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Michter’s has an odd and checkered history. The brand claims a heritage going back to 1753, but Michter’s as we know it today only dates back to the mid-1990s, when the dormant trademark was revived and its base of operations was moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky. Since then, Michter’s has earned the respect of the whiskey industry and a fan base that’s eager to snap up whatever it puts out, especially its aged whiskeys. Rye and bourbon that’s been aged for a decade is getting harder to come by, as whiskey sales have zoomed into the stratosphere, so Michter’s 10-year-old bourbon and rye have become hotter commodities than ever.
This is what makes the new bottling of Michter’s 10-Year-Old Single Barrel Straight Rye ($150) so noteworthy. Master Distiller Willie Pratt had a batch ready to ship to retail last year, but he tasted it and decided it wasn’t ready to bottle yet. Pratt has the final say on what gets released and what doesn’t, so the rye matured further in oak for another year while customers, retailers, and the Michter’s sales force waited. There’s a reason Pratt’s nickname within the company is “Doctor No.”
The new bottling, released at a healthy but not overwhelming 92.8 proof (the proof can vary slightly from barrel to barrel), is worth the wait. Despite having spent more than a decade in oak, the rye is surprisingly fruity, with only a moderate amount of the spicy char notes that the wood can impart. In its place are cinnamon and baking spices, with a touch of black pepper. It’s big and full-flavored, but not a one-dimensional bruiser; it’s one of the niftiest sipping ryes you’ll come across. There’s no telling when Pratt will OK another batch for release, so your best bet is to pick up a bottle now rather than wait for next time. (michters.com)


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E-commerce and online manufacturer giant, Alibaba collaborates with KFC to unveil 'Smile to Pay' facial recognition in Hangzhou, China where the company's global HQ is located. The latest technology service allows customers to process their payment by simply flashing a smile once their order has been placed at the fast-food restaurant.
Alibaba's subsidiary, Ant Financial, behind the new facial recognition payment system aims to revolutionise offline retail spaces through innovative technology. 'Smile to Pay' only takes two seconds to scan a person's face using 3D camera and a "live-ness detection algorithm" to fight fraud and guarantee a user's identity. The algorithm can detect shadows and additional features that can only come from living humans therefore automatically blocking photos and videos with additional mobile phone verification to "further ensure the security of transactions", Ant Financial says.
We are moving towards a cashless society where digital payments are evolving and we are quickly moving away from carrying a wallet and less in hard cash, relying on our smartphones for making payments. Alipays breakthrough in facial recognition technology means that customers won't need to pull out their wallets - or even smartphones. The technology is available to customers registered to the Alipay app - the mobile and online payment platform established in Hangzhou by Alibaba's founder Jack Ma. The launch sits in line with Yum China's plans to attract younger generation of customers.
Facial recognition is expected to be added to the new iPhone 8 according to Bloomberg reports, which will include sensors to help recognise the face of owners of the iPhone 8. Other brands including Samsung have introduced face and eye recognition however they have been blighted by an inability to recognise quickly, as for Apple's "industry first" allowing users to authenticate payments using facial recognition, which we can assume will be linked with Apple Pay.

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Anantara Hotels has announced a new addition to its Middle East portfolio, the ninth from the luxury brand in the region, including six in the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is on every luxury traveler’s radar, as one of the only places in Asia that accepts travelers without quarantine, and the new Anantara hotel is on the famed “World Islands”.
“Anantara World Islands Dubai Resort will be the first hotel to open on this archipelago, offering guests a truly memorable escape just off the coast of Dubai,” says Dillip Rajakarier, CEO Minor Hotels, parent company of Anantara. “Showcasing Anantara’s authentic luxury while maintaining a tropical island vibe, the resort is a unique proposition for this location. Guests will be able to experience the wonder of Dubai and the ambiance of an island sanctuary, all in this stunning new Anantara resort”
Anantara World Islands Dubai Resort is in the final stages of development in the World Islands archipelago, located in the Arabian Gulf, approximately four kilometers off the coast of Dubai in the UAE. The new resort is the first hotel in the South American continent of the World Islands development. The island will be completely dedicated to the resort, with guests able to access by boat in just 15 minutes from the jetty at Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort.
As a destination, Dubai has never looked better, with the (very) belated Expo 2020 set to take off on October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. Continuing the tradition that began in London in 1851, the Expo 2020 Dubai will be the first World Expo in the Middle East. This event will bring travelers the City of the Future concept through food, art, and innovation, with unmissable features such as the world’s largest passenger lift, endless gardens of Jubilee Park, and the future of dining from things like aerogel meringues and bioluminescent jellyfish.
Anantara isn’t the only luxury brand optimistic about Dubai; Address Beach Resort from Emaar Hospitality Group announced the opening of its Guiness World Record setting hotel late last year. The 77-floor twin towers will be connected with the tallest inhabited skybridge in the world and is a candidate for the highest infinity pool, edging out Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
The Anantara property will feature 70 keys comprising suites, beach and pool villas. Villas will have a private pool, an outdoor dining area and direct access to the beach, making the perfect retreat for families and couples. In-room spa treatments, a gym and a kid’s club will also be part of the new resort’s amenities. Flora and fauna are abundant on the island, so it is truly a place to escape the city and immerse in nature.
Dining options will include a Mediterranean al fresco restaurant and Arabic-Indian specialty dining, perfect for romantic dinners and offering barbecues on the beach. In addition, freshly caught seafood will be prepared by a talented in-house team of chefs who will bring the finest fare to the island. A stylish bar lounge will offer magnificent panoramic views of the Dubai skyline, including the famous landmarks Burj Khalifa and Burj al Arab, even more special at sunset.
Abu Dhabi, Dubai’s capital neighbor in the UAE, is also seeing some new changes. Miral in partnership with SeaWorld announced significant progress on the construction of SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, the next generation of marine life theme parks and Yas Island’s latest mega-development.
“Anantara is one of the world’s most prestigious luxury hotel brands, which is already well established in Dubai and the UAE,” says Abdulla bin Sulayem, CEO of Seven Tides Limited, added. “Seven Tides and Anantara are further strengthening our relationship with this exciting new venture on the World Islands, representing a new milestone in hospitality and for the city.”


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Google, Yahoo and six of the nation's largest ad networks have committed to a set of best practices aimed at stopping online piracy and counterfeiting by cutting off the flow of ad revenue to rogue sites.
Broad adoption of the guidelines comes one month after the White House released its strategic plan on intellectual property enforcement and renewed a push for private industry to take voluntary actions to reduce online infringement.
Besides Google and Yahoo, the ad network owners that agreed to adopt the best practices include 24/7 Media, Adtegrity, AOL, Condé Nast, Microsoft and SpotXchange.
"We believe that this is a positive step and that such efforts can have a significant impact on reducing online piracy and counterfeiting," Victoria Espinel, the U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator, said in a statement. "We also encourage other participants in the online advertising space to consider adopting voluntary initiatives that protect ad networks, publishers, advertisers, creators, rightsholders, and above all, consumers."
The best practices adopted by the eight companies build on the framework of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's quality assurance guidelines. As part of the code, the companies have agreed to adopt policies prohibiting websites that are principally dedicated to selling counterfeit goods or engaging in copyright piracy from using an ad network's advertising programs. They also agree to independently monitor where ads are running and establish a complaint process when rights holders find websites that are infringing on copyrights or selling counterfeit goods.
"To have the White House stamp of approval is critical as part of the evolution of the IAB quality assurance guidelines and the industry as a whole," said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the IAB. "Bringing these disparate parties together at the same table, we have been able to establish guidelines that strictly protect copyrights, while allowing the digital economy to flourish."


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Bioware consider next-gen
In a new interview, Bioware supremos Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka wax lyrical on the developer's plans for the next-generation of console systems. "We're actually looking at all the next-gen systems closely - they all look impressive, very interesting and powerful," Muzyka told Gamespot last week. Up until now, Bioware have developed exclusively for the Xbox and PC. The Xbox 360, is definitely part of their plans, and other next-gen systems, as well as handhelds, are also under consideration.
"Ray and I are huge handheld fans," confessed Zeschuk. "We spent the entire time on the plane on the way down to LA playing Lumines... Can you imagine some of our RPGs on a handheld? All of a sudden, we've got these new handhelds that can actually handle it."
"The interesting thing is that with the next generation, [hardware platforms] are evolving together, but they're also staying separate, so we want to make sure we accommodate both audiences and make games that are going to be seen as platform-defining games, no matter what platform they're on," Muzyka continued.
The CEOs admitted that they already have two Xbox 360 projects underway, though dismissed suggestions that one was Dragon Age. "Microsoft seems to be really focusing on the launch window, but we'll be able to start talking pretty soon," said Muzyka of Bioware's current next-gen developments. "All our games on both the PC and consoles are extremely ambitious, and to achieve that ambition it takes time. We're not going to cut corners."
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A new independent data governance industry association, Data Governance Australia (DGA) was launched this month to establish best practice industry standards and benchmarks around the collection, use and management of data in Australia.
The new non-for-profit association will be chaired by Club Melbourne Ambassador, Professor Graeme Samuel AC, former ACCC Chair and currently a professor at Monash Business School.
DGA will provide education, thought leadership and advocacy services to its members to promote and foster understanding of how data can be used responsibly to drive innovation and competitive advantage whilst complying with all regulatory requirements.
Professor Samuel said: "Advances in data technology and capabilities have transformed the way that Australian businesses use, store and manage data over the last decade. Used effectively and managed responsibly, data can drive innovation, revenue growth and customer experience. However, in a world of almost infinite data storage and use, it is incumbent upon all sectors of industry to ensure that stringent self-regulation and best-practice is applied to retain consumer confidence and avoid heavy-handed federal regulation.”
For more information on DGA, visit: datagovernanceaus.com.au


