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WGGO is proposing an educational campaign to address environmental justice in New York City by partnering with small businesses that adhere to sustainable practices.
This initiative informs the public by criticizing the consumption of products from companies with a high carbon footprint. For example: fast fashion companies, transportation companies and fast food chains.
WGGO’s initiative aims to build relationships with small local businesses around NYC, included but not limited to: local coffee shops, juice bars, thrift stores, and libraries for marketing campaigns.
WGGO’s campaign serves to spread awareness of past, current, and future events related to climate change and organizations/businesses that have adopted environmentally friendly practices. The campaign is done through WGGO’s social media platforms, such as twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.


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The Rockland County market surged again in the third quarter of 2016, with a dramatic increase in sales finally driving a meaningful yearly increase in prices.
Sales. Rockland single‑family sales were up yet again, rising almost 13% from last year’s third quarter and up 20% for the rolling year. We’ve now seen sustained rates of growth for over four years, with transactions up for eight straight quarters and 16 out of the last 17. Indeed, we eclipsed 2,000 single‑family sales in the rolling year for the first time in over 10 years, at the height of the last seller’s market. Sales were similarly torrid in the condo market, which was up almost 38% for the quarter and 15% for the year.
Prices. Rockland pricing is finally showing meaningful signs of price appreciation. As we noted in our last Report, the 10% spring spike in prices was not sustainable, and we saw pricing come back to earth a little bit in the third quarter: down over 2% on average, and up a tick at the median. But the rolling year single‑family prices are demonstrating the kind of appreciation that is sustainable over time, up about 3% on both the average and the median. Rockland homeowners should be happy with this trend.
Inventory. Available inventory continues to fall, with single‑family homes and condos both approaching the six‑month level that usually denotes a “tight” market. If inventory continues to fall, and buyer demand stays at its current levels, then we are likely to see continued price appreciation in the future as buyers chase fewer available homes.
Negotiability. Single‑family homes sold more quickly and for closer to the asking price, which is generally a sign that sellers are gaining negotiating leverage with buyers. The condo results were more mixed, with the listing retention rate falling slightly even while the days‑on‑market hit the six‑month mark.
Going forward, we believe that buyer demand in Rockland will stay strong through the end of the year, with prices still at attractive levels, interest rates low, and the economy generally strengthening. Indeed, we expect that Rockland will have its best year since the height of the last seller’s market.

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According to a report on BusinessWeek. Apple is in talks with Microsoft to replace the default search engine Google on its phones with Microsoft’s BING.
This came as a surprise as Apple might just work hand in hand to ward off a potential giant Google. It is also becoming clear that Google is the common enemy.
The Nexus One competes directly with the iPhone; Apple is allowing Google to use Lala, for now; and with Apple’s purchase of Quattro Wireless and Google’s acquisition of AdMob it seems each company is gearing to directly compete with the other in the mobile ad market. “Apple and Google know the other is their primary enemy. Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle,” says one of BusinessWeek’s sources who is familiar with the matter.
But this isn’t just about Apple and Google. As the BusinessWeek article points out, clinching the coveted default spot on the iPhone would also help Bing gain market share in the quickly growing area of mobile search. 86% of mobile searches belonged to Google in November, according to the Nielsen Co. Only 11% belonged to Bing.


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In the pursuit to create viral content, marketers have embraced the idea that using influencers to endorse a brand’s message will foster consumer engagement. As the tactic trends among the marketing community, brands are spending millions of dollars to hire influencers to serve as brand ambassadors. But in an industry driven by metrics, the question remains: are influencers really worth the investment? Engaging influencers with a huge social media following can be somewhat effective for the creation of awareness, but it may not be the most effective method for creating viral content. Simply gaining “eyeballs” through a celebrity’s following, while consumer friendly, does not alone translate into influence.
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Net revenue was up 19.2 per cent year-on-year.
The Philippines.- The casino operator Bloomberry has shared its financial results for the third quarter of the year. The company posted net income of PHP1.86bn (US$33.2m), up 19.2 per cent in year-on-year terms but down 45.9 per cent when compared to the previous quarter.
The group’s consolidated revenues for the third quarter of 2023 reached PHP10.74bn, representing a year-on-year increase of 6.7 per cent. The figure was down 14.4 per cent compared to the second quarter.
Bloomberry Resorts Corp reported that group-wide consolidated earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) for the third quarter amounted to nearly PHP4.20bn. This represented a decline of 23.1 per cent from the previous quarter but an increase of 15.1 per cent from the same period last year.
The group’s consolidated gross gaming revenue (GGR) was just under PHP13.32bn, marking a year-on-year decrease of 0.4 per cent. Consolidated GGR for the three months to September 30 was down 11.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter.
In the Philippines operation, VIP table revenue was just under PHP4.03bn in the third quarter, declining by 14.5 per cent from last year and 14.4 per cent sequentially. Solaire’s mass table revenue for the third quarter was PHP4.13bn, down 5.7 per cent year-on-year and 17.9 per cent sequentially.
Slot revenue was PHP5.14bn, indicating a year-on-year increase of 20.2 per cent and a sequential decline of 4.4 per cent. Bloomberry reported that despite a weaker economic climate during the quarter, domestic gaming demand remained strong.
Looking ahead, Bloomberry is in the process of developing a casino resort project in Vertis, Quezon City, which is expected to open next year. Analysts at Morgan Stanley Asia report that the opening, originally scheduled for the first quarter of 2024, has been rescheduled to the second quarter.
The development will have a hotel, gaming, restaurants and bars, meeting facilities and retail spaces like Solaire Resort & Casino in Entertainment City. Paranaque. The project was previously delayed due to the pandemic, exacerbated by disruptions in the global supply chain.


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The hip-hop star’s new Reebok sneaker collaboration is a wicked ’90s redux
On July 9, Future and Reebok announced a new sneaker pairing called the InstaPump Fury “Overbranded,” which will launch in fall 2016.
The Atlanta-born rapper used his Snapchat and Instagram channels to draw attention to the synergies between his music and one of Reebok’s iconic styles.
The InstaPump Fury style hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster seller for Reebok in the United States, but has achieved cult status across Asia, where its various colorways have sold tremendously well since the shoe’s official debut in 1994.
“Future exudes the type of fearlessness and authenticity that Reebok Classic stands for,” said Todd Krinsky, global vice president of Reebok Classic and Entertainment, in a press release. “This partnership not only continues our brand’s longstanding legacy of working with the world’s best hip-hop artists, but also solidifies Reebok Classic’s commitment to never back down from pushing boundaries.”
Reebok’s other stellar hip-hop collaborator is Kendrick Lamar, who released his third sneaker capsule collection in June.
Future and his frequent collaborator Drake will begin their Summer Sixteen concert tour on July 20 in Detroit. Reebok will have a retail presence at each tour stop.


