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Android is the most popular Operating system in the world, but you probably shouldn’t confuse between ‘Popularity’ and ‘Security’! Android is the most vulnerable to flaws and today we have a crucial news for all Android users out there. If your device is powered by a Qualcomm chipset, you’re susceptible to the newly found Quadrooter Flaws. Now, Qualcomm chipset is present in almost 7 out of 10 devices so you can imagine how serious these flaws are! So, what are Quadrooter Flaws? How they affect the OS? How will you be able to check whether your device is affected or not? Well, all these questions will be answered here, so you better keep reading!
WHAT ARE QUADROOTER FLAWS?
As we’re saying ‘Flaws,’ it is a group of 4 vulnerabilities that are, at present affecting almost 1 Billion devices running Google’s Android Operating System. No matter if you have the latest Security Patch, your device is at the same risk as other phones are! Here is how these flaws work, according to ZDNet –
An attacker would have to trick a user into installing a malicious app, which unlike some malware wouldn’t require any special permissions. (Most Android phones don’t allow the installation of third-party apps outside of the Google Play app store, but attackers have slipped malicious apps through the security cracks before.) If any of the flaws are successfully exploited, an attacker can gain root access, which gives the attacker full access to an affected Android device, its data, and its hardware — including its camera and microphone.
HOW TO CHECK WHETHER YOUR PHONE IS AFFECTED OR NOT?
Fortunately, there is a very simple method to check whether your device is affected by these vulnerabilities or not. All you have to do is download the QuadRooter Checker from Play Store. With this simple but useful app, you will be able to check the flaws in your phone. For your information, even the latest devices like S7 and Note 7 are affected by the Quadrooter Flaws! Also, the Blackberry DTEK50, so called ‘The Most Secure Phone in the World’ is affected by these vulnerabilities!
Qualcomm has said that the vulnerabilities have been fixed in the latest Security Update. But, only 3 of the four flaws have been fixed, and the 4th one is still there! The fix to this will be added in the upcoming security update coming in September. Till then, the flaw is still there to affect the devices. So, you better stay safe and don’t ever install any app from anywhere rather than Play Store. Is your device affected? Do let us know via comments :-)


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Whole Foods is launching a new organic wine called Green Path. Green Path wine will be sold exclusively at Whole Foods stores nationwide starting this month.
The Australian Chardonnay and Shiraz are organic wines made by Organic One Wines, one of Australia’s oldest and largest vineyards. The wines come from the Billabong Vineyard in Jerilderie, New South Wales, Australia and will sell for approximately $12 US.
The packaging choice on this wine is interesting. The wine will be sold solely in Tetra Pak one liter cartons. Tetra Pak is a paper-based carton marketed as an environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic or glass bottles.
Sustainable is Good reported earlier this year on Aqua 2 Go using Tetra Pak packaging for its water – the story produced a large amount of discussion on the Tetra Pak packaging and its environmentally friendly claims.
There is concern that Tetra Pak packaging is complex and difficult to break down and recycle effectively. The company who produces Tetra Pak claims their product is of tremendous benefit to the green community and a viable alternative to plastics and glass.
According to a recent statement, the Country Vitner (Australian Wine Exporter) and Whole Foods believe the packaging for their wine is ideal as it provides customers who want to “enjoy a quality wine in a portable, recloseable, safe and easy-to-use package.”
They also point out the fact the Tetra Pak is made from a renewal resource (paper) and is lighter in weight than traditional glass bottles, requiring less trucks for transportation, in turn reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.

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Record360, a new property inspection and asset condition reporting dashboard and mobile app, hit the market earlier this month.
The new tool, designed by former rental industry executives, is designed to simplify and automate the way companies manage asset condition reporting, as well as give consumers peace-of-mind they won’t be charged for damage they didn’t cause on rental vehicles and other equipment.
The company said the tool was launched with a variety of industries in mind, such as equipment rentals, property management, dealerships, auto/body shops, transportation and more.
“Billions are lost each year in damages missed during the exchange of property, vehicles and equipment, while countless damage disputes impact relationships, customer satisfaction, and cause negative press. Asset condition and claims management processes dependent on paper or low-fidelity digital reporting are clearly outdated and Revenue 360 fills the gap with a modern solution,” said Shane Skinner, Record360 chief executive officer.
Record360 is available for iOS v7.0+, and on Samsung Tab 4, Samsung Tab Pro, Google Nexus Tablet, and most Android 4.4+ devices, with Samsung Galaxy S support coming soon, the company reported.
For users, Record360 provides time-stamped, geo-tagged record of property at the time of exchange, and condition reports are accessible from a tablet or smartphone.
From the mobile app, users can capture video, images, and highlights, as well as make any necessary notes, to track the condition of vehicle.
The company listed a few key features of the new product:
- Customizable for a variety of business applications, processes, and industries
- Manage all users and locations with a single web dashboard for real-time transparency
- Simple to implement in single or multiple locations, easy to train additional staff
- Multiple data points available for reporting, analysis, and workflow efficiencies
- Custom notes/set up one-tap using your own terms/language for damage and flaws
- Accurate VIN scanning, automatically capturing extended vehicle specifications
And the company has already some big names in the industry on board, such as Zipcar and Penske Jaguar Land Rover.
Todd Primo, service manager, Penske Jaguar Land Rover Cerritos, said, “We have been using Record360 to document customer vehicles and virtually eliminated the problem of customers claiming damage while their vehicles are in for repair, and are seeing real savings in damage claims. Record360 has become an integral part of our process and is appreciated by both our staff and our customers.”


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New York Times’ (NYSE:NYT) online visitors and online page views could see a rise with the forthcoming launch of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) new tablet PC, the iPad, which offers a better reading experience compared to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Taking cues from the positive impact of smartphones on nytimes.com viewership, we expect that the iPad can have some impact on the website’s unique visitors if iPad sales trend as we forecast.
With higher online viewership and page views, New York Times’ online advertising business could improve and replace the print advertisement business as the most valuable business for the company.
Below we explain the importance of the online advertising division for New York Times, and how Apple’s iPad could increase unique visitors to nytimes.com in the future.
Online advertising business 30% of NYT’s stock
The New York Times is one of the most popular newspapers in the US. Its website, nytimes.com, is as popular as the print version of the newspaper. The company’s online advertising business earns revenues mainly by selling advertisements against its web content. We expect the online advertising business to constitute 30% of $10.3 Trefis price estimate for New York Times.
iPad’s success could increase nytimes.com unique visitors and page views per visitor
We believe that iPad’s success can have an impact on the New York Times for two primary reasons:
1. NYT website has benefited from smartphones to date
- According to NYT management, nytimes.com had 75 million page views from smartphones alone in December 2009
- There have been more than 3 million downloads of the NYT iPhone app since the launch of the app in July 2008
2. iPad is better than smartphones for reading websites like the NYT
A few key features of the iPad make it better for reading text-heavy sites like the NYT:
- Bigger screen, more vibrant colors and sharper text compared to iPhone and iPod Touch
- Ability to view page in portrait or landscape view
- News sites can better preserve their formatting and typography (compared to mobile-only views for some smartphones)
Online unique visitors per month to increase to 60 million
We estimate that New York Times’ Average Number of Unique Online Visitors per Month was about 28 million in 2009 and that this will increase to around 60 million by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
We estimate that Apple will sell about 4 million iPads in 2010 and that this will increase to 12 million by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
You can modify our forecast here to see how New York Times’ stock would be impacted if its nytimes.com unique visitors were to increase more than we forecast as a result of iPad users.
Furthermore, the number of page views per visitor on nytimes.com could increase as existing online readers increase their usage of the site as a result of the iPad and greater mobile access to the NYT website. You can modify our forecast to see how higher page views can impact NYT’s stock.
For additional analysis and forecasts, here is our complete model for New York Times’ stock.
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A Spektra Alucast worker, keeping the customer satisfied.
March 18, 2009: Malaysia’s economic downturn has translated into more hardships for Vietnamese guest workers. The Penang office of the Coalition to Abolish Modern-day Slavery in Asia (CAMSA) has received yet another report of workers not receiving stable wages.
This case involves a company by the name of Spektra Alucast, a company specializing in precision machining. While investigating the allegations, CAMSA’s team learned that all 31 Vietnamese workers were from the poorer rural areas of Vietnam. The CAMSA team also reported a situation that may involve child labor.
CAMSA’s concern is that Spektra Alucast may be a bit too dedicated to their stated “Philosophy,” which reads: “Striving to be cost & Quality comparative, thriving through continuous improvement and meeting customer satisfaction is our highest priority.” It is hoped that “customer satisfaction” does not come on the backs of Vietnamese guest workers or minors.
More information about the company is available at their website, which you can view by clicking here.
CAMSA will be keeping an eye on this case and reporting on it as it evolves.


