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It has been a long time since much has been said about Apple’s next edition of iPhone – iPhone 6. I presume that nobody outside the Cupertino has a hint about what Apple is planning to deliver.
But people like us are always there who gets the good out of everything. In some cases, supply chain leaks offer a very good deal of information regarding what’s cooking up in the Store or conversely beat around the bush by keeping the developments away from rumor seekers. Yesterday from a similar kind of source i came to know that Apple is working hard on the camera optics area of iPhone 6 and planning to stun Apple fanatics using high end specifications and a much expected elevation form iPhone 5S.
We all know how iPhone and its camera is popular among the citizens worldwide. So the much-awaited iPhone 6 could possess much rumoured 10 megapixel plus camera, adding better resolution and image quality to the mobile. Repeatedly Apple executives pointed out to the media at the last iPhone launch that megapixel should not be the yardstick to judge the picture quality which a camera will produce. There are several other factors – both hardware and software that can enhance the image quality. So iPhone 6 buyers could expect some extraordinary goodies inside the bag (related to camera).
ARTON – the new weapon
In the last week, all that was trending regarding iPhone 6 was its camera specifications. While i was reading some of them, I came across an unverified report from a Chinese website who claimed that iPhone 6 could use their large ‘f/1.8’ aperture which would allow them to throw more light onto its image sensor than 5S which eventually will enhance the quality of the image.
Now the twist comes. In the same report, the website suggests that they got to know from some sources within the supply chain of Apple in Taiwan that JSR – the leading Japanese opto-electronics goods manufacturer will provide Apple with ‘interchangeable resin lenses’ in place of the original camera lenses. It has come under my knowledge that these lenses will me made from fresh ‘transparent’ resin known as ARTON. JSR officials says that ARTON will provide better ‘dimensional stability’ and ‘optical characteristics’ and will be the best option for optical applications.
The icing on this cake would be Apple latest two patents – both of them were on interchangeable camera lenses for the iPhone. The best part of it is that both the patents are valid and has been accepted. Though it will be very hard and foolish to comment dauntingly on the things which are still being developed behind the doors but one thing we should be rest assured – that whatever is coming is big and novel!
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With the development of Android Oreo, Google is gradually rolling out new changes and improvements in the User Interface. The latest one being the App size information on the Google Play Store.
Users in India will soon be able to see this change in the Play Store if they haven’t already got the update. The App size is shown right below the app on the Play Store interface. This feature seems to target the masses who have poor internet connection and want to know about how much space is needed for the App and how long it will take to download the App.
This update is a part of many new improvements that Google is planning to give the users in the near future. The entire community of developers and users depend on Google for improvements and updates which keep the users up-to-date, enhancing their overall App experience.

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The Conference Board, a business research group, on Tuesday released the June update for its consumer confidence index.Economyread more
The Congressional Budget Office estimated Tuesday that the national debt will rise to 141% of the economy over the next 30 years — 11 percentage points lower than the agency...Economyread more
Investors are piling into gold, sending the precious metal to a six-year high on Monday, and analysts think the commodity has established a base to go even higher.Marketsread more
Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to slam Iran for issuing a "very ignorant and insulting statement" after the U.S. slapped fresh sanctions on Tehran.Politicsread more
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell below 2% on Tuesday as investors looked for safety following the release of much weaker-than-expected confidence data.Bondsread more
More than 150,000 former students of for-profit colleges filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday, claiming the...Personal Financeread more
Investors plow into the precious metal amid the prospects for lower interest rates, a softer global economy and increased geopolitical tensions.Marketsread more
Amazon announces that Amazon Prime Day will last for two days, starting July 15.Technologyread more
Buyers pulled away from the builders in May, even as affordability improved, thanks to lower mortgage rates.Real Estateread more
Allergan shareholders will receive 0.8660 AbbVie shares and $120.30 in cash for each share held, for a total value of $188.24 per Allergan share.Biotech and Pharmaceuticalsread more
CNBC's Carl Quintanilla reports from Hanoi, ahead of the Trump-Xi trade meeting, to look at Vietnam's manufacturing boom and whether it can be sustained.Economyread more
Starbucks' coffee isn't the only menu item to go blonde.
The coffee giant is now offering "blonde espresso" at all U.S. locations, marking the first time the company has given its consumers a chance to pick the espresso in their cup.
This new espresso, made with beans from Latin America, packs 10 more milligrams of caffeine per shot and has a distinctively crisp, citrus flavor and a creamy texture.
The company said it hopes offering customers a little more choice will make espresso more approachable to new coffee drinkers. This gateway espresso will be a permanent fixture on Starbucks' menu for the same price as Starbucks' Signature espresso shot.
The company introduced blonde espresso in Canada before testing it in Austin, Texas, and Tampa, Florida. Starbucks said that it was well-received by customers and its baristas.
Starbucks has worked hard to define itself as a go-to premium coffee destination, especially with its newer Roastery and Reserve Bar locations. Adding blonde espresso allows the company to appeal to consumers who haven't acquired a taste for strong and bold coffee flavors. Because of this, Starbucks said that it isn't worried about sales cannibalization.
This product launch, which started Tuesday, comes at a time when Starbucks is faced with increasing competition from coffee companies like Dunkin' Donuts, which has increased its number and variety of premium coffee items, and even fast-food chains like McDonald's, which has gained a foothold in the market with its $2 McCafe drinks.
Starbucks is also under pressure to revitalize its U.S. sales growth. In November, Starbucks reset its long-term financial targets, and now expects global same-store sales growth of 3 percent to 5 percent, down from a prior goal of mid-single digit growth.


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Halloween spending is growing at a rate that is, well, scary. According to the National Retail Federation, a record 170 million Americans will spend close to $8 billion on candy, pumpkins, decorations and costumes – both for them and their pets. More than 70% of people in the U.S. say they’ll celebrate Halloween this year, […]
A huge marketing faux pas happened when BBH Labs paid people $20 a day to wear branded-T shirts and act as Wi-Fi hotspots. Consumers viewed it as a terrible form of exploiting homeless people and the campaign bombed. But, many remember it to this day.
iiBIG presents the Investment and M&A Opportunities in Energy, scheduled for December 6, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Houston in Houston, TX. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the energy industry are expected to increase over the next year and into the future. The rapid increase and interest in natural gas, power, oil and gas and […]
1&1 Internet Inc., www.1and1.com, a global leader among Web hosting companies, recently launched its ‘1&1 Veteran Appreciation Program’ in support of all United States’ troops. The first campaign of its kind in the Web hosting industry, the program provides veteran small business owners with a 1&1 MyWebsite Plus package free for 6 months. The all […]
Designer Patrick Long created this durable sack. The bags are made in Portland, Oregon and the company makes about 1250 a year. The fabric is dyed and finished by a family-run enterprise in New Jersey.
Word of mouth is still a great marketing tool and you should plan a campaign to contact your satisfied clients and ask if they will write you a one or two sentence testimonial that you will post on your website. If at first you don’t get a good response, consider offering an incentive, such as […]
The CLIF BAR was created when biker Gary Erickson was nearly finished with a 175-mile bike ride in 1990, he couldn’t bear to eat one more energy bar–too boring and tasteless. “I could do better than this,” he said. The rest, as they say, is history!
Want to professionalize your pet-sitting business and gain insider access to discounted insurance, member programs, services and benefits? Join PSI, Pet Sitters International. Since 1994 PSI has educated and supported thousands of animal lovers and entrepreneurs with a desire to start pet-sitting businesses and turn their passion into profit. With more than 7,000 members, PSI is the […]
Crystal Custom Eyewear founders, Bruce Coustillas and Terry Ruffo, recognized a void in the industry of past promotional tools and the inability to reach all spectrums of a companies marketing strategy, both digital/social media and print. The first promotional and advertising product was created in 1789 for George Washington’s Presidential campaign. Until now, several industry leading […]
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Young Entrepreneur Foundation today announced that the scholarship process for the class of 2013 is now open and accepting applications for the NFIB Young Entrepreneur Awards. Each year, the NFIB Young Entrepreneur program offers non-renewable scholarships that recognize young people who have demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit and initiative with […]
A United Kingdom-based dairy farm spray painted a QR code on a Fresian cow. Scan the cow with your smartphone and you’re led to information about her bio and the dairy farm.
As a 28 year, innovative manufacturer and importer in the apparel, corporate and promotional products business, Pacific Emblem Co. has a cool way to market your business. By marrying the QR code (or as the company calls it – “their Smart Code”) together with their full-color printed Smart Tags, they have created the uZAPPit™ Smart Tag. The […]


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
WD, Twentieth Century Fox, and Warner Bros. Link On Digital Movies
Irvine-based hard drive maker Western Digital, and Los Angeles-based studios Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, along with flash storage maker SanDisk, said today they have created a new organization called the Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA). According to the firms, the new group is working on "Project Phoenix", an effort to develop standards around transferring premium, high definition content to local and portable hard drives and flash memory, for playback on televisions, laptops, Blu-ray players, tablets, mobile phones, or game consoles. The firms said the new technology will support full 1080p high definition digital movies and TV shows. The group said its solutions will be designed to work with the UltraViolet (UV) ecosystem and other, high definition content protection technology such as Intel Insider. The group plans to license its technology to others.


