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Life has returned to a large, formerly vacant warehouse in the Granary District neighborhood in Salt Lake. The Salt Lake City Planning Commission approved last week a conditional industrial assembly use for the new operational headquarters of Atmosphere Studios LLC, a professional services firm that specializes in the creation of branded environments for exhibits, trade shows and other events.
Atmosphere needed the conditional use approval because a portion of the project includes a staging and assembly area which is considered as “industrial assembly” under city code. Atmosphere Studios began to move into their new 53,000 square-foot space at 326 W 700 South in January.
“This area (the Granary) is accelerating,” said Tom Jennings, the founder and general partner of Atmosphere Studios. “I am looking forward to the metamorphosis that is happening here.”
Atmosphere Studios spent the last two decades in an industrial park in Murray. As the company has grown, a second storage area was needed with the company leasing storage space in West Valley. The move to the Granary District will allow all business operations to be under one roof.
The new space in the Granary will provide the company nearly 10,000 more square feet of work area than their previous spaces in Murray and West Valley combined. Of the warehouse’s 53,000 square feet, 30,000 will be dedicated to storage of exhibit materials along the northern portion of the building. The south end of the building that fronts 700 South will consist of 5,500 square feet of office space and roughly 3,000 square feet of event space. The loading doors that front 700 South will be replaced with large glass doors that will let in more light and assuage the current industrial look.
Jennings was drawn to the Granary by its proximity to downtown and his large Salt Lake client base.
“Here we can develop our own personality,” said Jennings. “We want to be one of the anchors in the Granary to draw people in.”
It is auspicious for a company that specializes in “pop-up retail” and temporary event space to be based on the same block that was home to 2013’s Granary Row, a pop-up retail and entertainment space made up of shipping container storefronts along 700 South between 300 and 400 West.
Adjacent to Atmosphere Studios is the site of a proposed microbrewery that was approved by the planning commission last November. The microbrewery will be developed by Alvie Carter, the owner of Kilby Court, a small concert venue less than a block away at 750 Kilby Court (between 300 and 400 West off 700 South).
“Momentum is picking up in the neighborhood, and it’s the momentum that we like to see — building by building,” wrote James Alfandre about the project for the Granary District blog.
Atmosphere Studios also owns two adjacent smaller buildings just west of the main building’s 700 South entrance. According to Jennings, the company plans to lease both buildings to businesses that “will add to the community.” Jennings also plans to lease a portion of the warehouse that fronts 300 West. Jennings would like to see that space be a cafe, corner store or a restaurant.
The warehouse was formerly owned by the Newspaper Agency Corp, the agency responsible for printing and advertising for the both The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News. The agency used the warehouse to store the large rolls of paper used in printing the newspapers. The warehouse had been vacant for nearly eight years before Atmosphere moved in last month.
Jennings anticipates the office space and updated south entrance to be finished by mid spring.


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This week saw the unveiling of some new details for Sony’s upcoming PS4 exclusive The Order: 1886.
Developer Ready at Dawn kicked off the announcements by revealing that the game will run at 1080p but only at 30fps.
“Currently we do not aim [for] 60 frames per second,” explained Ready at Dawn boss Ru Weerasuriya in an interview with German gaming website Play3. “In a first person shooter that [surely] makes sense. Also fighting games are undoubtedly predestined for 60 frames. But for us, the cinematic experience is in the foreground [basically focus] – presented in full HD 1080p. In favour of spectacular effects and the highest resolution we restrict ourselves to a fluid 30 frames per second.”
Many gamers had hoped that 1080p and 60fps would become standard this gen, but with Sony’s Killzone: Shadow Fall and the upcoming inFamous: Second Son both running at 30fps it appears that this is not the case, at least not yet.
The second piece of information came from Ready at Dawn co-founder Andrea Pessino who confirmed that The Order: 1886 will not contain any form of multiplayer.
“No multiplayer, it is a single player, third person action adventure game. ” Pessino said via Twitter.
He added: “[It's] better to do one thing well than a whole bunch half-assed. We are trying to make a SP experience you will enjoy.”
With the game seemingly sharing a lot of resemblances with the Gears of War series, many had assumed that it would feature multiplayer. This not being the case may not be such a bad thing however, many singleplayer focused games are often for the worse as a result of tacked on multiplayer modes.
The Order: 1886 is currently set for release late this year and is shaping up very nicely indeed.

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Niantic’s EX Raid system has been a sore spot for Pokémon GO trainers since its launch. However, the American-based company may have finally implemented the changes to the system that players approve.
According to a previous Inquisitr report, Pokémon GO players find the raid system, specifically the EX Raids, frustrating. The main issue gamers have with the invite-only raids are how Niantic distributes exclusive passes. Players have repeatedly expressed their irritation about the invitations online. The software company, however, appears to have finally rectified the issue with EX Raids and regular raids with its latest update, reported Engadget.
Niantic made a lot of changes to Pokémon GO‘s raid system. The first issue the company addressed was EX Raid invites. Players often complained that EX passes were hard to come by because no one knew how to attain one precisely. Now, however, Niantic has defined the requirements needed to get an invite to the exclusive raids.
According to Polygon, Niantic has released a list of requirements that Pokémon GO trainers need to acquire to get a pass on the invite-only raids. Trainers who have won high-level gym badges and have participated in more raid battles will be more eligible to attend an EX Raid.
EX Raids will officially be set in sponsored locations, or gyms found in parks, reported Engadget. Players have complained about these exclusive raids being set in sponsored sites in the past. However, it seems like Niantic has deemed sponsored locations necessary.
The times EX Raids begin have also been rectified with Niantic’s updated system. Pokémon GO trainers found the times of EX Raids quite inconvenient in the past, so Niantic has decided to set EX Raids at times when most people could participate in a raid. This means the timing of EX Raids will consider time zones.
Niantic did not stop its renovations at EX Raids. The lower-tier raids received a big boost as well. Rewards, in particular, were revamped to please Pokémon GO players.
Now, all trainers get Golden Razzberries for finishing raids. Sadly, to even out the reward, Niantic will be decreasing the number of potions and revives a player wins. There is also a participation reward now. All trainers will get Stardust, regardless of the actual result of the raids.
The best update to the lower-tier raids would probably have to be Magikarp’s return. The water Pokémon will be free to catch to those who dare in Tier 1 raid battles.
Many Pokémon GO players believed that Niantic would never change the game’s raid system. However, it appears that the software company was just taking its time to fix each problem with the system properly.
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When a Gratiot County woman found thousands of dollars in cash in a small zippered bag Saturday she did the right thing and handed it over to police.
The Midland County owner of the money is "extremely grateful" she did, after Gratiot County Sheriff's officials used detective skills to track him down and returned the purse.
The 47-year-old woman was shopping at Walmart in Alma when she found a small black purse filled with hundred dollar bills totaling $3,900 in a shopping cart, said Gratiot County Sheriff Doug Wright.
The only other item in the bag was a receipt for a purchase made at a local business.
Deputies contacted the business, and identified the owner of the cash by his specific purchase, Wright said.
The owner, a 64-year-old man, was grateful to get his money back.
"When this gentleman came in to the Sheriff's Department to get his property he was walking very slowly with a cane and had a very big smile on his face," Wright said. "He sure was happy."
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Nintendo had a lot of games to show off at this year's E3, but there wasn't any mention of new hardware during the event, despite earlier reports that new Switch models were in the works. Now, The Wall Street Journal - which also initially reported that such devices were being worked on - is saying that the new Switch models have entered production in southeast Asia.
Apparently, the company is moving production out of China due to the ongoing conflict between it and the United States. Not only are the two new models being produced there, but the current one is also moving to the new location, presumably in preparation for potential tariffs that the U.S. might impose on imports from China.
The report is somewhat short on details about the new hardware, but it does say that one of the two new models will look similar to the one we have now, but with upgraded specs. The other will be cheaper and come with a new look, though there's no clear indication of what that could mean. Previous reports have suggested that Nintendo may do away with Joy-Con on the cheaper variant, building the controls into the main body of the console.
Aside from that, the report mentions that Nintendo wants to have enough units to sell in the United States when they arrive on the market, but no clear indication of when that might happen. The company had some trouble meeting demand in the first few months of the Switch's lifetime, so it makes sense that it's trying to preempt a similar situation this time around.


