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WESTMORELAND COUNTY (KDKA) — State Police need your help to track down a suspected shrimp thief in Westmoreland County.
Troopers released photos of a woman they say hit the Shop N Save grocery store in Youngwood over the weekend.
Police say the woman was shopping at the store Saturday around 8 p.m. when she took off with four large bags of shrimp and a large pack of bacon.
She was seen getting into a dark colored sedan and fleeing the scene.
Police say this is the third time she has done this.
They say the vehicle had no registration plate.
If you have any information on who the thief is, call Pennsylvania State Police in Greensburg.


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As India’s lock-down is steadily lifted to revive the economy, several pharmaceutical firms have given instructions to their sales and marketing teams asking them to resume work in non-containment areas. We have all heard of the poor food delivery boys who contracted the infection as they transported food from home to home. Health officials travel to the most dangerous areas on earth, known as hospitals. These are, ironically, where diseases propagate the fastest. It is also uncertain at this time whether, given the possibility of infections, physicians and hospital management would authorize patient representatives to visit their clinics or hospitals. This is where online tools come into picture. So medico marketing is going virtual in many of the medical associations to reduce the risk of COVID-19.
With the exponential growth in the use of online resources such as video calls, health care applications , social media, messaging networks and more, the pharmaceutical industry has gradually embraced a virtual world over the past few years. Still, due to the pandemic, dependency just continues to expand on this new virtual reality. Online networks and interactive channels have been adopted by many pharmaceutical firms to exchange crucial details, such as the outcomes of clinical trials, as well as to improve online meetings.Doctors and medical practitioners have traditionally appeared to engage with pharmaceutical firms through a single channel, the sales representatives. Medico marketing is going virtual due to COVID-19, traditional methods are changing. Medico marketing would also benefit from an expanded digital strategy with this increased use of digital platforms. In reality, digital touch-points today offer more opportunities for connectivity and other advantages, such as content accessibility, less time-consuming interactions, and being able to fit more comfortably into a busy schedule.
What may be the greatest question mark of all medical conferences is linked to marketing activities. The global meeting circuit where pharmaceutical marketers disclose information, talk about pre-launch drugs and start delivering marketing materials directly to doctors, industry analysts and others is stopped in its tracks, without any sign of when it could resume. For example, through the FCB Health Network, agencies are supporting pharma and healthcare customers with remote product launches, launch meetings, rep detailing, POAs, photo shoots, ad boards, which were once live events, now to be done remotely and seamlessly.
There are infinite and much less constrained possibilities than traditional activities, tools and conversations. The content offered can be customised and targeted to different markets by using online tools, making for a much better chance of achieving the intended target audience. The new trend is virtual medical marketing and it is here to stay.

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text: Updated from Jan. 19Strong consumer sales propelled Symantec ( SYMC) to a record third quarter, as the antivirus maker beat Wall Street's expectations. The Cupertino, Calif., company posted revenue of $695 million, an increase of 41% over last year, Symantec announced after the closing bell Wednesday. Pro forma net income was $175 million, or 24 cents a share, up from $120 million, or 17 cents a share in the same quarter last year. Analysts polled by Thomson First Call were expecting a profit of 22 cents a share on sales of $665 million. But spurred by aggressive "whisper numbers" circulating on Wall Street, investors were hoping for more. Shares were recently off 64 cents, or 2.6%, to $24.27. Including items, net income for the quarter was $164 million, or 22 cents a share, compared with $111 million or 16 cents a share, last year on a pro forma basis. The weak dollar gave Symantec a $26 million lift; without it, growth would only have been 35%. Looking to the fourth or April quarter, the company told investors to expect revenue to range from $690 million to $710 million. At the midpoint of that guidance, pro forma earnings will be 24 cents a share, the company said. For the same period, analysts were expecting a 23-cent profit and sales of $685 million. When Symantec's merger with Veritas Software ( VRTS) was announced before the market opened on Dec. 16, the deal was valued at $13.5 billion, making it the largest-ever software merger, eclipsing the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft by Oracle ( ORCL) for $10.3 billion. Wall Street's reaction to the merger was negative. Since early December, when news began leaking out, Symantec's stock has dropped about 25%, reducing the value of the all-stock deal to roughly $12.2 billion.


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OnePlus Nord N10 5G phone tipped to launch by end of this month
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra unboxing and first look: A refreshing design worthy of a flaghsip
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New products from IBM and HP.
Industry heavyweights keep churning out products
We suppose one product isn't enough anymore. Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard announced a variety of new products and services last month.
IBM is bolstering its security offerings while HP concentrates on mobile productivity. Both companies have forged partnerships with vendors who specialize in those areas.
IBM buttresses the fortress
With three new technologies, IBM is rounding out the security offerings for its ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCentre desktop computers, said Clain Anderson, program director for wireless and security solutions in the IBM Personal Computing Division.
The first is an expanded lineup of fingerprint readers. Integrated readers will start to show up on more ThinkPad notebooks while ThinkCentre desktop users can purchase the new IBM Preferred Pro USB Fingerprint Keyboard for $99 or a stand-alone USB fingerprint reader for $69. The accompanying software offers file security and log-in authentication.
Next is a new data-encryption offering thanks to a partnership with Utimaco, a company that makes enterprise information security software. The package, called SafeGuard PrivateDisk, generates an encrypted virtual drive that can be stored on local hard drives, network drives and all removable media. Even better, it's integrated with IBM's embedded security chip.
The third offering also bears the fruit of a partnership, with Absolute Software, makers of Computrace mobile tracking software. IBM worked with the company to develop an improved version of the product that resides on the BIOS instead of the hard drive, and IBM ThinkPads and ThinkCentres will soon ship with the software preloaded.
If a notebook or desktop computer running Computrace is stolen, Absolute officials guarantee its recovery and can even remotely delete data at the user's request. Administrators also can use the software for inventory, location tracking, software title tracking and license compliance.
The yearly subscription price for Computrace is $40.
HP's road trip
HP officials want to get you out of your office and on the road with their worldwide mobility initiative, which includes new products, services and partnerships.
"Technology is adapting to you instead of you adapting to technology," said Ted Clark, senior vice president and general manager of HP's Mobile Computing global business unit.
To that end, HP has introduced 10 new business notebook computers. They all feature several new durability bells and whistles, such as HP's Mobile Data Protection System, which protects hard drives from shocks and vibrations resulting from everyday use.
The notebooks are coated with a new laminate material that resists scuffs and scratches, and a Panel Protection System helps protect the display from the same.
HP also plans to introduce new iPaq handheld devices throughout the year, the first of which is the HP iPaq Mobile Messenger. It features a built-in keyboard, wireless voice capability, EDGE data networking and Global Positioning System technology.
HP will offer Good Technology's GoodLink software on the Mobile Messenger and future iPaqs for wireless access to corporate e-mail, calendar, contacts and other information managed through Microsoft Outlook and Exchange.
HP has also partnered with Nokia to develop a Mobile Forms Initiative that adapts existing paper forms for mobile users. Users can collect data with a Nokia mobile device, such as a digital pen or phone and transmit the information to an enterprise's back end in real time.
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[highlight ]Retailers in Australia could soon be selling a Google virtual reality alongside Google Chromecast.[/highlight]
The Alphabet unit is developing an all-in-one virtual-reality headset that doesn’t rely on a smartphone, computer or game console according to several sources.
The device which is tipped to have wireless Bluetooth connectivity so that it can linked to a YouTube content channel that will allow consumers to easily view content shot with a new generation 360-degree camera.
According to the Wall Street Journal Google also plans to release later this year a more advanced version of its $30 cardboard virtual-reality viewer that uses a smartphone as a screen.
The new device will see Google competing head on with Facebook whose Oculus unit plans to start shipping a $799 headset next month that runs off a personal computer.
Both HTC and Sony also plan headsets this year that require a PC or game console.
Samsung who were one of the first into the VR market is set to expand their Gear VR offering with an update tipped for release in Barcelona next week at Mobile World Congress.
Google and others have shipped more than five million of Google’s cardboard viewers since late 2014, helping introduce many consumers to technology that immerses them in experiences that seem to be all around them. Industry insiders viewed the cardboard devices as an experiment, but recent moves suggest Google now thinks virtual reality could become a money-maker in both hardware and software.
For retailers the downside is that virtual reality still appears years away from widespread adoption, in part because high-end headsets arriving this year require expensive PCs, while inexpensive smartphone viewers can give users headaches.
Google’s planned stand-alone headset appears to aim for a middle ground: a quality experience not tethered to an expensive PC or game console.
One of the people familiar with the matter said the headset will include a screen, high-powered processors and outward-facing cameras. Google plans to use chips from start-up Movidius. that use the cameras’ feeds to track the motion of the user’s head, the person said. Other high-end headsets, like the Oculus Rift, tap the computing power of connected PCs and use external cameras to track users’ motion.


