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T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T are unarguably the top cell phone carriers in the United States. These phone providers have been around for quite some time now. For instance, AT&T has been in the business since 1983. This company has proven itself over the years to be reliable. Recently, in a way to improve its mobile network and further invest in 5G, AT&T took a step to shut down its 3G networks. However, according to the latest reports, it seems the new move currently affects some people. That’s so because unlocked Samsung Galaxy phones users are now complaining they’re unable to make or receive calls on AT&T.
Unlocked Samsung Galaxy phones cannot make or receive VoLTE/HD calls on AT&T
The move to shut down the AT&T 3G network in the United States started in February 2022. Today, many zones in the country no longer have the 3G network. The shutting down process comes with a couple of benefits for the users. However, it also comes with an issue, which is specifically affecting Samsung users.
The latest reports across various social media platforms reveal that unlocked Samsung Galaxy phones users cannot make VoLTE/HD calls on AT&T. You can check here (1,2,3,4) to see some reports about the issue. The exact cause of this issue is still unknown. However, according to some reports, affected devices work with another sim for about 10 minutes before misbehaving.
What causes the issue?
AT&T recently released the list of unlocked or BYOD devices, which its network now supports. You can check here to have a look at it. According to affected users, their devices are on the list but still couldn’t use the AT&T network. Here’s what Vtbeerloverguy said regarding the issue below:
The exact cause of this issue is still unclear, as previously stated. However, we think the problem has a lot to do with the support level of the affected devices. For instance, the unlocked Samsung Galaxy S10 is one of the affected phones, which couldn’t make or receive VoLTE/HD calls on AT&T. The Galaxy S10 smartphone has the model number G973U1. On the unlocked or BYOD devices list above, AT&T specified that the phone only supports HD Voice. With that, it means the issue here is related to the support level for the device.
However, for other affected phones that support VoLTE/HD/Wi-Fi Calling, it’s possible they are yet to get properly provisioned to support the AT&T network. So, the issue here will only be available for a short while.
Is there any official fix yet?
For now, there’s no official fix yet to address the situation, where unlocked Samsung Galaxy phones cannot make or receive calls on AT&T. However, it seems the AT&T team is already aware of the issue and working on providing a fix to resolve it, according to this post.
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new Delhi. Ola Electric is happy to join the Centre’s PLI scheme for manufacturing of advanced batteries. The goal of this scheme is to make India into a global EV hub. Ola Electric CEO Bhavish Aggarwal said that in the coming days, the country can become a hub of EV as well as EV cell technology.
Ola Electric currently sells the S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters. The company is also going to launch its first electric car soon. Ola is one of the top EV two-wheelers manufacturers in India.
Maruti Suzuki will launch two new 7 seater SUVs, will give competition to Kia and Hyundai
Recently, Ola Electric has been selected by the Ministry of Heavy Industries under the PLI (Production Linked Incentive) scheme. Under this scheme, a target has been set to manufacture a total of 50 GWh battery capacity. Firms covered under this scheme will get incentives under the ₹18,100 crore program to promote domestic production of Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) batteries.
Aggarwal said about this, “India has the strongest government support in the world to make it an electric vehicle hub. Today, 90 percent of the global capacity is produced in China. We want to transform India into a global center for EV and cell technology.
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The companies selected under this scheme will be free to choose advanced technology and machinery, raw material and other items for setting up SAIL manufacturing plants. The ACC’s scheme along with the PLI scheme for the automotive sector and FAME is expected to move the country towards an environmentally cleaner, sustainable, advanced and more efficient Electric Vehicle (EV) based system.
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The Central Government has started Production Based Incentive Scheme (PLI Scheme) for different sectors to encourage Make-in-India and make a self-reliant India. The objective of this scheme is to help the sector fulfilling the needs of the country and for them to reduce their dependence on imports.
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In celebration of Anderson Bros 87th anniversary, the first 87 people to come to the Anderson Bros location in Kingsgate with 4 cans of food, after the 6 p.m. announcement, will receive a free gift. The cans of food will be donated to the South Plains Food Bank.
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Yet another “Injustice: Gods Among Us” trailer has just been released and this time it is all about Doomsday. For those of you that are not familiar with the DC Comics character Doomsday, the most important thing you need to know is that he killed Superman. Not only does Doomsday look incredibly intimidating, he is pretty much the strongest villain Superman has ever come across. Doomsday is vicious, strong and as powerful as few, check out the trailer below to see the true power of Doomsday.
“Injustice: Gods Among Us” is set to be released for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U.
North America – April 16, 2013
Australia – April 17, 2013
Europe – April 19, 2013
Japan – June 9, 2013
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Google has announced that it’s Google One VPN is now available on the iPhone and iPad, the company has announced the launch of the feature on Apple’s iOS platform.
The company has said that the Google One VPN will be available to members of the Premium plans which are 2TB or higher.
When we launched the VPN by Google One for Android in the U.S., we wanted to give you an extra layer of online protection for your phone and the peace of mind that your connection is safer. Today, we’re sharing the latest updates to the VPN, which help bring protection to even more people and make it even easier to use.
Today, we’re beginning to roll out the VPN to iOS devices. Similar to Android, the VPN will be available to Google One members on Premium plans (2 TB and higher) through the Google One app on iOS. Plus, members can share their plan and the VPN with up to five family members at no extra cost, so they can all use the VPN, no matter whether they’re using an Android or iOS phone.
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BMW X8 with stacked tailpipes spied testing at the Nurburgring
The biggest of the SAVs has been spotted at the Nurburgring.
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BMW X8 caught on camera looking large and in charge
It could become the most expensive new Bimmer in history.
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2022 BMW X8 rendered with strange headlights as seen in spy shots
Well, that's one way to make the X8 stand out.
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BMW 'Project Rockstar' will be a hybrid X8 M with 750 bhp - report
In many cases, internal codenames are way cooler than the final name. This is one of them.
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BMW X8 M could gets its own platform, no X7 M planned - report
When the X8 M arrives, it might not share the X7’s platform.
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BMW X8 M rendering previews the inevitable
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BMW X8 M rumoured to pack 750 bhp from hybrid V8
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New BMW X8 rumour suggests the big CUV could debut in late 2020
Early 2021 is also a possibility.
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BMW X8 M and 400-bhp 1 Series are allegedly planned
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Four-seat BMW X8 to become brand's most expensive model?
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BMW X7 officially confirmed for mid-October reveal
High-performance X7 M and coupe-ified X8 could be on the cards.
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A find of 300 cars will make car lovers’ hearts beat faster. As the Youtuber and restorer Larry Kosilla shows, Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Corvettes were discovered in three barns.
According to Kosilla, the owner of the collection wants to remain anonymous. However, he allowed the Youtuber to film a tour of one of the barns. The auto expert was also tasked with restoring a Bizzarrini P538 that is said to be worth nearly a million US dollars (928,000 euros).
Kosilla posted the video footage of the tour of one of the three barns for its 1.35 million subscribers on its YouTube channel AMMO NYC.
Several rare racing cars and vintage cars
The video – which was filmed prior to the coronavirus pandemic – was first released on April 10. As of April 20, the video already had 2.2 million views.
It is no surprise that the find has sparked the interest of millions of viewers. The barn is full of rare vehicles from the US and Europe, including cars from Ferrari, Ford, Oldsmobile, Matra Djet and Rolls-Royce.
Even Kosilla has not yet seen the full collection. This is in part due to the fact that the coronavirus pandemic has prevented several of its plans for further viewing and work on the collection.
Barns with 300 cars, including rare Ferraris, Corvettes and Porsches, have been hidden for 30 years. Now the collection is to be auctioned.
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The number of wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon rose eight percent last month compared to July 2021, according to official figures released Monday, the latest alarm bell for the world’s largest rainforest.
Satellite monitoring detected 5,373 fires last month, up from 4,977 in July last year, according to the Brazilian space agency INPE.
However, the number fell far short of the worst July ever: 19,364 fires in 2005.
July is usually the start of “fire season” in the Amazon, when drier weather fuels more fires – mostly from farmers and speculators clearing land for agriculture, experts say.
The rise of the Amazon came as major fires raged in California, France and Portugal as temperatures soared.
This has been a worrying year for fires in the Amazon, a key resource in the race to curb global warming: INPE has detected 12,906 so far, up 13 percent from the same period last year.
“Unfortunately, the number of criminal forest fires only explodes at the beginning of the Amazon dry season,” said Romulo Batista of Greenpeace Brazil.
“Apart from decimating the forest and its biodiversity, these fires and destruction also affect the health of local people through smoke inhalation,” he said in a statement.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who is up for re-election in October, faces scrutiny over his government’s controversial management of Brazil’s 60 percent stake in the Amazon, which has seen a spate of fires and deforestation under his oversight.
Since the far-right agribusiness ally took office in 2019, average annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased by 75 percent compared to the previous decade.
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On Wednesday, Q3 sales were down 11.5% from the previous three months. Chinese regulator launches cybersecurity investigation It broke into a ride-hailing company and forced many of its apps to shut down.
Headquartered in Beijing, Didi is also Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Daniel Zhang, chairman and chief executive officer of the company, said he has resigned from the board of directors. He has been taken over by Yi Zhang, senior legal director of a Chinese e-commerce giant who previously worked for several international law firms.
Diddy reported that sales for the three months to September 30 were worth $ 6.7 billion at the current exchange rate, compared to $ 7.6 billion for the three months to June 30. Cause of decline. The company also posted a net loss of $ 4.8 billion in the third quarter.
Diddy has been published Since Alibaba’s blockbuster in 2014, it went public on the New York Stock Exchange on June 30, after raising $ 4.4 billion in the largest initial public offering in the United States by a Chinese tech company.
Immediately after listing, Chinese cyberspace regulators said they were investigating Diddy’s cybersecurity. Many of Didi’s apps have been removed From a domestic app store.
The price of Diddy’s American Depositary Receipts plummeted, Record low this week After the 180-day post-IPO lockup period expired, its early shareholders were able to reduce their stakes. On Wednesday, New York-listed stock closed at $ 4.94, about 65% below the IPO price of $ 14.
Diddy in early December said it was planning Delisting Coming from the United States, we pursue a listing in Hong Kong. The company aims to publish in Hong Kong through a previously reported “list by referral”. This route allows companies already trading shares on other exchanges to open to financial hubs in Asia without raising new funding or issuing new shares.
During the nine months ending September 30, Diddy generated $ 20.9 billion in revenue, up 40% from the year-ago quarter, showing how much growth momentum was at the beginning of the year. The company’s September quarter revenue was slightly lower than in the third quarter of 2020.
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According to the government’s recently-announced ‘Economic Policy Direction for the Second Half of the Year’ strategy, food companies manufacturing products using grains will be a main target to receive tax and monetary support considering the recent increase in international grain prices.
“[International] prices of wheat, soybeans, and corn are still higher than in previous years, and there are uncertain factors such as crop conditions in major countries such as the United States and South America [hence measures have been implemented to protect the local industry],” said the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) via a formal statement.
“[The government will] strengthen financial support for the sector, such as increasing the amount of support to food manufacturers to purchase raw materials to produce their products to KRW124bn (US$107.7mn) this year.
“In response to the recent rise in international grain prices, tax deduction limits [for firms purchasing raw materials] will be raised to 40% in 2021, as opposed to the normal deduction limit of 30%. A review is ongoing to extend this until 2023, and also to extend the application deadlines for food firms to get special exemptions on tax-free agricultural products.”
In addition, inter-ministerial collaborations have been put in place to import international grain import procedures and cut interest rates on raw materials for food manufacturing firms.
“From a longer-term perspective, mid- to long-term measures [are needed] considering Korea's weak production base,” said the statement.
“[These include] securing an overseas supply chain, expanding domestic stockpiles in preparation for not only rising prices but also supply and demand instability, and [there is a strong need for] public-private cooperation.”
For smaller food firms, the strategy also highlighted the establishment of a ‘local-based win-win’ crowdfunding pilot, where local residents will be encouraged to directly invest in local small businesses to revitalize local markets.
Children’s food safety focus
In separate documentation, the government also announced food safety plans for the second half of 2021 with a strong emphasis on children’s food.
Following on from food safety plans from the first half of the year where meat imports and processing were the main focal points, in the second half of the year the South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has pledged to improve children’s food safety and diets.
“Starting from July 2021, we will be taking steps to ensure all food establishments making and selling children’s favourite foods label the foods with both nutritional information and allergen information – this will be a mandatory requirement,” said MFDS.
“In addition, by December 2021 we also aim to have children’s meal management support centres installed across the country, where registration will also be mandatory and nutritionists will be made available to offer dietary guidance.”
South Korea has long placed emphasis on children’s diets – it is one of the only countries in Asia to restrict television advertising of high-calorie, low nutrition ‘junk’ foods to children under the Special Act on Safety Management of Children's Dietary Life, and recently also published a list of some 3,000 products banned from being sold on school grounds for being too high-calorie low-nutrition or high in caffeine.