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India to review charge for mobile spectrum use
India will review the share of revenue it levies from firms offering
mobile services for the use of wireless spectrum, as it considers new
recommendations from the regulator, the telecoms minister said on
Operators pay the government a percentage of their adjusted gross
revenue (AGR) for spectrum used to transmit wireless services. The
telecoms tribunal in August recommended raising the share by 1 per cent
if operators held spectrum beyond 8 megahertz. "It is incumbent upon the
ministry to revisit AGR," Andimuthu Raja told reporters.
He said the government had held off deciding on the matter until it
had fixed the minimum number of subscribers operators need to be
eligible for spectrum grants, which was also part of the August
India this week set new rules for spectrum allocation, raising the
minimum subscriber numbers required by between two and six times.
Adjusted gross revenue is the income from services allowed under a
telecoms licence. It includes income from rent of towers and from sales
of handsets bundled with services. The minister also said there would be
no rise in the fee for a new telecoms licence.
Forty-six firms have applied for licences in some or all of the
country's telecoms zones, and Raja said the government was processing
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Hitachi seen to exit small hard drive business
Hitachi Ltd Japan's biggest electronics conglomerate, plans to exit
the business of making small hard disk drives as demand shifts to flash
memory chips, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.
Hitachi's hard drive unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc,
has already stopped production of 1-inch hard drives and plans to stop
shipping 1.8-inch drives around next summer, the newspaper said. The
Nikkei also said Hitachi rival Fujitsu Ltd has given up on plans to
enter the market for small drives.
Fujitsu had been developing 1.8-inch drives with U.S.-based Cornice
with plans to bring a product to market in 2007.
No one at Hitachi or Fujitsu could be reached for comment.
Small hard drives are increasingly being replaced by flash memory
chips as the memory storage device in video cameras and portable music
players such as Apple Inc's popular iPod as flash memory capacity
improves and prices come down.
Qatar's inks MOU with BSA to strengthen anti-piracy campaign
The Ministry of Economy and Commerce in Qatar has recently signed a
memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Business Software Alliance (BSA),
the international association established by the software industry to
promote a safe and legal digital world, as part of initiatives to
strengthen Qatar's anti software piracy strategy for 2008 and reinforce
its reputation as one of the region's top performing countries against
"Qatar has been making significant progress in eradicating software
piracy and this has led to a substantial gain by the IT industry.
Through our alliance with Business Software Alliance, we aim to
further break new ground in 2008 and bolster our performance against
software piracy," said Mohammad Hassan AL-Saadi, Assistant
undersecretary of the Qatar Ministry of Economy and Commerce.
The MOU calls for close collaboration between BSA and the Ministry of
Economy and Commerce in Qatar for tougher enforcement of intellectual
property laws, a crucial factor that will encourage foreign capital
investment and enhance the development of Qatar's rapidly growing IT
Qatar currently enjoys one of the region's best anti-piracy ratings
after it posted a two per cent decrease in piracy in 2006, while it was
also recognized by the World Bank's Knowledge Economy Index to have the
best IT infrastructure in Middle East.
"Qatar has strengthened the growth of its IT sector by intensifying
its anti-piracy activities, which are critical parallel initiatives to
its efforts to develop its IT infrastructure. BSA is pleased that the
Qatari Government has remained vigilant and firmly committed to stamping
out this illegal trade," said Jawad Al Redha, BSA Co-Chairman in the
BSA has been at the forefront of global efforts against cyber crime.
Its initiatives focus on educating consumers on software management and
copyright protection, cyber security, trade, e-commerce and other
Tough call for BPOs
With the slowdown in the US economy, a strong rupee and questions
over extension of the Software Technology Parks (STP) scheme looming
large, 2008 will be a crucial year for the Indian BPO industry.
While players and analysts agree the troubled American economy is
unlikely to have a significant impact on the industry, the decision on
STP-extension closer home is seen as a clincher. Analyst firm Forrester
has predicted that the US technology economy will flirt with recession
but will post another decent growth year in 2008. "The US economy is
expected to be weak in the first quarter of next year but will be
stronger as the year progresses," it said.
It's the extension of the STP tax holiday, which expires in 2009,
that tops the industry's wish-list this year. "STP extension is
important for India to remain competitive on the global platform where
China and Philippines are offering 10-year tax holidays.
Whether the tax holiday is extended or not will have a decisive
impact on the BPO industry," said Quatrro BPO Solutions managing
director Raman Roy.
While it battles such issues, the industry is looking forward to some
consolidation and heightened merger & acquisition (M&A) activity in
2008. "Captives, which is how this industry got started, are going to
become rarer next year," adds Mr Roy. While clarity on the Citi captive
sale is expected to emerge next year, Aviva's offshoring centres, too,
are on the block.
Analysts also see greater investor interest, due to more realistic
valuations. "One can expect greater interest among private equity (PE)
firms to invest in BPO/ KPO firms.
After an upbeat 2007 where valuations were a bit on the higher side,
2008 will bring more realistic valuations, giving a boost to
consolidation," says offshoring advisory firm Tholons president Pradeep
The year 2008 assumes greater importance as the US goes to polls.
While outsourcing has already become an election issue, more
anti-outsourcing rhetoric is expected as the race hots up. "Wait till
the first quarter of 2008 and the rhetoric against job-loss and
outsourcing would gain ground to gain votes," says US India Business
Alliance vice-chairman Abhi Shah.
However, players think the impact would be insignificant.
"Considering the recession in US, offshoring is an imperative and hence,
anti-outsourcing rhetoric won't have much impact.
BPOs in India are going to benefit from the global credit crunch as
companies will resort to more offshoring to minimise impact on falling
margins," said HCL BPO chief exec Ranjit Narsimhan. Adds ExlService
Holdings president & COO Rohit Kapoor, "It's expected that banks and
other financial institutions will downsize staff in the first half of
2008. After the restructuring, these institutions will start outsourcing
their back-office work to cut costs."
The BPO industry could see some sobering in salary hikes in 2008.
"Salary increases won't be as dramatic as last couple of years. We
expect a 9-12 per cent wage hike, rather than a 15-17 per cent hike as
in the past.
Samsung unveils 31-inch organic screen
South Korean display screen maker Samsung SDI Co (006400.KS: Quote,
Profile, Research) said on Thursday it had developed a 31-inch
ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an accelerating
worldwide race for organic displays.
Samsung SDI's announcement comes after Sony Corp (6758.T: Quote,
Profile, Research) began sales of 11-inch OLED TVs in November. The
Japanese company has showcased a 27-inch prototype OLED TV in the past.
Flat screen makers are increasingly looking at active-matrix organic
light-emitting diode (AM-OLED) as a growth driver because they produce
brighter images and use less power.
Samsung SDI officials declined to say when the company's 31-inch OLED
screen would be mass-produced, saying the decision depended on TV set
But they said Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote, Profile,
Research), the world's largest maker of liquid crystal display (LCD)
TVs, would showcase a 31-inch prototype TV set at the Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January.
Samsung SDI is also planning to mass-produce 14-inch screens in 2008,
Yoo Eui-jin, head of Samsung SDI's AM-OLED team, said at a press
conference introducing the display.
Although Yoo declined to name the companies that would use the AM-OLED
screens, he said a number of companies had expressed interest.
Samsung SDI said its 31-inch module is only 4.3 mm thick, or
one-tenth of a typical liquid crystal display panel, and consumed less
than half the electricity needed for a 32-inch LCD screen.
Samsung SDI also said the lifespan of its display was 35,000 hours,
the best performance among existing AM-OLEDs.
Air France-KLM sees trustees for Alitalia
Air France-KLM plans to keep Alitalia as a separate company overseen
by a board of trustees once it has taken over the Italian airline,
according to a news report on Sunday citing details of the French offer.
While major unions and some politicians plan protests aimed at
stopping the Italian state sell its 49.9 percent stake to the
Franco-Dutch rival, Air France-KLM chief Jean-Cyril Spinetta will begin
eight weeks of exclusive talks with the government on Wednesday, Il Sole
24 Ore said.
According to the business daily, the Air France-KLM plan envisages
keeping Alitalia's company headquarters in Rome, with a board of three
trustees one appointed by Air France, one by the Italian authorities and
one agreed mutually holding 51 per cent of the voting rights.
A similar arrangement was made when Air France bought the Dutch
carrier KLM in 2004.
Alitalia was not available for comment on Sunday.
The offer, which values Alitalia shares at around 0.35 euro, would be
in the form of a share swap and at most recent market prices would mean
the Italian state would get one share in the new company for every 70
Alitalia shares, the paper said.
The Italian state would have a 3 per cent stake in the new airline
holding company, compared with the French government's 17.8 per cent.
Il Sole said the Air France-KLM offer did not specify exactly how it
would bid for the other shares in Alitalia not owned by the state. Stock
market rules dictate it will have to make a compulsory buyout offer.
In its bid, Air France-KLM demands Alitalia's management strikes a
deal with unions over job cuts a hard task as Italy's three biggest
unions are against the sale, preferring instead a rival bid by Air One,
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Walter Huang, the 38-year old driver, was killed. That mode is created to help keep a vehicle in its lane and adjusts its speed based on surrounding traffic. But once the autopilot mode sensed that vehicle no longer was in front of the auto, the Tesla began accelerating, and continued speeding up until impact near the exit to State Highway 85. Ubergizmo argued that it's unlikely that Tesla's cars can suddenly be transformed into fully autonomous vehicles and that term could simply be a fancy marketing term for new features as opposed to its literal meaning.
While bystanders were able to remove the driver from the vehicle before it was engulfed in flames, he later died in hospital from his injuries.
The NTSB report notes some other significant details about the vehicle and how fast it was going.
Buyers of Tesla's sedan or SUV, including the $140,000 Model X P100D, can pay an extra $5,000 for "Enhanced Autopilot", a package of still-experimental features that the company says could include "on-ramp to off-ramp" autonomous freeway driving. Consumer groups argue Tesla's marketing - and even the name "Autopilot", which calls to mind a free-flying jet - contributes to a risky misunderstanding for drivers, suggesting they can take their hands off the steering wheel.
In the minute before the crash, Huang's hands were on the wheel for a total of 34 seconds, but not in the last six seconds before he struck a crash attenuator and concrete barrier on US Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, the report said.
A Tesla SUV using the company's semi-autonomous Autopilot driving system accelerated to 71 miles per hour seconds before crashing into a California freeway barrier, killing its driver, federal investigators have determined. In January, a Tesla Model S that may have been on autopilot hit a parked firetruck on Interstate 405 near Los Angeles.
Two other vehicles crashed into the Tesla following the accident, which the NTSB said sparked a fire after the crashes breached the Telsa's 400-volt lithium-ion high-voltage battery.
Musk tweeted that Tesla's Version 9, a software update that will automatically install in Tesla cars, would "begin to enable full self-driving features" and entirely fix certain issues with "Autopilot", the name for the company's package of semi-driverless features such as advanced cruise control.
Musk didn't say which self-driving features would be included, though he indicated the update would allow Tesla vehicles to perform better in areas where lanes merge on highways.
Tesla's owner's manual warns drivers that the system may not detect stationary objects when traveling at higher speeds.
"It is the driver's responsibility to drive safely and remain in control of the vehicle at all times", the manual says. The SUV also was equipped with automatic emergency braking, which is always on in Tesla vehicles unless customers deactivate it by taking several steps on the vehicle touch screen.
The vehicle stopped following a lead vehicle four seconds before the crash occurred, the NTSB said after starting a left steering motion just before the accident took place.
The report said the SUV was operating with "traffic-aware cruise control" before the crash. The NTSB says it now will examine the cause of the crash.
A Tesla spokesperson on Monday said the cars would only start offering a limited number of as-yet-undisclosed features, not full autonomy itself. "The focus is on what led to this crash and how do we prevent it from happening again".
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Konami has confirmed that they will be bringing the exciting new season in the game very soon. According to the official announcement eFootball PES 2021 will arrive on Mobile in October 2020. The new season will revolve mostly around competitive football.
The new season will feature team data from the latest seasons; PES 2021 will offer sharp and responsive mobile football gameplay. If you are an avid player of PES 2020, don’t worry, your myClub Coins and GP will carry forward to the new season. However, you may have to give up on quite a few things with the introduction of the new season. To check out what will be carrying forward from PES 2020 to PES 2021, you can give a visit to the game’s official website.
FAQ about the upcoming football PES 2021:
Everything will be announced on the official website in early October, 2020. Please note that any player, Scout or Manager that falls under this category will no longer be obtainNo. Player and Manager data will be updated when the update goes live, meaning that all squads will be reset.
You can have a maximum of 500 players. This has not changed from PES 2020.
No. Game controls will function exactly as they did in PES 2020.
No. PES 2021 will be compatible with the same platforms as PES 2020.
About PES 2021:
eFootball PES 2021 (previously PES 2017 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER) is the latest version of this amazing Konami soccer simulator for Android. Unlike other games with similar names, this time you can control every player on your team when you play matches, just like when you play on consoles and computers.eFootball PES 2020 is an absolutely amazing soccer game that has fun gameplay, excellent graphics, and several official licenses. The only shame is that some great teams are notably absent.
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Avon to open first high street stores in beauty giant's 137-year history - but retailer stays tight-lipped about their locations
- Avon will open a 'handful' of 'mini beauty boutiques' within the next two months
Avon is set to open high streets stores in Britain for the first time in its 137-year history after the beauty giant 'successfully' launched it products in Superdrug stores across the country.
The retailer is opening an initial tranche of beauty outlets in the UK within the next two months that it aims be 'mini beauty boutiques'. But the firm has remained tight-lipped about the number of stores it plans to launch and their locations.
A spokesperson has confirmed that Avon will be opening a 'handful' of representative-run franchise stores 'within the next couple of months' but told MailOnline 'discussions with the chain are ongoing'.
The brick-and-mortar stores will feature around 150 products, with the full range still only available through Avon representatives.
The high street expansion is part of the beauty giant's UK-wide rollout which began in September when it expanded into the beauty and pharmacy.
Avon is set to open high streets stores in Britain for the first time in its 137-year history. Pictured: Avon lady June Young holds a bag of cosmetic products
Avon is set to open high streets stores in Britain for the first time in its 137-year history. The stores, which will be 'mini beauty boutiques'. Pictured is one of its franchise stores in Turkey
An advert from 1959 advertising Avon. In the past, Avon ladies would knock on doors to try and sell the products
The launch is starting with a handful of UK retail stores initially and said that rather than targeting traditional high streets, they would be based in 'neighbourhood communities'.
'Many customers go to the stores for an opportunity to try many of the products, or simply to enjoy a pamper experience with a beauty adviser,' Angela Cretu, global chief executive of Avon International, said.
'We are on the cusp of new frontiers for Avon. It's an exciting new chapter.'
She said the beauty group is providing training to reps to be able to launch and run the retail franchises and provide them with the technology needed to run the businesses.
'We want to be as inclusive as possible,' she said. 'We want to give women the opportunity to open a business, especially in areas where it is not so easy for them to launch a start up.'
Ms Cretu said the expansion into physical stores was being made in response to the fact that the majority – 80 per cent – of beauty purchases are made through retail.
'Women like to touch and experience the product and have that joy of seeing all the colours available,' she said.
But she added it also reflects the changes seen among its customer base since Avon was launched 137 years ago.
Ms Cretu added: 'Women stayed at home in the past, but now they are going out to work and we have to follow them wherever they spend their time and make the service as convenient as possible.'
The UK store plans are part of a wider global move into physical retailing, with the firm also launching representative-run franchise retail stores in key international markets including Brazil and South Africa.
Avon first launched the franchise store model in Turkey almost three years ago, where it now has 63 outlets and has reportedly seen sales growth double in the region.
Ms Cretu said that the pilot in Turkey has proved that, far from stealing business from local reps, the stores have boosted their businesses.
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Avon girl Valerie Holmes holds up a bag of cosmetics she is trying to sell
The brick-and-mortar stores will feature around 150 products, with the full range still only available through Avon representatives
Avon is also rolling out its beauty range further across the Superdrug chain following its move in September to tie up with the beauty and pharmacy chain, which has seen Avon products sold in UK high street shops for the first time.
Avon, which initially launched across 100 Superdrug stores and the retailer's website, will expand products across hundreds more stores from November 27, with plans in the pipeline to extend throughout the entire Superdrug chain.
The group's foray into bricks and mortar retailing marks a major shift in its business model and the latest step to grow the number of ways for shoppers to buy its products.
Avon was founded in 1886 and started out selling products direct into the home through a network of door-to-door representatives, offering women a way to earn independent income.
It still has an army of Avon reps selling door to door but has increasingly shifted towards online and social media in recent years and through the pandemic.


