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AT&T to Sunset 2G Network by 2017
AT&T plans to shutter its GSM and EDGE wireless networks by 2017. The information, which comes from an SEC filing made by AT&T, reveals that only 12% of the company's current subscribers are using 2G-only devices. AT&T believes it can coax those users to switch to more advanced devices that use its 3G or 4G networks between now and 2017. The company doesn't expect the transition will present any problems. AT&T will refarm its 2G spectrum for use with faster networks.
Hands On with the Huawei P10
The P10 is Huawei's flagship phone for 2017, (aside from the super-size Mate series.) It's a definite step up from the P9, packing in the very impressive Kirin 960 chipset, also found on the Mate 9. It sports a more rounded metal design and a new style of fingerprint sensor on the front.
Comcast Targeting Mid-2017 for Wireless Network Launch
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts today said the company plans to offer wireless service as soon as the middle of 2017. The service will rely on some 15 million WiFi hotspots Comcast has located around the country, as well as cellular access via Verizon Wireless.
Opera Hopes New Android Browser Will Push Growth
Opera Software today announced a wholly refreshed version of Opera Mini for Android devices. Opera gave the browser a new user interface based on Material Design, which lends the browser a more native look and feel to Android devices.
Ford to Add Android Auto, CarPlay to All 2017 Models
Ford today said it will push its Sync 3 connectivity platform, with support for Android Auto and CarPlay, across its entire lineup of 2017 vehicles. Sync 3 relies on new hardware and software that Ford says is faster and better able to connect to smartphones thanks to more conversational voice recognition.
Verizon Looking to Be First to Deploy 5G
Verizon Wireless wants to stay ahead of the curve and be among the first to launch fifth-generation (or 5G) wireless network technology. The company plans to begin field tests at its Innovation Centers, which are dedicated sandboxes for testing apps and services, located in San Francisco and Waltham, Mass., at some point in 2016.
Don't know what's involved but my hats off to tower workers!


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Pine Hall Brick Company to hold 25th Annual Yard Sale, Patio Installation Demonstration
WINSTON-SALEM — Pine Hall Brick Company will be holding its 25th Annual Yard Sale and Patio Installation Demonstration on Saturday, April 29 from 8 a.m. until noon at the company’s showroom at 2701 Shorefair Drive in Winston-Salem, which is behind the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds and LJVM Coliseum.
Demonstrations, which show how homeowners can build their own brick paver patios and walkways, will be at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Pine Hall Brick is also bringing back the popular free patio and landscape design by Earth Graphics. Take a digital picture of your landscape, then bring it on a memory card, a CD or in your camera (don’t forget your USB cable), and Earth Graphics will do a free 30-minute consultation.
Your picture and Pine Hall Brick’s PaverScape software will show you what your driveway, walkway or patio would look like with genuine Pine Hall Brick clay pavers. You’ll need to sign up in advance and make an appointment, by calling (336) 779-6126. Appointments are available every 30 minutes from 8 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
Selected pavers will be on sale. Mismatched pavers will be on sale for 15 cents each. Thin pavers and Pathway® pavers will be on sale for 20 cents each; English Edge® and Old Series® pavers will be on sale for 25 cents each; and Rumbled® pavers will be on sale for 30 cents each. Delivery is available in a limited area for $100 per load and all sales are final.
Those attending can register for door prizes, including free brick pavers and a steak dinner. For more information, please call (336) 779-6126.

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The company that’s shaking up office markets just took a major step into retail.
WeWork recently launched a new business concept, dubbed WeMRKT, at the co-working giant’s 205 Hudson location in New York City. WeMRKT is a small shop that sells products created by WeWork members, and while there’s currently only one location, WeWork said it plans to expand the concept nationally.
WeWork’s decision to step into retail comes at a turning point in the market. From Toys R Us to Nine West, retailers across the country are filing for bankruptcy at record levels as consumer shopping habits continue to shift.
But not all retailers are struggling. Discount shops are booming while retailers who effectively employ creative, omnichannel strategies are finding success.
WeWork’s new concept is another step in retail’s evolution. From the fusing of the office and retail sectors to new opportunities for brick-and-mortar, here’s what WeWork’s foray into retail says about the current state of the market.


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Barratt housing boss scoops bumper £3.3m pay day after company reveals record profits
Pay rise: Barratt Developments chief exec David Thomas
The boss of Britain’s biggest housebuilder has trousered more than £3.3million after the company made record profits.
David Thomas, chief executive of Barratt Developments, saw his overall pay rise £176,000 in the year to June 30.
It comes after Barratt posted a 12 per cent rise in annual profits to £765million.
Figures published in the firm’s annual report last night revealed the award to Thomas, 54, was part of a £6.7million payday for directors, with deputy chief Steven Boyes taking £3million.
New finance boss Jessica White also earned £76,000 for seven day’s work – almost £11,000 a day.
Barratt sold 17,395 new homes in the year to the end of June, its highest figures for nine years but just 76 more than last year.
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So the Surface Duo didn't quite pan out to be the perfect dual-screen phone, but there are alternatives — even if they aren't quite as physically elegant. The LG G8X is a flagship Android phone with a detachable second screen, and now you can get it unlocked for just $499.99. That's $450 lower than the original MSRP, though the phone has sold for closer to $600-700 lately. Read More
Every smartphone manufacturer wants to get in on the ground floor of the latest trends, and in 2019 the name of the game is “folding.” After teasing flexible technology at trade shows for years, we're finally seeing the arrival of big-screen phones that bend down the middle for easy storage. But other companies are turning to more old-school tech to accomplish a similar feat, like LG and its dual-screen hardware. After getting started with the V50, LG's back with its follow-up: the G8X with Dual Screen case. Read More
Google is always hard at work on adding ARCore support to new devices. This time around, those include the brand-new Note10 and 10+, but other than that, a bigger shift has occurred on the company's AR front – that is, if you count marketing and naming schemes as big shifts. The catchy ARCore Play Store listing makes way for the cumbersome phrase "Google Play Service for AR." The change has already been visible for a while, but the company only introduced the new name in the app's changelog last week, along with announcing support for 60fps rendering on capable devices. Read More
Enhanced gaming has been one of the most consistently promoted features of LG phones that support its Dual Screen hardware. Until now, the only gaming-centric improvement available for these devices has been the ability to use the second display as a dedicated gamepad. Now we're finally seeing games introduce some bespoke functionality for that second panel, with the release of a dual-screen edition of Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War. Read More
LG's smartphone division is not in a good place. It hasn't been in a good place for the last five years, frankly, but 2019 has felt especially rough on Korea's number-two electronics giant. For the first time in a long time, most tech publications really don't even bother mentioning LG phones in the same breath as Samsung's. OnePlus, Google, Huawei, and even domestic Chinese manufacturers like Vivo and Oppo now command far more attention for their products and announcements. LG is increasingly an afterthought.
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Chocolate Is Good for your Teeth
Good news for women, and other chocolate addicts, chocolate is good for your teeth, a new study has shown...
Japanese researchers have found that parts of the cocoa bean used to make chocolate, can thwart mouth bacteria and stop dental decay.
Tooth decay starts when Streptococcus mutans bacteria produce a sticky substance called glucan, which helps the bacteria anchor themselves to teeth, forming plaque. Bacteria in plaque convert sugars to acids, which eat away the tooth’s surface and lead to cavities.
Scientists have found that cocoa bean husk (CBH) – the outer part of the bean – is a potent source of antibacterial agents.
Unfortunately, CBH is the part of the cocoa bean that tends to go to waste during chocolate production; but plans are afoot to use CBH extracts in mouthwash and toothpastes. Personally, I’d rather have the chocolate!


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While it’s been confirmed for some time now that Nightwolf would be a part of the first Mortal Kombat Kombat Pack, what wasn’t known was when the character was going to be released. In fact, with Shang Tsung only recently being released, many had speculated that the next character to join the fight would be the first guest character, Spawn. However according to a recent PC leak and tease by Ed Boon himself, it would appear that Nightwolf will be Mortal Kombat 11 next DLC character.
Reddit user Thethiny has datamined the latest PC patch, which released a little over a week ago. In it, we can see that Nightwolf has quite a bit of completed lines in the game such as character intros/outros and even assists movesets, suggesting that there is a Kombat Tower for the character in the game. You can see the images below for further confirmation.
And oddly enough text data for Ash (Evil Dead), Joker (Batman), and Fujin (Mortal Kombat) have been added to the PC version in the latest patch, something that was originally found in the Switch version at launch. This could simply be a case of moving over some old data, but nonetheless, Nightwolf character info has been updated in the game to include commands. And this is only further proven that Nightwolf is indeed the next DLC reveal as Ed Boon himself has recently posted a teaser for the character over on his Twitter, which is no doubt the character given the iconic tomahawk weapon.
— Ed Boon (@noobde) June 28, 2019
Would you want Nightwolf to be the Mortal Kombat 11 next DLC character? If not, who should it be?


