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No Food Stamps For Steak: NY bill
This controversial new New York bill plans to ban people using food stamps from buying steak, lobster and other "high end" goods.
No luxury food items allowed to be purchashed with food stamps
A New York state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would block food stamp users from buynig certain "high end" and "luxury" goods like steak, lobster, decorated cakes and energy drinks.
The bill also includes blocking food that is considered to be "non nutritious."
"At a time when our state and nation are struggling with an obesity epidemic, it is critically important that taxpayer-funded programs help low-income consumers make wise and healthy food choices," according to the bill memo.
The bill is likely to be popular with conservatives, but the reaction online has been varied. Some applaud the measure, and approve of stricter regulation of food stamps in order to stop abuse of the system.
Others rejected the bill as unecessarily punitive. "I don't expect food stamp recipients to be eating shoe leather just to avoid going hungry. We have food stamps to allow people to eat decent food." said one reddit user.
Yet another user discussed the impact the policy may have on local agriculture "Any effort to steer people to spend their food stamp benefits on locally produced goods is a very good thing."
What about you? Do you think restrictions on food stamps is a good or bad thing?
Join in the discussion on Facebook!


text: Tesla just unveiled the second-generation Roadster and launched a big shock wave around the world. It’s not the Roadster’s return that took us by surprise, but the incredible specs that the car comes with. Not only set to become the quickest production vehicle ever with a 0-to-60 mph sprint of only 1.9 seconds, it also has a 250-mph top speed. The latter is downright spectacular for gasoline-powered supercar and I honestly didn’t think I’d live to see a production EV hit that much. But before we get overly excited, we must remember that the second-gen Roadster won’t become available until 2020. And given Tesla’s habit of delaying production, it may take a bit longer than that.

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24th January 2020
Just Flight has released version 1.2 of the PA-38 Tomahawk for Prepar3D and FSX.
21st January 2020
Orbx has revealed the long-awaited Global openLC Africa for FSX and Prepar3D has entered beta testing.
20th January 2020
Aerosoft has announced that Lukla for Microsoft Flight Simulator X is now available as download in the Aerosoft Online Shop.
17th January 2020
Aeroplane Heaven has announced the Hawker Hurricane MK1 for FSX and Prepar3D is now available.
15th January 2020
Scenery developer, SceneryTR Design has released LTAC Ankara Esenboga Esenboğa Airport for FSX and Prepar3D.
13th January 2020
The latest aircraft to roll out of the Carenado hangar is the XL560 Citation for FSX and Prepar3D.
10th January 2020
Scenery developer, FSoares has released the Brazilian destination, Santarém Airport - SBSN for FSX and Prepar3D.
17th December 2019
The latest UK destination from Orbx is EGJA Alderney Airport for FSX and Prepar3D.
3rd December 2019
Just Flight has announced the Robin DR400 is now available for Prepar3D and FSX.
26th November 2019
TropicalSim has released Tirana LATI 2020 for FSX and Prepar3D.


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Animal Shelters Dealing with one of Busiest Days of the Year
July 5 is typically one of the busiest days for animal shelters.
Many animals run away during the Fourth of July holiday because of fireworks, and out owners are frantically searching for their pets.
This is typically the busiest day of the year for animal shelters all across the country with all the lost pets.
There are currently 6 unclaimed pets still here at the Humane Animal Welfare Society.
This is been one of their busiest years.
Lost Dogs of Wisconsin is an online nonprofit that tries to reunite dogs with their owners.
The director said since Saturday they've had more than 100 reports of lost pets, they typically only have 20 reports any given weekend.
So what you do if your pet is lost besides posting online?
Look thoroughly through at the house, they still may be hiding.
Walk around the neighborhood.
If you file a report through lost dogs of Wisconsin they will automatically create a flyer for you to print out.
They also posted the pictures on Facebook where they have more than 60,000 followers.
Pobloskie said there is a good chance your pet is still nearby.
You should also call around to local shelters and veterinarians to see if anyone has dropped them off.
And be ready with documents if you find them, to pick them up.
"If you make everything quiet, and you put out scent articles which is something that smells like the dog, somethings that smells like the owner, and some good smelling food at the location where the dog went missing from, many of these dogs will come back on their own,” said Kathy Pobloskie from Lost Dogs of Wisconsin.
If you find a pet the best advice is to bring it to a local shelter if you can.


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Eight US business organisations – including those representing apparel and footwear brands, retailers and importers – have released an economic impact study showing that imports support more than 21 million American jobs.
The report, ‘Imports Work for American Workers,’ focuses on the net impact of imports on US jobs – including statistics on sectors such as retail, apparel, transportation, manufacturing and consumer technology.
The study also looks at how imports support jobs in states across the US as well as trade policy initiatives pending before Congress and the administration with the potential to preserve or diminish import-related jobs.
Among the key findings:
- Imports support more than 21 million American jobs across the country, including a net positive number in every US state. The 10 states accounting for the largest number of import-related jobs are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.
- Imports from key trading partners – including Canada, China, the European Union and Mexico – support a net positive number of US jobs.
- Import-related jobs are good jobs that pay competitive wages. Nearly 8 million of the jobs related to importing are held by minorities and 2.5 million jobs are held by workers represented by unions.
- The vast majority (96%) of companies who import are small or medium-sized businesses.
- US trade policies, many now pending before Congress and the administration, have the potential to both support and hurt these jobs.
“USFIA supports Fashion Made Possible by Global Trade,” says Julia Hughes, president of the US Fashion Industry Association, one of the organisations that commissioned the study. “American fashion brands and retailers rely on American workers for the research, product development and design, logistics, sourcing, sales teams and creativity to make the products that consumers want to wear.
“As the report says, ‘Bottom line: no matter where the label places the origin of the apparel product, the fact remains that it likely includes a lot of content from US workers, in America.'”
AAFA senior vice president of policy, Nate Herman, adds: “Imports to the United States are critical to the health of the U.S. economy and to providing diverse, quality goods to American consumers.
“Imports are also key to the US global value chain, directly employing millions of American workers in product development, sourcing, and compliance that turn those designs into product; the transportation and logistics managers, warehouse workers, the truckers who ensure that product makes it to market; and the merchandisers and salespeople who get that product sold.”
The study is being released during “World Trade Week” as part of “World Trade Month” to highlight the essential role that imports play in the US and global economy.
It was prepared by Laura M Baughman and Dr Joseph F Francois of Trade Partnership Worldwide, and also supported by the American Chemistry Council, the Consumer Technology Association, the National Foreign Trade Council, The National Retail Federation, The Retail Industry Leaders Association, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the US Global Value Chain Coalition.
The full report can be viewed here.


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In February, Baidu (BIDU 3.56%) received a proposal to sell its 80.5% stake in video streaming site Qiyi.com. In an interesting twist, the buyers are Baidu CEO Robin Li and Qiyi CEO Yu Gong. The optics for this type of insider transaction are not great, but it's a good move for the long-term health of Baidu as it allows the company to focus on its most important initiative, online-to-offline (O2O) transactions.
What's Qiyi and who's buying?
Qiyi.com is a Chinese video streaming service that delivers both original and licensed content. As recently as the third quarter 2015 earnings call, Li was espousing the virtues of the platform, "iQiyi has broken away from the rest of the pack through differentiated content and a unique business handset distribution model. iQiyi is a powerful content distribution platform ..." In 2014, the website was valued between $2 and $3 billion after Xiaomi bought a 10% to 15% stake for $300 million.
Gong has partnered with Li to acquire the whole company at a $2.8 billion enterprise value, which is not far from the valuation it saw a few years ago. Qiyi might be a more valuable property today as, "iQiyi now has the largest number of paying subscribers, with an explosive growth of subscription revenue." It's easy to see why Li and Gong are interested, but are Baidu shareholders getting a fair shake?
Is this a good deal for shareholders?
Baidu shareholders have seen the stock rise over 25% since the buyout proposal was announced on Feb. 12, but the long-term implications from the deal are not quite so clear.
There are indications that Qiyi will eventually be repackaged and go public on a China-based exchange where it might receive a juicier valuation from investors. The optics would be terrible if Baidu received $2.25 billion for its stake, and then a short while later, the company priced at a valuation two or three times that amount. Nevertheless, the deal could still be a good one for Baidu shareholders, because it offers the company two valuable assets: cash and time.
Margins, cash, and time
Qiyi has been a drag on Baidu's margins as the company invests heavily in content acquisition. Bloomberg Business estimates that the negative effect on operating margins in the third quarter of 2015 was 5.4%. The theory is that by removing this anchor, margins will improve, and the overall business will look healthier and more profitable. On an accounting basis, this is true, but it overlooks the immense value that a business can be building even as it is "losing" money in the short-term.
However, investors should be okay with missing out on the long-term potential of Qiyi, because O2O is the most important initiative for the future of Baidu. Robin Li estimates that the market in China alone is $1.6 trillion. It will take time, focus, and lots of capital to capture a significant share of this opportunity, and Baidu's share price had taken a beating, dropping 35% from its 2015 highs as these investments negatively impact short-term results.
Shedding Qiyi will add billions to the balance sheet. According to Moody's, the sale will be "credit positive, because it will lower Baidu's investment and improve its profitability while retaining strategic benefits." This will allow the company to lower the cost of raising new capital should it need to in the future. Investors will be more comfortable letting the O2O journey play out if the company is not pouring cash into other areas such as streaming video.
Baidu currently has a number of subsidiaries that are capital intensive, and O2O is the most important. The sale of Qiyi will allow management to focus more that opportunity, with a larger war chest and a better credit position. Baidu needs to maintain its search dominance in China and capture a piece of this multi-trillion dollar business.


