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National Dairy Month Encourages Americans to Eat More Cheese
By Patrick Cavanaugh, Farm News Director
Across the country, National Dairy Month will be celebrated during the month of June to promote the consumption of dairy products. Though California is the number one dairy state, California dairy farmers have been experiencing a decline in dairy production amidst high labor costs, competition from other states and declining profit.
Founded in 1937 as National Milk Month with the goal of increasing milk consumption to stabilize the dairy surplus, the holiday was renamed National Dairy Month to encompass all dairy products.
Anja Raudabaugh, CEO of Western United Dairymen
Anja Raudabaugh, CEO of Western United Dairymen in Modesto, Calif., is hopeful that celebrating National Milk Month will educate more consumers about the health benefits of diary products, increase dairy consumption opportunities, open more markets and enable the lagging dairy industry in California to better compete with other states.
States such as South Dakota and Wisconsin have ramped up their milk production significantly, which has stressed California producers to even the gap. According to Raudabaugh, the term oversupply doesn’t necessarily apply to the dairy conditions in this state. She remarked, “We’re actually in a 17-month decline at the moment, which is the longest decline [in milk production] we have ever been in.”
The dairy industry has managed to be very competitive with wages, another stressor, but the high labor costs are hurting production companies. “As things get more and more competitive globally,” said Raudaubaugh, “we are going to continue to struggle to figure out how those margins play out.”
“The margin is going to continue to shrink, especially as wages get more and more competitive,” Raudaubaugh observed. “Being a worker on a dairy farm is certainly very wage-competitive throughout the agricultural industry. We cannot keep workers at anything less than about $16 or $15 an hour as it is, so it’s a good time to be a worker in the dairy industry. It’s a good craft and skill to have if you become a milker.”
Given Western United Dairymen’s mission to promote and administer programs and policies aimed at maintaining the longevity of the dairy industry on the West Coast, and as the milk industry struggles and continues to face tough times, Raudabaugh has a solution: “Eat more cheese.”
Enter: National Cheese Day every June 4! According to the California Milk Advisory Board website and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) 2014 data, California is the #2 cheese producing state—right behind Wisconsin—and the #1 producer of Monterey Jack cheese. An amazing 43% of California’s cow’s milk is used to make California cheese, which is produced by more than 50 California cheesemakers.
Even beyond cheese, Raudabaugh said, “There is a tremendous amount of diversity in the way people have exposure to dairy products they don’t even know about. There are yogurts and sour creams, ice creams, and whey products.” She believes market sectors should understand more about the dairy products consumers are exposed to every day to increase not only more milk consumption, but higher-value dairy as well.
“The diversification of the product line is really what has kept us in business,” reflects Raudabaugh, “It’s what keeps us looking to the horizon and looking to the future optimistically, even in the face of some pretty bad milk prices right now.”
Remember California dairy producers, particularly, this month—National Dairy Month, and try a new dairy product. And discover a new cheese tomorrow, June 4, National Cheese Day!


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Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, is pleased to announce the launch of its first in-house designed terminals. Innovated to facilitate diverse payment use cases, the terminal range marks the latest step forward in Adyen’s growing unified commerce offering. Running on the company’s single platform, the new devices remain inherently flexible, in order to address a rapidly advancing payment landscape and ever-evolving customer needs.
“Adyen’s commitment is to help businesses realize their ambitions faster, and creating our own terminals is the latest way we’re delivering on this promise,” said Kamran Zaki, COO at Adyen. “We always innovate based on customer feedback to deliver superior experiences with speed and flexibility. With our in-person payments offering, businesses have a full suite of terminals to choose from, enabling them to pick the best one to meet their specific needs.”
Adyen remains focused on driving innovation in unified commerce, ranging from enterprises to SMBs via platforms. The devices realize customer wishes to be mobile, discrete, reliable, affordable, with long-lasting battery, and accepting payments spanning a tap, dip, or swipe. The company thoughtfully considered the model’s design details, ensuring the sound, look and feel all speak to Adyen’s standard of excellence across payment experiences. The devices run on Adyen’s single platform, which enables end-to-end control, tailored payment flows, and high speed of innovation at the point-of-sale.

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Lizzie Dakin joins element. as Director of Technology and Services
element. announces the appointment of Lizzie Dakin as director of technology and services
23 March 2020: element. Travel Technology, the provider of cutting-edge travel technology to Travel Management Companies today announced the appointment of Lizzie Dakin as Director of Technology and Services. Lizzie is a technology specialist with over 20 years’ experience in the delivery and support of technology systems for global TMCs and travel businesses.
Lizzie said: “I am delighted to join element at a time when it has exciting plans to provide better services and more opportunities for its customers by expanding its technology portfolio.”
She will handle delivering travel technology and services to TMCs, enabling them to provide their existing and potential clients with the user experience their travellers want.
Lizzie added: “I look forward to working with element and its clients, helping them achieve their technology goals well into the future.”
Gavin Smith, CEO of founder of element said: “Lizzie brings a wealth of experience and expertise in travel technology and programme management, which will prove invaluable to our existing and future clients. With our strong portfolio strategy there are exciting opportunities ahead for us to expand our business and explore new markets. I am thrilled to welcome Lizzie into the role.”
About Element Travel Technology
In an ever-evolving technological landscape, Travel Management Companies can find it hard to keep up with the increasing demands of their client base and prospective new customers.
Element helps Travel Management Companies run better by lowering the barrier of technology adoption. Our expert team are also on hand to offer a variety of review and process improvement services, ensuring organisations can get the best ROI from their business travel programmes.
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Jewel supermarket managers in the Chicago area have been told to "take whatever steps are necessary" to ensure that minors cannot buy lottery tickets from store vending machines, a company spokeswoman said Friday.
According to Jewel Food Stores spokeswoman Karen Ramos, that could mean disabling or removing the machines or moving them to more visible locations where store personnel could monitor their use.
"We are continuing to meet with Illinois Lottery officials to resolve the situation," she said. "This isn't something you take immediate action on. We have had lottery machines in stores since 1994."
By law, Illinois lottery ticket-buyers must be at least 18 years old. Earlier this month, Dominick's Finer Foods shut down lottery vending machines in its stores after a sting operation by the Illinois State Crime Commission. In the sting, two girls, ages 12 and 14, successfully purchased tickets 20 times from lottery machines at stores in Chicago and the north and northwest suburbs.
A few days later, five stores in Schaumburg voluntarily shut down their machines after a minor purchased tickets at the stores in a similar sting.
Illinois Lottery spokesman Mike Lang described Jewel's course of action as a "reasonable approach" to the matter.
"From our perspective, this whole situation has been blown out of proportion," Lang said. "Lottery vending machines have been in stores for 2 1/2 years, and before this latest round of publicity, we had six complaints at most about minors using them---and about half of those complaints resulted from sting operations by anti-gambling groups."
Lang added that even if a minor were to manage to use the vending machines, the underage gambler would have difficulty cashing in a winning ticket.
John Stanczak, manager of the Jewel at 3531 N. Broadway in Chicago, said the store had posted signs near its lottery vending machines announcing that anyone under age 18 who attempted to buy a ticket would be prosecuted.
"The machines are currently right outside the manager's office," Stanczak said. "We really haven't had a lot of problems."
According to Lang, Dominick's and Jewel stores are among the top sellers of lottery tickets. But Lang noted that more than 75 percent of lottery tickets are sold over the counter, thus the removal of machines from some stores is not expected to result in a decline in ticket sales.