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Smartphone shipments grow almost 40% in 2013 while prices drop more than 12%
Global smartphone shipments are expected to exceed 1 billion units in 2013, growing 39.3 percent since 2012, according to a recent report from IDC.
By 2017, total smartphone shipments will grow to 1.7 billion units, according to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone tracker.
The major driving force for this huge jump? More people around the world are buying smartphones because they're steadily getting cheaper. According to IDC's research, the average smartphone today costs $337, down 12.8 percent from $387 last year. By 2017, they'll cost $265 on average, IDC reports.
"Just a few years back the industry was talking about the next billion people to connect, and it was assumed the majority of these people would do so by way of the feature phone," said Ryan Reith, program director with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. "Given the trajectory of ASPs (average selling prices), smartphones are now a very realistic option to connect those billion users."
Smartphones are particularly taking off in emerging markets, the report found. Asia/Pacific dominates global smartphone market share in 2013, with 528.2 million units sold. That number is expected to grow to 986 million in 2017, accounting for 58.5 percent of market share.
Unsurprisingly, smartphones are also cheapest in the Asia/Pacific region, with an average price of $262 per device in 2013. That is expected to drop to $215 in 2017. By comparison, the average smartphone cost $531 in North America in 2013, and is expected to cost $567 in 2017.
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It has been nearly 18 months since Cathleen P. Black took over as president of the Hearst Corporation's magazine division. And in that time, everyone in her orbit has become well acquainted with her strong suit: advertising, and the art of making people believe.
Take the official photograph she chose, which shows Ms. Black in a pants suit, her legs slung over the arm of a modern chair in the manner of perhaps Harper's Bazaar on a calm day. It was an intentionally loud statement of how different she wants to be, despite the dowager-empress corporate culture of Hearst.
In other ways as well, her tenure has jolted the slow-moving, privacy-craving publishing company that was having a very bad year when she arrived.
''I'm very performance- and results-driven,'' she said, describing her job so far as being a time of ''raising the bar, and, hopefully, a little fun.''Continue reading the main story
The results include some startling jumps in advertising pages at individual magazines. Raising the bar has extended to instructing editors to market their magazines well beyond the usual mail-in subscription card that falls out of every issue. She has also stood watch over some editorial upheavals, like the departure of the legendary Helen Gurley Brown as editor in chief of Cosmopolitan earlier this year. Just last week, she named a new editor in chief for Esquire, Hearst's struggling men's title.
From those who compete against Ms. Black, however, she has provoked skepticism about just how she achieved those increases in advertising pages, and a little envy perhaps as well over her ability to relentlessly market herself as the only female top executive at any big magazine company (an undeniable detail, and hardly her fault).
On the topic of her own performance, she takes no prisoners. ''My God, we're turning in the best year in the magazine division's history,'' Ms. Black said in an interview, speaking of profitability and rattling off some percentages. ''This is an extraordinary turnaround.''
Tall, blond and supremely fond of control, Ms. Black is deep in the process of establishing a prominent place for herself in the competitive world of magazine publishing. She has come up with some numbers that look good, and now comes the hard part: maintaining the momentum to keep Hearst rolling forward.
She trades willingly on her position as the highest-ranking woman in magazines, pointing out the connection between that and the millions of readers who buy Hearst's women's titles, which include Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Good Housekeeping.
Last week, she shepherded about 50 advertising clients, all women, and a group of Hearst editors to the trendy Delano hotel in Miami for what was billed as a Renaissance weekend, minus the Y chromosomes. ''We are the largest women's magazine publisher in the world,'' she said. ''We have a female president of the company. It's a very special and unique opportunity.''
Over the last few weeks, she and her public relations staff have been aggressively promoting Ms. Black, inviting in reporters from trade magazines and newspapers to discuss the recent quarter's results.
The mere act of initiating an audience with Hearst's magazine division president, who in past incarnations had been shuttered from view, was remarkable. The numbers, too, appear spectacular, with ad pages up at many of the company's 16 magazines, including a 29 percent rise at Town & Country and 29.7 percent at Cosmopolitan through March.
Still, the advertising increases Ms. Black cites with such pride are made in comparison to last year, a bruising one for Hearst after cutting back its magazines' circulation and raising advertising rates in 1995. Ms. Black's predecessor, D. Claeys Bahrenburg, was forced out in the aftermath, as major advertisers bolted and revenue vanished. Cosmopolitan, long a powerhouse, fell sharply, with 371.65 ad pages in last year's first quarter, compared with 404.77 in the 1995 quarter.
Under Ms. Black, ad pages at Cosmopolitan soared to 481.88 in the first quarter, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. Another star in the stable is Marie Claire, up 16.2 percent, along with Smart Money, up 12.2 percent; both are joint ventures with other companies.
The company has definitely gained a reputation as advertiser-friendly. ''She gets it, big time,'' said Peter Gardiner, senior partner and media director at Bozell Worldwide.
Still, other titles have registered slimmer gains, like Redbook (up 1 percent), Sports Afield (3.1 percent), House Beautiful (3.8 percent) and Good Housekeeping (3.8 percent). Good Housekeeping's ad pages totaled 263.16 through March -- hardly impressive compared with two years ago, when the magazine had 340.57 pages in the first quarter.
And some have lost ad pages in the first quarter, including Esquire (down 17.2 percent), Victoria (down 2.3 percent) and Harper's Bazaar (down 2.8 percent).
Other problems remain -- most notably at Esquire, where advertising and circulation have been sagging for years in what has been a public relations disaster for Hearst, although the magazine is one of its smallest. Ms. Black forced out its editor in chief, Edward Kosner. Last week she named his replacement, David Granger, an editor of GQ magazine, who begins work today on the Sisyphean task of restoring Esquire's prestige.
''Cathie has a reputation as a fine executive who is laboring under a difficult challenge,'' says Rick Linde, an executive recruiter. ''It certainly will take time to put all the pieces back together.''
To her rivals, any victory has only come at a cost, namely discounts. But Ms. Black argues that discounting ad pages is a way of life for every magazine publisher. Ad revenues, which she says have risen substantially, are next to impossible for others to gauge, since Hearst is privately held and there is no reliable outside source of such information.
''We are doing nothing different than anybody else,'' she said. ''Probably we are far tougher than some of our competitors. Conde Nast always says it doesn't discount, but then it rolls in a semi truck full of merchandising and value-added programs and events.''
Steven T. Florio, the president of Conde Nast, responded: ''For once, Ms. Black has made an accurate statement about Conde Nast. We do have value-added programs because we view our advertisers as marketing partners.'' Such programs include market research and retail promotions in stores, he said.
Others say Hearst policy includes the ultimate discount -- free pages, though the company said it did away with that as part of its 1995 rate increase. ''They admit the discounts; they don't admit the free pages,'' said Andreas Wiele, senior vice president and general manager of Gruner & Jahr USA, which publishes Family Circle and McCall's, rivals of Hearst's Good Housekeeping and Redbook.
Statistics compiled by the Publishers Information Bureau, part of the Magazine Publishers of America, show that Hearst's revenues through March 31 have risen at many magazines, but those are based on the company's publicly stated ad rates, and therefore ''it is totally meaningless,'' Mr. Wiele said.
On the other hand, many praise Ms. Black, calling her a great presenter, a charming colleague and a supervisor who knows enough to give editors a loose rein.
''She's never meddled, and frankly, she treats me like a grown-up,'' says Ellen Levine, editor in chief of Good Housekeeping. Another editor, Steven Swartz of Smart Money, which is a joint venture between Hearst and Dow Jones & Company, recalled a cocktail party this year at which Ms. Black spoke. ''Off the top of her head, she gave an incredibly motivating and fun talk about the business,'' he said. ''Those things give people an extra sense of purpose.''
Those who know her say she especially does not like to be crossed. And she faces constraints that come from the way Hearst is organized, with extra layers of authority between her and the real power -- controlled by a family trust. ''Her power is limited by not being part of the family,'' said Steven Cohn, editor of Media Industry Newsletter, a trade publication.
Editors at Hearst are instructed by Ms. Black to think as marketers do, expanding their titles to other venues -- a technique known as branding, and increasingly common in the industry. ''If I had to underline her priority, it would be branding,'' said Terry McDonnel, the editor of Sports Afield, who has published a cookbook and other books based on the magazine's articles.
Ms. Black said none of her editors had opposed her marketing emphasis. ''Being a magazine editor is more than just literally producing a magazine,'' she said.
Ms. Black emerged a rising star of the publishing world in 1979 when Joe Armstrong, then running New York magazine, named her publisher in charge of ad sales. Mr. Armstrong, now the publishing director of Meigher Communications, which owns Saveur and Garden Design, calls her ''very determined and very driven.''
She left New York in 1983 for USA Today, where she was in charge of advertising. Her efforts included helping establish an ad campaign for the newspaper at a time when it was struggling.
When she left USA Today in 1991, after many had credited her with making it profitable, she became the executive director of the Newspaper Association of America. From there, she was hired by Frank A. Bennack Jr., the Hearst Corporation's president and chief executive, who brought her in at the end of 1995 at a salary said to run to seven figures.
Still, she is seen by many as eager for more. She may have revealed that herself in an article last month in The New York Post, in which she was quoted as saying, ''I'd love to run the company, but Frank Bennack hasn't said that to me.''
There is quite a difference between the two jobs. Mr. Bennack's role, answering to the board that runs the Hearst family trust, is truly powerful. Ms. Black, at the moment, is a director on the less influential Hearst corporate board.Continue reading the main story