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By Rex Hammock, CEO
Since the earliest days of using the term “content marketing,” there has been confusion and debate over what the phrase means. In an article for the Content Marketing Institute, author Michael Brenner explains that one reason for the confusion is that “using content for marketing” and “creating content” mean different things.
By Rex Hammock
During the past decade, people like me who live in Nashville have witnessed a fascinating phenomenon. While Nashville had been known for a couple of styles of food (scorching spicy chicken and comfort food served at meat-and-threes), the city was never considered a food mecca.
That has changed dramatically.


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Bond yields continue to fall as worries about slowing growth replace inflation fears.
In this sea of thousands upon thousands of stocks, there are better setups than shorting a $1 or $2 name, any name.
Trading will continue to slow as we approach the long weekend.
The rolling corrective action is what is helping to keep the overall trend positive.
Has Tesla woken up? Is Shack back? Can Bitcoin shake the blues?
The digital currency is trading in an area of support, which makes a trade possible provided a buyer puts in a tight stop to minimize risk.
Fear, uncertainty and doubt often create ideal buying opportunities when the narrative is truly false, but can cost you a lot of money when it is true.
Vinco's twist on non-fungible tokens is a three-dimensional NFT that brings entertainers and athletes into your living room via virtual and augmented reality.
MSTR looks ready now for renewed gains.
I'm looking for entries on pullbacks, but we may need to get past economic news before trading heats up.


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SHAH ALAM, Aug 6 (Bernama) — The Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS), has embarked into the halal surgical surture business through its subsidiary, Worldwide Medivest Sdn Bhd, which has invested RM80 million to set up its manufacturing plant in Kapar.
PKNS General Manager Othman Omar said Worldwide Medivest, incorporated in 2010, had begun manufacturing the product this year based on German technology and equipment on a 1.2 hectare site,
He said this during the signing of Memorandum of Understanding between Worldwide Medivest and Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) here recently to promote and develop a strategic and mutually beneficial collaboration in the field of research, education and training programme related to the medical devices industry.
PKNS entered into this business to provide halal and sterile surgical surtures for Muslim patients during surgery.
The market is huge given the fact there is a Muslim population of two billion people worldwide, he said.
Surgical surture is a medical device comprising a needle and thread made up of synthetic fibers like nylon or catgut, a type of cord made of animal intestine. It is used to stitch wounds or part of a human body or organ together after an injury or surgery.
The catgut thread is absorbable and is mainly used for patients who could not return to hospital for suture removal or for stitching internal body tissues or organ.
Othman said since most of the surgical surture in Malaysia were imported, PKNS saw the opportunity to offer halal surgical surture for Muslims who undergo surgery in the hospital.
He said the product was unique as the catgut, sourced right now from lambs, may not be from slaughtered lamb.”
Therefore, he said Worldwide Medivest would ensure that the threads for its surgical surture came from slaughtered animals to assure customers that its products were halal.
On weather the products were certified halal, Worldwide Medivest General Manager Dr Abdul Reezal Abdul Latif said the company was now working together with the Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (JAKIM) to ensure its products met the halal criteria.
He said, at present,there was no halal certification for medical equipment but only for food items.
Meanwhile, Worldwide Medivest Director Datin Paduka Nor Azlina Zakaria said the company was in the process of creating awareness for the product which was being marketed domestically and overseas under the brand name of “Vesti”.
The product was being marketed in Indonesia and the Middle East and sales for the halal surgical surture was expected to start by the last quarter of this year.
Dr Abdul Reezal said the factory had the capacity to produce six million pieces of surgical surture annually, with most of the products bound for the export market while only 30 per cent would be distributed locally.
On pricing, Othman said it would be competitive with imported products to avoid negative perception especially towards the quality of lowly-priced products.


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NEW YORK, Oct. 23-Enzo Biochem has filed suit against Amersham, PerkinElmer, Orchid Biosciences and two other companies for breach of contract and patent infringement, the company said today.
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that these companies have misused Enzo's nucleotide labeling technologies, methods used in gene sequencing and analysis.
Amersham Biosciences, PerkinElmer and Sigma-Aldrich, three of the defendants in the suit, had all signed agreements to distribute Enzo's labeled nucleotide products. Enzo claims that these three distributors were permitted only to distribute these products for research use, but violated their agreements by developing the technology for clinical use, exploiting Enzo's patents without authorization.
The other defendants, Orchid and Molecular Probes, are charged with patent infringement.
Enzo's corporate headquarters are in New York, NY.


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Here is the promised preview of the C.E.F. Army all painted up and with decals added (CEF logos and numbering). Our painter, Jean-Denis Rondeau, did an amazing job, we took a bunch of photos today to show how the new plastic miniatures look all painted up. Click on the images below to open larger versions of the photos.
Great News to announce, the plastic injection molds arrived in the USA this week at the Port of Los Angeles. They are now being forwarded to our plastics manufacturer in Indianapolis and should arrive there on June 17th. Plastics production will begin the following week, and should take about 2 weeks. Then all the boxes and boxes of plastic sprues will be shipped to us here in Montreal, Canada and we'll start packing and shipping Backer Reward Packages in July.


