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Detroit, MI- Warrior Xtreme Cagefighting and the Ultimate Fighting Championship have reached a two year broadcast deal starting in February 2019. This multi year deal will be for live events to be shown exclusively on UFC Fight Pass. This deal will be for a brand new block of MMA programming for UFC Fight Pass which will be dubbed ‘Warrior Wednesday.’
Warrior Wednesday will showcase five professional MMA bouts on Wednesday evenings. This weekday showcase will coincide with other weekday Fight Pass original shows such as Dana White’s Tuesday night contender series. This new series will feature the WXC live on Fight Pass for the first time. The first show for Warrior Wednesday will be on February 27th, 2019. More information on the first show will be announced in the coming days.
Previously the WXC had been featured as video on-demand events that were available to watch after the live show. The VOD features started with WXC 70 in November of 2017 and will end with WXC 75 on February 1st, 2019. This new deal will be the first non-ppv broadcast agreement for WXC. “We have been working with Fight Pass for over a year and when an opportunity opened up for live shows, we jumped at the chance to be live on Fight Pass.” said WXC Owner & Matchmaker Mike Pedenelli. He continued to say “Fight Pass is the pinnacle for Martial art programming and we are ecstatic to continue our already great relationship with Fight Pass and bring the fans a new way to watch WXC.”
UFC Fight Pass is a digital subscription service which gives fans access to exclusive live UFC events and fights, exclusive live MMA and combat sports events from around the world, exclusive original and behind the scenes content and unprecedented 24-7 access to the world’s biggest fight library. Fight Pass can be accessed on your TV via your favorite streaming devices, on mobile devices and any personal computer.
In addition to your desktop computer or laptop, this event can be accessed on Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android Mobile and Tablet, iPhone and iPad, LG Smart TVs, ROKU, Samsung Smart TVs, and Xbox devices. Some fans and media have called Fight Pass “Netflix for fight fans” and there are similarities between Fight Pass and other OTT content providers like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime or HBO NOW. Like those other content providers, Fight Pass offers 24/7 on-demand access to a vast library of content. However, Fight Pass also offers a huge amount of live content, too. New subscribers are eligible for a 7-day free trial. UFC Fight Pass is a month to month subscription, but discounted rates are available for 6 and 12 month subscriptions. Check UFCFIGHTPASS.COM for pricing in your territory.


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The Thornaby branch of Pizza Express has escaped a major branch cull, the restaurant chain has confirmed.
The struggling pizza and pasta brand has published a list of 73 branches earmarked for closure, as part of plans to bring down rent payments.
Teesside Park's restaurant is due to stay open and will become the only branch for miles around - after Darlington and Northallerton were confirmed among those facing the chop.
Others on the list include Newcastle's Dean Street and Dalton Park.
Pizza Express, which first launched in London in 1965, unveiled plans a fortnight ago as part of a "major restructuring plan" to help future-proof its remaining 370 restaurants.
It's the latest blow to the restaurant industry, after Frankie and Benny's and Chiquitos owners TRG said 10% of its sites would not reopen this year.
Around 1,100 people will lose their jobs following the closures.
The company said it has now finalised a proposal to reduce its restaurant and rental costs via a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), and that it will now focus on trying to redeploy staff affected.
Although the majority of its restaurants were profitable before lockdown was imposed, earnings had been declining across the Pizza Express estate for the last three years, the company said.
Zoe Bowley, UK&I managing director, said: “The announcement of the CVA proposal follows a period of constructive dialogue with the British Property Federation and a broad range of our landlords.
"We have taken onboard their feedback and accommodated their requests as far as possible.
“Unfortunately, the impact of the global pandemic has meant that we have had to make some incredibly tough decisions to safeguard Pizza Express for the long term.
"Today we have confirmed that 73 of our pizzerias are proposed to close permanently.
“In most cases, there is another PizzaExpress nearby, either already open or reopening soon, to welcome our customers. Our focus is on our people whose jobs are impacted and we will be doing everything we can either to redeploy them or to support them in finding roles elsewhere.
“Hard as this process is, it will protect the jobs of over 9,000 of our colleagues and provide a strong footing for PizzaExpress to meet future challenges and opportunities.”
Melanie Leech, Chief Executive, British Property Federation (BPF), said: “These situations are never easy, particularly now for the retail, hospitality and leisure businesses on our high streets at the sharp end of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Here's the full list of Pizza Express closures:
Aberdeen, Belmont St
Barnstaple, Three Tuns
Birmingham, Corporation St
Bournemouth, Post Office Rd
Bristol, Berkeley Sq
Bristol, Regent St
Dudley, Merry Hill
Earls Court, Earls Ct Rd
Fulham Palace Road
Glasgow, Princes Square
Ipswich, Lloyds Ave
Leeds, Crown St
Milton Keynes, Hub
Newcastle, Dean Street
Newport, Isle of Wight
Newport, South Wales
Oxford, Oxford Castle
Reading, St Mary's Butts
Sheffield, Devonshire St
Sheffield The Moor
Southport, Old Bank

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Wall Street shares ended little-changed in light trade Wednesday, one day after the S&P 500 closed above the 2,000 milestone for the first time.
The broad-market benchmark added just enough to set a new high, with support for stocks firm overall amid little hard news to spur any significant movements.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 15.31 points (0.09 percent) to 17,122.01.
The S&P gained 0.10 point, leaving it at 2,000.12, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite gave up 1.02 (0.02 percent) at 4,569.62.
Activity was muted in the last week of summer, with a long holiday weekend looming.
On the Dow, UnitedHealth led gainers, adding 1.5 percent, while United Technologies topped the loser column down 0.5 percent.
In tech shares, Apple gained 1.2 percent, Facebook shed 1.8 percent, and Google lost 1.2 percent.
Burger King shares fell 2.1 percent amid criticism that its $11.4 billion takeover of Canada's fast-food chain Tim Hortons is in part aimed at cutting its tax bill by moving its headquarters to Canada.
Shares of youth fashion chain Express jumped 12.8 percent as it topped estimates for sales and profit in its second quarter, even as earnings fell 59 percent from the year-ago period.
Hobby and art supply chain Michaels Companies soared 9.3 percent as its first earnings report after going public beat analyst expectations.
Bond prices gained. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury fell to 2.36 percent from 2.39 percent Tuesday, while the 30-year dropped to 3.11 percent from 3.15 percent. Bond prices and yields move inversely.