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Grassroots Outdoor Alliance has followed Outdoor Retailer out of Utah, according to Rich Hill, the organization’s president.
Grassroots’ Spring Connect and Fall Connect shows were scheduled to be held in Sandy, UT in 2018, but will now move due in part to a desire to stand together as an industry, namely with the OR mega-show.
“Our membership is unanimous in opposing Utah’s public lands policy,” he said. “The best idea that we’ve come away from the last year with is co-location with Outdoor Retailer. It’s critical that we work together as an industry.”
Outdoor Retailer stated last month that it would be leaving Utah because of disagreements with Gov. Gary Herbert on the state’s policy regarding the protection of public lands, including the designation of Bears Ears National Monument.
“It’s unlikely that there’s a bigger issue out there for Grassroots members and partners than preservation and access to public lands,” Hill said. “The outdoor community spends millions of dollars collectively each year to create and protect open spaces for outdoor recreation, and the aggressive stance of Utah’s elected officials on this front has our membership pretty fired up.”
The June 2018 Grassroots Connect show will co-locate with Outdoor Retailer Summer Market at its new venue, as determined by its current search process.
“Co-location makes so much sense for our retail members,” said Hill. “It essentially saves retailers six to eight days per year on travel.”
He continued, “Trade shows are obviously a big part of outdoor industry life. And while they’re important to everyone’s bottom line, the big opportunity is to use our gatherings to come together as an industry to recognize—and address—the headwinds that we are all facing.”
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Arma 3 is more new player friendly but has a lot of issues with multiplayer servers.
If you consider yourself part of the PC master race then you’ve probably heard of a little game franchise called Arma; the ultra-realistic military fps shooter mostly known for the mod, Day Z. Now, Bohemia Interactive has release the third installment which aims to be more noob friendly then the previous installments.
Now if are a die-hard Arma fan and like that it takes a certain skill level and dedication to be good at the game. You might be freaking out over the words noob friendly. Well don’t instead of making fundamental changes to the gameplay, the team at Bohemia have included a series a short “Showcase” missions and a selection of firing range challenges.
Today on the Playstation blog we got more details on The Last of Us pre-orders,DLC, and the season pass which you can read the full statement below.
The Last of Us arrives in just a few weeks. We’re happy to let you know you can pre-order the full digital edition of the game starting today on the PlayStation Store. The game will be a Day 1 Digital download — this means you can get it at midnight on June 14th. The digital edition features a unique download installer which will allow you to start playing the game once the game data is a little over half way downloaded.
The Last of Us is a universe rich in character and story with many facets that we could potentially explore for years. We’re getting started by announcing that there will be three packs of downloadable content for The Last of Us available after the game launches.
Details have emerged on the Metro: Last Light season pass.
Have you been wondering what exactly will come in that Metro: Last Light season pass. Well wonder no more for I have the details of the season pass!
The season pass will include three dlc that will come out during the summer.
The Faction Pack and the Chronicles Pack include new, original single-player gameplay excpanding on the story and the game universe, while the Tower Pack will provide some “unique” solo challenges to veterans of the game.There’s also the Developer Pack will give “creative players interesting tools with which to explore the world of Metro.”
“Artyom’s story may have been concluded in Metro: Last Light, but there are other characters with stories to tell, some familiar locations that fans of the Metro series wanted to revisit, and some new challenges that 4A wanted to explore,” said Andrew Prokhorov, creative director at 4A Games.Since completing the game we have been working on these new stories and hope to release them throughout the summer.”
The Metro: Last Light Season pass is also available to download starting today on PSN and XBL as well as Steam for $14.99 or 1200 MS Points. PlayStation Plus subscribers can grab an additional 25% discount on the Season Pass between May 21 and June 4t in the US and May 22 and June 5 in Europe and the rest of the world.
The Season Pass also grants an additional weapon, a semi-automatic shotgun rifle with a secondary fire mode shooting six shells in one blast. It’s called the Abzats.
The Faction Pack will be the first DLC released and it will arrive in June.
The Sims 4 will be coming to your PC or Mac sometime next year
EA has announced today that The Sims 4 will be coming out next year for both PC and Mac.
EA’s put up an official announcement post on its website –
“The Sims franchise is fueled by the passion and creativity of its millions of fans around the world. Their continued devotion to the franchise ignites the fire of creativity of the team at The Sims Studio, driving them to continually improve and innovate on one of the world’s most successful simulation game that has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide.” “The Sims 4 celebrates the heart and soul of the Sims themselves, giving players a deeper connection with the most expressive, surprising and charming Sims ever in this single-player offline experience,” it reads. “The Sims 4 encourages players to personalize their world with new and intuitive tools while offering them the ability to effortlessly share their creativity with friends and fans.”
Yup you read that right the game will not require an internet connection to play it. looks like they don’t want a repeat of what happened with SimCity.
What say you? Are you excited about the newest Sims game or at this point you just don’t care? let us know in the comments below.
2K has decided to not attained E3 this year
No I’m not joking 2k will not have a booth this year at E3. Below is the official statement of 2K.
At 2K, we’re excited for the new opportunities coming with the next generation of hardware, and are hard at work preparing our announced titles for release. While 2K will not have a booth on the show floor at this year’s E3 conference, we will have a lot of great news coming your way this spring. Our slate of titles coming this year include highly anticipated games like Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World, XCOM: Enemy Unknown for iOS, more content for Borderlands 2, as well as WWE 2K14 and NBA 2K14. Stay tuned for our live gameplay and event broadcasts to see the latest gameplay from our upcoming titles. Subscribe to our Twitch channel at twitch.tv/2K and on YouTube at youtube.com/2Kgames.
Well there you have it. But look on the bright side at least we’re going to get some more Borderlands content and see what 2K can do with the WWE license.


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Early this spring, employees of the denim producer Candiani dug a dozen holes into the rolling hills and forests overlooking the Ticino River. They were there to bury brand new blue jeans.
“The lab tests had already shown that our new jeans are compostable,” sustainability manager Danielle Arzaga says, “but we wanted to test it ourselves to be sure.”
Labeling something as compostable is a dirty trick many fashion labels use when their products only “compost” in special high-temperature commercial facilities.
But when the Candianis dug up the jeans again six months later, they discovered the fabric had mostly degraded to earth.
Alberto Candiani, the fourth-generation owner of the family business, had developed the first fully biodegradable denim, called Coreva.
“That doesn’t mean your jeans will fall off if you get rained on,” Candiani qualifies with a laugh. “They are extremely durable, but at the end of their life, yes, you could send them back to us and we recycle them, or you could fertilize your veggies with them. We have even fertilized cotton fields with our scraps.”
Jeans are among the most popular clothing on the planet — and one of the most environmentally taxing. Each pair requires up to 2,000 gallons of water to manufacture. And to produce Indigo blue, the dye that gives jeans their color, almost all manufacturers use benzene (a rat poison), mercury, and other toxins.
What’s worse, 80 percent of jeans sold nowadays are stretch denim, made with plastic — researchers have even found plastic microfibers from jeans in the Arctic.
Overall, the fashion industry is responsible for 20 percent of global wastewater and 10 percent of carbon emissions worldwide. “Most jeans take hundreds of years to degrade,” says Arzaga. “Our stretch denim takes six months. We’ve created a truly circular model where materials can return to the earth naturally at the end of their life.”
The Candianis have been pioneers of sustainable fabrics since the 1970s, long before sustainability was fashionable. They were propelled onto this journey against their will.
When the Lombardi region was declared an environmentally protected area 50 years ago, “my father thought the restrictions were nuts,” Alberto says.
The family’s factory was located in the middle of the new nature reserve, between Milan and the Alps, and the Candianis thought the new environmental standards would be impossible to achieve.
“We still have to test our water weekly,” Arzaga says. “I don’t know of any other manufacturer who has to do that.”
Candiani is now the biggest denim producer in Europe to survive the exodus of textile production to countries like India and Bangladesh.
“We’re the last man standing,” says Alberto from his home in Milan. “My dad always says, efficiency is the grammar of sustainability. What we thought was a disadvantage has turned into an advantage.”
By necessity, Candiani managed to reduce water use by 75 percent and the use of chemicals by 65 percent.
“We collect and reuse 100 percent of our waste fibers for our recycled denim line,” Alberto says. “It is possible to produce a pair of jeans with 20 or 30 liters of water.”
To reduce chemicals, Candiani bought the patent for a new technique to produce deep Indigo with the help of a natural fungus. And instead of synthetic polyvinyl alcohol that binds the fibers with a liquid plastic film that can shed microplastics, Candiani uses a biobased polymer.
“There is no reason for us to create microplastics anymore. We are going plastic-free,” Candiani says.
“Chitosan is also used to purify the water, which makes it super smart.”
You might not know the brand name Candiani — they have only one store in Milan where they sell custom jeans directly to consumers — but if you’re a consumer of sustainable clothes, you probably have their denim in your closet:
There is a downside: The labor and production costs make the Candiani denim significantly more expensive.
“We charge about six dollars per yard,” Alberto admits, about double the price of conventional denim. “Labor cost alone is a third of the cost.” If he outsourced production to, say, Bangladesh, labor costs would be about 1/100th what they are in Italy.
But as a family business with century-old ties to the region — and grandma Candiani still living on-site — moving is out of the question.
In fact, Candiani hopes to bring the cotton sourcing closer to home and even tried to grow organic cotton in Italy instead of India or Africa.
He is currently experimenting with growing cotton through regenerative farming and engineering his own cotton seeds. He hasn’t succeeded — yet.
But Alberto is convinced it will just take a few more years of trial and error, just like developing the compostable Coreva denim took five years.
Alberto Candiani is an unlikely eco-pioneer. He became a professional techno DJ and music producer, and toured with his heavy metal band before taking the helm at the company in 2000.
“My father started to get seriously worried,” jokes the trim company president with the salt-and-pepper beard. “But I literally grew up in the mill, and I still think of it as a playground.”
It was the rubber packaging of salami at the local delicatessen stand that gave him the idea to use natural caoutchouc for denim yarn.
“Something clicked. Because it touched food, the rubber had to be free of toxins, so I knew it was possible and that it could change the world of stretch denim forever.”
In the mill, giant rolls of white yarn feed into industrial-scale looms. In another room, the needles weaving the denim stitch with a low rhythmic hum that almost sounds like percussion.
Alberto’s great-grandfather Luigi Candiani started the business in 1938 with a single loom, first as a simple weaving facility that wove workwear fabrics to be sold at the markets in Milan.
His son, Primo Candiani, transitioned to premium denim. Alberto’s father, Gianluigi Candiani, recognized the potential of stretch denim and took the business international. He still lives on site, makes the rounds daily, and in the evening he shares a bottle of local wine with his long-term employees.
What the founders thought was a catastrophe — the highest environmental standards any textile producer could face — has become a unique selling point that allowed their business not only to survive, but to triple production.
Their denim operation is sometimes called “the greenest mill in the blue world.” And their denim formula has been awarded Global Organic Textile Standards GOTS approval and won numerous awards.
A small design center in Los Angeles, where Alberto’s wife Chandra is from, is the only Candiani facility outside of Italy. There, the jeans are washed with small stones instead of toxic chemicals to achieve a distressed look. The repurposed warehouse looks like a giant laundromat with its ocean-blue washing machines.
U.S. director Damiano Dall’Anese meets with brand designers to create the style they’re looking for, whether the denim needs to be hand-sanded or lasered.
“You can be as green as you want but if the product doesn’t look good, it doesn’t matter,” Dall’Anese knows.
Alberto believes the key is a blend of heritage and innovation. “Milan is the fashion capital of the world, and Los Angeles is the design capital of the world,” he says.
Many think of jeans as the quintessential American clothing, but they were actually invented 500 years ago in Genua, Italy — the word “jeans” has its origin in “Genuese.”
It’s only fitting that an Italian legacy company forges a new green way to go blue.
This story is part of the SoJo Exchange from the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. It was originally published by Reasons to be Cheerful on September 27th, 2021.
This article may include affiliate links — which means if you end up making a purchase, Good Good Good may earn a commission at no cost to you. Thanks for your support!