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In what workers say is another example of its shameless union-busting campaign, Starbucks fired Joselyn Chuquillanqui last month after trying to organize her New York store. We spoke to her about her firing and why she’s not giving up the fight to unionize.
Starbucks workers say the corporation has been firing employees for trying to unionize — something a National Labor Relations Board complaint alleges is part of a broader pattern. (Courtesy interviewee; Lingchor / Unsplash)
The historic union drive at Starbucks stores across the country continues — as does Starbucks’s shameless union-busting effort. Workers say the corporation has been firing employees for trying to unionize — something that a National Labor Relations Board complaint alleges is part of a broader pattern.
On July 27, Joselyn Chuquillanqui, a twenty-eight-year-old shift supervisor who had worked for the company for seven years, was fired from her Starbucks job in Great Neck, New York. Chuquillanqui led an organizing drive with Starbucks Workers United at her store earlier this year. Despite gathering wide support for the union among her coworkers, the union narrowly lost its election in April in the face of Starbucks’ alleged anti-union campaign.
Around the time of the election, Chuquillanqui says she was singled out and written up for minor infractions, in a pattern that escalated until her firing last month. Jacobin’s Nick French spoke with Chuquillanqui about her efforts to organize the store, Starbucks’ campaign of union busting and retaliation, and why she intends to keep fighting for the union.
You have worked at Starbucks for a long time. When did you start getting involved with union organizing?
I had heard a couple of things about [the union] in the last couple of years. I think the first time I ever heard about unions was when one of my coworkers a couple years ago said, “Oh, don’t say anything about unions, because if Starbucks hears that, it will immediately fire you.” And I was like, “Oh, okay.” I hadn’t really known what a union was at the time.
But when Buffalo announced a union campaign in August, I started to hear more about it. Customers were bringing in newspaper clippings, and it started becoming this big thing online. I still wasn’t completely sure what it was until December, when Buffalo won its union campaign. Then all of a sudden there was this understanding about what it meant.
I was on break one day, and I was sitting in the back while my manager was having a weekly meeting with her general manager and the other store managers. They had put on a video of Howard Schultz — he had this meeting in Buffalo to bring together baristas and people from corporate and talk about how great Starbucks is . . . until [barista and union organizer] Gianna Reeve, from one of the stores in Buffalo, picked up the fair election principles and demanded that Schultz sign, and Giana was escorted away.
Earlier tonight, Howard Schultz came to Buffalo days before our union election. Gianna Reeve, a Buffalo barista, wanted to ask why Starbucks hasn’t signed the fair election principles. Schultz fled the room just as she started speaking. pic.twitter.com/9nf3O8zndw
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) November 7, 2021
That was a really amazing, powerful moment, for this kid to be standing up to Howard Schultz, this rich and powerful man. And for him having to be escorted away, because Schultz wouldn’t sign a piece of paper when we’re just demanding fair rights and a fair election.
But at that point, I didn’t really know what had happened. And as soon as that scene was over, they cut the video, and I think my district manager said, “Scary, right?”
They started creating this sense of fear among the other managers and started having meetings about how this union thing is getting really out of hand and how it’s terrible. My manager had told me, “Oh, it’s only the Buffalo stores that needed the union, because those stores were just really poorly run.” Our store was okay, though.
But I’d seen them react to Gianna, and I was just like, “So what is the union?”
So I went and started looking at what it meant. I’m talking to someone from Starbucks Workers United; people in my store, we’re talking about it. After a good amount of research and hearing people in my store talk about it, I started saying, “Hey, you guys really want this to happen,” because they thought we would immediately get these benefits [that might be won by the union at other stores] to our store as well. I had to tell them that’s not how it works — we would need to run a union campaign. And so after talking to them, everyone seemed to agree.
This conversation happened sometime in December. I started talking to everyone. And I started gathering how everyone felt about unionizing and started forming an organizing committee, only to find out that one person on my organizing committee had already started looking at the whole list of employees and basically any type of information that we needed. That person was the most resourceful; it was amazing. Then we felt comfortable that we could sign the union cards, and we had 100 percent signatures — everyone in our store signed.
How many people was that?
I think it was fifteen people signing union cards. But then, due to intense union busting at our store after we went public in February, we lost the election five to six.
Can you tell me a little bit about this union busting? What did Starbucks do?
Some people came to our store only to get promoted — like they wanted to make this their career. So management was telling people, “You can’t get promoted if we’re a union store.” Or they would tell other people that if we were to unionize, you couldn’t transfer stores, you couldn’t work at other stores, you can’t pick up shifts at other stores; that every other store in the district would get a raise that wouldn’t apply to us because our wages would be set by the contract, and everyone would get a raise except us. They said we would be gambling our benefits away, like our health care, college, and all these things.
Then they started trying to vilify me, saying we would not be able to talk to our manager when it came to things like getting our schedule changed or approving time off — that they would have to go through me, because I would be the union steward, or they would have to go through a union rep. We would be the people having to approve whatever changes they wanted, and then whatever needs they had — that we wouldn’t be allowed to talk to my manager.
They also said something like, “In Buffalo, the people didn’t just wake up one day and decide to form a union — someone must have been paying them.” And they had implied that I was also getting paid thousands of dollars for the union at our store.
So they said these things, and there were people who were traveling for hours to get to our store to work and just waiting for another store to open up, or they were afraid of losing the stability of the benefits and their income. Management would really just poke at people wherever they felt the most vulnerable and use that as leverage against the union. In the end, it worked.
When was the election? And what has happened since?
Our election was in late April or early May. Since then, my manager has been antagonizing people for being pro-union. A lot of the pro-union people unfortunately ended up having to leave, mainly just due to life happening. So there weren’t a lot of us left.
I think the manager was just trying to antagonize us, the few of us left, to leave the company. She would pick on certain people — especially me. I think she was trying to make more of an example out of me.
Why you in particular?
I think because I had a big role in leading the organizing committee, being one of the leaders for the union in our store. And the other two people in my organizing party ended up having to leave our store. So it felt like it was just me left, even though I know there are other pro-union people at our store.
Starbucks is so willing to take away everyone’s benefits, their rights, their jobs, their stability, their income — all because they don’t want to give us rights.
She wrote me up for four times when I was late, all of those times being five minutes or under. She wrote this as a reason that I should be terminated.
There was also what I call the “key incident.” I open the store every day. On July 5, I went to open the store as I normally do. I didn’t have the key, so I couldn’t go into the store. I called my manager — I had told everyone and had called all the other shift supervisors that had store keys. When I finally got in touch with my manager, she was out of state. She asked another manager who had a spare key to our store to give us the keys. So I had another barista go and pick it up, and we opened the store eventually, and then I gave the key back.
I took a spare key from a place where she kept the keys. It was a place we were allowed to get into — she had told me where it was in the past and that she put spare keys and flashlights there, so we were allowed to grab from this area before. I grabbed the spare key because I had to open the next day also.
A day and a half later, we found [the lost key]. My manager actually ended up finding the key somewhere by her desk. I didn’t know about it until another barista texted me, “She found your key.” And she never said anything. So I texted her and I said, “Hey, I heard you found my key.” And she said, “Oh, I didn’t know your key was still missing” — which I thought was interesting, because I never gave her any indication that I had found my key. I had only told her that I didn’t have it. And it was in the store the entire time, next to her desk.
And she fired me, not because I lost the key, but for not telling her that [I found it]. That’s on the termination paper.
I really have always believed in workers’ rights. When I finally knew what a union was, I was like, “Okay, this is everything I wanted, like completely solidified.” I felt like, “Why have I not learned about this before?”
So when exactly were you fired? And what’s next? Is the union filing a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint?
July 27. And yes, they are. We also already had a complaint for the election, because we feel it was tainted from all the union busting that they had done throughout the campaign. We are going to trial in September, and I think this is something that we’re just going to add to that trial. But we’re definitely filing something with the NLRB, and I think the goal right now is reinstatement. Because this is honestly ridiculous. It is very clearly targeted behavior from my former manager.
What are your plans if you do get reinstated? Are you going to keep trying to unionize?
Definitely. There were so many things that led up to me wanting to unionize. And I think that those problems haven’t been solved. Management will constantly say, “We don’t need a union. Your voices are being heard right now.” That’s completely false.
If I go back, I definitely will keep trying to unionize. And hopefully we will join the rest of the union at Starbucks.
When I see right now that Starbucks is closing certain stores, or that Howard Schultz has made a promise to come to all the stores to personally put away this whole retail union campaign, to union bust personally — they’re so willing to take away everyone’s benefits, their rights, their jobs, their stability, their income — all because they don’t want to give us rights. And they would rather just let us be at-will employees and risk our health and safety. It’s always been profits over people.Original post


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Ars Technica heeft een artikel in elkaar gedraaid met erg veel benchmarks van de K6-III, PIII en Celeron. Er werd o.a. getest met Winstone99, 3DMark99, Quake II en Unreal. Hier een stuk uit de conclusie:
All in all, AMD's latest looks to be competitive once again with the latest generation of Intel processors. For those who want blistering performance on everyday applications like MS Office or Netscape, any of these chips will do. However, a K6-III will really, really do; it's a real screamer in these sorts of applications, and it's not shy of the 32-bit environment of Windows NT, either. (I'm willing to venture it'll go like stink with Linux or the BeOS, as well.)
That said, the K6-III looks like a mixed bag for other types of performance, such as gaming and other floating-point-intensive apps. If you get the right 3D card with the right driver optimizations, for instance, 3DNow could pay off. NVIDIA is, I believe, working on 3DNow optimizations for their TNT and TNT2 drivers, and 3dfx led in this area in the past, in part due to help from AMD. Still, depending on developers to integrate 3DNow SIMD support is likely going to be a constant, frustrating vigil for the enthusiast--especially now that Intel is pushing its own SSE as an alternative.