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A new trend is emerging at universities across the UK: students are avoiding the struggle of trying to get a graduate job by embarking on a route to self-employment while studying. According to a recent survey of 1,000 students commissioned by Viking:
- 70% of students find the prospect of starting a business appealing given the difficulty of the job market at the moment
- 90% aren’t afraid to take risks
- 85% are dedicated to succeed in business, promising ‘never to give up’
- 40% are prepared to sell personal belongings or fundraise to acquire enough capital to start a business.
While it may appear naïve or daunting for 18-25 year olds to start their own businesses without any experience and alongside the pressures of studying, the latter three statistics reveal key entrepreneurial traits. Some of the most successful businesses are run on a blend of energy, fresh thinking, enthusiasm, perseverance and discipline – attributes many students have in large measures.
Young entrepreneurs face the same challenges as any start-up, such as obtaining finance and establishing a customer base, but the government is getting behind this tide of budding business owners. David Cameron recently declared: "The future of our economy depends on a new generation of entrepreneurs coming up with ideas, resolving to make them a reality and having the vision to create wealth and jobs."
Support programmes are sprouting up across several university campuses:
- BaseCamp at Bristol University helps students to get their ideas off the ground by offering free office space, seed funding and a mentor programme.
- The Hatchery is the business incubator at Sheffield Hallam University. It provides students with a creative space to develop ideas and meet like-minded peers and take advantage of 24/7 office facilities.
- HeadStart at Nottingham Trent University is a structured process to help students shape their business concept, identify and evaluate the opportunities and potential, and put together a business plan.
Successful products of these programmes include Sam Piranty, who benefitted from BaseCamp funding to set up film production company InHouse Media, and Adam Roberts, who runs his business Go Dine from a hot desk at HeadStart.
“The support we receive from the team is excellent and it's good to share your ideas with other entrepreneurs based here,” Adam comments. “I have monthly meetings with a mentor, which sharpens my focus and helps clarify my thoughts. We’re fortunate that the university was forward-thinking enough to establish HeadStart. There should be more schemes like this for entrepreneurs. If you’re inexperienced in business, it is almost too difficult to set up without this kind of backing."
Universities are hot beds for entrepreneurial ambition and students should be encouraged to cultivate their ideas into commercial ventures. Nurturing young talent will doubtless produce a host of unique products and services and give the economy a much-needed shake-up.
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Staff shortages at airports and airlines undermining sector’s revival
Flight disruption at many European airports is hindering the recovery of international travel from Europe, according to GlobalData.
The data and analytics company noted that failures by airlines and airports to adequately prepare for the resurgence in summer travel has resulted in staff shortages, with flight cancellations and passenger queues quickly becoming air travel norms.
GlobalData travel and tourism analyst Hannah Free said: “International departures from European countries are expected to reach 69% of 2019 figures in 2022, according to GlobalData forecasts. While destinations are eager to welcome visitors, supply simply cannot meet demand following extreme staffing deficits and industrial disputes, which has coincided with a rebound in international travel.”
Demand for luxury travel is on the rise according to GlobalData
Most tourists are “not concerned” about catching Covid-19
Tourism boards are leveraging national cuisine to attract visitors
The travel industry is also contending with other challenges including inflation, the rising cost of living and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Free added: “Airports like London Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol have been forced to ask airlines to cut flights, while many carriers have had to pre-emptively cull their schedules by the thousands, affecting millions of holidaymakers. EasyJet has reportedly cut more than 11,000 flights from its summer schedule. Meanwhile, British Airways has now cancelled 13% of its summer schedule, following a statement on July 6, 2022, that the company is to axe another 10,300 short-haul flights up to the end of October 2022.”
Both easyJet and British Airways have cited staff shortages as the reason for culling flights. However, its recruitment drive has fallen short after British Airways reportedly cut as many as 10,000 jobs during the pandemic.
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Furthermore, according to hiring trends data on GlobalData’s Job Analytics Database, British Airways had not increased the number of job postings (active jobs) on its career pages until at least March 2022. GlobalData found that active job postings declined by 18% between November 2021 and February 2022.
According to Free, the interconnected nature of the tourism ecosystem means that cancelled flights will affect hotels, airlines, car rental firms, tour operators, cruise lines and others dependent on each other along the traveller journey.
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Its economy won’t bounce back to pre-pandemic levels until at least 2022 after a dramatic plunge in output of 6.5 percent this year, the five-member German Council of Economic Experts said. They described the recovery as taking the shape of a “pronounced V”. They said the economy would witness an upswing in the second half of this year as lockdown restrictions are slowly lifted.
The panel said Europe’s largest economy is still expecting its biggest postwar recession, but much milder than forecast for other countries on the Continent.
Growth is expected to reach 4.9 percent by next year as the economy continues to show signs of improvement.
However, unemployment levels are forecast to continue rising this year until showing gradual signs of falling in 2022.
The economic experts said data had revealed the impact of the coronavirus measures on travel, business and social contacts.
Those restrictions hit hardest in April and are now slowly being loosened as the number of new infections has fallen.
Germany is particularly susceptible to the global slowdown because it is a major export, the experts warn.
As part of their analysis of the European Union’s single currency bloc, they said it should expect a drop of 8.5 percent this year.
The forecast is much sharper than the 7.75 percent slump predicted by the Brussels-based European Commission.
But the economic experts believe Germany will avoid a second slump due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Lars Field, head of the panel, said he thought a second wave of coronavirus infections with a


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Rubicon Project acquired search and website retargeting firm Chango in a $122 million cash and stock (but mostly stock) transaction, the companies said Thursday. (Read the investor release.)
“There’s one area of the market we haven’t addressed in the past, and that’s intent marketing,” Rubicon CEO Frank Addante told AdExchanger. “If Google has the platform for search, we can be the platform for the rest of the market.”
The acquisition gives Rubicon a foothold in intent marketing: Toronto-based Chango combines search query data with behavioral and contextual data to conduct programmatic campaigns on behalf of its advertiser and agency customers. It buys the search data or uses the advertiser’s own data.
Chango has approximately 150 employees.
“Rubicon started as an SSP and now they’re moving to the buy side of the equation,” commented Sameet Sinha, a senior equity analyst at B. Riley & Co, on the acquisition.
Rubicon “can now take their technology and give it massive scale,” Addante said.
Rubicon estimates the intent marketing business is worth $35 billion in retargeting and keyword and contextual targeting budgets. Post-acquisition, Rubicon “can now take their technology and give it massive scale,” Addante said.
The acquisition will build out Rubicon’s Buyer Cloud, but also “will be rolled out across the entire platform, and be made available to DSPs,” Addante said. “We want to bring these capabilities to all buyers and sellers in your platform.”
Addante underlined in a call to investors that it did not intend to replace DSPs – important customers for Rubicon – with Chango’s technology.
Rubicon sees benefits for sellers with indirect and direct sales. Addante offered the example of someone searching for a bicycle.
“You might search for something on a search engine, but where you’re likely to land is on a Rubicon Project customer,” he said. “If you’re reading an article on top-rated bicycles on The Wall Street Journal, it’s able to take the content and context and use it.”
The acquisition is Rubicon’s seventh, and follows its 2014 acquisition of iSocket and Shiny Ads, two companies involved in direct deal automation, for $30 million.
Addante hopes the Chango acquisition will complement Rubicon’s iSocket and Shiny Ads purchases. It will bring more advertisers to the platform (Chango counts 60 of the Fortune 500 among its customers), and allow buyers and sellers to transact with Chango data through direct orders.
Sinha observed that adding Chango to Rubicon’s platform could broaden its appeal to advertisers. “It gives them an opportunity to access different budgets with premium publishers and advertisers. A company like Verizon does brand and direct response.”
Rubicon plans to add CPC and CPA pricing because of the acquisition.
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The chief govt and founding father of ARK Make investments says that synthetic intelligence (AI) and Bitcoin (BTC) might converge to closely cut back prices and enhance productiveness.
Cathie Wooden says on the social media platform X that the merging of AI and digital property might basically change the best way that firms run.
“The convergence between Bitcoin and AI might remodel the best way firms manage, inflicting a collapse in prices and an explosion in productiveness. I used to be blown away by the probabilities these sensible entrepreneurs are creating.”
Final month, ARK released a report on synthetic intelligence, suggesting that chatbots resembling OpenAI’s ChatGPT will change into environment friendly sufficient to disrupt marquee on-line marketplaces, together with Apple’s App Retailer and Google’s search engine.
“Our analysis means that AI might disrupt the as soon as dependable, cash-cow companies of enormous market incumbents. OpenAI’s ChatGPT might threaten Apple and Alphabet by disrupting the App Retailer and Google Search, respectively.
OpenAI’s product plugins for ChatGPT allow chatbots to work together with exterior information and providers: they’ll seek for real-time data on the internet, order groceries from native shops, and e-book flights, inns, or rental automobiles on the lowest costs wherever on the earth…
In response to our analysis, synthetic intelligence software program might enhance the productiveness of data staff roughly four-fold globally by 2030. On a information employee wage base of $32 trillion, international productiveness might decrease prices by practically half.”
Wooden additionally says in a brand new video replace that the convergence of Bitcoin and AI might make funds techniques drastically extra environment friendly, eliminating pointless taxes spent on card-based transactions.
“One of many largest alternatives out there’s to remove a tax on all purchases finished by way of the standard monetary system. There’s a tax on these, until you’re utilizing money, and the tax is someplace between 2.5% and 4%.
That’s a reasonably large tax when it comes to utilizing debit and bank cards and different intermediaries – these intermediaries are going to be disintermediated by the convergence between Bitcoin and synthetic intelligence.”
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The crisp blue water glistened under the popular San Clemente pier as the cityâ€™s Chamber of Commerce hosted Seafest, a community event equipped with a good olâ€™ fashion Clam Chowder cook-off. Swarms of the townâ€™s residents and visitors came together to partake in the beach festivities.
Local businesses such as Fishermanâ€™s Restaurant, OC Tavern, Humphreyâ€™s Sandwich Shop and the San Clemente Elkâ€™s club were just a few that competed for the title of best chowder in town. Each business displayed their finest homemade chowder in decorated booths lined along the historic pier. For $6, visitors could sample five tastes of their favorite chowder.
â€œI think Fishermanâ€™s won by far. Theyâ€™re seasoned pros and had the most flavorful creamy and chunky chowder. Itâ€™s almost like I was in New England,â€ said Tani Bravender, 25.
First place went to Beach Garden CafÃ©, second place went to Fishermanâ€™s Restaurant, third place went to RJâ€™s CafÃ©, and fourth place went to Courtside Restaurant for the chowder cook-off.
Down in the water, children and adults signed up for the first annual surf contest that commenced throughout the day to raise awareness for eco-friendly surf products. The event was hosted by T. Patterson Surf Shop and featured local amateur paddle boarders who competed for trophies and prizes provided by Billabong, Oakley, Volcom, Oâ€™Neill and others.
â€œItâ€™s for a great cause. It was so much fun to watch and meet surfers in the area. I hope they have it again next year,â€ said Cassandra Jensen, 19.
A business exposition took place on the lawn above the pier for businesses to market themselves to potential new customers in the area. Fitness Elite, Artistic Creations, Century 21 Beachside and Cookie Lee Jewelry were among the few that came out to meet the public and offer their services.
An Arts and Crafts Exhibit caught the eye of many art patrons. It displayed handcrafted items from creative individuals and small businesses such as 2nd Chance Glass, E-Z Airbrush Tattoo, Fabrice Spies, Loretta Pressley, Lost Horizons Arts, Roger Strasner and True Colors.
People walked with family members along the pier and browsed different vendor booths while others grabbed food and sat at the benched places by the water to watch the surf competition.
â€œI love Seafest, I come every year with my family. Itâ€™s the best way to end the summer,â€ said local Sara Ludlum, 26.