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Moa Brewing Company's plans to expand its brewery near Blenheim have been set back by three parties who are appealing its resource consent.
The appeals come just weeks after the brewer said it would have to cut its sales targets by a third due to a distribution problem in New Zealand.
But chief executive Geoff Ross says the latest issue is a nuisance more than a setback.
Moa will use friends' breweries to enable it to fulfill its increased production targets in the short and medium terms, so growth won't be restrained.
"But it's certainly a nuisance, and I think it's a nuisance that many New Zealand businesses have to work their way through, a potential problem with the Resource Management Act," Mr Ross says.
The company is confident its plans will eventually be approved, although the process could last up to a year.
Mr Ross says he is disappointed French company LVMH, which owns Cloudy Bay winery, is one of the appellants.
"Whilst I don't have a problem with foreign ownership, I do have a problem with foreign control over New Zealand businesses and what businesses should grow here, and them trying to set an agenda for others."


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Biometric authentication has been in practical and commercial use for years now, with it most commonly appearing in the form of fingerprint or facial features based scanning. Although now, a new method has been discovered that involves mapping the veins in one’s fingers using light and sound, which might even make its way to smartphones.
According to the research team leader Jun Xia, from University at Buffalo, “The 3D finger vein biometric authentication method we developed enables levels of specificity and anti-spoofing that were not possible before. Since no two people have exactly the same 3D vein pattern, faking a vein biometric authentication would require creating an exact 3D replica of a person’s finger veins, which is basically not possible.” In other words, it seems to be practically impossible for any hacker to fake a person’s veins and to pass through this new biometric authentication method.
This development also implies a myriad of possible applications in various consumer grade products as well, like smartphones that have been pushing boundaries with new biometric authentication techniques in recent generations. While the system is currently in development, with a few passing years a miniaturized version might be a possibility, bringing a new form of security to handsets that are practically foolproof. It may even be housed similarly to where current gen in display fingerprint scanners is mounted.
The technique essentially detects invisible features in 3D and can be used to offer better security to offer protection over personal data and other sensitive documents as well. Biometric authentication techniques based on finger veins aren’t exactly new, but these are generally based on 2D images. The new techniques add another layer of depth with 3D images that significantly increases security, making it a lot harder to fake and makes the possibility of a false positive less likely. So, if a smartphone with this feature launches, its security authentication would be one of the greatest amongst the current generation of smartphones.
The system uses a photoacoustic tomography, an imaging technique that combines light and sound, which was first reported by ScienceDaily. Light from a laser is first used to illuminate the finger, and when hitting this hits the veins, a sound is created which is then detected by an ultrasound detector that uses the information to reconstruct a 3D image of the veins. This solution may change the way OEMs approach security in smartphones in the future and might even be the next generation of the standards that are currently in place.
Finger vein recognition, Biometrics, Vein, Research, Computer security
World news – THAT – Future smartphones may use new 3D biometric authentication that maps finger veins with light and sound – Gizmochina


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Today Sony has officially unveiled that legendary car manufacturer Porsche will be included in the upcoming Gran Turismo Sport due to be released later this year. Along with the announcement came a beautiful new gameplay trailer, as well as some very nice screenshots of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS taken from the Gran Turismo Sport’s photo mode.
Car company Porsche loves to make headlines when it reveals itself to be part of video games, as it has done with the Need for Speed and Forza franchises. In Forza Motorsport, Porsche isn’t even part of the base game, however the Porsche expansions are always full of content with their very own campaigns. It remains to be seen whether there will be specific Porsche campaigns in Gran Turismo Sport, but it’s great to see the car manufacturer in the Gran Turismo franchise for the first time.
Check out the brand new Gran Turismo Sport Porsche reveal trailer below:
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Gran Turismo Sport launches exclusively for PlayStation 4 later this year. We’ll have more news here at Rocket Chainsaw as soon as a date is confirmed, but for now here are some brand new screenshots of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS.


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On July 29, 2014, a bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill that would create a federal private right of action for trade secret theft. The Trade Secrets Protection Act (H.R. 5233) is a House version of the Senate's Defend Trade Secrets Act (S. 2267), a bill introduced earlier this year.
As we discussed in a previous blog post, in the last couple of years, numerous legislators in Washington have made efforts to amend the Economic Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. §1831 et seq. (which currently allows only prosecutors to pursue trade secret thieves), to empower companies and individuals who have been victimized by trade secret misappropriation to pursue their own remedies in federal court. If successful, these efforts would give aggrieved persons a more standard and straightforward path to sue violators than is currently available in the patchwork of state laws dealing with trade secrets.
This most recent bill was introduced by Rep. George Holding (R. N.C.) and co-sponsored by Jerrold Nadler (D. N.Y.), Howard Coble (R. N.C.), Hakeem Jeffries (D. N.Y.), Steve Chabot (R. Ohio), and John Conyers (D. Mich.).
The bill follows the model of the Senate’s Defend Trade Secrets Act, which was introduced on April 29, 2014 and referred to the Judiciary Committee, where it currently remains. The structure of the two bills is similar and many provisions in the bills are identical.
Several industry groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers, BSA/The Software Alliance, and the Information Technology Information Council, immediately came out in support of H.R. 5233.
We will continue to monitor these efforts to expand trade secret protections at the federal level, which now seem to enjoy bipartisan and bicameral, as well as business, support. Whether that support is enough to get the bills through Congressional committees to become law remains very much an open question.
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Apple Inc started work early on an iPhone with a foldable screen, a potential rival to similar devices from Samsung Electronics Co and others, though only minor changes are planned for this year’s iPhone line.
The Cupertino, Calif., Company has developed prototype foldable screens for in-house testing, but has not finalized plans to launch a foldable iPhone. Development work hasn’t expanded beyond a display, which means Apple doesn’t have full cell phone prototypes in its labs yet, according to a person familiar with the job who asked not to be identified and to discuss private matters.
Like the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the Motorola Razr reboot, and other offerings from Chinese companies including Huawei Technologies Co, a foldable iPhone would allow Apple to make a device with a larger screen in a pocket package. Apple has been discussing a number of foldable screen sizes internally, including one that unfolds to a size similar to the 6.7-inch display on the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Current foldable phones have screens that are 6 and 8 inches unfolded.
The foldable Apple screens under test, like Samsung’s, have a largely invisible hinge with the electronics behind the display, the person said. Other companies, including Microsoft Corp., recently launched devices with exposed hinges that separate two different control panels. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
This would be a radical departure from Apple. Arguably the most successful consumer technology product in history, the breakthrough all-screen touchable smartphone is helping make Apple the most valuable company in the world. However, a foldable iPhone is likely years away or ultimately may never be introduced. The company is currently focused on rolling out its flagship iPhones and next-generation iPads later this year.
Apple is not planning any major changes for this year’s iPhone line, as the smartphone has improved in 2020, including 5G and new designs, according to those familiar with the situation. At Apple, engineers consider the next iPhones to be just another “S” version of the device, the nomenclature usually given to new iPhones with minor upgrades.
The Covid-19 pandemic has also made product development difficult with Apple hardware engineers working only a few days a week and in limited numbers in the company’s Silicon Valley offices. That meant moving the work of Apple’s engineers to China.
Last year, the pandemic delayed the release of the iPhone 12 by several weeks, but Apple was able to include almost all of its intended functionality except for an accessory called “AirTags” for finding physical items like backpacks and keys. The company now plans to launch these accessories this year and has plans for several accessories, including a leather keychain. Samsung announced a similar gizmo earlier this month.
Although the changes will be minor overall, Apple is still testing a key upgrade for 2021: an on-screen fingerprint reader. This would add a new method for users to unlock their iPhone that goes beyond a passcode and facial recognition with facial recognition. Apple began moving away from fingerprint sensors in 2017 with the introduction of the iPhone X, but Touch ID has been a feature on Mac laptops and cheaper iPhones since then. Qualcomm Inc., which is equipping Apple with 5G modems, announced a faster on-screen fingerprint sensor earlier this month.
It is useful in an environment where users wear masks that are often incompatible with face recognition. An in-screen fingerprint reader, which has also been available on Android phones for several years, might also be faster than facial recognition for some users. Apple isn’t going to remove its facial recognition scanner, however, as it’s still useful for augmented reality and camera functions.
Apple has also discussed removing the charging port for some iPhone models in favor of wireless charging. With the iPhone 12, the company switched to a magnetic MagSafe charging system and removed the charging stone from the iPhone box last year. This charging technology is also carried back to the MacBook Pro.
Apple is planning a new iPad Pro for its tablet line, which is similar to the current model, but offers a MiniLED display and a much faster processor. A thinner and lighter entry-level iPad using the same design as the 2019 iPad Air is also in the works.


