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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A top Austin water official says Central Texas is now mired in the worst drought it has ever experienced, and warned that drastic restrictions on water use may be required next spring.
Summer is right around the corner, but for the Texas Panhandle it could be a another year that the area could see triple digit temperatures plus add to our continuing drought conditions. Which right now Texas Panhandle is still considered to be under a severe to extreme drought conditions.
Beef lovers will soon feel the effects of the worst drought in 50 years as the price of meat rises sharply in the coming months. The ongoing drought gripping two-thirds of the country has caused crops to wither and sent the cost of feed soaring. Experts say this will cause meat prices to skyrocket.


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Target: Supporting black lives with supplier diversity
On May 29, 2020, after the disturbing video showing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck hit the internet and caused civil unrest across the US, despite incurring damage and loss of property due to looting, Target issued a entitled “A Note From Brian Cornell to Our Teams and Communities in the Twin Cities and Beyond,” in which CEO Brian Cornell said:
“We are a community in pain. That pain is not unique to the Twin Cities—it extends across America. The murder of George Floyd has unleashed the pent-up pain of years, as have the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. We say their names and hold a too-long list of others in our hearts. As a Target team, we’ve huddled, we’ve consoled, we’ve witnessed horrific scenes similar to what’s playing out now and wept that not enough is changing. And as a team we’ve vowed to face pain with purpose.
“Every day, our team wakes up ready to help all families—and on the hardest days we cling even more dearly to that purpose. As I write this, our merchant and distribution teams are preparing truckloads of first aid equipment and medicine, bottled water, baby formula, diapers and other essentials, to help ensure that no one within the areas of heaviest damage and demonstration is cut off from needed supplies.
“Our store and HR teams are working with all of our displaced team members, including the more than 200 team members from our Lake Street store in Minneapolis. We will make sure they have their full pay and benefits in the coming weeks, as well as access to other resources and opportunities within Target. We’ll continue to invest in this vibrant crossroads of the Seward, Longfellow, Phillips and Powderhorn communities, preserving jobs and economic opportunity by rebuilding and bringing back the store that has served as a community resource since 1976. In any of our other locations that are damaged or at risk, the safety and well-being of our team, guests and the surrounding community will continue to be our paramount priority.
“It’s hard to see now, but the day will come for healing—and our team will join our hearts, hands and resources in that journey. Even now, Target leaders are assembling community members, partners and local officials to help identify what more we can do together and what resources are required to help families, starting right here in Minnesota.
“Since we opened our doors, Target has operated with love and opportunity for all. And in that spirit, we commit to contributing to a city and community that will turn the pain we’re all experiencing into better days for everyone.”
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At a time when so many brands chose to remain silent rather than alienate customers, the note struck a chord, with some even calling it . Companies started following suit, realizing that silence was not going to be acceptable.
And the company continues to show us how it’s done.
Supporting black lives: Big words backed by real action
Continuing to take action, on Wednesday, the massive retailer announced it was committing to spend $2 billion with Black-owned business by 2025. The retailer with a conscious plans to work with over 500 Black-owned businesses to add products across different categories. The company will also increase its spend with Black-owned companies in areas such as marketing agencies, construction companies, facilities maintenance service providers and more.
Additionally, the company is looking to create new resources, including the aimed at further supporting Black-owned startups by dedicating a team to help scale operations. “Target Forward Founders gives early-stage entrepreneurs the access, education, resources and flexibility they need to elevate to the next level.”
"We have a rich history of working with diverse businesses, but there's more we can do to spark change across the retail industry, support the Black community and ensure Black guests feel welcomed and represented when they shop at Target," said Christina Hennington, executive vice president and chief growth officer, Target. "The bold actions we're announcing today reflect Target's ongoing commitment to advance racial equity for the Black community. They also represent significant economic opportunity for hundreds of new Black-owned companies, who we look forward to doing business with for years to come."
Germany Adopts Revolutionary Supply Chain Human Rights Laws
While the title states that Germany’s newly adopted that targets human rights abuse across global supply chains is “revolutionary” ─ which it is ─, it certainly shouldn’t be. But nonetheless, today, on June 11th, 2021, the German Parliament has ushered in a long-awaited shift to mandatory company compliance rules. After months of negotiation, the German lawmakers finally pushed it over the finish line within the final days of the current legislative period. The bill will see German multinational corporations held legally responsible for any human rights or environmental abuses found across their global supply chains.
“The German government has taken a critical step to ensure that companies operate responsibly,” said Juliane Kippenberg, associate director, children's rights division, at Human Rights Watch. “Respect for human rights in global supply chains is not something that should be optional.”
This news comes at a time when global corporations are already being pushed towards environmental, social and governance (ESG) compliance, with a massive drive to reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon emissions from their supply chain operations and a concerted effort to avoid suppliers and manufacturers that do not meet the standards that industry-leading companies are now expected to meet.
Who will the new law affect?
With Germany’s new legislation, organisations that fail to meet the rules and regulations could be forced to pay fines potentially equivalent to 2% of their annual global turnover. However, it isn’t applicable to all.
According to Reuters, under the act, companies above a certain size will be forced to establish set due diligence procedures that prevent the abuses; from 2023, only companies with more than 3,000 employees in Germany will be affected. From 2024, the rules will expand to companies with more than 1,000 employees.
Statistics from within the country suggest that the first stage of this regulation rollout will affect 900 companies, while the second stage will put 4,800 companies under the spotlight. The bill will also enable the government to temporarily exclude from public tenders companies that receive fines in excess of €175,000.
“Incalculable risks arise for companies,” said Joachim Lang, general manager at the Federation of German Industry. A word of warning from a respected leader, at a time when industry lobby groups and wholesale businesses fear that the new law increases bureaucracy and suggest that price rises may be inbound.
The Take of German Giants
After looking at the incoming legislation, Daimler AG, known more commonly as the automotive giant Mercedes-Benz, a company which, should there happen to be any ESG-compliance issues along its multinational supply chain, would pay a hefty fee, is welcoming of the push for change but hesitant about certain aspects of the bill.
“Daimler's position is: The respect for human rights is a central aspect of our sustainable business strategy. We, therefore, welcome the progress made on the Supply Chain Act. Although the regulations are very ambitious, the proposed legislation has a sound approach overall. It is based on internationally recognised human rights and on international agreements. And it gives companies more legal certainty in an area that has so far only been partially regulated.
Supply chains are not "chains" but rather exceedingly complex networks: Daimler alone has over 60,000 direct suppliers - and many more sub-suppliers. For this reason, we also consider the proposed risk-based gradual model to be sensible. The responsibility of the companies lies primarily in their own business area and with their direct suppliers. Companies must then take action in the deeper supply chain if there are concrete indications of human rights violations. Daimler AG already does that today.
Even though we support the proposed legislation in principle, we consider some aspects to be critical, e.g. the planned fines of up to 2% of the average annual turnover. Instead of threats of sanctions, we consider concrete measures, which companies must take in the event of deficits, to be more expedient. In addition, certain wordings are still vague and leave room for interpretation. Terms such as, e.g. "fair standard of living" should be phrased precisely in order to create legal certainty. Furthermore, documentation and reporting requirements should not lead to unnecessary bureaucracy and should be harmonised with existing rules. On the one hand, this does not help the people on the ground, and on the other hand, it puts a burden on the companies – and the implementation can pose substantial challenges for smaller companies in particular.”
This law is arguably one of the most important developments in the supply chain space so far this year. But it must be remembered that changes do not and will not happen at the push of a button and that democratic principles should be applied to the discussion prior to enshrining legislation into tablature. Environmental and human rights advocacy is a hike, not a brisk walk around the park ─ so, for German companies, it’s time to get their boots on the ground and start assessing their global, interconnected supply chain operations. And, hopefully, they’ll set a stellar example for the rest of us.