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Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative that began nearly seven years in the past is now full, based on Google. “It’s been a protracted street, getting from there to right here. We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Cellular First Indexing is now full,” John Mueller from Google wrote on the Google weblog.
Historical past. As a reminder, Google began mobile-first indexing over 6.5 years in the past, and finally, after publishing deadline after deadline, Google eliminated the deadline. Google first launched mobile-first indexing again in November 2016, and by December 2018, half of all websites in Google’s search outcomes had been from mobile-first indexing. Cellular-first indexing merely signifies that Google will crawl your web site from the eyes of a cellular browser and use that cellular model for indexing and rating.
Google in early March 2020, earlier than all of the lockdowns started throughout many of the world, introduced the deadline for all websites to modify over to mobile-first indexing could be September 2020. At the moment, Google stated, “To simplify, we’ll be switching to mobile-first indexing for all web sites beginning September 2020.” Then in July 2020, Google moved that deadline as soon as once more to March 2021.
However in Might, Google instructed us that it was carried out switching websites over to mobile-indexing, so this announcement, that it’s “carried out” now could be a bit complicated.
What now. Google stated there’s “a really small set of web sites which don’t work on cellular units in any respect.” Google defined that these “are primarily that the web page reveals errors to all cellular customers, that the cellular model of the location is blocked with robots.txt whereas the desktop model is allowed for crawling, or that every one pages on the cellular web site redirect to the homepage.”
Google stated these kind of points are points that Google can not workaround. Google stated it’ll “proceed to attempt to crawl these websites with our legacy desktop Googlebot crawler in the intervening time, and can re-evaluate the checklist a couple of instances a 12 months.”
Google may also cut back its crawling with legacy desktop Googlebot.
Search Console adjustments. Google additionally introduced that it is going to be turning off the indexing crawler info within the settings web page in Google Search Console. Google is eradicating this as a result of the “info is now not wanted since all web sites that work on cellular units at the moment are being primarily crawled with our cellular crawler,” Google defined.
Why we care. That’s all people – that is one for the historical past books. Cellular-first indexing is now actually carried out, and Google will quickly cease crawling by way of its legacy desktop crawler utterly.


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When someone found an undocumented backdoor last week in networking hardware made by 3Com, the company had to release a list of the backdoor passwords so that administrators could manually change them. A design flaw in the boxes themselves, it was a major security risk for owners of these boxes – and still is, if administrators don't change the passwords.
The company released a security advisory last Friday, publishing all of the secret passwords in question and advising users to change them. The company distributed its advisory widely, putting the passwords on the Web and Business Wire and sending copies to every customer it had on record.
"We are following every means to reach everybody with this," said Duncan Potter, 3Com's director of Layer 3 switching products. "We really are taking this extremely seriously."
At issue are the CoreBuilder, models 2500/6000/3500, and SuperStack II Switch, models 2200/3900/9300. These network switches have secret, built-in accounts – "debug" and "tech" – for use by 3Com in the event of customer emergency, where 3Com technicians need to access the hardware themselves.
"I almost cried when I had a hardware failure [on my 3Com box] and the 3Com tech told me about this backdoor," said Mike Richichi, assistant director of Academic Technology at Drew University.
The passwords were found by a curious user who was looking at an upgrade file for the devices that were published on 3Com's Web site. By using strings, a simple Unix command that displays all of the printable characters in a file, he found a list of all "secret" passwords – they were listed in the update file, unencrypted.
"It's even worse than it first appears," Richichi said. "Not only is this backdoor password there, but you can change [passwords on] all the other accounts from the 'debug' account – without having to know the old passwords. So someone can lock you out of your switch completely."
This problem – companies embedding secret backdoors into their systems – is by no means unique to these 3Com network switching devices. Backdoors like this, often enabling total access to a machine, have been found in everything from PC motherboards to coffee vending machines.
Recently, a backdoor was found in the popular networked videogame Quake, where an attacker could remotely send commands to the Quake console by using a built-in password intended for use by the game's authors, Id Software, Inc. The company said that leaving the backdoor in the production version of the game was an honest mistake.
But "security through obscurity" – where a system is secure as long as technical specifications and source code is kept secret and proprietary – is one of the riskiest security techniques in the book. Especially in the networked Internet age, where this kind of information can spread around the globe almost instantaneously.
"A flat-out backdoor is just that: a backdoor," said network and security consultant Mike Scher. "It doesn't care who uses it."
These backdoors, he said, require customers to extend their trust to several things they shouldn't: any customer who "has a password emergency" to whom the company gives the backdoor login, every tech support person at the company with full access to its product, and finally, the obscurity of the password itself.
However, it is absolutely necessary for vendors such as 3Com to be able to access a system if the customer is experiencing an emergency situation, such as forgotten or lost passwords.
"It would be ridiculous to expect the customer to ship the router back to 3Com for them to replace the EPROM, or to wait for 3Com to ship a clean EPROM out," Scher said.
But there are other ways to safeguard software, without using backdoors. As an example, Scher is quick to mention Cisco, whose emergency-access scheme first has the site administrator reboot the device into a special debugging mode, and then log in through the serial port, not the network.
"It requires, more or less, physical access to the device in order to do the recovery," Scher said. "Providing a single password for an entire line of products – rather than a method the local user with physical access can employ – is close to reckless, in my opinion."
In a device like 3Com's switches, it should have – at minimum – a physical toggle that one must flip in order to enable the passwords.
"At the very least, make it something you have to do to the hardware – open the case, press a button," said Richichi. "Most systems (not just network equipment) can be gotten back into with physical access, and that's acceptable."
Richichi himself was given the "debug" password from 3Com not because he forgot his own password, but because the 3Com technician needed to access his 3Com hardware to obtain debugging information from it.
"Even better if the password is somehow indexed to the serial number or some other physical token," he said. "If you lose your system password, however, physical access is the only acceptable option for getting it back."
Potter said that the company was not aware of any reports of abuse resulting from this security hole. He also said that he was aware of no other 3Com products which contained these kinds of built-in backdoors, and that it is still undecided how newer versions of the CoreBuilder and SuperStack II products will handle emergency access.
"We're examining that at the moment, and I'm not ready to discuss where we are with it – we have various approaches on the table," he said.
In the meantime, the company is issuing a software fix for the affected switches, which will be available for download from their Web site on Wednesday.
"On the fix that we are issuing on Wednesday, what will happen is that the variable that shows any passwords will be blank," Potter said. And if the administrator changes his password, it will automatically change the other passwords on the box to match. "It allows us to implement security immediately," he said.