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Mother's Day is only a few days away. If your mom (or the special mom figure in your life) is a reader, why not consider a book as a gift? And don't forget to arrange for her to have some reading time to go with it. Here are a few new titles that might...
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PetSmart will open a new location in Hampton's Peninsula Town Center, the center announced Tuesday.
The pet supply store will take the available space under CineBistro facing Von Schilling Drive. Town center representatives say PetSmart plans to open...
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Ashley Judd speaks at the Virginia Beach Forum, Sandler Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, April 28. Tickets: $40.
Tidewater Corvette Club will hold its annual Corvette Spring Roundup at Casey Chevrolet in Newport News, Saturday, April 26...
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Teen fantasy authors Jodi Meadows (Incarnate series) and Jessica O’Gorek (Gemini Rising series) will be at the Barnes & Noble Bookseller at Peninsula Town Center to sign copies of their books beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
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"Without a home, a poem is unfinished."
For Sofia Starnes, Virginia's current Poet Laureate, a poem is not complete without a reader's response to it. Her most recent book, "The Nearest Poem Anthology," celebrates that idea, compiling poetry chosen by...
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Michael McDonald, the soulful 62-year-old singer known for hits "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near), "What A Fool Believes," and "Minute By Minute" is coming back to the Peninsula where, once upon a time, he discovered a young singer and piano...
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Readers interested in meeting authors in Hampton Roads have a number of opportunities this week.
Thursday, March 13
The monthly poetry reading at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center features the work of Randolph Bridgeman from Lexington Park, Md. Bridgeman...
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Last weekend writers gathered at Christopher Newport University for its 33rd Annual Writers' Conference. Authors sat in on panel discussions and workshops, and also had the opportunity to rent table space for selling and signing their books.
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Apricot Lane, a women's fashion and accessories boutique in Hampton, is offering 50 percent off its entire store during a special sale on Saturday.
The sale will take place for one hour only -- between 5 and 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 1. To take...
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Baci Ristorante Italiano has opened up at Peninsula Town Center in hampton.
Baci, which means ‘kisses’ in Italian, is located in the Town Square area across from Barnes and Noble.
The restaurant is owned and operated by the Bertuglia...
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The popular Beach Bums consignment sale will take place Wednesday, Feb. 12 through Saturday, Feb. 15 in Hampton.
This is the eighth year that sale founders Leah Hooper and Kim Baust have hosted the children's consignment sale on the Peninsula....


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IPG Mediabrands new global CEO Henry Tajer has created a senior worldwide role focused on product innovation and hired StarcomMediaVest Group’s director of global experience product to take the new position.
Tajer has announced the appointment of John Sintras (pictured) as IPG Mediabrands’ president, global business development and product innovation, a New York-based position that will report to Tajer.
Sintras has been a member of Starcom MediaVest Group’s (SMG) global leadership council since 2007 and was appointed to director, global experience product for SMG in January 2013.
“John has helped SMG build strong momentum in product innovation, creative and commercial success and those achievements are highly attractive to IPG Mediabrands,” said Tajer. “We’re really pleased that John is attracted to our network. To deliver on our global plans, we need the world’s best, proven talent and John’s track record tells us he is the right executive for this vital new role.”
In his worldwide role with SMG, Sintras has led the network’s global product and strategy centre of excellence, including chairing the company’s global product committee of 35 senior company leaders. He was in charge of evaluating and benchmarking the quality of the company’s work globally, reaching more than 8000 employees. He has also helped SMG become a highly awarded media network including Cannes Media Network of the Year in 2014 and four Festival of Media Global Awards in the past six years. Earlier this year at the Festival of Media Asia, SMG was also crowned Media Network of the Year.
Remarking on his new role with IPG Mediabrands, Sintras said: “The plans for IPG Mediabrands into the future are truly impressive. There is a total focus on having the best people, elevating the skill sets and resourcing the people and businesses that do the most surprising and effective work for clients. It is an opportunity that is a logical next step for my career.”
Sintras’ career has spanned three decades, starting initially with Leo Burnett in Australia, later progressing to launching the Starcom brand. He was appointed CEO of SMG Australia in 2007. He has been recognised with a rare Australian Media Federation Hall of Fame Award and was also named Marketer of the Year by The Australian Marketing Institute.
SMG Australia CEO Chris Nolan said: “John has achieved a great deal in his career at SMG, as a leader for our business, an ambassador within the industry and philanthropist for the community.
“He has made huge difference to my career and personally I am proud to have had the opportunity to work with John and count him as a colleague and friend. We all wish him well with his new adventure.”
The chairman role in Australia will not be filled and Sintras’s global role will be taken up by US-based Kathy Kline, a current member of SMG’s Global Product Committee.
Nolan will continue reporting into SMG president, Asia Pacific Mike Amour.
Sintras’s departure date from SMG is yet to be announced.
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Royal Caribbean’s new terminal in Galveston, which will be known simply as “Royal Caribbean”, is on track to open in late 2018. The new terminal will be located in the historic Seawall district of downtown Galveston, at the site of the historic Surfside Pleasure Pier. The terminal will be owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, which runs multiple cruise lines around the world.
The Port of Galveston is the setting for all that is good in the world. Its seaport is the second busiest in the United States, after Los Angeles. It is also the largest port in the State of Texas.
The in-progress construction in Galveston, Texas exemplifies the economic impact of a global trade route to the U.S. When the Panama Canal was completed in 1914, it gave ships a much shorter route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which meant that ships could avoid the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. In 1939, the United States enacted the Jones Act, which made imports from foreign countries duty-free to U.S. citizens, and in 1980, this legislation was expanded to include the Caribbean. To the Caribbean, the Panama Canal has meant a major boon to U.S. trade, and Galveston has been a major beneficiary to this trade.
The Port of Galveston held a groundbreaking ceremony over the weekend to commemorate the start of work of Royal Caribbean International’s new $125 million cruise terminal, providing yet another vote of confidence in the cruise industry’s comeback.
Allure of the Seas, which will begin offering seven-night western Caribbean cruises from the Texas port in November 2022, will call Terminal 3 home.
(Photo courtesy of the Galveston Port Authority)
“This new cruise terminal is a game-changer,” said Rodger Rees, the port director and CEO of Galveston Wharves. “This much awaited initiative will result in the creation of 800 new employment, $1.4 billion in local business services income, $5.6 million in state and local taxes, and tremendous company development opportunities.”
Royal Caribbean International already has a significant presence at the port, which is the fourth busiest for cruise ships in the United States. The two biggest cruise ships, Independence of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas, are presently docked in Texas’ sole cruise port.
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In December 2019, the port officials secured a long-term deal with Royal Caribbean for the new facility. Royal Caribbean will construct the terminal as part of a public-private collaboration, then lease it from the port for 20 years with four 10-year options.
The 161,300-square-foot terminal will be built on ten acres on Galveston Island’s easternmost port. At the terminal, the port will also construct and manage a 1,800-space cruise parking lot.
“We are thrilled to commemorate this significant milestone for our new state-of-the-art terminal, which will feature a stunning, bold architectural design as well as technological advancements that will significantly enhance our guests’ experience,” said Joshua Carroll, vice president, Royal Caribbean Destination Development.
The facility will include cutting-edge technology, such as mobile check-in and face recognition, to expedite the check-in procedure for visitors. The terminal will be built in accordance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accreditation guidelines.
The Sea’s Allure (Photo courtesy of Royal Caribbean)
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Industry leaders, including U.S. Congressman Randy Weber, Texas Rep. Mayes Middleton, City of Galveston Mayor Dr. Craig Brown, and City Councilmember Marie Robb, spoke at the groundbreaking event.
The cleanup of the site started a few months ago, and the event was timed to coincide with the departure of Independence of the Seas, the first Royal Caribbean cruise ship to sail from Galveston since March 2020.
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NOW YOU CAN ENJOY THE GREAT TASTE OF HEINEKEN® AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY
KUALA LUMPUR, 20 June 2019 – HEINEKEN MALAYSIA BERHAD presents its latest innovation, Heineken® 0.0, a non-alcoholic malt beverage brewed with a unique recipe for a distinct balanced taste that gives consumers a choice for a variety of drinking occasions.
Taking cues from the growing cultural trend around moderate alcohol consumption and living a more balanced lifestyle, the brand’s iconic green label has been turned blue, the colour associated with the non-alcoholic category.
Heineken® Master Brewers created the new non-alcoholic malt beverage using only natural ingredients, including Heineken® own A-yeast. Fully imported from the Netherlands, Heineken® 0.0 goes through a sophisticated dealcoholisation process to gently remove the alcohol.
Willem van Waesberghe, Global Craft and Brew Master at Heineken®, said “Removing alcohol from Heineken® Original would have been easy, but it wouldn’t deliver the best tasting non-alcoholic malt beverage. Heineken® 0.0 is brewed from scratch and has a perfectly balanced taste with refreshing fruity notes and a soft malty body.”
Heineken® launched in 2017 in the Netherlands, Spain and Germany, followed by the UK and France. Heineken® 0.0 made its debut in Asia in 2018, launching in Singapore, followed by Thailand earlier this year. It is now available in 39 countries worldwide, including Europe, North America, and Australia. Introducing a new pack size for the brand in Malaysia, Heineken® 0.0 will be available in a 250ml bottle and contains only 53 calories per serve.
“We wanted to push the boundaries with Heineken® 0.0 , so we worked with our Master Brewers to brew a perfectly balanced non-alcoholic malt beverage using only natural ingredients and a special process to protect the natural flavour. Heineken® 0.0 is double brewed with 100% natural ingredients, and only 53 calories per 250ml serving. We gently remove the alcohol through vacuum distillation and blend the brew to perfection to ensure that same great Heineken® taste,” said Ms. Maud Meijboom – van Wel, Heineken® Brand Development and Communications Director, Heineken Asia Pacific
Supporting the launch of Heineken® 0.0 is a global campaign titled #NowYouCan. Led by a series of light-hearted TVCs, the campaign showcases the new occasions and moments – in the boardroom, at lunch, after a workout or acting as the designated driver – that Heineken® 0.0 fits into our lives.
“Our consumers are at the heart of everything that we do, and based on local and global research, we see an upward trend in moderate alcohol consumption and for living a more balanced lifestyle. With that, we’re introducing Heineken® 0.0 to give our consumers a new option so that they can stay in control while having fun. It’s an important addition to the portfolio as it further strengthens the innovativeness of the brand. This also opens up a new category in Malaysia that we aim to lead and build. #NowYouCan enjoy the same great taste of Heineken® all day long,” Pablo Chabot, Marketing Director of Heineken Malaysia Berhad.
Heineken® 0.0 will be available nationwide in bars, restaurants & stores nationwide, as well as on HEINEKEN’s e-commerce site, Drinkies.
Experience Heineken® 0.0 at the official launch coming soon in July 2019. Look out for more information and updates on Heineken®’s website (https://www.heineken.com/my) or follow Heineken® on Instagram (@HeinekenMY) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HeinekenMYS/)