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At a Starbucks near you: Chestnut Praline Lattes
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In the lineage of holiday flavor trends, Starbucks is throwing chestnut into the ring.
The drink, according to Starbucks is, “a blend of fresh espresso and flavors of caramelized chestnuts, with freshly steamed milk, topped with whipped cream and spiced praline crumbs.”
Which ultimately just sounds like a delicious cup of caffeinated ice cream. So why not just eat ice cream?
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By Aaron Kirchfeld, Alex Webb and Adam Ewing Nov 5, 2014 4:01 PM MT
Siemens AG (SIE)’s supervisory board approved the sale of the company’s hearing-aids business to Swedish buyout firm EQT Partners AB and will announce the sale today, according to people familiar with the matter.
EQT will pay about 2.1 billion euros ($2.6 billion) for the asset, said the people, who asked not to be named because the matter isn’t public yet.
Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, had been planning to sell shares in the hearing-aids division on the stock market, with Chief Executive Officer Joe Kaeser saying that such a move would help the business to expand as an independent entity. Market turmoil prompted him to seek a sale instead, people with knowledge of the matter had said.
The deal will also help Siemens fund the 6.8 billion euros it spent this year acquiring Dresser-Rand Group Inc. (DRC) and Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc (RR/)’s energy business. Siemens has already sold two health-care units this year and its stake in a household appliances joint venture as Kaeser focuses on supplying equipment for energy generation and supply.
Siemens scrapped a planned sale of the audiology unit in 2010 because bids didn’t meet a target for least 2 billion euros, people familiar with the matter said at the time.
Kaeser is concentrating on the energy business as he seeks to catch up with the profitability of General Electric Co., which has agreed to buy France’s Alstom SA to expand its own energy offering. Kaeser said in May that businesses generating about one-sixth of Siemens’s revenue were unprofitable last year.
Stockholm-based EQT has eyed several large corporate assets this year, including other medical-device makers. The Swedish buyout firm bid for Nobel Biocare Holding AG (NOBN), the Swiss maker of dental implants, before losing out to Danaher Corp. (DHR) in September.
Representatives for Siemens and EQT declined to comment on the deal. Deutsche Presse Agentur reported earlier that Siemens had approved the sale.
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Last month, Capcom teased more information about an upcoming Resident Evil 4 Remake demo. A brand new trailer was aired at the latest State of Play, and fans were told to stay tuned for more information on the demo.
While an announcement has not been made yet, Resident Evil 4 Remake ads on Twitch hint at today’s demo.
Twitch is rolling ads for a Resident Evil 4 remake demo "available now," expected to release after the Capcom Spotlight (scheduled for March 9th, 2:30 PM PT). https://t.co/7sf87JLljk
— Wario64 (@Wario64) March 9, 2023
Capcom has already announced a Spotlight showcase for March 9. This showcase will focus on games like Exoprimal, Monster Hunter Rise, and more.
The highly anticipated Resident Evil 4 Remake will also be featured at the event, with an announcement for the demo expected during the showcase. Fans looking to learn about future Capcom games can join the show on March 9 at 2:30 pm PT.
Capcom has breathed new life into the Resident Evil franchise with new games like Resident Evil Village. The recent remakes from the franchise have also done an exceptional job of recreating the classic games, and Resident Evil 4 Remake aims to be Capcom’s best remake yet.
Resident Evil 4 Remake releases on March 24. The game will come to nearly all modern consoles except the Xbox One.
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Spanish car brand debuts Mii Electric, which it claims will be one of the most affordable EVs on the market
Spanish automaker SEAT has become the latest car brand to enter the increasingly crowded global electric vehicle (EV) market, announcing its first fully battery-powered car will be "one of the most affordable...
Following roll out in the US and Australia, new hub debuts in UK in response to soaring lockdown demand for refurbished items
Thai Union has committed to implementing 100 per cent monitoring of its tuna supply chain by 2025, while Tesco pledged to make all its tuna MSC-certified by 2025
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Ripple, a well-known player in the blockchain space, has recently unveiled a new platform designed to assist central banks, governments, and financial institutions in creating their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Dubbed the Ripple CBDC Platform, it aims to furnish clients with the necessary ledger technology and streamline the entire process of managing CBDCs, from inception to ongoing operations.
CBDCs have become a hot topic in recent times, with eleven countries having already launched their own versions and all G7 economies actively pursuing development. A striking statistic by the Atlantic Council reveals that now, 114 countries, representing over 95% of global GDP, are exploring CBDC implementation – a marked increase since May 2020, when only 35 countries were considering it.
The growing adoption of CBDCs stems from their potential to revolutionize the financial landscape by enabling instant settlement of domestic and cross-border payments, minimizing risk, and improving the overall user experience. The platform introduced by Ripple is designed to fulfill these promises, with a focus on both wholesale and retail CBDCs – those used in interbank settlements and those adopted by consumers, respectively.
However, this surge in CBDC adoption is not without its detractors, particularly in the United States where certain government leaders have raised concerns about the potential detrimental impact of these digital currencies. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for instance, recently signed a bill banning CBDCs in the state and tweeted in March that the movement is “an attempt to surveil & control the finances of Americans. It would violate privacy, limit consumer choice & undermine market competitiveness.” Senator Ted Cruz shares a similar sentiment, going as far as introducing a bill in March 2022 that would prohibit the US Federal Reserve from issuing a direct-to-consumer CBDC.
On the other hand, proponents of CBDCs argue that these digital currencies can significantly enhance the provision of financial services to citizens. The debate is likely to continue as more countries explore the potential benefits and drawbacks of implementing these novel digital assets.
In conclusion, the launch of Ripple’s CBDC Platform reflects the growing global interest in digital currencies issued by central banks and has the potential to simplify the process for governments and financial institutions. However, it also highlights the ongoing debate surrounding the benefits and risks associated with CBDCs, particularly in countries like the United States, where opinions remain divided. As the adoption of these digital tokens becomes more widespread, it will be crucial to evaluate their real-world implications and strike a balance between innovation and consumer protection.


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Technology advertising decreased 18.4% in January compared to the year-ago period, which Dow Jones attributed to softness in business-to-business e-commerce and software advertising. That decline was partially offset by increased advertising for hardware, communications, and personal computers, the publishing company said.
Financial advertising linage dropped 15.2% because of decreases in retail, wholesale, and tombstones ads, Dow Jones said. In the general advertising category, January linage was up 4.5%, strengthened by increases in consumer advertising categories including auto, luxury goods, and healthcare as well as increases in business-to-business advertising categories including industrial equipment, government, office products, and media.
Classified and "other" advertising linage increased 1.8% at the Journal.
The ad picture was mixed in the Journal's international editions. The Wall Street Journal Europe's linage decreased 0.5% in January, due to a decline in technology advertising partially offset by a gain in financial advertising, while The Asian Wall Street Journal's linage increased 18.3%, which Dow Jones said was due to two additional publishing days along with an increase in financial advertising.
At Ottaway Newspapers, advertising linage declined 2.1% in January due to declines in non-daily and display advertising, partially offset by gains in classified advertising.
At the financial weekly Barron's, total national advertising pages increased 26.9% in January on one extra issue and increased financial advertising, Dow Jones said.
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The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) has published a revised National Wool Declaration (NWD), that identifies wool from sheep treated with liquid nitrogen or freeze branding from wool from non-mulesed lines.
The definitions regarding mulesing were a source of contention in the 2019 NWD, since other breach alteration procedures such as freeze branding may be classified as non-mulesed.
Wool farmers may include wool from sheep that had liquid nitrogen injected into the breech area as non-mulesed before the current assessment by checking the ‘NM' box.
This classification reflected the fact that mulesing is described as being done with surgical shears under Australian regulations, which are not utilized in the freeze branding (liquid nitrogen) application procedure. Australia's main wool broker and exporter organizations have likewise backed the NWD amendments.
Melina Tensen, senior scientific officer (farm animals) at the RSPCA Australia, said the NWD amendments were excellent news for wool farmers and consumers wanting supply chain transparency. Sheep freeze branding removes skin around the breech area (backside) of the lamb using liquid nitrogen, leaving an area of exposed, stretched skin that is less vulnerable to flystrike.
She added that recent research in lambs treated to sheep freeze branding or mulesing with pain medication revealed that regardless of the technique, lambs display identical behavioral pain responses. The NWD has become more open as a result of this study, allowing wool purchasers to make fully informed decisions – particularly if they are looking for wool from sheep who have not been mulesed or subjected to another unpleasant medical procedure. The reality is that sheep freeze branding and mulesing are unpleasant treatments, and the only long-term answer to protecting sheep from flystrike is to produce plainer bodied, flystrike-resistant sheep.
Humane Society International Australia's Program Manager for Animal Welfare, Georgie Dolphin, said that the updated NWD will guarantee that wool from freeze-mulesed sheep is distinguished from wool from non-mulesed animals.
Dolphin added that to classify freeze branding as non-mulesed would have been a disservice to wool farmers who have already taken the lead in breeding plain-bodied flystrike resistant sheep as a long-term and lucrative solution. As customer, wool broker, buyer, and retailer desire for more openness grows, this result becomes increasingly more relevant. Humane Society International is in talks with a lot of companies, and a lot of them are proactively updating their animal welfare policies to promote the genetic answer to flystrike, so this is a really good development for a lot of people.
Under the latest NWD assessment, FOUR PAWS wool campaigner Rebecca Picallo Gil stated the Australian Wool Exchange has taken a step toward more openness by declaring freeze-branded wool separately from non-mulesed wool. This demonstrates a recognition that brands do not want mulesed wool, freeze-branded or not, and is a move required by the global market.
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Made-in-China.com, a platform connecting global buyers with Chinese suppliers, has launched a marketing campaign to help Chinese suppliers find quality buyers and explore new business opportunities globally. The first day of the campaign saw a surge in overseas orders, highlighting the resilience of China’s export sector. According to real-time data from the platform, orders received from participating suppliers increased by 165 percent, and enquiries from overseas buyers surged by 191 percent.
The United States, India, and Brazil were the top three countries with the largest amount of enquiries for purchasing. Crop harvesting machinery, prefabricated or mobile construction, and snack food machinery products were the most searched products by US buyers; Indian buyers were keen on mobile phones, sportswear, and smartwatches; slaughtering equipment and snack food machinery were the preference of Brazilian buyers. In the multilingual section, the most active buyers were from Spanish-speaking countries.
To better connect domestic suppliers with buyers from all over the world, Made-in-China.com has launched an all-platform, all-channel, and multi-dimensional promotion mechanism. The platform tries its best to expand network traffic through search weighting, marketing scene building, featured venue building, drainage of popular products, and promotion of social media accounts at home and abroad.
The changing global market demand has led more and more domestic enterprises to choose self-adjustment to adapt. Shenzhen Baiyin Technology Co Ltd, a foreign trade enterprise that focuses on research and development, production, and sales of mobile phones, earphones, smartwatches, and other electronic products, saw a significant increase in enquiry volume on the first day of the event. The company’s foreign trade manager said that their main products are mobile phones, mainly sold to Africa and Europe. The African market has more potential, with more diversified consumers and both high-end and low-end markets, which means a wider variety of demand for products.
Overall, the surge in overseas orders on the first day of Made-in-China.com’s marketing campaign highlights the platform’s importance in connecting global buyers with Chinese suppliers and the resilience of China’s export sector.