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What is Industry 4.0?
Unleashing the fourth industrial revolution
Digitally connected manufacturing, often referred to as “Industry 4.0”, encompasses a wide variety of technologies, ranging from 3D printing to robotics, new materials and production systems.
A move towards Industry 4.0 would benefit the private sector. Large, integrated manufacturers would find in it a way to optimise and shorten their supply chain, for example via flexible factories. A more digitalised manufacturing would also open new market opportunities for SMEs providing such specialised technologies as sensors, robotics, 3D printing or machine-to-machine communications.
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One set of companies particularly well positioned in that regard will be those that can help build the ecosystem of production on which the Industry 4.0 concept relies. These include platform-as-services companies, such as Pivotal, as well as those that can provide the networked infrastructure for the Industrial Internet.
No wonder, then, that despite the lack of an accepted definition of the Industry 4.0 concept, developed and developing countries alike are looking into it, albeit for slightly different reasons.
For developed nations, Industry 4.0—a term initially coined in Germany—could be a way to regain manufacturing competitiveness. This is particularly relevant in the case of Western Europe, which, unlike the US, does not currently enjoy reduced energy costs.
As for emerging markets, Industry 4.0 could provide the much-needed route to moving up the value chain, something that has become increasingly important to achieve in the face of rising labour costs. For example, China’s new ten-year plan, issued last May and unambiguously named “Made in China 2025”, targets key sectors such as robotics, information technology and energy in the hope of turning the country from a “manufacturing giant” into a “world manufacturing power”—to do so, China will boost R&D investments to 1.7% of manufacturing revenues by 2025.
Large integrated manufacturers such as Intel or GE are already gearing up. In just 18 months, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) they helped create in collaboration with IBM, AT&T and Cisco went from 5 companies to over 200, both large and small.
As promising as it is, much more work remains to be done to make Industry 4.0 a large scale reality. On the regulatory side, for instance, policy makers will have to ensure that data—the blood of Industry 4.0—can move freely and securely throughout the supply chain, including across borders. This is an effort that is likely to take some time.
Meanwhile, it will be key for the private sector to demonstrate that the gains from Industry 4.0 justify its costs—both capital and political. This is already under way, with companies like GE, BELECTRIC and Kofler Energies testing the potential of the Industrial Internet in combined heat and power generation, or the IIC deploying a series of testbed projects, the latest of which provides machine parts with a “digital birth certificate” that tracks them throughout their lifetime, helping engineers predict where and when maintenance will be required. The IIC is also organising conferences during which its members can share best practices on early-stage implementation of the concept, such as the Industry of Things World USA Conference happening in San Diego next month.
The fourth industrial revolution may not have reached its full scale yet, but the march has already begun.
Originally published June 23, 2015. Follow @GELookahead on Twitter to join the conversation.


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KUWAIT CITY, April 6: Actress Haya Al-Shuaibi documented her visit to Shubrat Al- Khudhar in a video published on her account in ‘Snapchat’, circulated extensively across all “social media” platforms, announcing the real prices of vegetables, and that everything is available at reasonable prices without exaggeration, which is considered by some a tribute to the government’s efforts to control the market, while others saw it as a response to a statement of the artiste Hayat Al-Fahd, who said expatriates raise the prices of goods significantly, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
The actress posted the video after the artiste Hayat Al-Fahd accused the merchants of exploiting the ‘corona crisis’ to raise the prices of essential commodities.
Meanwhile, young singer, Samah Khaled has released her new national song composed by Hammoud Al-Shabib, revealing, reports Al-Rai daily. She told the daily despite the simplicity, the song has many meanings about love for Kuwait and praises its humanitarian work in light of the outbreak of the new coronavirus. Samah, pointed out not long ago she was looking for a way to express her love for Kuwait to praise what the country has accomplished in the face of this crisis.


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U.S. stock futures digested data showing core producer prices fell 0.3% in October because of falling prices for autos, trucks, clothing and food, the largest such decline in 30 months. Retail sales fell 0.1% in the month as auto sales declined.
Shares in London and on the Continent weakened after disappointing results from Vodafone and Diageo. The dollar rallied against the yen. Asian exporters benefited in Nikkei trading, though banks declined.
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-0.43%said it has topped Medicis Pharmaceutical's MRX, -0.08%offer for Inamed Corp. IMDC with a $3.2 billion cash-and-shares bid. Allergan said its bid of $1.45 billion cash and 17.9 million Allergan shares is about $450 million more than Medicis' cash-and-shares offer. Allergan said its deal would allow it to offer a broad portfolio of medical aesthetic products to patients. Inamed makes breast implants and obesity treatments.
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-0.21%net income grew by nearly 17% as the retailer raised its target for full-year profit growth. It reported net income of $1.54 billion, or 72 cents a share, in the third quarter ended Oct. 30, up from $1.32 billion, or 60 cents, a year earlier. Sales rose 10.5%, reaching $20.74 billion, as comparable-store sales advanced 3.6%. Analysts, on average, had been looking for the home-improvement retailer to earn 68 cents a share on revenue of $20.7 billion.
- J.C. Penney Co. JCP reported third-quarter earnings from continuing operations of $234 million, or 94 cents a share, up from a year-ago profit of $148 million, or 50 cents a share. The Plano, Texas-based department store operator attributed the better results to an improved operating performance, lower interest expense, and the positive impact of its ongoing buyback program.
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-1.60%tumbled as much as 9% after the mobile operator warned that revenue and profit margins would fall in its next fiscal year, following a 23% decline in first-half net profit. Vodafone said net income stripping out minority interests fell to 2.77 billion pounds ($4.8 billion), or 4.35 pence a share, in the six months to Sept. 30, from 3.61 billion pounds, or 5.39 pence a share, a year earlier.
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The ISA International Sign Expo is taking place May 4 – 6, 2022 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Show hours are Wednesday, May 4: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, May 5: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, May 6: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The International Sign Association’s popular annual event is going live for the first time in two years and will feature all that’s new in the evolving world of wide-format and digital signage, 3D printing, vehicle wrapping, LEDs and much, much more – in addition to a host of educational opportunities covering important industry-specific topics including sales & marketing, graphic design, sign-code legislation and much more.
Agfa (Booth 2931) will be featuring its newAvinci CX3200 dedicated 3.2-metre dye-sub roll-to-roll printer for direct-to-fabric and transfer printing, the Anapurna H3200i LED for high productivity 3.2-metre-wide hybrid printing for indoor and outdoor applications, Asanti prepress workflow automation software, the Asanti StoreFront cloud-based web-to-print solution with integrated preflight engine for maximum e-commerce productivity, and a new “Inspiration Zone” featuring applications and printed samples. For more information please visit the Agfa booth.