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Frost & Sullivan‘s recent analysis finds that the coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers (C.A.S.E.) market is likely to witness commendable growth in 2021 as its key end markets — including healthcare, construction, and packaging — are witnessing a quicker than expected recovery from the impact of the pandemic.
With the anticipated restoration of semi-normalcy in the latter half of 2021, end-use industries are likely to operate to their full capacity, thereby pushing the demand for C.A.S.E.
By the end of 2021, the global C.A.S.E. market is estimated to reach nearly $225 billion, registering 2% growth from $220.5 billion last year. This study provides the top 2021 trends impacting the market, revenue forecasts for each product group segment, predictions, growth opportunities, and regional insights from North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific.
“The personal protective equipment, food packaging, healthcare, and industrial machinery end-use industries will drive the market in 2021 and beyond. Adhesives specifically designed for flexible packaging applications are an emerging concept and expected to be a key R&D focus for adhesive manufacturers in 2021,” said Ganesh Dabholkar, senior research analyst, Chemicals, Materials and Nutrition Practice at Frost & Sullivan.
Dabholkar added: “High-precision bonding will also become a top requirement in electronics, luxury packaging, healthcare, and jewelry applications. Adhesive manufacturers should invest in product development and plan to provide exclusive technical support to their extreme-precision adhesive customers.”
C.A.S.E. manufacturers are smart to focus on the following growth prospects, according to the study:
- Innovative adhesive and sealant development to meet challenging EV applications: Sealant manufacturers should focus extensive R&D investment on developing sealants that efficiently seal complicated joints in an EV battery pack and simultaneously ensure high resistance to undesired environmental factors.
- Open business opportunities, particularly for elastomer manufacturers: Developing desired characteristics, such as faster crosslinking and lower elastomer viscosity, will contribute to more efficient automobile tire production, for example, which is a major advantage for tire manufacturing customers.
- High-performance acoustic and fire-sealant requirements: Sealant manufacturers need to leverage the current demand-supply gap for high-performance sealants designed to react at certain temperatures to meet the desired fire rating.
- Specialty products for modular construction: Global manufacturers should concentrate on developing C.A.S.E. products that are exclusive to construction automated processes, such as pre-fabricated construction.
To learn more and download this Frost & Sullivan report, click here.