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Libraries in all over the world are undergoing a digital renaissance as major publishers have firmly committed themselves to the concept of making e-Books available. Today, we look at some of the biggest trends facing libraries in Canada, US and United Kingdom.
A recent report by the Library Journal has stated that 95% of all US libraries have an e-book collection. That’s up from 89% in both 2013 and 2012, when researchers thought that adoption had plateaued for good. The average number of e-books carried was 20,244 by each library, but that of course was skewed toward large libraries. Medium sized libraries statistically had around 10,434 titles.
Over 10 different libraries in the US and Canada had over one million digital loans in 2014, with two libraries lending out two million e-Books. This number will likely double in 2015, as companies like 3M Cloud Library and Baker and Taylor begin to gain further traction.
e-Books are doing quite well in the US, but over in the UK a sustainable model is still trying to be established by the government, libraries and major publishers. In May 2013 the UK government funded a review looking into the viability of allowing customers to borrow eBook, without all of the drama. The Sieghart Review said publishers should not limit the supply of e-books in the same way that physical book loans are controlled, including the lending of each digital copy to one reader at a time, securely removing eBooks after lending and having digital books “deteriorate after a number of loans”.
A pilot project was initiated in four UK libraries in March 2014 that augmented the digital loaning period for up to 21 days and included a number of front-list titles, including bestsellers that just came out. The essence of the pilot is to carry out real-time, real-world research into the impact of eBook lending in public libraries on authors, publishers and on the library service so that a suitable and sustainable model.
Its been around six months since the pilot was first initiated and there has been some interesting findings. All four participating authorities have seen a significant increase in e-lending, with longer loan periods leading to more titles being borrowed. The project has also found the increase in e-lending is not decreasing physical lending or footfall to libraries. They also found customers were not using the “Buy it Now” button to purchase an e-book.
Audiobooks to be the next big thing
In 2007 a paltry 3,073 audiobook titles were produced and this figure rose exponentially to over 12,000 published in 2011. In 2013 many industry experts proclaimed that over 20,000 audiobooks were now available and in 2014 over 35,000 were released by major publishers and companies like Audible.
The global audiobook industry is currently worth 2.6 billion dollars and part of the reason why we have seen a dramatic increase in profitability is due to digital. In a recent New York Times piece, they said “In the first eight months of 2014, sales were up 28% over the same period last year, far outstripping the growth of e-books, which rose 6%”
Digital audiobooks are finally starting to find their stride thanks to libraries embracing them in a big way. There are a number of major players providing audio services to libraries, 3M Cloud Library, Baker & Taylor, Hoopla and Overdrive. For the most part, these are the exact same companies that provide the libraries e-Book portfolio.
Many of the top audiobook distributors lean on 3rd parties for a full catalog of content. 3M and Baker and Taylor both get their audio editions from Findaway World, which is current market leader in production. Findaway has a catalog of over 50,000 titles and maintains production studios, narrators and crew in New York. Overdrive has their own internal solution, where they approach publishers directly and don’t do business with companies such as Audible or Findaway World.
Tom Mercer, Marketing Manager of 3M Cloud Library said “we see a tremendous opportunity to grow in the Audio space in 2015. Right now we’re two weeks into the “real world” of Audio, but customers really seem to like our solution. Our initial Beta feedback from very positive.”
Hoopla is an audiobook solution for libraries that floats under the radar, but are quickly making a name for themselves. The company has a catalog of 13,000 titles with 1,000 added each month. Hoopla deals with over 100 libraries in the US and charges no licensing fees with setting up the system, which is quite appealing to the average library. How does Hoopla make money? The company has employed the Pay Per Use model, which only charges the library when a specific title is checked out by a patron. The San Francisco Public Library said they are are predicting that in 2015 more companies will embrace the Hoopla model, which will lower costs for libraries and get more content in-front of the patrons.
How well are the publishers doing in the audiobook sector? Cheryl Herman, marketing director for Penguin Random House’s Books on Tape & Listening Library said. “Our library sales for digital audio are up nearly 35% over 2014, we’re offering more and more titles on audio, and we’re not alone in that. There are also more players entering the market, and more titles overall being published than ever before.”
In 2015 digital audiobooks will gain further traction in libraries due to tapes and CD’s no longer being economically viable. Overdrive, the current leader in audiobook sales for libraries are developing a HTML5 based streaming solution that will allow patrons to listen to audiobooks without the need of the Overdrive Media Console. This will be tremendously beneficial to users who employ alternative operating systems on their mobile devices, such as Firefox OS, Blackberry or Tizen.
Digital Newspapers and Magazines to gain more traction
Thousands of libraries are starting to embrace digital newspapers and magazine content. They are doing this because not only are the latest issues available but also back issues.
One of the ways this type of content is really shining is attributed to libraries installing tablets and e-readers in their different branches. One example of this is the San Francisco Public Library system unveiling their new e-news center at their main branch and has since expanded it to Chinatown and North Beach. The premise is to draw attention to the virtues of reading digital magazines and newspapers on a bunch of Apple iPads. The actual content is provided by Vancouver based PressReader, who is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the library sector.
Pressreader might very well be the largest company involved in distributing newspaper and magazine titles to libraries, but the limited competition is prompting new entrants to enter the market. EBSCO Information Services introduced Flipster in October. It allows library patrons to browse the latest issues of high quality digital versions of popular magazines on iOS.
Senior Vice President for Product Management, Michael Laddin says that Flipster is a new way for EBSCO customers to provide content to their end users. “By providing a high quality digital reading experience for library patrons, whether they are at the library or accessing the digital magazines remotely, Flipster offers a unique approach for experiencing content in popular magazines as well as extending library services in an exciting new way. It has been designed especially for library patrons who want to browse the latest issues of popular magazines. Flipster complements EBSCO’s full-text databases (e.g., MasterFILE, MAS, Business Source, etc.) which enable patrons to research topics of interest to them.”
Not only are libraries leaning on 3rd parties to provide their digital newspapers and magazines, but some are actually digitizing it themselves. The Brooklyn Public Library system recently announced a new initiative to digitize backlist newspaper archives in order to make them available to the public via their online portal. This initiative, which will make all copies of the original Brooklyn newspaper,The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, available digitally. The original content was stored on microfilm from the Library of Congress.
I scan Google News for library news every single day and I have noticed a huge uptick in libraries announcing new partnerships for digital magazines and newspapers. Every week between 5 and 25 locations are buying into this concept and there is obvious value to their patrons. By going digital, they last forever and unlike e-Books there is not a one book, one lend policy. Magazines can be loaned out in abundance, which makes them a stellar value proposition. Likely in 2015, we will start to see even more companies entering this space to compete against PressReader and Zinio.
Here and There
The Queens Library system in New York has developed their own proprietary app for Android and iOS. It offers library patrons seamless search and access to audiobooks from Acoustik, magazines from Zinio, and eBooks from OverDrive and Baker & Taylor’s Axis 360 platform. Other features include location, mapping, and contact information for each branch, a catalog search, an ISBN barcode scanning function that enables users to scan books in retail environments to see if titles are available at their library, an events schedule that enables registration, an “ask a librarian” live chat service, a contact information form, and even a text-to-donate option.
Since the apps launch in July they had 5,400 installations on iOS and more than 3,300 on Android. This has prompted Queens to start marketing the app creation service to smaller branches with little to no IT investment. One app to rule them all, this will be big in 2015.
One of the big trends in 2014 was new libraries forgoing books altogether and embracing digital 100%. The first library to do this was the Bibliotech in Austin and Omaha announced plans to construct one in 2015.
In 2015 more libraries will begin to offer their e-Book collections to residents living outside that particular county or city. Charging non-residents $50 to $75 a year will help offset that libraries digital investment and provide an alternative revenue stream to invest in better catalog.
In early 2014 Overdrive and Smashwords signed a new agreement to get 200,000 indie titles available to the library. Right now on the backend collection managers are finding it hard to select and purchase quality content. Look for this to change in 2015, I heard its going to be more refined. I have also heard rumors that other self-publishing companies such as LULU and maybe even Kindle Direct Publishing to get involved in this space.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


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Farmers’ markets are becoming an increasingly common place for NSW South Coast locals to buy their fresh produce, with both Moruya and Bega’s weekly events reporting increases in trade.
A recent economic impact study by SAGE Farmers Market in Moruya claims it received a 28 per cent jump in sales in five years, and delivered a combined economic benefit to vendors, local businesses and the community of more than $4 million in 2019-2020.
“Considering the past 18 months [due to COVID-19] it’s been pretty incredible really,” says SAGE Farmers Market committee member Stuart Whitelaw.
“We were blown away by the numbers and the fact the market has grown at nearly double the rate of the Eurobodalla economy.”
Interestingly, there was not a large increase in the number of people attending the market, but the amount of money its customers were spending had gone up.
“We believe the increased spend per customer tells us that our regular shoppers have become more familiar with how to shop at a farmers’ market, and cooking with local seasonal produce,” says Stuart.
“More people are doing more of their weekly shop at the market.”
Further south, Bega Produce Market coordinator Sue Hill also believes her market, which has run in the town for more than 15 years, has grown.
She says the mood in the local community has changed towards farmers’ markets, with people wanting the experience of a market as well as local, sustainable food.
She adds that after the devastating Black Summer bushfires, locals are looking into climate change and the transportation of food. All of Bega Produce Market’s food comes from within 250km.
“We have regulars every single week and it’s because they want to support food security,” says Sue.
“We see our market as a really vital part of transitioning into a more climate-friendly economy. Our food has a low carbon footprint.”
Stuart and Sue say after the SAGE Farmers Market in Moruya was started in 2013 there was originally some pushback from local businesses, but they now report making extra sales when the markets are on.
In their survey, 44 per cent of local businesses said they had an average of 36 per cent increase in trade on Tuesday afternoons [when the market is held] from marketgoers.
Stuart says some shops even reported they had to employ an extra staff member because they were so busy.
Sue says there was some resistance from nervous local shop owners when Bega Produce Market first started.
“But [the market] brings people to town,” she says.
Stuart says marketgoers love the fact the seller behind the table is the person who grew the food. Also, the wide variety of produce available at the market – from vegetables to dairy to meat – allows customers to do a weekly shop.
“We just really want to provide everyday people with the food they need to eat for the week,” says Stuart.
“I think there’s a misconception that farmers’ markets are more expensive and are more of a trendy thing. But that’s not something we try to build on at all – we’re trying to go in the opposite direction.
“We want to meet supermarkets on equal terms. We want the price to be on parity.”
Sue believes that in general, people love the experience of a farmers’ market.
Markets help people who want to use as little waste as possible in their lives. Most of the produce for sale is chemical free and customers can “put a face to the grower”, she says.
“You are also supporting the local economy, and especially after what we’ve been through with the bushfires and COVID-19, that’s a big part of people’s lives now,” says Sue.
SAGE Farmers Market opens at 3:00 pm every Tuesday at Riverside Park in Moruya, and closes at 5:00 pm. For more information, click here.
Bega Produce Market is held every Friday from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm at Littleton Gardens in Bega. For more information, click here.