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Client demand prompts surge in recruitment at agency
Leeds-based integrated agency, HUB, has appointed 11 new staff as the it prepares to embark on its “biggest year yet.”
Following the appointment of Rob Shaw as CEO last November, HUB has made these new appointments across the business.
It follows a significant increase in client work and coincides with the launch of a new brand for 2023 and beyond.
Ben Jones has joined as account director, with Chantelle Letsie and Andrew Rae taking up roles as senior digital account manager and digital account manager respectively.
Content is in the hands of paid social media manager Carrie Barrett, designer Daniel Georgiev, and content executive Beth Gordon.
Thomas Howell is HUB’s new senior data scientist, Luke Atkinson has joined as marketing analyst, and Megan Thornton is the agency’s new office and finance administrator.
HUB has also welcomed a new photographer to its in-house studios in the form of Linzi McKenzie. To spearhead the agency’s rebrand, HUB has recruited Abbie Harrop as its internal marketing manager.
Between them, HUB’s new hires have worked with several well-known brands including Adidas, Reebok, Kellogg’s, Smirnoff, Pimm’s, SharkNinja, Dune and Peacocks.
Shaw, formerly CEO of Epiphany, Jaywing and Creative Race, said: “We have ambitious plans for the years ahead and 2023 has started well for HUB with significant growth from existing clients as well as new clients joining us across a number of our departments.
“Attracting high quality talent will be fundamental to our growth and I’m really pleased with the calibre and experience of our new starters which will complement the existing experienced team here at HUB.”


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Congress was back at it this week, trying to reach an agreement on spending. Both sides were scrambling to make a deal with the hope that there will be a vote in the House on Wednesday. If there's no bill in place by midnight Friday, we'll see another government shutdown.
Sound familiar? It should. But while the will-they-or-won't-they isn't new, there may be a twist: the rush to regulate online sales tax.
No, you didn't accidentally click through to a different article. There's a connection.
In 2017, Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) introduced H. R. 2193, Remote Transactions Parity Act. The relatively short bill has a big goal: To grant States authority to enforce State and local sales and use tax laws on remote transactions, and for other purposes. Or put another way, the bill would allow states to require retailers located outside of their borders (online retailers) to collect sales and use taxes subject to certain restrictions.
Now, members of the House are pushing to have Noem's bill attached to the spending bill. And there is definitely some weight behind the push. As it stands, Noem's bill currently has 50 co-sponsors, with roughly equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. You can check out the list here.
An email to Rep. Noem's office regarding any movement on the bill was not immediately returned.
And the bill isn't all on its own. A companion bill, S.976, Marketplace Fairness Act of 2017, currently sits in the Senate. But until recently, neither of the bills had made it out of committee. So why push now?
A changing tide. In 2016, Colorado successfully passed a law requiring retailers to report more information about sales. In 2017, Amazon began collecting sales tax in all 45 states with a sales tax (Amazon doesn't collect sales tax in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon since those states do not have a state sales tax). And in 2018, the Supreme Court agreed to hear South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., Overstock.com, Inc., and Newegg, Inc. on the question of whether the current sales-tax-only, physical-presence requirement should stand? Or, in simple terms, should the Supreme Court kill Quill?
Quill refers to Quill Corp. v. North Dakota (91-0194), 504 U.S. 298 (1992), a Supreme Court case which examined the differences between the "minimum contacts" nexus required by the Due Process Clause and the "substantial nexus" required by the Commerce Clause. Nexus is a legal term for a connection; it's important in the tax world because, under the Constitution, states must establish a connection between a taxpayer and the state in order to impose taxes. The Court ruled that only those companies with a physical presence inside a state can be required to collect sales tax, "continuing value of a bright line rule in this area." With respect to brick and mortar stores, that's pretty easy: Are you physically located in the state or not?
(You can read Quill here.)
But the advent and growth of internet sales have complicated the issue. Every state that imposes a state sales tax also imposes a state use tax. A use tax is the taxpayer's equivalent of the sales tax. It's imposed on goods that would otherwise be taxable inside a state for "use, storage, or consumption" when sales tax has not been paid. In other words, if you buy something that isn't taxed in a state which does impose a sales tax, you owe the tax anyway. So if you buy something over the internet from a retailer who isn't required to collect the sales tax because of those Quill requirements, you may still owe the tax to your state. Instead of paying the tax to the retailer (as you would in a physical store), it becomes your responsibility to figure and remit the tax to the proper authorities.
Relying on individual taxpayers to calculate sales taxes on their online purchase is not efficient. As states become increasingly aware of the amount of revenue they're losing, they are seeking better ways to collect. Increasingly, that means that they are demanding that retailers be responsible for figuring and remitting the tax. Sometimes, as in Colorado, they've been successful. In other cases, as in Massachusetts, the reach has been deemed too far.
The lack of a consistent approach across the states has raised the question of whether Quill deserves a second look. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the question, and oral arguments in Wayfair are scheduled to begin, fittingly enough, on Tax Day, April 17, 2018.
(You can view the docket here.)
Will Wayfair kill Quill? Most legal observers generally agree that Quill won't stand in its entirety. But what's the real consequence of such a ruling? The fear from some conservatives is that overturning Quill could open the floodgates for states to pass a series of new tax laws and regulations that could make sales and use taxes even more confusing than they are now. The solution to that potential problem? One way to get ahead of the states and the Court (and Quill) would be for Congress to pass legislation that resolves the matter. After all, the Constitutions grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce - that's found in the Commerce Clause (cited, of course, to that effect in Quill).
But it can be tough to gather consensus on what that legislation should look like unless, perhaps, that language was attached to something more time sensitive - like the omnibus. With a nod to Justice Kennedy in Direct Mktg. Ass'n v. Brohl, 135 S. Ct. 1124, 1135 (2015) (Kennedy J., concurring), it may well be that some in Congress have determined that "it is unwise to delay any longer a reconsideration of the Court's holding in Quill."
(Author's note: As of the evening of March 19, Noem's sales tax provision was not expected to be included in the final bill, but the text was not available for review. I will update you as soon as I know more.)


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The price of coffee edged marginally in this week’s trading, as high demand for the produce continues to be witnessed at the auction.
A market report by the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) indicates that a 50-kilo bag of coffee on average fetched Sh21,400 up from Sh20,900 last week.
“We are seeing increased demand of the produce as we continue to get high quality beans from farmers,” said NCE.
NCE says the auction has received a major boost resulting from enough stocks of high quality beans coming in from central Kenya.
Improved quality and high demand has seen the local prices rally despite the value for the commodity having dipped at the New York exchange, which normally acts as a benchmark for Kenya’s produce.
The price of the commodity in New York Exchange has dropped from 140 cents per pound at the close of last year to 98 cents currently.
Kenya sells more than 95 percent of its coffee to the international market, which determines the value of the crop locally.