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Lululemon has graced us with some early Black Friday deals to kick off the week.
Comfortable clothes and athleisure have been on the rise for years now. But the apparel category has been even more popular over the past year, with athleisure sales reportedly accounting for 20% of all online apparel sales, according to Digital Commerce 360.
Lululemon is one of the leaders in the space, with the brand expanding its business beyond apparel through its acquisition of Mirror earlier this year.
And as the Black Friday deals continue to stack up, Lululemon has launched some exciting sales of its own for the shopping holiday.
Whether you’ve realized you can never have too many leggings or you are looking for gifts for the fitness or yoga lovers in your life, check out our favorites from Lululemon’s early Black Friday sale.
And it’s always worth keeping an eye on the We Made Too Much section on the site for additional special offers.
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Understanding spoilage and quality issues may improve American artisan cheesemaking industry
American artisan cheese has become increasingly popular over the past few decades. Understanding spoilage concerns and the financial consequences of defects can improve quality, profitability, and sustainability in the American artisan cheesemaking industry. In an article appearing in the Journal of Dairy Science, scientists from Tufts University took the pulse of artisan cheese producers in the United States through an industry survey.
The authors of this study provide a snapshot of the artisanal cheesemaking community indicating that many (71 percent) are concerned about undesirable surface molds and incorrect or unexpected colors or pigments on rinds (54 percent). Of the 61 cheesemakers surveyed, 18 percent were very concerned about quality and spoilage problems, 39 percent said that their quality standards are not met annually, and 33 percent said their quality standards are not met monthly.
"The growing US cheesemaking industry will require additional resources moving forward that address not only safety but also quality and spoilage concerns," said first author Megan Biango-Daniels, Ph.D., Biology Department, Tufts University, Medford, MA, U.S.. "One interesting observation from our data is that cheesemakers, as a group, are unsure about how widespread quality issues are but strongly agree that additional resources to help address quality issues would benefit them personally."
Although 62 percent of survey respondents reported that only between zero and five percent of their product was lost or made less valuable due to quality issues annually, seven percent of cheesemakers had losses of over 20 percent of their product. Nearly all respondents agreed that better quality of their products would lessen waste, boost profits, and enhance production. In answer to open-ended questions, those surveyed said that they would like to have access to additional online resources addressing quality topics and to digital forums to collaborate with experts and peers when problems emerge.
Dr. Biango-Daniels added, "Regardless of what these future resources will look like, it's important that cheesemakers budget for professional development, organizational membership, and continuing education (training online or in-person) in their business plans so that they can afford to invest in the resources that enable production of safe, high-quality cheese."
The study suggests that addressing the concerns of cheesemakers will remain challenging because of resource and tool development barriers, the relatively few scientists who specialize in these subjects, and the limited funding sources available for this type of research.
More information: American artisan cheese quality and spoilage: A survey of cheesemakers' concerns and needs, Journal of Dairy Science (2021). DOI: 10.3168/jds.2020-19345
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AkzoNobel Expands In-house Resin Production
Michael Friede, chief commercial officer for performance coatings, explained that while the company produced a “good proportion” of what it needed, it also has to source commodity and other specialty resins from third parties.
“Further investing in our own resin capabilities will help us to secure sustainable business growth, as well as supporting our innovation pipeline and sustainability targets,” he said. “It will enable us to secure raw material supply to optimally support our Grow & Deliver ambitions and, at the same time, we’ll look to generate extra value by leveraging and optimizing the volumes we don’t bring in-house with our network of external partners.”
The plans, which include investing in sites, equipment and staff, were developed after the company tasked an internal team to investigate opportunities to unlock more value and make AkzoNobel more self-sufficient. The company did not reveal how much it would spend on the expansion, but said it expects the investment to contribute between €15 million and €20 million in EBITDA by 2023.
“We’re well aware that demand for resins is only expected to increase. Meanwhile, our resin manufacturing sites have extra production capacity available,” Friede said.
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When the Narendra Modi government announced the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes on November 8, 2016, the Indian rural sector, which was primarily a cash economy, was the worst sufferer. Coming at the end of two years of subdued rural consumption, this hit the sector badly and stymied whatever growth it was seeing. Demand was at its lowest ebb and there was hardly any consumption happening as cash dried up.
A year later, India’s massive rural sector has hit back. In the last two quarters, there has been handsome growth in consumption and demand, and there are signs that this will continue well onto the next financial year. While companies have registered an overall growth of five to ten per cent, their rural growth has been in double digits and in the range of 12-15 per cent.


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The original plans for the site consisted of a shopping centre with a below-ground supermarket, but the regulations in force prohibit the plot of land being used for that purpose. They also require that an underground car park be constructed, together with a public square, commercial premises and a cinema complex.
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Yvolv, a JV company by Alibaba Cloud and Meraas has signed a strategic partnership agreement with DOITC, IT integrator in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and multidimensional IT service provider. In order to support the country’s digital transformation journey and digital commerce evolution, Yvolv will be providing its Saudi customers through its collaboration with DOITC.
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“Saudi Arabia will lead the way in IT spending in 2017, investing an annual budget of $7.5bn in transformative technologies such as cloud, big data, social and mobility according to the latest IDC report. We believe this is the best time to support the Saudi market and seize the opportunity of growing demand through our new partnership with DOITC,” said Fahad Al Hajeri, the CEO of Yvolv.
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While governments in the Middle East and North Africa are estimated to spend US $11.6 billion on IT products and services in 2017, according to Gartner, Inc., the private sector represents one of the biggest drivers of digital transformation trends.
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The growth in Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) are indicators that migration of applications and workloads from on premises data centers to the cloud, as well as development of cloud ready and cloud native applications, are fueling growth in the cloud space in the KSA.
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Digiday Research: 62 percent of publishers plan to spend more on video production
The pivot to video might be over, but publishers are still prioritizing short-form video.
Earlier this month, Digiday polled 200 publishers and found that 86 percent of publishers increasing their video production budgets said they will produce more short-form video content compared to just 48 percent of publishers who said they would make more long-form videos and 39 percent who said they would make more videos to license out to OTT and TV platforms.
Short-form video content, which can still perform well on platforms like Instagram or YouTube, appeals to publishers for its ability to generate awareness for new products and build audiences. It is also vastly cheaper too.
Overall, 62 percent are increasing spending on video, 50 percent said they will fund more freelance and part-time editorial staff and 47 percent will increase budgets for full-time editorial staff.
Meanwhile hiring part-time or freelance editorial employees might be a cheaper way for publishers to meet growing content demands. Companies like BuzzFeed, Fortune and Forbes have long relied on freelance contributors to help meet those demands. But it also leads to unrest among full-time staff worried about being replaced and a growing push to unionize. Bustle Digital Group found itself under pressure after unionized staffers, laid off after the sale of Mic to BDG, claimed that their unfinished work was completed without their consent by Bustle employees.
However, the small likelihood that publishes will hire for part-time or freelance editorial staff over full-time staff could just be the result of current market forces. With low unemployment rates, research from Edelman Intelligence in June and July of 2018 found that the majority of freelancers do so voluntarily.
Though video burned publishers who adopted platform-reliant strategies, many have created thriving and sophisticated video strategies. Complex turned video licensing into a “high eight-figure” business by working with Netflix, Hulu and other partners. The Hill, which is prioritizing its video capabilities ahead of subscriptions, learned from the past mistakes of others and does not rely on a single platform to generate the majority of its audience.
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4 Grocery Shortages Shoppers Could Experience Ahead of Thanksgiving
A few of the holiday essentials are currently facing tight supply levels and could be difficult to find as you plan the biggest dinner of the year. To make matters worse, these shortages on top of sky-high inflation mean you could be paying up to 20% more for your Thanksgiving staples compared to last year.
In order to get ahead of the rush and to possibly start planning for some more cost-effective substitutes in your Thanksgiving recipes, check out which four grocery items stores are having a hard time keeping on the shelves.
Butter—the backbone of many sweet and savory Thanksgiving dishes—may be harder to find leading up to the holiday. According to data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), butter production has been on a steep decline so far in 2022, stemming from the larger problem of decreased milk production. Dairy farmers have dealt with increased costs for things like shipping and feed this year, and labor shortages at production plants haven't helped either.
A shrinking supply plus a projected lift in demand for the holidays are cause for concern. Average consumers along with chefs and bakers may be forced to pay top dollar for the commodity—which is already priced almost 27% higher than this time last year—or to seek out other butter alternatives.
Bread and Other Wheat Products
You can't have bread without butter, so it's perfectly fitting that the staple food is in lower stock this year as well. The war in Ukraine continues to wreak havoc on the world's food supplies—most notably on wheat, as both Russia and Ukraine are two of the world's largest producers of the crop. India's decision to also ban international wheat exports in May further exacerbated the issue.
As a result, the price of bread has risen 15% year over year, and close to 14% for other bread products such as fresh biscuits, rolls, and muffins—all popular add-ons during Thanksgiving and other holiday meals. Flour, and other prepared flour mixes, have seen an even larger cost increase, and wheat flour specifically has been in limited supply at the grocery store. This means your favorite holiday baked goods—whether you buy them from the store or bake them at home—may also be in jeopardy.
If you haven't pre-ordered a turkey yet, your family may have to gobble up a different main course this Thanksgiving. Turkey supplies have been depleted throughout 2022, as a version of the avian flu has, and continues to, run rampant, killing millions of turkeys. Similar phenomena have plagued flocks in years past. But, according to Walter Kunisch, a senior commodities strategist at Hilltop Securities who spoke with CNBC, this year's outbreak is "more acute" and "certainly more widespread in terms of the geography."
To make matters worse, inflation and supply chain issues have additionally driven up the price of turkey this year. So, if you do happen to find a whole bird at your local grocery store, you can expect to pay about 28% more than you did last year–based on projections Mark Jordan, executive director of Leap Market Analytics, shared with CBS News.
The highly-contagious avian flu similarly took its toll on chicken flocks this year, negatively impacting egg yields across the country and beyond. According to the latest USDA Egg Markets Review, "Wholesale prices for cartoned shell eggs continue higher as the Thanksgiving marketing period is in full force." Egg prices have hit record highs all year, and are currently sitting at an average of close to $3.50 per dozen.
Other countries including Mexico and the United Kingdom are currently in the same boat. And, in the United Kingdom specifically, grocery store chains such as Lidl implemented egg purchase limits to preserve supply. The United States does not currently have any similar measures in place. But, if you do have a Thanksgiving recipe that requires eggs, you should grab a box or two sooner rather than later.


