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People have lost roughly $140 billion in Bitcoin because they forgot their passwords or got locked out of accounts, and would-be millionaires are struggling to access their wallets. Here is a debunking of the most common recovery methods: Lawyers: What they promise: we will prosecute thieves and force them to return stolen Bitcoin. It can't be broken. The iq option is safe illegal drug bazaar Sheep Marketplace was plundered, either by hackers or insiders, and about $100 million worth of the currency was stolen from customers. The bitcoin stolen whole point of blockchain is that it's an immutable distributed ledger. But the value of bitcoins has soared since then, bringing the value to nearly $1 billion today To begin with, you need to understand why Bitcoins are stolen. It's encrypted.
And he wants to give victims a fighting chance. The stolen bitcoins were worth about $14 million at that time, or a bit over $200 for each bitcoin. Over $600 million worth of stolen Bitcoin was surreptitiously transferred as the cryptocurrency community reveled in the recent listing of Coinbase on the Nasdaq exchange The transferred Bitcoin. On top of that, Bitcoin transactions are irreversible and instant, this makes this currency a prime target for hackers or online thieves Crystal Blockchain pointed out that since 2019, the volume of stolen bitcoin grew significantly. Bitcoin heists are actually not.So how is it possible that people keep losing their cursos online trading gratis crypto or having it be stolen? There are many “Bitcoin recovery” services that claim bitcoin stolen to be able to return stolen Bitcoin. They will have all kinds of explanations of how they do this.
"The hackers had the patience to wait, and execute well-orchestrated actions through multiple. Beware of “Bitcoin recovery” scams. There are lots of reasons, but one of the main reasons is that Bitcoins can be used in a manner that grants the user some level of anonymity. There’s as bitcoin stolen much as $10 billion in stolen crypto out there in the market, according to Pawel Kuskowski, CEO of blockchain sleuthing firm Coinfirm. Only 8% of the Funds Were Transferred to Exchanges With Verification Procedures in 2020 The cryptocurrency exchange was able to trace the stolen bitcoin to a single wallet, it said.


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The recent banking crises saw many banks tumbling while others folded up. But not Standard Chartered Bank.
With the introduction of its latest product, 360 Degrees Rewards Card, not only is the bank justifying why it is the most credible bank in Ghana but the most customer interest centered as well.
Mr. Henry Baye, Executive Director and Head of Retail Banking, Standard Chartered Bank, explained what this product is on Thursday on Joy 99.7 FM's Drive Time.
“360 Degree Reward, is a reward programme that we have put on our cards, both debit and credit cards. We have partnered with Visa to put together this. Everything you can imagine is embedded in that reward. Hence the name 360 degrees, it means it goes all round. That is unparalleled anywhere in Africa.”
Explaining how one accumulates points he added: “Anytime you use your card to make a transaction, either online or any retail transaction you win a point. For every Ghc1 transaction, a Gold card holder accumulates 1 point, Platinum cardholder gets 3 points and Infinite cardholders get 5 points for the same purchase.”
According to Mr. Baye: “These points can be redeemed for tangible things such as buying air ticket, renting a hotel, a car, and purchasing many other things including converting one’s points into air miles
To set your card up, he explained that “simply get a standard chartered card, go online and follow the 360 degrees reward prompt.
The programme which started August 2018 will reward clients anytime they register for the rewards within the life of the programme as if they did at the inception of it in August.
Head of Retail Banking, Standard Chartered Bank, Henry Baye
Reasons why the card is important
Baye took the opportunity to explain why using the card, especially Standard Chartered Card for transactions is the best way forward for everyone. According to him it reduces the risk of attack from thieves and is convenient.
“The whole world today is moving towards creating a cashless society, where the majority of transactions, in fact, 80% and 90% should happen not by people holding physical cash to do these transactions. This is not just for the individual but the whole country. When an individual holds cash to do business, they run the risk of losing it, even their own life. If someone is coming after you and they know you don’t have the money on you then they will not come after you.
“For the state, it saves the government the cost of printing physical notes. The more financial transaction we do the better it is for us as individuals and as a society. It reduces the cost of doing business and transactions move far much faster. Imagine today you have to make any payment and the person is standing anywhere in the world, instantly on your phone you can make this transaction and pay this person. It totally reduces the transaction time”, he concluded.

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Posted on Wed Sep 5th, 2007 10:10am PDT By X17 Staff
X17 confirmed it first via a Britney insider, but now we've got it straight from the pop star's mouth, herself! Britney admitted last night, xclusively to X17, that she is indeed gearing up for a performance at this Sunday's VMAs!
Yesterday was a long day for Ms. Spears - after picking up magician Criss Angel at his hotel, the two took a drive out to an auditorium on a college campus east of Los Angeles - are the two getting schooled on some fancy new tricks for their upcoming VMA performance? After leaving the campus, Britney stopped by a store where, when we asked her if she's getting ready for the VMAs, she said she was "tryin'"! The pop princess, looking adorable with her hair swept off her face then told us she wasn't feeling too good and asked us to make her look "pretty". Not hard to do, Brit! Then, she gave a shout-out to X17 before getting ready to make the drive back home. Hope she's feeling better before her big comeback on Sunday!
Brit's still rockin' the one blue eye - is she trying to start a new trend?
Think Criss could make that stain on her dress disappear?
The VMAs are only 4 days away! We can't wait for the comeback of the decade!
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The 2013 Dart will be Chrysler's first vehicle based on Fiat engineering.
The all-new 2013 Dodge Dart compact sedan is to be built in Illinois.
Dodge reached back into its history books to revive the name Dart for a compact sedan that symbolizes the future of Chrysler and Fiat.
On Tuesday, Dodge said the 2013 Dodge Dart, which will be unveiled next month at the North American International Auto Show, will not be a reinterpretation of the original Dart. Photos of the front and rear of the Dart reveal sharply angled head-lamps, as well as a grille and rear spoiler similar to the Dodge Charger.
The aerodynamic look is intended to appeal more to younger buyers than the Dodge Caliber crossover that the Dart replaces.
"From what we have seen from the teaser pictures, it looks smoking hot," said Aaron Bragman, automotive analyst for IHS Automotive.
The original Dart was sold from 1960 to 1976 with a variety of options, including the high-performance "swinger" version.
The Dart gained a reputation as a sturdy and reliable car. The 1968 version included the "slant-six," or six cylinder engine known for durability and endurance, according to the Chrysler-enthusiast website Allpar.com.
"The Dart is one of the more positive names in Chrysler's brand-portfolio history," Bragman said. "Also, anybody under 40 isn't going to remember Dart and that helps them because they are about to create something new."
The 2013 Dart will be Chrysler's first vehicle based on Fiat engineering, a decision meant to illustrate the technology-sharing benefits of merging the Italian and Auburn Hills automakers.
The Dart will be longer and wider than Fiat's Alfa Romeo Giulietta.
Under the 2009 agreement with the U.S. Treasury, Fiat can boost its ownership stake in Chrysler by another 5% when the Dodge sedan is certified with a combined, unadjusted 40 m.p.g. rating by the Environmental Protection Agency. Fiat currently owns 53.5% of Chrysler.
Joe Veltri, Chrysler's vice president of product planning, said in June that the new Dodge would be a sporty, fun-to-drive, fuel-efficient car.
The sedan will be built in Belvidere, Ill. Buyers can choose one of three four-cylinder engines: a new Tigershark 16-valve 2.0-liter engine, a 16-valve 1.4-liter MultiAir Intercooled turbo engine, and a new Tigershark 16-valve 2.4-liter MultiAir engine.
Fiat's small car and engine technology helps balance Chrysler and Jeep's large car and truck-heavy lineup, and was a key reason for Fiat taking a controlling interest in Chrysler in 2009.
The Dart should make Dodge more competitive in the compact segment that includes the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, Chevrolet Cruze, Ford Focus and Hyundai Elantra.
"There has been a lot of activity in that segment and a lot of investment," Ralph Gilles, senior vice president of product design for all Chrysler brands, said in June. "We are ready for that."
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the “slant six” engine. The engine earned its nickname because all six of its cylinders were lined up in a single row.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - A new pet store here is causing concern among more than 900 South Shore animal advocates.
People are concerned that the new pet store, called Broc's Puppies, is selling puppy mill dogs - which are pets mass-produced in a factorylike environment. Puppy mills aren't illegal, but animal advocates contend they are physically and emotionally damaging to animals, which cause their owners heartache and expense when the pets develop serious medical problems. The Humane Society of the United States contends all puppy mills should be shut down.
But Broc's Puppies store owner Dennis Franks said his puppies are fine, and that he's following regulations laid out by California state law. He said he approves of all breeders of puppies sold at his store and contends they aren't puppy mills.
Franks also will sell pet supplies at his store at 2291 Lake Tahoe Blvd., next to the car wash by Tahoe Keys Boulevard. He had more than 20 puppies at his store this week.
The issue was spotlighted at Tuesday's South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting, when a handful of citizens aired their concerns during the public comment period.
At the meeting, Lisa Utzig Shafer said a petition against the puppy store garnered more than 900 signatures in five days.
"We are concerned that this store will meet our worst fears," Shafer said. "That they will obtain their puppies from brokers and puppy mills that have not bred and cared for their dogs appropriately."
Jessica Brobst became choked up during the public comment period while asking for a formal investigation of the puppy store to determine fact from fiction.
"I've never done anything like this before," Brobst said. "I didn't think it was going to be so emotional."
Shafer said puppy mills are large breeders or brokers who produce many litters in factorylike settings, such as housing dogs in barren cages and then shipping them all over the country. Other mill conditions could include inadequate shelters, overbreeding, filthy food bowls and leaking waste-disposal systems.
Franks said a lot of pet stores buy from puppy mills, but he doesn't.
Allegations surfaced in a January 2007 Nevada Appeal article that Franks might be involved with a pet store in Carson City called Lil' Pups. That store was owned by Danny Franks; Albert Franks managed the store. Lil' Pups was accused of buying puppies from puppy mills, selling sick puppies and approving pets without a licensed veterinarian.
Protesters, former customers and Dog Town Rescue accused Lil' Pups of shady practices. Formal protests occurred in January 2007 outside the store.
According to a July 2007 Nevada Appeal article, Lil' Pups customer Kristy Fulton filed a report with the Nevada State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners and Carson City Animal Services because the store allegedly sold her a sick puppy. She accused the store of selling her a sick dog on June 1 that had been given medicine by someone in the store without a license.
Danny Franks - who is Dennis Franks' brother - no longer owns Lil' Pups.
Dennis Franks said he had nothing to do with the previous pet stores. He said he thought his brother Danny owned Lil' Pups for a while but wasn't sure. Dennis Franks invites everyone, petition signers included, to come into his store and talk with him, he said.
Dog retail sellers face stringent requirements in California and Nevada.
According to Nevada Revised Statute 574, dog retailers in that state must have their animals examined by a veterinarian. Seriously ill dogs may not be sold. The California Health and Safety Code stipulates that a statement authorizing the sale of the dog must be signed by a California licensed veterinarian.
Local veterinarian Henry Kostecki examines Dennis Franks' puppies and provides general care before the pups are purchased.
"I don't see a problem," Kostecki said. "It's a good, clean operation."
As of Tuesday, Kostecki had checked 19 puppies and had at least seven more to examine. He said a few had some health issues, but most were in good health.
Franks said a lot of breeders won't sell to him because some dog clubs advise against selling dogs to pet stores. However, 300 breeders all over the country who will sell him animals, he said. Puppies delivered to him spend 12 or fewer hours by truck en route, he said.