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Disney+ streaming service is now available in 42 new markets globally including the Middle East and North Africa. The company announced early this year that it plans to expand to more markets on June 8, 2022.
Now it has gone live in more than a dozen countries in the region, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, and Oman.
The Walt Disney Company continues the global expansion of its streaming service, Disney+, by launching in 42 countries and 11 territories across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
The launch of Disney+ gives customers across these regions access to exclusive original content and thousands of episodes and movies from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and general entertainment from Star.
Disney+ app is now available for download in the following new markets.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Czech Republic
- North Macedonia
- Palestine Territories
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates
- Vatican City
In addition to:
- Faroe Islands
- French Polynesia
- French Southern Territories
- St. Pierre and Miquelon Overseas Collective
- Åland Islands
- Sint Maarten
- Svalbard & Jan Mayen
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Pitcairn Islands
- St Helena
Users will be able to access high-quality viewing, up to four concurrent streams, unlimited downloads on up to ten devices, and set up to seven different profiles, including the ability for parents to set Kids Profiles to access age-appropriate content.
Last month Disney+ was launched in South Africa; now, the Disney+ app being offered across the Middle East and Africa is different from the app used elsewhere.
The Disney+ app across the Middle East and Africa is a variant version of the Disney+ Hotstar app used in India and South-East Asia.
The app does have a different user interface. Also, it has another login system, which uses a mobile telephone number rather than a Disney ID, while the content isn’t different.
This leads us to the fact that it might not work if you are visiting the Middle East or Africa and trying to use your Disney+ app, it might not work. It also will be the same situation for those from the Middle East or Africa visiting other countries trying to access Disney+ on their devices.


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November 16, 2017
The FCC is scheduled to vote today on the long-awaited ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. On the eve of the vote, privacy advocates have expressed concern that the standard allows broadcasters to harvest data about individual viewing habits so that advertisers can target their pitches, and there are no rules governing how broadcasters handle the data. In its 109-page proposal for the new rule, the FCC does not mention the issue of privacy. Broadcasters perceive the rule as a way to catch up to Facebook, YouTube, Amazon Prime and others. CTA president Gary Shapiro defends the standard and suggests the vote is being politicized due to the Sinclair-Tribune merger proposal.
Bloomberg reports that, “Sinclair Broadcast Group and other TV station owners say the new standard, known as Next Gen TV, will provide sharper pictures and video on demand” and “allow them to track viewers of their programming on tablets and other platforms.” While broadcasters will likely reap more lucrative ad sales, Consumers Union senior policy counsel Jonathan Schwantes is concerned.
“If the new standard allows broadcasters to collect data in a way they haven’t before, I think consumers should know about that,” he said. “What privacy protections will apply to that data, and what security protections?”
Up until now, broadcasters sold ads based on very broad demographics, and “data collected via Next Gen TV can help them up their game, much as cable providers use data from set-top boxes, and websites rely on browsing history to target ads.” With Next Gen TV, broadcasters can also collect data from tablets and mobile phones.
“We’ll know where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing — just like you do now, just like everybody does now, the Internet does, or Google, or a Facebook,” said Sinclair executive chairman David Smith. “We will have perfect data all the time.”
Consumers Union and other privacy advocates have filed a reply to the FCC that, because “cable companies have legal obligations to safeguard subscriber information, such as names and addresses, from unauthorized disclosure,” so “Next Gen TV should have the same rules” and “consumers also should be given a choice in how information about their viewing is used.”
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has said the government commission will first look at the technical standard, and “may look at privacy concerns later.”
Meanwhile, “The Consumer Technology Association spoke out Wednesday against what CTA President Gary Shapiro signaled was politicizing a straightforward technological win-win-win for broadcasters, consumer electronics companies, and the public,” reports Broadcasting & Cable.
“The FCC’s Nov. 16 vote on a framework for the new ATSC 3.0 next gen broadcast TV transmission standard has gotten embroiled in the politics of the Sinclair-Tribune merger proposal. Sinclair has been one of the biggest backers on the standard and owns a broadcast tech company and a handful of ATSC 3.0-related patents.”
According to Shapiro: “Next Gen TV delivers overwhelming consumer benefit and does not hurt any existing products. Everyone has had a chance to weigh in on the order, there is scant opposition and this should not be embroiled in politics and media ownership issues. The commissioners have had the opportunity to hear the views of a variety of stakeholders and frankly, I am surprised at the non-technical and political objections raised.”


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US relaxes commercial drone rules
A new rule surrounding commercial use of drones in the US could set the tone for future business in the UK.
Issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the rule came into effect on 29 August. One of its key changes saw the introduction of new written flight exams in place of the lengthy process of applying for waivers in order to fly for commercial purposes.
There are still limitations. The drones must weigh no more than 55lbs, must fly during daylight hours and are not permitted to enter the vicinity of any people or structures that are not related to the commercial UAV job.
However, globally based drone consultants ConsortiQ welcomes these rule changes and speculates what similar amendments could mean for businesses in Britain.
Ben Keene, operations director, said, ‘Many American businesses have been struggling to keep up with their growing client demands for services that use a drone, with the strict rules set out by the FAA making it time consuming and cumbersome to get the required accreditation needed to use this technology legally for commercial purposes. This new Part 107 rule is an important step forward in helping American businesses to innovate, and will certainly pave the way for many more creative, and potentially life-saving uses of a drone to become apparent.
‘As American companies get to grips with these new regulations, we can’t help but wonder what similar rules would also mean for UK businesses. We specialise in helping organisations in many industries realise the huge commercial opportunities that a drone can offer – introducing a rule, similar to the Part 107 released by the FAA, might just help to make these opportunities become a reality much sooner.’


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Microsoft is making it tougher for users who’ve looked to Long Term Servicing Updates as a way to avoid feature updates for Windows 10.
Microsoft officials are tightening the screws on Windows 10 users running the Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) version of the product, starting later this year. Microsoft will be cutting from ten years to five the length of time it will support the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC releases, starting with the one coming in the second half of calendar 2021 — which should be Windows 10 21H2, unless Microsoft changes how and when it releases LTSC Windows variants.
Officials announced the change in a blog post on February 18 that coincided with an announcement about the coming perpetual (a k a, non-cloud-subscription) versions of Office — the Office LTSC and Office 2021 releases. Support for both of those products also will be limited to five years.
Microsoft execs have tried to dissuade customers from using LTSC versions of Windows 10 as a way to avoid regular feature updates. (More than a few customers do this.) They’ve emphasized that the intent of LTSC releases is to support mission-critical systems that can’t or shouldn’t get regular updates.
In today’s blog post, officials said they also found that many customers who installed LTSC versions for their information worker desktops “found that they do not require the full 10-year lifecycle.”
Microsoft is guiding those who actually do need ten years of support for a Windows release to go with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC, which will continue to get the full decade of support. Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC will be released in the latter half of 2021, officials said.
Users running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2015, 2016 or 2019 are not affected by the support change announced today. They still will get ten years of support, meaning five years of mainstream and five years of extended support during which Microsoft will provide security fixes for these products.


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Introducing the Content Authenticity Initiative
Proper content attribution is critical to ensure trust and transparency
Today, at Adobe MAX 2019, in collaboration with The New York Times Company and Twitter, we announced the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) to develop an industry standard for digital content attribution.
With the volume of digital content increasing, people want to know that what they’re seeing online is authentic. Yet, currently there’s a lack of transparency. People can be misled when they don’t know who is altering content and what content has been changed. The ability to provide proper content attribution for creators and publishers is critical to ensure trust and transparency online.
Our heritage at Adobe is built on trusted creative solutions. Empowering creativity is in our DNA. And we feel it’s our responsibility to play a leading role in addressing content authenticity in this next era of digital content.
A long-term, holistic solution is needed in order to provide consumers with information and tools to help them decide who and what to trust. We think attribution is a critical part of the solution as it will enable creators to identify themselves and the modification level of their media.
What is the CAI?
Adobe, The New York Times Company and Twitter believe that addressing content authenticity to empower consumers is a shared responsibility among creators, technology and media companies, and that joining forces will accelerate progress.
We have a technical team at Adobe exploring a high-level framework architecture based on our vision of attribution, and we are inviting input and feedback from industry partners to help shape the final solution. The goal of the Initiative is for each member to bring its deep technical and business knowledge to the solution. Success will mean building a growing ecosystem of members who are contributing to a long-term solution, adoption of the framework and supporting consumers to understand who and what to trust.
We are inviting other companies to join and contribute to the CAI working group. Along with The New York Times Company and Twitter, we plan to kick off the initiative at a summit along with a larger group of technology and media companies in the coming months. Our vision for the attribution framework is to be open and extensible so that any company may implement it within their respective products and services.
Education is also a critical component of the digital integrity solution. The initiative is committed to education efforts to help consumers better understand and evaluate digital media. The partners will work together to improve consumers’ media literacy awareness and skills.
As our announcement today illustrates, creating a long-term solution is a shared responsibility among creators, technology and media companies. We believe that joining efforts will accelerate progress for the creative community and society at large, and are committed to doing our part to upholding digital integrity.
Companies interested in learning more about the Content Authenticity Initiative can contact email@example.com.


