up front camera and a 6.67 inch quad HD display with a refresh rate of 90 hertz. The phone will also have Snapdragon 855, 4000 mAh battery and 30 watt warp charging.
When it comes to the cameras, the OnePlus 7 will have a dual camera setup including a main 48 megapixel IMX 586 sensor. Yesterday, a reliable leakster has fully revealed the camera aspects of the OnePlus 7 pro. According to that the phone will have a 48 megapixel IMX 586 lens and an 8 megapixel telephone lens and a 16 megapixel ultra-wide angle lens. OnePlus has always struggled to offer a great camera experience so hope OnePlus will improve this department. In terms of camera various options available in the market and one can avail those options using Shopclues Coupon.
Both the phones are going to look the same but the size will differ a bit. Both phones will have a 3.3 millimetre earphone jacks and will support dual speakers. In addition, the launch date of the phone will be announced this Tuesday so stay tuned.
This is all the information we have got about these two upcoming phones by OnePlus. This information about the specs and other stuff was all collected by all these reliable leaksters but there might be some difference in the specs of the phone. As we cannot tell what OnePlus is going to do but we will surely come to know about that real soon. Make sure you check the release dates and official things the manufacturers are going to announce this Tuesday and yes stick to your phones or computers or whatever you will be using to order the phone because these phones being in budget runs out of stock in minutes, I hope you know that already.


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