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An article in yesterday’s Fortune magazine alerted me to what may be an emerging trend. I’m talking about ‘no fee ‘ exchanges. The latest one to arrive on the scene is Voyager and it’s bringing the competition to RobinHood, which is the best-known exchange to day that doesn’t charge commission fees.
It is Uber-funded
Voyager has some big names behind it that are bound to give it plenty of publicity and create trust as well, unless you really dislike Uber, for example, because Oscar Salazar, the co-founder of Uber, and Philip Eytan, one of Uber’s biggest investors are Voyager’s founders. And you see what they did — they called it ‘Voyager’, this connecting the exchange with transport. The CEO is Stephen Ehrlich who came from his position as CEO and founder at Lightspeed Financial, a retail brokerage.
Will Voyager have the same power as Uber?
So, the focus is on no fee trading, and it’s interesting that Voyager has opted to join RobinHood in this niche market sector that aims to reduce the cost of trading cryptocurrencies. However, given the business background of Voyager’s investors it makes perfect sense. Uber disrupted the global taxi market (well, almost globally) and once it opened that market up there has been no going back. ‘Uber’ is so popular, it is probably a verb by now, as in “Are you Ubering tonight?” — just like “Google it!”
What is Voyager offering?
Initially, Voyager will list 15 cryptocurrencies, drawn from the list of the 25 best-performing networks, including bitcoin, ethereum and bitcoin cash, among others. The new CEO also told Fortune that it is considering listing tokens like XRP and Stellar’s lumens, because those aren’t listed on any major U.S. exchange. He also said, “If you see it being traded today by some of the most prominent players, we will definitely have those plus some.”
How will it make money if there are no fees? Ehrlich explained, “In lieu of trading fees, Voyager will make up the difference in revenue by beating the average price of the coins at the point in time we execute the trade.” Basically, Voyager believes it can consistently execute buy and sell orders at better prices than customers would often get by just visiting one exchange, such as Coinbase or Binance.
The platform goes into beta testing this week and an app should be available by late October and it also intends to add crypto news and analysis to help its customers make buy/sell decisions, as well as additional tools for the institutional investor segment to its platform.
Currently the team is hard at work securing licenses in a number of U.S. states including California, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire and Montana. Its goal is to operate in at least 40 U.S. states. Could this be the start of a ‘no fee’ exchange trend, or will Voyager simply make the space its own — just like Uber?


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Navistar International Corporation announced Monday its Edmonton, Alberta, parts distribution center (PDC) was recently named the first-place honoree of the Top Performing Warehouse Award by Carlisle & Co.
Navistar says the annual award recognizes the highest performing parts distribution centers in the automotive and commercial vehicle sectors. Navistar’s PDCs were recognized for their performance relative to their industry peers by earning three of the top five positions at number one, three and four.
“Receiving three of the top five awards, including number one from Carlisle & Co., once more is an honor for our company as it validates our commitment to be the leader in aftermarket parts distribution,” says Josef Kory, senior vice president, Parts, Navistar.
“Our first-rate logistics capabilities and distribution centers drive customer uptime by providing them with unrivaled product availability, service and value in the industry.”
In addition to Edmonton’s first-place finish, Navistar says its Queretaro, Mexico, location took third place and its Las Vegas facility was fourth.
The metrics-driven Top Performing Warehouse Award recognizes warehouses that perform in the top of their class to provide high quality parts availability to their customers in an efficient and productive manner, Carlisle & Co., says.


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Manual M3 spied, Australian Volkswagen dieselgate fine, and Honda concept revealed
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- Honda Augmented Driving Concept unveiled
- Lexus developing twin-turbo V8
- 2019/20 Hyundai Sonata, Kia Cerato tow bar wiring harness recalled
- 2021 BMW M3 spied with manual gearstick
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Jumio is highlighting the utility of its platform in a new case study with one of its financial clients. The study explains how Bofin (the client in question) evaluated more than a dozen identity vendors before ultimately opting for Jumio’s onboarding and authentication services.
Bofin cited Jumio’s accuracy as a key factor in its decision. The company found that other solutions had error rates as high as 70 percent, and therefore required much more manual review when processing various interactions.
Jumio, on the other hand, offered a truly automated solution that could eliminate most of those administrative costs and deliver a better user experience. To use it, new customers are first asked to take a photo of an official government ID, and then take a selfie. Jumio’s tech will confirm the authenticity of the document, before using the selfie to generate a biometric template that will be compared to the image on that ID to make sure the two are a match.
Once registered, Bofin users can send money through the app by taking another selfie to authorize the transaction. That second selfie will be used to create a second biometric template, which will be compared to the original.
Bofin’s platform consolidates multiple business and financial products into a single centralized marketplace to make it easier for consumers to manage their accounts. The partnership with Jumio allows Bofin to do so while complying with all of the necessary Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering regulations, as well as any legacy banking requirements.
“Jumio has pioneered KYC on behalf of many financial institutions and is a highly reputed partner used and trusted by countless financial institutions,” said Bofin Founder and Chairman Mohamed Dafea. “It goes without saying then that we wanted Jumio as our preferred partner.”
Jumio has provided onboarding services for multiple financial institutions, including Al Baraka Islamic Bank, Lanistar, and CIMB Bank Philippines. The company has also published an innovation e-book to help traditional banks keep pace with modern technology.
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Baucus Heads to Russia to Seek Job-Creating Trade Opportunities for U.S. Exporters, Discuss Foreign Affairs Issues
Finance Chair to Meet with President Medvedev, Ministers of Trade, Agriculture, Foreign Affairs
Washington, DC – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is headed today to Russia to meet with senior government officials to discuss key economic, trade and foreign affairs issues, and to pursue new trade opportunities for U.S. businesses, ranchers and farmers. Baucus will seek resolution of persistent irritants to the U.S.-Russia trade relationship that block sales of American exports and raise foreign policy concerns, including Russia’s position on Syria and Iran. Baucus’s trip, which will take him to St. Petersburg and Moscow through February 22, comes in advance of Russia’s expected accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) later this year.
“Opening doors overseas in countries like Russia will propel our economic recovery forward and create jobs across the United States,” Baucus said. “Holding Russia to its promises as it enters the WTO and seeking a greater share of the Russian market is a one-way economic benefit for the United States and an absolute no-brainer. This trip will help lead Russia to end its unfair trade practices that hurt American businesses, ranchers and farmers.”
WTO Members formally invited Russia to join the WTO in December 2011. Under the rules governing the accession process, Russia will become a WTO Member 30 days after it ratifies its accession agreement, which it must do by early July. If by that point Congress has not passed legislation granting Russia permanent normal trade relations (PNTR), the United States will not enjoy the full economic benefits of Russia joining the WTO. It is expected American exports to Russia could double within five years of Russia joining the WTO from the current level of around $9 billion per year.
The package of concessions Russia agreed to before receiving its official WTO invitation will lower tariffs for a number of U.S. agricultural products and will establish higher quotas for imports of beef, poultry and pork. The process will also bind and phase down Russia’s domestic agricultural subsidies and will eliminate Russia’s export subsidies altogether. And U.S. agricultural businesses, like other American exporters, will also benefit from the more stable and predictable business environment that will come with Russian WTO membership and the ability to enforce WTO rules through WTO dispute settlement.
Baucus, along with his fellow trade leaders in Congress, has insisted on holding Russia to a high standard through the WTO accession process to guarantee that American ranchers, farmers, workers and businesses benefit. If Russia does uphold the details of its accession package, the benefits will be one-way, helping to boost the U.S. economy and create jobs here at home across every sector of the economy – services, manufacturing and agriculture included. The U.S. is not required to make any market access concessions to Russia as part of the WTO accession process.
Baucus has long fought for a robust trade agenda that supports American jobs through strong enforcement of our current agreements and an aggressive pursuit of new markets. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over international trade.
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Morocco to assist SMEs producing anti-coronavirus equipment
Morocco launched a platform to assist SMEs willing to transform their industries to produce protective equipment to counter coronavirus.
Industry and Trade Minister Moulay Hafid El Alamy shared on his twitter account a link to a website dedicated to small businesses that want to redirect their production to manufacture equipment and products that are necessary to the fight against coronavirus.
Several textile factories are now producing protective masks with a view of reaching a production capacity of 2.5 million masks. These masks will help protect health workers, security staff and will be available in the market for all citizens as well, according to a post shared by the minister.
An ethanol factory that was burned down was restored in a week and resumed functioning last March 23 with a production capacity of 240 hectoliters daily of the substance that is key to making sanitizers.
The government had stepped in to control the prices of sanitizers, which are now available for a maximum price of 15 dirhams per 50 milliliters.
As part of a rescue plan, a special fund created to back Morocco’s response to coronavirus offered compensations to workers in the formal and informal sector as well as tax and loan deferrals for struggling companies.