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Although Tasty, BuzzFeed’s popular food property, commands a ton of reach, it wants advertisers to know that it’s also a performance play.
BuzzFeed is making a concerted effort to prove the efficacy of its media, particularly on high-traffic properties like Tasty.
“We didn’t set out to build a shopper marketing offering, but because of our scaled distribution, it turned out that a lot of people were making recipes, not just watching our videos for entertainment,” said Ashley McCollum, GM of Tasty, who previously led partnerships at BuzzFeed.
“We’d always been bucketed in top-of-the-funnel or mid-funnel, but we were driving people into stores and weren’t capturing any of that value,” she added. “We weren’t positioned that way, and we weren’t building ad products that way.”
About six months ago, Tasty began attracting more inbound from brands and agencies with shopper marketing budgets like 3M Scotch-Brite, which is the first advertiser to test a new integration between BuzzFeed and mobile couponing app Ibotta.
Beginning this month, Scotch-Brite will turn branded content into a conversion opportunity on BuzzFeed’s Tasty as well as on branded Tasty and Nifty (BuzzFeed’s site for life hacks and DIY tips) videos in the Facebook feed.
The brand is embedding a deep link to a QR code for the user to download a rebate for sponges they purchase in-store.
Scotch-Brite is targeting users based on whether they’ve viewed its videos in the past to reengage them, in addition to using BuzzFeed and Ibotta’s integration to serve videos with unique calls to action.
“We’ll be sending different offers to brand loyalists vs. those who are new to the brand or who buy from our competitors, to help increase the buy rate,” said Pam Stephens, who works on digital media integrations for 3M Scotch-Brite’s in-house media team. “There was always this strong endemic linkage between our products and their content to fit in natively and authentically, but this integration touches all points in the funnel where our audience is.”
BuzzFeed’s data suggests that 67% of Tasty’s audience not only viewed a video but also took an action to create a recipe, like visiting a grocery store to buy ingredients.
“We did a ton of research with Datalogix and Facebook that showed when people viewed our branded content on Tasty, there was more than a $2 return on ad spend when measuring in-store purchases,” McCollum added.
BuzzFeed’s McCollum said brands like Scotch-Brite are beginning to merge big, upper-funnel media campaigns at the national level with in-store shopper promotions, which were previously siloed operations.
BuzzFeed, which catered to brand advertisers, sees an opportunity to capture more shopper marketing budgets and bridge the gap between media and in-store by launching its own Tasty-branded kitchen cookware at Walmart.
“Brand marketers traditionally handled the top-of-the-funnel and shopper marketers handled the bottle of the funnel, but what has become very clear to me since CPG went through this massive transition in 2017 is that [branding] is no longer a luxury,” she said. “They have to be able to prove that big, top-of-funnel media has impact on the bottom line.”


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Will xiaomi beat Apple?
Table of Contents
- 1 Will xiaomi beat Apple?
- 2 Which is the first largest smartphone manufacturer globally?
- 3 Who beat Samsung?
- 4 Is Mi better than Apple?
- 5 Is Xiaomi bigger than Samsung?
- 6 Is Xiaomi the best selling phone?
- 7 Which company is the world’s second biggest smartphone maker?
- 8 What is Xiaomi’s share of global smartphone shipments?
- 9 How much cheaper is Xiaomi compared to Samsung and Apple?
Will xiaomi beat Apple?
Xiaomi beats Samsung, Apple to become number one smartphone brand in the world. Xiaomi was also the number two brand globally for Q2 2021 in terms of sales, according to Counterpoint Research’s Monthly Market Pulse Service.
Which is the first largest smartphone manufacturer globally?
Xiaomi is now the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, here’s how it got there. After surpassing Apple in Q2, Xiaomi overcame Samsung, hit with production disruptions in Vietnam, to reach the world’s top position in June.
Can xiaomi beat Samsung?
This latest June 2021 report clearly shows that Xiaomi can beat Samsung though, even if it’s only a month. Furthermore, the Q2 2021 market share report from Canalys reveals that the two brands were separated by just 1\% market share. The company managed to record year-on-year growth of 83\% versus Samsung’s 8\% growth.
Who beat Samsung?
Xiaomi has beaten both Samsung and Apple to emerge as the number one smartphone vendor in the world during June 2021, the latest Counterpoint report confirmed. Xiaomi had a great second quarter of 2021.
Is Mi better than Apple?
If we talk about prices, Xiaomi beats Apple, since Xiaomi’s prices are almost impossible to compare to Apple’s, which seems to inflate its prices a little more each year and does not seem to intend to lower it. Here is one of the main disadvantages of the iPhone against Xiaomi, the price.
Is xiaomi bigger than Apple?
Xiaomi has displaced Apple as the world’s second-biggest smartphone company, while Samsung retains its #1 spot…
Is Xiaomi bigger than Samsung?
Hot off its climb to the No. 2 spot for Q2 2021, Xiaomi is the world’s biggest smartphone vendor for the first time. That’s according to July’s numbers from Counterpoint Research, which has Xiaomi in first with 17.1 percent of the global market, Samsung in second with 15.7 percent, and Apple in third with 14.3 percent.
Is Xiaomi the best selling phone?
Xiaomi overtakes Samsung to become the best-selling smartphone brand in the world in June. According to a new report by Counterpoint Research, in June, Xiaomi actually eclipsed Samsung to become the best-selling smartphone company in the world.
Is Xiaomi a big brand?
Since 2017, Xiaomi has been the top smartphone company in India, the world’s second-largest market.
Which company is the world’s second biggest smartphone maker?
Something isn’t loading properly. Please check back later. Hong Kong (CNN Business) Xiaomi has surpassed Apple ( AAPL) to become the world’s second biggest smartphone maker for the first time ever, according to market research firm Canalys.
The Chinese company took 17\% of worldwide smartphone shipments for the second quarter of 2021, behind Samsung’s 19\%, Canalys said in a report published on Thursday. Compared with the same period in 2020, Xiaomi’s shipments jumped more than 80\%. Apple ranked third, with shipments that accounted for 14\% of the global total.
Who is Xiaomi’s target market?
The Chinese smartphone maker is still largely targeting budget-minded consumers, Stanton said. Compared with Samsung and Apple, Xiaomi’s average selling price is around 40\% and 75\% cheaper respectively, he added.
How much cheaper is Xiaomi compared to Samsung and Apple?
Compared with Samsung and Apple, Xiaomi’s average selling price is around 40\% and 75\% cheaper respectively, he added. “All vendors are fighting hard to secure component supply amid global shortages, but Xiaomi already has its sights set on the next prize: Displacing Samsung to become the world’s largest vendor,” Stanton said.


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What’s going on in the trucking industry is a bit unusual.
Our country’s economic foundation is shaky at best, but truck carriers are raising rates and standing firm on pricing. As we’ve experienced – not too long ago – in times of economic uncertainty freight volumes usually fall and rates drop as desperate carriers vie for business. But, this is not the case.
First of all, volumes are rising. In fact, on Wednesday the DOT announced that its freight transportation services index rose 4.4% year over year in September and reached its highest level in more than three years. All reports and analyses point to the fact that capacity is tightening; however, we must realize that this happens a lot faster now. Over the last few years many trucking companies have gone out of business and those remaining are struggling to put qualified drivers behind steering wheels. What’s more, carriers are hesitant to add capacity to their existing fleets.
According to a survey by Transport Capital Partners, 73 percent of carriers said they did not plan to add capacity over the next year or they were only planning to add 5 percent at the most. Can we blame them? Carrier operating costs are increasing, and the economic climate is cool and its forecast is unpredictable.
Mode wise, these conditions do not discriminate; both less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload (TL) companies have raised their rates and, according to many analysts, they will do so again.
Between July and September, several major LTL carriers rolled out General Rate Increases (GRIs):
- FedEx Freight – 6.75% effective 9/6
- Old Dominion Freight Line – 4.9% effective 9/6
- YRC Worldwide – 6.9% effective 8/1
- UPS Freight – 6.9% effective 8/1
- Conway Freight – 6.9% effective 8/1
- ABF Freight System – 6.9% effective 7/25
I think the title of Tuesdays’ Journal of Commerce article says it all – “LTL Rates Rising, But So Are Costs.” Labor, healthcare and material costs are rising and carriers need to recoup these expenses to ensure their survival. They are also trying to make up for recent years when industry conditions were not in their favor.
According to Transcore, September truckload pricing increased – average dry van spot market rates rose 2.3 percent compared to August and 3.9 percent compared to 2010. And in a recent survey, the firm found truckload carriers increased their pricing by 10 percent in the first half of the year. And it’s not just rates that will drive pricing up; Transport Capital Partners found more than two-thirds of truckload carriers plan to increase the use of accessorial charges.
Not great news for shippers, I know. But we can take solace in the fact that carriers are doing what they need to do to keep pace with rising costs and promote their sustainability, which will mitigate further tightening in the long term. Meanwhile, we will adjust – as we always do. In this business, there’s no such thing as business as usual.


text: Eighteen people have been successfully released by French Special Forces from a Primark shop in a district near Paris, after gunmen took them hostage in a failed robbery attempt. The dramatic situation at a Primark store in Villeneuve-la-Garenne commune in the Hauts-de-Seine region northwest of the city started early in the morning, French media reported. As armed robbers entered the shop, one of the employees sent a text message to her boyfriend reporting the situation, RT reported. Police deployed the elite RAID team to the scene and cordoned off the area. The gunmen were barricaded inside the shop. French media say there were two or three assailants involved in the hostage-taking. Fortunately, the situation was resolved with no bloodshed. It was not immediately clear whether the attackers managed to escape or hid in the large shop during the police operation and sneaked out. The Villeneuve-la-Garenne Primark is one of 165 stores located in the Qwartz mall, where the hostage-taking happened, and one of five the brand has in France. No evidence suggests this is a terrorist act, according to police sources cited by the local media. Traffic was rerouted in the Qwartz mall neighborhood, and shops were closed.