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The regulations were constant but BTC witnessed soaring prices in 2016 due to Bitcoin halving. This halving resulted in an increase in price and it was recorded at $615.24 on September 05. This month proved to be a bit better for BTC as the prices witnessed a rise from $228 to $232. In 2014, people started creating songs and documentaries about the digital coin and this resulted in major awareness among the mass. Hence, the price of BTC was recorded at $479.33 on September 01. This was the bearish stage of BTC where it was experiencing a major downfall which lead to a crash. The prices hiked up and a substantial amount of growth was noticed in a year. The price of BTC was around $11 in August but it witnessed a major fall in September and further fell down to $4 by the dawn of the month.
Regardless of whether they bought at the bottom or at the yearly high, these ‘hodlers’ have still made at least 1000% returns in USD terms. That tells you the growth in the people who won’t sell at any price. BTC price is currently sitting at yearly lows though it is still around 400 percent higher than 2017’s low. In fact, a historic look at yearly lows reveals the massive Bitcoin price gains and how ‘hodlers’ are potentially created. Forex trading is challenging and can present adverse conditions, but it also offers traders access to a large, liquid market with opportunities for gains.
- Bitcoin went public in 2009, and people begin “mining” new units of currency by running special network nodes called mining nodes.
- Nakamoto was responsible for creating the majority of the official bitcoin software and was active in making modifications and posting technical information on the bitcoin forum.
- He announced that he would sell the service for the missing amount, aiming to use funds from the sale to refund his customers.
- But go by its recent boom — and a forecast by Snapchat’s first investor, Jeremy Liew, that it will hit a bitcoin price of $500,000 by 2030 — and nabbing even a fraction of a bitcoin starts to look a lot more enticing.
- So far, the cryptocurrency has had an all-time high of roughly 64,000 US dollars and increased mainstream adoption.
- In the minds of these traders, if BTC has yet to reach its peak – be it $50,000 or $1 million – then buying it anytime before will lead to a profit.
CEO Michael Saylor explained toCoinDeskthat his venture into bitcoin emerged from the realization that the company’s $500 million cash pile was shrinking as an effect of federal stimulus measures eroding the value of dollars. On this date, Bitcoin reached a new all time high above $20k, bypassing 2017’s record price. Bitcoin’s price soared in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic as investors have found Bitcoin more and more attractive as the US dollar weakened. Tesla also said it will start accepting payments in bitcoin in exchange for its products subject to applicable laws and initially on a limited basis. When less people are looking to buy Bitcoin (i.e. there’s more supply), the price will drop since people aren’t willing to pay as much. The highest price Bitcoin ever reached (Bitcoin all-time high) until today was $20,089 on December 18th 2017. When Bitcoin started out there wasn’t really a price for it since no one was willing to buy it. The first time Bitcoin actually gained value was on October 12, 2009 when Martti Malmi, a Finnish developer that helped Satoshi work on Bitcoin, sold 5050 Bitcoins for $5.02. Bitcoin runs on a proof-of-work blockchain, which is essentially a chain of consecutive blocks containing transaction activity.
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Unfortunately, its resurgence seemingly decimated the altcoin market’s value, with almost all other digital assets suffering huge drops in satoshi and fiat value . Investors are especially disappointed in Ethereum and Litecoin’s current performance, considering the corresponding hike in value during Bitcoin’s 2017 bull run. 2018 has also seen some interesting announcements regarding the advertising of cryptocurrencies. These announcements are widely considered to have had an impact on the crypto market as a whole. For example, on January 30, Facebook announced a blanket ban on crypto ads. This was followed by Google announcing a ban on crypto and ICO advertisements on March 14, and Twitter on March 26. While in early March, BTC was enjoying a price range in the $10,000’s to early $11000’s, it dipped sub $10,000 following the SEC’s March 7 announcement that online platforms trading digital assets must register with them. Just a day later, on January 8, CoinMarketCap removed the prices of South Korean exchanges from its calculations without warning. Consequently, a substantial selloff was triggered, causing the price to lose thousands in the days following, dropping to $13324 on January 11. It was on January 3, 2009, that Bitcoin was brought to life when Satoshi mined the genesis block , allowing him to amass a mining reward of 100 bitcoins.
The number of Bitcoins minted per block to reward miners will continue to halve roughly every four years until a total of 21 million BTC has been minted. The price of Bitcoin also sometimes moves with or in response to changes in the wider economy. For example, Bitcoin made impressive gains in 2020 while many national economies closed down and an unprecedented amount of fiat currency was printed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. His quarter of a million dollar by 2022 prediction is definitely one of the higher predictions given by well-known investors.
This kind of fork requires only a majority of the miners upgrading to enforce the new rules. Bitcoin’s most unique advantage comes from the fact that it was the very first cryptocurrency to appear on the market. Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency originally described in a 2008 whitepaper by a person, or group of people, using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Dogecoin is a peer-to-peer, open-source cryptocurrency that is categorized as an altcoin.
Remember, you can’t “blame the weatherman” when things don’t turn out the way they said. Crypto, like any investment, comes with its risks – some of which can be alleviated through thorough research and due diligence. If you’ve ever stepped into the land of crypto Twitter , you would have probably encountered people tweeting about #DYOR. DYOR is an acronym that simply means “do your own research.” It is used as a recommendation to urge people to do their own research – and not just follow the advice of others.
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The announcement was made via a post on the tech giant’s blog and stated that Microsoft had partnered with Bitpay for Bitcoin payment processing. Bridges is charged with money laundering and obstruction of justice for stealing $820,000 worth of Bitcoin in a similar manner. The release of Bitcoin XT culminated fears that the Bitcoin community may not be able to reach a consensus on the issue, and the blockchain may hard fork, resulting in two separate versions of Bitcoin’s global ledger. Influential members of the Bitcoin community met in Hong Kong to discuss a development plan and timeline for scaling Bitcoin.
“With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call,” a YouTube spokesman said. Bitcoin Cash – the blockchain that forked off Bitcoin in 2017 – reduced its block rewards by half, causing many miners to see gross margins drop to near zero. Twitter put out a blog postconfirming that 130 accounts were targeted and the hackers were able to initiative a password reset, log in to the account, and send tweets for 45 of those accounts. Twitter also said that the hackers were able to download account data belonging to eight unverified users. The Bitcoin wallet where followers were asked to send money received more than $118,000 before Twitter locked down all verified accounts to shut down the scam. The purchase is part of a strategic realignment of the company adopting Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset. tradeallcrypto maintained that funds in its cold wallets are safe, even as the hot wallets were hit. Bitcoin reached its previous all time high of ~$20,000 on December 18, 2017. That price rally is attributed mainly to speculation and the ICO craze that was going around at the time. Cryptocurrency brokerage Coinbase has filed a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, paving the way for plans for an eventual initial public offering.
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They are in favor of smaller bitcoin blocks, which they say are less vulnerable to hacking. On the other side are the miners, who want to increase the size of blocks to make the network faster and more scalable. With any Bitcoin price change making news and keeping investors guessing. First mainstream article on Bitcoin appeared in PC World Online Magazine discussing the options cryptocurrencies can offer in relation to the Wikileaks scandal. Promising consistent weekly “interest” returns of 7% to its creditors, Trendon T. Shavers manages the secretive operation for about eight months, accepting only large deposits of bitcoin (50+ BTC) and paying out “interest” weekly. On August 17, 2012, Pirateat40 announces a halt to the operation, and absconds with deposits estimated between 86,202 and 500,000 BTC. Securities and Exchange Commission files charges against Shavers for defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme. Orchestrated by Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, the Eurogroup, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the €10 billion bailout is hoped to fortify the flagging Cypriot economy. Microsoft revealed it will accept Bitcoin from US customers for “apps, games and other digital content” offered on the Windows and Xbox online stores.
Both services provide access to historical market data across stocks, options, indices, futures and currencies. You can purchase bitcoins on a cryptocurrency exchange, or by buying BTC directly from another investor. Miners use computers or specialized hardware to generate large amounts of computer processing power, and this is used to operate the network and process transactions. They will also receive freshly generated bitcoins until the last bitcoin of the 21 million BTC supply is ‘mined.’ At the current pace of mining, this will happen in the year 2140. If Bitcoin is still around, the miners will be incentivized to do their work for the fees alone, keeping the network up and running. You can use it to buy certain goods and services, or, if you like, easily trade it for currencies like the US dollar on a Bitcoin exchange and spend that instead. Like any other currency, Bitcoin’s value is determined by what the free market thinks it’s worth. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday denied for the second time in a month a request to bring to market a first-of-its-kind product tracking bitcoin, the digital currency. The price of bitcoin has smashed through $5,000 to an all-time high. The cryptocurrency rose by more than 8% to $5,243 having started the year at $966.
Caixin reported that a notice, issued by a working committee that oversees risk in the country’s internet finance sector, said new projects raising cash or other virtual currencies through cryptocurrencies are banned. It added that authorities are cracking down on related fraudulent practices. Read more about ETH to USD here. The document defined initial coin offerings as an unauthorized fundraising tool that may involve financial scams, the Caixin report noted. The committee provided a list of 60 major ICO platforms for local financial regulatory bodies to inspect. A phishing attack on the Electrum wallet network has possibly managed to steal around 245 bitcoins, worth over $880,000 at the time of the attack. The bad actor set up the attack by creating multiple fake servers on the Electrum wallet network.
Some of this year’s drops have been caused by a combination of factors, Noble theorizes, from excitement about low-quality coins, to negative remarks from Elon Musk, to China’s recent crackdown on crypto services. This mix of factors has potential to make sell-offs “all the more violent,” says Noble. The past week’s ups and downs follow a relatively strong start to the month for Bitcoin, which came close to its all-time high on Wednesday, Dec. 1, when it hit $59,000 before falling back. Its price lately is closer to where it was in early October before a climb that lasted throughout November — when it hit its current all-time high over $68,000 on Nov. 10 — and into December. Each and every trade of Bitcoin is tracked and publicly disclosed, with each participant’s digital signature attached to the Bitcoin blockchain as a confirmation. The price of Bitcoin is determined by how little sellers are willing to charge and how much buyers are willing to pay .
Investors who have their bitcoin on exchanges or wallets that support the new currency will soon see their holdings double, with one unit in bitcoin cash added for every bitcoin. But that doesn’t mean the value of investors’ holdings will double. Unlike US dollars, whose buying power the Fed can dilute by printing more greenbacks, there simply won’t be more bitcoin available in the future. That has worried some skeptics, as it means a hack could be catastrophic in wiping out people’s bitcoin wallets, with less hope for reimbursement. An unknown hacker breaches Linode’s server network and immediately seeks out accounts related to bitcoin, quickly compromising the wallets of eight customers. Bitcoinica, a large online bitcoin exchange, is hardest hit, losing more than 43,000 BTC, while other prominent victims include Bitcoin’s lead developer Gavin Andresen as well as Marek Palatinus , the operator of a large mining pool.
It states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users. The more people who own phones, the more exponentially valuable the network becomes. The fundamental and technical models we’ll use later can’t always describe the price behavior we see. External factors, including political and economic events, play large roles that you can analyze individually. One interesting example to look at is a famous hack that took place in Bitcoin’s early days. September 2013 was a red flag for Bitcoin as the prices went from $121 to $117 in the same month.
Square said it represents about 5% of the company’s total assets as of the end of 2020. As Bitcoin’s adoption has grown over the years, more people have likely begun wondering how Bitcoin works. Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency that operates on its own blockchain that is secured and run by a vast global network of participants. It is a borderless asset that can be traded and transacted fractionally. Safeguarded by its open-source code, Bitcoin’s 21 million maximum coin supply makes the asset scarce and deflationary, unlike the U.S. dollar. Bitcoin price history tracking allows you to quickly and easily see how your investment has been performing. You can track the opening value, high, and close for Bitcoin over time, along with the trade volume. You can also see the daily change as a simple percentage at a glance, so you can very easily see which days saw the greatest change. They used the exchange’s software to sell them all nominally, creating a massive “ask” order at any price. Within minutes, the price reverted to its correct user-traded value.
BTC has a maximum supply of 21 million coins — a notable point of focus when discussing BTC value. Mt. Gox, the Japan-based exchange that in 2013 handled 70% of all worldwide bitcoin traffic, declared bankruptcy in February 2014, with bitcoins worth about $390 million missing, for unclear reasons. The CEO was eventually arrested and charged with embezzlement. On 3 April 2013, Instawallet, a web-based wallet provider, was hacked, resulting in the theft of over 35,000 bitcoins which were valued at US$129.90 per bitcoin at the time, or nearly $4.6 million in total. By December 2017, bitcoin futures contracts began to be offered, and the US Chicago Board Options Exchange was formally settling the futures daily.By 2019, multiple trading companies were offering services around bitcoin futures.
This calculation gives implausible price predictions that tend to infinity. You can read more about Stock to Flow’s advantages and disadvantages in our Bitcoin and the Stock to Flow Model article. Since 2009, Bitcoin’s price has been subject to large volatility. The factors mentioned above have all contributed to its journey so far. Although the price has had its ups and downs, the price is still dramatically higher than when it began. What is your price prediction of Bitcoin for the month of September 2021? The price of Bitcoin was $11970 at the beginning of the month and it gradually decreased to $10784 by the dawn of the month. The price of BTC on 1st September was $7193 and it wintessed a crash and ended up at $6601.
In response, the Mt. Gox exchange temporarily halted bitcoin deposits. The exchange rate fell 23% to $37 on the Mt. Gox exchange but rose most of the way back to its prior level of $48. In January 2014, Zynga announced it was testing bitcoin for purchasing in-game assets in seven of its games. That same month, The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino properties in downtown Las Vegas announced they would also begin accepting bitcoin, according to an article by USA Today. The article also stated the currency would be accepted in five locations, including the front desk and certain restaurants. On 6 August 2010, a major vulnerability in the bitcoin protocol was spotted. Transactions weren’t properly verified before they were included in the transaction log or blockchain, which let users bypass bitcoin’s economic restrictions and create an indefinite number of bitcoins. On 15 August, the vulnerability was exploited; over 184 billion bitcoins were generated in a transaction, and sent to two addresses on the network. Within hours, the transaction was spotted and erased from the transaction log after the bug was fixed and the network forked to an updated version of the bitcoin protocol. This was the only major security flaw found and exploited in bitcoin’s history.