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- Commodity prices, demand spark World Ag Expo optimism
- Searching for innovation
- Optimism sparks shopping mood at 2011 World Ag Expo tied to surging commodity prices and record U.S. farm export sales.
- 2011 will be a growth year, says Clyde Ulrich, owner, Sierra Packing Solutions in Kingsburg, Calif.
- Parsons brothers, farmers and custom harvesters, Ducor, Calif., shop for a bank out wagon and combine at Expo.
- “I am looking for innovations that might make our operation more efficient and productive and make more money - that’s the bottom line,” says cotton farmer Dennis Palmer, Thatcher, Ariz.
Searching for innovation
Riding the tractor-pulled shuttle across the 2.6 million square feet of show ground was a handful of farmers from Thatcher, Ariz., including cotton, wheat, and alfalfa grower Dennis Palmer of VIP Farms.
“I am looking for innovations that might make our operation more efficient and productive and make more money - that’s the bottom line,” Palmer said. “We try to take the cream of the crop and apply some of the new ideas into our farming systems.”
High on Palmer’s must-see list were new tractors and GPS technology. GPS is already a mainstay on Palmer’s 3,000 acre farm.
“GPS has helped increase our production and efficiency. The rows sure are pretty when they are straight,” Palmer grinned.
Palmer planned to visit drip irrigation-related exhibits and seminars.
About 1,200 international visitors from 64 countries attended Expo including farmer Durval Dourado Neto from Piracicaba, Brazil. He raises livestock and grows corn, urucum (fruit pigment), and common bean on about 1,500 acres.
Neto is also a general agriculture professor at the University of SãoPablo (USP). He led 28 USP agriculture students across the Expo grounds as part of a 16-day California agriculture tour. Other stops included Paramount Citrus, University of California-Davis, USDA in Parlier, and the Sequoia National Park.
During his Expo rounds, Neto was particularly interested in harvesting equipment and plant products.
“I am looking for plant products to apply to plant leaves to minimize high temperature and water stress.”
The major farm products grown in Brazil include livestock (mostly dairy), soybeans, corn, sugarcane (for sugar and ethanol), eucalyptus trees (energy, paper and furniture), and common bean. Brazil ranks second in the world behind the United States in global soybean production. Neto says rust is the top disease problem in Brazilian soybeans. Without herbicides about 70 percent of the crop would be lost.
Brazil has about 675 million acres of farm land; about 1 percent is irrigated. Environmental regulations are heavily impacting farms. A minimum of 20 percent of each farm’s acreage is set aside into preservation-type areas. About 75 percent of each farm’s acreage in the Amazonian rain forest is placed in preserves.
“The biggest challenge for Brazilian farmers is trying to make a profit while farm product prices decrease,” Neto explained. “Farmers are trying to increase productivity to produce more with less profit.”