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A BARGAIN inflatable pool bought as an early Christmas present has turned into an expensive nightmare for a Warrnambool mother, who faces a huge bill to meet new safety standards.
City resident Jade Green bought two blow-up pools at the discounted price of $59 each this week, only to discover that state government regulations mean she would have to install a $2000 fence in order for the installation to be legal.
She told The Standard she was unaware that small-scale inflatable pools 30cm or more deep needed to be fenced until she bought the product and unwrapped it at home.
The young mother bought the pool as a Christmas present for her eight-month-old son Tyler.
“It’s absolutely crazy. I was so surprised when I found out,” Ms Green said.
“When you buy a pool like that, you don’t expect that you’ll have to pay $2000 to put a fence around it.
“I just wanted to warn people that when you buy a pool, even if it’s small, you might be up for a huge bill if you ever want to fill it with water and use it.”
Ms Green said she discovered a sticker at the base of the product’s cardboard wrapping which suggested that owners needed to contact their local council before using the inflatable pool.
“I’d been planning to buy an inflatable pool for a few weeks and by the time I got around to it, there weren’t that many left on the shelf,” she said.
“There’ll probably be a fair few people returning their pools.”
Approved safety barriers are required for any swimming or wading pool statewide that are capable of containing a volume of water greater than 30 centimetres in depth.
State regulations cover soft-edged and inflatable pools as well as permanent in-ground and above-ground pools, spas and hot tubs.
Warrnambool City Council municipal building surveyor Peter Keen said a building permit was required to install or alter a safety fence and can be obtained through any of the five south-west shires.
He said councils were responsible for enforcing state government legislation and could issue on-the-spot fines for failure to comply with safety barrier requirements.
“Drowning is the most common cause of preventable death for children under five in Victoria,” Mr Keen said.
“These laws are put in place to protect lives and prevent such tragedies from occurring.
“Installing a fence might be an inconvenience but it is a small price to pay for saving a life.” Mr Keen said south-west residents should keep the legislation in mind before purchasing an inflatable pool this summer.
“Wading pools are very affordable and are sold at most discount and department stores so they become a popular purchase around this time of year,” he said.
“It’s important to consider the cost of the fence and building permit before buying a pool.”
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Circle Financial Services has recently announced that any business that builds on its platform now has the option of integrating Apple Pay. This will help to boost the sales of those businesses further than they had in the past. It will also give builders a secure, easy, and private means of ensuring payment.
Circle’s new leverage
Circle Financial Services is a blockchain-focused financial solution. It was initially a client-facing P2P payment and cryptocurrency wallet & exchange platform. It is now focusing on the development of crypto apps and blockchain technologies.
The new payment integration now lets customers carry out quick checkouts while using their everyday devices. Apple Pay is equally a faster and safer means of payment while using the Safari browser and available apps. This is because users will no longer have to either fill out long forms or create an account as it were.
This new development would prove really powerful for crypto-focused businesses. The catch is that it would help them create firmer links with their clients who might want to pay by traditional means. It would also help them buy cryptocurrencies with Apple Pay on their exchanges.
As a matter of fact, Circle and Apple Pay payment methods have made it possible for crypto-focused businesses to receive payment from clients who don’t use crypto at all. Crypto gaming, NFT marketplaces, crypto wallets, and crypto exchanges can all grow their businesses by making easy checkouts with Circle and Apple Pay.
The simplicity of operation
Traditional business models can equally seize advantage of the latest development to shift some of their retail payments to cryptocurrencies. They would be able to experience the benefits of crypto settlement.
There have been defined ways regarding how to get onboard. The announcement from Circle said having to integrate Apple Pay is quite easy and requires just a few steps.
Eligible businesses would have to open an account on Circle for free, first, then proceed to create an Apple developer account. The second step would be for the business to get connected to Circle’s Payment through simple API integration and proceed to test Apple Pay and other available options in Circle’s sandbox.
Apple Pay through Circle makes it easier for clients to make payments online and in apps through their Apple watches, iPhones, iPad, and other devices. Clients who wish to make payments through Safari or in apps simply have to select Apple Pay while checking out. They would then complete their transaction through Touch or Face ID.


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It’s official: Every Samsung Galaxy S8 will come paired with AKG-tuned earbuds.
Since the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8, there’s been a fair amount of confusion over whether the earbuds tuned by renowned audio firm AKG were bundled as standard, or were shipping with some phones as part of special retailer-led offers and bundles.
But in a new post to Twitter, a senior Samsung employee has confirmed that the “earbuds tuned by AKG will be in every retail package”.
Posting to Twitter, Samsung reviews program lead Philip Berne said:
The headphones are said to be valued at around $99/£99, so this means they’re a decent add-on to your purchase. However, without having reviewed the AKG headphones, we’ll have to reserve judgement for now.
In any case, the Samsung Galaxy S8 has seriously impressed us, bagging a top 5/5 score in our full review. We praised the handset’s impressive screen, well-performing camera, and innovative, futuristic design.
The Samsung Galaxy S8 was announced just last month, and started shipping to pre-order customers on April 19. The phone is due to properly go on sale later this month in stores – AKG earbuds included.
Samsung significantly revamped its flagship phone design for the Galaxy S8, adopting a new all-screen front that it calls the ‘Infinity Display’. This meant ditching the Home button and moving the fingerprint scanner to the back of the handset, allowing for more of the phone’s front to be occupied by screen.
The Samsung Galaxy S8 features a 5.8-inch QHD AMOLED screen, an Exynos 8995 chip (in the UK), 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage as standard, and a microSD slot good for 256GB of expandable storage. There’s also a 3,000mAh battery that supports fast and wireless charging, as well as a Dual-Pixel rear camera, iris and fingerprint scanners, and a custom-built digital assistant called Bixby.
You can buy the Samsung Galaxy S8 from £689/$720 in the UK and US.
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WASHINGTON — China and Vietnam muscled out foreign competitors in the first quarter and fueled the overall growth in apparel and textile imports.
In the quarter ended March 31, imports of all textiles and apparel rose 18.6 percent to 9.83 billion square meters equivalents against the same period in 2002, according to the Commerce Department’s report released Tuesday.
Apparel imports rose 20.8 percent in the same period to 4.55 billion SME, while textile imports rose 17.3 percent to 5.28 billion SME.
“The essence of the first quarter’s jump is the continuing flood of imports of Chinese textiles and apparel that are no longer subject to quotas,” said Donald Foote, director of the agreements division at Commerce’s Office of Textiles & Apparel.
For months, China and Vietnam have led the pack in accelerating the growth in imports, although Vietnam is a much smaller supplier than China. The two neighboring countries figured prominently in the overall import growth.
The textile industry is concerned about China’s growing dominance and two trade groups renewed the call Tuesday for reimposing quotas on several apparel categories.
“We are having a massive import surge,” said Augustine Tantillo, Washington coordinator for American Manufacturers’ Trade Action Coalition. “The U.S. government has the ability to do something about the major component, which is China, but they are sitting on their hands.”
Eight months ago, the American Textile Manufacturers Institute asked the Bush administration to reimpose quotas on five apparel and textile import categories from China that had been lifted as part of the gradual phaseout of World Trade Organization-member quotas by 2005.
In response, Grant Aldonas, undersecretary for international trade at Commerce, told mill executives at the ATMI’s annual meeting on April 3 that the administration would shortly issue guidelines for how to file a request under a safeguard provision negotiated in 1997 as part of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
That was one month ago and those guidelines still have not been issued.
“The safeguard mechanism was developed several years ago and there should have already been a process in place,” said Parks Shackelford, president at ATMI. “Right now we are waiting for just the process, not even a decision on our request.”Jim Leonard, deputy assistant secretary of textiles, apparel and consumer goods industries at Commerce, said the draft of the China safeguard procedures is being reviewed.
“Even though this is a [Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements] process, other people are asking questions and we are answering them because this is China and China is very important,” Leonard said. “We have briefed both administration people and interested parties on the Hill about the draft of the procedures and we continue to answer questions about it.”
Julia Hughes, vice president of international trade at the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles & Apparel, said the safeguard mechanism should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
“We continue to see categories of trade going to China from other Asian suppliers and not necessarily from U.S. producers,” said Hughes. “There has to be an explanation of how Chinese shipments are harming domestic manufacturers.”
The import surges prompted U.S. officials to take action against Vietnam late last month with a quota-setting bilateral textile agreement. The agreement, which went into effect May 1, imposes quotas on 38 apparel and textile categories and limits the value of Vietnamese apparel imports to about $1.7 billion in the first 12 months.
Meanwhile, apparel and textile imports from Vietnam and China continued to soar in March and in the first quarter.
Imports from China swelled 125.1 percent in the first quarter to 1.6 billion SME, while imports from Vietnam rose 877.9 percent to 196 million SME in the first quarter.
For March, imports from China rose 110.8 percent, while imports from Vietnam rose 565 percent compared with March 2002. Overall apparel and textile imports in March rose 17.4 percent to 3.2 billion SME.
In textiles, China dominated first-quarter trade with man-made fiber furnishings such as blankets, quilts comforters, curtains, drapes, luggage, handbags and tents, according to Foote.
China and Vietnam also saw big gains in apparel import growth. with China accounting for 31 percent of the first-quarter increase and Vietnam making up 21 percent. Seven other countries together took up an additional 28 percent of the first-quarter growth: Honduras, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and El Salvador.Of note, some other foreign suppliers held their own against the two Communist countries in the apparel and textile trade. Imports from Honduras rose 21.9 percent in the quarter, while imports from India grew 20.8 percent and imports from Canada rose 6.8 percent. Imports from the entire 24-country Caribbean Basin rose 14.1 percent.
Other countries lost market share in the first quarter. Mexico, the number two overall supplier to the U.S., saw a drop of 7.8 percent in imports of apparel and textiles in the quarter and imports from Thailand fell 10.9 percent.
@margotrobbie steps out onto the red carpet wearing @miumiu. The actress is nominated for “Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role” in “I, Tonya” at the #SagAwards. (📷: Stewart Cook) #wwdfashion
For @massimogiorgetti of @msgm, the Nineties are his favorite decade. “They had a huge impact on my personal growth. What I like of the Nineties is that they are not so precise in terms of style as other decades…there was actually a bit of everything,” he said. As seen on MSGM’s Spring 2018 show: tie-dye and a bit of grunge, two styles that are synonymous with the decade #wwdfashion #wwddecades (📷: @kukukuba)
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“Personally I believe the Eighties have been the richest and more vivacious period for international fashion,” Giorgio Armani said when asked what his favorite decade of fashion is. It was a moment of disruption and experimentation and only thinking back to the first years of that decade is always an emotion for me, for what they have meant to me and my work.” The influence is clear in @giorgioarmani spring 2018 collection, pictured here, which was full of bright colors and unexpected prints. Read more about which decades designers loved most on WWD.com #wwdfashion #wwddecades (📷: @aitorrosasphoto)
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Growing popularity of U.S. beef in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan has resulted in higher exports this year. U.S. beef exports through the end of July are 139 million pounds higher than the same period from the previous year.
Shipments to Japan have surged this year since import restrictions were relaxed in February to allow for imports of U.S. beef from cattle aged less than 30 months. Higher trade has led the USDA to increase its total beef export forecast to 2.41 billion pounds in 2013.
Although exports through July are three percent higher than the previous year, exports are forecasted to fall 4.5 percent to 2.3 billion pounds in 2014.
Drought conditions in Mexico over the past 2 ½ years pushed a lot of cattle into the U.S., however the country’s herd liquidation rate is slowing and U.S. cattle imports are expected to decrease during the remaining months in 2013 and next year.
The USDA Economic Research Service is forecasting lower cattle import numbers for the remainder of this year and next year, reducing this year’s total to 1.9 million head. Expectations for 2014 are above the 2013 total, but lower than the previous forecast. The ERS is forecasting 2014 cattle imports to reach 1.95 million head.
Cattle imports from Canada have surpassed 600,000 head through the end of July. Higher feed costs in Canada and better feeder cattle prices in the U.S. have pushed cattle across the border.