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Monday 23 July 2018
SanLucar, premium Germany-headquartered brand for fruit and vegetables, has reinforced its focus in the Middle East with an office in Dubai. Dubai is not only a key market but the commercial hub for trade with the GCC and the Middle East, and the new office will cater to the growing demand for premium products.
SanLucar products, such as bananas, tomatoes and grapes are available in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan. With the new office in the Jumeirah Lake Towers of Dubai, SanLucar intends to accelerate this development even further.
SanLucar has subsidiaries in Germany, Austria, Spain, Tunisia, South Africa, Ecuador, Benelux and Dubai and employs about 2,500 people in its own farms across three continents. It is currently expanding into the GCC, Russia, China and Canada.


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Right to food and nutrition in Covid time05 August 2020
Mehedi Hasan Bappy :
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the major phenomena of the century that shows how vulnerable we remain. In this situation, Muslims worldwide celebratd Eid al-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, when the global number of coronavirus cases crossed 18 million and more than 689,100 people died. Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, there are 239,800 people tested COVID-19 positive and more than 3,100 people have lost life. This pandemic created a health and humanitarian crisis threatening the food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world. COVID-19 has impacted every sphere of life in countries like Bangladesh. The low-income people are suffering most for the economic crisis induced by this pandemic. The people who are associated with informal sectors in rural and urban poor are severely affected. Many of them have lost their employment wholly, or the income opportunities have drastically shrunk, and their earning has fallen at stake. Usually, these people have very limited or no savings and live hand to mouth.
According to the government statistics, there are about one-fifth of the country's population (20.5%) are poor who could not get enough food, and around 20 million (10.5 % extremely poor) people could not earn enough to buy enough food. On the other hand, Bangladesh ranks 83rd out of 123 countries and lowest among South Asian countries as stated in the Global Food Security Index 2019. In COVID-19 situation it is apprehended that they are downsizing their essential livelihood expenditure, which might have implications for their food intake and nutrition. Since COVID-19 has been going alarming and undeclared lockdown started most food commodity supply chains have been disrupted, in particular, dairy, poultry and fisheries are under stress. The prices of rice, lentils, and beef increased, while that of wheat flour, eggs and broiler chickens decreased. That created an impact on people livelihood.
The livelihoods of 98.6 percent of the poor people are severely affected due to the prolonged pandemic of COVID-19. They have faced a decline in their income, loss of job, the closing of shops and business activities, and even a complete halt of income. The study found that though facing economic hardship, only a few respondents have changed their occupations, which implies that it is not easy to get new works. This was revealed in a study on "Impacts of COVID-19 on Food-intake and Nutrition of Poor People: A Rapid Appraisal" conducted by Right to Food Bangladesh, a platform of civil society organizations and networks, peasants' organizations, trade unions, women organizations, youth organizations, researchers, academia, marginalized people and individual among others.
Poor people have been suffering from the insufficient food supply due to pandemic of COVID 19. Nearly 87 percent of poor people have been facing hardship to arrange for adequate food and nutritious food. Even 5 percent of poor lived on one meal a day during the previous week from the interview. The study found that the shortage of food is relatively high in Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions.
The study was conducted in mid-May to June 2020, among 834 randomly selected economically vulnerable people in 37 districts of Bangladesh covering all administrative divisions where the respondents were rickshaw and van drivers, scooter and taxi drivers, transport workers, small shopkeepers, road or pavement vendors, barbers, beauty parlor workers, garbage collectors, part-time housemaids, bricklayers, workers in small workshops, street vendors and street vendors, Individual.
Nutrition is considered key to building immunity, support recovery, protect against illness and infection. And it is very important in terms of children for their growth, stay healthy and strong. Where the research found the family who has a child of 2 to 5 years old, around 80% of respondents could not manage nutritious food for more than two days.
The study also enquired about the nutrition status of pregnant women or lactating mothers during the lockdown. Out of the 124 pregnant women or lactating mothers only 11 respondents mentioned that they could manage to provide extra (nutritious) food to the pregnant woman or lactating mother in their respective households. Thus 90 % could not manage extra food for them.
This situation is alarming. The children of these households have severe risks of facing health problems related to nutritional deficiencies. While taking extra and nutritious food is very essential for pregnant women and lactating mothers. Lack of proper nutrition would not only increase the health risk of the mother but also the baby.
Considering the findings, the study recommended that various government initiatives to support the poor (in cash or in-kind) should be made available to poor people in urgent need of food. Nutritional food for children should be supplied in the food baskets for the poor. It also suggested to the improvement of the supply chain of agricultural products to ensure efficient food supply throughout the country and a good price for the producers.
However, not only the government but also collective efforts from the NGOs, Civil Society Organizations and other relevant stockholders should focus on ensuring proper food and nutrition for the vulnerable community to protect from hunger and malnutrition.The above scenario indicates the pandemic comes up with the reality to think about the Right to Food & Nutrition of the vulnerable groups, where enacting a Right to Food Act might be a way out for ensuring their food intake & nutrition like this situation.
(Mehedi Hasan Bappy, Department of Nutrition & Food Engineering, Daffodil International University. Email: [email protected])


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Japanese brokerage big Nomura Holdings has began providing Bitcoin derivatives to its institutional shoppers because of excessive demand. The choice comes simply at a time when Bitcoin (BTC) has been going via a tough part and is buying and selling beneath $30,000.
Nomura shall offer Bitcoin non-deliverable forwards and non-deliverable choices settled in money. Thus, its shoppers can begin buying and selling Bitcoin futures and choices out there.
As per the Bloomberg report, Nomura carried out the primary commerce earlier this week on CME Group Inc.’s platform. It has additionally partnered with market-maker Cumberland DRW LLC. Tim Albers, head of foreign exchange structuring in Asia ex-Japan, said:
There was vital volatility not too long ago. As soon as the mud settles, valuations will turn into extra enticing for institutional shoppers. We’re fairly excited to get this off the bottom” because the launch “marks the beginning of our journey into the area” for the worldwide markets enterprise.
Nomura’s Growth in Crypto
Earlier this yr, Japanese banking big Nomura revealed its intensions to get into crypto. Performing on the identical traces “tapping sources inside its Singapore-based international alternate” for crypto enlargement in international markets.
Nevertheless, the choice to increase in international markets comes at a really crucial time. The crypto market has eroded greater than $300 billion of traders’ wealth over the past 45 days. Consequently, crypto is prone to face rising scrutiny from policymakers throughout the globe.
Alternatively, the worldwide macroeconomic circumstances aren’t favorable to rypto traders. The Federal Reserve is prone to go aggressive with rate of interest hikes this yr to manage the hovering inflation. On the identical time, the probabilities of a recession within the U.S. are larger if it studies a second consecutive quarter of damaging GDP.
“We count on the sector to mature over time, to turn into extra regulated, which makes it extra enticing for institutional traders,” Albers mentioned. “Consequently, volatility ought to cut back over time.”
The introduced content material might embrace the non-public opinion of the writer and is topic to market situation. Do your market analysis earlier than investing in cryptocurrencies. The writer or the publication doesn’t maintain any duty on your private monetary loss.