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Nintendo has something lined up for PAX West as far as panels go, but we don't have much information to go on. Here's the tiny description the official PAX West website offers up.
A special Nintendo panel at PAX West 2017! Check the mobile app or digital schedule for more information!
The panel will be held in the Hydra Theater on September 2nd, running from 10 to 11 AM.


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According to 9to5Mac reader Ian Probert, “I have an M1 Macbook Pro. I purchased it in March 2021. Yesterday morning I opened it up to discover cracks in the screen. I contacted Apple and was forced to pay £570 upfront in order for them to repair it. I told them that I had done nothing to damage the screen but their response was that their technicians would decide if I had damaged it and would, in that case, lose my money.”
Subsequent reports from the Apple Support Communities and Reddit have revealed that there are multiple users who are experiencing the same thing. According to the comments, some are suggesting that dirt or debris could have gotten trapped on the bottom section which could cause the display to crack when it is shut.
This is similar to the reason Apple has given users when they advised users not to use a webcam cover with their MacBooks as it could damage the display when it is closed. Another user suggested that maybe the frame of the laptops are too weak to protect the display from the torque force as it is being closed. Either way, some users have managed to get their laptops replaced for free, while others have been charged.
We’re not sure how widespread of an issue this could be, but if you own an M1 MacBook, it could be something to keep an eye out for.