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Taiwanese news group United Daily News (UDN) recently reported that South Korean President Yoon Seok-yue is in the Netherlands for a state visit. Yoon’s trip is focused on increasing cooperation between the two countries related to the semiconductor industry — he said that this trip marked a key turning point for the “South Korea-Netherlands Semiconductor Alliance” and that discussing chip cooperation was the “top priority” of his visit.
Yoon stated in an interview that high-tech chips are the lifeblood of the modern global economy, and that South Korea accounts for about 60 percent of the world’s supply of memory chips. He said that the Netherlands is home to semiconductor production equipment manufacturer ASML, and the two countries have been cooperating “in an exemplary manner” for many years, contributing to the stability of the global semiconductor supply chain.
The semiconductor industry is being buffeted by geopolitical turmoil. ASML supplies South Korea’s major chip manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix. During President Yoon’s visit, he will visit the ASML headquarters. The “South Korea-Netherlands Semiconductor Alliance” is expected to include the countries’ respective governments, enterprises and universities. This is the first time a South Korean head of state has paid a state visit to the Netherlands since 1961, when South Korea and the Netherlands first established diplomatic relations.
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The Chip Shortage’s Impact on Apple and Tesla
Apple and Tesla Warn of Product Delays
Apple (AAPL) and Tesla (TSLA) both posted strong revenue for their second quarters, but the semiconductor shortage could stunt that growth in the near future. When reporting quarterly earnings earlier this week, both companies warned that chip shortages will cause supply-chain difficulties for key products.
Industries across the world have been dealing with semiconductor shortages for months, which has wreaked havoc on the global economy. Many automobile makers canceled chip orders during the pandemic and then were unable to access more chips when demand for cars picked up. This chain of events has driven up prices for the limited supply of new vehicles available. As the chip shortage continues, other industries besides car companies are also feeling squeezed.
Apple’s Chip Challenges
When reporting earnings, Apple said that chip shortages would impact its smartphone business in the coming quarter. The warning comes as Apple is gearing up to launch as many as four new iPhone models this fall.
This marks the first time that supply-chain constraints have harmed Apple’s iPhone business. The tech giant warned in April that its iPads and Mac computers could be negatively impacted by the chip shortage, with the possibility of losing $3 billion to $4 billion in sales. The reality wasn’t as bad as many had feared. Apple’s revenue hit was less than $3 billion thanks to mitigation efforts, but now chip shortages could affect all three of the company’s flagship products. This is resulting in slower growth forecasts.
Could Cybertruck Production Get Delayed?
Tesla also had a strong quarter, posting a record profit. The company also shared that demand doubled on a year-over-year basis. To deal with chip shortages, the EV maker found new chip sources and rewrote code to make them work in its vehicles. Those efforts paid off during the second quarter.
Chip shortages could now impact the rollout of Tesla’s Cybertruck, a highly anticipated pickup truck model. Production of the Cybertruck is scheduled to begin later in 2021. But during the company’s earnings conference call earlier this week, Tesla said production could be delayed as a result of chip supply constraints.
Apple and Tesla have been able to weather the global chip shortage relatively unscathed, but it may be catching up to them. It will be interesting to see how both companies respond in the coming months.
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Building an Investment Portfolio
A Weekly Column With Liz Young
Every week, SoFi’s Head of Investment Strategy shares her economic and market insights in order to help empower readers to take a more active role in their financial futures. This week, see what Liz has to say about building an investment portfolio.
One Size Fits None
I’m often asked what the right percentage allocation is for different investments: how much should I have in stocks, bonds, large-caps, small-caps, international stocks, crypto assets, precious metals, you name it. The answer is always the same and likely frustrating to hear—it depends. But let’s talk about what it depends on and how the thinking around some stocks (spoiler alert: big tech) have changed over time.
There are three main objectives any investor should consider when allocating their portfolio: preservation, income, and growth. The importance of each of these objectives will vary by individual and will vary over time for that same individual. For example, if you’re in your 20s or 30s and saving for a goal that’s far off into the future (such as retirement), the growth objective takes center stage while income and preservation are less of a priority.
That said, risk is just as important of an input as return (the “growth” objective) when determining your investment mix. Instead of thinking about how much to allocate to each investment based on its return potential, consider thinking about your investment portfolio as a risk budget.
We all measure risk differently, so there is no prescriptive answer to how big your risk budget should be or how you should spend it. But the way you spend your budget should align with your overall risk tolerance (conservative, moderate, or aggressive) and the return expectations are then a result of that equation—not the driving factor. In other words, start the process with risk, and the end will show you the potential return.
Approaching your asset allocation this way can help prevent over-concentration and keep your return expectations realistic. It also helps keep your ultimate investment goals as the focus, rather than the desire to “beat” the market or some other benchmark over a short period of time.
One topic worth covering here is the way investors seem to view “defensive” stocks today, as it may affect the allocation in your risk budget. Traditionally, sectors like consumer staples and utilities were viewed as the less volatile, more defensive areas of the market as compared to sectors like technology.
That’s still true, but some of the stocks we consider “big tech” have behaved differently for a number of years. Since June 2012, an equal-weighted basket of the FAAMG stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google) has actually outperformed the S&P 500 in more down months than consumer staples!
As our economy became more reliant on technology, investors started to look at the mega-cap tech stocks differently. They’re viewed as more resilient, more durable, and less susceptible to competitive threats than they were in the early 2000s. Thus, they became “staples” of many investment allocations and are often considered long-term holdings instead of short-term trades.
Leave Room for Change
No risk, no reward. That statement still rings true. And I stand by the idea that investors should think of portfolio allocation with a risk budget mentality. Just be sure to allow for the components of that risk budget to evolve over time in order to capture the evolution of our economy.
Dubai-Based Unicorn to go Public via SPAC Deal
Swvl Valued at $1.5 Billion
Swvl, a Dubai ridesharing company for emerging markets, is going public via a SPAC transaction with Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital (GMBT). The SPAC is led entirely by women, which is uncommon in the industry. Instead of focusing on individual ride-hailing services, Swvl, which was founded in 2017, offers mass transit in underserved markets.
Swvl uses algorithms and proprietary technology to determine the best routes for cutting down on emissions and costs. The deal values Swvl at around $1.5 billion, making it the largest unicorn out of the Middle East to trade on the Nasdaq. It is not yet clear when the transaction will be completed.
Swvl Aims to Disrupt Mass Transit
Swvl is trying to disrupt inefficient mass transit systems around the world. The company says that many public transportation systems cause congestion, reduce productivity, and hurt the environment. It wants to help solve these problems.
Swvl’s service is operational in 10 cities in the Middle East and Africa and it is eyeing more expansion into new markets. Since it debuted, 1.4 million riders have used the service to book around 46 million rides, and its sales hit about $26 million in 2020. That number is expected to increase to $79 million this year. The startup believes it has a $1 trillion opportunity in the global mass transit market, and wants to use its leadership position to capitalize on growth opportunities.
SPAC Deals Still Popular
As part of the deal, Queen’s Gambit CEO Victoria Grace and another executive from the SPAC will get seats on Swvl’s board. The female-led SPAC launched in January with $300 million to invest. In February it launched a second blank-check fund, Queen's Gambit Growth Capital II (QWNBU).
Both funds are focused on deals with companies which are bringing sustainability to the energy, healthcare, mobility, and industrial sectors. SPAC deals gained momentum in 2020 and have remained popular in 2021. Last year, blank check companies raised $83.4 billion. This year they have already raised $115 billion. It will be interesting to see how SPAC deals unfold during the second half of the year.


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The company of Apple has announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference or WWDC that it will now steps forward to launch its clod service in order to rival those of Google and Amazon. This service is expected to be called iCloud, it is just after Apple brought the iCloud.com domain name in April this year.
The company has also reminded this tight-lipped about what the service will offer as well as so far referred to it simply as a “cloud services offering”. But this has not yet been clarified that whether the iCloud will be a music streaming tool or a wider cloud service for storage like Amazon’s EC2 service.
At present the show must be the CEO Steve Jobs; it is expected to make only his second appearance an Apple event since putting himself on leave for medical reasons. Apple’s also share of its rose three percent on the news, that this job will be delivering the keynote speech at the conference.
In this purpose Apple will also showcase the latest edition of its Macintosh operating system, additionally shows Lion as well as an upgraded version of its mobile operating system iOS.


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Welcome to SlingshotForums.net, the first and largest Polaris Slingshot Forum on the net. SlingshotForums.net is a community dedicated to the upcoming / rumored Polaris three wheel road vehicle. Our goal is to be a friendly community comprised of Slingshot owners and enthusiasts. To participate fully in the site all you need to do is register, it's quick and free.
Only 2 Slingshots per dealer to start. Shipments will be first week of November. Dealers should have exact ship dates with vin#s by this Friday. Pre-sold's can be entered into the computer as of next Monday with ship dates shortly after that.
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa, Oct 09, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Polaris Industries Inc. PII, -0.99%and local public officials gathered today at Polaris’ Spirit Lake, Iowa manufacturing facility to celebrate the launch of its Slingshot™ motorcycle into full production.
Slingshot has received significant attention since its introduction to the marketplace two months ago, offering an entirely new on-road driving and riding experience. Now, as Slingshot begins rolling off the production line, consumers will have the opportunity to experience this innovative new product for themselves.
“We continue to introduce new, innovative products and technologies that create opportunities for growth here and around the world. Today, we are excited to celebrate the revolutionary 3-wheel, Polaris Slingshot into full production here in Spirit Lake,” said Bennett Morgan, President and Chief Operating Officer of Polaris.
“Polaris is committed to both understanding the desired riding experience of our customers and then working to exceed those expectations,” said Brian Hines, Director of Operations at the Spirit Lake plant. “We could not be happier to produce such a high-quality vehicle at our Spirit Lake manufacturing facility.”
Initial shipments of Slingshot to Polaris dealers will commence by the end of this month.
With the production of Slingshot and increased production of other vehicles, Polaris announced in August it will add 300 jobs to its Iowa manufacturing facilities.
Polaris Industries will celebrate the launch of its new three-wheel vehicle, the Slingshot, on Thursday in Iowa. The Minneapolis-based company will build the on-road vehicle at its Spirit Lake factory. It has hired 50 new employees and is looking to fill another 50 positions. Once hiring is complete, Polaris will employ about 1,000 people in Spirit Lake. The company also employs about 300 in Milford.
The three-wheeled roadster represents a new market for the manufacturer, which also builds Victory bikes and Indian Motorcycles — the classic brand it brought back to life in 2013 — at the Spirit Lake facility. Earlier this year, it announced the launch of the Indian Scout, a lighter, cheaper sibling in the Indian motorcycle family.
The Slingshot is expected to be in showrooms by the end of October. Shares of Polaris closed down 97 cents Tuesday to $145.86.
Everyone of you may be affected by Indiana's inability to process the SS Certification.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you could just take a little time to e-mail our Governor and the DMV concerning this situation, OUR VOICE MAY BE HEARD. Here is the information and thanks in advance for the help!
This is an e-mail for those who do not live in the affected States. You may just copy and paste to send or formulate your own correspondence: Out of state e-mails may do much more good as it could be a better economic reason!!!!
To send an e-mail to Mike Pence the Governer of Indiana click the link and under “Ask Mike” click on the
To: (Enter the Entities Name)
Fr: (Enter Your Name and position if with a company)
Date: (Enter the Date you are sending)
RE: Polaris Industries Slingshot 3 Wheel Motorcycle (Important ‘Motorcycle’ is visable)
I am writing this to express my disappointment concerning the failure of your State to promptly approve the certification and sale of this motorcycle.
48 States have already completed this certification and now I have great concerns with even visiting your State. I can’t understand this delay and would not even consider spending money there until this is resolved.
One would think that you would follow the guidelines accepted by all other States and open up yours to help your economy if for nothing else.
(Name and Address)
If you live in Indiana , here is a letter you could copy and paste or formulate your own:
I am writing this to express my disappointment concerning the failure of this State to promptly approve the Certification and sale of this motorcycle.