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Google has truly, officially confirmed that its mythical foldable phone is real. After it appeared in a few dozen leaks, Google has announced that the Pixel Fold is right around the corner. Now, you won’t have to wait much longer to burn some cash on it, as the phone will be officially revealed on May 10.
For now, we only have a slick teaser video to gaze at. I’ve had little hope about the Pixel Fold’s design, but I’m having somewhat of an epiphany after seeing those shiny metallic sides and the two-tone metal-glass finish on the rear panel. It’s not really surprising, but the video makes the whole package look enticing.
But what really caught my attention, going by the symmetry of the edges and the hinge design, is the possibility of a gapless design. Unlike the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 and its V-shaped wedge between the two halves, it looks like the Pixel Fold will embrace the no-gap look of the Oppo Find N2.
It looks better, but more importantly, the design blocks liquid and dust particles from lodging between the two halves of the phone. Leaked renders also suggest the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5 will adopt a similar design in the coming months.
The Google Store has also put up a banner in anticipation of the launch. Unsurprisingly, that’s all Google is willing to reveal for now, saving the specifications and UI walkthrough part for the inaugural day of its I/O developers conference next week.
Unfortunately for Google, leaks have coughed up almost everything there is to know about the Pixel Fold. Google is reportedly going to ask around $1,700 for its foldable phone. That’s a lot of money, especially for a first-gen foldable phone and one with the Pixel brand name attached to it.
However, leaks suggest Google will serve the Pixel Watch as a freebie with the Pixel Fold, which sounds a tad more palatable from a buyer’s perspective. Google’s Tensor G2 chip will be powering the phone, while two OLED panels with 120Hz refresh rates will reportedly handle the content viewing part.
The primary camera on the back is rumored to be a 64-megapixel sensor that sits alongside a 12MP ultrawide snapper and a 10MP telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom output. However, other leaks are predicting a 48MP/10MP/10MP camera setup for the phone. We’ll find out the the details of the imaging hardware within the next few days.
Android 13 is going to run the show on the software side, but it will be interesting to see the Pixel-exclusive large-screen optimizations that Google may have in the pipeline. Preorders for the Pixel Fold are rumored to start by the end of May for the U.S., but it likely won’t get a wide international release. Thankfully, we don’t have too much longer to wait before everything is official.
- Why you need to be excited about the Google Pixel 8a
- The 6 biggest announcements we expect from Google I/O 2024
- Here’s every color that will be available for the Google Pixel 8a
- Google just released the first Android 15 beta. Here’s what’s new
- This new folding phone costs less than half the price of the iPhone 15 Pro Max


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Ottawa, Canada, October 19, 2021 – Gusto TV inks its newest global distribution deal with TCL FFalcon, a company jointly backed by major TV manufacturer TCL Electronics, Tencent, and Southern TV New Media. TCL FFalcon will add Gusto TV’s original food programming to their family entertainment hub, TCL Channel, which comes generally pre-installed on the TCL Roku TVs and Android TVs.
“It’s exciting to partner with a technology powerhouse like TCL FFalcon. With their immersive and engaging visual experience and our stunning culinary programming, viewers will be truly transported beyond the surface of a display,” says Chris Knight, CEO and President of Gusto Worldwide Media.
Gusto TV’s award-winning programming is a feast for the eyes with diverse cuisines, inspiring recipes, and dynamic hosts. Gusto TV is streaming on dozens of platforms around the world in multiple languages with all original content. Check out the Watch Now page to get all of Gusto TV’s delicious culinary series.
TCL Electronics achieved strong growth in sales volume of TCL TVs. According to TCL’s mid-year filings shared in August, the global sales volume of TCL smart screens in the first half of 2021 reached 11.27 million sets, with a year-on-year increase of 11.8%, ranking TCL firmly among the top three smart TV brands in the world.
“We are thrilled to journey ahead with Gusto TV’s first-class and enjoyable culinary content. Depending on the TCL Electronics smart TV sales volume, and TCL Channel’s experienced content management, we are confident this alliance can make an impact on TCL Smart TV users,” says Matt Ding, the global business manager of FFalcon TCL.
Food is the one true global language, and Gusto speaks all dialects.
About Gusto TV
Gusto TV is the world’s best food television channel. From in-studio cooking series featuring creative recipes and dynamic hosts to fascinating documentary and reality series about food culture and sustainability, Gusto TV delivers a diverse mix of engaging and inspiring cooking programming that resonates globally. Gusto TV’s internationally acclaimed series include DNA Dinners, One World Kitchen, and Crate to Plate.
About TCL FFalcon
A joint venture between TCL Electronics, Tencent, and Southern TV New Media. TCL FFalcon is responsible for the system development and global operation of TCL Smart Screens, providing premium content services such as video, applications, games, music, apps, and TV shopping experiences. TCL FFalcon has now developed into the world’s leading internet and AIxIoT service platform bringing great user experience in 160+ countries across six continents.
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Sanyo and Panasonic have agreed to divest some of their battery production facilities in order to secure regulatory approval for their merger, the European Commission said Tuesday.
Panasonic plans to take over Sanyo to create the largest electronics firm and maker of laptop and mobile phone batteries in the world, in a deal valued at around US$9 billion. The deal has been approved by regulators in Japan and now the E.U., but it still needs clearance by authorities in the U.S. and China.
Europe’s top competition regulator feared that the combined strength of the two companies would skew competition in the markets for primary cylindrical lithium batteries, portable rechargeable nickel-metal hydride batteries and rechargeable coin-shape batteries based on lithium.
The companies agreed to divest a European production plant that currently produces cylindrical lithium and rechargeable coin-shape batteries, the Commission said in a statement. They also agreed to sell one of their portable nickel-metal hydride businesses but the Commission wouldn’t say which of the firms would make the divestment.
“In view of the remedies offered, I am satisfied that competition will remain vigorous after the merger and that purchasers of batteries will continue to benefit from choice and competitive prices,” said Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes in a statement announcing that the deal could go ahead.
Primary cylindrical lithium batteries are used in applications that require strong bursts of power and where the battery is used for long periods without replacement, such as alarms and utility meters.
Portable rechargeable nickel-metal hydride rechargeable batteries are used in products such as power tools, electric shavers, toys, portable scanners and two-way radios.
Rechargeable coin-shape batteries based on lithium are used principally as back-up power for real time clocks in mobile phones and digital still cameras, as well as in watches, laptops and keyless entry systems for cars.
The Commission also examined a number of consumer electronic product markets such as camcorders and flat panel televisions where both Panasonic and Sanyo compete. However, it concluded that both companies face competition from several other firms, and that their combined strength wouldn’t increase their market share in any one market substantially.


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Qatar and Costa Rica are expected to maintain “prosperous” commercial, financial, and cultural exchange in the future despite a “difficult year” for trade between the two nations as a result of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Costa Rica ambassador Mariano Segura Avila has said.
“The representation of Qatar in Costa Rica and our embassy have made a commitment to strengthen our diplomatic ties and foster a more favourable business environment for both nations, which have common objectives in order to fulfill the economic and social agenda by 2030,” Avila told Gulf Times.
According to Avila, one of the main areas of work of the Embassy of Costa Rica in Qatar is the cultural and commercial promotion of the country. In the cultural area, Costa Rica offers a wide range of opportunities for cultural development, in the musical, theatrical and cinematographic film fields; without neglecting the folkloric elements of our culture.
In the commercial area, despite not directly having a promotion office in Qatar, Avila said the embassy is working with the Foreign Trade Promoter (Procomer) in an ambitious plan to promote services and manufactured goods in Qatar through the respective chambers of commerce.
“From that perspective, our role as an embassy is to make a link between Costa Rican producers and their counterparts in Qatar,” said Avila.
In the field of services, Avila said the economy of Costa Rica has been directly affected by the drastic reduction in tourism – the generator of the largest inflow of foreign currency into the country in recent years and an important source of employment, mainly in the rural areas of the country.
Avila said Costa Rica has a solid institutional base in the health area, which has allowed it to face the Covid-19 crisis with a “reduced number of cases of contagion” and with the “lowest mortality rate” in Latin America.
“The crisis has had significant economic effects, following the closure of the borders and the government's call for the population to remain in their homes to reduce the spread of Covid-19. Given this health emergency, the growth of the economy in 2020 is expected to reach figures close to -3%,” Avila pointed out.
Costa Rica has a small and open economy to the financial market, both in terms of trade in goods and services and in the flow of financial investments, Avila said.
He said Costa Rica is an economy with “great economic stability,” with potential growth levels close to 4%, inflation less than 3%, and with a solid balance of payments based on a significant diversification of its exports of manufactured products, agricultural goods, and income from the tourism.
“Since decades ago, economic stability, the capacity of human resources, and its political stability have been distinctive elements in the region, which have facilitated the sustained entry of foreign direct investment from all regions of the world. Costa Rica is a nation with an exemplary democracy and without an army since 1949,” Avila said.