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The economy has changed for good (and not for the better). So if you’re running a business, you’d be wise to change with it. But how? Well, by now you’ve no doubt identified the obvious steps: make more money, spend less money, switch to basic cable. But there are other modifications you can make to leverage business trends. First, of course, it helps to know what the trends are. You might start with the “Top 10 Trends in Small Business for 2010” suggested by USA Today small-business expert Steve Strauss. Some of them are pretty simple: people are spending less (duh). Some you’ve no doubt heard before: get your business on Facebook (annoying but true). And others are a little scary: full-time jobs with benefits are, like, so 2007.
What to do with holiday leftovers. Around here, we love holiday leftovers: cold pizza, warm beer–bring it on. But retailers hate them. So what should they do with all those breadmakers and Tiger Woods golf shirts they couldn’t sell? The Wall Street Journal has three suggestions. One, flog them to a consignment company (check out ConsignmentShops.com. Two, unload them to a liquidator. Three, advertise them at eBay or Craigslist. Or four, leave them at the curb in front of your neighbor’s house. (OK, we made that last one up. But it might be worth a try: our home foot spa disappeared overnight.)
Ready for retirement? These days, retirement seems kind of a quaint notion, like home equity and easy credit. But according to a survey by Discover Small Business Watch, 62 percent of small-business owners do indeed have a plan for their retirement. And, unlike us (whose retirement plan is someday winning the lottery), 63 percent of small-business owners say it’s somewhat or very likely they’ll have enough money to last through their retirement. And what about the other third? Seems they’re resigned to working till they drop: 30 percent of survey respondents say they plan to retire sometime around…never.
Employment advice: don’t get old. Sadly, the recession has been hardest on those workers who can least afford a setback: older folks. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the unemployment rate for people over 54 has doubled since 2007. And, worse, they have a tougher time than young people finding a new job. The AARP says it takes laid-off older workers an average of 34 weeks to land a new gig–a lot longer than other age groups. This is mainly because employers think young people are cheaper and better with technology. As non-young people ourselves, we can’t argue with that: we’d rather eat cardboard than open a Twitter account. And, considering our retirement plan (see above) it may come to that. Pass the mayo.