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Apple is reportedly aware of flaky Personal Hotspots in iOS 13
It's not clear when Apple could deliver a fix for the connection problems.
Drone network provides early warnings for natural disasters
The drones can also serve as WiFi hotspots to keep people online.
T-Mobile will let you test drive its network for 30 days
A free hotspot will connect users to their 600 MHz signal.
Verizon's first 5G hotspot is $500 with a two-year contract
The carrier also switched on its 5G network in St. Paul.
AT&T flips the switch on mobile 5G in 12 cities this week
But you can only use it with a mobile hotspot for now.
AT&T and Harman bring connected features to your existing car
The Spark adds tracking, safety and an LTE hotspot.
T-Mobile is offering free 30-day trials in three cities
The hotspot offer is available in Atlanta, Austin and Boston.
Bloomberg: AT&T and Verizon plan to launch 5G hotspots
Hotspots will give customers access to 5G speeds before new phones do.
Karma's anonymizing LTE hotspot arrives January 15th
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Oil hits a record high
THE price of oil hit a record high yesterday. The cost of a barrel rose to $66 - making it likely that petrol will soon get even dearer.
Behind the increase are fears of instability in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is on high terror alert and there are worries Iran's nuclear programme could prompt international intervention.
The average family can now expect to pay more than £60 for a tank of petrol or diesel. Ruth Bridger, petrol price analyst for the AA Motoring Trust, said: 'The prices at the pump have been rising all year. We now estimate that an average family will pay around £23 a month more for fuel than they did in January, and that's a massive increase.
'We find that people are just biting the bullet and going ahead with their normal petrol consumption, but clearly this will be affecting other sectors - presumably people are spending less on the High Street as a result.'
Figures earlier this week from Catalist, which monitors petrol prices, showed the average cost of unleaded petrol now stands at 90.2p a litre in the UK and diesel is almost 94p.
But there are signs that some garages may have to put up their prices to £1 a litre. At Melbourn Garage in Cambridgeshire, the price for both unleaded and diesel already stands at 99.9p a litre.
Colin Jacklin, the garage's owner, said he has been forced to put up prices to keep his business afloat.
When unleaded petrol exceeded 80p a litre in 2000, it triggered devastating blockades of oil refineries by hauliers. While there has been little protest this time from hauliers, there are growing concerns that dearer fuel will damage the economy.
The Bank of England said petrol rises are stoking inflation. But its governor, Mervyn King, played down suggestions that there would be the type of runaway inflation that plagued the 1970s.
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When people argue about the prospect of mandatory digital rights management technologies, like those proposed in Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (S.2048), the dispute typically turns on the conflict between the rights of content creators and the rights of free speech. But thats not the right ground on which to take sides for or against the bill. No matter what your feelings about that clash of legitimate ideals, you should still oppose this legislation.
Whats wrong with CBDTPA is that it imposes a single business model on an entire industry thats barely getting started. “Five or 10 years from now, well see a digital content marketplace bigger than anyone could say today without being laughed at—but only if we dont restrict it,” said Michael Miron, CEO of ContentGuard, a leading developer of digital rights management technology, when we spoke late last month. “The notion that the private sector is at an impasse, and that government has to step in, is simply wrong.”
Miron anticipates many models of content distribution, guided by industry-standard rights management languages. Toward that end, ContentGuard has contributed its Extensible Rights Markup Language, or XRML, to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
“You need a way to express the rights, and you need a trust model that tells you youre granting rights to someone whos trustworthy,” said Miron.
Different situations, said Miron, call for different balance points between protection of content and convenience of use. “The trust model for consumer delivery of an e-book or MP3 file will be different from the one you need for a scientist to download military secrets,” he said.
CBDTPA, said Miron, effectively defines a rights language that can only say one thing—”You can read”—and an equally narrow trust model, “You must be a trustworthy device.” It admits no gradations along any spectrum of privileges or requirements. Its hard enough to devise a rights management scheme that wont be quickly broken; lets not compound the problem by pretending that CBDTPA is the one size that will fit all.
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Heavy Metals in Baby FoodsDetoxmetals
HEAVY METALS IN BABY FOOD
Consumer Reports’ testing shows concerning levels of heavy metals in baby foods such as arsenic, cadmium, and lead
If we read the literature we will know that heavy metals such as lead have been found in drinking water, and that certain kinds of fish contain high levels of mercury, and that worrisome amounts of arsenic have been found in rice.
One of the biggest worries of exposing children and toddlers to heavy metals is how this may affect their cognitive development as well as their I.Q. No parent would want this for their children, so we really need to educate ourselves to protect our children.
“Babies and toddlers are particularly vulnerable due to their smaller size and developing brains and organ systems,” says James E. Rogers, Ph.D., director of food safety research and testing at Consumer Reports. “They also absorb more of the heavy metals that get into their bodies than adults do.”
Consumer Reports analysed 50 packaged foods made for babies and toddlers sold in the USA, checking for cadmium, lead, mercury, and inorganic arsenic, the type most harmful to health.
This is what they found:
• Every product had measurable levels of at least one of these heavy metals: cadmium, inorganic arsenic, or lead.
• About two-thirds (68 percent) had worrisome levels of at least one heavy metal.
Fifteen of the foods would pose potential health risks to a child regularly eating just one serving or less per day.
• Snacks and products containing rice and/or sweet potatoes were particularly likely to have high levels of heavy metals.
• Organic foods were as likely to contain heavy metals as conventional foods.
Wow! This is a revelation, particularly for parent who go out of their way to feed their children organic foods!
How Do Heavy Metals Harm Children
Exposure to even small amounts of these heavy metals at an early age may increase the risk of several health problems, especially lower IQ and behaviour problems, and have been linked to autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
“The effects of early exposure to heavy metals can have long-lasting impacts that may be impossible to reverse,” says Victor Villarreal, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of educational psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio who has researched the effects of heavy metals on childhood development.
For example, researchers at Duke University looked at 565 adults who had their lead levels measured as children. Those with high childhood lead readings had IQ levels 4.25 points lower, on average, than those with lower childhood lead levels.
Exposure to inorganic arsenic may also affect IQ, according to a recent Columbia University study of third- through fifth-graders in Maine. Students who had been exposed to arsenic in drinking water had IQ levels 5 to 6 points lower, on average, than students who had not been exposed.
The journal Lancet Public Health recently reported that even low levels of lead from food and other sources is responsible for over 400,00 deaths each year – most from cardiovascular disease. Also exposure to methylmercury can cause nerve damage, muscle weakness, lack of coordination, and impaired vision and hearing. And over time, cadmium exposure can lead to kidney, bone, and lung diseases.
What Consumer Report Tests Found
Consumer Reports research of heavy metals in foods came up with canned tuna, protein powders, fruit juice, and rice and rice products, including infant rice cereals. This has been confirmed by other food safety organizations and the Food and Drug Administration.
In August 2018, Consumer Report scientists looked at 50 popular baby and toddler foods, then purchased three samples of each from retailers across the country. As they say, “Our findings were a spot check of the market and should not be used to draw definitive conclusions about specific brands”. For more information, download a PDF of CR’s test protocol for heavy metals in baby and toddler foods.
The products fall into four categories:
• Baby cereals.
• Packaged fruits and vegetables.
• Packaged entrées (for example, turkey and rice dinner).
• Packaged snacks, including cookies, crackers, crunches, puffs, snack bars, wafers, and biscuits such as teething biscuits and rice rusks.
About two-thirds of the products (34) they tested contained concerning levels of cadmium, lead, and/or inorganic arsenic; 15 of them would pose a risk to a child who ate one serving or less per day.
Two rice cereals contained measurable levels of methylmercury. Although the amounts were not high enough to be associated with potential health risks from this heavy metal in our analysis, other research suggests that rice cereals may be an overlooked source of mercury in infants’ diets. For example, in tests of 119 infant cereals, researchers at Florida International University found that rice cereals had on average three times as much methylmercury as multigrain cereals and 19 times as much as other non-rice cereals.
Products made with rice fared the worst in their tests. That’s because they contained worrisome amounts of inorganic arsenic, and many also had lead and cadmium.
As a category, snack foods—bars, cookies, crackers, crunches, crisps, puffs, and rice rusks and other teething biscuits – were most problematic, generally because of their rice content. That is quite worrying as 72% of parents said that they often given their babies these snack foods.
How Do Heavy Metals Get into Food?
Most of the heavy metals in food come from soil or water that has been contaminated through either farming and manufacturing practices (such as pesticide application, mining, and smelting) or pollution (such as the use of leaded gasoline).
Plants can absorb these heavy metals from the soil and water – rice however, can absorb 10 times more arsenic than other grains.
This would also apply to baby foods that are home-made using rice as a base – the heavy metals would still find their way into the food. It is not only rice that contains heavy metals, they have also been found in samples of baby food apple juice, grape juice and carrots. This is also applied whether the products were organic or not, which may point a finger to the manufacturing process also being responsible for adding certain toxic metals into the end product. Also, arsenic and lead are contaminants in soils, so even organic products that are not sprayed with pesticides can absorb these directly from the soil.
What Can Parents Do?
There are a number of things that parents can be careful of, such as:
• Limit the amount of infant rice cereal your child eats. One can try using oats, buckwheat, millet and quinoa.
• Choose the right rice. Ironically, brown rice which is more nutritious also had more inorganic arsenic than white rice of the same type. White basmati rice from California, India, and Pakistan, and sushi rice from the U.S., are good choices that had, on average, half as much inorganic arsenic as most other types. Rice cakes, cereal, and pasta were also high in inorganic arsenic.
• Cook rice with plenty of water. It is best to cook rice in 10 parts water to 1 part rice and then drain it well afterward. This will help reduce arsenic content.
• Limit packaged snacks. Many contain rice flour which contains heavy metals. The same goes for rice cakes, rice crackers, and chips that you and your child may eat.
• Other foods to substitute. Some of the best food for snacking that have none or very low levels of heavy metals are: apples, applesauce (unsweetened), avocado, bananas, barley with vegetables, beans, cheese, grapes, hard-boiled eggs, peaches and yoghurt.
• Avoid fruit juice. Research has found inorganic arsenic and lead in many brands of apple and grape juices. It is best for the baby to eat the raw fruit than the fruit juice.
• Avoid chocolate. Cocoa powder that chocolate is made from may contain cadmium and lead.
• Choose fish carefully. Bigeye tuna, king mackerel, orange roughy, shark, and swordfish are particularly high in methylmercury. Smaller fish from open water in the wild tend to be “cleaner” than the large or farmed fish that tend to be fed bone meal from large fish toxic in mercury.
• Avoid protein powders. These may contain arsenic, cadmium and lead, particularly if they are plant-based.
• Check water quality. It may be worth having your drinking water tested, but one of the best sources of water to use for all the family is reverse osmosis water that has been reactivated using a vortex.
• Best to eat healthful whole foods. Variety is the spice of life – rotating foods will likely reduce the heavy metal burden on the body.
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“Covid-19 is a litmus test for stakeholder capitalism”
(Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. Financial Times, 25.03.2020)
Let’s start with the obvious and hard-to-ignore facts. A global pandemic is raging, and people and businesses are suffering on an unprecedented scale. That is why I think the quote from Klaus Schwab is very timely to start with. You might think we are talking about recovery before we can see signs of the storm settling – but we need to look beyond the current situation. What is next? Or maybe even more directly. How can we lead the future in the most sustainable way?
Stakeholder capitalism is a system in which businesses are oriented to serve the interests of all their stakeholders. Among the key stakeholders are customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, and local communities. The purpose is to create long-term value and not to maximise profits and enhance shareholder value at the cost of other stakeholder groups – hence the quote from Klaus Schwab.
Financial services and technology – fintech – play a major role in the many different relief packages being implemented globally and will continue to do so in the recovery phase. The pandemic has really made it quite obvious that we need to think beyond the single and very narrow focus on shareholder value.
Nordic government leaders made a pledge in 2019 to be the most sustainable region by 2030, and according to the Sustainable Development Report 2020 Sweden, Denmark and Finland are the highest-ranking countries on SDG achievement.
Four out of ten companies on the Corporate Knights ‘Global 100 Progress Report’ are Nordic. The first two are Danish – Ørsted and Chr. Hansen. Furthermore, the biggest grouping in the Global 100 is financial services companies – investors, insurers, and lenders are often ahead of the game when it comes to acknowledging where the risks of failing to deal with sustainability issues lie.
The Nordic moment
Obviously, we are biased. But the world can and should learn from the Nordics and the fintech ecosystem. The region is turning into a hotbed for sustainable fintech solutions. But what are the ingredients? A well-functioning financial services industry and technology infrastructure is the foundation. The Nordics is a region of very innovative countries with a deep and cultural-based focus on sustainability.
We are recognised for our Nordic human-centered design thinking approach – dating back to the 1960s. Known as participatory design (or originally co-operative design) this is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all stakeholders – e.g., employees, partners, customers, citizens, and end-users – in the design process. Notice the clear link to stakeholder capitalism.
All of the above creates very fertile ground for financial technology solutions that accelerate the much-needed push towards a sustainable future. This is why you will soon see people from corporations and governments jumping on video calls to learn from and partner with Nordic entrepreneurs. The five Nordic fintech hubs have mapped out all the fintech startups working within the SDG framework. 200 companies are on the first list – many of them delivering parts of the billions of dollars of financing to tackle problems such as financial inclusion, lack of access to capital for small and medium sized enterprises, and for investments in sustainable infrastructure.
In 2020, Copenhagen Fintech Week will zero in on ‘Goal 17’: Partnerships for the Goals. We will be facilitating networking, discussions, and hopefully, a lot of partnerships between a very diverse set of stakeholders. Only together we can make it a value-driven recovery!