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For decades, the Barbie doll has been criticized for giving little
girls an unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like. As
a result, Barbie sales have been dropping.
So toymaker Mattel, getting its Blokus kicked in third-quarter financial results, has introduced a revamped line of black Barbie dolls. These dolls actually look black, rather than being standard Barbies with white features and darker plastic skin.
And guess what? It’s being criticized for giving little black girls an
unrealistic image of what black women are supposed to look like.
Writes Tonic: The three new Mattel Barbies — Grace, Kara and Trichelle — were
conceived with features more in keeping with African American females
(fuller lips, curlier hair) to give young girls Barbies they could more
readily identify with. The misstep, some detractors say, is that the
new Barbies aren’t black enough.
The deal breaker, it appears, is the long, straight hair.
The Associated Press weighs in: But some say the long straight hair does not
address the beauty issues that many black girls struggle with. In the
black community, long, straight hair is often considered more beautiful
than short kinky hair. Chris Rock highlights the issue in his
“Good Hair” documentary, which opens in select cities on Friday and
shows black women straightening their tight curls with harsh chemicals
and purchasing thousand-dollar hair weaves. “Why are we always
pushing this standard of long hair on our girls?” asked Gail Parrish,
60, a playwright in Alexandria, Va., and a mother of four grown
children. “Why couldn’t one of the dolls have a little short afro, or
shorter braids or something?”
The lesson is that producing something as iconic as
Barbie, which is mass-marketed to the general population, is an invitation to piss someone off.
Mattel could have gone the
other direction with the toy — white or black — and made it realistic. If they had,
it’s doubtful Serial Dating Barbie, Multi-tasking Mom Barbie and
Blackberry-Addicted Barbie would have been that popular.
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Investors Puzzle Over HTC: Biggest Winner in U.S., Big Loser Globally
November 28, 2011 9:04 AM
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Company's CFO says new flagship LTE models will launch globally in 2012, restore sales growth
If there's one of the Android superstars that's stumbled in the last few months it's been HTC Corp. (
). Globally the Taiwanese phone maker has seen its pattern of quarterly growth come to an end. Indeed, it
predicted zero growth
in Q4 sales, even as smartphone sales as whole continue to rise at a double-digit pace.
Chief Financial Officer Winston Yung brushed off the disturbing metric, commenting that HTC would overall show large growth from 2010 to 2011. He explains, "I don't think it's so serious. We have six quarters of improvement, the most conservative guidance is 45 million units of shipments this year, a lot higher than 25 million last year."
Investors apparently feel otherwise. They've hammered HTC's stock 32.5 percent downwards since November 16.
The plunge is frustrating for the company as it comes not long after HTC received a happy surprise,
finding itself topping
American firm Apple, Inc. (
) and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
) in Q3 2011 U.S. smartphone sales. HTC's strong performance in the U.S. was not entirely unexpected, but its top position was a surprise.
HTC also faces legal woes stemming from its battle with Apple. Last year it was the first Android phone maker to be attacked by
attacked by Apple in U.S. court
filed a counter complaint to the ITC in May
filed a second complaint
in June. Apple wants to ban all shipments of HTC smartphones into the U.S., the company's lone remaining bastion of strong sales.
On the legal front, HTC did catch a bit of a break, seeing a potential sales ban on its phones in Germany due to infringement of a patent from a firm called IPCom lifted when the patent involved was ruled invalid by the EU.
And HTC's Mr. Yung expressed confidence that upcoming brand new 2012 flagship models will right the ship for HTC. He comments, "We will focus on the product next year, better and more competitive. Other than new LTE phones for the U.S. market, we also have phones for the global market. We will launch some worldwide flagship products. We're confident in them."
HTC will need to show proof of its turnaround if it hopes to slow its falling stock, which is being unloaded by foreign institutional investors.
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We are still waiting for HTC...
11/28/2011 11:44:32 AM
Here in brazil we have HTC Ultimate (HTC Titan).
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Kithe Brewster Loses 115 Pounds with the Duke Diet
Our follow-up with celebrity stylist Kithe after his impressive year of weight loss.
There's nothing I like more than a weight loss success story, and Kithe Brewster has a good one. I had a chance to meet this celebrity fashion stylist in earlier this year in March when he began his journey. Just one month in to following the Duke Diet the had lost 22 pounds off of his starting weight of 301 pounds. Kithe had spent years taking care of the likes of Eve, Julianne Moore, Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum and helping them to become fashion icons, meanwhile his health had gone the way of white shoes after Labor Day - unheard of.
In that interview he explained how his decision to change his life was an abrupt one. Last summer Kithe fainted at a fashion show and thought it was due to exhaustion, no doubt a result of his non-stop, international schedule. The real reason was because of his high blood pressure and cholesterol. “Something had to be done. I didn’t have any more chances,” he told us.
"I have a chance to grasp my life again!" Kithe told us in an interview this week, in which we discussed his 100-pounds lost milestone. That's not the most impressive part, it's been 9.5 months since Kithe's journey began and he is actually down 115 pounds!
He relies on The Duke Diet, a medically supervised program out of North Carolina. "Duke Diet is about eating more of the things that are good for you and less that is bad for you… it's the perfect balance." He chose the program because of the medical oversight as well as for its online accessibility, something his international agenda demands. He loves waking up in the morning to see his daily message already in his email and that's something he credits with keeping him on track.
He follows a reduced-calorie diet and says "walking is the key to this entire thing," about his fitness regimen. He has access to the world's best trainers and he chooses walking because it works. Kithe uses the treadmill to speed walk 45 minutes each day, where he also does stretches.
Kithe put his new body to the test during September's notable Fashion Week, where he helped plan and produce three shows. He raved about the unprecedented energy he had, calling himself "an Ever Ready battery."
"I've accomplished a lot," Kithe says about his ten-year career in the U.S. "Losing my life over obesity was something I could change." He called death from obesity "not acceptable."
To celebrate he's "stalking Ellen at the moment," so that he can do his big reveal on her show, a goal he shared with us in our first conversation.
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Target is withdrawing some items over threats that were “impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being” on the job, according to a statement on its website.
The company is adjusting its plans, including removing items that have been the center of controversial behavior such as people throwing LGBTQ Pride displays on the floor, according to a video emerging on social media.
One woman recorded a TikTok video in a Target store on Monday, expressing her anger regarding a greeting card that read “So Glad You Came Out” and a yellow onesie that said “¡Bien Proud!”
“If that doesn’t give you a reason to boycott Target, I don’t know what does,” she said.
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, tweeted, “Extremist groups want to divide us and ultimately don’t just want rainbow products to disappear, they want us to disappear.”
She adds that Target will double down on its commitment to the LGBTQ+ community since the community has celebrated Pride with Target for the past decade.
Target’s reversal would encourage violent threats from people who are anti- LGBTQ+ according to Michael Edison Hayden, a senior investigative reporter and spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate crimes.
He said, “I think once they enter that fray they have a responsibility to stand by that community… As soon as you back down like this, you send a message that intimidation works…”
When it comes to attaining a broader representation of LGBTQ+ people in advertising, advocacy groups are cautious that this could create a chilling effect.
“75 percent of people who did not identify as LGBTQ+ were comfortable seeing those represented in marketing campaigns,” according to a survey conducted in February called GLAAD. That figure has been consistent since 2020.
“You can absolutely roll out an ad campaign and include LGBTQ+ folks in it,” Ms. Ellis of GLAAD said. “And at the same time, there is this political right-wing arm that you have to be aware of when you’re doing it and just be prepared for.”
The backlash from shoppers had led the company to remove its Pride merchandise and move it from the front of the store to the back.
The company wants to support “all families’ and focus on the diversity, inclusion, and equity of all families that has helped the company grow over the past nine years according to what Target CEO Brian Cornell said in an interview with Fortune‘s Leadership Next podcast.
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Only 33% of firms used unions to consult with workers, down from 55% last year. But the CBI warned public sector 'storm clouds' could spill into the private sector. It said the 'dam had burst' on company pensions. Only 27% of firms now offer final-salary schemes.
Shoppers left their wallets untouched during the August heatwave, the CBI's survey of the distributive trade shows. Only two fifths said August sales were up on last year compared with more than half in July.
Improving consumer confidence helped the UK's service sector achieve its fastest growth rate for two and a half years last month, the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply said. It grew for the fifth consecutive month in August.
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Personalization powered by big data is advertising of the future (for humans and dogs, it appears).
Mars Petcare brand Puppo collaborated with Colenso BBDO Auckland to create a bespoke ad for every registered dog in New York City -- more than 100,000 of them.
The New York-based pet nutrition company, incubated by Kinship Labs, formulate and deliver personalized dog food for every dog, giving owners the ability to help address their dog’s unique health concerns with a bespoke diet.
Leonid Sudakov, president at Kinship, said: " Kinship is a one-of-a-kind collaboration platform to build the future of petcare, powered by a unique coalition of innovators and talent.
"At the core of Kinship is the desire to work together with our partners like Colenso BBDO, to deliver this transformational promise. The Puppo campaign reflects the essence of this ambition - an innovative partnership highlighting a product built to serve every single customer in a very personal way. "
To bring this campaign to life, Colenso BBDO created an algorithm that extracted information from publicly available NYC Dog Licensing Data.
Along with a sophisticated modular copy and art direction system, it was able to generate a unique ad for every dog in Manhattan delivered through OOH placements bought through media buying platform MilkMoney and dynamic digital media platforms managed by Mediacom.
Kimberley Ragan, Colenso BBDO creative director, said: "We all love our dogs, and having your dog, with all his or her unique personality quirks, pigeon holed into small, medium or large breed, isn’t always what’s best for the dog.
"Straying from the typical one-ad-for-100,000 consumers format, instead creating one ad for each of the 100,000+ dogs who live in New York City, allowed us to connect with owners in a more meaningful way, and help them find the right diet for their pup."


