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According to PCWorld, iCloud Communications has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging trademark infringement of the name iCloud. Apple recently launched its iCloud service, which syncs users' content on all their devices automatically. CRN quotes the complaint:
The goods and services with which Apple intends to use the 'iCloud' mark are identical to or closely related to the goods and services that have been offered by iCloud Communications under the iCloud Marks since its formation in 2005 ... However, due to the worldwide media coverage given to and generated by Apple's announcement of its 'iCloud' services and the ensuing saturation advertising campaign pursued by Apple, the media and the general public have quickly come to associate the mark 'iCloud' with Apple, rather than iCloud Communications.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona. As CNET News reports, iCloud Communications is seeking an injunction against Apple's use of the iCloud name, in addition to an unspecified amount of monetary compensation.


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NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - There's a chill in the air and with Thanksgiving week upon us we know Christmas is not far behind and the Downtown Development District (DDD) wants you to go Home for the Holidays on Canal Street. Work crews put up the finishing touch to a growing spectacle.
Devona Dolliole, Communications Director at the DDD says downtown is ready for the holidays. She said, "Exactly at 5:31 p.m., we will flip the switch turning on 1-million twinkling lights."
Tuesday, kicks off a season-long celebration. "Harkening back to the days of old when people actually came downtown as an outing and wore their Sunday best. So we hope to recapture that moment," Dolliole added.
Rubenstein Brothers saw it all. Kenny Rubenstein, the current general manager said, "Ninety-one years is a long time." The menswear haven has been there from the height of Canal as the premier shopping district to some dismal lows. Rubenstein said, "We were talked about as being one of the last retailers." The store is now witnessing a rebirth. He said, "Certainly where Canal Street is now, is years beyond of where it was 10 or 15 years ago."
The Downtown Development District is a special commission funded by downtown business. Rubenstein said, "The DDD is kind of like on the lens, the focal point." The organization sponsors projects throughout the year, and Canal Street Home for the Holidays is one of their major successes. The trees, the wreaths, the lights, all of this is just the first step in getting people back downtown for the Holiday season.
"The parade is a great example," Rubenstein added. "That Christmas parade . . .the first time they did it past us in about five minutes. There was a handful of people out there, now it almost feels like Mardi Gras."
The campaign is stirring up nostalgia and creating new holiday traditions.
In addition to the tree lighting, movies on the Mississippi show Christmas classics the first three Fridays in December. The Krewe of Jingle Parade will roll the first Saturday in December accompanied by a new entertainment stage and a day of discounts at shops and restaurants. The second Saturday is the Reindeer Run and Romp fun run.

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Even with its iconic vehicles and even more polarizing boss, Tesla Motors is losing its dominance as the top EV maker.
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Much of the attention Tesla Motors attracts comes from, at least in recent memory, having Elon Musk as its chief executive. So is the company’s dominance in the EV market, however, that its boss never worried about coming second. But the clout has been slowly trickling away.
Tesla, which once stood as the only American electric carmaker, faces a lot more competition in the segment. Tesla’s market share has declined from 79.4 percent in 2020 to around 63 percent in 2023, but the figure is expected to drop to the low teens by 2025.
Despite delivering on its goal of shipping 1.8 million cars in 2023, Tesla was overtaken by Chinese manufacturer BYD — emerging as the world’s bestselling EV company in the fourth quarter. Even though American carmakers face little competition from Chinese companies on home turf, they face a growing risk of losing a sizeable chunk of the global market share to the more affordable Chinese EVs.
Export of Chinese electric vehicles has risen by a staggering 851 percent, mainly in Europe — where BYD used “aggressive end-of-year discounting” to strengthen its market share, according to Automotive News. They also benefit from an excited domestic market: China’s new EV sales increased by 82 percent in 2022, making up nearly 60 percent of global EV purchases.
Chinese manufacturers have a key advantage in battery manufacturing, which translates to more affordable EVs since battery cells can make up about 40 percent of the cost of a vehicle. BYD, which started out as a mobile phone battery manufacturer, pivoted to automotive batteries and formed key alliances with other companies in domains like software, sensors, and manufacturing — charging up development.
However, much of China’s rise as an EV powerhouse is a result of government policies and generous subsidies that allowed manufacturers to sell cars at enormous losses yet continue growing. “No one can match BYD on price,” writes analyst Michael Dunne, particularly noting its Seagull hatchback that launched for $11,500 in September.
Owing to “the world’s most advanced battery,” “dramatically” improved looks and a “remarkable” improvement in quality, the manufacturer poses the biggest threat to legacy automakers — but doesn’t yet fear Tesla owing to the company’s “extraordinary” brand power, he notes.
While many of the country’s EV startups are not yet profitable, Chinese cars are becoming an increasingly common presence on roads around the world. This increase in global reach could also create an opening in the luxury EV segment.


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Residence materials multinational SC Johnson has introduced a groundbreaking partnership with Plastic Lender, a plastic waste recycling startup, to tackle the risk of world-wide ocean plastics by rising the level of recycling throughout considerably less privileged areas of Indonesia.
Plastic Lender, which at the moment has a prosperous evidence-of-idea application managing in Haiti makes use of a personalized cryptocurrency remedy functioning on IBM’s Hyperledger Cloth protocol to interface amongst plastics purchasers and unique plastic squander collectors, offering a trusted way to reward personal recyclers for amassing ocean-bound waste plastic.
Ocean Plastics and Indonesia
A 2015 report by Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Organization and Setting names China, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam as the 5 countries cumulatively accountable for over 55 per cent of the plastic squander that finds its way into the ocean. According to the report, elevating plastic collection and recycling fees throughout these five international locations to 80 percent would slash the world ocean plastics leakage level by 23 p.c.
Although numerous methods have been attempted to this conclude, they have mostly satisfied with minimal results due to the fact a considerable amount of the locations straight accountable for ocean plastics leakage are impoverished regions with constrained infrastructure and security issues which make recyclers prone to robbery or theft if they are rewarded with income. Indonesia is of distinct issue due to the fact the country is home to the world’s maximum concentrations of maritime biodiversity and its coral reefs, which are threatened by plastics leakage are central to the foods chain that sustains hundreds of thousands of individuals in the location.
In purchase to proficiently incentivise a ample selection of Indonesia’s approximated 28 million persons residing in poverty, Plastic Bank uses a blockchain option connected to a cellular app that reliably benefits particular person plastic collectors for the volume of plastic they carry into collection centres using electronic tokens instead of dollars.
Speaking about the importance of Plastic Bank’s Indonesian partnership with SC Johnson, founder and CEO David Katz stated:
“This partnership with SC Johnson is the to start with of its kind in Indonesia. It will enable develop much more opportunities for people today living in poverty and will give squander collectors an critical feeling of satisfaction. SC Johnson is the 1st CPG corporation to scale a application of this kind in Indonesia that will advantage a broad vary of socio-financial demographics which include neighborhood residents dwelling under the poverty level.”
In accordance to details launched by SC Johnson, selection centres with a bare minimum capability of 100 metric tonnes of plastic for each calendar year will be operational by May possibly 2019, with the 1st centre in Bali to be opened formally on Oct 28. In addition to offering incentives for reducing ocean plastics leakage, the plan will also educate area communities in Indonesia and further than about the environmental and social implications of plastic air pollution and the prospects presented by recycling.
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Deposed Superdry chief executive lands new role
By James Young | 11th December 2019
Deposed Superdry chief executive Euan Sutherland has landed himself a new top job - although it can't be further removed from the world of cutting edge fashion.
His new role will see him take charge of the Saga group - the UK's leading specialists in products and services for the over 50s.
Mr Sutherland was the eventual fall guy in the bitter boardroom battle for control of the Cheltenham clothing giant, resigning from his post as Superdry CEO when Julian Dunkerton returned to the firm.
He resigned from his position after he vehemently opposed Dunkerton's return to the firm and was subsequently placed on gardening leave complete with a new £1million severance payment.
That was only fully-payable if he was still to find work by April 2020, something he has managed to do with a new role at Saga.
Confirming Mr Sutherland's appointment from January 6, a statement from Saga said: Euan has substantial experience having led major consumer-facing businesses, including financial services, through periods of change, both in the UK and internationally.
"Most recently he was the CEO of Superdry plc, the global digital brand, for five years. In that time Euan led a strategy focused on customer insight, innovation and digital, international and wholesale expansion.
"Prior to this Euan was the Group CEO of The Co-op Group, the mutual retailer, insurance and funeral services business where he led a significant transformation programme resulting in a more efficient and profitable business.
"Before that, he was Group COO & CEO UK at Kingfisher plc, and also has a background in global FMCG brands having worked at Mars and Coca-Cola earlier in his career. He is a non-executive director of Britvic plc.
Saga chairman Patrick O'Sullivan said: "I am very pleased that Euan is joining Saga at this important time in the development of the business.
"He has substantial experience across several consumer-facing businesses that will be invaluable as we continue the Saga transformation, with our customers at the heart of our strategy.
Euan Sutherland added: "I am hugely excited to join Saga. This is a unique British brand that has a strong heritage, great people and significant potential.
"I look forward to working with the Board and the whole of the Saga team to further unlock this potential and deliver for our customers and shareholders."
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Panera is about to be a public company again, and its IPO will include an investment from the founder of Shake Shack
Danny Meyer said he will personally invest in Panera and will support it through his SPAC. JAB Holding meanwhile will be a primary shareholder.
In its S-1 filing on Tuesday, the doughtnut giant Krispy Kreme didn't say how many shares it would offer or their price.
Adam Bowen and James Monsees, the cofounders of Juul, had particularly short-lived tenures as billionaires.