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According to Bloomberg, PayPal fired employees in risk management and operations this week. It’s the latest in a series of layoffs within the company – and it won’t be the last. According to the publication, the payment processor has also recently reduced the number of employees in Chicago, Omaha, Nebraska and Chandler, Arizona. Furthermore, it previously revealed that it would permanently lay off 80 people who worked at its headquarters in San Jose, California.
While the company approved plans to strategically reduce its workforce in 2020, these recent layoffs came after PayPal’s growth showed signs of slowing down. In the first quarter of the year, spending on the platform rose 15 percent to $323 billion, the slowest growth in five years. The lack of availability of certain products due to the global supply chain crisis may have contributed to this, as could people returning to in-store shopping after pandemic restrictions were eased.
PayPal has spent $100 million on severance payments and other expenses related to job cuts, and expects to spend even more. In the long run, however, the restructuring will save the company $260 million a year. The payment processor is just one of many tech companies that are cutting headcount or freezing staffing levels due to the economic slowdown. Microsoft, Meta and NVIDIA will limit their hiring because of falling stock prices and slowing revenue and revenue growth. Uber and Lyft are also cutting back on hiring as part of their cost-cutting measures. More recently, Instacart announced it is doing the same to focus on profitability ahead of its planned IPO.
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The adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Slate is showcased in a lifestyle perspective as it’s the next iteration of the popular silhouette that’s scheduled to drop this fall. Stylish and versatile, the low-top flaunts the neutral hue across its Primeknit construction while the model is punctuated with the distinctive black SPLY-350 stripe on the side panels. Finally, a matching translucent ridged sole encasing the signature Boost cushioning rounds out the design.
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Western Digital Corporation, also known as WDC, held its investor meeting yesterday. We highlight four important disclosures: (a) it expects HDD to survive, despite flash's advantages, (b) WDC's plans to use RISC and launch a new memory interface, (c) an update on current business trends, and (d) the company's plans for its storage systems business.
First, since the company owns both Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Flash divisions, it has an interest in keeping investors informed of the relative competitiveness between the two. Two and a half years ago, WDC closed on its acquisition of flash pioneer Sandisk. Around that time, the company was asserting that there is, and the company anticipates it will remain the case, that HDDs will retain at least a 10-times advantage versus flash on a cost per bit ($/GB) stored basis. At the company's meeting yesterday the company reiterated its view that this 10x advantage will continue at least till the year 2022.
The 10x $/GB differential is important because, if true, it means HDDs will not go away for many applications, especially for storage of big data at hyperscalers. Consider this - storage systems vendors such as Pure Storage are announcing software systems that allow premises-based flash storage to be seamlessly moved to the cloud for longer-term storage, which means that cloud hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) are likely to be HDD customers for a very long time. Nevertheless, flash will keep on taking share from HDD. The company has been reducing its manufacturing capacity for HDD, with significant layoffs and factory shutdowns over the past several years. In fact, it plans significant ongoing cost cutting in its HDD manufacturing, it the range of 15-25% Y/Y decline next year.
The company also announced an ambitious plan to transition from licensed CPU cores to RISC based cores, for which it expects to pay no licensing and/or royalty fees. WDC says it ships over 1 billion CPU cores per year, so this is a significant shift. Also, the company plans to introduce an open-sourced memory interface called OmniXtend memory fabric, which will pit it against Intel (using DDR4, etc.) who has historically launched its own interfaces. WDC is now a very big player in storage, having built through organic growth and acquisitions. It has more market might and these new initiatives have a better opportunity to launch than in the past.
Additionally, the company said that its near-term business trends are under pressure due to cyclical market fluctuations. The memory semiconductor industry has historically endured a boom/bust cycle and now the company is explaining it has entered the bust part of that cycle. Since its earnings call on October 25, 2018, it says conditions have deteriorated somewhat more, partly the result of hyperscalers continuing to reduce inventories and partly due to mobile phone companies still reducing forecasts of demand. The company expects 2019 will see flash demand below the historical range and that hyperscalers should see a return to growth in 2H19.
Lastly, the company's Data Center Solutions group, which employs a vertically integrated strategy to compete with traditional storage systems companies such as DELL-EMC, NetApp, HPE, Pure Storage and others, just experienced a record quarter on a revenue basis and is approaching break-even in its operations. The company has the goal of becoming a top 5 player in data center solutions, which we take to mean, it is planning to take share from the current players. The group has experienced 17x revenue growth from Q1FY19 compared to Q1FY16, according the presentation (of course, the group has made acquisitions that bolster this number), has shipped 3 Exabytes in the months in calendar 2018 (which isn't over yet) and has shipped 8,500 systems and platforms since inception. The company plans to experience "double digit" revenue growth rates for this unit in the future.
There were two main announcements, a new relationship with Google Cloud Platform and a new flash device - the AFF A800. Also, in our interviews with NetApp, we learned about the future of Fibre Channel at the hyperscalers.
Google. Google Cloud Platform now integrates NetApp Cloud Volumes as a drop-down menu capability as part of the Google console. This allows enterprise customers, for instance, to use Cloud Volumes to manage their data on Google's cloud service while simultaneously managing their data on premise. This relationship with Google now rounds out the NetApp relationships with the main hyperscalers - it already has in place relationships with both Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure). NetApp Cloud Volumes on Google Cloud Platform is currently available as a "preview" capability (sign up at www.netapp.com/gcppreview) and is expected to go to commercial status by the end of 2018. Customers will pay Google for the use of NetApp Cloud Volumes.
AFF A800. New flash hardware available from NetApp, which besides having impressive density and low-latency capabilities supports NVMe-over-Fibre Channel. Of course, the product also supports 100 Gbps Ethernet. From a historical standpoint, it is interesting that NetApp, a company whose heritage was driven by storage over Ethernet, is touting Fibre Channel. But, that's what its customers are asking for in order to accelerate their on-premise workloads such as database (Oracle), ERP (SAP) and other mission-critical enterprise workloads. In our interviews with NetApp, we were told that Fibre Channel is growing faster than Ethernet - this makes sense given the company's foray in recent years to flash and low-latency workloads.
Fibre Channel at the hyperscalers? We asked about what is going on with the hyperscalers' architecture to adapt to AI/Deep Learning workloads. NetApp executives explained that AI workloads are different from traditional workloads; they are random, low latency workloads connecting to GPUs. This type of workload, we were told by NetApp, works very well when attached to Fibre Channel. From NetApp's perspective, if customers want to run AI workloads fastest, they would likely do so on-premise, using Fibre Channel. Yet, many customers run their workloads on hyperscalers, all of which use Internet Protocol and the underlying Ethernet infrastructure. We have always been skeptical that hyperscalers would adopt Fibre Channel. We believe the hyperscalers may work with vendors such as NetApp to develop additional software capabilities to address the changing workloads relating to AI/ML/GPU workloads in the future - on top of IP/Ethernet infrastructures.
At NetApp's analyst meeting today, CEO George Kurian sees opportunity in selling HCI (introduced F2Q18, 4-5 months ago), AFA, share-taking in SAN, and public cloud software and services. Every large customer NetApp talks to, according to Kurian, is using multiple cloud service providers and/or SaaS services and most are using the hybrid cloud, which means using workloads both on the customer premises and public cloud. According the company's marketing and sales executives, the company's sales and marketing strategy is focused on leveraging the company's entrance to the cloud services software market.
Substantial future announcements that were made by NetApp:
Summary of presentations
Joel Reich, EVP Products and Operations discussed trends in data center flash:
• NVMe over Fabrics
• Storage-class memory as cache
• Persistent memory in server
• Quad level cell NAND
Reich made some interesting comments:
Brad Anderson, SVP and GM, Cloud Infrastructure BU, said that NetApp’s “Converged” (selling NetApp storage with non-NetApp servers) FlexPod business is now at a $2B run rate and >4,000+PB shipped. The company recently initiated a Fujitsu partnership on March 26, 2018. Anderson also said that NetApp’s Hyperconverged product, which has only been selling for the past 4-5 months, hit its financial targets in the first full quarter of shipments. He also said that the HCI product is based upon on recently-acquired SolidFire technology and conceded that the company is hiring people with virtualization capabilities to further augment the product line. HCI customers that were discussed during this presentation were: ConsultelCloud (Austrialian SaaS company) and Imperva (security company).
Anthony Lye, SVP Cloud Data services BU, joined a year ago and is responsible for the company’s efforts to build software that runs on and with public cloud services. He describes this software as one that operates above the storage layer, to allow customers to manage their data, whether in cloud, SaaS applications or on premises. It offers backup, disaster recovery, and for securing data, and then binds those services and data in context of applications and business policy using the orchestration Engine. OnCommand is product name. The underlying technology NetApp uses is called ONTAP Data Management, which Mr Lye explained was separated from its engineered systems (hardware) and port it to public clouds five years ago. We remember when NetApp announced its plans to separate ONTAP as a software for the cloud at its analyst meeting a few years ago when Kurian took over as CEO.
Lye explained that “later this year,” NetApp will release cloud-based OnCommand performance management/monitoring tool to manage workloads in hybrid cloud environment.
Henri Richard, EVP Worldwide Field and Customer Operations said "Cloud is soon to be GA.” Richard explains this as its “Cloud Volume” product. Richard explained that what is new this year is the hyperscaler relationships, starts a demand creation engine for the sales organization.
Jean English, SVP Chief Marketing Officer said the company will focus on “cloud first” to reach new “global” buyers (e.g. multinational organizations), will lead with HCI and Cloud to enterprises.
Ron Pasek, EVP and CFO explains that FY18 is almost over and the company is beating FY18 plans (low-single digits growth), driven by flash. The CFO said that the new accounting rule, ASC 606 impact to guidance will be immaterial to the P&L , though will result in slightly higher product revenue recognition.
Additionally, Pasek said that a year ago, he said revenue growth will be “low-single digit growth” (FY18-20) and now he is saying “mid-single digit growth,” driven by Flash, HCI, cloud data services. Pasek said that in FY19 cloud data services will represents one point of growth. (As an aside, we calculate FY19 cloud data services revenue, using the “one point of growth” metric at $60M, based on the latest quarter of total revenues, F3Q18 which was $1.52B, multiplied by 4, then multiplied by 1%). So, cloud services revenue is expected to grow to FY19 of $60M and reach FY21 targets of $400-600M. The company declined to state its FY18 cloud data services revenue when asked by the audience, so we take it that it is small.