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Last summer, while tracking some of the world’s most notorious cyberterrorists through Southeast Asia, Adam Warner noticed something peculiar: the soft neon glow of a Coca-Cola machine. In everyday life, Warner wouldn’t have given the vending machine much thought. But this wasn’t everyday life. He was a secret agent on a reconnaissance mission—in the videogame Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.
In everyday life, Warner wouldn’t have given the vending machine much thought. But this wasn’t everyday life. He was a secret agent on a reconnaissance mission—in the videogame Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. He chuckled at the cinÃ©ma vÃ©ritÃ©, then slunk back into the murky world of international espionage. The encounter lasted just seconds, but what Warner, a 26-year-old graphic artist, considered a cool new design element, Massive Inc. counted as an ad view.
There are at least 132 million gamers 13 years and older in the United States alone, says a Yankee Group report. That’s a lot of eyeballs. And they belong to some of advertising’s most coveted consumers—men aged 18 to 34. According to ratings giant Nielsen, young men play an average of 12.5 hours of videogames each week (compared with less than 10 spent in front of the TV). Last year the market for advertising to those gamers inside their virtual worlds totaled about $56 million. Now—thanks to new ad-serving technology, next-generation gaming consoles and new metrics to measure both—Boston-based technology research and consulting firm Yankee Group projects the in-game market will explode to $733 million by 2010. It’s a mix of demographics and technology that has the likes of DaimlerChrysler salivating. The company has launched ads in games like Lara Croft’s Tomb Raider Legend and will do the same in the coming "Desperate Housewives." "Will it lead to a sale?" asks Vanessa Kelley, manager of Cross Brand Gaming for DaimlerChrysler. "We don’t know yet. But we want to find out."
In-game ads have been around for nearly 20 years, but two problems kept the market from growing very large. Before 2005, ads were "static," meaning they were built into the code when the game left the factory and couldn’t be changed or updated. Game makers were missing out on at least 50 percent of ad dollars that came from time-sensitive promotions for products like new movie releases. The second problem was metrics. How would advertisers know if a gamer ever proceeded to level 10 and actually saw the ad they had paid for?
Now both problems have been solved. Next week Nielsen will announce a new videogame-measurement service that will track gameplay and in-game advertising to give the Procter & Gambles of the world an analysis of videogame consumption and the impact it has on other media, such as television and the Internet.
While Nielsen was focusing on metrics, a start-up called Massive Inc. devoted itself to creating a videogame network for serving dynamic ads. Through the technology of dynamic ads, Massive was able to insert and change ads in real time as long as the gamer was connected to the Internet via a PC or console. Only months after Massive went live in March 2005, it had big-name advertisers like Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, DaimlerChrysler and Honda pumping ads onto its network. "Their technology is amazing," says Kelley. "They can tell you down to the nth degree how long your ad was looked at, from what angle and who was looking at it." And in a TiVo world, advertisers say that’s not a bad deal.
Previous generations of gaming consoles had various degrees of connectivity, but the next-generation consoles like the Xbox 360 and the PS3—due out this fall—are built to do everything the PC does. They’ve been built from the ground up for broadband support, making dynamic ads just as viable as they already were on Net-connected PCs. And because the console market is a larger market than the PC gaming market, the pool of gamers that companies, such as Massive and competitor Double Fusion, can serve ads to will expand yet again.
Next to advertisers, game publishers stand to benefit the most from the in-game trend. Mitchell Davis, general manager of Massive, which was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year, says developers are making between $2 to $3 of ad profit for each game played on an Internet-connected machine.
Still, there are doubters—like Activision, the second largest third-party gaming publisher. Says senior executive Dave Anderson, "I think the Yankee Group … and a lot of these other research entities are very bullish in their market-growth assessment. That’s not to say we don’t hope to heck what they’re saying comes to fruition." Game giant Nintendo is also waiting on the sidelines to see how the market develops. Yet Davis calls Yankee’s estimate conservative and thinks the market will top a billion dollars by 2010, based on the demographics and the technology.
The ultimate test, of course, will be whether companies who shell out the dough for in-game campaigns believe their ads affect consumer behavior. Warner, the fearless secret agent (who plans to buy the new Splinter Cell game for Xbox 360 just as soon as it comes out), says they might. "I don’t think players will look at an ad of Coke and then go out and buy a 12-pack, but they might think Coke sounds [cool]," he says. "It’s good in-game advertising if it impacts you enough to change your perception of a brand."
Whatever the size of the market ultimately, in-game advertising will come with its own set of constraints. A Harvard study found that most gamers don’t mind the new attention from advertisers. But Joshua Robinson, 23, says that will change if the ads get in the way of how he games; "I don’t want to play a medieval game and see a McDonald’s." In other words, consumer tolerance isn’t unlimited in virtual worlds, either.


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‘We look to those as growth levers’: How fitness start-up Obé is using brand partnerships to boost awareness
Finding creative ways to acquire new customers is paramount for new companies and fitness start-up Obé is betting on partnerships with endemic brands (like athletic clothing brand Athleta and weight loss company WW) and non-endemic brands (Samsung and HBO Max) to do so.
“You can play the Facebook and Instagram game and, obviously, we do, but what’s more interesting for us is marketing partnerships,” said Ashley Mills, co-founder and co-CEO of Obé. “We look to those as growth levers and opportunities for us.”
Founded in 2018, the fitness company offers virtual on-demand classes like pilates and yoga for a $27 a month subscription. It’s unclear how many subscribers Obé has as the company declined to disclose the figure. This past spring, with the surge in demand for online workout classes due to the coronavirus pandemic, Obé saw membership grow 80% month-over-month from March to May. Since then, membership growth has evened out to 30% month-over-month, according to the company.
Even with the increased demand for online classes, Obé has continued to build out its partnership strategy to bolster its growth. As previously reported by Glossy, the company’s partnership with HBO Max, which kicked off earlier this summer around the streaming platform’s launch, played a part helping Obé turn its classes into must-see events with custom Sex and the City, Game of Thrones, Euphoria and Sesame Street themed classes for members. Doing so helped increase awareness of the new streaming platform as well as Obé, according to the company.
On-demand workouts at home is an increasingly competitive category. Obé, co-founded by Mark Mullett and Mills, is one of a number of at-home fitness companies with virtual classes (see: Peloton, Mirror, etc.) that have cropped up in recent years. The company’s differentiation approach to the burgeoning fitness media landscape is to be “where entertainment meets fitness,” said Mills. “We dive into lifestyle in a bigger way and have fitness classes with entertainers who entertain you.”
Using partnerships with other brands, especially endemic ones like Athleta and WW, likely helps boost the perception of Obé as a lifestyle fitness brand as well as help to increase subscribers.
By partnering with Athleta, for example, Obé is able to reach customers who shop the brand and offer deals to get them to try classes out. Customers who do will likely notice that Obé instructors are outfitted in Athleta gear. At the same time, Obé customers who don’t shop at Athleta are then introduced to the brand. As for WW, Obé has been integrated into WW’s “Wellness Wins” program where members of WW who meet goals can redeem free Obé classes for doing so.
“Partnerships are a much more creative way to introduce your brand to new customers,” said Nik Sharma, CEO of Sharma Brands and direct-to-consumer brand strategist. “It’s beneficial to both parties. Unlike paid advertising, where you’re spending money to get new customers and putting up something on Facebook or Instagram that’s like, ‘Come buy us,’ partnerships allow you to create new products to get new customers in intuitive ways.”
That said, using partnerships with other brands to help boost awareness as well as subscriptions is just one part of the company’s marketing strategy. Aside from Facebook and Instagram ads, the company has tested new channels like CTV, Snapchat, TikTok and linear TV in recent months. Obé spent $562,000 on media placements during the first six months of 2020, per Kantar’s data; that figure does not include what Obé spent on social media ads as Kantar doesn’t track social spending.
The fitness company isn’t alone in trying to use a partnership strategy to acquire new customers. Disaster emergency kit company Judy recently partnered with bathroom fragrant Poo-Pourri on new kits — which have Poo-Pourri, hand-sanitizer, hand wipes, a whistle and a glow stick — to help both companies acquire new customers, per Sharma who is an advisor to both brands.
“[The strategy] is not super standard,” said Sharma. “But it allows for cross audience pollination and can increase customer lifetime value.”
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BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept Greenlighted for Production at Leipzig plant
Yesterday we have reported that the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics will most likely be limited to just 5,000 to 10,000 models. It was also rumored last January that the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics will be receiving the greenlight for production and will be launched in 2013. Today, these rumors were confirmed.
Auto Motor Und Sport, a German magazine, reports that BMW insiders have confirmed that the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics vehicle has indeed received the greenlight for production. The production will be held at the BMW Leipzig plant. The same magazine reported that this car will be powered by a combustion engine.
The hybrid version of the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics using a three-cylinder 1.5 liter engine, aided by two electric motors will follow after 2013. This version will be capable of 356 horsepower, and 590 lb-ft peak torque.
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Trunks: The Warrior of Hope is the third DLC for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. Check out the launch trailer here.
Bandai Namco has released a launch trailer for the third DLC of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Trunks: The Warrior of Hope. The expansion should appear today.
If you want to learn more about the content of the DLC, you can read this article.
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Canada had just over 134,000 for-hire trucking companies on the road in 2019, realizing a collective operating profit of $7.9 billion.
The findings emerge in Statistics Canada’s latest for-hire trucking survey, which noted the businesses collectively generated $67.8 billion in operating revenue from trucking and related services. Operating expenses totaled $59.8 billion.
Employee salaries, wages and benefits accounted for 25.3% of the operating expenses, while payments to owner-operators accounted for 22.1%. Vehicle fuel represented 15.1% of the operating expenses.
Ontario trucking companies led the way with $24.4 billion in the 2019 revenue, followed by Alberta ($11.9 billion) and Quebec ($11.8 billion), the national number crunchers add.
General freight operations accounted for $44.1 billion of the national operating revenue and $39 billion of the expenses. Specialized freight haulers accounted for $23.7 billion in operating revenue and $20.1 billion in expenses.
Intraprovincial shipments accounted for 43.6% of the operating revenues collected by Canadian carriers, with interprovincial shipments accounting for 19.9%. International movements into Canada represented 17.7% ($11.1 billion) in revenue, while international movements out of Canada accounted for the remaining 18.7% ($11.7 billion).