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Governor Dannel Malloy is touting a new analysis of his transportation improvement plan which says the state's economy will benefit dramatically from widening Interstate 84 in Danbury and elsewhere. Malloy says the assessment by the state Department of Transportation shows that by adding travel lanes on various roadways, the economy will see nearly $40 billion in benefits.
He notes that's about four times the cost of the projects.
Malloy says the economic benefits of the I-84 widening project between Danbury and Waterbury will produce $4.4 billion in new business sales, add $2.6 billion to Connecticut's gross state product and add $1.8 billion in new wage income to workers.
The total cost of that project is $1.5 billion and will support 4,000 construction jobs.


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New market takes center stage at 50th anniversary celebration
by Tad Thompson | October 21, 2009
PHILADELPHIA -- If the new Philadelphia market were placed standing on its end, it would be 50 stories taller than New York's Empire State Building.
That tidbit, shared by Sonny DiCrecchio, general manager of the Philadelphia Regional Produce Market, who led an Oct. 20 tour of the market's construction, put a real perspective on the immensity of what in 10 months will become the world's largest, most-modern produce market. Tenants could possibly move into the market as soon as August, which would be two months ahead of schedule.
Mr. DiCrecchio and John Vena, owner of John Vena Inc., who heads the market's marking committee, indicated that the construction progress has greatly heightened the anticipation level of Philadelphia wholesalers.
The roof of the 667,000-square-foot market is complete except for the installation of centerline skylights, which will supply the central shopping concourse of the cavernous building with natural light. All the upstairs offices of the market also will have windows to brighten that workspace.
Mr. DiCrecchio led the walk-through of the construction site. The market, which is about 1,400 feet long, is surrounded by loading docks around the perimeter. There is a 50-foot air-controlled loading apron to serve the loading dock. The temperature throughout the market's working areas will be kept at a constant 50 degrees. Market tenants currently are choosing the layout of their individual sales areas, office space and coolers. The tenants will adjust the temperature of their individual coolers to suit the stored commodities. There is one central refrigeration and heating system for the entire market.
Orbis Solutions, an information technology company that has been based on the market for a decade, is in charge of supporting computer and communications systems within the market. Orbis partner Chris DiPiazza told The Produce News that the systems are being planned to adapt to technological advancements for decades to come. Crawl spaces above the offices will house the electronics systems.
The market celebrated its 50th anniversary during the week of Oct. 19-23. The celebration included a tent under which customers and guests could have a continental breakfast. Joseph Poon, a produce carver who has appeared on the "Jay Leno" and the "Ellen" shows, gave a demonstration Oct. 20, the day that two busloads of market tenants, customers and guests visited the market construction.
When the market opened its doors in 1959, a new era in produce marketing began. Dozens of competitive produce wholesalers united under the same roof to give their customers the finest in selection, price, convenience and quality, noted a press release issued by the Philadelphia Regional Produce Market.
"We're nostalgic and honor our past," said Mr. DiCrecchio. "But we've outgrown our facilities and look forward to moving to a brand new market in the fall of 2010."
He noted that the location is close to air, truck, boat and rail service, and it will be set up as an indoor mall-style market that is fully refrigerated, thereby ensuring that the cold chain will remain intact.