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Here's how the U of M will be spending nearly $5.5 million on campus safety improvements.
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As economists scramble for clues to predict when China will emerge from its recent slowdown, some of them are looking opposite the mainland: Taiwan.
Taiwan's economy is only 5% the size of China's (based on 2013 nominal GDP), but the island's trade data--particularly export orders--have long been on economists' radar. That's because about half the orders counted in the Taiwanese data are actually filled in factories in China, and thus count as Chinese exports when shipped.
Historically, Taiwan's export orders for overseas factories 'picked up well the turning points in China's exports, and tended to lead the evolution of China's exports by around two months,' RBS economist Louis Kuijs wrote in a recent research report.
April export orders rose 8.9% on-year -- their fastest pace in 14 months -- and showed growth to all regions.
China's exports have also shown signs of stabilizing, after a slow start to the year.
The result 'bodes well for a modest trade rebound' in the second quarter, Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Marcella Chow wrote of the Taiwan export-order reading. It also 'reinforces recent indications that a gradual recovery in the developed economies is gathering pace.'
Taiwanese manufacturers have flocked to China since the 1990s, when Beijing began offering tax incentives to help modernize the country's manufacturing and provide jobs and training for a large pool of relatively unskilled labor.
Exports from China also enjoy lower tariffs in many countries, as Beijing has struck far more trade deals with other markets than Taipei.
Aside from its implications for China, the recent Taiwan data suggest the West's recovery increasingly is feeding through to Asia.
April industrial production surprised on the upside, with Barclays Capital citing notable strength in personal computers and mobile phones, segments that had been weak for the past two years.
'The strength suggests that Taiwan's until-recently narrowly based recovery led by semiconductors is broadening to finished consumer goods, and bodes well for the sustainability of the recovery,' Barclays' Wai Ho Leong wrote.
With a slew of new consumer electronic devices hitting the market later this year, coupled with better demand from advanced and Southeast Asian markets, economists believe Taiwan is set to receive more orders in coming months --mostly for electronics--from overseas clients.
Still, the recovery is likely to be tame by Taiwanese standards: From 2002-2007, the island's exports grew by an average of 12% a year and its gross domestic product by 5.3%, ING economist Tim Condon notes. This year, he expects GDP to grow just 2.6%.
美银美林(Bank of America Merrill Lynch)经济学家Marcella Chow在评价台湾出口订单数据时写道，这一结果预示着第二季度贸易有望温和反弹。她还表示，这也印证了近期显示发达经济体缓慢的复苏步伐正在加快的迹象。


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Apr. 20, 2021
The International Olive Council predicts that Australians will consume 51,000 tons of olive oil in the 2020/21 fiscal campaign ahead of what could be a record harvest for producers.
Jan. 13, 2020
Australia's olive growers have mostly been spared from the wildfires that have been ravaging the country. Persistent drought, however, continues to cause concern.
Sep. 7, 2018
While the overall sector is likely to remain largely unaffected, small growers on the eastern seaboard may bear the brunt of the drought.
Dec. 15, 2015
After 14 years as the AOA leader, Miller moves on to expand his work internationally.
Jun. 11, 2014
The free event is aimed at healthcare professionals and features presentations on the positive effects of consuming extra virgin olive oil.
Nov. 15, 2011
The president of South Africa's olive oil producers' association said the country's government has formed a committee to consider adopting Australia's standard.
Oct. 31, 2011
Miller leads a new alliance that aims to connect producers and consumers with an olive oil quality indexing system and restoring the "good brand" of extra virgin.
Sep. 30, 2011
In a memorandum sent to Standards Australia, Codex and Australia's agriculture and foreign affairs ministries, the IOC laid out what it sees as a troubling development.
Jul. 24, 2011
As Australian olive oil celebrated new voluntary standards making it more difficult for European exporters to do business there, its sibling isn't along for the ride.
Jul. 20, 2011
Australian Olive Association President Paul Miller said “the standard puts consumers in a much stronger position when it comes to making informed choices.”


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EWLOE-based business travelsupermarket.com is hoping to attract new customers by introducing new cruise holidays to its price comparison website.
Cruising is the fastest growing sector of the British travel market with almost 1.5 million people taking a cruise holiday this year.
By tapping into this, travelsupermarket.com – part of the Moneysupermarket.com Group – hopes to increase its revenues and its share of the travel market.
Visitors to the website will now be able to research and find the best deals on thousands of holidays from all the leading cruise lines.
Managing director Graham Donoghue said: “The new site is a major step forward for us and we are delighted to be able to launch with the new cruise product.”
Cruise 118 director James Cole said: “travelsupermarket.com has built its reputation on finding consumers the best possible deals, therefore it was essential they found a supplier that could deliver the best prices on thousands of cruise holidays with unrivalled levels of customer service.
“This is an exciting development for both businesses and we predict it will lead to further growth in the UK cruise market.”
Moneysupermarket.com shed 200 jobs over the past year, reducing its staff numbers to 470, as the credit crunch impacted on the money part of their website and demand for savings and current accounts failed to offset a sharp fall in revenues from credit-related products.
In April the company said trading had stabilised after revenues fell by a third in the first three months of the years.
Revenues in travel were down 10% as interest in short breaks, including hotels and flights, continued to be hit by lower consumer spending.


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According to a new report from Give As You Live, ‘Generation Y and their Charity Giving Habits’, millennials are the demographic which give least money to charity, but they represent the fundraisers of the future.
- Encourage sharing. Run social media campaigns which promote sharing and peer-to-peer fundraising, for example, #nomakeupselfie.
- Millenials would rather volunteer than give money. Demonstrate how their help can make an impact – they want to see real results!
- Be ever-present on all platforms. Ensure that your website is mobile-friendly so that information can be accessed quickly and easily. Pay attention to other, lesser known social media channels such as Snapchat and Pinterest to stay ahead of the game.
- Tell a story and promote informal chat. Increase emotional engagement by sharing real-life stories of the work you are doing. Ensure your social media voice is consistent and human; no one wants to talk to a robot.
- Crowdfunding is key. Millenials love the ease of online donations and the ability for users to share stories with potential supporters.
GlobalGiving has announced a three-week programme of free online training on crowdfunding – but only for charities who apply before the 5 October deadline
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eBay has proved to be one of the more effective ways to engage donors online and raise funds. While a lot of the money raised comes from the sale of goods, successful charities have also managed to establish a donor base that allows them to raise ongoing funds.