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Every social media network has its thing. For Instagram, everything revolves around images. Snapchat users love the fact that their photos disappear when sent directly but also enjoy using the app’s filters and posting to their stories. Twitter lets users vent and share their thoughts about the most recent happenings in the world.
Yet, all of these have something in common. Each one of them lets people search for and connect with friends. While it will also include that principle, Octi’s new social network is doing things a bit differently. It encourages users to interact in-person with a host of fun augmented reality features.
Doing Social Media Differently
Octi started out as an augmented reality (AR) company. In fact, as recently as last year it was researching how to use the technology to recognize the movements of the human body. Now, thanks to the encouragement of the startup’s investors, Octi has taken a big leap forward.
Its new app, simply called “Octi,” is available for download in the iOS App Store starting on Wednesday. It utilizes machine learning to detect when a person is standing in front of a user’s camera (the movement recognition at work). If that person has an Octi account, the user will be able to send them a friend request. If not, they can send an invitation instead.
Octi’s CEO Justin Fuisz says that the lightning-fast facial recognition experience is driven by a “neural network on the edge.” In other words, the app processes images directly on the user’s device rather than doing so in the cloud. This not only speeds up the process but is better for privacy as well.
Meanwhile, Octi has an optimized search algorithm that starts with a user’s friends-of-friends before expanding a search to its wider user base. This means that the app can identify a friend in as little as 20 milliseconds.
The unique feature has drawn plenty of attention from big-name investors. Part of Octi’s $12 million in funding comes from the NFL Players Association, Live Nation, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and Adobe’s chief product officer Scott Belsky.
“The special sauce is really that camera technology, that core interaction,” says the laid-back CEO.
Rediscovering Personal Connections
When a friend’s face is scanned within Octi, the app places a “digital belt” atop their image. It includes things like text-based posts, videos, and embedded content from Spotify and YouTube. Users can post to a friend’s wall or their own much like they can on Facebook.
Interestingly, Octi separates itself from other AR-integrated social networks (like Snapchat) by tracking a user’s movements with the camera. Fuisz says, “You’re almost like a QR code walking around of your profile.”
Of course, considering that connecting is easiest with a facial scan, Octi is geared towards in-person use. The CEO hopes that the network will help foster personal relationships that are enhanced by technology rather than carried out through it.
As for Octi’s potential, it seems massive. The app works on iPhone 7 and all later models and an Android version is coming sometime soon.
In a closed test, Octi provided the app to 50 high school students in Southern California. After one week, 1,200 of 2,000 students were using the app. With that sort of rapid growth, it appears that Octi has a chance of challenging some of today’s other social networks.
“It just spreads,” Fuisz says.
In the coming months, it will be interesting to see just how far Octi can extend its influence and to determine if it can stand the test of time or if it just another fad.


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Ever since its discovery, gold has been a valuable player on the world’s stage. Entire economies were derived based on the value of the nation’s currency compared to its weight in gold during the days of the gold standard. Even attempts to change how economies are run, such as the post-Second World War Bretton Woods System are linked intrinsically to the precious metal.
However, the digital age has opened up how we deal with finances for the first time in hundreds of years. The evolution of cryptocurrency pits itself against the norm of finance and looks set to reshape how we do business globally. But is the entire economic situation looking to change? Will blockchain cryptocurrency, led through its own market by Bitcoin (BTC), replace gold as the essential backbone of the global economy?
There is no denying that gold is still reigning – at least for now. Cryptocurrency may be beginning to prove itself as a formidable opponent, but the precious metal still holds strong against an industry often characterised as too volatile.
Gold, on the other hand, even during times of political upheaval or economic unrest, remains relatively constant. One of the best ways to compare Bitcoin and gold is for what they are primarily used for: to trade.
Trading platforms offer commodity trading on both cryptocurrency and gold. Gold benefits from a stable market value, several ways to invest, including gold mining shares, and strength against economic uncertainty, whereas Bitcoin provides a safer and quicker way of trading while also having a lower barrier of entry to get into the industry.
Banks in the UK are beginning to use Ripple (XRP), another form of cryptocurrency, instead of Swift Payments to conduct cross-border financial interactions. Ripple is faster, safer, and cleaner and shows a new use for blockchain. However, gold is still a worldwide known quantity and can effectively be traded for cash.
Bitcoin is banned or has a limited run in several territories, which negates some of the global impact that it might have expected to command. In London alone, £13.8 billion ($18 billion) is traded daily in gold, while Bitcoin can’t confess to the same. The major benefit that economists are seeing is that Bitcoin is invigorating a whole new class of trader and investor in a way that gold seldom does.
The digital methods of finance are seemingly more appealing than the stuffiness that some perceive to surround gold. Being at the cusp of the next big revolution (a la the internet) is attracting a younger crowd, who are more likely to proliferate Bitcoin and the idea of cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency might not yet have the capacity to take over from gold, but for the first time in centuries, there is a possibility that there will be a new form of finance. Will this render priceless gold antiques defunct? Will the value shake the world economy? Probably not – but it will open other avenues for wealth management and a whole new market for those who want to prosper through the use of cryptocurrency.
Video – What is a cryptocurrency?
Bitcoin is a type of cryptocurrency, i.e., digital money. It is an encrypted online currency that, unlike traditional currencies, operates with no central bank.


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While the government’s plan to open up more sectors to foreign direct investment (FDI) has recently made headlines, experts say active reforms to make investments easier on ground and easing of complex, ever-changing regulations are need of the hour.
The government is looking to further ease FDI norms, with investments being allowed in certain sectors, which continue to have constraints, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal had said on Saturday.
Sources confirm the Centre is actively looking to further relax FDI norms in sectors such as insurance and railway operations. The investment caps and restrictions in these sectors, among others, are under discussion.
Experts, however, point out that while a systematic opening up of more sectors to FDI is a welcome step, careful execution of existing policy measures are required.
“The main things that need to happen are on-ground execution and one-stop shop for getting all the approvals for setting up industries in states. We need “smart” manufacturing hubs all over the country where companies can come and plug in and start manufacturing products. This is so important for the food processing, apparel, and fast-moving consumer goods sectors to attract more investments,” said Rajat Wahi, partner (consulting), Deloitte India.
Goyal’s statement that further banking sector and capital market reforms are under way should also help FDI flows. “More than opening up of sectoral caps, I think the expectation would be on easing FDI flow into the economy. We need capital. Some sectors like financials need significant equity capital to flow in. And hopefully, the government’s announcements would allow these sectors to access capital more easily,” said Vivek Gupta, partner and head, M&A and PE Tax, KPMG India.
Clarity on norms and predictability of the regulatory regime are key components for augmenting FDI flows, Gupta added. “One expects to shortly see detailed guidelines for direct overseas listing of Indian companies. Across 40-60 companies, this one step by itself could lead to close to $20-25 billion of capital inflow in the next 12-18 months. With the plethora of control deals that one is seeing from large PEs, clarification on how beneficial ownership norms should be read, will also ease FDI flow,” he said.
Foreign direct equity investments in FY20 grew 14 per cent, a four-year high, to a record $49.8 billion, according to the data released by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) on Thursday. This came after tepid growth in equity investments, which had contracted 1 per cent in 2018-19 and risen only 3 per cent in the year ago.
But things have changed since the pandemic struck. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said inbound FDI into India may decline sharply in 2020 because of the coronavirus impact, the consequent lockdown measures, supply chain disruptions, and the economic slowdown.
While the Prime Minister’s Office has asked ministries to frame separate sectoral policies to secure investments, find markets, and boost production capacity, the government has not identified a single set of export-driven industry akin to electronics in Vietnam or apparel for Bangladesh.
“It is not possible for India to pinpoint its efforts into a handful of sectors, given the geographical spread and political realities,” said a senior policy advisor working with the DPIIT.
"India must continue its efforts to attract foreign investments in India by eliminating existing restrictions. For example, India’s insurance sector can significantly drive investment in manufacturing and the infrastructure sector, so India should consider lifting the FDI cap from existing 49 per cent to 100 per cent, and eliminating associated management control related clauses for joint ventures in the insurance sector," said United States-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) CEO Mukesh Aghi.
Similarly, FDI in the e-commerce space should be technology and business-model neutral and not restrict foreign investors to a specific kind of business model, Aghi added, welcoming further liberalisation in banking and retail.


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Apple Inc. has stopped selling iPhones and other products in Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant on Tuesday said the sales halt came along with blocking the download of the state-sponsored news outlets through its App Store outside of Russia.
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Dealer Trade Network monitors all new vehicle movement in the United States, including all new car dealer-to-dealer trade activity.
In this New Vehicle Weekly Trade Activity report, we take our data set and hone in on the most popular vehicles traded, down to the trim level, over the past week among America’s Top 25 Largest Auto Groups.
This week, the state of California had the most trades among new car dealers, however, all of the traded units stayed within the state. Ohio shipped the most units out of state, while California had the most units coming in from other states.
GMC units were traded the most, making up 22% of all new vehicle, dealer-to-dealer trades across the country.
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2022 GMC Yukon XL – SLT
The GMC Yukon XL, SLT trim level was the most traded unit this week – and is Yukon XL’s entry trim level, coming with seven seats and four wheel drive.
All of these units were traded between new car dealerships within Southern California market.
2022 Suburu Crosstek – Premium
The Suburu Crosstek, Premium trim level had the second most units traded between new car dealerships over the past week. The Crosstek is a subcompact crossover SUV, and the Premium trim level can be equipped with an All-Weather Package and heated front seats.
The majority of these units were moved from Utah to the Boise, ID market. While the rest were moved within the state of Ohio.
2022 Honda Civic – Sport
The Honda Civic, Sport trim level rounds out our list of most traded units, this week. This trim level comes with 18 inch Gloss Black Alloy wheels and a 180-watt, eight speaker audio system. These units were coming out of Ohio and landed in California and Michigan.
Our Trade Activity
Dealer Trade Network helps new car dealerships trade new units across the contiguous United States. The summary below breaks down our new car trade activity over the past seven days and year to date.
Past 7 Days
We helped new car dealers trade 85 units over the past seven days, up 23% from previous week.
Year to Date
We’ve been able to help new car dealers trade 154 units, since January 1, 2022.