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The annual Toy Consignment Sale is happening this weekend in Warsaw, and it’s your chance to find some cash in your child’s toy box.
Good used toys that your child no longer plays with can be turned into some cool cash for your holiday spending. It’s also a great way to recycle toys and give another child the opportunity to enjoy them. Plus, the proceeds from the sale will be used to purchase new toys that will go to children in our local communities who might not otherwise have Christmas gifts.
Used toys are being accepted for the consignment sale today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The public is encouraged to bring gently used toys to the Home and Family Arts building at the Kosciusko County Community fairgrounds where volunteers are on hand to collect the toys and price them for the consignment sale. The public sale is to be held 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15.
On Friday night, Dec. 13, those who contribute toys for the sale will have the opportunity to shop for replacement toys first.
According to Sarah Pitt-Baier, whose family has been making this sale possible for 20 years, 50 percent of all sale proceeds will go toward the purchase of new toys that will then be given away the following week in the annual toy giveaway. Sellers should note that none of the toys brought for the consignment sale will be returned.
Consignors may choose to collect their 50 percent of the sale or donate it to for the toy giveaway. Proceeds from the sale will be used by the Pitt family and CCS to purchase new toys that will be made available to parents and grandparents on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 17-18.
Parents who cannot afford to provide for their children’s Christmas are encouraged to attend the Combined Community Services Toy Giveaway on Tuesday, Dec. 17, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Home and Family Arts Building at the fairgrounds.
CCS staff and volunteers will assist in making sure toys are evenly distributed. It is preferred that parents come to the toy giveaway without their children as Pitt-Baier explained, “We want this to bring family unity on Christmas morning. If the kids are there, then it isn’t a surprise and we want them to have that excitement on Christmas morning of opening their presents.”
The toy giveaway will then be opened to grandparents on Wednesday, Dec. 18, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., also at the fairgrounds.
Each year, proceeds from the consignment sale, as well as donations from private individuals and groups like ABATE, make it possible to provide approximately $5,000 in new toys for the CCS giveaway.
For more information, contact this year’s toy sale coordinator Ami Pitt at 574-265-4179.


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WARSAW — According to JB, for 6 hours only on New Year’s Day, 2020, they will be taking an additional 20% off the entire store, regardless of marked sale prices already on the tags. All living room, including reclining furniture, coffee table and end tables, bedroom and dining room, and even innerspring mattresses, accessories and lamps – even already marked down items – will be reduced another 20% for 6 hours only from 9 – 3 on New Year’s Day.
This is the best sale JB’s Furniture will have for the entire year, don’t miss your opportunity to save on top quality brand name furniture like Flexsteel, Bassett, Home Stretch recliners, our famous 2-sided mattresses, and more on January 1, 2020.
Doors open 9 a.m. sharp. Shop early for best selection.
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Power switch problem causes chainsaw to stay on
Harbor Freight Tools is recalling their Portland, One Stop Gardens and Chicago Electric 14 inch electric chainsaws.
The power switch can malfunction and cause the chainsaw to continue operating despite the switch being turned off, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Harbor Freight Tools received 15 reports of the chainsaws not turning off properly including one report of a person who had to get stitches on the arm due to a serious injury caused by the chainsaw, according to CPSC.
The company has also received two other laceration reports.
About 1,020,000 chainsaws were recalled starting May 14.
Consumers are advised to return the product to Harbor Freight Tools. Replacement units will be available starting May 21.
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Discount School Supply is recalling their Colorations™ brand extra-large crayons due to glass in the red crayons.
About 2,200 of the crayon boxes are being recalled.
The firm received two reports of a red crayon with glass in it, according to CPSC.
The product was sold exclusively at DiscountSchoolSupply.com from June 2017 through October 2017 for about $36.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled crayons and contact Discount School Supply to obtain a free full replacement set. Discount School Supply is contacting all known purchasers directly.
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Regency Fireplace Products is recalling their gas stove fireplaces (models U37 and U39) due to explosion and injury hazards.
The pressure release system can fail and cause the gas stove to explode, posing explosion and injury hazards, according to CPSC.
Regency has received three reports of the pressure system failing, and one report of the door hinge breaking, including one incident that resulted in minor cuts to the consumer’s legs.
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The official poster for the 2012 Cazenovia College Fashion Show, designed by junior visual communications major Joshua Skibbee. The show will be held at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. on April 21, inside the college’s athletic complex.
Cazenovia College’s Fashion Program is once again ready to display the creativity of its students on the catwalk during this year’s fashion show.
The theme, based on fairytales, was created by last year’s fashion promotion class through a trend forecasting process, and was carried over for use in this year’s show. Rather than princesses and fairies, this show will be based on the darker, “grim” sides.
Fashion enthusiasts should be prepared to experience their favorite fairytales in an unexpected way while viewing the work students have been perfecting since the spring of 2011.
Sponsored by Dreissig Apparel, “Lost in a Fashion Fairytale” — as the show was aptly named by this year’s Fashion Production and Management class — will be held at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. on April 21, in Cazenovia College’s Schneeweiss Athletic Complex, located at the end of Liberty Street in Cazenovia.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students, and free for children ages 5 and under. Tickets may be purchased by mail until April 11; after this they be purchased at the door.
The stage set, choreography and music choices have been developed by Cazenovia College fashion merchandising students in the fashion production and management class. Students have organized and are involved in every aspect of the show, including taking the photos used as banners, creating promotional materials, and modeling the garments.
Come walk through the woods with Goldilocks, get lost with Hansel and Gretel, see the wicked witch from Snow White and many more.
For more information or to order tickets, visit cazenovia.edu/fashionshow, call the Fashion Show Hotline at 655-7043, or email at email@example.com.