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NEC Corporation has announced a new system that uses smartglasses to project a virtual keyboard on a user’s arm.
Called the ARmKeypad Air, it’s a modification of the ARmKeypad unveiled last autumn. That system also used smartglasses to project a virtual keyboard on a user’s arm, but it relied on a smartwatch to detect vibrations from the user’s finger as she tapped her arm to interact with the interface. The new version of the system is contactless—there is no need for a smartwatch, as the smartglasses can detect interaction without the need for physical contact against the arm.
In a statement announcing the new system, NEC highlighted its utility in sterilized settings. The system will be used “to help improve workplace efficiency in sectors where hands-free operation is required, such as manufacturing, medicine, security, and distribution,” explained NEC System Integration & Services Market Development Division AGM Yukio Maruyama.
The system is similar to one developed by Samsung, which uses smartglasses equipped with dual cameras to enable virtual keyboards via 3D-mapped ‘augmented reality’, though that concept appeared geared more toward consumer applications. With developers looking for new user interfaces to cope with the emerging Internet of Things, we may soon see more such virtual keyboard technologies emerging in the near future.


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Ford Invites Developers Inside the Car With New Dev Program, Platform
Currently, the three main categories of AppLink-enabled apps include: News and Information, Music and Entertainment, Navigation and Location. Once a developer has incorporated AppLink code into the app, it will be submitted for review by Ford engineers to ensure it works properly and is suitable for use in the vehicle. Once approved, Ford will then work with the developer to provide a distribution license, after which the app is submitted to the relevant app marketplace. Yet, while AppLink is available in Ford vehicles now, OpenXC is focused on the future as an open-source hardware and software platform developed by Ford Research and Innovation to unleash the power of the open-source hacker community to explore what can be done with vehicle data, Ford said. OpenXC is a combination of open source hardware and software that lets users extend their vehicle with custom applications and pluggable modules. It uses standard, well-known tools to open up a wealth of data from the vehicle to developers.The OpenXC kit includes a vehicle interface module based on the popular Arduino platform developers can use to read data from the vehicle’s internal communications network. The hardware module provides real-time access to parameters like the vehicle sensors, GPS receiver and vehicle speed. The hardware module is connected to a smartphone or tablet on which apps can be written to consume and use these data. The read-only system is designed to keep everything isolated from the vehicle control systems so that users do not accidentally “brick” their cars. The OpenXC Website also provides schematics, documentation and code for open-source hardware modules, including the wireless solar-powered heads-up display developed by OpenXC co-founder Bug Labs. “Through the OpenXC platform, we are paving the way for new opportunities that will help us prepare for the future of transportation where the automobile, mobile networks and the Internet cloud come together in ways never before imagined,” said Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader of Open Innovation for Ford Research and Innovation, in a statement. “OpenXC is an extension of the work being done at the Ford Silicon Valley Lab focusing on big data, open-source innovation and user experience,” added Mascarenas. “We are enabling independent developers to flesh out their ideas using affordable and accessible hardware and software tools.” Early in 2012 Ford shipped the first OpenXC beta toolkits to universities such as the University of Michigan, MIT, Stanford University and HCL Technologies in India. Since that time, OSIsoft has sponsored a hackathon to create an application using vehicle data from OpenXC in combination with its enterprise data analytics platform. In addition, at Michigan State University, a team of undergraduate students has built an Android app that uses OpenXC to collect data from the Ford MyKey system into a centralized database and present it in visual report card format.
“Ford is committed to innovating with the help of software and now hardware developers,” said Paul Mascarenas, Ford vice president and chief technical officer, in a statement. “By connecting cars and trucks to wireless networks, and giving unheard-of access to vehicle data, entirely new application categories and hardware modules can be explored – safety, energy efficiency, sharing, health; the list goes on. OpenXC gives developers and researchers the tools they need to get involved.”


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11:40 AM New York – Chrysler January sales jumped 8%. Ford sales declined 7% and GM sales fell 11.9% and blamed weather for weaker sales. Ingles Markets net declined 18%. Sysco net dropped 5%.
Chrysler Group LLC
, the U.S. unit of Italy based Fiat SpA, said sales in January jumped 8% to 127,183 units, the group’s best January sales since 2008.
Chrysler Group extended its streak of annual sales gains to 46th month in a row in January.
Jeep brand sales in January surged 38% but Compass sales climbed 31%. Jeep Grand Cherokee sales jumped 10%. FIAT brand sales soared 29% in January.
Ford Motor Company
) dropped 2.7% or car-maker said January sales dropped 7.1% to 154,644 units from 166,501 units and retail sales dropped 5% to 113,721 units a year earlier.
Lincoln sales surged 43% to 5,973 units and sales of Mustang jumped 8% to 3,881 units.
General Motors Company
) slipped 1.9% or 71 cents to $35.37 after the automobile company said January sales declined 11.9% to 171,486 a year ago. GM also blamed extreme weather in South, Midwest and Northeast for the sales decline.
The company added retail sales declined 10% although retail deliveries of passenger cars were slightly up. Fleet deliveries plunged 18% due to planned reduction in rental vehicle sales. Total sales were dropped 12%.
GM expects light vehicle sales for the year in the range of 16 million to 16.5 million units, the largest industry sales since 2007.
Ingles Markets, Incorporated
) plunged 6.9% or $1.87 to $25.31 after the supermarket operator reported net sales in the first-quarter ending on December 28 rose 1.6% to $945.1 million. Comparable store sales in the quarter decreased 0.8%.
Net income in the quarter declined 18% to $9.53 million or 42 cents a diluted share compared to $11.6 million or 48 cents.
) fell 1% or 38 cents to $34.70 after the food products service provider reported sales in the second-quarter ending on December 28 increased 4.1% to $11.2 billion.
Net earnings in the quarter dropped 4.8% to $210.8 million or 36 cents a diluted share compared to $221.4 million or 38 cents.
Wesco International, Inc
) slid 1.9% or $1.61 to $81.35 after the electric equipment provider said its Canadian subsidiary acquired Ontario-based LaPrairie, Inc.
The company said the purchase will be accretive to earnings by about $0.03 per diluted share in the first year of operation.