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Fraudsters have been cashing in on the fame and reputation of Taiwan’s “father of reflexology,” Father Josef Eugster, and taking advantage of customers’ soft hearts, by concocting a story that the priest has been defrauded of his pension, and needs to sell shoes online to survive. The scammers urge readers to purchase foot massage shoes in order to recoup the Father Eugster’s losses.
United Daily News reports that recently, news that Father Eugster had been defrauded of his pension has spread like wildfire on social media. The message comes with a link to a website that offers reflexology shoes at a discount price of NT$629. The shoes are said to be invented by Father Eugster, and profits will not only secure the popular priest’s survival in old age, but will also help to build a nursing home in Taitung County.
The shoes are said to help you detox, prevent disease, and reduce fatigue.
Taitung County Police Bureau Dawu Branch said that the website is a fraud. Representatives of Fr.Josef Eugster’s H.D.Asso.R.O.C urged the public not to be mislead, and not to purchase the shoes.
Police said the website used composite images gleaned from Facebook and Taiwan media to concoct a story. Carefully edited news video gives the impression that the story of the elderly priest being defrauded was widely reported in the media. However, police say that no fraud has been reported.
Criminal Investigation Bureau officers said that the advertised merchandise comes from China. The website is located abroad, making investigations difficult. All we can do is urge the public not to purchase the shoes, the CIB said.
Taiwan English News found the site to be www.miseari.com. The domain is registered under the name Vera Olave with an address and phone number in District of Columbia, USA. The IP of the site is located in Hong Kong.
The website says that Father Eugster was defrauded by a man who took advantage of his compassionate nature by telling the priest that he was suffering from cancer and urgently needed money for treatment.
Father Josef Eugster is 79 years old and first came to Taiwan from Switzerland in 1970 as a missionary of the Bethlehem Mission Society.
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What do you do when the whole world waits for your entry but you are still seeking the ideal moment? Keep running!
Well, that seems to be the exact thing the new avatar of Ford Ecopsort is doing. Testing!
The launch of the new EcoSport though remains by far an event eagerly-awaited in the motor corridors in India. Although rumoured to be launched in September, the company retains a stoic silence on such developments. Some insiders have gone ahead to place their bets on November.
But now we get the news that the US auto major continues to test EcoSport on the public roads and hawk-eyed spy photographers did not miss out when the chance to capture the model doing its jigs on the local terrain.
A new video of the 2017 EcoSport facelift, a short walk-around the compact SUV, is doing the rounds on the internet. The clip seems to have been shot when the driver of the car had pulled over probably to catch a few winks of sleep. The video on YouTube shows a white coloured EcoSport. As anticipated, the changes in the India-spec EcoSport similar to those of the model that has been earmarked for the United States.
The new EcoSport will get a hexagonal grille at the front with chrome surroundings, and projector headlights with DRLs (Daytime Running Lights). The model flaunts reworked front and rear bumpers.
Inside the cabin of the new EcoSport is a floating display touchscreen for infotainment and a new steering wheel. The Ford SYNC 3 infotainment system will come with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support. It also gets a centre console with rotary knobs finished in chrome and a twin-pod instrument cluster with Multi-Information Display (MID) at the centre.
In the new avatar, Ford EcoSport will also have changes under the hood. The powertrain of the EcoSport facelift will include a new 1.5-litre mill from the Dragon family. The new 1.5-litre Dragon mill is expected to replace the 1.5-litre Ti-VCT engine in the current model. The EcoSport is currently powered by a 1.5-litre TDCi diesel engine that is tuned to dish out 99bhp of power, and 1.5-litre Ti-VCT and 1.0-litre EcoBoost petrol engines.
The EcoSport in its new avatar will go up against Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza, Honda WR-V, Mahindra TUV300 and the soon-to-be-launched Tata Nexon.


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Updated: Thursday, 13 Sep 2012, 7:49 AM EDT
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MORRISVILLE, Vt. (CNN/WFFF) - A Vermont sports store is banning pennies.
Customers seem OK with the move, according to the owner Caleb Magoon. Magoon says it won't change the way merchandise is bought and paid for.
"It doesn't matter to them, really. Check transactions, credit card transactions, nothing has changed. They still pay to the cent and on cash transactions they are frequently getting a few extra cents back, so they save a few cents," said Magoon.
"I don't really want the pennies anyway. They just kind of either jingle in my pocket, end up on my couch or on my rug and I gotta pick 'em up when I vacuum," said customer Jason Papadopoulos.
Canada has already decided to end production of pennies.
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If the iconic Ford Mustang is your dream car, here’s your chance to get your hands on one. You don’t have to clear out space in your garage to store it, and if the Mustang lands you in jail, well, it might not be as bad as it sounds.
In celebration of World Monopoly Day, the Mustang and several other iconic brands will be added as game pieces for a special edition of the popular board game, Monopoly.
The pieces will appear in the Monopoly Empire game, a special edition to celebrate Monopoly’s 81st anniversary.
The other notable brands include Transformers, Xbox, Caterpillar, and Heinz Tomato Ketchup.
Hasbro, which owns the line of Monopoly board games, plans to celebrate World Monopoly Day on Saturday, March 19 on social media by collecting images of fans dressing up like Mr. Monopoly, the mustachioed character from the game, and sharing them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Meanwhile, visitors to several Universal Studios parks can participate in Monopoly-themed events.
“We’re planning the most memorable celebration of the brand yet,” said Jonathan Berkowitz, senior vice president of global marketing for gaming at Hasbro in a statement. “We’ve made it possible for every [Monopoly] fan to join us in the celebration, whether on social media or at one of our live events planned around the world.”