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ISA Ibrahim Pantani, minister for communications and digital economy, has expressed delight at the launching of the Digital Nigeria Portal and Mobile App as part of the implementation of National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy, NDEPS, for a digital Nigeria.
Pantami said that the journey towards developing Nigeria’s Digital Economy commenced when President Muhammadu Buhari approved the request for redesignation of the Federal Ministry of Communications as the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, along with an upgrade of the mandate, on October 17, 2019.
During the ceremony in Abuja on Monday, September 28, the minister said the Federal Executive Council on October 23, 2019, adopted the request and the implementation of the revised mandate of the ministry commenced on October 24, 2019.
“The development of our National Digital Economy is anchored on the following 8 pillars as stated in NDEPS: Developmental Regulation, Digital Literacy & Skills; Solid Infrastructure; Service Infrastructure; Digital Services Development & Promotion; Soft Infrastructure; Digital Society & Emerging Technologies; and Indigenous Content Development & Adoption.
“We have recorded a number of unprecedented achievements since we began implementing NDEPS. A few of these include resolution of the lingering issues of excessive Right of Way charges and vandalism of telecommunication infrastructure; rapid broadband penetration, with an increase by about 10% in 11 months (with a value of 42.02% at the end of July 2020), instead of the average annual increase of about 1.7%; development and swift implementation of the Nigerian National Broadband Plan, NNBP; a significant increase in the contribution of ICT to the GDP based on the Q2 2020 GDP – 17.83% – as reported by the National Bureau of Statistics; promotion of digital services in government, including Virtual Federal Executive Council meetings, etc,” Pantami said.
According to him, the effect of the digital economy is far greater than the ICT contribution shows. “The Digital Economy encompasses ICT and all Digital Services, these include all online activities in financial institutions, e-commerce, online tax payment, any form of online payment, online banking, etc.
“When we consider these, the contribution of the Digital Economy could be up to 45% or even more,” the minister said.
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India-EU trade accord on anvil, ‘no compromise’ on IPR (Second Lead)By Sarwar Kashani, IANS
Thursday, December 9, 2010
BRUSSELS -India and Europe are about to conclude a key free trade pact but there would be no compromise on intellectual property rights in the agreement that is expected to give a fillip to business ties between the two sides, official sources said here Thursday.
Essentially the decks have been cleared (for finalising the agreement), said an official who has been closely monitoring the negotiation process over the accord that will increase the business volume between the two to 100 billion euros from 70 billion euros at present.
The pact was to be wrapped before the 11th annual India-EU summit that is being held in Brussels Friday and wil be attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived here Thursday evening.
But the negotiations on some contentious issues, like intellectual property rights, were holding back finalisation of the accord.
The official said many of the items which were being negotiated for the free trade agreement (FTA) have been all but concluded and understanding reached.
This includes matters such as intellectual property rights…It is absolutely crystal clear that there will be no compromise (on that), the official said.
The sources said India will ensure that the comprehensive bilateral investment and trade agreement will not result in a regime far more stringent than the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Under TRIPS, off-patent generic medicines can be manufactured and exported anywhere in the world. However, the EU regulations insist on an extra binding regime.
The EU has indicated that it was open to changing the regulation on generic drug seizures, the sources said.
Several non-government organisations in India and in Europe had raised concerns about the impact on affordable medicines.
Negotiations on many items in the FTA have all but concluded. The planned agreement concerns 11 subjects.
The official said the two sides will make the announcement at the summit that the deal will be inked by Easter or March or April 2011.
A report on the progress of the negotiations is also likely at the summit.
(Sarwar Kashani can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.org)


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Speaking of Texas business, Gov. Perry said, “Today, our economy continues to win raves from the business community, including Chief Executive Magazine‘s “Top State for Business” for nine straight years. We’re also a major factor in international trade, leading the United States in exports for 12 years in a row, with more than $279 billion of goods flowing through our state in 2013. That’s an average of more than $1 billion of exports per business day, a total that’s larger than the entire GDP of countries like Chile, Nigeria, the Philippines and Portugal.”
Rick Perry understands that part of his job as Governor of Texas is the grow the economy of the state by bringing new business to the state. This is a lesson that needs to be learned by our federal government.


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Coca-Cola has just unveiled six limited-edition cans to cheer on Team USA at the London Olympics this summer. San Francisco-based design agency, Turner Duckworth, combined three of the world’s most recognizable icons to communicate the entire story –the stripes of the American flag; the five interlocked rings of the Olympic logo and silhouette of an athlete, and Coca-Cola’s signature red and Spencerian script logotype. The effect is succinct, direct and graphically powerful. Coca-Cola is rotating the can designs throughout the summer, with a new one appearing every two weeks, culminating with a special composite logo timed for the opening of the Olympic Games.
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Of course, every brand wants to suggest that its product is the rage among trend-setting consumers. But Coca-Cola is doing more than just suggesting that it is fashionable to drink its product; it is linking its brand to the world’s top fashion designers and putting its name on beauty products too.
Last fall Coca-Cola Light and eight renowned Italian fashion designers — Donatella Versace, Alberta Ferretti, Anna Molinari for Blumarine, Veronic Etro, Silvia Venturini for Fendi, Consuelo Castiglioni for Marni, Angela Missoni and Rossella Jardini for Moschino — teamed up to present specially decorated contoured bottles for the opening of Milan Fashion Week. Showcased at a Coca-Cola Light “Tribute to Fashion” runway event, the original bottles were later auctioned by Sotheby’s with proceeds going to aid the victims of the devastating 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy. Collectible bottles were also produced in limited edition and sold in Europe. Some are even finding their way onto eBay.
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Introduces four new lenses to make the celebrations more vibrant and cheerful
17th August 2021: As the glorious and spirited time of Onam sets in, Moj, India’s number one short video app, has launched the #MojOnaghosham campaign to turn the spotlight on celebrating Onam virtually.
The 10-day long campaign is being hosted by leading celebrity and prominent Malayalam actor, Anu Sithara, and will see participation from popular Moj creators like Selin, Aami Ashokan, Meeth Miri, Amrutha amongst others. The creators will entertain their followers and will be seen celebrating the festival in all its fervor.
Amidst the Covid-19 restrictions, Onam celebration on Moj has been designed with #MojOnaghosham to reciprocate the madness around physical celebration in Kerala. Taking cues from the community-driven celebrations, Moj has incorporated some of the Onam-related activities and art forms into the challenges and lenses created, especially for the festival celebrations.
As a part of the campaign, Moj has launched five interesting challenges – Malayalimanka, KeralaSreeman, VaaPookkalamIdam, EatAndWin and TransformToOnam. In these challenges, creators will be seen creating traditional looks using traditional Kerala saree (Kasavu) and the Mundu, making pookalam, eating idlis in a short period of time and transformation from regular attire to Onam festive looks.
Moj has also introduced four fun lenses to highlight the festive spirit on its platform.
● Maveli lens- that makes Maveli appear and creators can make fun content with the virtual figure
● Happy Onam – a frame lens wishing Onam along with some festive elements
● Kathakali lens – that makes a Kathakali face appear on the creators’ face and change expressions according to the facial triggers given by the creators
● Sundari lens – a virtual take on the traditional game, creators with their eyes shut will try to place bindi on their face (while their image will be moving)
On leading the #MojOnaghosham campaign Anu Sithara said, “Onam reflects the richness of our cultural heritage and we, the people of Kerala, celebrate with great pomp and festivities. As we are immensely cautious with the possible threats around Covid-19, we are grateful to Moj, India’s number one short video platform, for making Onam celebration more fun through various challenges, contests and lenses with all our loved ones as well as our extended community on Moj. I am eagerly waiting to see all of the unique pookalams and oonjals that my Moj community would be showcasing with their creative and thought-provoking styles.”
Commenting on the campaign, Shashank Shekhar, Sr. Director – Content Strategy, Moj said,“ As Kerala welcomes its biggest festival, Onam, with immense enthusiasm and high spirits, we are proud to kickstart the virtual celebrations on our platform. The #MojOnaghosham campaign has received great engagement so far and we are sure it will add more joy to the grand celebrations that our creators are planning. The campaign was designed on the premise of the traditional Onam celebrations with people participating in competitions organised by the local communities. Our attempt is to replicate the experience virtually and the challenges are modelled on cultural nuances that connect our community to the essence of the festival.”
The creators participating in the challenge will be judged by the engagement of their content, with the creator participants stand chances to win exciting prizes along with iPhone12 for the best creator.