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Ever since The Division 2 was officially announced earlier this year, fans of the third-person shooter series have been extremely excited for the chance to try the game out for themselves, with the title’s beta having set a record to become the fastest-registering beta in Ubisoft’s history. Now, the publisher and developer has decided to give potential players another look at the action-RPG by releasing a new gameplay trailer during gamescom 2018.
As seen below in The Division 2‘s official gameplay trailer for gamescom 2018, Ubisoft unfortunately doesn’t offer up much in the way of actual gameplay. For instance, the clip primarily covers several locations found within a post-pandemic Washington D.C. while an unnamed character provides voice-over narration with generalized dialogue. It’s only toward the end of the video that we actually see a group of Agents taking cover and engaging with an enemy – albeit one that’s unseen – and the footage wraps up with one of squad members shooting up a signal flair.
For those who have yet to get a look at any actual gameplay for The Division 2, they would do well to check out the footage Ubisoft unveiled during E3 2018, as it provides a solid look at a team of Agents exploring Washington D.C. and attempting to instill order in the city. The gameplay segment all leads up to a firefight breaking out upon the squad’s arrives at the crash site for what appears to be Air Force One, and shows off several of the new features and weapons that will be used in the game’s cover-based combat.
Although there are plenty of folks who are eager to go hands-on with The Division 2, some remain skeptical of whether or not Ubisoft will properly address all of the issues that plagued the original game in the third-person shooter series. For instance, the publisher and developer recently revealed that some of the game’s special editions will include extra storage space, causing longstanding fans of the franchise to become critical of Ubisoft for offering that which many players believe should be free as a paid extra. With this being the case, it will be interesting to see how Ubisoft will try to win these particular gamers over, if at all.
The Division 2 is set to launch on March 25, 2019 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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Promotable Blueberry Volumes Anticipated from California Giant Berry Farms
WATSONVILLE, CA (December 8, 2020) – California Giant Berry Farms growers are reporting peak volumes of a promotable organic and conventional blueberry supply for the start of the new year.
New grower partnerships, coupled with expanded organic acreage and new varieties out of Chile, Peru and Argentina has allowed California Giant to offer a consistent supply of organic and conventional South American grown blueberries to its customers from October through March 2021. “What’s even more exciting is the growth of supply that will be reflected in future seasons,” commented Nader Musleh, director of international business development for California Giant.
“Given the times we face, California Giant grower-partners are committed more than ever to our high standards of quality, delivery of a consistent supply and strict food safety practices,” said Musleh. “Our growers have recently invested in state-of-the-art inspection equipment that eliminates defects and classifies only the best quality. They also continue to explore the latest varieties available in order to deliver on the best possible flavor,” he added.
Exceptionally favorable weather conditions around California Giant’s Chilean growing regions have set the stage for a significant supply into the U.S. market this winter with high quality, large and flavorful blueberries.
“With nutrition and New Year’s resolutions top of mind for shoppers this time of year, blueberries are an ideal item to promote through digital and social media channels,” said Kyla Oberman, director of marketing for California Giant. “Screen time traditionally increases during the winter, so through promotions like our Home for the Holidays sweepstakes and digital recipe book filled with berry forward recipes we hope to inspire shoppers to include fresh berries on their grocery list and get creative in the kitchen,” she added.
Additional promotion planning is in the works for California Giant’s organic blueberry harvest out of Oxnard, California. The crop was reset at the end of November due to an unusual freeze event and growers anticipate their first pick will be the first week of January.
“The 2021 California coastal organic blueberry program is forecasted to be our best year yet in terms of higher yields, maturity of the plants, varietal offerings and Bee Better Certification,” shared Markus Duran, North American blueberry operations manager for California Giant. “While the area did experience a push back for their start date of about a month due to the freeze, the crop has reset it’s growing phase and will produce yields as originally forecasted. We expect the crop to rebound nicely, and the plants currently look healthy and happy,” added Duran.
With a reported 1500% increase of organic blueberry production and total global blueberry production increase of 300% over the past five years, California Giant continues to deliver on its mission to deliver the best berry experience by providing an all-season supply of sustainably grown fresh berries that represent the highest standards for quality, consistency and smiles.
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Music streaming service Spotify is going public and it just unveiled its filing.
The documents state that it is targeting a $1 billion IPO, but this is just a placeholder. The company actually plans to go public without the standard fundraising event. In other words, Spotify isn’t selling its shares on the stock market. Instead, the event known as a “direct listing” will be a series of transactions from existing shareholders (like employees and investors) selling shares to stock market investors. Spotify’s filing even acknowledges that this unusual process is “risky.”
Its public debut is likely to happen in late March or early April, but it is unclear how much shares will cost when it lists under “SPOT” on the New York Stock Exchange. Spotify says that for 2018 its shares have traded on the private markets for between $90 and $132.50, valuing the company at $23.4 billion at the top of the range. But that these transactions “may have little or no relation to the opening public price of our ordinary shares on the NYSE.”
Spotify says it is present in 61 countries and its platform includes 159 million monthly active users and 71 million premium subscribers.
The filing shows that the Swedish company had 4.09 billion Euros in revenue last year (or close to $5 billion), compared to 2.95 billion Euros (about $3.6 billion) the year before. 2015 saw 1.94 billion Euros in revenue (about $2.37 billion).
Losses for last year were 1.2 billion Euros ($1.46 billion), which compares to 539 million Euros ($657 million) the year before.
Spotify previously raised about $2.7 billion in both debt and equity. Accel, Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund are amongst the Valley VCs that invested. Goldman Sachs and Fidelity also own part of Spotify.
The filing shows that CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek has voting power that represents 23.8% of the company. However, some of this voting power is on behalf of shares owned by Tiger, TME Hong Kong and Image Frame. Ek technically owns closer to 9% of the business.
The prospectus has an additional note about Ek’s compensation, which says that he doesn’t receive a base salary, but is eligible for $1 million annual bonuses based on metrics like subscriber growth and active users.
Martin Lorentzon, who co-founded the business, owns 12.4%. Other large shareholders include Tencent, Tiger Global, Sony Music and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV).
There are some key obstacles to the business, which Spotify acknowledges in its risk factors.
In it, Spotify explains how it will have to stay ahead of competitors and satisfy rights holders. The first risk mentioned is that “some of our competitors, including Apple, Amazon, and Google, have developed, and are continuing to develop, devices for which their music streaming service is preloaded.” Since Spotify currently doesn’t make its own phones or smart speakers, its competitors have an advantage in growing subscriber counts. This could ultimately encourage Spotify to build its own smart speaker or headphone hardware in the future.
Some are concerned that Spotify is beholden to music rights owners like record labels who could try to raise rates during periodic re-negotiations if they think the service becomes too profitable. There are also administrative agencies like the Copyright Royalty Board and trade groups like the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers who could seek to increase the rates Spotify has to pay. Control of rights is heavily concentrated within a few major labels and organizations. Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Merlin hold rights for music that accounted for 87% of Spotify’s streams in 2017. They could potentially wreck Spotify’s margins by demanding higher rates or deprive it of content in ways that would drive away listeners.
Spotify’s costs could continue to increase as it pays for content, creates its own, builds new features, and markets the service in the face of competition. Spotify’s licensing and royalty agreements are complex and could lead to litigation costs if it doesn’t hit milestones or guaranteed minimum payouts, or doesn’t properly license all the content it streams. Spotify has already been hit with numerous lawsuits for failing to find and pay all rights holders. Its competitors also hold larger patent portfolios that they could use to attack Spotify for intellectual property infringement.
Spotify faces competition from all sides and formats. There are traditional formats like CDs and Vinyl, digital files like MP3s and iTunes downloads, terrestrial and satellite radio, online radio like Pandora, and competing on-demand subscription services including Amazon Prime, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play Music / YouTube, Joox, and SoundCloud. Since Google and Apple own the top mobile app stores, they could potentially bury Spotify and already charge it a tax that doesn’t get applied to their music services. Interestingly, Spotify lists Facebook as a potential competitor, given that it’s building a smart speaker and has struck deals with record labels, although it offers no music streaming service currently.
The company writes that “a key differentiating factor between Spotify and other music content providers is our ability to predict music that our Users will enjoy.” Features like Discover Weekly are what keep hardcore listeners on its service, and it will have to find a way to stay ahead of the recommendation engines of its competitors if it wants to win.
Check out all of TechCrunch’s stories about Spotify going public, and read our feature piece “Going public pits Spotify’s suggestions versus everyone.”


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The Shenzhen based company has been busy cooking up something since Carl Pei went on the record saying that the X/Mini will arrive in time for Christmas. Yet, information still seems to be up in the air, from an earlier rumour of a MediaTek chipset, to it apparently features a Snapdragon 801. In timely fashion, three certification organisations have given OnePlus the go-ahead; SIRIM, TENAA and the FCC.
Android users beware, this new malicious malware might already have invaded your devices. Ghost Push is apparently hard to get rid of as well, already causing havoc on 900,000 devices so far in 116 countries (Malaysia is the 7th hardest hit on that list).
Earlier on TM has teased us that everything is going to be changed on 15th of October. As we are just 2 days to go, TM has released its new microsite which gives us a tiny bit more clues on what to expect on the actual day.
Again toying with the notion of launching a smart phone, the new site reads “A breakthrough device enhanced with Unifi” with the claim of providing the best broadband experience for your device.


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The opening of a 'neo-Nazi' clothes shop - just yards away from the office of the UK's Chief Rabbi in London, Ephraim Mirvis - has been condemned by an organisation fighting against anti-Semitism.
Thor Steinar, a popular label among German neo-Nazis, has opened its store Viking Thor in Ballards Lane, North Finchley, home to a large number of Jewish residents.
Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitism, has received a number of complaints about the new store , which is the first to sell the controversial brand in London.
A spokesman told the Jewish Chronicle: "This is a multi-cultural area with very few problems from racism and neo-Nazism. This shop is not welcome here and the sooner it moves on the better."
Residents, who have been urged to boycott the shop, have described the opening as "deliberately provocative" and fear racial reprisals in the area.
Ben Glickman, 43, of North Finchley, said: "It is disgraceful that this store has opened in such a prominent Jewish area of London and with so many other ethnic minorities that make up the area."
Shop owner Zsolt Mogyorodi insisted he was not racist and was aiming his brand at eastern Europeans in the area, who like it.
"We welcome all kinds of customers in the shop," he said. "The Nazi thing is a silly old story from years ago and the brand has changed since then."
After the company was banned in Germany in 2004 the label rebranded its original logo, which was similar to symbols worn by the Nazi SS. Thor Steinar clothes, however, are still banned in the German parliament and state assemblies in parts of Germany.
The company was also panned by critics when it opened a new store in 2012 and named it Breivik, reportedly in honour of Norway's neo-fascist mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.


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03 Jul Carlyle Group acquires 25% stake in Airtel’s Nxtra in India | Light Reading
Carlyle Group is to spend $235 million on buying a quarter of Nxtra, the data center subsidiary of India’s Bharti Airtel.
Under a complicated deal announced this week, the 25% stake in Nxtra will be acquired by Comfort Investments II, an affiliate of CAP V Mauritius Limited, an investment fund managed and advised by entities of the Carlyle Group. Subject to regulatory approval, the deal is valued at $1.2 billion.
Nxtra has ten large data centers and 120 edge data centers in India. It hopes to use the investment to expand its presence and offerings in the country.
Last year it commissioned a new data center in Pune and it is building more in the major cities of Chennai, Mumbai, and Kolkata.
Parent company Airtel remains one of the largest players in India’s enterprise connectivity sector, with more than 2,500 large businesses and 1 million small and midsized enterprises as customers.
The growing emphasis on digitalization, coupled with India’s local data-storage requirements, is fueling the growth of the data center market. Several Internet giants, including Google and Amazon, have set up data centers in India.
Cloud adoption by small and midsized enterprises will increase the need for Indian data centers. The coronavirus pandemic has provided an additional boost, as companies invest in tools to maintain social distancing.
In the meantime, Airtel needs to cut its debt of $19.6 billion, especially now that arch-rival Reliance Jio is debt-free after raising more than $15 billion from numerous international investors in the last few months.
“Rapid digitization has opened up a massive growth opportunity for data centers in India, and we plan to accelerate our investments to become a major player in this segment,” says Gopal Vittal, the CEO of Bharti Airtel’s India and South Asia business, in the company’s statement.
Carlyle has invested more than $2.5 billion in several Indian firms, including SBI Life, SBI Card, HDFC, Delhivery, Piramal Pharma and PNB Housing Finance. In the data center segment, it has bought stakes in Coresite in the US and Itconic in Spain.
Gagandeep Kaur, contributing editor, special to Light Reading