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AT&T pulls into the lead in the Race to 5G, now that we've fulfilled two out of the three major requirements for a 5G nation. The third one, alas, seems like it's still years away because of how the FCC has screwed up airwave auctions in America.
Our Race to 5G tracker looks at three aspects of the 5G transition. You need enough devices on sale for people to have options. There has to be coverage so people can experience 5G. 5G also needs to perform well enough that there's a reason to choose it over 4G. What I didn't expect when I first set up this series a year and a half ago was that the US carriers would somehow figure out how to create 5G coverage and devices without offering any real performance advantages. But that seems to be where we're stuck.
Before we get to that, however, let's talk about the good news.
AT&T's high score comes from its combination of both high- and low-band 5G. AT&T has a small number of devices out there showing very high speeds in its 35 "5G+" cities, and a large number of devices showing 5G coverage at low speeds on its low-band network. T-Mobile, right now, doesn't have enough locations with over 1Gbps speeds. Verizon has the speeds, but it doesn't have a lot of coverage.
But none of the carriers can get to the finish line yet because none of them can combine fast speeds and widespread coverage. To win our race, the carriers need more than a few of their customers experiencing game-changing speeds, and we just aren't seeing that on any carrier.
July and early August saw a flood of new 5G phones and tablets into the market. The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 5G series and the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 2 join the Galaxy S20 series in being the only US phones to offer the full "layer cake" of 5G networks—low, middle, and high bands. The LG Velvet, Moto Edge, Samsung A71 5G, and Samsung A51 5G each choose between low/middle and high bands, but they also bring 5G to lower prices—in some cases, $300 if bought on a payment plan. The Galaxy Tab S7 series puts 5G in Android tablets.The Galaxy Tab S7 is a 5G-powered Android tablet
Verizon is still the only carrier with a 5G hotspot or a 5G home internet solution. But 5G phones are now widely available a little more quickly than I expected. I thought we'd have to wait for the fall, when Apple's (slightly delayed) 5G iPhone is now anticipated to come out in October.
Verizon did the best job selling 5G phones in July, according to research firm M Science, in part because Verizon is good at marketing Android phones.Most of the 5G phones out there right now are with Verizon
5G coverage is also spreading. AT&T disingenuously announced that its low-band 5G network is now "nationwide," meaning it covers more than 200 million (out of 350 million) people. While that isn't nationwide, it's still quite a feat. T-Mobile is moving fast to fold Sprint's network into its own. The carrier shut down the Sprint brand in early August, and now has five cities with its promising mid-band 5G network: Chicago, Houston, LA, New York, and Philadelphia. T-Mobile also significantly boosted rural 5G coverage by switching to a standalone low-band network, which has much greater reach than the previous non-standalone network mode.
Verizon still has poor coverage in the cities it claims to serve with 5G, but it added some more to the list in past months: San Diego and San Jose. Verizon also closed the first of hopefully many 5G roaming deals, with South Korea. 5G international roaming has been moving very slowly, in part because there aren't a lot of internationally compatible 5G phones.
Performance Lags, Still
Data from Ookla Speedtest Intelligence shows that US 5G speeds have been on a downward slope since AT&T and T-Mobile poured their energy into narrow, low-band networks to achieve 5G coverage. (Note: Ookla is owned by Ziff Davis, PCMag.com's parent company.) Those networks cover a lot of people, but they use so little spectrum that they have average speeds under 100Mbps. Sometimes, 4G networks are faster. Only Verizon continues to deliver a generally differentiated 5G experience, with its average 5G speeds in July around 1Gbps, according to Speedtest Intelligence.The LG Velvet is 5G and affordable, but not fast
This makes it very hard for us to argue that you should choose a 5G phone right now on AT&T and T-Mobile—especially one of the midrange ones. In our review of AT&T's LG Velvet, for example, we found that its chipset makes it slower on 5G than a flagship phone is on 4G.
This confusion will likely get worse when Verizon launches its low-bandwith "nationwide" 5G later this year, and it will only get better when the carriers have new, dedicated airwaves for 5G after an auction coming this December. The C-Band auction will make 280MHz of spectrum available, much of which is likely to get snapped up by AT&T and Verizon. By comparison, AT&T is currently using 5MHz channels for 5G in many areas right now.
Our nationwide numbers don't show much effect from T-Mobile's new mid-band 5G cities, where I'm hoping we'll see speeds more like 300-400Mbps. We currently have drivers on the road completing a 25-city run for our Fastest Mobile Networks project, where we will get much more detailed, city-level data on the 5G performance situation. Look for our full report at the end of August.
Meanwhile, In Canada
Our Fastest Mobile Networks drive tests in the US will be followed by Fastest Mobile Networks Canada, where we will test 4G and 5G networks this September and October. All three major Canadian carriers currently have 5G networks in a few large cities, using 4G-sized channels.
Bell recently said it intends to launch 5G in 28 cities by the end of the year, and currently where Bell goes, Telus goes as well. But since this is in essentially reused 4G channels, we still don't anticipate world-changing 5G speeds. Canada is also waiting for a big 5G auction, but it'll have to wait even longer than the US: The 3.5GHz auction there has been postponed to June 2021.
As always, we'll continue to track 5G performance on our Race to 5G page. Next month, this report will be devoted to the results of our Fastest Mobile Networks drive tests.


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With headlines touting “Printers with the new Lexmark technology attend to the needs of businesses today” and “Services and software, a new form of printing” topping the list of attention grabbing headlines from top Latin American publications in Mexico, to say that a recent trip by Lexmark CEO and Chairman, Paul Rooke, to meet with press and customers was a success is an understatement.
LexmarkNews recently sat down with Milena Santos-Romay, marketing communications director for Lexmark Latin America (LA), and Leonel Jose Da Costa, vice president and general manager for Lexmark LA, to talk about Rooke’s recent visit to Mexico and understand how the new message of Lexmark moving from a hardware based printer company to a software solutions company was received.
When did the visit take place? (Santos-Romay): Mr. Rooke travelled to Mexico for a
two-day tour in early August. On the first day, Lexmark held a press conference that was attended by key Mexican newspapers in including Diario Momento, Excelsior, El Economista and the Reforma/ Grupo El Norte amongst others and top-tier business publications such as Mundo Ejecutivo and CIO Magazine. The second day of meetings consisted of visiting with several Mexican customers to talk with them about the new software and solutions strategy and gather feedback as we move their business forward.
How was that message received during these meetings? (Santos-Romay): The message was very well received. We were impressed by the quality of articles that were published after the press conference which included headlines from Excelsior: “How to survive in a paperless world” and Milenio Diario: “Lexmark migrates to provide software”. When you are able to deliver a message that provides confidence to a market, and the message is coming from the CEO, that is powerful. We were pleased that the reporters understood the new strategy that Lexmark is not just a printing company, but is now positioned to be a solutions and software company.
Rooke also visited with several financial banks, retailers and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) during the trip. What takeaways did our current and potential customers come out with? (Jose Da Costa): “The Latin American entrepreneurs are aware of the challenge they face to properly manage the enormous volume of digital prints either as documents, images and videos and they need help to improve their processes and workflows. That’s why Lexmark has expanded its value beyond printing and scanning, and has acquired several companies that allow us to now offer an integrated family of solutions to capture, manage and access content from end to end that will enhance the experience of customer and allows Lexmark deeper into their businesses.”
“This new path that we are taking has been very well received by all our customers in Latin America and they are committed to continue partnering with Lexmark to help their business evolve to the next level.”