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HYDERABAD:Telangana’s inflation rates have been the most volatile in the country, ranging from 10% in June 2022 to 8.5% in August 2023.
Despite stabilising from a peak of 10% and a sharp drop to nearly 6% in July, rural inflation continues to remains high in the state. Compared to states like Andhra Pradesh
, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh which saw inflation rates fluctuating between 7% and 8%, Telangana’s inflation kept swinging big time in a span of one year.
According to the most recent CPI inflation rates released by the ministry of statis tics and programme implementation, Telangana’s inflation stood at 8.5% last month.
Because of the high cost of fuel, vegetable and other commodities’ prices have also surged which led to high inflation, experts said.
“Telangana’s inflation rate was like a seesaw, constantly shifting between very high and low. No other state has se en inflation fluctuating so much in just one year,” an expert said.
Experts said fluctuations indicate price increase for certain food items that are given more weightage than others while calculating inflation.
“CPI inflation is calculation of a range of prices of many food commodities and each commodity is assigned a specific weightage based on its price and consumption. For example, rice is the most commonly consumed food in our region and recent price increase in rice may have contributed to an increase in inflation,” said A Nakula Reddy, former professor of economics, Osmania University.
Between 1969 and 2023, In dia’s inflation rate averaged 7.7%, with an all-time high of 34.7% in October 1974 and a record low of -11.3% in May 1976.
“The situation in Telangana would have been more or less similar. Understanding inflation needs deeper details but high fuel and oil prices certainly increase the prices of other commodities” Nakula Reddy said.
According to financial and banking expert K Narasimha Murthy, “It is a good sign that the inflation is on the downside. Despite fluctuations, there is a need to bring down prices of fuel by both state and central governments as it will improve buying capacity of consumers and create more jobs and thereby reduce the inflation within an acceptable range.”
The Reserve Bank of India has set a 4% inflation target with a 2% margin of error. As aresult, the acceptable range is between 2% and 5%.


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Google is already tipped to drop four new smartphones on us in 2024, but it would see that number is larger than expected, with a surprise sixth Pixel phone set to shake things up by reviving the lineup's XL branding for a third variant of the upcoming Pixel 9, and a larger version of the Pixel 9 Pro, specifically.
The existence of the Pixel 9 Pro XL was seemingly confirmed by reputable tipster OnLeaks (via 91Mobiles), who claims that the Pixel 9 renders showcasing a radical redesign he brought to light earlier this year are actually the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL, not the vanilla and Pro models that we had previously assumed.
The new "XL" Pixel 9 Pro is said to feature a 6.5-inch display, with the regular Pixel 9 Pro touting a smaller 6.2-inch display, and the vanilla Pixel 9 featuring a slightly smaller 6.03-inch display.
Interestingly, the new Pixel 9 Pro XL is smaller than the current Pixel 8 Pro, which makes use of a 6.7-inch display. Meaning, while the name Pixel 9 Pro XL would suggest that it's a bigger option than before, the Pixel 9 series is actually in receipt of a redesign that will see each handset adopt a smaller form factor.
With Google having made a discernible push to differentiate the vanilla Pixel from the Pro model this generation, the Pro and Pro XL will likely cater to those who want the advanced features of the Pixel 9 Pro, without the added size.
It would seem that the entire Pixel 9 lineup features the same revamped design, which could also be an indicator of what to expect when the Pixel 9a arrives next year.
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Gartner says global PC shipments declined 30% in 1Q23
High inventory and low demand led to a second consecutive quarter of historic year-over-year decline, says Gartner.
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 55.2 million units in the first quarter of 2023, a 30% decrease from the first quarter of 2022, according to preliminary results by Gartner. An unfavorable combination of oversupply and continued low PC demand due to economic uncertainties and a lack of purchase motivation led to the second consecutive quarter of historic year-over-year decline.
“PC pricing pressures intensified during the quarter as vendors offered considerable discounts to clear inventory,” said Mikako Kitagawa, Director Analyst at Gartner, in a press release. “To drive demand, vendors temporarily reduced average selling prices (ASPs) of PCs already in the channels, but ASPs of new PCs shipping into the channels remained elevated due to inflation-driven supply chain cost increases.”
Kitagawa continues to say that PC vendors essentially pursued a strategy to protect margins rather than to pursue market share by lowering prices. The analyst believes that ASPs will increase moderately in 2023 as vendors pass the cost increases for new PCs entering the channel to end users.
The top vendors in the worldwide PC market remained unchanged in the first quarter of 2023, with Lenovo maintaining the Number one spot in shipments with 23.3% market share.
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Notes: Data includes desktop and laptop PCs that are equipped with Windows, macOS and Chrome OS. All data is estimated based on a preliminary study. The statistics are based on shipments selling into channels. Numbers may not add up to the totals shown due to rounding. Source: Gartner (April 2023)
Lenovo recorded the steepest annual shipment decline in its corporate history over two quarters. While the U.S. was a particularly challenging market for Lenovo, the company had modest growth in Japan driven by end of fiscal year PC purchases.
This was the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit shipment decline for HP. HP shipments in EMEA dropped by 37% compared to a year ago but declined less steeply in the U.S. market.
Dell saw its fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year decline. Asia Pacific was its hardest-hit market, with shipments down by over 40%. Dell’s decline was largely driven by the weak business PC market.
“Business PC demand was slow overall this quarter, but the small and midsize business (SMB) market was especially weak due to economic uncertainties,” said Kitagawa. “IT has remained a top area for SMB spending as organizations recognize the importance of leveraging technology for growth, but PCs are often the first area to face budget cuts as the product life can be extended. In contrast, spending in other technology segments such as software and IT services is expected to grow in 2023.”


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Cody Rhodes saw what was going on with the fires in Australia and he figured out something he could do. It turns out that his efforts are raising a lot of money.
Rhodes is selling a “Cody” shirt done up in the style of his father’s classic “Dusty” shirt. He wore the shirt on AEW Dynamite this week. The American Nightmare is donating 100% of the profits to help Australian fire fighting efforts.
Ryan Barkan, owner of Pro Wrestling Tees announced that Cody Rhodes’ new t-shirt is now the #1 selling t-shirt on the entire website.
We do not have the figure of how much Cody was able to raise for the Australian firefighters. Hopefully, it’s a big number so they can help as much as they can.


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MOSCOW, July 24. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian mobile operators receive higher revenues from subscribers using smartphones working on Apple’s iOS operating system rather than other platforms, business daily Vedomosti reported Thursday, referring to a study carried out by mobile operator MegaFon.
MegaFon analyzed the data exchange traffic of its subscribers in Moscow and the Moscow Region during the first three months after the purchase of a smartphone. Average revenue per user (ARPU) grew 45% when a subscriber switched from a regular phone to an iOS smartphone, as compared to a 34% growth when switching to a Windows Phone, and 23% when switching to an Android phone.
Spending of iPhone users more than tripled, while spending of Windows Phone and Android users less than doubled.
Total ARPU, including voice services, increased by 17% at users choosing iOS phones, as compared to a 16% growth at Windows Phone users and 10% at Android users.
A MegaFon representative explained the trend by the fact that the range of Android devices is wider, and they are presented in different price segments from 1,500 rubles to 30,000 rubles. It means that their buyers have different income and the level of spending on communications. Apple’s smartphones are premium class devices.
Telecom Daily CEO Denis Kuskov said that iPhone users transfer data more often as compared to users of other systems. The iOS platform is more user-friendly, while Android lags on this parameter, he added.


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Winslow resident Rodney Rucker brought out several unique vehicles to display on July 30 for "Winslow's Summer Nights" on Kinsley Avenue.
Among them was a motorized stagecoach, a 16-foot tall motorized shopping cart able to carry eight people and last, but not least was the Monster Car, a huge yellow coupe that fit no category at all.
Music was playing while tourists and residents hung out, gawking at the cool vehicles.
Rucker has been building unique vehicles for thirty years. His creations have been featured on Discovery Channel, History Channel, Weird Wheels and Monster Garage as well as German and Canadian television.