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The world has been witnessing the difficulty in the US to tame a roaring and increasingly destructive force in the White House.
After launching tariffs on steel and aluminum from nearly all countries and firing up a trade war with China, the US put Huawei Technologies on a blacklist cutting off all American supplies in its desperate attempt to destroy the global 5G corporate leader.
And, all of a sudden, the government of US announced a 5 percent punitive tariff starting on June 10 on all goods made in Mexico to punish its willingness to let refugees transit its borders and enter the US. The rate could be raised to 25 percent in October if Mexico doesn’t curb migration.
Earlier, the US threatened to punish European auto manufacturers by hiking tariffs.
It is truly agonizing for the world to see a spreading of trade battlefields enveloping more innocent economies, because it will ruin the anemic global growth significantly, which relies on smooth trade and cooperation. And, the cohesion of world trade we saw before 2017 is being muffled and clutched by an increasingly intrusive paw and hoof.
For China and Chinese people, we have to stand firm and united and give our strongest support to help Huawei blunt the savage attack of the US government, because it makes the world’s best 5G, cloud and AI technologies, and the company has vowed to innovate more hi-tech to benefit humankind.
If Washington refuses to lift its embargo on Chinese companies, China is very likely to impose its own embargo on rare earths on American companies in the coming days. “Don’t say we didn’t warn you,” the People’s Daily, the most important newspaper in China, said in an editorial.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, the revered Asian statesman, spoke out on May 30 in Tokyo saying Huawei’s technology is very much advanced in the world and his country will use Huawei products “as much as possible.” His video went viral in Chinese cyberspace and his impartial and courageous speech is acclaimed by millions of Chinese people.
In addition to Malaysia, dozens of countries affirmed that they will import Huawei’s 5G equipment and devices, including Russia, France, Germany, Italy and South Korea, and many more in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa. Chinese people appreciate these countries’ audacity to stave off the threats of the US government.
Till today, we have found that only a couple of US allies in the world are following Washington’s bare-knuckled assault to kill the Chinese high-tech company. Chinese people know who they are.
Some Western observers were smearing China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative, disparaging implicitly the relative poverty of developing countries in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
China should unswervingly implement the epoch initiative, deflect American claims that the initiative is a “debt trap”, and help less-developed countries develop their economies by building up high-quality infrastructure and industrial zones because people in those countries have 100 reasons to become well-off and enjoy affluence and a good life like Chinese.
On May 23, the four-day 2019 Yiwu Fair Spring: Imported Commodities Fair was grandly opened. (Photo by Lv Bin from People’s Daily Online)


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OREGON: Two months from now, on July 1, Oregon will become the fourth state to allow residents to legally purchase marijuana for recreational use. In anticipation of legalization, the governing body that will oversee marijuana licensing and sales is preparing for something unexpected: A huge influx of cold, hard cash.
Legal marijuana in states like Colorado and Washington have surpassed revenue expectations in their first few years. But when marijuana businesses try to pay their taxes, the federal law that makes marijuana illegal limits their access to financial institutions.
Despite assurances from the Treasury Department that they would not be prosecuted, banks have been reluctant to open accounts for weed-related businesses. Some banks that accept money generated by marijuana sales fear that they may leave themselves open to federal money-laundering charges.


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Thiruvananthapuram: A family of four was hospitalised after consuming fish bought from a local market in Thiruvananthapuram. Biju, who bought the fish from a shop for Rs 200, cooked the food before consuming it along with his family.
The family consumed the fish curry on Friday. Soon after, Biju's daughter showed signs of stomach ache. His wife also felt dizzy and suffered stomach pain. By night, both Biju and his second daughter started to have similar symptoms. The family was later shifted to a private hospital for further treatment.
Meanwhile, a man who bought fish from the same place noticed the presence of parasites. The customer lodged a complaint at the Collectorate. The police and Kallara village officer arrived at the spot and collected the samples from the shop.


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The Small Firms Association (SFA) announced that PolyPico Technologies has been selected as finalist in the SFA National Small Business Awards 2018.
Since opening it’s doors in 2013, PolyPico has produced two generations of dispensing systems – PicoSpotter and the brand new – PicoPRECISE that was officially launched in May 2017. These systems are capable of dispensing materials in ultra-low volumes, and can be used for a number of applications including, drug discovery, cell dispensing, tissue engineering, clinical diagnostics, micro-array production, DNA applications, and many more.
PolyPico Technologies are delighted to be shortlisted for the Exporter of the Year Award sponsored by DHL Express at the Small Firms Association Awards.
The aim of the awards is to celebrate the achievements of Small Business in Ireland and to recognise the vital contribution of the small business sector to Irish Industry.
The Gala prize giving ceremony will take place in February 2018 when the category winners and overall winner will be announced.


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Semnox, a leading solutions provider for the leisure and entertainment industry, has implemented its offerings in 15 new amusement locations just over the past year in United Kingdom. With well-known venues like M&Ds Scotland Theme Park and Codonas getting onboard, it’s been a busy few month for Semnox!
Semnox has seen a tremendous response from the UK market with the post-COVID demand for touchless, cashless and contactless operations. Where the UK market has always been apprehensive about the move to contactless operations, the sudden surge in demand owing to the pandemic has changed the priorities for the operators to focus on providing a safe and secure environment with minimum contact points for customers.
Some of the most popular contactless solution offerings from Semnox for the industry includes online e-commerce websites, customer mobile app solutions and other self-servicing technologies like ticketing kiosks and redemption kiosks. Semnox customers have seen a 30-40% rise in the online and app sales in past 2 years. Now most of locations have 60-75 % of their sales revenue driven by these online channels. Semnox online solution can support General ticketing, Attraction booking, New Card purchase and Top-up, Capacity management, Party booking, agent booking and Waiver solutions. All this seamlessly integrated into one platform provides a huge benefit to the customer.
With more than 2000 installations across the world, Semnox is an industry leader with a wide range of solutions from POS, Online solutions, Locker, waiver, etc. With Semnox’s focus on providing better experience to the guests, it’s partnership with TheExperienceTicket.com will allow users of Semnox’s solutions to enable queue-free solutions to the venues. This re-enforces the commitment to deliver new and innovative ideas to its customers.
“We have been seeing an increasing demand in businesses looking at online sales platforms like websites and mobile apps to support their physical ticket sales. The growth was expected but the pandemic has pushed the increase in demand by at least 20-30% beyond the industry expectation. This is great news for us as our web and mobile platforms are completely integrated and robust, with great feedback from across the globe”, says Ashish KS, Group Client Manager, Semnox Solutions.


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Lonrho Africa chief bows out
Lonrho Africa chief executive Mark Newman, who has been ill for some time and recently had a major operation, has quit the company. He is succeeded by finance director Keith Atkinson, who is himself followed by company secretary John Garnett (now chief financial officer), while Gavin Barnes becomes becomes chief operating officer. Jim Hughes is to replace Garnett as company secretary.
The company said: 'Lonrho Africa regrets the circumstances of Mark Newman's decision and wishes him a full and speedy recovery.'
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Fashion e-tailer ASOS produced more stunning sales figures today as younger shoppers kept spending despite the slowdown gripping the rest of the high street.
Fast-growing ASOS – which stands for 'As Seen On Screen' – said sales in the six months to September 30 were more than double last year, up 104%.
The retailer targets 16-34 year-olds with clothing and accessories based on those worn by celebrities, and now has 1.83 million registered users.
Chief executive Nick Robertson said its customer base “should be resilient” to the slowdown as online shopping gains popularity.
ASOS’s younger customers – especially those aged 16-24 – were less weighed down by mortgages and rising utility bills, and were still likely to be going out, he added.
Even the current crisis gripping the world’s financial system has not derailed the rapid charge of the business.
“We obviously talk to all retailers. A couple of weeks ago when the crisis was in the news we saw a slowing, but then it has picked up again,” he said.