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As international gas supply chains continue to be affected by Covid-19 related lockdowns and the Russia-Ukraine crisis, concerns have been raised over the availability and pricing of industrial gases for all sectors, including specialty gas for hydrocarbon processing in Australia.
Used in hydrocarbon processing in sectors such as compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG), spec gases – traditionally imported into the country – are being manufactured by Australian industrial gases company Coregas to help safeguard supply security.
As the country’s only manufacturer distributing spec gases throughout Australia and New Zealand, the company is contributing to an industry that is forecast to hit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.9%.
Commenting on the work conducted by the company, Alan Watkins, Executive General Manager, Coregas in Australia, said, “The global supply chain continues to be impacted by current devastating events and recovery from Covid-19 lockdowns.”
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After Hanjin confirmed its collapse, things have escalated quickly.
Nearly half of Hanjin vessels have been refused from ports around the world, with ten ships and counting arrested at Asian Ports.
Freight rates between Asia-Europe and Asia-US are soaring as desperate shippers scramble to move their cargo from Hanjin vessels. The company have been suspended from the CKYHE alliance and shippers using the alliance partners may be caught up in the chaos, posing significant delays to cargo whilst the shock waves settle.
Hyundai Merchant Marine have already offered some support on the Asia – Europe routes deploying vessels on the trade lane to alleviate some of the headache for trapped shippers, (at a price of course).
Although it comes as no surprise that Hanjin announced its bankruptcy, the chain of events has sent a sobering wake up call to the industry of how quickly things unravel. Repercussions will be felt across global supply chains globally with US retailers urging government to intervene to minimise disruption.
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With No Winner, Mega Millions® Jackpot Grows to $400 MILLION
COLUMBIA, SC (March 17, 2014) – The third-highest jackpot in Mega Millions® history and the sixth largest ever offered in the U.S. draws tomorrow night. The advertised pot is $400 million.
Only two other Mega Millions® jackpots and three others posted by Powerball® were heftier, the biggest a $656 million Mega Millions® jackpot in March 2012.
Sales are brisk in South Carolina, where Friday night's drawing saw more than 65,000 players win anywhere from $1 to $15,000. Of these, over 20,000 winners purchased the Megaplier® option and will see their prizes multiplied by three.
South Carolinians looking to take a chance on a $400 million jackpot with a reported cash payout of $224 million can buy a ticket for $1 at most convenience stores and grocery stores in our state. Mega Millions® tickets must be purchased by 10 p.m. Tuesday.
The odds of winning the jackpot are long, about one in 259 million.


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A group of women have pushed back against harassment and discrimination in online gaming by creating a new space to play.
“We’re women-led and we’re focused on building an inclusive, safe and diverse online community,” Paida CEO and co-founder Jill Kenny told CTV News. “Women, men, non-binary—all genders are welcome.”
Named after the Greek goddess of play and amusement, Vancouver-based Paida is a digital gaming portal that features tournaments, community content and membership rewards. Each member must pledge to denounce abuse and be supportive, inclusive and kind.
“It is a zero-tolerance rule, especially for any sort of hate speech,” Kenny explained. “And if it does occur, you will be removed from the platform.”
Hate speech and harassment are all too common in the world of online gaming. According to a 2021 survey, 77 per cent of female gamers reported experiencing gender-specific discrimination, including horrific verbal abuse.
“It can be something as simple as go back to the kitchen—you know, very standard, very tired misogynistic sort of things,” Paida co-founder and head narrative designer Stephanie Peloza told CTV News. “It’s not something we should have to deal with when we’re trying to unwind or relax or enjoy ourselves.”
It’s estimated that nearly half of all gamers in the multi-billion-dollar gaming industry are women. To avoid harassment, many report that they’ll play with their microphones off, use male or non-gendered characters, or just steer clear of certain genres or games.
“One of the genres I enjoy the most is FPS, first person shooters,” Paida partnership activation manager Camille Salazar-Hadaway told CTV News. “The first time I dropped into my first FPS Unreal Tournament; I was being harassed right from start.”
At Paida, the leadership team is made up of women with gaming tech and media backgrounds. The platform has so far attracted more than $5.5 million from investors, as well as partnerships with industry giants like Xbox Canada and Razer, an electronics and gaming hardware company.
For the team at Paida, it’s all simply about making gaming what it’s supposed to be: fun.
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In a little over a week, Samsung will take the stage to unveil the Galaxy S8, but if recent leaks are anything to go by, we won’t be surprised by anything the company has to show. The Galaxy S8 has been seen in quite a few leaked pictures already, and we are now getting a look at the black version of the device in new images published over on Weibo.
There’s nothing here that we haven’t seen before, so this leak just serves to reiterate that the device we have been seeing up until now is most likely the final version that will be launched in markets around the world in the coming weeks. This year, Samsung is making a major leap forward as far as its smartphones’ design is concerned, with the S8 set to offer an edge-to-edge display with minimal bezel above and below the screen. The traditional hard home button found on Samsung devices is going away, and the Galaxy S8 will be the first Android device from the company to feature software navigation keys. The fingerprint sensor is placed at the back next to the camera module, and it remains to be seen how ergonomic using the sensor will be.
The black model of the S8 looks rather impressive, but if a recent leak is to be believed, consumers will have no less than eight color options to choose from when the phone goes on sale. The options are expected to include some shade of violet/purple and the popular Blue Coral color that Samsung introduced with the Galaxy Note 7. Some of these color options are likely to be market-dependent, and further information on the same should be made available following the official unveil of this year’s most anticipated Android flagship.


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DICE informed us at PAX East that it will continue to support its hit title Battlefield: Bad Company 2 with patching -- however, one thing it won't "fix" is players accidentally picking up kits from corpses when trying to activate M-COM stations in rush mode. With millions of copies sold so far, th...
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Despite an ongoing legal battle with Waymo, Uber is moving ahead with development of self-driving vehicles. That includes not only self-driving cars, but also a fleet of self-driving trucks that just got a significant upgrade.
Uber is rolling out what it considers its second generation of prototype autonomous trucks, according to Engadget. The trucks feature a new suite of sensors, including a 64-channel Lidar unit from Velodyne. Uber previously used Lidar units of its own design, rather than off-the-shelf units like this one.
Uber claims the switch to the Velodyne unit simply made sense from a technical standpoint, but using a third-party component also helps Uber distance itself from accusations that it stole lidar tech from Waymo, the former Google self-driving car project. Way filed a lawsuit against Uber in February over alleged theft of intellectual property relating directly to the self-driving truck project.
The nucleus of that project was a startup called Otto co-founded by Anthony Levandowski, a former Waymo employee, and purchased by Uber in August 2016. Waymo accuses Levandowski of downloading 14,000 confidential files, and passing that information along to Uber, but the ride-sharing company denies making use of any Waymo data. Levandowski held a prominent position in Uber's self-driving car program, but was fired for not cooperating with Uber's efforts to fight the lawsuit.
Uber's self-driving trucks are now completely devoid of Otto branding, due to a copyright dispute with Canada's Otto Motors. Uber now refers to the division solely as part of its Advanced Technology Group (ATG).
Uber plans to test its upgraded trucks in and around San Francisco, which may present another problem. California does not allow testing of autonomous vehicles weighing more than 10,000 pounds on public roads, and Uber has already been investigated by the California DMV over a possible violation of this rule.
The company previously said that the trucks it deployed on California roads weren't operating in autonomous mode. But Uber ATG trucks product manager Alden Woodrow told Engadget the company believes its upgraded trucks qualify as Level 2 autonomous vehicles, similar to Tesla electric cars running on Autopilot, and thus don't require special testing permits. The California DMV will have to weigh in on that one.
Beside the lawsuit hanging over it, Uber faces other major challenges in developing autonomous trucks. That includes competition from companies like Waymo and Amazon, both of which have expressed interest in self-driving trucks. But all of these companies face significant regulatory hurdles. Given the more heavily-regulated nature of the trucking industry, self-driving trucks could be subject to even more red tape than self-driving cars.


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In most countries, the trade of ambergris has been outlawed. This includes the United States. In America, the illegality of trading ambergris forms just one part on a wider ban on hunting and exploiting whales. Luckily for Steven, in the UK, ambergris is considered to be a waste product. So how much was it worth?
The Whittens were shocked to find out that another lump of ambergris was found on the beach by a man in Morecambe. That wasn’t far from where Steven and Viola found their own. That piece ended up selling for a staggering $155,000! How much would the Whittens get for their piece of “floating gold”?
Loads Of Cash
The piece of ambergris that was found in Morecambe weighed about 6 pounds. Meaning that it was twice the size of the Whittens’ piece. All the same, that meant that their ambergris could sell for around $65,000! That’s an incredible amount of money for a piece of whale by-product if we do say so ourselves. So, what did the Whittens do with their discovery?
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Would the couple choose to settle their debt or pay off their mortgage? Maybe they would go into early retirement? In a perfect example of “British restraint”, Steven told the Daily Mirror, “If it is worth a lot of money, it will go a long way towards buying us a static caravan. It would be a dream come true.”