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Black Friday seems to get all the media attention because of the raucous behavior of shoppers, but it’s Cyber Monday that is putting up the big numbers. This year has been bigger than ever. Adobe is reporting that $2.98 billion was spent on Cyber Monday, which is up 12% over the number last year. The […]
Connecting with consumers is the whole point of social media marketing, so don’t blow it by being inauthentic. If you want to succeed in the social media space then you need to speak to consumers with an authentic voice. Here’s how!
Interested in finding out as many stats about social media advertising as you can? Then you’ve come to the right place. There are more outlets than ever for companies to advertise on social media and the stats paint a clear picture about which companies are hitting the jackpot. Instagram is proving to be a big […]
Google has made some missteps and some flat out stumbles in its social networking strategy, but its new image saving feature is a promising foothold to reestablish themselves in the market. Users who search for images on Google’s image search engine will now be able to save images to their Google profile. This might seem […]
Cyber Monday sales absolutely soared this year, thanks in large part to mobile platforms. Find out how an increasingly mobile landscape helped Cyber Monday smash online sales records!
We’re living in the information age, but are you keeping up with the times? Knowing your Twitter analytics is vital for making informed decisions about your social media campaigns. Data is incredibly valuable. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t know every little bit of data that you can get your hands on. When it comes […]
Having your content marketing go viral is the advertiser’s dream. Having users spread your message virally brings a huge amount of attention to your brand and gives you the luxury of sitting back and watching the number of views skyrocket. A successful viral marketing campaign is easier said than done, though. If you want to […]
If you make any of these mobile ad mistakes then your ad strategy is doomed before it even gets off the ground. Take a look at these common mistakes and see how you can avoid them!
The main purpose of a smartphone is as a communication device. Perhaps that’s why mobile messaging apps are continuing to see huge success across the globe. It’s possible that 2 billion people could be using mobile messaging apps by 2018. A new report shows that by the end of 2015 there could be as many […]
Snapchat is working hard to lure advertisers into their social media platform. Hyatt is the most recent company to test out the fledgling social media network’s marketing flex. The hotel chain is hoping to target the millennial market by teaming up with Comedy Central’s Snapchat Discover page. Snapchat Discover is the section of the app […]


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Turning a business model around amid changing market forces and declining revenues is a daunting prospect. Two senior executives leading the retooling of one conventional Ottawa printing firm use words such as “fear” and “anxiety” to describe their feelings before stepping outside their organization’s comfort zone to retool the business.
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Dean McJannet is the sales director at Trico.
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It began three years ago with the recognition that the future was not looking very bright for the 30-year-old company known at the time as the Tri-Co Group, whose flagship print division provided traditional printing and direct mail services, including advertising flyers, newspaper inserts and books. Despite more than $7 million in annual sales and a workforce of 75 employees, Trico Print was operating at a loss.
From the company’s perspective, Ottawa’s printing market had been in steady decline for at least a decade and Trico’s executives felt the company was just two or three years away from bankruptcy if it failed to adapt.
Two veteran business leaders, Scott Falconer and Dean McJannet, were hired to implement a realistic and viable business plan to transform Trico Print into a fully integrated, multi-channel communications company, with printing as just one of its services.
Trico Print was rebranded as Trico Evolution following intensive research and consultations with clients, industry leaders and by forming strategic partnerships with established marketing and creative agencies.
“We clearly saw a there was a new way of doing business, a way that a print organization could be bold enough to step out of the comfort zone and say, ‘We’re actually in the communications business,’ ” Mr. McJannet says.
Many organizations must currently deal with an overwhelming amount of data as digital technologies create new ways of assessing customer needs and behaviours. The Trico team saw a need to interpret and manage all that data while staying on top of opportunities, potential strategies and changing market conditions. Known as data analytics, its purpose is to allow organizations to harvest and interpret all that information before making fact-based decisions about how to reach their communication objectives.
A suite of new services and proprietary software was introduced, targeted at smaller organizations. The company initially avoided going after larger organizations with deeper pockets and access to traditional advertising agencies.
Trico marketing manager Olivia Nixon says the company wanted to provide its customers’ marketing teams with the information needed to make their campaigns relevant and profitable. Once the clients have defined their strategy accordingly, Trico is available to implement all elements of a co-ordinated campaign, including design and printing, traditional and electronic direct mail and personalized websites.
All this led to a significant culture shift in the workplace. Slightly more than 20 jobs were cut through attrition and layoffs, while other employees were retrained, as managers searched for new employees who had the skill and passion to risk experimenting with a new business model. Among the new hires was a senior developer from IBM/Cognos who joined Trico as a technology manager and, more recently, a senior financial analyst from a bank in Montreal.
“They had something inside them that said, ‘You know what? I haven’t been fulfilled yet,’” recalls Mr. Falconer. “They believed in (Trico’s plan) and bought into the story.”
Both Mr. McJannet and Mr. Falconer say their initial worries and doubts about changing the company’s focus while keeping Trico’s board of directors happy were alleviated by two positive developments: strong feedback from clients and an encouraging visit from two senior executives from Xerox Canada who compared Trico’s new service suite to the iPhone, because it combined multiple applications in a single, easily accessible place.
Three years after the beginning of the turnaround, the initial fears and anxiety have dissipated as the firm booked $6 million in revenues last year and was profitable.
“We’re not sitting around watching the industry fall apart,” Mr. McJannet says. “We’re making a new industry, we’re taking something out of the ashes and moving it forward.”
Or, as Ms. Nixon puts it: “We’re not a startup, we’re a start-over.”