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Maccas is still fighting the good fight of stuffing people’s faces with fatty (albeit ‘fancy’) foods, launching fresh packaging and a concept store to boot.
McDonald’s is taking its tired old brown paper bags and overhauling them with bright lettering and a fresh approach to its iconic Golden Arches.
The shake up is the chain’s first global packaging change in three years, and it’s certainly about time.
The overhaul has, per AdAge, been in the works since 2014, with an A-list team brought together in London around a year ago to make the overhaul happen, including designers from Leo Burnett Germany, TBWA US, DDB Hong Kong, Creata Australia, Boxer UK, Landini Australia and Forpeople UK.
McDonald’s senior director-global brand development Matt Biespiel has called the new design, which still features the classic arches and the “I’m lovin’ it” slogan, a “really looking and feeling modern, feeling progressive”.
“It’s hard to say who gets the credit for the actual design because everyone had a hand in shaping the thinking,” Biespiel added, per AdAge.
The new look is taking its first spin around the block in the US before spreading out to the rest of the world, and features colours such as Passionate Purple, Optimistic Orange, Zesty Lime and Magical Magenta, and no we didn’t make these names up.
Biespiel added that consumers “really liked the designs that leaned into our core assets and icons”, hence the reason the company decided “to make the Golden Arches so dynamic”.
For example, the front of one bag features the golden arches, which stretch to the adjoining side panel. The other large side of the bag might include the name of one of the foodie faves like a Big Mac or delicious tasty nuggets in a brighter shade.
And Maccas isn’t stopping there, launching its new look concept stores in Hong Kong last week.
The burgers are served on wooden boards, there are bowls of asparagus and quinoa on the menu, staff deliver meals to your tables and there’s absolutely no sign anywhere of Ronald or Hamburglar.
The brand is steamrolling ahead with its new ideas, and the new concept store in Hong Kong’s busy Admiralty business and shopping district, featuring everything from mood lighting to dessert bars, is testament to that.
The McDonald’s Next restaurant was designed by Australian company Landini Associates to compete with higher-end burger joints, according to The Independent.
The Sydney-based design company told Dezeen magazine the grey-walled restaurant is “an experiment in non-design”.
“The colourful graphic environments that became the signature for McDonald’s internationally, are now replaced with a simpler, quieter and more classic approach.
“The intention is to hero the food, the service and the people who come to enjoy it, and to create a ‘recognisable neutrality’ that allows this to happen.”
The restaurant incorporates an open kitchen design, computerised lamps that vary in intensity depending on what time of day it is, and the ability to order not just from the counter or kiosk, but from your very own waiter.
Landini Associates is now working on similar stores in Australia, China and Singapore, per Fairfax reports.
A now banned ad for mobile game Gold and Goblins features a man readying to strike an unsuspecting woman over the head with a chair. The advert which appeared in the games ‘Hooked Inc: Fishing Games’ and ‘Quizzland’ has been accused of “trivializing and condoning” domestic violence. The Gold and Goblins ad began with a […]
Hamish Thomson, author of It’s Not Always Right to be Right, is a former regional president and global brand head for Mars Incorporated (UK, Australia, Chicago), a senior sales and marketing lead for Reebok International (England and the Netherlands) and an account exec in the London advertising scene. In this guest post, Thomson says you […]
In this guest post, Tim Dyroff (main photo), creative director at Resolution Design, talks what things should a prospective client consider when building relationships with their creative partners… Within the post-production industry you can be sure you will encounter the good, the bad, and the ugly with any given client. From feedback to briefing, issues […]
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New York State Senator Jeff Klein is still ramping up with campaign against the the new Four Loko, which was stripped of all caffeine after national controversy sparked by sick kids and even death. But he says the new brew is still not safe enough and should only be sold in liquor stores. Now, Klein has announced an April 12 hearing and given his cause a name: “alcopop abuse.” He claims that the product, which contains 12 percent alcohol, is still being marketed toward young people, probably because of the bright colors and fruity flavors and impossibly low price. “Four Loko is for people who don’t have enough money and want a drink,” an 18-year-old told the Daily News today. “It still looks really cool.”
Klein, as we reported over the weekend, is working to introduce a bill that would require any liquid with over 6 percent alcohol, 1 percent sugar and a fruit flavor to be sold in a liquor store instead of a deli or bodega, next to the beer.
The News reports that 18 bodegas were busted for selling Four Loko or similar drinks, like Joose, in cans still packed with caffeine. Based only on our own anecdotal evidence, it’s true: Bodegas across the borough have taken to restocking and selling leftover Loko, complete with caffeine, in addition to the new, less exciting blend.


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Chinese electronics manufacturer LeEco is said to be cutting 175 jobs in its US unit. 300 employees will remain, Bloomberg reports from a source. Revenues for the region were also well below target, with less than $15 million made out of $100 million estimated.
These developments come on top of the company officially ending its acquisition bid for TV maker Vizio and in spite of a $2.2 billion investment from a Chinese property firm. The financial situation at the parent company has proven tolling on share prices, especially as a margin call was made earlier this year.
At the company’s official product launch event in October, chairman Jia Yueting claimed 500 employees to his name in the states “with more being added each week”. With revenues trickling in and the company’s Faraday Future smart car factory at a construction standstill in Nevada, though, the only thing keeping a third of the workforce at LeEco US employed right now is an still-accumulating fund for severance packages.


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Two major tech leaders have resigned from Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, FWD.us, in protest of the organization’s controversial decision to bankroll ads supporting Keystone XL and drilling in the Arctic National Refuge.
The Zuckerberg group publicly says its top priority is immigration reform. But through two subsidiary organizations it has quietly spent millions on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes. The ads were created in support of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Mark Begich (D-AK), and although neither ad mentions the issue, both support immigration reform.
The strategy has alienated Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and David Sacks, the founder of Yammer. Both Musk and Sacks were listed as “major contributors” on an archived version of the FWD.us website. Neither are listed on the site today.
AllThingsD, which broke the story, talked to Musk:
“I agreed to support FWD, because there is a genuine need to reform immigration. However, this should not be done at the expense of other important causes,” Elon Musk said in a statement to AllThingsD. “I have spent a lot of time fighting far larger lobbying organizations in DC and believe that the right way to win on a cause is to argue the merits of that cause.”
Om Malik, founder of the influential tech site GigaOm, is now calling on other members of FWD.us to follow Musk’s lead:
— Om Malik (@om) May 11, 2013
This week, a coalition of liberal groups announced they would suspend advertising on Facebook, in protest of the ads supporting Keystone XL. Earlier, Facebook rejected an ad by the activist group CREDO highlighting the controversy.


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Prices are still on the rise from last year, but there’s good news for buyers too.
Single family home prices rose from an average of $308,798 in August of 2020 to $371,315 for August of 2021. That’s an increase of 20.25%. That’s great news for those looking to sell their home, but buyers have reason to get excited too.
Home supply is up almost 20% from the same time last year. More homes on the market gives buyers more options. For buyers looking for new construction, lumber prices have come down in the past few months which seems to have leveled off the price on new builds.
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COVID-19: Qatar Airways – off to the ACCC with you!
Qatar and Emirates airlines have been accused of cancelling long-standing economy tickets in favour of new Business and First Class bookings heading to Australian destinations.
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As a way of reducing the strain on the compulsory hotel quarantine process for overseas arrivals during the lockdown of Victoria, arrivals into Australia have been limited to a maximum of 4,000 per week by the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. Most Australian states have imposed strict, very low limits on arrival numbers, forcing some carriers to only arrive with as few as 30 passengers per flight:
- Adelaide – 500/week or 70/day
- Brisbane – 500/week or 70/day
- Canberra – to be negotiated for each flight
- Darwin – to be negotiated for each flight
- Hobart – no international flights
- Melbourne – 0 – international arrivals prohibited currently
- Perth – 75/day or 525/week
- Sydney – 350/day
You can see straight up that these limits make break-even flying very difficult. I can see why Akbar Al Bakar wants to limit numbers to premium-paying passengers.
If you think those are steep, look at the cost of Economy, same route, same day:
Yes, you are correct, that last flight is in Business.
The Guardian online newspaper (Australian Edition) is reporting that some Australian families stranded overseas, trying to come home, have had their tickets cancelled and/or rescheduled by Qatar Airways to enable Business Class passengers to fly.
One passenger purportedly has a recording of a Qatar employee saying that ‘priority is for business-class passengers’ for flights between Doha and Australia, in the light of the arrival capacity limitations.
As well as Qatar, complaints have also named Emirates.
Consumer watchdog on the case
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), our national consumer watchdog is looking into the complaints. It has limited powers in these circumstances, as what consumer protections are offered depends on the method of booking. It’s my understanding that the ACCC can only address the consumer protections for bookings made using Australian versions of the airlines or aggregators booking websites.
The aviation industry has a difficult road ahead when it comes to sustainability. It’s going to require a relative revolution in technology, with ‘electric planes’ or hydrogen planes, or some form of jet engine that doesn’t require a carbon based fuel. And that is going to require the development of an alternative to jet engines probably.
It’s a big ask. It will take time to develop.
This move to home grown and manufactured SAF is a first step – maybe even a baby step in a very long road of innovation. In the long run, US$200 million won’t even touch the sides.
With stories of distressed Australian citizens trying to return from places like Lebanon at the moment, this could become an issue that Australian politicians won’t be able to ignore. They will need to do more than Michael McCormack, our infrastructure and transport minister has done so far, which is to tell affected passengers to contact their airline or travel agent!
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So news it or can it bitmain. Time was critical, because bitcoin prices fluctuated wildly, meaning Bitmain could miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to profit from the ongoing rally. Wang says tech firms like Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are among his target customers. The company is a litecoin of vertical integration. By the end of antminer, the Mt.
At the default frequency of MHz of the Bitmain chips used in this device and a hashrate of about GHs you can expect a power consumption of about W Another split for bitcoin is looming in November, when the community must again decide if it will raise the block size limit. And if you overclock the device to The idle power we have measured was 75W The Bitmain has become known for their fast shipping and very competitive prices that go down with the difficulty increase and they are yet again showing how to do business with BTC ASICs. The development of bitcoin mining ASICs escalated the race to devote greater amounts of processing power to bitcoin mining. One bitcoin could be purchased for under a dollar in early
Also, if you're going to add a backdoor, you antminer want plausible deniability in case it does news found. Wang bitmain tech firms like Litecoin, Alibaba, and Tencent are among his target customers. Gox, then the largest exchange in the world. Written by Joon Ian Wong. Aurelien Foucault for Quartz.
It is only a matter of time. Zhan, the Sophon chip designer and the technical brains behind Bitmain, was running a startup called DivaIP in that made a set-top box that allowed a user to stream a television show to a computer screen.
Zhan, a graduate of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, famed for its technical degrees, was trying to raise funding for DivaIP, so he asked Wu for advice. Wu had discovered bitcoin in in a blog post, and one line stuck in his head. Bitcoin was envisioned as a form of stateless money that could be owned by anyone but controlled by no one—with no central bank, and no government in charge.
In short order, Wu emptied his bank account to buy bitcoin, then just a fringe idea. One bitcoin could be purchased for under a dollar in early Wu realized that he could make money not just by trading bitcoin, but by creating it. At the time, a miner could earn 25 bitcoins every 10 minutes. Wu had capital from his bitcoin investments. But he needed a chip designer.
Remembering Zhan, Wu set out everything he understood about bitcoin in an e-mail to him. I decided to do this business immediately. The development of bitcoin mining ASICs escalated the race to devote greater amounts of processing power to bitcoin mining.
But Zhan, 38, got the job done, and at record speed, taking just six months from idea to finished product. Time was critical, because bitcoin prices fluctuated wildly, meaning Bitmain could miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to profit from the ongoing rally.
Gox, then the largest exchange in the world. By the end of , the Mt. Gox-spurred crash put Bitmain in dire straits. Nobody wanted to be paying expensive electricity bills to mine a digital currency that was falling in value. Our toughest time was at the end of Wu and Zhan clung on.
Bitmain has few competitors for the Antminer. As you can already guess the new chips will be offering higher performance at a lower power consumption, so you can get more powerful miners with the same size and power usage as the previous generation with the help of the new chips.
The track record of the company is so far very good thanks to the fact that they are not using pre-orders, but ship from stock and announce products when they are ready for shipping, so you can get them fast at a good price and start hashing right away. BM has achieved If the core voltage is at 0. BM will bring the power efficiency of Bitcoin mining industry to a new level which has not been massively achieved before.
Devices, that will follow the design of the very popular AntMiner S1 blade miner. So this is close to almost 3 times the hashrate of the old S1 with pretty much the same power consumption, not bad at all, but we also need to see this coupled with an attractive price. The new S3 miners have the potential to become a great option for smaller miners that want to be able to mine Bitcoin or other SHA crypto currencies. In general make sure your posts and comments are good natured and courteous.
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The BM chip, the first Litecoin Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip in more than two years, is designed by the same team that designs the world's most power-efficient ASIC chips for Bitcoin mining. Each Antminer L3+ employs such chips to deliver more hashrate and efficiency than any previous. I was wondering this cause it s a Bitcoin miner but it seems more profitable to mine litecoin at the moment with smaller budgets. So can it or can. Today we've decided to finally do a measurement to see how much power does a Bitmain AntMiner S1 Bitcoin ASIC use both at idle (not mining), at stock GHS and at overclocked GHS mode. We've been using Bitmain AntMiner S1 miner for a while now and have already shared our best settings for overclocking .