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4k streaming and live news channels coming to Binge – BINGE, home to the world’s best entertainment, today announced that customers on Standard and Premium tiers will be able to stream the best of BINGE in 4K from late October.*
In addition, all BINGE customers will have access to live and breaking news with global news channels, CNN International, MSNBC and Bloomberg TV, available from today.
BINGE, home to the world’s most talked about shows, offers customers the biggest shows from around the globe including hits like The White Lotus, Vigil and American Horror Story: Delicate plus the bestAustralian originals like Colin from Accounts, The Twelve and Love Me.
Alison Hurbert-Burns, Executive Director of BINGE said:
“We know customers love streaming entertainment in 4K, especially big production shows like House of the Dragon and The Last of Us which is why I am so pleased that we can now provide this feature.
“The addition of live news channels will help viewers stay up to date with all the latest news from around the world, offering more content, and greater value to our customers.”
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Swedish furniture company IKEA will reportedly release a new smart plug, as early as the coming October at a competitive price, as part of its smart home product offering.
According to Swedish news outlet Teknikveckan, the design will look similar to other smart plugs in the market. However, IKEA will differentiate through pricing. The smart plug will only cost US$10, and a bundle including a plug and a remote will cost US$15.
Like IKEA’s other devices in the Tradfri smart lighting product line, the new smart plug will support major smart home voice platforms: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit with Siri. The IKEA smart plug could be the cheapest compared with similar products that also support all major voice control platforms.
Meanwhile, the furniture company’s smart lighting products haven’t always received positive feedback. Some users have said the voice command responses aren’t consistent under everyday usage. Nonetheless, these devices remain to be an affordable option in the smart lighting market.
While focusing on offering furniture, IKEA has also participated actively in the smart home market. Starting with the Qi wireless charging series furniture, the company has introduced smart lighting in various forms of furniture, and has partnered with speaker company Sonos to work on new home speakers.
The speaker being developed with Sonos aims to blend into home decoration rather than being a standalone device. The product is expected to be unveiled in summer 2019. It’s still unknown whether the speaker will have voice assistant built-in. Sonos already creates speakers with Alexa support.


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Keeping up with the Seafood Community
The National Fisheries Institute Produces its 100th video blog
October 23, 2014 WASHINGTON, DC The countrys largest seafood trade association produces its 100th video blog, a channel where viewers can keep up with the latest news from the seafood community in under a minute.
Data continues to show that the sweet spot for video length online is less than 60 seconds, said Lynsee Fowler, NFIs communications manager. And were able to provide snippets about the latest in seafood science, press coverage, new products and more, in just that time.
Fowler, who oversees NFIs social media presence, helped launch the associations entrance into visual content when she hosted the first video blog (vlog) on AboutSeafood.com in September of 2012.
What began with a built-in webcam on Fowlers computer has turned into a robust one-minute package complete with green-screen technology and editing software that incorporates images, b-roll, hyperlinks, music and more. As the digital space evolves, so has NFI, said Fowler. Given the evolution in just 100 vlogs, were excited to see what the next 100 will bring.
The video blog is aimed at anyone with an interest in the seafood community. From seafood executives, to reporters, to chefs and even marketers, NFIs vlog is a way to stay up-to-date with the seafood community online.
The organization has posted more than 175 videos to its dynamic YouTube channel, with many hyper-targeted at specific audiences, from members of Congress to food service professionals.
Video content is a marque feature on many NFI websites including FukushimaFishFacts.com.
Whether were producing a weekly vlog or an advocacy video, we understand the importance of getting our message out in a brief and engaging way, said Fowler.For more than 60 years, the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and its members have provided American families with the variety of sustainable seafood essential to a healthy diet. For more information visit: www.AboutSeafood.com.


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What Americans know now as genetically modified seeds, or GMO, is a whole new game. For centuries farmers have been splicing DNA between plants to make them stronger. This was known as cross breeding, or cross pollination. These hybrids at the time were only between two plants at a time. Nowadays scientists are doing the work of creating these hybrids, and they do not always use just the DNA of other plants. The work of scientists today is nothing short of creating Chimera.
Many of the foods in the grocery store today are from genetically modified seeds. One study concludes that 70% of food bought is in fact genetically modified in some form. There is a huge push from grassroots politics that these foods should be labeled as genetically modified. No one really even knows if these foods are supremely different from pure-bred seeds, so what is the importance of labeling them?
There is a lot of danger present in introducing new genetic code into an already stable organism. Scientists are unsure if this new version of the organism will still act in the same way as it should. These tests however are performed in controlled areas and no new gene combinations are released until scientists are sure that it is completely safe for human consumption. Tests are conducted to see if the new genetic code has cause the plant to produce any sort of toxic residue, both alive and through decomposition. Europe has tight regulations and requires that all genetically modified foods must have the same nutritional value as their counterparts.
The problem really comes in when these genetically modified plants contaminate farms with non-GMO produce. With genetically modified seed companies owning global seed trade, it is inevitable that these genes will be carried, by bee, from one farm to the unsuspecting next. This is why regulations around these plants are shaky. No one can control where a seed goes when it is carried off in the wind, or by an animal. The largest genetically modified seed manufacturer in the world, US owned Monsanto, has a reputation for suing farmers who have unknowingly grown and sold crops tainted by Monsanto genes. Monsanto has turned selling genetically modified seeds into a whole new game.
Monsanto prides itself in being a company that will “heal, fuel, and feed the world.” They believe that their products will be the solution to world hunger, climate change, and even be able to heat our homes, and fuel our cars. There is no way that this can be done without sharing. Monsanto has donated to regions that have been hit with natural disasters, but there are no reports of seeds being donated regions known for their hunger and poverty.
Though the plants may not be very bad, the companies that sell them are not so wholesome. When the FDA decides to label these foods as genetically modified, some may hope they label which company the seeds were created, because that will be a deciding factor in what foods they eat from now on. The day shoppers can choose which company’s genetically modified seeds they are eating, will make the industry a whole new game.
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Selangor’s 'No Plastic' campaign would not achieve its objectives if the state government still allowed the sale of plastic bags to shoppers, said Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Noh Omar.
He said the ban on plastic bags, made effective from Jan 1, would only succeed if the state government dared to order supermarkets and other business outlets to replace the plastic bags with alternatives such as environment-friendly or biodegradable bags.
Speaking to reporters after the ministry’s monthly assembly in Putrajaya yesterday, Noh said his ministry had no problem with the move introduced by the Selangor state government but questioned its method of implementation.
“Will the objective of creating a clean environment or that is free of plastic bags be achieved if such bags are still being sold and shoppers pay for them when they have no choice?”
He said the Selangor government needed to be smarter in determining the implementation method of any new ruling they made so that it would not burden the people when enforced.
Noh said where the 20 sen per plastic bag charged on shoppers went to remained a question among the public.
“To answer this question, I suggest that every supermarket or retail outlet declare the value of its respective sale of plastic bags,” he added.
State executive councillor in charge of Tourism, Environment, Green Technology and Consumer Affairs Elizabeth Wong had reportedly said the 20 sen per plastic bag use charged was in line with the Selangor 'No Plastic' campaign which took effect on Jan 1.


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How to watch Super Bowl 2020 online: stream it free
Super Bowl 2020 how to watch: Start time, channel, live Jan 30, 2020 Super Bowl 2020: How to watch the big game online - The Verge Feb 02, 2020 Super Bowl 2020: Watch and stream online, TV channel
Super Bowl I radio re-broadcast Monday on Westwood One
Jan 22, 2020 · 54th Super Bowl Extravaganza. The Saratoga Beer & Wine Bar plans to have the game, commercials, halftime show and Puppy Bowl on its TV screens throughout the big day. Not a big Super Bowl fan? The bar plans to also have fun games like commercial bingo to keep everyone entertained. The event is for guests ages 21 or older. ONLINE STREAM. Never miss a story or breaking news alert! Listen at work or while you surf. LISTEN LIVE. Mon. 7/20: Best of The DA Show - July 20, 2020 In the last couple of years the Super Bowl has been widely available online and for free for the first time, a very positive development in live sporting event streaming. The TV broadcast of the Super Bowl is this year by NBC, taking over from Fox Sports who previously broadcast the event, and CBS prior to that. Feb 02, 2020 · The Super Bowl broadcast may not be in full 4K but resolution is not the only picture enhancement Fox is bringing to the game. The Super Bowl will be broadcast in HDR and if you have an HDR
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Feb 02, 2020 · Watch Super Bowl LIV online. You may already be a subscriber of a streaming service, and that can make streaming the Super Bowl convenient. If you have never been a subscriber, you could consider starting a free trial at the beginning of February, and it will include the ability to watch the Super Bowl online. The Super Bowl is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day. In addition, the Super Bowl has frequently been the most-watched American television broadcast of the year; the seven most-watched broadcasts in American television history are Super Bowls. Dec 08, 2019 · Super Bowl 54 Broadcast On Official TV Channels. NFL has three enlisted supporters which are CBS, FOX, and NBC. These three channels change the Super Bowl broadcasting every year. This year 2020 Super Bowl will be communicated by FOX. The last time they communicated was in 2017. Feb 01, 2020 · A TV antenna or live TV streaming service is still a very reliable way to get FOX for Super Bowl LIV. Kickoff between the Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers is at 6:30 p.m. My top pick for live streaming Super Bowl LIV is with fuboTV, which will broadcast the game in 4K HDR10.