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The next time you pick up Gatorade to re-store your electrolytes, you might want to rethink your decision. How does the FDA approve Gatorade to contain the ingredient brominated vegetable oil? The ingredient shares an element, bromine, with some flame retardants used in furniture and plastics. Some studies on BVO indicate it can build up in fatty tissues and cause reproductive and behavioral problems in rodents.
It’s illegal to use the chemical as a food additive in the European Union, India, Nepal, Canada, Brazil and Japan, so why not the United States? Other ingredients that are allowed in American food but not in other countries include certain artificial colors and additives to flour.
How can we stop this? Are you aware of this ingredient in your drink? What are your thoughts/comments?
A conclusion of new research by T. Bettina Cornwell of the University of Oregon and Anna R. McAlister of Michigan State University have found that water could change the way we eat.
60 US young adults and 75 US children were surveyed about their food and beverage intake in this study. Older participants favored the combination of soda served with salty, calorie-dense foods rather than soda and vegetables. Preschoolers ate more raw vegetables, either carrots or red peppers, when accompanied with water rather than when accompanied by a sweetened beverage.
“Serving water, McAlister said, could be a simple and effective dietary change to help address the nation’s growing obesity problem, which has seen increasing number of diabetes cases in young adults and a rise in health-care costs in general.”
It’s important to start teaching children to drink more water instead of tasty, high calorie drinks. The earlier children start learning to drink more water with their meals, the more they associate this habit into their lifestyle rather than high-caloric beverages.
As of May 9th, McDonald’s launched a “healthy” drink, Fruitizz, for children. But should a healthy drink contain 12 teaspoons of sugar? It gives children one of the recommended five portions of fruit and veg a day, however, a large 500ml cup contains 200 calories and 49 grams of sugar.
Health officials recommend that children get no more than 50 grams of sugar in a DAY. “Food marketing to children negatively influences the dietary choices and the health of society’s most vulnerable citizens.”
“Starting March 26, cola lovers everywhere will be invited to get a first taste of new Pepsi NEXT, a game-changer in the cola category and the first to deliver real cola taste with 60% less sugar than Pepsi-Cola. Research has shown that there is a segment of consumers who are resistant to both regular, full-sugar cola and diet cola offerings. These consumers love the taste of Pepsi but they don’t believe you can achieve full-flavor taste with a diet cola. The launch of Pepsi NEXT is intended to fulfill this unmet need in the category. Pepsi NEXT is crafted from the right mix of cola flavor and a blend of sweeteners to closely mimic the taste curve of a regular cola.”
What do you think about the new Pepsi NEXT product? Will you be a consumer of this product? Even though there is 60% less sugar than Pepsi-Cola, does that make it healthier?


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Of the 800 hotels in Europe to be GreenSign certified, a&o Venice joins 18 others across the continent in achieving Level 5 certification.
BERLIN – This has never happened before: the a&o Venice is the first hostel in Europe to achieve GreenSign level 5. Of the 800 or so hotels currently certified by the GreenSign Institute in Europe, only 19 achieve this maximum sustainability standard. General Manager Francesco Siciliano says: “This is a tremendous recognition of our long-standing commitment to sustainable travel.” Arben Maliqi, Project Manager ESG and HR at the Berlin based hostel chain, adds: “This certification sets the pace from now on – a&o Venice Mestre is our role model for all a&o locations.”
GreenSign certifies that the a&o Venice Mestre has an “exemplary sustainability concept” with over 90 percent sustainability performance in core areas such as energy efficiency, water management, environmental management, procurement, quality management and sustainable development. Suzann Heinemann, founder and CEO of the GreenSign Institute, explains: “The extraordinarily good results of the a&o Venice in the GreenSign certification are an important sign for the industry and a milestone on the way to climate neutrality for Europe’s largest hostel chain.”
Founded in 2015, the GreenSign Institute certifies hotels in a “unique five-stage certification system” and not only examines the current status, but also “shows ways to continuously improve and further develop sustainability performance”. To date, the Berlin-based company has certified around 800 hotels. Only three percent of them have achieved the highest level, quality level 5. GreenSign’s sustainability certifications are among the most prestigious in Europe. In addition to the a&o Venice, the teams at the two Vienna locations, a&o Wien Stadthalle and a&o Wien Hauptbahnhof, are also delighted that their hotels have been upgraded to GreenSign Level 4.
“Growing sustainability spirit in the industry”
The hostel category is also thanks to the a&o Venice Mestre’s entry into a top sustainability league. Sustainability, says Suzann Heinemann, is independent of the size or type of hotel: “We are pleased to see a growing sustainable spirit in the hotel industry and an increasing willingness for sustainability certifications. This positive development makes a significant contribution to climate protection and gives us hope.”
Hardly any plastic, but food and art from the region
The GreenSign audit is comprehensive: management and communication, environment (energy, water, waste), biodiversity and cultural heritage, purchasing, regionality and transportation, quality control and sustainable development, social and economic responsibility are put to the test. Measures at the a&o Venice include
Avoiding plastic in the bar: 80 percent plastic-free bottles and glasses;
Use of food from local/regional producers;
Supporting local artisans and artists who exhibit and sell their work at the a&o, for example;
Recently, composters on the roof of the house have been recycling organic waste from breakfast/dinner. The plants in the hostel benefit from the nutrient-rich fertilizer produced in this way. Arben Maliqi said: “Our goal is to be the first European hostel chain to be CO2-neutral in 2025. For us, net zero means reducing our own ecological footprint to a minimum and offsetting the rest.” a&o is already the only hostel chain in Europe to show the individual CO2 value per booking on all reservations and guest invoices.
Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Network where she is the Editor-in Chief. She is also responsible for the daily operation and the financial policy. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Tourism Business Administration from the Technical University of Athens and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales.
She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.


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When Tesla officially joins the S&P 500 on Monday, Elon Musk’s electric car company will instantly become the top performing stock in the index for 2020.
Shares of Tesla are up nearly 700% so far this year, more than double 2020’s current top performer on the index. The stock has surged almost 65% since the mid-November announcement of its S&P 500 inclusion.
The second best performing stock in the S&P 500 this year is also a recent addition. E-commerce firm Etsy, which joined the index in September, is up about 325% for the year. Carrier Group, a spinoff of United Technologies following that company’s merger with Raytheon, is up about 225%.
Chip giants Nvidia and AMD, PayPal and Bed Bath & Body Works and Victoria’s Secret owner L Brands have all more than doubled this year too.
Big investors — particularly managers of mutual funds and ETFs that are designed to replicate the index — will need to have Tesla in their portfolios once it is officially a S&P 500 stock.
Many of these funds already own stakes in Tesla, as it would be hard to outperform the broader market without having any exposure to the year’s hottest stock. And short sellers betting against Tesla have lost their shirts.
Tesla is the largest company ever to be added to the index. With a market value of more than $625 billion, it will immediately become the sixth most valuable company in the S&P, trailing only Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google owner Alphabet and Facebook.
Tesla is currently worth over $100 billion more than Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway — and Musk’s personal net worth is also higher than the Oracle of Omaha’s.
In fact, Musk is now the second wealthiest person on the planet, according to Forbes and Bloomberg, trailing only Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Tesla’s market value is also higher than the combined valuations of GM, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota, Volkswagen, Daimler, Honda and Nissan.


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Greggs has doled out a one-off £7m bonus to staff after bumper sales of its vegan sausage roll sent revenue surging.
The bakery chain posted a 9.2pc rise in sales at stores open for more than a year, bucking a wider slowdown on the high street and beating expectations. The firm has now dished out £300 to each of its 25,000 staff.
Roger Whiteside, chief executive, said: "We've never done it before, I can’t imagine we will ever do it again. It’s not a regular thing, although we might have another exceptional year so never say never."
He added that Greggs has been sharing 10pc of its profits with staff each year.
The chain, which has been moving from its staple pies and sausage rolls towards selling more food-on-the go, got a boost from the vegan sausage roll at the beginning of the year.
Mr Whiteside said: "We’re in uncharted waters. This trends in improved sales started mid-2018. Then it got turbo boosted when we launched the vegan sausage roll.
"We then guided the market to expect it [sales] to slow down, but it clearly hasn't. I'm going to stop predicting what will happen because I don’t know."
The retailer said today that profits for the year will be higher than the £111m the City has been expecting.
It opened 97 more stores, taking the total to 2,050 sites across the country.
Mr Whiteside, who has run the firm since 2013, said: "The major investments we have made in recent years to make Greggs an attractive choice in the food-on-the-go market are delivering."
"People are responding very positively and we have seen increasing visits from both new and existing customers."
Greggs enjoyed a blaze of publicity when it teamed up with Quorn to make the vegan sausage rolls in January last year.
TV presenter Piers Morgan helped it gain maximum publicity when he tweeted "Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns", but the product became a huge hit.
Greggs - which sells more than 1.5m meat and non-meat sausage rolls a week - has just launched a vegan steak bake and vegan doughnut, bowing to increasingly environmentally conscious consumers.
Announcing the special payment to staff, Mr Whiteside said they had "worked so hard to deliver success in what has been a phenomenal year".
Employees who have been with the company since before March 2019 will get £300 each, while more recent hires will be given £75 for each quarter they have worked at the company.
Greggs is expected to update the City for the full-year in March. It dished out a special dividend to shareholders worth £35m in October.
The firm's estate includes 302 franchise stores and it expects to open a net 100 shops net this year.
Mr Whiteside said growth will come from keep its shops open for longer and sell more of its pies and stakes through delivery apps and online. He warned, however, that Greggs could suffer from higher staff costs as the hike in the national living wage kicks.
He added: "As usual we will seek to mitigate as much of this as is possible through business efficiency, but will also ensure that our prices continue to represent great value."