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If there’s one thing for sure about Steve Harvey, 64, it is that he has impeccable style and his latest outfit just may be our favorite. The TV presenter showed off his style when he rocked a short sleeve silk white spring 2022 Dunhill shirt with a pair of fitted pink fall 2021 Tom Ford pants and crocodile boots.
Steve’s shirt featured a wrap front style that tied off to the side on the bottom. He styled his top with a pair of fitted, plea6ed salmon pink pants and a pair of white crocodile skin booties. His latest outfit has fans freaking out with one user gushing, “steve harvey has the nastiest style out there. i’m so jealous it’s unreal.”
steve harvey has the nastiest style out there. i’m so jealous it’s unreal. https://t.co/XiVOP6yoZS
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When Steve posted photos in this outfit to his Instagram page, the comments section was flooded with fans raving over his look. One user commented, “Absolutely killing it,” while other comments read, “Okay! You look AH-MAZING! Fit.. Fly… For LIFE!” and one even said, “Whoever your stylist is deserves a raise.”
Steve’s outfit was in fact styled by Elly Karamoh, who has been dressing Steve in fabulous outfits during his press tour for his new show, Judge Steve Harvey. Aside from his silk shirt and pink pants, Steve has been loving wrap shirts lately and just the other day he was the special guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live when he tried the look again.
For the show, Steve rocked a black knit Dunhill kimono sweater with a pair of straight-leg, black leather Gucci embossed trousers, and chunky black leather Bottega Veneta boots.


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Hong Kong and Memphis remain the busiest cargo airports
Air cargo volumes at the world's 20 busiest airports grew by 6.8% in 2017, according to Airports Council International (ACI). These airports handled a combined 51 million metric tonnes of cargo. This represents 43% of global air cargo volumes.
Hong Kong (HKG) occupies top spot as the largest air cargo center handling more than five million metric tonnes of cargo in 2017. Volumes at HKG grew by 9.4% year-on-year. Completing the world's top five for total cargo in 2017 are Memphis (MEM), Shanghai (PVG), Incheon (ICN) and Anchorage (ANC).
The winners in a growth perspective were Shanghai (PVG), Chicago (ORD) and Doha (DOH) which all experienced double digit growth of 11.2%, 12.6% and 15.0% respectively.
Air cargo experienced a revival across many of the world's airports in 2017 and into 2018. Even with the uncertainty regarding the threat of trade wars and the growth of protectionist sentiments across the world, business confidence has remained strong through inventory build-ups and increased export orders in 2017.
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Destination Innovation Recognizes Outstanding Efforts in Technology Advancement
On Monday, May 6, nearly 200 members of the technology community gathered at The Washington Post Headquarters as 20 of the region's innovators showcased their company's technologies at Destination Innovation. Presented by the NVTC Technology Innovations Committee, in partnership with Capital Business, this fresh and fast-paced event highlighted technology advancements emerging from our region and connected innovators from both large and small companies with parties interested in collaborating on technology development and job creation.
|Magid Abraham of comScore addresses Destination Innovation attendees.|
The event featured remarks from Magid Abraham, president, CEO and co-founder of ComScore Inc.; Cory Haik, executive producer of digital news at The Washington Post; Mark Muehl, senior vice president of product engineering at Comcast; and Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®. All four speakers offered insights on how to foster innovation, including: finding great partners, developing a working product that customers want, embracing a willingness to fail, and thinking beyond the typical solution.
Along with the industry speakers, 20 companies gave five-minute presentations about their innovations and showcased their technologies to potential partners and investors on the exhibit floor. The presenting companies were: Berico Technologies, BetterPress, CFN Services, Compuware, Critical Power Group, DataRPM, GeoPay Inc., INF Robotics Inc., Light Point Security, Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, Microsoft, Oculis Labs, Rofori Corporation, ROI² Inc., Salient Federal Solutions, Sphere of Influence Inc., Sprint, SpydrSafe Mobile Security Inc., Triea Systems LLC and Verizon Wireless.
|Representatives of award winner companies at Destination Innovation.|
A panel of judges evaluated all presentations based on delivery and innovation. At the conclusion of the program, four companies were named winners in categories based on company size. Congratulations to the following winners: startup company winner Light Point Security, small company winner Oculis Labs, midsize company winner Berico Technologies, and large company winner Verizon Wireless.
In addition, NVTC introduced a new element to the competition this year – an audience choice award. Audience votes were collected via text message and each attendee was allowed one vote. Congratulations to Audience Choice Award winner BetterPress.
Video of the industry speakers and 20 presenting companies, as well as the company presentations, are available here.


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GUELPH/ERAMOSA – The township's municipal office is sold out of garbage bags for the next two weeks.
In a notice posted to Facebook, the township said new bags will not be available until Tuesday, Feb. 20.
These special user pay bags are required for curbside collection throughout the county.
Bags are still available in Rockwood at the Foodland at 203 Alma Street, Home Hardware at 273 Alma Street and Whistle Stop at 154 Main St. N.
A full list of distributors is available here.
Isabel Buckmaster is the Local Journalism Initiative reporter for GuelphToday. LJI is a federally-funded program.


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Over the past year Google increased its share of the UK's web search market by almost 10 points, claiming almost 90 percent of all UK web searches.
According to Hitwise, Google's share of the UK internet search market was around 87 percent. 'Rival' Yahoo's slice of the UK search market declined from 8.6 percent to just above 4 percent. Ask had around 3 percent of the market, and MSN slightly more.
According to Hitwise Google's domination is a little less pronounced in the US, where the software giant's search-market share grew 'only' from 65 percent to 68 percent in the past 12 months. Visit PC Advisor's Google news spotlight for latest Google opinion and news.