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Xerox and HP, two big names in modern technology, are still locked in a sort of acquisition dance that may end up having a considerable impact on shareholders. Read on to find out everything you need to know!
First, a Bit of Context
Tech companies have a long history of splitting up, getting back together, and merging with other businesses. Often, shifts like these have big consequences, both for immediate shareholders and the tech world at large--and that goes beyond the name printed on your office equipment; it's also about quality, design, and features. The acquisition standoff between Xerox and HP, then, isn't exactly a new phenomenon, but the story does get more interesting as Xerox continues refining and resubmitting its offer.
Back in November 2019, Xerox made its first big takeover attempt. Here's what it looked like:
- $17 per HP share
- 0.137 Xerox shares per HP share
The HP board of directors unanimously rejected this offer, sending Xerox back to the acquisition trenches.
The New Offer
After the failed attempt in 2019, Xerox announced considerable backing from some noteworthy financial partners. Now they're back with a new offer for HP board members and shareholders. Here's what the deal looks like:
- $18.40 per HP share
- 0.149 Xerox shares per HP share
Based on this information, it's clear that Xerox used its new financial backing to make bigger and better promises to shareholders. However, it remains to be seen whether the change will be enough to make acquisition enticing for all parties. If Xerox and HP were to merge, the tech world would certainly feel shock-waves--but it's also worth noting that, like many partnerships, an HP/Xerox merger could lead to great things too.
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Time Inc ad boss Charlie Meredith: ‘We’re likely to sell print ads programmatically in the UK’
Time Inc's decision to sell print ad inventory in the US programmatically is likely to extend to the UK, according to the publisher’s advertising boss for the region Charlie Meredith.
Time Inc’s reasoning is that by automating how advertisers buy audiences such as women and luxury it frees the sales team to act more as consultants, plotting more custom content deals. That’s in addition to the prospect of tighter controls over print prices Time stands to gain from a programmatic platform that will serve targeted audiences at scale through real-time online auctions.
The publisher is currently only selling its US print media in this way but is adamant that it is the future of trading in all markets. Charlie Meredith, managing director of Time Inc UK’s advertising business, told The Drum that a market where there are “standard advertising formats toward automation” made sense.
“I think in time it is likely [that print ads will be sold programmatically in the UK],” he confirmed. “It’s not now because there’s no mechanism in place. No discussions have been had about bringing it over here yet.”
A key issue for publishers and media agencies trading ads this way is protecting yield. Meredith said it was too early to say whether its yield would fall in a UK market for definite though he was confident that the strength of its brands could handle any decline.
“Our positioning for both print and digital is a premium one. We charge for that because of the effectiveness of our great environment for driving ROI. I think we need to see how [programmatic print ads] work but I would hope [yield would not fall] over the longer term,” he added.
Time, like all publishers, already has teams selling audience groups and also guarantees the placement of ads in print, similar to how its digital ads are sold by machines. Should print inventory become automatically traded then it would call into question the role and size of the publisher’s sales team.
Meredith downplayed potential restructures of the team and predicted that those members would add value in other parts of the multi-disciplined teams in which they work.
“I’m sure that’s something that would be welcome in the agencies,” he added. “Where you can drive efficiency by buying paging in standard formats more simply and effectively then let’s do that. That frees up the time for our sales people to add value in other areas whether that’s creative media or content. The role of sales people would definitely change.”
Any programmatic play would need to be tweaked to support the publisher’s revamped advertising offering last month (27 January). Billed as “customer-focused structure”, Time’s advertising business now acts as a single point of access for agencies to plan campaigns and has also formed new category departments - retail, health and beauty, technology and telecoms, and food and drink - to support its titles.
Meredith said: “Whereas in the past it wasn’t possible to come to us and get simple access to the best that we can offer, now we’re more accessible to the agencies.”
The structure is to be bolstered by senior hires, technology launches as well as the publisher’s insight team.