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Samsung ramps up curved TV production, despite Sony and LG killing off theirs
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Putting pen to paper to write a letter is now an activity almost exclusively practiced by the elderly and the stubborn. With the advent of email, text message and instant message we have heard individual nails being hammered into the coffin of the hand-written word.
But now it seems that even digitally the written word isn’t safe. Google has recently released some of the numbers associated with the amount of time that we’ve all been spending on YouTube and the numbers are pretty staggering.
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- Italian supercar tops list of aspirational cars to own picked by PistonHeads community
- Top 25 cars to have in a dream garage a mix of modern and classic sportscars
- PistonHeads classifieds features almost 115,000 used performance and prestige cars
- View image gallery of the top 25 fantasy car buys at: https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonheads/the-pistonheads-my-garage-dream-cars/37725
Comprised of car enthusiasts and experts, PistonHeads’ one million members are invited to create their own virtual garage as part of their profile, comprising their current cars, previously owned cars and the ultimate, ‘money-no-object’ car they most aspire to own.
Analysis of 200,000 cars selected by 40,000 PistonHeads members reveals that, while the top three choices are modern supercars (Zonda, Aston Martin V8 Vantage and Bugatti Veyron), the rest of the top 25 is dominated by iconic classics like the Ferrari 288 GTO, Lancia Stratos and Dodge Viper.
PistonHeads is home to the UK’s largest selection of performance and prestige used cars, with nearly 115,000 used cars for sale currently in the classifieds section.
The Pagani Zonda, first launched in 1999 with the 6-litre, 389 hp C12 iteration, is still worth a staggering £2 million as a used car.
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PistonHeads editor, Nic Cackett, said: “Our community of car enthusiasts is the biggest and most knowledgeable in the world. So, if they say the Pagani Zonda is the ultimate addition to their fantasy garage, then it’s likely to be a good reflection of the car’s massive desirability.
“But the fact that, included in the top 100 cars our members picked in the fantasy column are cars like the Citroen 2CV and Unimog, shows that it’s all a question of personal taste. That’s why our community is great – it stimulates often rampant debate about cars.”
To view an image gallery of the top 25 fantasy car buys, visit: https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonheads/the-pistonheads-my-garage-dream-cars/37725
More about PistonHeads:
PistonHeads.com is a motoring community that never sleeps. It boasts a heady cocktail of award winning motoring news and editorial content as well as a huge range of extremely active (and very diverse) forums that are home to nearly one million members.
Alongside this it is also a platform to buy or sell a car, being the UK’s biggest prestige classified site. They say, “With almost 115,000 cars for sale at any one time the car of your dreams is only a few clicks away, and selling your existing car couldn’t be easier with our user friendly service”.
But PH isn’t just online. A lot of effort is put into delivering incredible tangible benefits to members such as discounts and special offers, not to mention a comprehensive range of motoring events throughout the year. Not only are these a huge amount of fun but they provide a great opportunity to pry members away from their keyboards so they can get out and enjoy their cars.


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Nomura Previews Tiffany's Q1 Earnings: 'The Value Shines Through'
Nomura expects above-consensus earnings from Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) when the jewelry maker reports its first-quarter results on May 25.
Nomura sees first quarter EPS of $0.70, $0.02 above consensus and expects worldwide comps in the quarter to decline 5 percent (CC), including an 8 percent fall in the Americas.
"While we are optimistic about TIF's efforts to improve its positioning with the domestic consumer, we think that materialization will take some time and that pressure from reduced tourism will continue," analyst Robert Drbul wrote in a note.
In addition, the analyst projects a 9 percent comp decline in Europe as the current instability reduced tourism in the region. Drbul anticipates a 7 percent comp decline in APAC, as HK remains weak, but expects Japan to remain strong and estimate a 15 percent comp.
"While top-line challenges persist, we are encouraged by the GM opportunity and forecast 40bps of expansion in 1Q16, driven by favorable product input cost (partic. metal), price increases, and manufacturing initiatives," the analyst noted.
Drbul expects FY16 EPS at $3.80 and FY17 EPS at $4.15, while projecting about 25bps of gross margin expansion for FY16.
"We remain optimistic about a turnaround at TIF and believe that, at current levels, the shares offer an attractive risk/reward ratio. On 4/13, we attended Tiffany's Investor Day in NYC and deem the company's stated financial targets both realistic and achievable," Drbul highlighted.
Commenting on the departure of CFO Ralph Nicoletti, the analyst termed it as "untimely," but remains confident in the current executive team.
Shares of Tiffany were up 0.28 percent to $64.11 at time of writing. The analyst has a Buy rating and $90 price target on the stock.
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EPPA speaking at the Nutraceuticals Europe – Summit & Expo 2020
On 3rd and 4th March, our colleagues Eduardo Mulas and Alex Bocquillion participated in the 4th edition of the Nutraceuticals Europe Summit, in Madrid, Spain. Nutraceuticals Europe provides an ideal platform for disseminating the values of functional ingredients, novel foods and finished products, and their contribution to the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. The event provided support in promoting the marketing of products, encouraging debate on trends and innovation.
EPPA’s Eduardo Mulas (Partner) and Alex Bocquillion (Account Manager) presented two panels during the NTC Next Congress. Their first contribution introduced the new European political context falling into place and provided insights into the labyrinth that is the regulation-making process alongside the greener priorities of the new European Commission and the European Parliament. They provided a broad understanding of the new dynamics and priorities as well as what implications could be expected for the nutraceuticals industry.
The second panel focused on a presentation highlighting the possibilities toward an (unavoidable?) EU regulatory framework for nutraceuticals. They compared the balance between the potential development of a well-drafted regulatory framework at EU level which could further stimulate competitiveness, innovation & investment in the sector and the risks which could also emerge from an ill-drafted regulation. They addressed possible scenarios of a potential future legislation at EU level addressing nutraceuticals, including specific cases of similar precedents under other regulatory frameworks (Novel Food Regulation, Biostimulants, New Genomic Techniques …).
EPPA was honoured to participate in such an exceptional event and to be amongst top-level speakers reflecting on innovation, trends and the future during Nutraceuticals Europe’s scientific congress. We are looking forward to next year’s edition and joining forces again with Nutraceuticals Europe in this unique venue.


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KFC revamps its ‘famously soggy’ fries after a diner criticised the chips in a viral tweet – but it took the chain FOUR YEARS to finally change the recipe
- Charlie Burness, 30, of London, tweeted about how ‘cr**’ its fries were in 2014
- Last month KFC asked her to promote the tweet as it had revamped their fries
- The fast food restaurant have released new ‘chunkier’ chips with the skin left on
A woman’s four-year-old tweet may just have helped KFC revamp its fries, after she bemoaned the quality of chips in the fast food chain.
Charlie Burness, 30, from London, was buying her mother a meal from the fast food chain for her birthday in August 2014, but was left disappointed by its potato side.
Taking to the social network at the time, she wrote: ‘I’ve got to say, KFC are riding solely on their chicken because Christ, those are cr** fries.’
And four years on the chicken shop contacted the diner to let her know it had overhauled its fries recipe.
Charlie Burness, from London, was contacted by KFC last month who asked her to promote her four-year-old tweet slamming its fries, to help spread the word of their newly revamped chips
The 30-year-old from London, was buying her mother a meal from the fast food chain for her birthday in August 2014, but was left disappointed by their potato snack
Speaking to the BBC, Charlie revealed the food retailer contacted her to ask whether she would promote the tweet last month to help raise awareness about their new fries.
She told Newsbeat: ‘I thought it was quite clever actually.
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‘Everyone knows they’ve got a reputation for not delivering on the fries. They’re kind of soggy, like they’ve been reheated as soon as you get them.’
Charlie’s tweet has now received 8,000 likes, almost a thousand retweets and hundreds of grateful replies.
KFC took to Twitter over the weekend to confirm it had released a new type of fries to their UK chains, describing them as ‘chunkier with skin still attached’
‘You told us no one liked our fries. So new ones are coming soon. Yours sincerely, KFC’, they confirmed this week
And KFC took to Twitter over the weekend to confirm it had released a new type of fries to their UK chains.
In a clever marketing ploy the fast food joint had posters printed with tweets from those who had criticised its chips.
One featured a tweet from user Upgrade_music and read: ‘Dear KFC, no one likes your fries. Yours sincerely, the entire world.’
Sharing an image of the poster online the chain tweeted the user writing: ‘You told us no one liked our fries. So new ones are coming soon. Yours sincerely, KFC’.
Their tweet has already received 3,500 favourites, almost a thousand retweets and hundreds of comments from excited fans praising the move.
Good work guys! One fan replied, with KFC joking that they’d be nothing without him, and him responding that he’d be ‘hungry without them’
The tweet has already received 3,500 favourites, almost a thousand retweets and hundreds of comments from excited fans praising the move.
The restaurant described its new chips as chunkier, and ‘made from spuds with the skin left on’.
Jack Hinchliffe, innovation director at KFC UK & Ireland said: ‘We don’t change things on a whim – the Colonel’s Original Recipe chicken hasn’t changed since he finalised it in 1940.
‘This was different though. We heard the nation’s outcry. We read the brutal tweets. We had to step up our fries game.’
One fan revealed he had already tried the ‘skin-on’ ones, while another customer prayed that they would be crispy and hot
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Lee Enterprises Inc., publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, today reported a loss of $26.6 million on total operating revenue of $172.3 million for its fiscal second quarter ended March 25.
The company reported a loss of $1.5 million during the same quarter in 2011. Total operating revenue for the second quarter of 2012 was down 3.6 percent from $178.7 million during the same quarter a year earlier.
Combined print and digital advertising revenue decreased 5.3 percent to $117.5 million, with retail advertising down 3.5 percent, classified down 7.1 percent and national down 9.7 percent.
“Digital advertising revenue again exhibited strong growth, up nearly 10 percent, the ninth consecutive quarter of growth in this category,” Chairman and CEO Mary Junck said in a statement. She said the company’s pay for digital content initiative is on track to have most enterprises operating paid sites by the end of this year, with 10 more launched this summer.
Lee (NYSE: LEE) owns 48 daily newspapers and has a joint interest in four others. It also owns digital products and nearly 300 specialty publications in 23 states. Lee bought Pulitzer Inc., including the Post-Dispatch, in 2005 in a $1.46 billion deal.
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With an unemployment rate below 8 percent for the first time in years, the U.S. economy is finally seeing brighter days. Though political pundits and economists place blame and praise on a number of factors, one thing is clear: To avoid some of the pitfalls of this latest recession, many major U.S. corporations cut jobs here at home and outsourced them overseas.
Some might argue that this was simply good business. But some American companies are proving that capitalism and altruism can go hand-in-hand, and they aren't the big corporations -- instead, it's the startups, particularly in tech, that are leading an employment resurgence here at home.
In general, in times of boom and bust, startups drive the unemployment engine in America. New firms add an average of three million jobs per year -- a number that remains stable during recessions -- while existing firms are, on average, net job destroyers.
Outsourcing has recently fallen out of favor as political pressure rises on the companies that do so. But even though 2012 saw fewer contracts than the five-year average for the practice, there were still $6.77 billion in outsourcing contracts awarded last year. Think of how that money could be spent on hiring here at home.
Meanwhile, tech is one of the few American fields to remain strong during the past few years. As of last year, the app economy alone generated nearly half a million jobs. As the demand for apps and mobile devices continue to increase, more startups will form to meet the need. If anything, there will be too many jobs, as there is a dearth of tech talent available stateside.
My own software company, Thycotic, made a commitment to keeping employment local. Although the supposed economic benefits of cheaper labor in other countries have lured other CEOs into outsourcing, the benefits of face-to-face communication, a local time zone and common culture are, for me, too important to ignore. And we are experiencing explosive growth with this strategy, with a 30 percent staff increase and doubled revenue since last year.
Indeed, in many ways, staying local is imperative for tech startups: The first employees of the company must be prepared to take on roles beyond their job description, work flexible schedules, and adapt to the company culture. This is only possible if everyone is, at the very least, in a similar time zone, if not the same city or office.
A commitment to U.S. job creation is thus imperative for tech startups and for the country on the whole. While major corporations only focus on their own bottom line, entrepreneurs like myself are helping to build not just companies, and not just an industry, but a national economy. The opportunity is there -- we just need more American entrepreneurs to step up and onshore their jobs.
Jonathan Cogley is founder and CEO of Thycotic Software, a Washington D.C.-based security software company best known for Secret Server - enterprise password management software used by over 65,000 IT administrators in companies throughout the world.