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“I favor doing that,” DeSantis said. “I think we probably need Congress but I would take executive action as appropriate to be able to move us in that direction.”
Data from 2022 show that US exports are falling farther and farther behind foreign peers also selling into the Chinese market.
Once major US manufacturing exports—like automobiles and Boeing jets—have all but disappeared.
Semiconductor sector sales tailed off in 2022 and also may not return, due to new US export control policy. US services exports plunged during the pandemic and have not yet come back.
Where the United States has put additional tariffs on Chinese consumer products such as washing machine, the effect has simply been that US consumers pay higher prices for imported washing machines.
A possible reduction in sales of Chinese washing machines to the US is offset by the fact that China exports washing machines all over the world, and is not dependent on US sales.
Even where US exports appear to be doing alright—US farm sales to China in 2022 hit record highs—worrying signs have emerged.
Much of the agriculture gains were not the result of increased shipments but simply higher prices and concerns over global food insecurity associated with the Russia-Ukraine war. Furthermore, Chinese buyers are diversifying toward other suppliers, while the US agricultural sector remains highly dependent on the Chinese market for its exports.
Recently Florida, where Ron DeSantis is governor, has introduced some new laws that affect the ability of Chinese citizens to buy land in Florida and restricted the size of homes they may buy, but recently China has talked of retaliating by restricting imports of Florida orange juice concentrate.
Florida has also introduced laws banning all undocumented aliens from the state, so the issue might be moot if Florida cannot find enough people to pick the oranges from the trees.
Sources: CNN, Sputnik International, CNBC.


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After launching Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards on May 27 with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and launched Patanjali is all ready to kaunch it’s messaging app ” KIMBHO” similar to WhatsApp.
Kimbho has been described by Patanjali as ” Kimbho empowers private group chat with free phone and video calling. It has dozens of amazing features to share text audio, photos, videos, stickers, quickies, location, GIF, Doodle and more”
Just like WhatsApp you can send direct messages, create groups and send messages.
Patanjali has launched it on Google play store and Twitter had a blast over it. Below are reactions:
Twitter user even declared that he might comeup with Nuclear Weapon.
Even Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja shared the news and also had a light time sharing the fact that the model pic they were using in the app is from Pakistan.
One of the user also commented as Baba Ramdev might come up with desi version of Tinder as Sam***g
Guess it was a test launch and app has been removed from the playstore because of many gliches in it. The messaging app was severely criticized by a well-known French security researcher who goes by the pseudonym Elliot Alderson on Twitter; he called it a “security disaster”.
Patanjali’s spokesperson SK Tijarwala tweeted that it was just a test run and Kimbho got an encouraging response in its trial phase. “Patanjali had put Kimbho app for one day trial on Google Play store and in just 3 hours 1.5 lakh people downloaded it. We are grateful for this encouraging response. Technical work is in progress and #KIMBHO APP will be officially launched soon,” he wrote.


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The Pokemon Prism might not be completely cancelled after all. The creator of the Pokemon GO spinoff spoke up after Nintendo removed it just as its release date was approaching.
The fan-made Pokemon GO offshoot was slated to be released soon. However, Nintendo?s legal team ordered creator Adam Vierra earlier this week to cease from launching the title.
About Pokemon Prism
News about Pokemon Prism first started circulating last October. Vierra created and released its trailer through Twitch Plays Pokemon stream.
Compared to other fan-made Pokemon games such as Pokemon Uranium, Prism was intended to be an ROM hack.
Just like Pokemon Uranium, Vierra?s creation was ordered by Nintendo to be pulled out immediately. Upon visiting the game?s website, one will only see a short message about its cancellation.
There is also a link to a PDF file of Nintendo?s official takedown order.
Related: Pokemon GO Alternatives
Pokemon Prism NOT fully cancelled?
Even though the creator resides in the U.S., the said legal notice referenced Australian law. According to Vierra, this is because of the game?s Australia-based web host. Nonetheless, this has raised speculations about its authenticity.
After apologizing and taking responsibility for the situation, Vierra seemingly hinted that he will still push for the title?s release.
He said that he will do “more research into this situation” – an indication that he is not entirely abandoning Pokemon Prism.
Related: Pokemon Sun And Moon Leak
Gamers? reactions to the issue has been somewhat varied. Some claimed that Nintendo is too much for running after a fan-made game.
However, some pointed out why it is necessary for Nintendo to monitor these unofficial spinoffs.
?It’s a simple rule: Don’t copy peoples’ IP’s and you won’t get shut down,? one commented on Gamespot?s report about the issue.
Fans reasoned that it is Nintendo?s right to retain and maintain their rights on their properties – especially one as big as the Pokemon. ?They stand to lose value in their property if a fan game gets made and distributed,? a commenter reminded.
A post also compared the issue by using other games as examples. ?If I made an Uncharted 6 on PC, I would justifiably be shut down in 10 minutes,? someone wrote.
Read more: Bored Of Pokemon GO? Try Pokemon Uranium
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As part of a 3D push that started with the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft introduced the Paint 3D app to make content creation more accessible to everyone. But, with a new feature coming to Paint 3D's Free View mode, it looks like Microsoft is pushing further to make editing even easier and more accessible.
As initially spotted by Microsoft watcher WalkingCat on Twitter, Paint 3D is the ability to edit object while in Free View mode. You can see the feature in action in the video below:
Currently, Free View mode simply acts as a way for you to pan and rotate your creation to get a better look at it, but you have to switch out of Free View to start editing again. With the enhanced mode, you'll be able to change the size and angles of objects while panning and rotating around whatever you're working on. That opens up more freedom while editing, potentially allowing you to be more precise with your edits.
Free View editing hasn't been officially announced by Microsoft, so there's no telling when it might arrive. But if you've taken to Paint 3D to toy around with your own 3D creations, the feature looks like it'll be pretty handy.
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Name of business: Insomnia Gym
Type of business: Fitness center
Location: 2930 N. Walnut Rd., soon to be 671 N. Golden State Blvd.
Hours: Open 24 hours to members seven days per week; Staff on site from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Contact information: 703-554-0305
Specialty: On-site meal prep
History of business:
Turlock resident Adan Escriba has yet to turn 30, but he already has nearly a decade’s experience as a gym owner and is only just getting started.
His business, Insomnia Gym, a fitness haven that’s open 24 hours per day, will quadruple in size by the end of the year when its dumbbells, treadmills and squat racks move into the new 5,000 square-foot space waiting for them in the Turlock Town Center.
The endeavor began when Escriba was just 19 and opened his first gym, Combat Zone Fitness, on Walnut Road. The U.S. Marine used his unique, military-like approach to working out to build a clientele, but the brand took a hit several years later in 2017 when his business partner backed away from their collaboration.
Shaken but still determined, Escriba continued his gym dream and gave it a new name — Insomnia Gym. He also revamped his business model, establishing a self-serve, 24-hour gym model for clients which gives them control of when and how they work out. Thanks to a special Insomnia Gym key fob, gym members can enter and exit the premises at any time of day or night.
“If you can't sleep, you can go work out. That’s where the name Insomnia came from,” Escriba said. “You can come in at any given time, so there’s really no excuse.”
By the new year, Escriba expects Insomnia Gym’s new location in the Turlock Town Center to be open to the public, adding yet another flourishing business to the retail and food hub which has welcomed Smart & Final! Extra, Jura’s Pizza Parlor and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in recent years, to name a few, and will soon see Turlock’s second Dutch Bros. Coffee serving customers.
“It’s a really prime location,” Escriba said. “It just shows that anything is really possible; you just have to have to plant that seed and have a vision. With our growth and moving into this new spot, it’s hit me that we’re really competing with these bigger gyms. I’m the little kid on the block, but I’m on the block now.”
The larger space will allow for more exercise equipment, of course, but also the addition of showers, locker rooms and a sauna, Escriba said — all amenities that his clients didn’t have before. At both the current Insomnia Gym and at the future location, they do have the chance to purchase ready-made, healthy meals through his meal prep company Insomnia Meals, which his sister and brother-in-law help operate.
Locals who want to join the gym can call and sign up with zero enrollment fees, he added, and will receive 50% off their key fob.
Through it all — the ups and downs with his gym’s first location, setbacks with constructing the new space and everything in between — Escriba credits his work ethic and family with where he is today. He was born in Guatemala and doesn’t come from wealth, he said, but anything is possible with a strong support system in place.
“I think this is just one stepping stone. I think that there's still a lot more for me to accomplish,” Escriba said. “I feel that everything happens for a reason, and everybody you meet is a lesson or a blessing. It's just how you take it and use it.”