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Toyobaru coupe to launch at Tokyo Motor Show
The long awaited debut of Toyota and Subaru's jointly developed coupe project is to go ahead at next month's Tokyo Motor Show.
Originally dubbed the Toyobaru - the two cars share the same chassis, engine and gearbox - the finished products will actually be quite different when they eventually land in the UK next summer.
Toyota's FT-86 coupe will hark back to the days of the original rear-wheel drive AE-86 Corolla favoured by Japanese drifters and aims to entice driving enthusiasts out of their VW Golfs and Sciroccos and into the Japanese firm's dynamically-focused coupe.
Toyota have aimed it squarely at VW too, highlighting the fact that the FT-86 will tip the scales at just 1100kg. That's over 200kg lighter than a Scirocco.
With an expected price tag of just £20,000 it'll undercut the Scirocco by nearly ten grand as well. Toyota also claim that the dampers will be of a much higher spec than any £20,000 car has any right to ride on – they certainly haven't scrimped where it counts – and that the car's chassis is being tuned with a European flavour.
With 200bhp on tap courtesy of Subaru's flat-four motor, a paltry kerb weight and a chassis that should delight when the going gets twisty, the FT-86 will be a serious driving prospect and will have the potential to embarrass much more expensive machinery.
If you're attacking your favourite section of back road in your 911 and see one of these things in your rear-view mirror, we'd just pull over and let it past.
If you'd like a bit more oomph however, then Subaru's take on the joint-coupe, the BRZ, should do.
The Japanese firm, well known for its rally specials of the venerable Impreza, confirmed to Autocar that the BRZ will push out just less than 300bhp thanks to some electronic trickery with the cars ECU – a mod we're sure more than a few Toyota owners will make given both cars similar DNA.
But for your extra horses you'll have to cough up another £5,000 over the Toyota's asking price.
Unusually for Subaru though, there won't be a four-wheel drive version as both cars will use a conventional limited-slip differential (that'll please the drifters) and will be mechanically almost identical with only a few minor tweaks with wheel designs and around the front grille to set the two coupes apart.
If you're looking for wind-in-the-hair motoring then you'll have to look elsewhere too as Subaru has also ruled out a convertible version of its BRZ.


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The "North America ADAS Market - Growth, Trends, and Forecast (2020 - 2025)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The market is poised to register a CAGR of over 16% during the forecast period (2020-2025).
The automotive industry is witnessing various technological advances that have shifted the way we commute. The vehicles are becoming safer, greener, and connected. With these technological transformations, ADAS has helped the drivers to feel safer on the road. OEMs are now putting more attention on educating customers about the benefits of the new technologies in the ADAS sector. OEMs offering customers an option to choose the needed features and make a customized combination of the different ADAS features for their vehicles.
There was a total of 37,133 people killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the United States roads during 2017, as compared to 37,806 people killed in 2016. Fatalities occur due to several reasons but the main reason which is witnessed is the drivers lack concentration.
Ford, General Motors, Fiat-Chrysler are some of the important players in the North America Automobile Industry. The auto industry of the United States was previously dominated by the big three, General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford, who are currently losing their market share to automakers from relatively new players, such as Tesla.
Government initiatives are some of the major contributing factors for market growth, as governments are mandating driver assistance systems to reduce the cases of road fatalities.
Key Market Trends
Growing Electric Vehicles Demand Driving the Market
The United States witnessed a jump in sales by 81% in 2018 of electric vehicles from that of 2017 sales. In the United States, the sales of electric vehicles have jumped from 199,826 in 2017 to 361,307 in 2018. Many new electric vehicles are expected to be supplied by major automakers in the coming years, thus, the ADAS manufacturers are gearing up to catch the fastest growing market by developing new safety technologies for future vehicles.
Hyundai Nexo FCEV has an automatic park and retrieves feature, without any driver assistance needed. It's ADAS also includes driver warning system, rear collision avoidance assist, lane-keeping, and departure avoidance assist, highway driving assist, forward collision warning, vehicle start alert, smart cruise control, high beam assist above it
Similarly, in 2020, BMW has launched plug-in hybrid 330e and 330e xDrive. Its ADAS includes active cruise control with stop and go, which can accelerate and slows automatically to maintain the desired speed set by the driver. It also has standard features such as active guard, frontal collision warning, city collision mitigation, and lane departure warning.
Passenger Cars Captures Major Market Share
Globally, around 80% of the passenger cars and commercial vehicles are featured with at least a few ADAS features. The mature markets like North America have ADAS penetration more than the global average. Passenger cars will be the main contributor to the ADAS technology mass acceptance, as previously it is the feature of luxury and high-end cars but now major manufacturers are expected to implement ADAS in low-priced cars in the coming years. A consistent increase in the demand for compact and mid-sized automobiles equipped with advanced safety features is expected to propel the growth of the ADAS in passenger cars.
For instance, 2021 Honda Insight, comes with standard Honda Sensing technology, where the car has features such as blind-spot information (BSI) with Cross Traffic Monitor.
Similarly, in 2019, Hyundai Motor Group has announced that they have developed a Machine Learning based Smart Cruise Control (SCC-ML). This technology with the help of artificial intelligence assess the driver's patterns and incorporates them into a self-driving pattern.
The North America ADAS market is fragmented with the presence of many major players like Bosch, Continental AG, Visteon Corporation, etc. The market is transforming at a rapid pace and in the coming year, many new technologies will come to challenge the existing one. Although, ADAS technology companies and car manufacturers are expanding their market presence and increase their R&D efforts to provide the best safety features to the driver.
In 2019, Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced that they have acquired mapping and localization software and some other assets from Mapper technology. This acquisition will help Velodyne for the development of Vella software.
In 2020, Hyundai Motor Group have entered a joint venture with Aptiv. The JV will work on the commercialization of the SAE Level 4/5 platform for rob taxi, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers.
In 2018, Visteon Corporation inaugurated its technology center in Germany. This new facility will improve the company's portfolio of vehicle cockpit electronics, information display, driver assistance, cockpit domain controller and autonomous driving technologies.
In 2019, Velodyne Lidar entered into an agreement with Hyundai Mobis to launch a new advanced driver-assistance system. In addition to that, Hyundai Mobis will be investing USD 50 million in Velodyne.
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SWACO is working hard to make Central Ohio a leader in sustainability by turning up the volume on issues involving waste reduction and diversion, and providing grant funding to put ideas into action. One example is the Community Waste Reduction (CWR) program. In 2022, SWACO awarded more than $94,200 in grant funding to nine local organizations to help implement waste reduction, recycling and composting programs and initiatives. Here are two projects they are excited to be supporting this year.
Columbus Fashion Alliance (CFA) ($20,000)
Being the home to so many clothing retailer brands, it’s no surprise that Columbus is the 3rd largest fashion hub in the U.S. However, clothing production – which is highly energy-intensive – is one of the leading contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Sadly, only 1% of all clothing is currently being recycled into new clothing. In Franklin County alone, the amount of shoes and clothing landfilled each year represents 30,000 tons (or 7%) of the waste stream.
Luckily, we are also home to organizations like the CFA, an organization founded in 2019 with the intent to become the fashion manufacturing and innovation leader in Columbus. As part of its work, CFA is committed to reducing the environmental impacts of the “fast fashion” industry. In 2022, SWACO awarded CFA with a $20,000 grant to help support activities related to textile waste reduction and recycling. The focus of that work will be an inaugural report on textile waste that will help us better understand the scope of the problem, then use the findings to develop specific and actionable recommendations that could contribute to a regional road map for supporting and investing in textile waste reduction and diversion efforts.
City of Gahanna ($7,371)
Did you know that food waste is the single largest source of landfilled material in Central Ohio? For us to reach our 75% diversion goal by 2032, we have to have the right systems in place to address the critical problem of food waste across our community.
In 2022, SWACO awarded the City of Gahanna with $7,371 to help implement the city’s first residential food waste drop-off program. This program is in direct response to concerns raised by Gahanna residents and will help establish the right process for those interested in diverting food waste from the landfill. The grant will specifically support the establishment of one drop-off location and six collection containers, along with the necessary signage and education to help Gahanna residents know how to properly discard their food waste. SWACO will also be providing the city with an automatic counter to install at the drop-off location to better estimate the number of people who enter the enclosure and help quantify the participation rate.
Franklin County’s local governments are encouraged to apply for grant funding to support their innovative and waste reducing projects.