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Find your happy place in Mercer County.
Fields of sunflowers greeted those who happened along Ross Road this summer, and another field is nearing readiness.
Corn and beans are so commonplace, they hardly draw looks. But fields of sunflowers — it’s an experiment that, so far, is paying off.
Vaughn Davis decided to try sunflowers on some land owned by his father, Lowell. His father, who formerly made a career in insurance, started buying land in the 1970s to recapture the farming lifestyle of his childhood. Lowell Davis, 79, now owns 600 acres in the area.
On the farm on Ross Road sits the Frysinger School, a one-room schoolhouse that served Dublin Township children, as well as Vaughn’s great-grandmother.
“The kids that went through this (schoolhouse) won World War I and World War II for us,” Lowell Davis said.
Lowell Davis began restoring the school in 2007, fixing the roof and evicting the raccoons from under it. The refinished oak floors still bear marks singed from embers flying from the potbellied stove that used to sit in the middle of the classroom. Maps hang from its walls above original walnut wainscotting — Lowell Davis is tickled by a reproduction map from 1804 showing Fort Wayne, Indiana, as part of Ohio — and a flag at the chalkboard has 34 stars, the correct number of states when the school opened.
“It should last a good many years,” Lowell Davis said.
It’s a piece of history in the modern era, serving as Vaughn Davis’ office and inspiration as it sits tucked into a row of newer grain bins. Vaughn was born in Celina, graduated from high school in Troy, earned a chemical engineering degree from Vanderbilt University and, after lots of travel domestically and overseas, settled in Maine with his family. But he always came home to help his dad harvest both traditional crops and the popcorn crop his father started about 10 years ago.
His mother is a Master Gardener, her father was a longtime exhibitor at county fairs, and his eldest son is a landscape designer.
“I think it’s in our blood. I’m not sure. It seems that way,” he said.
The side of his personality that earned an MBA in international marketing meshes with his love of gardening. He quickly put together that people in Maine enjoy buying sunflower seeds for birdfeeders, and land is available for that crop in Ohio.
He just had to figure out how to plant, raise and harvest them.
“Sort of on a lark, we planted two or three acres of sunflowers back of the schoolhouse,” Vaughn Davis said. He sold the harvest out immediately, using his Maine friends and contacts for wholesale sales. Last year, he increased the acreage. This year, he increased it again to 40 acres of sunflowers for seed. He also planted floral sunflowers for a partnership with Something from the Garden in Van Wert, owned by Juli Hamilton.
“She thought she could sell them. I thought I could grow them,” Vaughn Davis said.
After being introduced by a mutual friend, Vaughn Davis and Hamilton struck a deal. She sells his floral stems at farmers markets. These varieties lack the massive seedy centers.
On another whim this year, Vaughn Davis experimented with publicizing an event on Facebook. He opened his fields for free photo opportunities and cuttings, at $1 per stem.
“It was just sort of a Facebook viral event,” Vaughn Davis said. Hundreds responded, cars filling the barnyard.
“I think it makes people happy. It’s all about the experience,” he said.
Hamilton said there is a lot of potential.
“They’re just a happy flower. It doesn’t matter how straggly they look, they’re just still so pretty,” she said. “So to see a 40-acre field in mass bloom was stunning.”
This year, he planted about 25,000 flowers. Next year, he plans on 75,000 plants. And he will increase the Facebook photo events also, staggering plantings so they bloom at various times.
Vaughn Davis hasn’t worked as an engineer since 2014 and has fully embarked on his second career. He splits his time between Maine and Ohio — his wife’s finance career in Maine is booming — and dreams of a retail store with sunflower fields for both birdseed and human consumption and perhaps even a botanical garden. He is dabbling in sunflower oil, which goes hand in hand with the Davis’ popcorn. His goal is to make Ross Road a destination, fully embracing agritourism.
When asked why he chose Rockford: “Why go anywhere else? I wanted to make it personal. It was important for me to use land that was in the family to do this. There’s something about the story that I think resonates well.”
The popcorn label, in fact, boasts the GPS coordinates of the farm.
“I just think a lot of people want to know where their stuff comes from,” he said. “My life has become growing plants with economic possibilities.”
Vaughn Davis enjoys working for himself and poking at ideas as they materialize, from coming up with an easier-to-ship retail popcorn bag to having a friend in Maine design a logo for the business to retrofitting an electric motor on his great-grandfather’s grain cleaner. Oh, and he might start growing lavender in Maine.
“I’ve put my MBA to use,” he said, chuckling. “I expect this all to work. I think you have to believe that, or why start?”
• Follow Schoolhouse Farms 1862 on Facebook for details on a photo day in the sunflower fields. The final field for the season will bloom in mid-September. Photos may be taken for free; cuttings are $1 per stem.
• 5486 Ross Road, Rockford
• Schoolhouse Farms 1862 products such as popcorn and sunflower oils are available for purchase at Something from the Garden, 13492 U.S. 224, Van Wert. The store stocks flowers, produce and goods like jellies and honey. Follow Something from the Garden on Facebook for a farmers market schedule.


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Singapore-based consumer internet company Glance, which had signed an agreement to raise $200 million funding from Jio Platforms in February, has announced that it has acquired Indian gaming company Gambit to accelerate its ambition to build the largest platform for NFT-based live gaming experiences for Gen-Z in markets.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Co-founded in 2015 by Yashashvi Takallapalli, Gaurav Konar, Ranaveer Sankieneni and Deepak Venkatramani, Gambit owns and operates Nostragamus (Nostra Pro), a highly popular gaming platform with fantasy sports, poker, rummy, quiz and hyper-casual games. Over 100 million games have been played on the Nostragamus platform, and it has close to 10 million registered users.
The acquisition intends to combine Glance’s scale and lock screen-centric innovation with Gambit’s expertise in the gaming ecosystem. Glance’s lock screen gaming platform has over 45 million monthly active users in Asia. Nearly 70% of its users are between the ages of 18-34, while more than 40% of its players are women.
“Gaming is the most exciting content category across the world today and Gen-Z spends more time on gaming than on any other activity online,” said Piyush Shah, Co-founder of InMobi Group and President and COO, Glance. “Giving users live, connected, interactive gaming experiences on the lock screen is key to Glance’s vision of building the world’s largest live internet platform. We also aim to launch creator-led NFTs for live gaming which will generate unique ‘play-to-earn’ and ‘play-to-own’ possibilities for the entire gaming ecosystem,” he added.
With the acquisition of Gambit, in addition to launching highly engaging live gaming experiences including tournaments, game shows, game streaming and multiplayer on the lock screen, Glance will also launch a multitude of casual-to-midcore games that can be enjoyed by a variety of gamer groups.
In the coming quarters, Glance also plans to launch NFTs in live gaming. This will potentially enable creators, streamers and developers to monetize through assets and NFT-based game creation, while giving gamers unique experiences that they love.
Said Yashashvi Takallapalli, Co-founder and CEO, Gambit, “We have already started seeing great traction for live gaming on Glance. For instance, over 10 million users watch live game streams on Glance every week now. With Glance and Gambit’s combined strengths and our belief that there is a game for every person, we envision doubling the number of monthly active gamers on Glance Games in the next year.”