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Officials in Dubai have predicted the destination will double its visitor levels over the next 5 years, with one million cruise arrivals expected by 2020.
Hamad M Bin Mejren, Senior Vice President of the Dubai Events & Convention Bureau, said Dubai was continuing its cruise leadership after the first home-ported vessels sailed from Dubai in 2006
Fifteen years ago, Dubai received 7,000 annual passengers; this year, Dubai is expected to receive 425,000 cruise arrivals from 115 ports of call – a year on year growth of 30%.
During a recent interview, Mejren said five cruise lines will homeport seven vessels in Dubai in 2015, with the destination proving to be “one of the leading winter cruise destinations in the world”.
The boom in cruise passengers heading to Dubai is thought to have been caused by the introduction of a multiple visa entry system, which has made Dubai accessible to new markets – particularly Chinese and Indian cruisers.
Before the latest system was introduced, visa costs were enough to deter most from travelling to the Emirate, with some passengers paying around 30% of their holiday cost on visa requirements alone. Under the new system, it costs just US$50 to secure a visa.
The new visa is applicable to many other nations too, including Brazil, Russia and South Africa, as well as a further 50 countries whose citizens do not require a visa to travel to Dubai – including Australia and New Zealand.
Mejren said the new visa measures were promoted comprehensively prior to being launched, with a specialist cruise road show taking place in India.
Dubai has invested heavily in its cruise infrastructure, adding a third cruise terminal to accommodate the influx of arriving passengers.
Figures released by the Dubai Tourism Board suggest overnight visitation has grown dramatically over the past decade, with cruise arrivals becoming an integral part of the city’s tourism industry.
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On this day 75 years ago, the legendary Marvin Gaye was born. What would've been his 75th birthday comes a day after the 30th anniversary of his tragic murder. Marvin (2007 14th St. NW), the Belgian-influenced restaurant inspired by Gaye's Belgin exile, will host its annual birthday celebration for him in his native D.C. today, but this year's celebration will be special due to the magnitude.
There will be live music from Gaye's original band, the Marquees, as well as performances by Maimouna Youssef and Martin Luther. Gaye's music director, Gordon "Guitar" Banks, the Savoy-Ellingtons and U.S. Royalty will also join several other local acts. Som Records vinyl shop will also host a Hitsville U.S.A.-inspired pop-up shop on site selling Motown classics from the 1960s to the 1980s from 4 p.m. until the event ends.
The event starts at 4 p.m. and all proceeds will be forwarded to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in Gaye's name. Enjoy the fun, just don't call it "Marvin's," per the owner.
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Seagate has announced a huge storage solution for Xbox. The new Seagate Game Drive Hub for Xbox is a massive 8TB of storage with a multi-purpose USB hub to store hundreds of games.
The Game Drive Hub has been designed and tested in collaboration with Xbox and will work seamlessly with any console in the Xbox One family including the soon to be released Xbox One X.
With 8TB of storage, Seagate has said that the Game Drive Hub for Xbox has room for 200+ games as well space for game-save data and downloadable content. 1 Dual Quick-Access USB 3.0 Ports Two front-facing USB 3.0 ports allow for easy ability to charge controllers and mobile devices. Gamers can also connect other Xbox One accessories, such as steering wheels and even other game drives.
As with most Xbox peripherals, the storage device offers easy Plug-and-Play setup with the Xbox One automatically detecting the drive when connected to the USB port. Utilising the high-speed USB 3.0 players can expect a seamless experience which will be just like playing from the console’s hard drive.
The new drive should be available this month at select Seagate resellers for a MSRP of $199.99, details on Sterling and Euro prices are not clear as of yet. You can find out more information at www.seagate.com
The Seagate Game Drive Hub for Xbox joins Seagate’s popular line of storage solutions for gamers. It will be available this month at select Seagate resellers for an MSRP of $199.99. Learn more at www.seagate.com.


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Turner Networks said today that it has reached a long-term multiplatform carriage deal with AT&T to keep its content on DirecTV and U-verse. The nets also will be available on streaming services DirecTV Now and DirecTV Preview, which are set to launch during Q4.
The deal also includes TV Everywhere rights, allowing subscribers of satcaster DirecTV and web-based TV service U-verse to stream Turner nets live and on-demand content across a variety of platforms and devices. Turner nets include CNN, HLN, TBS, TNT, TCM, truTV, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and more.
“Turner’s goal as a consumer-first media company is to make our content available everywhere our audience is, and this expansive deal with AT&T helps deliver on that promise by having our leading portfolio of popular networks and premium programming available on more services and platforms than ever before,” said David Levy, president of Turner. Added Dan York, chief content officer at AT&T, “The Turner agreement adds more premium content to our already robust line-up of DirecTV Now channels available to customers when it launches this year.”
Separately today, AT&T announced a patented new technology to deliver Internet over power lines. The conglomerate said Project AirGig will offer “low-cost, ultra-fast multi-gigabit-per-second wireless Internet speed” over the existing infrastructure. It noted that the technology, developed by AT&T Labs, has the potential to deliver Internet connectivity to urban, rural and underserved parts of the world over the power lines.
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This was the theme of an interview given by Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy on Wednesday night at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, McNealy's alma mater. The taped interview will air on the PBS program "CEO Exchange."
In the interview, McNealy contrasted networked file storage with local computer storage on a hard drive.
"People stored money in their mattresses for a long time and then they discovered it either got stolen or their house would burn down, and they went to financial service providers," McNealy said. He went on to explain the importance of keeping valuable documents on networks, rather than in single locations where they could get lost, stolen or destroyed.
"If you have important medical documents, the last place you want them is in your house. You want them out on the network where you can access them from anywhere," he said. "You want them where the appropriate people can get at it if they need to, if you're lying by the side of the road."
The pitch was appropriate for Sun, maker of servers, network operating systems, networked storage systems and high-end workstations. Its products are designed to take advantage of the processing power of multiple networked computers.
During the dot-com explosion in 1999 and early 2000, McNealy trumpeted the rise of the Internet as a tribute to the direction of Sun's networking products. Although many start-up companies have died off and others slowed their hardware purchases, the CEO did not back off of his pitch on the importance of the Web to the future of business.
He explained that large companies--which typically have less than 20 percent of their company's data Web-enabled and accessible by the Internet or a company intranet--will move to network more data in the future. The process is only beginning, he explained. "It's like the first or second minute of 60-minute game."
When asked about the future of the PC, McNealy explained that the issue was not if the PC would become obsolete, but when each person would find it obsolete.
"The PC is already dead for me," McNealy said. "I go into my office, I put a 'smart' card into a very thin device and it finds my desktop and downloads it."
Despite his optimism for the future of networked computing, McNealy recently warned employees that the slowing economy will lead to continued cost cutting and tempered hiring at Sun.
Although the company met its quarterly earnings expectations last week, at least one analyst reduced revenue expectations slightly for the company on concerns surrounding the high-end hardware sales which have afflicted Hewlett Packard.
McNealy did not address his company's financial status during the interview, but did briefly address California's energy crisis and its impact on Sun.
"We're looking to grow faster in other places just because of the cost of living and power," he said.
McNealy also used the energy crisis as an opportunity to tout some of Sun's products. "The Sun Ray that we're rolling out uses about one-tenth of the power of a PC, is faster and it's more reliable than a PC. Why wouldn't you use it?"
"I believe that networking is far more energy-efficient than running around the real world," he said.