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Hampton Creek Issues Voluntary Recall of Mixes Containing Native Forest Coconut Milk Powder Due To Possible Health Risk
According to a posting on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website, Hampton Creek has announced that it is voluntarily recalling of 6 SKU’s of baking mixes that contain the Native Forest Coconut Milk Powder because of Salmonella concerns.
The company said the ingredient, which makes up 1.31% of the mixes tested positive for Salmonella in company initiated testing program.
According to the press release, Hampton Creek notified Native Forest and their distributor, requesting "they initiate a voluntary recall of all their Native Forest Coconut Milk Powder-in all formats-with all retail and food manufacturing customers".
The affected mixes which are available nation-wide are listed below:
Salmonella is bacteria which can cause serious or life-threatening illness in the elderly, people with weakened immune systems, frail persons and young children.
Healthy people who become infected may experience the following symptoms:
- experience fever
- diarrhea (possibly bloody)
- abdominal pain
In some rare instances, the bacteria can enter the bloodstream and travel to other parts of the body causing arterial infections, arthritis and endocarditis.
"As part of Hampton Creek’s testing program, 30 Native Forest Coconut Milk Powder samples were pulled and tested. 29 of the samples tested negative and one sample tested positive for Salmonella. 74 additional samples taken from other lots of the Native Forest Coconut Milk Powder tested negative." Hampton Creek posted on the FDA website.
The company said that no other Hampton Creek products were affected, and there have been no reports of any health issues.
Hampton Creek said that all finished mixes released into the market tested negative for any pathogens, but they notified the FDA of the potential health risk because of the presence of Salmonella bacteria in the Native Forest Coconut Milk Powder.
Hampton Creek urged consumers who bought any of the recalled products not to eat them instead, they suggest that people should discard the products or return them to the place of purchase for a full refund.
The company's founder said that "nothing else matters without safety" and that guidance they received from the FDA has been vital to removing affected product from the marketplace.
"You can reach me directly any time at 415.404.2372 or the company at 844.423.6637, M-F 9:00-6pm PST, and email@example.com with any and all questions or concerns.” Hampton Creek’s Founder and CEO, Josh Tetrick said.
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One of the biggest buzzwords in technology today is blockchain. That’s partly due to marketing hype spurred by its association with cryptocurrency, but it’s also thanks to the increasing sense that blockchain could become an important way to improve efficiency in any number of industries. That’s why IBM, a major investor in developing blockchain technology, was on stage at IBC this month — to explain blockchain’s applicability in media and entertainment.
Watch the full video at the IBCTV website or read on for a summary.
In a nutshell, blockchain is simply an open, distributed ledger of transactions between two parties. In the case of bitcoin, the blockchain records all bitcoin transactions, using cryptography to encrypt blocks of information, securing them against modification or deletion after they has been recorded. (That’s what makes bitcoin work — anyone who access the ledger is confident that it accurately reflects the status of all bitcoin transactions because the encryption makes it prohibitively difficult to make alterations to the chain.) The blockchain for bitcoin is public, but it’s also possible to create a private blockchain for tracking transactions between businesses. By allowing all of the participants associated with a given supply chain to access the same ledger of information, instead of sharing redundant documentation, blockchain is said to improve transparency and make wasted expenses and efforts easier to identify.
Outcomes Count More Than Tech
“Two-thirds of organizations worldwide are already experimenting with blockchain,” IBM’s general manager of blockchain services, Jason Kelley, told the audience at an IBC “Blockchain Masterclass” session. But he admitted that, of about 26,000 blockchain projects that could be found on Github [a web-based hosting service for collaborative computer programming] one year ago, only 8 percent are still active. So he urged anyone developing blockchain solutions to focus on desired outcomes first, rather than simply homing in on blockchain for the sake of blockchain.
A good example may be Wal-mart, which just this week, according to Bloomberg, started mandating that some of its produce suppliers implement blockchain to allow products to be more easily traced back to the farms where they were grown. The idea is to improve response times — as well as accountability, no doubt — when food-borne illnesses begin to spread. “When there’s a food scare or a food recall, you can’t wait days or weeks,” Wal-mart VP of Food Safety Frank Yiannas told Bloomberg.
IBM says blockchain has reduced inefficiency by as much as 90 percent in early implementations. As an example, Kelley cited a blockchain implementation with Maersk for international shipping. By storing transactional data in blockchain, so that all of the participants in the supply chain can access the same ledger of information instead of keeping data in individual silos and sending documents from company to company to record various transactions, Maersk was able to dramatically reduce redundancy in the process. For a single shipment from Mombasa to Rotterdam, Kelley said, the number of documents required was reduced from 200 to 20.
Chad Andrews, IBM’s global solutions leader for advertising, said blockchain could be used in media and entertainment for storing consumer data in a way that could wrest some power back from the currently dominant data-collection giants like Facebook and Google.
“Data [about consumers] can be combined, but different people own it,” Andrews said. “We have to be able to tokenize those data sets into discrete assets that can be traded in the market, and we need to be able to price those.” He envisioned an emerging marketplace driven by AI where data is packaged and priced in order to best help marketers reach their ideal audience segments.
“[You could do] things that you can’t do in walled gardens” like Facebook and Google, he said. “If you could do this in a recursive market, where there’s machine learning and the supply side and the demand side are sharing data, you can actually start to optimize for campaign delivery. Decentralizing and democratizing that will flatten margins, it will give control of the consumer relationship back to the publishers, where it belongs, and you can do things that walled gardens typically can’t do, like aggregated third-party measurement across platforms.”
Keeping Track of Rights-Holders
And Peter Guglielmino, CTO of the global M&E industry for IBM, said blockchain could end up being the most efficient, tamperproof way to store metadata about media and ensure creatives get paid. He cited Benji Rogers, co-founder of Dot Blockchain Media, who’s trying to implement blockchain as a way to ensure the permanence and accessibility of metadata associated with musical recordings, to help ensure that the appropriate creators and rights-holders are compensated if their work is used or sampled.
“How am I going to make sure the creatives … make money doing their creative art?” Guglielmino asked. “That’s an important thing. And it doesn’t necessarily mean we have to sell the thing they make. Maybe they monetize it through advertising.”
Whatever blockchain ends up doing to make the media business more efficient, it seems clear that the advantages are not right around the corner. “I joke that, in the crawl-walk-run progression of blockchain, we’re at ‘Honey, my water just broke,'” said Andrews. “But this is what’s coming. This is going to be the game-changer. And this is the way, collectively, you can start to redemocratize this industry.”


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- Middle East’s NFT community Art DAO has partnered with security giant Ledger.
- Arts DAO can offer its members NFT wallets for cryptocurrency via the collaboration.
- Dubai launched the Global Blockchain Council to support a digital government in the state.
Arts DAO can offer its members non-fungible wallet options thanks to Ledger, the world’s leading provider of digital storage for cryptocurrencies, as part of its partnership with the biggest non-fungible token (NFT) and Web 3.0 communities in the Middle East.
The largest Web 3.0 and NFT community in the area, DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that backs exceptional Web 3.0 businesspeople, makes investments in blue-chip companies, and helps significant organizations with their Web 3.0 strategy.
Ledger, a French company, is the top safe gateway for digital assets. It was established in 2014 by individuals with complementary backgrounds in business, integrated security, and cryptocurrencies. Ledger’s affiliates employ around 800 individuals in European cities. The company, which has sold over five million devices to customers in 200 countries, is responsible for protecting 20% of all crypto assets on the planet.
A ledger serves as a “cold storage” option, says Danosch Zahedi, Co-Founder of Arts DAO. With decentralized finance, anybody with a cold storage wallet can serve as a bank. This is critical in light of recent cryptocurrency market volatility and future-defining events like the FTX crash.
According to Arts DAO’s Anas Bhurtun, historical regulatory advancements have benefited NFTs and cryptocurrencies as business tools. “Dubai has continuously proved its commitment to the virtual economy.”
In 2016, Dubai announced plans to create a fully digital government by 2021. In support of this effort, the emirate founded the Global Blockchain Council. All facets of municipal management, including security, transportation, and health, could be technologically integrated.
With this step, people in the region can save their cryptocurrency. Ledger says when users purchase a cryptocurrency, users obtain a “private key,” a vital piece of data required to approve outbound transactions on the blockchain network.