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Android Phones Loaded With Secret Backdoor Beamed Texts And Contacts To Chinese Mothership
However, what if you do everything right and are still put at risk through no fault of your own? That’s exactly what’s happening thanks to a software backdoor that has been installed on a multitude of budget Android devices.
Security firm Kryptowire discovered that a number of Android smartphones have software installed that allows sensitive personal information to be transmitted without the owner’s consent. The scope of the personal information that was leeched is staggering, and includes text messages, call history, contact lists, and phone numbers. In addition, IMSI and IMEI unique device identifiers were also obtained.
“The firmware could identify specific users and text messages matching remotely defined keywords,” writes Kryptowire. “The firmware also collected and transmitted information about the use of applications installed on the monitored device, bypassed the Android permission model, executed remote commands with escalated (system) privileges, and was able to remotely reprogram the devices.”
The software, which was written by China-based Shanghai Adups Technology Company, is running on over 700 million smart devices and “phoned home” to servers in Shanghai every 72 hours. Adups currently supplies software to some big names in the smartphone industry, including Chinese OEMs like ZTE.
BLU Products, which sells smartphones via Amazon and Best Buy has also been caught up in this mess. The company, for its part, issued the following statement:
BLU Products has identified and has quickly removed a recent security issue caused by a 3rd party application which had been collecting unauthorized personal data in the form of text messages, call logs, and contacts from customers using a limited number of BLU mobile devices. Our customer’s privacy and security are of the upmost importance and priority. The affected application has since been self-updated and the functionality verified to be no longer collecting or sending this information.
Interestingly enough, Adups told The New York Times in an interview that the software was not intended to be installed on American phones (like those made available by BLU). While that may be true, don’t Chinese customers deserve to have their private data protected as well?


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Oman Air has introduced a new three-class service on its route from Muscat to London Heathrow.
The sultanate's national carrier has pulled out the stops to provide comfort to its customers, and claims its improved service will offer an 'unmatched level of quality for all passengers'.
Indeed, the airline's new first-class cabin is described as similar to travelling in a private jet. There are just six seats, offering the longest lie-flat bed on any commercial airline with a built-in eight-point massage system and a 23-inch video screen. Passengers can also use a private lounge.
In business class there are 20 lie-flat seats, four abreast, and 17-inch screens. Both business and first-class passengers can order food from an à la carte menu.
For those in economy, Oman Air describes the environment as 'surprisingly comfortable and spacious'. There are 204 seats in a two-four-two configuration, each with an 'innovative slimline design' which the airline says provides extra leg room, and 10-inch seatback screens.
The service is provided on board new Airbus 330-330 aircraft, with the seating designed by EADS Sogerma.
Peter Hill, Oman Air's chief executive, said: 'Oman Air is investing a huge amount of resources to ensure that our customers experience only the very best that air travel has to offer'.
In the past few weeks the airline has also launched direct services from Muscat to Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, the Maldives and Sri Lanka


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Thu 31st Oct 2002 | News
NEW YORK, Oct 29, 2002 -- NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that its family of graphics processing units (GPUs) and media and communications processors (MCPs) are poised to deliver the high-end performance and cutting-edge features enabling a new breed of digital lifestyle PCs, led by the HP(R) Media Center PC, based on the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Media Center Edition. The NVIDIA(R) GeForce4(TM) MX 420 GPU is the featured graphics card of the HP Media Center PC, officially launched today in New York City. The GeForce4 MX 420 GPU helps ensure end users receive the perfect blend of performance and features for watching and recording TV, managing their digital music, playing their favorite DVDs, and more to deliver the ultimate home computing and entertainment experience.
"It's time we, as an industry, start moving the PC beyond the beige box by introducing small, form-factor designs that meet the needs of both the living room and the office," said Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "We have worked closely with Microsoft and our OEM partners to make our graphics and digital media technologies flexible enough to meet their needs, while continuing to push the limits on performance."
In addition to its GeForce4 family of GPUs, NVIDIA nForce(TM) 2-based graphics motherboards are an ideal pairing for digital media PCs by offering a feature-rich, high-performance platform, with support for Dolby(R) Digital 5.1 audio, high-speed networking, and the latest digital media devices.
"Entertainment is one of the most popular uses for PCs," said David Galvin, worldwide product marketing manager, HP Personal Systems Group. "Using the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 GPU with our HP Media Center PC helps us provide the power and functionality needed to deliver a high-quality digital media experience to our customers."
HP Media Center PCs are available now at more than 1400 North American retail outlets. For more information and pricing, please visit www.hpshopping.com, or log onto http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter to see the Media Center PC experience.
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video games consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,400 people worldwide. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.nvidia.com .


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Copenhagen police said that one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at the Field's shopping mall, which is close to the city's airport. Police tweeted that “several people have been hit,” but gave no other details.
Copenhagen Mayor Sophie H. Andersen tweeted: “Terrible reports of shooting in Fields. We do not yet know for sure how many were injured or dead, but it is very serious.”
Images from the scene showed people running out of the mall, and Denmark's TV2 broadcaster posted a photo of a man being put on a stretcher. Witnesses said people were crying and hid in shops.
Laurits Hermansen told Danish broadcaster DR that he was in a clothing store at the shopping center with his family when he heard “three-four bangs. Really loud bangs. It sounded like the shots were being fired just next to the store.”
Police said they were first alerted to the shooting at 5:36 p.m. (1536 GMT; 11:36 a.m. EDT). A huge presence of heavily-armed police officers was on hand, with several fire department vehicles also parked outside the mall.
“One person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at Fields. We currently are not able to say more about the person concerned," Copenhagen police tweeted. “We have a massive presence at Fields and are working on getting an overview.”
The shopping center is on the outskirts of Copenhagen just across from a subway line that connects the city center with the international airport. A major highway also runs adjacent to Fields, which opened in 2004.
A concert by former One Direction band member Harry Styles was scheduled to be held at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT; 2 p.m. EDT) at the nearby Royal Arena. It was unclear whether the concert would be held.
On Snapchat, Styles wrote ”My team and I pray for everyone involved in the Copenhagen shopping mall shooting. I am shocked. Love H.”
Shortly after the shooting, the royal palace said a reception with Crown Prince Frederik connected to the Tour de France cycling race had been canceled. The first three stages of the race were held in Denmark this year, the palace said in a statement. The reception was due to be held on the royal yacht that is moored in Soenderborg, the town where the third stage ended.
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WSJ.com - RealNetworks Is Launching Own Online-Music Network "... The jostling for position has juggled the lineup of competitors. RealNetworks' offering is based on the Rhapsody service from Listen.com Inc., a closely held San Francisco company that RealNetworks agreed to acquire last month. RealNetworks no longer will promote MusicNet, a venture of RealNetworks and recording companies EMI Group PLC, AOL Time Warner Inc. and Bertelsmann AG.
Thus, RealNetworks will be competing with its own investment. RealNetworks owns about 40% of MusicNet and this month invested about $4 million in the service as part of MusicNet's $10 million round of financing. Mr. Sheeran said the company would continue to provide underlying technology to MusicNet, which is offered on AOL Time Warner's AOL service, but would vie for retail customers."


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US toy maker Hasbro has filed a federal trademark lawsuit against US cereal giant Kellogg, claiming a promotion on boxes of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes too closely resembles Hasbro’s Memory card game.
The back of the cereal box shows 16 cards featuring eight characters from the forthcoming film “Finding Nemo”. Children are instructed to cut the cards out, turn them face down and then flip them back over two at a time to find matching pairs.
The rules are similar to those of Memory, the 1960s-era game to which Hasbro owns the trademark. Hasbro is selling its own “Finding Nemo” version of the Memory game in toy stores, after the Walt Disney Co licensed the characters to the toy company for use in its Memory game, according to the lawsuit.
Hasbro said it wanted to protect its trademark against “blatant infringement” and has asked the court to order Kellogg to recall and impound all Frosted Flake boxes that feature the game, reported the Associated Press.


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Actually, I can answer that for you: no. But, do you want a camera on your phone that can churn out 16-megapixel images? Perhaps! Good news, then, because OmniVision has just announced new high-resolution image sensors for mobile devices that can shoot 4K video.
Hasselblad one-upped itself again with the H4D-200MS camera, a 200 megapixel monster that hit the market with a whopping $45,000 price tag.
We learned a lot this year; from the origins of liquimetal and toasted thighs to the technical reasoning of ISO and CDMA. Check out the best explanations Gizmodo had to offer in 2010.
Olympus has decided to stop all of the childish marketing gimmicks and step out of the now meaningless megapixel race. In a recent interview, manager of Olympus Imaging's SLR planning department stated:


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Canadian Motor Speedway has been proud to present a Hendrick Motorsports #24 car for seven years at Motorama (and the CME) and was most proud to have Jeff Gordon’s 93rd and final NASCAR Cup winning car in last year’s display. Since Jeff’s Martinsville win car straight from victory lane would be near impossible to top, we went in another direction for Motorama Custom Car & Motorsports Expo 2017.
Our friends at AECON brought in one of their new Bulldozers for us to decal and display…to set the tone for 2017. IBI Group and EllisDon were also featured in our display this year with a new construction visualization video and a 3D model of CMS complete with lights and 3D printed cars.
Niagara College’s Motive Power department was an exhibitor with CMS at Motorama, showcasing their research & innovation, automotive programs and discussing their new Green Automotive program.
Continuing a very popular tradition, attendees were able to speak with Mr. John Bickford. Bickford is the stepfather and the man behind the illustrious career of Jeff Gordon, the designer of Canadian Motor Speedway. John answered questions about Jeff’s career, on and off the track, his involvement in CMS and even autographed a few of Jeff’s books upon request. As an official Canadian retailer of Jeff Gordon’s first ever authorized autobiography, JEFF GORDON: His Dream, Drive & Destiny, CMS has Jeff’s book in Fort Erie office.
Thank you to the show organizers for another successful show – we are already planning for 2018! Thank you also to the attendees who came by to visit our booth. The bulldozer in our display helped us to show that this will be a year for construction to finally begin. We thank our friends and fans for their extensive and amazing patience as we finish off the remaining requirements to get heavy equipment back on the site in Fort Erie.