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Festival Foods' new campaign aims to get customers cooking at home
Festival Foods is challenging is customers with the Head Over Meals campaign to help them find renewed joy or newfound love in home cooking. The 100-day campaign features a new challenge every week, like the first week’s challenge of preparing a lunch or breakfast ahead of time.
The program was designed by a team of registered dietitians, and through a pledge form, contestants will be entered to win a vacation to Jamaica, provided by travel partners Fox World and Delta Vacations.
“As our guests start a new year, we wanted to inspire them to get back into the kitchen, and we want to give them confidence to make more meals at home," said Lauren Tulig, registered dietitian and nutrition communications manager for De Pere, Wis.-based Skogen’s Festival Foods. "We also wanted to build a community where we could encourage one another to achieve our personal goals and have fun along the way."
Participants can join at any point throughout the challenge by downloading a pledge sheet online, and then following along with the program online as well as via Festival Foods’ social media platforms, particularly Facebook and Instagram, which will host weekly video challenges.
Independent grocer and employee-owned Festival Foods operates 32 stores across Wisconsin.


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FINLAND: Soft drinks body pulls drinks from schools
Panimoliitto, Finland's brewing and soft drinks industry central organisation, has agreed not to market soft drinks in the country to children under the age of 12.
The body said today (16 January) that it has signed up to the Finnish government's Child Obesity Initiative (COI). Coca-Cola Finland and PepsiCo Nordic Finland, who are not members of the organisation, have also signed up to the COI.
Under Panimoliitto's agreement with the Ministry of Health and Social Services, the industry has agreed to remove all soft drinks product ads from secondary school vending machines by the end of this year. The machines will subsequently offer a a selection consisting of a minimum of 50% sugar-free drinks and an increased choice of low-calorie drinks.
"Panimoliitto takes the health of the nation seriously and wants to do its part in solving problems linked to obesity," said Panimoliito's chief executive, Timo Jaatinen.
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Over one billion people globally do not have access to electricity. Of those, 600 million reside in Africa. Just as the continent leapfrogged the landline telephone in favour of the mobile, it may also leapfrog centralized fossil fuel powered grids, moving straight to small-scale, off-grid and mini-grid renewable energy. 100 million people already have off-grid solar products in Africa, and D-light alone has reached over 80 million people globally. We traveled to Kenya to find out what is driving this growth and what the future might hold.
In the small town of Joska, approximately 40km East of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, we meet Lucie. A widow, she lives alone in her small house, surrounded by a rich array of healthy looking vegetables she works the dark soil to produce. Lucie has the wide-eyed humour of a woman growing old gracefully. As we talk with her, she disappears into her home and produces a small mobile solar light, placing it in the sun to charge. We crouch down, sensing a photo opportunity, but our D-Light host Geoffrey, laughing, snaps up the light in his hands. Lucia’s face betrays a childish grin and twinkling eye: the product was made by a D-Light competitor, placed there deliberately as a mischievous joke. We all laugh heartily.
Lucie’s children are grown up and have moved away, but her D-Light home solar system helps her to keep connected to the outside world. The system includes a variety of lights, phone and device charging ports, a radio, and television. D-Light sold 120,000 of these in the first 6 months after its launch in October 2016. Lucie tells us: “I like to watch the news, and the gospel music shows. I don’t care for the other rubbish!”
D-Light was anointed the African winner of the $1.5m Zayed Future Energy Prize in 2013, 6 years into its operations. A global firm with a growing African market, its customers have the option to pay products in daily, weekly or monthly installments. A non-payment means the system shuts down: an incentive to keep up the payment schedule. Back in Joska at the local market, we stop to join a crowd of curious onlookers peering over each other’s shoulders to witness a man conducting a strange looking experiment using an egg and a burning cigarette, apparently demonstrating the health risks of lighting up. The market is busy all day and night; traders continue until 22.00 or 23.00. As the sun sets and the lights come on, we notice how many businesses here use D-Light products. Market vegetable traders with off-grid solar kits attract more customers to their stalls as darkness falls, boosting their business income. As we stop to talk to one of them, an impromptu sale begins, as an interested passer-by quizzes our D-light sales hosts on the benefits of the home solar system. “He is very interested; we’ll contact him on Monday for a home demonstration. So many people want one of these,” Geoffrey, the area sales representative, enthusiastically conveys to us.
The impacts of these small-scale products on people’s lives are clear: solar electricity is safer, cleaner, healthier and more affordable than alternatives such as kerosene, enabling people to stay connected, study, and boost their businesses. Many of Geoffrey’s customers are even connected to the grid and elect to purchase off-grid solar products anyway: citing as their motivation the unreliability of grid electricity with its unpredictable blackouts. Geoffrey moved to D-Light after 5 years selling fast-moving consumer goods. It’s a move he doesn’t regret: “I love seeing people who have lived in darkness, live in light. That becomes my fulfillment.”
The solar revolution is not being driven by government aid, but by the private sector. These products are profitable, not handouts; the people we spoke to clients, not beneficiaries. The profitability of renewable energy means both grid and off-grid renewables could become Africa’s big leapfrog of the twenty first century. Not only are the costs of renewables falling faster every year, but the costs of grid connection remain extremely high. According to the Africa Progress Panel, spearheaded by ex-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, connecting everyone in Africa to a centralized electricity grid would cost $63 billion per year until 2030. Right now, expenditure is about $8 billion. If the argument is effectively made that off-grid solar can deliver higher levels of electrification for a cheaper cost, governments may even start subsidising the off-grid revolution to drive its growth further.
So what’s next? D-Light estimates that penetration of off-grid solar products in Africa is about the same as the mobile telephone in the 1990’s, just before the mobile phone really took off. The Economist estimates that installations across the continent are doubling about every 18 months. If trends continue, Africa’s economies could build on this early success to become leading low-carbon, tech-enabled competitors of the 21 st century.
D-Light Kenya Country Director Sai Kumar says the big focus now is on technology innovation that can deliver higher energy systems that can meet the needs of the customer. Sai adds “We envision a future where all people are empowered to enjoy the freedom and improved quality of life that comes with access to reliable, affordable off-grid light and power.”
Reporting, photo & video content by Steven Bland and Russell Galt of Eco MoJo: Sustainability Simplified. To contact them, email email@example.com


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Christmas comes to Collingswood this weekend with the return of its Holiday Parade.
Friday, Nov 25
Santa Claus will help get the festivities started with a visit in time for the official tree lighting ceremony at 7 p.m.The event features choral groups singing favorite holiday carols and season’s greetings from Mayor Jim Maley and Commissioners Joan Leonard and Mike Hall.
Saturday, Nov 26Then, on Saturday at 10 a.m., catch the Holiday Parade as it makes its way through the borough’s historic district.The two-hour procession will feature numerous marching bands, Mummers, dancers, the Phillies Phanatic and other entertainers, plus dozens of vintage cars and motorcycles. Santa will appear last, riding atop a firetruck decked out in holiday lights.The parade begins at Haddon and Zane avenues. and continues through the heart of town, ending at W. Linden Ave.Both events kick off the holiday season for the borough, packed with free visits with Santa on weekends, caroling and holiday concerts, plus free parking and extended shopping hours.Bonus: Jersey S Gaugers train show at the First Baptist Church (23 Frazer Ave.) on Saturday.