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(Image: A solar cell at RaisingIslands' testing laboratory—still looking for the right battery.)
And other feedback suggesting that startups announcing massive strides often fail to meet their promises, and in the meantime are sucking the life and the cash out of legitimate research.
Said one correspondent: "Unfortunately, yes, weeds keep growing. And, the weeds suck up more nutrients than what the crop needs to grow - which is endangering the field and the market potential.”
One reader, who chose to remain anonymous, wrote in response to our story: “The author has apparently not heard of Altairnano's lithium titinate(sp) battery.”
Suggesting, one supposes, that we missed this particular technology, which breaks the mold—that it's got all the important stuff: cheap, compact, lightweight, non-toxic, fast-rechargeable and capable of being discharged and recharged thousands of times.
That would be exciting. RaisingIslands could actually use such a battery to store power from our photovoltaic panels. We respond, where can we buy one, and what does it cost?
Well, there's the rub. It appears they're not on the shelf anywhere convenient, and there's no price list.
Altair's battery is lithium-titanate oxide. You can read about it at Altair's website.
The company claims an array of important features in a battery, although inexpensive isn't one of them: “Altairnano is the first company to replace traditional graphite materials used in conventional lithium-ion batteries with a proprietary, nano-structured lithium titanate a process that delivers distinctive performance attributes, including power, fast charge/discharge rates, high round-trip efficiencies, long cycle life, safety, and ability to operate under extreme temperatures.”
The company last month outfitted an electric bus in Washington DC and let politicians drive it around. But Altair's batteries still aren't mainstream. One problem, the bus costs $1 million.
The company claims its technology is applicable to both mobile and stationary applications. You could, arguably, set up a battery bank next to a windmill or solar array, and use it to provide power when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine. The company has had a utility-scale (2 megawatt) battery system tested successfully. And the company has a couple of defense contracts, which are outlined on its website.
So far, the big pieces missing in Altair's literature seem to be price, availability and a real world track record. We'd be happy at RaisingIslands to test it and report our results, but we don't have one, and aside from the KEMA report above, it's not clear who else has been able to independently test this technology.
In its third-quarter financial reports, company president/CEO Terry Copeland is quoted: "We have experienced an increased level of customer requests for quotes in the past couple of months. In addition, we anticipate that potential order activity will begin to gain traction as we enter into 2010. Given the importance of establishing this revenue stream and having referenceable customers for other prospects to speak with, we need to be able to move expeditiously once we have these initial firm orders."
That's good news, but as with the EEStor battery system in the previous article, this firm may be on the verge of big success or big failure, but right now, it's hard to tell which. We wish them both well, because this is important stuff.
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Mahindra is all geared up to introduce its latest upcoming electric SUV, the XUV 400 in Q1 of 2023. This new EV from the brand has been caught undergoing tests on Indian roads and the latest spy camera shot confirms that the car will have a totally different rear design.
Mahindra XUV 400 EV will be priced at around Rs.15 Lakh
Going by the specifications of the XUV 300, the upcoming electric car will feature the same design language as its predecessor. There are many upgrades as well such as the presence of an updated LED taillight with redesigned lighting elements. The variant that is getting tested has been heavily camouflaged which makes it harder to find out all the other small changes in terms of design.
The external shape has been retained by the car maker and the details of the tailgate are not visible with the heavy camouflage cover. Mahindra has likely used the XUV 300’s unit. It was previously confirmed that a longer 4.2m length for the upcoming EV is as compared to the sub-4 meter XUV 300. The XUV300 is likely to come with additional space for passengers and boot storage in a longer size. The XUV 400 will be powered by a single motor tuned to deliver an output of 150 bhp, 7bhp which makes it more than the output of the XUV 300.
Apart from this, not much is known about the XUV 400, the EV is expected to arrive with the latest connected tech and ADAS features from the XUV700. The XUV 400 or XUV 300 EV was first showcased at the Auto Expo 2020 where the company also displayed an electric version of the KUV.
The final pricing of the car is not out here, the XUV 400 EV is expected to be priced at Rs. 15 lakhs which will pit it against the top-selling passenger electric vehicles in India. Mahindra has confirmed that it will roll out its Born EV SUV range on the 15th of August. We will get a total of nine new vehicles as a part of this range.


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The HTC One series has started receiving the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow update, with the HTC One M8, is supposedly getting its first taste of Marshmallow tonight. Those owning the latest HTC One M9 flagship will be happy to know that HTC has begun rolling the software update to the device, but only to its UK consumers.
As of now, the unlocked version of the HTC One M9 will receive the update, but the locked version of the phone can expect to receive the update only after it is approved by its UK carriers. The confirmation of the news came in when Mr. Mo Versi wrote on Twitter this week mentioning the update. The news came one month after the software update was announced for its unlocked One M9 handsets in the U.S.
Alongside new improvements to looks and specs, the latest Android operating system is supposed to enhance users’ mobile experience with new features like Google Now on Tap, Doze, etc. A host of practically designed new features will ensure enhanced battery life, stability and performance.
It should be noted that the update will not include Android’s new emoji, which should come with Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. The HTC One A9 phones are already receiving the latest Marshmallow update, TechnoBuffalo reported.
According to HTC, the HTC One M9 has a rare combination of features, both innovative and smart. In an all-metal body, the phone is ergonomically designed to render a strong grip. It has a 20MP rear camera along with sapphire camera cover lens. You are assured of clear and crisps photos. The lens is scratch resistance that brings long-lasting use.
Capture moments with maximum flair with the phone’s UltraPixel front camera. You will love to listen to your favorite singers with the phone’s front-facing stereo speakers with Dolb y audio rendering best sound quality. The phone has built-in HTC Themes app with which you can change the look and feel of the handset.