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While Emmy Lauridsen was designing a denim collection for the contemporary label Dollhouse, she longed to create a high-end denim line infused with a part of her heritage.
“I wanted to create a line with various themes,” said Lauridsen, who was born in Denmark but now lives in New York’s East Village. “I wanted to do something Nordic involving fairy tales and stories.”
The result was Odyn, chosen by Lauridsen because it’s the name of the Nordic god of poetry.
“Odyn is the god of gentle power,” she said, noting that typically, Odyn is spelled Odin, but, “We didn’t want to be too authentic about the name. Odyn is more playful.”
There are six cuts, each given names such as Thumbelina, a low-rise, tight style; The Princess, a straight-legged cut, and Matchgirl, a classic boot cut.
“The names of each style are all very inspired by Hans Christian Andersen,” Lauridsen said.
The removable tag stitched into the back pocket has a corresponding fairy-tale drawing, an ode to Denmark and a mention of the god for which the line is named. The line’s slogan is “denim with a story.”
Odyn and Dollhouse are owned by BBC Apparel. Lauridsen expects the line to generate about $5 million in wholesale volume in its first year.
After Lauridsen resigned from Dollhouse last year to start the new line, Kim Locatel replaced her as creative director.
“There’s so much denim out there right now, so I don’t want to overwhelm people,” Lauridsen said. “We have eight washes and six styles, including one fashion style that will always change. I want the people who wear Odyn to be very selective about what they’re wearing.”
Lauridsen said Odyn will debut in specialty boutiques at the end of February. The line wholesales for $48 to $58.
Besides taking inspiration from her homeland, Lauridsen now looks to her melting-pot neighborhood.
“The East Village is such a culturally rich area,” she said. “I feel right at home. In fact, I’ve met several Scandinavians in the neighborhood.”
While the line hasn’t hit shelves yet, Lauridsen said, “Next season, I’m thinking of doing something nondenim, maybe leather jackets.” — Lauren DeCarlo
Innovo Posts a Profit
Innovo Group Inc., the Commerce, Calif.-based denim maker, posted net income of $2 million, or 7 cents a diluted share, for the quarter ended Aug. 28. The profit compares with a loss of $2.3 million, or 14 cent a share, a year earlier. Sales were $41.1 million, up 87.7 percent from $21.9 million a year earlier.
Chief executive officer Jay Furrow said in a statement that the performance “reflects the ongoing implementation of our strategic plan to focus and maximize our core denim and denim-related apparel operations.”
Apparel represented the bulk of sales: $36.1 million for the quarter, contributing operating income of $3.8 million. This included the Joe’s Jeans brand and private label jeans.
The firm also produces accessories and some crafts products, ventures that it has been “reevaluating,” according to a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Innovo also produces licensed Betsey Johnson apparel and a new sportswear line called Indie that rolled out for fall retailing.
The firm attributed much of its volume increase to private label sales to retailers, including American Eagle Outfitters, Kmart Corp. and Target Corp. It added that better margins came from improving economies of scale as the firm ramped up production in the quarter.
Innovo entered the apparel business in 2001 with the licensing of the Joe’s brand from Azteca Production International, an apparel firm controlled by Paul Guez. Today, brothers Paul and Hubert Guez personally and through investment vehicles control in excess of 40 percent of Innovo’s common stock.
For the nine months, Innovo recorded a $9.7 million net loss, which worked out to 35 cents a diluted share. That compared with a $2.5 million loss, worth 16 cents a share, a year-ago. Sales for the period were up 91.5 percent to $87.7 million from $45.8 million. — Scott Malone
Ferreira Joins Miss Vigoss
The growing junior moderate-priced jeans brand Miss Vigoss has added former Mudd sales executive Jeff Ferreira to its sales staff.
He reports to David Kubresi, principal of the New York-based company, whose employees are not assigned titles. Miss Vigoss also produces the Anoname children’s brand.
Ferreira, 43, said the two-year-old brand is trying to boost its sales to traditional department-store chains.
The firm’s signature products are stretch, boot-cut, low-rise jeans that feature an embroidered V on the rear pocket. Ferreira said the firm is contemplating dropping the “Miss” from its brand name. — S.M.
Neema Lands Da’mage Line
Neema Worldwide now has the jeans to wear with its chalk-stripe navy blue suits.
Jim Ammeen, Neema’s chairman, has acquired the assets of Jean Paul Da’mage Inc. for an undisclosed amount and formed a partnership, Neema and Co. LLC, with its principals, David Long, Jean Van De Wiel and Jeff Schaefer, to market the premium denim brand.
Da’mage joins Neema’s other properties, including Halston LLC and a number of other labels such as Bill Blass and Haspel. The new men’s jeans company, which has hit a sales volume in the neighborhood of $8 million to $10 million after two and a half years in business, will get operational expertise from its new parent, according to Ammeen.
He added that the Charlotte, N.C.-based Da’mage executive team will continue to operate the company on an ongoing basis. Van De Wiel is the creative force, with Long directing the marketing and Schaefer heading the administrative end.
Da’mage men’s jeans target the 24- to 38-year-old customer and come in three fits and 14 washes. They’re made in several lightweight double ring-spun Italian denims and are manufactured in Georgia. They retail from $169 to $578.
A women’s Da’mage jeans line targeting a similar age group was introduced this fall for spring selling.
The men’s jeans are currently distributed in some 300 doors, including Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue and Fred Segal.
Named the official jean of the Grammy Awards show in March, Da’mage has become the jean of choice for celebrities such as Justin Timberlake, Antonio Sabatos and the Maroon 5 rock group.
Discussing his association with the hip jeans maker, Ammeen noted, “Neema’s involvement will help them achieve their goals to become a major player in the premium jeans market. I’m projecting a double-digit volume this coming year. This new venture was a great opportunity for me to get into still another business.” — Stan Gellers