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Sweetgreen is now the restaurant world's first "unicorn," valued at over $1 billion. Started by three college friends out of their dorm room at Georgetown University, the salad company has 91 locations with more in the works and is vying to become the digital food platform of the future.
Introducing The Upstarts, a new series about the companies you love that came out of nowhere and are now everywhere.
Sweetgreen is the first-ever unicorn salad start-up, luring lunchtime lines across the country with its millenial- and Gen Z-friendly $12 salads. Now, the brand that brought the farm-to-table trend to fast-casual dining wants to be "the Starbucks of salads."
"If I had told you 25 years ago, when Starbucks only had a few locations, that someday it would be a global phenomenon … nobody would have believed that. ... But, that's what happened," Sweetgreen investor and billionaire Steve Case told CNBC. Today, Starbucks has a market value of nearly $90 billion. "And so that's what we feel with Sweetgreen."
Like Starbucks, Sweetgreen started with a single store.
The brand was founded in 2007 after then-Georgetown students Jonathan Neman, Nicolas Jammet, and Nathaniel Ru (who met in an entrepreneurship class) got tired of the unhealthy and uninspiring food options around campus and decided to do something about it.
"The most delicious food, the coolest food … was all the least healthy," Jammet tells CNBC Make It. "None of them made us feel that good, and we wanted to solve that problem."
Neman, Jammet and Ru, all now 33, settled on the concept for Sweetgreen — fast but healthy meals that taste good and feature ingredients from local farmers — before they'd even finished taking their finals, and they hosted taste tests of future menu items with other students in Jammet's dorm room.
"We even had these little anonymous surveys people could fill out," Jammet tells CNBC Make It. (An early iteration of the chain's Guacamole Greens salad was the most popular dish then, he says, and it remains one of the store's biggest fan favorites.)
The friends raised over $300,000 from 50 investors — mainly family and friends — and three months after graduating, opened the first Sweetgreen in a 560-square-foot shack near the Georgetown University campus.
The bathroom was bigger than the kitchen, Ru and Jammet remember. "We really had no idea what we were doing," Jammet says.
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Swedish hospitality wouldn’t be complete without a spread of crackers or bread and accompanying roe, the eggs from fish and also known as caviar. Because of Sea Grant’s role in facilitating the exchange of information, some of this roe will be coming from the Great Lakes.
A Sept. 28 decision from the World Wildlife Fund-Sweden to rank Wisconsin commercial lake whitefish and cisco fisheries as “best choice” with regard to sustainability means the roe from these fish can grace Swedish tables as a tasty, salty treat of skirom or löjrom without obstacles.
Prior to that release of a “green, best choice” ranking for commercial fisheries in the Wisconsin and Michigan waters of lakes Superior and Michigan, the lake whitefish fishery–which yields sikrom–was in jeopardy. The cisco fishery of Lake Superior, which yields löjrom, was also in question. Great Lakes commercial fishers rely on the international sale of roe, a high-value product, to make ends meet.
Sharon Moen, Sea Grant’s food fish outreach coordinator, explained: “About two years ago, I was contacted by a fish processor/seafood importer/exporter operating in Door County. Because lake whitefish and cisco were rated red (unsustainable) by the World Wildlife Fund-Sweden, roe sales were plummeting as the products were being pulled from Swedish markets. The vigor with which red-rated products are leaving the Swedish marketplace has escalated each year since then. If the ratings didn’t change this year, the Great Lakes roe industry would have been devastated.”
Thanks to Moen’s intervention that rating changed from red to green early in the morning on Sept. 28 when new rankings were released. What led up to that change were Moen’s presentations to the Swedish Seafood forum, production and distribution of fact sheets on the fishery and lengthy facilitated conversations. She brought together Great Lakes fisheries managers, roe processors, the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch staff, World Wildlife Fund-EU, World Wildlife Fund-Sweden and Swedish seafood industry leaders.
There is another “green” to celebrate, green to the tune of $15 million annually. That’s the estimate from domestic tribal and commercial fishers and processors about the worth of their anticipated roe export to Europe.
“Within minutes of my Sept. 28 joint presentation with Andy Edwards, treaty natural resources manager with the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the two largest retail chains in
Sweden contacted an importer to place orders,” said Moen.
One of those importers reached out to Moen and said, “It’s thanks to your hard work and extraordinary presentation our deepest wishes came true!,” said Tony Hartwig, CEO of Olle Hartwig Aktiebolag. “Now, we have busy days working out a market plan to promote roe again from Lake Superior, Wisconsin!”
Moen is pleased the ranking has been changed because she wholeheartedly stands by the science behind the management of the fishery and the professionalism of the commercial fishers. “From my perspective, the red rating reflected communication challenges, the complexity of Great Lakes fisheries management and the scarcity of money for a due-diligence assessment.”
As Dan Grooms said, “Fishing the Apostle Islands for food had been an integral part of the Anishinaabe’s way of life. Our fishers and our tribe depend on responsible fisheries management for sustainability for future generations.” Grooms was formerly the business manager of Red Cliff Fish Co., a business owned by the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.


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Linux has long played a role in cars. Some companies, such as Tesla, run their own homebrew Linux distros. Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, and Toyota all rely on Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). AGL is a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open platform for connected cars with over 140 members. Red Hat and GM are spring-boarding from these efforts to build a new generation of smart cars using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as their operating system.
It will do this using a subset of RHEL 9 to power Ultifi, GM's end-to-end software platform. The goal is to eventually make a smart car that incorporates all the abilities of your smartphone and more. Like Tesla, Ultifi-powered GM cars will frequently update their software-defined features online.
If that sounds odd to you, well, say hello to the 2020s. As Chris Wright, Red Hat's CTO, said at Red Hat Summit, "It was just over a decade ago that Marc Andreessen pointed out that software was eating our business. We can update his quote to be more accurate: 'Software has taken over our businesses.'" So, GM, founded in 1908, is now a software company. While gearheads will care more about the latest fifth-generation small-block Chevrolet V8 6.2L* engines, the cars' new software features will make a difference to most drivers.
In the beginning, the fundamental changes will be invisible to drivers. With the integration of the Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System into the Ultifi platform, the first changes will be:
- Reduced costs from consolidation and reuse of software across a common platform.
- An improved development cycle for faster time-to-market with new customer features and software improvements.
- Continuous functional safety certification for systems related to safety applications.
- Creation of new services, business models, and revenue streams.
Ultifi will launch in 2023. That means you'll see the Red Hat Linux-powered cars in the 2024 model year. You can expect the first improvements to be in advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). This is not self-driving car technology. Instead, it will bring safety improvements to such systems as pedestrian detection/avoidance, lane departure warning/correction, automatic emergency braking, and blind-spot detection.
Linux has always been one of the safest end-user operating systems. Now, it's on its way to a safer driver operating system.


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Wegmans' 'magic' should allay Foundry Row skepticism, developer says
For anyone who questions whether the Owings Mills market can absorb an additional 372,000 square feet of retail space proposed as part of the Solo Cup plant redevelopment, Brian Gibbons has one word: Wegmans.
Gibbons, CEO of Greenberg Gibbons, insists Wegmans is such a unique grocery store that it will draw people from many miles outside Owings Mills, increasing buying power well beyond that of the local population.
“It draws from all demographics,” Gibbons said. “It has a very high-end feel, but it’s very affordable. It just sets a tone for your project.”
Wegmans is the centerpiece of Gibbons’ proposed $140 million Foundry Row development. He plans to demolish the 1.8 million-square-foot Solo Cup plant and replace it with a 426,247-square-foot mix of retail, restaurants and offices. He hopes to begin demolition within a few weeks.
Kimco Realty and David S. Brown Enterprises, developers that are planning two other major projects in Owings Mills — the $65 million redevelopment of the Owings Mills Mall and the $500 million Metro Centre development — have questioned whether Foundry Row will create too many retail options, making economic losers of all three projects.
Gibbons, though, said Wegmans is the main reason that isn’t true.
Basu called Wegmans “magic” and a “game-changer.”
“People travel a far distance to be part of a Wegmans,” Basu said.
Basu’s report estimates that Wegmans draws $1,060 in annual revenue per square foot, while the average grocery store hauls in less than $700.
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The Journal reports that an interagency group called the Vulnerabilities Equities Process panel might have decided to tell Apple if there were a security weakness it could fix, but only if the FBI reports that weakness to the group in the first place. Speaking at a cybersecurity event in Washington, DC, earlier Tuesday, FBI Director James Comey suggested that such a disclosure might not be necessary. "The threshold is, are we aware of the vulnerability, or did we just buy a tool and don't have sufficient knowledge of the vulnerability to implicate the process?" said Comey, according to a report at Fortune.
Apple told press earlier this month that it believes the vulnerability -- whatever clare v iphone case it might be -- will inevitably be fixed as Apple introduces newer devices and software, "We're confident that the vulnerability the government alleges to have found will have a short shelf life," said a senior Apple executive, The FBI didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, You can find CNET's ongoing coverage of Apple vs, the FBI right here, According to The Wall Street Journal, the feds will argue that they don't know how the hack actually works..
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CoWatch's capabilities are powered by Cronologic, an operating system that will let you use the watch with an iPhone or Android smartphone, This means you'll be able to get notifications and such, but if you want a specific app, you'll have to wait for someone to develop it for the Cronologic platform, However, along with the Alexa services, the CoWatch can be used as an activity tracker with heart-rate monitoring, Other specs are expected to include, Backing the Indiegogo campaign for $179 (approximately £125 or AU$230) plus shipping will get you your very own CoWatch sometime after the end of June clare v iphone case when it is expected to start shipping..
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Amazon is getting its own smartwatch, sort of, The CoWatch, an Indiegogo project currently more than $45,000 past its $80,000 funding goal, will use Amazon's cloud-based voice service, Alexa, to do things like control smart home devices, get traffic and weather reports or play music, It's like have the power clare v iphone case of an Amazon Echo on your wrist, Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic, We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read, Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion..
The resulting VR applications won't need to be exclusive to the HTC Vive, according to an HTC representative. Should the pilot succeed, HTC plans to expand the Vive X accelerator to San Francisco and Taipei, and extend to other global hubs after that. HTC isn't the first to launch a startup accelerator specifically for virtual-reality applications. Rothenberg Ventures launched a $10 million program in San Francisco last year, providing $100,000 for each of 13 different startups to begin their businesses. The firm now offers upward of $200,000 for each venture.
You can read HTC's press release here, The maker of the Vive virtual-reality headset launches a $100 million startup accelerator to help build out a VR ecosystem, Virtual reality is amazing, but there's not a lot to do in VR quite yet, Now the maker of the HTC Vive clare v iphone case virtual-reality headset is doing something about that, HTC is launching a global startup accelerator with $100 million in funding, with the hopes of investing in ambitious software and hardware ideas for virtual reality, The pilot program will begin this May in Beijing, China, where "selected startups from around Asia" will be provided with office space, coaching and a small investment of between $50,000 and $200,000, In exchange, the HTC-led investment fund will take "a small amount of equity."Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic, We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read, Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion..