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Apple today published its picks for the best media in 2018 across its various platforms and services. These include selections for best app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, as well as top picks in categories of music, TV and movies, podcasts, and books. Alongside these editorial selections, Apple has published top charts for the year across the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books.
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When iOS 12 launches this fall, it will introduce a newly redesigned iBooks app simply named Books. Though the reading experience in Books is largely the same as before, the rest of the app is drastically different, offering the biggest app redesign on iOS since last year's App Store.
Modern design is a clear centerpiece of Books, but the app also includes new features, big and small, that make it feel all-new. From tools that borrow from Goodreads, to more robust collections, to dark mode, and much more. There's a lot to explore here, so let's dive in.


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Despite its successes, some experts believe Aldi’s BB #:116756 model does not lend itself well to online sales, representing a potential weakness for the chain.
“No one is really making money in ecommerce in food right now, and Aldi is a no-frills, low-cost environment,” said Jim Hertel, senior vice president at Inmar Analytics in Winston-Salem, NC.
If the chain does take the plunge, he believes it will be approached very cautiously, “because it will be hard to deliver value at a very low cost in this venue.”
That said, the company has entered the online space by partnering with Instacart in four metro areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles.
“Instacart has done well in our research in terms of shopper satisfaction, with the various touchpoints of the online shopping experience,” said Brian Numainville, principal at Retail Feedback Group, who believes the partnership will provide a positive experience for Aldi customers.
“In a cross-shopping environment, a lot of what Aldi does well involves convincing more shoppers to move a portion of their full shop to its cheaper alternative,” said Simon Johnstone, director of retail insights at Kantar Consulting, Boston, MA.
“Where it seemingly ‘fails’ is convincing shoppers to switch a higher proportion of their spending to Aldi. As a result, the chain has recognized it cannot grow shopper acceptance, penetration, and basket size by solely focusing on price alone. Aldi has been shifting its marketing message from strength in simplicity to strength in surprise.”
As a result, Aldi is trying to build more awareness of price with “lowest-price” offers, strengthening quality by adding more brands in key categories (including fresh) and educating shoppers, and focusing on more effective promotions to drive excitement about weekly offers.
This is an excerpt from the most recent Produce Blueprints quarterly journal. Click here to read the full version.