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On Thursday, January 30, Visa (NYSE: V) will release its latest earnings report. Check out Benzinga's preview to understand the implications.
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Analysts covering Visa modeled for quarterly EPS of $1.46 on revenue of $6.07 billion .
In the same quarter last year, Visa reported earnings per share of $1.30 on sales of $5.51 billion. Sales would be up 10.24% on a year-over-year basis. Here's how the company's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past:
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Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 49.17%. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders can relax going into this earnings release. Long-term shareholders are already enjoying 12-month gains prior to the announcement.
\Over the past 90 days, analysts have adjusted their estimates higher for EPS and revenues. Analysts seem to have settled on a Neutral rating with Visa. The strength of this rating has maintained conviction over the past three months.
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"If food was as expensive as a Ferrari, we would polish it and look after it."
Instead, we waste staggering amounts.
So says Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, head of an independent panel of experts advising the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization on how to tackle the problem.
Some 40% of all the food produced in the United States is never eaten. In Europe, we throw away 100 million tonnes of food every year.
And yet there are one billion starving people in the world.
The FAO's best guess is that one third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted before it is eaten.
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The latest report from the expert panel of the UN Committee on World Food Security concludes that food waste happens for many different reasons in different parts of the world and therefore the solutions have to be local.
Take Chris Pawelski, a fourth generation onion farmer from the US. Mr Pawelski has spent months growing onions in the rich, black soil of Orange County, New York, but the supermarkets he sells to will only accept onions of certain size and look.
"If it's too wet or too dry, the bulbs simply won't make the two-inch size that's required," he says.
"There might be imperfections and nicks. There's nothing wrong with that onion. It's fine to eat. But the consumer, according to the grocery store chain, doesn't want that sort of onion."
In the past, rejected onions would have been sent to rot in a landfill. Now Mr Pawelski works with a local food charity, City Harvest, to redistribute his edible but imperfect-looking onions.
City Harvest says in 2014 it will rescue 46 million pounds - about 21 million kilograms - of food from local farmers, restaurants, grocers and manufacturers for redistribution to urban food programmes.
In rich countries, supermarkets, consumers and the catering industry are responsible for most wasted food. But supermarkets have come under particular pressure to act.
UK supermarket chain Waitrose is attacking food waste in all parts of its business. The upmarket grocery chain cuts prices in order to sell goods that are close to their "sell by" date, donates leftovers to charity and sends other food waste to bio-plants for electricity generation. The idea is for Waitrose to earn "zero landfill" status.
But then there are consumers like Tara Sherbrooke. A busy, working mother of two young children, she works hard to avoid wasting food but still finds herself throwing some of it away.
"I probably waste about £20 worth of food every week," she says. "It's usually half-eaten packets of food that have gone past their 'best before' date."
In the UK, studies have shown that households throw away about seven million tonnes of food a year, when more than half of it is perfectly good to eat.
Part of the problem is poor shopping habits, but the confusion many consumers have with "use by" and "best before" food labels is also a factor. "Use by" refers to food that becomes unsafe to eat after the date, while "best before" is less stringent and refers more to deteriorating quality.
Plus, as Prof Pinstrup-Andersen points out, food in wealthy countries takes up only a relatively small proportion of income and so people can afford to throw food away.
In developing countries, the problem is one not of wealth but of poverty.
In India's soaring temperatures fruit and vegetables do not stay fresh on the market stall for long. Delhi has Asia's largest produce market and it does have a cold storage facility.
But it is not big enough and rotting food is left out in piles. There is not enough investment in better farming techniques, transportation and storage. It means lost income for small farmers and higher prices for poor consumers.
In terms of calories, farmers harvest the equivalent of 4,600 calories of food per person per day. But on average only 2,000 of those calories are actually eaten every day - meaning more than half the calories we produce are lost on their way from farm to dinner fork.
There is enough food for everyone, just a lot of inefficiency, the FAO report concludes.
The environmental impact of all this wasted food is enormous. The amount of land needed to grow all the food wasted in the world each year would be the size of Mexico.
The water used to irrigate wasted crops would be enough for the daily needs of nine million people. And wasted production contributes 10% to the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries.
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York, is one project trying to reverse that environmental damage. The plant takes food scraps from local schools and restaurants and converts them into energy. Inside towering, silver eggs food waste is mixed with sewage sludge to create usable gas.
The pilot programme is particularly timely. New York City's restaurants will be required to stop sending food waste to landfills in 2015 and will have to turn to operations like these as alternatives.
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Nigeria’s Mobile payment service, Paga is arguably the fastest growing mobile money service in Africa, growing much faster than M-Pesa, its counterpart in East African countries in their first year of commercial operations.
“User base has grown impressively – we started this year with 40,363 users (after 10 months operating in 2012) and as of time of writing have 359,197″, said Oviosu.
Paga has since set a target to reach 40 million active users by 2015, but with its current monthly growth rate averaging about 50,000 users per month, it would only have about 2 million users by 2015.
However, when compared to M-Pesa’s first year of operations, it seems Paga’s numbers look impressive, as according to the report, M-Pesa Kenya went from 170,000 users (3 months of operations) to 1.3 million users, representing 691% growth, while M-Pesa Tanzania went from 100,000 users (7 months of operations) to 280,000 users, representing a 180% user growth.
Paga also revealed that its team has grown from 50 people in January 2012 to 120 employees as at December 2012, boasting staff in 11 different states in Nigeria. With 525 agents in January 2012, Paga reports that it is ending the year with 1,552 across 23 states.
In terms of transactions and volumes, the service grew by 579%, after processing 19,620 transactions per month in December 2011 to 133,148 transactions by November 2012 and went from N152 million (in volumes) in December 2011 to N1.3 billion (in volumes) in November 2012, representing a 727% growth.
It has no doubt been a successful year, by all measures for Paga and it is expected that the year 2013 would see more growth from the company and the sector.
With intense competition coming from other mobile money services, most of which are being launched in partnerships between banks and telcos, the success of the mobile money players would largely depend on an aggressive agent network strategy and a grassroot distribution network.


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On display will be the Digital 6000 wireless microphone system, along with the AMBEO VR Mic, EK 6042, MKE 440, AVX and MKE 2 elements microphones.
German firm's flagship wireless system was used by the superstar singer and her three backing vocalists for the first time recently.
The Lusail Iconic ground has been equipped with an array of Sennheiser wireless systems as it readies itself for the tournament.
Brand's wireless mics and monitoring systems were used to make the first nominee announcement from space a reality.
Audio specialist displayed its new EK 6042 two-channel receiver, compact AVX receiver and digital clip-on microphones.
Wireless system was used for all handheld microphones at the rapper's debut gig in the Middle East.
Company will showcase Digital 9000, Esfera, the MKE 600 shotgun microphone and much more at Excel.
Manufacturer's Dubai-based operation has recorded a 62 per cent year-on-year increase in gross profit.
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The United States and Japan have agreed to establish a working committee "to resolve a broad range of high-technology issues," Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige announced yesterday.
Officials cautioned that, although they hope that the committee will solve many pressing problems between the two countries, the agreement spelled out yesterday is in principle only and the exact mission of the committee is yet to be spelled out.
"There is no more important matter on our trade agenda than the resolution of high-technology trade issues between the U.S. and Japan," Baldrige said. "The future of U.S. industrial competitiveness is inseparably linked to the health of our high-technology industries."
One current pressing problem is Japanese acquisition of 80 percent of the U.S. market for the state-of-the-art 64K random access memory computer chip, according to Commerce Department officials.
U.S. officials said yesterday they hope the new committee--set up at the deputy assistant secretary level--will tackle problems of industrial cooperation, access to government-sponsored research and development, the flow of patents and technology, and mutual market access.
Cochairmen of the U.S. delegation will be Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Clyde V. Prestowitz and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative James Murphy. Other U.S. government agencies will be represented.
During two days of talks here with officials of the Japanese Ministry of Industry and International Trade preceding yesterday's announcement, American officials continued to urge that Japan liberalize present restrictions on imports.
Undersecretary of Commerce Lionel Olmer proposed that the Japanese consider establishing a high-level mechanism to promote foreign investment in Japan and also urged consideration of "a longer-term program to address differences of industrial organization and business practices."
Olmer referred to Japanese business practices that he said inhibit the flow of imports into that country and said that "a high-level commitment" was necessary to deal with them.
He was referring to the charge made by many U.S. government officials that some Japanese trade barriers to imports are set by "administrative guidance," or by cartels established to protect depressed industries. The charge is also made in industry and government circles here that much of Japan's export success can be traced to "targeting practices," which concentrate an export drive on a particular market or product.


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With Palatine farmers market set to open Saturday, organizers 'feel the pressure of doing this right'
Organizers say Palatine's long-running summer farmers market will serve as a test of sorts when it opens for the season Saturday under restrictions aimed at operating safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facial coverings or masks, social distancing and a prohibition of food sampling will be among the measures taken at the outdoor market, which will run from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. in downtown Palatine's Metra station parking lot.
Only vendors will be allowed to handle products before a sale, and anyone feeling ill should stay away, organizers say.
Farmers markets have been deemed an essential business and may operate under an executive order from Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Palatine will use an “in-and-out” model encouraged by the North Aurora-based Illinois Farmers Market Association.
Evanston will conduct business the same way for the opening of its seasonal market Saturday.
Marg Duer, who is Palatine's village clerk and the founder and manager of the roughly 30-year-old farmers market, stressed it won't be an opportunity to socialize or enjoy music like in the past. Patrons will be expected to make a purchase from the market operated by the nonprofit Palatine Sister Cities Association and exit quickly.
“We feel the pressure of doing this right, because I believe a number of market managers from the area will be scouting out how we're doing things and how it's working,” Duer said.
Other recommendations include admitting only one family member and sanitizing hands before entering. Visitors also are asked to leave children and pets at home.
As for the vendors, a face covering and sanitary gloves are required at all times, and a designated worker who isn't handling products must use a tray for cash and credit cards. Everything sold must be prepackaged or provided in single-use bags to customers, who are to abide by a 6-foot marking from products.
Duer said volunteers will dispense hand sanitizer to customers at the entrances and monitor the crowd in the market area to ensure a 6-foot distance is being observed.
Many other suburbs are scheduled to begin farmers markets in June. Original opening dates were still listed Wednesday for markets in Schaumburg, Elgin, Lake Zurich and 95th Street in Naperville, but Arlington Heights' now is to be determined.
Janie Maxwell, executive director of the Illinois Farmers Market Association, said it's important for the events to continue because they provide access to healthy, local food. She said there also is the matter of keeping farmers in business.
In an association survey that had 89 responses as of March 31, members expressed concern about closing or losing significant revenue if farmers markets were not held in Illinois this year. Outdoor markets already open downstate have been using drive-through, curbside and in-and-out models.
“One of the reasons we wanted to make sure that these (COVID-19 operating) guidelines were available to our local communities was to paint the picture that, yes, it's not business as usual,” Maxwell said. “It's not that great community social gathering opportunity with food. But farmers markets are significant places for the sale of food.”
Dan Pilguy, a Palatine market organizer and owner of Arlington Crest Farms in the village, will be present for Saturday's opening with a selection of organic vegetables, herbs and fruit. He expressed confidence the Palatine market has the necessary regulations in place to operate safely.
“I think all the vendors collectively are going to feel the pressure,” Pilguy said, “and we'll do what we can do.”
Palatine's summer farmers market will run in Metra commuter parking lot B every Saturday through Oct. 31.