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The Michigan State blog Banks of the Red Cedar posted the above image of the helmet that the Spartans may be wearing against Michigan tomorrow. Yes, it seems that Uncle Phil's Misguided Children at Nike have been hard at work and have come up with an uber-shiny helmet for Sparty. In theory, this would be going on the field with whatever Nike Pro Combat alternate uni the UPMC's deranged minds can come up with.
So far Michigan St. athletic director Mark Hollis is keeping mum on whether or not this is the helmet will don tomorrow. So Michigan will have to wait and see if it needs to break out the tinted visors for their helmets.
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Despite rising ticket prices and efforts to fine-tune ride reservation systems, wait times at Disneyland keep going up.
An extensive analysis of lines at the Anaheim, California theme park conducted by the Los Angeles Times found that the average wait for the most popular rides in the first six months of the year was 24.4 minutes—a 28% increase over the same period in 2015.
The longest average wait time at Disneyland was for Space Mountain at 65 minutes. Over at Disney's California Adventure Park next door, the Cars-themed Radiator Springs Racers ate up the most time: 86 minutes on average.
Crowds have evidently not been deterred by the nearly 70% spike in one-day ticket prices since 2007. Those now cost $124 apiece on peak days. To address overcrowding, Disney recently introduced seasonal pricing, with tickets running $97 to $99 on low-demand days and $110 on "regular" days.
Other upcoming line-reduction measures include MaxPass, an electronic version of the Fastpass system that lets you book an appointment ahead of time at 16 of the park's attractions. With MaxPass (which will cost $10 per day), you'll be able to use your smartphone instead of standing in line for a paper ticket at a Fastpass kiosk.
Some other useful discoveries in the Los Angeles Times analysis: The day of the week with the shortest wait times is usually Thursday, while Saturday has the longest; you're most likely to encounter short lines in September and January, and really long ones in December, July, and May; and the only popular attraction where the lines were shorter in 2017 than 2015 was, for whatever reason, Splash Mountain.


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A recent review by the UK Foods Standards Agency came out claiming that organic foods are no better than the less expensive conventionally grown foods. A closer look at that review reveals some truths underlying the growing media attention and debate over whether or not organic foods are worth the extra buck. I am re-printing an excellent post on this topic by Tom Philpott who farms and cooks at Maverick Farms, a sustainable-agriculture nonprofit and small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
One of the key messages I received while researching this topic is that organic foods consistently contain a higher level of tertiary, phytochemicals then conventionally grown foods. These phytochemicals (e.g. resveratrol, chlorophyll, glucosinolates) hold as much, if not more promise for preventing and treating disease then the basic nutritional compounds that are used to test the benefit of one food over another.
A bit of nitrogen with those veggies?
A recent literature review by the U.K. Food Standards Agency concluded that organic foods offer no nutritional advantages to ones grown with conventional chemical agriculture. The report quickly bounced around the media and the internet and has congealed into received wisdom. For example, in a recent chat with readers, Washington Post food politics columnist (and general policy writer) Ezra Klein engaged in the following exchange:
Santa Fe, N.M.: I saw a report today on a study finding that organic food isn’t any healthier than conventional food. Is buying organic a waste of money, in your opinion? Read the rest of this entry »
July 22, 2009
Food Democracy Now and Organic Valley Family of Farms just released a call for help to rescind an anti-labeling law and prevent further regulations in Ohio that will restrict organic dairy farmers from labeling their products as free from the synthetic hormone rGBH.
According to Food Democracy Now, there was a small group of corporations that pushed a law through last year making it illegal for organic farmers, such as Organic Valley Family of Farms, to label their products as free from artificial hormones. On July 23rd the International Dairy Foods Association and Organic Trade Association will have a joint mediation with the Ohio Department of Agriculture to decide whether this rule go into effect.
To take action, call Ohio Governor Strickland and ask him to rescind Executive Order 2008-03S. Phone calls make the most impact so call today if it is important to you to know what is in the food you consume. His office # is: 614-466-3555.
I just saw the movie Food Inc. which is a revealing look into the reality behind how the food you consume and feed your loved ones is produced. It is worth the time and energy, and offers hope and action steps you can take to improve the quality of our food supply.
This post is timely, as discussions are in full gear regarding healthcare reform in California and in the country. Let’s focus on the cause of most chronic illness (which incidentally costs our government the most amount of money to manage), rather then masking the symptom by ensuring that all citizens receive the same level of healthcare which has failed miserably at treating chronic illness. The foods we eat play the largest role in preventing and treating chronic illnesses such as heart disease and obesity. Removing hydrogenated oils, refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, genetically modified foods, and plant and animal proteins laden with synthetic hormones, antibiotics and pesticides from our food supply is an intelligible place to start. And by all means support companies such as Organic Valley Family of Farms that are willing to take the high road and produce quality products free from these disease-causing ingredients.


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St. Ides, makers of one of the most iconic malt beverages in hip-hop history, has just returned to the scene with an all-new premium cannabis line of smokeables and beverages, in an attempt to connect with a brand new audience. The malt beverage and its distinct squiggly logo — the famously shouted out “crooked I” — was as much of a staple of ’90s hip-hop as fuzzy Kangol caps. Now, St. Ides has linked up with fellow ’90s legend Weldon Angelos (who produced hits for Snoop, Tupac, and others) and his Project Mission Green, in an effort to bring awareness to and help combat unjust nonviolent cannabis convictions, and, in the process, give us a great product to smoke.
Vacating cannabis convictions is a cause that’s front and center for Angelos, who was sentenced to fifty-five years in prison back in 2003 for selling $900 of marijuana to a police informant. He was released in 2016, after a nationwide campaign that featured celebrities, politicians, and even the judge who sentenced him. Now a free man, Angelos is spending less time in the producer’s chair and more time advocating on behalf of other non-violent drug offenders impacted by the “war on drugs” via Project Mission Green.
For the collaboration, St. Ides and Project Mission Green have developed a powerful two-gram blunt and a merch line to help raise awareness and money. The merch line consists of hoodies, crewnecks, t-shirts and other streetwear staples, but our favorite part of the collection is definitely the two-gram hand-rolled blunt — which is dusted with THCa crystals for a powerful blunt, packing over 30% THC.
Each blunt is stored in a sealed glass container, which helps to keep this premium blunt at peak freshness. Proceeds from the merch collection as well as the blunt will go directly to Project Mission Green. Check out the full merch collection below and hit up the St. Ides webstore to pick up your blunts and merch in support of Project Mission Green.