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‘Ampere Next Next’ coming in 2024
During his GTC 2021 keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed a roadmap for its upcoming GPUs, CPUs, and DPUs. We’ve already covered the Grace CPU, which should arrive in 2023, but the more interesting bit for gamers is the GPU. While Nvidia listed the GPU as “Ampere Next,” we expect the GPU codename will actually be Hopper. That means Nvidia’s next CPU and GPU combined will be Grace Hopper, after the computer scientist who pioneered many aspects of computer programming languages.
We don’t have any concrete details on Hopper / Ampere Next yet, though it’s safe to assume it will be faster and better than Ampere. Perhaps more importantly, it won’t arrive until 2022, so anyone hoping for a sequel to Ampere this year will have to wait a bit longer. Which is perhaps all for the best, considering that it’s basically impossible to buy any of the best graphics cards right now — unless you’re willing to pay two to three times the official prices, anyway.
What will Hopper / Ampere Next entail, though? Current Ampere GPUs are manufactured on both TSMC N7 (GA100) and Samsung 8N (all of the consumer models — GA102, GA104, and GA106). That split could continue, but almost certainly the data center and HPC solution will come via TSMC, probably on the N5 process. That change should allow for even more GPU cores and transistors. The consumer side could potentially switch to TSMC as well, depending on how quickly TSMC can ramp up its wafer starts.
Based on past releases, we expect the Ampere Next / Hopper GPUs to launch with RTX 4000 series branding, and the top model (ie, RTX 4090) would likely outperform the current offerings by at least 25–30 percent, in situations that are GPU limited. We’ll probably see fourth-gen Tensor cores and third-gen RT cores, each boosting performance over the current solutions.
And unless things have dramatically improved by 2022 [Ed: Dreams are free!], they’ll all still sell out immediately after launch, at least for a few months.
But there’s still hope for the follow-up to Ampere Next / Hopper. That is currently listed as “Ampere Next Next” in the roadmap, and we don’t have a guess as to the future codename (Babbage, Lovelace, Euclid… feel free to guess your favorite scientist). We do know that Nvidia expects it to ship in 2024, which means it will probably utilize TSMC’s N3 process or something similar, cramming even more GPU goodness into the package. By that point, we might even have consumer GPUs with more than 100 billion transistors.
Jarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom’s Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge ‘3D decelerators’ to today’s GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.
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Sony to keep making PlayStation 4 as PS5 output hits snag – New York Post
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Sony’s plans to mass produce its new PlayStation 5 gaming console have been put on hold because of disruptions in the global supply chain — forcing the company to keep cranking out its older PS4 systems.
The Japanese tech giant had initially planned to phase out manufacturing of PS4 at the end of last year and move to a full transition to its newer consoles, according to Bloomberg. But now it is pivoting to produce as many as 1 million of the old models in 2022.
After introducing the PS5 in November 2020, supply has been scarce due to shortages in advanced chips and other commodities needed to mass produce the hardware.
This past November, Sony reduced its PS5 production outlook. Initially, it aimed to make more than 16 million units in the year ending in March, but that number was trimmed to 14.8 million.
The older PS4 is cheaper to make and uses less advanced chips and software than its successor. Released in 2013, the PS4 has sold more than 116 million units and remains popular among gamers.
The PS5, which offers more sophisticated graphics and faster loading times than the PS4, was also met with great fanfare. As of September 2021, it has sold 13.3 million total units — surpassing the 7.6 million units that the PS4 sold in its first year of availability nearly a decade ago.
Sony told assembly partners late last year that it is pivoting to manufacture more PS4 consoles this year, though a company spokesperson denied that it had planned to discontinue production altogether.
“It is one of the best-selling consoles ever and there is always crossover between generations,” a spokesperson told Bloomberg.
This past fall, Sony reported a 27% increase in sales in its gaming division for the three-month fiscal quarter that ended on Sept. 30. The firm credited the popularity of the PS5.
In total, the Japanese conglomerate’s gaming division recorded $5.7 billion in sales during the three month period starting in July. Operating income fell 21% to $727 million while the company generated $10.8 billion in revenue.
Sony isn’t the only gaming company that is relying on its older technologies to keep profits flowing during the supply chain crunch.
Last year, Nvidia, the US firm that makes processing units for gaming consoles, revived its previous generation of GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards due to the shortage in semiconductors.
While the company never officially discontinued production of the card, it was not listed for sale as recently as November 2020.
The card was first introduced in 2016, but was gradually phased out in favor of the newer 16-series cards, according to PC Gamer.
Market observers say that the supply chain crisis and chip shortages will likely last through this year.
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Amazon Rattles the Supply Chain
Books. Retail. Groceries. Amazon’s track record of disruption follows a similar pattern: partner with established players, learn the business from the inside, and then build a competing operation either organically or through acquisitions.
Now, for its next act, the e-commerce giant is apparently moving straight into the global parcel delivery business. In this case, its hand may have been forced, as FedEx has just revealed it won’t be renewing its express-shipping contract with Amazon. Now, the question is, how easily can this rather enormous and complex business be disrupted?
“There are significant barriers to entry; it is a very high fixed-cost business and is labor intensive,” says Tom Terragno, a senior client partner at Korn Ferry who specializes in the consumer market. “The nature of the business requires significant volume to cover the fixed-cost requirements.”
The interplay between Amazon and FedEx comes as firms all over the world are facing one critical challenge after another along the supply chain. Events like Brexit and the United States-led tariff wars—not to mention tech disruptions, the continued use of online buying, and even the purpose movement—have brought supply-chain matters front and center even before things go wrong. The question now is whether a company—and virtually every industry can be affected—will have enough time to stay ahead of the critical links in its business.
Amazon’s agile leadership and consumer-driven culture give some logic to the notion of bringing the delivery portion of the supply chain in-house. And the company certainly has the volume to make it financially feasible. Analysts estimate the company, which spent $27 billion on shipping last year, could end up saving billions of dollars using its own air delivery service.
For his part, Bernhard Raschke, head of the Supply Chain Center of Expertise in EMEA for Korn Ferry, says transportation companies view Amazon as a competitor to fear. Not unlike how movie and television studios initially embraced Netflix, only to build up the streaming service into its most formidable competitor, Raschke says transportation companies understand that they are “in bed with their competitor.”
“It was an opportunity when Amazon needed to fill demand and didn’t have the capacity. But now, FedEx is raising the possibility that it isn’t such a great idea,” says Raschke.
FedEx has been more cautious than UPS and others in terms of its Amazon relationship. Amazon accounted for just 1.3% of its total revenue last year, FedEx says. “Seeing the potential threat early on, FedEx purposefully would not allow Amazon to exceed more than a few percentage points of their overall volume,” says Dustin Ogden, a principal in Korn Ferry’s Logistics and Transportation Services practice, noting that Amazon’s percentage of UPS’s overall volume, by comparison, is likely in the double digits. “At the same time, FedEx is in a great position to support other emerging e-commerce businesses, particularly cross-border.”
Raschke says Amazon is also in a great position to support other emerging e-commerce businesses with its own transportation delivery system. He says the company could build capacity either through acquisitions or by opening up its service to other companies. Raschke draws an analogy to how Amazon built up its cloud computing service, first for themselves and then taking it to others. “They’ve been learning the business from the inside,” he says.


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How the digital yuan affects international shipping
Instead of using ordinary bitcoins, tokens and other electronic currency, China decided to create its own. In the same year, China's central bank ruled that the digital yuan is a national currency that can be used as a supplement to existing cash and electronic payments. We learned how the digital yuan affected the transformation of the logistics market and found many interesting advantages.