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Diesel passenger vehicles currently form 55% of the total number of vehicles on the road. But that proportion could drop to 30%-35% in the next two years, according to a report by credit ratings agency ICRA.
That’s because with the recent cut in petrol prices by Rs 1.82 per liter and the hike in diesel prices by 50 paise, the gap in the prices between the two kinds of fuel has only become smaller.
If effect, that could make diesel cars less attractive. Until now, conventional wisdom maintained that though a diesel vehicle is more expensive than a petrol car, it is actually cheaper to run a diesel car.
This remains true even with the price rise. But it will now take six-and-a half years to pay off the difference between a diesel car and a petrol vehicle, up from two-and-a-half years in 2009. Of course, within seven years, most cars are primed for replacement.
The calculations have been done using average prices of a Maruti Suzuki Swift hatchback petrol car and its equivalent diesel car across all models. It takes into account the annualised rates of petrol and an average of 12,000 kilometres per year.
Though diesel engines have become more fuel efficient over the years, the engines tend to be more expensive. In addition, diesel engines have higher torque instead of horsepower, which results in them being slower to accelerate. Diesel engines typically create more smoke than petrol engines and are noisier.
Don’t be surprised if car makers now advertise special deals on diesel cars in the coming months.
This post originally appeared at Scroll.in


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CodeWeavers?, the commercial company behind the well-known CrossOver for Linux and Mac application that lets users install and run Windows apps and games is still working to release an Android version.
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, today announced that their Snappy-enabled Ubuntu Core OS is now available for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 (CM3).
The GStreamer development team announced the availability of the first point release of the GStreamer 1.12 stable series of the popular and widely-used open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.
The developers of the Debian-based SolydX and SolydK GNU/Linux distributions announced today that the upcoming SolydXK 9 stable release entered Beta phase with Live ISO images available now for public testing.
Only two days after releasing the Linux 4.11.7 and 4.9.34 LTS kernel updates, Greg Kroah-Hartman is today announcing the availability of new maintenance releases for the long-term supported Linux 4.4 and 3.18 kernel series.
Debian developer Henrique de Moraes Holschuh is warning users of the popular GNU/Linux distribution about a new security flaw that affects Intel's 6th and 7th generation Skylake and Kaby Lake processors supporting HyperThreading.
Google's Chromium evangelist François Beaufort recently revealed that the Chrome OS team is currently experimenting with refreshed versions of the Sing-In and Lock screens in the operating system.
The digiKam development team is pleased to announce the release of digiKam 5.6, a new stable update of the open-source and cross-platform professional photo management app for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms.
LibreOffice developer Markus Mohrhard recently announced that his work on the new automatic updater for the upcoming LibreOffice 6.0 office suite for Linux is finally ready to see the light of day.
It looks like Unity 7 is not dead yet, as Canonical's Will Cooke is now informing the community that the Ubuntu Desktop team has been working lately on making it easier for users to install the Unity 7 session and related packages on Ubuntu 17.10.
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Intex to launch India’s first smartphone with MediaTek MT6592 ‘true’ octa-core processor
Intex has announced that it will be bringing a Smartphone to the Indian market powered through Mediator’s new proper octa-core chip soon. The chipset, announced with the aid of Mediate in July, is claimed to come with eight cores, all possibly ticking at the related time, depending on the use case. The MT6592 chipsets guarantee better performance with regards to gaming and other functions like surfing, higher video playback, and higher battery efficiency. Consistent with Intex, the brand new tool will be launched globally later this week and will be the first of its form to hit India.
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Apart from the new processor clocked at 1.5GHz, it will include a 6-inch HD IPS led monitor, usually a full HD panel. The handset may also sport a Mali 450 GPU. The software, along with 2GB of RAM, will come with 16GB and 32GB internal reminiscence editions. Even supposing the corporate is yet to announce the name of the new Smartphone, it has stated the telephone will run on Android four.2.2 out-of-the-box.
Intex will convey India’s first authentic octal-core Smartphone.
Wearing an all-metallic finish with an exchangeable battery design, it measures 7mm in thickness and a body width of two.6mm. On the audio front, the handset will come with dual Yamaha 1420 speakers carrying an output of 1.2W. Details concerning the actual pricing of the brand new handset have nonetheless now not been published. There is a 13-megapixel rear digital filled with a BSI sensor and autofocus on the back. Also featured is a 5-megapixel entrance shooter, which is becoming the usual on smartphones via Indian producers. You can find other regular mentions like A-GPS, WI-Fi, FM radio, and Bluetooth. There’s no word but on the battery of the telephone.
Here’s a snappy take a look at the specifications of the brand new Intex Smartphone:
- 6-inch HD IPS led reveal
- GPS, Wi-Fi, FM radio, Bluetooth
- 13-megapixel rear digital with BSI/AF; 5-megapixel entrance shooter
- 16GB and 32GB inside reminiscence variations


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Bailed-out automakers that are still partly government owned: General Motors and Chrysler together with the industry coalition lobby versus proposed fuel efficiency rules supported by the Obama administration.
The lobby the government idea by the federally owned companies was disapproved by environmental organizations, safety advocates and watchdog groups saying the government should not allow the companies from meddling with legislation aimed for public welfare improvements.
On post-bailout, GM was 61% government-owned but after the November stock offer, it was reduced to 33%. Chrysler was 9% government-owned, a much lower stake thus the focus was on GM’s lobbying moves. Treasury officials said they will allow GM to normally operate like a commercial, private firm as meddling, such as political, could obstruct company recovery.
Spokesman Greg Martin from the Treasury said their stand stays and said that with the government’s stake in the company, GM still retains the same First Amendment rights its competitors do. When considered as a global company that sells a machine that weighs several thousand pounds with an equal number of parts, there are very few policy issues that don’t affect.
For 2010 lobbying, GM spent $6.6 million comparatively lower than $14.3 spent in 2007 prior to the economic crisis. What the company’s important effort came as Congress argued about the auto safety bill drafted during the Toyota recalls.
‘Black boxes’ on each car are now being mandated but could raise the budget for regulators as well as the fines for automakers that won’t follow the rules, a rule supported by the Obama administration. GM argued that the increase is too much. The bill was held in the Senate last December.
GM along with other automakers voiced their concerns regarding the raise on fuel efficiency standards to nearly 60 miles/gallon. The government is in the course of placing fuel efficiency standards for the years 2017 to 2025.
On Monday, a letter agreed on by GM, was sent by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers to Rep. Darrell Issa, House Committee chairman on Oversight and Government Reform. The letter cautioned that the proposed measures could raise vehicles cost to almost $6,435. It mentioned the new federal regulation of fuel economy labeling and rear visibility the industry is faced with.
GM and Chrysler are also swaying a free trade agreement proposal with South Korea. This is seen as a threat by automakers because Seoul may keep U.S. cars out yet let South-Korean vehicles in.
Despite continued lobbying, GM suspended political contributions in 2009 when it went into bankruptcy. It was saved by a $50 billion government aid. Political donations began again in 2010 that in August, GM donated $41,000 to lawmakers associated groups. Most of $36,000 went to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.


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Precor and Spinning join forces
Mad Dogg Athletics, Inc, creators of the Spinning® indoor cycling program and Spinner® line of bikes, and leading fitness equipment provider Precor, have announced an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement under which Precor will assume all commercial Spinner® bike production for an entirely new line of commercial Spinner indoor cycling equipment.
‘We wanted to find the best partner to serve our global dealers, education representatives, clubs, gyms and studios, as well as the worldwide Spinning community’ said John Baudhuin, CEO of Mad Dogg Athletics, Inc; ‘Over the past 30 years, Precor has been recognised consistently for its top-rated customer service and quality, and also for the reliability and integrity of its cardio products. Considering these factors, as well as the global reach the company has as part of Amer Sports, Precor is the ideal strategic partner for our brand moving forward.’
The new range of indoor cycling products will feature new engineering and design components co-developed by Precor and Spinning, as well as educational elements to strengthen the Spinning experience.
‘We are committed to pursuing opportunities that allow Precor to deliver top of the line fitness experiences to exercisers and operators’ said Rob Barker, President of Precor; ‘This partnership capitalises on the manufacturing and engineering quality that Precor is known for and the reputation that Spinning has established within the indoor cycling category. Together, these strengths will enable us to better serve a wider range of customers.’


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Ford is betting big on electric vehicles as it announces plans of electrifying its current line-up for the future. The brand has announced seven of the 13 upcoming electric vehicles it plans to introduce in the next five years, including a hybrid version of the Mustang in the US.
Besides the iconic Mustang, Ford will also introduce hybrid versions of the F150 pick-up, the Transit Custom van in Europe and a fully electric SUV for global markets.
Ford is even investing $700 million to expand its Flat Rock assembly plant in Michigan into a factory that will build high-tech autonomous and electric vehicles along with the Mustang. The moves are part of a $4.5 billion investment that Ford has made for electric and hybrid vehicles by 2020.
The seven electrified vehicles announced recently include an all-new fully electric small SUV which will arrive by 2020 in North America, Europe and Asia. Coming back to the Mustang, a hybrid version of the popular sports car is expected to deliver V8 power and even more low-end torque. The Mustang Hybrid will be built at the Flat Rock plant and debut in 2020. It will be available in North American markets initially.