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Last week, TNW reported on driverless autonomous automobile company Nuro getting the chase ahead to test its autos in some Californian cities. As I was reading up on the company, I watched certainly one of its early promotional videos which featured a driverless autonomous delivery automobile with wing mirrors. Nevertheless why? Why would a automobile packed with sensors and no space for a human driver require physical wing mirrors?
At one point, I plan it was all part of a grand conspiracy and the Nuro automobile featured in the video wasn’t autonomous, nonetheless was correct a mock up with a human driver inside, and the wing mirrors have been there to provide rear vision. This isn’t correct, although.
[Read: Survey: Drop in pollution gets Brits interested in electric vehicles]
Despite the fact that Nuro’s R1 automobile is capable of driving with no human intervention, it needed wing mirrors because
outdatedregulations said so. How boring.
According to a Nuro spokesperson, the company’s first generation automobile that was examined in Scottsdale, Arizona, also needed a absolutely rigid windshield designed to protect passengers. Passengers that it doesn’t actually have.
Regulations also required it to deactivate any rear cameras when the car strikes forward to forestall distracting its drivers. Drivers that it doesn’t need or have space for.
It have to be fairly obvious that an autonomous automobile doesn’t actually require any of these features to operate safely. In some cases, the regulations are actually counterintuitive; rigid windshields are actually much less safe for pedestrians, for example.
A stepping stone
Back in February, Nuro was the primary company to obtain a regulatory exemption, meaning that the company doesn’t have to install wing mirrors anymore.
The advantage of removing the mirrors is more than correct aesthetic. The company says it can now make the autos edges rounder and grasp protruding edges to make it safer. Nuro’s R2 is packed with sensors, including lidar, radar, and cameras, to provide a 360-level view, so it’s no longer adore it’s going to leave out them.
What’s more, if the automobile doesn’t need to protect any internal passengers, more focal point can be placed on designing it to be safe for pedestrians and varied road users.
Nuro has replaced its originally rigid windshield with an impact-absorbing front-finish that can “collapse inwards in the case of a collision,” it said.
In the grand contrivance of things, it appears that recent laws will serve as nothing more than a stepping stone toward fresh regulations that will better enhance emerging autonomous technologies. For now, companies that don’t get an exemption will aloof have to put wing mirrors on their driverless autos — even in the event that they are totally ineffective.
Nuro may have been the primary company to be granted an exemption from recent regulations, nonetheless it certainly’s no longer going that it’ll be the last.
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A tier-4 data centre has 99.995 percent uptime implying a maximum of 26 minutes downtime in a year.
The centre will further enhance the company's ability to bring in more sellers and MSMEs to the platform and cater to more consumers in the country.
Hyderabad-based technology infrastructure provider CtrlS plans to set up world's largest tier-4 datacentre footprint in India by 2020 with an investment of Rs 2,000 crore, according to a top company official.
The company, which claims to be leader in Asia in tier-4 datacentre category, hosts data of large business houses, including State Bank of India, Tata Group, Mahindra Group of companies, Adani Group, Birla Group of companies and Fedex, among others.
In less than a year, San Francisco startup DCHQ Inc. has moved from company and product launch to user acquisition, a partnership with Red Hat ...
State-owned BSNL has undertaken a Rs 1,000 crore investment plan which include launch of Skype facility and setting up of Wi-Fi hotspots at tourist places, a top official said on Friday.
The ISO 22301 is the new international standard for Business Continuity Management.
The partnership with Siemens CVC will enable CtrlS to offer Secure Workforce Productivity Service targeted at increasing the workforce productivity of enterprise customers.
The partnership is aimed at providing a range of services which include datacentre infrastructure, disaster recovery, storage, backup and other managed services.
Data and voice services provider Connect on Wednesday entered into an agreement with data centre company CtrlS to launch cloud computing services in Punjab


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Home prices in 2021 rise nearly 20 per cent: CREA
July 30, 2021
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) is forecasting Canadian average home prices will increase 19.2 per cent this year but switch to much more moderate pace in 2022, with prices rising by only 0.6 per cent.
As of June 2021, the average composite home price in Canada was $679,051—up 25.9 per cent from a year earlier.
“Activity will remain strong through 2021, resulting in a record number of sales this year despite the slowdown that began in April,” CREA said. “Over time, activity is forecast to continue returning towards more typical levels. As a result, 2022 is expected to see significantly fewer MLS transactions than in 2021.”
Removing the high-priced markets of the Greater Toronto and Vancouver areas, the average price stands at $548,208, based on May 2021 data.
There are some standout markets for price appreciation.
Based on May prices, the Lakelands region of Ontario—comprising Parry Sound, Muskoka, Haliburton and Orillia—posted an average price of $601,300. This is an increase of 48.7 per cent compared May 2020 and up 6 per cent from April 2021—the highest increase in Canada.
CREA reports that as of May 2021, the Canadian cities posting the highest price increases were: Barrie (Ontario) up 37.8 per cent to $718,800; Ottawa, up 34.4 per cent to $653,600; and Halifax-Dartmouth, up 29 per cent to $466,666.