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After showcasing the Pixel 6 line of smartphones, Google received a lot of positive feedback. The fact that the Pixel 6 series of smartphones is the first set of Google devices to employ an in-house CPU, Google Tensor is the major reason for their popularity.
The Google Tensor is the search engine giant’s first bespoke silicon. This is a homemade CPU that looks a lot like the Apple A14 Bionic. With an in-house CPU, the Pixel 6 series of smartphones are expected to receive prolonged software support, similar to Apple’s iPhones.
Samsung is one of the main worldwide smartphone companies that use a proprietary in-house Exynos CPU, and Google Tensor might just be a rebranded Samsung Exynos engine. The Exynos 2200, also known as Whitechapel internally, is expected to be announced soon. It’s worth noting that the Google Tensor is also referred to as Whitechapel.
The Google Chapel, according to Galaxyclub, is nothing more than a repackaged Exynos 2200 CPU. Because the Exynos 2200 is expected to be the first mobile CPU to have AMD’s RDNA2 GPU, the Google Tensor might also include the RDNA2 GPU, making the Tensor SoC one of the most powerful graphics cards on a smartphone chipset. These rumors might be genuine, given the recent development between Google and Samsung, when the two companies pooled resources to build WearOS. The Exynos 2200 is anticipated to be a performance beast, so we may expect the Google Tensor to be the same.
Google Tensor – Specifications and Features
The Tensor processor, which employs a security core and Titan M2, offers the highest possible security, according to Google. In addition, the CPU is believed to include next-generation AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) to boost the photographic capabilities of the Google Pixel 6 smartphone series.
According to rumors, the Google Tensor is a flagship CPU, thus the performance of the Tensor SoC should be comparable to the A14 Bionic and Snapdragon 888+ SoCs. In addition, the Tensor CPU is expected to have connection technologies like 5G, WiFi 6, and Bluetooth 5.0.
Google’s Tensor chip is one of the technologies for which the company has received a lot of praise from tech fans all around the world. The chip does, however, assist Google in remaining autonomous when it comes to purchasing processors from chip manufacturers such as Qualcomm.
Also, with their own processor, Google will have total control over their smartphone range, allowing them to do things like providing more software for longer periods of time. Apple has already adopted this technique, with Apple devices receiving software upgrades for up to 5 years!
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Isola Executive Vice Chairman and Acting CEO Travis Kelly on the Upcoming Year
Isola Executive Vice Chairman and Acting CEO Travis Kelly discusses the recent milestones for the company, including the leadership transition. Travis also outlines his agenda for the upcoming year and gives an update on Isola’s new facility in Chandler, Arizona. Read the full interview here.
Isola commercializes IS550H: Halogen Free, CAF resistant, high thermal reliability material
Isola Group, a leading global manufacturer of copper-clad laminates and dielectric prepregs for use in the manufacture of PCB, is launching our newest halogen free material called IS550H. IS550H is an environmentally friendly, extreme thermal reliability, CAF resistant copper clad laminate and prepreg material for applications requiring high voltage,…


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I was a bit surprised to learn recently that some of the most important components of an EUV system are actually manufactured in Wilton, Connecticut, about 45 miles outside of New York…..(read more)
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ASML, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making lithography equipment for the computer industry, is growing in Wilton and has applied to the Planning and Zoning Commission for a special permit to build more space and parking. (read more)
Avison Young has brokered the sale of a development site located at 200 Danbury Road in Wilton. Read more…
ASML, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making lithography equipment for the computer industry, is growing in Wilton. Read more…
The Wilton Economic Development Commission its partnering with the Wilton Library and the Wilton Chamber of Commerce in events to encourage visitors to Wilton Center. Wilton Library and the EDC are sponsoring a kids’ art contest using recyclables. Artwork will be on display at the Library from November 27th through the December 9th at which […]
GoodMorningWilton recently wrote a feature on Wilton business owner Peg Koellmer. Read it here.
The Blue Buffalo Co. leads the pack in corporate buyers of advertising at Wilton High School football stadium and Lilly Field in this pilot year of the ad program. Blue Buffalo, a pet food company based in Wilton, has taken the title sponsorship,…..(read more)
Don your creative costumes and have some frightful fun in Wilton Center during the Wilton Chamber of Commerce’s HalloWeekend from Oct. 28-29….(read more)
There are at least 40 things to love about Wilton, one of them being the high ratings of the public schools, according to a promotional document now published on the town’s website. The first selectman’s office has released an interactive marketing piece called 40 Things We Love About Wilton to complement the Economic Development Commission’s […]
Restaurant-goers will have the chance to explore new tastes and revisit favorites at local eateries participating in the fifth annual Fall Restaurant Week, from Oct. 16 through Oct. 22… (read more).
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Consumers hail phone decision / High court rules Baby Bells can't charge rivals higher fees
Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, May 14, 2002
In a ruling that could bring more competition to local phone service and fast Internet access, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the big regional carriers to charge rivals higher fees for using their lines.
The decision was a clear win for long-distance providers WorldCom Inc. and AT&T Corp. and for upstart DSL providers like Covad Communications, which want to rent lines and other equipment from local telephone companies.
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The decision clarifies one of the central aspects of the Telecommunications Act, a 1996 law that aimed to spur competition and promote lower prices, but that has so far failed to deliver in many markets.
Monday's ruling backs up the method designed by the Federal Communications Commission to calculate the cost of leasing equipment, said Regina Costa, an analyst at The Utility Reform Network, a consumer group in San Francisco.
"It's a good decision," Costa said. "Prices (for leasing phone lines and other equipment) should go down."
The California Public Utilities Commission is set to vote Thursday on three different wholesale pricing plans for network equipment. AT&T vows to enter the local market by the end of the year if the lower prices proposed by PUC President Loretta Lynch are approved.
The Supreme Court ruling strengthens the method behind Lynch's proposal, said Ken McNeely, AT&T's president of California.
AT&T began selling local phone service in Michigan, Georgia and Illinois this year because of the states' competitive wholesale rates.
AT&T, MCI and Sprint tried to enter California's local telephone market in late 1996 and early 1997 by reselling Pac Bell service. All three ended their marketing campaigns, unable to make a profit.
As Baby Bells have begun selling local and long-distance service together in states such as New York, the long-distance carriers are fighting to keep their market share.
In April, MCI began selling its unlimited local and long-distance service --
for $50 per month in 32 states -- by leasing equipment from the Baby Bells.
While consumers won't see changes right away, more competition could come in time.
"Competitors will have a better idea where to make an investment, at what prices," said Greg Rosston, former FCC deputy economist, who is now the deputy director at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
The ruling "maintains the status quo," Verizon spokesman Bob Bishop said. In a statement, BellSouth said the FCC's pricing system "discourages investment by both us and our competitors, resulting in poorer choices for customers."
"If the Bells don't invest, then we're in trouble. They're the only ones building the networks," said Jeffrey Kagan, a telecommunications analyst.
Kagan said he doubts that companies will use low prices to attract customers. Instead, the simplicity of bundling local and long-distance, Internet and other services will be their selling point.
The Supreme Court justices upheld the FCC's rules in their entirety, dividing 7-1 on the central question of the pricing methodology for leased equipment.
The job of judges is to ask whether the commission made a reasonable choice,
Justice David Souter wrote in the majority opinion. "The FCC's pricing and additional combination rules survive that scrutiny."
"This decision brings much-needed additional certainty to the legal landscape and should advance the commission's efforts to carry out the statute's competition goals," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a statement.


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Two Digicel customers get ready to party after winning smartphones
Two Digicel Bermuda customers are the lucky winners of Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones with six months free service.
Digicel and Soca versus Reggae organisers said the Text To Win promotion was won by Jayde Gibbons and Adriel Charles.
The promotion ran from May 20 through June 10 via social media and saw hundreds of Digicel customers text their guess at this year’s Soca versus Reggae artists. Participants entered the draw for the chance to win one of two Ultra VIP Grand Prizes including a Samsung Galaxy S4 with six months free Digicel service.
Additionally, the winners will each receive two tickets to Soca versus Reggae with open bar access, catered cuisine, VIP parking and priority access, backstage passes and photo opportunities with the artists courtesy of Soca versus Reggae organisers.
“At Digicel we are always looking for exciting ways to engage our customers while supporting community events,” said Shane Mora, Marketing Director of Digicel Bermuda. “We look forward to sponsoring the official Cup Match After Party each year and are happy to share the occasion with two Digicel customers and their guests.”
Soca versus Reggae is scheduled to take place on August 2 at Tiger Bay, St George’s.


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DELAND, Fla. -– A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing lobster tails from a grocery store by hiding them in her pants.
DeLand police said Nichole Reed ordered seven lobster tails valued at $11.99 apiece just before 2 p.m. at a Publix supermarket in Volusia County.
WKMG reports that a loss prevention officer in the store alerted police to the robbery after security video showed the woman stuffing the tails down her pants.
Officers located Reed nearby the store reportedly with the lobster tails still in the front of her pants.
Reed told officers that she planned to trade the tails for “Chinese buffet or Dilaudid,” a prescription painkiller.
Reed was booked into Volusia County Jail, but later posted bond and was released.