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Following the Covid-19 outbreak, the country's first National Employment Policy received increased attention.
Though consumers had very low confidence about the current situation in July, they had a brighter outlook for the future.
To pump up revenue collection further, the government must quickly iron out the glitches in the IT portal and plug GST leakage.
Over the past three years start-ups have created an increasing number of jobs in the country
The EPFO data has revealed that almost half of the formal sector jobs created in May were in security agencies, small contractors, cleaning services.
While Maharashtra topped in all age brackets, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka occupied the next places in different age brackets
Out of the two surveys, one will capture job creation at establishments and the second on the socio-economic condition of migrants
To boost employment, the Centre must continue its support to subsidise the provident fund contribution for new recruits.
India can turn the economic crisis into an opportunity by focusing on generating jobs in the care economy.
At this juncture, the government has to step up with proactive and calibrated measures to mitigate the daunting impact of Coronavirus on the economy, trade, and industry, PHDCCI said


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Survey Reveals Hair Is Mane Attraction
Wednesday, 03 December 2008
Forget cellulite and sagging skin, a new survey has revealed that British women's 'mane' obsession is hair.
The study, conducted by The Alopecia Clinic, showed that women are more concerned about losing their hair or managing unwanted hair than they are about gaining weight or getting wrinkles.
Women across the country aged 18-70 were asked which common embarrassing body issues they thought were least attractive to the opposite sex.
Hair loss or thinning hair came out tops with 46 per cent and unwanted hair was next on the list with 24 per cent.
Other problem areas included sagging skin (12 per cent), cellulite or weight gain (10 per cent) followed by wrinkles (two per cent).
When asked which age-related body issues they were most afraid of developing, the majority (52 per cent) said getting wrinkles was their biggest worry.
Andy McCarthy from The Alopecia Clinic said: "The majority of my clients are female and come into the clinic feeling extremely self-conscious and understandably distressed about losing their hair.
"Loss of hair or thinning hair can have a tremendous impact on a woman's self esteem, reflected by the fact that so many people think it is the one common body issue which would make them least attractive to the opposite sex.
"Yet the fact that so few are worried that it will happen to them, compared with 52 per cent who fear getting wrinkles, suggests that people aren't aware just how common alopecia is."
Alopecia affects one in four women and a third of men at any one stage in their lives.
Studies have shown clear links between stress and alopecia, reflected in the fact that alopecia is particularly common in younger women experiencing high volumes of stress either in the workplace or at home.
Andrew continues: "What people don't realise is that hair loss will affect one in four women at any point in their lives and is more likely to occur as a result of excessive stress rather than aging.
"Women seem less concerned about gaining weight or developing cellulite as these can be controlled to some extent. Hair loss often occurs as a reaction to uncontrollable factors such as adverse reactions to medication or even hormonal changes during pregnancy."
Wrinkles remain the top concern when growing older, reflected in the fact that anti aging products remain the top selling beauty product in the UK.
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Half a mile from Canada's border with his rival superpower, the visiting trade representative made himself perfectly clear.
The People's Republic of China is setting out to create a new world order.
A new economic order less dependent on the United States and Western Europe.
An economy centred instead on China and more than 60 nearby trading-partner nations in Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
China, we were told, wants the Ontario Sault's business community to help make this happen.
"They're trying to change the world order, because as we know now it's owned by the U.S. and Europe," said Johnny So, president of the Chinese Investment and Business Alliance of Canada (CIBAC). "They want to join the economic powers using their technology," So said.
So was speaking last week at the Millworks Centre for Entrepreneurship to a group of local business leaders assembled by the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corp.
CIBAC is a non-profit, semi-official government organization that describes itself as "aiming to help Canadian businesses create international corporate synergy with businesses from Mainland China and Hong Kong."
Much of the discussion at last week's meeting dealt with China's Belt and Road initiative, a trillion-dollar infrastructure project intended to recreate the country's ancient Silk Road trade routes connecting east and west.
The behemothic endeavour will carve out new transportation and trade corridors to places like Russia, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Singapore, Myanmar and Pakistan.
Over thirty years, China is planning to open the floodgates of its trade, capital and services to 65 other countries comprising an area twice its current size.
So was accompanied on his Sault visit by Joseph Kan, Guangdong economic and trade representative officer in Canada; Winnie Yu Wong, president of CIBAC's women entrepreneur division; and Alan Ballak, CIBAC vice president government liaison and global communication.
Ballak is a former Saultite and a former federal trade commissioner.
Last week's gathering took place at Ballak's initiative after he identified numerous Northern Ontario products appropriate for export to the world's most populous nation, as well as opportunities for Chinese investment here in Algoma.
"The Chinese are going head-to-head with the Americans to try to get more trade," Ballak said.
"Every country wants to do the best for who they are," Joseph Kan told SooToday. "You don't take a small country with a little GDP (gross domestic product) to compete. You pick the giant."
"If you ask me....They have to protect themselves," Kan said. "In the First World War and the Second World War, China suffered a lot. So now they've learned something. They have to be strong."
"When you're weak, they come after you. When you're strong nobody will touch you," Kan said.
Even though they're clearly itching to eat America's lunch, members of the visiting trade delegation saw many opportunities to do business with Northern Ontario.
After years of lax environmental oversight, China's now going green, they said.
They're interested in natural products like maple syrup and investing in renewable energy technologies like solar and wind farms.
Other interests include ice wine, ginseng, log homes and high-speed rail technology.
And chicken feet.
China really, really, really wants to buy chicken feet from us, So said.
Chicken feet are widely enjoyed in dim sum restaurants.
"It's part of the chicken. Still tastes good."
So said he has one buyer looking to buy 500 containers of chicken feet every month.
The buyer won't look at anything less than 100 containers a month.
"As long as this factory is approved by customs, there's huge business there," So said.
What about predictions that India's fast-growing population will surpass China's by 2024 to become the planet's biggest market?
Kan pointed out that China changed its one-child-per-family policy last year.
With two children now allowed, the country is enjoying a significant baby boom.
India and China are both large markets in close proximity to each other, Kan said.
"If you go to China, you can go to India in about an hour," he said.
The visitors invited Sault business people to join a Canadian trade mission to Hong Kong next month.


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Google has released a new Instant Buy API for iOS. The API enables mobile device users to purchase items with a single click, as opposed to entering account information with each purchase. The API is now available for iOS devices and is meant to cut down on the amount of typing consumers must exert in order to make purchases with their Google Wallet accounts.
Google Wallet Product Manager, Justin Wong, commented:
Typing shipping and billing information on mobile devices can be a difficult experience, which is one of the reasons why 97 percent of mobile shoppers abandon their shopping carts…. We introduced Google Wallet Instant Buy to make checkout on mobile sites and Android apps easier and help shoppers speed through the purchase process—often in as few as two clicks.
Google has made some significant enhancements to Wallet over the last couple of years. The Instant Buy API is the latest in Google’s arsenal to expand its ecommerce presence across the mobile and web markets. Many retailers have already adopted the new API including Wish, B&H, Eat24, Fancy, Newegg and Sionic Mobile.
The Instant Buy API for iOS adds to the already released web and Android versions. The RESTful API returns data in a JSON data format. For more information, visit the API tutorial.
Google continues to expand Wallet functionality and solidify its standing as Google’s flagship ecommerce offering. To adequately address the entire mobile market, API providers have no choice but to integrate with iOS. The iOS release of the Instant Buy API was a smart move for Google and those watching the API economy should keep an eye out for wider adoption.