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Available now on Amazon.com, available in Kroger and natural food stores early March
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- A top-selling brand in the natural food category, Endangered Species Chocolate (ESC) announces the debut of its snacking line. The line features 5 new products:
- Dark Chocolate Bark with Almonds and Peanuts (Cougar)
- Dark Chocolate Bark with Salted Hazelnut Toffee (Rhino)
- Dark Chocolate Bites with Caramel and Sea Salt (Eagle)
- Dark Chocolate Bites with Sea Salt and Almonds (Owl)
- Dark Chocolate Bites with 88% Cocoa (Panther)
Designed to meet consumer demand for brown flavor profiles and snack-friendly packaging, ESC committed significant resources and research into the development of this new product line.
"What consumers want right now is a trust-worthy snack that is familiar, and fits into their demanding life-styles. Our new product line hits every chord, from flavor to function," said Whitney Bembenick, Director of Innovation for Endangered Species Chocolate. "Made with real, premium ingredients and packed ready for any adventure, these snacks are a daily indulgence consumers can feel good about."
The new snacking line is Fairtrade International certified, Non-GMO Project Verified, vegan (select products), gluten-free, and helps fund leading wildlife protection programs. The line is currently available on Amazon.com, and will be available in Kroger and natural food stores across the U.S. in early March.
ESC donates 10 percent of net profits annually to partnering conservation organizations. Current 10% GiveBack Partners include Rainforest Trust www.rainforesttrust.org and Wildlife Conservation Network www.wildnet.org. The snack line packaging increases awareness of a variety of at-risk species and includes conservation stats.
"All Endangered Species Chocolate products come with a promise to support species, habitat, and humanity," said Curt Vander Meer, CEO of Endangered Species Chocolate. "This promise has translated into over $1.3 million donated to support conservation over the past 3 years." More information is available on ESC's website: ESC Promise.
About Endangered Species Chocolate
Indianapolis-based Endangered Species Chocolate (ESC) is a mission-driven company that is passionate about chocolate and the environment. ESC is committed to providing chocolate-lovers with premium, natural chocolates that are ethically traded and sustainably grown. Adding to the impact of each chocolate bar, ESC donates 10 percent of net profits to fund species and habitat conservation. A top selling brand in the natural food category, ESC offers more than 25 products. For more information, visit www.chocolatebar.com.


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The Chinese smartphone maker Vivo is all set to present a new smartphone series in India. Vivo T2 5G series is going to launch in the country on April 11. The upcoming smartphone series has also been listed on Flipkart to tease their availability and Key details post-launch. The lineup will succeed the last year’s Vivo T1 series.
Vivo is planning to expand its T-Series with the addition of the Vivo T2 5G series in India. The Series is scheduled to launch in the country on April 11 at 12 noon. The Vivo T2 5G series has also been listed on Flipkart which gives a glimpse of the smartphones and their availability. According to the company, more details about the devices will be revealed in the coming days. Apart from Flipkart, the phones will also be available for purchase via the company’s official Vivo E-Store in the country. Moreover, details regarding the pricing probably be revealed at the time of the launch.
As per the microsite, camera specs will be revealed on April 7 while the processor details on April 9. As of now, the company has only shared details about the display and how many devices will be launched. While rest of the details as mentioned will be unwrapped in the next few days.
The landing page is teasing the Blue and Gold colour options of the Vivo T2 5G series. In addition to this the upcoming phones will be powered by a Snapdragon chipset, the company has confirmed.
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Vivo also verified that there will be two devices in the series Vivo T2 5G and Vivo T2x 5G. They are confirmed to offer an FHD+ AMOLED display. The screen will support a peak brightness of 1300 nits, a contrast ratio of 6000000:1 and a 360Hz touch sampling rate.
However, the reports suggest that the price of the Vivo T2 5G series may start at Rs 20,000. The base Vivo T2 5G is likely to be offered in two different configurations of 6GB RAM with 128GB storage and 8GB RAM with 128GB storage. On the other hand Vivo T2x 5G will be available in three choices- 4GB RAM with 128GB storage, 6GB RAM with 128GB storage, and 8GB RAM with 128GB storage.
The vanilla T2 5G may get a 64-megapixel rear primary sensor with optical image stabilization (OIS) support.
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An Atlanta-based company that recently landed nearly $1 billion in contracts to supply silicon cells to European and Indian solar module manufacturers opened its first production line in Norcross on Nov. 4.
Suniva Inc. provides monocrystalline silicon solar cells for devices that absorb the sun’s energy and use it to generate power for homes and businesses.
Established and grown at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s incubator in Midtown, Suniva announced in June that it would be moving all operations out of the Advance Technology Development Center and into its Norcross factory.
The company has said that the facility will create 100 jobs at full capacity.
On the same day that it began production on its initial line, Suniva announced plans to build an additional line that should triple its output by mid-2009.
In August, Suniva landed a deal to supply more than $500 million worth of cells over the next four years to Berlin-based Solon AG, a large European solar module maker.
Later in the month, it announced a $480 million deal with Titan Energy Systems Ltd. of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Suniva’s technology was developed by Ajeet Rohatgi in Georgia Tech’s University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics.
Through its products, the company seeks to mitigate the main impediments to widespread adoption of sun-derived energy sources: high cost and low efficiency.
“As the solar industry looks to bring down costs and compete with conventional power, Suniva has built the team and the technology to execute on our vision of low-cost, high-efficiency solar energy,” said Suniva Chief Executive John Baumstark in a June press release.


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Unilever to go further green
Consumer products giant Unilever has announced plans to source all of the carbon-based materials in its cleaning and laundry products from renewable or recycled sources, thus throwing down the gauntlet to chemical suppliers. According to Unilever, this will cut the carbon footprint of its product formulations by up to 20%, since the chemicals it uses in cleaning and account for 46% – of that footprint. The company’s most famous brands include Persil, Omo, Domestos, Cif and Sunlight.
The move is part of the Home Care division’s ‘Clean Future’ programme, which seeks to change the manufacture and packaging of its products as it moves to net zero emissions and eliminating fossil fuel use in its products by 2039. As part of this, €1 billion has been set aside to fund biotechnology research, CO2 and waste utilisation and low carbon chemistry, by, among other things, developing biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations.
The decision was hailed by Evonik Industries, which is already working with Unilever in Slovakia to produce renewable and biodegradable rhamnolipid surfactants via fermentation. Unilever uses these in Sunlight dishwashing liquid in Chile and Vietnam and plans to use them more widely. It describes this collaboration as a key pillar of Clean Future.
The rhamnolipids Evonik makes are said to “generate exceptional foam-forming properties and cleaning outcomes for household cleaning products while being 100% biodegradable”. Producing them at industrial scale was the result of a long-term R&D project between Creavis, Evonik’s strategic innovation unit, and the Nutrition & Care division.


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Geneva Capital promoted Andrew Cavers to president and announced other promotions. Cavers joined Geneva Capital in 2005 as a regional sales manager primarily focused on providing equipment leasing and financing solutions to the Southeast region of the U.S. For the last 12 years he’s been the director of Sales overseeing a division of regional sales managers across the nation. Under his leadership, the division expanded into several new markets and experienced a 680%+ growth in sales.
Regarding Cavers’ promotion to president, Mark Watkins, Geneva Capital Founder & CEO, said, “This promotion was a natural progression for Andrew. Not only is he a well-respected member of the Geneva family and fierce advocate for our company culture, he has the proven track-record, intellect and people skills needed to lead our team to the next level of our goal-oriented journey.”
Stepping away from his sales role, Cavers will focus on Geneva Capital’s long-term growth initiatives and work to guide the company toward their vision of becoming the nation’s premier equipment finance solution in their respective industries.
The director of Sales vacancy left by Cavers will be immediately filled by Putnam, previous regional sales manager for Geneva Capital.
Putnam has been with Geneva Capital for nearly 15 years. After first serving the company as a credit analyst, he’s spent the last 12 years as a regional sales manager where he’s consistently ranked among the top sales managers.
As newly appointed director of Sales, Putnam will lead a division of regional sales managers focused on bringing equipment leasing and financing solutions to markets such as digital printing, apparel decoration and others across the U.S.
Along with Cavers and Putnam’s recent moves, Geneva Capital has promoted Jamie DeBoer to fill the role of regional sales manager. DeBoer has been an integral part of the company’s Inside Sales team for the last two years and will now oversee sales for the Midwest region.
Cavers said, “Troy’s earned a high level of respect from his peers here at Geneva and has become a household name in the industry. He brings an unmatched level of expertise to his new role and will no doubt drive our Sales Team to the next level. He leaves big shoes to fill, but we have the utmost confidence in Jamie’s ability to step into the role and push it to new heights.”
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â¨Canal Plus has recruited more partners for its Canal Ready integrated TV initiative. The French pay TV operator said that TV set manufacturers Philips, Thomson, Sharp, Loewe and Funai will offer products carrying the Canal Ready label.
That means the sets or Blu-ray players have an integrated tuner that allows viewers to see digital terrestrial channels and to access Canal Plus pay channels. Sony, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, Panasonic and Techwood already make products carrying the Canal Ready label, which was launched last April.â¨
Canal Plus said 3.6 million Canal Ready sets have been sold. It has launched a promotional offer, running until June 21, giving consumers that buy a set an Â85 discount on certain Canal Plus subscriptions.
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Photo: Maryland Powell reads ‘If you take a mouse to school’.
Philipsburg Jubilee Library (PLJ) is hosting fun story time videos online! This online version started on Saturday, May 9, and new videos will be uploaded on Wednesdays and Saturdays Facebook @PhilipsburgJubileeLibrary.
There are already a few videos online that you can watch, read by youth librarian Maryland Powell (for ages 5+) and Melackia Spencer (for toddlers and babies). New stories will be uploaded on Saturdays at 11:00am, and Wednesdays at 10:00am. Parents and children are welcomed to tune in and enjoy fun stories, told by familiar faces.
The library thought it was important to relaunch Story Time online, since kids and many parents have been forced to stay home due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. There are also eBooks available via the library, so that you can read new books without having to visit. See the library’s website for more information.