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African Americans, Asian-Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics have more errors on their credit reports than white counterparts, and women of color have it worst. That’s not to say those errors are justifiable. What it does say is credit-reporting errors are detrimental to one’s borrowing potential. Let’s take a look at auto loans for example.
Auto loans are the third-largest household debt in the United States according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). As recently as 2016, discriminatory loan practices occurred against two minorities groups.
The CFPB and the US Department of Justice reached a $21 million settlement against Toyota Motor Credit for targeting minorities for higher auto loan rates regardless of the borrowers’ creditworthiness.
Toyota Motor Credit didn’t personally redline these consumers but allowed for auto dealers to markup prices excessively and unwarranted. Read all about it here.
Being aware of what’s reporting negatively on your credit reports is crucial, especially if you’re planning on getting financing in the near future.
You don’t have to be perceived as having poor credit. According to the Fair Credit Report Act (FCRA), you have the right to take necessary action to improve your overall credit standing.
4 Things You Can Do Today:
- Order a copy of your three credit reports and look them over carefully for errors
- Dispute any errors reporting that are inaccurate and unverifiable
- Open an account with your local credit union
- Get pre-qualified with the credit union for an auto loan
Once you implement these four steps, consider yourself an educated consumer. You’ll know what interest rate you qualify for, ultimately putting yourself in the driver’s seat to closing the door on poor credit and discriminatory practices.
If you’re interested in fixing your own credit, click this link for a free DIY credit repair on-demand training.


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Michter’s announced its Celebration Sour Mash today. The price tag is around $5,000, according to a press release.
Only 258 bottles available, it’s the first Celebration release in three years and hits stores in December.
Blended by Willie Pratt before his retirement as Michter’s Master Distiller and his transition to Michter’s Master Distiller Emeritus, Celebration includes Pratt’s favorite stocks of Kentucky Straight Bourbon and Kentucky Straight Rye. The six barrels chosen ranged from over a decade to nearly 33 years old, the company said.
The 2016 release is 116.8 proof (58.4% alcohol by volume) and will be available in the U.S. and select export markets, Michter’s said.Stay In Touch!


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The Samsung UNPACKED event – “Launch of the Successor to the GALAXY S III” will be held in New York City on 14 March 2013, Thursday, 7pm EST (or 7am SGT, 15 March 2013, Friday).
To catch all the highlights, do stay tuned to the event live-stream on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/
For now, you can catch the pre-event teaser video “Be Ready 4 the Next GALAXY” on Samsung Mobile Facebook page.
So… does that mean SGS 4 will be here by end March or April? 😛
Hmm, let’s wait and see.


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Kai Ryssdal: JCPenney had a big sale last Friday, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Nothing out of the norm there.
Except that back in January, Penney said it was done with sales. The new strategy was going to be low prices all the tim with sales “only on certain special occasions.”
Well now it seems everything is special. Penney’s announced a larger than expected quarterly loss this month, in part because consumers pretty much expect to see those big sale signs.
Marketplace’s Sally Herships explains.
Sally Herships: First of all, let’s get JCPenney’s new pricing strategy straight. We had the company’s CEO Ron Johnson on our morning show back in February.
Ron Johnson: We don’t run any more, like, daily, weekly, week-long or hourly events. We run 12 events a year which are called a month.
Johnson means no more sales, except for what JCPenney calls “Best Price” Fridays, twice a month. Today, the chain said it’s adding more Best Price Fridays, but denied it’s changing its strategy. Except that it sounds like it is.
Kenneth Homa: Well now their basic proposition is they’re not going to have sales, except for when they have sales.
Ken Homa teaches marketing at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business.
Homa: I don’t know how they can possibly communicate that clearly to any consumers.
Especially since the recession conditioned us to expect sales. Before its new pricing strategy, JCPenney had almost 600 sales a year.
Jean-Pierre Dube teaches pricing strategies at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
Jean-Pierre Dube: You’ve just spent decades at a place like JCPenney, training your customers to wait for sales, training your customers to look for sale signs, promotional signs, all these things that cue them to know there’s a deal. You’ve trained them to do this and all of a sudden, that all disappears.
And as JCPenney is finding out so do many shoppers. Sears tried getting rid of sales in the ’80s. It spent $110 million on advertising. But not long after it brought back sales.
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AMD’s chief technical officer, Mark Papermaster, announced at a conference that the company’s next-generation Instinct MI300 accelerated processing unit for data centres and high-performance computing is already operational in AMD’s labs. The APU will power the El Capitan supercomputer, which is scheduled to exceed the 2 ExaFLOPS mark sometime in 2024 using AMD’s Zen 4 and CDNA 3 architectures.
AMD’s Instinct MI300 is a multi-chiplet APU with Zen 4 general-purpose x86 cores and a CDNA 3-based computational GPU that share a unified on-package memory pool that includes Infinity Cache and HBM. AMD will build CPU/GPU chiplets for the MI300 using TSMC’s N5 (5nm-class) fabrication process, but the company has yet to reveal how many CPU cores and GPU stream processors will be crammed into the hybrid processor.
Putting CPU cores and GPU accelerators into a single package and allowing them to use unified memory is the Holy Grail of supercomputing because it not only combines the best of both worlds (general purpose processing and highly parallel acceleration), but it also dramatically simplifies programming and makes it easier to extract all of the performance potential from execution engines.
The AMD Instinct MI300 APU will power the El Capitan supercomputer, which will be deployed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2023 and will be completely operational in mid-2024.
AMD intends to release the Instinct MI300 processor in 2023, therefore it is not surprising that the chip is now operational in AMD’s labs. Meanwhile, it is uncertain whether the company would supply the MI300 in large quantities to clients outside of the supercomputer industry next year.
AMD’s Instinct MI300 will pique the interest of the supercomputing community because it will be the industry’s first data centre and HPC-grade APU. In the meantime, AMD’s Instinct MI300 will not be the only hybrid processor for data centres with x86 and GPU resources available in the next years. For example, Intel is developing the Falcon Shores product, which will include x86 and Xe-HPC cores in the same box and will be available in 2024.
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Homes with a steam oven, quartz finishes in the kitchen or hurricane shutters/windows typically sell for a higher price than the average Fla. home.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – With spring-buying season in full swing, home sellers eager to see their properties sold quickly could benefit from having certain features in their house, a new analysis shows.
Homes that have attributes such as a steam oven, quartz finishes or even hurricane shutters/windows, typically sell for a higher price than the average home, according to data from Zillow. And homes that have a characteristics such as a doorbell camera or even a fenced-in backyard typically sold between three to five days faster than a home without those added items.
“Multifunctional homes that offer retreat spaces and features for outdoor entertaining are particularly appealing to post-pandemic buyers, who expect their homes to be a place where they can work and play,” the report from Zillow noted.
And as the spring-buying season takes off, sellers should use every opportunity they have to get their home sold quickly as there is still buyer demand for homes in South Florida, said Alex Platt, with the Platt Group at Compass in Boca Raton. “Although homes are sitting on the market slightly longer than they have been in the past, the updated homes that are priced right are selling quickly,” Platt said.
Here are the features that help a home sell faster, according to Zillow.
“Buyers are also looking for homes with newer roofs and full storm protection (hurricane windows or storm shutters). Storm protection has become more important than it was in the past, as insurance prices change depending on the level of storm protection the home has,” Platt added.
Homes that had features like a steam oven got 5.3% more than a house that didn’t have it, while professional appliances had a 3.6% price premium and hurricane shutters had a 2.3% price premium.
“When showing homes, we find that buyers always make a comment when a home has additional security features like cameras and ask if they come with the home. Another feature is outdoor living space, such as a covered patio or outdoor kitchen/built-in BBQ,” Platt said. “Buyers like envisioning how they can live in the home, and in Florida, comfortable outdoor space is important.”
And particular to South Florida, having a pool in a home also gives a seller an advantage, according to Platt. About 60% of homes that sold in Palm Beach County in the past 90 days had a pool.
To calculate what features of a home will help it sell for more or faster, Zillow compared the final sales prices of homes listed and the time they spent on the market, as well as whether they had certain features listed in the home description.
There are some caveats as experts warn that adding these features may not offer the return on investment that potential home sellers might expect, but for sellers who already have these features in the home, highlighting them could get them more money or a faster sale.
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