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Motorola on Tuesday finally announced that the HSUPA-enabling ATRIX 4G update thousands of users have been clamoring for has finally begun rolling out to devices. Software update v4.1.83 for the ATRIX 4G includes several updates that Motorola claims will improve device performance — none of those improvements will have quite the dramatic impact that enabling HSUPA will, of course. AT&T had disabled HSUPA when the ATRIX 4G was first released, and countless of users gathered on forums to complain of the slow upload speeds they were experiencing on their “4G” devices. Thousands of angry ATRIX owners even signed a petition to voice their disdain. AT&T finally responded and told users a future update would enable HSUPA, and now that update is finally available. Motorola has issued the OTA update and users should receive a notification once it is queued up for their devices. Impatient ATRIX owners can also initiate the update manually from within the device settings. More →
Here’s some good news on a Friday afternoon. Over the next few weeks, AT&T will begin pushing out an update for the Motorola Atrix 4G. The software bump — which was first spotted by Droid Matters earlier today — will, most notably, remove the uplink speed restrictions currently present on the dual-core handset. Here is AT&T’s official statement:
Today, AT&T began to deploy an update for the HTC Inspire™ 4G that provides, among other features, the addition of enhanced uplink speed technology. (HSUPA).
An update that adds HSUPA for the Motorola ATRIX 4G has cleared testing and will be deployed soon.
Both updates will roll out to customers of both phones over the coming weeks. Users will get a message on their device notifying them of an update and to connect to Wi-Fi to download it. After downloading it, the user needs to only allow the update to automatically install.
There you have it. The handcuffs are being taken off your Motorola Atrix 4G. Enjoy.
No, this isn’t April Fools. AmazonWireless is selling AT&T’s Motorola ATRIX 4G for $49.99 with a new two-year AT&T contract. That’s $150 less than AT&T’s $199.99 price tag. Sure, there’s been some hoopla about AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ performance on the ATRIX, but it still packs plenty of punch with a killer dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor clocked at 1GHz, 1GB of RAM, Android 2.2 (Froyo), and a sharper-than-diamonds 960 x 540-pixel display. AmazonWireless sweetens the deal even further by knocking $100 off of the Motorola Laptop Dock accessory, which typically retails for $399.99 when purchased separately. We called the ATRIX 4G one of the best Android smartphones to ever be available from AT&T when we reviewed it in February, so you know you’re getting some top-notch gear. The $49.99 deal is likely a limited-time offer, so don’t delay if you’re in the market for a new smartphone from AT&T. More →
Software version 4.1.57 for the Motorola ATRIX 4G is now available. The 17MB file, issued by Motorola, adds a number of improvements but is not the expected AT&T update that includes HSUPA support. After downloading the update, Motorola says users should notice the following changes:
- Bluetooth: Improved multimedia experience with Bluetooth devices as well as the ability to use phone with additional headsets.
- Fingerprint reader: Improved fingerprint reader performance.
- Battery: Improved battery performance for longer battery life.
- Screen: Display will turn off automatically now while charging directly on wall charger.
- Phone stability: Improved stability resulting in fewer occurrences of touch unresponsiveness and/of programs quitting unexpectedly.
- Car dock: Improved performance of car dock and 3.5mm jack.
It’s been reported that the update may cause some issues with those who have rooted their phones. AT&T has said that the upcoming HSUPA software update, which should ratchet up upload speeds on the ATRIX 4G and Inspire 4G, will land in April. Hit the jump for instructions on installing software version 4.1.57 on your ATRIX 4G.
BGR has confirmed with AT&T that both the Motorola ATRIX 4G and the HTC Inspire 4G will receive software updates in April that will enable HSUPA. The confirmation follows a report on Friday from enthusiast blog DroidMatters.com, which points out a posting to the same effect on AT&T’s Facebook page. A Motorola representative stated earlier this week that the company was working on an update for AT&T’s ATRIX 4G due for release in April, but he stated that the update would not enable HSUPA. He was apparently mistaken, though his comment on the matter remains live on Motorola’s forum. ATRIX 4G and Inspire 4G owners have been very vocal about the lack of true “4G” compatibility in the devices, and it looks like AT&T is finally preparing to remedy the situation. AT&T has not yet announced further details surrounding the software updates or a timeline for their distribution. More →
Motorola on Wednesday announced the pre-release of a software update that will ultimately find its way to ATRIX 4G devices across the country in the near future. In a call for beta testers on the company’s support forum, Motorola announced that it is seeking 1,000 ATRIX 4G users to test a pre-release version of the device’s first software update. The big question on users’ minds, of course, was weather or not the update would enable HSUPA. Many ATRIX 4G users have openly complained of slow upload speeds, and over 1,100 people have signed a digital petition in protest of AT&T’s disabling of HSUPA on the device. AT&T would later confirm that HSUPA had been disabled on the ATRIX, though the carrier did note that full 4G upload speeds would be enabled on the smartphone in the future. Responding to questions in the call for beta testers, a Motorola rep identified as Mark (Forums Manager) confirmed that this first software update for the ATRIX will not enable HSUPA. “HSUPA is not included in this update though a future update will enable it,” the rep wrote on the forum. “More details to come from AT&T.” Registration for the software trial is open until 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday. More →
AT&T on Thursday responded to a Better Business Bureau complaint alleging that the carrier is capping data speeds on new “4G” devices like the Motorola ATRIX 4G. The BBB grievance was part of a series of complaints, both public and private, pertaining to slower than expected upload speeds on devices like the ATRIX 4G and HTC’s Inspire 4G. AT&T responded to BGR’s request for comment earlier this week, but the carrier’s statement left some room for interpretation. Now, any vagueness has been eliminated, at least in the case of the ATRIX. “Be assured that AT&T has not ‘capped’ the upload speeds on the ATRIX,” an AT&T appeals manager stated in a letter to a customer. “The ATRIX is a HSUPA-capable device, and we currently are performing the testing and preparations necessary to ensure that, when we turn this feature on, you will continue to have a world class experience.” This confirmation that the ATRIX 4G will have HSUPA enabled in the future should help ease the tension among users who are currently experiencing slow upload speeds, though AT&T has not commented on why HSUPA was disabled to begin with. Hit the break for AT&T’s full response. More →
Some Motorola ATRIX 4G and HTC Inspire 4G owners on the AT&T network have been up in arms since purchasing their new 4G handsets. Despite the presence of “4G” in each moniker, users are experiencing slower than expected upload speeds on the devices. Some users like Zack Nebbaki have been so upset by the slow upload speeds, they’ve gone as far as to create a petition to voice their discontent. While we wish we had something more concrete to report, we just received the following comment from an AT&T spokesperson that may help put some minds at ease: “We have a number of HSUPA devices today and we will have more HSUPA-enabled devices in the future — new devices and updates to existing models.” The statement does not specifically refer to the ATRIX or Inspire so nothing is confirmed, but the mention of “updates to existing models” should at least give users hope that their 4G phones might be updated in the future.
Despite AT&T’s decision to slap “4G” right in the name, the new HTC Inspire 4G smartphone doesn’t even feature full compatibility with the “4G” HSPA+ AT&T network. Following T-Mobile’s lead, AT&T announced at CES that its 3G HSPA+ network is now a 4G HSPA+ network. With that announcement came the unveiling of several smartphones, one of which — the HTC Inspire 4G — launched last week. But users taking delivery of the device noticed immediately that while download speeds were on par with other HSDPA-enabled AT&T smartphones, upload speeds seemed quite slow. The explanation is simple enough: HTC’s Inspire 4G either doesn’t feature compatibility with AT&T’s HSUPA service, or the carrier has disabled it in the phone’s firmware. Wow. We’ve already expressed our feelings on 4G, but we never imagined carriers would push things further still and smack “4G” stickers on smartphones that don’t even support their fake 4G networks. Let this be a lesson, subscribers… Buyer beware. Not all 4G is created equal and not all fake 4G phones are even compatible with fake 4G networks. But who would want the Inspire 4G anyway, when you could have the Morris 4G? More →
AT&T might not call its HSPA+ network “4G” like T-Mobile does, but trust us when we tell you… AT&T’s enhanced 3G network can move. The screen shot above, taken just outside New York city on Wednesday afternoon, shows an iPhone 4 enjoying download speeds of 5Mbps on AT&T’s HSPA+ network. According to AT&T CTO John Donovan, 80% of AT&T’s network is now covered by HSPA+, though he did not elaborate on average speeds are experienced in various regions. Donovan also discussed the growth rate of data traffic on the carrier’s network, which is up 3,000% over the past three years — from approximately 1 billion MB in Q3 2007 to a staggering 30.3 billion MB in Q3 2010. Growth has slowed in recent months, from 50% growth in Q2 of this year to 30% in Q3, but the carrier isn’t expecting its data growth rate to continue decreasing. AT&T is currently preparing to launch an LTE network next year that will be even faster than its HSPA+ network, which has a theoretical downlink limit of 21Mbps. AT&T has not publicly stated firm speed expectations for its LTE network. More →
AT&T has officially released a statement about why some users have been experiencing sub-par (and we do mean sub-par) upload speeds over the past several days. The statement reads:
“AT&T and Alcatel-Lucent jointly identified a software defect — triggered under certain conditions – that impacted uplink performance for Laptop Connect and smartphone customers using 3G HSUPA-capable wireless devices in markets with Alcatel-Lucent equipment. This impacts less than two percent of our wireless customer base. While Alcatel-Lucent develops the appropriate software fix, we are providing normal 3G uplink speeds and consistent performance for affected customers with HSUPA-capable devices.”
So there you have it, a software issue. Let us know your thoughts on the matter in the comments.
“Now stop me if you’ve seen this.” And so Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 4. Featuring stainless steel banding around the sides and a glass front, the iPhone 4’s “closest kin is a beautiful old camera.” It’s 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS at 9.3mm thick, which Apple claims makes it the smallest smartphone on the planet or “a quarter thinner than something you didn’t think could get any thinner.” The three stainless steel bands surrounding the device that look very un-Apple actually serve two purposes: they add to the structural integrity of the device and double as antenna boosters. Smart.
The iPhone 4 has a 3.5″ display that has 78% the pixels of the iPad. With a resolution of 960×640 — or 4x the resolution of the first three iPhones — the iPhone 4 has four pixels where the other devices only had space for one for a total of 326 pixels per inch. Apple calls this “Retina Display” technology and says it translates to images and text so incredibly sharp that you’ll feel like you’re looking at a “finely printed book” instead of a mobile display. The display technology also means that apps will not have to be rescaled, so everything currently in the App Store will The display also has a 800:1 contrast ratio.
Moving on the the processor. Yes, indeedy, the iPhone 4 is powered by an Apple-designed A4 SoC. Apart from providing raw power, the A4 also sips juice from the battery as opposed to gulping it. This means the iPhone 4 is good for 7 hours of 3G talktime, 6 hours of browsing over 3G, 10 hours of browsing over Wi-Fi, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music and 300 hours of standby. As expected, 802.11n Wi-Fi is included as is a quad-band HSDPA radio capable of 7.2Mbps down and 5.8Mbps up. The iPhone 4 also introduces a dual-mic system for noise cancellation and a gyroscope which combined with the accelerometer allow for 6-axis motion sensing.
The iPhone 4’s main camera weighs in at 5 megapixels. What makes it special, according to Apple, is its backside illuminated sensor. This allows more photons to bombard the sensor resulting in better low-light photos. A sole LED flash straddles the camera sensor. Digital zoom tops out at 5x, while video capture has been stepped up to shoot 720p at 30fps. The LED flash is fully functional when capturing videos.
Not included with iPhone 4 but to be available in the App Store for $4.99 is iMovie. iMovie for the iPhone is pretty much what you’d expect — that is if you were expecting a feature-rich mobile movie editing application that’s capable of manhandling 720p videos. You can rearrange clips by dragging them about; add in photos, transitions, titles, and music; and use geolocation so you’ll have no excuses for forgetting exactly where you were when you shot the film.
And then there’s the front-facing camera. It runs the open application FaceTime. Apple is currently working with wireless providers to bring forth bonafide 3G video calls, but as far as 2010 is concerned you’re stuck with Wi-Fi. If for some reason you don’t want the person you’re calling to see your mug — or perhaps you just want them to see what you’re looking at — you can switch from the front-facing camera to the 5MP camera on the back.
So when can you get the iPhone 4? If you live in the US, UK, Germany, France or Japan you’ll be able to pre-order it on June 15th and pick it up on the 24th. In the US, AT&T will sell the 16GB model for $199 and the 32GB model for $299 (both assuming a 2-year contract). At an unspecified time in July, 18 other countries — Canada included — will get the iPhone. Oh and how could we forget? The iPhone 4 will be available in both black and white. More →
Nothing upsets geeks more than grabbing a gadget the moment it becomes available only to find issues with it. Google feels your pain when it comes to your 3G connectivity woes on the Nexus One. Currently, Google is in the process of testing a software fix and the results look promising. Assuming everything gets sorted and fixed on Google’s end, the software update will become available via an OTA download. However, Google also claims that the 3G issues might be because of T-Mobile’s 3G footprint. Those living in fringe areas, or the edges of T-Mobile’s 3G coverage, can’t be helped because it’s beyond Google’s control. Funny, we didn’t hear too many complaints about 3G connectivity with the G1 or myTouch 3G. Though maybe people just had lower expectations then. More →


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At present, binary options are subject to regulation by the UK Gambling Commission. However, current developments on the legislative side are expected to bring about some changes in the near future. The FCA is contemplating treating digital options as a financial product.
Submitted by Toni H. on Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:52:03 GMT
Submitted by Toni H. on Mon, 05 Dec 2016 21:59:35 GMT
France recently banned binary options advertisement, and Belgium completely banned retail online trading in forex and binary. There are rumors that the Netherlands will also create restrictions on that matter. Traders are asking what is next. Will binary trading be completely forbidden?


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Cape Town - Cyber incidents are a top concern for the financial services industry, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2018.
Close to 2 000 risk experts in 80 countries were surveyed.
The second biggest concern in the financial services industry is changes in legislation and regulations, up from being the third biggest concern in 2017.
Business interruption was indicated as the third biggest concern this year, followed by concerns about new technologies in fourth place. According to the survey report, the concerns of business interruption and new technologies are fairly new risks in the sector.
The survey found that business disruptions due to cyber incidents is a major concern in the South African financial services sector.
As online banking increased in the country, so did cyber attacks on the networks of financial service providers. These attacks can take the form of unauthorised access or introducing malicious software on a company’s system. It could lead to a significant loss of data for a financial services company and the unavailability or control of its IT systems.
The risk barometer further shows that, while there are not many new entrants in the SA financial services sector due to stern licensing regulations, innovation and market stagnation are a cause for concern in the sector.
“Cyber incidents aren't just caused by hackers. Technical failure or malicious or innocent employee action is often to blame. Whatever the cause, reputational damage is irrevocably linked,” said Nobuhle Nkosi, head of financial lines at AGCS Africa.
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