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The Latvian postal service has launched a homemade Christmas card campaign, encouraging Latvian citizens (especially children) to create their own greeting cards. The postal service is providing blank white postcards free of charge to encourage Latvians to come up with their own designs.
Karina Jankovska, marketing director for Latvian Post said:
"Its about restoring the tradition of sending Christmas greeting cards. Children and adults will be able to create their own and use one of the new Christmas stamps, sending cards to Santa Claus or friends and relations. There is much joy and satisfaction in sending and receiving a homemade card. Its something special."
Latvian Post said that children in particular like to make their own cards but that this years campaign, which began on Friday, is aimed at all Latvian citizens. Latvian Post anticipates handling almost 91 million items this Christmas including inland and international mail (letters, postcards, parcels, packages and other items).
This years Christmas stamp designs are based around the traditional Christmas tree.


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Persona Wood Fired Pizzeria is looking to open as many as 20 Bay Area restaurants over the next several years. The area’s first restaurant is slated to open in Santa Rosa in March and will take over the space previously occupied by Arrigoni’s Deli & Cafe for nearly 40 years.
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Ah, chocolate. It’s an indulgence that’s impossible to ignore as a stand-alone food or ingredient. And, not surprisingly, chocolate proves to be sweet for consumers and restaurant operators alike. Even though it’s already part of menus at most limited-service eateries, more dining places continue to add chocolate items in new and innovative ways.
Persona Neapolitan Pizzeria, a create-your-own pizzeria concept out of Santa Barbara, California, signed a franchise development agreement to open as many as 20 restaurants in South Florida over the next five years. The agreement marks the first major franchising announcement since Persona launched its franchise opportunity earlier this year.
Persona Neapolitan Pizzeria, a create-your-own Neapolitan pizzeria with an Italian-trained Pizzaiolo, opened its first location in Santa Barbara, California, in February 2013. Persona has since announced plans to expand its national footprint with a franchise opportunity. Company plans call for adding 10 new restaurants in 2014 and having as many as 250 locations nationwide in the next five years.


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Rivian on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Swedish mapping company Iternio, the developer of the EV trip-planning app A Better Routeplanner.
The app, which allows EV drivers to plan routes incorporating charging stops, will be maintained as a standalone feature for drivers of all EVs, but its core features will be integrated with Rivian's in-vehicle navigation system and mobile app, according to a company press release.
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"A Better Routeplanner leads the way in EV trip planning and is an important platform for EV adoption," Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said in a statement, "which is why it's so important for us to keep the platform open for all."
Rivian drivers will soon have A Better Routeplanner's features built-in, though. An upcoming software release will add the ability to plan trips based on charging networks and range on arrival, the release said. Drivers will also be able to use the Rivian app to plan a trip from home and send the information to their car's navigation system.
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These features can be added to existing vehicles over the air, and will likely be available from the start in the Rivian R2, the smaller, less-expensive model that will serve as the follow-up to the Rivian R1T pickup truck and R1S SUV. Rivian CFO Claire McDonough confirmed this week that the R2 will be revealed in 2024 and will target a price range of $40,000-$60,000 as the automaker aims to broaden the market.
Rivian this week also confirmed plans to adopt the Tesla charge port, otherwise known as the North American Charging Standard (NACS). The automaker did not confirm when it plans to start building vehicles with the Tesla connector, or whether it will abandon the Combined Charging Standard (CCS) port, but said access to the Tesla Supercharger network could happen (likely with adapters) as soon as spring 2024. Now it looks like Rivian drivers will have an easier time finding those Supercharger sites.


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Small business owners can get free training and advice at SBDC Day
For more information, contact:
Diana Fedinec, Director Public Relations and Media
Rory Thomas, Tennessee Small Business Development Center Executive Director (901) 333-5085
Aspiring and emerging small business owners are invited to learn about free help available through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) largest funded program, Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), during national SBDC Day, 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m., March 20 at Southwest Tennessee Community College’s Whitehaven Center, 1234 Finley Road.
SBDC Day is a national, collective proclamation of the impact America’s Small Business Development Centers on the success of our nation’s dreamers, innovators, and doers – America’s small businesses. SBDC Day will unite the nearly 1,000 SBDC centers across the country and the hundreds of thousands of clients they serve by sharing, in real time, the success stories and notable impacts SBDCs collectively have on the small business community. This special day will be celebrated with social media campaigns, public relations initiatives, online and in-person events and more.
The Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) is located at Southwest and has provided free small business assistance to tens of thousands of individuals starting and growing small businesses in Shelby County since 2004. TSDBC Executive Director Rory Thomas says last year was a banner one as the agency at Southwest provided assistance to more than 2,900 small business owners, entrepreneurs and individuals with a business idea in Shelby County. This SBDC Day will have a special focus on women business owners. The latest U.S. Census Survey of Business Owners showed Memphis leads the nation’s largest cities in female-owned business growth. “We want to use this SBDC Day to highlight our women-owned business successes and truly inform the community that free help is available to help you achieve your small business goals,” he added.
During SBDC Day, TSBDC will present its annual “Rising Star Award” to Kelsey Loebel, owner of Miss Muff’n by Confections and Connections. At age 26, Kelsey has become one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in Tennessee and she donates 10% of her profits to local non-profit agencies.
- LaTanya Channel, Tennessee District Director, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Brandy Bonner Aden, President, A & B Construction Company, a leading commercial and industrial general contractor in Tennessee
- Rose Conway, Owner, Nautilus Pottery, a national manufacturer of handcrafted pottery and essential oil diffusers
- Summer Owens, Owner, S.O.What!, national author, speaker, success coach and university professor
- Nubian Simmons, Owner, The Pink Bakery, Tennessee’s First Big 8 Allergen Free Bakery)
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged. Register online at Eventbrite.com, keywords SBDC Day. For more information, visit www.tsbdc.org/swtcc or call (901) 333-5085.


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Following significant investments into its infrastructure product portfolio over the past several years, Google Cloud has announced that it will be raising prices for some products and lowering prices for others.
The move is designed to align the company's capabilities and pricing with the varied workloads of its customers. As such, Google Cloud is giving customers more choice in how they pay for what they use along with new, flexible SKUs with new product options and capabilities.
In a blog post, VP and GM of Google Cloud Infrastructure, Sachin Gupta explained that the company's planned price changes will allow it to better align its offerings with those of other leading cloud providers so that customers can more easily compare services between vendors.
Google Cloud's price changes will go into effect on October 1 of this year. However, the impact of these pricing changes will depend on how customers use its cloud services, so some could end up paying more while others end up paying less.
Google Cloud plans to change prices for some of its storage, compute and networking products. In its announcement, the company highlights how customers will have new ways to optimize their spending based on workload type and size or data portability needs as a result.
First off, the price of cloud storage for data mobility including replication of data written to dual or multi-region storage buckets will increase along with inter-region data access.
At the same time, Google Cloud will introduce a new lower-cost archive snapshot option for Persistent Disk (PD) so that those using the service for compliance or archiving will be charged less that those doing compute-intensive DevOps workloads.
In terms of pricing, customers will soon pay ($0.019/GB for regional, $0.024/GB for multi-region) and this also applies when creating the initial snapshot. Going forward, standard regional snapshots will cost $0.05GB/month and multi-regional snapshots will cost $0.065 GB/month which is an increase from $0.026 per GB per month.
Finally, Network Topology, which was introduced for free last year, will now be a paid product and customers will need to pay $0.0011 per resource hour used. However, Google Cloud plans to soften the blow with the addition of Performance Dashboard within its Network Intelligence Center at no additional charge.
As we still have some time before these price increases go into effect, Google could make some changes. Until then though, Google Cloud customers can check out the company's pricing page for all of the latest information on what the search giant charges for its storage, compute and networking products.
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LIMA, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Peru’s consumer price index rose 0.33 percent in December and 3.23 percent in 2016, official data showed Sunday.
Both numbers were essentially in line with Reuters polls that had forecast a 0.33 percent rise in consumer prices in December and 3.24 percent for the full year.
The central bank, which has left the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4.25 percent for the past 10 months, forecast inflation at 3.3 percent in 2016 and 2.3 percent in 2017. The bank has an inflation tolerance range of 1 percent to 3 percent.
December November December 2015 Monthly rate: 0.33 0.29 0.45 12-month rate: 3.23 3.35 4.40
Reporting By Marco Aquino; Writing by Gram Slattery; Editing by Steve Orlofsky