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OGDEN — Forget about ketchup.
Get that boring bottle of mustard out of here.
For Blake Miller of Ogden, it’s all about fry sauce, a mix of ketchup, mayonnaise and other ingredients that holds a special place in Utah’s food scene.
“It just tastes better on fries. I like it on hamburgers. I like it on pretty much everything,” he says, waiting to place an order at Kirt’s Family Drive Inn, a North Ogden fast-food eatery that features the condiment. “Other states are making a mistake in not trying fry sauce.”
“That’s very specific to Utah,” said Peery King, operator of The Greenery, a long-time Ogden restaurant that offers up its own distinctive Utah food item, Mormon muffins, based on a recipe handed down by his pioneer forebears.
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But Utah’s culinary offerings hardly stop with the pinkish condiment, which gives ketchup a run for its money among diehard Utahns like Miller. Think green Jell-O salad and funeral potatoes, rooted in the strong presence of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the state.
“When I think of Utah food, it’s just kind of this hodgepodge of stuff,” said Irvin Maddox, operator of the Maddox Ranch House in Perry, an institution that’s been around since 1949.
The unique offerings, however, aren’t limited to comfort foods, sugary or other fare high in carbohydrates that evoke childhood, though those seem to rank high.
Alex Montanez, operator of Rovali’s, an Italian restaurant on Historic 25th Street, sees innovation among the many eateries along the downtown Ogden street and elsewhere in the state. His restaurant periodically experiments with new dishes, like Italian tacos, aiming to keep things fresh.
“Utah is, in my opinion, changing as far as not being comfortable with the old standbys,” Montanez said, noting the varied tastes offered by 25th Street restaurants. “I think that’s what’s kind of making us a destination point.”
What’s more, Utah’s agricultural sector is the source for many Utah food items, though the recipes may not be exclusive to Utah. Peaches grown in northern Utah, for instance, are fodder for late summer peach pies and peach shakes offered at eateries in the zone. The Maddox Ranch House serves hundreds of thousands of turkey steaks each year, among many other unique offerings, and, like many restaurants, incorporates Utah-grown goods into its recipes as much as it can, according to Maddox.
That said, Utah is far from an agricultural powerhouse, at least relative to output from other U.S. states. Receipts for agricultural commodities coming from the state totaled $1.66 billion in 2016, 37th among the 50 states and 0.5 percent of the U.S. total, according to U.S. Department of Agricultural stats. California, by comparison, sits atop the list, with $45.33 billion in receipts, 12.9 percent of the U.S. total.
Tart cherries, perhaps, rank as one of the most singular agricultural products coming from the state. Utah was the second biggest producer of the fruit in 2016, according to the USDA, trailing only Michigan.
Tart cherries are used to make cherry raisins and sometimes they’re covered in chocolate or yogurt to make snacks, according to Shawn Olsen, a Utah State University Extension agent in Farmington. “The tart cherry industry is huge down in Utah County,” he said.
One thing Utah doesn’t produce in great abundance is honey, at least not relative to the rest of the country, the state’s Beehive State nickname notwithstanding. According to USDA figures, Utah ranked 30th among the 50 states in honey production in 2016, with receipts here representing 0.6 percent of total U.S. receipts for the commodity. North Dakota topped the list, accounting for 19.7 percent of receipts.
Brown sugar, honey, corn syrup
Arctic Circle, the fast-food chain launched in Salt Lake City in 1950, lays claim to the invention of fry sauce. “There is only one original fry Sauce and Arctic Circle has it,” the company’s website reads.
But given its popularity, versions are spread far and wide across the state. Maddox Ranch House offers up its own take. “I don’t call it fry sauce but it’s pretty darn close,” Maddox said. “I offer it because people want it.”
RELATED: Recipe: Fry sauce
Maddox, like Kirt’s reps, won’t give away the restaurant’s secret, but he says every locale’s version typically has some sort of sweetener in it — brown sugar, honey, corn syrup or granulated sugar. And that gets to another idiosyncrasy of Utah tastes — a hankering for sweet stuff.
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“I think a lot of people have a real sweet tooth,” King said, noting the popularity of the carrot cake, Mormon muffins and other sweets at The Greenery. “I think just sweet in general — candy and everything with sugar in it — is popular in Utah.”
Maddox echoed that and, like others, links the seeming taste for sweet stuff to the Mormon tradition in the state, more particularly, LDS admonishments against alcohol consumption. If Mormons don’t drink booze, they compensate for it in sugar consumption.
“My dad used to say we don’t have a liquor license, we have a sugar license,” Maddox said. He once asked his dad about the notion of serving alcohol at Maddox Ranch House and his father’s response was to the point: “Let’s try to sell them something sweet.”
Ice cream and cream pies are big at the restaurant and when the microbrewery craze started developing in the United States in the late 1990s, the locale, while eschewing beer, started brewing its own non-alcoholic concoctions — root beer, cream soda and sarsaparilla. An offshoot of that can be seen in the growth since just 2010 in soda shops, places like FiiZ and Sodalicious that sell sugary beverages, mixes of soda, syrup, whipped cream and more. That’s another uniquely Utah food thing.
“It’s kind of like the Utah version of Starbucks. Man, those places are popular and they’re all over,” Maddox said.
Green Jell-O, funeral potatoes
Of course, LDS views aren’t the only church influence on culinary tastes here.
Green Jell-O salads and funeral potatoes are popular and common at church functions, and, for many, have come to typify Utah food. To be sure, no decree states that LDS members shall consume copious quantities of Jell-O or funeral potatoes, casseroles heavy on spuds and cheese.
“It wasn’t part of pioneer Utah at all,” said Brock Cheney, author of a book about the food of Utah’s pioneers, “Plain but Wholesome: Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers,” and an English teacher at Box Elder Middle School in Brigham City. He did plenty of research for his book, he said, and there was no mention of funeral potatoes in the recipes dating to Brigham Young’s day.
Indeed, he maintains that Utah is hardly the only place for such food — go to a potluck meal at a Methodist or Lutheran church in the Midwest, say, and you may find some sort of Jell-O salad or potato casserole.
Similarly, what are dubbed scones in Utah — essentially deep-fried bread — are hardly unique here. “If you were to go any other place, they’d call it a fritter,” Cheney said, or elephant ears or fry bread. “Scone is not the right word.”
Still, things like funeral potatoes hold a special place in Utah. A Salt Lake City bar and grill, The Garage, offers its own version — hush puppy-sized clumps, deep fried in oil.
“It is definitely our top item,” said Walt Nesbit, a bartender at the locale. “Most people say eating our fry potatoes is a religious experience.”
Montanez, operator of Rovali’s, appreciates them. “As long as I can add Tabasco (sauce) to them, boom, I’m happy,” he said.
Likewise, Utah lawmakers in 2001 passed a resolution declaring Jell-O “a favorite snack of Utah,” noting that the gelatine brand, often mixed with fruit, carrots, marshmallows and more, was “a traditional favorite” in the state. The action, solidifying Jell-O’s association with Utah, stemmed in part from extensive media coverage at the time of light-hearted efforts in Salt Lake City to wrest the title as biggest consumer of the gelatine brand from Des Moines, Iowa.
But Cheney, for one, suspects much of the food eaten in Utah doesn’t stray far from the eclectic mix of meat and potatoes and international fare consumed in other places across the country. A modern LDS Relief Society cookbook, offering a glimpse into the eating habits of many in Utah, would probably contain such staples as lasagna and stir fry vegetables, hardly anything out of place at many other U.S. dinner tables.
“It would have the run of the mill hearty fare you would find anyplace else,” Cheney said.
Back at Kirt’s, the Ogden drive-in that goes through more fry sauce than ketchup, Miller doesn’t get too philosophical or analytical about what is or isn’t unique about Utah food. He grew up with fry sauce and wants it when he gets a burger and fries.
“Maybe it is a Utah thing. But I just expect fry sauce. Hope for fry sauce,” he said.