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Vivo has silently added a new smartphone in its Y-series in China. The new Vivo Y89 has been listed on the official Chinese website of the company, and can already be purchased from e-retailer AliExpress. The Vivo Y89 is being offered in two colour options, packs a Snapdragon 626 SoC, a 6.26-inch large display with notch, a dual rear camera setup, and a 3,260mAh battery. The Vivo Y89 launch comes just days after the company had unveiled the Z3i Standard Edition in its home market. The Vivo Z3i Standard Edition is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio P60 SoC and includes 128GB of onboard storage. There is no word on the India launch of the Vivo Y89 right now.
The Vivo Y89 is priced in China at CNY 1,598 (roughly Rs. 16,700), and is already on sale on AliExpress starting at $236.99 (roughly Rs. 16,800). The smartphone is available in Aurora Purple and Black Gold colour options.
The Vivo Y89 is seen to sport a display notch, slight chin at the bottom of the display, a dual rear camera setup, a rear fingerprint scanner, and power and volume buttons on the right edge of the smartphone.
Coming to hardware, the official listing on the China website suggests that the Vivo Y89 runs on Android 8.1 Oreo and supports dual-SIM slots. It features a 6.26-inch full-HD+ display, and is powered by the octa-core Snapdragon 626 SoC paired with 4GB RAM. Inbuilt storage is at 64GB, expandable via microSD card (up to 256GB).
Coming to the optics, the Vivo Y89 sports a dual rear camera setup aligned vertically. It sports one 16-megapixel main sensor and another 2-megapixel sensor with flash support. Up front, there is another 16-megapixel sensor that comes with an f/2.0 aperture. Features include professional mode, panorama, beauty, AR shoot, backlight photo, blur photo, slow motion, filter, and more.
The Vivo Y89 packs a 3,260mAh battery, and connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 2.4G/5.8G, Bluetooth, USB OTG, and more. Sensors on board include fingerprint, facial recognition, proximity sensor, photosensitive sensor, gravity sensor, and gyroscope. It measures 154.81x75.03x7.89mm, and weighs 149.3 grams.


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Fairtrade Fortnight begins this week!
Last year, Fairtrade Foundation asked us to take a step for Fairtrade. This year, they’re asking us to go further for Fairtrade. Without Fairtrade, farmers in developing countries wouldn’t be able to get a better deal for their products.
The very first Fairtrade product was Green & Black’s Maya Gold chocolate back in 1994, and has since expanded to include products made by Lush, and one of my personal favourites, Gruffalo bubble bath.
For this year’s campaign, Fairtrade are asking us to sign a petition for David Cameron to ask for a better deal for smallholder farmers at this year’s G8 meeting in summer. The petition isn’t just asking us to put our names down and be done with it. Fairtrade’s campaign involves us creating our own mini marcher to be included in a visual campaign on Parliament Square on 4 March 2013.
I’ve created mine, and it looks like the one above. 😀
Check out this video from Fairtrade Foundation, and to get involved in the campaign and design your own mini marcher, head to http://step.fairtrade.org.uk


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Competition is inevitable in any market and the smartphone market is no different. The reason why Samsung has confirmed they are going to be soon packing their mid-range devices with latest flagship features, with the first to make it’s debut on October the 11th. Now if you are wondering what’s possible, well reports in say Samsung is ready to launch a Galaxy A device with Snapdragon 845 chip installed.
Being Samsung, the device is expected to cost somewhat near to their current flagship smartphones. If this is true, then Samsung is going to be face-to-face with their rival as Apple’s new iPhone XR is also due soon. As for the features of the expected Samsung device, it’s definitely going to be a tall 18:9 AMOLED view with bottom bezels and a reduced top. And, of course, with Samsung more interested in its cameras, two rear cameras is definitely expected with a high number of sensors as well.
As for the specs, well the high-end processor is likely going to have 4GB RAM and 64GB expandable internal storage. As Android 9 Pie is out, the new smartphone should or at least we hope has the new Android version pre-updated. Of course, Samsung also likes to repeat history so the old Android 8.1 Oreo can also be expected.
For now, we can only wait for this new flagship as Samsung has not given any official statement on its release. But, once a date is out, it’s worth the watch as to how they will showcase the device. And, since they are already preparing the Galaxy A9 Pro, expectations are in the Snapdragon 845 device will be labeled as Galaxy A10.


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Written by Jen Finn
WASHINGTON — They survived hurricanes and oil spills, but Gulf Coast shrimp processors say there's no way they can battle foreign governments to stay in business.
While Americans gobble up imported shrimp as never before, processors from Florida to Texas say they can't compete with billions in subsidies that are propping up shrimpers in places such as China and Thailand while driving down the price for American consumers.
"You can buy shrimp cheaper than you can buy bologna right now .... We just don't have the kind of money and backbone to stay in business competing against these countries," said Richard Gollott Sr., a co-owner of Golden Gulf Coast Packing Co. in Biloxi.
With imports now accounting for more than 90 percent of the U.S. shrimp market, processors say it's time to fight back: They want the federal government to put new tariffs on imported shrimp, making it more expensive to sell in the United States.
Read the full story at the Sun-Herald>>>
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced last week the sixth round of grant awards from its Fisheries Innovation Fund, a program launched in 2010 to foster innovations that support sustainable fisheries in the United States.
The goal of the Fisheries Innovation Fund is to sustain fishermen and fishing communities while simultaneously rebuilding fish stocks.Read more...
Alaskan Leader Fisheries will give Inmarsat’s new high-speed broadband maritime communications service, Fleet Xpress, a try on the 150-foot longline cod catcher/processor Alaskan Leader.