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The pulp and paper industry is one of the most successful sectors in Indonesia. It has been growing steadily since the late 1980s, generates almost $6bn in exports, accounts for about 1% of the country’s GDP and employs about a quarter of a million people. The sector has been a vital part of the Indonesian success story, in particular because of how well it was able to weather the 2008 global downturn. It is also the target of a great deal of criticism for its logging practices, so much so that last year the Walt Disney Company boycotted all paper products from the country. As a resource-based business, its performance comes at a price, and its role is not at all straightforward.
The industry’s growth over the past 20-plus years has been impressive. Pulp production capacity grew from 606,000 tonnes to 7.9m tonnes between 1988 and 2010, and paper processing capacity went from 1.2m tonnes to 12.2m tonnes in that time. In terms of production, paper went from 368,000 to 7m tonnes in the period, and paper rose from 930,000 to 10.5m tonnes. From 2005, as the Asia Pacific economies boomed, exports have more than doubled.
CONSERVATION: The industry has also worked to meet its obligations to harvest trees responsibly. It has sought to undertake its work in a manner that is good for the environment and acceptable to international buyers. The Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) is used to ensure that all products going to the mills are legal wood and exports are traceable to their origins. After years of negotiations, the SVLK has been accepted by the EU as proof of legal sourcing, and thus Indonesian products entering the union will be allowed to move freely within it. Indonesia is the only country in Asia to get this level of approval within the EU. Private companies are also making their own promises and assurances. Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), for example, said it plans to source 100% of its raw materials from plantations by 2015 and put a moratorium on natural forest clearance in 2012. It also said it would extend the moratorium to its subcontractors by 2014.
The push for conservation comes from the highest levels. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been a leader in setting conservation and environmental goals. He has called for reducing greenhouse emissions by 26% by 2020, while maintaining 7% growth, and signed a two-year moratorium in 2011 on new logging concessions on 63m acres of primary forest. In all, Indonesia seems to be getting the balance right, allowing the industry to expand enough to help the economy, while placing a focus on sustainability and conservation to make sure its resources last and its products are accepted internationally.
VALUE CHAIN: But the industry, like many in Indonesia, is still in need of quite a bit of work. For pulp and paper, as with other resources, the emphasis is on selling rather than adding value, and the concern is that this leaves most of the profit to foreign companies and exposes Indonesia to the full brunt of the commodity cycle. The industry is indeed big, but quite shallow. As it stands now, for example, all equipment used is being imported. One of the world’s most significant producers of pulp and paper has not taken the opportunity to get involved in the production of the machines used in the business.
“The key for Indonesia to become a true world player will be the level of success achieved in encouraging companies to add value and move down the value chain in every natural-resource-based sector. The country cannot just rely on the population bonus and its natural resources. We need an industrialisation process backed by an improvement of the country’s overall productivity,” said Herwanto Sutanto, the president director of paper company Alkindo Naratama.
GROWTH VS FORESTS: The most severe criticism still concerns the environment. While pulp and paper companies may have made great strides in meeting international requirements, questions remain. The rapid growth alone, critics contend, is enough to raise doubts. Simple math suggests that the industry needs more wood than can be provided by sustainable forests. The plantations just cannot meet demand, and that has and will require the harvesting of natural forest. The country is in a box. If the industry is to provide as much growth as is wanted and needed, environmental compromises are going to be made.
These critics add that the state directly and indirectly supports these firms. It allows them to acquire resources at very low prices and keeps other regulations lax in support of logging.
Local governments are particularly weak in the face of these pulp and paper companies. It is estimated that 60% of the population lives in areas where forestry or agriculture dominate, so the maintenance of logging is vital to local economies and livelihoods. And it seems as though the gap between demand for and supply of land will only increase over time. The National Long-Term Forestry Development Plan calls for 14.5m ha of timber plantations by 2025, while seven new pulp mills are scheduled to be put into service by 2017. It also appears as though the government is targeting Papua, suggesting that more natural forest will come under threat.
The industry has also been accused of dumping. In 2006 the US said Indonesia, China and India were selling some kinds of lined school paper supplies at prices that were considered predatory. Countervailing duties were assessed at between 97.85% and 118.63% and exports of this paper stopped, dropping in terms of Indonesia-US trade from $98.5m to zero from 2005 to 2006. While the duties were lifted in 2012, the experience highlighted the vulnerability of the industry and the complexity of its economics.
PROGRESS: The industry argues that it is making progress and suggests putting its activities in perspective. The country is 58% forested, and 27% of the total is conservation land. About 31% is used for production. APP says it only sources from about 1.31% of the country’s total land mass.
Indeed, over time, concerns about sustainability and conservation may begin to recede. The major companies know that to sell in the largest markets of the world, they need to meet global standards.
For that reason, the problems of the industry are very much typical of the problems that face all Indonesian companies, especially those that have been successful. Blessed with abundant natural resources and a massive domestic market, they have been slow to adapt and innovate and are not particularly competitive on the world stage.
To assure their long-term viability, these local companies have to begin to think outside their home market and consider what is happening elsewhere. They are up against a debilitating lack of transportation and logistics, and this will also serve to keep them cornered in their home market.
“Despite good prospects for local pulp and paper products, local players are reluctant to look extensively into international markets. Firstly, because of the attractiveness and remarkable growth of the domestic market, and second, due to very high freight costs and other infrastructure burdens,” said Sutanto.


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Venus prepares for the next chapter
Originally published on: 07/07/10 00:00
Serena may own the bragging stakes in the Williams household right now, but Venus won’t be too concerned. She still has one more Wimbledon title than little sister. And she has a new book to promote.
In Come to win, co-authored with Kelly E Carter, Venus – multiple Grand Slam champion and entrepreneur, as her website has it – explores how the lessons learnt in the sporting arena have prepared some of the world’s leading lights to rise to the top of their professions.
Through interviews with nearly fifty business leaders, poiticians, doctors and artists – including former US President Bill Clinton, NBA legend Magic Johnson, Nike co-founder Philip Knight, actor Denzel Washington and fashion designer Vera Wang – Williams and Carter draw lessons learnt on the court, pitch, track and rink and reveal how they translated to the real world.
“You don't have to be the best, and you may not be the smartest,” says CNN correspondent and former track runner Soledad O'Brien on the similarities between sport and journalism; “You may not be the prettiest, but you can work harder.”
“For both athletes and designers,” according to Wang, who before becoming the youngest editor of Vogue was a nationally ranked figure-skater, “any field where you are judged, you have to continually push yourself out of your comfort zone in order to grow.”
“A lot of them credit sports with helping them get to where they are today,” Williams said. “Whether it's visualising a course of action before it happens, turning losses into learning tools, figuring out who best plays what position in a team environment, or remembering that there is no substitute for preparation.”
The book is aimed at both aspiring professionals – in the business sense – and parents and coaches looking to build confidence and discipline in their children, with insights into the roles of Venus' parents on the careers both both her and sister Serena.
It may seem a fitting time for Williams to turn her attentions to her post-tennis life. The seven-time Grand Slam champion is still a top-ten stalwart and a fearsome opponent, having earned over $2 million in prize money already this year and picking up two titles along the way.
Now aged 30, however, and with a string of off-court interests – she holds a degree in fashion design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in Florida and has her own clothing line, EleVen, and an interior design firm, V-Starr Interiors, as well a part-ownership of the Miami Dolphins with Serena – Williams is in good shape for her own next chapter. But she’s not turning the page just yet.
“Right now, I’m at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn’t on when I’m going to end,” she recently revealed. “My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.”


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The $675 million sale of the landmark Plaza Hotel announced yesterday is a landmark deal, too: It’s the highest price ever paid on a per-room basis in New York City hotel history, and more than twice what Donald Trump sold it for in 1995.
Lodging Investment Advisors hotel analyst Sean Hennessey said the roughly $840,000 Elad Properties is paying for each of the Plaza’s 808 rooms tops the $743,000 per room Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner paid for the Four Seasons on East 57th Street in 1999.
Elad is buying the Plaza from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and Singapore-based Millennium & Copthorne Hotels.
Regardless of how much of the Plaza the new owners convert to luxury condos, as is widely expected, Hennessey saw the spectacular price as reflecting the fast-rebounding Manhattan hotel market.
“The operating fundamentals have improved dramatically over the past 12 months, and the occupancy rate this year may rival the highs of 2000,” he said.
“Room rates are still well below their peak, but are increasing at about a 10 percent annual rate over the past year and quickly making up ground.” Sources said the Plaza has an average room rate in the $290 range this year.
John A. Fox, a hotel analyst at PKF Consulting, called the Plaza “one of the trophyist of trophy properties” despite Millennium’s disclosure that it had a pre-tax loss of $1.8 million last year.
Hennessey said that reducing the Plaza’s number of rooms to make way for condo apartments would help the owners provide a level of luxury service that is difficult to achieve with so large a property.
“The hotels in New York with the highest-priced rooms have 400 rooms or under,” he said.
Elad had no comment on its plans. The company recently converted the old commercial building at 1 Astor Place entirely into apartments, but its parent company also operates properties strictly as hotels in Israel and Canada.
Many new Manhattan hotels now routinely include condo units, including the two Ritz-Carltons and the Mandarin Oriental at the Time Warner Center – a trend reflecting insatiable demand for luxury homes here.
The Plaza offering was handled with remarkable secrecy for such a high-profile property.