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Advertising agencies are never slow to exploit news stories tactically. President Bill Clinton’s dalliance with Monica Lewinsky provided cigar manufacturers and dry-cleaners with ample material. Now Jeffrey Archer has presented creatives with a new target.
McCann-Erickson copywriter Martyn Smith, art director Ashley Jouhar and creative director Luke White were quick off the mark last week with an execution for Elida FabergÃ©’s Vaseline Intensive Care. The strapline reads: “Sorry Jeffrey, not even we can save your skin this time.”
The Archer affair, no pun intended, surely gives advertisers plenty of scope for news-responsive ads. Could the Bank of England, Railtrack, stationers which sell brown envelopes, the Marriage Guidance Council and restaurant owners all over London be considering a similar tactic?


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Apple has scrapped a controversial plan to build a flagship Apple Store in Melbourne, Australia’s Federation Square.
Apple had been battling to build the store for much of last year. It even scrapped its original designs and came up with new ones, only to have those criticized as well. Government agent Heritage Victoria ruled that the Apple Store would be too “visually dominant.” It also said that demolishing the existing Yarra Building to construct Apple’s flagship store would “diminish” the public space.
The decision to deny Apple permission to build the Apple Store came on the back of vehement opposition to Apple’s plans. An Apple spokesperson has confirmed that Apple will no longer pursue the plans. It’s not clear if it will try and find another space nearby.
Challenges down under
The cancellation of the project is no great surprise to anyone who had been following along. Those in favor of the new Apple Store had argued that it would create more than 500 square meters of new public space, and bring in new visitors. However, those against it pointed out that Federation Square is a space intended for public events. These include cultural performances and public protests.
Apple had seemingly been thwarted at every turn. Its original design for the store included a visually striking elaborate pagoda-style roof. It was then asked to change these and, when it did, those new designs were criticized too. They were accused of causing a, “loss of definition to the square.”
Construction had already been pushed back to 2020 — with the eventual opening set for 2021.
Not the first time this has happened
This isn’t the first time Apple has had to abandon its construction works due to legal challenges. In February, Apple ditched plans to develop an Apple Store in Stockholm, Sweden. This came after the Stockholm City Council vetoed plans for a proposed flagship retail store in the area.
According to a member Stockholm Urban Development Committee, Apple representatives were extremely upset after their proposal was rejected. The company had already made revisions to its proposal in order to fit the proposed historic location better. Apple also turned down officials who said they would help find a new location for the Apple Store.
Last year, endless delays additionally caused Apple to ditch its plans for a giant data center in County Galway in Ireland.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald


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Clubhouse not too long ago offered a safe profile environment that may assist its customers to stay their identification safe from unapproved fans. The whole profile will best be to be had to fans that the customers have already licensed. Amidst Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, this variation is being applied as a way to stay customers safe at the platform.
Consistent with TechCrunch, the corporate has shared this announcement via a weblog put up that reads, “We’re thankful we’ve grow to be a gathering position for other folks around the globe to glue all the way through this time, however we additionally know that instances of battle and upheaval make it increasingly more essential to take into account of your presence on-line and what you percentage”.
Customers wish to cross to the app’s settings to permit the safe profile function which is able to then let them approve their fans. The corporate additionally mentions that best the fans whom you approve will be capable of see the rooms, golf equipment and replays to your profile. Customers who aren’t licensed as fans received’t be capable of see your on-line standing and Clubhouse received’t even suggest unknown other folks to apply you.
Clubhouse has offered this new function because it has became out right into a platform for Russian civilians who’re towards the warfare to coordinate. In the meantime, this platform additionally has some customers who’re spreading Russian propaganda. As Russia blocked Fb and Instagram, it compelled the folk of the rustic to search for other ways to keep in touch. The Clubhouse platform has became out to be a kind of choices.
The corporate has additionally equipped its customers with guidelines to offer protection to themselves on social audio platforms all the way through instances of battle. The platform has became off the Replay function via default for customers in Ukraine. This selection permits customers to report audio. Alternatively, other folks can nonetheless use third-party apps or gadgets to report and percentage content material with out consent.
Clubhouse has additionally requested its customers to be wary concerning the data they’re sharing each verbally and thru their profiles. The corporate has even reminded customers that it’s essential to take into account of what you’re announcing and sharing as your voice may also be an identifier.


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In an effort to spur OEM designs to market, Avnet Applied Computing (AAC) has opened its first Technology Showcase, part of a proving grounds for emerging systems that the group hopes will help customers shrink their product development cycles.
The showcase, tied into AAC's new engineering prototype lab in Tempe, Ariz., and created in partnership with IBM, Intel, Motorola, NEC, Sharp, and others, is a hands-on facility for demonstrating real-world applications in controlled environments. Demos are intended to inspire new designs, identify applications, and address compatibility issues that may arise through the use of flat-panel displays, single-board computers, and other products.
"A new NEC flat-panel display may show information coming from an IBM storage system through a PC104 interface," said Troy Blanchette, vice president of marketing at AAC, a subsidiary of Phoenix-based electronic-components distributor Avnet Inc. "By studying how these new components interact in real-world situations, AAC customers can apply what they learn in the Technology Showcase to remove time-intensive testing cycles from their own designs in the lab, which reduces overall time-to-market," he said.
With AAC's flagship showroom launched in late December, the plan is to open a Boston facility in February, followed by other technology showcases scattered throughout the United States and possibly Europe during 2001. The distributor hopes it will soon secure additional support that will lead to other suppliers providing AAC with technical assistance and access to engineers.
By housing the showroom inside AAC's lab, customers can immediately apply what they've learned in the demos to their own designs, AAC said.
For the Motorola Computer Group (MCG), AAC's showcases could mean a substantial increase in sales, according to Bill Badger, North America channel manager for the division of Motorola Inc. in Tempe.
"You can demonstrate product features such as high availability with a slide presentation, but it doesn't really show the true benefits," Badger said. "The equipment is big, and it's not really something you can easily tote around to various accounts. It's a whole other animal when you can walk into the showroom with a potential customer and show them a working application that's similar to something they want to build."
The room AAC has dedicated to Motorola showcases an 8216, a 16-slot CompactPCI chassis targeting telecom applications. ACC's showcase enables MCG to demonstrate the chassis' so-called high-availability capabilities-a high level of hot-swapping that enables users to pull out the CPU, I/O, or board without shutting down their system.
The room also features an FPD connected to an MBX2000, a multifeature board that allows designers to create custom applications for products such as industrial robotic controllers. It's difficult to find a 5.5- x 8-in. board that combines the power of a large PC with the ability to run a display and a Windows or NT operating system without fans or moving parts, Badger said. Such devices are sought after in clean-room and medical environments, which are particularly susceptible to particulates, germs, and other contaminants.
MCG buys components from Avnet Electronic Marketing, makes board-level products, and pushes them through AAC. Badger would not quantify MCG's sales through distribution, but said the division plans to increase the number by 40% in 2001 with the help of the Technology Showcase.
Badger predicts the Avnet project will become as important for MCG as distribution itself. Limited resources are forcing the division to concentrate on large customers, leaving smaller volumes to distribution.
When potential customers consider which channel partner to choose, speeding designs to market is a major consideration, said AAC president Ed Kamins.
"Product life cycles today are speeding up like crazy and sometimes they're shorter than the product's design cycle," Kamins said.
AAC's answer to shorter life cycles is to begin the design process at a higher level of integration. Instead of engineers laying out a circuit design or board, they begin with a standard microprocessor and standard-board technology, write the software instead of hard-coding, and integrate commercially available sub-components to create their product.
"Many OEMs have realized creating the design from the ground up and doing it all in-house isn't the most efficient way," Kamins said. "Customers, who last year built products in-house ... now ask us to help them create a design with a standard microprocessor, IBM storage device, and flat panel to build an appliance more quickly than anyone has done in the past."