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The recent partnership of Endurance and Danish turbine manufacturer Norwin has provided an exciting new opportunity for Earthmill, of which EWD Partner Mark Woodward is the Director of Sales.
Endurance and Earthmill have worked together with fantastic results for some time now, resulting in Earthmill earning the title of world-wide leading distributor of the Endurance E-3120 turbine. With the rights in place for Endurance to manufacture and distribute Norwin wind turbines, Earthmill plans to make three models available to customers throughout the North of England as soon as possible.
“The Norwin models will be an exciting edition to our turbine range,” commented Mark Woodward, Earthmill’s Director of Sales. “With rising energy costs many farmers are looking for alternative energy options to power their businesses. Wind power is a truly fantastic option because it’s clean and completely renewable. Turbine owners don’t just benefit from the power generated by the turbine; there is also additional income to be had from exporting surplus energy back to the national grid and the Feed-in Tariff, which the government pays out for every kilowatt hour of clean energy you produce.”
The first of the new models, the 225kW turbine, is already available for sales enquiries through Earthmill.
Turbines are available through Earthmill as an outright purchase, a joint venture or as a land rental option. You can find out more about the new turbines and the other turbine models available with Earthmill via their website.


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With the commencement of the first batch of classes at International Fashion Academy Pakistan (IFAP) earlier this year, model, entrepreneur and L’Oréal Paris Pakistan spokeswoman Mehreen Syed along with her team announced the first graduating class at IFAP.
Graduating students are from the grooming, modeling and make-up academies respectively where classes took place each day of the week, over four to eight weeks. The IFAP students were selected to participate in the recently concluded Colombo Fashion Week 2012, Sky Fashion Showcase 2012, Leisure Club’s 15th anniversary celebration Circus event and Fashion Pakistan Week 2012. These students also took part in the Fashion Week.
With L’Oréal Paris as the exclusive make-up partners for IFAP, students from the make-up academy have also worked as assistant make-up artists for an upcoming feature film, ‘Chambeli’. IFAP’s first batch of students was taught by instructors including; Shahzad Raza, Hassan Sheheryar Yasin, Nickie and Nina, Saba Ansari, Iffat Umer, Cybil, Ayesha Fazli, Seher Huma Butt, Nadia Malik, Dr Haroon Nabi, Sobia Mustapha and Uzma Baig. On successfully completing the courses at IFAP, students will now be receiving formal certificates and an opportunity to work closely with their instructors starting with a graduating ceremony in May 2012. – PT