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Disney+ (Disney Plus) will launch in the U.S. on November 12th, 2019, and will be priced at $6.99 per month, the company announced today at Disney’s annual Investor Day in Burbank, CA. The subscription services represents Disney’s next major jump into the video-streaming wars. By making their prices less than other streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ will be half the price of Netflix’s standard package $12.99 monthly plan.
Disney+ will include content that appeals to multiple demographics, including movies and TV shows from its Marvel, Lucasfilm’s Star Wars, Pixar and Disney brands.
In 2018, Disney movies grossed more than $7 billion dollars and “we believe that demand will translate to Disney+, We’re confident consumers are going to love the new service.” said Kevin Mayer, chairman of Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer and International business segments.
Disney+ will launch with 7,500 episodes, 25 original series, 400 library movie titles, and 100 recent theatrical films releases, according to Agnes Chu, the senior vice presiden of Content and Disney+. That includes 30 seasons of ‘The Simpsons’ starring Homer, Marge, Maggie, Bart, and Lisa, which Disney obtained rights to through the acquisition of 21st Century Fox. In year five, it expects to have an annual production slate of some 50 originals, Chu said.
Disney+ will be an ad-free service, supported solely by fan subscription fees. It’s going to have a wide platform footprint, spanning game consoles, smart TVs and connected streaming devices, including Roku and PlayStation 4, said Michael Paull, president of Disney Streaming Services (formerly BAMTech).
The company’s new streaming service will launch on November 12, 2019 in North America. It’ll cost $6.99 a month and $69.99 a year. Disney (DIS) said it expects to have 60 million to 90 million subscribers by end of fiscal year 2024.
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Alabama-based machine-learning tech startup APEX Pro is honored to be selected as the winner of EDPA's Alabama Launchpad $100,000 startup competition, which took place during Birmingham's annual Innovation Week.
"It's an honor to receive this award from Alabama Launchpad," stated Andrew Rains, Director of Marketing at APEX Pro. "We are so fortunate to be in a community that fosters innovation and growth, and we're already hard at work using this investment to create new Alabama jobs and bring positive change to Alabama - and the world!"
"DEFT is excited to have been a part of building APEX Pro from day one," stated Ross Wesson, founder of DEFT Venture Studio. "This win by APEX Pro reinforces Birmingham's national reputation as an ideal city to found world-class startups."
About APEX Pro:
Based out of the DEFT Venture Studio in downtown Birmingham, APEX Pro uses an innovative machine-learning technology (invented by Alabama native Austin Gurley, PhD) to make logging data an enhancement to drivers' experience at the track, and NOT a time consuming, complicated process.
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MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Snap up profits by the tanker load with Braemar - in ships that store the world's surplus oil
About 90 per cent of international trade is carried by sea, with thousands of ships transporting goods across the globe, ranging from oil and wheat to cuddly toys.
London is at the centre of this trade. Shipping magnates come from far and wide to arrange deals, secure finance and seek advice in the capital.
Braemar is one of the companies those businesses turn to. A global leader in the shipbroking field, Braemar has a decades-long heritage and a reputation for top quality service.
All aboard: Tankers en route to deliver oil are now serving a vital role in holding supplies ahead of a surge in demand
The company said last month that trading had held up well since the Covid-19 pandemic erupted. Nonetheless, the shares have been savaged, tumbling from £2.24 in early January to just 99p when the market closed last week.
The fall seems unjustified. Shipping is the lifeblood of the global economy and, even if the coronavirus induces a worldwide slowdown, essential goods still have to be transported from A to B.
Virtually every shipment requires a broker, who acts as an intermediary between the cargo's owners and shipping companies, and is paid a commission for their work.
Trust is paramount in this industry. Ships can be worth more than £100million each, their cargo may be highly valuable and transporting goods around the world is a risky business, so everyone involved needs to feel confident that they are in good hands.
Shipowners need to know they will be paid for their work in a timely manner, while cargo owners need to know that their goods will be handled with due care and attention, and will arrive on time.
Braemar is known for going the extra mile in this regard. The group has built a network of relationships across the globe, and many of its customers have been with the business for years.
Braemar's core business focuses on commodities such as wheat, soya, oil and steel, which play a critical role in our everyday lives.
Happily for Braemar, there is no direct link between the underlying commodity prices and orders for shipments. Indeed, when the price of crude oil tumbled last month, Braemar did well, as cargo owners scrambled to find tankers that could store their surplus fuel.
The group makes three quarters of its money from shipbroking, but provides a range of related services too.
When shipowners are looking for finance, Braemar can help them find investors. This division was formed in the teeth of the 2008 financial crisis and tends to do well when times are hard and banks reluctant to lend.
The company has also built a huge research database. This can provide cargo owners and shipowners with valuable guidance. But it can also track when ships may be coming to the end of their useful life.
Braemar can then step in and offer advice on shipbuilding, ship financing and chartering, often finding owners long-term cargo contracts once their new vessels are seaworthy.
Braemar is chaired by Ron Series, who has decades of experience in international trade and logistics. Appointed just over a year ago, he has already helped the company to dispose of non-core divisions and become more focused.
At last month's trading update, Series disappointed some investors by saying there would be no final dividend for the year to February 29. However, this was attributed more to prudence than underlying concerns about the business.
Looking ahead, Series is confident of Braemar's prospects and stockbrokers are too.
Turnover of £123million is forecast for the year to February 29, 2020, with profit of £9million. Those figures may dip slightly in the current year, but results should recover next year.
Series is also committed to restoring dividends as soon as is practicable. At least 5p is expected for the year to February 28, 2021, putting the stock on a yield of 5 per cent, rising to 7.5p the following year.
Midas verdict: Shipping is a cyclical business but the long-term outlook is benign, particularly as Asian economies pick up steam. With offices around the world, a global reputation and a robust management team, Braemar is well placed to benefit from underlying industry trends. At 99p, the shares are undervalued. Buy.
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Although freight fell from April, May shipments rose 1.4 percent from a year earlier.
Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 12.1 percent from year earlier.
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For-hire freight transported in March increased 1.9 percent from February to the highest level since July 2008.
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Computex 07: Day 2 Updates
ECS was offering a range of mainboards and integrated SFF solutions as usual, but they have some new stuff on display so do check it out.
Inno3D has lately been targeting the enthusiast market with their iChill series of components – Here we see their premium products featuring custom coolers.
High clocked, speedy, and of course those black PCBs that enthusiasts around the globe seem to like very much.
With HD Video decoding becoming a gradual necessity, PowerDVD was down at the show to demonstrate what some smart coding can do for HD decoding performance.


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This time around, Joe Oberloier decided to do things a little differently.
Oberloier is still in thermoforming, but instead of building another business providing its own products, Cam Packaging LLC of Gladwin, Mich., mostly does work for other thermoformers who need some short-term help.
This business model where he does so-called “tolling” work for other companies allowed Oberloier to re-enter the thermoforming arena needing less capital than if he was building his own molds to produce proprietary products.
“This time I thought I would approach it a little differently and just do work for other large companies and not have an arsenal of tooling sitting on the pallet racks,” Oberloier said.
Oberloier has been in the thermoforming business since he was a teenager, starting out by sweeping floors at thermoforming equipment maker Lyle Industries at age 14 when his stepfather owned that company decades ago.
Oberloier, now 56, went on to work at Ultra Pac Inc. in Rogers, Minn. and later founded his own firm, Packaging Direct, in 1995 before selling and getting out of the thermoforming business. That operation still operates as a D&W Fine Pack LLC facility in Gladwin.
With a passion for cycling and a 10-year noncompete agreement after the sale, Oberloier purchased a bicycle shop and grew that business into four locations during his time away from packaging. That's a business he still owns.
But another thermoforming opportunity eventually knocked. And he answered.
“With the new company, I just thought I would grab a machine and just do it a little different. When other manufacturers have breakdowns or they want to repair their equipment, that's typically when they come to us,” Oberloier explained.
Producing packaging for other thermoformers keeps operating costs down for Cam Packaging, but it was still a tough business to crack back into when he first started production in 2015.
“You start out bootstrapping. It took a while to get the first customer. And it was a fluke. They just knocked on my door one day. I hadn't done any outreach,” he said.
Oberloier, while in thermoforming for much of his life, had been out of the business for years thinking about bikes.
So, to an extent, he had to relearn the business. Oberloier knew the core components of being a successful thermoformer. But he had to catch up on technological improvements that had been made during his time away. And many of his past contacts in the business were gone.
Upon his return, Cam Packaging decided to invest on the equipment side of the business instead of tooling.
“I didn't want to go out and spend a quarter-million dollars on every mold. I know you don't have to spend that on every tool. But to compete in the really high-volume areas, you need very large, expensive tools,” he said. “That's why I decided I'd keep my money in the bank and just buy machines.
“We took the route of new, state-of-the-art equipment, which I think is attractive to our customers,” he said.
Oberloier's decision to jump back in to thermoforming came as a result of Mother Nature.
He was able to buy a new Lyle thermoformer, still in its shipping container, at a deep discount at auction. That's because the machine, which was being shipped overseas, was caught in Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The container was flooded with about two feet of salt water in New Jersey, but Oberloier was able to use his years of experience working on Lyle machines to repair the damage.
Cam Packaging started renovation of a former warehouse in Gladwin in 2012. Production started in 2015 in the 38,000-square-foot facility. After 14,000 square feet was added off-site, business has continued to grow and work is now under way on a 10,000 square-foot addition to the original building that will help with logistics and warehouse space.
“Right now, we do everything out of one door,” Oberloier said. “There are days when there are five semis out there.”
The new work will allow the company to have a separate receiving door and two shipping doors. And as business grows over time, the owner said the company will probably put an additional machine in the new space at some point.
Work on the $650,000 project is expected to be completed by late April or early May, he said. “None too soon because we're bursting at the seams.”
Cam Packaging's current equipment lineup of six inline thermoformers includes two large-format, 52-inch lines that make the firm unique among job shops, Director of Sales Michael Keen said. Those machines help attract the attention of larger customers looking for help with their workloads.
“That's a very unique niche to have that capability and capacity to help them with some of their own capacity issues. Possibly they have a machine that's down, and you incorporate that with the experience that Joe has and the crew here at Cam has, it makes for a great partnership with some of these companies we're currently working with,” Keen said.
While Cam Packaging's business model is to move from job to job, helping other thermoformers as needed, some of the work the company does can last for months.
“It depends. We ran six months for some people. I think 25 million berry baskets,” Oberloier said.
Cam Packaging's customers will provide the materials for production and shipping as the tolling company charges for conversion.
Every job is different for Cam Packaging, which posted 2018 sales of $1.43 million. So getting the tooling set up for production can be a challenge, the owner said. “Every setup is difficult. We fight it. But we have really nice equipment. Once you get these new modern, sophisticated machines set up, they just run very well,” he said.