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The Nokia 808 PureView is a Symbianpowered smartphone first unveiled on 27 February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress. It is the first smartphone to feature Nokia's PureView Pro technology, a pixel oversampling technique that reduces an image taken at full resolution into a lower resolution picture, thus achieving higher definition and lightMar 08, 2013 The Nokia 808 PureView is a Nokia Belle powered smartphone, first unveiled on 27 February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress. It is the first smartphone to feature pic of nokia 808
Nokia has announced the Nokia 808 PureView smartphone at Mobile World Congress, a device that will come with a 41megapixel camera. Yes, you read that right, 41megapixels of camera goodness, allowing you to take pictures the size of billboards.
41megapixel Nokia 808 PureView The Nokia 808 PureView has a 4inch 360x640 display with Gorilla glass. Three buttons sit just below the display (left to right) Call Answer Nokia 808 PureView smartphone gallery highresolution pictures, official photospic of nokia 808 Oct 09, 2012 The Nokia 808 PureView's large CMOS sensor has 41MP total, outputting a maximum of 38MP (resolution drops to 36MP in 16: 9 aspect ratio). Such a high resolution sensor would be little more than a stunt if the camera specifications aren't up to scratch, but Nokia has designed the 808 to be a serious photographic tool.
Nokia PureView 808 in Camera Phones The Nokia PureView 808 features a whopping 41 megapixel 11. 2inch sensor a Carl Zeiss Tessar f2. 4 wide angle lens takes care of pic of nokia 808 Nokia 808 Latest Breaking News, Pictures, Videos, and Special Reports from The Economic Times. Nokia 808 Blogs, Comments and Archive News on Economictimes. com Nokia 808 PureView smartphone. Announced Feb 2012. Features 4. 0 AMOLED display, 41 MP (38 MP primary camera, 1400 mAh battery, When the Nokia 808 PureView was announced earlier this year its 41MP camera sensor and innovative PureView pixel oversampling made headlines all over the world. On paper, the 808 offers the most advanced camera features of any previous smartphone. Read our review to find out how it performs.


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A Chicago City Council committee is scheduled to formally consider banning plastic grocery bags, according to a report by DNAinfo Chicago.
Alderman Joe Moreno proposed the measure requiring that if stores are to provide or sell carryout bags, they must be reusable, the report said. CBS Chicago noted that if passed, Chicago would be the largest city in the nation with such a ban.
Moreno posted a column on the Huffington Post estimating that the city uses 3.7 million plastic bags every day, and that as many as 5 percent of them become litter, leading to further costs for residents beyond the roughly two-cents-per-bag cost to buy them in the first place.
The Chicago Reader added that the Illinois Retail Merchants Association opposes the ban, and that group’s efforts helped scuttle a previous attempt to ban the bags. However, the Reader also said, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s position on the issue still is not clear, and if he wants to table the discussion, he can stop it.