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It’s not been two weeks since Syfy cancelled its cult SF show The Expanse, and another studio has already stepped in to pick it back up again. All thanks goes to Amazon Studios. According to sources the deal is not yet closed, but it’s looking good.
It’s interesting that Amazon should be the ones to revive The Expanse, especially when Netflix already had the international rights, but we’re not complaining.
One of the reasons cited for the cancellation, alongside it being pretty expensive to make, is that Syfy only had US first run linear rights, which means that all their eggs were in the “people watching it live” basket (which, as we all know, is not as healthy as it used to be).
However, producers Alcon Television Group, which fully finance and produce the series, shopped around for a new home and clearly managed to pull it off.
For those who have yet to start the series, and we recommend that you do before it lands on Amazon, here’s the first season synopsis: “A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth’s rebellious colony on the asteroid belt.”
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Procession of 576 electric vehicles at the airport in Berlin beats the previous record set at 507 in California last year.
Since National Plug In Day became National Drive Electric Week this year, electric-vehicle advocates, or at least the greedier ones, perhaps hoped for a sevenfold increase in attendance. Even though that didn't quite happen, the number of people who showed up to celebrate all that is electric and drives certainly surged. Some even broke a world record for good measure.
Not like we would need an excuse to join a few hundred friends for a springtime plug-in vehicle drive through the Swiss Alps, but the World Advanced Vehicle Expedition (WAVE) is providing us with one. WAVE is putting on its annual shindig between May 31 and June 7, entrant Green Motorsport says, and the party's so big that WAVE's now giving out prizes for three categories: plug-in vehicles that are heavier than 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds), lighter than 900 kg and electric bikes.
Honda has participated in the annual Rose Parade for the past 53 years and returns this year as the presenting sponsor for the fourth time running. But it's not satisfied merely putting its name on the event; Honda intends to lead from the front with what promises to be the longest float in the parade's long history.
Norway has long led Europe in electric vehicle adoption, and now the country's EV advocates can boast of holding a new world record: the largest-ever gathering of moving electric vehicles. We are particularly amused that the record was set by 260 and a half EVs, since one of the cars was a cutaway version of the Nissan Leaf. The sliced EV is complete enough to drive, and was thus eligible to participate in the emissions-free parade.
The record for the longest parade of Ferrari models was set back in 2007 when 385 examples lapped Silverstone at the same time. That record was broken with 490 cars sometime thereafter, but the Maranello automaker's London-based unit is gearing up to shatter the record once again.
The Rose Bowl – The Grandaddy Of Them All, as they say – is one of the most storied bowl games in college football, and the pre-game parade is a big part of the pageantry of the event. Last year, Natural Balance broke the record for the world's largest float with an 84,300-pound rolling display, but the pet food company seems thirsty for more world-record glory.
Holiday parades in communities all over the country invariably include processions of various classic cars. The upcoming Independence Day parade in Bay Harbor, MI will see the usual suspects joined by as many as thirty GEM neighborhood electric vehicles. The luxury community bars residents from using golf carts so more than half of them have bought NEVs from GEM through a dealership in Charlevoix. Since the GEMs are street legal it allows property owners around the golf cart restriction.
We feel lucky having been one of a relatively small group of people to see the Audi R8 in person at the 2006 Paris Motor Show. We won't feel so special after next Wednesday, however, when Audi is planning a parade in the Big Apple that will be lead by the company's new two-seat, mid-engine road rocket. Millions of New Yorkers will be able to catch a glimpse of the R8 leading a pack of Audis that also includes the R10 TDI racecar currently dominating the American Le Mans Series and a 1938 Auto Un
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Perfect Fit Brand was in the house big time at the recent adult novelty aka sex toy trade show, ANME, which took place in Los Angeles January 13-14.
Below a few snaps shot at or around the Perfect Fit Brand booth and from the ROCCO™ by Perfect Fit Brand line launch party at Micky's West Hollywood.
Rocco Steele, Buck Angel, Nina Hartley at ANME Perfect Fit Brand booth. Each have their own line of products in collaboration with the Perfect Fit Brand. Watch this blog for the latest news.
Rocco Steele working ROCCO™ by Perfect Fit Brand at our ANME booth
Sex educator and "Curvy Girl Sex" author Elle Chase with Buck Angel
Perfect Fit Brand collaborator, sex educator and adult industry legend, Nina Hartley at the Perfect Fit Brand ANME booth
Perfect Fit Brand CEO Steve Callow and Nina Hartley.
Perfect Fit Brand collaborator Buck Angel, Sliquid CEO Dean Elliott, Nina Hartley
Photos from the the ROCCO™ by Perfect Fit Brand launch party at Micky's West Hollywood
Perfect Fit Brand CEO Steve Callow, porn powerhouse and DJ ChiChi LaRue, ROCCO™ by Perfect Fit Brand collaborator Rocco Steele
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Bangladesh has taken an initiative to develop trade with Turkey by launching “Bangladesh Business Mission to Turkey 2018 (BBMT 2018)” to share the upcoming business mission activities.
EXPOPRO (Center for Business Development & Communications), in collaboration with GOODSOURCE, ADSL and GDASSIST organised the ‘BBMT 2018’ at Chittagong on Monday.
The private trade promotion organisation, EXPOPRO, arranged the event with the support of Bangladesh Embassy in Ankara, Bangladesh Consulate General in Istanbul and Turkish Embassy in Dhaka.
Ar Md Alamgir Jalil, immediate past president of Bangladesh Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI), was present in the launching ceremony as the chief guests.
M. A Bakar, joint secretary general of the BMCCI, Syed Moinuddin Ahmed, additional managing director and company secretary of Green Delta Insurance Company Limited, were present as special guests.
Founder and CEO of EXPOPRO Md Mamunur Rahman presented the upcoming business mission activities to the potential delegates of the BBMT 2018 at the function.
They organised the business mission to attend couple of trade shows in Istanbul and Konya, Turkey during 15 to 21 April 2018, says a media release.
The main objective of the BBMT 2018 is to explore Turkey as a reliable and effective source, they said.
The mission has also a target of diversified products and services and to create scope for making wide network for the Turkish businessmen with the Bangladeshi business communities.
The business mission will also provide a great scope and avenue to the businessmen, visitors and professionals from Bangladesh to explore Turkey as the preferred source for yarn, apparel & textiles machineries, construction & furniture/interior items and tourism etc, the release said.


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Fact Check: Anyone can make and sell tamales from home, right?
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Who doesn’t love tamales?
And, thanks to social media, it’s easier than ever to pick up a dozen of abuelita or tia’s homemade tamales for the holidays.
After all, it’s a fact that anyone can turn their kitchen into a cottage industry, right? Turns out, this is fiction. Here’s why:
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text: Zillow Offers is a new program that has arrived in San Diego. This new program offers to help homeowners sell their home faster. While this may sound appealing to sellers, the downside is the price point. Zillow Offers may not pay what some sellers would like. Their offer comes in at market value and not typically higher. This may be good for sellers who are simply ready to move on from their current home for various reasons and are not too concerned with getting the highest offer. It’s also an opportunity for sellers who are not interested or cannot afford to make any renovations or changes to their home that would garner a higher offer. So while there are benefits to this program, it is not for everyone.


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China Focus: Government departments reveal priorities in 2024
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) — As China’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached a new high of over 126 trillion yuan (about 17.74 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2023, what measures are likely to be adopted to reinforce the sound economic fundamentals and what is the outlook for the Chinese economy in the coming year?
Several heads of government departments have recently presented reports addressing commonly asked questions and expounding on the direction of policymaking for the year 2024.
This year, China will promote industrial innovations through technological advancements while ensuring the stable growth of the industrial economy, according to Jin Zhuanglong, minister of industry and information technology.
In this regard, Jin highlighted initiatives such as launching a program to promote the high-quality development of crucial industrial chains in the manufacturing sector and establishing new innovation hubs for manufacturing, noting that the ministry will support enterprises of different sizes with distinctive approaches.
The ministry will provide support to leading enterprises to help optimize their innovation chains. It will also guide large firms to share innovation resources with small and medium-sized companies and promote the testing and use of products developed by smaller enterprises.
Regarding industries, China will enhance efforts to transform traditional industries, which account for over 80 percent of the manufacturing, through technological upgrades, Jin said, noting that support will also be provided to competitive industries such as the new energy vehicle and rail transport equipment to help sharpen their competitive edge.
SOLIDIFYING FOREIGN TRADE, INVESTMENT
To consolidate the fundamentals of foreign trade and investment, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao stated that efforts should go toward consolidating the three mainstays, namely, trade in goods, trade in services and digital trade.
On upgrading trade in goods, Wang mentioned the need to expand the trade of intermediate goods, promote the sound development of cross-border e-commerce and improve the professional and digitalized standards of overseas warehouses.
On innovating service trade, Wang said the ministry will promote the easing of market access in telecommunication and medical sectors and roll out negative lists for cross-border service trade.
In terms of developing digital trade, efforts will be made to build industrial clusters focusing on innovation of both the tech and the institution, actively participate in the global digital trade governance, and align with international economic and trade rules, according to Wang.
ADVANCING RURAL REVITALIZATION
Agriculture Minister Tang Renjian has underlined the importance of ensuring grain security and avoiding large-scale relapse into poverty in 2024.
Measures will be adopted to foster the development of rural industries, as well as infrastructure and governance in rural areas, he said.
Tang stressed the need to strengthen the roles of science and technology and reforms in advancing rural revitalization, as well as the necessity to expand avenues for rural residents to increase their incomes.
The country is presented with a unique strategic opportunity and favorable conditions to advance comprehensive rural revitalization and strengthen the agricultural sector as Chinese modernization forges ahead, according to Tang.