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Shippers to ask Beijing to act on 'unfair' surcharges
Shipper groups in Hong Kong and the mainland plan to lobby Beijing over what they say are unfair and costly surcharges levied by container shipping lines on freight shipments.
This comes as Maersk, the world's largest container line, plans to raise fees and charges from today for cargo being shipped from the mainland and Hong Kong.
Soren Karas, head of South China for Maersk Line, said it was catching up with other lines, such as the Tung-family-controlled Orient Overseas Container Line, which revised its surcharges up to 10 months earlier.
But Willy Lin, chairman of the Hong Kong Shippers' Council, said the level of fees and surcharges imposed by shipping lines was 'totally unjust and unfair' and did not reflect the actual cost of providing services.
As a result, the Hong Kong and mainland shippers' bodies, which represent manufacturers and suppliers, will commission a report looking at the fees and surcharges levied by container shipping lines and assess whether they are justified.
Lin hoped the report would be 'up and running by the end of January' and the shippers' groups would be able to make their submissions to the Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Communications around Lunar New Year.
Plans to involve the two ministries follow a meeting two weeks ago between shippers groups in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau and the mainland 'that looked at various issues including what costs shippers have to bear', Lin said. He said that under the mainland's competition law, shipping lines had to consult shippers about proposed fee increases but, in reality, carriers might only give a day's notice for a fee change.
Lin said shippers were not averse to paying surcharges and terminal handling charges, but pointed out that any increase 'has to be very transparent'.
Shippers recognised shipping lines needed to make money to invest in new vessels and equipment and they 'needed shipping lines to deliver their goods'.
'We do not see shipping lines as the enemy,' he added.
But Lin also said while everybody realised costs were increasing, he wondered 'how much is justified?'
The surcharges typically levied by shipping lines include fees for altering documents, installing high-security door seals, cleaning containers and the late collection of shipment documents. Lin's comments coincided with the imposition of a surcharge from today by carriers such as Cosco Container Lines, Maersk Line and French carrier CMA CGM on each bill of lading for all shipments to countries in the European Union.
The surcharge, which varies between US$25 and US$30 depending on the shipping line, is intended to recover the cost to shipping lines of complying with EU customs regulations which demand carriers supply detailed information on freight shipments 24 hours before vessels sail.
Carriers said the regulation would create additional costs and have an impact on their day-to-day operations and administration.
Outlining the changes in Maersk's fee structure from today, Karas said the carrier would alter terminal handling charges and eight fees levied on shippers.
These included the documentation fee on each bill of lading, which would rise from 150 yuan to 200 yuan. A 500 yuan export service charge on each bill of lading was also to be levied by Maersk for the first time. He said terminal handling charges for a 40 foot (12.2 metre) container exported from South China to Europe and the Mediterranean would rise from 1,780 yuan to 1,850 yuan. But charges for a 40 foot container exported to Latin America would surge from 750 yuan to 1,850 yuan.
Justifying the large increase, Karas said it would bring Maersk's terminal handling charge for the Latin American trade into line with other carriers. Chilean carrier, CSAV, levied a handling charge of US$270 (1,780 yuan).
Karas added that other carriers had a similar level of terminal handling charges on cargo from South China to Europe.
Stephen Ng Siu-kow, director of corporate planning at OOCL, confirmed the carrier levied a fee of 1,845 yuan on a 40 foot container to Europe or North America from South China.
The surcharge, in US dollars, on each bill of lading for shipment to the EU is up to: $30


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Jumia.com an online buying and selling service provider, has introduced a variety of shopping options to the Nigerian market.
Through its e-commerce initiative, it offers a range of alternatives for easy transaction via the internet, without the barrier of time, day or place.
In a statement by the company on Friday, it said it has the goal of being first in online retail shopping solutions in sub Saharan Africa.
It added, “With a 25 per cent growth in online shopping in Nigeria and revenue valued at N62.4m in 2011, it is clear that online has come to stay. The growth in mobile internet market has made it possible for our customers to shop from their mobile devices.
“Your orders will be delivered between one and five working days, between 8am-6pm Mondays to Fridays. There’s also the availability of a Saturday special delivery option for further convenience for our customers.”


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Microsoft has restored the Xbox Live Indie Games service to its front-and-centre dashboard position.
The change was made quietly with a minor update issued in the US late last week.
“As you’ve now noticed, the Xbox Live Marketplace was updated to change the way games are surfaced to customers. Microsoft is continually working to better organise our digital game content on the platform and your feedback played a part in that,” microsoft said in a statement given to Eurogamer.
“Part of this new organisation means that Xbox Live Indie Games now has a tile on the top level of the marketplace right next to Xbox Live Arcade and Xbox Games on Demand. Inside of the new Xbox Live Indie Games section, you’ll notice that there are New Release, Top Download, A-Z, and Genre options, as well as a rotating carousel that shows off Kotaku’s Picks, Contest Finalists, and can be used to house other content as desired.
“This update is something we are extremely excited about as it really brings Xbox Live Indie Games to a higher level of visibility in the dashboard. We believe these changes will help even more gamers find and experience the great offerings you’ve all developed for Xbox Live Indie Games.”
The Metro update, released late last year, had placed the Indie Games service inside the Game Type menu, reducing the discoverability of a service already much criticised for its failures in promoting quality content.


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Elon Musk may know a thing or two about missiles and electronic vehicles, but during an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan this week, he revealed a blind spot on cannabis and said he thought CBD was “fake.”
That’s not to say that he believes the non-intoxicating cannabinoid doesn’t really exist. Rather, the tech entrepreneur stated that he feels overwhelmed and “does nothing”. For his part, Rogan had a lot to say in response to the benefits of cannabidiol.
The exchange began with Musk and Rogan pondering an earlier podcast show in 2018 that featured the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla puffed on a marijuana stump (which he later claimed he never really breathed in), which led to a NASA investigation into “workplace safety” of its aerospace company and “maintaining a drug-free environment”.
Rogan, who moved his podcast headquarters from California to Texas last year, noted that his new home state hasn’t legalized marijuana yet, but “CBD is legal here”.
“CBD doesn’t do anything. Does it? “Said Musk.” I think that’s wrong.
Listen as Musk and Rogan talk about CBD below around 50:00:
Read the rest of the exchange below:
JR: Well, no – no, it definitely does something about inflammation.
IN THE: It does?
JR: Yes! For sure.
IN THE: Well how much CBD do you need to have before you notice it?
IN THE: Yes.
JR: Yes, you don’t have to have a lot physically. Physically, CBD works great for people with arthritis and people with sore muscles and the like. Yes, no, CBD definitely works for this, but not by much in terms of psychoactive effects. It relieves people’s fear.
IN THE: OK.
JR: It helps people sleep, especially when combined with things like melatonin. But it doesn’t get you up. People mix CBD with THC for muscle creams, and that won’t get you high either, but it does increase potency.
IN THE: OK.
JR: Yes, there are some creams that are really good that such people contain THC and CBD.
IN THE: Okay, you like sunscreen or something and then I mean, why don’t you just toss it in?
JR: Why not? Well it’s great for pain.
IN THE: You smell like weed all day.
JR: It doesn’t smell like grass, however.
IN THE: It not?
JR: No, no – some of it does, however. That’s the thing with anything that isn’t regulated, right? Like hippies who make it, that’s always the problem.
IN THE: Quality control.
JR: Yes, no quality control. That’s the problem with food. They’re made by a bunch of crazy people who cook them and some, you know, Chula Vista apartments, you really don’t know what’s in there.
Musk may not be entirely up to date with the latest CBD, but he enjoys playing around in the marijuana culture from time to time.
For example, when Telsa’s shares hit $ 420, he responded with on Twitter crying laughing emojis and said “Whoa … the stock is so high lol.”
Of course, 420 is well known among cannabis enthusiasts as it represents the unofficial cannabis holiday 4/20. And that wasn’t the first time Musk played either.
The billionaire tech entrepreneur landed in hot water with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2018 after he said he was considering taking Tesla private at a share price of $ 420 – an announcement the SEC deemed “false and.” misleading “and which was made without the necessary notification of the supervisory authorities.
For his part, Rogan is a proud cannabis and psychedelics enthusiast and, for example, once told a story about hanging out with him Dave Chappelle, while the comedian was eating psilocybin mushrooms these were given by a stranger.
Photo courtesy of Joe Rogan Experience / Spotify.


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Activision has revealed the 'gameplay launch' trailer for one of the Fall's biggest video game releases: "Call of Duty: Ghosts" (aka. the one with the dog). Using an Eminem number and a final scene like something out of "Gravity," they're certainly trying to appeal to a mass market audience.
Along with the latest "Call of Duty," there's another massive, military-themed, "don't even bother with single player mode" FPS sequel about to hit stores - "Battlefield 4". Check out the new 'Anthem' trailer for the game below:


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Australia’s minimum wage earners to get $40 a week pay rise
The Fair Work Commissions has ruled that Australia’s minimum wage will be increased by 5.2%, lifting minimum wages by at least $40 a week.
Noting a ‘sharp increase in the cost of living’, the commission has ruled that the hourly pay be lifted from $20.33 to $21.38.
This decision, handed down in the annual wage review, will come into effect from 1 July, except for the aviation, tourism and hospitality sectors. Because of the slower recovery of these sectors, which are among those badly affected by the Covid recession, the increase will be delayed to 1 October.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed the decision, tweeting: “We welcome the Fair Work Commission’s announcement of a $1.05 an hour pay rise for Australians on the minimum wage.
This is great news, but it’s just the beginning. We have more work to do [to] make sure more Australians can get ahead and have real economic security.”
On the other hand, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Andrew McKellar expressed worry that the increase posed a “very significant risk” to the economy.
“By our calculations, this will add $7.9 billion in costs to the affected businesses over the year ahead, so that will be a very considerable burden that those businesses will either have to take to their bottom line, or pass onto their customers,” he said.
“It comes at a time when inflation is emerging as one of the most urgent challenges facing the Australian economy and if we are to address that, if we are to remain competitive, then, clearly, this is not a decision that will help in those circumstances.