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Josip Heit, Sophia Thomalla, G999 and Biblical Magi
As Magi or Wise Men from the East, Christian tradition refers to the "stargazers" mentioned in the Christmas story of Matthew's Gospel, who were led to Jesus by the star of Bethlehem. In the Catholic Church, the "three kings" are venerated as saints. Their Solemnity is the Feast of the Epiphany on today, January 6, 2021. In the Protestant churches, too, the Magi are commemorated on Epiphany.
(Hamburg, Germany): Against this Christian background, Josip Heit, Chairman of the Board of GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG, located at the Port of Hamburg, not only on the feast day of Epiphany, expresses his gratitude for the blessings of success in the year 2020, which has passed a few days ago. It is worth mentioning that Josip Heit just recently released the "G999", a uniquely electronic system, card reader and app that allows for telecommunications and messenger in one, inspired by the deflationary token economic model, fast payments, micro fees and a variety of other options.
For this project, Heit was able to engage, among others, Sophia Thomalla, her character's blockchain ambassador for GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG and G999, one of the most famous presenters and actresses in the German-speaking world.
Sophia Thomalla has long been highly interested in cryptocurrencies, especially blockchain technology, cryptography and telecommunications in particular, as well as the technologies behind them.
In this context, Thomalla is of the opinion that the future will be a digital currency, this is likely to be underpinned not least by the fact that since the BitCoin as a cryptocurrency based on a decentrally organized booking system last night (05.01. to 06.01 2021) has again jumped to a high and left behind the mark of 35,000 US dollars.
The BitCoin as a cryptocurrency thus now brings a total of 650 billion US dollars to the scales.
Josip Heit himself is known as a proven business manager and blockchain pioneer who, through his divisions of the GSB Group, has products from the areas of blockchain, cryptocurrency and cryptotechnology developed under the aspect of climate-friendly orientations. GSB's corporate divisions in this regard are the conventional sectors with their blockchain technology, which also offer crypto services, among other things.
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Sophia Thomalla and Josip Heit plan sequel to G999 spot in Silicon Valley11.1.2021 10:01:00 CET | Press release
GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG: Since 08 December 2020, one of the most exciting commercials of the past year 2020 has been running, filmed in the architecturally ultra-modern banking district of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. To kick things off, Sophia Thomalla was seen in the middle of Times Square, on the big screens of the REUTERS and NASDAQ skyscrapers in New York (USA). Here, a breathtaking beauty from Germany also turned the heads of viewers internationally - Sophia Thomalla. The German media star is considered extremely business-minded and is certain that blockchain-based applications are the technology of the future. Consequently, she appeared as an ambassador in the commercial for "G999", a uniquely electronic system, card reader and app that enables telecommunication and messenger via blockchain, inspired by the deflationary token economy model. This enables ultra-fast payments, micro-fees and a host of other options. Just recently, Sophia Thomalla was a guest
G999: Welcome 2021 Show with Josip Heit, Sophia Thomalla and Miguel Salgad22.12.2020 09:31:56 CET | Pressemelding
Dubai is the city with the world's highest number of skyscrapers, at over 300 metres high, as well as the tallest building on our planet, the magnificent Burj Khalifa, 828 metres. Dubai is a global centre of commerce and has the world's third largest airport by passenger traffic and the tenth largest port by container throughput. With a history of only 49 years, Dubai's success is unparalleled worldwide! Consequently, the GSB Gold Standard Group, in compliance with all coronavirus pandemic regulations, held its big "Good-bye-2020 - Welcome 2021 - Event" in Dubai's luxurious Jumeirah Beach district, in the midst of international banks and oil companies. International media were once again present in large numbers and some even travelled directly to Dubai, as they had done in Monte-Carlo (Monaco). People from all over the world enthusiastically followed the launch of the "G999", a unique electronic system, card device and app in one. The G999 is inspired by the deflationary token economi
GSB Gold Standard Banking: Josip Heit starts Blockchain Project G9998.12.2020 09:05:51 CET | Press release
GSB hires Sophia Thomalla as Blockchain Ambassador: Since the morning hours of today, December 8th, 2020, one of the most exciting commercials of the year 2020 has been running in the middle of Times Square in New York. A German is turning the heads of everyone internationally - Sophia Thomalla.
G999: Josip Heit and the GSB Gold Standard in the cosmos of the blockchain financial industry15.10.2020 14:41:41 CEST | Pressemelding
GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG (GSB), one of Germany´s leading software, IT and block chain groups, has launched an unprecedented technology that makes transactions of crypto currencies much easier and above all much faster. Crypto currency, also called crypto money, is a digital means of payment based on cryptographic tools such as block chains and digital signatures. As a payment system they are independent, distributed and secure. GSB is one of the world market leaders in this field for highly developed software trading modules, platforms and signal/data streaming for the financial industry. Only recently, Josip Heit, Chairman of the GSB Board of Directors, together with his team of international software and hardware developers, presented "G999", a unique electronic money system, at a glamorous opening ceremony in Monte-Carlo, in the presence of a large contingent of international press, Card device and apps for telecommunications and messengers in one, inspired by the de
BitCoin POS: Josip Heit presents the future of the financial market in Monaco8.10.2020 11:15:16 CEST | Press release
After GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG, based at the Port of Hamburg, presented its technical "G999" fireworks as a revolutionary block chain ecosystem and unique electronic money system, card device and app in one, inspired by the deflationary token economic model, which enables fast payments, micro fees and a variety of other options, including a communication network that guarantees customers absolute privacy, the novelty was not enough - the implementation of the BitCoin POS followed in the Principality of Monaco!
G999: GSB Gold Standard Banking introduces revolutionary block chain ecosystem7.10.2020 14:53:04 CEST | Pressemelding
The world of financial currencies is likely to take a big step forward, and the Principality of Monaco seemed the perfect place to test innovations at the moment. With this in mind, GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG (GSB), a leading German software, IT and blockchain group, has chosen the Monte Carlo Conference Centre in Monaco to launch an unprecedented technology that will make transactions of crypto currencies much easier and above all much faster.


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It’s no secret kids can be expensive – but now actual figures have been put on what it costs to bring up a child in Australia.
The cost of raising a child is $140 a week for unemployed families and $170 per week for low-income families, according to new research.
That’s between $7280 and $8840 a year for each child – and the figures are conservative as they are calculated on tight budgets.
The weekly figures, published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, include the estimated costs of food, clothing, footwear, health, personal care, school expenses, as well as their share of household expenses including housing and energy costs.
The University of New South Wales carried out the research using a budget standards approach to estimate what it cost to achieve a ‘minimum income standard for healthy living’ in Australia.
The study found the estimated weekly costs for low-paid families of raising two children – a 6-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy – is $340 per week, or $170 per child.
For the unemployed, the weekly costs of raising two children is $280 per week, or $140 per child.
“We updated the existing budget standards using new ABS data on what Australians own, what they do and what they spend their money on,” UNSW Professor Peter Saunders explained.
“For example, we included the costs of mobile phones which are now commonplace and what it costs to feed and clothe children by pricing shelf items in nationwide stores, such as Woolworths and Kmart.”
Prof Saunders said there were a series of focus group interviews with low-income families about how they managed their budgets. This revealed important trends, including clothes swapping for school uniforms and buying more homebrand or generic items in supermarkets and chain stores.
The most expensive budget items were housing costs, based on families paying average prices for rental accommodation in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. The next most expensive items were food, household goods and services.
“The new estimates of the cost of children are considerably higher than those produced by updating the original budget standards created in 1995 because prevailing community standards have shifted upwards over the past two decades,” Prof Saunders said.
The research provides important data for assessing how much income unemployed and low-paid families need and could be used to guide the setting of the Newstart Allowance and minimum wage, he said.


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Second in the Queue
Would regulatory reform help bring the latest PMV tech to the region?
This is an exciting time of the year for the PMV industry. With events season upon us, a plethora of new products is about to hit the market.
However, there is a noticeable disparity between the PMV equipment destined for the North American and European markets, and that to be supplied within the Middle East. Don’t get me wrong, there are excellent products on offer across this region, but many of them are the West’s hand-me-downs.
When I ask original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) about the products that they intend to bring to the market, they frequently distinguish between those to be sold in ‘regulated’ and ‘unregulated’ regions; the former being North America and Europe, and the latter – seemingly – the rest of the world. The Middle East is usually second in the queue.
Of course, every region is regulated to some degree, but it is certainly true that from a design perspective, OEMs have to work harder and smarter to deliver equipment that conforms to the legal requirements of North America and Europe than they do for other markets.
One example of this trend is the recent launch of Volvo Trucks’ new range for the MENA region, which took place at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit [page 50]. The Swedish manufacturer has redesigned its regional offering from the ground up, with overhauled versions of the FH, FM, and FMX. However, whilst the European equivalents – launched in 2013 – are equipped with brand new Euro 6 engines, the Middle East versions are fitted with their Euro 3 ancestors.
What’s more, the decision as to which engine to include in the MENA range lay completely outside of Volvo’s control. The manufacturer cannot offer Euro 6 engines in this region because the general standard of fuel is too poor.
Another example is offered by an interview that featured in last month’s issue of PMV, in which CIFA’s Marco Scuratti discussed the varying approaches that the Italian concrete equipment manufacturer takes to different markets.
Essentially, whilst CIFA researchers are busy finding new ways to offer maximum performance within the strict weight limits enforced on European roads, the firm is simultaneously working to develop heavier-duty machinery to meet demand in the Middle East where no weight limits apply. Paradoxically, Scuratti explained that customers in the Middle East require heavy-duty equipment to cope with the poor-quality road surfaces that have resulted from a dearth of weight limitations.
I appreciate that the words ‘regulatory reform’ are often associated with increased costs, but the relevant research is already taking place. Moreover, it will continue to take place whether or not the Middle East chooses to regulate. Not only would stricter regulations benefit local infrastructure and the environment, but they would also encourage the latest technology to find its way to the region much sooner than it does at present.
I concede that there are no simple solutions. What to do about the MENA region’s inferior-quality fuel, for example, is above my pay grade. But then, that’s exactly my point. If governments regulate, greater minds than mine will think of new and ingenious ways to deliver equally effective equipment that conforms to the new standards. Regulation stimulates innovation.