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Energy firms sat on £4bn direct debit cash
More and more of us are finding that our direct debits for energy bills are being massively increased - even when power firms owe us money ...
Rise: Direct debits have increased enormously
Janette and Terry Belton returned home from holiday to find two letters from British Gas on the doormat. In the first, they read that their account was £126.41 in credit.
This came as no surprise to the retired couple, who were paying £92 a month on a fixed tariff. Their account had been in credit for 19 months. What surprised them, however, was the second letter.
'We couldn't believe what we read,' says Janette, 63. 'It said our monthly payments were going to be increased from £92 a month to £186, despite the fact we were in credit. We were convinced there had been a mistake.'
There was no mistake. After calling British Gas last October and explaining the situation, Janette was told the monthly payments were being increased to cover 'winter use'.
'They were quite rude to me and just wouldn't listen. We only have a gas hob and we'd used a little over £1,000 worth of gas in the previous year, but our bill for the coming year would be £2,200.
'I was so angry. I was basically being asked to give the company a free loan.'
In the past few months, thousands of customers across the country have opened similar letters to discover direct debit payments have skyrocketed, bearing little relation to actual usage and despite the fact the price of gas is half what it was last year.
It is estimated that between them, the big six energy companies are sitting on a £4bn cash surplus achieved at the expense of consumers.
'We've heard from a number of customers with big credits who are struggling to get their money back,' says Mark Todd of EnergyHelpline. 'It's clear there are problems with the whole billing system.'
Promoted as the convenient and cheapest option, direct debits are used by a large proportion of energy customers. Yet the system is wide open to abuse.
As people tend to use more power during the winter due to heating costs - British Gas estimates its customers use four times as much gas in the colder months - most of us tend to overpay for gas and electricity during the summer. This overpayment is then offset against increased winter usage.
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In theory, everything should even out. In practice, however, companies have been increasing direct debit payments enormously, even when some customers, like the Beltons, are in credit.
'It's basically dishonest,' says Janette. 'Imagine if I went to Sainsbury's and they told me I had to give them £1,000 for groceries I might buy in the next month. It's like Alice In Wonderland.
'I was annoyed, but I know how to stand up for myself. What makes me angry is thinking about all those elderly people who are being sent these big bills and can't afford them, but are less likely to raise a fuss.'
One such person is the elderly mother of Susan Watson, who lives in Peterborough. 'My mother is 85 and lives in an old person's flat with electric storage heaters,' says Mrs Watson.
'Towards the end of last year, she received a letter from her electricity supplier, Eon, informing her that her monthly direct debit payment was going to be quadrupled - from £70 to £284. That's more than my combined bills for gas and electricity - and I live in a four-bedroom house.
'She was upset and rang me in a panic. I thought there must have been a mistake, so I rang Eon. They told me it was the correct amount as she was slightly in debit and winter was coming.'
She told the customer service operator her mother could not afford such a large sum. To her surprise, she was then asked how much she could pay. 'I stupidly said £90 off the top of my head and they put me on hold, saying they were consulting an expert who would review the bill,' says Mrs Watson.
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'Within a few moments, they were back on the line telling me the new amount would be £91. I got the feeling I could have said any figure - it really felt like a scam.'
What most upsets Mrs Watson is the fact her mother could easily have been in a situation where nothing was done and she would have been left struggling to pay a huge bill.
'If I hadn't been around, she would not have rung the company and would not have questioned the new amount,' she says. 'A lot of old people won't take issue and argue the toss when they're confronted by things like this. They're not articulate, they don't know what to do and they're too frightened to phone and fight.'
Following such cases as the Beltons and Mrs Watson's mother, there have been calls for action to be taken to curb the way the direct debit system is used by energy companies.
In December, Peter Luff, Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire and chairman of the House of Commons business and enterprise select committee, handed the energy regulator Ofgem a dossier of complaints collected from his constituency and demanded an inquiry.
It seemes that energy suppliers are using direct debits as a convenient way to boost cashflow,' he says.
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'Low-income households and pensioners can't afford to hand over money unnecessarily.'
In response, Ofgem has announced it is reviewing the complaints and is waiting for a response from the energy companies regarding their direct debit 'policies and processes'.
'We are giving the industry the opportunity to resolve this issue, but if we are not satisfied with the outcome we will consider other options,' says an Ofgem spokesman.
The message to the suppliers is that they must take steps to improve their communication with customers. 'Our analysis indicates that many customers have not been given the information they need to understand the basis for their direct debit payments and whether an increase is justified.'
The Energy Retail Association - which represents the major electricity and gas suppliers - claims it can't comment on individual cases and cites last year's ' unprecedented rise in the wholesale gas prices'.
'All customers were notified of these price rises when they occurred, but direct debit changes can happen at a later date,' says a spokesman. 'This is why many people are seeing their direct debits recalculated for this year. They are taking into account the rises that occurred in the summer and usage over the past 12 months.'
Consumer Focus - which campaigns for fair deals for customers - advises anyone who has been landed with a large increase in a direct debit to take immediate action.
'Unless an account has been mismanaged or there has been a significant change in energy use, there should not be any large increases in direct debits,' says a spokesman.
'If this happens, the customer should ask the supplier for an explanation, in particular, where the account is in credit and no debt needs to be recovered. Energy suppliers must explain the rationale for any payment increase.
'Consumers can ask for an assessment of their account at any time to check their payments cover the cost of the energy they are using. By sending in regular meter readings and keeping a close eye on the account, consumers will minimise the risk of bills being unreasonably high or low.'
For the Beltons, their experience was enough to put them off direct debits. 'We eventually received a sort of apology from British Gas, but we decided to cancel our direct debit, read our own meter and pay quarterly,' says Janette.
'Yes, it is a little bit more expensive, but at least we're paying for what we use. I'd rather pay a higher rate than give the company money for nothing.'
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India’s tech talent market is growing, and despite the pandemic, the future looks resilient and bright.
India boasts of the world’s youngest employable population. The country annually churns out over 3 million graduates, 300,000 post-graduates, and 500,000 engineering graduates. It adds over 200,000 IT graduates to the workforce every year.
As per NASSCOM, the tech industry employee base is expected to reach ~4.5 million, with the digital talent base crossing ~1.2 million by the end of FY21. Tech skills are one of the highest in demand in today’s job market with increased global digitalization.
A Korn Ferry report showed that by 2030, India will be the only nation in the APAC region with a potential labour surplus of 240 million. Technology, media, telecom (TMT) will be one of the industries majorly contributing to this surplus. The rise of Level A (highly skilled) TMT employees will open more opportunities for India and the country might challenge the US’s position in the TMT sector over the next decade.
Indian tech industry is growing despite the pandemic
According to NASSCOM, while global output is expected to have shrunk by ~3.2% in 2020, Indian tech industry grew by 2.3% year-on-year during the same period. This growth is being attributed to factors such as the increasing adoption of technology and the acceleration of digital transformation.
Indian tech contributed ~8% of the nation’s GDP. It accounted for over 50% share of the total services exports and of the total FDI (based on FDI inflows for the period of April to September 2020). The Indian tech industry remains a net hirer despite the pandemic and it is expected to hire 138,000 net new hires in FY2020-21.
The investment in digital is going strong and ~30% of the industry revenue was contributed by digital in 2020. Domestic digitalization received a major boost last year. India’s focus on innovation was signified once again with over 115,000 tech patents filed in the last five years.
Hiring activities are steadily recovering
As per a LinkedIn report, hiring in India increased by 35% between April and June 2020, after the initial decline in recruitment because of the pandemic. The hiring activities declined by 50% year-on-year in April before the recovery process began. Hiring witnessed a 15% year-on-year decline by the end of June 2020.
According to the Monster Employment Index, a job analysis index shared by the hiring site Monster.com, the overall hiring activity is now speeding with online hiring demand or jobs in March 2021 exceeding that of March 2020 in nearly all sectors.
Many Indians upskilled themselves during the pandemic
Reskilling and upskilling are two important ways to remain relevant across industries during the pandemic induced “new normal”.
Companies are looking for employees who can multi-task and possess specialized digital skills as most believe that post pandemic recovery will be hugely reliant on technological advancements.
According to the LinkedIn year-end data, in 2020, India witnessed a growth in online learning and digital skills as Indian professionals upskilled themselves. The average number of learning hours on the LinkedIn Learning platform increased three times from April to December 2020, compared to the pre-Covid months, January and February.
According to a 2020 report by Udemy, a massive online course provider, online learning enrollments have increased all over the world post the lockdown with a massive surge in countries like Spain (280% increase), India (200% increase), and Italy (320% increase). The most popular courses in India were Communication Skills (606%) and Business Fundamentals (281%).
These are just two of the many online learning platforms, but this trend shows that Indians have spent significant time during the lockdown in building skill-sets that make them further employable in the marketplace.
Trends that will dominate the future of tech hiring
The job market has become much more diversified and geo agnostic with remote working becoming a norm rather than an exception.
Many companies are shifting towards a hybrid model to balance working from office and working from home. The adoption of collaborative digital tools has made a seamless working environment possible and this trend will likely dominate the work culture in the coming years.
This means more opportunities for qualified candidates even if they don’t have the flexibility to change locations for their jobs or stay out for long because of family requirements.
As per Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) estimates, between mid-2016 and early 2020, the female labour participation rate, which is the percentage of women working out of all women falling in the working age, fell from 16.4% to about 11%. This figure might have been further pushed to 9% due to the pandemic.
The virtual workplaces will also welcome more diversity and inclusion with the gender ratio being pushed towards a 50:50 female to male ratio. Companies are increasingly promoting inclusion while addressing the conscious and unconscious biases within their eco-systems. This results in better employee retention and greater innovation according to the majority of executives in a recent Korn Ferry survey.
Virtual hiring and onboarding has been a rising trend with the pandemic induced lockdown extending for months in a row. This is expected to continue in the future with relocations, work permits, visas etc. not being a big factor in hiring suitable candidates anymore.
Organizations are expected to deviate from legacy models and prioritize professional performance over degrees from high-profile colleges/universities.
The upsurge of the gig economy
A gig economy is a labour market that is governed by short term or on-demand contractual or freelance jobs. The pandemic has given a major boost to India’s gig economy.
Employers aren’t hesitant in hiring remote workers with specialist skills such as consultants, writers, researchers, creative designers, digital marketers, and so on.
Currently, there are around 180 platform companies providing gig work, with an estimated joint net worth of around $4.5 trillion. By 2025, the estimated value of the gig economy might reach ~$355 billion, offering over 350 million jobs.
India is the second largest gig service providers with a roughly estimated 15 million people involved in gig work. According to a survey conducted by AON and NASSCOM in 2020, nearly 60% of India’s tech sector companies hires the gig workforce and almost all of them plan on continuing with this trend. This can hugely influence and shape India’s future hiring trends.