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FLUX Hawaii Brings Aloha To New York Fashion Week with Pop-Up General Store in Collaboration with Mori and Events by OVB and DBEDT
After premiering a successful event in 2014 during New York Fashion Week, FLUX Hawaii returns to New York City for a second year, bringing aloha to the culturally vibrant enclave of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. From September 10–17, FLUX Hawaii will host a weeklong pop-up general store at Kinfolk 90 Project Space and Lounge, featuring unique, high-quality goods designed and crafted in Hawaii.
The pop-up shop, curated in collaboration with Mori by Art+Flea, will represent Hawaii’s modern and diverse culture to the global audience present in New York during Fashion Week and will offer iconic Hawaii products for sale from nearly 40 local artisans (entire list below). The shop will also feature wares from the two finalists of the State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism’s (DBEDT) Creative Lab program: AWattz Dezigns and Peace of Paradise.
“As advocates for Hawaii’s creative industries, we are excited to showcase our Creative Lab finalists and partner with Flux Hawaii during New York Fashion Week to highlight our talented entrepreneurs,” says Georja Skinner, Chief Officer, Creative Industries Division of DBEDT. “Hawaii talent across all the creative sectors is emerging into a force in the global marketplace.”
“It has always been at the heart of FLUX Hawaii to celebrate passionate individuals who find a way to create opportunity and industry in a place deemed difficult to make a living,” says Lisa Yamada, Editorial Director, Nella Media Group, and Founder, FLUX Hawaii. “From being featured within the magazine’s pages to being showcased in a pop-up shop in front of some of the world’s biggest buyers and media in New York City, it is FLUX Hawaii’s goal to create a space that fosters the growth of these innovative entrepreneurs."
This event is made possible with support from the official sponsors of the FLUX Hawaii General Store: Hawaiian Airlines, Halekulani, Oahu Visitors Bureau (OVB), and the State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
"Our goal at NMG is to promote Hawaii on a much larger scale than standard content platforms," said Jason Cutinella, CEO, Nella Media Group. “These events are designed to showcase the destination and everything it has to offer in a different light. We want to show that Hawaii is modern, exciting and full of opportunity."
The FLUX Hawaii General Store will kick off with an opening event featuring Big Wave Tour champion and musician Makua Rothman. A lucky winner will win a getaway package for two to Hawaii on Hawaiian Airlines with a four-night stay at the internationally acclaimed Halekulani hotel. The shop will close on September 17 with a Mahalo Party with Hawaii transplant DJ Timo.
Pop-Up General Store Information:
Location: Kinfolk 90, 90 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11249
Hours: September 10 –17, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.


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The article is published in Business Connect magazine, Issue 3 (174), May-June
New technologies will require new skills and will become more important in our lives.
Virtual reality creates new professions, while artificial intelligence becomes greater part of our lives. These were the main conclusions from the Club Investor.bg – Disruptive Technologies.
Every company can benefit from virtual reality, but for now the most active ones are real estate agencies and tourism, said Georgi Stoyanov, co-founder and CEO of VR Express. With virtual reality you can tell stories that engage users, and this new experience can be used for all marketing goals, he added. We see new professions – like shooting 360-degrees video, which requires new skills in such content, Stoyanov said.
“Augmented reality is new for us. It doesn’t need expensive equipment, it’s enough to have a smartphone and install an app. We have been experimenting with these new technologies for six months,” said Alexander Balkanski, COO at Allterco Group, which has been working on Treasure Hunt – game with augmented reality. The key, he added, is to find all industries that can use augmented reality in their work and explain them how to do that.
Radosveta Kalcheva, senior sales manager in Vivacom, gave several examples of Android apps created by the telecom hub, such as interactive educational platform for kindergartens and schools, projects for presenting activities or touristic sites of municipalities, and even a special app for the oncology hospital in Sofia in its medical imaging work.
Artificial intelligence as a service will become greater part in our life, and a reason for that are the preconditions that can make it cheaper, said Viktor Manev, co-founder and partner in Impetus Capital.
Connecting human brain with hardware will be the next big thing. Ethical issues are yet to be discussed, i.e. if someone jumps on the road, what will the autonomous car choose – to save the driver, or the pedestrian. Soon we will witness time when computers will have to make responsible decisions, Manev added.
The experts said that the dynamic development of technologies can lead to serious social problems; for instance, the introduction of autonomous trucks in the United States, more than 2 million drivers will lose their jobs, and an entire roadside industry will be doomed to death. Therefore it’s possible for the regulators to try and slow down the technologies while looking for solutions of unexpected problems.
Atanas Kiryakov, CEO of Ontotext, part of Sirma Group Holding, explained what the practical usage of innovations can be on text analysis or face recognition. Much of the technology is already available, and it has direct application in business. For example, with camera a shop owner can analyze demographically places different people stop at.
Another application is analyzing the feedback from clients for the traders having a website.
Ivaylo Ivanov, COO of Iuvo Group, explained its business model based on crowdfunding.
“We can see future possibility where clients of financial services will use global markets and choose their most appropriate service that is not tied to the local market,” he said. An obstacle when entering foreign markets, however, is that Europeans don’t really trust the communication process.
“When we talk about platform that connects two parties, providers work with small margin. That’s why for us volume is important, and every new costumer and new market is a reason to celebrate,” Ivanov said. This is the way business will work from now on – in close communication with the client, even though you are not face to face, he added.


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Owners of iPhone devices who had purchased a battery replacement last year for an out of warranty iPhone model may be qualified to receive a $50 credit from Apple. Recently this week, the tech giant has set up a new support web page, which contains an announcement of a policy on rebates. This policy happens to be applicable to purchases completed at authorized outlets.
As the world’s number one seller of smartphone devices, Samsung routinely ships tens of millions of its handsets on an annual basis. But as recently revealed during a trial, it turns out that the South Korean mobile brand received about four million smartphones returned for service in the United States yearly, and another million unit returned for damaged displays.
It was nearly a couple of weeks ago when Apple had first began rolling outiOS 11.3, which is the newest iteration of its iOS mobile operating system. That deployment brought the usual bug fixes, as well as some cool enhancements, such as upgrades to ARKit (Apple’s augmented reality platform), battery related features, and a new message that notifies users whenever iOS 11 wants to gain access to private information.
Nearly a couple of weeks ago, Huawei had announced its latest high end phablets -- the P20 and the P20 Pro. While its follow up models to last year’s P10 handsets continued to offer some delicious flagship level specifications, the third biggest phone maker in the world appeared to be more excited about showcasing the P20’s cutting edge camera system, boosted by the Chinese tech giant’s ongoing collaboration with Leica, the highly rated German camera maker.
Despite the fact that Samsung’s new flagships -- the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9 Plus -- will not hit store shelves everywhere until this Friday (March 16th), apparently the South Korean tech giant is already rolling out the first ever software update for the devices.
According to Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman (a Democrat from Stockton), she is looking to propose legislation in the state of California that would require electronic device and gadget makers to have all repair related information, diagnostic machines, and service parts available to independent repair service providers, and even to the owners of consumer devices themselves.
iPhone owners now have more reason to take good care of their devices. The prices for screen repair services of Apple’s smartphones have risen by twenty bucks. Apparently, the tech giant has chosen to introduce the changes in pricing quietly, but iOS mobile users have since taken to Reddit some time during the weekend to sound the alarm for fellow iPhone owners.
Every mobile user out there is familiar with this particular problem -- the cracked display. And considering that the iPhone is one of the most popular smartphones in the world, cracked displays happen often to owners of Apple’s handset. But most people do not realize that cracked iPhone screens can be repaired by a machine called the Horizon Machine.
This technology, however, is proprietary. This means that because Apple has sole ownership of the machines, it has every right to use it only for its purposes. Thus, Horizon Machines are only likely to be found in Apple retail stores across the globe, and in a very limited number of third party repair centers
Here is some interesting bit of news for customers of Verizon Wireless who do not have mobile phone insurance yet -- the biggest mobile operator in America has announced an open enrollment period for all of its existing subscribers to its Total Mobile Protection plans, which have now been updated to include same day repair for damaged display screens.
For several months now, some owners of iPhone 6 Plus devices and independent repair technicians have been complaining about “touch disease” whose symptoms include a flickering gray bar that displays across the top section of an iPhone 6 Plus’ display and inconsistent responsiveness on the touch screen. These symptoms are said to get worse, eventually rendering the affected unit basically useless.
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Coimbatore: Zoomcar, India’s first 100% self-drive car rental company, on Wednesday announced the launch of Hop, a one-way intercity self-drive service, in Coimbatore.
The new one-way intercity self-service facility allows a customer to travel from point A to point B which would enable customers to pick up a car from Zoomcar location from one city and drop it off at a Zoomcar location in another city, a company release said.
The launch of one-way inter-city service adds flexibility and options to people’s travel plans, it said. Hop service would be available across 24 cities including intra-state and eventually inter-state routes as well, the release said.
The 24 routes include Bengaluru–Mysore, Bengaluru–Mangaluru, Mangaluru-Mysuru, Mumbai–Pune, Ahmedabad-Surat, Kolkata–Siliguri, Chennai–Coimbatore, Vijayawada–Vizag.
“With the launch of Hop, the company is offering a new level of convenience for our 20 lakh-plus Zoomcar customer base. We expect demand from both business and leisure travellers,” Zoomcar CEO and co-founder Greg Moran said in the release.
Stating that the company had expanded from seven cities in 2016 to 24 cities in 2017, he said it looks forward to expanding to more than 30 cities later this quarter.