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Singapore’s Core Inflation Falls since October 2022.
Singapore’s core inflation fell to 5 percent year-on-year in March, the first time it has slowed since October 2022.
The moderation in core inflation from 5.5 per cent in February and January – the highest in 14 years – was driven by smaller increases in services, food, retail and other goods, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry on Apr 24.
Core inflation excludes accommodation and private transport costs.
The 5 percent figure in March is slightly lower than the 5.1 per cent a Reuters poll of economists had forecast.
Overall inflation came in at 5.5 per cent year-on-year in March, lower than the 6.3 per cent recorded the month before.
This was mainly driven by lower private transport inflation.
In March, food inflation eased slightly to 7.7 per cent year-on-year, from 8.1 per cent in February.
This was due to smaller increases in the prices of prepared meals and non-cooked food prices, said MAS and MTI.
Services inflation, which fell to 3.4 per cent from 3.9 per cent, moderated on the back of lower point-to-point transport fares.
Inflation for retail and other goods also dipped to 3.3 per cent from 3.8 per cent as the prices of personal care products and household durables rose at a slower pace.
Inflation for accommodation eased slightly to 4.8 per cent from 4.9 per cent as the pace of increase in housing rents moderated.
Private transport inflation slowed from 12.1 per cent to 8.6 per cent due to a smaller increase in car prices and a steeper decline in petrol prices.
Electricity and gas inflation rose slightly to 12.2 per cent from 12.1 per cent, picking up on the back of a larger increase in electricity costs.
In a note on the economic outlook, MAS and MTI said: “Global supply chain frictions have eased, and consumer goods inflation in the advanced economies has moderated.
“Energy and food commodity prices have fallen below their peaks seen last year. As a result, Singapore’s import prices have declined on year-on-year terms,” the authorities added.
However, both MAS and MTI noted overall core inflation was still high.
On the domestic front, unit labour costs are expected to increase further in the near term; and businesses could continue to pass through accumulated such costs to consumer prices albeit at a more moderate pace.
Meanwhile, car and accommodation cost increases are likely to stay firm in the quarters ahead, on the back of tight Certificate of Entitlement (COE) quotas for cars and strong demand for rental housing, said MAS and MTI.
For 2023 as a whole, headline and core inflation are projected to average 5.5 to 6.5 per cent and 3.5 to 4.5 per cent, respectively.
Excluding the transitory effects of the 1 percentage point increase in the Goods and Services Tax to 8 per cent, headline and core inflation are expected to come in at 4.5 to 5.5 per cent and 2.5 to 3.5 per cent, respectively.
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Authorities in Cancun and the Mexican Caribbean have warned travelers over rising online travel agency fraud cases, which have remained a significant concern throughout the year and are expected to spike this December. With the busiest time of the year for tourism quickly approaching, officials are calling on residents and visitors to be cautious when encountering too-good-to-be-true online deals, which are more often than not scams.
Whilst authorities have ramped up efforts to stem online fraud, the issue remains pervasive, and fraudsters are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to make a quick buck at the expense of travelers. This week, officials released a new warning urging travelers to double-check before booking through online travel agencies in a final push to bring down alarming fraud levels.
The Mexican Travel Agency Association (AMAV) is the latest organization to warn tourists about the risks of online travel agencies. According to the business group, December sees some of the highest numbers of online frauds, coinciding with record-shattering arrival numbers. As the Mexican Caribbean soars in popularity, so do the number of complaints filed to authorities, who are struggling to address the issue.
Although online travel fraud remains a persistent issue around Mexico, the problem is especially bad in the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, home to some of the country’s most popular resort destinations, including the likes of Cancun and Playa del Carmen.
According to Eduardo Paniagua Morales, a spokesperson for the AMAV, up to 450 cases of possible fraud are detected per day in Mexico, with a significant amount originating in the Mexican Caribbean. The official also added that online crimes have spiked significantly after the COVID-19 pandemic receded due to most physically-based travel agencies moving online. Online fraud numbers have risen by up to 50% compared to before the pandemic, he added.
Do This To Avoid Falling Victim To Online Scams
Officials say most cases of online travel agency scams happen through social media platforms like Instagram or Facebook, although they can also occur on websites that appear legitimate. Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of online fraud.
Price is one of the main indicators of a legitimate travel agency. Online vacation packages that offer a lot at extremely low prices are more likely than not going to be scams. Some examples might include a package that offers accommodation for several nights at 5-star resorts for just a few hundred dollars, on top of a range of exclusive activities and excursions.
Moreover, legitimate travel agencies will always use secure payment methods. Lastly, travelers are advised to double-check that their travel agency has signed up to the national travel agency registry.
Local and state authorities are currently working to address the issue and will propose new legislation to increase fines and prison sentences for convicted online criminals. Despite allocating more resources to fight online crime, police say that online crooks use advanced methods to hide their tracks.
Travelers are also urged to report any suspected cases of online fraud to local officials through Quintana Roo’s Guest Assist service, where tourists can report crime anonymously.
Aside from rising online travel agency scams, tourists headed to Cancun, and the Mexican Caribbean should also be cautious when booking online vacation rentals on platforms like Airbnb, which have come under fire for scams and frauds. The online platform has recently offered travelers several tips to book securely. Travelers can find a record number of online vacation rentals across the Mexican Caribbean, which undoubtedly offer benefits like flexibility and lower costs – when done right.
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Watch: Classic C1 Corvette Falls out of Transporter for No Good Reason
Seeing a pristine 1962 Chevy Corvette launch off a ramp eight feet high is ugly yet compelling. And it was so unnecessary. All the delivery driver had to do was ensure someone was behind the wheel of the C1 Corvette until the ramp was on the ground. Instead, the new owner could only watch while this tragedy unfolded.
Here’s how not to load a C1 Corvette onto a ramp
The truck driver prepares the Vette by moving one tire chock — a tiny tire chock — to the edge of the lift. Did it occur to him that the car could easily roll over such a puny chock? Yeah, it’s Car Shipping 101.
So TikTok user beach_pirate shows the arrival of this vintage Corvette gone horribly wrong. Once it crashes to the ground, things don’t look right. The front tires are lower and missing hubcaps from the violent impact.
How bad is the C1 Corvette’s damage?
The jolt popped the trunk lid, too. If there’s anything good about dropping a C1 Corvette, it’s this car is relatively light. The outcome for this 3,000-pounder is far better than, say, a 1962 Cadillac. At well over two tons, a ’60s Caddy dropped from that height would have fared far worse.
So overall, the Corvette looks none the worse for wear, right? Ah, not so fast. The video shows extensive car damage from being plonked onto the pavement from eight feet.
The driver’s door no longer aligns with the quarter panel. Sad. And the entire rear body panel is broken in half. Furthermore, the passenger-side corner suffered more cracking and damage. Not good. And the grille guards ripped away from the front.
Does the new owner have to keep the damaged car?
The new owner purchased the Vette on Bring a Trailer for $111,000 on February 28. The car had been completely refurbished and repainted Almond Beige. But now might be an opportunity for the new owner to change the color again.
So what happens next? We would decline the delivery and return the 1962 Corvette as not being in the advertised condition. Then it would be up to the transporter’s and former owner’s insurance companies to sort out the mess. One or the other would pay to restore the Corvette as best as possible. It’s unclear from the video whether the new owner would want the car back.
We hope this never befalls your classic car delivery.


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Limestone Branch Distillery has introduced the 2016 edition of its Yellowstone Kentucky Straight Bourbon. A limited-edition product, this year it combines two extra-aged rye mashed bourbons finished in toasted wine barrels.
Steve Beam, president and distiller of Limestone Branch Distillery says: "We used 28 new wine barrels with varying levels of toast – I was interested in how toasting versus charring would contribute to the bourbon."
The 2016 has been bottled at 101 proof and is available in 750ml bottles signed by Steve Beam and nestled in commemorative tubes. Approximately 7,000 bottles of this bourbon are being produced this autumn at Limestone Branch Distillery and the suggested retail price is $99.99.
Beam says: “The 2016 limited edition Yellowstone is all about the subtle nuances that can be achieved through manipulating the barrel. While last year’s edition was more about big, bold flavours achieved through char and age, this year’s is softer with a subtle complexity.”
Steve Beam and his brother Paul Beam opened Limestone Branch Distillery in 2011 with the goal of crafting the finest whiskey in small batches. The distillery is known for its T.J. Pottinger Sugar Shine and Precinct No. 6 whisky. With a history of distilling on both sides of their family – Beam and Dant – the brothers are seventh- generation distillers. In 2015, they brought the Yellowstone brand back to the family and launched a limited edition bourbon to commemorate the brand’s 105th anniversary. They also launched Yellowstone Select earlier this year.
9 October 2016 - Sam Coyne The Drinks Report, editorial assistant


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[Update: Rolling out to Lenovo Smart Display] Google Home Hub features will roll out to more Smart Displays
The Google Home Hub was one of the several new devices shown off by Google this week. This is their own version of the Smart Displays that were launched by Lenovo and JBL earlier this year. Google demoed a few features on the Google Home Hub that are not yet available on those other Smart Display, but they will be in the future.
Google says a “major” update is coming to these other Smart Speakers in the next few weeks. This update will add many of the features shows off on the Google Home Hub. The list includes:
- Multi-room audio: Smart Displays can be a part of a speaker group.
- Live Albums: Google Photos can play a slideshow of photos in Ambient Mode.
- Nest Hello Doorbell: see who’s at the door on the display.
- Home view: an overview screen of all your smart home devices, like the recent Google Home app update.
- More voice controls for media and entertainment devices like TVs, speakers, remotes, and more.
We’re glad to see Google will be bringing these features to all Smart Displays. These devices are all supposed to be running the same software, so it would have been disappointing if Google saved certain features for their device. Keep an eye out for these features to start appearing over the next few weeks.


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Monday, November 14, 2016 — Harold Montgomery, CEO, MoneyOnMobile, India's largest mobile phone-based payment network is a guest on BBC TV's World Business on November 14th 2016. MoneyOnMobile provides a proprietary financial tool which allows retailers to easily and quickly assist consumers who pay physical cash to complete bill payment and money transfer services. Retailers have a variety of methods from which to generate transactions: using SMS text messaging, mobile application or the web. Bill payments include prepaid/postpaid cell phone time, prepaid television time, utility bills, travel tickets, assisted eCommerce and transit cards.
See the full interview HERE.
MoneyOnMobile CEO on BBC Television