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The Whatsapp Head has written a letter to the Reserve Bank of India for the formal permission to start payment services for all its Indian consumers. There are 20 million consumers of Whatsapp in the country. Whatsapp is facing criticism of the government for its alleged spread of fake news and messages through its platform.
The Messaging App started an experimental payment service with nearly one million subscribers. Although many months passed, he did not get the approval from the regulator to start this service. The popular app has been in contact with the government for nearly two years on its plans of payment facility.
At the same time, its rival company, Google has stepped up its payment services. Whatsapp is currently operating payment services on an experimental basis. The company’s chief Chris Daniel has now written to the RBI asking for formal permission to make payment service available to all consumers in the country.
In a letter addressed to the RBI Governor, Daniel said, “I urge you to give formal permission to start the payment of the pay package for the UPI (Unified Payment Interface) to all Indian consumers immediately. At the same time, give us the opportunity to present a useful and safe service that improves the lives of Indian people through digital empowerment and financial inclusion. “
In a letter written on November 5, it has been said that the partners of Whatsapp also wrote letters for formal permission. A spokeswoman for Whatsapp said on the occasion, “In today’s time, Whatsapp payment services are being tested for nearly one million people in India. People’s response is very positive and people are also taking advantage of the facility of sending money in a normal and secure way. “


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Throughout the summer of 2018, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Amazon's wages and working conditions in a series of YouTube videos and media appearances. He also pointed to the fact that Amazon had paid no federal income tax in the previous year. Sanders solicited stories from Amazon warehouse workers who felt exploited by the company. One such story, by James Bloodworth, described the environment as akin to "a low-security prison" and stated that the company's culture used an Orwellian newspeak. These reports cited a finding by New Food Economy that one third of fulfilment center workers in Arizona were on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Responses by Amazon included incentives for employees to tweet positive stories and a statement which called the salary figures used by Sanders "inaccurate and misleading". The statement also charged that it was inappropriate for him to refer to SNAP as "food stamps". On September 5, 2018, Sanders along with Ro Khanna introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act aimed at Amazon and other alleged beneficiaries of corporate welfare such as Wal-mart, McDonald's and Uber. Among the bill's supporters were Tucker Carlson of Fox News and Matt Taibbi who criticized himself and other journalists for not covering Amazon's contribution to wealth inequality earlier.
Shortly after the first Kindle launched, Amazon premiered its Kindle Direct Publishing platform to let authors self-publish and sell books on Amazon. Two years later, the company launched its own suite of professional imprints called Amazon Publishing. Amazon now oversees tens of millions of self-published works on its platform and nearly two dozen imprints. In 2017, Amazon had more than 83 percent of all US ebook sales.
In May 2018, Amazon threatened the Seattle City Council over an employee head tax proposal that would have funded houselessness services and low-income housing. The tax would have cost Amazon about $800 per employee, or 0.7% of their average salary. In retaliation, Amazon paused construction on a new building, threatened to limit further investment in the city, and funded a repeal campaign. Although originally passed, the measure was soon repealed after an expensive repeal campaign spearheaded by Amazon.
Depending on which options you choose, using an online marketplace like Amazon can make the fulfillment process easier for new and small businesses. Not only can Amazon interact with customers on your behalf, saving you time while protecting your personal and private information, but it can also handle the entire shipping process, including returns. As a result, owners can concentrate on building their businesses.
In early 2018, President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Amazon's use of the United States Postal Service and pricing of its deliveries, stating, "I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy," Trump tweeted. "Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne [sic] by the American Taxpayer." Amazon's shares fell by 6 percent as a result of Trump's comments. Shepard Smith of Fox News disputed Trump's claims and pointed to evidence that the USPS was offering below market prices to all customers with no advantage to Amazon. However, analyst Tom Forte pointed to the fact that Amazon's payments to the USPS are not public and that their contract has a reputation for being "a sweetheart deal".
Amazon puts all of its daily deals into a Gold Box. Check the Today's Deals page to access these daily deals and get limited-time savings of up to 80% off select items, coupons to instantly clip and access to Lightning Deals. Lightning Deals are available only for a limited amount of time and have a countdown timer showing how much time is left to get the discount. Shop before the deal expires or the item sells out.
In addition to strict acceptance to be sold by As Seen On TV Incorporated, Telebrands and other distributers, the most successful products have almost always served to provide a solution to a common problem - and this has inspired inventors worldwide to share their creations and push the industry. The industry leaders have always been smart when it comes to marketing, and have recently started making more of a transition towards ecommerce – using micro websites to push their products, and making good use of affiliate programs. Infomercials now support awareness in addition to creating it.


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Teamviewer Renewal Practices
It looks like this company is being questioned after a user who just signed for a one year license was automatically billed for another year, even when automatic renewal was disabled. Now this is not good news for subscribers who just want to test out the software before they move forward. So make sure you make note of this.


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Cardiovascular disease should not be a major concern for some regular tea and coffee drinkers. Tea lovers and java junkies can debate among themselves all day about which is better, but current science and evidence show that either one is just fine. High or moderate tea intake and moderate coffee consumption are correlated with reduced risks of heart disease and stroke, according to a Japanese study published in the March 2013 issue of Stroke. The study followed 82, 369 Japanese adults between ages 45 and 74 for almost 13 years between 1995 to the end of 2007. When researchers compared those who drank green tea two to three times a day with those who drank more than four times a day, those who drank more had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke than those who drank fewer times. Likewise, the relationship was found between those who drank one to two cups of coffee a day versus those who drank coffee three to six times a week.
This is similar to a previous Dutch study that was published in the January 2010 issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. Researcher Yvonne van der Schouw, Ph.D., and her colleagues from University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands observed over 35, 500 subjects for 13 years. What they found was that those who drank more than six cups of tea a day cut their risk of cardiovascular disease by 35 percent lower than those who drank less than one cup a day. For coffee drinkers, drinking two to four cups a day reduced cardiovascular disease risk by about 20 percent lower than those who drank one or none a day. Even though moderate coffee consumption was not considered significant, it still contributed to the lowering of the risk. Unlike the Japanese study, the Dutch researchers did not find any association between tea or coffee consumption with lower risks of stroke.
Van der Schouw and colleagues also observed that Dutch coffee and tea drinkers had very different health behaviors that may contribute to why the results of the coffee-drinking sample had a lower percentage of risk reduction of cardiovascular disease than their tea-drinking counterparts. Many coffee drinkers, they observed, tend to smoke and have a less healthy diet compared to tea drinkers. Therefore, it is possible that the percentage of reduction of cardiovascular disease in both group could have been similar if the sample coffee drinkers adopted a similar lifestyle as the tea drinkers.
Current research suggests that the cardiovascular benefits of drinking tea and coffee may be explained by antioxidants, such as flavonoids, that are believed to contribute the risk reduction. However, the underlying mechanism is not entirely not known yet. What is known is that more coffee consumption does not equate to higher risk reduction in cardiovascular disease, according to an Italian study that was published in the January 2012 issue of European Journal of Internal Medicine. Any health benefits that coffee provides with moderate intake vanishes with heavy consumption.
Cardiovascular disease — as the studies had shown — cannot always be prevented with tea or coffee alone. The popular beverages are just two pieces of a much bigger puzzle to cut back the cardiovascular disease prevalence. Now tea and coffee drinkers have more reasons to treat themselves to an extra cup every morning.
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Guests Can Enjoy “Everything They Love About Breakfast”SM at Any Time of Day
Honolulu Hawaii, June 25, 2013—The IHOP® Restaurant located at 2211 Kuhio Avenue in Waikiki/ Honolulu has announced that effective July 1st, it will change its hours of operation to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“Anytime is the perfect time for the delicious food and great service our guests come to IHOP to enjoy,” said Sarah Espino, the president of IHOP Hawaii. “As you can see from our menu, IHOP is all about giving our guests choices and we wanted to give them the choice of coming in whenever they’re in the mood for a great meal. Beginning on July 1st, and just in time for IHOP’s 55th birthday on July 7th, we look forward to being able to serve our guests all day, every day.”
IHOP is famous the world over for its breakfast items including its buttermilk pancakes, waffles, omelettes as well as a full complement of lunch and dinner entrees.
The restaurant is currently featuring its Summer Signature trio of Jelly Donut Pancakes, Tiramisu Pancakes and Banana Graham Pancakes, available through July 21st.
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As the new iPhone 14 have already reached users, we can begin to see the tests they carry out on the terminals. Some of those are not worth telling, but others, however, are. We refer to the test. On this occasion we have the possibility of knowing the speeds at which the new terminals load. Both the “normal” model and the Pro. Tests carried out providing useful data on, for example, which charger is the most valuable for fast charging.
With the new iPhone 14 already on the market, we can see the results of the tests that are being carried out on them. Many of them are very useful, such as this one made by the Chinese website Chongdiantou.The test tries to determine the charging speed of the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro terminals, but above all it will help us determine what type of charger we can use to fill the terminal’s battery. faster and of course more efficiently.
Having seen the tests carried out by these experts, it has been determined that despite what it may seem, one of the company’s chargers is the one that charges the fastest and does not correspond to the most expensive, far from it. The surprise is that the 30W charger that is priced at 45 euros and can be found here, the speed it reaches with the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro Max is close to its maximum compatible charging speeds of 25W and 27Wrespectively.
It is not the one that loads faster, because for example the 67W one charges a little faster. What happens is that in terms of value for money, the 30W is the one that gives the best result, without a doubt. Let’s not say what happens with the new 35W, which is very little less than the peak it reaches, but it is already less and what it is about is that if I pay more it reaches better figures and it is not like that.
In tests, it has been found that the iPhone 14 Pro Max can briefly reach maximum charging speeds of almost 29W with Apple’s older 29W power adapter, which was designed for the 12-inch MacBook and recalled in June 2018.