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Omega Force is continuing to spoil us, and we want more!
Collaboration also coming?
Let’s hope there’s more.
Extended Side Quests, additional multiplayer characters, and more are coming.
The Seven Realms beckon.
Just over a week until launch.
Doesn’t look like the PS3 and PS Vita versions are coming West.
PSX announcement incoming?
Featuring enemies so cute you don’t wanna kill them… but have to, thousands of times each.
Same core gameplay with some cool modifications.
Overwatch stays at #4.
Been having a lot of fun with this one.
See what the cinemas and other conversation scenes look like.
For the curious.
Long live Dragon Warrior!
Sadly doesn’t show Vita/PS4 cross-play, but still.
Comes out in Japan soon.
PS4 will be at 1080p/60fps!
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The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is calling for George Osborne to pump investment into infrastructure projects to drive the UK's economic growth ahead of next month's Autumn Statement.
Pensioner poverty has fallen over the past decade but there has been a big increase in the number of younger people living in poverty, according to a new study.
The battle between retailers to boost sales on Black Friday has turned the shopping sensation named after a single day into a week-long marathon.
The on-going price war between taxi booking apps has intensified in the run up to Christmas, after London-based black cab app Get Taxi rolled out a new aggressive price strategy.


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Murmansk Region to offer Arctic cuisine tours
The Murmansk Region government is promoting the Made in Arctic brand and putting together a map of Arctic cuisine tours, the regional administration's Minister for Industry and Entrepreneurship Development Olga Kuznetsova told RIA Novosti. The map will show locations where visitors can partake of traditional and original northern cuisine.
The Made in Arctic tourist venue has been unveiled during the 5th Murmansk International Business Week. It has already become a recognizable brand and should now be promoted and popularized, the Minister said. Today, about 30 public catering companies all over the region are serving exotic northern cuisine, including dishes made with traditional reindeer meat and salmon, as well as reindeer-moss and cloudberry.
"We are compiling the region's map of Arctic cuisine tours that lists the most popular outlets selected by us," Kuznetsova said. "We are now updating the map that will serve as a basis for Arctic cuisine tours, which include visits to restaurants with their own inimitable style, as well as to food production and processing companies, where they can taste such foods," Kuznetsova noted.
Efforts to popularize local cuisine have encouraged regional businesses to establish small farms. Several farms have opened last year, and a duck and goose breeding farm has appeared in 2016. Many farms are growing green vegetables.
Some businesses are making unusual foods, including Laminaria (kelp) brown algae, Kuznetsova said. This is an interesting project because young people who received our financial support have already reached commercial production levels. They sell their goods at all local beauty parlors and have also secured contracts for making bread enriched with kelp powder, Kuznetsova added.
She also noted that, according to experts, the local population cherishes and preserves local culinary traditions, primarily in small Pomor towns. Today, the main development strategy is to establish new growth points and reinstate old-time cuisine with a modern tinge.


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Toyota is feeling the heat.
For years, it enjoyed a near-monopoly on the midsize pickup truck segment in America, but the competition has finally awakened. It now needs to fend off the Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon twins, the Ford Ranger, and the Jeep Gladiator. It gave the popular Tacoma updates inside and out for the 2020 model year in a bid to keep it in the lead.
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The European Parliament adopts recommendations for the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles today (1 June), however the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex) argues it could push Europe out of the fashion market.
The fashion industry is experiencing a profound transformation towards sustainability as the world leaves behind its wasteful history.
Since the implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in June 2022, a total of 679 shipments amounting to $40.54m have been stopped.
In an exclusive interview, Joint Apparel Association Forum Sri Lanka secretary general, Yohan Lawrence, shares his perspective on Sri Lanka’s critical need to retain the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) post-December 2023 and the potential consequences if it is revoked.
The initiative called “Circular Fashion Partnership Cambodia,” is a component of the Global Circular Fashion Forum (GCFF) that aims to help textile manufacturing nations to expedite and expand the recycling of post-industrial textile waste.
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Coyote Cafe continues making improvements after opening
Juniors Myranda Malone and Andy Hyunh package orange marmalade sauce into convenient cups. “I like making the food because it feels like a real world process,” Hyunh said. Photo Credit: Jenika Chiang
After its opening, the Coyote Cafe has upgraded materials for professional packaging and delivery, purchased new equipment for safer food production, and added new items to the growing menu that offer healthier options.
“The students are doing very well and working hard. We’ve added a lot of things to the menu and we get more and more orders every week!” Chef Sandra Mallut said.
The Coyote Cafe offers three different choice of meals every week. Last week, customers were offered the following meals: turkey panini, baked chicken fingers with special coyote crust and dipping sauce, and tuna salad spinach wrap at the price of $2.75. With the option of a combo, meals may come with an entree such as house, fruit, or caesar salad, as well as fruit, chips, cookies, or brownies at the price of $5. Also, sandwiches may be made without bread as lettuce wraps, and mango or berry smoothies are available.
“We make everything from scratch and use the freshest ingredients to make the orders,” junior Andy Huynh said.
In addition, the Coyote Cafe has refurbished its food packaging, now providing customers with a plastic cutlery kit and convenient carry out box along with more package-friendly condiments. Furthermore, the staff of the cafe has upgraded its appliances and cooking tools, purchasing a new smoothie machine and a new thermal thermometer for safe cooking.
“I love preparing the food because it feels like a real world experience,” junior Myranda Malone said.
Currently, the cafe serves only to faculty, but is in the process of receiving approval from the district to serve to students. The cafe is open two days a week, and orders are made online via email to Chef Sandra Mallut.
“I try to have order forms in at least 24 hours before the cafe is open,” Mallut said.
Working for the Cafe grants students an internship credit required for graduation, and is also a senior capstone project led by senior hospitality students Katarina Bussmann, Mary-Ashley Cabana, and Lea Ligutom.
“The cafe funds our program and we get experience for working for it,” junior Kay Eure said.