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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) reports that in June 2013 environmental health officers issued eight enforcement orders; seven closure orders and one prohibition order. The majority of the businesses that received enforcement notices were restaurants or take away premises.
The FSAI reports that in the first half of 2013 a total of 69 enforcement orders were issued compared with 39 orders issued in the first six months of 2012. This equates to a 77% increase.
The reasons for this increase could be a greater willingness by the environmental health service to take formal enforcement action for breaches of food legislation and/or a reduction in standards by food business operators particularly those operating in the restaurant and fast-food sectors. Whatever the reasons, receiving enforcement orders is definitely not good for the business concerned and, where food safety and food hygiene is being compromised leads to consumers being put at risk of food poisoning.
The significant increase in enforcement activity may well lead to an increase in the number of criminal prosecutions being taken by environmental health officers. Defending these cases requires careful consideration of the legal and factual issues so that the organisation is empowered to make an informed decision about how to respond to the summons in order to protect its business and its reputation and to avoid or minimise the risk of individuals being sent to prison.
If you are facing enforcement action or criminal prosecution contact us to see how we can help minimise the detrimental impact on your business – email@example.com


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Get a Bottle of Chick-fil-A Sauce
Chick-fil-A announced that it will start selling bottles of its signature Chick-fil-A and Polynesian sauces in stores. The sauces will go on sale in April, but only in Flordia.
The company says that they are starting with a small pilot program in the Sunshine State. The bottles will be available at Florida Publix, Target, Walmart and Winn-Dixie stores. As well as in Flordia Chick-fil-A restaurants.
The sauce sales are part of the company's employee scholarship program. "...100 percent of Chick-fil-A, Inc. proceeds from the retail sales of the 16-ounce Bottled Sauces will be donated to Chick-fil-A’s Team Member scholarship program, which will award $17 million to 6,700 Team Members in 2020," the company said in a press release.
No word on when, or if, the sauces will be available across the country. So, if you know someone in Florida, maybe it's time to ask for a favor...and a care package.


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Operators will benefit from increasing livestock inventories and outsourcing trends.
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 20, 2013
Demand for the Livestock Production Support Services industry is growing in line with larger cattle and pig herds, bigger broiler flocks and increased milk production. As livestock farms increase their structures to address higher global demand due to rising cost pressures, they turn to this industry to increase operational efficiencies. In particular, higher feed costs and tighter food-safety regulations have led livestock producers to seek new technologies and more intensive farming techniques that increase output from fewer animals while also improving profit margins. At the same time, animal disease outbreaks, increasing health consciousness and the global economic recession have reduced meat consumption over the past five years, thus limiting revenue with which to spend on support services at the farm level. After an initial cutback in demand for industry services during the recession, recovery since 2011 and the overall push and pull of these offsetting factors is expected to lead revenue to marginally decrease an annualized 1.2% in the five years to 2013.
According to IBISWorld Industry Analyst Antal Neville, “Livestock support services form a small component of the US agricultural sector but include many activities pertaining to all manner of livestock.” The industry is highly fragmented, even in its mature stage. About half of all downstream markets are estimated to consist of beef- or dairy-based cattle farms and ranches. Selective breeding through genetic engineering and more traditional means remains the dominant industry service. A 1.1% recovery in 2013 from recession-related lows is expected to bring total industry revenue to $3.9 billion.
Through 2018, revenue in the downstream livestock industries is forecast to grow as the economy improves and demand recovers at the retail level, which bodes well for the industry. “Operators will benefit from growing livestock inventories and a trend among many farms toward outsourcing services instead of making large investments into capital equipment,” says Neville. Industry profit is also projected to grow as technological developments allow operators to provide farmers with more value-added products, such as DNA screening. Overall, these positive trends are forecast to increase industry revenue.


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Opening of international exhibition on imaging technology, broadcasting and audio-visual equipment 2015 - Opening of international exhibition on imaging technology, broadcasting and audio-visual equipment 2015 - Website Ho Chi Minh City
On May 7, International exhibition on imaging technology, broadcasting and audio-visual equipment 2015 (VIPI/VIPA Show 2015) was launched at Saigon Exhibition &Convention Center (SECC), district 7, HCMC.
With an area of 8,800m2 and 400 booths, the show focused on 2 main fields: imaging technology (camera, camcorder, lenses, specialized light, studio equipment, smart phone, tablet, accessories and many more services, etc), audio-visual equipment (audio entertainment, smart TV, smartbox/Tvbox, satellite cable equipment, headphone, projector, home cinema system, sound stage, etc).
VIBA & VIPI 2015 attracted big brands like Canon, Nikon, Tamron, Benro, Tenba, SonyPro, Ikagemi, GoPro, Yamaha, Denon, Accuphase, Jamo, Shure, Tannoy, Klipsch, Onlyo, Marantz, Polycom, Aver…and domestic enterprises such as VIC Vietnam, Pakotek, Thanh My, Mega, etc.
In parallel, some sideline activities were organized including photo test with many valuable prizes, free of charge photo shooting area, photo exhibition, lucky draw with special prizes including Yamaha Grande, Nikon camera, Gopro camera, Vinacafe and many others.
VIBA & VIPI 2015 is a special event with a modern technology space where people can meet and cooperate with domestic and international enterprises, customers and suppliers. It is an opportunity to access the latest trends of today’s market.
VIBA & VIPI 2015 opens from May 7 to 9 (from 9:30 Am to 17:30 PM), expected to attract 30,000 visitors.