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Xiaomi's MIUI user interface has received a lot of compliments from the technology community in the past, but now it is facing many criticisms from users.
The main reason behind this incident is that Xiaomi has deliberately inserted ads into MIUI, including system apps with many objectionable ads, directly affecting the user experience.
Xiaomi's MIUI user interface.
However, Xiaomi recently announced that they will optimize and review the advertising system on the MIUI platform. However, this does not mean that the entire ad will be removed from the company's familiar user interface.
Lei Jun, co-founder and CEO of Xiaomi, said the company will only remove inappropriate ads and negatively affect the user experience. At the same time, Xiaomi's general manager of internet services also said the company is planning to reduce the number of ads.
Many ads appear in MIUI causing discomfort for users.
Currently, Xiaomi has begun to reduce a lot of ads on MIUI and is expected to reduce further in the coming months. In addition, the company also added an option that allows users to disable ads easily.
Either way, we cannot deny that Xiaomi is trying to give users a lighter and new MIUI. Earlier, the company had revealed that it was planning to use algorithms that could improve ad access rates and also ensure that the ads users see will be relevant to their interests. they.
Recently, Xiaomi announced its financial report in the first quarter of 2019. Accordingly, the company's net profit grew 22.4% over the same period last year, reaching 2.1 billion yuan (about over 7 trillion copper). In addition, its revenue also increased by 27.2% and stood at 43.8 billion yuan (about VND 147 trillion).
Xiaomi's biggest source of revenue comes from smartphone business. However, the company's internet and software services also accounted for 9.7% of total revenue, up slightly from 9.1% in the same period last year.


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News International signs agreement for AdTarget search and contextual ad system
News International has signed a partnership agreement with Adprecision to utilise the AdTarget search and contextual adserving platform for a number of vertical markets including Travel and Motors.
AdTarget will allow News International websites including Timesonline.co.uk and Thesun.co.uk to sell their own online classified advertising. By gaining control of their own online keyword classified advertising, News International can further extend its existing advertiser relationships and create a new revenue stream.
Adprecision Commercial Director Alasdair Cross said of the partnership, "News International owns some of the most valuable and popular news websites in the UK and we're delighted that they have chosen our technology to power their Travel and Motors search and contextual advertising. We look forward to rolling out Adtarget across other classified vertical markets in the future".


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Montclair, NJ – At 12:04 AM Monday, officers were dispatched to 428 Bloomfield Avenue on a report of shots fired. Preliminary investigation reveals that a verbal altercation occurred inside of Cuban Pete’s which ultimately made its way outside and became physical. Four males were reportedly involved in the physical dispute. At one point during the fight, one male brandished a handgun and fired three rounds. Nobody was hit by the gunfire and there were no injuries reported. Three Ruger 9mm shell casings were recovered from the scene. The shooter was last seen fleeing on a motorcycle eastbound on Bloomfield Avenue. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Jamar Jones at (973) 509-4705.
September 23, 2021 (Hillside Avenue): The resident reported that upon entering her vehicle she discovered it had been entered and rummaged through. A wallet and a canvas bag valued at
$275 were reported missing.
September 23, 2021 (Plymouth Street): The resident reported that he received an alert from his bank advising him that his debit card was being used at a Boost Mobile store and a Dunkin Donuts in Orange, NJ. He then went to his parked vehicle outside and discovered that the car had been entered and his wallet was missing.
September 27, 2021 (Valley Road): The complainant reported that his vehicle was entered while he was shopping at Acme supermarket. When he returned to his vehicle, he discovered the following items missing: One pair of black and brown Tom Ford Sunglasses valued at $200, one Amazon package containing a yellow commercial power strip/extension cord valued at $50, one commercial blender lid valued at $100 and $100 in cash.
September 27, 2021 (Bloomfield Avenue): The resident reported that a package that had been delivered to her residence was stolen from her porch. It reportedly contained a dress.
September 25, 2021 (Park Street): The complainant reported that two bicycles were stolen from the common basement area of his apartment building. The bikes were described as a red Huffy valued at $180.00 and blue and green accents road bike valued at $300.00


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On Thursday 14 July, a lawsuit was filed in a northern California federal court which claims that Skittles contain a 'known toxin' called titanium dioxide, making them 'unfit for human consumption.'
Risk of genotoxicity
The Skittles slogan is 'taste the rainbow.' And it's titanium dioxide, or TiO2, that is used to help create the candy's signature multicoloured hues.
The civil suit was filed against Mars Inc, the confection company that makes Skittles. It claims that people who consume Skittles 'are at heightened risk of a host of health effects for which they were unaware stemming from genotoxicity – the ability of a chemical substance to change DNA,' as reported by The Guardian.
According to Insider, TiO2 is commonly found in paints, plastics, inks, adhesives, and roofing materials. It is also a popular ingredient in mineral sunscreens.
However, safety regulators have pointed out that the nanoparticles that make TiO2 so effective as a sunscreen are indigestible by humans. Researchers have discovered that consuming the toxin has caused a range of health issues, including alterations to DNA, chromosomal damage, inflammation, and cell necrosis.
According to the Center for Food Safety, TiO2 can also cause pathological lesions of the liver, spleen, kidneys, and brain, along with lung tumours, and kidney dysfunction.
Failed to phase out use of the toxin
Mars committed to phase out the use of TiO2 back in 2016, as part of a move to eliminate harmful and potentially poisonous nanoparticles from their products, according to the Center for Food Safety.
France banned TiO2 in food products in 2020. In 2021, the European Food Safety Authority announced that 'titanium dioxide can no longer be considered safe as a food additive' and a similar policy is expected to go into effect in August 2022. According to the lawsuit, Mars said it would comply with France's law.
However, the suit alleges that six years later Mars continues to sell candies in the US that contain TiO2 as an additive and is 'failing to inform consumers of the implications of consuming the toxin.' The chemical is still included in the product's online ingredient lists.
Lawyers are seeking class-action status that covers all of Skittles' retail customers in the US, a number they say is too large to estimate.


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New Jersey law enforcement is going above-and-beyond this year to protect mailed packages. They are running sting operations on would-be porch pirates.
Partnering with Amazon, Jersey City PD is concealing tracking devices in dummy packages. Officers then leave them on porches surveilled by doorbell cameras and wait for hapless thieves to happen by. According to an Associated Press report, the operation aims to curtail package theft, a rising problem as more Americans rely on online retailers for their holiday shopping.
Apparently, the fake packages have been as effective a lure for parcel bandits as home-baked cookies are for St. Nicholas.
“We had a box out on the street for three minutes before it was taken,” Police Capt. James Crecco told the AP. “We thought it was a mistake at first.”
Jersey City PD targeted its operation by pairing its own crime statistics with Amazon theft reports. Members of the police department volunteered their own doorsteps for the ruse.
Package theft has become a major issue for American consumers, especially around the holidays. A study from insuranceQuotes estimates that 25.9 million, or about one in 12, Americans had a holiday package stolen in 2016. That number is up from insuranceQuotes’ estimate of 23 million holiday package thefts in 2015.
Whether Jersey City PD’s ploy will be enough to deter local Grinches remains to be seen. Either way, its stunt ranks among the best examples of Christmas-time law enforcement since John McClane ousted those terrorists from Nakatomi Tower.
Yippee-ki-yay, package robbers.
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