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Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at Wharton, shared his thoughts on the prospects for the development of the crypto market in an interview with CNBC. He warned of inflation and the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) rate hike, and also said bitcoin has become the new gold for millennials.
Finance professor discusses bitcoin and inflation
American economist and professor of finance at the Wharton Business School, Jeremy Siegel studies financial markets. In an interview with CNBC, he was asked about gold and commodities as future investments. Siegel pointed out that the younger generation sees bitcoin as an investment, not gold.
“Let’s face it. I think bitcoin has already replaced gold as an inflation hedge in the minds of many young investors. Digital currencies are a new gold for millennials», Indicated the economist.
Professor Siegel also believes that investors should have access to commodities. In his view, this can be done by investing in emerging markets. In addition, the economist has long been concerned about rising inflation around the world. Previously, he criticized the Fed for its considerable delay in adopting anti-inflationary measures.
“I have been saying this for a long time. I’ve been warning about inflation for a year and a half“, He underlined.
Millennial Millionaire Study
At the end of 2021, the Millennial Millionaires study conducted by the American television channel CNBC revealed a high rate of cryptocurrency ownership among millennials (born in the 1980s and 1990s) as a risk hedging tool. , investments and savings funds.
A CNBC poll found that about 83% of Millionaire Millennials own cryptoassets. At the same time, 48% of respondents plan to increase the volume of investments in digital currencies in 2022, and only 6% intend to reduce the number of digital assets in their wallets.
Most millionaire millennials who have invested in cryptocurrency expect an increase in the return on their investments in the future. That said, they define inflation as a major problem and a threat to economic growth. Unlike the majority of the population who fear rising prices caused by inflation, millennials tend to worry about rising interest rates and how it affects their investments.
Previously, former Australian politician and Tory leader Cory Bernardi claimed that the first cryptocurrency was a “version of gold for millennials“. The ex-senator added that bitcoin presents the same risks as other asset classes.
In conclusion, it should be noted that the younger generation is increasingly opting for cryptocurrency. It is very likely that this will bring them a significant income in the future.
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BA and VisitBritain unite for 'Big British invite' push
British Airways and VisitBritain have launched a £5m international marketing campaign targeting tourists from "fast-emerging" markets including China, India, Canada, Japan, the UAE and the US.
In 2011, 4.6 million visitors from these countries spent £3.9bn in the UK, according to VisitBritain. The digital and print campaign is called 'The Big British Invite' and features real members of the British public inviting consumers across the globe to visit the UK.
Two executions feature the chief yeoman warder of the Tower of London and the director of the Loch Ness project, while the work advertises special fares from British Airways on flights to the UK.
A second phase of the campaign will launch in the New Year with marketing targeted by people's interests, from sport to shopping, culture, countryside and heritage.
The work feeds into VisitBritain’s overall "You’re invited" activity, which has been running since 2010 in a variety of executions, seen most recently across the body’s global cinema ad celebrating 50 years of James Bond.
Sandie Dawe, VisitBritain chief executive, said: "This summer, billions of people all around the world watched Britain stage an amazing party, now it’s their chance to experience it for themselves.
"The friendly welcome that they saw on their TV screens is here to stay, and as well as taking in the delights of London, Britain offers visitors three whole countries to explore on one spectacular island."Follow @loullamae_es
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BlackBerry Ltd. (BB)'s new chiefexecutive officer, rejecting calls to exit the hardwarebusiness, gets a chance this week to convince investors he hasthe time and vision to revive a unit that's dragging sales backdown to 2007 levels.
Handpicked by BlackBerry's largest investor for the CEOjob, John Chen has begun building his case that the companyshould keep its unprofitable smartphone business, even asinvestors and analysts urge the company to focus on morelucrative software and services. Analysts are estimating a 42percent revenue drop in its quarterly results Dec. 20, puttingpressure on Chen to win over skeptics.
Chen's reluctance to part with hardware echoes thesentiment of his predecessor Thorsten Heins, who vowed when hejoined in January 2012 not to break up the company. UnlikeHeins, Chen is an outsider who has orchestrated a software-ledturnaround before, an experience that will afford him somepatience from investors.
"He's got the mandate -- I suppose the constraining factoris time," said James Cordwell, an analyst at Atlantic EquitiesLLP. "A change in direction is what people need."
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One of Mukesh Ambani best chances to take on the Future Group in offline retail and Flipkart and Amazon in online commerce lies in a simple solution being offered by Reliance Jio to help traders and kirana shop owners navigate their way through the complex goods and service tax (GST) regime.
Along with Walldorf, Germany-headquartered business software major SAP as its partner, Jio is one among nearly three dozen GST Suvidha Providers (GSP) in India. The crop includes NSDL eGovernance, Tally, Deloitte, and EY. Official market share data is not yet available but a source close to Jio claims JioGST is by far the largest GSP.
Jio through its Jio point of sale machine – essentially a mobile phone – and an application allows taxpayers to make registration, file challans, upload invoices, file returns, and maintain the ledger. According to government documents, a GSP shall provide tax payers with all the services and maintaining their individual business ledgers (sales ledger and purchase).
“Everyone who is filing GST does it online… JioGST helps in increase of digital penetration, data usage, and is a part of our connectivity business,” said the source, who is not authorised to speak to the media.
For now, it is spending a tidy but relatively small sum on free Jio connections with one year of free calling and 24GB data, and free use of JioGST solutions for a year. It also gives the device to make the GST inputs, which comes pre-loaded with the Jio GST kit. (See details from company brochures running in the visuals with this story.) NSDL eGovernance has priced its GSP offering at Rs 2,700 a year, which works out to about 30 paise per invoice.
Leading ecommerce players Amazon and Flipkart, on the other hand, are spending millions of dollars to bring on board retail buyers. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon has promised $5 billion of investment in India, and his biggest rival Flipkart has raised $7.3 billion. The reason is simple: India has the world’s second largest internet penetration behind China but is under-penetrated in ecommerce. According to consultancy firm BCG, ecommerce penetration in India is just 20%. China is 63% and the US is 79%.
Data from millions of kirana stores and smaller businesses, Jio hopes, will become the base of its larger retail play. It already has some 2.5 million kirana stores registered with Reliance Market, the group’s cash-and-carry wholesale retail business but that’s not enough. Estimates of the number of kirana or mom-and-pop stores vary widely with an industry body putting the number at 50 million countrywide.
Reliance gets parts of the kirana store data when they purchase from the wholesaler but doesn’t have any data of what people are buying from the respective kirana store. Once the kirana store starts filing returns on JioGST, Reliance will have data of the end purchase, which it can further use to increase purchases through a host of special offers and discounts. This is in addition to insights from Reliance Retail, the group’s organised retail chain, that crossed Rs 33,000 crore in revenue in 2016-17.
“Reliance can build an online commerce business any day it wants, but who wants to burn their hands by offering large discounts,” said a second source. “Reliance believes in profitable business and it will do things differently.”
To be sure, there are provisions protecting data of GSP customers. Jio doesn’t see JioGST running afoul of them. The system will not capture data of what item a shopkeeper is selling and will have a limited view of total transactions. “Reliance will not sneak into what people are buying, but it will have data on total sales and purchases,” said a third source.
That will allow Jio to push JioMoney, the telco’s digital payments platform, and services of its yet-to-be-launched payments bank and help shopkeepers customise promotions and extend discounts to deepen the use of digital payments. Later, logistics can be offered to kirana stores. “There are many ways to help kirana store grow their business… JioGST will help us set up the first engagement,” the third source added.
The company has already started experiments of bringing together kirana stores and brands in order to build a wider retail network. Once the kirana store implements JioGST, it will also get access to JioMoney that merchants can use to pay the wholesaler. If the wholesaler is Reliance Market, it can use JioMoney to pay the likes of Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Marico, among others, whose products are sold through the kirana store.
“If you don’t build the network, you can’t be successful,” said the second source. “How long can you build businesses based on cashbacks and discounts?”
For now, though, promotions and discounts find a place in Jio’s strategy. Once the kirana store owner starts using JioMoney, he can customise coupons for select customers and extend those coupons to increase sales. The discounts of the coupons would come from Jio, the kirana store or the brands, or it can be a combination, the first source confirmed.
JioGST is also being used by small garment manufacturers, who products sell on Reliance Fashion as private labels. These companies are also Reliance’s prospective target to build its merchant marketplace once that becomes a viable option.
JioGST comes with industry-specific variants since GST rates are different for different businesses — it varies from chemists to grocers. SAP and Jio worked with the Retail Association of India to make it kirana-store friendly and partnered with All India Association of Chemists and Druggists to customise it for chemists.
“In the polymers and the polyester business, too, there are a large number of small buyers (who can be prospective JioGST users),” said the first source.
JioGST might be just one part of Ambani’s retail ambitions, but it’s too early to declare it a success. It will take some time before Jio is able to build the entire supply chain from the kirana stores all the way up to the brands.


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Proper, the UK-headquartered health snacks firm previously trading as Propercorn, has sold a majority stake to London-based Exponent Private Equity, which plans to form a new snacks group with another one of its portfolio brands acquired last year.
Set up in 2011 as a popcorn manufacturer by Cassandra Stavrou and Ryan Kohn, the company then changed name to Proper in 2019 to reflect its move into vegan crisps with the launch of Properchips made with lentils.
Exponent was also an investor in two companies producing Asian-style foods including snacks – TRS Foods and East End Foods – before the private-equity firm merged the businesses to create Vibrant Foods last year.
Vibrant then went on to acquire another UK firm based in the city of Leicester in the English Midlands, Cofresh Snack Foods, which manufactures a range of Indian-style snacks under its namesake brand and also that of Eat Real, a line of allergen-free snacks.
Proper and Eat Real will now be formed into a new group by Exponent by the end of the quarter with a new CEO heading up the business – Chris Schulze-Melander, the current CEO of People Against Dirty, a manufacturer of clean-label household products. The two brands will remain separate.
In March, Schulze-Melander will replace Proper’s CEO Mike Hedges, who will remain during a transition period until the summer.
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In a statement provided to just-food, Proper's co-founder Stavrou said: "After ten years of building Proper, choosing the right partner for our next chapter meant everything to me. This marks a big moment for this company and our category. From our first sales in Google's offices to now millions of bags of Propercorn and Properchips sold every month, we are proving that healthy and sustainable snacking has a massive audience.
"Working with Exponent and Eat Real to achieve our vision was an opportunity too good to miss. While our brands will remain distinct, we have a shared goal to take healthy snacking mainstream and global. This partnership will amplify every arm of the business."
Terms of the deal or the size of the stake taken by Exponent were not disclosed.
Proper had previously been backed by JamJar Investments, a London-based venture-capital fund, and Piper Private Equity, a start-up investor also based in the UK capital.
In 2020, Proper, which exports to ten markets, posted revenues of GBP24m (US$32.8m).