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Trade War Casualties
Policyholders are in the crosshairs when tariffs increase.
- Robert P. Hartwig
- September 2018
Robert P. Hartwig, University of South Carolina
“Economists agree on few things, but one of the few things they do agree upon are the benefits of free trade. In a trade war, there are no winners—only losers. Tens of millions of policyholders are about to join the long list of America’s trade war casualties.”
To the average insurance consumer, the notion that their next policy renewal could contain a rate increase courtesy of the Trump administration's increasingly aggressive trade policies may seem strange. Yet they need look no further than those hunks of steel and aluminum on wheels in their driveway or that pile of lumber they call home for the reason.
Indeed, with tariffs of 25% on steel, 10% on aluminum and 20% on lumber already in place, the impacts are already rippling through the industry. It's only a matter of time before these costs invade policyholder wallets. The administration is now threatening a 25% tariff on imported auto parts, as well as potentially thousands of other items that are routinely protected by insurers.
Tariffs are a tax on imports and are therefore implicitly a tax on everything made or sold using those taxed items. An insurance policy may be made out of paper, but in practice it's a promise to buy the tons of lumber, metals and parts necessary to make the policyholder whole. According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, tariffs will push up the cost of new cars by between $1,400 and $7,000. Own an American car? The reality is that every car is an import today, with domestically produced models deriving 30% to 50% or more of their value from foreign parts. The outlook isn't much better for homeowners. Nearly one-third of the lumber used in American homes in recent years comes from Canadian sources. U.S. lumber mills can't fill the void, so prices are skyrocketing—up some 40% through the first half of 2018.
Insurers have sharp pencils and have been working through the math, particularly in the auto insurance lines, which collectively account for more than 40% of all property/casualty premiums written. According to a consortium of insurer trade groups, some 31 countries in 2017 exported $100 million or more in automotive parts to the United States, accounting for 60% of all auto parts used in this country. Parts accounted for 39.7% of total repair costs for personal auto insurers in 2017, with repairs requiring an average of 9.5 replacement parts.
Drilling down, insurers estimate that 10.9% of all repair costs are derived from imported parts. Assuming a 25% tariff implies that repair costs in the personal auto line alone could rise by 2.7% or $3.4 billion—and by several hundred million more when the impact on commercial auto insurers is considered. Oh, and given that all of those expensive parts will be even more attractive to thieves and their chop shop clients, auto theft rates are expected to rise, too.
Tariffs will further pressure both personal and commercial auto insurance prices, which were already up by more than 7% over the past year. State insurance departments would be wise to prepare now to be deluged with hundreds, if not thousands, of filings for rate increases as insurers seek to recover the cost associated with the implementation of what amounts to a new federal tax on the nation's 225 million drivers.
That tariffs will directly impact pricing is obvious, but policyholders will be forgiven if they still fail to see the supporting logic and rationale of how auto parts were conscripted into the front lines of today's trade war. To make that happen, the U.S. Commerce Department is relying on convoluted interpretations of a Cold War legislative relic—the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Under Section 232 of that act, the president is empowered to restrict imports that he determines to be a threat to national security. You heard it right: That imported bumper, radiator and fan belt your insurer will pay for as part of your next fender bender—all threats to national security. If this logic seems far flung that's because it is. In reality, there is no legal national security rationale to impose tariffs on auto parts or automobiles.
Keep in mind that President Donald Trump's rationale for tariffs stems from his concern about the U.S. trade deficit—that it is too large and is the result of unfair competition. To some degree this is true; the playing field is not always level. At the same time, the fundamental reason why the United States runs such an enormous trade deficit ($566 billion in 2017 or about 2.4% of GDP) is because as a nation we spend more money than we earn. Consequently, we borrow heavily from abroad to finance this spending, much of it on foreign goods. Trade deficits and budget deficits are essentially opposite sides of the same coin. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 will increase the federal budget deficit by an estimated $1.44 trillion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Financing these deficits will lead directly to even more borrowing and higher trade deficits.
Because profligate spending and borrowing by consumers and government are the root cause of America's trade deficit, it is clear that tariffs are not the cure. Living within our means is. Tariffs and the retaliatory tariffs they invite are blunt instruments that bludgeon trading partners, U.S. businesses and American consumers alike—with many unintended consequences. Higher auto insurance premiums for millions of American drivers is one of countless examples.
The optimal strategy now is for Trump to work a deal whereby tariffs and other nontariff barriers to trade (such as subsidies) are negotiated to zero. This bold approach would bring lower prices and more choices to consumers in the United States and among its trading partners. Other trade issues, such as protection of intellectual property for U.S. firms operating abroad, need to be negotiated separately, perhaps through the World Trade Organization.
Economists (including this author) agree on few things, but one of the few things they do agree upon are the benefits of free trade. In a trade war, there are no winners—only losers. Tens of millions of policyholders are about to join the long list of America's trade war casualties.
Robert P. Hartwig, PhD. CPCU, is past president of the Insurance Information Institute and current director of the Center for Risk and Uncertainty Management at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Blackhawk Modifications president Jim Allmon announced the appointment of two new regional sales managers. Kevin Swash has responsibility for Southeast Asia and Oceania, bringing with him a wealth of experience in Australia and Indonesia in the fields of engineering and business development. Bill Cadow has been appointed to cover the eastern U.S., having formerly worked in various sales fields for Hawker Beechcraft.
Accompanied by stage smoke and theme music from the Superman movie, Pilatus Aircraft unveiled its long-awaited new twinjet project, the PC-24, today at EBACE. “The PC-24 is unique. It’s the only aircraft combining the versatility of a turboprop with the cabin size of a midsize jet and the field performance of a light jet,” said company chairman Oscar Schwenk.
GE Honda Aero Engines has announced that its 2,095-pound-thrust HF120 turbofan intended initially for the HondaJet is nearing completion of certification tests and is on track for delivery of the first entry into service engines before year-end. “We now have a line-of-sight for certification and we are gaining experience on the fleet,” said GE Honda Aero president Terry Sharp.
Eurocopter revealed a mockup of the executive version of its EC175 medium-twin helicopter today at EBACE and is also offering an even more luxurious VIP version. Prices for the new variants are around €17 million ($22 million) and vary with options. The VIP version is some €500,000 ($650,000) more expensive than the executive option.
Accompanied by plumes of dry ice pouring from the edges of a black-curtained mockup and the music from the Superman movie, chairman Oscar Schwenk called for the unveiling of Pilatus Aircraft’s long-awaited new twinjet project, the PC-24.
Ruag Aviation has delivered its first cabin completion project, a Bombardier CRJ200 airliner that was transformed into a 10-seat VIP configuration. The entire cabin, including electrics, was reworked with a luxury interior that included wireless cabin entertainment, private area, club seating and dining areas. The company’s cabin interior program offers a one-stop-shop that covers design consultancy, cabin design, furniture construction, cabin integration and certification. It also offers exterior painting and design services.
Aviation Partners, Inc. (API, Booth 283) is anticipating EASA certification of its winglets for retrofit to Dassault Falcon 50 jets in the coming weeks. The expected approval will be the European counterpart of the FAA supplemental type certificate received in September 2012. The aerodynamic devices are the same “high-Mach blended winglets” currently available on the Falcon 2000 and 900 series (all three Falcon series share the same wing) and are promised to provide drag reduction and corresponding range increase of “5 to 7 percent at typical intermediate to long range cruise speeds.”
Since Luma Technologies received approval for its Lumatech LED caution/warning panels for Beechcraft King Air 200, 300, 350 and 1900D models, the company has been receiving significant interest in the product. The panels hold supplemental type certificate/parts manufacturer approval certification.
Europe will remain the second-largest market for new business jets over the next decade, accounting for approximately 29 percent of delivery volume and 34 percent of billings, according to the latest 10-year forecast from Embraer. Since it will continue to be the largest market for business jets–predicted to take delivery of nearly half of the aircraft during the forecast period–the U.S. will dictate the speed of the recovery, noted Embraer Executive Jets president Ernest Edwards.
Among the few economic forces behind the rather tepid recovery of the market segment covering small and medium-sized business jets, perhaps the most influential rests with the world’s financiers. While the large business jet segment remains buoyant due to its comparative immunity from the vagaries of liquidity availability, for the rest of the market a lack of attractive financing terms remains a serious problem, according Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) president John Saabas.


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It looks like Hong Kong is going to have a lot to celebrate this New Year’s Eve as reports of a $108 million shop being purchased in the busiest district of the city spread like wild fire, sky rocking the city’s property sale potential for 2010.
Famous music icon Albert Yeung has just purchased a 1,212-square-foot shop in the heart of Hong Kong, and those who are good at fast math will note that with the shops selling price landing at $108 million, Yeung paid an incredible $90,000 per square foot, setting a new city record. There are even reports that this may be the most expensive store in the world, but they are stopping short of actually claiming that title for now until confirmed.
The incredible sale took place in the very popular Tsim Sha Tsui disctrict and the shop houses the Emperor Watch & Jewelry. Yeung’s claim to fame is, in part, signing contracts with a large number of Cantonese pop stars who all have had insurmountable success among fans.
The recording breaking sale is actually a sort of “keeping it in the family” situation, as the previous property sale record in Hong Kong was set by Yeung’s brother, Ricky, who paid $58,000 per square foot for a nearby shop in the same high-demand area of the city.


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Fast-rising multifaceted artist and producer Tems has unveiled her much-awaited video for “The Key.” A standout cut from her critically adored debut EP For Broken Ears, the cinematic UAX-directed visual finds the Nigerian songstress as our triumphant leader on a mission to save the world.
The visuals for “The Key” arrive months removed from her “Damages” video, which amassed a whopping three million YouTube views upon release. Upon release, For Broken Ears instantly topped the iTunes charts in four different countries upon release displaying the excitement around the multi-talented artist.
Watch “The Key” below and keep your eyes peeled for the Nigerian superstar in 2021.
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GC Farms Featured on ABC's "Made In America" broadcast.
GC Farms was recently featured on the “Made in America” segment of David Muir’s “ABC World News Tonight.” The segment highlighted Nestle’s new line of Lean Cuisine frozen dinners, which launched as a response to evolving market demands with customers seeking higher protein content, gluten free and organic options. But Nestle went further than most food manufacturers in responding to consumer trends. The food manufacturer also decided to have the new food line directly support our American economy by sourcing ingredients from American growers. To learn more about how Lean Cuisine’s new frozen food line is supporting American agriculture, Muir’s team decided to investigate the point of origin of one of the key ingredients in the Cheese and Bean Enchilada Verde – the poblano peppers, which they traced back to Morgan Hill’s very own GC Farms.
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The IT services industry executive believes the model of building a business by sending technology talent from India is “dead” and despite India’s disproportionate advantage in terms of talent among other English-speaking countries, IT services companies need to have a hybrid model of Indian and US experts to solve complex problems.
“The immigration situation is a real situation (in the US). You really cannot build a business by shipping people. That is a dead model. You got to create local capacity,” Kishore told ET in an interview. The $180-billion Indian IT-BPM industry and its global counterparts have seen increasing protectionism primary in the US, the largest software services export market. Even though changes to the legislation pushed by the US administration has not come into force, there have been tightening of H-1B visa issuance process such as repeated request for evidence (RFEs).
In the past couple of years, Indian firms such as Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro have ramped up local hiring in the US and have begun extensive training for the local hires on the back of increased protectionism.
“I don’t think the immigration scene is going to dramatically change... We have to get ready by driving a combination of higher technology (technology to collaborate with offshore), local hiring, M&A,” said Kishore.
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An embattled State Road auto sales business is looking for a name change.
WESTPORT — An embattled State Road auto sales business is looking for a name change.
F and R Auto — the same car dealer that berated a pizza delivery man last winter in a video that went viral — got into more trouble a few months later when the owner and an employee were charged by police with threats to do bodily harm and intimidation of a witness.
The car business' name appeared on the selectmen's agenda on Monday — requesting a name change to King's Auto Inc.
Selectman Steven Ouellette speculated that "bad press" has motivated the move. Selectmen last Monday indicated they would like to touch base with the police about whether there is still a pending legal case against business employees.
Westport Detective Sgt. Antonio J. Cestodio, the public information officer of the Police Department, said he expects the police chief will complete a recommendation form and submit it to selectmen.
Cestodio said the intimidation case is still pending. In that case, owner Francis R. Correiro, of Freetown, and an employee, Mark Dambrosca, of New Bedford, were charged with threats to do bodily harm and intimidation of a witness, according to a previous release from Cestodio.
The charges stem from a police investigation that started in December after a Westport woman purchased a car at the dealership and it failed a safety inspection, according to Standard-Times reports.
Correiro and Dambrosca “allegedly verbally chastised her, used profanities and threatened to punch her in the face if she showed up in person,” and made “a sexual comment to her,” Cestodio said in a news release.
The F and R owner did not return a call for comment this week.
Earlier this year, F and R Auto received a public backlash after a company representative posted a video of employees berating a pizza delivery man who mistakenly thought he was receiving a $7 tip for a $42 order. He was called back to the business by F and R Auto to return the $7, the video was then posted online and became a viral sensation as viewers questioned the company's prank, leading to public outrage against the dealership.