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Consumers urged to 'Switch the Salt'
The campaign slogan for this year's Salt Awareness Week (10-16 March) - 'Switch the Salt' - places the spotlight firmly on reduced-sodium alternatives to regular salt.
Having signed up his award-winning Indian restaurant, Café Spice Namasté, to the Government’s Salt Reduction Pledge, TV chef Cyrus Todiwala will support the campaign by attending a Parliamentary Reception at the House of Commons.
The 2014 Salt Awareness Week, organised by Consensus Action on Salt & Health (CASH), will also call for more consistent front-of-pack food labelling to help consumers reduce their salt consumption. Lowering salt intake helps to lower blood pressure and thereby reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack. The current target is to reduce salt intake to an average of 6g a day for adults – less for children – from the current average of 8.1g per day. CASH estimates that this would reduce the number of strokes by 22% and heart attacks by 16%, thereby saving some 17,000 lives in the UK as well as achieving general health benefits.
Fairly new to market is Solo-Lite, a sodium-reduced product that has been formulated to make it a healthy yet price-competitive alternative to traditional salt. Launched by The Low Sodium Sea Salt Company (www.soloseasalt.com), the product not only contains 30% less sodium than regular salt, it is also enriched with iodine and other nutrients including magnesium, potassium and calcium.
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Mexico fuel reform brings new retail options
Mexico City, 20 April (Argus) — The opening of Mexico's fuel market to floating prices and outside competition may finally give the country's drivers what they have long wanted: a full liter of gasoline.
Consumers have criticized the former monopoly of stations under the state-run Pemex brand for charging but not selling full liters of gasoline and diesel. Mexico's federal consumer protection agency Profeco said in 2015 that 30pc of stations supplied incomplete liters.
New strategies to promote certainty in fuel quality and volumes, as well as new services such as flexible payment options and customer loyalty programs, could challenge the dominance of Pemex-branded retailers.
One sign of the demand for better service may be seen in the long lines of cars that snake out from BP's new flagship retail fuel station on the outskirts of Mexico City. Drivers there say they trust that the first foreign-owned station to open since the reform will sell a full liter of gasoline, and are willing to wait 10-20 minutes to fill up their cars.
"More than anything, I come here because the liters are well served. In many other stations they put air in the gasoline," said Maria Fernandez, who lives about 8km (4.9 mi) away but is on her third trip to the BP station since it opened in March. "It is worth the wait."
Profeco's head attorney, Rafael Ochoa Morales, said the agency aimed to verify up to 7,200 stations in 2017, up 13pc compared with 2016 and up 136pc from 2015.
Between January and March, the agency checked 2,047 stations, of which 796 — or nearly 39pc — had irregularities. Profeco fined 169 of them for a total of 50mn pesos ($2.7mn).
Even Pemex is now advertising its battle against incomplete liters. This week the company said Mexican authorities temporarily closed six stations for alleged irregularities in the supply of fuel in the state of Puebla.
"The objective is to offer certainty to consumers of fuel supplied by Pemex through its franchise owners," Pemex said in a statement.
Although Pemex still supplies fuel to all retailers in the country, including BP, marketing strategies have emerged since the break-up of the state monopoly to distance brands from Pemex.
Mexico's Hidrosina and OXXO Gas, a division of local beverage retailer Femsa, have started re-branding some of their Pemex franchises, often offering more modern payments options.
RendiChicas, part of Mexico's RendiLitros group, is advertising for gender equality, promoting women as workers at its 62 stations in the states of Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua. RendiLitro, also a Pemex franchise, was launched in 2010 with seven pilot stations and one primary objective: selling full liters of fuel.
"We firmly believe in a free and healthy competition in the sector, and that to attract clients, we must have the best offers and services," said Antonio Caballero y Fernández, president of the board of Grupo 500, a 54-member fuel retailers consortium created after the reform.
But as of today BP remains the only non-Mexican brand. It has plans to open 1,500 stations over the next five years.
BP still buys its fuel from Pemex but it does not exclude importing its own fuel in the future, once the market is more stable, executives said when presenting the brand last month. Only two types of gasoline, regular and premium, are available, but diesel is expected to follow in a few months.
Drivers lined up at the Mexico City BP station, including taxi drivers and transportation services such as Uber, cite other reasons for their enthusiasm.
"They say the gasoline comes with an additive that helps maintain the motor in perfect conditions," said Mario Hernandez, a local taxi driver, referring to what BP advertises as its "dirt-busting fuel for petrol engines."
One Uber driver, Rodolfo Brena, who was coming for the first time, says he hopes to save up to 200 pesos per tank.
Drivers also mentioned the quality of the service as a reason for choosing BP. "They treat us with a lot of respect … they will not take tips and they bring the [payment] terminal to us so we know the credit card is not being cloned," said driver Maria Fernandez.
Other foreign companies such as Gulf Mexico, the local affiliate of Indian conglomerate Hinduja, and Chevron-Texaco have talked of entering the Mexican fuel market. But the sector's slow opening and lack of infrastructure has delayed some companies' launch plans.
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Arab women are continuously growing into a power to be reckoned with.
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The popular photo-sharing platform Instagram has witnessed a significant rise in usage over the past years and social media influencers are at the center of the spotlight.
They’re actively boosting the name of Arabs all while shedding light on young Arab talents like designers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, and artists.
As Arab women are glamorously taking over the mainstream with their fearless styles and forward-thinking business ideas, they are growing into a power to be reckoned with.
Here are some of the female Arab influencers making it big:
1. Dana Al Tuwarish (Kuwait)
2. Nadya Hassan (UAE)
3. Lana El Sahely (Lebanon)
Lebanese Lana El Sahely is a blogger-turned-entrepreneur taking the world by storm. Her wide social media presence allowed her to establish her own shop and collaborate with many notable brands and designers.
The fashionista was chosen by the founders of Dolce & Gabbana for their 2017 fashion show, making her the only Middle Eastern influencer on the runway.
4. Tala Samman (Syria)
Samman is one of the very first bloggers in the UAE, taking it to the next level with her funky DJ skills, performing at many exclusive social events.
5. Maya Ahmad (UAE)
Lebanese Maya Ahmad is Dubai’s favorite beauty and lifestyle guru, sharing her travel adventures, makeup tips, and lifestyle vlogs in Arabic with her 529K subscribers on Youtube.
She has over 1 million followers on Instagram and has been featured in many fashion magazines such as Cosmopolitan Middle East and E!’s My Fabulous ME.
6. Jess Narjess (Tunisia)
7. Hadia Ghaleb (Egypt)
Based in Dubai, Ghaleb channeled her inspiration, style, and “influence” on social media to establish her own media company Ghaleb Production House.
8. Fozaza (Saudi Arabia)
9. Karen Wazen (Lebanon)
10. Latifa Al Shamsi (UAE)
Latifa Al Shamsi is the influencer for style and travel, conquering new territories in the blogging world with her motherhood experiences, as well as her food and fashion adventures.
Her upcoming brand By Latifa Al Shamsi is known for its Emirati-inspired creations, kaftans, abayas, and travel wear.


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AkzoNobel is making advancements in the beverage can industry by unveiling next generation coatings technology and initiating the construction of a new production plant in Spain, further supporting the mission to create products free from materials of concern.
The company’s Packaging Coatings business has introduced the first two products in its new Accelstyle range, specifically designed for the exterior of conventional two-piece aluminium beverage cans. Both products are free from bisphenols, styrene and PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Additionally, the previously launched AccelshieldTM 700, the first BPx-NI internal coating for beverage can ends, is compliant with US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and EU regulations.
“AkzoNobel” is investing €32 million in a new plant at its Vilafranca site in Spain, which will produce bisphenol-free coatings for the metal packaging industry in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). The facility, expected to be operational by mid-2025, will create around 40 jobs and utilize advanced automation, meeting high eco-efficiency standards to significantly improve energy and material efficiency.
According to Jim Kavanagh, director of “AkzoNobel’s” Industrial Coatings business, the new facility will enable the company to respond effectively to the packaging industry’s strong demands and comply with the stringent bisphenol regulations in Europe.
The introduction of the new Accelstyle products underscores the company’s commitment to facilitating the industry’s transition to a sustainable future. Both Accelstyle 100 and 200 seamlessly integrate into existing production processes and are free from certain important materials of concern, without compromising commercial viability.
These bisphenol-free products demonstrate a lower carbon footprint compared to previous offerings, aligning with consumer expectations for more sustainable packaging. Accelstyle 100 has successfully completed extensive trials and qualifications with major European can makers, while Accelstyle 200 is undergoing trials to optimize prototypes for different gloss levels.
In conclusion, AkzoNobel’s investments and product developments reflect its dedication to providing tangible support for the beverage can industry’s transformation towards more sustainable food packaging solutions.


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Phorm launches consumer service – but where are the ISPs?
Phorm has launched a new consumer service called Webwise Discover – but it’s still waiting for a British ISP to roll out its highly controversial technology.
Webwise Discover is based on the same deep-packet inspection technology as the company’s controversial advertising offering.
Discover will allow website publishers to publish widgets on their website that will offer visitors other relevant internet content, based on their surfing history. Website publishers can choose to either direct visitors to other parts of their own site or relevant pages on the internet as a whole.
Discover users will also be given access to their own personal homepage, where they will find recommendations for sites or stories that are relevant to their interests, in a similar vein to services such as Delicious and StumbleUpon.
Like the company’s targeted advertising service, Webwise Discover is a network-based technology that has to be deployed by ISPs.
Phorm has commercial agreements with BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media in this country, but despite today’s announcement, all three are still yet to commit to a full launch.
Phorm executives refused to be drawn on when the ISPs might begin to roll out the services. “When there’s any announcement to be made in the UK, we’ll make it,” said CEO Kent Ertugrul.
Pressed on why ISPs are taking so long to deploy Phorm’s services, Ertugrul claimed: “It’s fair to say that the ISPs want to do this correctly. It involves an enormous amount of preparation. It’s taken a long time – no question.”
One explanation for the ISPs reluctance is undoubtedly the ongoing debate over Phorm’s privacy.
Phorm says the new Webwise Discover service will have the same “world leading standard of privacy” as its advertising service, which produces tailored ads based on the user’s surfing history.
Users will have the same “unavoidable option” to opt-out of the service and all data collected will be anonymised, Phorm insists.
Such measures haven’t been enough to allay the concerns of critics such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who described Phorm’s deep-packet inspection technology as like “putting a television camera in your room”.
Ertugrul admits the furore over Phorm’s privacy has unsettled Phorm’s UK ISP partners. “It would be wrong to say the ISPs aren’t concerned about bad publicity,” he admitted.
However, he insisted that the public at large is enthusiastic about tailored advertising and content, citing a Phorm-commissioned survey that showed that Webwise Discover had a 76% approval rating from more than 2,000 consumers.


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While many may pair the upcoming holiday weekend with the American version of football, EA is hoping sports fans will also enjoy playing a free taste of the international version of football, with a 10-hour trial being made available for FIFA 17 over the next few days.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, PS4 and Xbox One gamers interested in trying out EA’s soccer simulator can do so with a free trial which begins November 24 at 1 PM ET and lasts till the 28 at 3 AM ET. The free selection offers access to the majority of the full FIFA 17 experience, with the only limitation being found in the game’s “The Journey” mode, which is equivalent to a campaign, of which only a select portion of the mode will be offered. For those looking to continue beyond the trial, the full game has been significantly discounted, and any progress made during the free period will continue onwards. One should also be aware that if you have already used the Xbox One trial offered via the EA Access program, then this offer is invalid.
In addition to the PS4 and Xbox One versions, FIFA 17 is also available on PC with similar discounts. While waiting for the massive download of FIFA 17, make sure to check out Hardcore Gamer’s review of the title, which calls it “the most complete package of football that we’ve seen to date.”