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Wrestling tournaments are full of long drives and hot gyms, but they are also full of a special comradery among competitors, generic furazolidone online, Furazolidone online without prescription, team mates and parents. What happened as the Danas drove home from the Ron Thon Memorial in Riverton one snowy day in February of 2008 caused a community and a state to mourn.
Veterans of long snowy travel, discount furazolidone without prescription, Cheap generic furazolidone, the Danas through no fault of their own were struck by a semi-truck where Barbara was instantly killed.
With Dakota still on the team bus behind the accident, buy furazolidone online without prescription, No prescription furazolidone, it fell to coach Eddie Clark and his wife, Kristi to tell him of the tragedy and then drive him to Lander where Frank and Scott still were in critical condition, buy cheapest furazolidone online. Furazolidone in bangkok, After the two were transferred to Salt Lake City, the bad news continued as Frank died due to his injuries as well. While son Scott still lie in a coma from the accident, find no rx furazolidone, Find furazolidone without prescription, Dakota did was few are able to do so soon after such an experience.
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His appearance at the Braves wrestling practice just a short time after the actual incident lifted a haze of sadness and doubt over the entire team and helped forge a chemistry and a bond that added to one of the finest teams in SVHS history, furazolidone generic. Buy furazolidone from canada, Over the past 18 months since the accident, Dana helped the Braves win the 4A West Regional Title, furazolidone medicine, Real furazolidone without prescription, a 4A State Runner-Up title and became one of just a handful of SVHS athletes to have placed in the State Tournament all four years.
Dana was singled out at the national level by the National Federation of High Schools. A film crew came to interview Dana and Clark and a video tribute was shown recently on June 30, furazolidone cost, Order cheap furazolidone, in Chicago where Dakota was awarded the National Spirit of Sport award for all sports in the United States.
As part of that ceremony, buy generic furazolidone, Compare furazolidone prices, Scott accompanied Dakota to the Windy City much like he did throughout every single match this past year. Furazolidone without a prescription, It’s yet another national honor born from the wrestling program at Star Valley High.
“I don’t know if everyone realized how big this is, order furazolidone no prescription required, Online pharmacy furazolidone, ” stated Clark. “This is the only award of it’s type given in the entire country for all the sports. There isn’t one for each sport; this is it.”
Clark admits that emotions have been mixed for quite some time.
“Granted, buy furazolidone online cheap, Furazolidone vendors, this is a hard story to be excited about, but it’s great to be happy for Dakota, pharmacy furazolidone, Buy furazolidone cheap, who’s succeeded despite the odds being stacked against him,” he said. “I think that’s the greatest part of it. I think that they [Frank and Barbara] have got to be happy for Dakota and that he’s become a young man that Star Valley can be proud of. He didn’t give in. He kept doing the things that he needed to do, cheapest generic furazolidone, Furazolidone us, not just in wrestling but in life. I think that’s just as important as anything else. He’s become the person that Frank and Barbara would have wanted him to become.”
In a previous interview with the Independent, Dakota discussed the journey over the past year, furazolidone discount. Buy discount furazolidone, “Wrestling has helped me through,” he said, furazolidone for sale. Order cheap furazolidone online, “It’s something that I love that I got to share with my parents and I get to keep doing it. It’s a chance to focus on something else as well.”
Not coincidentally, the man who has spent the past several years as his coach, buy furazolidone lowest price, Buying furazolidone online, is also one who’s helped him through the last year.
“Coach Clark has helped me out a lot,” he added “My team mates have been there for me too to help me out through everything. Cory and Scott were at every wrestling tournament this last year.”
Clark was impressed by the size and scope of the award process, furazolidone without a prescription.
“It was quite a production, find furazolidone no prescription required, Furazolidone no rx, ” he added. They put up the big screens and they have the people in charge of the state athletic associations from every state in the union. There was over 1,000 people at the banquet and people are there from all over the country. I’ve been to a lot of ceremonies and it was very well done and very formal and professional, cheapest generic furazolidone online. Order furazolidone online, Clark concluded that Dakota and his family deserve credit for their courage, but they were never alone, best price for furazolidone. Buy furazolidone, “The one thing that needs to come out of this that we need to honor Dakota’s parents,” he concluded. “They need to take a lot of credit for the character that they’ve instilled in him. The young man that they raised; having the strength to do this is a testament to them. They’re the heroes in all of this. He wouldn’t be the kid he is without Barb and Frank. That’s what I’ll remember about this. The best reflection of a kid is how they act when no one is watching and we’ve had a chance to see that.”
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[ecis2016.org] Trump Tower Kolkata has become the fastest-selling Trump project in India, with 50% of the units in the skyscraper being sold within 40 days of its soft launch
Trump Tower Kolkata, which was announced in mid-October2017, has received overwhelming response, with over 50 per cent of the units being sold since its soft launch. The project is being developed by Unimark Group, RDB Group and Tribeca Developers. This is the third Trump Tower to be launched in India and two more are set to be launched soon. India has the highest number of Trump branded properties in the world, outside of North America.
You are reading: Trump Tower Kolkata: 50% units sold within 40 days of soft launch
Trump Tower Kolkata has now become the fastest-selling Trump project ever in India. The developers have also announced a price escalation of 15 per cent, ending the inaugural offer with which sales were launched. Even with the increased prices, Trump Tower Kolkata remains one of the most attractively priced Trump properties in the world. Construction, for the Trump skyscraper, located on EM Bypass, has already started.
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According to Kalpesh Mehta, managing partner of Tribeca, “There was a big gap in the super-luxury residential segment of Kolkata, with no branded luxury developments. We knew we were on to something when soon after the project announcement, our sales gallery was over-booked for the first two weeks and we received over 10 cheques in the first few hours. Despite a price increase, we anticipate a complete sell off of the development in the next 6-12 months.”
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Harsh Patodia, chairman and managing director of Unimark Group added: “We always believed that the product and the Trump brand would do well in Kolkata, but this has surpassed even our best estimates. Despite the city having the third highest number of Ultra HNIs in India, there weren’t enough offerings in the super-luxury space. The inaugural pricing has definitely worked in generating interest and as well as buzz among the buyers.”
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In terms of the sales logged so far, the developers revealed that over 90 per cent of the buyers, were residents of Kolkata. The vast majority of them, are from business families of Kolkata, with many families purchasing multiple residences. Almost all the buyers cited self-use as the purpose of purchase.
Trump Tower Kolkata will offer super luxury amenities, including a private rooftop, fine dining space, a lavish infinity pool and outdoor deck, spa and fitness center with sauna, steam and massage rooms, library, lounge, games room, children’s play area and business center. The building will have staff that provide in-residence catering, concierge, 24-hour doorman and valet parking services. Buyers will be able to customise their residences, by picking between classic and contemporary interiors designed by Matteo Nunziati, an Italian interior designer who has previously worked with the Trump brand.
The Trump organisation has licensed its name to five projects in India, of which Tribeca is developing two Trump branded residences, in Gurgaon and Kolkata, totaling 1.7 million sq ft and Rs 3,500 crores gross development value. Trump now has the largest real estate portfolio in India outside the US, with five projects, of approximately three million sq ft, with Rs 10,000 crores of gross development value, in Mumbai, Pune, Gurgaon and Kolkata.
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Dingle distillery puts its first 500 casks up for investment
22nd March, 2013 by Andy Young
The Dingle whiskey distillery is giving consumers the opportunity to invest in an individualised cask of pot stilled single malt Irish whiskey.
The Dingle distillery was the first purpose-built distillery for a new whiskey in Ireland in over 200 years and is now the country’s fourth distillery.
Consumers are being offered the chance to become a “Dingle founding father” by investing in one of the distillery’s first 500 casks of whiskey.
Co founder Oliver Hughes said: “The whole idea of the dingle founding fathers is that it’s an opportunity for people to become a founding father of the Dingle distillery.
“It’ll never happen again, there’ll only be 500 worldwide and I see this as a great opportunity for somebody to have their piece of Irish history and heritage, which can be put into a glass.”
As well as owning a cask of Dingle Irish whiskey investors will have the opportunity to “be present for the milestone events in the evolution” of the whiskey.
As a Dingle founding father you will be invited to the distillery to see your own cask distilled and also see the cask being filled. You will be able to see the cask slumber and mature and ultimately bottled; you will be able to decide when that time has come.
There will also be an annual founding father’s dinner in Dingle for all investors to attend.
Dingle’s master distiller, John McDougall, said: “The produce of no two casks of single malt whiskey is ever the same. They may be minuscule differences but they are absolutely there all of the time.
“The interesting thing is that if you a buy a single cask of malt whiskey, then you are indeed buying a unique limited edition.”