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Sources told Variety that there is some internal frustration with Amazon’s original TV output. Amazon has had critical darlings come out of its TV division, like Golden Globe winners “Transparent” and “Mozart in the Jungle.” But for all the money it’s spending on video, which JPMorgan estimated to be $4.5 billion in 2017, Amazon doesn’t yet have a culture-dominating drama like “Game of Thrones.” It sounds like Jeff Bezos has noticed. A strategy overhaul is underway at Amazon.
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Amazon Studios is going through a major strategy shift. On Friday, the Studio confirmed five new projects— a period drama, three comedy and a comic book adaptation. Of these five, three are straight to series order and two have been asked to come with the pilot first, according to a report in Variety. The decision comes after Amazon scrapped the plans to greenlight the second season of period drama Z: The Beginning of Everything, thus, reflecting the new mandate.
Ceo Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to get its own ‘Game of thrones’. Watch this video below.
A strategy overhaul is underway at Amazon Studios, and it comes all the way from top brass including CEO Jeff Bezos, according to a new report from Variety. This week, Amazon unexpectedly killed the second season of “Z: The Beginning of Everything,” which had been previously greenlit, and which writers had been working to get ready for production.
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— Nick Bass MCIPD (@DigitalHRGeek) September 17, 2017
In a strategy shift, Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to produce shows like Game of Thrones – https://t.co/62NFVCGB8X
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— Marwa El-Abassiri (@Bro_ken_m) September 18, 2017
Jeff Bezos Wants Amazon to Make the Next 'Game of Thrones' https://t.co/xJfmivy1Em
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In the fourth quarter, FBR expects 15.5 million Android-based tablets to ship, up from 11.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. For the year, FBR estimates Android-based tablet shipments of 42.6 million, up from 28.6 million in 2011.
FBR projects total fourth quarter tablet shipments of 44.8 million, up from 26.8 million in the fourth quarter of last year. The firm projects shipments of 122.3 million tablets for all of 2012, up from 75.1 million in 2011.
FBR expects the iPad mini to drive incremental revenue increases for both Qualcomm (San Diego, Calif.) and Broadcom (Irvine, Calif.). The firm estimates that the iPad and iPad mini will contribute about $525 million to Qualcomm's total sales in 2012 and about $550 million in 2013. Broadcom stands to gain about $305 million in 2012 and $400 million from the iPads in 2013, according to FBR.
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Berger wrote that early indications suggest that the Microsoft Surface RT Tablet has thus far underperformed, with cost—in the neighborhood of $600—being the most likely culprit. FBR projects total sales of 1.2 million Surface RT Tablets in the fourth quarter.
The FBR tablet tracker report also concluded that sales of the Google Nexus 7 and the Amazon Kind Fire HD tablets have been higher than expected, owing to their $199 price points.
"Contrary to what we see for the Kindle Fire and Google Nexus, we believe the first month's sales of the MS Surface RT tablet have underwhelmed expectations," Berger wrote.


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Colt Defense LLC announced Sunday night that the 179-year-old company is filing for bankruptcy.
The firearms company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., and Colt officials say they plan to restructure financially during this time. This process, according to a press release on Colt's website, will allow for the "accelerated sale" of the company's business operations in the U.S. and Canada.
“The plan we are announcing and have filed today will allow Colt to restructure its balance sheet while meeting all of its obligations to customers, vendors, suppliers and employees and providing for maximum continuity in the Company’s current and future business operations,” Keith Maib, Chief Restructuring Officer of Colt Defense LLC, said in the release.
"Importantly, Colt remains open for business and our team will continue to be sharply focused on delivering for our customers and being a good commercial partner to our vendors and suppliers," Maib said. "We look forward to successfully executing on this plan, which provides a sound path of stewardship for an iconic American brand and the key stakeholders we serve.”
According to Bloomberg, Colt, the maker of M4 and M16 military rifles, reported in an earlier filing that the company was struggling financially due to delays in U.S. government and foreign sales. A change in demand for sporting rifles and commercials handguns also reportedly contributed to the noted company's financial woes.
In the press release, Colt said Sciens Capital Management LLC will act as a "stalking horse bidder" for the company's assets and liabilities. Colt's current management team is to remain in place.
The company claimed its “present situation concerning customer confidence and its ability to meet current customer demands for finished rifles and handguns is fragile," according to the Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ also reported that Colt's debts and assets range from $100 million to $500 million.
According to Bloomberg, the company's financial troubles have been ongoing. Colt took out a $70 million rescue loan from Morgan Stanley in November.


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Another 56% agree that a cost-efficient work space is crucial to the success of their business, citing it as five times more important than an office’s style and design.
When asked, entrepreneurs ranked the below as the most and least important to them when choosing their first office:
Costs for office space can vary greatly across the UK with areas in London unsurprisingly coming at a premium, while those looking to work in the North can secure much more reasonable costs:
The research from Workthere, the serviced office specialist, reveals the biggest decisions entrepreneurs make during the early stages of their business, from dress codes and office costs, to funding and marketing.
While the way employees are working has changed dramatically over the last 10 years, the role of the office is still vital, as entrepreneurs spend more than 30 hours each week in the office. 52% of respondents to the survey said they are more likely to make business decisions at their desk than anywhere else.
For business owners, choosing the first office is a big task, and can affect access to talent, their appeal to clients, and their flexibility to grow, says Workthere. However, entrepreneurs have a clear priority list, with finding a cost-effective space coming out as their most important priority (56%), followed by good transport links (37%), strong IT infrastructure, such as broadband speed and phone signal (23%) and flexibility to grow (22%).
Outside of the office, business owners also ranked building their brand (e.g. choosing a company name), meeting financial targets and staying in profit, and achieving work/life balance as some of the most important decisions they have to make for their business.
Cal Lee, Head of Workthere, said:
“For any entrepreneur, location is a pivotal part of their first office, as good transport links are crucial in terms of being an attractive option for employees. However, business owners know that for young companies, keeping costs low is also essential. Getting these decisions right, and getting the optimum space for a new venture can be difficult especially for new businesses who are finding their feet, but with a bit of help it can be a much easier process for entrepreneurs.”


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— Waste Management (NYSE: WM) reported third quarter 2019 earnings of $1.19 per share vs. $1.14 per share expected.
— Third quarter 2019 GAAP earnings remained unchanged at $1.16 per share compared with the third quarter of 2018.
— Revenue grew 4% to $3.97 billion vs. $4 billion expected.
— Fiscal year 2019 adjusted earnings pegged to be in the range of $4.28 to $4.38 per share.
— For FY19, Waste Management expects the recycling line of business to be a $0.01 to $0.02 per diluted share headwind and the sale of its renewable natural gas credits to be a $0.03 to $0.04 per diluted share headwind.
— WM stock, which hit a 52-week high ($121.77) on September 5, 2019, edged down 0.3% yesterday.
Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN) reported first quarter 2023 earnings results today. Sales rose 2.5% year-over-year to $13.2 billion. Net income attributable to Tyson was $316 million, or $0.88 per
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Google has announced that it will be making some changes to its YouTube monetization policy, and these changes.
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