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Great challenges call for unprecedented innovation and collaboration, an area the fashion industry has historically found challenging. Chief Innovation Officer of new fashion startup, PANGAIA, Amanda Parkes, explained to me in a conversation last week that traditional material supply to brands and retailers is not set by what the material needs are, but by what textile mills and manufacturers choose to develop—or even more randomly, what has trickled down from the military (or other industrial) material developments.
There are fundamental reasons why fashion companies have not historically owned the manufacturing processes central to their products, and these are rooted in the research and development focus of materials being divorced from the design and aesthetics of fashion in these largely siloed sectors. PANGAIA is a hybrid company, apparently the first of its kind, that will bring together material science through its research and development facility, and demonstrate its textile prowess via its own-brand fashion collections. The collections will be created in partnership with artists and designers whose ethos aligns with PANGAIA’s determination to design and develop lower impact materials and products that are better for people and the planet than the current mass-market alternatives.
That’s not their only raison d’être, though. Parkes shared insights gained from two years of exploration of global materials research that offers opportunities for new applications that will give rise to new sustainable materials—without the need to start from scratch. Here, Parkes leverages her background in technical textiles and materials science and her understanding of the fashion industry, bolstered by one of the founders of PANGAIA, who is a long-term appreciator of fashion’s potential to initiate positive impact both environmentally and socially, Miroslava Duma. Other founders include Jasmine Mullers, whose experience spans Augmented Reality (WIR Global) and luxury retail (Bottega Veneta, Oscar De La Renta), Rachna Bhasin (ex-Magic Leap) and Nathalie Longuet, who has 25 years of experience in Investment Banking and Asset Management at Lombard Odier, Société Générale advising luxury brands and institutional investors.
“Moving into fashion, what surprised me most was the fact that fashion companies don’t own the means of their own production.”
In PANGAIA’s business model, revenue streams will come in the short term through product sales (via their DTC e-commerce store) and in the longer term, from B2B textile sales, materials licensing and brand partnerships for materials R&D. This shift in business model reflects a more widespread shift in the technology sector, says Parkes, who cites the breaking down of Silicon Valley investment and innovation models following the crashes of some big, high-profile startups. “Investment structure is opening up—there are different value systems [beyond simply ROI] including impact, philanthropy and recognizing where resources need to go.” She went on to say “High cap ex investment is not usually attractive, but this is opening up.”
PANGAIA is part match-maker for existing technologies, material solutions, and processes and part primary research lab, giving it the ability to improve material and product performance on an ongoing basis, explained Parkes. Pointing to their MVP (a seaweed and cotton t-shirt treated with an antibacterial peppermint finish to reduce the need for frequent washing), Parkes described their newly established lab in Florence staffed by a team of scientists and engineers who will tweak the textile compositions and test botanical dye uptake. In doing this they will develop new versions of their products iteratively, in the same way that technology companies upgrade and release new versions of their software, for example. She states in no uncertain terms that getting materials into the mass-market that have superior performance and sustainability credentials is the way to drive the commercial success of this company. They won’t be relying on patents and IP ownership, but seeking to achieve broad and deep market penetration with their sustainable textiles solutions, she said.
On the materials-science side, Enrico Cozzoni, Head of the PANGAIA Lab in Florence, Italy, told me why it makes sense for a team of scientists to join a fashion company. With a background in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Industrial Manufacturing, he explained that his research interests have always been linked to innovative materials. During the development process of what was to become FLWRDWN (the new animal and synthetic down alternative that PANGAIA launched the latest iteration of this week) Cozzoni said “We have found [ourselves] to be completely aligned with the value system of PANGAIA as a company, and with the vision to be [high] performing, but also ecologically respectful of the ecosystem around us, so we have joined forces.”
Being in the PANGAIA collective allows us to get FLWRDWN into the market as a fully ecological, high-quality ready to wear product, in a quick, thoughtful and credible way.
Their newly launched puffer jacket range utilizing FLWRDWN, which has been patented by PANGAIA, is their calling card to fashion brands wanting to work with a materials science team who can speak the languages of both science and fashion—fluently. Parkes echoed this, explaining that core to this company is the relationships they have cultivated over the past two years at Future Tech Lab (a separate company investing in startups in material science and other fashion technologies) and the credibility of the PANGAIA collective, who run the company across in the US and European hubs.
PANGAIA is bringing materials science direct to [the] consumer—the future textiles/smart materials of the world now not only live in laboratories, but can reach the consumer with a click, and solve major environmental problems at the same time.
A point we addressed in some detail that remains a barrier to sustainable material development and adoption is the complexity of defining ‘sustainable’ and proving the environmental superiority of one material (and subsequent product) versus another. Parkes is transparent in her admission that the Life Cycle Assessment of any given material is only one part of the story. Alongside this is the location of garment manufacturing, the origin of all other material components, packaging and so on. Any one of these additional factors can outweigh any carbon and chemical savings achieved within the material itself. So where does FLWRDWN sit in relation to the comparative animal-origin down and synthetic blends on the market?
Cozzoni explained that “fill power, hand feel, thermal insulation, flammability and allergen tests conducted to date have shown either comparable or better performance results when compared to medium to high-quality down feather.” He stated that the results indicate FLWRDWN has superior performance to synthetic downs, and performs as well, or better, than down feather. In addition, “all three elements within its composition are biodegradable” he said. On the subject of the total impact of the PANGAIA puffer jackets, Parkes explained that full Life Cycle Assessment of the final product has not yet been done—partly because the material and manufacturing systems have not been fully defined and finalized yet, given that the product launched only recently.
The hybrid business model that PANGAIA is operating under has attracted investment from fashion stalwart Carmen Busquets, who was a co-founder and investor in Net-A-Porter. Also investing is Jaden Smith, the millennial superstar who has launched his own sustainably packaged water product and invested in the likes of Impossible Foods. Perhaps a less obvious investor is Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman of the SUN Group, who said PANGAIA is “mission-driven, rooted in environmental sustainability, and with a tremendous potential to scale as socially conscious customers everywhere begin to demand high quality and design that is environmentally responsible at its core.”
Most importantly, Pangaia has an entrepreneurial team with tremendous experience and great partners that will together drive growth and build fundamental brand value.
Khemka’s comments appear to confirm what Parkes explained as a shift in investor sentiment away from financial reward alone, to encompass broader ecological, ethical and social factors. If this is the new blueprint for startup fashion brands there is much cause for sustainability optimism. As mentioned, enormous challenges such as the climate crisis require unprecedented innovation and collaboration to devise and deliver solutions. PANGAIA looks set to be the first fashion company truly tackling this challenge, from the bottom up.


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There's a new Cincy brew to help raise money for California fire victims
The relief response for fire victims from the Camp Fire in California has been overwhelming.
In one case, the response has been creative.
Breweries all over the country are working on a special brew, and the proceeds will benefit fire victims. Nearly a dozen Cincinnati breweries are involved.
"For all of these breweries to be making the same beer at the same timehas not been done in this city before. It happens maybe once or twice but on this scale in this city and across the country, it never really happen before," Listermann Brewing General Manger Jason Brewer said.
The project began at Sierra Nevada Brewing. The company created a beer called Resilience. Sierra has shared the recipe with breweries from coast to coast.
"This is a cool way we can work with Sierra Nevada, give back to the community and help out in a way that's comfortable and natural for us," said Madtree Brewing spokesman Mike Stuart.
Most places brewed their batch of Resilience on Giving Tuesday. The brew should be ready to flow in taprooms around the country in two to three weeks.


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The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is letting recently published statistics speak to an overall drop in auto crime across the province.
The numbers were rolled out as the B.C. government, Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team and ICBC launched the 2014 Auto Crime Enforcement Month in April and announced significant auto crime reductions have been achieved over the past decade.
Aside from an upward tick in 2007, Nanaimo’s figures show an overall steady decline from when they peaked in 2004 at 501 auto thefts and 740 thefts from vehicles. Last year’s figures show 120 vehicles were stolen in Nanaimo – 10 more than in 2012 – and 110 were broken into.
Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman, said auto crime overall is down because of a combination of programs that include the Bait Car Program, Block Watch, Citizens on Patrol and Nanaimo RCMP’s crime analysis department.
“Auto crime is one of the significant priorities for RCMP within E Division,” O’Brien said. “Specifically within Nanaimo, our bait car program has been hugely successful. Our ability via our criminal analyst to identify individuals involved in this crime and target them, that has been instrumental also. [Citizens on Patrol and Block Watch members] know where the hot spots are and where crimes are happening and vehicles are being stolen. They know what to look for, the telltale signs, and to report suspicious activity. So it’s a totality of things coming together.”
For 2014, investigators will devote more resources to targeting larger scale auto theft operations, such as chop shops and vehicle cloning, which involves stealing the identity of a legitimately owned vehicle and applying it to a stolen one.
For auto crime prevention tips and lists of the top items stolen from vehicles and the most-stolen vehicles, please visit www.icbc.com/news/2014mar28-04.