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Russia may change the sanctions list for imported products
According to Anna Mirochinenko, the Head of the Agricultural Department for Antimonopoly Regulation, Russia may change the ban list of the food commodities being supplied on the domestic market of the country.
Besides, the Federal Service considers the possibility on tariffs reduction for the certain types of the food products.
The officials stated they plan to consider the initiation of the customs import duties reductions for the commodities banned for supplies on the domestic market.
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Well before cryptocurrencies and NFTs began to fizzle this spring, Carly Rector was already sour on their use for digital art sales.
Rector, who is herself a digital artist and a former senior engineer at Amazon, thought it was unnecessary to use energy-consuming blockchain ledgers to help artists earn a living.
So she flipped the model on its head.
Rector launched CO2ign Art, pronounced “cosine art,” where artists can sell electronic files of their work containing a digital signature that verifies who created it and who bought it. The sale additionally includes a documented purchase of carbon offsets from Verra Carbon Standards, a long-standing source for greenhouse gas removal that’s tracked on a public registry.
Rector’s pitch to artists: “Instead of actively hurting the environment by creating your art, you’d be able to help it.”
Rector left Amazon last year after more than 13 years with the Seattle-based company. She spent about six months building the CO2ign Art platform, which went live in February.
Rector has bootstrapped the project so far and plans to pursue venture capital this fall. The startup has seven employees; she and two others are in Seattle and the rest are in California and Florida. Rector has applied for a provisional patent for the site’s technology.
CO2ign Art currently features more than 100 artists. Before accepting new artists, the startup confirms that they have followers on social media and are creating their own works. Most of the art is digital, but some pieces are digitized versions of physical artworks.
On July 29, the platform is hosting its first livestream event during which five artists will be creating works in real time over nine hours.
The least expensive art on the site is offered at $20, while the high-end pieces cost hundreds of dollars, though most works are well under $100. Half of the sale goes to the purchase of carbon credits, 30% goes to the artist and 20% to the platform.
While it might sound like a small cut for the creators, on platforms like Redbubble or ArtStation the percentage is often even less, Rector said.
NFT or “non-fungible token” sales caught fire last year as a long sought-after strategy for helping digital artists generate revenue for their work. Part of the appeal of using the blockchain was that each time the work was sold and resold, the exchange was recorded on a public blockchain ledger — mostly Etherium — and the artist was paid a fraction of each additional sale.
But the reality, Rector said, is that few pieces are actually sold multiple times. The CO2ign Art platform is set up only for one-time sales. Transactions are made in U.S. dollars and facilitated by Stripe.
The NFT approach quickly sparked controversy because of its carbon impact. Each NFT sale consumes energy as it’s recorded on the blockchain and the purchases are made using cryptocurrencies. Many blockchains, including Etherium and Bitcoin, use significant amounts power due to their computing demands. Digiconomist currently estimates Etherium’s annual carbon footprint as roughly equal to Hong Kong’s. Blockchain proponents counter that all online activity uses energy.
In addition to helping the environment, CO2ign Art has another perk, Rector said: the buyer receives an actual digital file of the artwork. The work can be printed out or displayed on electronic devices. The platform is planning to build features allowing users to display their purchases in virtual galleries.
With an NFT, by contrast, the buyer typically gets an external link where the art itself is found. But anyone who has browsed the internet for more than five minutes knows that links are not eternal.
“That link could change at any point, or go away and you just own a broken link,” Rector said. “That’s a real thing that has happened, people paid million dollars for something with a broken link.”
Both CO2ign Art and NFT sales are straddling tangible and intangible worlds. The blockchain is digital. The art is virtual, but can be printed or displayed. The carbon credits are promises by third parties to fund projects like planting forests that lead to the removal of invisible, environmentally damaging molecules of carbon dioxide.
But the difference between her approach and NFTs, Rector said, is meaningful.
“Each purchase [on CO2ign Art] is funding its own unique set of carbon credits,” she said. “It has its own real thing that is associated with it — and not just a token on the blockchain.”


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No, you haven't travelled back in time. This isn't the year 2000. It's 2015 and LG has just launched a clamshell phone in the form of the LG Wine Smart.
Announced in Korea under the moniker LG Gentle earlier this year, the Wine Smart is making its way out of LG's homeland and landing in countries including France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Japan and the UK.
So apart from a design which will leave you yearning for our simpler mobile past, what else do you get? There's a 3.2-inch, 480 x 320 touchscreen, 1.1GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, a measly 4GB of internal storage and a microSD slot.
Of course, with a screen that small you'll be unlikely to download many apps or games - even though the LG Wine Smart is running Android 5.1.1 Lollipop - so the internal storage shouldn't cause too many issues.
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The small internal storage is joined by a couple of cameras which could easily be plucked from a phone eight years ago with a VGA front snapper and 3MP rear offering.
It's a chunky monkey too, with the Wine Smart set to make a sizeable bulge in your pocket thanks to its 16.6mm depth.
The specs aren't really a deal breaker though, as you'll be buying the phone for its clamshell flip action. It's not as powerful as a Samsung Galaxy S6 or iPhone 6, but it'll likely turn more heads down the pub.
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ASH FORK, Ariz. (CBS) Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, has been the target of a text message scam that proves too good to be true, reports The Arizona Republic.
Yavapai County Sheriffs in Arizona are warning all citizens not to give personal information to telemarketers, such as credit card information or social security numbers, in order to receive a gift certificate.
Even though the "trustworthy" telemarketers claim to be giving out gift certificates free of charge, there is a price to pay
According to the Wal-Mart website, "Fraudsters purporting to be from Wal-Mart have been making phone calls and sending text messages offering free Walmart gift cards to consumers, often under the guise of a 'customer appreciation program.' As part of the scam, the fraudsters ask the consumer for their credit card information to pay for shipping and handling."
According to the newspaper, the Sheriff's Office says the scam has affected people all over the country, and the victims were charged "three to four times" the quoted cost of shipping and handling.
Wal-Mart says the phone calls are "not from Wal-Mart" and that the company "will never initiate a phone call where we ask for sensitive personal data like credit card information or social security numbers."
Those who have encountered the text message bandits are urged by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office to file a complain with the FBI at www.ic3.gov, as well as contact their cell phone provider.


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BitGold has launched its platform in the US.
As of today, US residents can sign up on the BitGold platform and buy, sell, or redeem gold using BitGold’s Aurum payment and settlement technology.
US residents will also have access to the BitGold mobile app and a prepaid card when these features launch “over the coming weeks,” according to the Toronto-based company, but send and receive gold payment features are not initially available in the US.
The BitGold platform offers solutions to the challenge of transacting with fully allocated and securely vaulted gold. It recently went public.