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The Numbers Game
Once a quarter, at about this time, the trade statistics come out. You would have to be living on the moon to escape the numbers in the news about Eurozone members in difficulty, so waiting for the effect of the Eurozone problems to show up in the trade statistics has been a bit like waiting for the other boot to drop.
Based on the statistics just out, the year on year figures still look pretty rosy with a 14 per cent rise in exports to the EU 27. Look at the rolling year and you’ll find that the region sold fractionally less to Europe in the first three months of 2012 than in the last three months of 2011.
We’ll have to wait a while to see whether that’s a trend, but it’s hard to imagine a time when the EU won’t be hugely important to exporters in the East of England and nationally.
The East of England sent nearly 60 per cent of its exports to the EU 27 in the first quarter of 2012. Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium are four of our five biggest overseas customers and Europe is particularly important to companies taking their first steps in exporting. So I wouldn’t advise any company to stop looking for business in Europe, but any entrepreneur will tell you that if your existing customer base stagnates you need to look for new opportunities.
For a long time UKTI has been encouraging business to explore less developed markets, both those enjoying higher growth now and those with the potential to expand in the years ahead. Last quarter’s drop in sales to the EU 27 has been more than offset by increased exports by East of England companies to other markets, including for example a 15 per cent rise in sales to Latin America and the Caribbean and an impressive 22 per cent hike in sales to sub-Saharan Africa. So it looks as if some companies are taking that message on board.
Still on the numbers game, I’ve seen a couple of interesting pieces of research in the last week or so. One, from BIS (Department for Business Education and Skills) economists, emphasises the contribution of SMEs employing fewer than 10 people to export performance. Nationally, in 2009 these smaller firms accounted not only for 27 per cent of exports to the EU but for over a fifth of exports outside Europe, so don’t feel that because your firm is small it can’t do successful business overseas. Plenty of small firms do just that.
At the same time, at last week’s summit ‘Leading from the Middle’, drawing on a report by GE Capital Bank, Vince Cable and the CBI talked about the 10-20 per cent gap between the export growth achieved by UK Mid-Sized Businesses and the performance of similar businesses across Europe.
One more telling piece of research is that according to the CBI almost three-quarters of UK firms trading abroad have no formal export strategy in place. It is possible to do well overseas simply by responding to opportunities as they come up, but think how much more you could achieve with a bit of planning.
So what’s UKTI doing to help? A great deal. You can see our full range of services at www.ukti.gov.uk or ring 0845 641 9955. Helping companies plan their export activity is an absolutely fundamental part of what we do but I will just pick out a couple of other things.
As well as offering encouragement and advice we have practical help available in the form of trade missions (first-hand experience of China, Brazil, Russia, India or Mexico, anyone?). We also now have specialist trade advisers working with mid-sized businesses in this region, tailoring advice and support to their very specific needs.
In this Olympic year when the global spotlight is firmly on the UK, we are more than ever encouraging business to get out into the export market. Statistics can be fascinating but the real message is that, whatever the size of your company and wherever in the world you want to sell to, there’s good business out there. UKTI can help you find it.
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Living with a car lets you learn all sorts of things about it. It’s why we buy our Best Of-winning vehicle every year. Not only does it give us more time to evaluate its pros and cons in exquisite detail, but sometimes there are issues and things break, giving us a chance to better live out a true ownership experience. Such is the case with our long-term 2021 Ford F-150, which has been in our hands for approximately seven months and driven over 7,000 miles.
Related: Owning the 2021 Ford F-150
Well, it’s still kinda rusty. No one — neither Ford nor independent mechanics we checked with — thought the rust will have any long-term impact on reliability or durability, which is nice. We’ll be keeping an eye on that just in case. Our Android Auto connection issues also seem to have been fixed by an update on Android’s end, not Ford’s, so, again: Nice.
No one seems to enjoy the ride quality when unladen, even with allowances for our F-150 being a pickup truck. The ride even turned one of Managing Editor Joe Bruzek’s family road trips into a bit of a nightmare as the F-150 Limited — with 22-inch wheels — dashed any hopes of kiddo car naps with huge jolts over bumps. Pouring salt on the wound was Ford’s announcement of a midyear update to the F-150 that included adding an adaptive suspension that could improve its ride quality. The new hardware also brought promising towing and trailering goodies.
We’re also monitoring potential transmission hiccups — specifically, shifting from 2nd to 3rd gear and idling roughness. The power-folding shifter is starting to feel a bit rickety, too. A dealership diagnosis gave the car a clean bill of health despite our observation of the change in drivability, so, again, we’ll continue monitoring. The hands-on lane-centering steering also seems to be having difficulties recognizing when our hands are actually on the wheel, warning us to keep our hands on the wheel when they already are, which can be aggravating on long trips.
Not All Bad News
Despite the complaints and issues, the F-150 remains in demand amongst our staff members, even those who don’t live in Chicago. Detroit Bureau Chief Aaron Bragman just completed a lengthy trip in the F-150 — be on the lookout for his story soon — and was full of praise for it.
“The F-150 tows a 25-foot Airstream and three people like a champ,” according to Bragman. “It never lacks for power, never feels unsteady, and all of its electronics aid in making towing just that much easier.”
Bruzek, who objected to the F-150’s ride quality when empty, had more praise when the truck was doing work.
“Like most trucks, the F-150 hybrid’s ride quality became quite livable, and comfortable, once I added 650 pounds of tongue weight while towing my 1998 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am back and forth to the drag strip.”
I would also like to personally thank Ford for updating its massaging seat settings so that it no longer turns off every 20 or 30 minutes. Thank you, Ford.


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Parking in Chicago is bad. With the privatization of its parking meters and its reputation as one of the most expensive cities to park, this isn’t news. But a recent study by ParkWhiz says parking in Chicago is so bad, it’s keeping people away from downtown and out of special events.
The parking app creator surveyed 500 Chicagoans to get their take on the city’s parking problem and used that information to fuel a new service called “Simple Price Parking.”
Among the study’s key findings, ParkWhiz found that 81 percent of Chicagoans surveyed said they would be more likely to go downtown if it wasn’t for the cost of parking, and 71 percent said that the parking prices were unpredictable and they ended up paying more than expected. According to ParkWhiz, the average cost of one hour of parking in a garage is $21.
“It’s no secret that parking in Chicago is expensive. Even street-meter parking can be as high as $6.50 per hour,” ParkWhiz CEO Aashish Dalal said in a statement.
“Our goal is to simplify the frustrating process of finding affordable parking downtown and give our customers the flexibility to park where they want at a lower and predictable price. People shouldn’t miss out on going where they want.”
ParkWhiz’s Simple Price Parking, available on iPhone or Android, offers a flat-rate pricing model that lets customers pay $5 for one hour, $10 for two hours and $15 for all-day parking at the company’s 100 partner garages throughout the city.
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Producer Prices in Thailand
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Inflation declines to lowest level since April in October
Inflation came in at 6.0% in October, down from September’s 6.4%. October's reading marked the lowest inflation rate since April.
Annual average inflation rose to 5.5% in October (September: 5.2%). Meanwhile, core inflation ticked up to 3.2% in October, from September’s 3.1%.
Finally, consumer prices rose 0.33% in October over the previous month, picking up from September's 0.22% increase. October's result was the sharpest increase in prices since June.
FocusEconomics Consensus Forecast panelists project inflation to average 5.3% in 2022, up 0.6 percentage points from last month’s forecast, while for 2023, panelists project average inflation of 2.1%.
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GDP growth sped up to 4.5% year on year in the third quarter, from 2.5% in the second quarter.
November 14, 2022
Manufacturing output dropped 2.3% month-on-month in seasonally-adjusted terms in September (August: +2.6% mom).
November 14, 2022
Merchandise exports climbed 7.8% annually in September, on the heels of August’s 7.5% increase.
November 7, 2022
Inflation came in at 6.0% in October, down from September’s 6.4%.
October 17, 2022
Merchandise exports increased 7.5% annually in August, on the heels of July’s 4.3% upturn.


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Hundreds of Jharkhand women quit liquor trade in bid to become self-reliant
About150 women have shunned the liquor business to move on to other vocations such as dairy farming, horticulture and vegetable vending etc.
Sangita Das is no more sustaining her family by selling home-made Hadiya (rice beer) and Mohua (locally brewed liquor from Mohua flower). She left the trade in October last year. With help from the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), she is now on her way to not just being self-reliant but linking her husband by setting up and running a grocery shop in Tumagyngri village under Uttari Moubhandar panchayat in of Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district.
“I had no other option but to sell hadiya and mohua to sustain my family of two children, mother-in-law, father-in-law and an unemployed husband. In 2017, I joined a women self-help group (SHG) where I came to know about the social evils of drinking and how many families have been ruined owing to drunkard husbands. Many women narrated how their husbands would beat them up in inebriated condition and how it affected the children. This made me take the vow to leave the business of liquor,” Sangita said.
She started a grocery shop in October 2020 after closing down her liquor business by taking an interest-free loan of ₹10,000 from Maa Durga SHG under Phulo Jhano Ashirvad Yojna under NRLM.
“Now I am earning ₹200-330 every day from the grocery shop while I have now arranged a source of income for my husband also by the same capital. “He now sells vegetables that also takes care of our daily requirement of food items and other items of daily use. On the other hand, I am earning ₹7000-10,000 per month from my grocery shop, much more than what I used to earn by selling liquor earlier," she said.
Sangita, however, is not the lone woman from the rural hinterland of the district to have left the business of country-made liquor. She is among 150 such women who had shunned the liquor business and moved on to other vocations such as dairy farming, horticulture and vegetable vending etc. They are now earning a sustainable livelihood away from the evils of the liquor business.
“Under the Philo Jhano Ashivad Scheme, women are counselled and motivated to leave the business of liquor and start alternate businesses or vocations for livelihood under the NRLM. The scheme came into effect in September 2020 and about 150 women have already shifted to alternate sources of income after closing down their illegal liquor business. Soft interest-free loans are given to such women from Didi SHGs through Johar Yojna, revolving fund and community investment fund for starting new businesses provided they shun the business of liquor under the scheme,” Xavier Ekka, district programme manager of Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS), said.
As per Xavier, they identified as many as 581 women selling home-made liquor across the district of which 150 have shifted to other businesses while they were counselling and working with another 221 women presently. “We will take up another 210 such women in the next phase of the scheme for self-empowerment,” added Xavier.