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With dollar strength comes low oil prices and low inflation, spurring what could become a strong consumer spending season this winter (ex. fuels). Gasoline prices have dropped considerably and Americans are already enjoying lower prices at the pump. Across the South, Americans are enjoying prices in the $2.55/gallon range, with more expensive, but still falling, prices on the coasts.
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Each part of supply chain business after Coronavirus will be in huge demand so we made great efforts to ensure that every partner has the best possible networking opportunities in WOF EXPO 2021. We are pleased to announce that we have been able to take measures to expand capacity and access to our exciting program of conferences in 2021.
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Eelcome to this week in NerdNews (TWINN). Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to:
I would like to talk about our location data. By default, our smart phones we carry in our pockets collect an extreme amount of precise location data. In fact, we have to go out of our way to find the many ways that we leave digital trails everywhere. And this isn’t a situation of “If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t be worried” scenario.
Then you add our pandemic situation to this, and it has had the result of being used as an excuse to scale up citizen surveillance. Because the data already exists. There’s nothing that needs to be invented. Nothing that requires to be deployed. Only someone to ask for such data, and under the guise of anonymous data, it is easy to obtain. Now here’s what our country of Canada has done:
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Ottawa’s use of our location data raises big surveillance and privacy concerns.
It should concern us all, and we must act accordingly now that we all know this.
Appalled opposition MPs called for an emergency meeting of the ethics committee of the House of Commons, fearing that the pandemic was being used as an excuse to scale up surveillance.
Zerodium looks to buy zero-days in Outlook and Thunderbird email clients.
The $200,000 – $400,000 reward for finding vulnerabilities in some of the world’s most popular email programs tells us a lot. Even staying up-to-date on those programs isn’t sufficient anymore. Doing your email in a browser is actually the safest path today.
US-based exploit broker Zerodium announced plans today to pay $200,000 and $400,000 for zero-day exploits in Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook, respectively, two of today’s most popular and widely used desktop email clients.
The company, which buys exploits from security researchers and sells them to government and law enforcement agencies, announced its intentions earlier today via a message posted on its official Twitter account.
This NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address.
More about NFTs later, but here’s an interesting nefarious use of NFT makers in a marketplace.
NFTs are usually passive affairs. A consumer buys the token, and then sells or stores the NFT. The NFT doesn’t really do anything.
Some new NFTs are being used to harvest viewers’ IP addresses, though, in a demonstration of how NFT marketplaces like OpenSea allow vendors, or attackers, to load custom code when someone simply views an NFT listing.
Hackers Using Device Registration Trick to Attack Enterprises with Lateral Phishing.
This multi-phase approach is all about taking advantage of companies’ BYOD policies that allow non-managed devices to join a network. With Zero Trust, this can be mitigated while allowing BYOD to continue.
Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale, multi-phase phishing campaign that uses stolen credentials to register devices on a victim’s network to further propagate spam emails and widen the infection pool.
The tech giant said the attacks manifested through accounts that were not secured using multi-factor authentication (MFA), thereby making it possible for the adversary to take advantage of the target’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy and introduce their own rogue devices using the pilfered credentials.
Office of Management and Budget Releases Federal Strategy to Move the U.S. Government Towards a Zero Trust Architecture.
To us, this is obviously good news.
Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a Federal strategy to move the U.S. Government toward a “zero trust” approach to cybersecurity. The strategy represents a key step forward in delivering on President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, which focuses on advancing security measures that dramatically reduce the risk of successful cyber attacks against the Federal Government’s digital infrastructure.
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The financial future of smartphone maker HTC appears dire, analysts say, even as the company has remained upbeat.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sold 20 million company shares in late October, but thanks to market gains in the past three months, his portfolio was worth more than when he last sold stock, regulatory filings showed.
Apple today said it had sold over 9 million iPhones during the opening three-day weekend of sales, an 80 per cent increase over last year's launch of the iPhone 5 and a record by a major margin.
Microsoft will pay at least $200 for used iPads made by rival Apple, and in return issue credit that customers can use to buy one of the company's Surface tablets.
Apple's share of global smartphone shipments declined to 13.2% in the second quarter, while both Android and Windows Phone registered slight increases, IDC said Wednesday.
Microsoft today took an unexpected $900 million charge to account for what it called "inventory adjustments" for the Surface RT, the poor-selling tablet that debuted last year.
Two years after virtually dropping out of the mobile business, Hewlett-Packard is working on a new smartphone, an HP executive told Press Trust of India.
Researchers from Harvard and the University of Illinois have printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair.
While Windows 8 is getting blamed for dismal PC sales, upgrading laptops and desktop systems isn't a priority for business users, according to new research.
More smartphones will ship worldwide in 2013 than other so-called mobile 'feature' phones as the average price of smartphones drops, IDC said Tuesday.
Nvidia will stay on board with making Tegra ARM-based processors for Windows RT tablets despite sluggish early sales of the devices, making the same commitment that Qualcomm has made, an Nvidia executive said
Microsoft garnered just a "niche" in the global tablet market in the first quarter of 2013, following a period of user confusion after the launch of Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets, analysts say.
For those that call tablets personal computers, Apple Inc. is the world's top PC maker, according to research firm Canalys.
Microsoft's Surface RT tablet sold 1 million units in the fourth quarter, fewer than expected, according to a UBS analyst.
Enterprises will not be moving quickly to adopt Windows 8, and most will skip next year, according to market research firm Gartner.
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Microsoft has neatly sidestepped loads of the issues that Google bumped into the place cloud gaming is worried, as a result of not like Stadia, they’re not placing all their eggs in a single basket. Even so, Xbox Cloud Gaming (or xCloud, as many nonetheless prefer to name it) is one thing that the corporate has been investing in closely, and clearly, they intend to keep expanding it and bringing the streaming service to more people.
One means of doing that’s by making it obtainable on as many platforms as doable. To that finish, Microsoft confirmed earlier this year that Xbox Cloud Gaming can be coming to Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One this Holiday, and they’ve now announced that the service has launched for the consoles. This, after all, implies that any and all video games obtainable on Xbox Game Pass can now be streamed on your console with out having to fret about downloading them, so long as you’ve an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription.
Notably, this additionally implies that Xbox One house owners can stream and play even the video games which can be natively obtainable solely on Xbox Series X/S, together with the likes of Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Medium, and extra. For now, the service will likely be obtainable on consoles in 25 areas, whereas Brazil may also be added to that listing quickly.
Earlier this 12 months, Microsoft additionally upgraded Xbox Cloud Gaming’s server blades to Xbox Series X hardware, permitting for higher efficiency and decision for these streaming their video games through the service.
Interestingly, earlier this 12 months, Xbox boss Phil Spencer talked about desirous to deliver Xbox Cloud Gaming even to rival platforms like PlayStation and Switch, although that continues to be a distant hope for now. Read extra on that through here.


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L Brands announces quarterly dividend
By Prachi Singh
12 Aug 2019
L Brands, Inc. has declared its regular quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share payable on September 6, 2019 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 23, 2019. The company said in a statement that this is its 179th consecutive quarterly dividend.
L Brands, through Victoria’s Secret, Pink and Bath & Body Works, operates 2,920 company-owned specialty stores in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Greater China, and its brands are also sold in more than 650 franchised locations worldwide.
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We’ve previously told you that Applecan promote its rival streaming service and news-driven subscription service at its special event on March 25th. According to a report shared by Bloomberg today, Apple may also introduce a game-oriented subscription service at an event today.
Let’s add that the claim that Apple is working on the game subscription service was first put forward by Cheddar last January. According to shared information, Apple’s gaming subscription service will offer access to a game library selected by Apple for a monthly fee.
Of course, let’s add that these games will be iOS games that can be played by iPhone and iPad models. Given that mobile games are one of the most powerful categories in the iOS ecosystem, it makes sense for Apple to set up a subscription system for mobile games.
The iOS platform is completely free and has many ad-supported games. The game in question focuses on subscription service, not these games, but paid games on the platform. According to information shared by Bloomberg, the platform will include paid games such as Minecraft, NBA 2K games and the GTA series.
Please note that Apple’s subscription service will distribute its revenue to game developers based on how much time users spend in which game. Detailed information about the service is expected to be shared as of this evening. We will provide you with all the details of Apple’s special event today.