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From 25 autonomous companies emerges a global mobility supergroup – the Colson Group. Now a single, cohesive force specializing in the design and manufacturing of caster and wheel product solutions, with over 1,600 employees around the world, the Colson Group is reinventing the wheel – literally.
In 2012, twenty-five related caster companies around the world began the transformation to operate as one company to develop global synergies, better service the marketplace, and align themselves for continued growth into the future. Together these companies would form and begin operating as the Colson Group. Tom Blashill, who joined Colson in late 2013 and is still CEO today, believed then that these industries, in the same sector, would work better collaboratively than competitively. “Even though they were under common ownership, our individual companies would often be competing for the same business prior to our transformation, which also led to unnecessary duplication and resource strains throughout the businesses,” he remarks.
Seven years later, Blashill looks back on what was a daunting task of leading twenty-five unique companies to conform to a single doctrine and work culture. “That’s a lot of change,” he remarks, recalling the large number of company insiders with whom he had to work. “It’s significant change, so you have to work with all facets of that change management in order to get the culture of the company to embrace the ‘One Colson’ strategy and work together.”
Along the way, Blashill recalls how the process sparked deep questions about Colson’s identity. “Who is Colson?” he remembers asking himself and others. “What does the Colson Group identity mean to the rest of the world – to the customers, to the suppliers and to employees?” This Herculean task took a while, but Blashill says Colson Group now has a single global identity and communication culture – one that is focused on how its employees and products are moving lives forward with various mobility products.
“Prior to the transformation, a Colson company was an individual company in a local market,” he remarks, “where today, to the outside world, the Colson Group is an integrated business, globally, and is the largest mobility solutions provider in the world.”
Through the rich experience of this reorientation and partnership forming, the Colson Group has learned to leverage its resources more efficiently to address a constantly shifting market. While the company was opening new distribution centers and wrestling with different ERPs, Colson pooled its resources to develop “not only new products but products with a high level of technical sophistication, to meet the needs of some of the emerging markets in our industry,” Blashill says.
“In the past twelve to eighteen months, we’ve seen a significant increase in our new business opportunities.” He relates how the group is now expanding into emerging markets such as automated e-commerce fulfillment. “That’s really been a big change for us, and the next phase of transformation, if you will, that’s taken place over the last twelve to eighteen months.”
These new, more demanding and sophisticated products from Colson are evidence of the generally improving standards in the industry, to be seen amongst Colson’s competitors as well as in client expectations.
Undaunted, Blashill says that Colson’s goal is to continue to lead its industry by being the solutions provider: “We want to be the company users come to for extreme use or unique requirements; it’s where we started some of our most lasting customer partnerships.”
While the group’s bread-and-butter remains casters and wheels, Blashill recognizes business diversification is the key to longevity: “We feel that diversifying our customer base will allow us to go after the high end of the market.”
With facilities worldwide, Colson Group enjoys continued success in multiple sectors, including professional toolboxes. A major tool company remains one of the group’s most stalwart clients and part of a unique recent story where Colson Group was able to design, tool and manufacture an advanced toolbox caster in its Michigan plant for a new USA-made toolbox design, all while maintaining global competitiveness, says Dennis Jones, Vice President of Global Engineering. “We can offer the full breadth of solutions across their product needs, combined with custom-engineered solutions.” Three years ago, Colson Group redesigned every aspect of this company’s product line to be better adapted to customers’ changing needs, a testament to the group’s high level of expertise and flexibility.
As mentioned previously, the automation industry offers new opportunities in high-end robotics casters and wheels. Colson recently entered into partnership with a large online retailer to design and build custom sorting-robots expected to operate nearly all day long with a five-year minimum life span.
“They came to us, looking for a technical engineering support team,” Jones recalls. The company was looking less for a specific product than for a company which could provide a custom solution—precisely Colson’s forte. The group designed and manufactured advanced robot casters and wheels for package-sorting facilities, specially adapted for heavy-duty use and an extended battery life, a winning example of the group’s extensive expertise in automation.
The group uses a mix of automated systems and robotics in its own caster and wheel manufacturing facilities. Jones remarks on how greatly these systems help with Colson’s vision systems; how they provide necessary checks and balances in manufacturing; and also – with date coding and lot tracking – ensure that a client can trace each part of a product from inception to delivery.
Colson Group is also proud of and excited about its new ergonomic designs. The group and its resident brands have a rich history in ergonomics: “We have some of the most ergonomic products in the market today,” Jones says. Colson is on the cusp of releasing a new generation of ergonomic wheels, which will replace the industry standard with a new model that lasts longer and requires less force to maneuver.
This bold new development is one of the most visible fruits of Colson’s reorganization over the past seven years, and has only been possible with the resources provided by a unified sector. “We’re constantly leveraging our global engineering group to be able to leverage all our material expertise from around the world,” Jones says, “and then build that into learning tools for our engineering team to be able to apply the right materials to the right application.”
This level of innovation is only possible with a highly skilled support team backed by significant funding and technology support. Colson’s engineering team, which Jones leads, boasts a global team of 29 product engineers, five CAD designers, and several lab technicians, backed up by $5 million in annual R&D and services funding.
In addition, Colson has programs to monitor and improve the group’s overall performance. It of regularly solicits customer feedback and implements lessons learned. A large sales team constantly investigates how effectively distribution actually works outside of headquarters, vigilant to customers’ changing needs.
Yet, for this innovation to succeed, requires a steady stream of qualified and passionate employees, even with the advances afforded by automation. To meet this challenge, Blashill and his management team have spent over six months working on and fostering the development of a new, singular Colson Group company culture.
A new video, plus other online resources, gives both employees and potential customers a firm idea of what the company stands for and how it helps shape modern manufacturing. “Our aim is, first of all, to help show our employees how what they do every day does impact lives. They do make a difference and they should be proud of what they do,” Blashill says.
Many of the group’s employees are internal referrals, talented professionals attracted to Colson by its reputation for precision and expertise. “We want to use this identity to become more active in our communities, to let [them] know who we are, and really leverage that to attract talent,” Blashill says.
Under his leadership, he continues, he wants employees to understand that not only does their work help Colson fulfill its mission, but “their career goals are also being fulfilled.” While the group is building partnerships with staffing agencies and trade schools to create a pipeline of skilled workers, Blashill and Colson’s management place their faith in their group’s new identity. “We like the strategy, we believe in it, and our employees believe in it,” is his firmly-stated view.
The Colson Group is also cognizant of its environmental impact. The group’s ecological policy is centralized, with a single Safety and Environmental Coordinator, based in the UK but tasked with global authority over all Colson companies. Employee safety may come first, but local and global environmental impact is second on the list.
Blashill describes how the Coordinator publishes a monthly scorecard, picking out not only good environmental practices but what must be improved. “We’ve built this into an important process within the company,” he says, “which is what we think we need to do to really have an impact in this area.”
Seven years after its remarkable reorientation, the Colson Group continues to see the fruits of its labor. “We’re very proud of all the effort from all the employees globally,” Blashill says with enthusiasm. “We now have captured that effort into what we think is a very representative corporate identity, and we are going to keep moving forward with the strategy that we’ve developed.”
Yet this new identity will in no way sacrifice Colson’s ongoing commitment to its customers. “We’ve always been focused on improving the mobility of people around the world, and our new global identity really captures that drive and commitment,” comments Marketing Director Brad Kish. “Internally, we’ve seen such a change in our employees with its launch and sharing the real customer stories that support it.”
With the group’s enthusiasm now fully motivated and the company’s resources deeply committed to providing the next generation of casters and wheel products, Kish has the last word: “The whole company is energized around our future and knowing that they are part of improving the safety, happiness, and efficiency of our customers around the world. It is something so much bigger than just getting a product out the door.”